Township Chief Zhao handed over 100 yuan to Village Chief Guan, "I didn't buy any gifts. This is a little thought from me. You can give it to the old man."

Guan Yuntian asked Mayor Zhao to sit down at the smooth table, made tea for the guests himself, and then chatted with Mayor Zhao.

"Mr. Guan just said that he had seen me before. When was that?" Mayor Zhao asked.

"It should have been the year I took the college entrance examination. I remember that after the college entrance examination, I was waiting for notification at home to help my family with farm work, and I saw you coming to our village to inspect the work." Guan Yuntian said.

"Oh, that year you mentioned, I was a village cadre in the township, not doing inspection work. My workplace at that time was in Guanyang Village."

"Has Township Chief Zhao not left Jinzhai Township all these years?"

"I stayed in Guanyang Village for two years. After returning to my hometown for two years, I was transferred to another township to serve as deputy mayor for a few years. In the first two years, I was transferred back to Jinzhai Township and moved around. Now I'm here again.

Return to the original base."

Party Secretary Yang, who was sitting opposite, joked: "This shows that Mayor Zhao has feelings for Jinzhai Township and is reluctant to leave!"

Mayor Zhao also joked: "What? That means I'm not welcome in other places. I have no choice but to go back to my old place."

"The superior department has considered the situation and knows people well. This only shows that Mayor Zhao knows Jinzhai Township very well. Jinzhai Township also needs leaders like Mayor Zhao." Guan Yuntian said seriously.

"But Mr. Guan, although we have not met since then, your reputation is getting bigger and louder in our Fuyuan County and even Huayuan City." Zhao Xiangchang said.

"What kind of reputation? I am just an entrepreneur, and I have never wanted to publicize it. When the news media wanted to interview me, I deliberately avoided them. Some organizations wanted to recommend me to be the person in charge of the county and city federations of industry and commerce, and even recommended me to be the head of the federation of industry and commerce in the county and city.

I declined all the deputy directors of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce one by one, and I am not interested in honors such as 'representative' or 'member'. I just want to run a good business and don't want to show my face." Guan Yuntian said.

"To use a popular word, you are called low-key. Everyone has his own ambitions, which is completely understandable. But Mr. Guan, I heard them say that you went to a normal college back then. Why didn't you teach in the school and start a business instead?" Not only Zhao

Mayor, maybe the other two people next to me also have this question.

"Hey, it's a long story. It happened to be the year I graduated. There were no middle schools in the city with any establishment, and I didn't want to go to a middle school in the countryside, so I went to Chengguan Central Primary School. Now I still have the teacher establishment.

Well. My stay at Chengguan Primary School was not very good. Two years later, the school-run factory happened to be on the verge of bankruptcy, so the school sent me to the school-run factory."

"Oh, so that's it! You started from a school-run factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it took less than ten years to develop to the current scale. Your speed is incredible!" Township Chief Zhao sighed.

"The first few years were not easy, it can be said to be too difficult! The campus factory used to do printing, but it couldn't sustain it at all. After I took over, it switched to red brick production. Not to mention the difficulty of sales, in order to save labor costs,

I drove a tractor to deliver bricks to users, one truck each in the morning and afternoon every day, with more than 10,000 red bricks. I loaded and unloaded them all by myself. The village eldest brother knows that after the college entrance examination, when I was at home waiting for the notice, I pulled the cart.

Selling reed mats is very hard work, but compared with my job of delivering bricks, it is nothing." Guan Yuntian said.

The eldest brother of the family had not yet become the village chief. In addition to doing farm work in his own field, he also went to markets 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 can make money by selling reed mats in the Linxiang market, but that business

It's really hard work. In the summer, we set off from the village at five o'clock in the morning, pulling a cart weighing 200 to 300 kilograms. We walk for more than four hours and cover a distance of more than 30 miles. Those who have the physical strength do not have the brains. Those who have the brains

If you don’t have the physical strength, you would make the most money in the village by selling reed mats that summer.”

"Compared with my job of delivering bricks in a brick factory, selling reed mats in Linxiang is not hard work. It was also summer at that time. I loaded and unloaded and transported more than 10,000 bricks by myself in the morning and afternoon. My arms were unbearably sore and my whole body was sore.

My whole body was soaked with sweat, and water could be wrung out of my clothes. When I returned to the dormitory in the factory, I lay down and didn’t want to get up. My arms didn’t even have the strength to hold chopsticks to eat. Fortunately, I was only in my early twenties at that time.

After a good sleep, I could resume work the next day. I persisted with such intensity of labor for half a year, until the business of the brick factory was good and the efficiency improved, so I hired a special loader." Talking about his past entrepreneurial experience, Guan Yuntian

The memory is still fresh to this day.

"It's hard to kick off the first three steps. I have endured hardships and tiredness in the entrepreneurial stage, but now I have finally paid off. The companies that started at the same time as you are far behind your company. This shows that Mr. Guan is really good at the management and operation of the company."

Extraordinary." Mayor Zhao said with sincere admiration.

“I don’t take credit for my excellence, but I am not conservative in my ideas, I am good at learning, and I am willing to absorb new knowledge and new ideas. If there is any difference, this may be the difference between me and other private enterprise owners.

."

At this time, Guan Yuntian's driver, Master Li, came over to help clear the table and place the tableware. "Hey, is dinner ready?" Village Chief Guan asked.

"It's almost twelve o'clock. Don't you feel hungry while chatting? Everything is ready. Dinner will be served soon." Master Li is a diligent and open-minded person.

According to the rules of the village, Guan Yuntian placed Township Chief Zhao in the upper seat, Party Secretary Yang and Village Chief Guan on the left and right, and he himself was in the lower seat.

With this arrangement, a table that should seat eight people can only seat four people. This is not only a waste of space, but also unsightly.

"Brother Yuntian, your arrangement is wrong! It's rare for you to go home. Let's switch. You come to my place and I'll sit at your place." Chief Guan said.

"That's not possible. You are a guest today and you must listen to my arrangements."

"Looking at the pushing and shoving between you two, I almost forgot about today's protagonist. Mr. Guan, please hurry up and invite the birthday boy to the table." Mayor Zhao reminded.

"Isn't that right? This is today's protagonist. Fortunately, Mayor Zhao reminded him." Yang Zhishu stood up and walked into the room and invited Mr. Guan Chenglin out.

In front of Mayor Zhao, Guan Chenglin seemed a little uncomfortable, "It would be great for you to drink and chat together. Why should I join in?"

"It's not about joining in, you are the protagonist. The old birthday girl is sitting here with me." Mr. Zhao stood up and asked Lao Guan to sit on the upper seat side by side with him.

"This is impossible. How can I sit here?" Laoguan took a few steps back.

"Uncle, please don't step back. If you don't sit there, how can we sit? These three sides are our seats." Village chief Guan helped Lao Guan to the upper seat and sat down.

"Uh, where's the driver, Master Li? He's been helping out in the kitchen for a while, so I asked him to come and sit down," Lao Guan reminded.

Guan Yuntian went to the kitchen door and called out. Master Li came out and sat next to Guan Yuntian. "I am a guest from afar, so it's great that you are next to me!" said the village chief.

"I usually don't go to the table, but it's good to sit in this position today. Mr. Guan, there are only six people at the table now. I think we should call two more people to make up for eight people," said Master Li.

.

"Yeah, who should I call him?" Guan Yuntian asked him

old father.

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

After the guests and hosts were seated, the banquet began immediately. Master Li stood up to pour wine for everyone, and Village Chief Guan also stepped forward to help.

"Village Chief, please take a seat. I will serve you all. Don't worry." Master Li asked Village Chief Guan to return to his seat.

Mayor Zhao, who was sitting in the upper position, spoke first, "Today is Mr. Guan's birthday. We gather together to celebrate the birthday of the old man. First of all, I wish you a happy birthday! Peace and good luck!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank together.

"Let us raise a toast again and wish the birthday star a blessing as good as the East China Sea and a life as long as the Southern Mountains!"

Later, Guan Yuntian congratulated his old father on behalf of his family. He also toasted to Township Chief Zhao and the two leaders of the village separately, thanking them for coming!

After this procedure, Guan Yuntian drank two glasses of wine, and there was still some left in the others' glasses. "Yuntian, your glass is empty, you have to pour it!" Village Chief Guan saw it.

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

When we filled the third cup together, the speed was much slower and the topic changed.

"Mr. Guan, the old man is over sixty years old. When do you plan to bring your parents to live in the city?" said Township Chief Zhao.

"I let them go to the city two years ago. My mother didn't say anything. My father stayed at my place for a few days. He said he was not used to the life and didn't want to go to the city anymore." In fact, Guan Yuntian explained this.

Many people in the village knew the reason, because Lao Guan had told others.

"That's right. After living in the village for several decades, the young and old men and fellow villagers in the countryside can't see each other when they look up. But when I get to the city, I walk out of the house and my eyes are dark. I don't know anyone. There is no one I want to talk to. Old man

It’s understandable that you’re not used to it.” The village chief interjected.

Guan Chenglin only poured half a glass of wine into his glass, and there was still a lot left. He picked up the glass and said, "I would like to pay tribute to the leaders of the village and the village. Thank you very much!"

Putting down his wine glass, Lao Guan continued: "It's not that I never want to live in the city. In the future, when we get older and can't walk anymore, who will take care of us if we don't go to the city? I just feel that my body and bones are still strong now. I can't stay in my hometown for another ten or eight years."

Besides, even though it’s a remote rural area, I’m still emotionally reluctant to leave this place.”

"The air in the countryside is good. As long as your health is okay, it would be good for me and my sister-in-law to stay in the village for a few more years. Mr. Guan and the others will be able to see you more often if they have time to make more trips to their hometown. The city is far away from us.

The village is less than thirty kilometers away, so it’s not too far away,” Yang Zhishu said.

"Yeah, since my parents don't want to live in the city for the time being, we can only take the time to run to our hometown as much as possible. If the road is easy, the thirty kilometers away is really nothing. It's just the ten kilometers of dirt road to our village. It's really

It’s too difficult to leave!” Guan Yuntian said.

Mayor Zhao took over the topic, "Jinzhai Township is located in a remote area and is a poor town. We have long planned to build roads, but unfortunately the township cannot come up with the money and the road construction plan has never been realized. There are no decent companies in the township.

, it cannot attract the attention of the county, and it is not impossible to rely on the county transportation bureau to allocate funds to build roads, and I am afraid it will take several years."

"Because the roads are not easy to walk, people in several villages near Guanyang Village are reluctant to go out. This is a conservative behavior. Now that the outside world is developing so fast, when can we stay on this three-thirds of an acre of land?

Change your life?" Party Secretary Yang looked worried.
Chapter completed!