Chapter 5288: Contracting

The two talked and laughed as they arrived at Sanxiao Restaurant. When the proprietress Wang Ping saw Zhao Desan, she greeted him with a smile. For her, Zhao Desan was a rare guest, not because of his status as District Mayor, but because he had helped her out of a predicament. She had always wanted to thank him for his help last time in person, so she enthusiastically arranged for Zhao Desan and Shuanzhu to be in a private room on the second floor.

"Brother, you're not bad, that beautiful proprietress just now seems to have a bit of interest in you. I saw it, that proprietress is really beautiful, about the same as Sister Zheng, hehe." Shuanzhu picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, laughing lewdly.

"Stop talking nonsense, look at you, you made a fortune outside, so you remembered me. Honestly confess, did you come back for anything else? Did you have money and want to come back to find a wife?" Zhao Desan looked at Shuanzhu's lewd appearance and teased him. As he spoke, he also ate a bite of food and found that the proprietress's ingredients were very fine today. There was more lean meat and less fat in the braised pork, and there were plenty of dried shrimp in the stewed dried silk. Could it be that this was to thank him for last time?

"Brother, you have grace to me, I won't hide it from you. I came back this time to find something to do here. I investigated and there is really a way I want to do, but I still have to ask you, brother, to help." Shuanzhu put down his chopsticks and said with a smile.

"Say it." Zhao Desan also put down his chopsticks, thinking that this kid had been outside for a few years and had really grown a lot.

"I walked around our district and heard that the mounting factory in Chengguan Town is going to be restructured and is ready to be contracted out?" Shuanzhu pointed at the table with his finger and asked in a low voice.

"There is such a thing. Now the district wants to restructure some poorly managed enterprises." Zhao Desan smiled and waited for Shuanzhu to continue, but the mounting factory was a town-run enterprise in Chengguan Town under the jurisdiction of Chanba District, a very small factory. The restructuring matter didn't need the District Committee and District Government to come out. The District Committee and District Government were responsible for large district-owned enterprises.

"I want to contract the mounting factory in Chengguan Town. Can you help me operate it?" Shuanzhu chuckled.

"You want to contract it?" Zhao Desan looked at Shuanzhu with some surprise.

"Hmm." Shuanzhu nodded with a smile.

Zhao Desan took a sip of beer and considered for a long time. Although it was not difficult for him to handle this matter, he was currently in a tense game with Secretary Zhang. A small, inconspicuous matter might cause unexpected consequences. So, considering this aspect, he shook his head and said, "This matter is a bit difficult. Town enterprises are generally handled by the town itself."

"Brother, you are the District Mayor of Chanba District anyway. Just say hello to the Town Mayor and it will be done." Shuanzhu saw Zhao Desan's face showing difficulty and became a bit anxious.

The mounting factory in Chengguan Town, Chanba District, was an enterprise that was not big or small. It was indeed glorious a few years ago. At that time, basically all the paintings in the entire Xijing City were mounted there and then transported out. In recent years, due to the decline of the cultural industry, the output value of the mounting factory had been falling all the way, and it had been in deficit for the past few years. In the previous several restructurings of Chengguan Town, because the mounting factory had no business value, no one was willing to take it over, becoming a difficult problem in the restructuring of town-run enterprises. If Shuanzhu was willing to contract it, it would not be a difficult matter. The town was probably wishing that some fool would be willing to take over this mess.

"Shuanzhu, the factory can't even operate now, and you still want to contract it. Are you sick?" Zhao Desan deliberately ridiculed him, wanting him to give up this idea. On one hand, it was to save himself some trouble, and on the other hand, it was to let him save some heart and not throw the money he had worked so hard to earn outside into the water.

Shuanzhu saw Zhao Desan opposing his contracting of the mounting factory, so he leaned his head toward him and whispered: "Brother, I heard that the paintings in the warehouse of the mounting factory are quite valuable. People in the town don't understand these. There might be those valuable things inside..."

Hearing Shuanzhu say this, Zhao Desan finally understood this guy's real thoughts and couldn't help but secretly sigh that this kid had been wandering outside for a few years and his brain had turned much faster. Indeed, when the mounting factory was booming, there were indeed many famous paintings mounted there. With the decline of the mounting factory, a pile of calligraphy and paintings were pressed in the warehouse and no one wanted them. There must be many treasures among them. He didn't expect this kid to actually hit this way that no one noticed, and couldn't help but look at Shuanzhu with admiration. ===== CHAPTER 5289 =====