Before leaving the Hetao, Yan Wentao sent a text message to ask Zhou Yan out alone.
"Lao Zhou, are you free? Looking for a place to sit?"
Zhou Yan naturally knew that Lao He was worried, so he replied: "Can I bring someone with me?"
"Can!"
In winter in the northwest, the most heart-warming food is hot pot.
When Zhou Yan and Lin Yong rushed to the hot pot restaurant they had arranged for, Yan Wentao had already arrived.
Seeing Zhou Yan, Yan Wentao, who was still looking sad, smiled reluctantly: "Old Zhou, are you here?"
As he spoke, Yan Wentao looked at Lin Yong, who was half behind Zhou Yan.
"Lao Yan, let me introduce to you, this is Lin Yong, Mr. Lin!"
Although it was a bit unexpected, Yan Wentao knew that Zhou Yan had always done things in a measured manner and would not bring a stranger over for no reason.
"Lao Zhou, order!"
"Just order," Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, "You know, I'm a chef and I'm a little allergic to the food I order..."
"Then I'll order twenty plates of mutton, fish balls, shrimp balls, and shrimp tofu dip..."
After ordering, Yan Wentao looked at Zhou Yan and then at Lin Yong: "What are you two drinking, white or beer?"
Zhou Yan looked back at Lin Yong: "Old Yan, let's drink it just for the two of us. If we are both older, we can ask Old Lin to send it back!"
"Okay then," Yan Wentao looked back at the waiting waiter, "Let me bring you a dozen snowflakes first! At room temperature!"
What I want is room temperature, but in the Hetao in the twelfth lunar month, the lowest temperature can reach minus 20 degrees. The room temperature is no different from the frozen one. If you shake the bottle a little, it will be filled with ice particles.
Zhou Yan picked up a bottle, shook it, and quickly put the bottle back in front of the hot pot.
"Are you so pretentious?"
Yan Wentao picked up the wine bottle, shook it, and then opened the bottle...
A burst of foam rose into the sky along with the smoothie.
Yan Wentao was stunned for a moment, then put the bottle into his mouth and drank a few gulps.
"How can you be angry?"
"Lin Yong, I won't advise you anymore. Lao Zhou, why are you here!"
Before the food was served, the two of them had already finished half a bottle.
After a bottle of wine, Yan Wentao's chatterbox opened up in front of Lin Yong, an outsider.
"Lao Zhou, I should have told you that Tao Lin's uncle is a real estate developer." Yan Wentao's smile was a bit sad. "A while ago, her uncle arranged for her to go on a blind date. He is a rich second generation...
"
Hearing this, Lin Yong knew why his boss, Mr. Zhou, had invited him over to have a meal.
"And Linlin is now a teacher, with a salary of six to seven thousand a month, three months of vacation a year, and thirteen months of salary, and I..." Yan Wentao smiled self-deprecatingly, "Although I entered the petrochemical machinery factory,
The monthly salary is less than 4,000..."
"When I graduated, I told you that I had some connections in Jincheng," Zhou Yan sighed slightly, "Why didn't you say anything?"
Yan Wentao smiled faintly: "Originally, I thought that with my ability and my academic qualifications, I would be able to get ahead. Unexpectedly, if it weren't for your two patents, Lao Zhou, I probably wouldn't have a job until now."
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"Come, drink, I'll give you a toast!"
"You're welcome, we are roommates after all, brothers with bunk beds!"
When toasting, Zhou Yan winked at Lin Yong, who then took out a metal business card from the business card holder in his arms and handed it over.
"Manager of the Northwest District of Anxin Mall?"
Yan Wentao glanced at the business card and then froze there. After thinking for a while, he turned back and looked at Zhou Yan carefully: "Old Zhou, you..."
"Let's solve your problem first," Zhou Yan smiled, "Old Lin is in Jincheng and has more business in Dingxi. Whether it is business or politics, I can help you for the time being!"
"Thank you, Lao Zhou!"
Yan Wentao grabbed the quilt on the table and drank it all in one gulp.
"Why are you so polite?" Zhou Yan sighed slightly, "There are some things that I need to remind you in advance. You can only take advantage of Lao Lin's side..."
Seeing that his friend was confused, Zhou Yan smiled: "In other words, you can say that you know Lao Lin, and he won't deny it, but he won't take the initiative to help you. The rest is up to you.
Got it!"
Yan Wentao was still a little puzzled.
"If you want to go far in politics, you can't have a label when you enter the market..." Zhou Yan explained with a smile, "The Xinghan Group behind Anxin Mall will be used by many people for many years to come.
A thorn in the side..."
"this……"
With all the plans, Yan Wentao was not even a civil servant yet after graduating less than half a year ago, so naturally he didn't know the ropes in the officialdom.
"I can only tell you so much. The rest is up to you to understand!"
Yan Wentao, who was full of hope for the future again, drank a lot. He drank one drink with Zhou Yan and drank a dozen in no time.
"Waiter, come again..."
"That's all for today, you have to go back to Jincheng tomorrow!"
After settling the bill, Zhou Yan and Lin Yong sent Yan Wentao back to the hotel.
"Mr. Zhou, why don't you put the Xinghan label on your classmates?"
Zhou Yan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, tilted his head and glanced at the clear night sky outside the window, and smiled: "If he joins politics, Lao Yan can go a long way. If he is labeled as Xinghan or Qingyan, it will be fine in the short term, but in the long run
Look, the impact is still very big..."
"Oh..." Lin Yong nodded and said no more.
The next day, the friends in Zhou Yan's dormitory boarded the farewell station one after another. After seeing off all the friends, Zhou Yan took Qin Ruoshu and followed Lin Yong to experience the desolation of the northwest.
In places with lush vegetation in the northwest, they are generally distributed along rivers, while in places far away from rivers and streams, only a few plants can survive.
Although the Loop is located in the core area of the 9th District of the Yellow River, and the area is not as densely packed with river networks, there are still places where river water cannot penetrate.
After the convoy left the Hetao, it headed north.
Gradually, the vegetation on the roadside began to become sparse, and the cold wind passed over the ground, rolling up bursts of yellow clouds...
Zhou Yan stayed in Yunzhong for four years, and Qin Ruoshu got to know Yunzhong through Zhou Yan for four years.
Although Qin Ruoshu was no longer the girl who thought that Suiyuan was full of grasslands, this was the first time she saw such a desolate Suiyuan.
"Lao Zhou, is the problem serious..."
"It's not very serious," Zhou Yan, who was driving, sighed, "First of all, we need to let people here know that the desert can also be cultivated..."
"Then what?"
"Naturally, we need to develop more crops that can prevent wind and sand, and can bring economic benefits..."
Although Zhou Yan is not an ecologist, it is still very easy to copy wind prevention and sand control operations.
Haloxylon ammodendron, caragana, sea buckthorn, Salix salix, Populus euphratica... Zhou Yan once trampled dozens of pairs of shoes in order to collect the badge of a certain horse.
All the hard work that year was not in vain.
The popular science articles I once read just to show off my badges turned into the answers to my homework some time later.
"Mr. Zhou, have you studied wind prevention and sand control?"
"Where," Zhou Yan was very "modest", "When I was reading books in the library, I liked to pick up some miscellaneous books to spice things up. I didn't expect that I could still remember..."
With Zhou Yan's answer, Anxin Mall's public welfare project soon took another direction: joining forces with the software company of Xinghan Group to develop Ant Forest in advance.
Of course, after copying the homework, you can no longer call it the same name. Even the interface has been changed: similar to the upgrade system of Penguin Farm, from salix to Populus euphratica, all the way up; the name was changed to Desert Forest...