Chapter 734 Xu, Yue, Hao Yemou 3
In addition to doing his best to cultivate his son Xu Damao's projection skills, Xu Fugui is also making other preparations.
It is said that those who are close to water get the moon first. Seeing that the powerful Lin Yu lived in the courtyard No. 98 diagonally opposite, Xu Fugui felt as uncomfortable as if he were being pawed by a cat. If he could have a relationship with such a big leader, not to mention the future of his son Xu Damao, even he himself might be able to try to realize his dream of becoming a cadre.
Originally, he thought that he could take advantage of the opportunity of showing movies to become familiar with Secretary Lin, which would also facilitate the next step. However, to Xu Fugui's great disappointment, Secretary Lin never arranged for anyone to show him a movie. Even when other factory leaders of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill arranged to show a movie after dinner under the pretext of entertaining guests, Secretary Lin never showed up.
This made Xu Fugui feel a little frustrated. He couldn't just run to someone's door and say, "Let me show a movie for the leader."
I was afraid that before I could even open my mouth, I would be detained by the guards around Secretary Lin and subjected to severe interrogation.
Xu Fugui often saw that Secretary Lin was always followed by a group of guards in black Zhongshan suits. Now these guards had moved into the newly built courtyards No. 96 and No. 100, which were adjacent to courtyard No. 98.
Since Lin Yu traveled in a Willys Jeep every day, and was accompanied by a jeep of the same model for protection, Xu Fugui's original idea of meeting him by chance suddenly disappeared.
As the residents of Courtyard No. 95 were clamoring and trying to force He Daqing to go to Jiaodaokou Street Office to ask for a job, He Daqing actually resigned from his position as the courtyard manager. At the same time, the second uncle Fang Dahu and the third uncle Li Botao also resigned at the same time.
The neighborhood committee was going to re-elect a new manager for the No. 95 courtyard, which gave Xu Fugui a glimmer of hope.
Yes, he was prepared to be the manager. As long as he could use the convenience of being the manager to first establish a relationship with Secretary Zhou of the Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, and then slowly work his way up to achieve the goal of getting close to Secretary Lin.
Hard work pays off. By making private promises and giving away some melon seeds and peanuts, Xu Fugui finally got his wish and became the manager of Courtyard No. 95.
Unfortunately, before Xu Fugui could establish a relationship with Secretary Zhou of the subdistrict office, Director Wang of the neighborhood committee came to the courtyard in person to convey the notice of reducing the grain supply quota.
When he heard the news just now, Xu Fugui was also very surprised, but he soon calmed down. After all, his basic salary now is more than 60 yuan a month. In addition, when he goes out to show movies, in addition to the normal subsidies from the factory, he also receives extra "local specialties" from units, villages, and communes. In this way, his monthly income will not be less than a hundred yuan.
In addition, his son Xu Damao is now an apprentice in the Propaganda Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Although he only earns 18.5 yuan a month, it is enough for his own expenses. Although his wife no longer has her job as a maid in the Lou family, she has made a lot of benefits from the Lou family before. Only the youngest daughter is still in junior high school. Therefore, this reduction in food supply will not have much impact on the Xu family. At most, they can just go to the black market to buy some fine grains.
After calming down, Xu Fugui began to pay attention to the changes in expressions of other residents present, especially He Daqing.
It was also through his observations at that time that Xu Fugui concluded that He Daqing had definitely known in advance about the reduction in food supply quotas, and by observing the changes in Li Botao and Fang Dahu's facial expressions, Xu Fugui came to an inference that even these two guys had known the news in advance.
With Xu Fugui's brain, he was able to immediately analyze that He Daqing was most likely to have gotten the information from Secretary Lin, while Fang Dahu and Li Botao were only informed privately by He Daqing.
Being able to know the news of reducing the food supply quota in advance, these three companies must have prepared a lot of food in advance. Xu Fugui is of course aware that after this news spreads tonight, the price of food in the pigeon market will definitely rise.
Xu Fugui's mood was very complicated, his heart was filled with envy, jealousy and anger. He was not sad about spending less money to buy food in advance.
He envied and was jealous of He Daqing's relationship with Secretary Lin, which enabled Secretary Lin to inform He Daqing of such important news in advance. Obviously, this also meant that He Daqing was now considered Secretary Lin's confidant. What annoyed him was that He Daqing did not take him, the manager, seriously at all, otherwise he would not have only revealed the news to Fang Dahu and Li Botao, but ignored his existence.
Xu Fugui was of course aware that once he could learn the news in advance, he would be able to do a lot of things. He could use various connections to stockpile a batch of grain in advance, and then resell it in the future to earn a considerable income. He could also take the opportunity to win people's hearts. As long as he privately informed a few people who had a good relationship with him, he would definitely get a lot of favors from them.
Cutting off someone's financial resources was like killing their parents. Xu Fugui developed a deep hatred for He Daqing, so he deliberately set a trap for He Daqing after Director Wang of the neighborhood committee and the staff of the street office left.
Xu Fugui was planning to kill two birds with one stone. No matter whether He Daqing could help the residents in Courtyard No. 95, he would be in constant trouble. Xu Fugui knew the character of the residents in this courtyard very well. It was just a basic operation for him to take advantage of the situation and forget about one's principles when seeing profit.
Xu Fugui also wanted to see which families would continue to be close to the He family now that He Daqing was no longer the manager of the Siheyuan, so that he would be able to have an idea in the future.
The result of the test was disappointing. Fang Dahu and Li Botao took the initiative to help He Daqing, which was not unexpected. However, what Xu Fugui did not expect was that He Daqing actually kicked the ball directly to him and the other two managers.
He had to admit that what He Daqing and the other two said was right. Now, he, Yue Xiangqian and Hao Aiguo were the three stewards. Since Director Wang of the neighborhood committee had assigned the task of appeasing the residents of the courtyard to the three stewards before he left, it was impossible for Xu Fugui to openly refuse.