Chapter 1617: I Won't Come in Vain

Zhou Andong shifted to one side: "What's wrong? You still want to eat someone?"

"Your teeth are too ugly; I'm afraid of chipping my teeth if I eat you." Qiao Hui gritted his back teeth: "I want to drag you to the edge of a ditch and shoot you. A 'small business'? Is that human language?"

"We don't have it for sale here, but I watch the news every day. The advertisement before the news is for 365 Home Furnishings. You're telling me this is a small business?"

"Look at how sheltered you are." Zhou Andong said with a smile: "365 Home Furnishings, in my eyes, is just a small business."

"..."

Qiao Hui was rendered speechless again. After a long while, he nodded: "You're right. 365 Home Furnishings is a small business in your eyes, but in my eyes, you're just a brat."

Zhou Andong laughed heartily: "You said you'd support Xiaobei. Don't go back on your word."

"I'll keep my word, I guarantee it." Qiao Hui patted his chest: "As long as 365 Home Furnishings can be bought in Qinghai, I'll support him."

Zhou Andong was very suspicious: "So generous?"

"What kind of talk is that?" Qiao Hui said with dissatisfaction: "When have I ever been stingy?"

At this moment, the car stopped: "Regimental Commander, we've arrived at the troop station."

"I'll go down and handle some things, I'll be right back."

Qiao Hui pushed open the car door and got out, running quickly toward the troop station not far away.

By this time, the sky had already darkened. Zhou Andong also got out of the car to stretch. The snow was very deep, covering his ankles.

However, not far away, about fifty or sixty meters off, the snow on the road had already been cleared and piled up on both sides.

After about ten minutes, Qiao Hui returned, and Zhou Andong got back into the car.

"How much further?"

Qiao Hui said: "I said two hundred kilometers earlier; we just finished the remainder to the troop station. We'll definitely arrive before eight o'clock."

Zhou Andong checked the time: "Still more than three hours to go."

"About that!" Qiao Hui nodded: "The snow ahead is cleared, so the car speed can pick up a bit."

Zhou Andong asked: "Where is the disaster the most severe?"

Qiao Hui looked out the window and said softly: "Gerze County and Gegyai County!"

Zhou Andong was stunned: "Didn't we just come out of Gerze County? It wasn't snowing over there."

"We haven't left Gerze yet." Qiao Hui pointed outside the car: "If you get out and walk around now, the snow by the roadside is deep enough to reach your thighs."

After saying this, Qiao Hui sighed: "What's even more severe is Gegyai. The deepest snow reaches the chest, and the shallowest reaches the waist. According to preliminary statistics, the number of people affected exceeds twenty thousand, and fifty thousand head of livestock have frozen or starved to death."

Qiao Hui turned his head to look at Zhou Andong, his eyes actually carrying a plea: "Brother, the people of Ngari haven't completely solved the problem of food and clothing yet. This snow disaster has made things even worse for the people of Ngari."

"You have the ability, and you have great ability. Even if you just build a small workshop here and hire five or six people, it would be enough to fill the stomachs of five or six families."

Zhou Andong said softly: "Tell me, why did I leave a pile of things at the company and suffer through this just to follow you here?"

Qiao Hui's eyes lit up instantly: "You mean..."

Zhou Andong nodded: "Let's see. Since I've come, I won't come in vain."

Qiao Hui laughed. At this moment, he was laughing like a child.

"I knew it, Old Zhou, your vision wouldn't be small."

"Damn it!" Zhou Andong cursed: "You call me 'Brother' when you're begging for help, and 'Old Zhou' afterward. Your vision isn't that great either."

"That..."

Qiao Hui laughed it off, pointed out the car window, and changed the subject.

"Look at the green mountain ranges outside. Do you know what's going on with that?"

The sky outside was even darker, but the snow on the distant mountains was very bright.

And in some wind gaps where the white snow didn't cover, a green light was emitted.

Intertwined with the white snow, it gave people a very peculiar beauty.

Zhou Andong looked outside: "The green is the ophiolite mineral vein. If it were summer, it would blend in with the grassland at the foot of the mountain, and it would look even more shocking."

"And this peculiar landform was formed by the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, so geologists call it the Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone."

"You know this too?" Qiao Hui said incredulously: "Didn't you study at the Agricultural University? You even learned this?"

Zhou Andong rolled his eyes at him: "Can't I read extracurricular books while in college?"

"When we were in school, I saw you sleeping in class, peeing after class, and fighting after school; I really haven't seen you read any books."

Qiao Hui shook his head, then gritted his teeth and hummed.

"But I find it strange. You don't study, yet every exam you're in the top five of the class. I've always suspected what secret method you used to cheat."

"What I can't accept even more is that I studied my heart out, sleeping only five or six hours a day, while you played every day, played every day, and still got into the Agricultural University. Where is the justice in that?"

Zhou Andong pointed to his head smugly: "Talent. This is something you can't envy."

Qiao Hui didn't want to talk to Zhou Andong anymore; it was too infuriating.

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The Sengge Zangbo River originates from the glacial lake north of Mount Kailash, meandering from east to west. Just as it is about to merge with the Gar River, it slowly makes a turn on the flat Ngari Plateau, nurturing the best-developed red willow forest in the Ngari region.

In just forty years, a city named after the river has developed in this red willow forest.

A city that is the largest central city within a 1,000-kilometer radius on the western frontier of Tibet.

A city that is remote and unfamiliar to ordinary people.

Although this city is young and poor, today, more than ten years after the reform and opening up.

It already has charming appeal and unique style. Many people believe.

The future Sengge Zangbo will definitely be the brightest pearl standing among the towering mountains and beside the quiet lakes on the Ngari Plateau.

There is a large courtyard on the south bank of the Sengge Zangbo River, inside which are two rows of low bungalows.

One row is the office space for the county government, and one row is the office space for the county committee.

Secretary Gong Qianjin came out of the office, followed immediately by County Magistrate Wei He.

The two looked at each other, and at this time, other main leaders of the county committee and county government also came out.

"Go to the Prefectural Committee first, then go over with Secretary Kong to welcome them."

Gong Qianjin and Wei He got into a 212, and other leaders got into a van.

At the same time, on the north bank of the Sengge Zangbo River, at the regional administrative office, Secretary Kong was reading documents in his office, occasionally glancing at the time.

At noon on the tenth, he went down to visit, carrying the few supplies he had raised, and didn't arrive at a village until after seven in the evening.

And this village was only forty kilometers away from Sengge Zangbo. After the visit, more than ten head of livestock in the whole village had frozen to death.

Fortunately, the basic life of these herdsmen could still be guaranteed for the time being.

But seeing the situation here, one could imagine what the two counties of Gegyai and Gerze, which were the most severely affected, looked like.

Secretary Kong wished he could fly there immediately. He slept at a herdsman's house that night and didn't sleep well all night.

Anxious and angry, his mouth was full of blisters. He got up as soon as the sky brightened in the morning, ate a little beef jerky, and set off with his people. ===== CHAPTER 1618 =====