Chapter 534 She's Like a Ghost

Cheng Hui smiled and said, "Do we need to hear about this kind of thing?"

It's normal to be jealous of others' wealth.

Qi Anguo paused and confirmed again that Cheng Hui was not a fool. He had been exposed to these principles since he was a child, but it was not until he had worked for several years that he was able to fully adapt to them.

Are the Meng family’s genes so powerful?

"By the way, I need two more factories, one for compressed biscuits and one for purified water. Let's do it here." Cheng Hui took out a map and said.

This is an internal map that marks out the ownerless factories, vacant lots and properties in the capital.

Originally there were hundreds of marks of various sizes on the map, but now, a small half of them belong to Cheng Hui.

Various factories, various welfare housing estates, and small branches of various food factories.

One more today.

The people chosen this time were all from the Qi An State's jurisdiction, so he was naturally happy and approved it immediately: "Do you want me to ask someone to clean up and repair it?"

"Of course it is necessary." Cheng Hui said: "Also, we need to modify the water and electricity."

She made her request and left immediately.

Qi Anguo breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at her back. He didn't mention Zheng Manru. That was very good.

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At this time, Zheng Manru was working with a stern face.

Originally, she had a sullen face and ignored everyone, not wanting to talk to these country people!

But she soon realized something was wrong. No one came up to her and asked her what the capital was like.

She is from Beijing! From the capital! Aren’t they curious?

In fact, everyone was extremely curious, but no one spoke to her.

Not only did no one speak, but no work was given to her.

Although Zheng Manru doesn't like working, she used to push her work to others, but now she suddenly finds that it is really boring not to work.

For several days, she has been sitting in the office doing nothing, reading a newspaper over and over again. She has almost memorized it!

Still no one spoke to her, and there was nothing she could do.

It felt like she had turned into a ghost! You can see the world around you, but you don’t feel any sense of participation in it.

A bit scary.

That day, Zheng Manru finally couldn't stand it anymore. After making excuses to talk to her colleagues and being ignored again, she threw her things and left the office and walked out of the factory gate.

She wants to go talk to someone on the street! See if she really turned into a ghost!

Unexpectedly, I was stopped at the door.

The person who stopped her was not the security guard, but a young man she had never seen before, about eighteen or nineteen years old, who had just started working.

The young man didn't react when he saw her. He was stunned for a few seconds before he finally recognized her. Finally, he had a job to do! He immediately chased after him.

"Comrade Zheng, where are you going?" he asked.

Zheng Manru breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she was not a ghost. Some people could see her and some were willing to talk to her!

This made her say in a good manner: "I'm going shopping, who are you?"

The young man said, "I am the one sent by the higher-ups to take care of you."

He hesitated for a moment and said, "You can go shopping, but I have to follow you."

Zheng Manru reacted and asked, what do you mean by “taking care” of her? This is to monitor her!

"Get out!" Her mood immediately turned bad.

The young man had been told before he came that this person had a bad temper and he had to give in to her.

"If you don't let me follow you, I have the right to take you directly back to the factory and you can do whatever you want," he said.

He also has a temper!

The higher-ups chose him after careful consideration. If they chose someone who had no temper and couldn't control Zheng Manru and let her go back to the capital, then what was the point of choosing him?

"You!" Zheng Manru was angry, but there was nothing she could do.

Looking at the silly young man's expression, she knew that he meant what he said!

Zheng Manru walked a few steps angrily and asked, "Where is the department store? Take me there!"

That’s no problem. The young man took her to the bus and went to the department store.

Zheng Manru walked around for a while and came out without buying anything.

She left in a hurry, with little money in her pocket and no ticket, so she could only look but not buy.

"Take me to that production team! That's where my daughter is, you know?" she asked.

Thinking about it this way, it is quite useful to have someone around, otherwise if her colleagues don’t talk to her, she doesn’t know who to ask.

The young man immediately said, "Then hurry up, you can still catch a train there now, and you can catch a train back in the afternoon! It will be terrible if you can't come back. There are not many places to live in A County, so you can only stay at your fellow villagers' home."

Zheng Manru knew what her “fellow villager’s” home was like. When she thought about having to sleep in a mud house with cockroaches, ants, and rats crawling over her head, the hairs on her body stood up and she quickened her pace.

The two of them hurried and caught up with the train, then took a donkey cart, an ox cart, and a horse cart, and walked for a while before finally arriving outside Gaojiatun...

I didn't expect that this production team had militia guarding the entrance to the village.

"What are you doing?" The two chatting militiamen asked vigilantly when they saw the two people coming, especially when they saw the woman Zheng Manru.

The captain said that they had recently received a report from above that there was a female spy roaming around, and asked them to be wary of strange women. Any women who were not from the village or were not local women known to the surrounding area were not allowed to enter the village! Not even passing by.

Seeing that they looked at her unfriendlyly, Zheng Manru didn't dare to speak for a moment.

The young man said, "We are here to visit relatives. Isn't there a new female educated youth in your production team? This is her mother. Let's come and see her."

"No entry." said a militiaman.

If she says she is her mother, then she is her mother? How could this woman give birth to a daughter that old!

People nowadays look very old, especially rural women, who are in their 40s or almost 50s. They are grandmothers and can be called old ladies.

Zheng Manru looks to be only in her 30s.

"Why won't you let me in? What have you done to my daughter? Are you bullying my daughter?!" Zheng Manru was excited.

"Who bullied your daughter?" A militiaman said, "We are bullying you."

The other militiaman looked at him speechlessly. If you don’t know how to speak, then don’t speak! They didn't bully anyone!

The militiaman at the beginning also felt that what he said was wrong, but, so be it, whatever.

"According to the rules of our production team, no outsiders are allowed to enter! Go away! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude."

The two men who have been doing farm work all year round have muscular bodies and are very intimidating.

Youngsters don’t dare to confront them head-on. Besides, why should he?

He advised Zheng Manru: "Since they have stipulated this, you should stop reading and let's go back."

Zheng Manru was furious. She realized that outsiders were indeed not something she could rely on.

"I want to see my daughter. If I can't see her today, I won't leave!" she said.

"Then don't leave, stay here!" said a militiaman.

Who is afraid of who? When the time comes, he will go home to eat and someone will take his place!

They guard the village 24 hours a day, and some people patrol the village. They work in six shifts, with two people in each shift, and each person is paid 50 cents a day. Everyone is scrambling to do the job.

Zheng Manru was embarrassed.

There is no other way. Now that the harsh words have been spoken, we have to wait and see.

It is now the end of July and it is very hot. This is a small road and there is no shade from the trees on the roadside.

She didn't want to sit anywhere like a man, so she could only stand.

Soon, she was going to be sunburned. She hadn't suffered this for many years.

Just when she was about to give up, she heard the sound of a bell behind her and a carriage drove over.

There was also a foul smell.

She turned her head and saw her daughter following a carriage loaded with a large bucket of manure with a look of despair.