Township Chief Zhao handed over a hundred yuan to Village Chief Guan, "I didn't buy any gifts, this is a little bit of my heart, you give it to the old man." ”

Guan Yuntian invited Township Chief Zhao to sit down at the smooth table, personally made tea for the guests, and then chatted with Township Chief Zhao.

"Mr. Guan just said that he had seen me before, when did that happen?" asked Township Chief Zhao.

"It should be the year of my college entrance examination, I remember that after the college entrance examination, I was waiting for the notice at home to help the family do farm work, and I saw you come to our village to inspect the work. "Guan Yuntian said.

"Oh, you said that year, I was a cadre in the township, not an inspection worker, and my place of work was in Guanyang Village at that time. ”

"Township Chief Zhao hasn't left Jinzhai Township all these years?"

"I stayed in Guanyang Village for two years, returned to the township for two years, and then transferred to other townships and towns to serve as deputy township chiefs for a few years. ”

Yang Zhishu, who was sitting opposite, quipped: "This shows that Township Chief Zhao has feelings for Jinzhai Township and is reluctant to leave!"

Township Chief Zhao also joked: "What? That's where other places don't welcome me, so I have no choice but to go back to my old place." ”

"The higher-level departments have considerations and know people well, which can only show that Township Chief Zhao knows Jinzhai Township very well, and Jinzhai Township also needs leaders like Township Chief Zhao. Guan Yuntian said seriously.

"But Mr. Guan, although we haven't met since then, your fame is getting bigger and louder in our Fuyuan County and even Huayuan City. Zhao Xiang said.

"What kind of fame, I am a business, and I have never been willing to publicize, the news media want to interview, I deliberately avoid them, some institutions want to recommend me as the head of the county and city Federation of Industry and Commerce, and even recommend me to be the deputy director of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, I have been politely rejected one by one, I am not interested in the honor of 'representative', 'member', I just want to do a good business, I don't want to show my head. "Guan Yuntian said.

"In the buzzword, you're low-key. Everyone has their own aspirations, and it's completely understandable. But Mr. Guan, I heard them say that you studied at a normal college back then, why didn't you teach in the school later, but started a business?" Not only Township Chief Zhao, but also the other two people next to him may also have such questions.

"Hey, that's a long story. The year I graduated, it was too coincidental, and there was no middle school in the city, and I didn't want to come to the middle school in the countryside, so I went to the Chengguan Central Primary School, and now I still have a teacher establishment. Two years later, when the school-run factory was on the verge of closure, the school sent me to the school-run factory. ”

"Oh, I see! You started from a school-run factory on the verge of closure, and it took less than ten years to develop to the current scale, your speed is really incredible!"

"The first few years are not easy, it can be said that it is too difficult! The campus factory originally did printing, but that could not be maintained at all, I took over the production of red bricks, not to mention the difficulty of sales, in order to save labor costs, I drove a tractor to send bricks to users, a car every day in the morning and afternoon, more than 10,000 red bricks, loading and unloading all by myself. The eldest brother of the village chief, I know that when I was waiting for the notice at home after the college entrance examination, it was very hard for me to pull a cart and sell reed mats, if it was compared to the work I sent bricks, it would be nothing. "Guan Yuntian said.

This eldest brother of the family had not yet become the village chief at that time, and in addition to doing farm work in his own field, he also went around with a group of villagers to earn some pocket money." Yuntian was very good at doing business at that time, it was you who first discovered that you could make money by selling reed mats to the bazaar in the township, but the business was really hard, starting from the village at five o'clock in the morning in the summer, pulling a cart weighing two or three hundred pounds, walking for more than four hours, walking more than 30 miles, there was no that brain, there was no that brain, there was no that physical strength, that summer trafficking reed mats, the whole village counted you to earn the most money. ”

"Compared with the work of delivering bricks in the brick factory, it is not too hard to sell reed mats to the countryside. At that time, it was also the summer of righteousness, and I loaded and unloaded more than 10,000 bricks in the morning and afternoon, and my arms were so sore that I was soaked with sweat all over my body, and I could wring water out of my clothes. When I returned to the dormitory in the factory, I didn't want to get up when I lay down, and my arms didn't even have the strength to eat with chopsticks. Fortunately, I was only in my early twenties at that time, and I was able to resume work the next day after a good night's sleep. I persisted in that kind of labor intensity for half a year, until the brick factory business improved and the efficiency improved, and I hired a special shipper. Talking about the entrepreneurial experience in the past, Guan Yuntian still remembers it vividly.

"The first three kicks are difficult to kick, the hardships and tiredness of the entrepreneurial stage, and now they have finally paid off, and the companies that started at the same time as you are far worse than your company, which shows that Mr. Guan does have outstanding points in the management and operation of the enterprise. Township Chief Zhao sincerely admired.

"I don't dare to be outstanding, but my concept is not conservative, I am good at learning, and I am willing to absorb new knowledge and new ideas. ”

At this time, Guan Yuntian's driver, Master Li, came over to help clean up the table and set up the tableware, "Yo, are you going to eat?"

"It's almost twelve o'clock, you don't feel hungry when you talk, do you? "Master Li is a diligent and open-minded person.

According to the rules of the village, Guan Yuntian arranged Township Chief Zhao in the upper seat, Yang Zhishu and Village Chief Guan were separated on the left and right, and he himself was in the lower seat.

With such an arrangement, a table that should have sat eight people can only sit four, which is not only a waste of space, but also not pretty.

"Brother Yuntian, your arrangement is wrong! You rarely go home, let's change it, you come to me, and I sit there. Guan Cun said.

"That's not good, you're a guest today, and you have to listen to my arrangement. ”

"Look at the two of you pushing around, almost forgetting today's protagonist, Mr. Guan, hurry up and invite the old birthday star to the table. Township Chief Zhao reminded.

"It's not, this is today's protagonist, fortunately, Township Chief Zhao reminded me. Yang Zhishu got up and walked into the house and invited the old man Guan Chenglin out.

In front of Township Chief Zhao, Guan Chenglin seemed a little uncomfortable, "How good are you drinking and chatting together, what should I do with you?"

"It's not a participation, you're the protagonist, the old birthday star sits here with me. Township Chief Zhao got up and asked Lao Guan to sit side by side with him.

"This can't be done, how can I sit here?" Lao Guan took a few steps back.

"Uncle, don't go back, if you don't sit there, how can we sit? These three parties are our seats. The village chief Guan helped Lao Guan to the upper seat and sat down.

"Well, what about the driver, Master Li, who has been helping in the kitchen for a while, so let him come and sit down. Lao Guan reminded.

Guan Yuntian shouted in front of the kitchen door, and Master Li walked out and sat next to Guan Yuntian. "It's a guest from afar, how nice it is for you to be next to me!" said Guan Cun.

"I don't usually go to the table, so it's good to sit in this position today. Mr. Guan, there are only six people at the table now, and I think two more people should be called, and eight people can be gathered to open the table. Master Li said.

"Yes, who is the right name?" Guan Yuntian asked his old father.

Guan Chenglin called one of his brothers-in-law and an uncle-in-law over, "You two sit next to them." ”

After the guest and host sat down, the table was immediately opened, Master Li got up to pour wine for everyone, and Village Chief Guan also stepped forward to help.

"The village chief, please sit down, and I will serve you, you can rest assured. "Master Li asked the village chief to return to his seat.

Township Chief Zhao, who was sitting on the top seat, spoke first, "Today is Mr. Guan's birthday, let's gather together to celebrate the birthday of the old birthday star, first of all, I wish you a happy birthday!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank together.

"Let us raise our glasses again, I wish the old birthday star happiness such as the East China Sea, and longevity than Nanshan!"

Subsequently, Guan Yuntian congratulated his old father on behalf of his family, and he toasted to Township Chief Zhao and the two leaders of the village separately to thank them for coming!

After this set of procedures, Guan Yuntian drank up two glasses of wine, and there were still some left in the other people's glasses. "Yuntian, your cup is empty, you have to pour it!"

"No problem, I will definitely accompany the leaders. ”

Pour a full third cup together, the speed is much slower, and the topic shifts.

"Mr. Guan, the old man is over sixty years old, when do you plan to take your parents into the city to live?" said Zhao Xiangchang.

"I let them go into the city for the first two years, and my mom didn't say anything, but my dad stayed with me for a few days, and he said he wasn't used to life and said he didn't want to go into the city at all. In fact, Guan Yuntian explained this reason, and many people in the village knew about it, because Lao Guan told others.

"Yes, I have lived in the village for decades, old and young masters, villagers and villagers, I don't see you when I look up and look down, when I get to the city, I walk out of the house and my eyes are black, I don't know anyone, I don't want to find someone to talk to, and it is reasonable that the old man is not used to it. The village chief chimed in.

Guan Chenglin only poured half a glass of wine into his cup, and now there was still a lot left, he picked up the wine glass, "I respect the leaders of the village in the township, thank you!"

Putting down the wine glass, Lao Guan continued: "It's not that I never want to go to the city to live, in the future, when we are old, we can't walk, who will take care of us if we don't go to the city? ”

"The air in the countryside is good, as long as the body is okay, it is not bad for my brother and my sister-in-law to stay in the village for a few more years, Mr. Guan and they have time to run a few more times to their hometown, and they can see you often, the city is less than thirty kilometers away from our village, and it is not too far to say. Yang Zhishu said.

"Yes, since our parents don't want to go to the city to live for the time being, we can only find time to run as much as possible to our hometown, if the road is easy to walk, this thirty kilometers is really nothing, but the ten kilometers of dirt road to our village is really too difficult to walk!" Guan Yuntian said.

Township Chief Zhao took over the topic, "Jinzhai Township is located in a remote area, it is a poor township, we have long planned to build roads, but the township can't come up with money, and the plan to build roads has not been realized." There are no decent enterprises in the township, and it cannot attract the attention of the county, and it is not impossible to expect the county transportation bureau to allocate funds to build roads, and I am afraid it will take several years. ”

"Because the road is not easy to walk, people from several villages near Guanyang Village are reluctant to go out, which is a conservative behavior. Now that the outside is developing so fast, when will staying on this one-third of an acre of land change the face of life?"

Guan Yuntian was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "How much money is needed to build such a road?"