Chapter 226 Fan Xiuqin makes a scene at the Li family
The comrades from the Agricultural Products Import and Export Company had some unclear explanations, and Yue Ning helped to resolve the situation. After hearing the price of Chinese rabbit fur, Matthew was very satisfied and signed a small batch order for rabbit fur with the Agricultural Products Import and Export Company on the spot.
There aren’t many orders, but everyone is very happy. Once comes, twice! Everyone believes that there will be more orders in the future.
The food group signed an agreement to buy soybeans and corn. In an era when people were not even able to eat enough, we exported grain just to earn foreign exchange, which we then used to buy equipment. In her previous life, when she was studying, these contents were just words in the textbooks; but in this life, Yue Ning was really hungry, and now she was witnessing with her own eyes that these grains were sold as livestock feed, and she felt mixed emotions.
"Ningning."
When Yue Ning heard Zhou Wenting calling her, she came back to her senses. She looked up and saw Director Chen standing with a group of people, waving at her.
Yue Ning walked over quickly and saw a very imposing leader among them. Director Chen pointed at Yue Ning and introduced him, "Minister Luo, this is Xiao Yue."
"I know," Minister Luo nodded with a smile, "Destined people meet each other even though they are thousands of miles apart. Mr. Qiao asked his grandson to pick up this girl and they got married."
Yue Ning lowered his head and smiled.
Minister Luo looked at her and asked with a smile, "Xiao Yue, are you here to purchase goods today as well?"
"No," the head of the import and export company explained quickly, "Xiao Yue is here to help us today. She just helped the French SA Group buy rabbit fur."
"Wow! You guys are really powerful. You even pulled the big boss over to help you?" Minister Luo said with a smile.
"This credit doesn't belong to me," Yue Ning waved his hand quickly, "Matthew came here to look for rabbit skins."
The head of the import and export company added, "Then the president of the French Durand Group will come to visit. This is all thanks to you, right?"
"Xiao Yue is our daughter," Director Chen said with a smile. "She recommended mainland products in Hong Kong and invited Hong Kong businessmen to visit the mainland. She even spread the word in Hong Kong that the opportunities in the next ten years are in Japan, and the biggest opportunities in the future and even in her lifetime are in China."
Minister Luo was quite moved when he heard the first half of the sentence, but couldn't help laughing when he heard the second half. Who wouldn't want such a day? But to be down-to-earth, the most urgent task is to ensure that the people can fill their stomachs. He said, "Okay, I hope it can be like this."
"It will definitely happen." Yue Ning was full of confidence.
After seeing off Minister Luo and his entourage, Yue Ning continued to stand at the agricultural products booth.
Several Malaysian Chinese businessmen who had just had dinner at Fuyun Building came over. Mr. Lin, who had just heard her introduce the food, recognized her at a glance: "Ms. Yue is here too?"
"The set meal recommended by Miss Yue is indeed delicious." Mr. Lin said with a smile.
Yue Ning took out a box of salty crispy peanut cake from the booth: "You are all Malaysian Chinese, and I think your ancestors are from Guangdong or Fujian. This is our southern Fujian peanut cake, would you like to try it?"
"No, no!" The other party waved his hand quickly, "We are here to buy ceramics. I saw you and wanted to say hello."
"Try it!" Yue Ning stuffed the peanut cake into their hands without saying a word.
A gentleman smiled and said, "I am a little thirsty after walking for a while. Can I ask for some water to drink?"
"Of course, of course." Yue Ning quickly made tangerine peel tea for them with the staff, pulled over a chair and asked them to sit down, "Drink tea, drink tea."
The other guests gathered around and asked, "Can I have some tea?"
"Come on, come on!" Yue Ning responded with a smile.
The Guangdong Trade Fair has been held for more than 20 years, but there are still many problems: hotel accommodation is tight, and guests can only add beds in the corridor, or even be arranged to Shunde, Foshan, and Panyu, 30 or 40 kilometers away; there are long queues at restaurants, and these problems have not been solved for more than 20 years; even the rest areas in the venue are not enough, and the tea supply is insufficient.
Seeing this, other guests also wanted to drink tea, so several staff members had to work with Yue Ning to pour tea. The kettles on the booth were soon empty, and there were not enough cups, so several people had to run out to fetch water and wash cups.
The two staff members couldn't help but murmured: "This is what we drink for ourselves. Even if it's a reception, it's for interested merchants. Now it's good, those who buy screws come to drink tea."
Yue Ning also knew that this wouldn't work, so she said to Zhou Wenting, "Auntie, I'll leave for a while."
Zhou Wenting was about to criticize the two staff members, but when she saw Yue Ning was about to leave, she quickly chased after him: “Ningning!”
"I'll ask Fuyunlou to send two buckets of sugarcane and imperata root water." Yue Ning said, "Fuyunlou will prepare tea for customers in line. Let them take it first, and they can cook it later. Most of the customers who come to our area are merchants who are interested in agricultural products. The longer they stay at our booth, the more opportunities we have to introduce our products. We have to find a way to keep them here and talk more to make business."
Zhou Wenting was relieved to see that she was not angry, and turned back to report to her leader.
Yue Ning called Fuyun Building, and Manager Zhang said he would arrange it right away. When the call was about to end, Manager Zhang suddenly said, "Xiao Yue, did you know that Xiao Fan went to someone's door and knocked on the bucket and cursed at him?"
"Don't know?" Yue Ning pretended not to know.
Manager Zhang told her that after lunch, Fan Xiuqin went to the Bamboo Building where the Li family lived to curse people, and he didn't know about the grudge between them, so Yue Ning took the initiative to help add details.
Manager Zhang finished explaining the whole thing, and added: "Don't take it lightly, the other party is very tough! The eldest son-in-law of the Li family is a leader in the street. After learning that I was the leader of Fuyunlou, he asked me to remove He Yunbang and Fan Xiuqin. I said I couldn't make the decision, so he said to send someone who could make the decision, otherwise He Yunbang would not be able to get out, and Fan Xiuqin would have to stay in the street. Xiaoyue! It's past three o'clock, and the dinner market will open at four o'clock!"
Yue Ning heard a hint of anticipation in Manager Zhang's tone, and said calmly, "Manager Zhang..."
Manager Zhang laughed and said, "I can go to the bureau leader, but I don't have as much face as you do."
Yue Ning hung up the phone and was about to call Director Song of the Second Commercial Bureau, but saw Director Chen walk in.
"Director Chen, you're looking for me?"
"Come with me, let's go to Yuecheng Hotel. Minister Luo wants to learn about the situation in Hongcheng from you."
Yue Ning knew it was a rare opportunity to have a chat with a big boss, but she still had to get the master and apprentice out, as Fu Yun Lou's dinner could not be without these two chefs!
"Director Chen, there's still something going on at Fuyunlou. One of the two cooks I brought with me, a former chef from Fuyunlou and a female apprentice of Chef Lu Yongding from the State Guesthouse, has been arrested by the police station and the other has been left on the street. I have to go and sort things out."
Director Chen looked at her and said, "This port city has everything. You come here and don't follow our rules. Could it be..."
"What are you thinking about?" Yue Ning briefly told Director Chen about Ah Zhen's situation.
As long as it wasn't something immoral, he would be relieved. Director Chen nodded, picked up the phone and dialed: "Deputy Mayor Zhu, I have a Hong Kong businessman here. You know him, Xiao Yue, who is in a joint venture with Fuyun Building..."
After Director Chen finished the call, he turned around and asked her, "Is this all right?"
Such a small matter actually made such a big leader personally ask about it? Yue Ning was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."
"Let's go." Director Chen said.
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Fan Xiuqin was sitting in the street office. She calmly took out a teacup and handed it to Mrs. Li's eldest son-in-law: "Comrade, pour me a glass of water!"
"You want me to pour you some water?" The other party obviously didn't expect her to be so calm.
"No need to trouble the leader. Where is the kettle? I can pour it myself." Fan Xiuqin stood up and rolled her eyes.
"Do you know how serious your problem is today?"
Fan Xiuqin recalled what she had done today. What was the big deal? Normally, she could take chicken feathers as a token of authority, let alone the boss's token of authority.
After the lunch market was over, she took a tin bucket from Fuyun Building, which contained a teacup, chopsticks and a small stool for picking vegetables, and ran straight to the door of Li's Bamboo Tube Building.
The small stool was put down, the iron bucket was turned upside down on the ground, and the teacup was placed beside it. She sat on the stool, knocked the iron bucket with chopsticks, and wanted to play a clapper with her other hand, but found that a piece of wood was missing.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The iron barrels were knocked loudly. She cleared her throat and sang, "Everyone! Today I am here to count the number of people in our building who are from the old Li family and have evil hearts, evil lungs, and evil stomachs..."
Fan Xiuqin's family had been performing on the overpass with their ancestral hard qigong. After liberation, the artists under the overpass were classified as working people and were unified into a system. As a result, their family was assigned to a large courtyard. There were monkey performers, crosstalk performers, and drum singers in the courtyard.
There is an old saying among artists: "Music never leaves the mouth, boxing never leaves the hands." Every morning, the men, women, and children of the Fan family began to practice martial arts, while the Liu family next door sang drums. Fan Xiuqin was lively by nature, and she would run to play drums and sing music while practicing. Uncle Liu always said that he would take her as an apprentice, but later Fan Xiuqin became a cook. However, the foundation laid in childhood is still there.
There was a row of bamboo buildings here, each with only about 20 square meters, and a lot of people lived in one building. These days, many people retire early to give their children the job. There were a lot of old men and women living in the building, and they all gathered around when they heard the noise.
"Dear grandpas and grandmas, uncles and aunts, just tell me, are the old people from the Li family beasts..." After singing a paragraph, Fan Xiuqin picked up the teacup and took a sip of water.
At this time, the old man of the Li family heard from his neighbors that someone was singing and cursing downstairs, so he ran over angrily. He saw He Yunbang's female apprentice, whose voice was louder than gongs and drums, beating the big drum and talking about their family's affairs.
"You...what are you doing?" the old man roared angrily.
Fan Xiuqin put down the chopsticks in her hand and stood up with a playful smile: "What's the matter? It's okay for your old woman to go to my master's house to curse people, but it's not okay for me to come to your door and sing drums? I speak more brilliantly than your old woman, right? Which of my words is not true? And you, old man! You are nothing..."
The old man was so angry that he wanted to hit someone. Fan Xiuqin jumped back and shouted, "Everyone, make way! Let me show you my family's unique skills!"
After hearing what she said, all the old men and women who were watching made way. Fan Xiuqin did several backflips in a row, winning cheers from the audience, and then she did a one-handed handstand, which made the scene even more exciting.
After Fan Xiuqin stood still, she clasped her fists and saluted everyone: "Thank you all for your support!"
"Old man, are you still hitting people?"
When the old man saw this situation, how could he dare to move?
Fan Xiuqin sat back in her original position, pointed her chopsticks at the old man of the Li family, and said, "As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse's son knows how to dig holes. The old wicked man gave birth to a little wicked man, and in order to get a job in the steel factory, he sent the 18-year-old Ah Zhen to live in the mountains..."
When Old Lady Li turned into the street, she saw a crowd of people gathered downstairs. She squeezed into the crowd and heard a strong voice singing these words. She looked up and saw that it was the female apprentice of the boy from the He family, pointing at her old man with chopsticks.
She was filled with anger. It turned out that the wife of the Li family had just gone to the He family to show off, saying that her eldest son-in-law, who was a leader in the street, had said hello, and the boy from the He family had been sent to the police station, and he could not even think about keeping his job.
Unexpectedly, she was so angry at the He family. On the way back, she was worried about her son and wanted to go and see what was going on.
But he saw his daughter-in-law beating her son with a broom, scolding him as she beat him: "I told you long ago to just get rid of her, but you didn't listen! And you wanted to marry her to that guy? You deserve to be beaten like this now!"
The son huddled in the corner, letting his daughter-in-law beat and scold him. The old woman of the Li family felt sorry for her son and ran over to protect him. Seeing this, the daughter-in-law became even more angry: "It's all because of you, old man, who lied to me... If I knew there were so many bad things in your family, I wouldn't have married you!"
"How did I lie to you? You are still greedy. We only have one son..."
The daughter-in-law didn't listen to her at all, and drove her out of the house with a broom. The old woman of the Li family was so angry that she cried all the way, thinking: I should have known not to find this daughter-in-law for my son! This woman is like a female demon, and I don't know how many times I have quarreled with her over the years.
Seeing the old man being pointed at by the woman with chopsticks, she was so angry that she rushed over and yelled, "You stupid girl, do you have any sense? I took her in to do good deeds. She just came back now, what's wrong with me letting her get married? This is my daughter who I raised!"
Fan Xiuqin was afraid that no one would argue with her, so she got even more excited when she saw this: "Old woman! Have you let a dog chew your conscience? Sister Zhen worked like a slave for the Li family for more than ten years. She didn't even have a complete set of clothes before she went to the countryside. Now you want to give her to a bastard whose ex-wife jumped into the river. Do you think human life is a piece of rotten vegetable stalks to play with?"
Fan Xiuqin's chopsticks made rapid drum beats on the iron bucket, and the elderly people watching tiptoed forward.
She opened her voice and sang: "There are many stories in the bamboo house, and the old woman of the Li family is scheming! She forced Ah Zhen to work in the factory for her son, and made Ah Zhen cry like a river. Ah Zhen was digging wild vegetables in the countryside, and the old woman of the Li family was counting food coupons in the house..."
"That's right!" an old lady agreed, pointing at the tree at the door. "In the 1960s, food was scarce, and her family divided up all of Ah Zhen's food. Ah Zhen was so hungry that she had to eat tree leaves. We couldn't bear to see this, and we still had Ah Ying, so we saved a few bites of food for the child. Now that you know about this, you'll go back and beat Ah Zhen, saying she's cheap and greedy. Are you a human being?"
The old woman of the Li family was so angry that she found a broom and picked up the broom handle to smash the iron bucket. Fan Xiuqin stepped on the bucket with one foot and grabbed the broom with one hand: "Old woman, touch your old face, do you have the nerve to say that Azhen is your daughter? Azhen is even more miserable than the serfs before liberation!"
Seeing that she couldn't scold him and couldn't match Fan Xiuqin in strength, the old woman turned around and wanted to seek support from the old man. But she saw that the old man came with his eldest son-in-law. Now she finally found someone to rely on, because her eldest son-in-law was a promising figure in the street and a street leader.
Fan Xiuqin was a girl who valued discipline and civilization. When she saw the street leaders coming, she took an iron bucket with the words "Fuyun Building" painted on it and took the initiative to go to the street office, waiting for the street comrades to ask the leaders of their unit to handle the matter.
Manager Zhang from Fuyunlou arrived soon. The old woman only knew that Ah Zhen's master was sent by Fuyunlou, and thought that Fan Xiuqin was also sent, so she kept telling Manager Zhang how the master and apprentice bullied the Li family, forcing Manager Zhang to fire them.
Manager Zhang didn't want to make a fuss about what the old lady said, but the comrades from the street spoke up: "He Yunbang disturbed public order during the Spring Fair, and Fan Xiuqin made trouble at this time. The nature of this is very serious." Manager Zhang felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.
Especially Fan Xiuqin, she said without showing any weakness: "In terms of seriousness, isn't your mother-in-law more serious? New China no longer has arranged marriages, and it is definitely wrong for her to arrest Sister Zhen. Moreover, she went to my master's house and cursed people, and she cursed so badly, but I didn't see your street office intervene. My master stopped them from robbing people, stopped arranged marriages, and you can even say that he stopped the trafficking of women. How is that wrong? Are you in cahoots with the traffickers? Don't be too ugly when you take sides, okay?"
Manager Zhang was relieved to see that Fan Xiuqin was doing well in the street, and said to the old woman of the Li family, "You said you want to remove these two people. I can't make the decision on this matter. I need to consult the leader."
Fan Xiuqin nodded quickly: "Yes, I will listen to the leader."
After seeing off Manager Zhang, Fan Xiuqin sat in the street office. She had been singing drums in the afternoon until her mouth was dry, and now she felt thirsty again.
At this time, the street comrade asked her: "Do you know how serious the problem is?"
Fan Xiuqin shook her head and said frankly: "I listen to my boss and do whatever he tells me to do. How big of a problem would this be?" She walked to the corner, picked up the kettle and poured water into the teacup.
After pouring the water, she held up the teacup and said, "Comrade! I think there is nothing wrong with me, but you are the one with the problem. To be honest, I have met many senior leaders, and they all have very good attitudes. It is the first time I have met someone like you who has no power but still threatens others."
There were other people in the office who couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.
"Stop bragging. Can you still meet the big boss?"
"Of course!" Fan Xiuqin said proudly, "The big boss likes the noodles made by a little girl like me."
As she was talking, she saw Manager Zhang coming back with two people behind him...
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