Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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As soon as I locked the door, my body went limp. I leaned against the door, panting heavily. It was truly terrifying.

He Yuzhu, without even putting on his clothes, came over, carried her back to bed, and quickly stripped her into a sheep-like state, continuing what he hadn't finished earlier.

"You scoundrel, what time is it, and you're still thinking about these things? How are you going to get home later?"

"It's okay, I can climb over the wall to get out."

"I'm a little scared, can we not do it today?"

He Yuzhu said, "It's okay, I'll go slower."

Lu Xiaomi angrily clenched her small fists and punched him a few times, but it was no use.

Lu Xiaomi spent an unforgettable hour caught between worry and excitement.

He Yuzhu then put on his clothes, secretly opened the door to the west wing, and ran out.

Lü Xiaomi finally relaxed completely after He Yuzhu climbed out of the yard; today had been truly exciting.

The next day at work, Lü Xiaomi gave him a cold shoulder, her face cold all day, as if someone owed her eight hundred yuan.

The broadcast announced that all temporary workers from rural areas must leave the factory by the end of the month at the latest and return to their original locations to continue agricultural production.

It was repeatedly emphasized that this was a nationwide unified action with no room for sentimentality, and it was not an isolated case involving the machinery factory.

Fortunately, the proportion of temporary workers in the machine factory was relatively small, so there were no major issues.

However, He Yuzhu was somewhat troubled, as losing 500 people would significantly slow down production efficiency.

Director Zhu also asked He Yuzhu to set up a new workshop to organize the production of compressors and air conditioners.

He Yuzhu thought for a moment, then came out of his office, knocked twice on Lü Xiaomi's desk, and said:

"Come out with me."

"Where to?" Lü Xiaomi asked nervously.

"Go to the research institute and bring the latest documents."

"Is it the freezer and refrigerator?"

Hearing that they weren't going anywhere else, Lü Xiaomi felt somewhat relieved; she had been thoroughly harassed yesterday.

He Yuzhu nodded, and then left the machinery factory with Lü Xiaomi.

The factory had its own motorized tricycles, but they weren't used. Instead, the two of them rode bicycles together to the research institute.

After registering at the gate, the two went inside.

Lü Xiaomi asked, "I heard that Director Zhu wanted you to work here as a researcher, why didn't you want to?"

The two of them happened to be walking in the courtyard at that moment, and there was no one around. He Yuzhu said:

"I can't bear to leave you!"

Lu Xiaomi blushed slightly and exclaimed, "You can't bear to part with Little Sister Xu, can you!"

Others may not know, but Xu Xiaomei already knows that He Yuzhu has hooked up with the divorced Xu Xiaomei.

He Yuzhu said, "She's a divorced woman, how can she compare to you!"

"Hmph, I don't believe it. Aren't you childhood sweethearts?"

They had arrived at the administration building and went up to Director Zhu's office.

After coming in, he started complaining about being poor, saying, "Director Zhu, you have to give me 2000 people today, otherwise the air conditioners can't be produced."

Chapter 310, Section 311: Factory Development

"What? 2000 people? Are you kidding me? Where am I supposed to find that many people for you?"

“I don’t care. We have 500 people to be sent back to the countryside soon. Add to that the staff needed for the new workshop, and even 2000 might not be enough.”

Director Zhu exclaimed, "How can we need so many?"

He Yuzhu said, "You really are stingy. It's our first time visiting, and you didn't even offer us tea."

As He Yuzhu spoke, he opened the cabinet next to him, which contained two tea canisters. He opened both of them and put the untouched Tieguanyin tea canister into his briefcase.

Then I opened the box next to it and brewed three cups of tea.

Director Zhu shouted, "You've gone too far! I only had one pound of good tea, and you've already robbed me?"

When they first started interacting, He Yuzhu was quite respectful to the director, but as time went on, he became more casual.

Moreover, since the other party needed his help, He Yuzhu naturally didn't hold back.

Ordinary tea is easy to buy, but this kind of premium tea is only available to high-ranking leaders.

He Yuzhu said, "I was wondering why you were being so stingy. Here's a document for you."

He Yuzhu casually took out the design drafts of the refrigerator and freezer from his briefcase and placed them on Director Zhu's desk.

Director Zhu picked up the documents and looked at them, then took off his reading glasses, wiped them, and looked at them carefully.

"Is this a new product you designed?"

He Yuzhu nodded and said, "The air conditioner compressor is already quite advanced. It can be used in refrigerators and freezers. It's just that some adjustments need to be made in the details so that such a large current is not required."

"This is my modification to the air conditioner compressor, which allows me to produce refrigerators and freezers."

"You're moving too fast. The air conditioner hasn't even been produced yet, and there's already a new product."

He Yuzhu said smugly, "Now you have nothing to say about taking a pound of your tea, right?"

Director Zhu immediately laughed and said, "It's nothing. You could easily reward me with 10 catties of tea for this document."

"Then it's settled, you still owe me 10 catties of tea."

Director Zhu was just excited and made a casual analogy, but he didn't expect He Yuzhu to immediately take the initiative and finalize the matter.

He opened his mouth wide in surprise and said, "Where am I supposed to get 10 catties of tea leaves for you?"

He Yuzhu said, "Old Zhu, you can't do this. I haven't given you the reward for inventing the air conditioner yet."

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He Yuzhu said, "Besides, I have new freezers and refrigerators now, so 10 jin of tea can only be one of the rewards."

Director Zhu sighed and said, "Alright, alright, I'll reward you with 10 catties of the finest tea leaves later."

He Yuzhu's request for tea was a minor matter; he came today to address the labor shortage.

He said, "The factory is short of qualified workers right now. You need to get me 2000 workers."

"Aren't you making things difficult for me? Where am I supposed to find so many people for you?"

He Yuzhu said, "Then what can I do? How can production proceed without people?"

"That is indeed a problem."

He Yuzhu came here today to ask him to solve this problem; otherwise, who knows how long it would have dragged on.

But Director Zhu hadn't considered this issue beforehand, assuming that the neighborhood committee would provide enough manpower.

"Don't you have a vocational school?"

He Yuzhu said, "Previously, we only recruited short-term students. We started recruiting long-term students this fall. What I need now are qualified workers."

"But there's nothing I can do about it. Where am I supposed to find workers for you?"

He Yuzhu had already thought it through. Previously, Director Li wanted to merge his machinery factory into a steel rolling mill.

As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate. This time, He Yuzhu also set his sights on the steel rolling mill. Of course, He Yuzhu does not have the ability to take over the entire mill.

After all, it was a factory directly under the ministry.

He Yuzhu said, "The main business of the rolling mill is steelmaking. Their lathe workshop is dispensable. Why don't we hand over those workshops to our factory?"

Director Zhu immediately shook his head:

"What? That won't do. Are you kidding me? The lathe workshop may not be the most important, but it still handles a lot of production tasks. Without them, many parts can't be produced."

He Yuzhu said, "If you can't give me the workshop, could you transfer some of the workers from it to us?"

"this..."

"Just don't give me an extra one or two hundred skilled workers."

"How could we possibly give you so many people? This won't do."

He Yuzhu then revealed his ultimate goal. He knew that the steel mill would not agree to the two requests he had just made, but they were just exorbitant demands.

His real target was actually the machine repair shop, an affiliated factory of the steel rolling mill.

The machine repair shop, which is also the factory where Liang Ladi Liang Ladi Nanyi and his colleagues work, is an affiliated factory of the steel rolling mill and has thousands of employees.

"Since you're not even willing to give us skilled workers, why don't you give us the machine repair shop?"

"A machine repair shop?"

This time, Director Zhu did not immediately reject the proposal, but instead fell into deep thought.

The current difficulty for the machine factory is indeed the lack of qualified workers. It is impossible to recruit from the market in the short term, or there is not enough time to train them.

To successfully complete the production task, the only option is to find workers yourself.