Zhou Jianliang stood at the gate of the courtyard, "They said that the last time I went to the city to buy a bicycle from you, you treated us too well, and when you return to the village, if we don't fulfill the friendship of the landlord, it will be very ignorant." If I can't invite you over, it means that I don't have face with you, and they are waiting to see me laugh. ”

When Zhou Jianping went home yesterday morning, it was Zhou Jianliang who saw the yellow minivan taxi driving into the village, when he was on his way to the village committee, Zhou Jianliang told the news to the branch secretary, they were going to have a treat last night, Jianliang said that they had not come home for a long time, so don't bother that night.

"Hey! What's not to face in this, well, I'll go. Zhou Jianping was a little gracious.

"Shall we go together now, or will we come back later?"

"You go first, I'll go over later."

"Not at my house, at the village committee, don't be too late, or I'll have to come to you."

As soon as Zhou Jianliang left, Yuling came out of the house, "What are Jianliang looking for you?" ”

"He came to me ----, told me to go to the village committee for a drink." Zhou Jianping said.

"When you go home, in addition to drinking, you sleep, you used to go to Zhou Jianliang's house, but now you go to the village committee, and the grade is getting higher and higher." Yuling teased.

"If you don't want to, I won't go, and I'm not interested in drinking anyway."

"You can pull it down, if you don't go, Zhou Jianliang will have to come to you for a while, as if I take care of you tightly, but in fact, it's not like that at all, I don't have this notoriety, or you can't stay at home." Chang Yuling has long been accustomed to the days without Zhou Jianping in front of her.

Zhou Jianping teased Mao Mao for a while, and at half past ten, he walked towards the village committee, and when he got there, only Zhou Jianliang himself was in the office, "What about them, didn't you say that they were all waiting here?" Zhou Jianping said.

"You sit down and drink tea first, they are waiting for you in the village committee in the morning, and when they saw that you didn't come with me, they went to buy vegetables, leaving me here to wait, and I guess I'll be back soon."

"Hey, just sit down and chat, what kind of food to buy, I knew how good it would be for me to bring it back from the city!"

"You don't have to worry about it, we invited you today, how can we let you buy vegetables? Sit down. ”

After a cup of tea, the secretary and the clerk returned, and they rode the same bicycle together, and it seemed that they had run a long way.

"Secretary Xu, where have you been? It's so unnecessary to pay such a big thing. Zhou Jianping stood up and said hello.

"It's not troublesome, unlike in the past, I relied on walking, but now I have a bicycle, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth to the township." Secretary Xu said.

"Let me tell my second brother, you have a lot of things to do in the village every day, and I don't want to disturb you." Zhou Jianping said.

Clerk Xiao Zhou carried the dishes and went to the back kitchen with Zhou Jianliang, and Xu Zhishu sat down to chat with Zhou Jianping. Because they were buying all the dishes such as cooked food, it only took a few minutes for the two of them to serve six dishes on the table.

Parents and officials naturally care about Zhou Jianping's business, and between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Zhou Jianliang said: "Jianping, I still remember when you told me that your company was bought with a loan, and now the loan is almost repaid, right?" ”

"At that time, I was talking about the old factory, and the land for the extension next to it was also purchased with a loan later, but after two or three years of hard work, all the loans have been paid off, and now only the working capital is still borrowed from the bank." Zhou Jianping said.

"So, the business is now entirely yours?"

"It's just a different angle of looking at the problem, in fact, the enterprise has always been mine, but in the past, I mortgaged the land of the factory to the bank, and after paying off the loan, the bank returned the mortgage procedures to me, so there is a difference."

Secretary Xu took over the conversation, "Yes, in essence, the enterprise has always been yours, because even in the stage of land mortgage, only you are the only legal person of the enterprise, and in the past, the assets were mortgaged to the bank, which was just a form of loan." ”

Secretary Xu is more than ten years older than Zhou Jianliang, he should be a junior high school graduate in the late sixties, and he has been a private teacher in the primary school of the brigade for more than ten years, although he has not personally taught Zhou Jianping and Zhou Jianliang, and the two brothers should call him a teacher.

In Yuanba Village, Secretary Xu is also a small intellectual, he likes to learn and has always been interested in new things.

"That's what Secretary Xu meant, as an enterprise, any unit will inevitably have such a mortgage loan." Zhou Jianping said.

"Jianping, running at full capacity, the production scale of the factory should not be small now, right?" Secretary Xu asked.

"At the current scale, in terms of output, even among the food processing enterprises in the country, we can be regarded as a medium-sized enterprise. However, we don't employ many people, and in an ordinary state-owned enterprise, at our scale, there should be at least 12,300 people. ”

"If you don't say that your products are competitive, at least the cost is much lower than many companies. Speaking of which, our village committee really appreciates your contribution to Yuanba Village. Come, three of us from the village committee, a cup to Jianping! Secretary Xu proposed.

"It's unacceptable, let's drink it together."

"Jianping, Secretary Xu's proposal has his reason, since the more than 600 people in the village went to work in your factory, the economic situation of most families in the village has improved greatly, let's just say that your parents' family, if they only rely on farming at home, I think they can't afford to build a house in their lifetime, your brother Jianwen went to your factory for three or four years, and now he has also built five beautiful new houses." Zhou Jianliang said.

"In addition, the last time the three of us went to the city to look for you, not only did you cause you a lot of trouble, but you also took time out of your busy schedule to give us a very thoughtful hospitality, which made us unforgettable. So, we toast you with a little thanks! After speaking, Secretary Xu picked up the cup and dried it first as a respect.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, okay, thank you Secretary Xu! But the last time you went into the city, don't mention it again, what's it called? It's not worth mentioning at all! ”

Zhou Jianliang and clerk Xiao Zhou also raised their glasses to each other, and Zhou Jianping took a big sip of the cup.

Putting down the wine glass, Zhou Jianliang said: "Jianping, really responded to that sentence, there has never been a perfect thing in the world, I think you recruited the villagers to work in the factory, in order to let them improve the economic situation of the family, now this purpose has not only been achieved, but also the effect is significant, the economic conditions and living standards of most families in the village have been greatly improved, however, there has been a little situation in the past two years, so that everyone did not expect it at the beginning." ”

Zhou Jianping was very interested in this, "What unexpected situation has occurred?" ”

"I don't know if you noticed it when you went home, but some farmers in the village have abandoned their land and are overgrown with weeds."

"I really didn't notice that." Zhou Jianping didn't go home often, and he didn't stay at home for a long time every time, and he never cared about things like land and crops.

"Since the year before last, the situation has become more and more serious in the past two years, which has attracted the attention of the township government, and the township has specially talked to our village committee and asked us to come up with a solution." Zhou Jianliang said.

"Land abandonment is not only a waste of land resources, but also looks very unsightly, and it should be paid attention to and a solution should be found." Zhou Jianping echoed.

"We learned through our investigation that the situation of land abandonment is basically caused by farmers whose families lack strong labor, so we don't know how to solve it." Zhou Jianliang said.

"This is indeed a problem, some families lack labor because they are the main labor force of their family is recruited by me to work in the factory, but not every family lacks labor force, it is related to my recruitment, right?"

"Yes, there are families that lack a strong labor force themselves, and this is the most difficult problem to solve." Secretary Xu said.

......

The wine ended at about two o'clock in the afternoon, because he drank a little too much, Zhou Jianping fell asleep when he got home. The next morning, he returned to his unit.

There is land abandonment in his hometown village, if Zhou Jianping does not return to his hometown to recruit workers, he will not take such a thing to heart at all, but this matter has something to do with him after all, with Zhou Jianping's character, it seems unlikely that he will ignore it.

But to take care of this matter, Zhou Jianping can't come up with any good way to dismiss the employees who have abandoned their land and return home? On the one hand, there are no suitable workers in the factory, and on the other hand, these employees themselves are not willing to lose their jobs.

Because there was no good way to solve the problem, for a while, this matter became a piece of Zhou Jianping's heart, and the helplessness of being helpless was written on his face.

When she came back from her hometown, Zhao Xinmei saw Zhou Jianping frowning, and began to think that he had a family conflict, and Zhao Xinmei was embarrassed to ask. After more than ten days in a row, seeing that Zhou Jianping still looked absent-minded, taking advantage of the opportunity to go to his office to discuss work, Zhao Xinmei couldn't help but ask: "I went home this time, I had a good time, right?" ”

"Go home----? Pleasant, had a great time. Zhou Jianping wondered how Zhao Xinmei cared about her family affairs.

"Oh, that's good. But ......"

"But what? Xinmei, if you have something to say, just say it. ”

"I see that you have been thinking about it since you came back from home." Zhao Xinmei said.

"How do you know?" Zhou Jianping looked at her curiously.

"It's all written on your face, and you just need to pay a little attention to it. Jianping, if there is any problem to say, even if it can't be solved for a while, it is better than nesting in your heart. ”

"Hey, what an unexpected!"

"What's the matter? can make it so hard for you. ”

"This time I went back to my hometown and drank with several leaders of the village committee, and one thing they talked about, although it had nothing to do with me, made people feel like they were stuck in their throats."

Zhou Jianping talked about the abandonment of land by many peasant households in the village, and said that the situation had something to do with his return to the village to recruit workers.

"Is there nothing you can do about it? It should be very simple to solve, whoever has abandoned the land, let whoever goes home to farm. ”

"Xinmei, you think too simply, send them home to farm, who will take their place? Besides, these people are used to staying in factories and have a fixed monthly salary, and from what I know about them, I'm afraid no one wants to go home and farm. ”

"Yes, the point is that they can't find someone to take their place, and as for the rest, I don't think it should be so much. Well, do you think these abandoned families lack strong labor, or do they have no labor at all? Zhao Xinmei said.

"You haven't been in the countryside, growing crops is not an easy job, there is no strong labor, and it is really difficult to rely on the elderly and women alone." Zhou Jianping said.

"If it's so hard to grow crops, why do these people have to grow crops? Why can't you choose something lighter? ”

"Lighter, what is lightweight in the countryside? Growing vegetables is more laborious, but it's really not as tiring as growing crops. ”

"Wouldn't it be better to let these people grow vegetables and make use of the land?"

"The question is, the whole village grows vegetables, who do they sell to?"