Chapter 522 Lazy Man (asking for monthly ticket subscription)

The Lunar New Year always feels most like the New Year.

Just like what most people remember from their childhood, at the time when winter turns to spring, the vitality and warmth of the Chinese land are awakened in a unique way. Every household is decorated with lanterns and lanterns are hung high. The festive and lively scene, accompanied by the smell of firecrackers and fireworks, fills the sky above Yunxi.

Buying New Year’s goods has always been something Zhang Yunqi enjoys doing.

On New Year's Eve, he took Chu Jian to the market in Longwan Town, bought New Year pictures, firecrackers and couplets, and ate some of the things he had drooled over as a child but rarely had the chance to eat: oil lanterns stuffed with pork, rice dumplings and sugar-coated glutinous rice cakes.

After returning from the town, Zhang Yunqi unloaded the goods at his doorstep.

At this time, an old man came from the village. Zhang Yunqi noticed him. He should be more than 40 years old. He was wearing a tattered blue cotton jacket with holes in many places, revealing the cotton wool inside, which had turned black and moldy. His hair was also messy and could be used as a chicken coop. Every household was busy at this time, but he was the only one who was wandering around with his hands clasped together, as if he had nothing to do. He just wandered around and came to the door of Zhang's house where goods were being unloaded.

Zhang Yunqi knew this man. He was an old bachelor in the village, named Liu Yangma. He drank all day and wandered around the village playing mahjong.

When Zhang Yunqi saw him coming, he took out a cigarette and handed it to him, calling him "Uncle Yangma".

Liu Yangma took the cigarette and sniffed it: "Zhonghua, good cigarettes, good cigarettes, I remember the past..."

Zhang Yunqi immediately interrupted him from thinking about his past glory and asked, "Uncle Yang Ma, what's the matter?"

He took out a match and lit a cigarette. After taking two puffs in ecstasy, he pointed to the rows of villas. In front of the doors were villagers who were busy slaughtering chickens and ducks and preparing for a good harvest. He said, "Look, people just want to have a mouth to feed, why do they have to be so busy? They are doing more and more things, what's the point? I only work seven days a month, which is enough for me to drink and play cards. The rest of the time is for sleeping. I said this to others, but no one understood. I wonder what you, a scholar, think about it?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

Liu Yangma's words reminded him of some of the history of this old bachelor that he had heard before.

When he was young, Liu Yangma did some small business of reselling and traveled far and wide. He was once rich. At his best, he was worth ten thousand yuan. Later, he lost in gambling and the woman ran away. From this, he came to the conclusion that women love money more than men.

Now, he is the idlest person in the village, having seen through all worldly affairs. He is probably the only person in the entire Yunxi Village who dares to be rude to Zhang Yunqi.

When Zhang Yunqi asked the villagers in Yunxi to take out loans and raise funds to set up a shareholding cooperative, he was one of the few villagers who did not participate. As a result, he now cannot get any dividends from the cooperative's shares. He is unwilling to manage his small private plot, and weeds have grown on it as tall as a man. This time when the village raised funds to build villas, he was also not included in the share. Now he still lives in two shabby huts and lives in poverty.

Now, all the villagers in Yunxi Village have a goal to go towards and their lives are prosperous. Zhang Haijun, the village party secretary and chairman of the cooperative, can't stand it anymore. Or he may think that this poor lazy man wandering around the village is an eyesore. Government leaders often come to inspect, so he arranges for him to do some work in the cooperative. However, he has his own rules for working for others. He won't go when it's windy or rainy, or when it's busy. Sometimes, he will just pick some vegetables from someone's vegetable garden, or pick a loofah from under the melon rack, or steal a chicken with his lazy friends. He lives a very carefree life.

However, Liu Yangma's question just now has risen to the philosophical level. Zhang Yunqi praised: "Not bad, I quite agree."

Liu Yangma said proudly: "That's right, educated people are different. Those peasants are really not worth talking to!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and grabbed an old hen from the trunk and handed it to Liu Yangma: "Uncle, Happy New Year."

Liu Yangma's eyes lit up and he immediately took the chicken.

Zhang Yunqi said: "Poverty is not socialism. You still have to pluck the chicken feathers before eating."

Liu Yangma laughed and muttered, "I know! I know! Thank you, nephew."

As he spoke, Liu Yangma had already picked up the lively chicken and walked along the road towards the dilapidated old houses deep in the village.

It was a bright spring day, and green buds were already sprouting among the dry grass on both sides of the road. The figure of the poor lazy man looked particularly cheerful under the sunshine.

The New Year is always happy.

The New Year for the rich is doubly joyful.

In the atmosphere filled with the festive atmosphere of the New Year, Zhang Yunqi ate a lot of local specialties from his hometown, set off fireworks, visited relatives, and drank a lot of wine, from the first day of the New Year to the sixth day. Now, the villagers in his hometown have regarded it as an honor to invite this "big shot" to their homes for dinner, and they are calculating the days to invite him to their homes. Some people even argued about whose house Zhang Yunqi should visit first, which made Zhang's mother very worried.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Haijun invited Zhang Yunqi to attend a meeting at the village cooperative.

After the Chinese New Year, Zhang Yunqi will return to the provincial capital of Lijin, and he doesn't know when he will come back next time. He is indeed the largest shareholder and actual controller of various industries in the village. Although he is no longer able to manage the affairs of the village, since he is here, he still needs to understand the situation.

The agenda of the meeting was the development issues of Yunxi Village in the new year.

There were many participants in the meeting. In addition to the cooperative management headed by Zhang Haijun, there was also Niu Fen, the general manager of Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park under the Liansheng system. Liansheng’s president Li Jilin was spending the New Year in Lijin this year and did not come. Zhang Yunqi also hoped that he could focus more on the Dongting Lake project and Qiaoku Town project this year.

At present, the industry in Yunxi Village is very large. Under the village shareholding cooperative, there are three large-scale breeding bases with an area of ​​12 acres operated by the wholly-owned Huafeng Agriculture, and a cooperation agreement has been reached with the Fengyang government on the unified purchase of scattered seeds in townships.

This is the foundation of Yunxi Village.

Yunxi Village has been the core of the rapid development of the collective economy in recent years.

However, the two industrial operation models created by Zhang Yunqi, namely cooperative + company + production base and cooperative + underwriting contract + farmers' scattered planting, have been running for so many years and are already very mature. Zhang Yunqi has nothing to say.

What he wanted to talk about was the revitalization and management direction of the newly opened village collective housing land and construction land in Yunxi.

Although the domestic tourism industry has just started and surrounding tours such as farm stays have only become popular after the 21st century, Yunxi Village is now well-known throughout the country, and there are many people who come to Yunxi every now and then to see what's new. It is necessary to seize this opportunity and gradually expand the village's diversified economic structure towards the direction of entertainment and tourism.

This area is managed by Yunxing Asset Management Co., Ltd., a village-run enterprise jointly established by Yunxi and Liansheng.

Yunxing Asset Management is a village collective asset management company jointly established by Liansheng Group and Yunxi Village last year. Yunxi Village holds 60% of the shares and Liansheng Group holds 40%. Zhang Haijun is the chairman, and the general manager was appointed by Li Jilin. His name is Wang Songming. I heard that he graduated from Huazhong Agriculture and is in his thirties. He also came here today, but it was the first time Zhang Yunqi met him.

After everyone gathered and chatted for a while, Zhang Yunqi spoke first and went straight to the point: "My dear uncles, the village cooperative did a good job last year. I saw that the data reports were quite impressive. Last year, we also opened up channels with the agricultural product supply and marketing platform established in the city. With the addition of Liansheng, we don’t have to worry about sales. I estimate that the situation this year will be better. So, today I want to talk about Yunxing Asset Management. This subsidiary has been established for half a year, but until now, the village’s homesteads and collective construction land have not been fully acquired. I am also very busy, and I can’t take care of many things in the village. I just heard my eldest brother talk about it a few days ago, and I didn’t know the details of this matter, but today my uncles asked me to come over to talk, and I just want to understand what this is about."

No one was saying anything. Wang Songming, the general manager of Yunxing, who was meeting Zhang Yunqi, the big boss of the parent group, for the first time, seemed a little nervous, as if he had not done a good job. However, since the big boss mentioned Yunxing Asset Management by name, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Mr. Zhang, since the establishment of Yunxing Asset Management, according to Li Jilin's arrangement, the project has actually been advancing. The trademarks have been registered, and most of the villagers have also agreed on the terms. However, several families in the core areas of the village are not happy." Zhang Yunqi asked, "Who is not happy?"

Wang Songming glanced at Zhang Haijun and said nothing.

Zhang Haijun sighed, lit a cigarette and continued, "This is a long story. When we established the joint-stock cooperative, several families were afraid of losing money and did not dare to take out loans to buy shares. Now the cooperative is developing well and there are dividends every year, but they got nothing. This year, the village built villas collectively, and this group of people is even more jealous. Now it is not practical to find them to buy houses! They don't have a quota for villas and they still live in the old house. If their houses are taken away, where will they live? They will definitely ask for a lot of money now."

Zhang Yunqi nodded: "I understand. Uncle Haijun is telling the truth. Among those villagers who disagree, Uncle Yangma is also one of them, right?"

Zhang Haijun snorted, "He's the one causing the most trouble! He wants the village to give him a villa before he agrees. How is that possible?"

Zhang Yunqi nodded: "The village has developed so well in recent years. It is normal for those uncles who did not invest to complain because they did not enjoy the dividends. But if we give them the benefits now, other villagers who have invested will definitely complain even more. This seems to be an unsolvable problem. But what I want to say is that Yunxing Asset Management will take over Yunxi's assets and resources in an all-round way. The first business is to uniformly collect, store, repair and develop and revitalize Yunxi's idle farmhouses and homesteads. Things have just begun, and they are stuck here."

Zhang Yunqi added: "You should know that Yunxing Asset Management is a company, Liansheng and Yunxi are partners, the operation of the village's collective construction land and homesteads is the responsibility of Liansheng, and land acquisition and storage is the responsibility of the village, and it is written in black and white in the contract, so it is meaningless to complain about the contract now. No matter how difficult the work is, we have to do it. The specific decision on how to do it is still up to you uncles, after all, you know the truth."

When this was said, everyone immediately started talking.

On the one hand, they complained about the difficulties of handling this matter, but more importantly, they cursed those villagers who did not cooperate with the development of the village.

If it was in Qiaokou Town in Lijin, Zhang Yunqi would not be so polite, but he did not want to get too involved in this matter involving his own village. This is very realistic. Since ancient times, demolition and construction have always been the flashpoint of conflicts. As the boss of Liansheng and an ordinary member of the village, he would be scolded if he tilted his butt in that direction! So he made it clear that this matter must be resolved by the leaders of the village committee and the cooperative council.

It's written in black and white on the contract!

Finally, Zhang Yunqi still talked about the next development plan of Yunxing Asset Management in the smoke-filled conference room. Wang Songming took notes meticulously, but the topic later turned back to the issue of those villagers who refused to cooperate with the collection and storage of private houses. A group of men discussed it until dark, but still could not come to a conclusion.

There must have been some quarrel over this matter.

Zhang Yunqi also needs time to think it over.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yunqi received a call from Lin Xueqing, the last monitor of Class 156 in high school, and everyone suggested holding a class reunion in the city.

It has been so long since he returned to Jiangchuan, but he and Chu Jian have not had a proper reunion with their old classmates. There are only a few days left during the winter vacation, so they naturally cannot miss this class reunion.

The next day, Zhang Yunqi drove Chu Jian back to Jiangchuan.

The older generation has conservative ideas, especially Aunt Zhang, who doesn't allow her children to do anything wrong.

When there were people at home, Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian would sleep in their own bedrooms. Of course, he would often sneak into Chu Jian's room and sleep in her bed when it was late at night.

But every time before dawn, Chu Jian in her arms would push him awake even though he was exhausted, and tell him to go back with a blushing face.

Damn it, every time he slept with his wife it felt like he was having an affair. The worst thing was that he didn’t experience any of the otherworldly pleasure that Ximen Qing had when he had a night out with Jinlian.

This time, Jiangchuan was the only one in his large single-family villa with Chujian.

From the living room to the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and even the rooftop terrace, all are his private space.

The high school reunion is at 7pm.

After Zhang Yunqi arrived in Jiangchuan in the afternoon, he called Tian Zhuangzhuang.

It has been so long since they came back from winter break, but the two brothers haven't sat down and chatted for a long time. Zhang Yunqi is curious about how Tian Zhuangzhuang is doing in college in Guangdong: "By the way, what did you study in college?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang immediately said, "I studied agriculture! Damn it, you even forgot what my major is. Boss Zhang, this brother can't get along with me anymore."

Zhang Yunqi smiled: "Don't mind it. After all, it's hard for me to realize that someone as vulgar as you can actually be related to such a simple agriculture. By the way, have you picked up any girls at school?"

When this topic is mentioned, Tian Zhuangzhuang becomes a little resentful: "How many students studying agriculture are good looking? They all look weird. When I think about sleeping with them in my arms, I would rather sleep with a ball in my arms."

Zhang Yunqi said, "Isn't your kind of map-shooting inappropriate? Girls who study agriculture are so simple and honest."

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "Then why don't you find a country girl? Why do you want to sleep with Chu Jian every day?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang suddenly said, "By the way, Kaizi also went back to Jiangchuan for the New Year, but you had already returned to your hometown by then. Before the New Year, we had a meal together next to the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Wow! When Kaizi came, he was wearing a windbreaker and sunglasses, with a huge mobile phone on his waist that looked like a grenade. At that time, we old classmates were all stunned. He looked like a very cool underworld second in command."

Zhang Yunqi was amused. He thought Wang Xiaokai still looked the same as before. This was 1996, and not many people in the country could afford small mobile phones. For students, pagers were rare, so mobile phones were still quite popular.

Zhang Yunqi asked, "Why doesn't he look like a gangster boss?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "The boss is usually not this handsome."

Zhang Yunqi pondered over Tian Zhuangzhuang's words and said, "Why the hell do I feel like you're cursing at me?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang asked: "Where is it?"

Zhang Yunqi couldn't swallow this breath: "Who is more handsome, Chen Haonan or Shan Ji?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "Well... I only know that the little mute is the most beautiful."

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