Chapter 730 Meeting

This was not the first time that Mai Lao had seen such enthusiastic villagers. He smiled and agreed and asked Jiang Xia: "Have you had lunch?"

Jiang Xia nodded: "I have already eaten."

"Would you like to go with Grandpa Jiang to look at the school site?"

"good."

So Jiang Xia accompanied Mr. Mai and a group of town leaders to select a site for the school and inspect the expansion of the wharf.

Zhou Bingqiang’s wife wanted to catch up, but she is the village chief’s wife!

Zhou Bingqiang grabbed his wife and asked, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Bingqiang's wife: "I'll go with you to have a look! I know best where in the village is suitable for building a school."

Zhou Bingqiang said angrily, "What do you know about where the school is built? Don't make trouble. Just go home! I'll go!"

After Zhou Bingqiang finished speaking, he quickly stepped forward to lead the way.

Zhou Bingqiang's wife pursed her lips! Because of her words, some villagers were worried that the big boss from Hong Kong Island would not come to their village to repair the road, so they obeyed her orders and worked hard all morning without eating. But the result was not like that at all!

I'm in a bad mood now!

"Mrs. Qiang, you are going too far! It was obviously not the big boss from Hong Kong Island that Zhou Bingqiang found, but you deliberately said that he found him, making us work for nothing!"

Zhou Bingqiang's wife said angrily: "What do you mean by working in vain? Wouldn't it be more comfortable to clean up the village?"

"What's so comfortable about it? It's more comfortable not to clean! You saw that we were idle and had nothing to do, so you deliberately gave us some work to do? You have nothing to do, but I have a lot of work to do at home! Do you think everyone is as idle as you?"

"This is the town leader's order for everyone to clean up. I didn't ask you to clean up. Do you think I have nothing to do?"

"Then don't tell me that Zhou Bingqiang had to work hard to invite this Hong Kong boss! He obviously came to our village to build roads and schools for Xiao Xia and his wife. Whether the village is clean or not, he will only come to our village to build roads and schools! You made it sound like Zhou Bingqiang had to work hard to get him here! I wonder how there is such a big pie in the sky!"

"You said you're not sincere if you don't clean it up, and you want us to weed the road on an empty stomach! You're really doing us a disservice!"

"That's right. You've delayed a lot of my work. Come and help me weed the vegetable garden..."

"You also come to my house and help me clean the pig manure in the pigpen!"

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Seeing everyone accusing each other, Zhou Bingqiang's wife thought she didn't have the ability to argue with the women, so she ran away, "You think my family's work was not delayed! Why are you blaming me? You should blame Zhou Yongfu's family for not telling everyone earlier. Watching everyone busy for so long! It's all Jiang Xia who is making fun of us! She invited a big boss, doesn't she know that they are coming here to build a road!"

Grandma: "Bah! It's obviously you who wants to bully others! Don't be lazy to Xiao Xia!"

"That's right! Jiang Xia obviously doesn't know either..."

*There is not much place to build a school in the village. Apart from requisitioned farmland, there is only wasteland at the foot of the mountain.

Unless there is really no land, farmland will not be occupied.

So the most likely choice would be the wastelands at the foot of the mountain.

Mr. Mai also first suggested going to see some wasteland owned by the village collective.

The group arrived near a barren mountain. Mr. Mai saw a beehive and said with a smile, "Are there villagers raising bees here?"

Jiang Xia looked at the beehive and remembered the time when Zhou Chenglei brought her here to install it. She smiled and said, "Alei raised it."

After hearing this, Mr. Mai looked around the forest and asked curiously, "There are no flowers on this mountain, right?"

It doesn't look like a tree with many flowers.

Jiang Xia: "After a while, many green manures in the fields will bloom. In March and April, the wild fruit trees on the mountain will also bloom. Then the fruit trees planted by every household, such as loquat, lychee, and longan, will bloom one after another. At that time, the bees can collect some nectar, but not much. Last year, I put three beehives and only collected a few kilograms in total because some should be left for the bees to overwinter."

Although there were only seven or eight kilograms of honey in total, the honey was really fragrant, with a strong floral scent. Jiang Xia had never tasted such fragrant honey in modern times.

Mr. Mai: "If we build a school here, won't it affect your beekeeping?"

Mr. Mai knew that bees liked quietness.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We can just move it to another place. We not only put beehives here, but also on the roof of our house and on another hill."

Mr. Mai asked the village chief and other leaders, "Are there any other barren hills or wastelands in the village?"

Zhou Bingqiang: "There is another one."

So they went to take a look at another place at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Xia wanted to say that Zhou Chenglei also raised bees there, but he didn't say it in the end.

After looking at all the barren mountains and wastelands near the village, Mr. Mai chose the piece of wasteland closest to Jiangxia's home, where the beehive was just discovered.

Those wastelands belong to the village collective. Whether or not a school can be built there requires a village collective meeting and the consent and signatures of all villagers.

Moreover, those wastelands belong not only to their village, but also to the neighboring village, so the consent of the villagers in the neighboring village must be obtained.

Mr. Mai doesn't have to worry about these things, he just needs to be responsible for paying the money.

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Zhou Chengsen and Zhou Bingqiang are in charge of this matter.

But building a school is a good thing, and it is a school that includes junior high school and high school.

There is no junior high school in their village, so the children have to go to town to attend junior high school. There is no high school even in the town, so they have to go to the city.

Now it is available right next to everyone’s doorstep and no villager disagrees.

After all, those lands can't be used to grow anything, and they belong to the village collective, not their own land. They are empty anyway. It would be great if someone is willing to pay to build a school.

Building a road is even more troublesome, as it spans two or three towns from the small fishing village to the city.

Since the road was going to be repaired, Mr. Mai also wanted to make it better and wider. The original road was too narrow and only two cars could pass through.

If the road is to be wider, land will have to be acquired, which will require the involvement of people from the relevant departments in the city.

Mr. Mai planned to meet his son first in this way.

After deciding on the location of the school, Mr. Mai told other leaders not to call him, "I'm going to meet some friends. Just ask Comrade Chengsen to take me there."

Those leaders left tactfully.

Then Mr. Mai, Jiang Xia and Zhou Chengsen went back to Jiang Xia's home together.

After seeing the triplets, Mr. Mai told Zhou's mother, Jiang Xia and Zhou Chengsen that they could tell him any suggestions they had for the school and the road, and then he returned to the city.

He has to meet his son in the afternoon.

Not only does he want to expand Fisherman's Wharf here, he also wants to find a place in the city to build a large container terminal. Of course, this terminal can make money.

In the afternoon, Mr. Mai met Jiang's father as he wished.

When the two shook hands, he held Jiang's father's hand tightly and forgot to withdraw his hand for a moment.

No one noticed that the two hands of different ages had very similar hand shapes, except that Mr. Mai's hand already had age spots, while Mr. Jiang's hand still looked young.

Father Jiang looked at the slightly excited old man in front of him, waited patiently for him to let go, and said polite words to avoid any awkwardness in the situation.

When Mr. Mai took his hand back, Jiang's father looked down and saw the ring on his ring finger.

Father Jiang was stunned for a moment.

(End of this chapter)