Chapter 43: Collective Housing

I heard that when Ye Xiangdong was working at Shenyang Chemical Industry, the 12-year-old daughter of a branch manager was raped and murdered, and the body was destroyed with sulfuric acid. The police couldn't find the murderer, but Ye Xiangdong took a pencil and led the police to find the murderer.

As for Zhu Wen burning the warehouse, there is really no reason or cause for this.

Because although Feng Mingxun was doing the accounts of the farm warehouse, Ji Huaiguo, the general accountant, knew about it. There were more than a dozen farm managers in the farm, and it was impossible for all of them to follow Feng Mingxun in cooking the accounts, not to mention that Feng Mingxun was not a person who would cook the accounts.

So why did Zhu Wen burn the warehouse?

This is what Su Xiangyu couldn't figure out.

"It was arson, and it was at the warehouse of Chaoyang Farm, and the person you suspect is Zhu Wen." After listening to Su Xiangyu's explanation, Ye Xiangdong adjusted his glasses and said.

Su Xiangyu said honestly: "But I can't find the motive. After all, although Feng Mingxun likes to show off, I am sure he is not greedy."

"The farms don't have fake accounts, but the grain stations don't necessarily have fake accounts."

Ye Xiangdong drew a circle on the paper with a lead wool and said, "That day, the seeds from the grain station must have arrived at your farm. The seeds arrived at the warehouse and then the warehouse caught fire. This proves that what he delivered was not seeds. Anyway, who knows what was burned? Zhu Wen was at the grain station. The account for the seeds was made, but the seeds were actually still in the warehouse. As long as the farm's warehouse was burned down, he would have a large amount of seeds for free."

After losing the pencil, he said, "We have found the motive for the crime. If you want to catch him in red, just wait for him to commit the crime. If you want to catch him earlier, I will help you find evidence, but a kiss is not enough. I want something bigger."

This guy's brain works so fast. Su Xiangyu had been thinking hard about this for a long time, but now he can solve the mystery in an instant?

Su Xiangyu thought that Ye Xiangdong would talk about the wedding night next, but she didn't expect him to throw down the pen and say, "Okay, go to sleep first, I have something very important to do."

"What's the matter?" Su Xiangyu said.

How can there be such a man? What a fool! Women have come to him several times, but he doesn't even have time to hold the bridal chamber.

"I really want to get married with you, and have you call me daddy while we do it on the kang. But you know that Russia has the most advanced radiation protection equipment, which is the chemical protection suit I wear. It is highly radiation-proof and costs thousands of dollars. Tonight, I have agreed with a Russian engineer to use Bart's cordyceps to get a few sets of radiation protection equipment for the engineers at our chemical plant."

As he said this, Ye Xiangdong raised his hand, took out his gun from the kitchen stove and put it on his waist, then took out a homemade gun from the roof, and then took out a stack of money wrapped in newspaper from under the table, put on his tattered felt jacket and hat that even dogs would despise, then waved to Su Xiangyu and left.

As for the so-called family, country and the world, Han Shen once said to Su Xiangyu in a teasing tone: "Do you know why my silly nephew is so silly and wants to donate all his money to the Red Cross and charities? Because he said that in this magnificent land, there is the blood and unyielding ambitions of his brothers and sisters, as well as too many heroic souls who had to sacrifice their lives at a young age for liberation, so he must let all people with ideals and hopes live better for them."

Passionate, clean and pure, like a diamond, this is Ye Xiangdong.

Although Han Shen had not arrived at the farm yet, his toilet had actually arrived there before him.

"This is the flush toilet, but how does the water get up there? We'll have to install a water pipe for it then, right?" Hou Yong was pulling the flush toilet.

Gao Zhanguo studied it for a long time and said, "We don't even have running water in our farm. When the time comes, find a basin and put it aside for him. When he finishes using the toilet, he can use the basin to flush the toilet."

When Mu Tie was a child, he lived in a high-end house. He found a handle on the side of the toilet and fiddled with it: "You should add water in here, then break it, and you can flush it."

In the end, everyone agreed that Han Shen was indeed a senior professor. After all, even his toilet was so advanced that no one knew how to use it.

Since Mu Tie got the new shoes, he has been more willing to run around. When Su Xiangyu went to look at the bricks, he had to follow her to the Gobi Desert. When Su Xiangyu went to the farm to see the newly plowed land, he had to follow her.

And from time to time, I have to confirm: "Godmother, I am your only puppy."

People get annoyed if they ask this question too many times: "If there's another puppy that doesn't have such a broken mouth and doesn't twist its butt when it walks, I'll consider keeping him too."

It's not that Mu Tie didn't want to twist his butt, but his shoes were too new and too comfortable to wear. In order not to dirty his shoes, he had to choose the right place when walking, so he twisted his butt.

The brick house of the chemical plant was built in the early spring. Today, Huang Liang came to ask for bricks again. Under the scorching sun, she was fully armed. She was wearing a hat that only the imperial army would wear before liberation, and holding an umbrella, covering her face tightly. As soon as she got off the tractor, she wanted to compete with Su Xiangyu for beauty, so she deliberately exposed her face, swaying in the Gobi Desert.

As long as she thought they were equally beautiful and had equally fair skin, she was willing to treat Su Xiangyu as her only friend in the border town.

However, when she saw Su Xiangyu wearing gloves, not holding an umbrella or even a hat, supervising everyone making bricks under the scorching sun, she quietly put on her hat again.

Huang Liang would never be friends with a woman who never gets tanned, has fair skin and doesn't take care of herself, and is extremely beautiful.

Truckloads of bricks were taken away, and although even Su Xiangyu was covered in dirt, the educated youth were happy.

Because this is several thousand dollars.

Everyone sat together in a circle around the brick kiln, feeling hot under their butts. Qi Dali, Gao Zhanguo and others caught a few field mice from somewhere and roasted them together with the bricks. The aroma wafted in the air. Although Su Xiangyu didn't eat this stuff, it was nice to see everyone enjoying it.

"We've made so much money from selling them, what are we going to do when the time comes?" Yu Lei said while sucking the leg of a field mouse.

Yu Weiwei rolled her eyes at him and said, "Of course it has to be confiscated. This is a public unit."

"I won't waste my money. I earned more than a thousand yuan for nothing. Why can't I get a penny? The farm should at least give me a ticket for a bowl of mutton soup." Yu Lei said.

All he wanted was a bowl of mutton steamed bun, nothing else.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Su Xiangyu actually said: "Build a house, and a brick house with two bedrooms and a living room. Install a stove, dig a toilet, and connect running water. When someone gets married here, we will give him a house."

What?

Use the money from burning bricks to build houses and then distribute it to the educated youth?

Qi Dali nudged Xu Wenli and said, "Why don't we get married here?"

In fact, Xu Wenli yearned for city life more, but when she thought about the scumbag stepfather who had sexually assaulted her when she was a child, she realized that if she wanted to go back to the city, she would have to put up with that scumbag. She was so shy that she nodded.

[Host, help a couple get married, and reward 20,000 gold coins.] The system hesitated for a while, and then said, [You are right to burn bricks, because burning bricks can speed up the construction of the border town, which is something the system did not expect.]

"So you are a little dog system who knows nothing. What is needed to build a place is people, and what people need most is houses. Hurry up and give me another bottle of sunscreen, my skin is going to be damaged by the sun." Su Xiangyu said with a roll of her eyes.

Xiao Mu Tie picked up some vole meat, but didn't eat it himself. Instead, he stuffed it into Xiaoman's mouth. When he saw that Xiaoman was not eating it, he pointed at Xiaoman's nose and threatened the little girl.

Suddenly he turned around and saw Su Xiangyu's eyes staring at him. He immediately hugged Xiaoman and kissed her, then smiled at Su Xiangyu.

Why is Su Xiangyu so angry at this little scumbag who changes his attitude according to the situation?

But it feels pretty good that the farm will soon become everyone's home.

However, good times are always so short. There are always people who interfere with Su Xiangyu's construction career and make her life difficult.

The thing is, Zhu Bin, after all, was a teacher in the Department of Politics, and now he has suffered a cerebral infarction. He had worked in the school for so many years, and he was good at currying favor with people, so he surrounded the leaders quite well.

Therefore, it was at Zhu Bin's strong request that the school leaders allowed Han Shen to bring Zhu Bin to the border town to find Zhu Xiaojie to settle him down.

Zhu Bin himself did not dare to go directly to Zhu Xiaojie. He was definitely afraid that Zhu Xiaojie would not support him and would scold him instead. So he came to Han Shen.

"Leader, please do me a favor. That branch farm is our counterpart farm. Please call Su Xiangyu and let Su Xiangyu settle me down. Then Xiaojie will have nothing to complain about, right?" Zhu Bin said.

Han Shen actually despises Zhu Bin very much.

Moreover, although he said he came here to conduct research, Han Shen actually had his own things to do.

Of course, that incident has nothing to do with the school, the students, or his current job.

So even though he said he was going to the farm in a big way and even sent a lot of daily necessities over, he actually had to take care of his own business and didn't have much interest in the farm.

"Just say that it was me who called them, and ask Su Xiangyu and Zhu Xiaojie to come to the county party committee guesthouse. I will help you solve this problem." Han Shen said.

He originally studied architectural design, and at this moment he was flipping through a book called "Travels in Ejina" written in 1932 by an Englishman named Edward. Of course, he didn't take this matter seriously.

In his opinion, he would go down to supervise the work immediately, and it could be seen that the young comrade Su Xiangyu would perform well. In Han Shen's mind, this kind of person was like dried plums, cruel and vicious to those below them, but fawning and flattering to those above them. That was because they had no tail. If they had a tail, they would want to wag it for him. How could they not solve Zhu Bin's problem?

However, this matter really surprised Han Shen.

Because Zhu Bin sent someone to pass on a message, he waited for two days in a row, but not only did Zhu Xiaojie not come, but even Su Xiangyu did not come.

So Zhu Bin came to Han Shen again: "Director, put more pressure on her. If Xiao Jie still doesn't come, what should we do?"

Han Shen was really angry. After all, a working group like theirs was always above the local government. So he called Secretary Wang and asked him to call Su Xiangyu and Zhu Xiaojie.

Secretary Wang went to the farm to call people. Zhu Bin had already prepared a lot of words. He was ready to play the family card. First, let Zhu Xiaojie take him with her to serve her, and then slowly, as the father and daughter developed feelings for each other, he would bring his wife, who was confined to a wheelchair, from Beijing.

It's not that Zhu Bin has any feelings for his wife behind him. When he is annoyed, he even wants to push his wife and fall directly into the Taiping Lake on the campus.

However, he was afraid that if he did so, it would affect his son's political status, so he did not dare to do so. He could only bring his second wife to the border town and let Zhu Xiaojie serve her.

Secretary Wang showed up and Su Xiangyu and Zhu Xiaojie showed up as expected.

Moreover, Su Xiangyu is driving a jeep. The little girls with braids who used to run around in the alleys are now about the same height and are all so beautiful. How can the fathers like them not age?

In the single room of the guesthouse, Zhu Bin saw his daughter from afar behind him. Surprisingly, she looked as beautiful as his ex-wife. He couldn't help but feel guilty again.

In fact, for people like him, it doesn't matter who he loves or not. The main reason is that the female student was pregnant with a son, while his ex-wife gave birth to a daughter. Between sons and daughters, he could only choose his son. Otherwise, he would not be so cruel to abandon Zhu Xiaojie.

"Xiao Jie, I've been sorry for you all these years. Come here, we haven't seen each other for a long time. I have a gold necklace for you to wear first." Since they were meeting, of course they had to order something first. He took out a gold necklace from his neck and showed it to Zhu Xiaojie.

Zhu Bin then fumbled in his pocket and took out twenty yuan: "And here's the money. Dad hasn't given you any money in these years, right? Take it quickly."

An intellectual like him is certainly not like a shrew like Mei Gancai, who starts swearing at people as soon as she goes there.

Use a conciliatory strategy, give some money first, then talk about feelings, and then talk about living together, and after living together, bring his wife over, step by step, slowly, won't Zhu Xiaojie be able to support him?

People cannot empathize with others if it is not their own business.

Zhu Xiaojie was so angry that she couldn't speak. She thought about the difficulties her mother had in raising her alone, and the life she had lived under the care of others, spending three days at her uncle's house and two days at her aunt's house after her mother died.

She was so angry and hated Zhu Bin so much, but when she looked at him holding a gold necklace and twenty yuan, she didn't know what to say.

She hated him for leaving home, but what she hated even more was that he felt that a gold chain worth twenty yuan could compensate for her more than ten years.

Angry and furious, but more than that, a feeling of shame for being fooled.

The shame was so unbearable that Zhu Xiaojie, who was relatively slow to react, wanted to jump up and slap Zhu Bin twice.

At this moment, Su Xiangyu suddenly grabbed the golden necklace on Zhu Bin's neck and began to pull it down.

She pulled the other person's gold necklace like a shrew, which was quite scary.

"Xiangyu, what are you doing?" How could Zhu Bin be prepared that Su Xiangyu would snatch his necklace at this time?

After trying to pull it off, Su Xiangyu said calmly, "Once, a man was walking down the street wearing a gold chain. A thug saw him and wanted to snatch it. He couldn't pull it off, so he stabbed him several times. Do you know what the man said to stop him from stabbing him?"

This is totally incomprehensible. Zhu Bin wanted to talk about the father-daughter relationship with Zhu Xiaojie, but Su Xiangyu pulled his golden necklace and started telling a story?

"What are you talking about?" Zhu Xiaojie was actually interested in this story.

Su Xiangyu tugged at the gold chain around Zhu Bin's neck again, and then pretended to be a man and said, "Brother, this chain is made of iron, of course you can't pull it off. If it were real gold, you could pull it off with one hand."

Zhu Xiaojie paused for a long time, then suddenly started laughing: "Zhu Bin, you're trying to coax me with a chain?"

Zhu Bin himself didn't know whether the chain was real or fake, and he couldn't take it off for a long time. He was still busy explaining and trying to put money into Zhu Xiaojie's hand. Because Han Shen, who came to intercede, didn't come, he was busy knocking on the wall and calling Director Han.

But at this moment, Su Xiangyu picked up the two big unity notes and suddenly threw them into the tea cups that Zhu Bin had made for her and Zhu Xiaojie.

"You want Xiaojie to support you for just twenty dollars? You want Xiaojie to support you for just a fake belt?" Su Xiangyu said as she picked up two glasses of water and saw that Zhu Bin was still trying to hide, so she poured one glass over him.

Zhu Bin was furious. "I'm a professor at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. You are talking to my daughter. You, Su Xiangyu, are nothing. My son will ask our department head Han Shen to criticize you. How can an outsider interrupt a conversation between a father and daughter?"

Su Xiangyu threw another glass of water at him and immediately laughed: "You are the kind of person who overthrew all the original professors, burned their calligraphy and paintings, and academic achievements, let the real professors jump into Taiping Lake and die, and then robbed their campuses, slept with female students, raised their sons, and ate the state's food. You are a beast."

"Su Xiangyu you... Director Han!"

"Oh, by the way, I have to tell you that our farm especially welcomes you to come and retire. Do you know how many hours Xiaojie works a day? Do you want to see her brick-burning hands that are so rough that they are almost rotten? I tell you, if you really dare to come to the farm and really want Xiaojie to support you, you can get ten work points a day. If you don't work hard enough, I won't even give you sweet potatoes. Don't call me Professor Han anymore, because even the beast Han will be treated the same way when he comes to my farm." As she spoke, Su Xiangyu poured another cup of tea over.

Very good. At this time, Han Shen, who thought he was superior and could handle anything by himself, walked to the door leisurely.

What awaits him is a baptism of tea with a great unity floating in it.

Professor, beast, it actually sounds like they rhyme.