Chapter 554: Intending to Step Down

Xiao Bei stood up and said: "I'll go take a look."

"I'll go!" Xiao Bei was too impulsive, how could Zhou Andong let him go.

Li Jiutang said: "I'll go with you!"

"No need!" Zhou Andong said to a village cadre: "Old Zheng, let me ride your motorcycle."

"Ride it!" Old Zheng waved his hand, "The key isn't pulled out."

Zhou Andong walked to an old Happiness motorcycle, got on, kicked the starter lever hard, and with a roar, the exhaust pipe puffed out white-blue smoke.

"Old Zheng, your vehicle is burning oil."

Old Zheng said: "Repaired it several times but couldn't fix it, I'm too lazy to care, as long as it can ride. By the way, the brakes aren't very good, ride slowly. If you really encounter any situation, just release the gas and use the gear to stall the engine."

"Got it!" Zhou Andong agreed and rode the motorcycle out of the furniture factory gate.

Zhao Guifen's cursing and crying became clearer and clearer, which made Zhou Andong very strange. She had always bullied others, why was she crying today? Listening to the heart-wrenching sound, the grievance was not small.

Turning the corner, he saw a large crowd of people gathered at the gate of the old man's house, and Zhou Andong pressed the horn.

"Beep beep beep..."

Everyone turned their heads and saw it was Zhou Andong, and someone shouted: "Dongzi is here."

"Oh my, Dongzi, hurry up and persuade them."

The crowd dispersed. Zhou Andong got off the motorcycle. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the eldest aunt's husband, Li Xianghui, standing in the courtyard with a livid face, and the youngest aunt's husband, Duan Chunsheng, had scratch marks on his face. Zhao Guifen's face was swollen on one side, and she was lying on the ground, throwing a tantrum while crying and cursing.

"Li Xianghui, you dare to hit me, you won't die well, your whole family won't die well..."

"Still cursing, are you." Li Xianghui gritted his teeth and said: "Today, if I don't beat your mouth to a pulp, my surname isn't Li."

"Ah!" Before Li Xianghui could make a move, Zhao Guifen screamed, "Zhou Xiaode, you old bastard, your wife is beaten like this, and you don't even dare to let out a fart, you're not a man."

Zhou Xiaode's face was also swollen on one side, presumably he had also been beaten. Hearing his wife's cursing, he looked at Li Xianghui with anger.

It was just that Li Xianghui was tall and big, and the courage he had just mustered suddenly disappeared, and then he looked at the old man pitifully.

The old man was sitting under the window sill, puffing on his cigarette, turning a blind eye to his eldest son's plea for help, but looked at Zhou Andong, a smile appearing on his face.

"Dongzi!"

"Dongzi!"

Li Xianghui and Duan Chunsheng greeted Zhou Andong.

And Zhao Guifen, seeing Zhou Andong arrive, stopped crying and cursing, climbed up from the ground, looked at Zhou Andong and Li Xianghui with hatred, and turned to leave.

Zhou Xiaode breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly chased after her.

"What's going on here." Zhou Andong glanced at Zhao Guifen's back.

"Sigh!" The old man sighed, "Family misfortune, we ended up with such a thing."

Li Xianghui said: "Let's go inside and talk."

"Dongzi!" Just as Zhou Andong was about to enter the house, he heard someone shouting at the gate.

Zhou Andong looked up and saw that the onlookers hadn't left, all looking at him.

A middle-aged man entered the courtyard: "I heard you're going to give us interest-free loans to build chicken sheds, and you'll sign a contract with us to purchase meat chickens at market price, is it true?"

Zhou Andong nodded: "Yes, but priority is given to impoverished households."

The middle-aged man asked again: "If we apply but aren't selected, and we raise the money ourselves to build sheds to raise chickens, will you sign a contract with us?"

"Tanghezi is my home, I was born here, I grew up here. Especially after my dad had an accident, I received quite a bit of care from all the uncles."

Zhou Andong scanned the villagers who had gathered around. "So, when I was in university, I often thought, when I have the ability, I must let the fellow villagers live a good life, and I must build Tanghezi into the wealthiest village in China with the most sense of happiness."

"Clap clap clap..."

A group of villagers applauded enthusiastically.

Even Cheng Zhanjun and Deng Zhangli couldn't handle Zhou Andong's chicken soup, let alone these villagers who had no culture and no knowledge.

When the applause stopped, Zhou Andong continued: "Now that I have that bit of ability, I must realize the dream I once had and the oath I made.

Building chicken sheds is just the first step. Once we have scale, we will run enterprises, everyone will be a shareholder and become a boss.

Ten or eight years later, we will eat meat every day, drink every day, live in big villas, drive small cars..."

Li Jiutang and Zhao Quan were not at ease. After Zhou Andong left, they followed. Zhou Andong's words, they didn't miss a single one, and heard them all in their ears.

"Uncle Jiu, can what this kid said really be realized?"

Li Jiutang nodded without hesitation: "I believe in the words Dongzi says."

Zhao Quan stopped talking, looked up at the night sky, his eyes becoming somewhat ethereal, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I give everyone a promise: families not selected for the pilot can raise funds themselves to build chicken sheds, and I will also sign a purchase contract with you. If the price of meat chickens drops and you cannot recover your costs, I will subsidize you."

The applause sounded again, and it took a while before it stopped. Zhou Andong said: "Alright, everyone go back."

Watching the crowd disperse, Zhou Andong turned and entered the house.

The old man looked Zhou Andong up and down, then couldn't help but burst into loud laughter, and patted Zhou Andong's shoulder heavily.

"With ability, knowing how to give back to your hometown, and leading the fellow villagers to get rich together, good, good, worthy of being my grandson, Zhou Banghua."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Grandpa, don't praise me, otherwise I'll float."

The old man burst into another fit of laughter: "It's fine to float, as long as you know where your roots are."

Zhou Andong took out cigarettes and distributed them to his eldest aunt's husband and youngest aunt's husband: "What happened just now."

Li Xianghui took the lighter Zhou Andong handed over, lowered his head, and lit the cigarette.

"Don't know what medicine Zhao Guifen took wrong. When she saw us, she asked if you gave money to our family, otherwise why would your eldest aunt and youngest aunt be perming their hair, applying lipstick, wearing good clothes, and carrying small bags? Where did they get the money to buy them?

Then she cursed you, and when your youngest aunt's husband spoke up for you, she wouldn't have it, scratched your youngest aunt's husband, and then wouldn't let it go, so I got angry and gave her a slap. Your eldest uncle wanted to reach out to me, but I beat him up too."

Zhou Andong shook his head helplessly and asked the old man: "Where's Grandma?"

"Your grandma is at my house, she's been there for a week." Duan Chunsheng said: "Not at ease with you being alone at home, she wanted to come back today, your youngest aunt wouldn't let her, no way, I could only come over to pick up your grandpa to stay for a few days."

Zhou Andong looked at Li Xianghui: "Then why are you here too?"

Li Xianghui said: "For convenience, I bought a second-hand van, your youngest aunt's husband doesn't know how to drive, so I drove over to pick up your grandpa to go over."

Zhou Andong said: "It's still early, I roasted a lamb at the furniture factory, let's go over and drink a bit together, then leave."

Li Xianghui waved his hand: "We ate before coming, you go if you have things to do, we're leaving too."

"Forget it if you don't want to go!" Zhou Andong said, "I'm leaving, drive slowly."……

Zhao Quan and Li Jiutang strolled back, neither of them speaking.

Seeing they were almost at the furniture factory, Zhao Quan suddenly said: "Uncle Jiu, I think I should give my position as village secretary to Dongzi."

Li Jiutang suddenly stopped, looked at Zhao Quan, and only after a long while said: "Do you know what I was thinking just now?" ===== CHAPTER 555 =====