Chapter 160 Going to the Factory

Li Shengli put on his cotton jacket and rabbit fur gloves, then lowered his head and let Han Qiuyun put his scarf around him.

"Drive slowly on the road." Han Qiuyun advised Li Shengli before he left.

"I got it. You should go back quickly and don't catch a cold. Yan Jiecheng and I will go to the steel mill to check. This guy is probably drunk and hiding somewhere." Li Shengli was not worried at all. Even if something unexpected happened, it didn't matter. That was Xu Damao, and he was not a good person.

After going out, Li Shengli took a long time to unlock the bicycle. On the other side, Yan Jiecheng, who lived opposite, walked out of Yan Bugui's room with a bad look on his face.

"Jiecheng, what did your father say?" Li Shengli asked curiously as he saw Yan Jiecheng pushing Yan Bugui's bicycle with a rather unhappy expression on his face.

"My dad charged me fifty cents for a flashlight and a bicycle." Yan Jiecheng said depressedly. Yan Bugui didn't need these two things at the moment, but he still charged me rent for them.

"What are you worried about? Wasn't the money paid by Lou Xiao'e?" Li Shengli looked at Yan Jiecheng strangely. It was not you who paid the money. At most you just ran errands.

"It's nothing. I just think my dad is too calculating. I'm his biological son, but he still charges me for this. Moreover, he also took the errand fee that Lou Xiao'e gave me." Yan Jiecheng was not angry that he had to pay. Just now when they were in the room, Yan Bugui heard that Lou Xiao'e gave Yan Jiecheng fifty cents, which not only included the rental of the car and flashlight, but also took his errand fee.

"Your father is like this. He will charge anyone who uses his things." Li Shengli held back his laughter and patted Yan Jiecheng's shoulder to comfort him. Then he said to Lou Xiao'e who was also holding back her laughter, "Let's go. The sooner we find the person, the sooner we can come back and rest."

Lou Xiao'e held back her laughter and nodded without saying anything. The play that Yan Bugui and Yan Jiecheng sang just now really made Lou Xiao'e laugh.

Li Shengli did not ride his bicycle. The three of them pushed their bicycles along the road from the steel rolling mill back to the courtyard, walking slowly while looking around with flashlights. Lou Xiao'e was afraid that Xu Damao might get drunk on the way, so they walked slowly along the road towards the steel rolling mill while looking for him.

Li Shengli didn't say that we should go directly to the steel rolling mill. By now Xu Damao must have been stripped naked and tied up in the kitchen by Sha Zhu.

If Lou Xiao'e asked him how he knew that, it would be difficult for him to explain to her.

Li Shengli had no choice but to wave the flashlight absentmindedly, and the three of them walked along the way without seeing Xu Damao on the road.

"Lou Xiao'e, it looks like Xu Damao hasn't come out of the factory yet. Let's go to the factory and take a look." Li Shengli raised his wrist and looked at the watch on his wrist in the light of the flashlight. It was getting late, and if he didn't go back, his wife would be worried. He couldn't waste time here with Lou Xiao'e.

Yan Jiecheng over there was also absent-mindedly waving the flashlight around. To be honest, the relationship between Yan Jiecheng and Xu Damao was not very good. If it wasn't for the money, Yan Jiecheng would not have come out to look for someone. What's more, his money was confiscated by Yan Bugui.

Hearing what Li Shengli said, he agreed and said, "Yes, yes."

"Then let's go to the steel mill first." Lou Xiao'e was also a little angry. Xu Damao drank every day, every day, which made Lou Xiao'e very angry every time. Now she had wasted so much effort and still hadn't found him. Lou Xiao'e really wanted to just go back.

When Li Shengli heard that Lou Xiao'e agreed, he immediately smiled. Finally, he didn't have to waste time here.

"Hurry up and get on the bike. When we get to the steel mill, ask the security guard and we'll know if Xu Damao has come out." Li Shengli rubbed his hands and tightened the scarf around his neck. Why did he have to go out and suffer this in such a cold weather? "Let's go, Jiecheng." After Lou Xiaoe got on the bike, Li Shengli shook his head and called Yan Jiecheng, then rode his bike to the steel mill first. Yan Jiecheng also shrank and followed behind Li Shengli.

The three of them rode to the gate of the steel mill. After Lou Xiao'e got off the bike, Li Shengli said to her, "Let's go to the guard room and ask. Xu Damao is a famous person in the factory. Uncle Wang knows where he goes."

Li Shengli came to the guard room and saw Uncle Wang reading a newspaper under the light. This was a feature of the era. He sat under the light with a cup of tea at hand, reading the newspaper while sipping the tea, and criticizing any interesting content he saw.

Li Shengli pushed open the door and went in. Uncle Wang, who was guarding the door, looked up at Li Shengli with some surprise. Didn't Li Shengli go home? What happened now?
"Uncle, let me ask you, have you seen Xu Damao from our factory come out?" Facing Uncle Wang's strange look, Li Shengli took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him.

"I didn't see him, so he probably didn't come out." Uncle Wang took the cigarette, hung it behind his ear, thought about it carefully, shook his head and said.

"Uncle Wang, this is Xu Damao's wife. Seeing that Xu Damao hasn't come back so late, she asked us to come to the factory to check on him." Li Shengli said, pointing at Lou Xiaoe behind him.

"Oh, I see. Then you guys go in and look for her." Uncle Wang glanced at Lou Xiao'e. He knew this person too. She seemed to be the daughter of the former director of the steel mill. As for the other person, he also looked familiar. He should be a worker in the factory.

"Thank you, we'll be out soon." Lou Xiao'e hurried forward to express her gratitude.

"Okay, we'll go in first." Li Shengli waved at Uncle Wang and then signaled Lou Xiao'e and Yan Jiecheng to go in first.

"Where should we look first?" The three of them entered the steel rolling mill and didn't know where to start.

"Lou Xiao'e, was Xu Damao drinking with his superiors in the factory today?" Li Shengli knew that Xu Damao was in the kitchen, but it was not easy to say it out loud.

"Yes, Xu Damao asked me to go home first after the movie today. He said it himself." Lou Xiao'e nodded.

"Let's do this. Let's each look for a place we are familiar with. Jie Cheng, you are more familiar with the workshop, so you can walk around the factory to see if you can see Xu Damao. Lou Xiao'e, you go to the office building to see if Xu Damao has fallen asleep in the Propaganda Department. I'll go to the kitchen to see if Xu Damao had a drink with the leader today. I'll go see if Xu Damao has fallen asleep in the cafeteria box." Li Shengli thought about it and realized that if the three of them looked together, the efficiency would be too low. It would be faster if they separated.

There's no telling what might have happened.

"Whether we find it or not, we'll meet here later." Li Shengli made an agreement with Yan Jiecheng and Lou Xiao'e.

Yan Jiecheng and Lou Xiao'e responded, and the three of them dispersed and walked in different directions.

Li Shengli came to the kitchen calmly and heard some noise inside. It seemed that Xu Damao was still tied up by Sha Zhu. Knowing that Xu Damao was in the kitchen, Li Shengli was not in a hurry and planned to make Xu Damao suffer more.

(End of this chapter)