Chapter Twenty-Three: Reflections on the Past
Lu Xiaohe found Yongqiang on a rainy day, she never let Yongqiang touch her again, but told Yongqiang that she had found a man, and the man promised to give her a sum of money, as long as Yongqiang helped her get back the household registration book, the money would be given to him. Zhu Yongqiang had long discovered Lu Xiaohe's envy of the rich family's life, Lu Xiaohe's living habits were quite different from him, and his eyes had long begun to reveal contempt for their group.
Zhu Yongqiang asked about the situation at Lu Xiaohe's house, he had been to Lu Qifeng's house more than once, but he didn't know where to put the household registration book. Lu Xiaohe told him that the household registration book and the money were put together, and above the roof beam of the hall house, there was a rope behind the door, and after the rope was relaxed, a small blue child would come down the pulley, and the useful and valuable things in the house were inside. It's just that it was put like this at home before the fire, and she doesn't know how to put the household registration book after the fire, and it may still be like this. There is an iron box in the blue that will not be broken or burned. Then, Lu Xiaohe asked Yongqiang how much money he wanted, and she went back to ask the man to give it to him, but her past Yongqiang must be kept secret. Yongqiang was a little reluctant, but he thought that he still had his own son at home, and Lu Xiaohe belonged to him, and now that he could earn a sum of money, he was ruthless and asked for 20,000 yuan. Lu Xiaohe knew that this money was not a problem for Jiang Shuihe, so she hesitated and asked Zhu Yongqiang to do her affairs first.
After Wang Shifan arrived at the rental house, she told Ji Shanlin that Mr. Jiang was her legal husband and had not yet divorced, and if she was immoral to accompany Ji Shanlin now, there was no way to do it before. Her expression was indifferent, but her attitude was domineering, Ji Shanlin just said stupidly and in a loud voice, everything is up to Wang Shifan. Wang Shifan and Ji Shanlin ran several large seedling bases and ordered fruit seedlings, but there was not much money in total, and half of the one million she raised was not used.
After Wang Shifan contacted Deputy Township Chief Li, he knew that he had helped them find the person who managed the fruit forest, a total of three more suitable ones, and asked Wang Shifan to interview him in person at his convenience. Wang Shifan made an appointment with them to meet, she and Ji Shanlin came to Pinghu Township again, Wang Shifan had already told Deputy Township Chief Li on the phone that there was no need to be polite in the future, they were frequent visitors, and there was no need to invite each other to dinner, she directly expressed that she didn't like it. Deputy Township Chief Li had received Jiang Shuihe's gift, and investment promotion was a job that required consumption expenses, so he usually did not have the opportunity to eat at public expense, so he did not agree with Wang Shifan's proposal, and still prepared a sumptuous lunch.
Wang Shifan was worried that Zhu Laosan would be a candidate, she had been speaking standard Mandarin, and when she came, she added a hat in addition to sunglasses. The three of them were all from Shayun Mountain Village, and Wang Shifan didn't know any of them, so she sat at the top of the conference table and interviewed them one by one. Speaking of the last one, Wang Shifan pretended to be unintentional and asked him if he knew Zhu Laosan from the fifth group, and the person replied that the whole village knew him, and he was a good hand at planting trees, managing trees, and making fruit wine. It's just that his three sons are gone, his only daughter-in-law has also run away, and the trees that have been planted for many years have also been forcibly divided, and people are a little stupid, and the village will remove his team leader, and now he is taking his grandson up the mountain every day, saying that he is helping his grandson find his mother, which is really a bit scary.
Wang Shifan didn't want to listen to it, so she asked the three of them to go back and wait for the notice. After Wang Shifan calmed down for a while, he found Deputy Township Chief Li: "I heard from the interviewer that there is a person named Zhu Laosan in the five groups of them, who has good skills and character, and can let him be responsible for planting trees and maintaining them on site, and the three of them will be his deputies just now." In terms of salary, please help me negotiate, since they unanimously recommend it, I will not interview Zhu Laosan, the project will start from now on, and they will be paid their salary today every month. ”
When Deputy Township Chief Li came out of the conference room, he arranged for the three people who had just passed the interview to go to Zhu Laosan, and asked them to go back and call the migrant workers to start preparing the land and digging pits, and told them that Boss Wang arranged for someone to send their wages on this day of the month. When Zhu Laosan heard that there was an overall contract for the fruit forest, he wanted to participate, and now there are only more than 100 trees left after years of hard work, he went to the village to find it, saying that he wanted to manage it without much salary, and he had feelings for the fruit forest. However, the village chief did not give Zhu Laosan a chance at the instigation of Cheng Guoqing, on the grounds that Zhu Laosan had a grudge against the village for forcibly dividing his fruit forest, and could not let outside investors feel that their village was not united.
When the three people who were excited to go to the interview came back to invite Zhu Laosan, Zhu Laosan's expression was cold, thinking that they were making him happy, and he hugged his little grandson and pretended not to hear. In order to convince Zhu Laosan, one of them explained to him that the salary was really calculated from today, and said that the three of them could not get their wages for nothing; Deputy Township Chief Li said that let the three of them be Zhu Laosan's deputies, and he asked Zhu Laosan to take them up the mountain now, even if they only work for an hour, they are also responsible for others. Zhu Laosan saw that they were not joking, he was very serious, he was a person who couldn't be idle, so he really went up the mountain to level the mountain for a while and dug a few tree pits.
Zhu Laosan had never seen the boss, and his heart was a little empty, and after working for three or four days, Jiang Shuihe came to Shayun Mountain Village. Zhu Laosan reported in detail to Jiang Shuihe on the work in the past few days, and he verbally explained his plans and existing problems, and Jiang Shuihe appreciated his judgment. Wang Shifan looked at Zhu Laosan from a distance, Pan Xia was hugging Jiawang not far away, Wang Shifan looked through the sunglasses, she still lowered the brim of her hat, Xiao Jiawang seemed to have a sixth feeling for her mother, staring at Wang Shifan panicked. If it weren't for Pan Xia, she could have stepped forward and hugged her for a while, but Pan Xia was an old spy, and she couldn't rule out that children could smell her body odor and dare not be rash.
Of course, Pan Xia and Zhu Laosan would not think that the female boss in front of them was their daughter-in-law and the mother of the child in their arms. Jiang Shuihe and Zhu Laosan colluded with Zhu Laosan in front of Deputy Township Chief Li, Jiang Shuihe had experience in communicating with the people in the mountains, and the bench did not sit on the company's on-site operation plan. Zhu Laosan thinks that the people in the city are rich, and he is ruthless to fight for the villagers and does not pay back the salary, he smiles honestly. For the first time since his son disappeared and his daughter-in-law left home, Wang Shifan looked at them and thought that in this family, although he was a bought identity, in his heart, he treated her much better than commodities, not to mention the concern of a child. Jiang Shuihe looked at her distraction, and didn't think about the connection between the scene in front of her and Wang Shifan, but from her insistence on investing here, Jiang Shuihe still felt that there was an association that was not accidental. He thought it was Ji Shanlin's home, but last time it had been proven that it had nothing to do with Ji Shanlin, and when he saw Wang Shifan wrapping himself in the ground and only showing his eyes, and not speaking in the crowd, he seemed to be jealous.
The seedlings of peaches, pears, apricots, jujubes and other seedlings purchased from other places have entered the mountains one after another, and Zhu Laosan is as attentive as if he were his own private property. Remember the amount of work for everyone every day, he has his own salary scale, no matter who it is, it is impossible to get more wages from him. A full month later, Jiang Shuihe really brought cash, and he and Wang Shifan were very satisfied with the progress of the project. When cashing in the salary, it was surprisingly less than they imagined, and Jiang Shuihe learned that Zhu Laosan was strictly in accordance with local standards, and even deducted money for being late and lazy. He didn't take any more points himself, and he heard that he went earlier and returned later than others every day, and did more work than they had predetermined.
Jiang Shuihe gave Zhu Lao an extra three or six hundred yuan at Wang Shifan's suggestion, asked him to give each assistant an extra hundred, and the other three hundred was a reward for him. Zhu Laosan took the brand-new money, his hands trembled a little, his voice trembled, he held back his old tears and said: "You believe me, I am very moved, I can't ask for more of your money, there will be more things to send money in the future, and I will reward you when you have a harvest." While talking, he wanted to return the money to Wang Shifan, and Zhu Laosan had already seen that Jiang Shuihe was listening to Wang Shifan. Wang Shifan was still stunned by the environment, and when she saw Zhu Laosan coming, she was so frightened that she took a few steps back and asked Jiang Shuihe to stop Zhu Laosan. Jiang Shuihe found that Wang Shifan lost his temper several times a day, and he comforted Zhu Laosan, money is a small thing, their company is doing big things, and now sending money is an investment, and there will be a big reward if there is a harvest in the future.
Jiang Shuihe explained to Zhu Laosan the focus of his future work, so that Zhu Laosan had time to help him take a look at the surrounding villages, and if the adjacent mountains were suitable for planting, they would discuss with Deputy Township Chief Li next time. Zhu Laosan must Jiang Shuihe come to his house to drink fruit wine, Jiang Shuihe looked at Wang Shifan, of course Wang Shifan shook his head, it was a place that made her heartbroken when she thought of it.
That night, Deputy Township Mayor Li accompanied Wang Shifan and the three of them to have some dinner in the township, and the guest house in the township made Jiang Shuihe unable to sleep, but Wang Shifan habitually made Jiang Shuihe unable to figure it out. He thought of sitting in Wang Shifan's room, Wang Shifan smiled exaggeratedly at him and said: "The conditions are too poor, it's not good to take a bath, I'm a little tired." After finishing speaking, I really didn't dislike the damp, oily dirty quilt and musty room, so I closed the door and fell asleep easily.
After Jiang Shuihe stood at the door of Ji Shanlin's room for a while, he thought that his room was almost ventilated, and the mountain wind was very cold, so he went into the house to sleep. After Ji Shanlin saw Jiang Shuihe enter his room, he also went to bed and turned off the light and fell asleep. Early the next morning, they came to Shayun Mountain Village again, and according to Wang Shifan's request, Jiang Shuihe asked Zhu Laosan to accompany them to the mountaintop lake to have a look. Zhu Laosan was in front, Wang Shifan pretended to follow behind, and when she passed by the cabin where she once lived, Wang Shifan glanced at the houses on the left and right, she didn't know that Wynn was no longer in the world.
Jiang Shuihe thought that Wang Shifan had inspected it in advance, and he walked around the lake shore for a while, and it was indeed an excellent place for ecological conservation. Birds and pheasants can be seen everywhere, the vegetation on the shore is low and luxuriant, and the small water ladder flowing down the mountain above is really a miniature fairyland. Back then, when the desperate Wang Shifan went up the mountain to see the lake for the first time, if it wasn't for the barbarism when Wynn taught her to prune, she really had the intention of dying in such an unpolluted lake. Jiang Shuihe smiled at the lake, the surface of the lake, and the shore of the lake, saying that it was much more beautiful than the mountains in their hometown, and he was going to take a set of promotional photos to let his friends come here for leisure during the holidays. Speaking of excitement, he remembered that he didn't ask Wang Shifan's opinion, he looked at Wang Shifan and found that she was facing the lake in a daze. Jiang Shuihe approached and guided her to look at a flat place where the water on the top of the mountain poured into it, and sure enough, the grass and flowers were undefeated, the sunset was unstoppable, warm and picturesque, and the sound of water lingered.
Jiang Shuihe walked to the open field, used his feet, and walked in a circle, saying that the area can build a few villas, and he can come here to fish and cook in the future, which is really not in vain. Zhu Laosan hurriedly stepped forward, he said: "When the fruit trees are all bearing fruit, drinking fruit wine, roasting lake fish, and drinking lake water, no matter how bitter the experience in the world is, I will forget it." After Wang Shifan heard this, she looked at Zhu Laosan a few more times with her big eyes behind her sunglasses, she didn't understand who else could be more bitter than her here.