Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1743 Everyone Calls the Same

After all this commotion, everyone started to eat properly.

Dad drank beer with the three kids, and mom drank porridge with grandma.

The topic naturally starts with reporting on life and study in the past six months.

As if by coincidence, the three of them had less contact with their hometown, and they left in a hurry when school started, so their parents were not aware of many situations.

The first thing is the motivation. Why did Feng Xueshan suddenly resign? Why did Zhou Zhi suddenly go to Lianhe Township to do a project? Both need an explanation.

Fortunately, he had thought of an excuse long ago. Zhou Zhi said that the service of the logistics department of the Clover Group has always been poor. A lot of money has been spent. There are entertainment rooms, game halls, gyms and swimming pools, but there is no effect. The waste in the cafeteria has been impossible to eliminate for a long time. Before, there were fewer people, so everyone could take turns to manage it. Now that the business has grown, it is really not possible without a full-time manager.

The treatment of the group is far better than that of the office staff of Manzhou Electric Power Company, and you will be an acting manager with a great chance to be promoted to general manager. Such a good opportunity and such an important department should of course be reserved for our own people who are familiar with and capable of it.

It just so happened that Feng Xueshan complained to Zhou Zhi about feeling bored sitting in the office. Thinking that she was the best person in charge, Zhou Zhi found a way to convince Feng Xueshan and moved up to a higher position.

Feng Xueshan was secretly grateful in her heart. She actually had another reason for leaving Manzhou. Now Zhou Zhi took everything on himself and helped her out.

As for Zhou Zhi himself, he had sufficient reasons. The Yi language origin tracing project identified the "carved characters" in cultural relics such as Jiahu as "characters", pushing the history of Chinese characters forward by two to four thousand years. Although the previous motivation may not have been very "academic", it became academic after Zhou Zhi went to Lianhe Township.

Of course, this is only one of the most outstanding contributions. Zhou Zhi is also preparing to make two documentaries in Lianhe Township, collect information on the "Parchment Book", and conduct field surveys on the Bimo intangible cultural heritage. These will be his overall contributions.

As for instigating Dayong to acquire the Zhengchang Food Company over there, to produce buckwheat soy sauce, Panxi sun-dried vinegar, Qingzhuo Ziyi wine, and mushroom sauce processing, and to bring in two Japanese and Korean foreigners to engage in fresh food cold chain, export Jiukou Shao, export lacquerware, etc., it can only be regarded as a means for Zhou Zhi to facilitate his work, build good relations with the locals, and seek their support.

The two national-level bases for propagation and scientific research of cherries and pomegranates are his return to Lianhe Township.

"I fully support you in exchanging local industrial development for their recognition of intangible cultural heritage protection." The father listened to Zhou Zhi's report with a wider smile on his face. At his level, he certainly understood the purpose of Zhou Zhi's work: "But your field investigation is too extravagant. It has alarmed the Manzhou."

"How could it be?" Zhou Zhi said, "No one has ever told me this."

"Someone from the autonomous prefecture used his connections in the Education Commission to inquire about your situation." Dad said, "Someone from the province told your godmother about the matter. There is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable!"

"There is a poverty alleviation cadre in Lianhe Township who arrived there a year before me. His name is Wu Renzhong. His sister works at the State Education Commission and his brother-in-law is the vice governor. They were probably afraid at first that I was a liar who was trying to get something for nothing." Zhou Zhi laughed so hard: "There are so many people who are swindling people in the name of investors these days, and many places have been fooled."

My father could only shake his head: "It's all caused by the pressure of attracting investment."

"Heshang, what about you?" After Zhou Zhi finished his report, it was Yang He's turn. None of the family treated Yang He and Feng Xueshan as outsiders, so no one could escape the interrogation.

"Clothes make the man, and gold makes the Buddha." Grandma said, "When the monk first went to Shudu, he always wore work clothes when he came back. This time it's different. It must be Xueshan who helped to dress him up."

Only then did mom and dad notice that Yang He was now wearing matte suede shoes, thin but slim-fitting trousers, and a blue striped polo shirt. His hairstyle had also changed from long and messy to a neat side-parted style, with his sideburns trimmed very thinly. Even his glasses had changed from black plastic frames to gold-rimmed ones. He looked a little different.

"That's what I wanted to say just now." Dad smiled and clinked glasses with Yang He: "Your temperaments are all changing, but the one who has changed the most is the monk." "I haven't gotten used to it for a while." Grandma's words just now made Yang He and Feng Xueshan blush, but Yang He is no longer the Wuxia Amon of the past, and he quickly adjusted himself: "Xueshan is still good at matching."

"The monk is now considered a member of the management team. He often has to deal with suppliers and clients. The image issue should indeed be put on the agenda." Zhou Zhi chimed in.

"You're just good at talking." My mother said angrily, "The monk has been in Shudu for half a year, and I haven't seen you help take care of these things?"

"Mom, you have to be reasonable. At that time, monks had not yet been promoted to management, so it was more convenient to work in work clothes. When I came back, there was already someone in charge!"

"Monk, you have to give Xueshan a toast and thank her." Mom said with a smile, "Looking at the way you are now, your parents will definitely be very satisfied when you go back this year."

"That's not great." Zhou Zhi smiled slyly, "He must be very satisfied!"

Yang He was a little scared now and looked at Feng Xueshan pitifully.

Feng Xueshan had just caught her grandmother off guard, and she was a little shy, but she was always generous. She raised her glass and said, "Auntie has spoken, what are you still thinking about? Why are you unhappy?"

“No, no, no…” Yang He quickly extended his cup with both hands and clinked it with Feng Xueshan’s cup: “You didn’t say anything, so I didn’t dare to move, right?!”

"Hahahaha..." The courtyard was suddenly filled with laughter.

After the three of them had explained their experiences over the past six months, my father said, "Look, even though you went to such a remote place like Lianhe Township, your aunt still helped you. When you come back this time, you must go and thank her."

"By the way, bring your nephew's patchwork quilt over." Grandma said, "You haven't met Xiaoyong yet, have you?"

"Xiaoyong?" Zhou Zhi laughed in horror: "Dayong and Xiaoyong, how come you two look like brothers with such names?"

“Hahahaha…” Dad laughed, “It was your eldest aunt who said that the child looks exactly like your brother Dayong when he was a child, so everyone joked that why not call him Xiaoyong, and then they started calling him that.”

"This is a nickname, and the full name will be chosen later." Mom also laughed: "But your eldest aunt said that you are not reliable in naming. This time I won't ask you for help, I will ask your fourth cousin instead."

"Why am I unreliable?" Zhou Zhi expressed his dissatisfaction.

"She has always had some issues with you naming the house 'Saturday Lady'." Grandma said, "She said that because of you, she has called her 'Saturday Lady' whenever she goes out, regardless of the elderly or children."

"It's fine if other people call me that, but even the provincial party secretary calls me that. It's really scary."

"Hahahaha..." I don't know how many times such laughter has been heard in the courtyard today. This incident happened at the National People's Congress and it is the biggest joke in the family this year.