Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2536 Soliciting hearts in the village ([-])

The spinning practice group is busy with their own work, and Chen Lin's uncle and nephew also have their work.Chen Ding was busy inspecting the Shatian fields that Wu Yijun bought in Nansha and other places, urging and inspecting the cotton planting conditions of the tenants.Chen Lin remained in the village—he now faces a major challenge: winning the support of his tribe.

Originally, this was not a difficult task. Chen Lin was the grandson of the head of the clan, so he was naturally a candidate for the head of the clan. When he reached middle age and grew a beard, it was expected that he would become the old head of the clan.Moreover, his father has been running a silk workshop for the whole family for many years, and many benefits of the family come from this silk workshop.

But now, things have changed.Relying on the chaotic situation, the second uncle usurped the position in charge of the case and took away the Sifang—the key point is that he also got the support of the Australians. "The grandson of the eldest son" is still a question mark.

Fortunately, after returning this time, Chen Xiaobing specially took him to meet Li Yaoer, and the two sides had a conversation.Although Li Yaoer didn't promise him anything clearly, the implication would not stir up the grievances between them, as long as they "do the job well".

If you want to open a factory in Nansha, you have to bring all the tribesmen here.But now he has nothing in his hands, all he has is "the future".The clansmen are not stupid, although the second uncle has done many unpopular things, but since he occupies the workshop, he will take a lot of benefits to buy off the clansmen.Compared with the ready-made benefits of the second uncle, who would believe the empty promises on my side?
He thought for a long time in the cemetery. Naturally, once the construction of the textile factory started, the clansmen could benefit from it, and it would not be difficult to win them over.

However, the most urgent task is to form its own forces in Nansha.Now the second uncle formed a militia by relying on people with foreign surnames to suppress the dissatisfaction of the tribe. He can continue to build a textile factory and unite the tribe to form a "second force".

In the past, he didn't dare to confront his second uncle directly—after all, Mr. Li Yuan's attitude was ambiguous. Now that Mr. Li's opinion has become clear, and he has the support of Chen Xiaobing, Li, and Zou, he can definitely fight his second uncle head-on!
If we don't take back the clan power, I'm afraid it will be difficult to move an inch in the village in the future!

Fortunately, he has an advantage, that is, he was very popular in the village in the past, and many young children in the clan had a good relationship with him.If you use means to win over, you should be able to gather a group of people.

Of course, he can't blatantly say that this is what he wants to create a "second militia", but it is absolutely possible to recruit young people through "recruitment and training"-this is what was originally planned.

He calculated in his mind that besides Chen Qing in the village, he also had seven descendants of clans who were "best friends".First win over these eight people, and the next thing will be easy to handle.

Not long after returning to the village, he called Chen Qing to be a servant again on the grounds that he needed someone to serve him.In the evening, I asked about my second uncle's movements at this stage.

Ah Qing shook his head and said, "Ninth Uncle, Second Uncle actually didn't do anything these days, even rarely went to the ancestral hall. Except for going to Chief Li's place every day, he didn't care about it. He often went to The county town eats flower wine."

"He doesn't serve Chief Li, who will handle all the things that the chief has told him? He is still the top card in the village."

"He entrusted all these matters to Mr. Lu."

Chen Lin frowned slightly. Mr. Lu knew it. He was originally the accountant of Sifang. Later, because the money was not clear, the clansman in the ancestral hall had opinions. No one could trust his family, so he hired this man Became the accountant of the ancestral hall.He is quick to settle accounts, well organized, and quite upright, so all the clansmen trust him.

Mr. Lu has been in Nansha for more than ten years, and his relationship with the Chen family is "as light as water". The reason is self-evident. If he is too close to someone, there will inevitably be "private citation" problems, which will affect his credibility here.Therefore, his errands in Nansha have been stable all these years.

It seems difficult to do it!he thinks.Although Mr. Lu is an upright person, he definitely doesn't like the various manners of the second uncle.But he has always been prudent and never wants to get involved in the struggle within the clan.Adhering to the principle of "who supports who on stage" to do their own errands well.As long as the second uncle is still in charge of the clan and workshop, he will definitely obey the second uncle's orders.Unless you have the ability to abolish the second uncle's position.

"What else happened in the village recently?"

"Nothing happened..." Chen Qing blinked.

"Anything is fine."

"The Kun man brought by the second uncle stole the chicken from Zhang Ranjiang's house in Sifang, and made a fuss. The dyer was punched. He went to report to the second uncle, but he slapped him a few times. The dyer was angry. Sick, hiding at home and not working.”

"Zhang dyeing craftsman? Is that the lame Zhang?" Chen Lin seems to have the impression that many workers in the workshop are not members of the Chen family.In my impression, Zhang Laizi is a dyer with good skills, but he likes to gamble. In his early years, he owed a lot of debts due to excessive gambling. Until the family debt is paid off.

It's a pity that this dyer's bad habit is hard to change. He still gambled all these years and didn't stop. As a result, he still owed money to the clan, which meant that he had to work for the silk workshop all his life.

"Exactly, now that the master is sick, a few apprentices in the dyeing room are not working well, and all the defective products are produced, and the silk cloth is backlogged up. The second uncle slammed the table and scolded people, and asked the militiamen to frame the lame Zhang and ask him to work. But it still can’t be done. He was so angry that he was beaten with a pole... Finally, Mr. Lu dissuaded him. The second uncle had no choice but to send people to ship all the silk cloth and send it out for dyeing.”

"Shipping it out for dyeing? Isn't this a signboard for smashing the workshop?"

Although Zhang Laizi is not a good person, his cloth dyeing skills are still top-notch, and he has a secret recipe for dyeing that has been blended for many years. The dyeing effect is unique, and he is famous in the county and even in Guangzhou.Changing dyeing workshop dyeing may not be seen by laymen, but insiders will know it at a glance.

"Mr. Lu said the same thing, but the second uncle said that he couldn't wait any longer, otherwise he would lose money if he delayed the delivery."

"Hehe, if he does this, the people in the village will complain."

"Although it's not." Chen Qing lowered his voice, "Uncle Nine, some people in the village say that this guy is stealing chickens—it's not a guy at all, but Qiu Xiao, the second uncle's subordinate, that lame man who did it." Because the second uncle wanted to protect him, he deliberately let out the words that it was the Australians who did it."

"I'm going to see Lame Zhang tonight, Ah Qing. It's been hard these few nights for you to gather a few youngsters from the clan—I don't know which ones there are. I have a plan."

"Okay, I'll do it after dinner!"

After dinner, Chen Lin also quietly left for Zhang Laizi's house.

Zhang Laizi is not from the Chen family, and he lives in a remote place. Thanks to this, it is very convenient for him to pass from the cemetery.After crossing several field ridges, we saw seven or eight thatched huts in the river branch, all of which were foreigners living in Nansha Village.Either plant for the Chen family, or work.

Zhang Laizi worked in Sifang, and his income was very good.But his bad habits made his house the most dilapidated among these few. The small courtyard didn't even have a door, and it was a standard wooden door. .

Entering the courtyard, I saw Zhang Laizi's wife spinning in the small courtyard under the clear sky.Because Nansha is mostly sandy land, it is suitable for cotton planting, and there are many cotton planters.

Although Zhang Laizi likes to gamble, he finally has a bottom line: his wife and house are not on the gambling table.But that's just talk.He owed gambling debts more than once. If the Chen family hadn't helped him take care of it, his wife's house would have been taken away long ago.

"Sister-in-law Zhang!" Chen Lin greeted.

Seeing that it was Chen Lin who came, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly got up and said Wanfu.

"How is Uncle Zhang doing now?" Chen Lin asked her indifferently.

"What else can I do? Lying in the room and sulking." Mrs. Zhang said with a wry smile.

"So the illness is almost cured."

"There's nothing wrong with him, it's just that he's mad at himself!" Sister-in-law Zhang continued spinning, babbling, "I said you haven't been beaten enough in your life? You owed gambling debts and were beaten by others. Hanging on the tree at the entrance of the village, stripped off your pants, you can endure all the ugly things, but you will get angry after being punched and slapped a few times, and then say quit—what will you eat if you quit!”

Chen Lin originally wanted to go in with a few perfunctory words, but he didn't expect that there was obviously something in Zhang's sister-in-law's few words, so he didn't rush in.Let's listen to what Mrs. Zhang said.

"I didn't expect this old thing to be plausible. When Master Xuan came back to become the shopkeeper of the silk workshop, he said that this silk workshop used to belong to the Chen family, but now it belongs to everyone. No one is allowed to be superior to others just because he is a member of the Chen family. Just bullying people..." Sister-in-law Zhang said with a sigh, "I told him that Master Xuan was just talking nice words, you also believe it! Besides, Master Xuan was not very good in the past..." At this point she braked quickly , with a smile, "Look, I'm talking nonsense again! It's time to slap me too!"

Chen Lin secretly laughed at this cripple who believed in such nonsense at such an age.No wonder the gambling money is always lost.He hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, you are sensible! I think he is much better than Uncle Zhang! The second uncle is indeed Meng Lang this time, so let me accompany you for him first!"

After all, he picked up the straw curtain and entered the house.It was dark in the room.With the light of the sky outside, it can be seen that Zhang Laizi is not lying on the bamboo couch, but sitting alone on the broken bamboo chair.

His left eye was purple, so swollen that he couldn't open it, and his right eye was also bruised.It's true that I can't work in the dyeing room with this appearance.

Chen Lin smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang, are you even better? I really feel sorry for your old age this time."

Hearing Chen Lin's voice, Lame Zhang reluctantly opened his eyes, quickly stood up from the bamboo chair, and said resentfully and helplessly, "Master Jiu, don't do this, I can't bear it."

(End of this chapter)