Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 427: Yan Bugui's Old Problem

In fact, Lin Gengdou knew clearly that Liu Haizhong was jumping up and down in the yard to connect those residents and try to get them to form a group to fight against him. He just watched coldly to see who was going to join forces with Liu Haizhong to deal with him.

The final result surprised Lin Geng a little. Those families actually rejected Liu Haizhong, saying that they wanted to live a good life in the future and did not want to offend him again. Liu Haizhong was rejected several times and could only drink at home in frustration.

Lin Geng was quite satisfied with the performance of the neighbors who had gloated over his misfortune when they saw him being taken away for investigation. At least these people had some brains. In that case, he did not plan to kill them all, so as to avoid forcing them into a desperate situation and becoming mortal enemies in the future.

But he would naturally not be polite to Liu Haizhong, who was still determined to commit evil. Since Liu Haizhong still wanted to be his enemy, don't blame him for continuing to deal with this old guy.

More than two months passed, and Lin Geng was promoted by Li Huaide to be the deputy section chief of Purchasing Section 4. This was not opposed by anyone, including his colleagues in Purchasing Section 4. After all, most of the tasks of Purchasing Section 4 were now completed by Lin Geng alone. Since Lin Geng purchased more things, their workload was reduced a lot.

Lin Geng's abilities were there, and everyone benefited from them. In addition, they also saw that Lin Geng was highly regarded by the factory leaders and had many connections. Basically, Lin Geng could get all kinds of materials that were difficult to obtain now. Even a few buyers who disliked him before were now completely convinced. Therefore, no one objected to Lin Geng being promoted to deputy section chief of Purchasing Section 4.

In the past two months, the residents in the yard who had been at odds with Lin Geng had been very honest. They had been tortured like quails in the factory, and no matter what dissatisfaction they had in their hearts, they did not show it in the yard.

Moreover, when these residents in the yard met Lin Geng, they greeted him with smiles on their faces. It was obvious that they were showing weakness to Lin Geng and wanted to take the initiative to restore their relationship with him. Even Geng Zhong, who had been beaten by Lin Geng before, took the initiative to find Lin Geng some time ago, apologized to him with tears and begged him to let him go.

In view of the performance of these neighbors, Lin Geng privately greeted Sha Zhu and asked Sha Zhu to tell the people in the cafeteria not to continue targeting those workers in the steel rolling mill. He also privately told the workshop directors of these guys not to continue to target them.

Even as for Geng Zhong, Lin Geng also greeted the purchasing chief of their factory and asked him to greet the factory leaders and tell them not to target Geng Zhong anymore. It's fine as long as he admits his mistakes and corrects them. There's no need to make him die.

After a few days, these people clearly felt that the targeting from the surrounding areas began to decrease and gradually disappeared. They were finally able to get a normal amount of food in the cafeteria. The workshop director and team leader no longer asked them to do hard work every day. They were not stupid and knew that Lin Geng had let them go.

So a few days later, these people found Lin Geng separately and prepared some gifts to express their gratitude to Lin Geng.

Lin Geng didn't care about the gifts they gave him, what he wanted was their attitude. These families had not done anything stupid in the past two months. Qin Huairu and Liu Haizhong had approached them many times in the past two months, trying to get them to join and go against Lin Geng, but these families unexpectedly rejected them.

Since these families were not confused and were unwilling to continue to be his enemies, Lin Geng did not intend to continue targeting them. He decided to let them go, so as to avoid the situation in which these people would lose hope and eventually choose to side with Qin Huairu and Liu Haizhong.

In fact, these people are all ordinary people, and naturally they have the bad qualities of ordinary people. The mentality of hating others for what they have and laughing at others for what they don't is something that many ordinary people have. To put it bluntly, they are just some petty citizens. However, to say that they are all beasts, that is not the case.

These people are actually just ordinary workers who rely on a meager income to support their entire family. Some of them even have elderly parents and young children who all rely on one person's salary to support them. So Lin Geng does not intend to force them into a desperate situation and implicate their wives and children. This is also his conscience, not that he is too virginal.

The fact that Lin Geng was promoted to deputy section chief of the fourth purchasing section also caused an uproar in Siheyuan. Lin Geng was only 21 years old this year. In less than two years of working, he was promoted from a small purchaser to deputy section chief of the purchasing section and became a leader. Although he was only a deputy section chief, no one could deny that Lin Geng had indeed become a cadre and was no longer an ordinary employee.

This made many neighbors in the yard envious, but this time no one dared to speak ill of Lin Geng in a sarcastic way. When they saw Lin Geng, they all congratulated him with a smile.

Lin Geng did not show any arrogance. He smiled and distributed cigarettes to the neighbors who congratulated him in the yard. He also took out a lot of melon seeds, peanuts and fruit candies to give to the non-smoking women and children. In particular, Lin Geng gave Yan Bugui a few more handfuls of melon seeds, peanuts and candies to him. The residents in the yard were smoking and eating melon seeds and peanuts, and they were all smiling and gave Lin Geng a thumbs up, saying that he was magnanimous.

Yan Bugui's old habit came back at this time, so he persuaded Lin Geng that since he had become a cadre, he should set up a few tables in the yard and invite the neighbors to celebrate.

Lin Geng glanced at Yan Bugui and said with a fake smile: "Teacher Yan, are you sure you want me to set up a few tables to celebrate? Have you forgotten that the country now encourages thrift and opposes extravagance and waste!

Are you trying to harm me? I was just promoted to a small position of deputy section chief of the purchasing department, but you are holding such a big celebration. Are you afraid that I will stay in this position for too long?"

Yan Bugui looked at Lin Geng's fake smile and the coldness in his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat. He secretly said "oh no!" He was used to calculating, and his inertial thinking suppressed his rational thinking. He instinctively wanted to take advantage of Lin Geng, and this time he offended Lin Geng.

Yan Bugui immediately showed an awkward smile, and quickly waved his hands and said to Lin Geng: "No, no! Xiaolin, don't misunderstand me. I just heard that you got promoted. Am I happy for you? So I wanted to celebrate for you and have a good time in the courtyard!

I really didn't think it through just now, and now is not the right time to celebrate, just pretend I didn't say anything!"

After saying this, Yan Bugui ran back home in shame, without even guarding the door.

After arriving home, Yan Bugui wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and cursed himself in his heart for being so blinded by greed today. Why did he plot against Lin Geng?