Chapter 58 The Town Mayor Has Arrived 2

  Hei Zi sat beside the village chief, perking up his ears like a little kid listening to teachings, but unexpectedly the village chief's attention was focused on the bobber, which was jumping around, looking like there was a fish on the hook.

  Hei Zi held his breath and watched, afraid of disturbing the mayor's elegant mood.

  The fish floated and jumped a few times before sinking down quickly. The town mayor lifted the fishing hook, and a fish of over one catty was caught.

  Town head laughed and took down the fish, and Xiao Fei ran over to say: "Uncle Liu, come on, I'll send it in for Wu Mei, let's have a good drink at noon."

  Hei Zi looked at all this and was a bit puzzled. When did Zhuo Xiao Fei and Liu Zhen Chang become so close? Why didn't he know about it?

  Hei Zi stared foolishly, Zhu Xiao Fei didn't bother explaining and took the fish away.

  Liu Zhenzhang put down his fishing rod and stood up, saying: "Let's go have a cup of tea. I've got something to tell you."

  Under the shade of a tree, on a stone table, two people brought out a tea tray, Hu Changfu carried a thermos, and Da Kui held several kinds of nuts.

  A gentle breeze blows along the edge of the reservoir, with a few water birds flying over the sparkling surface of the water, and from time to time, the sound of wild ducks calling out can be heard from among the aquatic plants.

  Town Mayor Liu picked up his tea cup and took a sip, saying: "Not bad, Anxi Tieguanyin."

  Hei Zi likes drinking Tieguanyin. When he saw Liu Zhenchang, he took a sip and immediately tasted that it was Anxi Tieguanyin. He said with great admiration: "Liu Zhenchang, you also like tea?"

  Town head Liu smiled and said: "I have many hobbies, tea tasting is one of them."

  Hei Zi Duan Zi tea cup, small mouth drinking tea, he always felt strange, himself a mixed child, others are the town head, even if looking for him to have something, it's also sending someone to call him to go, no reason to come in person.

  Liu Zhenzhang put down his tea bowl and said, "Heizi, I came here to fish today because it's Sunday and I wanted to relax. Just now, I overheard Xiaofei mention that the price of ore has gone up recently. The red ore from the dozen or so mines opened by the townspeople is in small quantities and can't be sold directly, so they have to sell it to ore merchants who then resell it. I was thinking that if we go out and find buyers ourselves, the mine owners will be able to make more money."

  Hei Zi laughed and said: "Liu Town Chief, I'm just a mixed kid, I don't have the ability to pull out everyone's mine and sell it."

  Liu Kuangchang smiled mysteriously and said, "Heizi, even if I help you, you gather all the red ore in town, I'll help you contact the train skin, you find a buyer, we'll sell these ores together."

  "Hei Zi thought for a moment and said: 'Director Liu, if I collect all these minerals and sell them, what benefits will you give me? Or should I buy them at a low price and sell them at a high price to make a profit from the difference?'"

  Town Mayor Liu listened and pointed at Hei Zi saying: "You're just thinking of making money, Old Liu and Old Zhao both praised you, looks like they were wrong about you."

  Hei Zi stood up and said: "Liu Town Chief, I Hei Zi am just a hoodlum, no great ideals, just want to make money and live a good life."

  Town Mayor Liu picked up his teacup and took a small sip of tea, saying: "Tell me about your plan, how do you want to make money."

  Hei Zi paced back and forth under the shade of a tree, muttering to himself: "What plans do I have? Let's take it one step at a time. Just now, Yin Le was telling me that someone wants to sell a mine entrance. If I can get my hands on several more entrances, I'll be able to make even more money."

  Town Head Liu burst out laughing and said: "You're thinking too simply, have you ever thought about what if the mine's price drops overnight? What if a mining accident happens? There are many things to consider, have you thought of all of them?"

  Hei Zi thought for a few seconds and shook his head: "No, let's just get on with it. If we're lucky, we'll make some money; if not, I'm out of luck."

  "It's all luck, let's move forward, how far can you go?" Liu Zhenzhang held his teacup and smiled ambiguously at Heizi.

  Liu Zhenzhang's words deeply embedded in Heizi's heart, he sat on the stone bench and stopped talking. After a long silence, Heizi sighed and said: "Liu Zhenzhang, you also know some of my situation. I want to do everything, but I don't have any money."

  Town head Liu looked at Hei Zi's worried face and laughed, a very sunny laugh, as if he was the god of wealth, come to bring money to Hei Zi: "Making money is not easy, haven't you heard that officials and merchants collude? In this town, I'm the official, you're the merchant, we'll definitely make money together."

  There is no such thing as a free lunch, Hei Zi knew that Liu Zhenzhang wouldn't help him without reason, the mixed-race kid who opened the mine wasn't one of his own kind, and other people's abilities were all stronger than his, helping anyone else made more sense than helping himself.

  "Terms, Director Liu, state your terms. How will we split the money after we've made it together?" Hei Zi said frankly, without hiding his thoughts.

  Town head looked up and down at Hei Zi and said: "A sensible person, really a sensible person. Alright, I'll tell you my conditions. I don't want any money from you. If you have difficulties, come find me and I'll do my best to help you. When you make money, donate some regularly. Many places in the town need funding now, administrative allocations are not enough, we urgently need money."

  "Hei Zi looked at Liu Zhen Chang strangely and said: 'Don't you want it personally?'"

  Liu Zhenzhang shook his head and said: "My salary is enough for me to spend, if I come here to fish with you and you also want money from me, probably my salary won't be enough."

  "Heizi listened and burst out laughing: 'You old man can come fishing anytime, I'll pay the money.'"

  "Are you saying I have to pay out of my own pocket for the reservoir I invested in?"

  "Who says I invested in this? This reservoir is contracted by Er Cheng's family, and I'm just here to have fun."

  "Come on, stop teasing me with that. Your little secret has already been exposed to everyone."

  Hei Zi didn't know who had spilled the beans, anyway now it's not possible to ask, whoever it was, as long as he could make money and rise quickly, whatever he did was fine.

  The table was placed under the shade of a tree. Wu Mei brought out the cooked fish and called out, "Uncle Liu, Hei Zi, come try my cooking! How's the fish?"

  Everyone sat around the square table at Wu Mei's invitation, drinking with the town mayor for the first time, looking very awkward.

  To ease the atmosphere, Liu Zhenchang told a few jokes and everyone burst out laughing, only then did the tension dissipate.

  Two cups of wine down, Hei Zi curiously asked: "Liu Town Head, how did you think of cooperating with us?"

  Town Mayor Liu sipped his wine and said, "I heard you're different from the other rascals. Today I'll play along and take a look. Indeed, you're not just any rascal, but a rascal with ideals, morals, and prospects."

  The village head spoke for half a day, but Heizi was still a rascal, and everyone burst out laughing.

  "Hei Zi put down his wine cup and said, 'Liu Town Chief, I understand what you mean now. I won't let you down, but there are some things that you'll have to turn a blind eye to. What I do may not be entirely legitimate.'"

  Director Liu nodded and said: "I understand this, some things are too rigid to be done, as long as you don't do anything that betrays the country or the people, I will support you."

  Liu Zhenzhang suddenly seemed to remember something and asked: "Heizi, how are your two cars running?"

  "It's still okay, these few months have been pretty stable."

  Director Liu nodded and said, "That's good. I heard that the country has been cracking down on the passenger transport market recently. We have car thieves and road bullies here. The criminal police team has intervened in the investigation. Pengfei told me that there seems to be an investigation result already. If it's not you, then that's for the best."

  After a few minutes, Liu Zhenzhang said: "Heizi, the public transportation company in our town is going to be contracted out. No one has been chosen yet. Are you interested?"

  "This news came just in time," Hei Zi said excitedly: "Director Liu, is the public transportation company really going to be contracted out to a private individual?"

  "Actually, the town is discussing how to contract out, if you're interested I can consider helping you with it."

  "Hei Zi hastily nodded and said: 'I'm willing, of course I'm willing.'"