Chapter 6 chapter Five

They used to have a loving husband and wife, father and son concentric family, a family that is enough to boast and admire. The beauty of a first marriage is so fleeting that it passes like a whirlwind.For Shuzhen's recovery and to repay the debt owed by Shuzhen's recovery, Yue Pengcheng came to the Linglong Mountain Mine a hundred miles away.He went down to the cave at the bottom of the mountain tens of meters deep, braved the cold dripping water and the intertwined dangerous rocks, relying on his strong physique and the skilled blasting and excavation technology he learned from the army, he became the technical leader and earner of the entire mine. Most temps.He was spotted by a deputy mine manager, and was soon transferred to the ground, where he served as a canteen manager responsible for feeding thousands of people.In less than half a year, the appearance of the cafeteria has changed drastically.Yue Pengcheng was transferred to the business department again and became a senior officer in charge of planning and purchasing various mining equipment, and often went out with the deputy mine manager to negotiate business.The deputy mine manager was very satisfied, and told Yue Pengcheng that what he lacked the most was competent people, and the superior would soon set aside the quota, and he wanted to make an exception to convert Yue Pengcheng from a temporary worker to a state cadre.

This news really made Shuzhen sleepless for several nights.But it quickly cooled down—the news spread to the town somehow, and when the secretary of the town committee heard that there was such a talent in the big mulberry garden, he immediately sent someone to find the mine, determined to ask Yue Pengcheng to return to the village as branch secretary.The statement said that if the mine does not release people, they will have their household registration and party membership blocked, and they will sue the higher-level party committee in charge of the mine. In this way, Yue Pengcheng once again lost his chance to hold an iron job and returned to the village again.

Things were not going well in the village at the time.The secretary of the branch is Mrs. Xiao Yun.She was an old party member in 1942, and she has been the secretary of the branch since the land reform. She is a well-known old model.Due to age and physical reasons, she proposed several times that she wanted to find a young man to replace her.Because Mrs. Xiao Yun had an extraordinary experience with Yue Rui in the early years, Yue Pengcheng treated her like a mother since childhood.She should have been happy for Yue Pengcheng to take over, but she always felt that Yue Pengcheng was too courageous, too wild, and not steady enough; moreover, the largest Shi family in the village wanted to bring out their own people, and strongly opposed it—it was this group who sued Yue Pengcheng to the army People—Sister Xiao Yun has been refusing to respond.It wasn't until the secretary of the town committee personally brought Yue Pengcheng to Mrs. Xiao Yun's bedside to assure her that all major matters in the village had to be approved by her, that Mrs. Xiao Yun asked Yue Pengcheng to support her and came to the brigade's office.

The office of the brigade was transformed from two breeding sheds during the land reform. It is short, dark, small but clean and tidy.Mrs. Xiao Yun presided over the village government and party affairs there for more than 30 years, making those two huts a sanctuary of authority and honor in the eyes of the masses. Sister Xiao Yun pointed to the award flags and certificates hanging on the wall of the office, and told Yue Pengcheng the glory that each side represented.When it was over, he asked the accountant to take out the account book, pointed to the 800 yuan deposit marked on it, and said very seriously: "Cheng Zi, this is the family property accumulated by hundreds of households in the village for more than ten years. In addition to buying some pens and ink Paper, I am not willing to waste a penny. Now I leave it to you. Remember, don’t think that I treat you like my own son. If you throw me a red flag and kick this family business, I will not obey you!"

Yue Pengcheng solemnly accepted the honor and family property entrusted by Mrs. Xiao Yun.Learned from Dazhai and won the "Red Flag Model" for two consecutive years. On the day when the secretary of the county party committee wore red ribbons and led a horse parade for him, Shuzhen led the official and held a silver screen, squeezed into the crowded crowd in the county town, and shed tears.However, in order to maintain the "red flag pacesetter" and continue to increase land production, one has to be willing to invest capital.The land is spongy, chemical fertilizers, superphosphate, nitric acid... The income of the members only falls on the paper, and the 800 yuan family fortune is also posted in it.God, how is this so good!

What Shuzhen was even more anxious about was: it was time to buy books and pay tuition fees, and the two chickens that laid eggs had been sold to raise enough money; and if the money was not raised enough, it would be difficult for Leiguan’s secondary technical school to go on! On that day, Shuzhen was sitting in the courtyard and hastily weaving wicker baskets.Because of her anxiety, the wicker broke several times and pricked her fingers bloody several times.When Yue Pengcheng came back from the ground, he saw that the fireworks in the house hadn't moved, and seeing Shuzhen's embarrassed appearance, he felt angry and said, "Look! How many work points do you lack in this family?"

Wicker baskets are a sideline of the family, and at that time it was "statutory" that they could only be handed over to the team in exchange for work points. Seeing his face, Shuzhen didn't have a good tone: "Work points? Work points can be used as money? Will you pay the tuition fees for officials?" Yue Pengcheng was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly recalled and searched for a notice in his pocket.The notice was sent by technical secondary school a few days ago, saying that the tuition and miscellaneous fees of officials were overdue, and if they failed to pay by a certain date, they would be expelled from school according to the regulations.

It was a matter of his son's future, so Yue Pengcheng also put aside all the "protecting the red flag" in his head, took over the work from Shuzhen and started to work quickly: weaving a few more wicker baskets and sending them to the black market tomorrow morning, maybe it's okay ...However, before they had been busy for long, Lei Guan appeared in front of them with a pitiful luggage roll on his back. "Lei Guan, you are..." Shuzhen greeted her son with a dumbfounded expression. Lei Guan smiled miserably. Everything is understood!It's too late! "No! I'll go to the school to reason!" Yue Pengcheng jumped up like a lion.

"Who are you going to talk to?" Shuzhen, who threw herself to her son with tears streaming down her eyes, suddenly pointed her sharp eyes at Yue Pengcheng, "You only know how to grab your big red flag all day long. Do you know what life is like? Earlier you swore that you would let me live a comfortable life. I couldn’t afford it, but my son, my son can’t even go to school! Are you still a father? You Is he still a man?..." Shuzhen wailed and ran into the house, and Yue Pengcheng collapsed on the ground like a paper man falling apart... After days and nights of hard thinking, days and nights of repeated planning, Yue Pengcheng led a team "Learning from Dazhai Special Detachment" quietly drove to the saltworks.A month later, a deposit slip of 10,000 yuan fell into Yue Pengcheng's hands.That deposit slip soon turned into a small carpentry factory again.

"Our small wood factory, just earning handwork money, will never be able to pay for it! If I can get wood by myself, then I will!" Yue Pengcheng expressed emotion during a meal. "It's hard to say if we want to make wood, Guandong Mountain has plenty!" Lei Guan said intentionally or unintentionally. "Eating the rushes, you can speak lightly! Is the wood from Guandong Mountain prepared for you?" Shuzhen reprimanded. "It's not for us, so why don't we bring it back? Didn't you hear the loudspeaker shouting all day: Live it up, live it up!"

"You can't have Li Longye's ability to make it alive, and get it to Guandong Mountain!" "Then it depends on whether there are any Sun Monkeys!" Yue Pengcheng blinked his eyes and listened to his wife's bickering.Hearing that he was happy, he slapped his thigh and said to Lei Guan: "Good boy! You really have the guts. Let me go to Guandong Mountain next time, do you dare?" Five days later they set off.Taking a truck, climbing a train, stopping a tractor, and driving the "No. 11" quickly, Yue Pengcheng and Leiguan arrived in Yichun after several rounds.Yichun is an out-and-out frontier city and a city of forests, with towering ancient trees all over the mountains, and large and small forest farms one after another.The father and son of the Yue family turned their eyes around, and felt proud.However, those forest farms, big or small, are all employed by the state, and all they do are government-run businesses, and they refuse to look squarely at the two peasant father and son from foreign lands.The first time I entered a forest farm, people "studied" the letter of introduction with the seal of the Damulberry Brigade several times, crumpled it and threw it into the stove, and then issued an order to expel the visitor.The second and third times, in addition to repeating the process of the first time, they also provoked a lot of cynicism.At that time, "opening up and invigorating" was still a new term in newspapers and broadcasts, and the forest farm was still a stagnant well. This hurt the father and son of the Yue family.Hiding in someone else's thatched hut for a night, the next day is even better, and even if you come to a forest farm, you are not allowed to enter.Yue Pengcheng braved the courage to force his way in, but was hardly caught as a "blind person" who was planning to do something wrong. Hungry and cold, the father and son had no choice but to sit in a sunny field not far from the gate of the forest farm and gnaw on the pancakes brought by Shuzhen—there were not many pancakes left; Back home by begging. It was noon, and the off-duty bell rang, and the cadres and workers of the forest farm went to the dormitory area in twos and threes.Yue Pengcheng looked angry, and Leiguan's heart suddenly moved. He took the package and walked to the gate of the forest farm, sat down on the spot, spread the cooked prawns in the package in front of him, and then picked out a few big and bright , Grab it with both hands and fill it into your mouth.Yue Pengcheng was confused, but the forest farm cadres and workers who were off work stopped in surprise. "Hey! Young man, what a blessing!" said a man who looked like a cadre. Lei Guan didn't raise his eyes and kept talking: "Blessing? Just this rotten prawn? Who in the Northeast cares about this." "Yeah! Where did you get this information?" The cadre became more and more interested. "Isn't the gate still open? My dad and I have traveled thousands of miles to send you prawns, and you won't even let them in!" Lei Guan pouted at Yue Pengcheng who was walking towards him. "Oh?" The cadre looked at Yue Pengcheng with some surprise, and asked, "Are you really in this business?" At this time, Yue Pengcheng had seen some tricks, and replied: "Is this still a fake? Over there in Jilin, people treat me with wine and food. How are you here?" The cadre thought about it for a while, and saw that the workers were chattering so much that they barely salivated, and said, "I wish I didn't just throw away the three catties." Yue Pengcheng said: "I still have to find you in Guandong Mountain for three catties and two catties? Let me tell you, what I'm looking for is not money, but your red pine wood!" "That's easy to say!" The cadre immediately called someone, and ordered Yue Pengcheng and his son to be invited into the small restaurant of the forest farm. The contract was signed overnight: the Damulberry Garden sends three carloads of fish and shrimp to the forest farm on May 1st, October 1st, and Spring Festival every year, and the forestry farm sends three carloads of logs to the Damulberry Garden during the corresponding time every year.Both parties will give each other the lowest price, and the difference will be compensated in kind at the end of the year. The contract was honored.Although Yue Pengcheng has to pay a considerable amount of "wagon transfer fee" every year, the "wood processing factory" has become a "wooden manufacturing factory", and it is developing and creating miracles at a speed beyond people's imagination. The world is surly, and the good times have not passed for two years.One day, Yue Pengcheng was drinking with some friends at home, and Qi Xiuliang, the supply and marketing section chief of the woodware factory, sent a telegram.The telegram was sent by Yichun, and the content was very simple: The fish and shrimps sent were damaged and planned to be returned. go.Because I got the news not long ago that the head of the forest farm has changed. This head is very dissatisfied with many of the predecessor's practices, and many original contracts have to be terminated or revised.Yue Pengcheng spared no expense to get ahead, thinking that he could stabilize the opponent and ensure that his financial resources would not be affected.What I didn't expect was such a piece of paper with a sinister telegram inside! "Our fish and shrimp are loaded directly from the cold storage on the train, so there is no way they will go bad." Qi Xiuliang said confessionally. "What kind of fish and shrimp are broken! What kind of goods are returned when the fish and shrimp are broken? In this kind of weather, it would be strange if they returned home and didn't turn into shit!" "This is obviously blackmail, forcing us to bargain!" "Haggle the price? I'm afraid the contract will be voided! Friends who were drinking and the new director of the woodware factory, Lei Guan, and others were discussing angrily. "Mom, you son of a bitch!" Yue Pengcheng punched the cups, plates, and saucers on the table to the side. I have already guarded against his move, and the lawyer has already been hired! I want to change a word in the contract, give it a try!" He drank several glasses of wine in one go, Qi Xiuliang said: "Return the telegram! Just tell them, do whatever you want, and meet in court!" Friends who were drinking heard what Yue Pengcheng said so confidently, cheered and applauded together.Lei Guan took office and was about to show his ambitions, so he naturally supported the act of punishing the forest farm for treachery. Qi Xiuliang's heart trembled, he stood there but didn't move. Shuzhen was angry in her heart, but she looked at her husband and son who were burnt with anger, and comforted her, "Pengcheng, I drank a lot today, and besides, it's getting dark, should I wait until tomorrow to send the telegram..." "No!" Yue Pengcheng was full of energy, more and more urgent, Qi Xiuliang said, "Send it! Don't change a single word! Go right away! If you can't send it out today, you don't need to be the chief of the supply and marketing section!" The telegram was sent.That night, Yue Pengcheng drank so much that he turned around on the kang and scolded all night, and had a "lawsuit" with Yichun's top leader all night.Shuzhen also had a nightmare all night.She dreamed that the carpentry factory was blown away by a gust of wind, and her official became Yue Pengcheng, who was sitting by the sea in despair; tears. On the second and third days, Lei Guan and Qi Xiuliang invited a lawyer, and followed the lawyer's instructions, and made all preparations for the lawsuit. At noon on the fourth day, Yue Pengcheng suddenly proposed that he would go to Yichun to meet the newly appointed leader in person, and asked him to send another telegram to Yichun, informing him of the date and train number. Although it is April, Yichun, which is located in the deep mountain forest area of ​​the northern country, still shows a bit of cold spring.The pitch-black coniferous tips of ancient pine trees began to turn green; the arms of poplar tomentosa exposed clusters of fluffy buds in the wind; Singing the prelude to the spring of the Northland.The station is simple and busy, and there are hills built of red pine wood everywhere.As expected, the forest farm didn't even send a truck. I took out a hundred yuan and drank a few glasses of wine in a simple restaurant, and Xiao Xie who was accompanying me was left behind.Yue Pengcheng, Leiguan and Qi Xiuliang stopped a Jim car (for a reward, of course) and went straight to the forest farm. It seemed to be specially designed to welcome their arrival. There were more than a dozen people sitting in the impressive reception room of the forestry farm—it was later learned that there were several specially invited dignitaries from the court and the Public Security Bureau.His face was all grim, the bluish imprint carved by the wind and frost of the northern country, and the posture of holding his chest up and arms as if facing an enemy, made the grimness reveal a cold and cold air. "Welcome, welcome! Welcome to the distinguished guests who have come from afar to meet our court!" The new leader, a middle-aged man as strong as a wild bear, stood up casually and shook hands with Yue Pengcheng.He was very hard, as if it was the first fight, Yue Pengcheng felt that the joints of the back of his hand and fingers were about to be shattered. No sitting, no tea, not even a few words of greeting.Two boxes were brought in and placed on the open space in front of Yue Pengcheng.When the box was opened, the blackened fish and shrimp emitted a pungent stench. This is not a product from Dasangyuan at all!Lei Guan and Qi Xiuliang opened their purses and took out samples, photos and other evidence that could expose the deception. Yue Pengcheng quietly stopped their actions.He looked around the audience, and suddenly let out a burst of laughter: "Secretary Ma, Director Lu, have you misunderstood the meaning of my visit this time? Ha..." "Secretary Yue, it's better not to act." Sitting next to Secretary Ma, the deputy head who was as thin as a handful of dry wood, sat in the top position, sneered. In front of Yue Pengcheng: "Secretary Yue, this can't be the grandson of the post office to make us laugh?" Yue Pengcheng took the telegram, pretended to read it carefully, put it down, and said. "There is such a thing. But this is a good thing done by the former director of the machine factory. I have dismissed him." Without waiting for the other party to respond, he pointed to Leiguan and said, "Let me introduce, this is my newly appointed director of the woodware factory, Yue Leiguan. I would like to tell the leaders bluntly that he is my eldest son and son. Lei Official," he tugged at the official's arm, "you still have to greet Uncle Ma, Uncle Lu and all the uncles!" Lei Guan was dazed, and reluctantly got up mechanically, and nodded as if shy. The tall and solid stove in the reception room was added with a few pieces of red pine wood that was dripping with oil.The flames sprang upwards, making a whistling sound.The room seemed to be much warmer, and the ice in people's hearts seemed to have begun to melt. "Then, the reason why Secretary Yue came here this time is..." Deputy director Gan Chai looked at the leader, still maintaining a state of vigilance. " "There is only one reason why I came all the way this time." Yue Pengcheng showed a frank and serious expression on his generous face, "That is: to apologize to Secretary Ma, Director Lu and all the leaders and masters of the forest farm. We work Didn’t do it well, something went wrong with the fish and shrimp, they were unreasonable, and started to threaten. What’s wrong with this! We are in business, and what we talk about is trust and friendship! We don’t talk about these two things, they’re gone, Shouldn't my secretary come to the door in person to plead guilty? To use an old saying in official circles: "The prime minister can punt a boat in his belly." I hope that Secretary Ma, Director Lu and all the leaders and masters will not be as knowledgeable as our country ruffians. !Massive!..." What followed was three ninety-degree bows in mourning before the portrait. Ganchai's deputy director and all the people present showed smiles.Only the top leader sat upright and remained calm. "Then, is Secretary Yue planning to transport that carload of fish and shrimp back home, or is he planning to dispose of it on the spot?" The air tensed again imperceptibly.Good things are easy to say, only the real ones can see the truth.It is obviously impossible to ship it back; deal with it on the spot, if the price is not lowered to a certain level, it doesn’t matter if you misunderstand, apologize, or bow at ninety degrees, it’s all a fart! Lei Guan and Qi Xiuliang could hear their own heartbeats.That's dozens of tons of seafood and hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you loosen your mouth a little, it's not a small amount. Just at this time, a staff member of the forest farm office opened the door and came in and asked if there was Yue Pengcheng from Shandong, and the secretary of the municipal party committee called to look for it.Yue Pengcheng responded, got up and left calmly.There seemed to be an unintentional gap in the door of the reception room.The phone call was very cordial. As the secretary of the municipal party committee of a Shandong fellow, he said that the driver had told Yue Pengcheng that he was coming, and he wanted to invite him to live in his home.Yue Pengcheng repeatedly thanked him, but only agreed to go home to visit the secretary of the municipal party committee and his wife after finishing his official business. The content of the phone call was passed into the reception room verbatim.When Yue Pengcheng returned to the reception room, the leader, who was as tough as a bear, couldn't help showing a little discomfort, and his wandering eyes wandered back and forth on Yue Pengcheng's face a few times. Lei Guan and Qi Xiuliang understood the purpose of Yue Pengcheng's trip and Xiao Xie's special mission of being left in the city, and they cheered in their hearts: "Well, you are a leader, let's see if you dare to lower my fish price by a penny. Yue Pengcheng sat back on the sofa as if nothing had happened, deliberately took a thermos bottle and a cup, filled the cup with water, tested it, refilled it again, and started sucking loudly.The air in the room became more and more solemn, and the leader and the deputy head of Ganchai became more and more aware that their bodies were covered with caterpillars. "Just now Secretary Ma talked about how to deal with the carload of fish and shrimp." Yue Pengcheng nodded apologetically at the leader, "I think it's better to use Yang Zirong's words and put friendship first. Secretary Ma, you What do you see?" "Yes, friendship is the most important thing, friendship is the most important thing!" A sweet smile appeared on the embarrassing face of the leader. "That's good!" Yue Pengcheng waved his hand briskly, and said loudly: "What Secretary Arima said, I, Yue Pengcheng, are worth it! Let's see, that truckload of skinned fish and shrimps is our kindness to the leaders and employees of the forest farm. No money will be charged, all will be given away for free!" Like an atomic bomb being lifted into the sky, all the people in the conference room opened their mouths wide open, unable to get together for a long time. ...the situation has changed dramatically.That night was delicacies of wild game, fine wines and fine wines.When Yue Pengcheng, who was a "true buddy" by the arm, walked out of the banquet hall, Ganchai's deputy director reported: Except for the remaining part of the truckload of fish and shrimp, all of them were distributed to the employees for free.The employees said that this was a great practical and good deed done by the new secretary, and several even shouted the slogan "Long live the new secretary". "Ha... that's interesting! It's really interesting!..." One of them danced hand in hand, holding Yue Pengcheng in the uneven yard, and danced "Three Steps Slowly" and "Disco". The next day, accompanied by the leader himself, two Beijing jeeps carrying several shotguns and a "Cassie" passed through the forest corridor composed of primitive red pine trees and went straight to the top of the "Fenglin Reserve".Climbing the watchtower, visiting the herbarium of animals and plants, watching the "falling mountains" and "driving sheep"... On the fourth day, Yue Pengcheng is about to set off.Under repeated urging and "coercion" by the top leader and the deputy director of Ganchai, Yue Pengcheng said lightly: "What can I do? The great thing is to expand the factory. If it is convenient for you..." "What's so inconvenient about this!" The leader showed a rare frankness and determination, "Do it! The original contract remains unchanged, and I will send you three extra cars!" One month later, three wagons of logs were transported to Damulberry Garden.Qi Xiuliang made a calculation: Not to mention the profit of making furniture and woodware, just by reselling these logs and making up for the wagonload of fish and shrimp, he can make a net profit of 120,000 yuan! Yue Pengcheng's friends were convinced, as were Qi Xiuliang and the village cadres.Even Lei Guan was impressed by the strategy and bearing of a big businessman and diplomat shown by his father.When Yue Pengcheng returned home, he immediately took Shuzhenping into his arms and spun around like when he was newly married.He also leaned into her ear and said that the reason why he adopted a new strategy was because Shuzhen's "consultant" read a short article about the successful experience of a big overseas entrepreneur that she forced him to read.