Chapter 222: The Final Revenge (First Update)
Jin Mancang was not good at talking. He was sitting on the edge of the kang, smoking silently. After holding back for a long time, he finally started talking to Xie Qifeng and his wife.

He said there were two things he shouldn’t do in his life.

First, he shouldn’t have stolen corn from Zhongping to fill his stomach that night.

If he had not gone to steal the corn, he would not have met Xie Hushan. After returning home, he would not have told his daughter and son about what happened that night as a joke, making his daughter remember his name. This also led to Xie Hushan being seen through when he was pretending to be a tough guy.

Second, I shouldn’t have listened to Xie Hushan and learned how to do the math, becoming a crappy accountant.

If I didn’t know how to do the math, didn’t work as an accountant, and was still a blind and useless person, I wouldn’t be in this mess today.

He was trying hard to explain the matter to Xie Qifeng and his wife, but he also had to think hard and put the blame on himself, not blaming anyone else, so he explained slower and slower, wishing he could think over every word before speaking.

Seeing that look, Second Aunt Zhou Hongmei wanted to rush over, pull out Jin Mancang’s tongue and stroke it for him.

Li Qiaozhi, on the other hand, although she was frightened when she saw her son-in-law Xie Hushan at first, she is much better now. She is not shy with her son-in-law and tells him about her experiences while wiping her tears.

What happened? It all started last year. The members of Yakou earned a lot of money for the brigade by working in the kiln and making steel for Zhongping. In addition, last year, Lao Jiang, the captain of the second team of Yakou, boldly took a few driver and technicians from the commune’s agricultural technology station to Yanjing because of what Xie Hushan said. He wanted to find out whether the famous red gauze plows in Yanjing were the same as the red-skinned pears that were grown all over the mountains of Xishan, and whether it was possible to find a way out.

It was the first time for the mountain people to go to such a far place. They asked around like headless flies. Their efforts paid off and they finally got in touch with some local fruit farmers in Miyun County, Yanjing. After checking the map, they found out that in Miyun, two or three hundred miles away, the locals called the mountain northeast of Miyun East Mountain, while the people at the cliff mouth of Yaoshan called this mountain West Mountain, and the official name of this mountain range is Yanshan.

In other words, if the people at the cliff mouth have nothing to do, they can go into the West Mountain and continue walking westward, and eventually they will walk out from Miyun.

When they heard that the farmers from Yaoshan wanted to inquire about the Red Gauze Pear, the locals were very enthusiastic. Especially when they learned that the scale of the pear trees in Xishan was as large as that near Miyun, they were very excited.

Nowadays, there are not many fruits in the north that can be stored for too long. Red gauze pears can be stored from early winter to May of the following year. There are few fruits in spring, and ordinary people in the north want to eat some fresh fruits, that is, this kind of pears that can be stored for a whole winter without changing their taste. Therefore, red gauze pears have always been in short supply near Yanjing. Every family is accustomed to buying two baskets in the winter and throwing them in the cellar, storing them like cabbage, for the children to eat as a fresh product in spring. The local fruit production in Miyun has always been in short supply, and it can only be guaranteed that there is no stock near Yanjing if you want to sell it to the wealthy Northeast big brother to make some money.

Now just when we were hoping for more production, people from Xishan actually came to us on their own initiative.

Miyun immediately arranged for two leaders of the subordinate communes, and brought several veteran technicians from the agricultural technology station, to take the train back to Xishan with Lao Jiang and his team. The technicians went into the mountains for several days, and after coming out, they held a private meeting and then found the superior of the Yakou Brigade, the Lingguanying Commune.

To put it bluntly, after seeing the growth of fruit trees in the mountains, the people of Miyun felt that there was not much difference, it was just a problem of fruit tree seedlings. They could transport a batch of grafted ones from Miyun for a try. If there are any problems such as pest control, they are willing to provide free support, with one condition: if there are no problems with the produced red gauze pears, they must be supplied to Miyun first and counted as Miyun’s output, which is equivalent to Miyun renting the forest in Xishan to grow pears.

The leaders of Lingguanying Commune did not expect that the pear that even dogs did not eat would have a day to turn things around. They agreed immediately and contacted the county to take the lead and bring together several communes near Xishan to discuss, and finally handed over the forest of Xishan to Miyun.

Unexpectedly, Miyun disagreed. They said they wanted to do it step by step. It was impossible to deal with such a large forest at once. They wanted to start with a pilot project and give it a try. What if the pears grown did not meet the standards?

Finally, considering that it was Lao Jiang who led the team to find a way to make money, the leaders of Lingguanying Commune decided to give it a try and gave the pilot project to the more than 100 acres of fruit forest under the jurisdiction of Yakou Brigade.

After the contract was signed and the written document was drawn up, Miyun began to send technical personnel over, and relying on the Bingyang-Miyun Rural Production and Marketing Cooperative, which was temporarily established through cooperation between the two communes, this department led everyone to maintain the fruit trees.

Because it involves some fertilizers and fruit seedlings supported by Miyun, although Miyun does not charge any money and no real money is involved, it needs to be recorded. Therefore, this cooperative has two accountants who serve as warehouse managers, one in Miyun and the other in Xishan.

Since the pilot project was for the accountant and warehouse manager of his own Yakou Brigade and Xishan Cooperative, Lao Jiang could not and dared not nominate anyone else, so he reported Jin Mancang’s name.

The entire early stage cooperation did not involve any specific money, so Jin Mancang did not have any serious work that required special attention. His main task was to record the receipt of fertilizers, fruit seedlings and other materials provided free of charge by Miyun on behalf of the Lingguanying Commune Cooperative Union. When the two sides settled the accounts, it would be fine as long as they matched, proving that Miyun had indeed provided real money and materials support to Yakou in the early stage.

It is a pilot cooperative union, and Miyun is providing free aid, so it is naturally impossible to pay an additional salary to the staff in the union. Therefore, the staff in the cooperative union all have their original jobs and identities, and are basically part-time. Jin Mancang also has no salary, which is why he has never taken this matter seriously.

But in fact, this kind of cooperative established in the planned economy era in China required the commune to submit a formal report to the higher authorities and go through normal approval procedures before it could be established. In other words, even if it was a temporary cooperative, it was a formal unit under the management of a commune after approval by the higher-level government, except that there was no salary expense for the staff in the cooperative.

As a result, a few days ago, Jin Mancang received a notice from Lingguanying Commune, asking him to report to a place in Yaoshan City before a certain date.

Jin Mancang thought he was being called to a training session or something, so he rode his bicycle with some dry food on his back, and rode from the cliff to Yaoshan. It took him two days on the road, but when he arrived, he was stunned.

The Farmers (Ye) Bank, which was re-established by the state only last year, is busy setting up branches across the country. Now it has finally come to Yaoshan and established a branch where Lao Jin reported.

The purpose of establishing Yaoshan Branch is mainly to develop Yaoshan’s rural production and marketing economy around the four modernizations. Because it has just been restored and established, the head office is short of staff and can only transfer relevant personnel from the branch location to participate in the work. In view of Comrade Jin Mancang’s previous experience as the accountant and warehouse manager of the Lingguanying Commune Production and Marketing Cooperative, he has some understanding of the rural production and marketing economy. Therefore, the organization decided to transfer him to the Rural Commodity Economy Section of Yaoshan Branch to participate in the work, so as to make preliminary preparations for the branch to promote rural credit business as soon as possible.

Lao Jin himself didn’t understand it. Before, when saplings or fertilizers were occasionally delivered from Miyun, he would take an account book and help count the number of fruit saplings and fertilizers in the commune. After the statistics, he was supposed to do what he was supposed to do. How come he suddenly became like the leaders of the commune and could be transferred?
Moreover, he is a farmer, not a worker or a cadre.

He was afraid that people would make a mistake, so he kept explaining to them that his main job was to be an accountant for the Yakou Brigade. What kind of accountant was an accountant for a production cooperative? That was a side job that paid no work points or wages, and he was not a regular cadre.

Their pilot project in Yakou lasted for three years. After planting the first crop of pears, the technicians from Miyun would check the situation. If the fruit grew well, the two sides would formally cooperate and dissolve the temporary cooperative association. The county would be responsible for formally discussing the cooperation method with Miyun. As a result, they told him that the establishment of this temporary cooperative association also had a staffing system. When the report was filed for trial, Lao Jin’s name was written on it, so he was also considered a cadre. Then they described the treatment to Lao Jin. Lao Jin was originally a mountain man who was not good at speaking and had never seen the world. After listening to the introduction, he felt that his legs could not walk.

People told him that after the transfer, the household registration problem would definitely be solved, after all, Lao Jin would work in the city in the future. Then there would be problems such as unit housing, family living, and children’s education, all of which would be arranged.

Lao Jin felt like a big pie in the sky had just fallen on his head. He couldn’t say anything and just kept saying he was happy, thanked the country, and thanked the good policies…

Only a fool would not be happy about such a good thing. The country can still deceive itself with a country bumpkin. What’s the point?
He stayed in Yaoshan for three days, and his approachable colleagues helped him run errands and solve all his problems. They said that Sanpang and Laosi could come at any time and go to primary school in the city at any time, and Ertao could go to junior high school. Most importantly, they also found a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in a newly built building.

Lao Jin went to see it and found that including the small living room, there was plenty of space for his family. He slept on the floor in the living room, his wife and Ertao slept in one bedroom, and Sanpang and Lao Si slept in another bedroom.

He was thinking about going home to tell his wife the good news, but before he could get home, his wife Li Qiaozhi was also picked up by his colleagues. Jin Mancang had just told Li Qiaozhi the good news, and the couple hadn’t been happy enough when a woman named Xiao Su came to their door.

Whenever they met, they would say in a sarcastic tone that they had raised a good daughter, and that the fact that they could live in the city at their old age was all earned by their daughter.

Li Qiaozhi corrected Xiao Su at the time, saying that the other party might have heard it wrong. Her daughter was not that capable. It might be that her brother-in-law asked his connections to get it done for his father-in-law. Her brother-in-law Xie Hushan was capable.

As a result, Xiao Su told them that it was Taozi who broke off the engagement in exchange for their current life, and that the marriage certificate between her daughter Qiao Yanni and Xie Hushan was obtained by Taozi herself.

The couple immediately became anxious, especially Li Qiaozhi. For her, a rural woman, Yakou was too poor and there was nothing valuable. The most valuable thing was a woman’s reputation. Her daughter was going to get married soon, and her reputation could not be ruined by anyone!

So Li Qiaozhi risked everything for her daughter’s reputation. She thought that Xiao Su, who was dressed like a decent person and spoke in a sarcastic tone like a city person, must have never seen a country girl throwing a tantrum. So she pulled her hair and sat on the ground, slapping her legs and crying, calling her a fart and a liar! Her daughter couldn’t do this. Her household registration was in the Xie family. If she couldn’t marry into the family, she would have no place to be buried after she died!

No matter how good the days are, our family doesn’t care. We would rather go back to Yakou and continue to be poor. We also feel that we are not destined to enjoy the blessings of city people!

She thought that as a country woman, her throwing tantrums should be able to scare this seemingly cultured and elegant woman, allowing her to occupy the moral high ground and at the same time attract support from other neighbors in the building.

Who would have thought that after crying and shouting for a long time, no one from the neighbors responded. And I don’t know if Xiao Su herself is a shrew, or if she has seen too many country women throwing tantrums, that she scared Li Qiaozhi with just a few words!
“Go back and try to see if you can still go back. I tell you, it’s easy to transfer here to work, but it’s hard to go back to farming. Your husband will work in the city in the future. If I want to find fault with him, it’s just a matter of a word. If he misremembers a number, the state can send him to jail!”

When Li Qiaozhi heard that her husband was going to be arrested, she was so scared that she dared not cry anymore. But perhaps because Li Qiaozhi’s crying aroused her thoughts, Xiao Su could not stop her resentment and cried and yelled at Jin Mancang and his wife:

“Your beastly brother-in-law beat my daughter like that! You still have the nerve to cry? I had already arranged it. I tried every possible means to find out the news. According to the original arrangement of the province, Xu Xinfu would at least go to another prefecture-level city to serve as the top leader for a few years before retiring. Give him a decent look! That was the in-law I personally chose for my daughter! The daughter-in-law of the prefecture-level city secretary! This is my only daughter who can handle things when things go wrong! I kept her and let her do whatever she wanted. Do you know how much effort I put in to see which way the wind would blow! In the end, your daughter was ruined by her!”

“She’s still a girl, but she has a marriage certificate! And it’s published in the newspaper. Anyone who’s interested can tell at a glance that she’s my daughter! How can she marry into a respectable family in this state? Fuck Xie Hushan and Qiao Zhiyuan’s mother! They had to publish it in the newspaper! How come all those with the surname Qiao are good people, and those with the surname Xiao are sluts! If I wasn’t in the Qiao family, my whole family would have been fucking killed eight hundred times! Everyone still hates me!”

“And you! You are all fucking troublemakers! Do you know how my daughter and your uncle got that marriage certificate? It was your daughter’s evil idea! She got it secretly without telling anyone!”

“Do you think I asked someone to use my connections to transfer you here to enjoy a good life? Dream on! You will run into me every day from now on! I can’t do anything else except swearing. It’s lucky for your family if you commit suicide sooner! I can’t curse you to death! And you’re still throwing tantrums at me! When I was fourteen years old, I was pulling people’s hair and scratching their faces in the propaganda team. You are nothing!”

She scolded him so harshly that Jin Mancang and his wife almost wet their pants. They had no idea what had happened between Xie Hushan and Taozi, but now they had a general idea from Xiao Su’s intermittent crying and cursing.

My famous and shameless son-in-law is causing trouble again…

Xiao Su had been looking for opportunities to bring up a high-ranking official’s son and her daughter, but somehow, the official’s son was beaten up by his brother-in-law, who thought he was a gangster, and then the brother-in-law was kidnapped.

Normally, the matter should have ended here. In the couple’s opinion, Taozi would just have to stay as a widow in the Xie family, as her son-in-law would not be able to come back alive.

As a result, it was not known whether her daughter Taozi had been with Hu Saner for too long or what, she came up with a wicked idea. She asked Xiao Su’s daughter Qiao Yanni to get a marriage certificate with Xie Hushan. As long as Xiao Su’s daughter insisted on standing on Xie Hushan’s side, the son of a high-ranking official would be considered to have molested a woman, and he was a married man. Xie Hushan deserved to beat him up and was in the right. If the other party dared to sentence Xie Hushan unreasonably, the Zhongping Brigade would take the opportunity to make trouble.

Maybe Qiao Yanni was stupid enough to agree to Taozi’s idea. However, she was not satisfied after her son-in-law came out. She beat up the official’s son again. Not only that, but she was also sent out of the city by Xiao Su’s daughter. She went to another city to find her father without telling her mother. Xiao Su’s father and Xie Hushan somehow managed to write a report about Erxiong. After that, when the newspaper was published in Yaoshan, the official was scared and didn’t bother about Xie Hushan anymore. He accepted the organization’s arrangement and took his family back to his hometown in the south to serve as an official and retire.

It seems that if the son-in-law hadn’t interfered, the high-ranking official would have been the top leader, and Xiao Su’s daughter would have been the top leader’s daughter-in-law.

As a result, all the important people in Yaoshan now know that Xiao Su’s daughter is no longer a virgin, but a married woman. It is completely impossible for her to find a good family with high-ranking officials for Qiao Yanni in the future.

Now that the incident has passed, Qiao Yanni’s mother feels sorry for her daughter and starts to settle scores with Taozi and Xie Hushan.

In fact, after listening to Xiao Su’s scolding, Jin Mancang felt that this scolding was not unfair. His daughter had indeed gone too far in this matter, which was equivalent to completely destroying the daughter’s reputation in Yaoshan…

“My daughter will definitely not be able to stay in Yaoshan. She has become a married woman without knowing why. How can she face people? I have been investigating since the Spring Festival. In addition, my second daughter is in Hong Kong Island. I have found out everything about Xie. This guy has a fortune in Hong Kong Island. Half of the money earned from selling calendars in Zhongping belongs to him. Go back and tell your daughter and Xie Hushan to break off the engagement with him. Then let Xie hold a wedding for my daughter with gongs and drums. In the future, his half of the fortune in Hong Kong Island will be given to my daughter. Not only will she live in Hong Kong Island in the future, but Xie Hushan will also have to find a way to take several people in my family out.” Li Qiaozhi wiped her tears and sobbed intermittently. She said to Xie Hushan:
“She said, it’s okay if you don’t agree. You have met Qiao Zhiyuan. He is a cultured man with good manners and dignity. But I, Xiao Su, came from the countryside and I am shameless. If you have the guts, you can be irresponsible and run to Hong Kong Island now. Let’s see how many people I can kill if I am shameless enough to send you off at Xie Hushan.”

(End of this chapter)