Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 179 Get lost! You rascal!

Noon is a lively meal.

The two square tables in the house were put together, so that a large table of people could sit down.

At the dinner table, Huang Jiaying was able to talk to the Cao family very freely, and she even took the initiative to take charge of the autumn decoration of the new house at home.

Comrade Lao Cao was still a little hesitant. "You are so busy and have a factory to manage. We can do it."

Huang Jiaying was generous. "Dad, it's okay. I'm not busy. The main thing about the factory is that Kun has laid a good foundation. I'm just helping him take care of things. With a little help from me, everyone knows he's watching over them, so they'll all be very honest. I'll do the pretending when I'm free!"

Just as she devalued herself, she looked at Cao Yukun and said, "It just so happens that we have two yards to clean up. It's worth finding a team to do the work. What do you think, old official?"

Cao Yukun nodded, of course, "Okay."

So the family didn't say anything else.

After finishing the meal, the eldest aunt quietly pulled Cao Yukun aside and held his big hand, "Son, these two girls are really good, you have to take good care of them and don't make them angry. You don't even have a marriage certificate, and you can't stop them from running away, do you understand? When they are about to quarrel, you should hide a little, it's better not to know or ask, but you must never take sides with one! If you marry two wives, you must know this, do you understand?"

Cao Yukun laughed in silence, but still nodded and agreed.

This is probably the experience accumulated over the years in the countryside - although the number of those who dare and have the ability to marry two wives is not that many, it does not mean that everyone has not seen or understood it.

After the eldest aunt and her husband left, Cao Yukun was about to take Huang Jiaying and Xie Xiaoyu away, but was stopped by his mother. He did not avoid the two brides, but just said: "Your father has something to tell you."

So Cao Weiguo held it in for a long time, then slowly spoke, "Your aunt and uncle want to open a restaurant at the intersection, and they want me to ask you if you can do it."

"what?"

Cao Yukun was stunned for a second before coming to his senses, "Borrow money?"

Comrade Lao Cao was silent at first, then he paused and said, "It's not just to borrow money. They just want to open a small restaurant. They don't need much money. They mainly want to ask you... can you make it on your own?"

Oh oh oh...Cao Yukun understood.

The so-called crossroads is a local name in the countryside. It refers to the crossroads where the north-south road leading to Huguan Township from the old city of Dafuping County intersects with the national highway passing through the south of the old city.

Ten years ago, that area was entirely farmland, but now, ten years later, not only have many new factories been built on both sides of the national highway, but along both sides of the national highway, especially within a one-mile range extending from the intersection to the east, west, south and north, there are restaurants and hotels everywhere, and it has become a bustling business place.

The so-called crossroads is now recognized as the core of the new city.

If you want to open a restaurant there, you can really make money if you have good skills, but if you don't, you won't be able to survive under such fierce competition - but obviously, my uncle-in-law is a good cook, so he is not worried about his skills, but just worried about being bullied.

That piece of land is a treasure trove of gold. In these special years, it is controlled by a group of people.

It's not just a matter of paying protection money. The main thing is that if you are a stranger and want to go there to do business, and no one greets you in advance, and you go there rashly on your own, your store will be smashed!
However, after understanding the thoughts of his aunt and uncle, Cao Yukun found it funny. "It's just a small matter, why didn't my aunt tell me directly? Why did she have to go through so much trouble?"

Previously, my father introduced my uncle to a canteen in Huguan Township through his connections. He worked as a kitchen helper for a while. Of course, he was a temporary worker, but the main problem there was that the income was low and the salary was not paid on time. Eventually, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to work as a chef in a small private factory canteen.

Now it seems that he has become more active in his thinking.

Mainly because he felt that his nephew from his mother's side had become powerful and was likely to be able to help him run the business, so when he wanted to open a store, he first asked his eldest nephew if he could help put a name to the other side.

But they don't know that as far as their nephew from her mother's side is concerned, he doesn't even bother to pay attention to that bunch of land thugs, simply because he is rich and powerful.

County leaders now all respect him very much, so how could he care about a few petty thugs hanging out on the streets!
Then he pointed at Xie Xiaoyu and said, "You don't even need to ask me about this. Let Xiaoyu call her dad. He can get the landlords at the corner of the street to run to my aunt's house and ask them to open a restaurant there!"

I'm not bragging.

In terms of the official network of the county government, Song Hongxing has a very strong network of contacts. There are countless people in the county who are on friendly terms with him. But in terms of the local situation, the influence of his other father-in-law, Xie Zhaofang, is absolutely the number one figure in the county. In recent years, the law has been strict and ordinary people dare not keep guns at home. A few years ago, when the law was not so strict, Xie Zhaofang dared to break into underground casinos with more than a dozen guns!
No one in the county, big or small, dares to mess with him!
Of course, Comrade Lao Cao, as the deputy director of the police station, was obviously well aware of this matter. So, after Cao Yukun finished bragging with a smile, Comrade Lao Cao turned around and looked at his daughter-in-law.

Cao Yukun was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood.

It turned out that I was just going through the motions - whether it was my aunt, uncle, or father, their target from the very beginning was Xie Xiaoyu, but since the bride had entered the house, they were too embarrassed to ask directly!

Hi……

Cao Yukun turned his head and glanced at it, then walked to the car, opened the door, took out his mobile phone, and handed it to Xie Xiaoyu, "Call your dad!"

Xie Xiaoyu dialed the number obediently, and when it went through, she handed the mobile phone to Cao Yukun.

It's really just a matter of one sentence.

After I made my meaning clear, my father-in-law said, "Don't worry! I'll call Fang Ziqiang myself. If he dares to be blind, I'll bring people and guns to shoot him!"

You see, this is Xie Zhaofang's style.

Comrade Lao Cao, the deputy director of a police station, just smiled faintly when he heard the talk on the phone about bringing guns to kill people. After the call was hung up, he nodded, looking relieved, "That's it! I'll go and give your uncle a reply later, and they can open the store without worry."

"Want money?"

"No, I still have some left over from what you gave me last time. That's enough."

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The next morning, Huang Jiapeng drove and Cao Yukun took his own Mercedes-Benz to the sock factory.

Strangely, there are quite a few workers in the factory.

It is also obvious that the factory is clean and tidy. Even in the flower beds on both sides of the factory roads, there are no weeds to be seen - this factory is so clean that it is unspeakable.

Zhang Youguang had arrived early, and when Cao Yukun got out of the car, he had already seen him from a distance.

The No. 1 and No. 2 leaders of the county, including Zhao Xiaolan, director of the county government office, also got out of the car one after another. At this time, people from the factory took the initiative to come up and shake hands. After being introduced by the leaders, they shook hands with Cao Yukun and even shook hands enthusiastically with Huang Jiapeng.

Cao Yukun looked around and asked, "The factory is in good shape!"

After saying this, the county leaders felt very proud - in theory, the factory had been shut down for nearly half a year, or even a full year since the time when it encountered financial difficulties. Everyone had thought that the factory lacked people to take care of and maintain it, so it must have been overgrown with weeds and was extremely dirty and messy.

The result is clean and tidy.

The person in charge of the factory took the initiative to introduce that: "Originally, no workers came to the factory because it was about to close down. Many people even started to look for jobs on their own initiative. But later, we heard that the factory was sold to Boss Cao, so everyone came back. There was no need to mobilize them. Everyone took the initiative to maintain the machines and clean up. You can see that there were already tall grasses growing in many places in the factory area, and the workers pulled them out in two days!"

Secretary Zheng nodded and smiled, and said to Cao Yukun: "Boss Cao, you have a good reputation! Everyone in the county knows that you raised the salary at the beverage factory. Look, as soon as they heard that the sock factory was sold to you, everyone is willing to come back to work for you! Great, great! It seems that the county has made the right move!"

Cao Yukun laughed loudly and waved his hands repeatedly, "Secretary Zheng, win-win, win-win!"

So Secretary Zheng also laughed.

The handover went exceptionally smoothly.

Of course it went smoothly. The two top leaders of the county came out in person and took the trouble to accompany Cao Yukun to tour the entire factory, warehouse, etc. in the hot weather. From top to bottom in the factory, whether it was the original leading cadres or ordinary workers at the grassroots level, they were looking forward to Cao Yukun's arrival like they look forward to rain after a long drought. How could it not go smoothly?

From beginning to end, Zhang Youguang just followed a group of people silently, without saying a word.

After the handover was completed, Cao Yukun personally sent the leaders away and looked back at him. He then followed him into the building. Cao Yukun asked him, "How is it? Has anything changed since you left?"

He answered honestly, "Yes, but not much."

So I asked him again, "Three days?" He immediately puffed out his chest and said, "No problem, I'm already writing it."

So Cao Yukun patted him on the shoulder and said, "Then I'll wait for the meeting and appoint you as the factory director."

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"Bang bang!"

"Please come in!"

Hearing the door open, Zhao Xiaolan subconsciously looked up and glanced. Before she could look away, she looked up again, her face instantly filled with surprise, "Why are you here?"

Cao Yukun walked in and closed the door casually, "I have nothing to do, so I came to see what you are doing!"

He would not even look at any important document, not to mention... the document was not important. What was important was that the county had already discussed and approved it, and reported it up. All that was left was approval from above, and then he could take up the post.

Well, the standing committee of the county party committee remains unchanged, but the director of the county party committee office is removed from his post and transferred to the position of executive deputy county magistrate, assisting the county magistrate in all aspects, focusing on state-owned enterprises and state-owned assets, and responsible for attracting investment - the deputy director is still a deputy director, but is definitely one of the three most valuable deputy directors in the entire county, and ranks first.

He could almost be considered the fourth most important person in the county.

Even more powerful than the chief officials of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Once we reach this step, as long as the county's economic development can maintain the momentum of the past two months, then an evaluation as being good at economics will almost certainly be in our hands!

Looking forward, whether there is a vacancy in this county or I am transferred to another county, it is only a matter of time before I am promoted to a full-time director!
And I am only thirty-four years old this year!

Even if it is the most common promotion based on seniority, there is no problem in reaching the position of director before the age of 40!
If we do well, it will be very possible in the next two years!
So the mood was originally very good.

What's more, this brat actually came to see me on his own initiative!

"That's not easy! You're such a busy man, have you sorted out the sock factory in the past few days?"

"Hey, what do you need to sort out? I asked Zhang Youguang to write a report. It looked good, so I hired him to be the director of the sock factory. I... am just a hands-off manager!"

Zhao Xiaolan was just getting up to pour him some water herself. She was stunned for a moment when she heard what he said, and then she suddenly realized.

Yes, Zhang Youguang. I remember that guy used to be the director of a sock factory, and he did a pretty good job. But later someone got jealous and got him fired. He even spent half a year in detention. "You're really good at saving trouble!"

She smiled, placed the cup in front of him, and sat down on the adjacent single-seater sofa.

But he was a man who always had a sharp look in his eyes, and he had already seen it. "You are in a good mood today? Is there any good news? Tell me so that I can be happy too?"

She smiled, stood up, went back to her desk, picked up the internal document she had just been reading, and without caring about the work regulations or confidentiality regulations, she handed it directly to him.

That was something that was just decided at a meeting this morning, and she just got it in her hands. She didn't even know whether the official document had been sent to the city.

"Yo... got promoted?"

She smiled and said proudly, "It hasn't been decided yet. The county has just recommended it to the higher-ups, and it still needs approval."

He said "Hi" and handed the document back, "Just going through the motions!" But after a pause, he asked, "I just went to the city yesterday. If I had known...why don't I go again and see if I can help?"

Zhao Xiaolan waved her hand quickly, "Don't! The situation in our county is very good now. The previous case was self-examined and self-cleaned. The city is very satisfied with our county team as a whole. It should not be easily rejected. If you rashly go there, it will seem that I am seeking official positions and leave a bad impression on the higher-ups."

Cao Yukun nodded, "That's fine! ... Anyway, congratulations!"

Zhao Xiaolan smiled, stood up, solemnly put the documents back on the desk, then sat back down.

To be honest, having reached this point at the age of 34, Zhao Xiaolan has already surpassed her father. She really feels somewhat satisfied. At this time, she is facing Cao Yukun, who she is very familiar with. She can even be said to have come to this point with the help of him. She feels particularly relaxed.

But after chatting for about seven or eight minutes, he suddenly pointed at the cup and said, "Fuck...what's this?"

She was stunned for a moment, then quickly sat up straight and leaned over to take a look.

It's just a cup, and the cup contains the hot water that I just poured for him...

But suddenly, before she could see whether there was a bug or something in the cup, his hand suddenly reached out, put a finger on the collar of her vest, and pulled it out.

He then leaned his head over and looked inside.

Zhao Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up, slapped his claw away, and glared at him half angry and half shamed.

"You're messing around again! Go home to see your wife!"

At this moment, her heart was actually beating very fast, but what she didn't know was that when she glared at him, her eyes were full of water, which was extremely charming.

But she was a leader after all, and was good at saying one thing and thinking another. At this time, she rebuked Cao Yukun, "You dare to hit me at every turn. You can't even say nice things for three minutes... Do you really think I dare not hit you?"

But the next moment, Cao Yukun's hand suddenly fell on her thigh again. He grabbed her hand firmly and irresistibly and rubbed it. This time, she felt as if she was cast under a spell. Her heart was pounding and her face was flushed, but she felt that she could not move at all.

"I'll go to your place for dinner tonight and help you celebrate?"

Zhao Xiaolan was completely numb and just stared at him with a look that seemed to contain both shyness and joy.

Cao Yukun rubbed it again, let go after a while, and actually stretched out a finger for the second time, pulled open the collar of his vest, and stuck his head to look inside. "It's so big and white!" he said.

Zhao Xiaolan no longer resisted and just stared at him.

After a moment, she opened her mouth and found that her throat was a little dry. "You have two wives at home, what are you doing?"

He said loudly: "Greedy!"

After a long while, she said again: "I'm already thirty-four!"

His words became even more explicit, "I fucking like the 34th one!"

As he spoke, the hand loosened the collar of his vest and fell back onto his thigh.

The clothes were thin in the summer, and although she was wearing long pants, the pants were also thin. Through the pants, she could clearly feel the strength and heat of his big hands - Zhao Xiaolan finally couldn't help swallowing her saliva. Only she knew how fast her heart was beating, but the battle between reason and impulse always ended in failure.

But in the end, she raised her hand and slapped Cao Yukun's claws away.

"You little bastard! We are in the office! What if someone pushes the door open without knocking? Do you think I can still be a leader in the future?"

After saying that, she glared at Cao Yukun again, then quickly stood up.

Although this glance was full of charm, she did not look at Cao Yukun again after she stood up. She went straight back to her desk and sat down, saying coldly, "I don't want to chat with you anymore. You are dishonest!"

Then he suddenly looked up and asked, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Cao Yukun answered her casually, "Whatever, as long as I have you."

"Go away! You gangster!"

(End of this chapter)