There are nearly 300 families and thousands of people in Chikan Village, except for a few families with foreign surnames who migrated over because of the war, they are basically of the same clan. Cai's ancestors settled in Chikan Village, and after starting a family, they had five sons. After the five sons got married, they each became a house. After hundreds of years of reproduction, the five houses have been inherited endlessly. Each of these five rooms has a person in charge, which is called the head of the house.

Cai Fujin and Cai Jingquan belong to the big house, and Cai Fujin is the head of the big house. According to the clan rules, the patriarch of the Cai family has always been the head of the big house, and this rule has not changed for hundreds of years, whether it is a peaceful and prosperous era or a turbulent era.

Cai Fujin is the head of the big house, the patriarch, and the head of Chikan Village, and his prestige and status in Chikan Village are unmatched. But even so, he has to weigh the interests of the five rooms and pay attention to the unity of the five rooms at any time. He believed in the unity of brothers, and their profits were golden. This is true for a family, and even more so for a large family!

So when Cai Jingquan heard that the heads of the other four rooms gathered at the uncle's house and raised their opinions about themselves and asked to remove him, how could he not panic?

It seems that the position of the head of the security section of his Dahua Factory is coming to an end, and the stall of Cai's Garment Factory will also be handed over.

"It's because I don't have the ability, and the uncle listened to the gossip of their rooms. Cai Jingquan stood up, lowered his head, and looked like he had done something wrong.

"It's normal for the four of them to have an opinion about you. ”

Cai Fujin took a sip of tea and motioned for Cai Jingquan to sit down, "The five houses scraped together to raise funds, secretly bought raw materials and sewing machines, and took the risk of stealing from Dahua Factory to learn art, just to prepare to do a big job and fight for Chikan Village." But it's good for you, the factory stopped working less than half a month after it was handed over to you! Those fake collars that were produced were pressed under your bed and eaten for two months, do you think they have no problem with you?"

"I ......" Cai Jingquan really had a hard time, but when the words came to his mouth, he forcibly held back, and he didn't dare to say some things.

"Of course. When I decided to do this, I discussed it with the five houses, and in the end, it was I, the village chief, who came up with the idea. So this responsibility can't all fall on you alone!"

Cai Fujin's words made Cai Jingquan almost cry, and the grievances in his stomach suddenly came to an end.

Immediately afterwards, Cai Fujin changed his words and said: "However, since Cai's Garment Factory has been handed over to you to take care of, you will be responsible for the sales!"

"Yes......"

Cai Jingquan's heart was cold again.

"You raise your head and speak!"

Cai Fujin's face suddenly sank, "With the virtue of a girl, can you be a little manly?"

"Yes. Cai Jingquan answered, raised his head and looked at Cai Fujin.

Cai Fujin then softened his tone slightly, and said seriously: "Ah Quan, I am just a nephew like you, and sooner or later this big house will be handed over to you." You have to remember, as the head of the long house, to behave and do things, whether right or wrong, you must first straighten your chest! Who wants to obey you?"

"Uncle, I... I got it!"

Cai Jingquan's heart was hot, as if a warm current was flowing in his chest.

Cai Fujin has no son under his knees, only one daughter, and he married early. In the early years, after Cai Jingquan's father died of illness, he always regarded Cai Jingquan as his own, as his own son, and helped him build a new house, and asked someone to tell him his daughter-in-law. According to the clan rules, the position of the head of the house has always been passed on to men but not to women, so after a hundred years, the position of the head of the big house will basically be passed to Cai Jingquan.

Not only that, but he also spent a lot of effort to cultivate Cai Jingquan, and at the beginning he handed over the village militia company to him, and later strongly recommended him to represent the Chikan Village Committee and enter the Dahua Factory as the head of the security section, and also handed over the garment factory to him to take care of in private. All this is to train him, and to lay a solid foundation for him to take over the head of the big house smoothly in the future.

In Cai Fujin's original plan, as long as Cai Jingquan can take care of the garment factory with five houses to raise funds, then he can logically help Cai Jingquan to sit on the position of the patriarch of the Cai family and the head of Chikan Village in accordance with the clan rules.

The vision is wonderful.

But the reality is often that things don't work out.

Cai's Garment Factory, which carried the great expectations of five houses, had only been in the hands of Cai Jingquan for more than ten days, and it was stopped because it could not find a market for the fake collar for a while, and it was not suitable to continue production in a short period of time.

This shutdown is more than two months. The six sewing machines that had not been working for sixty or seventy days and were secretly hidden in the backyard of the ancestral hall were about to rust because of the dampness.

The machine was rusty, people's hearts were fluctuating, and the voices of the clan against setting up factories gradually increased.

The garment factory was handed over to Cai Jingquan by Cai Fujin, but it was smashed by him, which made Cai Fujin, the patriarch, speak less confident in front of the other four rooms.

Yesterday afternoon, the heads of the other four rooms came together and once again put forward their suggestions to Cai Fujin, the patriarch, either to resell the sewing machine, dissolve the garment factory, and live honestly in Chikan Village in the future, or to remove Cai Jingquan, after all, if he lacks ability, he should give way and hand over the garment factory to a capable person to take care of.

They recommended a candidate to take care of the garment factory, which was one of the four of them - Cai Jingyuan, the head of the fifth room.

In terms of status, Cai Jingyuan is the head of the fifth room, and Cai Jingquan is currently only the son of the big house.

In terms of generation, Cai Jingyuan and Cai Jingquan are of the same generation.

In terms of ability, Cai Jingyuan was a merchant walking the streets and alleys in his early years, and he also ran a boat with people, whether it was a wide range of friends or a wide range of knowledge, he was above Cai Jingquan.

After Cai Fujin weighed and compared, he also agreed in his heart that in the current situation, Cai Jingyuan in the fifth room is indeed more suitable than his nephew.

But......

"This time, I didn't agree to their request for a four-room room!"

Cai Fujin shook his head, a meaningful smile appeared on his cheeks, and said, "If you change to weekdays, or do other things, maybe take care of the unity of the five rooms, and I will agree with half a push." However, this removal is related to the face of Dafang, and it is more related to whether the patriarch of the Cai family will still be in Dafang's hands in the future. So, I rejected their proposal!"

"Huh?"

Cai Jingquan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that his uncle's attitude was so tough this time, but then he became worried again: "Then they have four rooms ......."

"Of course, I, the patriarch, can't do whatever I want arbitrarily, especially the four houses are against it. So, I made an agreement with them. ”

Cai Fujin raised his index finger and said, "I agreed with them to give you another month, if within a month, you still can't solve the difficulties of sales, and you can't let Cai's garment factory resume work." Then you will take the initiative to abdicate and give way to Xian, and hand over the garment factory to Cai Jingyuan to be responsible. In the future, if you honestly farm at home, you won't starve to death!"

"Farming, the position of the head of the security section of the Dahua Garment Factory ......," Cai Jingquan hesitated.

"Of course, give it to him!"

Cai Fujin glanced at him and said with disdain: "What, you can't bear it? You can't solve the difficulties, which means that you don't have that ability, so why do you have to occupy the pit and not? Mediocrity and inaction will only make Chikan Village poorer and poorer! If Cai Jingyuan has this ability and can lead the whole village to get rich, then he should be allowed to go, this is related to the well-being of thousands of people in the whole village, even if it hurts the interests of our big house, then we have to give way! Understand?"

Cai Jingquan nodded, "I know." ”

"But fortunately, your luck is not bad, and someone will bring a pillow when you fall asleep. ”

Cai Fujin said: "Before, I was worried about whether you could find a market for a month. Today, someone actually took the initiative to ask for goods, and they asked for 400 fake collars for one mouth. ”

Cai Jingquan knew that the uncle was talking about Han Chunlei and Zhang Xilu.

He guessed that Cai Fujin might have forgotten Han Chunlei's strange way of settling the payment, and couldn't help but remind: "Uncle, Han Chunlei wants to pay us a deposit of 200 yuan first and take away our 400 fake collars." Wait for him to sell these 400 fake collars, and then give us the remaining 600 yuan for the balance!"

"I know, don't you just pay the deposit first, wait seven or eight days, and then make up the final payment?"

Bang!

Cai Fujin suddenly put the clay pot in his hand on the tea tray, squinted his eyes slightly, and said conclusively: "Promise him!"

"Huh?"

Cai Jingquan was surprised: "Promise him? He obviously doesn't have enough money and wants to take advantage of us!"

"But if he dares to do this, it shows that he has a way to sell the fake collar!"

Cai Fujin said: "In this way, you can take time to meet him tomorrow and say that we agree to his settlement method, but the premise is that he will agree to our two requests." Otherwise, how can we take advantage of our cheapness?"

Cai Jingquan asked, "Hmm...... Which two requirements?"

"I'll tell you about dinner in a moment. It's not early, it's time for dinner. ”

Cai Fujin patted his ass and stood up, and shouted at the hall in the courtyard: "Stir-fry two more dishes, Ah Quan and Xiao'e stay at home for dinner." ”

"I see. The voice of Cai Fujin's wife was faintly heard in the hall.

Cai Jingquan said: "I'll call Xiao'e, and there is still half a chicken at home." ”

After speaking, Cai Jingquan trotted out of Cai Fujin's house and went straight to his home.

......

At this time, the sky was dark and it was past dusk.

In the courtyard of Ah Xiong's house, a 200-watt light bulb was temporarily picked up from the kitchen and hung on the lychee tree in the courtyard, illuminating the entire courtyard.

Ah Xiong, Chun Lei, and Pork Can were already full of wine and food at this time, eating and enjoying the cool under the lychee tree, gossiping, and chatting about family life.

Through the kitchen window, I could see Sister Hong in the courtyard helping Ah Xiong's mother wash the dishes and chopsticks, and she was talking and laughing from time to time.

Ah Xiong looked directly at Sister Hong's busy figure, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a happy smile.

Seeing this, Han Chunlei couldn't help but quip: "What a warm picture of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law harmony, right, Brother Xiong?"

"Yes," Ah Xiong couldn't help but nodded, and immediately reacted, but he didn't deny it, and said happily: "If you can marry Ah Hongzhen, it will be even warmer." ”

Zhang Xilu on the side asked: "Brother Xiong, don't you only like Teresa Teng? What, Teresa Teng doesn't want it?"

When Pork Can heard this, he was dissatisfied: "Zhang Xilu, what do you mean? Is my sister worse than Teresa Teng?"

Pork Can knows that Brother Xiong likes his sister for a day or two, in fact, he also hopes that his sister can completely let go of the past and forget the brother-in-law who has not heard from him for so many years, and he is with Brother Xiong. At least he will live in Brother Xiong's house in the future, and he will not have to pay rent.

"How can your sister compare with Teresa Teng? I have read Teresa Teng's pictorial in Brother Xiong's room, and your sister is much stronger than Teresa Teng. And Teresa Teng looks gentler than your sister. If you want me, you must like Teresa Teng!" Zhang Xilu said honestly.

"Damn, do you want to fight?" Seeing Zhang Xilu belittle his sister so much, Pork Can immediately rolled up his sleeves and wanted to do it.

"I'm telling the truth, just fight, I'm still afraid of you?" Zhang Xilu didn't admit it, he was a little instigated in front of Han Chunlei in this courtyard, after all, Han Chunlei not only took care of him to eat and drink, but also took him to earn money in the future, saying that he was a brother, but in fact he was his boss.

"You two are really well fed, and you can quarrel with this. ”

Han Chunlei immediately stroked his forehead, these two guys with excess energy really have no place to use their strength.

However, I have to admit that the nightlife in this era is too boring and boring, suffocating the two young men to the point that they are full of fire, and they all talk with gunpowder.

"Chunlei, don't bother with these two idiots. ”

Ah Xiong didn't even bother to look at these two people, and asked Han Chunlei directly: "What do you think of the incident that Ah Hong announced during the meal just now?"