Chapter 64: Serve the People!

Hou San stumbled, his direction shifted, and he lunged directly at Li Xiangdong, who was in front of him to the right.

“What the f*ck!”

Li Xiangdong never would have thought that even a bystander’s position could be affected. He pushed away Hou San, who was pressing on him, and stood up with Erguaizi’s help.

Looking at the grimacing Li Xiangdong, Hou San was deeply moved. It felt so good to have someone cushion his fall when he was being beaten!

Brother Dong, what a good brother!

Hou Jianshe looked at Li Xiangdong with a very embarrassed expression, “Dongzi, why didn’t you dodge, you child? Now I feel quite bad. Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, Uncle Hou. We’re uncle and nephew, we don’t need to be so formal. Besides, you didn’t do it on purpose.”

Li Xiangdong spoke magnanimously, but in reality, he hadn’t reacted in time. Otherwise, he would have dodged long ago!

“Mmm, it’s good that you’re fine.”

Hou Jianshe nodded with a smile. His anger had subsided, and he had even contentedly received a full box of pre-Qingming Longjing from Wang Dahai. He left with a smile on his face.

Liu Erdan put his low-grade jasmine tea back into his own tea box. He pointed at Hou San, said nothing, and turned to leave the office with Wang Dahai.

Hou San let out a long sigh of relief, “That scared me to death. It’s finally over.”

Erguaizi came over and said with a grin, “Using Tieguanyin to make tea eggs, Hou San, you’re really something! I, Erguaizi, am impressed.”

As soon as Hou Jianshe left, Hou San became cocky again. He rolled his eyes at Erguaizi, “What’s it to you? Your master has already left. Why don’t you get lost!”

“Tch!”

Erguaizi said mockingly, “Hou San, don’t get cocky too early. Your dad’s anger might not have subsided yet. Be careful he doesn’t continue to beat you when you get home.”

While Hou San and Erguaizi were bickering, a group of more than ten people, including Ah Zhe, passed by the office door.

Li Xiangdong asked, “Where are they going? Doesn’t our train leave at 10:30?”

Hou San said, “The crew members have to board the train at least an hour and a half before departure. They need to clean it beforehand.”

Li Xiangdong looked at Hou San’s watch, “Isn’t it still early?”

Erguaizi explained, “I haven’t seen many of the people who just passed by before. They should all be new. They’re boarding the train so early, they must be letting them familiarize themselves with the work in advance.”

Li Xiangdong nodded and looked at Hou San, “Do we need to go with them?”

“No…”

Hou San stopped halfway and suddenly said with a grin, “Brother Dong, do you want to go see how Ah Zhe works?”

Li Xiangdong had wanted to say that he didn’t want to go. What was there to see in cleaning? It was much better to sit in the office and drink tea.

But he saw Hou San’s eager expression, and then thought about how Hou San had just taken a kick for him. He said against his will, “I’m actually quite curious. Take me to have a look.”

The two said goodbye to Erguaizi, and Li Xiangdong helped the limping Hou San towards the platform.

“Hou San, are you okay?”

“What’s this? Brother Dong, weren’t you cushioning me? If you’re fine, what could be wrong with me?”

Li Xiangdong felt a pang in his heart…

“Besides, my dad hits me even harder usually. He always uses a feather duster. This time was actually good.”

“Do you think it’s possible that your dad was just in a hurry to beat you and didn’t have time to grab the feather duster?”

Hou San’s heart was also pricked, “Hiss~ Brother Dong, stop talking, my butt hurts~!”

The two arrived at the platform. Under Hou San’s guidance, Li Xiangdong found the train to Tianjin. They looked into the windows one by one until they reached carriage 1, where they saw Ah Zhe and the others.

The two of them crouched down and boarded the train from the back, hiding in the connection between two carriages to eavesdrop.

Hou San took out a box of Mudan cigarettes and quietly handed one to Li Xiangdong. He waved his hand to refuse and gestured for Hou San not to smoke either. But who knew that Hou San would light up and start smoking.

“I don’t need to tell you about the current environment, you all know it in your hearts. No matter who is checking tickets at the boarding gate, you must not be careless…”

“You new guys, let me remind you again. The toilets on our train are direct discharge. When the train is stopped at a station or passing over a bridge, you must close the toilets in advance to prevent fecal contamination… Who’s smoking?”

“Who’s hiding in the back smoking? Come out immediately!”

Seeing everyone’s gaze turn towards them, Li Xiangdong pushed Hou San out.

Seeing that Hou San was still holding the cigarette and hadn’t thrown it away, he said in a low voice, “Put out the cigarette quickly!”

“Oh.”

Hou San casually threw the cigarette on the floor of the carriage and stomped on it hard.

Seeing the big black mark, Li Xiangdong’s heart skipped a beat. This dog of a Hou San, wasn’t he just asking for a beating?

“Hou San!”

“What’s wrong, Brother Yang? We were just curious and wanted to come and learn. If you’re fine, we’ll leave now.”

Brother Yang saw the black mark on the carriage floor and looked at the two who had suddenly appeared with extremely unfriendly eyes, “Leave? Since you’re here, you might as well help us clean.”

Hou San said anxiously, “Cleaning is not my job. Why should I do it!”

Seeing Hou San get anxious, Brother Yang said slowly, “For no reason. Just because if you dare to leave, I dare to go find your dad. Why don’t you try leaving?”

Hearing him mention his dad, Hou San immediately cowered. He snorted, walked directly into the carriage, and sat down on a chair.

Brother Yang looked at Li Xiangdong, “And you are?”

Li Xiangdong introduced himself, “Hello, leader. I’m Li Xiangdong from the water supply group.”

Brother Yang nodded, “Li Dalaba (Big Loudspeaker), right? Your fame is spreading far and wide.”

“Hahahaha!”

Hearing this, the people in the carriage laughed, each one louder than the last.

Li Xiangdong looked straight ahead with a solemn expression and shouted loudly, “Serve the people!”

Hearing this, the laughter in the carriage immediately died down.

Li Xiangdong glanced at them from the corner of his eye, overjoyed. Laugh? Go on, laugh! Why aren’t you laughing anymore?

Who would dare to laugh at the great man’s words? Whoever did would have a problem with their thinking!

Although it wasn’t a few years ago, in this kind of service-oriented position facing the whole country, ideological awareness was still very important. Otherwise, how could one do a good job of serving the people?

Brother Yang looked at Li Xiangdong with a complicated expression, “Go sit next to Hou San. You’ll help us clean later. You don’t have any objections, do you?”

“I have no objections. I’ll follow the leader’s arrangements.”

After sitting down, Li Xiangdong glared fiercely at Hou San!

Hou San first clasped his hands in a gesture of begging for mercy, then looked at him with a cheeky smile. Finally, he closed his eyes, tilted his head, and directly fell asleep…