Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 595 Second Persuasion to Poor Relatives

After the meeting, Wang Sumei and Zhang Heping got into the car, and Wang Sumei asked, "Heping, I saw you wanted to speak just now, do you have any objection?"

"Although the Y-10 has many problems, they can all be solved." Zhang Heping replied calmly.

Director Wang Sumei frowned and said, "I know that this project has been stopped for more than two years due to lack of funds."

When it comes to funds, Zhang Heping becomes silent.

Yesterday's aerospace conference was mainly about the establishment of an aerospace group and the need to allow the aerospace group to generate its own funds for development.

Zhang Heping is very supportive of the Aerospace Group's move to commercialize satellites, as it will be beneficial for Hong Kong Telecom companies to invest in communications satellites.

But today's aviation conference mainly talked about the cooperation project with McDonnell Douglas of Magnesium, and secondly, the termination of some aviation projects that overlapped with this cooperation.

Among them, the large passenger aircraft Y-155, which had a test flight time of 10 hours, was canceled!

Director Wang saw that Zhang Heping next to him did not respond, so he continued: "There are few airports in China. Even if the Y-10 passenger plane is developed, there is no market demand."

"I heard that if you want to sell passenger planes abroad, you need to obtain safety certification from the Magnesium Aviation Administration, otherwise the European Magnesium Airport will not allow the plane to dock!"

Zhang Heping looked at the street scene outside the window and said calmly: "If we can make large aircraft, we can further make large-tonnage bombers. I wonder if the above-mentioned suspension of the Y-10 project is a sign of weakness to foreigners and a bide of time!"

Director Wang shook his head, "That's not clear!"

Zhang Heping turned to look at Director Wang and asked, "What other meetings are there?"

Director Wang smiled and said, "We were not invited to other planning meetings, so we can take a few days off!"

Zhang Heping nodded slightly, not worrying about why he was not invited to the planning meeting related to medicine and medical equipment.

It was still early, so Zhang Heping got off the bus at Gulou and on his way back to Courtyard No. 7 on the north bank of Houhai Lake, he caught a glimpse of Banggeng's noodle stall.

There was a cart with a stove, with white steam escaping from it; there was no table next to the cart, only a few stools.

After seeing Zhang Heping walking into the alley, Banggeng shrank down and sat on the low stool behind the cart with his head buried. He had no intention of greeting Zhang Heping, a rich man.

Zhang Heping just glanced at the noodle stall and looked away without saying hello to Bang Geng.

Back then, when he was working at the Nanla Town Health Center, he seldom paid attention to Bang Geng and Yan Jie Di who were working in the countryside there, let alone now.

...

Qianmen, Loujia Restaurant.

Seeing her two brothers coming back empty-handed, Lou Xiao'e asked with a hint of anticipation, "Brother, have you sold the painting of ladies?"

"Sold!" the boss Lou Wenru responded.

Then, Lou Wenjun took out a black leather bag from his armpit, took out two stacks of magnesium yuan and placed them on the dining table.

Lou Xiao'e looked at the money on the table and walked over in surprise. "You sold four paintings of ladies for 4 magnesium yuan?"

Lou Wenru brought the teapot and teacups, and said with a hint of regret, "That guy from Magnesium knows a little bit about the market, so he only sold it for 7000 yuan. We paid magnesium yuan each."

Lou Xiao'e hurriedly shook her head, "I don't need to share it, you can keep it for business."

Lou Wenjun glanced at Zhang Xin who was looking over the counter, collected the money on the table, and said, "Then I'll give you dividends after our business gets on track."

Lou Wenru poured three cups of tea, picked up one cup for himself, frowned and said, "We still have to think of a way to deal with Zhang Heping. Only by establishing a connection with him and then using him to introduce other Hong Kong businessmen can we sell the little wealth that our family has hidden before at a good price."

After he finished speaking, the two brothers of the Lou family looked towards the counter at the same time.

Lou Xiao'e shook her head slightly at her two brothers and whispered, "If he goes, Zhang Heping won't pay any attention to us."

...

"What time did my uncle arrive? Has he had lunch?" When Zhang Heping returned to Yard No. 7, he saw relatives from his mother's side coming and sitting in the main room.

"Cousin!"

"cousin!"

Zhang Heping nodded to the two cousins ​​who greeted him, and then called to the elders sitting in the house: "Third uncle, fourth uncle, youngest uncle, are you the only ones here to help us move?"

Zhang Bing, the father who was sitting next to him, said, "Yongli and the others are here too. Your mother just called them out, saying that she wanted to buy something."

Zhang Heping glanced at his four silent uncles and said, "Please sit down for a while. I'll call the restaurant and arrange dinner."

My uncle Ma Zhiyi said hurriedly: "Heping, we don't need to go to the restaurant, we can just have a bowl of noodles!"

"It's okay. We have been having dinner in the restaurant these days. The food supply at home is not enough for so many people." Zhang Heping said and went to the east gate room.

He first called the Capital Hotel, and then called the security company at No. 5 Wanshou Road, Haidian, telling them that they could arrange for a truck to come over.

While Zhang Heping was away for meetings these days, his family was moving things to the villa in Yard No. 5.

Zhang Heping thought the furniture and appliances in his three sisters' homes were too old, so he asked them to sell them to a trust store. He hoped that when they moved to a new home, Zhang Heping would give them new furniture and appliances, but they refused.

Finally, when it came to giving it to relatives on her uncle's side, they agreed to Zhang Heping's proposal.

After a while, mother Ma Xiuzhen came back with four nephews and four bulging sacks. Only then did Zhang Heping realize that his mother had gone out to buy cheap New Year's goods.

Zhang Heping took a look at the Xifeng liquor in the sack and secretly shook his head, blaming his mother Ma Xiuzhen for being stingy.

Then, he went to the low cabinet under the west wall of the main house, wanting to take out some Moutai and Huazi, but found it empty.

Zhang Heping opened a few more cabinet doors in disbelief, only to find that the cabinets, like the empty walls, had been emptied out. Only the television, fan, refrigerator, radio, furniture and other things prepared to be given away were left in the room.

"You guys are quick enough!" Zhang Heping closed the cabinet door embarrassedly, turned around and walked towards the dining table.

Ma Xiuzhen said with a smile: "If we don't hurry up, are we going to have the New Year's Eve dinner in a restaurant?"

The idea of ​​my parents and two sisters was very simple. They wanted to take advantage of the large number of people during the Chinese New Year to increase the popularity of Villa No. 5, Building No. 11, Yard No. 1, and also put up Spring Festival couplets and other things.

As for my eldest cousin Ma Lili's family, it seemed that they were forced to join, but the children were very happy.

Before everyone in the room had talked for a few words, more than a dozen guards from Yard No. 5 came and started to help move furniture and appliances, leaving the four uncles and six cousins ​​a little stunned. They never expected that the Zhang family had a soldier to help them move.

Because there were too many people setting up stalls here, trucks could not drive in. They moved the furniture and appliances from the three yards back and forth for 5 or 6 times before moving them to the three trucks parked on the side of the drum tower. "Mom, stop looking!" Zhang Heping came back and turned off the main power switch, and said to his mother who was still looking around in the yard, "If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come! It's time to go to the restaurant. After dinner, the truck drivers will take my uncle and his family back to Majiatun. Let's not waste time here."

New Year's Eve is in two days. The truck driver will drive to Baoding tonight and will be able to come back the day after tomorrow to celebrate New Year's Eve with his family.

Ma Zhiyi became a little uneasy after hearing from his eldest daughter Ma Lili that these three trucks of old furniture and home appliances were given to them.

Zhang Heping locked the gate and took his mother Ma Xiuzhen and Aunt Chen from next door to the Drum Tower. He happened to see his uncle Ma Zhiyi declining the furniture and appliances from Zhang Bing.

"Xiuzhen, Heping, you guys go and eat! I still have to go home to cook for my grandson!" Zhou's Chen Liqin said, then said hello to Ma Zhiyi and the others, and walked towards Nanluoguxiang.

Chen Liqin had some opinions about the fact that the furniture and appliances in the home of the eldest son Zhou Chengwen were not given to the second son Zhou Chengwu.

However, when Tang Xin gave those TVs, refrigerators and washing machines, they were also given to Zhou Chengwu's family. He couldn't keep them and lost them. Who should he blame?

After shaking hands and saying goodbye to the guards who were not going to the Capital Hotel for dinner, Zhang Heping turned to Ma Zhiyi and said, "Uncle, if you don't want these because they are too old, I will ask the driver to haul these furniture and appliances to the scrap yard."

Seeing that his father was at a loss for words, his cousin Ma Yongli responded with a smile: "Cousin, my father doesn't think these things are too old, he thinks they are too expensive."

"Let's go to the restaurant first and talk while eating!" Zhang Heping called out, then helped his father to the passenger seat of a truck, and then asked his mother to get in as well.

After the four uncles got on the passenger seats of the other two trucks, Zhang Heping and his six cousins ​​climbed into the trucks covered with green canvas and headed towards the Capital Hotel.

"Are you still at the brick factory in Baoding?" Zhang Heping asked his cousin Ma Yongsheng next to him.

"Yeah!" Ma Yongsheng nodded.

Zhang Heping looked at the two trucks behind him and asked casually, "How is the brick factory doing? How much do you make a month?"

Ma Yongsheng said truthfully: "The performance is OK, and the salary is 53 yuan."

"This salary is a bit low!" Zhang Heping said meaningfully: "In our factory in Shenzhen, the lowest paid clerk makes 150 yuan a month. However, after the cancellation of grain coupons, prices have increased, so we should give them a raise this year."

Zhang Heping met Ma Yongsheng's complicated gaze and patted his right shoulder. "A tree that is moved will die, but a person who moves will live! Even if you don't think about yourselves, you should think about your children's future. Do you want your children to grow up and move bricks in a brick factory like you do?"

Seeing that Ma Yongsheng did not answer, Zhang Heping said no more.

When they arrived at the Capital Hotel, Zhang Heping pulled the three drivers, who were reluctant to get out of their cars, into the hotel, and mentioned at the dinner table the idea of ​​letting his cousins ​​go south.

"Heping, I know Shenzhen is a special economic zone, and there are many rich people there." Uncle Ma Zhiyi said embarrassedly: "But, we are living well now, so there is no need for the time being..."

"Dad, I don't want to carry bricks anymore!" Cousin Ma Yongli suddenly interrupted, "Although our brick factory is profitable and can pay wages, I don't want to live like this. I want to follow my cousin to the south to see the world!"

"I want to go too!" Ma Yonglong, my third uncle's cousin, raised his hand.

Then, his younger brother Ma Yonghu also raised his hand and said, "I, I heard that many people have made a fortune in the south."

Zhang Heping reached out to his concubine Chen Shuting, and after receiving an envelope that had been prepared long ago, he handed it to his uncle Ma Zhiyi, "Uncle, I dare not say anything else, but I can still arrange for my cousins ​​to go to Shenzhen factories to learn technology and get high salaries."

"This..." Ma Zhiyi took out a piece of origami and a stack of big unity notes from the envelope and subconsciously handed them to Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping blocked it for a moment and said with a smile: "This is the recruitment letter issued by Shenzhen Tingmei Health Factory, as well as the travel expenses to the south. You just need to prepare some national food coupons or dry food."

"I remember that cousin Yongsheng's eldest son is almost 20 years old!" Zhang Heping looked at Ma Yongsheng and said, "If you don't try your best when you are young, will you stay in Majiatun for the rest of your life, or work in a brick factory?"

Speaking of his eldest grandson, Ma Zhiyi's hand with the envelope in it fell on the dining table.

"By the way, they are also recruiting female workers there, and there are dormitories for couples. After you go back, you can slowly discuss going south to work. There is no need to rush." ​​Zhang Heping said, and invited everyone to eat quickly.

After dinner, Zhang Heping picked up the unopened Maotai on the table and gave a bottle to each of the three drivers.

"Drinking affects your driving, so I didn't toast to the three of you at the table. I'm sorry for the poor hospitality!" Zhang Heping took the Huazi handed to him by Tang Xin, stuffed two packs into each driver, and sent them out.

The Ma family relatives who came to help the Zhang family move were still a little dizzy at this time. It was not only the furniture and appliances on the three trucks, but also Zhang Heping’s words just now about going south to Shenzhen to work.

After the four uncles and two cousins ​​got on the passenger seat and the other four cousins ​​sat in the car hoods, wrapped in the quilts that the Zhang family didn't want anymore, the three truck drivers honked their horns for a long time and drove out of the restaurant.

Seeing the car drive away, Ma Xiuzhen said to Zhang Heping with some blame, "You should have told me first if you wanted them to go to the south to work, and then I would have discussed it with your uncle."

"What are we discussing?" Zhang Heping said with a pursed mouth, "Who should stay to take care of them in their old age?"

"You little brat, you know this and you're still talking!" Ma Xiuzhen said dissatisfiedly, "Didn't you see your uncle's face just now? It was as black as charcoal."

"Aunt, my cousin is doing this for Yongsheng and his family's good!" Ma Lili tried to smooth things over. "They have told me many times before that although they get paid for carrying bricks in the brick factory, they don't get any food. During the busy farming season, they have to go back to work on the farm. In fact, they have long wanted to go to the city to work as workers."

"Mom, believe it or not, Yongsheng and Yongli won't go to Shenzhen to work. When their children grow up, they will also find a city to work." Zhang Heping turned around and said:

"They are now working in Shenzhen, and the ones left behind are their parents and children. If they don't go, it will be them and their grandchildren who will be left behind in Majiatun."

"Mom!" said the concubine Chen Shuting, "We are planning to build welfare housing for employees in Shenzhen. If those relatives go to Shenzhen earlier, they can get a house there. After they settle down there, they can bring their parents over to live in, which should be better than living in the countryside!"

"Even if they don't retire in Shenzhen, they can earn money and go back to their hometown to retire, which is much better than carrying bricks now, don't you think?"

Zhang Heping waved at the cars at the door and said, "Here comes the taxi. Hurry back to the villa!"

The next day, after ten o'clock in the morning, my uncle Ma Zhiyi called to report that he was safe, but he did not mention going south to Shenzhen. It would probably take some time to discuss it.

Zhang Heping invited his cousins ​​to go to Shenzhen to work for the second time because of their late grandfather.

Those cousins ​​had no skills and no education, so they could only learn basic trades, which did not help Zhang Heping much in his career.

So, he gave some money last night as a last invitation.

If they don't go, those old furniture, appliances, and the one thousand dollars in the envelope can be considered as supporting poor relatives. In the future, don't say that he is snobbish.

Putting aside the matter of his uncle, Zhang Heping took a walk around Villa No. 5-11 on the side of Courtyard No. 1 and asked a group of boys to move all the wooden carvings that were pulled down from the wall of Courtyard No. 7 to the basement.

There were also some messy things that they were reluctant to throw away, so they were all moved to the basement, which made the villa look better.

In the afternoon, Zhang Heping went to Houhai Subdistrict Office again to contact the subdistrict construction team to demolish and rebuild houses.

When it was evening, Zhang Heping called Director Qi and Lao Yan from the construction team to go to the Capital Hotel, but was surprised to find that his eldest brother-in-law Tang Ren and his family were also there...