Chapter 2421 Guilty Conscience

Classmate Le returned to his own territory from the hospital and did not ask Brother Chao how the conversation went. Mao was immersed in drawing paper in the east courtyard.

Chao Sanjun returned to Chao Er’s house in the afternoon of New Year’s Day. The family held a family meeting. Everyone offered suggestions and finalized a written report.

In the evening, Mrs. Chao San called her parents again. She first consulted her old father’s opinion and got some air. If such a big thing was not known to her old father until he saw the report, , the old father couldn't bear to scold his grandson, and he must give his daughter and son-in-law a lesson.

On the morning of the 2nd, Master Chao took his son and went to report to the head of the relevant department.

The leaders of various departments had mentioned Mr. Li’s phone instructions in the morning and arranged the meeting time. After arriving, the Chao family and his son were invited to the conference room to meet with the leaders not long after they arrived.

Several big guys gathered in the conference room and listened to the report of the Chao family and his son, or to be precise, Chao Yubo, the young man of the Chao family, on a certain project.

Chao Jiamei majored in economics, and also studied law and business administration. He was also proficient in accounting, material analysis and budgeting.

He made a rough assessment, taking into account all aspects of the project, and then the project was put on the agenda and it has been planned in an orderly manner.

With Mr. Li’s instructions, the leaders of several departments paid special attention to it. They listened to the report of the Chao family and his son and asked several questions.

The bosses did not give immediate instructions and left a written report from the Chao family and his son.

Mr. Chao Sanye took his son to his father-in-law’s residence again, and had dinner at his father-in-law’s house at noon. Because he had to go to work in the afternoon, he went back to work first, while the beautiful boy stayed at his grandmother’s house.

Mr. Li returned to his residence after get off work in the evening to meet his only grandson. The two of them, who rarely had the opportunity to be alone together, naturally became close to each other for a while.

After dinner, Mr. Li took his grandson to the study to talk. He focused on the little guy’s project and revealed only one piece of information: “Xiaobo, there is no suspense about the project raised by your sister. You have to go through the process and wait four or five months for the official approval."

"Understood." The beautiful young man understood immediately. Grandpa did not say it clearly, but it meant to tell him that he had enough time to prepare in advance, and they could First, privately arrange for the acquisition of the Huang family's old homestead, so as not to leak out the news later, and the Huang family will raise the price or deliberately make things difficult for them when it comes to demolition.

Externally, only after the project is approved can the location be put on the agenda. The location of the project can be selected through public bidding. Provinces and cities that are willing to provide sites can participate in the bidding. If there is no open bidding method, The main investor chooses the location.

No matter which way, the site selection processIt also takes three or two months. Therefore, overall, it takes at least half a year from the time of project declaration to the settlement of the address.

For insiders like them, there is enough time to acquire a large number of the Huang family's old homesteads in a private name and solve some troubles in advance for future demolition work.

Li Laohuai was delighted that his grandson was smart. They chatted for a long time and had a great time.

The beautiful young man had a heavy responsibility and stayed at his grandpa’s house for one night. The next morning he went to play with Fa Xiaodabo, and specially made an appointment with Dabo’s mother, Ms. Luo Zhuxiang, to have dinner at Li’s house and come Had a private meeting.

Mr. Dabo Li, who was born in the same year, month and day as Fa Xiao, couldn’t help but be stunned when he received the news from Fa Xiao.

Ms. Luo Zhuxiang’s eyes were shining, full of fighting spirit.

The beautiful young man had a meal at Li’s house, and then he slowly met He Xiaoshi for tea in private. He didn’t return to his second uncle’s house until the evening, and had a hearty chat with his second uncle in the evening, 4 Haocai left Beijing and returned to Shishi to work.

The boy from the Chao family returned belatedly from Beijing. Several main leaders of Shi City immediately invited Comrade Xiao Chao to talk and inquire about the projects that the young man had worked hard for in Beijing.

Comrade Xiaochao called the first and second leaders of Shishi City and his immediate superior on the 2nd, saying that there was a large technical project waiting for approval, and he wanted to fight for Shishi City and had to postpone it. I just returned to Province E in a few days.

Several leaders also knew that it was a major project with tens of billions of funds. If it was successfully implemented and the research and development of the project produced results, it would be possible to attract the attention of the world to the market, thus promoting the market. To develop into a technological city.

If Shishi wins the project and works together to help the project take root, no matter whether he can wait until the day it comes to fruition, he will be able to add a lot of glory to his political achievements.

The beautiful young man met with the leaders and gave them some reassurance, saying that he had won priority for Shishi. As for whether he could win the prize in Shishi in the end, it would depend on a few people from Shishi and Province E. Relevant departments are not doing enough.

Naturally, he would not disclose the content of the project for the time being. He only revealed that if the project is launched and takes off, the main investor of the project will require him to choose the site himself.

Leaders also understand that the location of a project determines success or failure. If the address selected by the investor cannot meet the market conditions, then it will be at stake.

Site selection is a later matter. Now that Comrade Xiaochao has won the priority, they can still make some preparations in advance, such as pre-planning some alternative locations for investors to refer to.

Leaders also added the selection of alternative sites to their work plan, secretly formulating site selection and on-site inspection plans.

After Mr. Chao had a night talk with his nephew Bingzhu, he also made arrangements, and then made an appointment with Jay Chou and Ms. Luo Zhuxiang for tea, and the three happily negotiated a cooperation.

He Xiaoshi and Fa Xiaochao rarely met. He went home and had a secret talk with Grandpa San. Grandpa He San called the juniors in charge of the family's finances to come back and give them some advice.

Director He naturally understood the importance of a certain project, allocated special funds, arranged professionals, and formulated an acquisition plan.

2024 has just entered the beginning of the year. Chao Erye, Director Zhou, Ms. Luo Zhuxiang and Director He are already ready to show off their talents. The people arranged by each of them flew into the market one after another. Without leaving a trace, he began to acquire the Huang family's old homestead.

After the New Year’s Day holiday, office workers and schoolchildren are busy again, businessmen are already preparing for the Chinese New Year, and rural farmers are content with winter.

Ms. Li’s brothers knew that the Le family’s little flying man left before dawn on New Year’s Day morning. Naturally, it was impossible to have dinner together this time, which was quite a pity.

Several elderly members of the Li family will stay in Meicun for the New Year. The brothers of the Li family will leave for their hometown on January 3rd. When their parents return home after the New Year, they can just go to the station to pick them up. There is no need to come to Province E to pick you up again.

Others were busy with interesting things after the holidays. Li Xiaoyan’s family had a cold New Year’s Day. On the 2nd, the Li family and their neighbors went to Grandma Li’s house and agreed on the funeral arrangements.

Granny Li didn’t want to hold a banquet, so naturally she didn’t organize funeral wine, but the workers still had to entertain. She killed the pig that Granny Li had raised for the New Year and purchased more. some items.

On the same day, everyone packed up Granny Li’s coffin and waited for Li Xiaoyan and Granny Li to bathe Mrs. Meng before moving her body into the coffin.

Granny Li was extremely reluctant to bathe a dead person, and Li Xiaoyan was also afraid. Even if the person who died was her own mother, she would still be afraid and not dare to approach.

The grandfather and grandson wanted women from the same family to help Meng Meng bathe and purify themselves. The women from the same clan in the Li family were not used to the grandfather and grandson. They firmly refused and only said what they wanted to do. , never get involved.

The women of the same clan with the surname Li refused to help Mrs. Meng bathe, and the neighbors, needless to say, had to take her granddaughter to help Mrs. Meng wipe her body and wear a shroud according to funeral rules.

She actually didn’t want to wipe Mrs. Meng’s body, and thought she could just put a shroud on her and move her into the coffin. But the Li family members and neighbors were all staring at her, and her granddaughter was also there, so she had to obey. Follow the rules.

Granny Li calculated quite clearly that if Meng’s wife died, her granddaughter would definitely go to a big city after finishing college, and it would be impossible for her granddaughter to take her there in the first few years after she started working.

Youdao is that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.Before the girl was taken away to enjoy her blessings, she had to rely on her fellow tribesmen and neighbors in the village to take care of her in the small village. In order not to be said to be ungrateful, she did not show it even if she was unwilling to bathe the dead.

Men of the same clan surnamed Li and their neighbors helped move Mrs. Meng into the coffin and placed it in the main room after her mother-in-law, Li Xiaoyan, changed the shroud for Mrs. Meng.

It was not appropriate to dig a grave that day. The Li family members and their neighbors had a meal at Granny Li’s house and then went back. They went to dig a grave on the 3rd. On the 4th, Sister Meng’s funeral was held.

Even though Mrs. Meng had worked for the Li family all her life, even if she died, Granny Li did not allow her to be buried in a grand ceremony. She did not hold a banquet, and did not even invite a funeral band. Several people carried the coffin out to the mountain for burial.

However, even if there was no band to see her off, Li Xiaoyan, as the only filial son, had to do everything she was expected to do. Her neighbor, who was of the same clan as Li, did not stay with Granny Li at her home. I wonder if Li Xiaoyan stayed up all night. , during the funeral, she should not be spoiled, let her mother's memorial tablet stand in front of her, kneel down in front of the coffin three steps at a time, and lead the coffin up the mountain.

After New Year’s Day, the temperature has been very low and the snow has not melted.

It was very hard for the mourners to hold a funeral in the snow. The men in the small village were quite responsible and carried the coffin up the mountain intact.

Li Xiaoyan knelt all the way to the burial place. She couldn't sit up and just watched the coffin containing her mother go into the pit bit by bit and then be covered with soil.

The people of the Li family and their neighbors filled up the pit, piled a grave, and then went down the mountain.

Li Xiaoyan followed the people down the mountain and listened to those people talking about how the Lejia girl returned to her hometown to be buried during the Qingming Festival. The Lejia girl arranged the funeral for her aunt, so that the Lejia aunt was buried in a grand manner.

As beautiful as Aunt Le’s family was, her mother’s funeral was as desolate as it was.

Li Xiaoyan, who was walking behind, said nothing and went to bed when she got home. When she woke up at night, she and her grandma were the only ones at home, and she felt a huge panic that she had become a motherless child. came to mind again.

Originally, she wanted to rush back to school the next day to prepare for the midterm exam, but she was unable to return to school the next day because she suddenly fell ill.

Mother-in-law Li got up early to make breakfast for her granddaughter because her granddaughter was going to school. After it was done, she didn’t see her granddaughter get up yet. She went to her granddaughter’s room to call her, only to find that her granddaughter had a fever and was so confused. Just talk nonsense.

The mother of the child was buried just yesterday, and her granddaughter fell ill immediately. Grandma Li was suspicious and always felt something was strange.

The snow had not yet melted, so she could not take her granddaughter to the rural hospital for treatment. She took cold medicine, but it didn't work, so she could only go to the Li family for advice.

　People with the same surname in the Li family suggested that Granny Li call the hospital to come and give Li Xiaoyan an injection. On such a snowy day, they did not dare to drive Granny Li to take Li Xiaoyan to the hospital. When they ask them to provide for themselves in old age, who do they go to for explanation?

Or, if Li Xiaoyan falls and scratches her face, it will be their fault. Or, if Li Xiaoyan catches wind and becomes more ill, Granny Li will blame them. Wouldn't they? The white gang takes the blame.

The precedent of Meng’s sister-in-law is there. Grandma Li’s family is not a conscientious person. Even Meng’s sister-in-law worked hard for the Li family’s ancestors and grandchildren for half her life and did not end well. With the temperaments of Grandma Li and Li Xiaoyan, , it is completely possible to take the opportunity to blackmail them.

The so-called bystanders know that the people in the small village have long seen how Granny Li treats Mrs. Meng, and do not trust Granny Li and Li Xiaoyan at all. In the eyes of the villagers, the Li family's ancestors and grandchildren are ungrateful and unkind. The selfish ghost.

Granny Li didn’t care about her granddaughter at all, and she didn’t care about money. She called the rural hospital and asked a doctor to come to see her.

People from the rural hospital came to check on her and gave her a bottle of water. They left after Li Xiaoyan's fever subsided.

But after leaving the hospital, Li Xiaoyan had a fever again at night, talking nonsense, and always called "Mom."

Granny Li stayed with her granddaughter all night, and the next day she called the doctor from the township hospital. She took some things and quietly asked fellow Li family members to find a master or a goddess to summon Li Xiaoyan’s soul.

Members of the Li family had no choice but to help out, and then conveyed the words of the Goddess to Granny Li. The Goddess said that the child’s mother could not bear to leave the child, and after a while the child’s mother left. Enough.

There is a custom in rural areas that says that when a person just dies, his soul will linger at home and will not leave home until six or seven forty-two days to settle down in his new home in the "grave".

Therefore, within the forty-two days after the death of a loved one, the family must offer food to the deceased.

Granny Li heard that Mrs. Meng was reluctant to let go of the child. She was frightened to death. She no longer dared to neglect her. She made food in the morning and evening to worship Mrs. Meng. She only asked Mrs. Meng to see that Li Xiaoyan was her own flesh and blood. For your sake, don't pester the child.

The doctor gave Li Xiaoyan an injection, and it was still the same as the day before. Li Xiaoyan’s fever went away during the day, but continued to have a fever at night.

Grandma Li had something in her mind, so she didn’t ask the doctor to give her an injection the next day. She gave her granddaughter some antipyretic medicine, and the fever subsided again, but the fever returned in the middle of the night.

Now, Grandma Li believed even more that Meng’s sister-in-law was the one responsible. She was afraid that Meng’s sister-in-law would be resentful because she was not cared for attentively during the last period of her life, and she would take revenge on her mother-in-law by burning paper and doing things. Offer food.

Li XiaoYan's fever came and went again and again, and it wasn't until Mrs. Meng passed the first seven days that she finally stabilized.

The fever was gone, but in just a few days, Li Xiaoyan looked like she had been ill for several months or more. She was even weaker than a person who had just recovered from a serious illness, and her whole body was full of energy. It's like it's been drained.

She looked so sick that naturally she couldn't go to school to take the exam and could only recuperate at home.