Lin Zhengjun said helplessly: "It was sold to the Yanjing Commercial Bureau. They bought up all the stock in one go. If I want to eat it now, I have to go out and buy it!"

“Sales are booming!”

Hao Jianguo said: "We are also sold out. I have been scolded by the county leaders!"

"You got scolded too?"

"Not bad at all!"

"Oh, our situation is the same. It's all because of that 'Horse Wrangler'. Not to mention the county leaders, even my own father scolded me!"

Zheng Dali obviously didn't know that Lin Zhengjun was the author of "The Horse Herder". After all, he only used the pen name Chu Kuangren when he published it. He stamped his feet and said, "His old colleagues and comrades-in-arms saw in the novel how delicious the Lao Gandie canned food and sesame candy were, so they all called my father to get some to try!"

"My father thought, since this is a product from our county and I'm the manager of a state-owned shopping mall, shouldn't it be easy to get it? So he agreed without hesitation!"

"Who knew, the whole thing would go haywire! He felt that he hadn't done such a small thing well, and he was embarrassed in front of those old guys. Last night, he came home from the city and scolded me for a whole hour, using all kinds of swear words. He was so cruel!"

At this point, he looked up at the sky with melancholy, tears almost falling, and sobbed: "I even doubt whether I am his biological child!"

Lin Zhengjun and Hao Jianguo looked at each other and didn't respond.

Zheng Dali set his sights on Hao Jianguo again, and said hesitantly, "Director Hao, do you still have any stock? No matter what, you have to help me. Not much, just a hundred cans and a hundred kilograms of sesame candy will be enough!"

Hao Jianguo rejected it outright: "No, I don't have much stock left, and I still have to use it to deal with those county leaders!"

Lao Gan Die sesame candies and canned foods have become extremely popular among senior officials and are definitely hard currency.

Whoever can help the leaders get it will be favored!

Zheng Dali grew up in the system, so of course he knew everything about Hao Jianguo's thoughts.

He grovelled and said, "Brother Jianguo, I'm not competing with you for favor. I have to get rid of my father, otherwise, I will be scolded. I don't even dare to go home!"

"Aren't you giving me a hard time? We're out of stock too!"

Hao Jianguo knew that Lin Zhengjun had been rejected by Zheng Dali, so he looked at Lin Zhengjun and asked for his opinion.

Seeing this, Zheng Dali regretted it so much that his intestines turned green!

When Lin Zhengjun brought the products to him, he only bought 100 bottles. Who would have known that Lao Gandie’s canned food and sesame candy would be written into novels and become so popular!

You are so blind!

If I had known this, I would have bought it all and not left even a can of food or a pound of sesame candy for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative!

mine!

All mine!

"If Manager Zheng wants more, I don't have it, but if Manager Zheng wants this, I can still get it."

Lin Zhengjun smiled and said, "I originally saved more than a hundred cans of food for my family to eat during the Spring Festival. Since you've asked, it's okay to give you some!"

"Oh! Brother Zhengjun, you have helped me a lot. You are really my savior!" Zheng Dali held Lin Zhengjun's right hand with both hands and shook it, expressing his gratitude.

"Manager Zheng, you're welcome!"

Lin Zhengjun smiled and said, "When our cooperative was just established, our products had no market. Didn't you also take a huge risk and support us by buying 100 bottles?"

Lin Zhengjun Cooperative originally produced tens of thousands of canned foods, but the only state-owned department store in the county only purchased 100 bottles!

Take a chicken feather risk!

Support chicken feathers!

This is like a slap in the face.

But Lin Zhengjun's eyes were so clear and his tone was so sincere that Zheng Dali couldn't tell for a moment whether he was mocking him or not!

But he did realize that he had done something unkind, and he smiled with shame on his face, "Oh, Zhengjun, I'm really sorry for treating you badly when I mention this!"

He patted his chest and made a promise: "From now on, as long as your products want to enter the state-owned department stores, I guarantee that they will have a smooth journey!"

"Then I'd like to thank you in advance, brother!"

This is what Lin Zhengjun wanted. He smiled and said, "Then I'll send it to you tomorrow?"

“No, no!”

Zheng Dali smiled and said, "Brother, you are very busy, how can you be bothered by such a small matter? I will take some time in the next two days to ride my bike to the Hewan Brigade to get it!"

Beside him, Hao Jianguo said with a smile: "Da Li, when your father is happy, you must ask him to support the water conservancy construction of the Xiahewan Brigade!"

"That's definitely no problem!" Zheng Dali agreed readily.

"Who is your father?" Lin Zhengjun asked.

"Zheng Yongchang, director of the Municipal Water Resources Bureau, supervised the construction of the Qiaoban Reservoir in Qingshan Commune. I went to the construction site to play when I was a child!" Zheng Dali said proudly.

Another unlucky guy who was dismissed from his job because of the Qiaoban Reservoir dam collapse!

Lin Zhengjun thought for a moment and said solemnly, "Manager Zheng, there is now a termite nest in the Qiaoban Reservoir. There is a danger of the dam bursting. You must ask your father to go to the reservoir as soon as possible!"

"It's so serious!" Zheng Dali was shocked.

"It's absolutely true!" Lin Zhengjun said, "I guarantee it with my life!"

"Thank you, Zhengjun. I'll go back to the office and make a call now!" Zheng Dali's face was solemn. He got on his bike and rushed back.

When they arrived at the state-owned Workers and Peasants Restaurant, Hao Jianguo treated Lin Zhengjun and Tang Xiaofu to a banquet. Tang Xiaofu drank soda, and the two of them shared a bottle of Yangshao wine.

During the dinner, Hao Jianguo said with a smile: "In fact, when Zheng Yongchang was the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau in our county and was working hard to build small water conservancy projects, Bai Weiguo expressed his firm opposition. Because of the hasty implementation, the design and planning of many reservoirs were not scientific and reasonable."

"Bai Weiguo is a truth-seeking and pragmatic official."

Lin Zhengjun thought of the huge losses caused to the people by the collapse of Qiaoban Reservoir and couldn't help but sigh.

"But at that time everyone was eager for fame and success and was eager to make achievements and advance recklessly. Therefore, Bai Weiguo was severely criticized and almost labeled as an old rightist. His career ended as the director of the Planning Bureau. Otherwise, he would have been promoted to a county leader long ago!" Hao Jianguo sighed.

"Oh, I understand. This is probably why Zheng Dali didn't give Bai Weiguo face before..." Lin Zhengjun said with a smile.

After dinner, Lin Zhengjun and Tang Xiaofu planned to go to the Planning Bureau’s staff quarters to talk to Bai Weiguo about opening a private restaurant.

Hao Jianguo said with a smile: "Zhengjun, you've been drinking and you didn't ride your bike. I'll send a car to the Planning Bureau to pick you up and take you back to the Hewan Brigade!"

"Isn't this inappropriate? Using the public bus for personal purposes!" Lin Zhengjun laughed.

"What do you mean by using the public vehicle for personal purposes? You are an advanced model of collective sideline production. I call a car to take you home. That's supporting agriculture and helping farmers. It's reasonable, isn't it?" Hao Jianguo said with a smile.

"Hahaha, that makes sense!" Lin Zhengjun laughed.

"That's right, it's justified!"

After bidding farewell to Hao Jianguo, Lin Zhengjun and Tang Xiaofu rushed to Bai Weiguo's courtyard together.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

In the small courtyard, Bai Weiguo was doing boxing on a sandbag. He was really good at it. With one punch, the sandbag weighing dozens of kilograms was swung far away.

“Pah, pah, pah!”

Lin Zhengjun clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Well done, well done, you are worthy of being the successor of Shaolin Kung Fu. This punch has the power of a thousand years!"

Seeing Bai Weiguo practicing boxing, Lin Zhengjun couldn't help but think of the time when he practiced Bajiquan in his previous life.

I was in a hurry to make money before and put down my boxing skills. Now that I have money and am not worried, it’s time to pick up boxing skills again.

As for why practice boxing?

Of course it was to beat Zhu Yongcheng!

"What you said is too scary."

Bai Weiguo wiped his sweat with a towel and said with a smile, "General Tang Zhiqing, how come you have time to come and see an old man like me?"

Lin Zhengjun smiled and said, "Old man, I came here to discuss something serious with you?"

"What's the matter?"

"Grandpa, are you interested in opening a small private restaurant and bringing down the state-owned restaurants?" Lin Zhengjun said with a half-smile.

Hearing this, Bai Weiguo slapped his thigh excitedly and said, "I dream about this. I get angry when I see those service staff with their noses in the air!"