Xu Danhua couldn't help but sigh: "Compared to that, I really feel like I'm too idle."
In the end, there was no choice but for the two to say goodbye to Mr. Lu and the others and go to the train station.
Lu Ran drove them to the train station and helped them buy sleeper tickets. Fortunately, the standing tickets were sold out, but the sleeper berths were still available. He sent the two of them to the train, helped them move their belongings, and then left.
It was already afternoon when Zhang Xingrong finished the meeting.
Zhang Xingrong originally wanted to leave early, but several old friends stopped her, and Li Zhiyong also came, so she couldn't just run away.
"Comrade Zhang Xingrong, you haven't been back to Shi County for a long time, right?" The Shi County Party Secretary was kind but also regretful. "Your new factory has abandoned Shi County and moved to the provincial capital!"
He watched Hongyun slowly gain ground in the county, gradually expanding, and now gaining a reputation and a position in the provincial capital. But then, suddenly, someone left for the provincial capital to open a factory. Rumors circulated that Hongyun had suddenly bought a lot of land in the provincial capital, and the first round of recruitment was expected to reach over 1,000 or 2,000 people. The number of employees was rising rapidly. He felt like his child had run away.
"Hey, Old Zhou, you are blaming us for poaching people from the provincial capital!" Li Zhi laughed.
Old Zhou snorted, "That's good to know. This is our dear child from Shi County! Little girl, if you are wronged in the provincial capital, you can always come back to Shi County. Shi County has plenty of places and people for you to use!"
"Hey, hey, hey, how can you talk like that!" Li Zhiyong was unhappy. "What do you mean by being wronged? What kind of grievance can we suffer in our provincial capital?"
"That's not necessarily true." Old Zhou glanced at him. "You guys in the provincial capital have so many big factories, you're definitely bullying us from our small town."
Zhang Xingrong watched the two of them chattering endlessly, and quickly said, "Two elders, two leaders, aren't you hungry? Why don't you go to the cafeteria for a meal?"
Really, the two of them are not young anymore, they look gentle and polite, yet they can still quarrel and are not afraid of being laughed at.
The two of them finally stopped.
"Yes, I'm really hungry. Let's go eat. Old Zhou, the food in our provincial capital is different from yours in Shi County. Eat more later."
"You're acting like no one has ever eaten this before. The food was painstakingly prepared by the master chef, not you. Why are you showing off?"
Although the two are of different levels, they seem to have the same temper. They like to argue with each other and also like to walk together.
Xiao Jianming said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go eat quickly."
Hu Zhihe, the manager of Jiang City Department Store, quickly chatted with Zhang Xingrong, "Comrade Zhang Xingrong, I just heard you say that you're planting oranges in brigades. Does your brigade have such a plan?"
Zhang Xingrong nodded. "Yes, there should be. Lugou Village is using the mountainous land to grow oranges, and it's not taking up land for crops. Now that the planting is almost complete, we can promote this practice in other villages."
However, other villages don't have so many mountains. Lugou Village has the most in Hongyun Mountain. It was precisely because Lugou Village had so many mountains and little land that its grain production could not be increased, which led to its poverty and was often looked down upon by other villages.
The villages outside have more plains and fields, but fewer mountains. Zhangjia Village, for example, has no mountains at all. Back then, they had plenty of fields and didn't care about mountains; they didn't need them. So, if they were promoting orange cultivation in Hongyun, there wouldn't be much room for fruit trees in places like Zhangjia Village and Liujia Village.
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