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Chapter 793 Twists and turns

Ever since he learned about the little thoughts of these neighbors, Zhou Zhigang has become completely disheartened. At the same time, he also realized that this was not something they could worry about at all. He also knew that their Zhou family did not have such prestige at all. If they wanted to successfully transform the photon chip, it had to be led by their superiors.

Zhou Zhigang, who had figured everything out, no longer asked about his neighbors building houses, as if nothing had ever happened. He went to get off work from nine to five every day, and when he got home he happily spent time with his five precious grandchildren. Naturally, he lived a happy life.

Of course, such a big thing would be spread at the first time. There must be people talking behind the scenes about the Zhou father and son, saying that they were overestimating their abilities. There were also people who looked at the matter from other perspectives, and naturally had completely different opinions. And it just so happened that Hao Dongmei's father, who was in a high position of power, was among such people.

"Leader, I heard a very interesting thing recently. There is a family named Zhou in Photon Film. The father and son have been urging Photon Film to independently transform its living environment. It is said that they have also contacted a large company in Hong Kong for development, and promised that Photon Film will get 20 square meters of living area based on the population, regardless of whether they are adults or minors." Xiao Huang, Hao's father's secretary, walked straight to Hao's father's office and explained to Hao's father in concise language.

"Oh? Which company in Hong Kong is it specifically?" Mr. Hao, who was busy processing official documents, looked up at Secretary Huang in surprise. He was also surprised and stunned by such a thing. You know, it has only been seven or eight years since the new era began.

"Ningyuan Group, a company registered in Hong Kong in 1969, is currently mainly involved in real estate, high technology, shipping, international trade, and manufacturing. It is said that it is quite famous abroad."

"I seem to have heard that Ningyuan Electric Appliances is one of their products?" As the senior leader of Jiang Liao, he certainly knew a lot of information. The first thing he did was to look at Secretary Huang and ask, waiting for confirmation.

"Yes! It is incredible that such a large manufacturing company can be hatched from such a small place as Hong Kong. It is said that Ningyuan Group has factories in South America and Southeast Asia." Secretary Huang nodded with confirmation at this time. It was incredible that Hong Kong had such a large manufacturing company.

"Secretary Huang, how did the Zhou family father and son from Photon Film get in touch with the Ningyuan Group?" Mr. Hao had a certain understanding of the Zhou family because of Hao Dongmei, so he asked Secretary Huang another key question.

"Leader, there are eleven people in the Zhou family. Zhou Zhigang and Li Suhua are the first generation of the Zhou family. The second generation has three children, and two of them are college students from Peking University and one from Tsinghua University. Then there are the five children of the third son, Zhou Bingkun. In addition, the third son, Zhou Bingkun, is the most active. He used to be the head chef of our unit's guesthouse. In 1972, he took the initiative to contact and wanted to renovate the Photon Film, but was rejected by the neighbors of the Photon Film. Now, because the educated youth who went to the countryside have returned to the city, the Photon Film is once again facing serious housing pressure. The Zhou family father and son took the initiative to contact everyone to rebuild together. It seems that this Zhou Bingkun, while studying at Tsinghua University, also worked as an employee of the Huaxia District of the International Trading Company under the Ningyuan Group. So it was this Zhou Bingkun who contacted the Ningyuan Group."

"Well, after arranging all the residents of Photon Plate and installing elevators in every building, the Ningyuan Group won't make much money." At this time, Hao Dongmei's father calculated the accounts for the Ningyuan Group on his own and realized that the Ningyuan Group had no profit at all.

"Leader, I think Ningyuan Group may want to use the transformation of Photon Plate as a stepping stone, but it's a pity that the residents of Photon Plate are not very enthusiastic." Secretary Huang also expressed his own guess at this time. After all, these things are not too difficult to guess.

"That's normal! Everyone will think carefully before doing anything new."

At this moment, Father Hao had mixed feelings. He had not expected that the Zhou family, whom he least wanted to hear about, would be so prosperous. Not only did they have three students from a family studying at prestigious universities, but they were now even concerned about the slum renovation of Photon Film. So Father Hao had to secretly praise the enthusiastic Zhou father and son. Of course, he also knew clearly that this was a very rare and great thing. Father Hao could not help but want to take this opportunity to carry out a pilot project of some size.

To put it in a big way, this concerns the housing problem of more than a thousand households in Photon Film; to put it in a small way, compared with the whole Jichun, the whole Jiangliao, and even the whole of China, this is nothing at all, so the powerful father Hao decided in his heart to seize this opportunity, even if the pilot failed, it would not be a big deal.

Although Zhou Zhigang found it hard to accept this failure, his daily life continued as usual. After work, he would take care of his grandchildren at home, and sometimes he would accompany his two older grandchildren and granddaughter to buy snacks. Now the four of them have become regular customers of the Photon Film State-owned Store.

"Old Zhou, are you taking your grandchildren to buy snacks again?" The salesperson at the state-owned store looked at Zhou Zhigang and said with a smile.

"Yes! The child's mouth is already greedy. He can't bear to not come over one day." Zhou Zhigang rubbed his eldest grandson's head and scolded him with a smile.

"Haha, these five grandchildren in your family are absolutely amazing. The next generation will have at least five college students." After all, the Zhou family just had three college students from prestigious universities, so of course the neighbors picked out the good ones to compliment Zhou Zhigang.

"Haha, thanks to your good words. If one generation can't get up, the next generation will be stuck in the mud." Although he knew that these were compliments from his neighbors, Zhou Zhigang still agreed deeply with the issue of education.

"Old Zhou, what you said makes sense. No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education."

Zhou Zhigang turned around and went home with his three grandchildren who were happily eating snacks, but he did not notice that there was an elderly stranger couple not far away, who were looking at their backs with thoughtful expressions as they left, because they also agreed with what Zhou Zhigang said. You know, the most important thing in China is the education of the people.

"Leader, there happens to be a small store over here. I'll go over and ask for the Zhou family's address." There was a young man behind the old couple. He looked at the old man with a smile on his face and said.

"it is good."

"Old Hao, I didn't expect that ordinary families pay so much attention to education. Do you think this person is Zhou Zhigang?" This old couple is Hao Dongmei's parents. Hao's mother suddenly smiled and looked at Hao's father and asked.

"Huh? Could it be such a coincidence?"

Secretary Huang came to the store and asked the boss, "Comrade, where is Zhou Zhigang's home at Photon Film?"

"Zhou Zhigang? The man who just brought three children to buy snacks is Zhou Zhigang. You just need to walk along this road and when you see a beautiful Russian-style bungalow, that's his home." The salesperson looked at Secretary Huang in front of him with a surprised expression, and quickly pointed at Zhou Zhigang and his grandson who were leaving.

"Oh? Thank you, boss." Secretary Huang first looked at the backs of the four grandfather and grandson who were walking away in surprise, then looked at the salesperson in front of him and thanked him with a smile.

"You're welcome! It's nothing."

In fact, the elderly couple had already heard the conversation between the salesperson and Secretary Huang. They looked at each other in surprise, and saw the shock in each other's eyes. They didn't expect to meet the target person this time by such a coincidence. Then they took Secretary Huang and went straight to the Russian-style bungalow in front.

Zhou Zhigang looked at the three strangers in surprise, and asked with a bewildered look on his face, "Who are you looking for?"

"Master Zhou, we came here specifically to see you." Father Hao looked at Zhou Zhigang in front of him with a smile and explained.

"Ah? Who are you?" Li Suhua, who was teasing Zhou Zhi, looked up at the door and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. She was surprised to remember the identity of the person who came. "You, you are Hao."

"Haha, that's right! We are Hao Dongmei's parents. You can just call me Old Hao. This is Hao Dongmei's mother Jin Yueji. You can just call her Old Jin." Thinking of meeting Li Suhua in 1965, he didn't expect that Li Suhua would still remember him.

"Ah? How can that be?" Zhou Zhigang's heart tightened at this moment and he realized the identity of the person who came.

"Master Zhou, we are here as guests in a private capacity today, so don't mention our so-called official status." Seeing the family suddenly become restrained, Hao's father hurriedly explained with a smile.

"Huh? Dongmei's father, Dongmei's mother, please sit down!" Zhou Zhigang, who had seen a lot of things, was the first to react. He quickly greeted Mr. and Mrs. Hao with a smile, and then looked at Zheng Juan who was also stunned and said, "Zheng Juan, we have distinguished guests. Hurry and make tea for Uncle Hao and Aunt Hao."

"Okay." Zheng Juan quickly turned around with a smile and ran to cut the tea.

"By the way! Take out the tea I brought back from Chongqing." Zhou Zhigang then instructed his daughter-in-law again.

"Got it, Dad."

After Hao Dongmei's parents sat down in the Zhou family's living room, Zheng Juan had already brewed a pot of tea. At this time, Zhou Zhi just noticed Secretary Huang behind Hao's parents and asked, "Dongmei's father, who is this?"

"Haha, he is my secretary Xiao Huang." Father Hao looked at Zhou Zhigang and explained with a smile.

"Ah? Secretary Huang, you sit down too."

"Okay! Thank you, Master Zhou." Secretary Huang immediately sat down on a small stool.

"Well, Master Zhou, your tea is really good. It feels very comfortable in the mouth." At this time, Hao's father picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then he couldn't help but praise it.

"Haha, Dongmei's dad, as long as you like it, I'll give you two cans later." Zhou Zhigang couldn't help but smile in surprise.

"Haha, thank you very much, Master Zhou."

"Dongmei's dad, how come you have time to come and sit here today?" At this time, Zhou Zhigang also realized that Hao Dongmei's parents had something to do, and thought they wanted to talk about Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei.

"Master Zhou, I heard a few days ago that you wanted to organize everyone to transform the photon slice?" At this time, Father Hao looked straight at Zhou Zhigang and asked.

"Ah? Yes, that's true. You should have seen it along the way. Photon Island is full of haphazardly built small houses. There's a big pit in front of it, filled with the garbage dumped by Photon Island's neighbors. When the snow melts in the spring and it rains, Photon Island is covered in mud."

"Well, I've heard of it. I came to your photon film once in 1965. At that time, I wanted to put a lot of effort into transforming the photon film, but unfortunately later..." Father Hao also showed a regretful expression and shook his head.

"Dongmei's father, actually, when Zhou Bingkun was building the house in 1972, he thought of gathering everyone to rebuild the house together so that they could also repair the sewers and roads together. Unfortunately, no one was too happy about it at that time."

"Well, I heard that you also contacted a company in Hong Kong to develop it this time?" Then Hao's father looked at Zhou Zhigang again and asked.

"Yes! My youngest son, Zhou Bingkun, knows the leader of the Ningyuan Group in Hong Kong. The Ningyuan Group is very interested in our Northeast market, so they want to try a pilot project in Photon Slice."

"Oh! Actually, I quite support this kind of development, but there's never been a precedent for this in policy, and it might cause some unnecessary debate and trouble."

"Dongmei's father, from the beginning Bingkun and I wanted to mobilize everyone to apply jointly, so that there would be a possibility of obtaining approval from the street and higher authorities. It's just that it is too difficult to handle this matter. It is not something that we father and son can take the lead in." Zhou Zhigang agreed with what Hao's father said, and then explained his original plan.

"Yes! Although the matter is not too big, it affects the entire photon chip." Father Hao spoke of the impact involved with emotion.

"Haha, so we father and I have given up on this idea because we found it is simply unrealistic."

"Master Zhou, you and your son have very good intentions, so I also hope to see this happen."

"Ah? Dongmei's father, are you optimistic about this matter?" Zhou Zhigang couldn't help but look at Hao's father in front of him with surprise, and finally realized the purpose of Hao's father's visit this time.

"Yes! Because of policy issues, I have come up with a compromise solution. I want Jiangliao Sanjian and Hong Kong Ningyuan Group to set up a joint venture to run this business. Ningyuan Group can only hold 45% of the shares of this joint venture."

"This..." Zhou Zhigang was very surprised at this moment, because this was a ray of hope, but he didn't know the situation of Hong Kong Ningyuan Group. Then he looked at Hao's father with some embarrassment and explained, "Dad Dongmei, I can't say for sure about this matter. How about letting Bingkun contact you personally?"

"Alright!" Hao Dongmei's father knew that Zhou Zhigang was just a technical expert and that he just wanted to get to know Ningyuan Group through Zhou Zhigang and Suning. He then looked at Secretary Huang, who was half-sitting on a stool, and said, "Secretary Huang, leave Zhou Bingkun's phone number and contact him when you get back to the office."

"Yes! Leader."

(End of this chapter)