Chapter 470: Building a Deepwater Dock
Ye Qing arrived at the dock.
More than half of the pier collapsed, and even the platform where the stalls were set up was covered with cracks.
Seeing this situation, no one dared to get close.
Ye Qing walked forward, looking at the crowd.
The first person I saw was Kangzai.
Kangzi was covered in mud and was helping everyone else move mud, sand and gravel.
Ye Qing called out, "Kangzi."
Kangzi turned around and saw it was him, and called out, "Qingzi, you're here."
Ye Qing asked, "Why don't I see Village Chief Xiao Shen?"
Kangzi said, "Oh, he was just called away by Xiang Yongde's men."
"I eavesdropped and it seemed like they were asking for accountability."
"After all, the pier collapsed."
Ye Qing asked, "Is he okay?"
Kangzi shook his head. "No one's wrong. The pier collapsed in the middle of the night. It's been raining for days, and the vendors haven't come. There weren't many people at the pier to begin with, let alone in the middle of the night."
Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief and frowned: "What blame do you want to ask Yongde?"
"What does the dock collapse have to do with Shen Ninglu?"
"It's because the town won't allocate money for repairs."
Kangzi nodded and agreed: "That's right, that's right, I looked at Yongde just to take advantage of the situation."
When Ye Qing heard this, his face turned a little ugly.
Before, Shen Ninglu made a big fuss to help him, and that was how Li Youwei was arrested. Kangzi was right, Xiang Yongde might take the opportunity to take revenge.
Seeing everyone busy, he asked, "What are you doing now?"
Kangzi said, "Before Village Chief Xiao Shen left, he asked us all to clear the road first."
"She plans to repair it first."
“The subsequent reconstruction of the dock will be straightforward.”
Ye Qing nodded, bought a pair of gloves from the side, put them on, and started working.
Kangzi asked, "Why don't you go to the village committee?"
Ye Qing said: "No, it's useless for me to go, I might as well do more."
Even though he has many honorary titles now, he is just an "elite villager" in Nancun. What say does he have in meetings between the village committee and town cadres?
Are you going to just stare blankly?
Xiang Yongde wanted to take advantage of the situation, but Shen Ninglu would not be so easy to deal with. He believed that Shen Ninglu would have a way to resolve it.
So next, will he take up a position in the village?
If there was someone holding a certain official position in the village, perhaps he could do a better job.
This thought just flashed through my mind.
He couldn't stand working within the system. It was better now. He was free and could go out to sea when he wanted to, or sleep at home when he didn't.
Isn’t it beautiful?
If I were to work in the village, I would probably encounter countless troubles.
Seeing Ye Qing working, some villagers who were watching and villagers from other villages who came to watch the fun also joined in to help.
While working, he greeted Ye Qing.
Ye Qing also responded one by one.
If there are people from other villages whom he doesn't know well, Uncle Ba will help introduce them. Those who take the initiative to say hello are basically Lao Ye's friends.
Ye Qing has been studying abroad in recent years and has not gone out to sea with Old Ye for many years, so many people don’t recognize him.
If it were before.
These people didn't know him either.
But who can blame him for making more and more noise recently, especially that he always returns with a full load every time he goes out to sea, which is talked about by everyone.
Naturally, all of Lao Ye's friends were happy to greet and chat with him. During the conversation, they would implicitly say that their own children were not doing well and they wanted him to help take care of them.
Ye Qing was suddenly in trouble.
People are afraid of being famous just like pigs are afraid of being fat, and that's when trouble comes.
This is how the saying "don't show off your wealth" comes from.
Some people hide their money even after they make it, or even pretend to be poor on purpose, just for fear that others will come to them to borrow money.
Ye Qing did not refuse directly. According to Uncle Ba, those who came to greet him warmly were all Old Ye's friends, so he had to give Old Ye some face.
He asked these people what their children were doing.
Some of them were working outside, some were white-collar workers, which was fine, but there was one who was even worse. He wanted to arrange for a girl who was still in the third year of junior high school to work with him.
Judging from what this uncle said, if Ye Qing dared to agree, he would be able to drop out of school tomorrow.
On Longwei Island, there are many students who drop out of junior high school.
Ye Qing refused on the spot.
As for other people, he had to say tactfully that working or working outside was not necessarily a bad thing, and that their words did not have the final say, and it depended on their own wishes.
When Uncle Ba heard him say this, he understood what he meant. He stood up and took over the words, and complained that these people were flattering him and letting a junior arrange work for them.
If you really want to make arrangements, let those bastards come and talk to Ye Qing.
Upon hearing this, those people fell silent.
Even though they begged Ye Qing to help arrange jobs for their children and said that their children were not ambitious, that was only when compared with Ye Qing. In fact, their children were unwilling to return to Longwei Island, and they were arrogant and looked down on them, the fishermen.
They believe that Longwei Island is poor and backward, and there is no future in fishing at sea. Even delivering takeout is better than being a fisherman.
Especially those white-collar workers who go to college outside and work from nine to five in the city look down on the fishing profession from the bottom of their hearts.
But he forgot that if his parents had not been fishermen, he would not have had the opportunity to go to college and have a glamorous job in the city.
But there are some things that cannot be told to outsiders.
Some people were unhappy and said, "Lao Ba, your son is making a lot of money with Ye Qing, how dare you criticize us."
Kangzi shouted, "That's because you didn't see me kneeling down and crying and begging Qingzi to take me with me."
Everyone was shocked.
Mowing the grass in the house.
There is this one?
Uncle Ba put his hands on his hips and shouted proudly, "Did you hear that? Say hello to your kids too, otherwise don't bother Qingzai."
Everyone gave up.
After working for an hour or so, a group of people came over. There were people from several villages and some from the central town. Xiang Yongde was walking in the front, in the center position.
Xiang Yongde came to the front of the crowd, cleared his throat, and said, "The Nancun Wharf collapsed, and the problem is very serious."
"After research, we decided that the most important thing is to repair the wharf. Li Guangtian will be responsible for this, and he will also be fully responsible for all subsequent work in Nancun."
Li Guangtian, still bruised and battered, quickly shouted, "Please rest assured, leader."
Shen Ninglu stood aside, saying nothing.
Everyone just watched silently. After announcing to Yongde, he glanced at Ye Qing, a slight smile appeared on his lips, and then he left with a group of people.
The cadres from other villages also left, leaving only the cadres from South Village. Li Guangtian was in power and immediately gave everyone orders to do things.
Shen Ninglu was also talking to a few people. After a while, he came over and said, “Don’t worry, I am now in charge of the new wharf project.”
Ye Qing was stunned and asked, "How do you know I'm worried?"
Shen Ninglu tucked a few strands of hair behind her ears and said with a smile: “Since I came here, you have looked at me a total of thirteen times.”
Ye Qing scratched his head. So many times?
Moreover, Shen Ninglu found that he had looked at him so many times, so didn't Shen Ninglu keep looking at him?
He smiled and said, "Since we're going to build a new one, is there any need to repair the pier?"
Shen Ninglu said: “I visited four villages and the most suitable place to build a deep-water wharf is in East Village.”
"I had applied for it before, but I didn't expect Xiang Yongde to bring it up at the meeting. He thought the wharf collapse was a good opportunity and specifically asked me to take charge."
Ye Qing was suspicious. If such a big thing as building a new wharf was successful, it would be a huge achievement. How could Xiang Yongde give it to Shen Ninglu?
There must be a pitfall here.
He asked, "What else did Xiang Yongde say?"
Chen Ninglu said calmly: "Also, I have signed a military order. If I cannot build a new dock, I will leave Longwei Island."
Ye Qing frowned, feeling even more uneasy, and asked, "How confident are you?"
Shen Ninglu said: “As long as Dongcun cooperates, of course it is 100% certain. I have been busy with this matter during this period.”
"I have informed the Dongcun team today. The village chief, Bao Kuan, was very happy and expressed his full support."
Ye Qing nodded.
If a wharf is built in Dongcun, Dongcun will certainly welcome it, because once the wharf is in Dongcun, the market will definitely have to be moved there. For Dongcun, both life and selling seafood will be much more convenient, and it will also create some jobs in Dongcun.
He didn't say much.
Shen Ninglu leaned close to his ear and lowered his voice slightly and said, "Don't talk about my business. Mayor Yu will be back in two days and wants to treat us to a meal. Are you free?"
Ye Qing was stunned: "Invite me to dinner?"
"Why?"
Shen Ninglu smiled: “Maybe I want you to take care of me.”
Ye Qing knew that Shen Ninglu was joking. Yu Yongyuan invited him to dinner before leaving, probably to ease the conflict between him and Xiang Yongde. He thought about it and said, "If Mayor Yu invites me, I must go."
No matter what, Yu Yongyuan has helped him several times, so he will have to toast him a few more times to express his gratitude.
Shen Ninglu nodded and walked away.
As soon as Shen Ninglu walked away, the surrounding villagers immediately came over, and some of them asked Ye Qing with a smirk what the name of his and Shen Ninglu's child would be.
Ye Qing has a black question mark face.
What does this have to do with anything?
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