Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 710: Building canals to bring kindness to the countryside

After hearing this, Chu Xiangqian felt thunder rolling from the sky, and looked at the sky with an arrogant expression on his face.

This old man loves Gong Er so much, but now he wants to find Gong Er's ex-fiancé to come to the capital to see Gong Er.

Just thinking about it makes me feel confused.

But if I think about it carefully, well, it seems to be a real solution.

Since no medicine can cure Gong Er, it really depends on how much she wants to live.

So Mr. Zeng might really be able to inspire Gong Er's hope of survival.

After all, when Gong Er was confused at noon, he called Mr. Zeng dozens of times.

I don't care about Gong Er now because I regretted my marriage back then.

Or perhaps, the more than ten or twenty years I spent in Hong Kong Island were too lonely and painful.

Then he comforted himself by fantasizing about getting married and having children with his fiancé, and then he fantasized again on his deathbed.

In short, Chu Xiangqian suddenly felt that this method seemed really worth trying.

After all, although Chu Xiangqian was unwilling to take Gong Er to Novice Village, it was because his core secret was involved.

But it doesn't mean that he hopes that Gong Er will die, and if Gong Er lives for a while longer, if it drags on until winter, then there is no need to worry about the smell of the body.

He nodded towards the sky.

Chu Qianqian called Maria Tucker at the ranch, and then called the exclusive manager of the Cooperation Office.

It turned out that Yongdao's people were the first to get the news.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the $1 reported by Chu Xiangqian.

As long as you give money, an international accounting firm like Coopers & Partners has a network of connections throughout the capital world.

Meiguo and Yingguo are the main business areas of Cooperation, so it is not difficult to find someone.
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Now that the person has been found, it is easier to investigate whether they are married and have children.

In just one afternoon, when it was nighttime in the Magnesium Kingdom, Chu Xiangqian received certain news.

This Mr. Zeng is really unexpected. Although he is married and has children, his wife looks very similar to Gong Er.

It’s not that they look alike, but their personality, demeanor and Gong Er really have many similarities.

As a result, Mr. Zeng and his wife had been married for more than ten years and had several children. In the end, they divorced because they couldn't stand his wife's strength.

After all, a woman like Gong Er, who has a strong personality and is naughty, will be very happy at first when she meets a noble son from a wealthy family.

After all, love is still very sweet, but when you fall into the trap of daily necessities, love turns into love, and it is normal for conflicts to arise due to personality incompatibility.

If the husband's family is in decline, the sense of gap will be great and there will be more quarrels.

The young master from an aristocratic family has a strong eye but a weak hand, can't bear hardships, and always puts on airs. After leaving the family's wealth and power, it is indeed easy for others to look down upon him.

Even looked down upon.

After Chu Xiangqian read the information, he couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

In fact, that's fine. Gong Er's image should still be good in Mr. Zeng's heart.

After all, the previous Mrs. Zeng was, to put it bluntly, Gong Er's replacement.

The more quarrels he and Mrs. Zeng had in life, the more Mr. Zeng felt in his heart that Gong Er was the real lady of the family.

It is also easier to imagine that if he marries Gong Er, his life will definitely be more fulfilling than that of his ex-wife.

After confirming the information about the other party, Chu Xiangqian immediately arranged for people and a private plane to fly back Mr. Zeng.

Chu Xiangqian is so positive, not only because he really hopes that Gong Er will live for a few more years, but also because he is doing it for the people who are still alive.

In the evening, Chu Xiangxiang had just confirmed with Mei Guo that the private plane was ready, and Mr. Zeng also agreed to fly back to see Gong Er for the last time.

Then he received a call from Gong Changqing, who had arrived at the Gong family's old residence.

Master and Lao Jiang actually got off the train last night.

I stayed in a city in the north for one night and took the bus early this morning, accompanied by several local comrades.

Driving two cars back to the Gong family's old house.

In the afternoon, I met with each side house and discussed behind closed doors.

When most people are faced with 5 in cash and 40 small yellow croakers, how can they care whether Gong Er is qualified to enter the Gong family's ancestral tomb.

But there is no shortage of old fogies in the world.

A few old fogies, to put it mildly, are following the rules.

Faced with Gong Changqing's constant increase in investment, from 5 and 40 small yellow croakers to 10 cash and 80 small yellow croakers.

There were actually two people who could be regarded as palace chief Qing's uncles who opposed it.

Gong Changqing and Lao Jiang also understood that these two people did not want money and were just worried about ruining the feng shui of the Gong family's ancestral tomb.

For a moment, Gong Changqing had no choice.

They refused to listen and wanted to use the official opposition to superstition to suppress these two clan uncles, which only made the trouble worse.

Can't we send the two clan uncles to jail, or send them to remote and cold places?

When the time comes, the descendants of the two of them, as well as their close relatives, will fight to the death to prevent Gong Er from entering their ancestral graves.

So the two of them could only call Chu Xiangqian.

However, Lao Jiang did have a suggestion. As long as Chu Xiang came to the old house, the kung fu would overwhelm every room and they would not be able to lift their heads.

In Gong Er's life, no matter how bad he was, he still trained a master who could not be defeated by the entire Gong family.

In the old society, this contribution would be no small feat for every family practicing martial arts.

Moreover, it was a closed-door competition, and only a dozen or so people from the Gong family knew about it, so it didn’t count as a loss of face for the Gong family.

It would be better if Chu Xiangqian could find someone to compete with others and gain the same fame as Gong Baosen back then.

Ever since Ma San was born in the Gong family, Gong Baosen died, Gong Er was useless, and no one in the side house was as powerful as the three of them.

Over the years, I have been bullied by other sects and families many times.

But you can't win in a martial arts competition, so you have to endure it if you are angry.

Thinking again about how prosperous the Gong family was in the area when Gong Baosen was still alive, I miss the prosperity even more.

At this time, I fell into the soil, and what I was thinking about was probably to achieve greater glory.

However, Chu Xiangqian's surname was not Gong, so he had no obligation to stand up for the Gong family's side wife.

And many times, the more you use force to coerce, the greater the resistance you encounter and the more unpopular it becomes.

However, simply competing externally, and competing with the sects that had bullied the Gong family's wing over the years with their kung fu, could be regarded as saving Baguazhang's face.

Chu Xiangqian didn't want to, so he just started to have grudges with his fellow martial artists in the north.

What does the grudge back then have to do with you, Chu Xiangqian?

They haven't offended you, Chu Qianqian, why should you treat them as a stepping stone.

If Chu Xiangqian was famous, it would be reasonable, but just because he couldn't deal with a few old stubborns in the Gong family, he would beat up the northern martial arts community inside and outside.

If you say it, you will be laughed to death, and no one will believe it.

There is a 100% chance that the news will be spread. Chu Qianqian wants to make a name for himself.

At that time, the more people can't defeat you, the more rumors there will be to slander Chu Xiangqian.

If I can't defeat you, I can always imitate the literati and use storytelling and opera to discredit you.

Why does Yan Song smell bad? Xu Jiexuge, who also indulged his children and amassed money in his hometown, was no less greedy than Yan Song and Yan Shifan, but was rated as a good minister and a famous minister by history?
It is because in low-level entertainment activities such as storytelling and opera, various scripts all say that Yan Song is a traitor, a bad person, and a huge corrupt man who should be cut to pieces.

In the north, there are many storytellers and operas, and many people listen to them.

As long as a few plays that discredit Chu Xiangqian are sung, he will be the villain from now on.

So Chu Xiangqian really didn't want to challenge others on their territory.

After much thought, Chu Xiangqian quickly came up with another idea.

After hanging up Gong Changqing's phone and telling them not to worry, Chu Xiangqian called his father-in-law.

When it was said that Chu Qianqian wanted to build a canal that could irrigate dozens of miles around the Gong family's old residence, Xue Xiaomin agreed in principle.

Just using one's own name to build this canal is open to question.

Chu Xiangqian also knew that there might be trouble in a few years.

Therefore, firstly, he did not use his own name, and secondly, the person who donated this canal was the Hong Kong Island Martial Arts Association to express his gratitude to Gong Baosen for passing down martial arts to the south just now.

By the way, it was publicized and publicized that this canal could be dug. It was because Gong Er had been thinking about his hometown during his ten or twenty years in Hong Kong Island that he contacted his counterparts in Hong Kong Island.

She worked hard on her own for many years and finally raised enough funds.

But after raising enough funds, Gong Er donated in the name of the Hong Kong Island Martial Arts Association, which was considered a noble act.

It's just that our counterparts in Hong Kong were unwilling to take the credit, so they took the initiative to reveal the true situation.

Not only 12 yuan in cash, but also 3000 tons of rice will be delivered to the township where the Gong family's old residence is located.

It is used to compensate local laborers for their work time during busy farming periods.

Not to mention 3 tons of rice, take the Fengtian Canal in 58 as an example. The total main canal is 44 kilometers.

There are 2 main canals, 23 branch canals and 82 bucket canals, with a total length of 164 kilometers.

There are 631 agricultural canals with a total length of 631 kilometers.

It was built with the voluntary labor of 2.6 officers and soldiers and more than 3 local farmers.

The project that was originally scheduled to take three years was adjusted to one and a half years, then shortened to two months, and finally completed in only 20 days.

A canal was built in the countryside dozens of miles away from the Gong family's old house. Not only was the river channel much smaller, but the length of the main canal and branch canals was no more than a hundred kilometers long.

The project volume is reduced by more than ten times, or even dozens of times.

Even if 1 soldiers and civilians are mobilized, each person consumes 1 kilogram of rice per day, and the construction period will be from the end of June to the end of August.

After 60 days, 600 tons of rice will be consumed.

Chu Xiangqian believed that it was impossible for these tens of thousands of people to really consume 1 kilogram of dry rice every day. Maybe four to five hundred tons would be enough.

Moreover, the construction period should not take more than 60 days. People in the army are very enthusiastic about their work these days.

It can be completed in one month of storage.

As long as the superiors give their approval, the local towns will definitely contract the project directly.

After completion, it will benefit more than a dozen surrounding villages. If the 3 tons of grain and yuan were all used to recruit workers, the project could be expanded four or five times.

By then, maybe the entire township will benefit.

Dozens or even hundreds of villages have to think of Gong Er. After all, in name, these 3 tons of grain and cash were raised by Gong Er from Hong Kong Island.

Not to mention Gong Er entering the Gong family's ancestral tomb, even if he built a tombstone, a large tomb, and a merit square specifically for her, there would be no problem.

If the few members of the Gong family object again, there will be no reason.

Once the canal is repaired, Gong Er becomes the local benefactor.

Anyone who continues to use Gong Er's initiative to break off the engagement as an excuse is going against the entire township.

Taking a step back, Mr. Zeng personally came forward and said that the divorce was not unilaterally decided by Gong Er.

But Mr. Zeng was grateful for Gong Er's filial piety, and the two broke up peacefully.

It's just that after Gong Er and Ma San were seriously injured after the martial arts competition, it never healed well, so they didn't go back to find Mr. Zeng.

So as not to implicate him.

After hearing Chu Xiangqian's explanation, Xue Xiaomin smiled and shook his head, but in his heart he was very satisfied with Chu Xiangqian.

Although the older generation of revolutionaries don't care about these things anymore, after thousands of years, some things cannot be changed.

Chu Xiangqian was willing to put so much thought into Gong Er who was teaching him kung fu.

In the future, he will definitely be more filial to his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and the old man and the old lady of the Xue family.

So Xue Xiaomin asked Chu Qianqian to wait for news, and after hanging up the phone, he immediately reported to his superiors.

Given his level, the report was typed and quickly spread to Ouchi.

After receiving the report, the first assistant smiled helplessly.

After giving some instructions to the secretary, the secretary quickly contacted the local people in the north, and the matter of building the canal was approved without any surprise.
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Half a month later, Gong Er drank life-extending soup for two weeks in the backyard of the Qianmen courtyard, but he still couldn't survive.

Fortunately, with these two weeks of preparation, the preparations that need to be made have already been arranged.

In fact, it only took a week to get everything ready.

At the beginning, even Chu Xiangqian thought that these preparations would be useless and everyone just regarded them as an exercise.

After all, the master and mistress are old, and they may be useful in ten or twenty years.

As for the wasted money, it was a trivial matter to Chu Xiangqian.

He made some phone calls here in the capital. Even taking care of Gong Er's daily life, he hired four nurses to follow him 4 hours a day.

There are also three sisters, the master's wife, Hong Kong students, Ehime, Sister Tao and Zhaodi, assisting.

Cooking is stupid, patriotic, and loving people.

The second aunt, Yu Yu, and even the sisters Jin Xiu and Jin Zhi also came to show their interest.

After Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng found out, not only did they not drive away the Jin sisters, they also deliberately kept the two to exchange feelings.

Really, if you were sad about this, you wouldn't have to live your life long ago.

As for Mr. Zeng, when they saw Gong Er, they were a little excited, but it was unexpected, but not unexpected.

Gong Er's feelings for him were not as deep as imagined.

We haven’t seen each other for more than ten or twenty years, and everyone has grown old. When we meet again, we can only sigh that things have changed.

But the two were able to meet and reconcile in their later years, which indeed made Gong Er feel a lot better.

At first, Chu Qianqian, Shi Niang and Yixian Tian were worried that Gong Er was too excited and might leave directly after seeing his old friend.

But since Gong Er has already had medicine, stone and five doctors before, the risk is worth it.

As a result, after Gong Er met Mr. Zeng, his spirits did get better day by day. Four or five days after meeting him, he was able to get out of bed and walk around. In the past few days, he even walked out of the house and walked in the yard.

It's a pity that I still didn't make it through in the end, or in other words, the end has really come.

Holding on for half a month longer was actually +1 golden elixir and +1 life-extending soup, forcing her to live for more than ten or twenty days.

So Gong Er left without pain or regret this time, just as if he was asleep.

It was still around 5 o'clock in the morning. The night-watching nurse, Zhaodi and Ehime, prepared the golden elixir as usual. After Gong Er woke up early like the previous days, they fed her the medicine.

The three of them waited until it was almost 6 o'clock, but the nurse felt something was wrong.

At a glance, I realized that Gong Er's body was already cold.

(End of this chapter)