I Came to Plant Peach Trees

At nine-thirty in the morning, Yue Lingshan finished the scant bit of work at hand and stretched lazily.

She checked the time. It was the perfect hour for employees at a state-owned enterprise to wander around and slack off, so she grinned at Li Ye. "Section Chief Li, I'm going over to the warehouse to verify the supply numbers for the leaf springs~"

Without even looking up, Li Ye said, "The warehouse, right? Go ahead. If anything comes up, I'll call you."

That was just the atmosphere in workplaces now. There was not much work to do, yet they recruited new people every year. Even if you wanted to compete, there was no way to do it.

So Li Ye could not act like some warlord either, timing people even when they went to the bathroom. As long as nobody disappeared when needed, he did not care if they went visiting or chatted for a while.

But Yue Lingshan had only been gone for a few minutes before she dashed back into the Supply Department like a whirlwind. The moment she entered, she shouted at Li Ye, "Section Chief, Section Chief! Several police officers just came and took Guan Liang to the Security Department!"

The few people in the office all looked up in surprise.

In the early eighties, the security departments inside state-owned enterprises were no ordinary "security guard departments." Those with relatively high status were even issued guns.

When employees got into fights or stole things, the enterprise generally handled it internally. They also maintained joint-defense ties with the public security departments in their jurisdictions.

Because they possessed a "semi-police" nature, whenever someone in the enterprise was suddenly summoned to the Security Department, people would inevitably point and whisper, wondering whether that person had "done something."

And Li