The Era of Hard Work

These days, the speed of information transmission is relatively slow, unlike more than ten years later, as long as what happened just now is seen or photographed, people all over the country may see it within ten minutes.

In Lu's hot pot restaurant, there was a tall man wearing a white shirt and a red tie, who looked like an urban elite white-collar worker. He looked at Wei Juan, the person in charge, and said, "Why are you so ignorant? All good things go out the door. Push? A waste of people's good intentions, do you know how tired I am from running this trip?"

Wei Juan is an old employee of Lu's Catering. She has been trained by Lu Dong many times, and she is somewhat influenced by Lu Dong. She speaks neither humble nor overbearing: "On behalf of Lu's Hot Pot, thank you for your kindness, but our Lu's Hot Pot has sufficient funds and does not need a loan for the time being. .”

The tall man looked at the nearly 300-square-meter and well-decorated big store, and said in his heart that it is because you have some strength, can we take the initiative to come to lend money?

"Do you know that many people beg us to lend money, but we don't give it!" The tall man glanced at Wei Juan's store manager's badge, and said, "Don't be naughty, call your boss out quickly, if you have money, you won't take it, no clever!"

Wei Juan tried her best to deal with it: "I'm sorry, the boss is out, just tell me if you have something to say."

The tall man said again: "200,000 quota, half a year." He handed a document to Wei Juan: "Let your boss go to our company to handle it."

Wei Juan saw the name of the financial company on the information, but she didn't intend to accept it.

According to the statement here, the next thing you want is to get a loan.

Some things just don't make sense.

Those who can come here to stand alone are all mature people. Before coming to Pingcheng, the company specially trained and reminded Pingcheng of some special situations, such as financial companies everywhere, also known as usury.

Is there a financial company that will give loans for nothing? This is clearly a two hundred thousand usury! The simplest and most basic calculation is nine out of thirteen returns, how much is the interest alone?

The tall man loosened his red tie, and waited for the young men behind to take two steps forward, and stopped pretending: "You don't know what's good and what's wrong! Good intentions are like a donkey's liver and lungs! Believe it or not, this shop of yours won't survive!"

Wei Juan still smiled: "Our store is not short of funds for the time being, and we will go to you if we need it."

Of course she knew who came to cut the ribbon yesterday, so she was delaying as much as possible.

The store door opened from the outside at this time, and five or six men came in from the outside. The tall man looked back, and when he saw the man in the head, he smiled unconsciously.

Wei Yong came in and took a look, and he knew what was going on. After all, Weiqiao also had a financial company, but it was much more restrained, unlike some private companies that forced money out.

In this line of work, you must have winks, know who you can mess with in the local area, who you can't mess with, and who will be bad luck if you mess with them.

The tall man dared to play tricks with outside restaurants, but when he saw Wei Yong, he felt five points shorter: "Wei... Mr. Wei, good morning."

Wei Yong didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "This is the store opened by my brother." He pointed to Lu Dong and Du Xiaobing: "Remember them, my two brothers and their company, if this kind of thing happens again, I'll find you!"

The tall man looked at Lu Dong and Du Xiaobing, then at Wei Yong, then at Wei Juan, with a stiff smile on his face, thinking that outsiders don't behave properly, you know Mr. Wei, why don't you just say it?

But he couldn't reason, and he didn't dare to reason, so he hurriedly said, "Mr. Wei, don't worry, I'll take care of this!"

Wei Yong waved his hands, the tall man heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately took the man away.

Du Xiaobing glanced at Wei Yong, and then at Lu Dong.

It is no exaggeration to say that Lv Dong also has such prestige in Qingzhao County in the university city, but Lv Dong's behavior style is completely different from that of Wei Yong.

Probably different personalities bring different styles of doing things.

Wei Yong said: "It's a trivial matter, don't worry. These financial companies have gone too far in the past two years. They still know how to restrain themselves near the Weiqiao factory. They are a little crazy outside, and they will cause big troubles sooner or later."

Lu Dong smiled and said, "Brother Wei, please."

"I can't thank you for such a small matter." Wei Yong also had his own thoughts: "It's nothing to you without me."

That's what I said, and it's true. For example, some of Lu Chun's comrades changed jobs here, but Lu Dong still accepted the favor: "Brother Wei, if you go to Qingzhao someday, you must call me."

Wei Yong smiled: "I went to Qingzhao, if I don't look for you, brother Lu, who else can I look for?"

Lu Dong and Du Xiaobing went over and said a few words to Wei Juan. With Wei Yong here, there will be no more problems. The two will soon go out with Wei Yong and Mu Kun to eat Wei Ji's special donkey meat feast at noon. .

In every place, there are always some special foods, such as Lujia Village's stewed and boiled goods, which may become a selling point in the future.

If the county's plan comes to fruition, Lujia Village can make some tricks in this area. This item will be very attractive to the people of the country.

How do you say something? Man is undoubtedly the master of the earth, but he is also the slave of the stomach. Nothing can replace the happiness brought by food

Suddenly, Lu Dong thought of the salt-baked and charcoal-baked chili jars made by Uncle Qi, and the scorpions he put in the long tea box.

Has the whole insect feast got a head start?

After lunch, Lu Dong, Du Xiaobing and Mu Kun went back to Quannan together.

The three of them sat in the car, and the topic of conversation couldn't be separated from Wei Qiao, Wei Yong and his very powerful father.

Mu Kun said: "The Wei family's reorganization is not clean, but like my family and the old Du's family, there is no one who does these things these days. The Wei family and his son have various problems, but there is also a problem. Good thing, you have also seen Wei Yong, in fact, his father Wei Ping has a similar temper as him, and the father and son may be considered to be more loyal because of their backgrounds."

He smiled: "Of course, don't provoke them. If you provoke them, it will be very difficult. Even Guodian, they dare to stand up to it! To put it bluntly, they are already tied to the entire Pingcheng."

Mu Kun specifically said one thing. When the Wei family first started, there was a local person who helped them. This person was very unsatisfactory later, and the Wei family pushed him to the top position of the village in the city.

I don't say whether this is right or wrong, but from some aspects, it is more or less worthy of the word "loyalty".

Lu Dong said: "Wei Yong helped me and Lu's catering, I accept this favor."

Suddenly, Lu Dong thought of one thing, something that happened in the past.

In the summer of 2019, Lichma struck and floods ravaged the Qingzhao River. He returned to the original section of the Lujia Village to participate in flood fighting. He saw large bundles of woven bags printed with "Weiqiao Cotton Spinning". tens of thousands.

There are also tons of cinder bags brought over to block the opening, with the words "Weiqiao Thermal Power Plant" written on it.

People in this country have always been supportive when one side is in trouble.

Mu Kun followed Du Xiaobing to the university town, and Lu Dong went straight back to the village. The chief of the county government will come to inspect tomorrow, and he is called to be present.

Lu Dong had already found out that the coming of the county government leaders was closely related to the big plan he had drawn up.

After all, the most direct beneficiaries of any achievements and economic benefits created by Lujia Village are the leaders of the county.

At that time, Professor Fan will also accompany the county leaders.

Professor Fan not only presided over the excavation of the Luozhuang Han Tomb, but also built a museum on the Luozhuang Han Tomb and other unearthed cultural relics. He also officially accepted the appointment of Qingzhao County and became the chief expert consultant of Qingzhao County's folk history. .

This trip, Professor Fan followed, mainly to see the maintenance effect of the two old houses with the leader.

The summer tourist season is coming soon, even if the old buildings in Moquan Park and Li Qingzhao's hometown need to be repaired, it will have to wait until the end of the summer vacation.

In addition, the rainy season has already begun, and it is not suitable to start construction in this season, regardless of the gushing spring water or the Qingzhao River with its water level rising.

Therefore, it is more about planning and making plans.

Relevant plans have been approved by the higher authorities, and Qingzhao is also working on financial loans. After this summer, Qingzhao will inevitably start work.

Although the amount of investment is worth Qingzhao's fiscal revenue in the next two or three years, in the long run, it is worthwhile for a large agricultural county with a weak industrial foundation to have sustainable development.

Of course, any investment has risks and the possibility of failure. There is no such thing as a business that can make a profit without losing money.

When Lu Dong returned to the village, it was past school time. He entered the village from the north of the old village and came to Uncle Qi’s gate. He saw Nail squatting at the gate, playing with ants on the ground with a moth ball.

In the last two days, Uncle Seven asked Grandpa Fifth to do the hard work, and borrowed his skillful hands to make some final adjustments to the renovated old house together, without giving Lu Dong a drive.

Lu Dong stopped the car, took out a bag of cooked donkey meat from Wei Ji and gave it to Nail, and asked, "Where's your father? Isn't he at home?"

Nail's answer is also considered normal: "I just had a fight with my mother and went fishing in the river."

Lu Dong asked, "Didn't your parents stop fighting? And why?"

Nail scratched his head and said, "I don't quite understand, it seems that my dad doesn't talk to anyone."

Seven uncles and seven aunts used to fight on a daily basis, even using shovels and harpoons frequently. Lu Dong was not surprised, and took out a bag of donkey meat to Nail: "Later, sister Lanlan is after school, remember to give her .”

As soon as Nail heard this, he ran home: "Brother Dong, I'll hide my bag first, and Sister Lan Lan will steal what I eat."

Lu Dong knew Lu Lanlan's nature, and said, "If it's not enough, go to Nantou to find me."

"Understood!" Nail shouted at home.

Back home, Lu Dong specially collected a few bags and put them away. When he went to work another day, he would give them to Heidan and her parents to try something new.

After tidying up, I called Song Na again and told her that she came back from Pingcheng, but there is something important in the village tomorrow, so I won't go to work at the company.

It was still relatively early, so Lu Dong went to the village committee again. Tomorrow, the chief of the county government, that is, the county's second-in-command, will come to inspect. It is also a big event for Lujia Village, and some preparations must be done.

After dinner, Lu Zhenlin also specially called a meeting of personnel to determine the specific procedures for tomorrow, so as to avoid major mistakes.