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Chapter 170: Thought Reform

When Lao Feng heard the screams of Ma Dabo from the brigade, he laughed:

"My goodness, even when Ma Da Nao's father died, he didn't cry so miserably. What is he going to eat if you threaten him with feeding him?"

"Cooked cornmeal mixed with saccharin to make small sugar pills. The children in Team 3 refused to eat the bitter pills prescribed by the barefoot doctor, so the Taoist priest came up with this to appease the children. Grind the pills into powder and mix them with the sugar. Give them to the children, and they won't be afraid of the bitter taste." Xie Hushan took out a few yellow pills that were not much bigger than rat droppings from his pocket and handed them to Lao Feng:

"Try it, it's delicious."

Lao Feng pinched one and looked at it for a while, then threw it into his mouth and chewed it into pieces, causing him to curl his lips due to the saccharin.

“This is too sweet.”

Xie Hushan put one into his mouth and chewed it:

"It has to be sweet. Children have very good tongues. If it's not sweet, they will immediately taste the bitterness of the pill and spit it out. Wouldn't that be a waste of the medicine?"

After Feng Chunlai had chewed it, he couldn't help but reach out to Xie Hushan:

"Don't mention it, this thing that the Taoist priest prepared is quite fragrant. Give me another one..."

As the two men were crunching fake rat poison, Ma Saner appeared at the team door and whistled softly to attract the attention of Xie Hushan and Lao Feng.

When the two men looked at him, Ma Saner tilted his head towards the room.

Xie Hushan took the cornmeal candy ball from Lao Feng and urged him:
"Stop eating, my Uncle Feng. It's your turn to take the stage as a commune cadre. When you go in, you must explain to him clearly that this is his only chance to help the commune make up for the huge loss of the commune's glass factory. I hope he will seize it firmly."

"If he cooperates well, our brigade can get a steel pipe factory for free. Secretary Yin of the commune will forgive him for his past mistakes and let him find a place to retire with his salary from the government. If he doesn't cooperate..."

"I don't need you to teach me." Feng Chunlai walked towards the headquarters of the Zhongping Brigade, looking back as he walked: "Leave some of that rat poison for me. I'll see my wife later and give her a few pills."

"It's worth it for Aunt Feng to live with you. Bring some rat poison back for her to try." Xie Hushan joked.

Feng Chunlai adjusted his facial expression to make himself look more serious and walked into the team headquarters. Ma San winked at Xie Hushan and closed the door of the team headquarters from the inside.

Xie Hushan looked at the door that closed again and said with a sigh:
"Ah, even if you have a good father, you still have to be a good person. Damn, if I had a father like this, I would have joined the army long ago. Who would stay in the countryside to beg for food with a golden bowl in hand?"

No one in Zhongping Brigade looks up to people like Ma Da Naotou because he has no brains. He is the lowest type of bad guy who is stingy and bad in an open way. He dares not be too bad because he does not have the courage of people like Xie Hushan. He just shows off in his small piece of land in Zhongping and covets some collective property.

Although Ma Da Nao has no special skills, he is lucky because he has a good father who threw himself on his comrades when they were liberating Yaoshan during the War of Liberation and saved the lives of three or four of them at the risk of being injured and disabled.

Especially among those three or four people, one of them was a company instructor.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fang became the first police chief of Bingyang County. Later, he was gradually transferred to the Public Security Department of Chahar Province to serve as the chief of the Public Security Section and the Commissioner of the Yaoshan District Administrative Office.

The most precious thing is that people have been thinking of the grace of Ma Da Nao's father for saving his life, and have helped to solve any difficulties. But Ma Da Nao is really not presentable, and he can't expect the other party to benefit three generations just because of the grace of saving his life. How can he withstand being unilaterally plundered...

That's why Xie Hushan lamented that if he had such a connection, there would be no point in hanging around in the commune.

As for Ma Da Nao Tou, even if he didn't collude with Li Xingyuan to set a trap for him, Xie Hushan would still deal with him, because this was the condition that Lao Yang put forward when he agreed to help him beg for food in the county.

If the steel rolling mill of Zhongping Brigade becomes profitable, Xie Hushan should consider helping Zhongping Commune to find a way to revive this mess of the glass factory. In order not to let Xie Hushan work in vain, the commune can run the steel rolling mill according to the specifications of the brigade, with Xie Hushan taking 10% of the profits, the commune taking 30%, and the rest used for the development of the glass factory.

Speaking of which, Zhongping Commune had long been unable to contain its anger at the glass factory. As soon as Ma Da Nao's father died, they wanted to close the factory and liquidate it. It was the Secretary Yin Qianfeng who always hoped to turn the losses into profits.

He didn't want to spend his whole life serving the people only to be left with such a stain, because if the company was really liquidated and closed down, all the money the commune had previously invested would be completely wasted.

That was the money earned by the hard work of more than 20,000 members of Zhongping Commune. If the matter was simply dismissed with a simple statement that the factory was liquidated due to poor management, Yin Qianfeng felt that he would not be able to sleep well after retirement. So Yang Limin mentioned to Yin Qianfeng that Xie Hushan might have encountered Ma Da Nao colluding with Li Xingyuan to help the poor in the countryside and trying to set him up, and Secretary Yin drooled on the spot.

Just when I was about to go to sleep, someone brought me a pillow and helped me contact the pipe manufacturing factory to solve the problem of equipment. Not only that, they also provided me with stable contract orders. When I needed a loan because I was short of money, I didn't even need the commune's guarantee. Would Director Li's wire drawing factory be willing to help guarantee the loan?

After listening to Yang Limin's description, Secretary Yin raised his own question:
"Xiao Yang, tell me the truth. Did Director Li give birth to a child for Hu Saner, or did Hu Saner give birth to a child for Director Li?"

"Since they are not a married couple who sleep in the same bed, this good thing will definitely not be given to Hu Saner!"

Compared with this factory director Li, Yang Liming was just a young county cadre who went to the countryside to help alleviate poverty. When he came, he brought nothing with him. He just helped run errands and make connections, and it took him a long time to set up a brick factory.

Look at Director Li. He is truly helping the poor in the countryside. His generosity is astonishing.

Yin Qianfeng felt that if Director Li looked down on Xie Hushan and the project was to be cancelled, he was ready to put on some red cheeks for himself and Yang Liming and go and offer himself to Director Li for sex.

Yang Limin reminded Yin Qianfeng to wipe his mouth:
"At the moment, we are still not sure whether it is related to Director Ma. If it is, according to Xie Hushan's idea, he will take advantage of the situation and leave the factory in Zhongping. If it is not related to Director Ma..."

"It must be!" Secretary Yin said to Yang Limin firmly:
"If Ma Da Nao says he didn't do it, then let Lao Feng do something to him. Son of a bitch, the glass factory has made me lose so much money these years! Even if it's none of his business, we have to spare him! I don't dare to bully Han Lao Gou, but I don't dare to vent my anger on Ma Da Nao who has lost his father?"

"I don't care. Anyway, since Director Li wants to pretend to be the God of Wealth, then no matter whether he is a fake or not, we in Zhongping must worship him as the real one. No matter what, we must empty his family's assets. Don't even think about taking a penny from our commune!"

"Xiao Yang, this opportunity will be gone forever. Where can we find a fool like Ma Da Nao to help our commune make back its investment? We must seize it firmly. My reputation after retirement depends on this opportunity."

This is why it now seems that Ma Da Nao has indeed thought about conspiring with Li Xingyuan to take over his team's steel rolling mill. Otherwise, if he had not thought about it, he would have to suffer twice.

Because according to the idea of ​​Secretary Yin, this old scheming bastard, even if Ma Da Nao was not involved, he could let Lao Feng, Han Lao Gou and others come forward to do ideological work on him, develop him into our spies, get close to Li Xingyuan, and take the initiative to seduce the other party into the trap.

About forty minutes later, Lao Feng came out of the brigade headquarters, fanning himself with a stack of notes in his left hand, and said to Xie Hushan:

"It's settled. Secretary Han and several of his relatives criticized him on behalf of my class. The transcript is kept by me at the commune. Secretary Han told Ma Da Nao that if he doesn't cooperate with the brigade and the commune's subsequent arrangements, the commune and the brigade will have sufficient reason and evidence to suspect that he committed suicide out of fear of punishment because the commune launched an investigation into his personal problems."

"It's Han Laogou and Uncle Feng who are the ones who scare people. People like you, Lao Zhang, have killed people before. When you scare people, your tone is completely different from that of young people like us who have never killed anyone." Xie Hushan took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Feng, flattering him:
"If I were to negotiate, Ma Da Nao would definitely still be fighting against the government... What do you think of me?"

Xie Hushan suddenly sniffed twice, took two steps to the side, and asked Lao Feng.

"I'm scared, but you still feel disgusted. Do you think I felt comfortable in there for more than half an hour?" Old Feng looked at Xie Hushan's expression and said unhappily:
"Also, let me reiterate that the commune is not helping you with Ma Da Nao's ideological work for nothing. Secretary Yin has given instructions..."

"Alright, alright, did I praise you just now?" Xie Hushan was about to light the cigarette for Lao Feng, but he put the lighter back in his pocket and said unhappily:
"It's just a pipe factory and a loan. What's the point of the commune? Why do they remind me every time they see me? It's like I owe the commune a debt! Are they afraid that I will default on the debt? Am I that kind of person?"

Feng Chunlai took out the lighter Xie Hushan had given him and lit the cigarette, then laughed:
"You sound like you've already admitted your mistake. Didn't we agree on 700 yuan per ton of scrap steel last time, and the commune would take 200 yuan? Your master, Lao Zhang, even thought about what car to change to, and he bragged about it to everyone he met in the commune for three days. What's the result?"

"Old Zhang used to visit any office he wanted to visit, but now you, his apprentice, have cured him of this habit. He stays in his room like a grown-up girl every day, and only speaks louder to the lady in the cafeteria."

Xie Hushan laughed: "Did I add two cars to the commune?"

Feng Chunlai turned his head away:
"Forget it. The commune assigned me a third-hand, shabby Changjiang scooter. The remaining tricycle was used by the cafeteria lady to load vegetables. Otherwise, how could your master dare to speak so loudly to the cafeteria lady?"

"Because the lady in the cafeteria thanked him from the bottom of her heart. She didn't expect that after working in the cafeteria for so many years, the commune would still want to provide her with a special car."

Han Laogou came out, fiddling with his pipe in his hand, and stood at the entrance of the team office to greet Xie Hushan:
"Hu San'er, don't delay Special Envoy Feng's work. Come in first and talk to your Uncle Ma about Factory Director Li's poverty alleviation. He needs to know how to cooperate."

"How can we cooperate if someone with this brain can be the factory director?" Xie Hushan walked towards the team headquarters speechlessly, muttering:

"Let him remember one thing: how he used to rob our commune is how he will rob the other party next time."

(End of this chapter)