Chapter 79 Chapter 79 The boss lady is lucky, purple air is coming from the east,...
After seeing off the leader's wife, Hong Guo put away the set of jade teacups. She had not been able to ask before, but now she asked Chang Zong, "She only invited me to her grandson's full moon banquet, and you looked so disdainful. What's the point?"
Gu Changzong smiled and said, "Tomorrow's full moon banquet, only the wives of the coal bosses are invited."
Isn't this clearly a gift? Hong Guo didn't want to give it, so she asked Gu Changzong for his opinion: "I think she really likes this set of teacups. Should I bring it to her tomorrow?"
Gu Changzong shook his head: "No, the new leader who came this time is here to investigate corruption in the coal mines."
Hong Guo thought about it and realized that the last leader was hanged. If someone died, there would definitely be an investigation. "Since they are investigating corruption, how dare he allow his wife to take things?"
Wei Liangzheng said that he would not care about the matters at the coal mine. Gu Changzong thought about giving gifts at first, but after trying it a few times, he realized that this leader was different.
"When he accepts something, he may not take it himself. He takes a photo of it and reports it. If he refuses to accept it every time and keeps refusing, everyone will be on guard against him, and it will be difficult to carry out work."
Hong Guo suddenly realized that they had to let these people relax their vigilance first and then uncover the entire corruption and profit transfer.
Hongguo exchanged for an ordinary gift. It was a set of small silver bracelets that Diandian had received as a birthday gift. They were thin and not very expensive. They were commonly given to relatives and friends as gifts.
The next day at noon, Gu Changzong drove the family car and took Hongguo to the restaurant where the full moon banquet was being held: "Guoguo, I'll pick you up after the banquet."
Hong Guo said, "You don't know what time we'll finish here, don't wait, I'll take the bus back later."
Gu Changzong pointed to the opposite side and said, "I was drinking tea there. I saw you as soon as you came out. This place is far from the bus stop. If I didn't come to pick you up and let you walk to the bus stop by yourself, the wives of the coal bosses would have to talk about this for half a year. If I come to pick you up, they will be jealous for at least half a year."
He gave so many reasons just to pick her up. The more Hong Guo listened, the more gently she smiled: "Okay, go find a place to eat."
The leader’s wife watched at the door for a while. The young couple had a really good relationship. They were different from other coal bosses. After a few years, they would probably be the same.
There is only one table in the private room for today's full-moon banquet. It was Du Huixiang who insisted on having this table, and she didn't have to pay for the banquet. She gave a nice reason, saying that several of their family members from the coal mine wanted to talk to Jiang Hongguo, and they just wanted to use her grandson's full-moon banquet as an excuse.
The leader's wife didn't dare to make the decision, so she went home and talked to her husband. Her husband actually agreed, so she went to deliver the invitation. Hongguo came and had someone take the invitation to the box, and she could leave. After the banquet was over, someone would naturally deliver the full moon wine gift to her home.
The leader's wife fully expected that Jiang Hongguo would give her the set of jade tea cups today, so she was particularly enthusiastic and took her to a separate box for the wives of coal bosses.
Hongguo handed the bag in her hand to her and congratulated her on the birth of her grandson. The leader's wife weighed it and felt that the weight was not right and it should not be so light.
Although she was puzzled, she could not open it and check it on the spot. She could only smile and say to everyone, "I have brought the person to you!"
After hearing this, she felt that today's meal was really a Hongmen Banquet targeted at her.
Since the leader's wife was trying to be clever, Hong Guo pretended to be stupid. She grabbed the leader's wife and asked, "You just said that, it sounds like you're selling me out, right?"
The director of Du Huixiang's group quickly came over to help the leader's wife out, and said with a smile: "We wanted to talk to you, but we were afraid that you wouldn't come. Now that you are here, please sit down. The dishes are served, and we are just waiting for you."
The leader's wife was a little angry. She brushed her sleeves lightly and said, "Then you can chat. Please don't be offended if I am not a good host."
Seeing that Jiang Hongguo had already upset the boss's wife, after they sat down, the elder sister to Hongguo's left spoke directly with a cold smile: "Your man is very capable. It's not easy for outsiders to gain a foothold, but he not only gained a foothold, but also almost kicked over the table we were sitting on."
Before Hong Guo could reply, the woman opposite said, "It's not difficult at all. It's just that you are too arrogant and broke the rules. You may end up in trouble."
Who doesn't say harsh words? Hong Guo said harsher words than them.
She said slowly, "What rules are you talking about? Is it stipulated by law? If not, why should I obey it? Are you more powerful than the law? If so, tell me."
These people wanted to rely on their numbers to overwhelm Jiang Hongguo, but she was not afraid at all and the situation was deadlocked for a while.
Du Huixiang couldn't let the situation get cold, so she joked, "Look, you didn't believe me when I told you. Now you know that they are the same kind of people, right? These tricks are useless."
Hong Guo said, "Yes, my husband and I are both capable and we will not abide by the rules you set. From now on, this is our own mine and we will set our own rules."
An older lady said, "Okay, we are here to drink, not to quarrel. Don't bring bad luck to the host family."
As soon as she spoke, the people present gave her respect and started talking about the gifts they had brought.
A woman boasted proudly: "I found a pair of ice bracelets, and the boss's wife loves them very much. Did you see them just now? They were the pair that were faintly visible under her sleeves."
The person next to her said, "Oh, so you sent it in advance without telling us."
Someone asked Du Huixiang what she had given him. Du Huixiang said modestly, "This is a new leader. We don't bribe him. I just gave him two boxes of ordinary tea."
The elder sister who just gave me the bracelet quickly added: "Yes, my pair of bracelets are actually not worth much."
Someone asked Hongguo what she had given as a gift. Hongguo was not stupid enough to tell them about the gift in person. She thought that these people really had nothing to fear.
Hong Guo said, "If you want to know, wouldn't it be better to go back and ask your leader directly?"
Hongguo's attitude made everyone unwilling to talk to her, and Hongguo didn't want to talk to them either. However, the food today was really good. The advantage of not talking was that she could eat more food.
Seeing that Hongguo was just eating and not talking, someone couldn't help but ask her, "I heard from Fennel that your child is pretty and smart. We all want to see him. Why didn't you bring your child here today?"
Hong Guo glanced at the other party and said, "You didn't bring your own children with you, did you? My child is not a monkey, why should I bring him here for you to amuse yourself with? Besides, he won't like to play with you."
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere suddenly became cold and extremely awkward.
Du Huixiang was secretly surprised. Doesn’t Jiang Hongguo want to have a good relationship with people like them?
In fact, Hongguo did it on purpose. She just didn't want to argue with these people and make the relationship more strained. This way, they wouldn't come to her on their own initiative, and she could have some peace and quiet.
After dinner, everyone gathered at the door, said goodbye to each other, and discussed how to go back. Hongguo stood silently aside.
The older sister came over and showed her goodwill, asking Hongguo if she wanted to go with her.
Hongguo shook her head and declined. Changzong had already driven away and would be here soon.
Some people laughed secretly, saying that Hong Guo looked very pitiful, and muttered: "She just arrived here, she probably doesn't even know how to take the bus back home?"
Someone chimed in: "If you don't know, just walk back. Who wouldn't tell her the way if she asked?"
Du Huixiang drove her family's transport truck over with all the gifts in it. She was going to deliver them to the leader's home. She would pass by Jiang Hongguo's home and invite her by the way: "I can take you back."
Hong Guo shook her head: "No, my wife will come to pick me up."
Du Huixiang said: "Then you don't know how long you have to wait?"
Hong Guo pointed across the street: "He was eating across the street. I've been waiting for him all afternoon. He just went to drive and will be here soon."
Sure enough, Gu Changzong soon drove over and stopped by the roadside. He looked so handsome sitting in the high cab that it was hard not to be jealous.
Hongguo trotted over and found Gu Changzong had already got out of the car. He walked around to the passenger seat, opened the door, and helped her into the car. This action made the family members who were very unhappy with Hongguo feel envious.
Hongguo got on the car with a smug smile on his face.
Gu Changzong was happy in his heart and asked uncertainly: "Guoguo, I didn't know that this little thing of mine coming to pick you up could make you so happy."
Hong Guo reached out and touched his face. "Of course I'm happy. During the meal, they talked one by one, all with a sense of superiority, trying to embarrass me, and I retorted one by one. Just now, someone ridiculed me for not knowing the way, but when they saw you coming to pick me up, they all stopped talking."
Hongguo is still a little vain. She is in a good mood today, but she is worried that the leader's wife will be angry when she opens the gift.
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Du Huixiang secretly looked at the gift Jiang Hongguo had given her halfway through the journey. It turned out to be a pair of small silver bracelets that were not even worth a meal. It was so funny. She also looked at other people's gifts, but none of them were as thoughtful as hers. She felt relieved.
After delivering the gift to the leader's home, she went back and told her husband what happened at the dinner table, and said with a smile: "Their mine will have a groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow, and they have invited the leader. I just inquired, and the leader is busy and will not go."
Her man sneered: "You can be crazy as you like, but you won't be able to be crazy after tomorrow."
At the leader’s home, his wife is opening gifts one by one.
The leader asked her to take a picture with her camera and said, "Take a detailed picture of each one and put it in a booklet, marking who sent it."
The boss’ wife took it very seriously: “Yes, it depends on whose gift is thoughtful. In the future, we will distinguish between relatives and strangers. Don’t mess it up.”
She was quite nervous when she opened Hongguo's gift, because it turned out to be just a pair of ordinary silver bracelets.
The leader’s wife immediately became unhappy and didn’t want to register.
The leader took a look and chose Jiang Hongguo's as the most ordinary one, just like an ordinary gift given between relatives and friends.
He smiled and said, "Why don't you take a picture? You have to take a picture of this too for registration."
The boss's wife was dissatisfied: "When we were drinking tea yesterday, the set of six jade cups was really beautiful. She even asked me to take it away. I thought she would give it to me this time, but I didn't expect her character to be so bad. She was not willing to give even this little thing. She is not the kind of person who can accomplish great things."
When the leader saw that his lover took photos, he didn’t say anything, but all these things had to be handed in.
When she opened the gift from Du Huixiang, she kept reminding him that the tea was good and she wanted to open it and taste it. When she opened it, she found it was filled with cash.
The leader's wife smiled brightly and handed the tea can to her lover: "Look, this is a man who does great things. Register other things, but don't register these two boxes of money. My mother wants to redecorate the house, so I'll send it to her. Is that okay with you?"
The leader was very angry and said, "Don't touch this batch of things, not even the outer packaging. Take photos and register them, count the money and then put them back."
The boss's wife was dissatisfied: "You are just timid. You still want to wait until you retire to use it? That's how many years you have to wait."
The boss didn't waste much time talking to her. If his wife wasn't such an easily corrupted person, he wouldn't have made such arrangements.
This time when he was investigating corruption, he let his wife go in front to give those people the illusion that the matter had been reported, otherwise he would not dare to do it.
The leader said, "Gu Changzong's coal mine is going to hold a groundbreaking ceremony, so I'm busy. You can go there on my behalf tomorrow."
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Hongguo's mine was opening today, and Changzong insisted that she go there. Hongguo thought of the gossip she had heard, and said, "Women are not allowed to go down into the mine, so I won't go down. It's the same as being up there."
Gu Changzong refused: "Even if there is such a taboo, it doesn't count with me. Things are what they should be. It has nothing to do with whether there is a woman or not. Guoguo, if you think today is not suitable, let's change another day."
Hongguo looked at the bright sun outside. It was a sunny and windy day. It was indeed a good day. Although the invited leader would not come, she asked his wife to come to cut the ribbon. It would not be a good idea to change the day.
Changzong was right. Whether he went there today or not, the evildoers buried under the mine would not succeed.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, when people heard that Hongguo was going to go down the mine, this decision was strongly opposed.
Someone said, "How can you let a woman go down the well?"
Gu Changzong asked back, "It's our own mine, why can't we go down and take a look? If it weren't for Hongguo, I wouldn't come here to do coal mining business. If I didn't come, the people in this mine wouldn't be able to find better treatment than me. You should all thank Hongguo. If you don't let her go down, then no one should go down."
Gu Changzong's words were too tough, but when doing things in the mine, how can you be untough?
It doesn't matter if Hongguo doesn't go down. Now that the situation is so deadlocked, she has to go down.
Hong Guo said: "Don't worry, today is just a groundbreaking ceremony, not a start-up. My wife and I will go ahead. If anything goes wrong, we will be the first to bear it."
The little one couldn't wait any longer and had already run to the entrance: "Hurry up, we have to go."
Du Huixiang could hardly suppress her laughter. Jiang Hongguo actually wanted to take her child down with her. This time, the three of them would be buried down there.
She couldn't help but touch her chest. It turned out that she didn't feel any pain there when watching others die. She often lamented that her sister and brother-in-law were cruel and ruthless. Could it be that she also had such blood?
Hongguo saw Du Huixiang smiling proudly, turned around, and went down the mine with Changzong and took the child.
She knew that it was taboo in the mine that women were not allowed to go down the mine. If she went down, even if the family of three walked in front, the safety officers behind would feel uneasy and would blame her for any problems in the future.
Hong Guo looked at Gu Changzong, who gave her a reassuring smile: "Guo Guo, as long as I'm here, nothing will go wrong in this mine."
The little guy assured in Changzong's arms: "Nothing will happen." His big fish had already swam out, and he was only happy when he came down, without any bad feelings.
After walking for a while, they came to another fork blocked by a wooden door. Gu Changzong smiled and said to Hong Guo, "Guo Guo, I have a surprise for you. Open the door."
Hongguo was curious, what else could be dug out from the coal mine besides coal?
She opened the wooden door that looked large but was not heavy, and behind it was a dazzling amethyst. When the miner's lamp shone on it, my god, the sparkling light was so beautiful.
There were gasps and exclamations: "Oh my god, such a large piece of amethyst, it's rare to see it."
"Madam boss, you are lucky. Purple air is coming from the east. This is a good sign."
Hongguo also likes it. No wonder Changzong insisted that she come down to see it in person to be shocked. She likes it very much and must dig a big piece to take back and put it on display.
Gu Changzong was in a good mood. He waved his hand and said to the miners behind him: "Everyone who sees it will get a share. Everyone in our mine will get a piece. Those of you who came down first will get the first pick."
Amethyst is a good thing. Although there is no specific price, if you find one you like, you can sell it for a good price. Moreover, amethyst has good meanings. The boss also gives one piece to every absentee worker, which is really unprecedented. It shows that the dividends promised before will definitely be fulfilled. When we think of this, we are as happy as if it were New Year's Day.
Gu Changzong could see some big fish, which had already swam through the entire mine. The secretly buried fish had been swallowed by the big fish, saving him from having to do anything.
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In the mine, Du Huixiang and others were anxious. Why didn't the agreed explosion sound?
The leader's wife was getting impatient and didn't want to eat the lunch banquet. She wanted to go back. Du Huixiang had to send her off, but she wanted to wait.
Just when I was feeling uneasy, a worker came out from the mine, pushing a small cart of ore. Those who were nearby immediately exclaimed, "Oh my God, this is amethyst. Boss Gu's mine has mined amethyst. What a good sign!"
The miner said something even happier: "Boss Gu said that this sign of purple air coming from the east will be shared with us for free. We can all line up and everyone can choose a piece. The rest can be sold and we can get a bigger meal after selling it!"
The crowd cheered, and Du Huixiang couldn't help but smile. She guessed that Gu Changzong had discovered the little tricks in the mine, so the explosion she was expecting today would not happen.
She was extremely disappointed and was about to send her leader's wife away when her husband's sister's husband hurried over and whispered, "Sister-in-law, there's an accident at our mine, go back and take a look."
Du Huixiang was panicking. Could it be that Gu Changzong had discovered it and buried explosives in her mine?
"What happened? Did the mine collapse?"
"That's not the case, but my brother was chased by a pack of wild dogs and fell into a mine. He hasn't been rescued yet. You should go back quickly."
Du Huixiang didn't care about the leader's wife. She quickly said sorry, then left the leader's wife there and ran away.
The leader's wife gritted her teeth. At that moment, there was cheers all over the mine and no one cared about her. In order to save face, she told the people around her that Du Huixiang had an emergency at home and her husband was chased by wild dogs and fell into the mine.
Hongguo came out amid the cheers. After coming out, Changzong asked her to be responsible for registering and distributing amethysts to people.
Hongguo looked around but didn't see Du Huixiang or Yushan. She heard that Du Huixiang's husband was chased by a dog and fell into a mine. His injuries were serious, with internal injuries and fractures. But compared with their behavior of bribing people to plant explosives in her mine on the first day of work, this punishment was what he deserved.
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