Siheyuan: After I Was Expelled, the Entire Factory Shut Down

Feel-good farming and face-slapping Chen Yanshan moved into No. 95 Nanluoguxiang and joined the Red Star Steel Mill after graduating from college. He spent four days negotiating at the Canton Fair to land a $320,000 foreign-currency order. Deputy Director Li wanted to give up his position to his brother-in-law. So the eleven households in the courtyard, with eleven red fingerprints, reported Chen and got him driven out. Second Master was promoted to deputy director, Yan Jiecheng got his permanent position early, and Xu Damao took over Chen's room. Chen Yanshan went to northern Shaanxi, to a mountain ravine where a full day's work earned just twelve cents. Six months later, the main shaft of the steel mill's No. 1 forging press broke. An eighth-grade master worker looked over the blueprints and said, “I wouldn't dare touch this machine.” The foreign buyer demanded $320,000 in compensation, and the whole factory ground to a halt. Second Master and Yan Jiecheng spent three days on a train to northern Shaanxi to ask Chen to come back, but they couldn't even find him. Silly Zhu sat in jail and heard that Qin Huairu had remarried. Deputy Director Li was shoveling manure when he heard something else. Not only had Chen Yanshan resolved the $320,000 compensation claim, he had also brought back a $1 million order. The impoverished residents of the courtyard watched Chen Yanshan basking in success, and regretted their decision with all their hearts. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.