Proletarian internationalism is built on the notion of seeking truth from facts.
Only when you stand firmly,
insisting on seeking the truth from facts
can socialist modernization
move forward.
We can now enter university!
What has been undergoing, as a practice, is the only discussion we will have to examine the truth.
More practically, the core argument is to emancipate the mind.
Whether or not...
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Like a Flowing River
~Episode 38~
- You're awake. - Brother Lei.
Brother Lei.
What act is this now? What trouble did you get into that you escaped to here?
It's a long story, Brother Lei.
What happened?
Where's my bag?
This?
- You scared me to death. - Don't worry.
You can't lose anything in Xiaoleijia.
That's my life.
Take a look. Is there anything missing?
Nothing's missing.
Look at you.
Brother Lei, there's ¥10,000 in there. Count it.
I'm returning those to you.
Why are you rushing?
I'm not in need of money. I'm putting this here.
Let's first talk about your problem. How did your arm become like that?
Something happened with our electrical equipment market.
My arm was lightly hurt. I went to the hospital and the doctor insisted on doing surgery on me.
I can already move around with this injury.
I was worried that you'd worry so I came here as soon as possible.
What happened to the electrical equipment market?
The Old Wang that was doing business with me got into trouble.
My money... probably can't be collected either.
If Old Wang got into trouble,
how come you can't get your money back?
Old Wang sold...
...power switches to the coal mine who has no pressure reducing effect.
This led to an explosion in the coal mine
and a lot of people died.
The people from the coal mine came and smashed everything in our warehouse.
They hit our people as well.
Now, everybody is still lying in the hospital.
Continue talking.
Old Wang, other than selling those
defected switches,
he also sold a lot of electrical equipment to the coal mine.
Among those was our electric cable.
Old Wang originally said
that once the payment from the coal mine came, I'd get my money right away.
But this time, he got into trouble and was imprisoned.
This money...
...probably can't be claimed.
Brother Lei, you say, my warehouse has been destroyed,
people have also gotten hurt,
and I only have this ¥10,000 left. So I came here this time
to ask Brother Lei for help.
Helping you is easy.
But don't take me as an idiot
and play some suffering act on me.
I'm not. I'm not, Brother Lei.
Just based on the relationship between my family, Brother Xiao Hui, and Sister Ping Ping, I will never lie to you.
Then why would you do business like this that might end your family bloodline?
- Why did you put our electric cables with those switches? - No...
You have already damaged Xiaoleijia's reputation with this.
- If I were to say something, it serves you right. - No...
I wasn't the one who sold those defective switch plates.
Those were sold by Old Wang. I didn't even know about it.
I, Yang Xun, only ever sells the best quality products.
Otherwise, why would I come here? People have already died.
No matter how daring I am, if the knife is on my neck, I don't dare to.
So, Brother Lei,
I came here this time to beg you. Help me one more time.
How am I supposed to help you?
You can really make your calculations.
If you give this ¥10,000 to me, how will you have money to buy goods?
Wouldn't I still have to lend it to you?
No- No. I'm returning this ¥10,000 to you.
I don't plan on borrowing anything else.
I have already lost all of my funding,
but I have customers. These few years, I've met quite a few customers.
I've made a deal with one factory.
They are urgently in need of some electric cables,
so I came back.
Brother Lei, if you still believe me,
get one of your man to deliver the products back to Jinzhou with me.
I'll introduce the customer to you. I won't interfere. I won't take any of the revenue.
You won't take any of the revenue?
Little Yang Bun, you are already in this state,
and you're still thinking about business?
Brother Lei!
I can help you get all the clients of the city electric cable factory.
The one competing with us right now is Jiangyang Electric Cable Factory.
If we don't have the goods in three days, the business will be stolen by them.
I gave them the lowest price in order to get you this deal.
That's why, I won't take even a dime, Brother Lei.
Brother Lei.
Rest well.
I'll come to see you tomorrow.
Oh, right, your girlfriend called.
- When? - In the afternoon. It sounded urgent from her tone.
It should be okay. I left a note for her.
She should be able to see it.
- Give him some bone broth soup. - Yes.
[ Clinic ]
Little Dai, eat some food.
Little Yang has been gone for a day now,
- did he run away? - Stop guessing!
Even if he were to run away, he wouldn't leave his beautiful wife behind.
Little Dai, where are you going?
Yang Xun ran away with the money.
I'm not waiting for him anymore.
Little Dai.
You kid, even if flowers grow from your mouth,
I can't make a decision based only on what you said.
This time, I'll go to Jinzhou with you.
That's great, Brother Lei.
You'll know once you see the customer. I'm not bluffing this time.
You're in luck. I planned on delivering the refrigerator to Xiao Hui,
so I can send you back along with it.
Brother Lei. What about the electric cable?
You won't make it in time if you don't send out the products now.
As long as your customer is reliable, once I call back,
I can send the electric cable on the same day.
Get on the car.
Secretary Lei, I apologize.
This time, I'm afraid you came for nothing.
Brother Tong, didn't we already agree on it?
The three-day period hasn't ended yet. Our goods are already on the way.
Secretary Lei, this was also against my will.
How was it against your will, care to explain?
The price that Little Yang gave this time was really a deal.
There's nothing to say about your Dengfeng Electric Cable's quality.
The ones used during the first stage of our construction gave us no problem at all.
Brother Tong, then continue with it.
Don't get anxious and cut in.
- Let Section Chief Dong finish his words. - The problem arose from Little Yang.
The problem caused by your electronic equipment market was really too huge.
Our leader heard about it and with one word,
he canceled this sale.
An accident happened with the market, but there's nothing wrong with Dengfeng.
There is nothing wrong with Dengfeng, didn't I already say that earlier?
But the leader wouldn't listen.
The leader has his own worries.
He can't risk the whole factory's safe production. Am I right?
Can I see the price that Yang Xun gave you?
Here.
This price is very favorable.
Thanks.
But this time, I really can't help.
We won't bother you anymore.
What else do you have to say?
Sorry, Brother Lei. I messed up everything.
It's not like the sky fell down. Stop drooping your head.
Let Jiangyang get this deal this time.
Next time, just get it back for me.
You're still giving me a chance?
You didn't lie. Of course, I will give you a second chance.
Thank you, Brother Lei.
We're both men here, so stop being so touchy.
Brother Lei, I promise to help you take back all of Jiangyang Factory's business.
We will let them eat dirt.
Don't try to sweet talk me.
I will only treat you like a person if you speak the truth and act like one.
Little Yang Xun, I hope you take the incident this time to heart.
In this lifetime, stop doing those messed up things.
If you meet people doing rotten businesses again,
stay far away from them as soon as possible.
I remember.
It's about time, let's go.
- Laowu. - Yes.
Later, stay behind to accompany Yang Xun.
Brother Lei, are you afraid I will get into trouble again?
It's not only for watching you.
The coal mine's people might come back and cause you trouble.
There always has to be somebody to assist in protecting you.
Alright, I'm not going to be talking any more nonsense with you. I need to go to Xiao Hui's house now.
- I'm not hungry. Laowu, - Yes. - Later, on the road,
- take Yang Xun to a clinic and have them check his arm. Don't let him be a cripple at such a young age. - Yes.
Let's go. Quick.
You, sit in the front.
...and got a refrigerator coupon. But this item is too hot.
I indeed got a refrigerator coupon, but I still have to fall in line again. Now, I finally bought one back.
-Xiao Hui. -Kitten, you're back. Older brother is here.
Older brother, you're here!
- Also, this is Brother Shigen and Brother Hongwei. - Hi.
-Hello. -Hello all of you. When did you all arrive?
We timed it exactly during his time off from work. Causing him not being able to do overtime.
-You guys sit down first. Don't be so polite. -Alright.
-I'll bring you guys some water to drink. -Sit. Sit. Sit. -No need, Section Head Song.
Quick, quickly sit down.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
I'm going to look around this room.
Take a look around.
Xiao Hui, if I do say so myself, moving out to live here is pretty nice.
There are enough rooms. It's just that the furniture is too old. Next time, I'll build you some new pieces.
- No need. Here, big brother, drink some water. - Thank you.
When we got married, we already spent a lot of money.
Xiao Hui insisted on not using the one's at home, so we we just borrowed some.
With our salary, it's enough to pay off the debt.
- This is the fridge that older brother gave to us! - That's right.
How nice! Thank you older brother!
This way, we don't need to wake up so early everyday to buy ingredients.
You were tight on money and you didn't tell me?
Don't listen to Kitten's exaggeration. We didn't borrow much.
We actually borrowed money from my parents.
My parents told me it's fine to not return it, but Xiao Hui insisted.
Xiao Hui is already a section chief, so his salary grade is already quite high.
It's just that his work hours are short, hence, the salary is a bit small.
- Me, I have even less. - That's enough.
Oh right, Older Brother. You were talking about Yang Xun earlier. Will Dengfeng's business be affected by this?
Of course, it will.
Little Yang Xun said he has a plan.
Let's give him one more chance. We mustn't take away his only chance of survival.
Moreover, we have some surplus in the village. We can survive for a while.
You don't have to worry about me. Now that there's less restriction on the price of pork, the price is rising every day.
The new pigs we've just got will also sell for a good price,
- This is also easy money for us, right? I'm not lying. - Right. Right.
That Zhongfu will start complaining again.
Our prefabricated panel factory is also incurring losses, but we never asked the village for any subsidy, right?
Why are you two talking about this in XIao Hui's house? Don't you have anything to do?
For the loan that Chen Pingyuan gave us, I did do some expansion on his piggery.
You didn't give it all.
Drink some water.
Older Brother, I've gave some deep thoughts into what you'd told me last time.
I even consulted my father-in-law. I've drafted a proposal, take a look.
This is great. I came especially for this.
Take a look, you two.
What are we going to eat tonight.
You can't treat us shabbily just because you owe money to your father-in-law.
No, why would I treat you shabbily. I will make dinner now.
After dinner, I'll take Kitten back to her parents' house.
Let's sit down and slowly discuss things afterwards.
- Okay? - Okay
Little Yang Xun, take it slow.
XIao Feng!
Xiaog Feng! I am back.
You wrote so much and I've been reading this for half a day now,
but I still don't understand it. Why don't you explain this to us?
Is that okay?
It's like this. In my proposal, Xiaoleijia is a corporation.
Older Brother is the president. Brother Shigen is the vice president who takes care of the finance.
The different village-run businesses
will be subsidiary companies that must submit profits to the main company.
These will be use to give dividends to the share holders and provide retirement benefits to the villagers.
The rest will be used to develop the business further.
And you guys who are in management will need to take responsibility for the company.
Your income is closely linked with business efficiency.
What do you guys think?
Subsidiary companies don't need to submit all of their profits.
It's good to individually mange each of the businesses.
But, regarding income being coupled with business efficiency,
I think we must re-discuss this.
I think the proposal sounds great,
but I have never heard anyone done it like this before.
Let me say it in my words. Xiao Hui,
what you are saying is that you hope we can make a bigger profit in the future.
These two are scared. They are not willing to take a risk.
I can understand that. Even though the society is moving forward,
every one still has the mindset of egalitarianism.
But, if we don't increase the income of those that are in charge,
what other ways can we use to reflect the leaders' values and skills?
If we don't couple income with effectiveness, how can we prevent cases like Old Secretary,
where he used his power for his own selfish gains?
There are several companies in the adjacent villages
that I heard has been contracted out. I heard that it is doing pretty well.
Contracting the company is only effective in its early stage.
If you would like assure the longevity of the company, then contracting is not the best way.
Did you hear what Xiao Hui just said?
Yes. There are indeed some group of factories that has been contracted to factory managers.
Let me ask you, what would happen to the factory workers then?
Where will they all go?
If there's a good contractor, then all's well.
But if the contractor is bad, you might not even be able to claim medical fees.
There's a risk that the contractor might use the machines without rest.
And when the time for maintenance comes, they might not be willing to spend money
and use only the cheapest parts. When the contract is up,
the contractors would just take the money and leave without a worry.
They will just leave us with useless iron scraps.
There's a couple of leaders in the county that wants me me to contract out the factories in our village,
When I refused, they said I'm greedy for power. If other villages are doing it, does it mean I must follow?
There's a good example in front of our eyes. Liu Xinsheng from Haiyan Village Fabric Factory.
He ran into problems after contracting his factory, and it's about to close down now.
In my opinion, we should take the lead.
We can't be so cowardly. Back when we contracted the fields, who's done that before?
Even though you say it like that,
the villagers might not agree to this.
If we take more than them,
they might talk bad about us behind our backs.
Let them talk if that's what they want to do.
Is there a time when they didn't complain?
When the benefits rise and they have more money in their hands, they'll naturally shut up.
Actually, this condition isn't just to prevent corruption.
You are also promoting everybody to be enthusiastic with their work, right?
Those who are capable work more, and those who work more get more in return. These are in line with socialism's allocation system.
Then, this condition has been settled then.
Let's not change the titles.
It sounds weird to have president, vice president, managers, and such in a peasant village.
Let's do it like this. For the brick and tile factory, prefabricated panel factory, Hongwei, you're in charge.
Zhongfu will be in charge of the piggery. Zhengming will manage the electric cable factory.
The construction team...
The profits are low and there's a lot of complicated issues.
It's better to just contract that out. Let it be financially autonomous.
Okay. Also, Xiao Hui, there are a few rules here that I find troublesome. Shigen insists on keeping them.
Can you help explain it to him? Listen to how he says it.
This rule is to prevent the manager from embezzling funds.
Brother Shigen studied accounting. He knows that these rules are a must.
Okay then. Keep it for now.
- Go back in, Section Chief Song. You don't need to see us off. - It's fine. - Go back in.
- Take care on your way home. - Okay.
Xiao Hui, later, after you wash your face and get a bit more alert, you probably would be going to work already, right?
Brother, there's something I need your help with.
- Say it. - I want to get Mom and Dad a new house,
but they're concerned about the cost, so they won't agree to it.
I can only ask you to supervise the work.
You think I haven't spoken to them about this before?
They won't agree so how I can I forcefully tear down the house?
I'll talk to my parents. You go back and buy the materials and send them to their doorstep.
Tell them that there are no returns and then they won't say anything.
I thought I was the only one who knew how to use these bandit-like tactics.
Okay, I'll remember this. Take the money and return it to your in-laws.
I've been paying my father-in-law every month. Not much is left.
You must take this money with you. If not, I will mail it to you.
The people in your family are all stubborn.
I exactly love stubborn people.
There's also a sketch in there.
It's a house plan that I drew. You'll understand as soon as you see it.
This? Let me see.
Wow, this house seems fancy.
My construction team has build numerous houses and I have never seen one like this.
This roof and these windows, isn't this a little too complicated?
I drew this based on the villas in West Germany.
If you see something that doesn't work, adjust it accordingly.
Okay. When I finish adjusting it, I'll call you.
But going back to it,
you paid for the materials, but I'll be the one to give the workers' pay fees. It's my way of showing filial piety.
Help me here. Don't bargain over this with me. If you have time,
work a little on the plans for Xiaoleijia.
If the people in Xiaoleijia can live in this type of landscaped house, they'll be overjoyed.
- Okay. - I'll be going then. - Be careful on the road since you all haven't slept all night. - Okay. You go on back.
- I'm going. - Goodbye.
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How is it? Did she go back?
She didn't go back.
Her relatives even scolded me, saying that I bullied her.
Brother Wu, I want to go to Dongbei.
What if Xiao Feng is mad and she colluded with her relatives to lie to me?
Didn't you say that there wasn't anyone at her home? Who could she go find?
Besides, if she is still in Jinzhou,
and she comes back to find you but you're in Dongbei, wouldn't that be more troublesome?
I guess so.
Think about it some more. Who else does she know in Jinzhou? I'll go look for her with you.
I've already thought through everyone. She doesn't know anyone here.
There's only that person that she borrowed money from, but I don't know him.
I only know that... I think his surname is Zhao.
Fool, your woman went out to borrow money from someone yet you don't know who?
Are there only money in your eyes?
Xiao Feng must have thought this way too.
That's why, it broke her heart.
She must have thought I ran with the money.
How about this? Your injury isn't healed yet. Let's go home first so you can recuperate.
If anything else happens to you, Secretary Dongbao will scold me.
I'm okay, Brother Wu. I'll just make a trip to the market.
If Xiao Feng comes back and I'm not there,
- she'll get worried. - I'll go with you.
Did I tell you to come work or sleep?
There's nothing to do. If I don't sleep, I'll feel anxious.
Anxious?
When I go back, I'll tell Secretary Dongbao to deduct some of your salary. Let's see if you'll get anxious.
Where's Ah Mian?
He's sleeping inside.
He says it is too bright out here, and can't sleep well.
Hello, did anyone come here earlier?
No, I just slept for five minutes. I had been outside keeping watch the rest of the time.
There was not a single woman who came in.
Would you help me out, and help me lift this up?
Sure.
Slowly.
Here, push it a little more this way.
You are here? Come on in.
The main reason for the meeting today
is to talk about the idea Xiaoleijia Brigade brought up earlier
regarding the proposal on collective enterprise reform.
I am sure everyone has seen it, and many have brought up
that the idea is too new, and quite hard to accept.
So, I especially invited the two leader of the Xiaoleijia Brigade today
to answer any questions that everyone may have.
If you have any questions, please feel free to voice them aloud.
- Comrade Lei Dongbao. - Yes?
Please tell us about the original intention of your proposal.
County Governor Chen, we want to implement this plan,
mainly to encourage our members to have more enthusiasm towards working.
To take a step further in revitalizing the economy of an agricultural village.
Sorry, I would like to interrupt for a second.
Look at how the level of awareness among our comrades in the basic level are quite high.
In the new proposal, there were also a lot of new vocabulary.
I suggest that you describe it in detail for everyone. Even better if you can do it simple and easy to understand manner.
Yes, say it in a way that is simple and easy to understand.
Simple and easy to understand.
Then, uh, how about I'll let the secretary say it?
You all know that I am quite an unrefined person and wouldn't understand all this.
This is all what my brother-in-law learned from foreign companies when he traveled abroad.
He said that foreigners use this method, and it is very effective.
Then I'll initiate this discussion,
and ask you a question. In your proposal, you talked about
using 10% of the annual profits as bonuses for everyone?
Yes, 10%. The workers and management will both receive half.
You have to encourage the workers to do their job well,
and nothing is a better encouragement than money.
Then, according to the Xiaoleijia Brigade's current operating conditions,
have you calculated how much the head of the company will receive?
Every company will have different conditions in every year.
Exactly how much they can receive, we will have to do some research, and we will write you a report.
There's no need for that. I have a copy of your financial report from the first half of the year.
I can help you calculate it. The Xiaoleijia Village's
piggery profit from just the month of June is around ¥80,000.
According to your proposal,
the company director will be able to receive ¥4,000-¥5,000 in just one month.
You can't calculate it like that. In June there was more because it's the slaughter season,
and thus profits rose. It isn't slaughter season every month.
It won't be like that every month.
But I remember, your pig farm had just undergone expansion,
and the price of pork is continuously rising right now.
It seems that in the future, it will even double.
- This year, the profits of the piggery was around ¥400,000. - Yes.
Then each worker can receive ¥1,500-¥1,600, and the manager can receive around ¥20,000.
If you calculate the average,
they are not receiving an average of ¥4,000-¥5,000 a month. That would be quite scary!
This proportion... Isn't it a little too high?
We have carefully calculated it, it isn't high at all.
The performance of our brick factory is not as high as those of the piggery,
but in less than 2 years, the management of the factory
has embezzled around ¥30,000. Think about it.
If we give this money directly to the individual, then he won't sell those low priced bricks.
The performance of the brick factory will surely be much better now.
I have a different opinion. The corruption in Xiaoleijia
cannot be blamed on income related reasons.
On the contrary, it is because you only focused on economic development,
and have forgotten about ideological education, that's why, your manager developed deviated ideas.
- We are currently talking about the allocation system— -Yes. That...
We humbly accept this problem that you pointed out.
County Governor Chen also knows that ideological education in our village used to be handled by the old secretary.
Now, our old secretary has passed away. We're here this time to ask the county leaders to arrange for a person
to specifically handle this ideological education.
Going back to the main point,
ideological awareness isn't something that can be raised in just one or two days.
We can decrease the proportion of dividends, but we can't completely remove it.
Actual benefits coupled with ideological awareness
is the only way to completely get rid of corruption. Right?
That's not right.
I think that this is not a problem of dividend allocation proportion.
First, this proposal of yours itself
must still be brought out and discussed in detail.
Because Xiaoleijia is a collective enterprise village.
It's nothing like the circumstances in other countries.
You're taking the money earned by a collective enterprise
to divide among individuals. Isn't that equivalent to stealing from collective interest?
Section Chief Song told us before that the Central Authorities have issued a policy
that share dividends are allowed in village partnerships.
Then, let me ask you. Does your village collective enterprise have individual profit sharing?
No. You don't have any money invested in your enterprise.
Now, you want to distribute the profits.
- Is that fair? - If you want that to happen, it's also not impossible.
- What did you say? - I just want to ask you leaders. We are giving it our all to work for the collective.
- In the end, it's still inferior to those doing individual businesses. - Now, the country permits contracting lands or businesses.
If you don't feel that it is fair, of course, you can leave the collective.
You can work on your own. You can contract for work too.
But you have to remember, as village cadres,
- you have to set a good example and put the collective interest above private interest. - Since we're talking about the collective—
I agree with the views of Commissioner Li.
This is using reforms to take advantage of socialist collective ownership.
If leaders will use their authority to draw up rules favorable to one side, won't that turn things upside down?
This isn't favoring some over others. Those in charge can earn some money.
Workers can also receive dividends. Wasn't that just explained clearly?
I also want to raise some questions. Xiaoleijia's development has long been imbalanced in that
it favored industries than agriculture. This proposal will only escalate this further.
Our village cadres shouldn't just focus on
not getting rich if there isn't any industries. You also must consider the instability that no agricultural work will cause.
Leaders, let me ask you back.
in our Xiaoleijia, five agricultural specialists
have contracted all the rice paddies of our village.
In Xiaoleijia, there are over a thousand pigs being raised.
Does this count as industry or agriculture?
We both have industries and agricultural work, and even got rich from them.
Only those who just talk and don't put into practice what they say
are still loudly poor until now.
Lei Dongbao, what kind of attitude is that?
All these leaders are concerne for Xiaoleijia,
that's why, they gave suggestions and expectations.
You mustn't have such resentment. Understand?
Okay. Concerning the circumstances of Xiaoleijia, I believe
everyone has achieved an understanding. We'll leave today's meeting here.
Everyone, take the proposal with you and make a more in depth discussion.
You can go back and wait until we notify you. The meeting is over.
We need to put in more work in the ideological education of village leaders.
Secretary Dongbao, that's all?
Should we go talk with County Governor Chen again?
I'm not going. Couldn't you tell?
If we want this proposal to pass, the village cadres mustn't get a share. You think that's possible?
What do you plan to do?
What can I do? When we go back, I'll implement the proposal.
If you do it like this and hide it from the superiors, if the superiors find out—
If the sky falls down, I'll hold it up.
They let the horse run and don't let the horse eat grass.
How can there be such a good thing in this world? They have gotten all the advantage.
Comrade Dongbao, County Governor asks that you go to his office.
Let's go.
Didn't you say that your brother-in-law understands the government policies
and that the proposal he'll give is surely without problems?
And you even bluffed and said that you definitely could convince them.
What? In the end, you ran out of reasons and got defeated by them?
I've already given those—
I already gave face to those leaders.
I was afraid that I'll bring you too much shame,
so I held back a lot of words and didn't say them.
You also know that they were not happy?
The way you're talking is exactly forcing them to stand opposed to you.
Have they ever stood on the same plane as me?
Lei Dongbao, I really don't understand what you're thinking.
Other villages are steadfastly doing contracting of businesses, but your village just have to be different.
Why must you learn from abroad and do some allocation system?
If we contracted it out, the advantage of the Xiaoleijia as a collective enterprise will be gone.
Will you leaders still provide us with political and technical support?
Will you still approve loans for us to expand our production scale?
You really have thought it through.
What I'm saying is the truth. I'm not stupid.
The reason our village was able to progress to how it is now
can't do without your vigorous support.
But we also have pressures.
Seeing how all these contracting individuals are earning money,
can these leaders in the villages not develop any ideas?
But if we contracted the enterprise out, it will only be an individual enjoying the limelight,
while the collective suffers. Can they know Xiaoleijia better than me?
If we really contracted out those village enterprises,
won't they treat all these as some workshops?
Once their contract ends, they will just give us back a pile of problems.
Hence, I went to see my brother-in-law
to come up with this allocation system,
so that the management people
can get what they should be getting.
This way, they can do what they should be doing,
and Xiaoleijia can become a huge enterprise, a huge plant.
They all say that you
have a straightforward face and meticulous mind.
Xiaoleijia is already the model village in the whole county.
What else are you not satisfied about?
That's not enough.
Xiaoleijia now is just a model of the county.
I'm going to make Xiaoleijia the richest village in the whole province.
By then, not only do the old people have pensions,
I'll give allowances for kids going to schools, give rewards to those who can get into high school, and provide jobs for those who can get into college.
Okay. Okay. I know you have grand goals.
Let us pull the discussion back to the current state.
Tell me your detailed plan.
As long as the new proposal is passed, wait until the end of the year.
Just the piggery alone and we'll be able to produce 10,000 pigs.
Why are you coughing?
8,000 pigs.
90% sure of it. I'm not bragging, right?
10,000.
You surely understand what these 10,000 pigs mean.
6,000 pigs makes us number one in the province.
10,000 pigs will make us number one even among the adjacent provinces.
If I support your reform,
will you be able to achieve 10,000 pigs by the end of the year?
- I'll immediately sign a guarantee oath. - Okay then.
Just be at ease and do your reforms. I'll handle the county work.
If you're able to do my year-end request,
I'll ask the provincial leader to make you a signboard saying "A Thousand Output Piggery".
No, County Governor Chen,
I didn't expect that you're this supportive in our work.
- Thanks. Thanks. - We all are of one family.
Since there are no outsiders here, I'll leak some internal information to you.
The county secretary will be transferred to the city soon.
I also strive to improve.
I understand.
- Right now, I'm risking huge danger in helping you. - Yes.
In short, we are tied up together.
If we're unable to achieve the target by the end of this year, I also won't be having it easy.
But if I'm able to achieve the goal by the end of the year,
shouldn't you give us more assistance?
You really know how to keep getting advantages.
Let me express my stand here.
As long as you're able to make an achievement,
I will help you.
Old Mincemeat. Old Mincemeat.
Half a kilo of beef, half a kilo of white wine, and two cold vegetables.
Okay.
Sit down and relax a little.
Xiao Feng!
Brother Wu, how long are we going to stay here?
When we came here, you said that it'll just be a few days. That we'll go back once he has restarted his business.
But look at that guy. How could he be in the mood to do business?
He's still young. Just for a woman, he could disregard everything.
These past days, no one has come here.
- Other than those cleaning their stuff, there was no one else. - That's right.
You two really have a lot of nonsense.
If your wife left with someone else, will you be happy?
No matter what his next plans are, we must accompany him.
At the very least, we must...
Brother Wu, I bought food for you all.
Hurry. Hurry.
Get some chair.
Come, let's eat together.
That...I'll go back first. You all just eat.
Didn't you say that we'll drink together?
Yes.
I was afraid that if Xiao Feng comes back, she'll get worried if she couldn't see me.
How about this? We'll be here all night.
If she comes back, we surely will make her stay.
- We surely will make her stay. - We'll watch her for you.
- I'll get going then. - Okay.
Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Brother Wu.
Slow down.
Food couldn't block your mouths too.
Didn't you say it too. I...
[ Xiao Feng, I'll wait for you in the market. It's good that you're back. ]
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