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Chapter 188: Ma Laowu is courteous for no reason

Xie Hushan drove away with the young man who had pushed Lu Yuan's uncle and made him stagger, leaving him to whimper in the back. He drove out of Yaoshan city and looked around, seeing that there was no village in front and no shop behind. It was more than 20 miles away from both Bingyang and Yaoshan. Only then did he untie the man and throw him halfway on the road.

Seeing the young man moving his hands and feet with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, looking at him sideways, Xie Hushan waved his hand:
"Get lost now. First, stay away from the girl. She's already taken. Second, go back and apologize to my third brother. If I don't hear him mention this next time I see him, I won't leave you here."

"Fuck you..." The young man lowered his head before he finished cursing and didn't dare to say anything more, because when Xie Hushan tied the belt back around his waist, he lifted up his clothes, and the young man saw the Type 54 pistol stuck on his waist at a glance.

Xie Hushan fastened his pants and stared at the other person with a half-smile: "Still fucking?"

The young man walked a few steps away, lowered his head and dared not speak again. The man who beat him was too fierce. He did not want to confront such a man head on. Who knew if he would shoot him just because he scolded him? In this place where there was no one around, he could just kill himself and throw him into an inconspicuous ditch nearby. It might not be discovered for three to five days.

Seeing that the other party didn't say anything, Xie Hushan opened the car door and got in: "You are lucky, today is my buddy's wedding day, I am waiting to go back and mess with the newlyweds, otherwise I would definitely mess with you today. It's more than 20 miles away, go back by yourself, I will teach you a lesson, if you don't accept it, come to Zhongping to find me."

After saying this, Xie Hushan left the other person there pretending to be mute and drove back to Bingyang.

He really didn't take beating up a little gangster seriously, and didn't even mention the incident to Yang Liming when he got back.

The person was not beaten to death and there were no external injuries. Even if the other party was shameless enough to report the case to the public security bureau, and I asked Lu Yuan's uncle to help testify, he would be criticized. I was considered to be acting bravely and had no grudges against him. The police would not believe who would come all the way from Bingyang to Yaoshan to beat someone up.

Lao Yang and Lu Yuan don’t have a wedding house, and neither of them is eligible for a separate house. Right now they live in the same house with Lao Yang’s parents. However, Lao Yang’s parents go to stay at relatives’ homes at night, leaving the space for their son and daughter-in-law to use as their bridal chamber.

Worried that Xie Hushan and his people would not let the young couple have peace, Lao Yang's two uncles stood downstairs with their arms folded, helping their nephew to watch the door.

Not long after Yang Liming's wedding, several roads of the brigade had just been paved with ballasted under the urging of Han Laogou. Zhang Cheng, Ge Baosheng, Ma Laowu, Lao Pang, the director of the commune's agricultural machinery station, and others returned with the newly purchased machines for the Zhongping Brigade.

The whole brigade was excited and ran to the commune's agricultural machinery station where the new agricultural machinery was parked to see the excitement. They were happier than if they had added new equipment to their own homes.

Although crawler tractors, threshers and the like are not rare things in rural areas and people deal with them every year, for the members, the ones they dealt with in previous years were all agricultural machinery from the Zhongping Commune Agricultural Machinery Station. The ones parked here now are all the property of the Zhongping Brigade, and they feel different when they touch them.

Han Laogou, such a stubborn and introverted old fellow, couldn't help but tremble at the corners of his mouth when he touched the heads of the two crawler tractors.

With these things, sowing and harvesting 5,000 acres of land is nothing.

"One should never forget the person who dug the well when drinking water. Zhongping will always be grateful to Director Li..." A production team leader was sitting on the tractor seat, touching the steering wheel, and spoke the truth in excitement.

Han Laogou immediately calmed down and glared at the production team leader who had just spoken out of turn: "Why should I thank him? What does it have to do with him! This is all the wealth that everyone in the Zhongping Brigade has accumulated through hard work from dawn to dusk!"

In fact, what the production team leader said was not wrong. The bulk of the money that Zhongping Brigade used to buy agricultural machinery came from the loan that Li Xingyuan helped Zhongping borrow.

The loan was not used at all on the pipe manufacturing plant. The existing equipment in the pipe manufacturing plant were all second-hand equipment that Li Xingyuan had helped to contact and purchase. Xie Hushan never paid the other party. The other party sent the second-hand equipment first for Li Xingyuan's sake. Li Xingyuan also felt that not paying was a good opportunity to make trouble. If he didn't pay, he would quote a much higher price for the second-hand equipment. An old set of pipe manufacturing equipment cost more than 20,000 yuan. Since he would not pay in cash, he would write an IOU and let Xie Hushan admit that the equipment was worth 35,000 yuan.

Li Xingyuan had a good idea. After Xie Hushan went in, Ma Da Nao would take over, and the pipe factory would have to pay for this account in the end.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the greed of the people in Zhongping. As long as they didn't have to pay cash and wrote an IOU, they would dare to sign even if the value was falsely reported as 100,000 yuan.

Anyway, after the equipment entered Zhongping Village, not a penny of the equipment payment was given, and not a penny of the loan money was repaid.

If the creditors are capable, they can raze Zhongping Village to the ground, kill everyone there, and take away the equipment.

Zhongping Brigade refused to acknowledge the IOU written by Xie Hushan. Zhongping Brigade had already given the money for purchasing the equipment to Xie Hushan. It was Xie Hushan who owed the money. If you have the guts, go and ask Xie Hushan, who has been arrested, for the money.

It is said that during the period when Xie Hushan was arrested, the brigade cadres headed by Han Laogou went to Xie's home every day to persuade Xie's family to do ideological work on Xie Hushan, hoping that Xie's family would visit Xie Hushan and persuade him not to have any mental burden and to bravely stand up and admit that he had misappropriated the loan.

In this way, the county shot Xie Hushan, and the brigade no longer had to repay its loan.

He also said that as long as Xie Hushan was shot, the Zhongping Brigade would give the Xie family the title of "Family of Honor".

No one was sure whether Xie Hushan had received the news, but what everyone was sure of was that the creditors all knew Zhongping's attitude:

The Zhongping Brigade hoped to use the death of Xie Hushan as a way to wipe out the loan and equipment money.

How can such a good thing happen? How can a human life be worth so much money?
The bank simply didn't know where Xie Hushan was being held by the railway, otherwise they would have sent several bodyguards to protect Xie Hushan.

Xie Hushan could not die, and the Zhongping Brigade did not dare to offend him. The matter was reported to the county. Finally, the creditors felt that if they could not afford to offend the unruly commoners, they could afford to offend a worker cadre like Li Xingyuan?

In addition, with Yang Liming's instigation and a series of shady tricks, the county pipe factory, which had just been established, went bankrupt. Or rather, it could not be said to have gone bankrupt, but it could only be said to have become a processing workshop of the original unit and had lost its autonomy.

As for Li Xingyuan, a lot of problems were found out about him, so Bingyang Steel sent him to a subordinate smelting plant in Xuanhua Prefecture. It is estimated that he will have no chance to come back before retirement.

It can be said that it was Li Xingyuan’s sacrifice that made the Zhongping Brigade prosperous today.

That's why the production team leader wanted to thank Li Xingyuan when he saw these agricultural machinery.

Two crawler tractors are the most sought-after machines in rural areas. With them, a production team can move mountains and fill the sea on its own land. A shovel in the front can be used for pushing earth, and a plow in the back can be used for reclaiming wasteland.

And the most important thing is the brand, Dongfanghong.

Farmers all over the country recognize this brand. As long as there is a slight chance to buy Dongfanghong, they will not even look at any other brand.

Five Yellow River brand four-wheel tractors, which were a bit mediocre, not a strong enough brand, and of average quality, but cheaper than Dongfanghong, and five were brought back at once, winning by quantity. Two Jiamusi Changzheng brand threshers, machines made by the big brother in Northeast China, have been tested in the Great Northern Wilderness for a long time, and like the Siping combine harvester, are a well-known brand in Northeast China and North China.

The rest are some supporting agricultural machinery that can only work with the traction of tractors, such as rotary tillers, small harvesters, seeders, etc.

The importance that Zhongping Brigade attached to these agricultural machinery could be seen from the fact that Han Laogou instructed Ge Baosheng to withdraw all the militiamen from the pipe factory back to the commune agricultural machinery station.

This should have been a happy occasion, but some discordant incidents occurred.

That is, the commune secretary Yin Qianfeng and the brigade secretary Han Laogou had a quarrel. It was a real quarrel, not a fake quarrel to fool the county about the previous loan matter.

Yin Qianfeng pointed at Han Laogou and cursed him, but Han Laogou, with a cigarette in his mouth, refused to give in and did not give Secretary Yin a way out. In the end, Secretary Yin created a way out for himself, saying that he was so angry that he had a heart attack and went to the commune clinic.

The two quarreled because of the agricultural machinery they brought back. Han Laogou found Yin Qianfeng and implied that now that Zhongping Brigade was so wealthy, they could apply to set up an agricultural machinery station on their own. The commune could help report to the county and it would definitely be approved.

Yin Qianfeng was quite happy after hearing this. Old Han finally figured it out and started thinking like a human being.

He thought Han Laogou and he had the same idea. There were two benefits to applying to set up an agricultural machinery workstation. First, it would let the county know that the unruly people in Zhongping Brigade did not really spend the county bank's loans recklessly, but spent them wisely. By being able to get so many agricultural machinery, the county leaders would understand that Zhongping Brigade would definitely have the ability to repay the loan in the end and would not be able to default on it. In the future, they would definitely be able to support Zhongping as they did in the past.

Second, establish an agricultural machinery management station. Even if it is the most grassroots station, it will have a staff, which makes it convenient for county leaders to insert a few people from the agricultural machinery system into the station. Which leader doesn't have a few people waiting to get a job through the back door? At this time, the Zhongping Brigade helped the county leaders to create conditions, which just happened to ease the atmosphere when they pretended to be troublesome people before, and let the county leaders see clearly that the Zhongping Brigade will not only be troublesome people, but also be human beings.

He had a beautiful idea, but Han Laogou thought differently. What Han Laogou meant was that the Zhongping Brigade Agricultural Machinery Station was established because the team had so many new agricultural machinery at once, and they needed someone to take care of and repair them. After all, agricultural machinery is not only used during the busy farming season, but someone also has to drive them out to make money at other times, and they have to be repaired every day. This means that the brigade has to arrange a group of special people to be responsible for the agricultural machinery every day and they cannot participate in daily labor.

If the county approves the establishment of an agricultural machinery station, these people will be considered to be eating public food and will be paid by the state.

Moreover, they never considered letting the county leaders decide on the candidates for the workstation. After hearing Yin Qianfeng's words, Han Laogou was very dissatisfied. The agricultural machinery station of Zhongping Brigade must be decided by Zhongping Brigade itself. What does the inability of county young people to find jobs have to do with Zhongping.

This almost made Yin Qianfeng faint from anger. How shameless must the brigade secretary be to say such shameless words? He wanted to set up the sign of the agricultural machinery system, but did not want the county to arrange candidates. He just wanted to arrange people himself to work in the agricultural machinery station and receive the state salary?

The county leaders are not stupid, can you guys in Zhongping take all the good things? Even if you dig into the corners of socialism, you guys in Zhongping Brigade are not digging like this. You can do it or not, you can fleece the state like this, and you still expect the commune to help you. No way.

So the two of them started arguing.

Yang Liming, who was still busy at the offset printing factory printing the beauty calendars, helped to come up with an idea after learning about this. The station director of the commune's agricultural machinery station, Pang Xinmin, was old, so he retired and returned to the brigade to manage the newly established agricultural machinery workstation. The four maintenance technicians at the workstation asked the county to arrange for people from the agricultural machinery department to be stationed at the station. In this way, the workstation leader Pang Xinmin was a native of the Zhongping Brigade and an agricultural machinery cadre recognized by the county, and both parties were satisfied.

At the same time, it will allow the county to solve the employment problems of four agricultural machinery departments. In addition, the position of the director of the commune's agricultural machinery station will be vacant, which will also allow the county to solve the salary problem of another cadre.

Whenever Xie Hushan recalled it later, he felt that Yang Liming must have guessed at that time that he wanted to go out and have fun, and the damn guy took advantage of this incident to make another move on the chessboard.

Because the newly appointed director of the Agricultural Machinery Station of Zhongping Commune is Xie Hushan’s uncle, Kou Donghan, the former deputy director of the Agricultural Machinery Station of Tatuo Commune.

However, he was still unaware of it at that time. He had no time to participate in the whole thing. He was busy trying to figure out what caliber of shells was hidden under the sugar coating that Ma Laowu gave him.

Ma Laowu helped him to obtain a piece of residential land from the brigade, and the brigade agreed.

This is very abnormal.

In theory, since Xie Hushan is already an adult and is going to get married next year, he can indeed be approved for a residential plot.

In the past two years, my family had no money and could not afford to build a house even if we approved it, so we only thought about rebuilding the house. Now that we have money, it is time to consider applying for a residential plot.

But in this matter, usually the person himself would report to the production team, and then the production team would report to the brigade. As a result, when it came to Xie Hushan, before he even thought of filing a report to approve the homestead, Ma Laowu approved it for him.

And the size approved is the maximum, 16*16.

The location was well chosen, right next to the Xie family's private plot of more than seven mu. Building houses in rural areas is not so strict now, which means that as long as Xie Hushan is willing, he can enclose the private plot of more than seven mu and use it as his own yard.

When Ma Laowu delivered the housing site procedures to Xie Hushan and took the shocked Xie family to see the place, even the bluestones for the foundation had been prepared and piled on the housing site.

"What's going on? Are you really planning to default on your debt and kill me and give me a grand burial?" Xie Hushan looked at Ma Laowu with a puzzled look.

Only the families of martyrs and the five-guarantee households could enjoy the treatment of helping the production team prepare building materials for building a house. Given Xie Hushan's family situation, it would be impossible for him to get the chance.

The aunt supported the grandmother, and the two of them were so happy looking at the homestead that they couldn't stop smiling. If this place was built, it would be so spacious, and the children could roll around and play in the yard.

She and her grandmother couldn't help but imagine the scene of sitting in this yard and watching the children born to Xie Hushan and Taozi running around the yard.

Taozi was looking over and over the homestead land certificate. Although Xie Hushan's name was on it, it clearly stated that there were (two) people in the household, and she was one of them.

This is her future home.

"Don't talk nonsense. The team... is taking care of you. Everyone in our three teams has agreed to allocate this land to you as a residential land. See if you are satisfied. I bought these stones with everyone's consent. Everyone says that Hu Saner has been busy in the past two years, doing side jobs to generate income for everyone, and also allowing everyone to buy cheap meals at the steel mill. This is everyone's kindness." Ma Laowu explained with a smile when he heard Xie Hushan deliberately talking nonsense with his hands behind his back.

Xie Hushan stared at Ma Laowu and asked pointedly, "You must have been holding back your fart. Let's get down to business."

(End of this chapter)