On New Year's Eve, Li Ye hurried out after dinner, prompting his grandmother Wu Juying to start nagging again.
"It's been how many years now? Every time you finish your dumplings, you head off to pull duty at work. How long has it been since you stayed up to see in the New Year with the family? Does your unit have no one else? Aren't there four or five Deputy General Managers? Why are you always the one on duty on New Year's Eve?"
Li Ye said with a grin, "Grandma, don't put it like that. This year, everyone fought tooth and nail for the chance to be on duty on New Year's Eve. If your grandson hadn't worked himself to the bone and earned some credit, it wouldn't even have fallen to me."
Wu Juying rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "What, is your new leader coming to inspect the subordinate units today?"
Li Ye said in surprise, "Grandma, you guessed even that?"
"Tch~"
Wu Juying said disdainfully, "I learned tricks like this decades ago. If I'm not mistaken, someone quietly let the word slip that the new leader would come down to inspect on New Year's Eve, right?"
Li Ye gave his grandmother a thumbs-up and said in utter admiration, "Grandma, you got every bit of it right. Though they didn't say they'd definitely come to our unit. After all, we have several sister units!"
"Hmph~"
Wu Juying snorted coldly, curling her lip. "Nothing but tricks for straightening people out. Crooked paths and evil ways."
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"Straightening people out" was a local Dongshan dialect expression meaning "training someone into obedience."
This winter, Beijing Capital Automotive Group Company had been established, and Jingnan Group, where Li Ye worked, had been placed under unified management along with many other automobile