Yang Ping complained to Li Lin on the phone. She just complained that she was not elected as the deputy county magistrate and she just couldn't stand Yuan Meng, the parachuted deputy county magistrate. But considering the overall situation, she didn't want to embarrass Yuan Meng in person, so she vented her resentment on Li Lin.

"My Lord County Magistrate, can you please not let this Deputy County Magistrate Yuan come to our Weishui Township? Our township is busy enough just coordinating work for the Longjian Group, and she is here to cause trouble..."

Li Lin stood in the office, frowning as he listened to Yang Ping's complaints. He then said to her seriously, "I approved Deputy County Chief Yuan's visit to the tea village in Weishui Township. If you are busy, you can send other team members to accompany her. But since you are accompanying her, you must have a correct attitude and don't complain all the time... She is a cadre sent by the province and has no grassroots experience, so she has to go to the township more often. Otherwise, how can you let her get familiar with the work in the county as soon as possible? Besides, when we both started working in the township, didn't we both have a familiarization process? Be patient. I have heard about Yuan Meng's idea of ​​the tea village. Let her investigate it carefully. If an industrial chain can really be formed, it will be beneficial to both the township and the county."

Yang Ping was stunned, not knowing how to refute for a moment. Her dissatisfaction was aggravated by Li Lin's protection of Yuan Meng. To be precise, she was jealous.

She thought to herself, Li Lin, here comes a young and pretty deputy county magistrate, but he is so cold towards me, Yang Ping?

You don't even have the patience to listen to me finish my words? You're always speaking for Yuan Meng...

She felt aggrieved, thinking, what happened to Deputy County Magistrate Yuan Meng? If she hadn't appeared out of nowhere, maybe this deputy county magistrate would be mine!

After a moment of silence, she said, "Okay, okay, you are right. You are the county magistrate and I am your soldier. I will listen to whatever you say. I dare not refute and I will not refute, but you should at least think about me a little bit..."

As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes, and she choked up as she continued, "I haven't been home for half a month. I really regret taking on this position as township party secretary. If I had known earlier, I would have just taken a position as a section-level cadre in any bureau or committee in the city! Now I'm working hard but getting no recognition. All the credit goes to you, County Magistrate Li, and all the trouble is my fault, Yang Ping... I feel so wronged."

Li Lin sighed, his tone softened, and he consoled her, "Okay, Sister Ping, I know it's hard to do work in the village now, especially in Weishui Township. There's a lot of work that needs to be coordinated. When the ancient city project is on track, let's sit down and have a good chat. I want to hear your next plan."

This is a hint to Yang Ping that the county has a new appointment for her.

Hearing that Li Lin asked her to meet, Yang Ping immediately stopped and said calmly, "Okay, I will try my best to cooperate with Deputy County Chief Yuan's work. I didn't mean to complain to you, but I was under too much pressure at work recently and I couldn't help it. You are the leader, my boss, so please don't take it to heart if I complain to you."

Li Lin smiled and said, "People are not machines. It is normal to have emotions. Just control them."

Li Lin taught him a lesson again.

Yang Ping pouted and said, "I know..."

After hanging up the phone, she chased after Yuan Meng.

Yuan Meng was wearing a well-fitting blue suit and flat leather shoes. He was standing in front of the tea tree at the foot of the mountain, looking up at it carefully.

The village party secretary stood by and introduced the tea tree, "Deputy County Chief Yuan, this tea tree is 30 to 40 years old. It is in its mature stage and the tea it produces is of very high quality."

"Forty years old? Older than me?" Yuan Meng said in surprise.

The village party secretary said with a smile, "Yes, its history can be traced back to the early days of reform and opening up... There is a story about how it came about. It is said that when the village was developing the collective economy, they planted a batch of tea trees on the mountain... Later, because the development cycle was too long, they gave up halfway, which led to the disorderly growth of tea trees all over the mountain. Sheep ate them and people cut them down. In the end, only this tea tree was left at the foot of the mountain... I didn't expect that today, this tea tree would become the name card of our village."

Yuan Meng asked, "In other words, your village had thought about developing the tea economy decades ago? But later on, for some reason, it was abandoned halfway, and the tea trees all over the mountain have become decorations... What a pity."

The village party secretary said, "Later, when the tea trees were mature, the village wanted to apply for a project to build a few roads on the mountain to facilitate tea harvesting. However, the county hired experts to take a look and said that the tea trees in our village were of inferior variety and had little value for picking, so they never mentioned tea picking again."

Yuan Meng asked in confusion, "Where did the experts come from? What basis do they have to say that the tea variety is not good? I have tasted the tea produced in your village in County Magistrate Li's office, and it tastes very good! I think the quality of the tea trees is one aspect, and the tea-making technology is also critical. It cannot be generalized... Later I will ask someone to come and take a look. In any case, developing the tea economy is a major way out for your village. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you can't give up easily."

The village party secretary said with emotion, "Of course we also want a way out. With an industrial pillar in the village and income from the collective economy, the lives of the villagers will change dramatically... Young people can work without leaving the village, and middle-aged laborers like me in my 50s can also use my spare time to increase my income from work. If the people have money, won't their quality of life and sense of happiness improve?"

Yuan Meng nodded and said, "You are right. Material things are the foundation of a happy life. Even if you are spiritually rich, if you can't make money and your wife and children don't have a bite to eat, you still can't feel happy. So the village should take the courage to burn its boats and stride forward to develop the economy!"

The village party secretary nodded in agreement, "Yes, Secretary Yang from the township often told us this, urging us to set up a cooperative and develop the collective economy... But apart from the land, there are no favorable conditions in the countryside, and few people are willing to invest. Only village cadres like us have contributed money and effort to build vegetable greenhouses and plant fruit trees... In the end, because of our lack of experience, we lost everything. The reason is that we don't know how to adapt to local conditions and invest blindly..."

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