Chapter Sixty Fracture

  "Hongfei, did the city really give you 20 dismissal quotas?" Dongfang Xiaoling asked in a low voice as she saw the crowd disperse, her face full of worry.

  Dongfang Xiaoling is the new accountant of the municipal motorcycle manufacturing plant, responsible for the company's financial affairs. However, Dongfang Xiaoling is not an ordinary accountant, but a "royal envoy". Many things cannot escape her notice, yet she has never heard her father mention this matter before. Logically speaking, she should have known about it.

  "No, I scared them off." Lin Hongfei replied in a low voice.

  Dongfang Xiaoling was speechless for a moment, stared at him for half a day, and finally came up with a sentence, "You're really cunning."

  "How can this be called cunning? This is management strategy. Haven't you seen how everyone's morale has been boosted? Lin Hongfei was quite dismissive, thinking it was just a matter of waving a tiger skin flag, what's the big deal? But look, after they found out that Lin Hongfei had 20 dismissal quotas, didn't all the workers immediately become much more obedient? When their rice bowls are threatened, anyone would think twice about whether it's worth going against Lin Hongfei."

  "You... this is against the principles of socialism, workers have the right to know." Dongfang Xiaoling was indignant, Lin Hongfei's method of handling things just now had achieved a very ideal result, and the emotions of the workers were quickly suppressed. However, regarding Lin Hongfei's approach, Dongfang Xiaoling always felt that it wasn't right, and it didn't match up with the education she had received over the past twenty years: in a socialist state-owned factory, the workers are the masters of the factory, shouldn't they be directly informed about everything? How can you use such deceitful means on the workers?

  "Cut it out," Lin Hongfei knew that this was the current view of everyone on these matters, but Lin Hongfei, with so much experience from his past life, looked down on Dongfang Xiaoling's naive thinking. "It's true that workers have the right to know, but there should be a limitation: workers only have the right to know what the factory wants them to know... Will the factory openly disclose its financial situation to the workers without reservation? Can we tell the workers that the company's account is actually empty, and those few bastards stole all 180 million?"

  "You...this is sophistry!" Dongfang Xiaoling was infuriated by Lin Hongfei, her ponytail stomping her foot, her small face flushing with excitement. "How can this be lumped together? It's two completely different things! Was hiding it from them really for the workers' own good?"

  "Isn't that enough?" Lin Hongfei spread his hands, a look of helplessness on his face. "You're hiding the factory's financial situation from the workers for their own good. I told them there are 20 layoffs planned, if they don't work hard they'll be let go. Is that harming them? And it's also for their own good, as long as they work hard, will I lay them off? Of course not."

  "You... you... you rascal!" The girl finally couldn't stand Lin Hongfei's "rascality" anymore, stomped her foot in anger and flung away from Lin Hongfei towards the office building.

  The girl felt wronged in her heart, what can't you say to me properly, must you deliberately annoy me?

  Women are just trouble! Lin Hongfei shook his head helplessly, and for a moment, he even forgot about Director Gu's matter.

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  Lin Hongfei had forgotten Director Gu, but Director Gu absolutely did not dare to forget Lin Hongfei. Lin Hongfei was young and could be called "young and inexperienced". Director Gu might look down on Lin Hongfei's actual ability at work, but he absolutely did not dare to be absent from such an important occasion. The trusted second-in-command is about to take office, and you, the big manager, didn't come to welcome him? You... what are you trying to do? Are you dissatisfied with the leadership? Are you dissatisfied with the arrangement of the municipal party committee and government? Or are you planning to seize power?

  In any case, it will inevitably lead to a great deterioration in the impression of the municipal party committee and government leaders towards Director Gu. This crime, Director Gu cannot bear. But the problem is that some situations are not something that Director Gu can control... He broke his bones.

  When Lin Hongfei received a message from Director Gu, it was a call from the Second City Hospital, asking Lin Hongfei to go over and settle the payment.

  "What's the fare?" Lin Hongfei was suddenly surprised in his heart.

  "Is there a comrade named Gu Guangming in your unit?" The doctor on the phone spoke very politely, and it seemed that he already knew the identities of Gu Guangming and Lin Hongfei, without his usual tone of indifference. "Gu Guangming was sent to our hospital this morning with a fracture in his left calf. You are his colleague, right? Would you please inform your factory's leadership to come and visit Comrade Gu Guangming, and also take care of the expenses?"

  Gu Guangming broke his leg this morning? Lin Hongfei was stunned for several seconds before hastily saying, "Alright, we'll head over right away! Doctor, please make sure to treat Comrade Gu Guangming with the best care possible, whether it's the doctors or medication or medical equipment... Doctor, how is Gu Guangming's condition? Besides the fracture, are there any other issues?"

  "Don't worry, Comrade. Gu Guangming's condition is not serious, just a fracture. There's nothing else wrong with him. You don't have to worry too much either. The situation is not serious. He just needs to rest for a while and he'll be fine. It's just that his work might be affected."

  "Doctor, thank you so much! Don't worry, I'll be right there."

  Lin Hongfei put down the phone and immediately walked towards the finance office, shaking his head as he went. This Director Gu was really unlucky, if it were someone else in charge, they might think that Gu Guangming was intentionally making things difficult for them, who knows whether there really was an injury or fracture?

  Dongfang Xiaoling gave Lin Hongfei a glance, the anger in her heart still not dissipated. "Director Lin, you're not in your office thinking of ways to cheat people, what are you doing here?"

  The cashier next to him suddenly covered his mouth and secretly laughed.

  Lin Hongfei didn't have the heart to grind his teeth with Dongfang Xiaoling. He said directly, "Just now, a call from the Second Hospital in the city, Director Gu is hospitalized due to a fracture, let's hurry up and bring some money to visit him."

  "What? Something happened to Director Gu?" Dongfang Xiaoling's face changed instantly, and she stopped quarreling with Lin Hongfei, asking urgently, "Is it serious?"

  "It should be nothing serious, the doctor said it's just a fracture, and the situation is not severe."

  "That's good," Dongfang little sister finally let out a sigh of relief.