Chapter 469 Arrival Home

At around 10 o'clock and approaching noon, Zhang Haonan returned to Wujiadai. The village had a new road running east-west, one north and one south. The north road was still under construction and stopped during the Spring Festival. The south road was a two-lane road and would be officially opened to traffic in the winter.

At this time, the road signs of "Wujia Industrial Zone" had been hung at the intersections at both ends. Because the east end was close to the provincial road, a huge stone was placed with Wei Gang's inscription on it: Build a new countryside and create a new future.

The structure of the entire village has changed. The cultivated land is obviously decreasing. The planning is also centered on "Wujia Lake", forming a distinct living area and industrial area.

"Wujia Garden", an affordable housing community, as well as "Wujia Primary School" and "Wujia Kindergarten", are all near "Wujia Lake".

The technical secondary school was relocated as a whole to the vicinity of the canal in the north of the village. First, it saves land. Second, it is relatively remote here. Any major technical training will not affect the living area. Finally, after the east-west road in the north is repaired, vehicles will no longer have to cross streets and alleys to enter and exit.

A parking lot was opened next to the north-south village road connecting the provincial highway. Based on the parking lot, the new village office was expanded with the surrounding buildings.

The new village office is a group of buildings. The original village office still retains some of the functions of the joint defense team station, and the rest are rented to "Shacheng Food".

As soon as Zhang Haonan's bus stopped, the village cadres came out to greet him. Wu Renjuan also changed into a mink coat made in Northeast China for the new year, which made her look a bit stylish.

"Anan, you're back early."

"I've been so busy, I can finally relax a little."

After greeting him with a smile, Zhang Haonan handed two packs of cigarettes to the man next to Wu Renjuan, "It's rare to see my brother-in-law."

"Like you said, I'm so busy."

Wu Renjuan's husband took the cigarettes from Zhang Haonan with a smile. He is now a broker in Wujiadai Village, specializing in passing messages or being a middleman. For example, if someone wants to be a supplier of "Shacheng Food", he can help to make a little money. He can't become rich, but it's okay.

It's not that he doesn't want to make a lot of money, but his wife reminded him that it would be too late to make more money when she got promoted. With Zhang Haonan around, it's not necessary to make hundreds of thousands of dollars now.

He also listened to it, so he always maintained a little "status" in the countryside.

"Come and play mahjong in the first month of the year. Except for a few old men, few people are willing to play Chengjiang mahjong."

"Definitely, definitely..."

While they were talking, a window on the second floor of the elderly activity room on the east side of the village office building opened, and a loud voice came: "Zhang Haonan! Come back——"

"Come down to get cigarettes!"

"Come right in——"

Wu Chenglin has not retired yet. The municipal government asked him to serve as the acting mayor for half a year before retiring. It was also a combination of various messy things that led to this situation.

This includes the top position of the city and town.

It sounds like just a mayor, but in fact, if he is appointed in another place, he will be a deputy county magistrate, so Wu Chenglin has picked up a big bargain in the struggle.

Before, Zhang Haonan just boasted to him that he could get a mayor, but now he really has become one... Although it is an acting position, who knows if it will be extended for another year or two.

Wu Chenglin, who has a relaxed mentality, does not pursue fame and fortune. He just goes with the flow. His main task now is to listen to the arrangements of the municipal government. If he is asked to discuss investment with "Shacheng Food", he will take a bus back to the countryside, and occasionally ride a motorcycle to find Ding Yong to beg for alms.

Last year, Wu Chenglin raised more than 6 million yuan from various departments of the municipal government, including but not limited to the back pay of rural teachers' overdue wages, line reconstruction funds for poor villages, etc.

So no one objected to arranging him to be an acting mayor.

Ding Yong would not care about the more than 6 million yuan. The accounts are all open, and the employees are aware of it. When they go out to work, they feel more proud psychologically and feel that their unit is awesome.

"I..."

Wu Chenglin, who was coming downstairs, was about to come over when he saw Shen Jinman with a big belly in the car. He quickly took a deep puff of the cigarette in his mouth, then threw it on the ground and stomped it out with his foot. Then he waved his hand to pat the smoke around him, rubbed his hands, and then smiled and came over and said, "You've grown stronger again, which is good."

"A box of cigarettes, all kinds of cigarettes..."

After carrying out a box of cigarettes, Wu Chenglin smiled from ear to ear and quickly took it, "I'll carry it myself, I'll do it myself."

He came here on a motorcycle to play chess today, and also to wait for Zhang Haonan. After all, he hadn't seen this young man for a long time.

"Enough for several days."

"I'm not an old smoker. Now I only smoke half a pack a day."

Wu Chenglin tied a box of cigarettes directly to the side of the motorcycle, and Zhang Haonan lent a hand. The old and the young chatted like this.

"Now that you are the boss, Comrade Wu Chenglin, how do you feel?"

"Small coffins are neither big nor small!"

Pretending to raise his hand to hit him, Zhang Haonan laughed, dodged a step and continued, "If you need my help, just tell me."

"I don't care whether I am an official or not. Anyway, I can do it for a few years. If I don't, I will play mahjong every day."

"Grandpa has a good attitude."

"What else am I dissatisfied with? The roads in the brigade have been repaired, the buildings have been built, and there are several rows of factories. My own descendants will not starve to death, what else am I dissatisfied with?"

Wu Chenglin suddenly said, "Asan also has a career. I can die on the spot now, so there is nothing to be dissatisfied with."

The youngest son Wu Yiming has just secured his position as the team leader of the logistics company. After the Chinese New Year, he will go to another place to build a branch company. If everything goes well, people will call him "Mr. Wu" next year.

The only flaw is that on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Yiming's biological parents came to look for him, which made Wu Chenglin so angry that he almost died in the town government.

He picked up Wu Yiming in the bridge hole on the twelfth lunar month. He finally raised Wu Yiming and raised him properly and saw his career succeed despite rumors and pressure from his wife. As a result, a pair of biological parents of the youngest son jumped out. Wu Chenglin was still strong in his heart. If he was a little fragile, he would probably collapse at that time.

What's more troublesome is that Wu Yiming used to only guess that he was not his biological son, but now he has completely confirmed that he is not his biological son.

During the Chinese New Year this year, Wu Yiming hid in another place and did not come back, which made Wu Chenglin feel very bad during the Chinese New Year.

But he didn't say anything. After all, such things still need to be adjusted by himself and finally accept the reality.

Wu Chenglin was quite happy that Zhang Haonan came back today.

He was just an ordinary rural old man who was vulgar and cunning. He was not as open-minded as a cultured person, and his way of reaching reconciliation with himself was also very rough and clumsy.

Zhang Haonan did not mention Wu Yiming, and just talked to Wu Chenglin about what to do in the first month of the year. With good days, many things can be diluted.

After all, he was just a vulgar and cunning rural old man.

This episode before rebirth actually came later, probably three or four years later. At that time, Zhang Haonan's career was considered to have started a little, and his business was also doing well. Wu Chenglin also entered the state of retirement early, and then was angry with the biological parents of his youngest son and was hospitalized.

Now it's a little earlier, but at least the old man is in good health, which is enough.

As for Wu Yiming himself, he always has to have a process of accepting reality. No one stipulates that adults must be stronger than minors.

"I am very satisfied with everything now."

Wu Chenglin emphasized this sentence again. Zhang Haonan didn't say much, but took out a red envelope, "For grandma."

"She went back to her parents' home."

"..."

After a moment of silence, Wu Chenglin felt a little embarrassed and waved his hand, "I'll go upstairs to play chess."

"Are you coming over for dinner?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll open a jar of old wine."

"Okay."

The old man's father-in-law is still alive and has a long life. He has always praised Wu Chenglin as a son-in-law, even in the matter of him adopting Wu Yiming, he also expressed support.

At least Wu Yiming has never received less New Year's money from his "good grandfather (grandfather)" than others.

Some fate is really hard to say.

After saying hello to the people in the village office, aunts and sisters-in-law came to chat. From their clothes, you can see the temperament of a bumpkin who suddenly became rich.

The temperament of a nouveau riche is even more rustic than Zhang Haonan himself.

Fortunately, they still maintained their fear of Zhang Haonan, and just surrounded Shen Jinman and Zhao Dai, helping to push the cart, helping to carry the bag, and saying all kinds of nice things.

They knew that these were Zhang Haonan's women, but they didn't say it out loud, and they still didn't understand why "Xiaoyan" agreed to her husband's messing around.

At the same time, because of Zhang Haonan, the women kept a closer eye on their husbands, fearing that they would follow suit.

The village was saying that Zhang Haonan had many women outside, and it was said in a very realistic way that he had turned from a reinforced company into a reinforced battalion.

In the mouths of the rural women who were chewing on the sluts, Zhang Haonan was a local tyrant who had to change new women every day.

However, Shen Jinman and Zhao Dai enjoyed the feeling of being coaxed and surrounded by a group of rural women, and they seemed to have the illusion of being a "country queen".

They spoke in dialects that were not dialects, and in Mandarin that was not Mandarin, chatting with Shen Jinman about some interesting, fun and delicious things. Of course, some sisters-in-law who were on good terms with them came quietly to ask the two about how to enlarge their breasts.

The two big balls on Zhao Dai's chest made them dumbfounded, and Shen Jinman's increasingly swollen size also made them envious.

In the past, they didn't care about these things. Now that their living conditions have improved, they all want to improve their appearance and figure.

Woof!

A dog barked from a distance. This was not a warning, but a greeting, to confirm a signal.

Zhang Haonan bit his finger and whistled, and the dog immediately shook its head and wagged its tail like a happy calf, jumping and swaying and rushing to the front.

It circled around Zhang Haonan, then stood up and pounced on him.

"Not bad, not bad, you still recognize me."

Touching "Hu Hu's" head, the dog is getting fatter and stronger now. It is obvious that when Zhang Haonan is not in the countryside, its food standard must be outrageous.

The newly built fitness venue at the intersection is paved with plastic. There are many people waiting for Zhang Haonan.

Zhao Feiyan is watching the children while talking on the phone, Su Jiang is playing the game of "chasing me" with Zhang Ranyu, and Zhang Jin is holding a "Polaroid" and following "Mao Mao" climbing the guardrail net, on which there are still a lot of withered lentil loofah vines.

"Dad——"

Zhang Jin is hanging the camera, which may be a bit heavy. He holds his belly and looks up, pointing at "Mao Mao" on the guardrail net like Spiderman, "Mao Mao~~~"

"Hey my little baby!"

He picked up Zhang Jin. Huhu kept wagging his tail, but did not chase the "cat". On the contrary, after seeing Huhu, Xiaolihua jumped off the guardrail net in twos and twos, and then came together. When they arrived in front of Huhu, the cat and the dog were like a couple. After rubbing their cheeks, the cat followed the dog.

"Zhang Haonan! Turn around!"

"Just arrived. Grandpa is coming over for dinner!"

"Don't worry, I'll save my belly and I'll be hungry until dinner!"

Across a small river, Zhang Gangqian was saying hello on the grounds of his home. He held a cigarette in his hand, sat on a wicker chair with his legs crossed, and smiled very happily.

While flicking the ashes from his cigarette, the old man said to his son and grandson, "Zhang Nan looks like his old lady."

"The old lady is not looking for that many wives."

"You know only eggs."

Zhang Gangqian took a puff of his cigarette and didn't bother to talk nonsense to his grandson, because his grades hit a new low this year and he became the least promising member of the family.

In the Zhang family, the only criterion for measuring one's potential is studying. It doesn't matter how much money one makes or how big an official one becomes. At least for now, this is still the ironclad rule.

Even when Zhang Haonan is mentioned, the first thing he talks about is how smart he is at studying, rather than how good he is at doing business. There is also a logic that because Zhang Haonan is good at studying, he does big business.

"Ada."

"Good test."

When I met Zhang Haowei, his father Zhang Zhicai was unloading the goods. He smiled while standing in the truck compartment, threw away the cigarette in his mouth, jumped down, wiped his hands, and greeted Zhang Haonan: "Anan."

"What else are you busy with on New Year's Eve?"

"The fast food company's New Year's goods will be distributed later."

"We need two people to help. Can one person handle it?"

"Awei is here to help."

Zhang Zhicai still kept smiling.

"Oh, not bad."

Zhang Haonan patted Zhang Haowei on the shoulder and said, "As long as you do well in the exam, I will give you a computer."

"Thank you Ada!"

"With your ability, you can get into a better university. Try to get into Jiaotong University."

"good!"

He patted Zhang Haowei on the shoulder again. He had grown a lot taller than the year before, and was now 1.75 meters tall. He was just on the thin side, and his style was different from Zhang Haodong, Zhang Haonan, and Zhang Haobei.

"Uncle, I'll turn around first. I'll bring you two cigarettes later."

"Okay, then I'll be busy first."

The daughter who was sitting astride Zhang Haonan's neck did not urge her father. Instead, she put her hands on the old father's head, and then rested her chin on her arms. She leisurely and leisurely, her little red leather shoes swayed casually on the old father's chest.

"Bye bye grandpa~~"

When Zhang Haonan turned around and left, Zhang Jin actually waved to Zhang Zhicai. He was so happy that Zhang Zhicai was a little reserved and smiled brightly. He nodded and waved on the side of the car, looking extremely clumsy.

"Wow, honey, you are so polite."

"I know how to be polite~~"

"Hahahahahaha..."

He shook his daughter around his neck, making her giggle, then trotted all the way back home.