"By the way, what about my brother? He should have come back a long time ago, right? Why haven't you seen him today?"

Zhao Zhi asked a little strangely, after all, he had already asked his younger brother, he should be back for the festival today, and this was also what they had agreed!

"Hmph, people are busy! How can you waste time with us boring people?"

Zhao Zhi's mother said with some dissatisfaction.

Listening to his mother's dissatisfied, Zhao Zhi was also speechless, but he really understood why his younger brother was unwilling to come back and stay longer.

On the one hand, he didn't grow up here since he was a child, and his feelings for this place are very different from his own, and the people he knows are very limited.

On the other hand, the attitude of his relatives towards himself and towards him varies greatly. Whether it is a grandmother or aunt, or an uncle or aunt, he is really close to himself, and he attaches great importance to it, after all, he is the eldest son and eldest grandson, and his younger brother is far behind.

He still remembers that when he was in junior high school, he took his younger brother back to his uncle's house to play.

Uncles can treat everyone equally, while aunts are almost always treated differently without much concealment. With delicious food, the first thing to think of is himself, and from time to time he will call himself aside and stuff himself secretly, but not at all to his younger brother, not to mention his brother's envy and jealousy, even he himself is a little embarrassed.

So my brother doesn't want to come back, he understands it very well, even if he intellectually thinks that everyone should be hello, I am good, everyone is good, and maintain a harmonious atmosphere, but if you can stay away and be free and free, why stay here?

"Huh...... , he should be back today. ”

Zhao Zhi didn't know what to say, after all, his aunts and aunts were around. What if you talk too much? Not to mention that you are still the one who benefits.

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived.

There was a sound of a car parking at the door of his villa for a while, and someone should have come back.

"Second son, are you back today?"

"yes, isn't this a holiday? Come back and see. Are you busy?"

"What are you busy with? It's the holidays, and there are a lot of relatives and friends at home, let's sit together!"

"I'll go back and see my grandma first, and sit together when we have time!"

"Good!"

……

"Is this the child?"

Zhao Zhi asked with some confusion.

"Isn't that him! He's busy running for village chief!"

The third aunt on the side replied with some resentment.

"Wasn't he ...... a few years ago?"

Even Zhao Zhi's mother is a little strange now, after all, this child who is the same age as her second son, she is still more familiar, her husband's cousin!

He is also the youngest of their generation. Since childhood, he has been pampered and not in shape, except for not farming well, almost all "bad things" love to participate, and big things do not make small things constantly. The last time they came back, when their husband and wife went to visit the fifth aunt, they were crying for a lot of time by the old man.

"Now it is a person like him in the village who can eat the most! After being caught charging fees for traffic jams on the road several times, he changed it, and then began to block coal cars passing by in other places, bought them at a low price, and then sold them to coal yards or coal washing plants at a higher price! But he made a lot of money!"

The third aunt said with some hatred.

"Then he can still run for village chief, and why do people support him?"

Zhao Zhi asked with some curiosity. It stands to reason that how can such a person be supported by everyone?

"Because they can make trouble! The previous village chief is not a good thing! The coal mine in the village was contracted by the former village chief to outsiders at a low price, and they have been making trouble, and the former village chief can't stand it anymore and takes the initiative to step down and recommend him! And he agreed, as long as he is elected as the village head, all the income from the coal mine contract fee in the village will be given to the whole village, and each person will have 5,000 on his head.

The second aunt took over the topic and explained.

"Oh, is the village chief election at this level now? It's too market economic, right?"

Mother Zhao shook her head and sighed helplessly.

"Well, who's to say it's not? Almost all of our villages around the mountains are like this. Because there are some small coal mines in the village, and they are also high-quality main coking coal mines, the competition is very fierce! It is said that the village chief of Renyi Village next door has openly shouted 10 million yuan!"

The second aunt continued to talk about what she had learned with some disapproval.

"There is no benevolence and righteousness in the village of benevolence and righteousness! There is a lot of money left! What kind of democratic election is this? It is purely harder than whose fists are harder, and whose money is more!"

Zhao Hong's mother shook her head helplessly, no wonder this has always been a poor area.

Who are the people who are taking the lead? Unscrupulously bribing the village chief!

And what about the villagers who are being led? They are each taking care of themselves, happily reaping the benefits in front of them, and handing over the development of their villages to such a group of people!

"Isn't that it? The village to the west of our village is even more funny! During this period of time, it is a movie again, and it is a big opera, and there are people who come to the door every day to deliver things! Some give rice, flour and oil, some send shopping cards, and some people even send food neatly!"

The third aunt was talking about the things in another village with some amusement, as if she were telling a joke, forgetting that she was actually one of the jokes.

"What kind of food can you give away at this time? The weather is still a little hot, how many families have refrigerators? Or is rice and flour oil more affordable!"

The second aunt commented on the "gifts" of the selected village chiefs, which was more practical!

"The shopping card was also good. If you are elected, of course, you will have no burden to spend, or if you are not elected, you can just invalidate it, and you can save it and then return!

"Why do you want to retreat? They really have to come to the door one by one to take it back? It's too stingy, right?"

"What about hundreds of thousands? If you can't be the village head, of course people will take it back!"

……

"Mom, I'm back again!"

Zhao Hong finally waited until their topic came to an end for the time being, and then reported to his mother with a smile.

"Hey, hey, hey,

Zhao Hong's mother glanced at her youngest son very dissatisfied. After so many days, I know how to run around, and I don't know how to spend more time with myself, I really forget about my mother!

"How can this be? Isn't this just a means that our family will go back and have a look? Isn't this a busy day and come back to report to you? Hehe...... , brother, you're back. ”

Zhao Hong naturally teased with his mother, which is also what their family is used to, and said hello to his brother by the way.

"Have you been to see the company in T City?"

Zhao Zhi asked with some concern.

"It's okay! It's just a small project!"

Zhao Hong was reluctant to say more, after all, for the group that his brother and sister-in-law were responsible for, this project in T City was just an inconsequential project, which was originally set up to take care of some people.

How much can you lose?

Anyway, this is indeed not the ideal investment area that Zhao Song Group values, and it is not only the economy that is backward, but more importantly, the ideology!

It's not just the government that is rigid in its thinking, but the minds of ordinary people are just as unsuited to this era of rapid development.