1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 518 I wish I could turn into a fine needle and mend this world (2)

What caught Hu Yongbo's eyes was a small figure.

When he was only about four or five years old,

The clothes are dirty.
My hair is a mess,

The face is red and chapped.
There were two yellow-green snots coming out of his nose.

This is actually not surprising. Children in rural areas are rarely clean, let alone children who stay in pig pens.

But if this dirty child was tied up in the house like a dog, the feeling would be completely different.

Two hemp ropes,

One tied tightly around the waist,

The other one was tied to half of an old bicycle tire, and the tattered tire was tied into a slipknot, and then it was put directly on the child's neck like a cuff of seriously inappropriate size.

Hu Yongbo couldn't see clearly where the other end of the hemp rope was tied in the house.

But the only thing that can be seen is that the two hemp ropes are tied very tightly and their length is very limited.

The child in front of him had to roll on the ground and use his feet to pry open the wooden door that was not closed tightly.

After opening the door, the child found that it was a strange adult. A confused and helpless look of fear appeared on his face. He immediately knelt down and crawled back obediently. Then he held the half of the used tire around his neck with both hands and showed a gentle and ingratiating smile.

It seems to be saying...

I'm a very good person.

See, I didn't run around; I didn't cry; I didn't take the condom off.

I'm a good kid...

Looking at this child who was tied up like a puppy, with the fear and flattering look in his eyes, Hu Yongbo felt a surge of anger rushing to his head.

Four or five years old is not an age when one knows nothing. His daughter is almost three years old this year, but she can already wear new clothes and run around happily. When she is tired of running, she will stay in his arms and ask for this and that, and even pester him to tell her stories every day.

The child in front of me can only be tied up in the house like a dog, rolling around on the ground full of pig manure stench without dignity, and the only toy he has may be the two dog chains tied to his body;

How do you make him feel as a father?

The child's action of raising the collar around his neck obediently like a puppy hurt his heart deeply.

What kind of experience could make such a tiny kid learn to please adults at the age of four or five?

Just when Hu Yongbo couldn't control his impulse and wanted to rush over and tear off the two dog chains...

Wow~
Gulp bulp
Two slight rolling sounds were heard.

Looking in the dim light, Hu Yongbo discovered that in addition to the children he had seen before, there were two other children in the room.

About the same age,

Almost dirty.
Two identical dog leashes.

"Teacher Li, what is going on? "

Hu Yongbo, who noticed something unusual, calmed down all of a sudden. Although his tone was indescribably cold, he still did not rush over rashly.

As a father, he naturally knew that no matter how fertile he was, it would be impossible for him to give birth to three children of similar ages at once.

The three children were tied up in the house like dogs. Although it was easy to misunderstand that this was a human traffickers' den, since this was the route Li Li pointed out, it was impossible for her to accept the children of a human trafficker as her students.

Li Li, who followed closely in, heard what was said. She first squatted down to stretch the clothes of the three children and tidied the hemp ropes around their legs. Then she stood up and sighed, "What's going on? What else can it be? Giving birth to them but not raising them!"

Born but not nourished?
Hu Yongbo was stunned and didn't understand what was going on.

Li Li saw this and her face was full of complexities: "To put it simply, Xiaoyu Village is extremely poor. In order to make a living, more and more young and strong laborers in the village have gone out to work in the past two years... and the parents of these three children are among them."

As she spoke, Li Li took out the fruit candy she had prepared long ago from her pocket, carefully peeled off the candy coating, and fed it to the child: "When people go out to work, especially to the south, they will be gone for a year, and these children will naturally have to be left to the care of their grandparents, or simply fostered in other people's homes."

"But the problem is that although Xiaoyu Village is poor, there is still a lot of farm work to do, and there is even more work to do than in other villages... Even people in their 50s and 60s have to carry hoes and work in the fields all day long. How can they have the energy to take care of children all day long?"

"If these children who stay in the village are already six or seven years old, then it's fine. They can go to the fields to work with their grandparents. If that doesn't work, they can just play on the edge of the field. But children under six years old..."

At this point, Li Li's face suddenly showed a sadness. "In fact, in the past two years, grandparents would take children as young as two or three to the edge of the field and let them play. But after several children were stolen by human traffickers and several children fell to death or drowned because of crawling around, these villages, including Xiaoyu Village, no longer dare to take children who can't walk steadily to the edge of the field."

"But the problem is, life has to go on. If we don't do farm work, what will our family eat?"

"So, gradually, a business started to emerge in villages like Xiaoyu Village... Children who couldn't work in the fields with their grandparents were entrusted to others to take care of them, and then paid a small fee... It was roughly similar to the nurseries in the city."

After a slight pause, Li Li pointed at the hemp ropes tied around the children and said, "Of course, the conditions in the village are not as good as in the city, and the care is not as detailed. There are not as many play facilities... Since preventing accidents is the top priority, these foster children can only be tied up to prevent them from running around."

Li Li said helplessly: "Perhaps some people who see it for the first time cannot stand it, and even think it is abusing these children, but my student Xiaomei told me that whether it is the hemp rope tied around the waist or the tire around the neck, they are all the experience summed up by various villages in the past two years, and some bloody lessons are summarized in them... Of course, this story also tells us that sometimes, don't take it for granted, good intentions may lead to bad things!"

The last sentence was said to Hu Yongbo and also to Li Qiang.

Hu Yongbo was able to maintain at least some rationality after noticing something was wrong, but Li Qiang, a passionate young man who had just entered society, was breathing like a bull after discovering these children who were tied up like dogs.

Hu Yongbo glanced at Li Qiang, whose face flushed red, but his tone was still somewhat cold: "But what's the reaction of these children? When I first came in, they looked so flattering, not like they were well taken care of... Do you think it's normal for a four or five-year-old child to learn to flatter adults?"

Li Li was silent for a while after hearing this, and sadness welled up in her eyes: "There's nothing we can do about it. As I said before, the countryside is not a paradise... Regardless of the fact that the way children are raised in the countryside is crude and simple, you can't expect everyone to be a good person and take good care of these foster children as if they were their own children, right?"

"Under the lineage operation model, people in a village like Xiaoyu, which is located in a three-kilometer hazy area, have a habit of treating people differently. All the young and strong laborers in the family have gone out to work. Do you think that the frail grandparents who are just ordinary people can be taken care of?"

At this point, Li Li squatted down and touched the child's head with great pity: "So, what you saw before was nothing more than a stereotyped reaction of this child under stress. He was fostered in another family for nearly a year before being transferred to Xiaomei's family during the Chinese New Year... Our teacher once told us that humans are animals after all, and still retain the animal instinct to survive."

Hu Yongbo was silent for a moment after hearing this. He understood what Li Li meant, but he was a little confused: "Didn't you say that your student Xiaomei's family is not well-received in the village? Why do so many families send their children here for foster care?"

Li Li smiled and said, "First, being unwelcome in the village is one thing, but you have to know that good people still make up the majority of people, whether in the city or in the village. No matter what happened to Xiaomei's father before, he is an orphan and a widow, and they are all from the same village. Some fellow villagers will take care of him if they can, out of pity."

"Secondly, it is precisely because Xiaomei's family is not well-received in the village that, compared with other foster families, although Xiaomei's family's environment is a little worse, her mother is more attentive and careful in taking care of the child... At least she will not beat or scold the child, or directly deny the child food."

"Third, in a place like Xiaoyu Village, everyone knows that studying is the only way to turn things around. However, the education conditions in the village are poor. Even most of the children of school age have no education, let alone these left-behind children? However, in addition to being the critical period for the first character formation, the age of four or five is also the best time to start learning intelligence... Therefore, as one of the few children in the village who has already attended elementary school, Xiaomei, who has to go home very late every day, can only spare time to teach these children to read on weekends. But even so, it is already a great attraction for the villagers."

"Fourth, although Xiaomei's family's environment is very poor, the nutrition of the food these children eat is actually better than most of the people in the same village..."

Zhi acridine~
Before he could finish his words, he saw another small door being pulled open, and then a surprised female voice rang out: "Teacher Li? Oh, Teacher Li, why are you here today?... Look at me, I, I didn't know you were coming, and I didn't prepare anything decent... Sit, sit, sit, Teacher Li, please sit down quickly, I'll go get you a glass of water."

A woman who was not pretty, thin and slightly hunched, walked in with a smile of surprise and humility on her face, holding a small bowl of food that looked like porridge in her hands.

Li Li smiled and shook her head: "Mother Xiaomei, you don't have to worry about us. Feed the children first. I see that they are hungry too. It will be bad if they get cold."

Hearing this, the woman nodded hurriedly, then picked up a spoon, scooped the paste in the basin into a bowl, and brought it to the three children.

Upon seeing this, the three children immediately took it with smiles on their faces, and began to eat it with great gusto. If someone didn't know, one would have thought they were eating some delicacies.

Hu Yongbo looked over and found that although the small bowl of porridge looked a bit unsightly, the ingredients should be very solid. It was all cooked with cornmeal, which is commonly eaten in rural areas. The cabbage in it was also carefully cut into extremely thin strips.

Ok?
wrong.

It's not just cornmeal and cabbage.

and also……

The uncooked skin of the steamed buns, and...

Chopped egg whites?
Hu Yongbo, whose eyes had gradually become accustomed to the light in the room, carefully identified the contents of the basin and was surprised.

Although eggs are no longer a rare thing, let alone in later generations, even in Texas today, with the rapid expansion of 817 broiler chicken breeding and the subdivision of varieties, they are no longer a rare thing.

But that is in the city and county towns, and in the villages that have started to live better. For a village like Xiaoyu Village, which is located in a hazy area of ​​three kilometers and has almost no industries and public facilities, eggs are definitely a luxury product, the kind that people would not even dare to eat.

The same goes for eggs and white flour buns.

Don’t think that when you mention Qilu you think of steamed buns, and don’t think that people in Qilu eat steamed buns every day... That was in the mid-to-late 1990s, after the vegetable basket and rice bag projects had gradually become popular in the province. In today's situation, people in rural areas can only eat corn paste or sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs most of the time.

Eat white flour buns?
That’s foreign food that’s only served during festivals!
Looking at these two objects that absolutely shouldn't be in such a shabby house built on a pigsty, Hu Yongbo probably understood what Li Li wanted to say about the fourth point;

At the same time, I also roughly understood what she meant when she said, "Sometimes, children are willing to walk eight kilometers to Xiaoxi Village every day, not necessarily all for school."

If I'm not mistaken, those eggs and white flour buns in this bowl should have been secretly brought back by the student named Xiaomei from the quota student meals of Xiaoxi Village Hope Primary School, right?

The image of a little girl suddenly appeared in Hu Yongbo's eyes.

When I was eight or nine years old,

He is thin and has yellow hair;
Carrying a heavy schoolbag, he walked quickly with his head down in the dark night.

In contrast to her thin, malnourished body, her school uniform was bulging.

Inside were the three eggs and a few white flour buns that he had saved while he was hungry.

As a father, I hate to see my children suffer the most.

He wanted to accuse Xiaomei's mother of being selfish, accusing her of disregarding her daughter's health and life in order to get a job;

But when he thought of the plight of the orphan and his widowed mother and the shabby house built on a pigsty, he couldn't utter a word of blame.

If possible, who wouldn't want to let their children eat an egg happily and then take a bite of a white steamed bun blissfully?
Who would be willing to let their child, whose height is only up to their waist, walk back and forth for five or six hours in the dark night every day, enduring hunger, fatigue and fear?
Hu Yongbo suddenly stood up with anger and resentment at his own incompetence. Then, under the surprised gazes of the crowd, his brain worked rapidly and he blurted out a suggestion that sounded unreliable: "Teacher Li, what do you think... we should build a nursery in Xiaoxi Village?"

Eh?
nursery?

Li Li and Li Qiang stared at Hu Yongbo in a daze, almost thinking that the smell of pig manure had caused his brain to short-circuit.

If the breeding farm suggested before is somewhat reliable, then what on earth is this nursery of yours?

Infrastructure project?

What does a nursery have to do with infrastructure?
Commercial project? Come on, this is a rural area, not a city. How many families are willing to spend so much money to send their children to a nursery, and a nursery eight kilometers away from home?

Seeing this, Hu Yongbo quickly explained: "I'm not joking, I really have this idea... I think this idea has the potential to be approved in the name of a commercial condom project."

Commercial condom project?

Li Li and Li Qiang looked at each other, not knowing what this guy was talking about.

Hu Yongbo explained: "Look, the original intention of Mr. Yang's 100-village revitalization plan was to support the 100 villages to become prosperous villages, but after a year of development, places like Xiaoxi Village have gradually formed the prototype of medium-sized complex enterprises above a certain scale... Although they are collectively owned economic entities, from the perspective of business model and ecology, they are becoming more and more like a state-owned enterprise of a certain scale."

"Think about it, what are the characteristics of state-owned enterprises, especially those that have grown to a certain scale?"

"Of course, we want to be big and complete, and then be able to achieve a small-scale ecological closed loop!"

"Look at the large state-owned enterprises in the city. Which one of them doesn't have its own cafeteria, its own dormitory, its own cinema? Some of the stronger ones even have their own schools, kindergartens and hospitals!"

Hu Yongbo said with confidence: "Although it is not fair to compare Xiaoxi Village with those large state-owned enterprises, and Xiaoxi Village's management model and business operation model are completely unrelated to those of state-owned enterprises, but in terms of building a small closed-loop ecosystem, the two are surprisingly similar... It's just that state-owned enterprises build these facilities and ecosystems on their own small piece of land, while Xiaoxi Village is much looser, relying on the nearby villages to gradually build this kind of linked closed loop, and it is still in the early stages."

"But this is not important. What is important is that Xiaoxi Village is developing in this direction. Relying on a series of methods such as Hope Primary School, project transfer and redistribution business, unified collection and purchase business, and two-tier PPP project cooperation model, it is gradually incorporating nearby villages into this seemingly loose closed-loop ecosystem... And judging from what Mr. Yang has done, he actually supports this."

After a slight pause, Hu Yongbo's tone became more affirmative: "Teacher Li, Xiao Li, you don't have much contact with state-owned enterprises, and you don't understand some situations. If you want to build this kind of ecological closed loop like state-owned enterprises, hard conditions with profit as the first criterion are very important, but soft conditions are also indispensable...schools, hospitals, entertainment, accommodation, transportation, social security, any one of which is missing will affect the centripetal force of the people below."

"so……"

"With the Xiaoxi Village Hope Primary School already in place and the rural grassroots drugstore chain project about to be launched, if we report a nursery project to the company in the name of a commercial project and specify that the bulk of the subsequent operation and maintenance costs will be borne by Xiaoxi Village itself, the company will most likely not object!"

Hu Yongbo snorted, "Just as Mr. Li said, in the past two years, more and more villagers have gone out to work, resulting in a large number of left-behind children. Among them, the younger left-behind children cannot be carefully taken care of for various reasons. This is an obvious business opportunity and demand pain point."

"Although the consumption habits and spending power in rural areas determine that such nurseries are not profitable at all in rural areas...but what if the profitability on paper is converted into a series of invisible values ​​such as regional centripetal force and emotional identification?"

"If these invisible values ​​are added together, for the company, or more precisely, for Mr. Yang, they exceed, or even significantly exceed, the investment and operating costs of the project?"

"Do you think the company will act like an outsider, pretending to be deaf and dumb and approve this nursery in the name of a commercial project, and then build it with all its might?"

"You know, children and parents, medical care and education are what most people care about the most. Once Xiaoxi Village forms a path dependence in these aspects, the benefits and initiatives that can be generated in the future are unpredictable!"

Li Qiang's head swelled after listening to this. He couldn't quite make out the relationship or the logic behind it. What's more, he couldn't understand why Dahua Company or Xiaoxi Village would go through so much trouble to invest in the name of an urban property fund company when it was obvious that Dahua Company or Xiaoxi Village could raise the money to build a nursery on their own.

But Hu Yong was, after all, a former employee of the Second Business Department of Dahua Company. This gilded identity made his words extremely convincing to outsiders.

Since you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. What Brother Hu said must make sense.

Thinking of this, Li Qiang was delighted: "Once the nursery in Xiaoxi Village is built, all the young left-behind children in nearby villages can be sent there... Then, including Xiaomei's parents, as well as villagers from other villages who are good at taking care of children, can all be hired as teachers... This is good, helping those parents who work away from home to solve their worries, and solving the employment and income problems of some villagers."

Hu Yongbo smiled and shook his head: "Not only that, Teacher Li said that there are quite a lot of left-behind children in all the villages here. If the number is large enough and this kind of center-based nursery project can be promoted, it can drive a lot of small industries... This is another invisible economic account."

Li Li looked at him with a smile and nodded slightly.

She finally understood Hu Yongbo's intention. Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company and Dahua Company are actually two different units. There are some things that Dahua Company can do but Urban Property Fund Company cannot do. Judging from Hu Yongbo's reaction, Dahua Company should not have enough spare money to invest in these projects this year, or it may be worried about some other things and cannot invest directly. Therefore, it can only transfer the money from one pocket to the other and let the Urban Property Fund Company pay for it.

Since the money is paid by the Urban Property Fund Company, and it is from the account of a large industrial fund, then no matter whether you can fool people or not, you always have to find a bunch of reasons from a commercial or industrial perspective to give the company a little cover-up.

She was a teaching assistant, she didn't understand the intricacies of this, nor did she want to understand them, so she quickly withdrew her thoughts and focused on the three children: "Ms. Xiaomei, didn't Xiaomei say that this year only Aunt Wang's children were going to be sent to your family for daycare? How come there are two more now?"

The middle-aged woman smiled reservedly and humbly when she heard this: "Teacher Li, these two children are from Uncle Wan Er and Uncle Shen Si. In the past three or four months, I don't know what evil has happened in the village. Many people have fallen ill one after another... Uncle Wan Er and Uncle Shen Si have also started to feel unwell recently. Although I heard that their illnesses are not serious, they are old after all. If they lie down, they will not have the energy to take care of the children. So after thinking about it, they simply asked someone to send them to my house and asked me to help take care of them for a few days."

Does this mean that many people in the village have been sick recently?

It shouldn’t be!

It's not summer, a time when mosquitoes breed. Xiaoyu Village is not low-lying and there is no risk of sewage backflow, so so many people shouldn't be getting sick.

Could it be... the flu?
Li Li thought doubtfully, picked up the earthen bowl in front of her and took a small sip.

Although after a year of grassroots training, she was no longer the delicate girl she used to be, but the slightly strange smell and slightly astringent and bitter taste of the bowl of hot water in front of her still made her frown.

Noticing Li Li's slightly frowned brows, Xiaomei's mother seemed to feel that she had neglected the guest. She immediately became uneasy and rubbed her hands, wanting to apologize.

Unexpectedly, before he could finish his words, Li Qiang next to him exclaimed: "Wait, where did you get this water from?"

The middle-aged woman heard the seriousness in Li Qiang's tone and became more and more uneasy: "It was brought back from the well at the entrance of the village... Leader, is it... not to your liking?"

Li Qiang smiled somewhat reluctantly, trying to comfort the humble and sensitive woman a little, but he looked at Li Li with seriousness in his eyes, then gestured, and the two of them quickly walked out of the shabby house.

"Xiao Li, what's wrong?"

Li Li tried to comfort Xiaomei's mother, indicating that she was just going to the toilet and would not leave. Then she saw Xiaomei's mother shrink back uneasily, and then she turned to look at Li Qiang beside her.

"Sister Li, this water... has problems!"

Li Qiang was still holding the bowl of water in his hand, his expression extremely solemn.

Li Li was immediately startled and said in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense!"

She thought Li Qiang was saying that Xiaomei's mother had poisoned her, which was a serious crime. The identities of the three of them were somewhat special, and Xiaomei's mother's situation was even more special. If she was wronged and felt that she could not defend herself clearly, it was not impossible that she would commit suicide by jumping into the river.

Hearing this, Li Qiang looked at her in surprise. "I'm not talking nonsense. I studied chemistry in college. I can tell from the water as soon as it enters my mouth. The water source is definitely polluted. There's no need to send the water for inspection. The heavy metal content is definitely above the standard... By the way, Sister Li, is there any chemical plant or fertilizer plant nearby?"

After understanding what Li Qiang meant, Li Li breathed a sigh of relief, but then tensed up again.

Could it be that……

People in Xiaoyu Village have been falling ill one after another recently, not because of the flu, but because of... this?
........................

after an hour.

A fertilizer factory less than a mile away from Xiaoyu Village.

Amid the helpless and tangled eyes of a large group of workers, Li Li, who was held tightly by two female employees, pointed at a middle-aged man in a suit and cursed like a shrew: "Shen Yongfu, I'm telling you, if you don't take the initiative to close this factory today, I will go to Xiaoxi Village tomorrow and gather hundreds of people to smash your broken factory!"

"You just dumped such dirty wastewater directly into the river, and even directly into the fields. Dozens of people in the village were knocked out by your wastewater... You gave birth to a son without an asshole. Aren't you immoral?"

The middle-aged man named Shen Yongfu couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw the young woman in front of him who didn't have the demeanor of a teacher at all.

Li Li is very famous in Xiaoxi Village, and her reputation in Xiaoyu Village is not weak either... After all, there are only three college students teaching in this area, and she has gone to various villages to break up the place and grab brides for her students many times, so it is impossible for her reputation to be weak.

College students may not be that valuable in state-owned enterprises, but for ordinary people, they are definitely the incarnation of Wenquxing, and no one dares to offend them easily. In addition, this girl is an aid teacher of Xiaoxi Village Hope Primary School, and Xiaoxi Village has close ties with the drilling company and Xialiu Sales Agency, so people dare not offend her easily.

But the problem is...

Let me close the factory?

Who are you? You ask me to close the factory without any evidence. Do you think you are the county magistrate?
Even if it is wrong for the fertilizer factory to discharge wastewater indiscriminately and pollute the water source of Xiaoyu Village, it is even more wrong, but I can just compensate for it and the matter will be settled. It does not deserve the death penalty!

Besides, even if he was the county magistrate, he wouldn’t just shut down a factory right away.

The factory is closed, what are these more than 140 people going to eat?
But don't forget, many of these more than one hundred people are from Xiaoyu Village. Ask them if they are willing to be closed?

Looking at the sky which was gradually getting darker, Shen Yongfu gradually became impatient.

This female college teacher has been throwing a tantrum for nearly an hour. After all, I am a factory manager and I have been considerate enough to accompany her for such a long time. The factory is still busy loading and shipping goods, so I have to go over and keep an eye on them. I don't have the time to continue to accompany her.

Thinking of this, Shen Yongfu winked at the two female employees and prepared to turn around and leave.

"Wait a moment!"

As soon as I turned around, a man's voice came from not far away.

Shen Yongfu turned his head and saw that it was Hu Yongbo, who had come here with Li Li but suddenly disappeared somewhere.

"Comrade, there is an urgent matter in my factory. Please talk to our safety director if you have any questions. As I said before, our factory will not give less compensation to the village."

Shen Yongfu's tone was somewhat impatient.

Among these three people, only Li Li's identity makes him most wary, as for the others... who do you think you are?

Hu Yongbo smiled faintly, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over: "Let me introduce myself, I'm Hu Yongbo, from Dahua Company."

Dahua Company! ? ?

Shen Yongfu was shocked.

He could ignore the young man who was shouting that he was from Texas Urban Real Estate Fund Company. After all, who the hell knew what that company that he had never heard of did.

But Dahua is different.

In Texas, you may not know any company, but you absolutely cannot not know Dahua and Drilling Company.

Especially Dahua Company. Other companies can at most be called local tyrants, but this unit is definitely a local dragon. It can suppress you in all aspects. Not to mention anything else, as long as they give a word, their fertilizer factory will immediately have to shut down due to lack of raw materials... He is just a private boss under the name of a township entrepreneur. Even though the country no longer strictly investigates public and private activities, it is as easy to suppress a central enterprise like Dahua Company as to suppress an ant.

Thinking of this, Shen Yongfu looked carefully at the business card in his hand. When he found that it did not look fake, a flattering smile immediately appeared on his face.

"So it's Mr. Shen. I'm so sorry, so sorry!"

"that……"

After a brief greeting, Shen Yongfu glanced at Li Li who was still throwing a tantrum, and didn't know how to continue.

The other party is obviously in cahoots with Li Li. What if they also ask me to close the factory?
Thinking of this, Shen Yongfu became a little uneasy. He once dreamed of having a relationship with a central enterprise like Dahua, but at this moment, he just hoped that the identity of the man in front of him was fake.

Hu Yongbo noticed his reaction, loosened his hand, and showed a reserved smile common among central enterprise cadres: "Mr. Shen, don't worry, I don't intend to threaten you or ask you to close the factory... The state has recognized the important position of township enterprises in the economy. As a member of a central enterprise, our Dahua Company naturally cannot go against the will of the state."

Even so, Hu Yongbo showed a smile on his face that was familiar to Shen Yongfu, but frightening to him: "So, I have a suggestion here, Mr. Shen, why don't you listen to it?"

Mr. Shen?
Not Old Shen, nor Director Shen?
Hearing Hu Yongbo's extremely formal and qualitative address, Shen Yongfu couldn't help but shudder in his heart...

(End of this chapter)