Chapter 124: A basin of footwater
Zhu Li's house is in the east of the town, walk down the Mei Highway and then go down the village road of Huaxi Village, seven or eight minutes to arrive, it is a three-story small western-style building, the lights are bright, you can see that this small building is extraordinary from a distance.
On the way, Li Feng briefly introduced Zhu Li's situation to Shen Huai.
Zhu Li is a native of Meixi Town, in the early eighties was the manager of the city construction company, in the eighties to catch up with the first wave of the boom of going to the sea to do business, Zhu Li left his job without pay, returned to Meixi Town to contract the town construction station, pulled up a team to take over the project, and was also the first small group of people in Meixi Town to become rich.
If it weren't for Zhu Li's planting a big heel on the building of the town's cultural station, I am afraid that his net worth would not be half a point worse than that of Yu Yiliang and Pan Shigui.
Without Li Feng going into details, Shen Huai could also imagine some situations.
When the cultural station building was being built, Zhu Li advanced almost 3 million yuan.
Zhu Li should not have a net worth of three million at that time, and part of the funds should have been borrowed from the private sector, but he didn't expect that this project would make him fall into it from now on.
Suffering from inflation in '93, the official interest rate set by private enterprises to borrow from banks was as high as 16 percent, and private loans were usually two cents, two cents and five cents, or even higher.
The town still owes Zhu Li more than 1.8 million yuan, even if He Qingshe promised to increase the annual repayment amount to 200,000 yuan in the future, this 200,000 yuan is far from enough to pay interest.
It is not difficult to understand that Zhu Li planted too much on the cultural station building, and then took the initiative to give up the contracted construction, and did not have a good face for the town leaders, and even had resentment.
Shen Huai asked Chu Qiang to park the car on the side of the road, and they walked along the sidewalk.
"This Zhu Li is still very good, he had more money in his early years, and he paid for the gravel road in the village. Like He Qingshe, Li Feng has worked in Meixi Town for many years and is very familiar with the situation in Meixi Town.
When I got closer, I saw through the glass spring door that the hall downstairs was full of people.
Li Feng smiled bitterly, knowing that sitting at Zhu Li's house at the end of the year was all to collect debts, and he accompanied Shen Huai to find Zhu Li at this time, just asking for hardship, and maybe he would entangle Zhu Li's creditors.
"That fat man is Zhu Li. Li Feng pointed to the middle-aged fat man with a bitter face and a smile to talk to the creditors.
Shen Huai thought that Zhu Li should be the same as Chu Yiliang, both of whom were dignified and extraordinary entrepreneurs, who would have thought that he would be a big fat man with an obscene appearance.
Li Feng didn't dare to take Shen Huai directly into the hall, looking at the figure of a woman in the west room, knowing that it was a woman from Zhu Li's family, he pulled Shen Huai to go there, and shouted in a low voice: "Zhu Li's family, I am Li Feng in the town......"
There was silence in the room for a while, as if two women were whispering inside. Shen Huai didn't hear clearly, he wanted to walk over and knock on the door, showing more sincerity, but he didn't expect the door to open suddenly, and a basin of water splashed out.
Shen Huai couldn't dodge it, he splashed it head-on, standing there stupidly like a chicken in soup from beginning to end; not so much that the basin of water that suddenly splashed caught Shen Huai off guard, but what caught him off guard was Zhu Yi who was standing at the door with a foot basin.
Shen Huai stood there in a daze, unable to figure out: why is the world so small?
Maybe give him a hundred days to prepare mentally, he would never have thought that he would be in Meixi Town, and under such circumstances, he would ask Zhu Yi to pour a large basin of foot washing water.
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Li Feng didn't know the turbulence in Shen Huai's heart, he just saw Shen Huai pour a basin of water on his head and stood there in a daze, whoever gave him such a beating, he would inevitably be caught off guard.
Li Feng saw Zhu Li's daughter standing at the door with a footbath, she couldn't help but be shocked, seeing her barefoot and wearing slippers, he could fully understand that this girl was spilling footwashing water on her head, and she couldn't wait to go up and slap her, what the is this called?
Li Feng forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and when he saw Zhu Li's wife standing in the room, he knew that it was this girl who instructed her daughter to splash this basin of water, and scolded angrily: "You have eaten knife medicine, what kind of madness are you?"
Although Li Feng knew that Shen Huai had taken this basin of water for him, he would rather suffer it himself than Shen Huai would have suffered this basin of water. Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang, who accompanied them, were also taken aback.
Li Feng didn't care about alarming the creditor, so he walked to the side of the hall and kicked the door "bang", pointed at Zhu Li through the door, and scolded: "**Zhu Fatty, you get out of Lao Tzu! If you don't peel your skin today, Lao Tzu will not be surnamed Li." ”
Zhu Li didn't know what was going on, opened the door and ran out, and saw Li Feng standing outside with the director of the town's party and government office, and a young man who poured soup chicken, I don't know who it was, but looking at Li Feng's appearance, even if the basin of water was not splashed on his head, he knew that he was angry.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we are sitting in the hall, didn't we listen to you call the door?" Zhu Li was also full of dissatisfaction with Li Feng, although he didn't know who the young man who splashed with Li Feng was, but as long as he was a cadre in the town, he was eager to splash a basin of footwater, but the things on his face couldn't be too ugly, and reprimanded his daughter, "Why don't you have long eyes, don't you see if there is anyone outside?"
"Fat Zhu, your mother is blind," Li Feng rushed over angrily, put his arm on Zhu Li's shoulder, and pushed it to the corner of the wall, "Lao Tzu has called the door, this basin of water is spilled out, is it not intentional?" grabbed Zhu Li's collar, and wanted to punch him twice immediately.
The creditors all poured out to see the excitement, and there were a few people from Meixi Town, who saw that Li Feng, deputy secretary of the party committee, was going to beat Zhu Li, and they were busy fighting on horseback, and Chu Yiliang was also inside.
Chu Yiliang saw that it was Shen Huai who poured the soup chicken from beginning to end, and his son Chu Qiang also followed Shen Huai, Li Feng, and Huang Xinliang over, knowing that Zhu Li's family had made a big mistake this time, so he hurriedly came over to play a round and asked, "Secretary Shen, why did you and Secretary Li come over?"
"Chu ...... Mr. Chu, why are you here?" Shen Huai's upper body was soaked, and he didn't know if it was the biting cold, or if he was so shocked by the unexpected encounter with Zhu Yi on this occasion that he couldn't help but tremble when he spoke.
Seeing Shen Huai asking him why he was at Zhu Fatzi's house at night, Chu Yiliang was also a little embarrassed.
Chu Yiliang is also Zhu Li's creditor, he borrowed 300,000 yuan from him in his early years, but he has never repaid it. 300,000 is not a small number, Chu Yiliang can generously donate 100,000 yuan to the town, and he will not think that 300,000 yuan will be wasted on Zhu Fatzi's side.
Chu Yiliang touched his nose and answered Shen Huai's question
"Zhu Fatty, he owes me 300,000 yuan, no matter whether he can pay it back or not, he will always come over to collect debts at the end of the year," Chu Yiliang saw that Shen Huai was so embarrassed, grabbed Zhu Li's collar, dragged him over, and scolded, "Zhu Fatty, this is the newly appointed Secretary Shen of Meixi Town, what's wrong with you Zhu Fatty, your daughter splashes a basin of water?"
Zhu Li was also stupid there, but he didn't expect this young man to be the newly appointed party secretary of Meixi Town, although he has been working on external projects all the year round, he still has heard of the party secretary of Meixi Town, which has a strong personality.
"Secretary Shen just learned about the cultural station building today, despite the fact that he was busy with disaster relief work for two days and one night without sleeping, insisted on pulling me over to help you solve this matter, and said that he hoped to continue to hand over the town's projects to you. The shit of the cultural station building is Du Jian's unwiped fart and eyes, you have a kind of putting this foot-washing water on Du Jian's head; your mother is blind, Secretary Shen took the initiative to come over to help you solve the problem, and you poured Secretary Shen's foot-washing water on a footbasin. Li Feng was also confused, and pointed at Zhu Li's fat face and scolded, along with venting his anger against Du Jian.
Li Feng poured out the reason for the night visit, and Zhu Li knew that it was a bad thing, and this was not just a matter of offending the town secretary. People originally took the initiative to come to the door to solve the problem, this foot basin to wash the foot, not to mention solving the problem, the town has since deducted his 1.8 million yuan project money and no longer pulls out, what can he do?
Thinking that the consequences of this disaster were likely to be the destruction of the family, Zhu Li was also so anxious that he was blind, and said sorry to Shen Huai repeatedly, so anxious that he was about to kneel down, and looked at his daughter standing at the west gate stupidly, he was in a hurry, and rushed over to grab his daughter who was in trouble and beat him twice, so that Shen Huai and Li Feng could dissipate their anger.
Shen Huai grabbed Zhu Li, he had no contact with Zhu Li, but he thought that it was really unjust for him to ask Zhu Yi to splash this basin of foot washing water, and glanced at Zhu Yi with complicated emotions.
Zhu Yi was also shocked back to his senses when his father rushed over to try to her, threw down the footbasin and turned his head and went upstairs, as if he felt disgusted no matter how much he looked at Shen Huai. Seeing that his daughter was so willful, Zhu Li was even more angry, and scolded his wife: "Look at what you are used to, it's all against the sky." I was even more worried that my daughter would have such an attitude, which would make Shen Huai and Li Feng jump like thunder and vent their anger.
Li Feng was so angry that he couldn't help it, he wouldn't get out of control to scold Zhu Li's daughter, but he didn't have a good temper with Zhu Li, if he hadn't dragged him down, he really wanted to go up and slap him twice.
The footwashing water was originally warm, and he didn't feel cold when he just splashed his body, but after standing outside and delaying for a while, Shen Huai shivered with cold. He knew that Zhu Yi also recognized him, and the shocked and resentful look in her eyes before she turned around also made Shen Huai feel very uncomfortable.
If it weren't for the previous cāo egg incidents, maybe she would still be an innocent little girl, who loves and pursues many boys, and lives a simple and happy campus life.
Shen Huai pressed Li Feng's shoulder, trying to tell him to dissipate his breath, but his body was shivering from the cold, gritting his teeth and trembling, and he couldn't even speak.
It was still Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang who looked at Shen Huai and looked at him wrong, their hands and feet were fast, and they carried him into the house. Seeing that there was a heater in the house, Chu Yiliang took it over again and blew hot air on Shen Huai's body, and asked Zhu Li to quickly find a set of clean clothes to change into for Shen Huai.
The downstairs were all creditors, and three or five people accompanied Shen Huai to the second floor to change clothes.