Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 393 The Grassroots

"Do you think that now that I've been transferred to the county town, I can't do anything to you? Believe it or not, I will go back to the village and tell the villagers about your dirty thoughts, and then let the villagers vote to remove you as the branch secretary!"

Not long after, Xu Guangfu pulled Sun Maocai aside, then with a sullen face, he questioned him angrily.

"you dare!"

When Sun Maocai heard this, he was shocked, and then he retorted in a somewhat timid manner.

"Humph!"

Seeing Sun Maocai like this, Xu Guangfu snorted coldly, and then said with some disdain: "Why shouldn't I be afraid? Have you forgotten how I chopped off that little devil's head one by one?"

As soon as these words came out, a trace of fear instantly emerged on Sun Maocai's face, and then he took a step back unconsciously, swallowed his saliva, and then forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, and said: "Well, Brother Guangfu, I admit that I didn't think it through, but I was thinking that if the workers in the apiary can dig back the beehives from the mountains, we won't have to rely on Qiangzi in the future!"

"I bother!"

When Xu Guangfu heard Sun Maocai's explanation, he couldn't help but spit, and then cursed with contempt: "Is that what you did? You did it purely to curry favor with Zheng Kaitao!
You are already in your forties, yet you still do such shameless things. If you don’t know, you would think you are someone’s dog!”

"you"

When Sun Maocai heard Xu Guangfu calling him a dog, his eyes widened, and he shouted angrily, "Don't go too far. I have already admitted my mistake. What else do you want?
Don't think that you can boss me around just because you're the deputy director. If it weren't for your Xu family's luck in taking in Qiangzi, would you be so successful now?"

"Yup!"

After hearing this, Xu Guangfu immediately nodded with a look of pride instead of shame, and said, "Our Xu family is just lucky. It's your Sun family's fault that they don't have that kind of luck!"

After these words were spoken, Sun Maocai was so angry that he was speechless. He could only stare at Xu Guangfu with his eyes wide open, angrily, as if he wanted to fight with Xu Guangfu.

Fortunately, he had not completely lost his mind and knew that he was far from being a match for Xu Guangfu, so he did not do anything so presumptuous and self-humiliating.

When Xu Guangfu saw this, he rolled his eyes in disappointment.

Originally, he was planning to wait for Sun Maocai to attack him and then teach Sun Maocai a lesson!
As a result, he didn't expect that Sun Maocai was still as cowardly as before.

After a while, Sun Maocai gradually calmed down, and then took the initiative to speak softly: "Brother Guangfu, now the matter has already happened. No matter how angry you are, it will not help. You might as well think about how to deal with this matter first."

"deal with?"

Xu Guangfu raised his eyebrows, then asked in a deep voice: "Then how do you think this matter should be handled?"

"this."

Sun Maocai heard this and hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. Given Guifang's condition, she will be unable to work for at least three months.

So in my opinion, we should give her three months of work-related injury leave, and then after she has recovered, she can go back to work at the No. 1 Bee Farm.

In addition, during these three months, Yuping was asked to help serve as the acting director of the First Bee Farm.

As for Guifang's medical expenses and nutrition expenses, they will be borne by the brigade."

After saying this, a questioning look appeared on his face, as if he was waiting for Xu Guangfu to give orders, completely forgetting that Xu Guangfu was no longer the captain of Jinshan Fort.

When Xu Guangfu saw Sun Maocai like this, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

After all, the position of captain of Jinshan Fort is still in the hands of the Xu family.

As the patriarch of the clan, he can naturally make decisions on behalf of Xu Yuliang.

However, after thinking carefully, he shook his head and said, "No, the medical expenses and nutrition expenses cannot be paid by the brigade. After all, this is the apiary's business and can only be the responsibility of the apiary.

Besides, you said you were going into the mountains to help Zheng Kaitao dig a beehive. Now that something has happened, he has to show some appreciation."

What this meant was that Sun Maocai should ask Zheng Kaitao to reimburse his medical and nutrition expenses.

When Sun Maocai heard this, a look of embarrassment instantly appeared on his face.

You know, it was he who took the initiative to propose going into the mountains to dig beehives. Now not only did he fail to fulfill his original promise, but such an incident also occurred. How could he have the nerve to ask Zheng Kaitao for money?

What's more important is that once he did this, it would be tantamount to offending Zheng Kaitao, and he would never be able to follow Zheng Kaitao's path and achieve his goal of surpassing Xu Guangfu.

"What?"

When Xu Guangfu saw Sun Maocai like this, he couldn't help but ask with some amusement: "Do you really want to be a dog for others?"

"Go! Go! Go!"

Sun Maocai's face darkened when he heard this, and he said angrily, "You are the one who wants to be a dog!"

"Ah!"

Xu Guangfu didn't get angry after hearing this. He just sneered and said sarcastically, "Don't be so confident. If you have the guts, go and ask for the money back!"

"you"

When Sun Maocai heard what Xu Guangfu said, he was instantly speechless.

Yes!

No matter how much he said, he couldn't explain why he didn't ask Zheng Kaitao for medical expenses and nutrition expenses?
Just when he was thinking about whether he should pay for it himself, he heard Xu Guangfu's voice with a hint of disgust.

"Hey Maocai! You've been my partner for such a long time, how come you can't see that Zheng Kaitao will be gone soon!
You're still thinking that someone can help you get promoted to the county seat, I think you're really out of your mind."

"cut!"

Sun Maocai was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he said with some disapproval: "Do you really think I'm a three-year-old child? I have the city leaders backing me up, how could I leave so easily?

If you ask me, even if you leave, they won’t leave. "

"is it?"

Xu Guangfu raised his lips, and then asked with some amusement: "Then tell me, if he is so capable, why did he come to our team to ask Qiangzi for help?"

"This"

When Sun Maocai heard this question, he frowned slightly, then opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute for a moment.

In fact, he also knew that the biggest problem Zheng Kaitao was facing now was that the county-run apiary had not been able to be run smoothly.

Otherwise, he would not have thought of asking Ma Guifang and others to go into the mountains to help Zheng Kaitao dig beehives in exchange for Zheng Kaitao's strong support. Now, after Ma Guifang's incident, it is impossible to ask the workers of the bee farm to go into the mountains to dig beehives, so Zheng Kaitao can only bear the consequences of mission failure.

It is hard to say whether Zheng Kaitao can bear the consequences.

After all, even if it was an ancient emperor, if he wanted to protect a minister who had made a mistake, it was not something he could do just like that.

What's more, the person standing behind Zheng Kaitao is not the top leader of the city, but just a deputy.

Thinking of this, Sun Maocai suddenly had an idea in his mind, and then he quickly asked, "Did you hear any news?"

"Ah!"

Xu Guangfu was slightly happy to see that Sun Maocai finally reacted, and then he laughed and asked, "What do you think?"

Hearing this, Sun Maocai couldn't help rolling his eyes, then turned around and walked out of the hospital without saying a word, obviously afraid that Zheng Kaitao would run away.

When Xu Guangfu saw Sun Maocai's actions, he couldn't help but shook his head with some disgust.

In his opinion, Sun Maocai's biggest shortcoming is that his stance is not firm enough. In other words, he is a typical fence-sitter who will stand on whichever side has the advantage without hesitation.

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Just like now, he just leaked a little bit of information to Sun Maocai, and Sun Maocai wanted to go to Zheng Kaitao to ask for medical expenses and nutrition expenses without hesitation, without any previous concerns.

In fact, there is no need to worry about Zheng Kaitao now.

Because, just this morning, the county leaders held a meeting and decided to let him replace Zheng Kaitao as the head of the Agriculture Bureau, and Zheng Kaitao was demoted from acting director to deputy director, and even lost his position as director of the county-run bee farm.

In this way, even if the county-run apiary can be successfully established, Zheng Kaitao will not be able to get the biggest piece of the pie. At most, he can get some credit to make his resume look better.

This is also the concession and compromise made by the county leaders considering the city leaders behind Zheng Kaitao.

Otherwise, considering Zheng Kaitao's high expectations but poor skills and lack of achievements at work, it would be a great mercy not to transfer him to a poor government office to sit on the bench.

But then again, Xu Guangfu was not so happy to see this result.

After all, when giving him the appointment, Qian Weiguo told him that he must find a way to build the county-run apiary to a certain scale before winter, otherwise he would have to return to where he came from.

Although he was not the kind of person who was greedy for power, and he was already so old, he had no intention of further promotion.

But he is not a lonely man and he has to consider his own children.

If he can really complete the task and secure the position of director, then the children in their family will be able to truly achieve a class leap from being a peasant.

Moreover, in his opinion, Li Guoqiang is his son-in-law. Even if Li Guoqiang is unwilling to help Zheng Kaitao, he can't just watch his father-in-law being dismissed, right?

While he was thinking about how to write a letter to ask Li Guoqiang to come back and help him expand the scale of the county-run bee farm, on the other side, Sun Maocai successfully found Zheng Kaitao's office. Then, looking at the deputy director's nameplate on the door, a look of assurance emerged in his eyes.

Then he hurried forward and knocked on the door.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Who?"

At this time, Zheng Kaitao, who was sitting in the office, smoking with a gloomy face, heard a knock on the door and couldn't help but yelled loudly.

No matter how he thought about it, he never expected that Qian Weiguo and other county party committee leaders would be so anxious to replace him.

Originally, he thought that with his brother-in-law's face, he could at least postpone the matter of the county-run apiary until winter!

And now there is still more than a month before winter comes. Such a long time is enough for him to think of a way to shirk responsibility and find a scapegoat.

Little did they know that if it were other matters, perhaps Qian Weiguo and others would not bother with him so much for the sake of his brother-in-law, but the county-run apiary was related to the future of them, the county party committee leaders.

As the saying goes, blocking someone's financial path is like killing their parents, and blocking someone's future is even worse!
Therefore, it is already very good that he can get the position of deputy director now.

If he really meets some tough guys, he will definitely use him as a bargaining chip to please Li Guoqiang.

By then, he might be able to realize that sometimes having a background is not omnipotent.

Even if you have a background, if you meet a talented person like Li Guoqiang, you have to stand aside.

"It's me! Sun Maocai from Jinshanbao!"

Soon, Sun Maocai introduced himself and walked in, then pushed open the door.

"It's you?"

When Zheng Kaitao saw Sun Maocai coming in, his brows furrowed suddenly, and then he said with dissatisfaction, "What are you doing here?"

"that."

Sun Maocai looked at Zheng Kaitao's dark face, his heart tightened slightly, then he forced a smile and said, "Director Zheng, I have something to report to you.

Didn’t I follow your instructions and ask the workers from our Jinshanbao Bee Farm to go into the mountains to help you dig out beehives? We just happened to find a beehive today, but one of the workers accidentally broke his leg while digging, and he’s still in the hospital now!”

"What?"

When Zheng Kaitao heard what Sun Maocai said, before Sun Maocai finished speaking, he interrupted with a gloomy face and said, "From what you said, do you still want me to be responsible for this?

Don't forget, it was you who took the initiative to ask those workers to go into the mountains to dig beehives!"

"That's right!"

Sun Maocai was slightly stunned, then nodded quickly and said, "I was the one who took the initiative to suggest this to you, but how could I dare to do this if you didn't nod?
Now the villagers all know that this was ordered by you. If you don't show any reaction, I'm worried that it will affect your reputation!"

Having said that, he looked at Zheng Kaitao sincerely, as if he was really considering Zheng Kaitao.

"you"

Zheng Kaitao heard the threat in Sun Maocai's words and was instantly furious. He wanted to slap Sun Maocai on the spot.

However, he also knew that he had just been demoted, and if any unfavorable rumors were heard again, he would not be able to make a comeback in the short term.

Therefore, he could only suppress the anger in his heart, and then asked word by word: "Then how do you want me to express it?"

(End of this chapter)