Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 476 Breaking Ground
The sky is getting darker, but not completely dark. The Milky Way is clearly visible hanging upside down in the darkening night sky.

Xu Aiguo was carrying a black artificial leather briefcase and wearing a dark gray tunic suit, looking steady and energetic.

And this is the common dress of cadres in these days.

"Brother, has there been a letter from Brother Guohua?"

Xu Aiguo followed Xu Qing and asked while walking through the middle courtyard.

Although the two brothers are busy with their own business on weekdays, their brotherhood is very deep.

Of course, Xu Qing is the eldest brother and has been very kind to his younger siblings since childhood.

Whether it's Feng Ming or Patriot, they are very concerned about their eldest brother's affairs.

Because they and their sister Xiaoya were brought up by their eldest brother. To be fair, no matter who they are, they are not as important as their eldest brother.

Xu Qing hummed and said, "Guohua came to our house at noon today and said that there is no problem in building the factory. You and Feng Ming don't have to worry about my affairs. You can just go about your own business."

When Xu Aiguo heard what his elder brother said, he nodded. The briefcase he was holding in his hand kept swinging with the swing of his arms.

He didn't help his elder brother much, and he felt very sorry.

Speaking of which, he had planned to ask his father-in-law, Aiqian's father, to help his eldest brother find a solution a few days ago.

After all, he is the father-in-law and the teacher. He can definitely solve the problem of building a meat factory, even with just one sentence.

However, Xu Qing stopped Ai Guo from bothering Ai Qian's father.

First, it’s not a big deal and it’s not necessary.

Second, Xu Qing knew that after the country reformed, it was an inevitable trend to open private meat joint factories. That is to say, no one had mentioned this issue before. Therefore, when he was the first to open a meat joint factory, many departments did not dare to Let go easily.

But after this period of negotiation, it has not yet been approved.

Economic development naturally depends on the efforts of individual industrial and commercial owners.

If the country does not let go and all walks of life continue to develop according to the original model, then the significance of reform is obviously not big.

Secondly, if you pursue an official career through patriotism, if you get promoted in the future, you might have to ask Aiqian's father for help.

The officialdom is like a shopping mall, but also like a battlefield.

There is no official who doesn’t want to climb up. Although Xu Qing is not keen on this aspect, he has the memory of later generations and understands the various intrigues, intrigues and intricacies involved. Since patriotism has great potential in this aspect, Xu Qing Qing Zi wanted his second brother to leave the opportunity to find his father-in-law to himself.

Don't waste it on such a trivial issue.

When Patriot gets promoted to a higher level, he, as the eldest brother, doesn't have to ask anyone for what he wants to do. He can just tell his younger brother.

Therefore, when it came to setting up a meat joint factory, Xu Qing neither asked his second brother to intervene nor asked his third brother to help him find someone to smooth the relationship.

In fact, many of Feng Ming and his patriotic high school and college classmates have entered government, enterprises and institutions.

Not all of them may be in Forty-Nine City, and they may not all work in the department in charge of factory construction, but it is okay to help and say something.

However, Xu Qing felt that there was really no need for his second and third brothers to worry about such trivial matters.

It was enough for him to find Li Guohua and Erniu.

And this is indeed the case. It has only been more than April and the construction of the factory has been finalized.

Xu Qing felt a lot relieved.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Xu Qing rode his motorcycle to the suburban soil management office, inspected the land and allocated it to him to build a meat factory.

Eleven acres of land, more than 7000 square meters, is about the same size as a junior high school in some counties.

Under the leadership of people from the soil management office, Xu Qing stood on the land where he was about to start construction. Seeing that the surrounding area was already surrounded by white ash, his heart was filled with longing.

The warehouse can be seen in the distance, and the distance between the two is only 200 meters.

This is the best thing for Xu Qing.

In fact, the people at the Soil Management Office knew that the warehouse was built by Xu Qing, and they deliberately allocated the land where the meat factory was built so that it was not far from the warehouse.

Xu Qing treated them to a roast duck meal in Quanjude, and each of them got an extra one.

They should express their gratitude a little.

Anyway, for them, the suburbs have just begun to be developed, and large tracts of industrial land specially designated by the state are still idle.

It would be better to give Xu Qing a favor and wait until the meat factory is built and merged with the warehouse. It will look better then.

Two days later, after Xu Qing had a clear understanding of the country's various preferential policies for individuals to build factories, he led his people to start construction.

There was no ceremony, just a few strings of firecrackers were set off, each worker was given a cigarette, and construction started non-stop.

The outer wall was first circled, then the foundation was laid, and then the factory construction began.

Er Mazi usually spends time in the warehouse keeping an eye on the processing of grain. During lunch, when the workers eat, and when they take a break, he runs to the construction site and chats with Xu Qing.

Xu Qing was with him at the construction site all day long, and rarely left unless he had something to do in the city.

He wanted to build the factory early, but as the days passed, the months passed by.

It wasn't until the end of June, when the weather got hotter, that the ground was leveled and the foundation laid.

In fact, the progress is already very fast.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the most troublesome thing is building the base and the ground.

As for building a factory quickly, Xu Qing has no plans to build a two- or three-story building for the time being. He will just build a bungalow, all made of bricks.

Just touch the floor in the factory with cement and it will be ready.

Be busy until July.

The factory has been built, but it doesn't have much momentum, and Xu Qing doesn't care about that.

These days, apart from the large-scale factories built by the state, the ones run by individuals are all average.

No one has the heart to engage in such nonsense.

It would be great if we could get the factory up and running quickly.

Who has the spare money to build a beautiful factory?

Like some small private factories that do small processing businesses, they have two or three factories. They just put the equipment inside and start operating.

Because the meat factory involved a lot, Xu Qing had to build more houses.

There are seventeen bungalows, located in the southeast, northwest and four directions, which are the breeding workshop, the slaughtering workshop, the cooked meat processing workshop and the storage workshop.

In addition, Xu Qing used one room for his office and one room for those who kept watch at night.

After the factory was built and inspected, Erniu also completed all the business procedures for starting a meat joint factory.

Xu Qing spent none of the fifteen thousand he saved last year, and he also spent part of the money earned by the grain station this year.

The label is still being produced at the hardware factory where Fengming works.

After Xu Qing locked the iron gate, he rode a motorcycle to the warehouse of the grain station in the afterglow of the setting sun, and waited for Er Mazi to watch the grain sent to the fifth factory be taken away by the car.

The two returned to the city together.In the past few months, Er Mazi was very tired.

Xu Qing couldn't handle the work alone, so he brought him over to help with the work.

In any case, Old Wu was still watching over the warehouse, and Xu Qingren was in the suburbs. Nothing would happen if there were no pockmarks in the warehouse.

When he returned to the city, Xu Qing passed by the department store and saw many people holding the lamas they had just bought and leaving laughing and joking amid the moving singing from the tape recorder.

In the past few months, Xu Qing had no time to pay attention to the changes in Sijiu City.

The Four-Nine Cities have changed a lot.

The wave of reform is reshaping everything in the country.

In early April, the country issued exchange coupons, and Chinese people could go in and buy foreign things in the Friendship Store.

And in the department store, a lot of foreign things are also pouring into it.

Things like bell-bottom pants and toad glasses, which are not expensive, can be easily bought in department stores with money and industrial coupons.

There are more and more people wearing bell-bottom pants in the city.

Xu Qing was riding a motorcycle, and when he took a casual look, he saw many pedestrians wearing them.

The trend of wearing bell-bottom pants has spread in Sijiu City.

Almost every young man and woman has one hand, and the songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers can be heard humming in the streets.

Of course, it is also the young people who are singing and listening. The older people are not used to it. What they are passionate about is G Ming’s red songs.

In fact, in these years, a red song with rich colors like "The East is Red", even if it is rewritten, is still mainstream, highly sung, understood by the elderly and children, and deeply loved by the public.

There are so-called pop songs, but they are completely niche.

Seeing that there were many people on the street, Xu Qing did not dare to ride his motorcycle too fast. He kept the same speed as Er Mazi's bicycle, walking through the crowd and heading towards the grain station in front of the Dongdan vegetable market.

Er Mazi held the handlebar with both hands and held a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. While puffing, he turned his head slightly to look at Xu Qing and said:

"Qingzi, the braised pork joint factory has been built. I'll have a day off tomorrow. It's the weekend. I'll take my wife to the department store to buy a pair of bell-bottom pants."

Xu Qing knew that Er Mazi had been greedy for a long time. He nodded when he heard the sound, looked ahead and said:
"Okay, Brother Mazi, you can rest tomorrow. I'll keep an eye on the warehouse."

More than 20 minutes later, Xu Qing arrived at his grain station alone.

Er Mazi went home directly.

In the grain station, Jinghong, Xiaoya, Sanhuzi's wife, Meijuan, Hui Lihua, Luo Hongjuan, Li Shuzhen, and Wu Xiuying were entertaining customers who came to buy grain after get off work.

After a tiring day, Xu Qing sat at the table in his grain station, picked up the teapot, poured tea and drank while resting.

During these days, he was running around here and there, busy, and exhausted!

The four cats raised by the food station were surrounding his feet. They were not afraid of the people coming in and out of the door. Instead, they barked and wanted Xu Qing to feed them food.

But after Xu Qing drank the tea, he reached out and stroked Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai a few times, and ignored their meows.

It's summer, the time when mice are most likely to make trouble.

At night they catch mice themselves and eat them. If they feed them, the mice will catch them and bite them to death without eating them. After a few days, they will stink, and the food station will be full of stench.

It is hard to find and throw away even if one wants to look for it.

It was already past seven o'clock in the evening, but it was still bright.

It wasn't until after eight o'clock that it gradually became dark.

Seeing that no one came in to buy food anymore, Xu Qing asked his wife Jinghong and sister Xiaoya to clean up and get off work.

Tomorrow is the weekend and people at work have a day off, so tomorrow is the busiest day.

Sanhuzi's wife was wearing bell-bottom pants that Meijuan bought for her and a plaid shirt on her upper body. She looked very fashionable, but her arms were not exposed.

But Jinghong, Xiaoya, Meijuan, Hui Lihua, Luo Hongjuan, Li Shuzhen, and Wu Xiuying are all half-sleeved.

Xu Qing knew that Sanhuzi's wife was not conservative in her ideas and was embarrassed to wear half-sleeved clothes, but she was afraid that others would see her dark arms.

Sanhuzi's wife grew up in the countryside and worked a lot. Her arms were not only tanned, but also very strong from years of working in the fields.

Even Xu Qing might not be as strong as San Huzi's wife.

"Shopkeeper, Meijuan and I are leaving first."

Sanhuzi's wife said with a smile.

Xu Qing smiled and said: "Sister Wang, you and Meijuan should go back and rest early. You will have a busy day tomorrow at the weekend."

Sanhuzi's wife bared her teeth in a smile, showing her white teeth that were completely opposite to her expression and said:
"Shopkeeper, don't worry. It's just me and Jinghong these days. We girls are busy, so nothing will go wrong."

Xu Qing smiled and watched Sanhuzi's wife and Meijuan leave.

In fact, in the past few months, apart from occasionally taking the time to come over, it can be said that Jinghong and Xiaoya are solely responsible for taking care of the grain station.

First, I was busy building a meat factory in the suburbs and had no time.

Secondly, since his wife, sister and Sanhuzi's wife were here, he didn't need to worry about the grain station.

The grain station has been open for a whole year last year, and everything has been sorted out.

He only needs to ask Er Mazi to bring grain from the warehouse to the grain station from time to time.

For other things, Jinghong would tell him when he got home at night, and he was just helping with ideas.

Aunt Meijuan and sister-in-law left. Wu Xiuying was packing her things to get off work and said to Xu Qing:
"Brother-in-law Xu Qing, you are really a busy man now. You have many things to do. You are busier than my wife at work. Since I returned to the city and came to work at the grain station, several months have passed and I have not seen you. How do you like me?"

Xu Qing took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and said with a wry smile:
"There is no way. A meat factory is being built in the suburbs. It is difficult for the neighbors in my courtyard to see me. I leave at dawn in the morning and don't come back until eight or nine in the evening. How can I have time to come here often?"

Wu Xiuying stopped complaining, stretched out her hand to brush her short hair, and said with a grin:

"You are a busy man. As Sister Jinghong has said, you always tell Aiguo about building a meat factory when you go home in the evening. Come over tonight. Is the factory finished?"

Xu Qing yawned relaxedly and said, "Yeah, I'm finally done with the work. The sign will be hung up in two days. I'll take a few days off and invite some people to cut the ribbon, and then we can open for business."

Ma Jinghong, who was standing behind the counter sorting things, looked at her man, who had become more haggard recently, and her eyes were filled with distress.

Xu Qing has not had a day off since the construction of the factory began.

As a wife, how could she not be considerate of her husband.

And Xu Xiaoya felt even more sorry for her eldest brother. She closed the ledger and put the abacus in the drawer under the counter. After locking it, she handed the gift to her sister-in-law, turned around and ran out of the counter. She pressed Xu Qing's shoulders with her white and slender hands and said :
"Brother, you should have a good rest at home tomorrow. We are here at the grain station, so don't come over. The second brother and the third brother sometimes come to help on weekends, and brother Jiefang and sister-in-law Yuemei also come occasionally."

Xu Qing enjoyed her sister's massage, smiled in her heart, and said to herself:

"We can't come to the grain station, but we still have to go to the warehouse. Er Mazi is resting and the grain is being processed. No one can keep an eye on it."

Hui Lihua on the side looked at Xu Qing with a strange look in her eyes, but the look of concern disappeared in the blink of an eye.

She didn't want others to see it, and she was even more worried about being noticed by Jinghong. Following Luo Hongjuan and Li Shuzhen, she walked to Wu Xiuying, bent down and picked up Xiaobai on the ground, held her in her arms and said to Xu Qing:
"Xu Qing, the meat factory has been built. When do you plan to unveil it? Have you chosen a date?"

(End of this chapter)