Chapter 92 Red List
“Isn’t it coming?”

Hearing the voice outside, Gao Bo immediately smiled and patted Liang Baoguo on the shoulder, then strode out of the workshop door.

"By the way, you must celebrate your award this time. At least you should book a table at the Wuqi Restaurant. Captain Sun and I will go." Gao Bo turned to Liang Baoguo and added.

"Of course, of course!" Liang Baoguo was also overjoyed and said repeatedly.

Compared with 800 yuan, a meal is not worth mentioning at all, not to mention that he can work in a government agency in the future. When Liang Baoguo thought of this, his hands were shaking with excitement.

"This old bootlicker finally got what he wanted."

At this time, Wang Yongsheng and his gang, who were standing at the door of the workshop, saw Liang Baoguo and Gao Bo walking quickly towards the bulletin board, and Xiao Gangpao said something with disdain.

"He can only make a broken sofa. You know what, after flattering the leader for so long, I finally got some benefits." Wang Yongsheng laughed and said to Xu Qiang beside him, "Qiangzi, where have you been these two days? I thought you ran away. Brother, I'm still waiting for your goods."

Except for the deputy factory director, no one else in the factory knew that Xu Qiang and Liu Biao were on a business trip to the provincial capital, so Wang Yongsheng was more or less worried that Xu Qiang had run away with the money after not seeing him for the past two days. After all, two thousand yuan is not a small amount of money, especially for rural people like them.

After all, the two had only known each other for a short time, less than a month, so even though Xu Qiang had always kept his promises, Wang Yongsheng would still be worried, which is also human nature.

It was not until Xu Qiang reported back today that Wang Yongsheng finally put his mind at ease.

"Would I run away for more than 2,000 yuan?" Xu Qiang smiled and continued, "There was a lot of cargo this time, so I took a special leave and went to Shanghai. I didn't tell you before I left, so please forgive me."

"You are so loyal indeed!" Wang Yongsheng patted Xu Qiang on the shoulder and said, "The goods you gave me before have been sold out. Let's go get the goods together after get off work this afternoon."

"Okay!" Xu Qiang nodded.

While Wang Yongsheng and Xu Qiang were talking, Gao Bo and Liang Baoguo had already arrived in front of the workshop bulletin board.

There were a lot of people watching at this time. After all, the prize money for this military-to-civilian product collection activity was very high, a full 800 yuan, and everyone wanted to see who the lucky person who would win the first prize was.

"Our chemical workshop won the first prize!"

Someone in the crowd in front said something, and Gao Bo and Liang Baoguo in the back also looked happy after hearing it.

But when they squeezed in and saw the red list, they were stunned.

At the top of the red list, the first place was clearly written: "Xu Qiang from the Chemical Workshop", while Liang Baoguo's name was below, and he only got a second prize!

"This..." Gao Bo looked incredulous. After a moment, he said, "The factory didn't make a mistake, did they?!"

"This is the list of award winners decided by the factory director. How could it be wrong?" Secretary Wang from the Propaganda Department, who was about to leave, replied casually after hearing this.

"But I heard that the first prize wasn't won by Xu Qiang?"

"You have to ask the factory director. We will write it according to what he decides." After saying this, Secretary Wang turned and left.

"Lao Liang, what's wrong with you?" At this moment, someone saw Liang Baoguo sitting on the ground and immediately stepped forward to support him.

"it's okay no problem……"

After Liang Baoguo was helped up, he said something and turned to leave.

It is obvious that although there is only one level difference between the first prize and the second prize, the rewards are very different.

The first prize was 800 yuan, while the second prize dropped to 50 yuan. In addition, Liang Baoguo's dream of working in the government was completely lost. This huge psychological gap is imaginable. Now, the sofa has been delivered and the banquet has been arranged. It is really a loss of both the wife and the army!

"Don't worry, Lao Liang. They must have made a mistake. I'll ask the leader later." Gao Bo consoled him.

But in fact, Gao Bo knew in his heart that once the red list was released, it was basically a done deal and could not be changed.

Gao Bo was also feeling extremely uncomfortable at this time.

He had always disliked Xu Qiang, thinking that this boy had been cheating and slacking off since he started working. He had even contradicted him in person during a class meeting.

Moreover, Gao Bo had ridiculed Xu Qiang because of the military-to-civilian conversion activity in the factory. However, what he didn't expect was that Xu Qiang won the first prize this time, and he would definitely become the laughing stock of everyone in the workshop...

“You actually won a prize…”

At this time, Wang Yongsheng and others also came to the bulletin board. When they saw Xu Qiang's name written as the first place, they all looked incredulous.

Although Wang Yongsheng and his colleagues have always sneered at the factory's honors, deep down, they are still somewhat envious of those who can be on the factory's red list.

But no one expected that Xu Qiang, who also worked in the workshop, would be on the red list and ranked first in the whole factory. This shock was no less than an 18-magnitude earthquake!

"I'll treat you after get off work tonight!" Xu Qiang said with a smile.

Although Xu Qiang already knew the result in advance, he still felt pretty good when he saw the red list.

Apart from anything else, the 800 yuan bonus alone was definitely a timely help for Xu Qiang, who was short of money at the moment.

Ever since he bought that second-hand tractor for more than 4,000 yuan, Xu Qiang has been short of working capital. He can only fill the gap by selling the humic acid fertilizer produced every day for raw materials for production. Now, he still owes Wang Yongsheng more than 2,000 yuan worth of goods.

But with these 800 yuan, his current financial predicament can be greatly alleviated, allowing him to purchase more raw materials and quickly get out of the debt period.

"Okay, we will all go!" Wang Yongsheng laughed and continued, "I can see that you are really good at what you do. No wonder you dare to go against the leader of our workshop."

"Brother Qiang is so awesome!" Little Cannon also gave Xu Qiang a thumbs up at this time.

"Xu Qiang, you won the award this time and got so much bonus. When will we get some of the credit?"

"Yes, I helped you move a few bags of coal last time..."

"It's ok to give everyone a whole box of cigarettes to smoke!"

For a moment, everyone present surrounded Xu Qiang.

These are colleagues from the workshop. Naturally, they are very envious of Xu Qiang for winning the award. They have no other ideas but to take advantage of Xu Qiang's happiness to get some benefits.

"I haven't received the money yet. I won't forget you all after I get the money." Xu Qiang said quickly.

Although Xu Qiang doesn't interact much with the people in the workshop, this is the workshop where he works after all, so it is still very important to have good relationships with his colleagues.

At most, spending a dozen or twenty dollars to buy a few packs of cigarettes is enough to get rid of these people.

But Xu Qiang didn't expect that after winning this award, he would be at the center of public attention in the entire factory...

(End of this chapter)