Yuan Fangtai knew what his elder brother meant, and his elder brother wanted to take him with him.
"Then I'll be your driver." Yuan Fangtai said with a smile.
Yuan Fangguo nodded, "Okay."
The reason for going to LZ before the New Year is very simple, that is, their group's logistics and warehousing base in LZ is also under construction, and it is very necessary to visit the local port authority before the New Year. After all, in the future, many goods in the wholesale market in Chengdu will be continuously transported along the Yangtze River system, and there will definitely be opportunities for both parties to deal with each other.
That night, because family members came, everyone in the living room chatted lively about what had happened in the past year.
"Grandma" "Grandma" Qin Mingzhen's health is getting better and better. Her previously frail body has gained several kilograms of weight after a year of nutritional supplements, and her face looks a lot rosier.
My father Yuan Chengzhu's business of purchasing Coptis chinensis is getting bigger and bigger. He has made more than 100,000 yuan this year. The family is planning to buy a large piece of residential land in their hometown and build a house for each of their children.
Yuan Fangtai smiled and said it was a waste, but Yuan Chengzhu insisted on building a beautiful house for each child.
Seeing that the old man was quite stubborn, Yuan Fangguo thought about it and told his father to choose a place near their new house.
After all, more than ten years later, the location of their new house will become the new urban area of Dabei County, where the lowest housing price is more than 7,000 yuan per square meter. The Yuan family is not short of this money at the moment, but more money would naturally be better.
My father harvested Coptis chinensis, while my mother rented more than an acre of land from someone else's house, mainly growing corn, rapeseed, sweet potatoes, peanuts and vegetables. Half of the family's daily needs were self-sufficient. Although farming was a bit hard, it was much easier than growing those crops in the mountains of my hometown.
Listening to the family telling stories of the past year, Yuan Fangguo was happy for them from the bottom of his heart. Their family had finally left the mountains where their ancestors had lived.
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The next morning at around ten o'clock, Yuan Fangguo drove straight to the airport, picked up the dusty Ma Tingting, and took her straight to his home.
The Yuan family members were also sensible and did not think too much about the beautiful girl Ma Tingting. Even the fourth sister who usually liked to joke around was no longer noisy, but became much more mature and sensible.
Ma Tingting brought back several boxes of fresh seafood from Chengdu. She gave one box to Yuan Fangguo and placed the rest in the trunk of Yuan Fangguo's car.
Lunch was also prepared quite well, including bacon, sausage, twice-cooked pork, steamed pork with rice flour, braised pork with pork belly, mapo tofu, boiled fish... Yuan Chengzhu, Chen Yongying and Yuan Fangtai were busy for a long time.
Ma Tingting had been out on her own, and it was rare for her to have the opportunity to eat such delicious food with the flavor of her hometown. However, due to her girlish reserve, she was a little hesitant at first when she sat down at the table. But Chen Yongying's words made her relax instantly.
"Child, eat more and treat this place as your home. These are your brothers and sisters."
"Okay, thank you, Auntie." From Ma Tingting's words, she actually felt like she had some blood relationship with Yuan Fangguo and the others.
She was no longer polite and tasted the rare delicacy openly.
After lunch, they took a brief rest. Yuan Fangguo and Yuan Fangtai sent Ma Tingting to her home and helped move the seafood into the house. The two brothers didn't even sit down and drove straight to the post office.
According to their plan, after arriving in OP today, they will stay in the hotel, visit the local port authority the next morning, entertain the leaders of the port authority at noon, and then drive back in the afternoon.
The distance from Chengdu to 1Z is about 300 kilometers. In this era without highways, it takes about 5 hours to travel there.
The car was driving very fast on the vast Bashu Plain. After an hour and a half, there were many mountain roads on the edge of the plain. The mountain roads were also relatively dangerous. In addition, there was a lot of ice and rain in Bashu in this season, and the driving conditions on the road were very poor. Therefore, the two brothers were also very careful. When entering the mountainous area, they consciously slowed down.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, a drizzle of winter rain began to fall, and the conditions on the road became worse. They had to slow down the car again. As a result, by the time they arrived in the LZ city area, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.
It was already dark, and Yuan Fangtai carefully drove the car to the side of the road and turned on the hazard lights.
"Brother, you said the person in charge of the logistics base here is picking us up on the roadside. When will they arrive?"
"I guess it will be soon." Yuan Fangguo frowned.
"The way they do things is not reliable at all." Yuan Fangtai said, "You are the boss. Logically, they should have arrived long ago."
"It seems so. Maybe they don't take me as their boss seriously." Yuan Fangguo laughed at himself.
"That's not what I meant." Seeing his elder brother making fun of himself, Yuan Fangtai hurriedly explained.
Yuan Fangguo smiled and said, "Second brother, let's wait a little longer. Maybe they have a lot of things to do before the New Year."
"Okay." Yuan Fangtai agreed.
After waiting on the roadside for more than half an hour, Yuan Fangguo still didn't see the car from the base, which made him feel a little unhappy.
However, when he thought about the fact that the person in charge here, Li Benzhi, was also a veteran employee who had been with him for several years, he felt that Li Benzhi should not be such a person.
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but pick up his phone.
The first time, no one answered.
Yuan Fangguo was a little shocked. He didn't know why Li Benzhi didn't answer the phone.
The second time, still no one answered.
This made him feel vaguely uneasy. Could something have happened today?
The third time, he no longer called Li Benzhi, but called inside the office.
The phone rang less than five times before someone picked it up.
"Hello……"
"Where is Li Benzhi?" Yuan Fangguo said unhappily.
"Excuse me, who are you?"
"I'm Mr. Yuan from the group."
"Oh, hello, Mr. Yuan. Mr. Li and his men were taken to the police station because of a fight."
"What's going on?"
"fight."
"Who are you fighting with?" Yuan Fangguo asked bluntly.
"I don't know about that."
"Which police station are they at?"
"Hongxing Road Police Station."
As soon as the staff member finished speaking, Yuan Fangguo hung up the phone and then shouted to Yuan Fangtai, "Let's go to the Hongxing Road Police Station."
"Brother, where is the Hongxing Road Police Station?" Yuan Fangtai asked quickly.
Yuan Fangguo was stunned. Yes, where is the Hongxing Road Police Station?
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