Chapter 222 Threatening
After May 1st, Ning Anan and others who are going to London and Tokyo for rotation will leave. There are also some family members who will go with them. Well, Paris will be a few months later. The store in the United States has been open for less than a year, so there is no need for rotation for the time being.
The family members who are going with them, those in London and Paris will take the same flight to London to find Qiu Yin first. Those in Tokyo will also be replaced and the family members who are going to visit relatives.
Only Lao Zhou will fly to New York alone. This matter has caused a lot of discussion in the slum.
"Why does it feel that going abroad is not so difficult now?"
In the past two years, they have witnessed many employees and family members of the travel agency going abroad. In addition, the travel agency has also arranged for many people who have become rich first to travel abroad.
As for Fang Mingche's family, it is well known that they have been to Japan, the United States, Britain, and France, and have also been to Hong Kong. There is also Qin Hua in the alley, who has also been to Tokyo. By the way, there is also Wang Dexian, and now the couple are sent to study in the United States together.
Aunt Yuan said, "It's easy for people who are related to travel agencies to go abroad. Xiao Wang and his wife have a good family background and are sent by the government. Do you think it's easy for others?"
Everyone thought about it and it was true. Only Lao Zhou's family has overseas connections. Didn't Lao Zhou get out this time because Lingzi worked in a travel agency?
As everyone was talking, they saw Fang Mingche driving a car over and parked directly in the only remaining open space in the small side courtyard. It really was the only remaining open space. After all, two more rooms were added to the east wing, which greatly squeezed the space.
Fang Mingche got out of the car with some cooked food.
Uncle Gu asked, "Xiao Fang, what are you doing?"
The Fang family was not at home. Fang Minghua and his wife were busy in the noodle shop, and the two elders were in the courtyard. As for the three children, they must have gone to school.
Fang Mingche said, "I'm going to have a drink with Lao Zhou, and I have to ask him for a favor."
He smiled and nodded to everyone, and then went to Lao Zhou's house.
Someone said, "Does he need to ask Lao Zhou for help now?"
Aunt Yuan said, "He has to ask Lao Zhou to come back as scheduled. Otherwise, it will be difficult to get the family visit visa that their travel agency helped to apply for in the future."
Everyone suddenly realized that Yingzi had been away for two years. The visa has long passed its validity period! Lao Zhou's family has a criminal record. Once they go out, they stay out and don't come back.
Lao Zhou has been preparing to go abroad for many years. I really haven't heard him say that he will come back after he goes out.
But, he is indeed the family member of a travel agency employee. In order to enjoy the public-funded family visit benefit once a year, Xiao Fang can't stop him from going.
Uncle Gu said, "If Xiao Zhou really doesn't come back, Xiao Fang will definitely suffer. He is not like Xiao Fang, who has such a large industry in China."
Aunt Yuan nodded. When Xiao Fang's family of four went to the United States, she was actually a little worried.
But Xiao Fang had just bought such a large three-in-one courtyard house there not long ago, and brought his parents over. But the Zhou family doesn't have much industry in China.
Fang Mingche called Lao Zhou before coming, and Aunt Zhou even prepared some special dishes.
Seeing that he had brought some cooked food, he hurriedly said, "Teacher Fang, you're here, so why bring any more food and wine?"
"Just two more dishes."
Lao Zhou came out and said, "Thank you, Teacher Fang, for coming to practice for me. Go put the dishes in the pot--"
He took the food. It would be embarrassing if he didn't take it since they had delivered it to his door. His wife was just being polite just now.
Aunt Zhou was busy in the kitchen, and she and her son ate at the small table in the kitchen. She gave Lao Zhou and Fang Mingche some space to talk.
Fang Mingche drank two glasses of wine and said under the influence of alcohol, "Lao Zhou, you must come back on time! If you don't come back, I, as the legal representative and largest shareholder of the travel agency, will be called in for a talk immediately. Our travel agency will not only be affected in applying for visas for family members, but it may also be affected in applying for visas for tourists traveling abroad."
"Of course, of course." Lao Zhou said.
Fang Mingche smiled, "If you don't come back on time, I will definitely fire Lingzi. Also, your son will need a certificate of innocence to apply for a visa to go abroad in the future, right?"
Firing Lingzi may not really threaten Lao Zhou who is abroad. After all, his uncle is there, and the two small supermarkets also need helpers. However, if his son is given a criminal certificate and cannot get a visa to go abroad, it means that Lao Zhou's hope is gone.
Moreover, with a criminal certificate, all his descendants will be affected. (Political review is not strict nowadays, but the reputation of the criminal's family is not good. If they can't go out, they won't be able to join the army or become a state cadre in the future.)
Therefore, he has to stipulate that only one person from a family can go there per year. Others don't have any skills to make a living when they go out. And the consumption abroad is so great that they can only come back obediently in the end.
But Lao Zhou, he is really worried. First villain, then gentleman! When he threatens people, he doesn't beat around the bush.
As long as Lao Zhou doesn't come back, he will definitely make the Zhou family boy bear the crime!
Lao Zhou's face changed immediately. Yingzi's absence did not affect Lingzi's procedures for going abroad. Originally, he really intended to act according to circumstances when he went abroad. If he could settle down, he would really not come back!
But Fang Mingche's threat undoubtedly caught his weakness! He was already halfway through his life and had accomplished nothing. Naturally, the one he valued most was his son.
He was already over forty, and even if he wanted to have another child, he might not be able to. Even if he did, it might not be a son. Even if it was a son, he might not be able to raise him. He was an illegal resident in the United States, and
it would be difficult for him to marry and have a son. Not to mention illegal residents, it was difficult for poor people to find a good wife. Otherwise, why was the clerk in his uncle's supermarket still single in his thirties? He could only use a green card to seduce girls from China.
Fang Mingche saw him clench his fists, and veins popped out. He wanted to hit someone! But he still had some reason and knew that he had to rely on himself to get out now.
Moreover, even if they fought, he could not be his opponent.
He waited until Old Zhou calmed down before saying, "The United States is a country of immigrants. If nothing unexpected happens, Yingzi will be illegally abroad for a few years and should be able to wait for the amnesty and get a green card. If you want to get out, just wait for her to get you out openly."
Naturally, he couldn't drink any more, so Fang Mingche stood up and said, "I've said this, and I'll keep my word. Let's go--"
He left here and walked towards his brother and sister-in-law's small noodle shop.
After walking a few steps, he heard someone inside slap the table. The sound was quite loud, and the plates on the table should have jumped up.
Then Aunt Zhou and her son came out to see what was going on, and said something to Old Zhou, but he didn't care.
It was lunchtime, and Fang Mingche went straight to the noodle shop and sat down, "Sister-in-law, give me a bowl of noodles."
Yuan Shufen agreed and threw noodles into the pot. Then the sauce he made must be more than that for the guests.
At this moment, the three siblings went to the courtyard to eat lunch together after school. The couple paid for the food. The food there was good and saved them trouble. In this way, the two of them could do business here at ease.
When Fang Mingche came back to get the car after eating, Aunt Yuan came over and asked him, "How did you communicate with Lao Zhou?"
She was also wondering whether Lao Zhou would come back after he went out. However, thinking that Fang Mingche was more concerned about his personal interests, she didn't say anything. But now she had to ask.
Fang Mingche said directly: "I said that if he doesn't come back, I will fire Lingzi. And I will also get a criminal certificate for his youngest son so that he can no longer get a visa to go abroad."
Aunt Yuan looked at him and said nothing. Okay, it's stable! Lao Zhou dare not not come back. To deal with him, this is really the only trick. But she can't say this on behalf of the street office.
She didn't say anything and just left. When she came back, Uncle Gu also asked. And the other families in the slum were also very curious.
Aunt Yuan repeated what Fang Mingche said, without mixing in her personal opinions.
There was a sound of a car engine in the side yard, and Fang Mingche drove away.
Uncle Gu slapped his thigh and laughed, "It has to be Xiao Fang, this is called hitting the snake at its weakest point!"
Zhu Wenjuan, who also had no classes at home, said, "It can't be helped. Many people go out and never come back. It's not just Lao Zhou. Government-sponsored overseas study is also a hard-hit area. Nowadays, we dare not open up self-funded overseas study."
The scope of government-sponsored study is getting bigger and bigger now, unlike the 52 people who were carefully selected in the first year. There were hundreds of people who took the TOEFL in December last year, so it is inevitable that there will be some who are loyal to their mother.
Aunt Yuan said, "The majority of people who can come back as firmly as Xiao Fang's family after going out are still the majority."
Fang Mingche threatened so much, Lao Zhou finally didn't dare to turn his face away. A few days later, he still got on the plane with the ticket Han Mei gave him.
Fang Mingche didn't see him off that day, but Han Mei, the office director, went. It would be awkward to meet again!
He did not personally show up for the other flights to Tokyo and London. He was busy, wanting to take the postgraduate entrance examination and get into the School of Economics and Management at Peking University. He was now splitting his time into two people.
The people at the travel agency also knew that he had threatened Lingzi's father. Everyone felt relieved. If Teacher Fang did not have some tricks, they would not dare to follow him.
Fang Mingche was reading the book list for the postgraduate entrance examination of the School of Economics and Management at BJ at home. He had no problem with English, and should be able to get a high score of 80 or 90. For the postgraduate entrance examination of the English department, this was still a relatively strong point.
Even the professional courses were not a big problem, after all, financial management was also a combination of theory and practice for him. He went to Peking University to take classes with undergraduates, and he was still able to understand most of them. In addition, he borrowed materials from the library to make up for the rest.
Even if he was a student from another school and could not borrow materials from the Peking University Library, he had been in the same classroom for a long time, so he could ask someone to help borrow them for a fee, and then he would take them to make copies.
Moreover, there were still many professional books available for borrowing from the Beijing Library. It was more convenient to borrow books from the Normal University Library.
It was still the same problem, politics! Marx and Engels' political economy was not a problem, as many of them were already established. But many theoretical knowledge about reform and opening up, the current formulations conflicted with what had already taken shape in his mind.
At present, distribution according to work was only mentioned briefly in the newspapers, not to mention distribution according to production resources.
There was no other way, he could only try to forget the things he had already remembered, and just read newspapers at home. Didn't his father always subscribe to newspapers? The expired ones were stapled together by date.
He went to the courtyard to get all the newspapers from the past year, and read and memorized them one by one. He copied them while reading!
Lin Yi worked in the courtyard on Sunday. He saw Fang Mingche wearing a T-shirt, thin sweatpants, and sneakers, riding a bicycle and carrying a backpack. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that he didn't look like the father of two children.
Fang Mingche listened to his words and said, "I'm only 27 years old, and I just came out of the Peking University campus."
It is impossible for him to wear a suit and tie when entering and leaving the university campus.
Lin Yi did not have any driving assignment today. He was now responsible for cleaning the commercial vehicle that was being overhauled today. This job was not offered. It was Lin Yan who ordered his working hours to be reduced, so Han Mei had to arrange for him to do some odd jobs.
Lin Yi paused with his hand holding the rag. Peking University! As a Chinese, how could he not yearn for Peking University and Tsinghua University?
He has been standing still for the past three years, but his brother-in-law has been making great progress! The two are only two years apart in age.
Han Mei was very excited when she talked about her brother-in-law threatening Lao Zhou at home the other day. Who wouldn't envy the strong? As her income increased and she came into contact with more people, Lin Yi was really not taken seriously by her.
Seeing that Fang Mingche didn't seem to be busy at the moment, Lin Yi took cigarettes out of his pocket and gave them to him.
Fang Mingche didn't want to smoke, but it was not easy for him to refuse the cigarettes given by his brother-in-law. He took it and put it behind his ear, "Just say it if you have something to say."
"Brother-in-law, do you think I can go anywhere except driving on Sundays?"
Fang Mingche looked at him and sat down on the tree stump stool next to him, "I heard that the country is going to try to give unpaid leave to those who have a stable job."
The document was issued in January 1983, and there are still seven months left. At this time, there are indeed a few places that are trying it out.
He explained to Lin Yi what unpaid leave is.
"I think you can try this. As for what to do, do you have any ideas?"
Lin Yi said, "In addition to going to work step by step, I can also drive."
Fang Mingche nodded, "Three years ago, when your sister was released back to Beijing, I thought about it again and again and found that I only had this specialty."
"Then you followed Brother Mingfeng to drive and resell electronic watches to make your first pot of gold?"
"Yeah. But you can't do this now. The road is much more dangerous than it was three years ago." There are many evil people in the village now. He didn't dare to encourage Lin Yi to do this. The probability of something going wrong is too high!
Changchang came out of the house, "Dad, uncle..."
Fang Mingche said, "Go get us two bottles of water."
"Oh." Changchang ran in and brought out two bottles of mineral water in two batches. Then he sat down next to his father.
Lin Yi said, "Since you can take a leave of absence from work in the future, brother-in-law, please give me some advice."
As long as he has a stable job, he also hopes to make a living like his brother-in-law and Zhu Qiming. It is really difficult for him to drive and smile at people.
Fang Mingche said: "We are all parents who provide food and clothing, what's the difficulty? I didn't ask you to bow down to those unreasonable people. If you want to do business, you have to do this. This is not a state-owned supply and marketing cooperative or a bus. Do you still want to be rude to customers?
(End of this chapter)
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