Chapter 82 Keep Trying Next Time
The medicine isn't ready yet, so I can't drink it.
He didn't have a fever, so Grandma Lin asked Dr. Qin to give him gua sha and moxibustion.
Zhou Kanghui was obediently receiving treatment downstairs. After Tan Qingwen hung up the phone with him, she dialed her son's cell phone.
Zhou Mingshi walked into the living room with his phone in hand: "Mom!"
Tan Qingwen: "Is An'an alright?"
"He has a slight fever," Zhou Mingshi said, then asked, "Did Dad tell you?"
Tan Qingwen said, "Your father complained to me that you only care about your wife and have forgotten about him."
Zhou Mingshi felt slightly uneasy: "I'm a little worried that Yi'an fell into the water..."
Tan Qingwen joked, "Just a little worried?"
Zhou Ming then fell silent.
Tan Qingwen found it amusing and changed the subject: "I heard from your dad that your car was vandalized?"
Zhou Mingshi: "Hmm."
Tan Qingwen retorted, "Why weren't you told?"
Zhou Mingshi: "It's nothing serious, don't worry."
Upon hearing this, Tan Qingwen knew that everything was under his control, and then asked, "When will you be back?"
Zhou Mingshi said slowly, "Yi'an wants to contract land to grow medicinal herbs. She will stay in Changping for a while. I will go back after she recovers from her cold."
Tan Qingwen instructed: "An'an hasn't signed off on your father's shares yet. To avoid any unforeseen complications, have An'an come back and finalize the share issue."
The mother and son chatted for a while longer before hanging up.
After taking the medicine and sweating it out at night, Lin Yi'an's fever subsided in the morning, and she had no other symptoms, which put her family at ease.
As for Zhou Kanghui, he had scraping therapy, moxibustion, and Chinese medicine, and the next day he was full of energy again.
Zhou Kanghui said happily, "Auntie's medical skills are excellent."
Lin Yi'an looked at her father-in-law with a smile: "I never expected Dad to jump into the water to save me..."
Zhou Kanghui interrupted her, saying righteously, "What are you saying? You are my daughter-in-law, you call me Dad. As a father, how could I watch my child fall into the water and do nothing? I would never do such a thing."
Seeing how earnest he was, Lin Yi'an smiled and said, "Thank you, Dad. I'm very touched."
Zhou Kanghui chuckled twice: "Your mom always says I'm unreliable, but that's because she hasn't encountered any problems. If something happens, I'll be at the forefront."
Zhou Mingshi praised, "Not bad."
This was the first time his son had praised him, and Zhou Kanghui felt incredibly pleased, like drinking a bowl of rock sugar water on a sweltering summer day—sweet and refreshing. He said, "You're welcome."
Zhou Mingshi: "Keep up the good work next time."
Zhou Kanghui: "...Okay."
Zhou Mingshi turned to Lin Yi'an and discussed, "Let's observe your health for another day. Tomorrow we'll go back to the capital to sign the share transfer agreement, and then you can come back?"
Lin Shuhe said from the side, "I'll be in charge of surveying and securing the land. You guys go ahead and do your work."
Lin Yi-an: "Zuo Mingyang rescued me from the water yesterday, and I haven't thanked him yet."
Lin Shuhe said with a smile, "I brought him two bottles of wine last night, but he didn't want to accept them, so I put them on his table."
Lin Yi-an added, "The application to build the house has been approved, but we still need to find a construction team..."
Zhou Mingshi: "I'll arrange this."
Lin Yi-an said, "The old house needs to be demolished, and the foundation needs to be leveled..."
Zhou Mingshi: "I will arrange for people to come and demolish the houses. As for the villagers, bricklayers will come to build houses, and others will go to reclaim wasteland. Both sides will start work together."
After listening for a while, Grandma Lin smiled and said, "Ming Shi is indeed the manager of the company; he always thinks of Bao'er first."
Hearing her words, Zhou Kanghui felt proud. This was his son. He said, "Mingshi is always thoughtful in his work, so you can rest assured, Auntie."
Zhou Mingshi glanced at him, and Zhou Kanghui said, "He's praising you."
Zhou Mingshi looked away.
After breakfast, Ye Lingzhi began transferring money to the villagers, and the rent gradually reached their hands.
They looked at the extra amount in their account and smiled simply.
An old man said, "I'll go buy some wine later and have a drink at noon."
An older woman said, "The loudspeaker just announced that land reclamation will begin tomorrow, and they want us to sign up."
“Then I have to sign up, and my husband has to sign up too. The more people there are, the more salary we’ll get.”
"The Party Secretary contacted the machine, and we followed behind to collect the weeds. Shuhe also said that some of those weeds were Chinese medicinal herbs, so we had to pick them all up and not waste them."
Villagers rushed to sign up.
Grandpa Lin's son, Lin Dajun, stood at the door, looking outside. Back home, he couldn't help but say to his father, "Should I go sign up too? I haven't had a job for months..."
Grandpa Lin didn't say anything, and walked into the house with his hands behind his back.
Without saying a word, he agreed. Overjoyed, Lin Dajun ran towards the village committee.
When he arrived at the village committee, he went in and said, "Secretary, I'd like to sign up too."
Zuo Mingyang pointed to the side: "Contact Assistant Ye to register."
Lin Dajun then went to Assistant Ye: "Assistant Ye, I'd like to sign up. I know how to build a wall..."
Assistant Ye flipped through the statistics sheet: "Which company are you from?"
Lin Dajun gave his name, but Assistant Ye couldn't find it in the statistics sheets. She asked, "Didn't you contract out your wasteland to Sister Yi'an?"
Lin Dajun replied awkwardly, "Yes."
Assistant Ye: "I'm sorry, but when we hire people, we give priority to those who have contracted land to us. You can go back and wait. If we haven't hired enough people, then you can come back."
Lin Dajun hadn't expected such a rule. He returned home dejectedly. His great-grandfather, seeing his expression, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Dajun: "When they recruit people to work, they first recruit the families who have contracted land with them, and tell me to go home and wait. If they don't have enough people, then I can go over."
Grandpa Lin stood up abruptly, his face tense, and said angrily, "We are the only few families in the village whose land has not been contracted to them. They are deliberately trying to take advantage of us. How wonderful! Lin Shuhe has become too powerful. He thinks he can live without us."
"Dad, why don't you rent the land to them? Everyone in the village got rent, except us..."
Lin Dajun was somewhat displeased. He had just been at the village committee and vaguely heard a few people talking about how Lin Yi'an was planning to come back and open a pharmaceutical factory. His son was majoring in traditional Chinese medicine, and if they hadn't fallen out, the factory would have been a good place for him to work in the future.
Grandpa Lin said sternly, "I'm going to ask Lin Shuhe if he hates his uncle that much..."
Lin Dajun stopped him: "Dad, you shouldn't go either. The other day you said you wouldn't rent the land to them, wasn't that also to control them? Now you're coming to their door, are you trying to use your seniority to pressure them?"
Grandpa Lin said, "Er Mang is Shu He's younger brother, but he doesn't care at all and lets Er Mang go to jail. Yi An is always filial. If Shu He speaks up, she will definitely sign a letter of forgiveness. Does he have any respect for his brother? He just says he won't forgive. Even if blood is broken, the blood is still connected."
Lin Dajun: "Do you think the villagers will listen to you if you go to their door? Dad, like you said, their lives are getting better now, and everyone in the village is making money off them. Even if we're in the right, we're not. If you want to go to their door, go find Lin Yi'an and tell them we're renting the land to them, and see what they say."
Grandpa Lin remained silent.
Seeing this, Lin Dajun also got angry: "If you won't go, I will."
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