Chapter 971: Patriarch's 90th Birthday (Part II)
This kind of map is the most abbreviated kind of map, only the names of places, dividing lines, rivers, roads, and some circles drawn by uncles and uncles. After the sixth aunt took it out, she said: "Mengyu, those circles are the places where your uncle and brothers want to buy, and Ji Rong and the others can only choose the land without the circles." β
After looking at it for a while, Yang Xi'e said, "Wuyang, we can't understand it." β
The sixth aunt said: "When you buy land, you can only choose those places with sparse place names, and then go to the field to see it." β
Wuyang said: "Yes, there is only this way. If you like a place, if you don't think it's big enough, expand it around and move the villagers. β
Ji Rong said: "We are also familiar with land acquisition, we will go out tomorrow afternoon to see the terrain, you don't have to accompany us." However, it's best for Sister Mengyu and Sister Mengxin to take us for a few days, after all, you are familiar with the land. β
The sixth aunt said: "It's best to ask Mengyu's aunt to go, he helps others see feng shui, and he has run all over the neighboring counties." Find a good place on the map, and he will take you there. β
Ji Rong smiled: "With such a guide, we don't have to worry." Wuyang, let's go back a few days later, will it be convenient for you to say hello to the secretary and the mayor tomorrow? β
"Greetings can't be called. As soon as I told them, they would definitely tell the people in the county, and the county would raise the price immediately. After all, as soon as the news comes out in the future, there will be more people buying land, and they can't price it too low, right? β
"Okay, then you can go back to work in peace."
Mengyu folded the map and put it away, "Let's go early and go live in the city." The condition of the hotel in the town is so poor that the hot water is not hot. β
Yang Xi'e said: "Sister Mengyu. Let's go to Yihe and our own home. Although an extra 10 minutes by car. But looking for a hotel and registering, 10 minutes is about the same. β
"You renovated the house in Yihe?"
"The whole house has been renovated, and the sisters have more than one set each."
Wuyang said: "I work in Yihe, the children will definitely come to play, and I am going to leave a unit for them to live in, one set for each of you, and you can't live there." I bought three suites on the top floor of a dormitory building in the municipal party committee, and I can also live there temporarily. β
Yang Xi'e said: "That's where Sister Xiaoya lives." We can't go, so you might as well come here. Wuyang, our house is not bad, right? β
Wuyang smiled and said: "No matter how good the house is, in my eyes, it is nothing more than that, and it will definitely be good to have you in the house." β
Ji Rong said: "Wuyang is good at saying good things." β
Mengyu smiled: "You just like to listen to sweet words to be fooled." β
Ji Rong also said seriously: "Wuyang didn't coax me, I liked him." β
Yang Xi'e knew that Mengyu was going to tease her, so she said again and again: "I'm happy, I'm willing, we learned from Sister Mengyu and Sister Mengxin." β
This time Mengyu and Mengxin have nothing to say.
Just about to get in the car and go. The six brothers Mengqi and Menghui came together, "Wuyang." Don't be in a hurry, we haven't talked well together for a few years, talk to us. β
"Okay, let's talk. You didn't give your grandfather a substitute for wine just now? β
Mengqi said: "Grandpa is the most experienced, and Uncle Shi wants to toast, he poured a bottle in a big bowl, accepted everyone's respect, and dried it in one sip, and then poured another bottle to pay tribute to everyone." Most of Uncle Shi also drank two bottles, and those who didn't know how to drink drank drank less, but they were almost drunk. In the afternoon, let's go to the fish pond. β
Mengyu said, "Brother, is there anything you don't want us to hear?" β
"No, you go and rest for a while, lest we talk about work, and you will doze off and freeze."
Even if there was something and they knew about it, they had nothing to do with it, so they had to go into the house to rest.
A few people slowly walked to the fish pond and found a place with thick dry grass, and Meng Jue took the lead and sat down. "Wuyang, how can we thank you for the support we have given us over the years?"
Wuyang smiled and said: "We are Uncle Lang, and my skills are all given by my grandfather, so you don't have to be polite." The gold mine in Lion Rock, is the production okay now? β
"Yes, but after all, after so many years, the mine has been mined for 40 kilometers, and the mining cost is much higher, and I don't know how long it can last."
"The increase in mining costs, which is something that old mines have encountered, there is no way to do it. If you want to mine new veins, you can. Now in Mongolia, our thermal power plants and wind power plants have been built, and it is not a problem to expand mining, do you want to go? β
"I heard that the gold mining over there is in full swing, are there still veins?"
"There are a few, one of you has difficulties, and there are still two people mining one, and there is no problem at all. Now that we have produced the smelting furnace ourselves, we can just go to the factory in Lujiang and take it away, and we don't want you to pay for it. β
"That's not going to work. Originally, when we went to Mongolia to mine gold, we grabbed food from your mouth, and with electricity, mining a few ore veins, isn't it an easy thing for you? You produce a smelting furnace, the cost is quite high, and you have to pay taxes, so we can only buy it from you. β
Wuyang smiled and said, "What are you polite to me?" β
"You're not polite, your cultural relics don't cost much, are we polite to you? Wuyang, it is said that you have a lot of bronzes now, do you also give us one or two pieces for various museums? β
"Yes, but you can't give it to a large item, and you can't give it to someone with an inscription, and the experts and professors I hired still have to study it."
"Okay, it's a real bronze."
"I got a lot of objects from the Ming Dynasty at the bottom of the Lanjiang River, and after I sorted them out, you can all take some to the museum for exhibition. Many of the items bought back in the United States are duplicates, and some can be transferred to you. These cultural relics are of relatively high value, so you can't sell them. β
"Okay, let us know when your museum is ready. Wuyang, Mongolia's gold mine, is it more difficult to mine than the domestic one? β
"It's a grassland, and the veins are not deep, usually about 500 meters underground."
"The grassland is relatively flat, and smelters can be built everywhere, so you don't have to transport ore so far, and the cost is much lower. It's freezing. May not be able to stand it. β
"The temperature under the mine is not low. The temperature of the production workshop is already high. The office can also be baked, as long as it is not in the case of a big cold wave and a blizzard, it can still stand it. In May next year, you will go over and inspect it first, and you can start work when you are ready. β
Meng Qi said: "Wuyang, why don't you arrange a few people for us to be mine managers, don't you need us to investigate?" β
"There are people, but it is not easy to send them to you. Your own people. After so many years of hard work in the mine, there are not many veins here, won't they have nothing to do in the future? Besides, your workers, my people are not easy to use. β
"I see, you're trying to win people's hearts. Okay, I don't want you to send someone. β
Wuyang asked: "Have you also engaged in some other industries over the years?" β
Meng Hui smiled and said, "Wuyang, you are constantly expanding, and we are not idle." However, running a business. It's our short version, and we only do a few small things. Like in Lion Rock. We are next to the mine, built a beautiful commercial street, gathered more than 2,000 merchants, has become the main distribution center of famous and special products and wild animals in the western part of our province, and all kinds of products from all over the country have also settled there. In the future, when you go there, you must go there and see it, and you may be able to buy what you like. β
"Okay, I'm sure I'm going to check it out. Is your faΓ§ade for sale or rent? β
"At the beginning, more than 200 rooms were sold to the locals, but there was no way, all kinds of relationships had to be taken care of, and the rest was rented. Some out-of-town businessmen, who bought a house, want to buy a faΓ§ade house, but we don't sell it. Collecting rent is much better than just charging management fees. β
"With the experience here, can you promote it elsewhere?"
Meng Jue said: "It's not easy to promote. Due to the restrictions of property, transportation, folk customs and other conditions, we have spent our main energy on this over the years, that is, we have built 25 or 6 of them, and a few of them have failed, and now we have to arrange people to guard them. Wuyang, actually, we are looking for you today, in addition to wanting to talk about these, there is another important matter, I can't talk about it. β
Wuyang smiled and said: "You are the eldest brother, just say something, as long as I can do it, there is nothing to say." β
"You are our brother-in-law, such a thing should not have been done by us, but we want to thank you, you lack nothing and have no other hobbies."
"Big brother, don't say it, I know what you want to say. I don't need to trouble you about this matter, there is no shortage of beautiful women around me, so I'll leave it to yourself. β
Meng Qi said: "Wuyang, we won't hide it from you, the outside world is so exciting, we can't avoid vulgarity." We've been looking for girls for you for the past few years, and this time when we go home, everyone brings one for you, and everyone is in Grandpa's house to help. You haven't been to your grandfather's house, you haven't seen them yet, and you're satisfied with it. These girls have been working under us for at least a year, and we know them better. The first is pretty, and if it's not pretty, of course it can't be shortlisted; secondly, he is innocent of himself and his family, not that kind of gangster; Then there is a good temper and character, if it is not good, it will definitely make you naughty, and you will not like it. If you want to talk about the shortcomings, the main thing is that the level of education is not high, and high schools, technical schools, and kindergarten teachers are over. After entering the list of candidates, we deliberately strengthened the cultivation of this aspect, and the temperament has made great progress, but the cultural level and conversation can not be improved overnight. However, they are not very old and can learn to improve. β
Wuyang stood up and clasped his fists and arched his hands, "Brothers, please bear with me, I'll go first." β
returned to Mengyu's mother's house, called a few people, and drove away.
The next morning, I set off at 7 o'clock and arrived at Zhangjiawan at 7:40 a.m. When I entered the sixth uncle's house, the kitchen helper brought the noodles. This is Shou Mein, a must-eat. But the four of them are still in a daze. The four of them are all practicing martial arts, although Mengyu and Mengxin's martial arts are much higher, but they are also more than 10 years older, and their recovery is almost the same. This is still Wuyang's last day because of today's affairs, and finally ignored them, so he rested.
After eating Shou Noodles, a few people took paper and pen and went to find those uncles, brothers and sisters who were studying medicine. People who practice martial arts practice martial arts when they are teenagers and girls, and when they are older, they learn Chinese medicine more. I found some familiar uncles and uncles, and I quickly asked. At the beginning of the registration, many brothers and sisters told Wuyang that they wanted to work in the hospital and were unwilling to go to the Chinese medicine hall. Wuyang explained: "Many of our hospitals are under construction, please go to the Chinese medicine hall to sit in the hall. It's about exposing you to more cases. Improve the level of diagnosis and prescribing. After the hospital is built, if you don't go, I will take you there. If you don't go to the Chinese medicine hall, now in your own clinic, it is difficult for a doctor who is not famous to receive a patient a day, and your medical skills are not high, even if you are invited to the hospital. You can't cure the sick, and your treatment can't be high. β
In this way, everyone is willing, take out a pen and paper, and ask them to write their address and phone number. Some people even wrote it for those who didn't come.
At 11 o'clock, the girl who smoked cigarettes and betel nuts at the door called to inform the uncle that the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor had arrived. Uncle immediately notified everyone to gather in the ring.
After a while, Grandpa Zhang and the young grandmother came out with the little uncle. Behind them were six uncles and brothers. Then there are the 6 Mengjing brothers, who are holding and holding cultural relics in their hands, and then there are 6 girls holding tea trays. Because they knew that it was Mengqi who prepared it for themselves, although they couldn't ask for it, their eyes still looked over unconsciously. The six girls were uniformly dressed, with pink beanies, small cotton jackets with gold flowers and gold trim on a red background, black six-point tweed trousers, brown-red high-waisted leather boots, and white gloves on their hands serving tea trays.
Mengqi is 1.83 meters tall, and the girl walks not far behind him, and she doesn't look much shorter than him, estimated to be around 175. All of them are slender and straight, more beautiful than the hostesses on the international large-scale events. What can be seen is only the bare faces, all of them are fair-skinned, with a high nose bridge, walking on the hillside, looking at the road one by one, but they can't see their eyes clearly. Mengqi said that these girls are not highly educated, they must be from relatively poor backgrounds, and they must be the credit of being able to raise them so whitely.
When Grandpa Zhang saw Wuyang, he beckoned, "Wuyang, let's go ahead and greet you in the distance." β
Wuyang didn't have this plan, but since grandpa called, he walked side by side with him. Although Yang Litai is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, he is lower than him after all, not to mention that he is an alternate member of the Central Committee, and he is not. However, it is a good move to welcome Grandpa Zhang and Yang Litai to face in this way. Yang Litai is Liu Qingyuan's person, if Xu Zhengliang guessed that he would go to Tanzhou to take over as secretary, Yang Litai would definitely go to the provincial government, at least he was also the vice governor of the Standing Committee, and if the relationship was handled, he would still be able to help.
Yang Litai and Long Yuebin walked in from the sixth uncle's house, accompanied by two middle-aged people and two TV reporters.
"Mr. Zhang, I wish you a birthday, and I wish you 800 years old." Yang Litai shouted loudly from afar, and Long Yuebin and others also shouted.
"Thank you, Secretary Yang, thank you Mayor Long, thank you."
Grandpa Zhang shook hands with them one by one, and Yang Litai immediately turned to Wuyang, who hurriedly said, "Secretary Yang, thank you for coming in person." β
Yang Litai said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang's 90th birthday, and also donated cultural relics to the Municipal Museum, no matter which one it is, I should come." I still don't know that Secretary Li would have come a long time ago, otherwise I would have come a long time ago. β
"How dare you, how dare you. Grandpa Zhang is my ancestor, and my martial arts are passed down by his old man, and I came here yesterday. Mayor Long, thank you for coming. β
"Hello Secretary Li, thank you for remembering me."
"I must remember, you were introduced to me by Secretary Zhang." When Secretary Zhang was in Zhongnan, Wuyang was just the secretary of the county party committee of Lujiang County, and Long Yuebin was already the secretary general of the Tanzhou municipal government. He is the only person that Secretary Zhang brought from the central organs.
"Secretary Li, let me introduce to you, this is Director Tan of our Cultural Bureau, and this is Director Xiao and researcher of the museum. These two are reporter Wu and reporter Chi of the current affairs column of the TV station. β
"Welcome, welcome. Everyone, please, please come to the podium. β
A group of people talked and laughed and walked to the ring, and Wuyang saw that there was only one ring left. It's really a lot of people and a lot of power, and after the competition last night, the three rings were demolished, and no trace was revealed.
The cultural relics have been placed on the table, as have tea, cigarettes, and fruit plates. There are only 5 tables, and at most 7 or 8 people can be seated. Yang Litai came to four, Grandpa Zhang and Young Grandma, as well as the eldest uncle, plus Mengyu's uncle, they couldn't squeeze any longer. Wuyang had an idea, "I'll be the master of ceremonies today." β
Everyone is a smart person, and seeing that he has resolved the embarrassment, he is no longer humble. Yang Litai smiled and said: "Today in Secretary Li's door, I invite you to preside over it, and the level of our donation ceremony will be improved." β
"Thanks, let's get started. Next, I would like to announce the beginning of the donation ceremony of Mr. Zhang to the museum. First, Mr. Zhang would like to talk about the provenance of the cultural relics and his testimonials on donation. β
Grandpa Zhang cleared his throat and said in a loud voice: "These cultural relics are from Europe. When I was collecting cultural relics for other museums in Europe, I found that these cultural relics were either from Tanzhou or had a close relationship with the history and culture of Tanzhou, so I paid for them myself. The donation to the museum is to help improve the status of Tanzhou as a famous historical and cultural city. The value of these cultural relics is not too high, and as an old man and a citizen, I just did a little bit of what I should do. I'm done talking. β
"Second, Mayor Long is invited to give a speech of thanks on behalf of the municipal government."
When Long Yuebin spoke, Wuyang heard Yang Litai asking Grandpa Zhang, "Old man, how much did it cost to acquire these cultural relics in Europe, is it convenient to reveal?" β
"More than 100 million euros, mainly two bronzes are too expensive."
"So expensive?"
Grandpa Zhang smiled and said: "This is when people don't know much about the value of bronzes, so they can make a deal." If in China, such bronzes with more than 60 inscriptions are collected, I am afraid that one piece will cost this price. β
"Really?" (To be continued......)