Chapter 1312 The Village Asks for Help

Apart from the village officials, everyone here today is someone they had a good relationship with in the village or someone who had helped them before.

Hearing Mr. Xiao's words, everyone felt genuine flattery and envy. They all thought to themselves: Who says women are inferior to men? Mr. Xiao and his wife are still living a life of glory thanks to their daughter.

In that instant, they thought of the Liu family again; they must be regretting it terribly now.

The Liu family members they were thinking of were now all dejected.

Some time ago, they finally managed to scrape together some money and took the elderly couple from the Liu family to Shanghai to look for the self-righteous second son of the Liu family. They did find him, and they did manage to extort some money from him.

But who knew their luck would be so bad? On the way back, they lost all the three thousand yuan they had worked so hard to earn, and they only realized it when they were about to get off the bus.

After rummaging around in the car for a while, they couldn't find a single hair.

In order to get that money, they had a big fight with the second son of Haishi, which ended in a complete break in their relationship. However, they lost all the money they had gotten, and ended up with nothing.

The elderly couple from the Liu family fell seriously ill after returning home. To this day, Granny Liu is still unable to get out of bed. If it weren't for the eldest and third sons being worried that their reputation would be ruined and affect the marriage prospects of their children, Granny Liu would probably have been buried long ago.

Seeing Xiao Changsheng return to the village in such a triumphant manner, it's no wonder they can't be in a good mood.

Grandpa Xiao knew the treatment his son had received in the village before, and knew that although his son didn't say it, he had a lot of resentment in his heart.

So she didn't stop her son and daughter-in-law from bringing their whole family, especially their grandson, back to the village for a banquet. In fact, she even arranged for someone to deliver the ingredients, just to support her son and to make up for it for her second son's family.

With plenty of wine and meat, and the chef's dedication, plus Xiao Changsheng's changed status, everyone enjoyed the meal immensely.

The men's table was quite noisy, and they drank quite a bit of alcohol. Perhaps because of the presence of Officer Fu Yancheng, no one drank too much.

Fu Yancheng would occasionally keep an eye on Chu Xue's table to see if she needed him, which made the aunties and grandmas envious and teasing him quite a bit.

After they had almost finished eating, the Party Secretary and the Village Chief exchanged a glance and then looked at Xiao's father at the same time: "Chang Sheng, there's something I need your help with."

Although Xiao Changsheng wasn't drunk, he was still a little dizzy: "I'm just a railway guard, what help can I be?"

Village chief Deng Huaiming glanced at Fu Yancheng sitting opposite him and said, "I'm just thinking that your second son-in-law is from the city, so his connections are wider than ours."

Xiao's father glanced at Fu Yancheng: "Village chief, he's been in the army for years. Even if he has connections, they're still in the army. Could it be that someone in the village wants to join the army?"

Seeing that he had misunderstood, the village chief quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's just that the village wants to build an oil mill. We inquired and found that the city's machinery factory doesn't have this kind of product, but we heard that there's a grain machinery factory in Jinshi that makes oil presses. We've hardly ever been to the city, let alone Jinshi. We just wanted to ask if your second son-in-law has any connections there."

Upon hearing this, Xiao's father turned to look at Fu Yancheng.

Fu Yancheng had comrades-in-arms there, but he really didn't have any connections at the grain machinery factory. However, since it was a matter concerning the village, and a serious one at that, he couldn't refuse to give them face: "I don't know anyone directly at the grain machinery factory, but I do have a few demobilized comrades-in-arms in Jinshi. I'll help inquire about them later."

The village chief was getting impatient. Upon hearing this, he took advantage of his drunkenness and said, "Then let's not wait any longer. There's a phone in the village. We can make the call from the team after we finish eating. We can't ask you for a favor and then make you spend money."

(End of this chapter)