Chapter 216: Renshen Spring Festival (I)
Seeing that the senior brother humbly asked for advice, Geng Wenyang elaborated: "It's simple because as long as you find a good poverty alleviation project, you can make money for the people to make money by attracting investment, so that everyone can get rid of poverty and become rich. Doesn't that sound simple? It's that simple."
"But ......," Zheng Baisheng frowned, "It's not easy to find suitable projects, and it's not easy to get investment, and it's also a big problem for the people to cooperate."
Geng Wen raised his head and said, "By the way, what you just said is exactly what I want to say about the word difficult."
"Although our intentions are good and our goals are noble, we want to do good things." Geng Wenyang shook his head slowly and said, "But it's a difficult thing."
"You're right!" Zheng Baisheng nodded and said, "Otherwise, Haixi County would not have been so poor all the time, there must be some unknown factors in it."
He pondered for a while and said, "Then I'll go explore the road first, and then discuss with you what to do next after I find out the situation in the county."
The two brothers talked happily with each other, and after they were full of wine and food, Geng Wenyang said goodbye and left.
After he left, Zheng Baisheng and his wife sighed, "Wen Yang is only twenty-one! With such insight at such a young age, I haven't met a second one anyway."
Zhang Yuying said, "Can you tell the leader not to go to Haixi. It's too poor and it's far away, what if you go to me and my children?"
Zheng Baisheng said to his wife gently, "Yuying, I will be forty-two years old this year. This time I finally got an opportunity to be promoted, and if I don't seize it, I will only be able to stay in the main course in this life."
"Say it again!" Zheng Baisheng said: "As a party cadre, I am organized and disciplined. My superiors have chosen me, how can I be discouraged because I am afraid of difficulties? It's absolutely not allowed, don't you say?"
What wife doesn't want her husband to improve, and Zhang Yuying is no exception. She also hopes that her husband can be promoted as soon as possible, and she will have a bright face.
"That'll do." Zhang Yuying reluctantly said, "I'm afraid that if something happens to the family, what if you can't come back?"
Zheng Baisheng thought for a while and said, "Alas! Brothers may not be reliable, if there is an emergency, you can go to Wen Yang. This little brother of mine has the courage and wisdom to act righteously, and if you go to him, he will definitely help."
His own brother was unreliable, but went to find the so-called junior brother who couldn't hit with eight poles. Zhang Yuying said helplessly: "That's okay, I hope he will help when the time comes."
Two days later, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Lunar New Year quietly arrived, and Geng Wenyang still accompanied his parents to the Geng family's old mansion to spend Chinese New Year's Eve together.
Geng Wenjing got married at the end of last year, so she was missing from the many grandchildren of the Geng family on Chinese New Year's Eve. However, there are comings and goings, the eldest brother Geng Wenbin also married a daughter-in-law, and the sister-in-law Zhang Xiujuan appeared in the ranks of the grandchildren of the Geng family.
Geng Wenyang is now the most important member of the Geng family, and despite his repeated resignations, he was still forcibly pulled by Geng Wenbin into the wine table belonging to the elders in the back room. However, after a round of drinking, he found an excuse to sneak out, and went to the small building behind him alone to hide quietly.
It has been more than five years since he came to this world, and now he has not only a small career, but also the gentle and elegant Gan Ruolan by his side, Geng Wenyang's heart finally has a place to place his feelings.
"I wonder what Lan Lan is like now? Could she be thinking about me too?" Geng Wenyang secretly said to himself, "Director Gu and Professor Kam have a lot of prejudices against me, and they will not change their attitude towards me in the near future. If I want to enter the palace of marriage with Lan Lan smoothly, I am afraid there are many, many difficulties to overcome!"
Although the Spring Festival of the Year of the Monkey encounters a rare sunny day, it is still a chilly night in the evening. Geng Wenyang stood upstairs for a short time before he was frozen and had to turn around and escape downstairs.
After dinner, he returned to his house in Zhuangjia Lane, Geng Huizhong called Zhuang Fujin to his home, and the four of them watched the Spring Festival Gala happily spend Chinese New Year's Eve together.
Geng Wenyang took the opportunity to talk about the idea of letting his parents move to a small building on Caojia Street after the New Year. Geng Huizhong immediately refused: "Your mother and I live very comfortably in this courtyard, so we don't need to move here."
Seeing that her husband didn't appreciate it, Li Yufen immediately objected, "Old Geng, what you say
I don't like to hear it. What does it mean to live comfortably? Compared to Yangyang, can it be called comfortable? Besides, now that we've both done internal retreat, we have nothing to do at home all day, so we might as well go to Yangyang and help him look after the store."
Zhuang Fujin said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is right, there is no running water or heating in our yard. To put it mildly, the last thatched house is still cold, what is comfortable? Since Yang Yang let you go, it is a piece of filial piety for other people's children, so let's go."
He laughed again, "If you two go, I'll be able to follow you. Otherwise, I'm too embarrassed to go, right?"
Geng Huizhong saw that his wife and neighbors persuaded him like this, so he had to agree, "That's okay, can't I go?"
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, after having breakfast with firecrackers, Geng Wenyang drove the crown car and took his parents to visit relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings.
In the afternoon, he came to Du Gaoyi's house to pay New Year's greetings to Master. Many brothers and sisters finally got together again, and naturally you and I kept talking and it was very lively.
Gao Zhaolin, a senior brother who works in the steel window factory, complained: "Our factory is finished, and last year's sales were less than half of the plan, and we couldn't even pay our salaries."
Zheng Baisheng was curious: "Lao Gao, aren't you in the production department? Why do you have to deduct the salaries of your managers?"
"It's not a deduction, it's that there is no money at all." Gao Zhaolin said: "How can I pay wages if there is no money in the factory's account?"
Another senior brother said, "Wasn't the steel window factory quite prosperous a few years ago? Why didn't it work so quickly?"
"Alas! Don't mention it." Gao Zhaolin said: "Now there is a new aluminum alloy door and window on the market, which is lighter than our steel windows, not to mention not rusty, and easy to process. A store on the street can buy materials and make them, who do you think will buy our steel windows?"
He continued, "I'm now being transferred to the sales department to help with sales, mainly in the western regions. But...... How so? The steel window, now I beg grandpa to sue grandma, and people don't want it!"
Geng Wenyang knows very well that in the past few years, steel windows will be completely eliminated by aluminum alloy doors and windows and steel-plastic doors and windows. However, he couldn't say it explicitly, so he completely cooled his brother's heart.
Zheng Baisheng said, "Lao Gao, aren't you two in the steel window factory? If you really can't do it, go to the junior brother and do it, he won't treat you badly."
Gao Zhaolin said, "No! The steel window factory is a state-owned enterprise, and as long as I don't leave, it will have to pay my salary, which is more than going out to do insurance."
Gao Zhaolin seems to be unwilling to give up his identity as an employee of a state-owned enterprise, but in fact he is reluctant to throw away the iron rice bowl that he regards as a treasure. Geng Wenyang said with a smile: "Senior brother is right, we self-employed people can't compare with state-owned enterprises, and the benefits and treatment are definitely not comparable."
Zheng Baisheng saw that Geng Wenyang was lying in front of him, and said with a secret smile in his heart: "My little junior brother is too low-key, and he is easily unwilling to expose his strength. That's it! When Lao Gao is cornered, I will talk to Wen Yang and ask Wen Yang to give him a way to live."
Du Gaoyi disagreed: "I came from the old society. In my opinion, it doesn't matter if he is a state-run or an individual, as long as he can pay us on time, we will do it for whoever gives the money."
Seeing that Master's words were a bit too realistic, Zheng Baisheng hurriedly added, "Now that state-owned and private enterprises are allowed by policy, of course, it is for anyone to do the same."
Du Gaoyi finally realized that he had talked a little too much, and hurriedly said, "Yes! Be! Be! Pak Sheng is right, you must do it within the scope of permission, and you can't do anything illegal."