After paying New Year greetings, people began to visit the graves, and then those who watched the New Year fell sleepy, and those who were not sleepy began to gather together to play cards again. People who had been working hard throughout the New Year also put down their work and had a good rest for the day.
After visiting the grave, Father Yang was preparing to go to bed, but he was shouted at by the army again. Mother Yang rolled her eyes and said nothing. Father Yang looked like he actually didn't want to go, but when others yelled, he couldn't help but give face, and he looked 'reluctant' again. Went to the granary.
Yang Dongxu was obviously not interested in peeling firecrackers, or using the peeled gunpowder to play a firecracker game. After staying up all night, he ran upstairs to sleep, but as soon as he lay down, he was dragged away by a few people like his father. When I get up, I have to walk around even if I don't go to play cards. How can I hide at home and sleep on the first day of the new year?
The first day of the new year passed hazily with everyone yawning all day long, and the next day I started carrying bags to visit relatives.
On New Year's Eve, I had packed bags for my grandparents and uncle's house in the back house, so Yang Dongxu went to his aunt's house on the second day of the new year. The third day of the new year was the time for my daughter to return to her parents' house, so she went to her grandparents' house tomorrow. time.
The three children have grown up, so they went to their eldest sister's house. Yang's father and Yang's mother did not accompany her, but started busy at home. Today, some other relatives will come to Yang Dongxu's grandparents' house, and they have to do everything they need to do.
Children are very active in visiting relatives during the New Year, not because they miss their elders, but because they can spend their New Year's money by going there.
Because there was nothing going on in Yanjing, Yang Dongxu stayed at home until he was thirteen before leaving. Originally, he planned to spend the fifteenth day at home, but school started on the 16th, and Yang's mother obviously couldn't let him leave until the fifteenth day, so he had to return to Beijing early.
After working for his mother for several days, Yang Dongxu finally took his elder sister with him when he left. His younger sister Dandan burst into tears. After making various promises, she coaxed her not to hold on to him anymore.
First take a bus to Feicheng, and then fly back to Yanjing.
After getting off the plane, Hong Ying, who was very excited about flying for the first time, felt a little uneasy looking at the unfamiliar environment. She held her bag in one hand and grabbed her little brother's clothes with the other and leaned towards him.
"It's okay. Sister and aunt will come to pick us up soon. Sister has been at home these days, so you sleep with her." Sensing the anxiety in his sister's heart, Yang Dongxu held Hongying's hand to help her relax.
It was the first time to leave home and leave her parents in a completely unfamiliar place. Yang Dongxu understood the feeling of confusion and anxiety, so he asked Zhou Ya to put aside recent events and spend a few days with his sister.
Zhou Ya is also familiar with Hong Ying. Although they have barely seen each other for a year, Zhou Ya slept with Hong Ying when she accompanied Yang Dongxu to his hometown. They usually chatted on the phone, so she can adapt to Hong Ying faster. environment in Yanjing.
When I came out of the station, I didn't even have to look for them. I found two conspicuous beauties in the crowd. Especially Zhou Ya's elegant temperament made it easy to spot them in the crowd.
"Sister, aunt." Seeing Zhou Ya and Ran Feifei looking towards him, Yang Dongxu waved his hand and pulled Hong Ying over quickly.
"Hongying has grown so big." Seeing Hongying, Ran Feifei came over to hold her hand. Ran Feifei, who had not been home for several years after becoming a female college student, would really not dare to recognize Hongying if she saw her alone.
"Little... aunt." Hongying's body stiffened when Ran Feifei grabbed her hand, and then she combined the impression of the beautiful woman with fashionable wavy hair in front of her with the beautiful, but shy and introverted aunt in her memory. together.
Hongying gradually felt at ease with a familiar person around her. After Yang Dongxu took a shower at home, he went directly to the Yang family banquet. It's not that the Yang Family Banquet has something that needs him to deal with. Now the Yang Family Yantai is being taken care of in an orderly manner by his aunt, and he doesn't need to intervene at all.
The reason he came to the Yang family banquet in such a hurry was because he was entertaining guests that evening, and the guest he invited was none other than Chen Weimin. Now Chen Weimin has crossed the threshold from department level to deputy department level and is the mayor of a provincial capital in the south.
The reason why he was invited to the banquet was because he was in Yanjing at this time. The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time. Even with Zhou Yiren in the middle area, the two of them still needed to get acquainted with each other.
The second one was naturally to ask Chen Weimin to help. At the beginning of the year, the land for the breeding farm in my hometown had been found. The construction team said that even if they didn’t know anyone, no one could fool anyone in the hurricane building to supervise the work. he.
But how to breed scientifically has left Yang Dongxu scratching his head. Looking for experts from Yanjing, let alone whether they have the time, is enough to just ask the experts to go to Yangjiacun for guidance, or maybe Yang’s father and others come to Yanjing to study. Tossing.
Moreover, there will definitely be constant troubles in the process of raising pigs for the first time. If there is a problem, it is impossible for experts from Yanjing to go to Yangjiacun to solve it. If Yang Dad and others come to Yanjing for advice, one person may not be able to deal with it on site. Solve the problem accurately, and if you delay it for a few days, it is very likely that a small trouble will turn into a big trouble.
Therefore, Yang Dongxu hopes to find experts from Chengwang City to facilitate learning and guidance. Even if it is not possible, he can find experts in Feicheng. In this way, no matter what happens, it can be solved within one day and the farm can get on the right track faster.
Therefore, after much deliberation, Yang Dongxu felt that Chen Weimin was the most suitable person to deal with this matter. Although Chen Weimin was transferred away now, after all, he had been the top leader in Chengwang City for several years and had some connections in the province.
Moreover, since he has left, he will be promoted to a high-ranking person, so if he has something to say, it will be more useful than Yang's father or the official people known to Yang Dongxu's little grandpa.
"You are getting richer and richer." At the door of the Yang family banquet, Chen Weimin and Yang Dongxu saw Chen Weimin getting out of the car and responded with a smile.
Compared with Chen Weimin a few years ago, he does not look old now, but is full of energy. When he talks and walks, he has the temperament of a high-ranking official. He is not the one who rode a bicycle to Yangjiacun before. The experts can compare.
"It's hard not to get fat if you eat too much and exercise too little. I'm already controlling it." Chen Weimin said helplessly.
"Brother Fang Jun isn't here?" Yang Dongxu shook hands with Chen Weimin and stepped aside to let Chen Weimin go first.
In fact, the relationship between two people does not need to be so unfamiliar. It is just that although the relationship has not changed, people are constantly changing. No matter Yang Dongxu's current age or Chen Weimin's current identity, it is impossible for the two people to go back to the past. That kind of talk about everything.
"One of his comrades called him over for his birthday."
Although his family is now in the southern city where he works, Chen Weimin did not come to Yanjing alone, but as a family.
His daughter-in-law is from Yanjing, and she is a child of the old courtyard. Although the highest official position in the family now is the Zhengtang, she is a Yanjing native with a good family background, and her relationship with Yanjing is not comparable to that of Chen Weimin. .
Chen Fangjun entered the police system and obviously wanted to pursue an official career in the future, so after the blind date with Zhou Ya failed, he wandered around for a few years and finally found a suitable candidate to tie the knot last year.
Chen Weimin can't be said to be satisfied with his son, but he can't be said to be dissatisfied either. At first, he had no intention of marrying his son. As long as his son liked it and the woman was of good character, he would not object even if she was a child from an ordinary farmer's family.
But the wife obviously didn't think so, and the son, who had become more and more calm after working for several years, seemed to have his own ideas. Therefore, since the son said he was satisfied with the matter and the woman had no objections, he didn't say anything more.
"Drink something?" Yang Dongxu walked into the box and signaled to the waiter that the food could be served. He reached for the liquor on the table and prepared to open it.
"If you want to drink, open it and drink by yourself. I feel like vomiting just from the smell of wine these days." Seeing Yang Dongxu opening the wine, Chen Weimin quickly reached out to stop him.
Although they haven't seen each other for a few years, it doesn't mean that Chen Weimin and Yang Dongxu haven't had drinks together. A few years ago, when they came to Yanjing to see Zhou Yiren, the two of them sat together for dinner more than once. Although Yang Dongxu was underage, Zhou Yiren didn't seem to let himself. It means that Sun Tzu avoids drinking, so Chen Weimin understands Yang Dongxu's drinking capacity.
"It seems that I have been to a lot of games recently." Yang Dongxu said with a smile, and did not hold on to the wine bottle in his hand.
"There's no way, who's doing this now?" Chen Weimin said helplessly. Talking about things at the dinner table has become a means of communication, and even if he has reached the deputy ministerial level, he cannot avoid it.
"Isn't the matter settled yet?"
"It's almost done. The procedures for running have been completed. We're just waiting for the money to be allocated from above." Chen Weimin couldn't help but feel a little excited when he thought about the special funds that were about to come out.
As long as this money is added to the current money from the city's Finance Bureau, the plan he has been preparing for nearly a year can be pushed forward. Nowadays, everyone is focusing on how to attract investment and build development zones. Chen Weimin has the foresight to put investment attraction at the back. Instead, he proposes to build roads first, even if he borrows money to build roads.
Many of his colleagues believe that even if they use the money to respond to the central government's call to build a food basket project for farmers, it is better than using it to build roads, not to mention that this is an inter-provincial highway.
Once this road is built, the entire city government will be heavily in debt. According to the current fiscal revenue, it will have to pay back the loan for five years without doing anything. At the same time, such a huge investment cannot see the prospect of profit. After all, there are not many cars in the country now. , after the road is built, the economic benefits of setting up toll stations are not directly proportional to the investment.
Therefore, when Chen Weimin proposed this political idea, he was opposed by many colleagues, who believed that he wanted to kidnap the city's finances to gain fame for himself. Even some old leaders who were optimistic about him called him and told him not to make too big a move.
But no matter how many difficulties he encountered, Chen Weimin never wavered in his persistence. Even if he encountered obstacles everywhere in the past few years, he still went to public relations again and again to negotiate and persuade. Finally, he persisted and got funding from his superiors, which made it difficult for him to finally break out of a path and move forward a lot.
"Is there still a lot of funding gap?" Chen Weimin and Yang Dongxu asked, looking at Chen Weimin and Yang Dongxu who were still frowning even after the appropriation had been approved.
"It's not a lot, it's a lot. If we repair it as planned, at least half of the money will still be available."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"First repair this section of the province, revitalize the economy of the entire region, and let others see the prospects of road construction and the promotion of the economy. As long as the remaining half is effective, it will be easy to handle." Chen Weimin sighed. said in a tone.
In fact, in addition to appropriation and city finance, he also thought about finding someone to finance the project, but even some provincial leaders were not optimistic about the project, so businessmen would naturally not raise funds.
After all, although a cross-provincial main highway is not very long, it cannot be repaired within a year or two. Such a huge investment has no expected prospects, and the investment cycle is so long. No businessmen are willing to invest. Instead of doing this, it is better to buy a piece of land, or to renovate the old city to gain huge profits.
