Chapter 115: Getting Out of Singleness in Broad Daylight

Chapter 115: Getting Out of Singleness in Broad Daylight

The handover of firearms and supplies went smoothly. After the machine tools were taken away, 1 Type 5 semi-automatic rifles and 6 million rounds of ammunition were immediately placed in the vacant military workshop.

Zhang Dongliang was very confident in the country's work, so he put it directly into the small world without counting it.

This batch of industrial machine tools, together with relevant technical data and teaching materials, will lay a solid foundation for the industrial development of our country.

After providing these machine tools and materials, Zhang Dongliang is not planning to provide anything else for the time being. If the new machine tools cannot be promoted on a large scale, the manufacturing capacity cannot be guaranteed.

He has reported this to the relevant leaders, and the relevant leaders also understand it.

Zhang Dongliang said that some small-scale manufacturing tests of non-military products can be carried out in steel rolling mills.

The leader agreed to Zhang Dongliang's proposal. This would not only facilitate Zhang Dongliang's work arrangements, but also facilitate the management of the steel mill if there were any problems.

After finishing all these, it was already the Lantern Festival. Actually, it was others who were busy. Zhang Dongliang only went there twice, once to store machine tools and technical data, and once to collect guns and bullets.

During this period, Zhang Dongliang also took time out of his busy schedule to deal with two matters.

The first one was not handled by him, but encountered by him. Shortly after the Chinese New Year, Li Hongxia came to Zhang Dongliang's home in Fuxiang Hutong Siheyuan with her child in the name of thanking him for saving her life.

After expressing her gratitude, Li Hongxia quickly joined the chat group of Qin Jingru, Lou Xiaoe and others.

Li Hongxia has a high emotional intelligence. As she spoke, the image of Zhang Dongliang rushing to the hospital to save lives in the snowy weather gradually became more prominent, and several women felt proud of it.

When Li Hongxia talked about her own sufferings, several women felt sympathetic towards her, and they sometimes sighed and wanted to cry.

The only one who was not so sympathetic was Yu Haitang, as could be seen from the wariness and a hint of disdain on her face.

When seeing Li Hongxia off, Qin Jingru reluctantly invited her to come home often, and Li Hongxia naturally agreed very happily.

Yu Haitang's lips were almost pouted to the sky: "Sister Jingru, you are not inviting her to play, you are adding someone to the family."

However, Yu Haitang only dared to say this in her heart, not to speak it out loud. Her position was still awkward.

The second thing is about Ran Qiuye.

Although students do not start school until after the Lantern Festival, teachers usually start school a few days earlier than students in order to prepare for the new semester.

Before the Lantern Festival, all the teachers at the steel mill’s children’s school had already returned to work.

Ran Qiuye found out through inquiries that Teacher Yan Bugui and Zhang Dongliang lived in the same courtyard, so she begged Yan Bugui to bring her over so that she could express her gratitude to Zhang Dongliang.

Ran Qiuye's move was exactly what Yan Bugui wanted, because Old Yan still remembered the work that Zhang Dongliang had assigned to him.

Yan Bugui knew that Zhang Dongliang had not lived in the courtyard recently. As soon as he got home, Yan Bugui arranged for Yan Jiecheng to go to the backyard to find Liu Guangtian.

After Liu Guangtian arrived, Yan Bugui winked at him and said to him, "This is Teacher Ran from our school. He wants to see Section Chief Zhang. Go and call Section Chief Zhang back."

Liu Guangtian knew in his heart that this might be the person introduced to him. He was overjoyed and immediately went to find Zhang Dongliang as quickly as possible.

When Liu Guangtian rushed to Fuxiang Hutong, Zhang Dongliang was watching the rain and instructing Qin Jingru to cook.

When they heard that another woman had found the courtyard, everyone turned to look at Zhang Dongliang, especially Yu Haitang, who was more alert.

Zhang Dongliang waved his hand: "It's not what you think. This time I want to be the matchmaker. I'm going to introduce this girl to Guangtian."

Everyone was relieved. Zhang Dongliang told everyone not to wait for him to eat, and he and Liu Guangtian went back to No. 95 Nanluoguxiang to eat.

Just as he was about to go out, Zhang Dongliang suddenly remembered something: whether he was eating in his own east wing or at Yan Bugui's house, he needed to prepare some meat and vegetables to bring with him.

Since Yan Bugui was asked to act as a matchmaker, it would be better to have dinner at Yan Bugui's house today. Zhang Dongliang didn't want to eat boiled cabbage and cornmeal steamed bread at Old Yan's house, otherwise this marriage would be ruined.

Zhang Dongliang quickly packed up a pile of meat and vegetables, put them in a cloth bag and put them in the car, then went out with Liu Guangtian.

Zhang Dongliang wanted to talk to Liu Guangtian about Ran Qiuye on the way, but Liu Guangtian was anxious and rode very fast. Zhang Dongliang had no choice but to follow closely and rushed back to the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang as quickly as possible.

"Oh, Section Chief Zhang is here." When Yan Bugui saw Zhang Dongliang coming in carrying a cloth bag, he immediately stood up and greeted him enthusiastically.

Yan Bugui reached out to take the cloth bag from Zhang Dongliang's hand, but Zhang Dongliang did not give it to him. Instead, he handed it to Yu Li who was behind Yan Bugui.

"Sister-in-law, please cook for me. This is the money for tonight. Use it all. Don't be reluctant to eat."

If the cloth bag just now was handed to Yan Bugui, he would immediately take it to the inner room and take away a lot of things. Yu Li is better than Old Yan in this respect.

Besides, Yu Li didn't have much money on weekdays, and she had long wanted to improve her life, but she just didn't have the opportunity. Now that she had this opportunity, she probably wouldn't be reluctant to eat like Old Yan.

Yu Li took the bag and took a deep look at the handsome young deputy section chief. No wonder her sister followed him so devotedly. If she were a few years younger, she would be old.

"Zhang~~Section Chief Zhang~~" Ran Qiuye stood up and greeted Zhang Dongliang. This was the second time she met Zhang Dongliang.

Last time it was pitch dark and I was nervous so I couldn’t see Zhang Dongliang’s exact appearance.

"Thank you, Chief Zhang, for saving my life." Ran Qiuye felt a little inexplicably nervous when facing Zhang Dongliang.

"Life-saving grace~~ What's going on?" Yan Bugui and Liu Guangtian were very confused. Yan Bugui only knew that Zhang Dongliang had helped Ran Qiuye, but didn't know what it was specifically about.

Ran Qiuye told Yan Bugui and Liu Guangtian what happened that day. Everyone present was very impressed by Zhang Dongliang's heroic act.

"Why didn't the police come to the hospital to praise you? People should know about this kind of good deed."

When Yan Bugui was feeling down and out, he certainly hoped that such a heroic figure would appear in his yard to bolster his reputation.

"This matter may involve some confidential information, so let's stop talking about it." Upon hearing that it was confidential information, Yan Bugui stopped talking a little embarrassedly.

This is no small matter, and you will make mistakes if you speak carelessly.

Ran Qiuye was secretly grateful in her heart. She thought that Zhang Dongliang gave up the opportunity to be publicly praised in order to protect the reputation of his three girls.

"Hello, Mr. Ran. Let me introduce you. This is Comrade Liu Guangtian, an outstanding employee of our factory and a capable backbone of the Second Purchasing Section."

"Hello, Teacher Ran~Ran~Ran, my name is Liu Guangtian." The stupid Liu Guangtian actually started to stutter at this moment.

Liu Guangtian, who had never experienced such happiness in life, was a little overwhelmed.

Ran Qiuye chuckled. Liu Guangtian actually made her find the feeling of facing her own students.

"Hello Comrade Liu Guangtian, my name is Ran Qiuye."

Ran Qiuye extended her hand to Liu Guangtian generously. Liu Guangtian was flattered and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Ran Qiuye, but quickly retracted his hand as if it was burned.

Liu Guangtian's shy behavior greatly increased Ran Qiuye's favor for him. Ran Qiuye felt that Liu Guangtian was more interesting and more like her student.