Chapter 658: Another General Meeting of the Academy 2
Just after dinner, the residents of the front and back yards began to gather towards the middle yard. Now there are a total of fifteen households living in Courtyard No. 95. The front yard has the largest number of residents, including the family of Li Botao, the third uncle in charge, with six households, four in the middle yard, and five in the back yard.
After a meal, what happened in the front yard in the evening had already spread to every household. When having dinner at home today, most of the topics discussed at the dinner table were related to this.
Perhaps because of their different standpoints, everyone had different opinions. Those families with children of school age mostly complained constantly, denouncing He Daqing for disregarding the feelings of the neighbors. He obviously had a relationship with the big leader, and as long as he could plead for everyone in front of the big leader, wouldn't it be easy to arrange a job for these six or seven young people of school age?
Although Fang Dahu had just reprimanded Zhou Erniu and Liao Cheng in public, these residents did not think they had done anything wrong. Even though they knew that job vacancies outside were very tight and a job at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill paid at least five or six hundred yuan, and one had to have connections and channels to get it, when it came to their families, these people thought of the relationship between He Daqing and the big boss and felt that as long as He Daqing could come forward, their families could save the money to buy the vacancies. After all, for these ordinary families, five or six hundred yuan was already a huge sum of money, and many workers did not even earn that much in a year.
As for those families who do not have young people of marriageable age, they are more rational. They are all laughing at Zhou Erniu and others for daydreaming. If these people are willing to spend money to buy a quota, they may ask He Daqing for help in contacting and maybe get a job quota. But now so many people are asking He Daqing to come forward in a high-profile manner, even a fool knows that it is just wishful thinking. Perhaps these people have lost their minds due to the temptation in front of them.
Now, not only did He Daqing directly propose to resign from his job as the first steward, but even Fang Dahu said he would quit in public. It is estimated that it will be difficult for the third steward Li Botao to continue to do his job. It looks like there will be something exciting to watch tonight.
Therefore, a lot of people came to the whole-institute meeting tonight. Before seven o'clock, some people had already come to the middle courtyard with stools, and were talking in low voices with a few people with whom they had a good relationship, while quietly waiting for the whole-institute meeting to be held at seven-thirty.
The night enveloped the entire courtyard of No. 95. Under the big locust tree in the central courtyard, with the help of the electric light pulled from the He family, one could see that the old square table and three benches had already been set up. However, it was not yet time for the meeting, so He Daqing, Fang Dahu and Li Botao had not appeared yet.
Xu Fugui and the two residents in the backyard huddled together and talked in a low voice. After hearing that Fang Dahu had publicly proposed to resign from the job of the second housekeeper this evening, he immediately started to make plans in his mind. Now in the backyard of No. 95 Siheyuan, the deaf old lady would definitely not participate in the competition for the housekeeper. In the last election for the housekeeper, he did not win over Fang Dahu. This time was the best opportunity, so he went to the two families in advance to tell them, and also promised that if he could become the second housekeeper, each family would give him a bottle of Erguotou and a pack of economic cigarettes.
The two families agreed on the spot and said they would definitely support Xu Fugui later.
Until now, Xu Fugui has not found any trace of Lou Zhenhua’s wife Lou Tan and youngest daughter Lou Xiao’e. Even his friends in the Municipal Bureau’s Security Brigade do not know the specific whereabouts of these two people. They only revealed that they were arranged to leave the capital and go to other places.
Although Xu Fugui was unwilling to give up, he could only give up completely as he had not found the mother and daughter. Watching such a huge fortune slip away was a waste of time. To say that he was not sad would be purely deceiving himself. Recently, he could only work as a projectionist at the Red Star Steel Mill.
To be honest, Xu Fugui was very jealous that He Daqing, a stinky cook, was able to curry favor with the big boss of Courtyard No. 98. Unfortunately, he had no chance at all to get in touch with him. After all, the gap between them was too big. Not to mention that he was just an ordinary projectionist, even the middle-level leaders of the steel mill had no chance.
The re-election of the manager of No. 95 Siheyuan gave Xu Fugui a glimmer of opportunity. Although he has no way to directly contact the big leader now, as long as he becomes the manager, he will have a hope of meeting Secretary Zhou of Jiaodaokou Street Office. That is the big leader's mother. As long as he can get along well with her, he will surely have a chance to meet the big leader.
While Xu Fugui was secretly calculating in his mind, he was casually dealing with the two backyard residents beside him. Occasionally, he would look at the watch on his wrist, looking forward to the whole hospital meeting to start as soon as possible.
At 7:30 in the evening, He Daqing, Fang Dahu and Li Botao walked out of the He family in the middle courtyard with Director Wang from the neighborhood committee. Director Wang was a middle-aged woman in her forties, dressed in a light blue Lenin suit, looking very capable, but under the electric light under the big locust tree, one could vaguely see that Director Wang's face was a little gloomy. She had just arrived at the Nanluoguxiang neighborhood committee as director last month and had not yet completely familiarized herself with the situation in her jurisdiction. But tonight, when she was having dinner at home, He Daqing, the manager of the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, suddenly came to her door and proposed to her that he, Fang Dahu and Li Botao would resign from their positions as manager.
To be honest, it was the first time that Director Wang heard of the managers of the courtyard houses resigning together. However, after hearing He Daqing's story, she couldn't help but feel annoyed. She was even more angry about the six or seven households in the No. 95 courtyard house who forced He Daqing to ask Secretary Zhou for a job quota. She didn't expect there would be such a shameless person. As the director of the neighborhood committee, she was of course very clear about how tight a job quota was now. She also knew that Consultant Lin had specially given 20 job quotas to Jiaodaokou Street Office and Dongzhimen Street Office respectively. She of course understood that this was all for Secretary Zhou's face. The reason why 20 job quotas were also given to Dongzhimen Street Office was just to avoid gossip.
The subdistrict office held a special meeting this afternoon. Director Wang of the subdistrict office directly proposed at the meeting that these 20 job positions should be allocated to those activists who performed outstandingly in the Great Leap Forward in Steel Production.
Although some leaders present also wanted to take care of their own relationships, everyone knew very well that since Director Wang proposed this at the meeting, he must have discussed it with Secretary Zhou in advance, so everyone could only agree.