Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1686: Things That Are Hard to Explain

Of course, this trip was not in vain. Early the next morning, Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong started to go to the commodity market again.

There are many things needed, such as electric drills, small air cannons, electric winches, wire mesh, cables of various types, motors, small lathes, various small hardware, screws, electric saws, pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers...

There are a lot of them.

I heard that the goods had to be delivered to Lianhe Township. I went to the whole market but no one was willing to deliver. Finally, the merchant who bought the pneumatic blower, pneumatic motor and electric drill felt that he had met a big customer and said, "Didn't you just buy a small lathe? Buy all kinds of matching clamps and tools from me. If you also assign the work of laying water pipes to my brothers, my brothers will help you make this trip."

Wu Renzhong was very angry and thought this was discrimination against country people.

Zhou Zhi was not actually happy either, but he had often gone to the countryside before and knew there was nothing he could do about it, so he stopped Wu Renzhong who was about to lose his temper and started talking about "business" with him with a smile.

In the end, they negotiated for a few more rolls of iron mesh and steel frames, and the two parties happily shook hands and concluded the deal.

In the afternoon, Liu Mei'e and Shama Ricong also contacted each other to prepare the first batch of books urgently for the village. The guards from Zhouzhi were not used to transport goods in the morning, so now they were all loaded with books.

After being busy for the whole day, Zhou Zhi also went to the post office to mail the letters he had written to various places. Then he and Wu Renzhong drove back to Lianhe Township at night.

Driving at night in Liangshan Prefecture is a very exciting thing. In addition to the natural environment and wild animals, people are actually very scary. These days there are still bandits who rob people on the road in the wilderness.

However, the road bandits also treat people differently based on their situation. Zhou Zhi's car has an external speaker, which plays Lao Chi Ri's Bimo Sutra. It can not only drive away ghosts, but also dispel the bad intentions of those along the way.

In this area, the chanting of Bimos is more effective than the words of many village cadres.

Just in case, Zhou Zhi took out the special baton that was kept in the car and gave it to Wu Renzhong. This thing was an improved official police model, a production line sample that Zhao Zhonggang got for Zhou Zhi.

Today's batons have two adjustable lengths, and the cross-section has changed from round to triangular, making them more damaging.

It seems that Wu Renzhong was also a troublesome person when he was a teenager. He would hold this thing and press it to open, pop it out, and then push it back again on the passenger seat, which he thought was very fun.

"Elbow, have you ever been in a fight?"

"My cousin has finished all the fights in our family, it's not my turn." Zhou Zhi thought of He Dayong: "He is lucky. If he hadn't met Sister Xiao Juaner, he would probably be in the police station now."

"The sister Xiao Juan'er you are talking about is Liu Xiaojuan? Your cousin's wife?"

"Yes, she is amazing. She has turned my aunt's family pickle-making skills into such a big group."

"I've read her report." Wu Renzhong said with some admiration: "A private enterprise that has only been established for less than two years dares to bid for CCTV. It's really courageous!"

"Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. If wealth comes crashing down on you, you have to be able to catch it." Zhou Zhi said, "At that time, Sister Xiao Juaner had already promoted the brand to Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macau. She was also ready to expand the scale locally. The merger and acquisition of several sauce factories had also been basically completed. It can be said that everything was ready. The CCTV bid winner was just the icing on the cake."

"In fact, all the money from the first year went to the TV station. In the second year, we switched to a cheaper package. Only then did we start making money."

"Then isn't your cousin even more powerful? He can even control a daughter-in-law like this." Wu Renzhong marveled.

"You're wrong, my cousin is a devil. He was a small gangster when he was young and a big gangster when he grew up." Zhou Zhi dug up Dayong's old accounts and began to cite his advantages: "But he has a few good points. One is that he is righteous, two is that he is filial, and three is that once he has made up his mind about something, he will not change his original intention. The fourth... I don't know if it is an advantage or a disadvantage that he regards money as dirt." "Everyone was very poor at the time. Sister Xiaojuan'er was mainly attracted by the first three points of him, yes, especially the third one." Zhou Zhi said: "Brother Dayong chose Sister Xiaojuan'er, which is really like the vows made by Westerners before marriage in TV dramas, 'No matter whether she is in good or bad, rich or poor, in sickness or health, I will love her and cherish her'."

"For most people, this is easier said than done. But my cousin is someone who never says it, but does it as naturally as eating and drinking." Zhou Zhi said quietly, "So as I get older, I admire him more and more."

"I thought I was good enough to Shama." Wu Renzhong said, "Now it seems that I am still far from being good enough."

"Women are very sensitive animals. If you are really good to her, she can feel it." Zhou Zhi said faintly: "Of course, the premise is that she has feelings for you."

"Huh?" Wu Renzhong asked cautiously, "Did your kid have a girlfriend? And now he's broken up again? Isn't that why your kid came to Lianhe Township? To change the environment and heal his wounds?"

"Get lost! How about you drive instead? I want to get some sleep."

"Come on, you want to change the subject right after we got here. I was absolutely right about your child..."

The two of them chatted meaninglessly while taking turns driving forward. After passing Meigu County, there was not a single car on the road. However, wild animals passed by from time to time, which scared the two of them.

"Oh my god! Renzhong, wake up, wake up!" After passing Jiukou Township and still two or three hours away from the destination, the guard's car lights shone on a small animal with a red back, a black belly, and a big furry and colorful tail on a tree on the top of the slope.

"What is that?" Wu Renzhong was confused and squinted his eyes to see where Zhou Zhi pointed. "Oh my god! A red panda! A wild one!"

Under the thin morning light and strong light, the red panda on the tree yawned. It was not afraid of the oncoming vehicles at all. Instead, it looked at the "uninvited guest" that disturbed its peace with some curiosity.

"Turn off the lights, turn off the lights..." At Wu Renzhong's urging, Zhou Zhi turned off the car headlights, put the car in first gear, and slowly drove up the hill towards the big tree where the red pandas lived.

"What level of protected animal status is this thing?" Wu Renzhong asked.

China only began to implement the Wildlife Protection Law in March 1989, which approved all wild animals that are not native to China and listed in Appendices I and II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, as well as national precious and endangered wild animals, as national first- and second-level protected wild animals respectively.

It has only been six years since then, and awareness in various places is still quite inadequate. Poaching and habitat destruction are rampant and have been exposed by CCTV many times, but local authorities are still making excuses - should the happy lives of our local people, hundreds of thousands or millions, give way to these hundreds of crocodiles?

This is often difficult to explain clearly.

"Can this thing be kept?"

"Yes, but the prerequisite is that you have to get a bunch of certificates and have qualifications similar to those of a zoo." The two chatted in low voices as the car quietly came up the slope.

The red panda finally felt threatened, turned around a few times and disappeared into the darkness in the distance.

"It ran away!" Wu Renzhong said with some regret: "Isn't this thing more beautiful than the muntjac sheep?"

(End of this chapter)