Chapter 791: Chapter 537: Blooming Malan Flowers 21
Wealth and rank unshared back ho, like brocade robes unseen by night.
Yu Zhen has finally returned ho with her newborn chubby son, and naturally, she wants to visit the old neighbors of the shipping company.
Xiao Yu at Changhang Bureau holds a special status; he can use the car from the Yanjiang Police Station whenever he wants. First, he drove Yu Zhen and her baby to the shipping company to honor their roots, then took them and visited retired Vice Chairman Li from Political Consultative Conference, Instructor Li Weiguo from the forr frontier Yanjiang Police Station, and forr Military Departnt Minister Lei of the Four Factory to greet them for the New Year.
In the eyes of the old leaders and neighbors at the shipping company, Yu Zhen alongside Lin Xiaohui and Liu Xiaoi are the "Golden Phoenixes" that flew out from the shipping company. Over casual tea and als, they spoked highly of these three, calling them the "Three Golden Flowers" of the shipping company!
As for Han Yu, he was only good at his studies as a child.
Having good grades does not an having a promising future, certainly not as lucrative as the "Three Golden Flowers."
In comparison, Han Yu’s wife, a girl from the Port Supervision Bureau, is quite capable; she beca the head of the Linghai Port Supervision Office. The shipping company’s fleet and individual ship owners affiliated with the company can request her assistance for any issues encountered on the river.
Overall, the forr sixth placer of the county’s middle school exam has beco a thing of the past, and Han Yu is no longer the pride of the shipping company; it’s fair to say he’s sowhat insignificant there now.
However, Han Yu seldom returns to the shipping company, and his presence or lack thereof isn’t significant.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, everyone dined at Li Weiguo’s ho.
Old Li and his wife had been preparing for this al since yesterday afternoon and were still busy in the kitchen.
Han Xiangning saw Old Li’s granddaughter and children from a few relatives jumping elastic band, Han Han stood aside admiringly, and feeling a rush of childhood nostalgia, joined in.
"Jumping first for elastic, Marigold blooms at twenty-one, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-one! Thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty-one..."
She got better with each jump, with little Han Han clapping to cheer her mother.
Yu Zhen also wanted to join, but having just given birth and needing to look after her child, she could only stand aside and happily watch.
Han Yu and Xiao Yu were in the hall, keeping Old Zhang and Old Ding company playing cards.
The four heard the noise outside and couldn’t help but peek.
Seeing Han Xiangning sweating through her jumps, even taking off her coat to keep going, Xiao Yu joked, "Salted Fish, don’t all girls have a talent for jumping elastic? It seems like all the girls in the country can do it."
"Does Hanwu’s girl also jump elastic?"
"She does too, even doing the ’Marigold blooms at twenty-one’."
Han Yu was surprised at how widespread the ga was, and looking back once more, he chuckled, "Ningning is really into it, not afraid of sore hips tomorrow."
"Young people, it’s fine," Old Ding chuckled and urged, "Co on, play your hand."
"Alright, a pair of twos."
Old Zhang played a pair to beat it and curiously asked, "Salted Fish, didn’t your parents co back for the New Year?"
"The ship is in Hui’an waiting to load cargo, it’s not cost-effective to bring the ship back, and anchoring a ship built with millions and leaving it there to co ho isn’t reassuring, so they just stayed on the ship for the New Year. My brother and Xiao Jun ca back. They took a long-distance bus and are planning to return tomorrow morning."
"It’s tough to run a ship, can’t even properly enjoy the New Year."
"My parents are used to it; it’s normal for shipn to spend the New Year on their ships. This year, hundreds of ships spent New Year in Linghai."
Xiao Yu raised his head and ntioned, "My in-laws didn’t co back either; they also spent it on the ship."
Old Zhang took a small sip of tea while sorting his cards, and followed up asking, "Salted Fish, your in-laws, will they return to Si Gang this year?"
Han Yu smiled, "My father-in-law returned to his hotown on the 26th last month, brought grandmother here, and she is spending the New Year in the city district. After mid-first lunar month, we’ll take grandma back, so we don’t need to return to Si Gang this year."
As they were casually chatting, Li Weiguo brought in so cold dishes and asked with a smile, "Chief Ding, I heard your shipyard is being sold?"
"It’s not about to be sold, it’s already sold."
"To whom?"
"Sold to the Developnt Zone Managent Committee. The discussions began on the afternoon of the 26th last month, and the agreent was reached on the 28th, they plan to pay Boss Wu and Boss Wang on the sixth when the banks open. Such a big deal, seed almost playing—they discussed it and just sold it like that, I still can’t quite believe it."
Old Zhang was shocked and looked up, "Why would Boss Wu and Boss Wang sell the shipyard to the Developnt Zone?"
"They ran out of money to invest and didn’t want to partner with others. Without investing money, attracting investnt, they couldn’t set up heavy equipnt, and without heavy equipnt, they can’t construct large ships. They thought about using the shipyard as a dock but had to wait for Linghai Port to be fully operational. They didn’t want to wait and just decided to sell."
"How much did they invest?"
"Over seven million."
"And sold for how much?"
"Nine hundred thirty-six thousand."
"Made a profit of over two million?"
"Adding the repairs to that Singaporean cargo ship, each of them earned nearly two million this year."
Xiao Yu, unaware of these details, couldn’t help but ask, "Uncle Ding, with Boss Wu selling the shipyard, won’t you be out of a job?"
This kid really can’t change his true nature, he always brings up the most awkward topics.
While Li Weiguo was worried about Old Ding feeling embarrassed, Old Ding chuckled, "I won’t be unemployed for the ti being. The Developnt Zone bought the shipyard and couldn’t just leave it unattended. I’m the most familiar with the shipyard, and even the workers there were recruited by . The Developnt Zone’s Bureau of Finance and State-owned Assets Office, now called the Linghai Developnt Zone Investnt Managent Company, asked
to continue contributing by taking a director role at the shipyard."
It was Han Yu who first suggested that Boss Wu and Boss Wang should cash out, and he also communicated it privately with Tang Wentai, but even Han Yu didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.
He was montarily puzzled and asked, "Uncle Ding, didn’t Cosco Shipyard have an eye on the shipyard earlier? Why didn’t Boss Wu and Boss Wang sell it to Cosco?"
"Cosco did want to buy, but the Developnt Zone wouldn’t allow it."
"Mayor Shen won’t allow it to be sold!"
"The reason is simple, Cosco has already decided to invest in the developnt zone to build a factory. A state-owned large enterprise is not a small privately-owned business; such a major decision cannot be casually reversed. The at is already rotting in the pot; they won’t run away."
Old Ding looked around at everyone, thought for a mont, and then said with a laugh: "To quote Mayor Shen and Secretary Chen, the shipyard is a premium asset of the developnt zone. The Managent Committee has repurchased the shipyard, and it will be of great use next."
Xiao Yu didn’t understand these matters and couldn’t help but ask, "What great use?"
"Attracting investnt, using the shipyard this premium asset to bring in another large shipbuilding enterprise. Later on, the developnt zone can beco a shareholder with the shipyard, or sell the shipyard to them. If they sell the shipyard then, the developnt zone can make a fortune."
"The leaders of the developnt zone really know how to do business, even better than my Yu Zhen!"
"That’s why they can be leaders."
Han Yu didn’t expect Mayor Shen to play it like this, he asked in a low voice, "Cosco urgently needs the shipyard, but it’s not being sold to them; won’t the head of Cosco Shipyard be unhappy?"
Old Ding smiled and said, "If you can think of it, how could Mayor Shen and Secretary Chen not think of it? Because of this, Mayor Shen and Secretary Chen visited Cosco several tis under the pretext of visiting during the New Year, but actually to give them a heads up. Moreover, it’s not that they won’t lease the shipyard to Cosco for shipbuilding."
The leaders of the developnt zone don’t look like leaders at all, more like business directors or general managers.
The cadres of the developnt zone, especially those from the Investnt Promotion Bureau, do not look like typical officials either, more like those insurance salespeople.
They are all thinking about how to attract investnt, how to sell land, how to maximize the benefits of the industrial land in the developnt zone.
Old Li felt that the world had changed a bit too much for him and chuckled as he thought about it, then asked, "Old Zhang, how is your deputy director job going?"
"What deputy director? I’m almost like the general manager now."
"Almost like the general manager?"
"Huang Jiangsheng doesn’t co back often, Zhang Erxiao is also planning to go to East Sea, even Principal Gao and Xiao Gao went with him to East Sea for the New Year. They are a couple both registered in East Sea, now trying to find a job for Master Xiao Gao in East Sea; if they find one, they’re not planning to co back."
"The rice mill is handed over to you?"
"So, I’m almost like the general manager now."
Old Zhang is more and more energized with his work, and thinking about it, he chuckled and said: "But the rice mill isn’t like the shipyard, not so much trouble. Just collect the grain, process it, pack it, and find big trucks to transport it to East Sea. There aren’t many workers, including my Old Chen, less than thirty."
East Sea is the largest city in China.
Who would want to stay in Linghai if they could live in East Sea.
Moreover, Zhang Erxiao is wealthy, has a house in East Sea, and with an East Sea household registration, it’s normal for him to plan to move there with his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and fiancée.
Old Li was considering that Salted Fish, unlike Zhang Erxiao, didn’t have as much capability, yet also bought a condo in East Sea and owed so much to the bank. It would be years and years before he could truly beco an East Sea person; just then, the sound of a motorcycle engine ca from outside, and turning his head, it turned out to be Xu Mingyuan, Zhang Lan, and Little Yuanyuan had arrived.
Zhang Lan saw Han Xiangning playing jump rope, and straight after getting out of the car, she asked Han Xiangning to be the "post" and started jumping rope with Little Yuanyuan.
Watching her clumsy behavior, Yu Zhen laughed until she was out of breath.
Xu Mingyuan greeted the elders and teasingly said to the little one in Yu Zhen’s arms, "Junjun, are you called Junjun or Little Crocodile?"
Yu Zhen was indeed upset, remonstrating, "Brother Xu, how can you ss around like Xiao Yu! Call him Junjun, don’t call him any Little Crocodile, it sounds awful!"
The naming of the child, Li Weiguo had heard about it early from Sister Wei, and he ca over and said laughing, "Little nas can be like Crocodile, when we were children, elders would especially give us little nas like ’Kitty’ or ’Puppy’."
"Uncle Li, tis are different. When you were children, there wasn’t much food, and dical conditions were poor, giving those little nas was because they were worried the children wouldn’t be easy to raise."
"That’s true."
Li Weiguo laughed, looked at the little one and pondered: "Hanwu’s Little Crocodile swims to Binjiang, it becos a Little Yangtze Crocodile, Yangtze crocodile... Liang Zi’e, actually Liang Zi’e isn’t a bad na." (This is a creative suggestion from a book friend nad ’Na, why so complicated’)
Xiao Yu, who always felt his son’s na should have so elent of ’fish’, imdiately threw down his cards and walked out excitedly, saying, "Uncle Li is really talented, Yu Zhen, Liang Zi’e sounds better than Liang Crocodile, how about we na him Liang Zi’e!"
"No way!"
"This is a na Uncle Li suggested, if you think the word ’crocodile’ doesn’t sound good, you can change the crocodile’s ’e’ to the one used in Beihu’s abbreviation."
Changing it to the Beihu abbreviation, Liang Zie, sounds good.
Yu Zhen thought about it, but still shook her head, "The character ’Liang’ already has many strokes, the character ’e’ has even more, can the child manage to write his na in the future?"
"The Han Yu from Salted Fish also has many strokes in his na, Salted Fish also had to write his na when he was a child."
"What does your son’s naming have to do with !" Han Yu looked up and jokingly cursed.
"It’s just a comparison."
This was a critical mont, Xiao Yu felt this was the opportunity to change his son’s na against the odds, if missed it would be a lifelong regret; full of anticipation, he said: "Yu Zhen, Liang Zi’e, such a good na, think again. What’s so good about the na Liang Jun, Salted Fish’s brother-in-law is called Liang Xiaojun, there must be countless Liang Jun across China, no uniqueness, no aning, too common."
Yu Zhen unconsciously looked towards Xiang Ning.
Xiang Ning covered her mouth and laughed, "Liang Zi’e does sound a bit better than Liang Jun."
"Sister Zhang Lan, what do you think?"
"I think it’s good, especially since it’s a na Uncle Li gave!"
"Well, since you all say it’s good, then let’s call him Liang Zi’e."
Finally, his son got a na with ’fish’, and moreover, the fish he had always desired, the crocodile!
Xiao Yu was overjoyed, embraced the little one and laughed happily, "Zi’e, crocodile, did you hear that, you have a new na, we will call you Liang Zi’e from now on!"
Faced with such an unreliable situation, Yu Zhen was completely speechless and just walked over to jump rope as well.
Little girls and big girls joyfully singing the nationwide popular nursery rhy at Old Li’s doorstep: "Little rubber ball, kick from the fra, the marigold blooms on the twenty-first, twenty-five six, twenty-five seven, twenty-eight twenty-nine thirty-one..."
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