Chapter 204 Xin Fei
Zhang Yunqi's actions caught Li Yufei's attention.

Because other students gathered in groups of three or five on the roadside, under trees or at railings, Zhang Yunqi was alone, and Li Yufei sometimes couldn't help but look at him. Once, she saw him squeeze through the crowded crowd and walk along the roadside to the public telephone booth, as if he wanted to make a call, but by chance, he met an acquaintance on the side of the road and the two started talking.

Li Yufei actually also knew that acquaintance.

Wang Guibing, who lives in the Longjingyuan Cannery's family compound, called her Brother Guibing when she was young. She also always remembers a funny thing. When she was in elementary school, there were a few little boys in the school who liked to tease her. One time, they made her cry. She ran home and happened to meet Wang Guibing squatting at the door of the cannery's family compound eating. Wang Guibing asked her, "Why are you crying?"

She told the reason.

Then he put down his bowl, took her hand, found those little boys and beat them up.

This happened many years ago. Li Yufei still feels a little touched when she thinks about it now, but a few years ago, Wang Guibing liked to hang out with the youths in society. Because of an extremely bad group fight among factory workers led by him, his father had to buy out his years of service and resign, but did not call the police to arrest him. The reason was that his father used to be in charge of purchasing at the cannery. On the way to Liujia Town, Fengyang County to transport soybeans, he was killed in a truck rollover accident.

Although there have been layoffs of state-owned enterprise workers in the past two years, it is still relatively rare, so the penalty for buying out seniority is also very severe. Wang Guibing was the first one. He made a scene in the canning factory and overturned his father's office. For Li Yufei, Wang Guibing has been almost a stranger since then. Even if they live in the same place, they rarely meet. She also doesn't know how Yunqi knew Wang Guibing.

From a distance, she found that the two people seemed to have a good relationship, but the distance was a bit far, and there were many passers-by watching the excitement in between, and the noise was noisy, so she couldn't hear what they were saying. However, looking at the expressions of Zhang Yunqi and Wang Guibing when they talked, they were very different from when they were in school, more calm and decisive.

This made Li Yufei always have an indescribable strange feeling in her heart. But at this time, the two seemed to have finished their conversation. Wang Guibing turned his head and walked over here. Li Yufei felt that his face looked nervous and excited.

As she thought of this, Wang Guibing had already walked over, and Li Yufei called out, "Brother Guibing."

Wang Guibing turned his head and saw that it was Li Jilin's daughter Li Yufei who called him. He was stunned. This little girl has been a beauty since she was young, and now she is getting more and more beautiful. He subconsciously turned his head to look at Zhang Yunqi who was walking over, then retracted his gaze and smiled at Li Yufei, saying, "There are too many people here, it's not safe. Go home early, your father will be fine, and I will try to persuade those uncles and aunts in our factory to go back."

Li Yufei opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but Wang Guibing had something to deal with and had already pushed through the crowd and squeezed towards the most crowded area. Soon, he was close to the area where the employees of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory were causing trouble. He was talking to the government officials across the wall of people. The wall of people opened a gap to let him pass. Li Yufei saw her father Li Jilin and District Chief Huo coming towards Wang Guibing.

Earlier, her father and District Chief Huo had been trying to appease the workers, but to no avail. In fact, the cannery workers had been causing trouble many times in the past six months, and Li Yufei had seen it many times, because most of them happened at her doorstep. This time it was just more intense and fierce, and the embarrassed father and District Chief Huo could not appease the workers' emotions that were almost out of control. However, the appearance of Wang Guibing seemed to change the situation. He whispered to District Chief Huo, and the two walked behind a big locust tree to talk, looking here while talking.

Li Yufei subconsciously glanced at Zhang Yunqi beside her.

He was also looking over there.

But the expression on his face seemed more like he was just watching the fun.

When Li Yufei looked over again, District Chief Huo had already taken Wang Guibing into the black business car parked at the entrance of the alley. Her father was still there, but not long after, Wang Guibing got out of the business car. He and District Chief Huo once again rushed to the area where the cannery employees were making trouble. At this time, her father Li Jilin, who was standing in front of the human wall, pointed at Wang Guibing with a portable loudspeaker and shouted a few words. The employees who were shouting slogans seemed to calm down a little, and their eyes were all on Wang Guibing. Her father handed the portable loudspeaker to Wang Guibing. Wang Guibing took the loudspeaker, patted his chest and said something to the employees. The distance was a bit far, and a large crowd of people gathered in front to watch the excitement. Li Yufei could not hear clearly. She only vaguely heard him say: "Lianzhong wants to invest", "resettlement you", "wages" and so on.

Just like that, a magical scene appeared.

The workers who were blocking the street began to loosen up, and the human wall that had originally blocked the middle of the road was no longer so firm, probably because Wang Guibing was the son of an employee who grew up in the Longjingyuan Cannery. Li Yufei thought. Although she didn't care much about these things, she had heard from others that Wang Guibing made a lot of money outside, opened a company, and became a boss. If he expressed his intention to invest in the cannery, then his promise would be extremely convincing to the uncles and aunts in the cannery who watched him grow up.

Then, the employees from both ends gathered in the middle, forming a group, and then Dad Li Jilin stood up and spoke, his expression was very excited. In Li Yufei's mind, Dad has always been a gentle man, with a gentle personality, gentle manners, and always polite, but at this moment, he was seen from a distance with messy hair standing on the stone steps, waving his arms and saying something, some of which were very loud and could be heard from far away.

“You have to trust the government!”

"The boss of Lianzhong has made it clear that he wants to invest!"

"You are all good brothers of Bingzi's father. Back then, Bingzi's father lost his life for the development of the cannery. Bingzi hopes more than anyone else that our factory can survive! Because his father's blood was shed on the land of the cannery!"

"I, Li Jilin, also guarantee with my head that the cannery will be operational again! I will make sure every brother and sister in the cannery can have a good meal!"

A warm current surged in Li Yufei's heart.

Who is responsible for the current state of Longjingyuan Cannery?

As a high school girl, she really didn't understand very much, but she knew how much effort and tears her father had put into this factory. He had to deal with banks, suppliers, workers who were making trouble, and the government day and night. He had hardly slept well in order to borrow money from people. In the past year or so, her mother kept complaining that he had never brought a penny to supplement the family income. Where did his money go? Did he eat? Drink? Or gamble?
No. He used it to help those employees who were in financial difficulty.

One thing that left a deep impression on her was that on New Year's Eve this year, more than a dozen suppliers came to the cannery to sit in protest and demand payment. My father couldn't come up with the money, so he packed up the reunion dinner my mother had made and took it over, and ate with them, drank with them, and even slept on the floor with them.

In fact, many times, Li Yufei would have such an idea in her mind, that is, she couldn't wait to hope that Longjingyuan Canning Factory would go bankrupt and close down. Yes. This idea is very selfish, but she knows that only in this way can her father be relieved, live less painfully, and not have to put down his self-esteem and beg the bank, suppliers, and government leaders in a humble manner.

No matter what, Dad was a career cadre, and there was always a way out for him, whether the Longjingyuan Canning Factory closed down or not. Mom had been asking Grandpa to find a way to transfer him to the Economic and Trade Bureau in Lijin City, the provincial capital. However, Dad always said that Mom was making trouble! Li Yufei knew that it was not Mom who was making trouble, but that as long as the canning factory was still alive, Dad would not give up.

Just like now, just like now.

Like her dad said, live with the cannery.

But no matter what, Li Yufei didn't expect these uncles and aunts in the cannery to understand her father. Everyone has their own difficulties. In this year, she has seen too many cruel things in the world and too many broken families. Living is really not easy. Perhaps for a girl who just turned 16, this understanding is cruel, but it can make her less angry and feel that it is not worth it for her father.

After more than half an hour of shouting, the uncles and uncles from the cannery were finally persuaded by Wang Guibing and her father Li Jilin. Li Yufei watched as the cannery workers retreated to the other side of the street, and the official cars, police cars, and vans from the cannery drove to the side of the road. Ma Lin and a group of traffic police who had just stood on the side of the road and could not control the situation walked to the middle of the road again, busy restoring traffic order, and the crowd of onlookers saw that there was no more trouble, and began to disperse in twos and threes.

It was only then that she walked over and waved to her dad.

Li Jilin heard it.

He didn't expect his daughter to appear here. Without thinking much, he handed the loudspeaker to a staff member and rushed over. However, halfway through, he saw Zhang Yunqi next to his daughter and was stunned. Although he knew that Zhang Yunqi also studied in the No. 1 Middle School in the city, he really didn't know that his daughter and he were classmates, and he never thought about it in this regard.

There aren't so many coincidences in the world.

Until he got closer, Li Jilin was still thinking about how to address Zhang Yunqi.

As a parent, especially as the parent of a girl like Li Yufei who always finds a bunch of love letters in her schoolbag, Li Jilin is very vigilant. When he sees the two of them together, countless thoughts flash through his mind, but he knows very well that he cannot treat Zhang Yunqi like an ordinary boy.

This boy is most likely his boss, the one who controls the fate of nearly two hundred employees at the Longjingyuan Cannery!
"Hello, Uncle Li."

When Li Jilin hesitated, Zhang Yunqi had already taken the initiative to greet him. Li Jilin felt that this guy understood people's hearts very well, and he forced a smile on his face: "You...Okay, then, about the cannery investment, Guibing is here, do you want to..."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Boss Wang, just handle it. I'm just passing by. Today is Yufei's birthday, and my classmates are going to have a birthday dinner with her."

Li Jilin turned his gaze to Li Yufei, and the father and daughter began to chat. However, while they were talking, Li Jilin noticed that his daughter's gaze would fall on Zhang Yunqi from time to time. He pretended not to know on his face, but in his heart he sighed that girls should not be kept when they grow up. However, he misinterpreted the thoughts of his precious daughter.

At this moment, Li Yufei's heart was in a storm! However, her pretty face did not show any sign of it. She smiled as usual. Only when she looked at Zhang Yunqi did her eyes reveal a hint of strangeness.

After the father and daughter chatted briefly, Li Jilin said that he still had to do some ideological work for the employees, asking Li Yufei to go out and play with her friends, pay attention to safety, and go home early.

Li Yufei nodded obediently and said yes.

Li Jilin waved his hand and turned away.

By this time, the road had been cleared again, and the workers of the cannery were still in the small square across the street. Li Yufei looked at her father's back as he crossed the road. In the winter sun, his messy hair was gleaming with frost. But just as she was in a daze, the back suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, Yufei."

Li Yufei said, "What's wrong? Dad."

Li Jilin smiled and said, "Happy birthday. Dad doesn't have time to accompany you today. You, Zhang, Yunqi, and other classmates should have fun. Go home early. Mom will wait for you to have birthday dinner together in the evening."

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(End of this chapter)