Chapter 383 Everyone Has Their Own Ambition
Secretary Zhang?
As Zhou Yong listened to what Village Chief Lu said, Secretary Zhang's old face flashed through his mind.
Village Chief Lu is half a student of Secretary Zhang. Zhou Yong had heard Xu Jianmin mention this before. But he didn't take it seriously and didn't want to go around in circles, so Old Lu became his leader.
"I haven't seen Secretary Zhang for some years."
Secretary Zhang has been retired for many years and has now been rehired to teach.
Zhou Yong and Xu Jianmin had visited Secretary Zhang several times before, but because Secretary Zhang's daughter-in-law had severe mysophobia, gradually no one went anymore.
Village head Lu looked at the reminiscent look on Zhou Yong's face and couldn't help but smile a little more.
"Every time I visit Secretary Zhang, he always mentions you, saying that you are not only a person who does not pursue fame and fortune, but also understands what it means to be an official.
Secretary Zhang also told me that if Huaixi Village didn’t have you, the villagers would still be living in the mountains on all sides…”
As Zhou Yong listened to what Village Chief Lu said, his brows were filled with thought.
"Village Chief Lu, if you keep talking, I will really be ashamed."
Zhou Yong thought that he was just an ordinary person and did not deserve Secretary Zhang's praise.
"Brother Zhou, you are really distant with me. I always call you brother, but you always call me brother, village chief. I really don't like you..."
Zhou Yong looked at Village Chief Lu who was trying to get close to him. Although he didn't know what he was up to, he was sure of one thing: Old Lu was definitely a smart man.
Seeing this, Zhou Yong changed his tone and called him Brother Lu.
Village Chief Lu's face was full of smiles: "That's right. From now on, we two brothers will discuss work matters together. If my brother does something wrong, you can tell me..."
Zhou Yong secretly raised his eyebrows and looked at the humble and modest Village Chief Lu. He saw that he was not only a flexible person, but also found that his words and deeds were very friendly.
Although he is the head of a village, he has no airs of a leader in front of his subordinates and just puts himself in the position of the big brother next door.
Whether in his past life or this life, Zhou Yong has dealt with officials at all levels, but this is the first time he has met someone like Lao Lu.
As the two were talking, they unknowingly reached noon. The canteen of the brigade had not prepared any food, and Village Chief Lu showed no intention of leaving. Zhou Yong thought about it and prepared to take Lao Lu to the brick factory canteen for lunch under the pretext of taking him to observe the brick factory.
This would save the canteen from starting a fire. Since Township Chief Lu had come to Huaixi Village, although he did not ask for an inspection, Zhou Yong still had to take him to visit the various factories...
The two of them rode their bicycles to the Nanshan area. Mayor Lu looked at the factories in the Nanshan area and couldn't help but smiled and said, "Why are all the factories located here?"
After Nanshan was leveled, a breeding farm was built first, and later a brick factory was set up here.
When the flour mill, paper mill and winery were choosing sites, Zhou Yong located all three factories in the Nanshan area for the sake of easier management in the future, to provide adequate care for workers when going to and from get off work, and to address environmental pollution issues.
After listening to Zhou Yong's explanation, Village Chief Lu nodded frequently and was very impressed with Zhou Yong's intelligence.
"Brother Zhou, you are thinking ahead. Not only have you solved the management and safety risks, but you have also taken environmental pollution into consideration. I really admire you..."
People of this generation have a shallow awareness of environmental pollution and cannot imagine the harm that future environmental pollution will bring to the earth and themselves.
In order to have a good living environment, Zhou Yong took environmental pollution issues into consideration when selecting a factory site.
Zhou Yong rode his bicycle slowly, looking forward: "Brother Lu, this is the result of our joint discussion. It is not something I can think of alone..."
His humility brought more smiles to Village Chief Lu's face. Zhou Yong's talents have long been known throughout various government agencies.
Not only that, Mayor Lu also knew that the previous top county official and Secretary Zhang had intended to recruit him to work in government agencies and the commune at the time, but Zhou Yong reportedly rejected such a good offer very straightforwardly.
In the eyes of Village Chief Lu, such people are either self-righteous or have great talent.
Through various understandings and today's contact, Village Chief Lu has concluded that Zhou Yong is the latter.
Mayor Lu turned his head and looked at Zhou Yong. He smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, you shouldn't stay here. You should go out and seek benefits for more people..."
Zhou Yong curled his lips and said, "Brother Lu, I am just an ordinary person. I don't have any ideals or ambitions. A wife, children and a warm bed are my lifelong pursuits..."
Others try their best to get promoted and make money, but for Zhou Yong, these things are not as happy as an ordinary life.
Mayor Lu couldn't help but look at Zhou Yong again: "A man's ambition is to go far and wide. If I were you, I would definitely go out and see the outside world."
No matter how beautiful the outside world is, in Zhou Yong's eyes, it is not as good as his hometown.
Or it should be said that in his previous life he had already been tired of the life of intrigue and preferred this kind of ordinary life.
Zhou Yong raised his lips slightly: "Brother Lu, everyone has their own aspirations."
Mayor Lu was stunned for a few seconds, then he smiled and nodded: "Indeed."
As they were talking, the two men came to the brick factory. The moment they entered the factory yard, Village Chief Lu saw that the canteen door was open and the workers were queuing up for meals.
"Brother Lu, look at me. I was so busy talking to you about work that I even forgot about having lunch..."
Did he forget?
Not at all, Zhou Yong did it on purpose.
Village Chief Lu said with a smile: "Since brother came quietly, he didn't treat himself as an outsider. We can eat whatever we can get. We don't want to be extravagant..."
His words were exactly what Zhou Yong wanted, and the two of them walked towards the cafeteria while talking.
Zhou Yong originally wanted to take Old Lu directly to the cafeteria to eat, but Village Chief Lu didn't want any special treatment and asked to queue up for food like everyone else.
Seeing this, Zhou Yong naturally had to meet the requirements of Village Chief Lu. There were about four hundred people getting food, which seemed like a lot, but there were ten food windows, so there were more than forty people in each team.
Li Caiyun, who was having dinner, learned that Zhou Yong was queuing up with a stranger for food. She put down her chopsticks, got up and went out to see what was going on.
This was the first time Li Caiyun met Village Chief Lu. Through Zhou Yong's introduction, the two shook hands.
"Village Chief Lu, please go to the dining area and I will prepare some dishes for you."
Village head Lu smiled and rejected Li Caiyun's arrangement. Seeing this, she looked at Zhou Yong.
The couple exchanged glances, and Li Caiyun went to the kitchen without saying anything.
According to Huaixi Village's standards for entertaining leaders, Li Caiyun only prepared an extra portion of pickles for them.
"The food at the brick factory is good?"
One meat dish and one vegetable dish with soup, plus two small pickles, which is comparable to the dining standard in the township government canteen.
Li Caiyun put down the pickled vegetables in her hand and said, "Village Chief Lu, you don't know that the workers in the brick factory do hard work, so the food must be better so that everyone can have the strength to work..."
Huaixi Village has its own breeding farms, chicken farms and fish ponds, so there is no shortage of meat.
As for vegetables, Li Caiyun built several vegetable greenhouses on the vacant land in Nanshan and reclaimed a large vegetable garden, so the brick factory workers had enough vegetables.
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