Xie Yuejin is in jail, and the outcome of his handling needs to be investigated, not only those inside the hotel, but also those outside who were in cahoots with Xie Yuejin for speculation and profiteering, who will also be arrested and interrogated.
But Xie Yuejin was just a cutter, he was caught.
Now that Wan Guodong has been arrested, things are not that simple.
Wan Guodong is the head of the Xipo Town Hotel. Now that he is gone, of course someone has to fill the vacancy.
As for who will come
Even a small-time official from the county town doesn't like to come to the town to be a leader. It's a joke. The county town is the county town, and the town is the town. There is still a gap. Besides, their families have settled in the county town. What do they want to come to the countryside
But it is not easy to transfer people from other towns in a short time.
After some discussion, the higher-ups finally gave the position to Xu Shuang.
Anyway, Xie Yuejin proved Xu Shuang's innocence during the questioning, so no one suspected that Xu Shuang was involved in this incident. From another perspective, even the waiters in the store were dragged into the water, but Xu Shuang was not hurt at all, which can be said to have withstood the test.
Chen Dong: "I'm here to give you the appointment. Go to the restaurant and get ready in the next few days. We need to recruit waiters and take care of the store. I originally thought that I could transfer you to the city this year, but since you have this job transfer, it's good. After you work for two years, you can move to the city. You don't have to start from an ordinary job. You can directly be a master chef with apprentices."
After all, Xu Shuang’s experience was not long enough, and he only got the qualification to take the second-level chef exam after Chen Dong had some lobbying. Logically speaking, he could not take the second-level certificate directly.
Even if I move to the city this year, I'm afraid I will have to start as a junior master. That is, I can work in a restaurant, but I can't take apprentices. I'm just an ordinary chef.
But if you work as a leader for two years and then go back, things will be different. At least you will be able to reach the status of one of the three top chefs in the restaurant.
Wang Ying also thought this arrangement was good, mainly because if she moved to the city this year, she would not have enough money to buy a job.
Chen Dong sat for a while and then left. Xu Shuang changed her boots and sent him to the town to catch a bus. She also wanted to go to the restaurant to take a look at the situation and post the recruitment information.
Of course, he has no say in selecting people alone; someone from above has to be in charge.
After being busy for a while, Xu Shuang recruited all the waiters and officially opened the shop.
On the first day of business, Xu Shuang met someone he hadn't seen for a long time.
Li Ying.
Li Ying's eyes were red and swollen, and she came to find Xie Yuejin.
Li Ying had been having a very hard time during this period, not only because Xie Yuejin wanted to divorce her, but also because...
Her second brother reported Xie Yuejin, and the fourth brother found out. The fourth sister-in-law made a fuss, saying that the second brother ruined the fourth brother's business. When she asked more questions, she revealed that the fourth brother had asked Xie Yuejin for 300 yuan.
This time it’s all over, the family has almost become enemies.
The second and fourth brothers were fighting each other, and the eldest brother had already taken the children back to the countryside.
A few days ago, my fourth brother came back and said that Xie Yuejin had committed a crime and had been arrested. He said that many people came to the restaurant to take Xie Yuejin away, saying that they wanted to eat peanuts.
Li Ying cried bitterly. The family had been divided and the house was going to be sold in the next two days. Her brothers had packed up their things and were going back to their hometown.
No one cares about her.
She wanted to follow her brother back to the countryside, so the most urgent thing was to divorce Xie Yuejin first. If she didn't divorce him, she would still be a bad person even if her household registration was moved back.
Xu Shuang didn’t know where Xie Yuejin was being held now. The final result was not out yet, so who knew how he was doing now.
Li Ying had no choice but to leave and look for Xie Yuejin's parents and brothers.
Even if the people in the restaurant don’t know, Xie Yuejin’s parents must know, right
But when they found the place where Xie Yuejin rented a house, they saw that the house Xie Yuejin used to live in was empty.
The old lady who rented the room had a gloomy face: "The son of this family committed a crime, but his parents didn't even leave the house. They just ate and drank in the house. They ate up all the food that the young man had stored, and then wiped their mouths and took their son back to their hometown."
Xie Yuejin's parents knew that Xie Yuejin had committed a crime. After all, as soon as Xie Yuejin was arrested, someone came to search his house and took away all of Xie Yuejin's money.
But Xie Yuejin's parents didn't say they were going to see Xie Yuejin, nor did they ask how Xie Yuejin was doing. They just kept eating, finishing all the rice and flour Xie Yuejin had left at home, and took away all of Xie Yuejin's clothes and shoes without saying a word.
The old lady who rented the house was still feeling lucky, because at least these people only took their own things when they left, and did not take her belongings.
But it’s not that Xie Yuejin’s parents didn’t want to take it, it’s that they thought it was too heavy.
They didn't take Xie Yuejin's stove because it was too heavy.
Li Ying couldn't find Xie Yuejin and could only break down and cry.
Finally, a neighbor gave her a serious suggestion, telling her to go to the Revolutionary Committee. If they couldn't find anyone, they could issue a certificate and sever ties with her, which would not affect her.
Li Ying went to do it quickly, and within a few days, the Li family disappeared from the town.
The result of Xie Yuejin's sentence came out half a month later, and Xie Yuejin was sentenced to ten years in prison.
I don't know if it was because the case was discovered early, but the final amount was not enough to make Xie Yuejin eat peanuts. He was only sentenced to ten years, but Wan Guodong was sentenced to a relatively longer term because he was a leader and a party member, and was sentenced to twelve years directly because of his status.
After the results of Xie Yuejin's conviction came out, he would be sent to a labor camp.
Xu Shuang went to see Xie Yuejin before he left.
Xie Yuejin was in a trance when he saw Xu Shuang.
During this time, he had a dream.
The vague memories in the dream are about some things in the past.
Xu Shuang also got married at about the same time in her dream, but the person she married was not the one she is now with, but a girl named Wang Lingling. Wang Lingling behaved in a similar way to Li Ying, always coming to the restaurant to steal things.
In his dream, he waited for a long time but couldn't find any evidence against Xu Shuang, but finally he saw a breakthrough in Wang Lingling.
So he secretly reported Xu Shuang.
As a result, Xu Shuang lost her job and rushed back home.
Xie Yuejin seemed to be watching someone else's life, in which he only had a few sporadic descriptions, while the whole story was about Xu Shuang.
He saw that after Xu Shuang left, he joined forces with Wan Guodong to move things in the store. Because the chef left, it was normal for the store's business to decline, so the higher-ups didn't find any problems.
He worked with Wan Guodong for three or four years, and in the dream, he married Li Ying. But Li Ying's family was fine, and her brothers also had good jobs, so in the dream, they quarreled, but did not divorce, and continued to live together.
Just when he was about to be transferred to the county town in his dream, Xie Yuejin saw that his crime was exposed.
Since Li Ying married him, she has been eating and drinking well, and her family has also benefited from it. So the Li family often shows off outside, which arouses the jealousy of others.
After all this series of events was involved, he was trapped.
I heard about his final fate from Xu Shuang, who calmly said that he had eaten peanuts because of his excessive corruption. Li Ying also had a bad fate. She could not marry into a good family, so she had to go back to her parents' home to live. The Li family was also implicated. Although they did not lose their jobs, their reputation was ruined.
After he died in the dream, the perspective did not stop, but continued to move along Xu Shuang's perspective.
Xie Yuejin saw that Xu Shuang and Wang Lingling had a very bad relationship, and later Wang Lingling broke his finger when he opened a restaurant. Wang Lingling abandoned Xu Shuang and left.
Xie Yuejin originally thought that Xu Shuang would never recover, and even developed some feelings of mutual sympathy between them.
Both of them have wives who are not very good.
Li Ying brought him bad luck, and Wang Lingling brought Xu Shuang bad luck.
Xie Yuejin thought Xu Shuang would remain depressed like this.
But who would have thought that Xu Shuang in the dream still did not give up on himself. He began to take in apprentices. His hands were damaged, but his taste buds were not damaged. He took in apprentices. He brought in several talented and hardworking apprentices. Finally, with the recommendation of his apprentices, he went to a large restaurant to serve as the executive chef.
After having this dream, Xie Yuejin felt very complicated when he saw Xu Shuang again. He even felt that he and Xu Shuang were two opposite sides, whether in the dream or now.
“You’re here.”
Xu Shuang handed him a package: "There are some food in it, save it for the journey."
Xie Yuejin was silent for a moment: "Xu Shuang, do you know that I am sometimes very jealous of you?"
Xu Shuang nodded: "I know something."
Xie Yuejin laughed: "In short, I'm sorry, but thank you."
He was jealous of Xu Shuang not only because of his wife's gifted looks, but also because he was jealous that there was always someone who loved Xu Shuang. Even though she was betrayed in her previous life and no one loved her, he never gave up and was never defeated.
The two sat opposite each other for a while. Xu Shuang said, "Ten years is not as long as I imagined. I used to envy you for being able to get along with everyone. You are very smart. As long as you don't go astray in the future, things will always be better."
Xie Yuejin: “I know.”
Maybe he didn't know it before, but after going through all these things, he finally knew it.
After hearing that he was in trouble, his parents never showed up from beginning to end. Li Ying didn't even say a word. All he knew was that she came to him to ask for a divorce.
It was as if only after a person had lost everything did he look at himself more seriously.
There's always a chance to start over.
After the beginning of spring, the Seventh Brigade officially started running the village primary school.
The number of students enrolled was much better than Tian Youfu expected, with more than twenty students enrolled.
Those who originally studied in the commune, as long as they had not studied for too long, were transferred back to the village. As for those who were in senior primary school, there was nothing that could be done. We could not set up a separate senior class just for a few people.
There were more than twenty students sitting at five large tables in a classroom, and four or five children sat on the benches.
Although there is no electric light, there are glass windows and the room is still bright.
On the way Wang Ying went to look for Tian Youfu, she met Mai Miao and Mai Sui who were returning home for lunch after school. One of the two little girls was carrying a simple cloth bag as a schoolbag, while the other was making gestures.
When they saw Wang Ying, they greeted each other. Wang Ying stuffed a candy into each person's mouth and said, "Are you used to going to school today?"
The wheat seedlings hesitated for a moment and nodded, while the wheat ears chirped: "Habit! We learn it very quickly! We know everything the teacher teaches us!"
Their progress was faster than others because of the good foundation laid by Cheng Shufen. Both children were the most outstanding ones in class.
Wang Ying smiled and asked Mai Miao: "What do you think, Mai Miao?"
Mai Miao said in a low voice: "I think... the teacher's teaching is too simple."
She is different from her sister. Her sister would be absent-minded when studying with Teacher Cheng, but she was very serious from beginning to end. So what she was taught today was what she had already learned...
Wang Ying thought about it and encouraged her: "Then you can go and ask the teacher privately, or ask the teacher for some high-grade books and read them yourself first."
Mai Miao: "Will the teacher think I have too many things to do?"
Wang Ying: "Why would the teacher think you have too much to do? If you don't believe me, go ask Teacher Zhang and Teacher Yang this afternoon. Teachers will be very happy. Teachers all like good students."
After comforting Mai Miao for a few words, Wang Ying urged them to go back for dinner.
Because it is a village primary school, the lunch time is more than an hour, so the time is tight. But school ends early in the afternoon, at around four o'clock. The main reason is that many children have to help with housework at home. If they go home too late, they have to go in the dark, which also delays their homework.
After bidding farewell to the two little sisters, Wang Ying went to find Tian Youfu.
Tian Youfu put down his bowl and chopsticks consciously. Every time Wang Ying came to see him with a serious look on her face, it was always for important business.
Last time she was doing this to run a village primary school, this time...
Wang Ying got straight to the point: "Captain, I have a suggestion. Do you want to listen to it?"
"Our brigade is particularly suitable for growing medicinal herbs. I think we can open up a piece of wasteland in the back mountain and plant honeysuckle."
As if she was afraid that the team leader didn't know the function of honeysuckle, Wang Ying said, "It's honeysuckle. Have you seen those yellow and white wild flowers in the back mountain? There are always people in our team who rub those flowers and apply them on wounds to reduce inflammation. But honeysuckle can also be boiled in water, soaked in water, dried and fried, and used as medicine for a wide range of uses."
"In our county, we buy roasted dried honeysuckle for 1.5 yuan per catty, which is 1.15 yuan per ounce. The yield of one mu of land is about 200 catties a year. After a few years of cultivation, it will be more, and the highest can be stabilized at more than 300 catties. So, one mu of land can earn 300 yuan a year."
"Of course, the county hospital may not be able to absorb so much, so we have to find another pharmaceutical factory to buy flowers. But I think there is a lot of potential. If our team can open up a few acres of land, at least the children's tuition fees will be settled every year. What do you think?"
Tian Youfu was dumbfounded after listening to Wang Ying's series of words: "When did you think of this?"
Even the yield per acre of land is taken into account.
Wang Ying laughed dryly: "I thought about it last year, and then I tried it on the back mountain. I thought it was pretty good, and I wanted to find a way for our team to make money."
Tian Youfu: "Your idea is good, but I have to tell you the truth."
"The commune may not agree with us doing this. Take our brigade's orchard for example. If I hadn't said so early, it wouldn't have been able to open."
The situation in recent years has been so pressing that not only the production teams, but even the communes have been very cautious in their work. Anything slightly out of the ordinary will not be approved if possible.
Wang Ying: "Why don't you come with me to the back hills to have a look? The honeysuckle is sprouting now, it's not too late for you to take a look and make a decision."
Wang Ying took Tian Youfu to the back mountain and showed him not only the honeysuckle all over the mountain, but also her own small medicinal field.
"Captain, if our brigade wants to become rich, it is impossible to rely solely on farming. Even if our brigade has tractors in the future, it may not be able to compare with those great plains. But our brigade also has an advantage, which is the mountain behind us."
"I promise you that our brigade will try planting two mu this year, and we will be able to harvest in May or June next year. You will know then. If you think the commune cannot agree, we will try planting for two years, and then go to the commune to apply if we have achieved results."
Wang Ying analyzed the pros and cons very thoroughly. Tian Youfu hesitated again and again, but finally nodded.
Wang Ying exhaled lightly. She always had confidence in medicinal materials.
Not long after the beginning of spring, Tian Youfu assigned Wang Ying a dozen people who had helped in the orchard. Wang Ying did not waste any seeds, but directly cut branches from the honeysuckle plants on the mountain for cuttings.
The most troublesome step is to prepare the soil. After the soil is prepared and a circle of prickly roses is built around it, all the branches are finally planted.
That year, under Wang Ying's careful care, 80% of the honeysuckle planted grew.
The next year, honeysuckle bloomed in large patches starting in May. Tian Youfu came to see it once and his hands were shaking with excitement.
There were two acres of land in total, and two crops of flowers yielded seven to eight hundred kilograms. After drying and frying, we finally got five hundred kilograms of medicinal materials.
Wang Ying sent a batch of samples to the hospital. The hospital couldn't take in so many at once, but it still introduced Wang Ying to a pharmaceutical factory in the provincial capital.
After the pharmaceutical factory came to inspect, they affirmed the medicinal materials they grew, and especially praised the quality of the materials.
Five hundred kilograms were taken away by the pharmaceutical factory, which purchased them at a price of one dollar and four cents per kilogram. Although it was a little less than what the hospital paid, the other party took charge of the transportation, which saved the team a lot of effort.
When Tian Youfu held the seven hundred yuan in his hand, he was completely dazed.
He didn't pay much attention to the planting of these two acres of honeysuckle from beginning to end. Wang Ying didn't ask him for help, except for asking him for help in digging the land and grafting branches in the first year, but she did it all by herself later. Even this year, she didn't bother him much when picking the flowers, but asked students from the village primary school to help pick them. Dozens of students picked them in three or four days.
Tian Youfu started to cry while laughing. He gave 350 out of the 700 yuan to Wang Ying without saying a word.
Wang Ying did not refuse. She planted honeysuckle to save money. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to earn enough money to buy a job in the county town.
However, Xu Shuang's salary has increased in the past two years and is now 42.5 yuan per month.
The savings of the two people also increased, and they now have two hundred yuan in their hands.
Adding the dividends given to her by the captain, the total was three hundred and fifty, enough to solve her problem.
Wang Ying discussed with Tian Youfu that the first batch of dividends would be half for Wang Ying, because not many people in the brigade helped her in this regard, and even if she lost money, it was Wang Ying's own time and energy. But if she made money, she would give Wang Ying half in the first year, and she would only take one-tenth every year thereafter, because she would teach everyone how to grow flowers and stir-fry herbs.
Of the remaining three hundred and fifty, the team leader first gave fifty cents to the adults and children who had helped Wang Ying to open the fields and harvest the flowers, and the rest was kept for next year's opening of the fields to plant honeysuckle.
Tian Youfu was cautious and did not tell the commune the actual data. He only said that the brigade had contacted the pharmaceutical factory in the provincial capital and was willing to collect honeysuckle here for a long time. On the basis of ensuring grain production, their brigade wanted to open up a few more acres of land to grow medicine.
Finally, the commune approved 12 acres of land, and Tian Youfu was very satisfied.
There are twelve acres of land, and one acre can yield two hundred and eighty yuan, which is more than three thousand yuan a year.
It is enough for each family in the brigade to get several dozen yuan, and the village primary school of the brigade has been in use for two years, so it is time to build a real primary school.
The following year, Tian Youfu began to plant honeysuckle in full swing.
Wang Ying has been watching the planting and harvesting since the beginning of spring, and has also been watching the drying and frying process carefully. I don't know if it was planted well, but the transplanted honeysuckle bloomed that year. I made 1,000 yuan from selling honeysuckle that year!
The brigade distributed money, and each family received ten yuan. Although it was not much, one might not be able to earn ten yuan even if he worked hard on the farm for a year.
"Life in our team is getting better and better!"
"That's right. How could we have such a good life in the past few years?"
"We have enough food and drink and can earn money. The surrounding communes don't have such a good life as ours!"
"I plan to let my daughter continue her studies. Anyway, my family doesn't need her tuition for one or two years. She still needs to study more. Only by studying more can she be like Wang Ying. Not only can she become a doctor, but she can also contribute money to our brigade!"
"Why hasn't Ying made any progress in the past few years... I see she's been married for several years, why hasn't she gotten pregnant yet?"
"Don't talk nonsense. He's a doctor himself, how could he not know? Maybe it's just not the right time yet."
"Blame it on me, blame it on me. I won't mention it anymore."
"Hey, isn't that Wang Ying? Where is she going?"
"Where else can he go? It must be the hotel. Xiao Xu is in the hotel."
"The couple has a really good relationship."
"I see, Xiao Xu and Wang Ying have agreed to move to the city soon. Didn't they say that last year? Xiao Xu's master in the county has come to find him and wants to transfer him to the city."
"Xiao Xu has gone to the city, what about Wang Ying?"
"Isn't he going? I think he will go to the city this year."
…
Wang Ying was riding her bike and her forehead was steaming when she arrived at the restaurant.
Xu Shuang was waiting at the door. When she saw her coming, she helped her get off the bicycle: "Why are you in such a hurry? It's okay to come later."
Wang Ying smiled innocently and said, "How can I be late? What if I can't catch up?"
Xu Shuang handed Wang Ying a small paper bag. Wang Ying opened it and saw steaming hot roujiamo inside.
Wang Ying sat on the back seat. Xu Shuang rode the bike steadily and fast, so she just sat on the back seat and ate her roujiamo in peace.
After taking a bite, Wang Ying exclaimed in surprise: "You added sesame oil, didn't you? It's delicious!"
Xu Shuang loved the way she could tell good food from bad with just one bite, and she felt extremely satisfied every time she watched her eat.
"Yes, it's a pancake kneaded with sesame oil, and filled with braised and smoked meat."
Wang Ying ate it with great satisfaction. Strictly speaking, this kind of Roujiamo should be called Roujiabazi. Bazi is the outer cake, which is made of sesame oil and ghee, kneaded and baked, and has a layered inner core that is oily, moist and salty.
The meat filling inside is cut into small cubes, with a mellow aroma, dry but not greasy, without any fat, and yet it tastes very fragrant when chewed.
Wang Ying finished eating a meat bun. Xu Shuang said, "The handkerchief is in my pocket."
Wang Ying reached into Xu Shuang's pocket, took out a handkerchief, wiped her hands, and then hugged Xu Shuang.
"It's delicious. You're so nice."
After being married for several years, the two get along more and more harmoniously. Wang Ying is happy in her life and always likes to tease Xu Shuang like this.
Xu Shuang coughed and said, "Let's go into the city and eat some noodles later?"
Wang Ying ate one baked bun and it was the same as if she hadn't eaten anything: "Great, great, the spicy chicken noodles that Master made recently are even better than the fried chicken with sauce!"
Fry the chicken nuggets in oil, then stir-fry them until crispy, then add green pepper rings and chili peppers. The fried chicken nuggets with red oil are placed on the noodles and taste quite good.
Wang Ying likes spicy food recently: "Let's go!"
This time, the two of them went to the city to buy jobs.
Actually, Chen Dong found a job for Wang Ying in a clinic last year, but Wang Ying didn't agree at that time. One reason was that the factory was on the edge of the county town, far away. The other reason was that the factory only had 100 people and the position was just a cashier in the clinic. The third reason was, of course, that she hadn't saved enough money.
Although Chen Dong directly said that he could lend them money, Wang Ying still felt that it was not the best time.
After such a delay, it was not until this year that Chen Dong was already urging him to come back. Master Ma had almost trained enough apprentices and was waiting to retire and go home. The vacant position of the head chef in the county restaurant was waiting for Xu Shuang to fill it.
Chen Dong put a lot of effort into looking and finally found a job in the medical office of the county sugar factory. Although he couldn't get started right away, people like Wang Ying, who used to be a barefoot doctor, were given a rank and could move up.
Wang Ying happily came to the county town with Xu Shuang, feeling that it was almost done.
Of course, things went unusually smoothly. The other party had no one in the family who could take over the infirmary's shift, so they had to swap with someone else and arrange for the child to be delivered. So the job in the infirmary had to be sold so that they could use the money to engage in activities.
Both sides were interested, and after discussion they decided on five hundred and fifty yuan.
Because the sugar factory is a good unit in the county, it is naturally more expensive to buy it.
Both parties completed the formalities on the same day and agreed on a time.
Chen Dong: "It's not time for the two of you to get a separate room. We have two empty rooms in our yard. You can live there first. The rent is three yuan a month. I will see if I can apply for one to be your house. Of course, you can also change to a building if you want."
Wang Ying has been used to living in a house with a yard all her life, so she said without hesitation: "Let's move into the yard."
She's already tired of living in a building!