sbdcsierra Chapter 63 Brother Tian, Brother Tian, what's wrong?
Chapter 63 Brother Tian, Brother Tian, what's wrong?
Old Tian remained cheerful: "I understand. Of course I understand. After what happened last time, I cooperated fully with the security department's investigation. It's just that some people are quite resistant when dealing with the security department..."
His words were pointed. Xiao Ke first winked at Zhang Chengfei, then gestured with his chin toward Lao Tai.
After the meeting,
Zhang Chengfei stopped Lao Tian and told him that everything was ready at home and heating could be installed at any time.
"If you ask me, since we have less work today, let's get the heating installed today," he suggested with a smile.
Old Tian pondered for two seconds: "But the maintenance team has a lot of work today... I'm not sure I can find any help."
Zhang Chengfei: "It's okay if there are no helpers. I can lend a hand, and my eldest grandson is a first-class fitter at the steel rolling mill, so he can also help out."
If all else fails, we have so many workers in our compound; it's just a matter of giving each of them a pack of cigarettes.
He sneezed: "To be honest, I'm really fed up with sleeping on a cold kang every day. I've even caught a cold."
Since things had already come to this point, Lao Tian didn't say anything more, and the two parties agreed to install the radiators after get off work.
Zhang Chengfei specifically instructed, "I'll treat you to dinner tonight, let's have a good meal together."
Old Tian chuckled and said, "How embarrassing!"
"You're doing my work for free, I'm the one who should feel bad."
At 7 p.m., Lao Tian, Zhang Chengfei, and Jia Dongxu, who had eaten hot pot noodles, began assembling the radiators.
The Zhang family was the first in the entire compound to install radiators, which attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard.
Seeing that Zhang Chengfei's family had already installed radiators, the people in the courtyard felt a mix of emotions and began to discuss among themselves.
Some people say that using heating consumes a lot of coal every day, while others say that with this, the house is so warm that you don't have to go straight to the heated brick bed as soon as you enter the house.
Some people said that he was a cadre after all, and that he could afford to use such expensive things.
Although there were all sorts of comments, most of them were envious, and there weren't many negative emotions.
As Zhang Chengfei had previously predicted, although this era loudly proclaims "workers are the masters of the country," "workers are the most glorious," and "the poorer you are, the more glorious you are,"
In reality, though no one says it, everyone implicitly agrees that cadres should live a better life than workers, and that cadres should have a higher status than workers.
This can be seen from Liu Hai's desperate attempts to become an official.
The crowd was buzzing with discussion at the doorway. Inside the Zhang family's house, Old Tian was with Zhang Chengfei and Jia Dongxu, while Sha Zhu was working.
The first things to be laid are the inlet and outlet pipes, and the inlet pipe must be laid at a certain angle.
"The inlet pipe should ideally have a slope of 0.5%."
If there is an obstacle at the doorway, the return pipe needs to be buried. However, once the pipe is buried underground, it must never be raised again, otherwise an "airlock" will form, and the entire circulation will stop immediately...
"But your third grandfather's family doesn't need that," Old Tian emphasized, and Jia Dongxu nodded as he worked.
The heavy radiators were placed under the windows near the exterior wall. Lao Tian told Jia Dongxu and Sha Zhu that placing the radiators in this position would better block cold air and create heat convection...
After these items were installed, Jia Dongxu and Sha Zhu were assigned by Zhang Chengfei to go outside and move honeycomb briquettes.
Lao Tian told Zhang Chengfei that the next step was to install an exhaust valve at the highest point of the pipeline.
"After installation, you need to manually bleed the air periodically so that the water can fill the entire system." He said as he found a ladder and prepared to install it himself.
Zhang Chengfei said, "This job doesn't need your help at all. Just tell Dongxu how to install it and have him come over."
While Lao Tian was climbing the ladder, she took out some oil she had prepared in advance from her spatial storage and poured it on the next step of the ladder that Lao Tian was about to step on.
Old Tian stepped on it, instantly lost his balance, and fell to the ground from a height of more than two meters, letting out a scream.
"Brother Tian!" Zhang Chengfei shouted, rushing over to help him, before instantly storing the ladder and the oil stains on Lao Tian's feet into his spatial storage.
All of this happened in an instant. After making sure that no trace was left, he hurriedly went to help Lao Tian up.
"Brother Tian, are you alright? Are you okay? Come on, let me help you up and see if you can walk a few steps."
Old Tian gasped in pain: "No, don't help me, I can't stand up, I think I broke my leg...it hurts so much."
The ladder was slippery on top, like there was something on it, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen.
"No, there's nothing on the ladder." Zhang Chengfei gestured for Lao Tian to look over. "Look, it's perfectly fine."
There was indeed nothing there, and a hint of doubt appeared in Lao Tian's eyes.
He confirmed that he had stepped on something slippery and that's why he fell.
But now, there isn't even a trace left on the ladder.
"Brother Tian, don't think about these things for now. I'll go and call Dongxu and He Yuzhu to take you to the hospital."
After Zhang Chengfei finished speaking, he ran out like a gust of wind.
Seeing him run out the door, Old Tian, sweating profusely, gritted his teeth, took off his shoes, and carefully examined the soles. Making sure there was nothing sticky on them, he then endured the pain and put the shoes back on.
"Could it be that I really slipped?" he muttered to himself.
Outside the window, Zhang Chengfei watched his laborious movements and smiled.
A few minutes later, Zhang Chengfei, along with Jia Dongxu and Sha Zhu, took Lao Tian to the steel mill workers' hospital.
Not long after,
Upon learning that the department's "technical backbone" members, including Lao Ma, Lao Tai, Da Liu, and Xiao Ke, had fractured their bones while installing radiators in Zhang Chengfei's home, they arrived at the ward one after another.
Seeing Lao Tian's leg in a cast, Lao Ma was so angry that he cursed, "Seriously, Zhang Chengfei, are you out of your mind? At this crucial moment, you give me this?!"
"Just think, at this crucial moment when we're about to start trial production of the mini-tiller, you broke Lao Tian's leg. How can he work? How can he contribute to the factory and the country!"
Seeing his section chief's face turn red with anger, Zhang Chengfei stammered, "Section Chief, I... I didn't do it... Anyway, I didn't mean to..."
"I don't care if you did it on purpose! I'm just asking you, what are you going to do? Old Tian can't go to work, which delays the work progress. What are you going to do? Can you afford to compensate the factory for the losses?" Old Ma was still furious.
Zhang Chengfei slid to his knees and said, "I was wrong, Section Chief, Brother Tian, I'm sorry."
Old Tian crossed his arms and cursed, "What good is an apology! If apologies were effective, what would be the point of having a security department?"
Xiao Ke, standing nearby, clicked his tongue in amazement: "Cheng Fei didn't do it on purpose. It was purely an accident. There's no need to involve the security department, is there?"
Old Ma: "..."
Da Liu quickly stepped in to smooth things over: "Things have already come to this, Section Chief, don't get too worked up... Here, have a cigarette."
Old Ma threw the cigarette he was offered on the ground: "Smoking? I'm afraid that good-for-nothing Zhang Chengfei will set him on fire again!!"