Chapter 108: Meeting Du County

"Grandpa, I especially like chatting with you; you have rich social experience and it's all very practical. I will definitely be able to use it in my work later." Xiao Long said flatteringly.

After hearing that, I laughed and said: "Xiao Long, listen up, the first gate a man needs to watch is the mouth gate; a man must keep his mouth gate tight, not like those old women, blurting out everything all day."

A man who talks too much cannot achieve great things.

The second gate is the tail gate; when a man does something, he must not let others know or see it, requiring strong secrecy. Otherwise, whatever he does will become known to everyone under heaven, and such a man also cannot achieve great things.

Third gate is most important, that is the chicken*gate; a man who sees a woman and acts licentiously will eventually be defeated by a woman.

A man can have love, can have life, but everything must be mutual affection.

You cannot love every woman you see; especially a beautiful woman who actively throws herself into your embrace may be poison.

Touching it will be fatal.

Xiao Long, society now is more open than before, with more temptations.

Sometimes you need to restrain yourself.

Of course, if you really cannot restrain yourself, you can go to a hotel and find another woman to vent.

This can reduce your chance of making mistakes.

Many people, especially capable men, fail because they cannot keep their pants zipped, thus making mistakes and getting into trouble.

So you must pay special attention to this; at your age it's the time to fall in love, you should find a suitable girl to date.

Let your youth not be wasted.

In life, at each age stage one should do appropriate things.

In one's twenties it is the season of love; boldly pursue your own love. That's not wrong, but one must not indulge one's desires.

Once a person indulges his desires, it will become very terrible.

Xiao Long stood aside listening quietly.

I hope Xiao Long can correctly establish his own view of love and outlook on life.

Then his life will not go into a mistaken path.

Just then, a knocking sound came from outside.

"Jianqiang, are you in this room?"

As soon as I heard, it was Du County coming.

I then said to Xiao Long: "Your Uncle Du has come; go open the door for him."

Xiao Long stood up and went to open the door for Du County.

The door opened, Du County entered; Du County is very tall and sturdy.

He likes to keep a full beard, and people jokingly call him the Bearded County Chief.

As soon as Du County entered,

he walked straight to my side,

"Jianqiang, since your car accident, I have wanted to visit you, but my rank is not high enough, I couldn't get an appointment, and I haven't seen you until now.

Shi Yong asked me yesterday if I had time, you were looking for me.

I was overjoyed, I didn't sleep all night.

Jianqiang, how is your recovery now?"

I shook Du County's hand and said: "Du County, you're too polite; my illness made you worry, but now my recovery is quite good."

Du County waved his hand and said: "We're brothers; you still call me Du County—without you, where would this county be?"

"Okay, Du Brother, we don't need to be polite between us." I took out a cigarette from my pocket and tossed it to Du County.

After Xiao Long poured us water, he then left the room.

Du County directly said: "Brother, have you heard? Zhu Sheng has run into trouble."

I said: "I've heard. This is something I didn't expect. Zhu Sheng is very steady in his work and doesn't love money; I don't know how he got into trouble."

Du County continued: "He offended someone, and not just an ordinary person. Zhu Sheng is our benefactor; his trouble pains us all, but there's nothing we can do. We can't help much either."

We can only leave it to fate."

"Yeah, that's all we can do. No way. My company also ran into trouble, you know?" I looked at Du County and asked.

"Of course I know; the unpaid wages have even been on TV. This puzzles me even more, brother—your company's development had been going well, so why is there no money, even owing wages for work?"

"I've wanted to call you several times to ask, but I couldn't bring myself to do it, fearing you'd get angry." Du County looked at me and said sincerely.

"Du Brother, you've taken too big a step, you've bitten off more than you can chew. These past few years I also saw the real estate market was good, so in Xin Cheng I acquired several more plots of land, putting all my money on them."

As a result, working capital ran into problems.

"Sigh, I'm almost worried to death." I said helplessly.

"Yeah, you're lacking big money; if it were small, a few million, a word would settle it—I, your brother, would figure something out. But this is a project worth over a hundred million."

"Jianqiang, I see you've aged a lot compared to before; you must have been worried a lot these days, right? How's your younger sister?" Du County asked.

"She hasn't awakened, she's in a vegetative state. In middle age, what one fears most is something happening to one's wife. I've fallen into this again—what fate is this?" I sighed.

"At your age you're not old; sighing won't help. I ask you, has Kong Shi looked for you regarding Zhu Sheng's matter?" Du County asked.

Could it be that Kong Shi also gave Du County an order to sue Zhu Sheng?

I did not answer directly,

"Right now, just the money of the Group Company worries me to death; I don't ask about other things."

"Right, I think the same; you originally weren't in our system, so you should take less part in these matters.

"I regret entering the system; back then it would have been great to work at the winery. In here, you have to obey everyone's words, nobody dares to offend—damn, life is really miserable." Du County took a hard drag on his cigarette.

"Du Brother, saying that, back when you wanted to enter the system, you had me look for Zhu Sheng several times to discuss. That's my fault." I looked at Du County and laughed.

"Brother, I misspoke, I misspoke—don't get angry. Damn, I don't know what conflict exists between Kong Shi and Zhu Sheng, yet they insist on dragging me in.

And yet I cannot not listen,

"Zhu Sheng is the benefactor of us two brothers; how could you say I would do such a thing? At worst, I'll quit being this county magistrate." Du County said angrily.

"No need to ask, Kong Shi also put pressure on the County Magistrate, causing him to turn against Zhu Sheng."

"Kong Shi really wants to have Zhu Sheng killed."

"This Kong Shi is really ruthless."

"It seems Du County also didn't listen to Kong Shi."

I said: "Du brother, some things, I'll just tell you directly. I also have pressure; I, Zhao Jianqiang, never do anything against my conscience. Some things, some people, I really can't understand."

Du County said: "Right, brother, you're right; I can only say these things to you. Damn, these days Kong Shi keeps putting pressure on me."

"Make me smear Zhu Sheng."

"I absolutely cannot do something against my conscience."

"Damn it. Anyway, Zhu Sheng has helped me; I can't kick him when he's down."

"Du brother, it looks like your path to promotion is gone." I said.

"Just a promotion, at my age, being able to reach this position is already the limit; I don't have much education. Others promote newcomers with graduate degrees."

"I'm only a vocational college graduate; being able to be a county magistrate is already awesome."

"In two more years I'll retire; nowadays I procrastinate on everything, can't help it, really can't drag it out, so I drink, getting dizzy every day, to avoid trouble from Kong Shi's side." Du County said loudly.

"Then Kong Shi sees you drinking and won't let you off; now the higher-ups have a total alcohol ban." I said.

"Actually, I just want him to let me off; if he lets me go, I'll be overjoyed. Saved from suffering in this position." Du County said while smoking.