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Chapter 169: It’s time to take medicine (3000 monthly tickets plus more)

Ma Dabo said with an unpleasant expression: "Hu San'er, are you trying to bully your uncle in my territory? I also have a militia in my glass factory..."

"You really treat me as an outsider, Director Ma." Xie Hushan was amused by Ma Da Nao's appearance. He looked at Ma Da Nao with a smile on his face while holding a cigarette, and suddenly shouted:
"Ma San'er! Fuck the horse!"

Hearing Xie Hushan's shout, Ma San'er and Cao Ma pushed the door open and walked in. They smiled at Ma Da's head with a fake smile:
"Uncle Four, Uncle Two asked us to call you over to the team headquarters. He said he has something to tell you."

Ma Dabo looked at his two nephews in astonishment. Although he had hardly any contact with these relatives who made a living from farming since he started working, these two young men were indeed from the Ma family.

If Xie Hushan wanted to cause trouble for himself, he would not have deliberately brought two people with the surname Ma with him.

Thinking of this, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you afraid that I, a stranger, will bully you in your territory? Your nephew from the Ma family who is not more than five generations away from you will not harm you, right?" Xie Hushan looked at Ma Da's head and said sarcastically:

"You're still using the militia to scare people. Do you have bullets? Do you know how much it costs to equip them with bullets? Your glass factory loses money every year. Why are you using the dog Der to equip the militia with bullets?"

"How can you talk like that? Go out and wait. I'll change my clothes. It's hot." Ma Da Nao frowned in dissatisfaction and said to Xie Hushan.

"No problem. Then I'll go outside with them and wait for you, Director Ma." Xie Hushan stood up and walked towards the door. When he arrived at the door and was about to help Ma Da Nao close the door, he suddenly remembered something and spoke to Ma Da Nao standing behind the desk:
"Oh, by the way, when I came here, I saw that the telephone line in your factory seemed to be cut by the wind."

Ma Dabo's face suddenly changed: "Give me my phone line..."

"Fourth uncle, it was broken by the wind. I saw it with my own eyes." Ma Saner, who was standing next to Xie Hushan, interrupted Ma Da Nao's words.

Xie Hushan smoked a cigarette and looked at Ma Dabo with a half-smile:

"Are you still changing clothes? I don't think it's hot, and the brigade just got a new floor-standing electric fan. Besides, even without the fan, it's guaranteed to be cooler than your office."

"I want to see why you are pretending in front of me." Ma Dabo stood up and followed the three people out of the glass factory with a grim expression.

Since Xie Hushan wanted to invite him to the brigade headquarters, it was definitely not for a fight. He might not be able to beat this young man in a fight, but when it came to speaking and doing things, Ma Da Nao felt that he had the advantage.

He followed the three people and strolled all the way from the glass factory to the Zhongping Brigade headquarters. He pushed open the door of the headquarters and found that just as Xie Hushan said, there was a new item in the Zhongping Brigade headquarters. A Yaoshan-produced Jinyan brand floor fan was blowing air in the corner.

No need to ask, it must have been Xie Hushan’s steel rolling mill that bought it for the brigade, otherwise how could he bring himself to the brigade headquarters?
He must want to add an electric fan to the team, and let Han Laogou help him talk to him about the Li Xingyuan matter. Logically speaking, how did the news leak out?

Li Xingyuan was drunk and accidentally let it slip? How did Xie Hushan know that there was something about Ma Da Naotou involved?

Han Laogou didn't sit on the bench in the team office, but sat on the threshold of the back door, stuffing tobacco into his pipe. Ma Dabo looked at the empty team office, smiled at Han Laogou and walked over to him. He took out a peony and handed it to Han Laogou, and said familiarly:
"Second brother, are you looking for me?"

"Ah? It's not me who's looking for you. It's your Ma family's second brother who's looking for you." Han Laogou raised his hand to take the cigarette handed to him by Ma Dabo, put it in his mouth and smoked it, then stood up and made way to the side.
"Uncle San, Brother Er, and Brother Wu, come in, your Brother Four is here."

Footsteps were heard outside the back door. Soon, Ma Youli, the third uncle who was of the same generation as Ma Da Nao's father and was already in his seventies, came in from the back door, supported by Ma Lao Er and Ma Lao Wu, over the threshold and into the brigade headquarters.

"Uncle Sanye, Second Brother, Fifth Brother, hi, is there something going on at home? Send someone to call me and I'll go home. Ask Uncle Sanye to come to the team headquarters specially." Seeing the relatives of the old Ma family, Ma Dabo was even more confused about what Xie Hushan was up to today. He glanced at Xie Hushan and found that he walked out of the front door with his arms folded. He hurried over to help Uncle Sanye Ma and asked.

However, the three of them ignored Ma Da Nao. Ma Lao Er and Ma Lao Wu helped the third uncle to sit down, and then they looked at Ma Da Nao with expressionless faces like three wooden sculptures and clay statues.

The two brothers Ma Saner and Cao Ma, one stood at the front door and the other stood at the back door.

Ma Da turned his head around and looked at the people in the room, and asked at a loss:
"What happened? Why are you all so silent?"

"Old Fourth, the commune sent some materials. You know, I'm a rough man, uneducated, and can't read a few words. Even when people write to me, I have to ask others for help to reply. It's a good opportunity for you to come over and read the materials to me first, and then we can talk about your family's affairs." Han Laogou took a puff of cigarette, coughed twice, and said to Ma Dabo:

"It's on the table."

Ma Dabo looked at the Ma family members who didn't respond, then looked at Han Laogou who asked him to help read the materials, walked over and picked up the materials on Han Laogou's desk. As soon as he opened it, his face turned pale and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

Han Laogou pretended not to see it and continued to speak in a casual tone:

"Secretary Yin said that I had irritated him for so many years and he had wanted to step down a long time ago. It's not that he wanted to stay, but he was unwilling to do so. He said that when he was first transferred to our Zhongping Commune, he was new and had to compromise and do something that was not good for the organization." "Although he had tried his best to prevent the masses from suffering losses, he also continued to work hard to turn his mistakes into political achievements. However, due to his limited ability, he never realized his wish and always felt that it was a stain."

Ma Da slowly turned his head and looked at Han Laogou. Han Laogou blew out two columns of smoke from his nose:

"He has to pay the public tax on wheat again. I just started it and haven't even gone to the commune to make trouble yet, but he made trouble with me first, saying he would write a report and quit, and go back to the county to retire. Look at the fuss, it makes us Zhongping people seem like we are bullying our leaders, but we are not that kind of people."

"Secretary Han, this material..." Ma Da's mouth trembled as he spoke: "Was it compiled by Secretary Yin?"

"Oh, he thought that he was not capable enough to turn decay into magic, so he decided to quit this time and stop dragging it out, lest everyone scold him. He might as well be ruthless and take the materials to the organization to confess. He would rather make a mistake and retire early than leave a bad reputation." Han Laogou said to Ma Dabo:
"Would you like to read to me what's written on it?"

Ma Dabo suddenly hardened his heart, tore the materials into pieces, stared at Han Laogou with courage and said:

"What do you mean, old dog Han? Are you trying to scare me? I'm telling you, I'm the director of a commune-run factory, a full-fledged commune cadre! You have no business being in charge, so stop worrying about things you shouldn't be worrying about!"

He wanted to tear up all the materials and then go to the commune to ask what was going on. Did Secretary Yin really want to deal with him even if it meant being punished?

Just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by Ma San'er at the front door with his arms crossed. Ma Dabo looked at Ma San'er's muscular body that was developed from burning and moving bricks, swallowed his saliva, and turned to Han Laogou and said:
"What on earth are you going to say!"

Han Laogou said to Ma Dabo slowly, holding a cigarette between his legs:
"Old Four, you are so impatient. I haven't finished talking yet. Secretary Yin was planning to do this, but Secretary Xiao Yang and Hu Saner happened to know about it. They specifically pleaded with Secretary Yin to suppress it and got the materials in their hands."

Ma Da was stunned and didn't understand what Han Laogou meant.

He was not familiar with Yang Limin, he only knew that he was the new secretary of the commune's Youth League Committee and the second secretary of the Zhongping Brigade. But could this kid Xie Hushan plead for him and suppress this matter?

Is this guy capable of doing human work?
Han Laogou finished his cigarette in a few puffs and extinguished the cigarette butt on the ground: "Secretary Yang and Hu Saner are considering the old Ma family. If this material is submitted, Secretary Yin will at most be given an internal disciplinary punishment, a second-line pension, or early retirement at best, but you will definitely have to stay in prison for a few years, am I right?"

Ma Dabo stared at Han Laogou without saying a word.

Han Laogou continued, "Hu San'er meant that family disgrace should not be made public. If you really go in, it will be bad for the Ma family. The recruitment of soldiers in rural areas is very strict now. If you go in, many of the Ma family's descendants will never be able to get out of the army again. So, we have to consider the feelings of the Ma family in this matter."

Ma Da felt a chill in his heart. No wonder Xie Hushan, that bastard, said that the brigade headquarters was cooler than his office!
It’s not just because of the fan!
After hearing what Han Laogou said, anyone would be terrified!
What does this mean? This is not asking for favors through the back door! This is clearly asking the Ma family to send me to death! No national law, no village rules, just family rules to kill me!
The selection of soldiers in rural areas is becoming more and more strict now. The main reason is that young people in rural areas know that becoming a soldier means having the opportunity to go out. Whether staying in the army or retiring, they are both stable jobs. Both are more promising than staying in the countryside to make a living. The more people sign up, the stricter the armed forces selection becomes. If the physical fitness and ordinary political review are consistent, the only factor that will be considered is family background.

If I hand in the document that I tore up and get arrested by the Public Security Bureau, it means that someone in the Ma family has been sent to prison for corruption, which will definitely affect the opportunities for the young people in the Ma family to join the army.

For the sake of his children and grandchildren, the old Ma family certainly does not want to go to jail. He hopes to die with a clean record before being caught!

This is why the three members of the Ma family were looking at him as if he were a dead person!
"Secretary Han! Second brother... this matter... I... my father back then..." Ma Dabo's legs began to tremble as he thought of this, and sweat began to pour out of his head:
"Uncle, I can't do this! I can't!"

"Old Four, we have a large family with many children and grandchildren. Many of them are waiting to join the army and leave this poor place this year. What do you think...if he is arrested because of you and no one is selected for the army, your father will not be happy down there. How can he expect his children and grandchildren to burn paper for him? His grave will be dug up by the Ma family's own children and grandchildren." Ma Youli, the oldest elder of the Ma family, spoke in a hoarse voice:
"You are the factory director. The Ma family doesn't rely on you for their fame, but you can't let our Ma family's children and grandchildren ruin their future because of you. Secretary Han also said that it should not be spread to anyone else. Only the few people in the Ma family who are present know about it. So you can leave with dignity. San'er, bring the medicine here."

Ma Saner took out a packet of rat poison from his pocket, walked towards his uncle from the front door, and wanted to hand the medicine to the old man.

Ma Daboo seized the opportunity and ran out of the front door, shouting as he ran: "You are breaking the law, Uncle Sanda! Let the police arrest me! Take me in! Let the state sentence me! I am guilty and I will turn myself in! I will turn myself in!"

As soon as I rushed out of the front door, I saw special envoy Lao Feng taking a cigarette from Xie Hushan in the dazzling sunlight.

Ma Dabo suddenly felt like he had grasped a glimmer of hope: "Lao Feng! Lao Feng, save me! I'll call the police!"

As long as Lao Feng is here, these people would never dare to kill him directly. Human life is a serious matter!
"Report it tomorrow. I'm off today. I'll go to Hu Saner's factory to see my wife later." Old Feng lit a cigarette and said with a smile to Ma Dabo.

Feng Chunlai's wife worked at Xie Hushan's steel mill? When did this happen?
Ma Da felt as if he was hit on the head, and he stood there in a daze.

I have been the director of the glass factory for so long, but I have never thought of bringing Lao Feng's wife to work in my factory to get a salary...

Ma Saner rushed out of the room, grabbed Ma Da's collar and walked inside, saying:
"Uncle Four, it's time to take medicine."

(End of this chapter)