In about half an hour, Lin Ru arrived carrying basins and bowls. Wei Yu also came to help, carrying two bottles of bulk wine.
Zhou Guoxing rode a tricycle over, bringing not only vegetables but also a few small stools. He was still very thoughtful. There was nothing in the house. Even after he brought the food, there was no place to eat.
After everything was set up, Zhang Yuanqing couldn't go in by himself, so he asked Zhou Guoxing to go in and invite Zhou Qi.
After this morning's tossing, Zhou Qi was probably hungry too. When people have mood swings, they consume a lot of energy. So Zhou Guoxing came forward and finally pulled him out.
"Come to eat and drink."
Zhang Yuanqing also paid attention to letting Zhou Qi sit in the upper seat. He now positions himself as someone who comes to visit the thatched cottage and invite experts to come out. So all kinds of respect are given.
Zhou Qi didn't care, just grabbed the bowl and started eating, piece by piece of braised chicken.
"Pour some wine for Brother Zhou!" Zhang Yuanqing patted Lin Ru, who was about to snatch the food from the tiger's mouth, to give him some insight.
Now everyone is leaving Zhou Qi, only this guy, with chopsticks like shadows, picked out several pieces of chicken. Zhang Yuanqing became very angry when he saw his virtue. You are not active in doing things, but you are the first to do the work. You are really a master.
Lin Ru could feel Zhang Yuanqing's unkind gaze and hurriedly poured wine for Zhou Qi with a flattering smile.
Zhou Qi didn't even raise his head. As soon as the glass filled with wine came over, he took it and drank it in one gulp.
After drinking, continue eating vegetables. Zhang Yuanqing glanced at him appreciatively: "Brother Zhou has a good capacity for drinking. I'll have a drink with him."
After saying that, Zhang Yuanqing also poured himself a drink.
Lin Ru saw this and poured Zhou Qi another glass. Zhou Qi did it in one bite again.
"Zhou Qi, Captain Zhang is talking to you about something. You eat, drink, and say something."
Zhou Guoxing couldn't stand it anymore and scolded Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi turned a deaf ear and just ate.
"Pour some more wine for Brother Zhou, and Wei Yu, you can accompany me for a drink. If we don't talk about anything today, we just have to eat."
Zhang Yuanqing didn't care and asked Wei Yu to have another drink with him. In fact, he drank two glasses of wine on an empty stomach, and his stomach felt like it was on fire.
He simply asked Wei Yu to have a drink with him, and Lin Ru also had a drink with him.
Zhou Qi drank four glasses of wine while eating. I originally thought he was gifted, but I didn't expect that just after eating, he vomited it out again.
This made the few people who had not eaten suddenly lose their appetite.
When Lin Ru saw this, he looked away and quickly picked up the chicken and started to eat it. At this time, he remembered Zhang Yuanqing's words, a true warrior dares to face the bleak life.
Zhang Yuanqing was too lazy to look at him, but was worried about Zhou Qi's condition, so he sighed deeply.
After Zhou Qi finished vomiting, he got up and went to the room.
Zhang Yuanqing stood up and said to his back: "Brother Zhou, have you heard of "Man Jiang Hong"? When I was a child, I loved memorizing this poem the most."
After saying that, without waiting for Zhou Qi's reaction, he started to carry it on his back: "I was so angry that I leaned on the railing, and the rain stopped. I looked up, looked up to the sky and roared, my heart was strong."
Zhou Qi walked into the room, and Zhang Yuanqing stood in front of the room and shouted loudly: "Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head will turn gray, and there will be no sorrow!"
"Shut up!" Zhou Qi's angry shout came from inside the room. The angry shout was indescribably violent. Like a wounded beast.
Zhang Yuanqing is still carrying: "The shame of Jingkang has not yet fallen. The hatred of the ministers, when will it be destroyed! Drive a long chariot and break through the gap in Helan Mountain."
There was the sound of smashing things in the room. Zhang Yuanqing shouted with all his strength to cover up the sound of smashing things: "The ambitions are hungry for Hun meat, and they are laughing and talking about drinking the blood of Huns. Let's start over, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky!"
Just after carrying it, a broken basin was thrown out.
Zhang Yuanqing hurriedly dodged over. This thing caused wounds and tetanus.
Zhang Yuanqing waited aside, and after a while he heard undisguised crying coming from the room. It was a storm of hysterical crying.
Zhou Guoxing walked up to Zhang Yuanqing and lit a cigarette for him: "You are so awesome. I, Old Zhou, will not support the wall in my life, so I will support you. Wait until the crying subsides, and then you can go in again."
Even he could see it, and Zhou Qi vented a lot of his anger.
Zhang Yuanqing finished smoking his cigarette and strode into Zhou Qi's house. The room was not very dirty. It was obvious that although Zhou Qi looked sloppy, he was not a degenerate person.
There are two portraits in the house, which should be Zhou Qi's parents.
Zhang Yuanqing bowed to the portrait, and then found Zhou Qi in the corner.
Zhou Qi's eyes were red and bloodshot: "What on earth are you going to do? I'm a cripple. I'm useless. I have a debt of more than one million yuan. I'm a deadbeat. I'm useless!"
Zhang Yuanqing squatted in front of him and said sincerely: "Brother Zhou, I don't know what you have gone through, so my words can't comfort you. But I really need your help. We need someone to lead our current rural revitalization work." Let’s do it. You have ideas and brains. As long as you nod, we have hope.”
"Rural revitalization, haha, rural revitalization..." Zhou Qi, with tears in his eyes, smiled particularly sadly, "Who are you trying to revitalize, the revitalization of the rich and powerful, or the revitalization of the common people?"
Before Zhang Yuanqing could speak, Zhou Qi said sadly and angrily: "When I returned to the village to take care of my mother, everyone advised me to be a leader in poverty alleviation. I put in all my savings and established a chicken and black pig industry and a mountain product industry. .
In order to help everyone, I asked relatives, friends and villagers to pool money. Later, they found me while building roads in the town. I took out another loan. What I got in exchange, let you see what I got in exchange..."
Zhou Qi dug out a stack of white slips in the corner. Zhang Yuanqing took it and looked at it, only to find it shocking.
Everything inside is signed, and the person signing the bill is a company called Baiyun Hotel. There is a whole pile, at least hundreds of thousands of chickens, ducks, black pigs, etc.
There is not only Baiyun Hotel, but also some other hotels or companies. Ironically, some of the above remarks are about agricultural assistance or poverty alleviation activities.
In the name of helping farmers and alleviating poverty, these people are actually making idle promises in this poverty alleviation industry.
"Why did you lend out so much?" Zhang Yuanqing couldn't understand it.
"The leaders of the town personally came forward to guarantee that it would be settled once a year. I wanted to open up the market, but at the same time I mistrusted them. I did settle a few at the beginning, and then the number of IOUs increased. Finally, I went to them to ask for the account. , Baiyun Hotel, which owed the most debt, was said to have gone bankrupt. There were also some township and village enterprises that were said to be gone.
I found the town, who first reassured and then denied it. I went to court to sue, and I won the lawsuit, but I was told that it could not be enforced. The town treated me hard and soft, but ignored the people who really owed money. If I don't pay back the money, the bank will transfer all my money because the loan expires. "
Zhou Qi seemed to have opened his own wound, with a distorted face: "My property could not be maintained, and I owed money to the villagers. They ransacked my home... I took the initiative to divorce my wife and let them run away overnight.
But my mother was seriously ill at the time and had no way to leave. I was watched by people in the village. They were afraid that I would run away, so they would not let me leave the village. My mother died of a serious illness and passed away..."
When Zhang Yuanqing heard this, he could imagine his despair. In order to help the villagers get rid of poverty, he took on the responsibility of taking the lead, but he did not expect that his home would be ransacked by the villagers. Families were destroyed, wives and children were scattered.
This ending is so ironic and so sad.
In this world, the hottest thing is the human heart, and the coldest thing is the human heart.
