Chapter 23 How about you come to be the village chief?
() Lu Yang went back to his grandfather’s house, where he was still busy working in the yard.
However, Wei Zhiwen was not among them. Lu Yang asked and knew that accounts were written there, so he ran in.
Beside the dining table in the living room, Wei Zhiwen was sitting there with a pen in his hand, frowning and calculating over a stack of orders.
"Second brother, what are you busy with?"
"We're settling the accounts," Wei Zhiwen raised his head and smiled, "If we don't calculate it clearly, we'll have to pay for it!"
Lu Yang flipped through the lists, buying some medicinal materials from here and there, and said: "Second brother, let me help you do the math!"
"Oh, it's great that we celebrate our talents. Well, I want you to help me figure it out."
Wei Zhiwen was naturally happy. His educational level was barely above junior high school. Calculators were rare in the countryside these days, so he was having a headache doing calculations.
Although Lu Yang has not graduated from junior high school, his grades have been good since he was a child, his mind is much more flexible than his, and he will definitely settle accounts faster than him.
So Wei Zhiwen reported the figures and Lu Yang calculated in his head. The accounting efficiency was greatly improved, but it only took half an hour to calculate the numbers.
"Second brother, I see you have so many orders, and the total amount of medicinal materials is only two thousand yuan. How much money can you make?"
Lu Yang helped sort out the orders and asked casually.
"Two thousand yuan is still less? If you sell these at a good price, you can earn more than a thousand yuan!" Seeing Lu Yang's loud tone, Wei Zhiwen also teased him: "Yang Yang, when did you become a household worth ten thousand yuan?"
"..."
Lu Yang knew that he had a habit of thinking.
In 1995, the employees of the Red Shipyard only had a monthly income of two to three hundred. The average annual income of local farmers in Yaoquan was only about one thousand. One or two thousand is indeed a lot of money.
There are two main categories of medicinal materials business in Yaoquan Township. One is artificially grown Chinese medicinal materials, such as indigo, honeysuckle, medicinal chrysanthemum, etc.
In these days, planting technology is still very problematic. These artificially grown medicinal materials are often of low quality and low price. Although the market demand is huge, the cultivation scale of medicinal farmers is scattered and there is asymmetry in market information. Such medicinal materials cannot be sold.
After a year of hard work, most of it is often taken away by drug dealers.
The Wei family also grows some medicinal materials for sale, but it is not the main source of profit. Another type of local medicinal material business is mainly natural medicinal materials produced in the foothills of Jinxiang Mountain, those areas with an altitude of several hundred meters or even thousands of meters, such as Chuanwu, Chuangui,
These Fengdou products are of high quality and can be sold at a high price.
However, this area is also the most competitive. There are many local farmers doing this business, and there are also more and more foreign drug dealers with strong capital.
Although the surname Wei is considered a common surname in the area, the old man of the Wei family has been a village chief for more than 20 years and has some acquaintances in more than a dozen villages around Jinxiang Mountain. Wei Zhiwen goes to Jinxiang Mountain every month to collect medicinal materials.
Go to Chongshan medicinal materials market and sell them.
But Lu Yang knew very well that news of the Wei family's eldest brother's accident would soon come. Under this blow, coupled with the increasingly heavy tax burden on agricultural specialties in the future, the Wei family would face great economic problems in the future.
"Second brother, who is the head of our village now?" Lu Yang suddenly changed the subject.
"It's the eighth aunt," Wei Zhiwen then added, "the grandpa of Zhang Qiang's family on the other side of the river."
Clan relations in the countryside are very complicated. Most people in Yaochuan Village can relate to each other in a roundabout way. Lu Yang is not sure about this relationship, but he should understand it when he mentions Zhang Qiang, whom he met when he was a child.
Then Wei Zhiwen looked puzzled and asked, "What's wrong? Yangyang, you have a lot of things to care about now."
"No, just ask, right!" Lu Yang continued to ask, "Eighth aunt is almost fifty-five?"
"At that age next year." Wei Zhiwen continued to look puzzled.
"Then the village chief has to step down," Lu Yang said with a smile.
"Hey, Yangyang, you still know this?" Wei Zhiwen looked surprised.
This has been a long-standing unspoken rule in Yaochuan Village. The two largest sects in the area, Wei and Zhang, take turns serving as village chiefs, and have to step down when they reach fifty-five.
"Hehe..." Lu Yang laughed, thought for a while and finally spoke out his thoughts.
"Second brother, how about you become the village chief?"
"Haha, I..." The laughter on Wei Zhiwen's face turned into disbelief, "Be the village chief?"
Lu Yang didn't say anything, just looked at Wei Zhiwen and smiled.
"Yangyang, are you making fun of my second brother?"
The expression on Wei Zhiwen's face was that he couldn't laugh or cry.
Although he has a high seniority in the village, he is still in his early twenties and is too young. Even if his eighth aunt retires next year and the village chief changes to the village's surname of Wei, he will not be ranked among his peers.
Lu Yang did not continue this topic. He only mentioned it temporarily now as a side note. After all, there are many variables next year, and his ideas may not all go smoothly.
Wei Zhiwen lowered his head and continued writing his account book. Lu Yang thought for a while, then went to the yard next to the bicycle to pick up his liberation bag.
Lu Yang has been thinking about how to deal with the threat of Shu Baohong and Hou Yaopeng. It is obviously impossible for him as a little kid alone.
Because it was eavesdropped and copied, the recording effect is not very good. Although I can roughly tell who the person is by knowing the name, it is difficult to convict the other party based on this recording alone.
Besides, Shu Baohong is the head of the security section of the factory and has many people under his command. He is also involved in drugs and has contacts in the Nanlong County Public Security Bureau. He might even have a gun in his hand.
Go directly to the police. If this group of people jumps over the wall, the safety of you and your parents will be greatly threatened.
In recent years, the more backward a place is, the more local protectionism is prevalent. In Lu Yang's view, the Nanlong County Public Security Bureau and the township police station are completely untrustworthy forces.
So Lu Yang never thought of giving this thing to Mayor Lu. It seemed that the woman was parachuted down to gain experience, and there wasn't much she could do about this kind of thing.
As for Secretary Jiang of Xinjiang General Factory, he seems to be very powerful, especially the combat value of his subordinates should be greater than five.
But Lu Yang is not naive enough to place his hopes on him. After all, Secretary Jiang is alone here, and it is not reliable to deal with such a local power.
Lu Yang's current idea is to see every move and get over the most dangerous situation first, and while protecting his own safety, expose the other party's face step by step.
Lu Yang planned to discuss it with his father, Lu Jiangan, at night, but he was alone and alone.
The people Lu Yang can trust most in Laochang are undoubtedly the Wei family.
However, Lu Yang did not want to alarm the two elderly people of the Wei family. After all, they were not young and could not make any mistakes.
The third sister, Wei Zhixiu, is inconvenient for being a woman, and the fifth brother, Wei Zhiwu, is young and tends to act impulsively. In comparison, only the third brother, Wei Zhiwen, can negotiate.
"Second brother, I have something very important to tell you."
Lu Yang placed the VCR on the table and showed what he thought was the most serious face.
"Yo!..."
Wei Zhiwen raised his head as usual and was ready to make fun of Lu Yang, but when he saw the other party's expression, the smile disappeared from his face.
"Yangyang, tell me, what's wrong?"
"Second brother, listen to this first."
Lu Yang put the VCR on the table and turned it on. He explained a few words first.
Of course, he didn't say that he deliberately went to find out the news. That would be too evil for a fifteen-year-old child.
Lu Yang only said that he had nothing to do and was playing eavesdropping in the factory and discovered it by accident. Then he explained who the voices he recognized belonged to.
Wei Zhiwen's face became more and more ugly as he listened. After listening, he slapped the table.
"I didn't expect this guy Wu Qiude to be so bad!"
"Wu Qiude is that Wu Minglu's father?" Lu Yang thought this was the only one that was right.
"That's him. This man is the secretary and village chief of Banpo Village. Every time I go up the mountain to collect medicinal materials, I pass by Banpo Village. I know him well. I didn't expect him to be such a cheeky person behind his back!"
Wei Zhiwen was furious. The Lu Yang family were relatives of his Wei family. Not to mention Yaochuan Village, many people knew about it even in Yaoquan Township.
If you want to rape your own uncle behind your back, that would be a slap in the Wei family's face.
Absolutely not!
And the white noodles can also be touched?
Wei Zhiwen had heard in Chongshan that this was a matter of annihilating one's descendants. In the simple concept of rural people, having no heirs was the greatest sin.
Selling white noodles is a heinous crime!
In comparison, Liu Xiongfei's sexiness is still a trivial matter. Of course, Wei Zhiwen also sentenced his third sister's marriage to death in his heart.
Liu Xiongfei has this kind of virtue before he gets married. Will he still get it after getting married?
"Yangyang, you've done a good job. I'll call my brothers together and go find those people to argue with them. If they dare to mess around, I'll give them a leg up!"
When Wei Zhiwen said this, he was very domineering. He stood up and was about to walk out.
He didn't think about reporting anything at all. In the eyes of rural people in these days, it was a joke.
"Second brother, no, no, please listen to me!"
Lu Yang quickly grabbed Wei Zhiwen, but he didn't expect his second brother to be so impulsive.
"What's there to say? You can't bully my uncle Wei!"
"Then Shu Baohong has a gun in his hand!"
"Got a gun?"
Wei Zhiwen finally calmed down a little, and then said disdainfully: "No matter what, I can get a gun!"
This is what Lu Yangxin said, and it is definitely not an ordinary gunpowder gun.
The Red Shipyard is a military factory. Although it does not manufacture guns, it did have a lot of guns during the years of preparation for war and famine. Although they were later sealed, some guns and ammunition still fell into the hands of local villagers.
There are many ferocious beasts in Jinxiang Mountain at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, including leopards and black bears. Every time Wei Zhiwen goes to buy medicinal materials, he always goes to the farmers he is familiar with on the mountain. These people not only have ordinary shotguns, but also privately owned standard firearms.
"Second brother, don't be impulsive."
Seeing that Wei Zhiwen had calmed down, Lu Yang quickly pulled him to the table and sat down.
"I'm looking for you just to discuss it first. I'll tell you what I think. Second brother, you can give me my advice."
So Lu Yang expressed his thoughts. When Wei Zhiwen heard that it made sense, he calmed down completely.
The two discussed for a while, and Wei Zhiwen agreed to do as Lu Yang said first.
"I'm so thirsty!"
The door was pushed open suddenly, and Wei Zhiwu rushed in, sweating profusely, picked up the teapot on the table and poured it into his stomach.
Wei Zhiwu drank a few big sips before he was satisfied. He wiped his mouth and saw the two people holding hands and talking on the table. He went over and patted Lu Yang on the shoulder.
"Xiao Yang hasn't left yet? Let's have dinner at home tonight!"
"Fifth brother, not today." Lu Yang refused with a smile.
