Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The next day, Zhang Xiuhua was awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, villagers get up early, greet each other, put up Spring Festival couplets, and eat dumplings.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't want to get up early, so she stayed in bed for a long time before getting up with difficulty.

When she got up, all the children except Jilin were awake.

Jidong and Ergou cooked two dishes in the kitchen and served the dumplings they made yesterday for breakfast.

"Where's your dad?" Zhang Xiuhua asked Yaoyao. She went back to bed last night before watching the Spring Festival Gala. Li Jianguo should be back.

"He didn't come back last night. He must have spent the New Year with the workers in the factory." Yaoyao also wanted to go to the garment factory to take a look. "Mom, we are too bored at home. We want to go to the county to have a look."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't quite understand. "All the shops are closed for the New Year. What's the point of shopping?"

Baolin immediately responded from the sidelines, "Let's go to the brewery and take a look."

"That's a brewery, and you don't drink, so there's nothing to see there. Although your father is the director of the factory, it's not owned by our family, so we still have to be careful about the impact. If you're bored, why don't you go fishing or play with snow rings by the river?" Zhang Xiuhua suggested.

Baolin and Yaoyao had no choice but to go fishing on the ice together.

Not long after they left, Li Jianguo came back. The first person to notice was Aunt Wang, who shouted from outside, "Xiuhua? Xiuhua? Come out and take a look."

Zhang Xiuhua was startled. Aunt Wang's shouting was not like before, but a noisy one. She came out to take a look, gasped, and hurried over to ask what was wrong with Li Jianguo's face.

"Did you have a fight with someone?" Zhang Xiuhua saw two scars on his face and several cuts on his down jacket, with the down flying out.

Li Jianguo waved his hand, "I'm fine!"

Zhang Xiuhua brought the people into the house, and Aunt Wang also followed in to see what was going on. "What's going on? Is there someone causing trouble at the brewery?"

No way, aren't most of the employees hired from the village? !

Zhang Xiuhua was also very anxious, and Li Jianguo then explained the whole story.

It turned out that he went to deliver beer to the sugar factory last night.

This year, the sugar factory got a new owner, who developed fruit candies, soft candies and wedding candies. They sold out as soon as they were on the market, and even people from the provincial capital came to their factory to place orders.

The sugar factory works in three shifts. In order to motivate the employees, the factory director ordered more than a thousand bottles of beer from the brewery as New Year gifts for the employees.

Of course, there is not only beer, but also pastries and other things.

After all, he was the landlord, so Li Jianguo was very considerate and personally drove a hand tractor to deliver the beer. As soon as the beer was unloaded from the truck, a group of people rushed into the factory and smashed it!

Li Jianguo couldn't figure out the situation and thought that the owner of the sugar factory owed a debt, but when the boss was called over, he found that was not the case at all.

This group of people are gangsters from the provincial capital. They used to specialize in contracting government demolition projects, buying low and selling high, and then they became bigger and bigger. They began to get involved in factory business.

They relied on the support of others to rob private factories with good business. After all, there were only a few private factories in the provincial capital, and he was not satisfied, so he began to spread to other cities. This year, he came to their county.

The sugar factory is the private factory with the best business.

The leader of the gang was called Li Hongguang, who was fierce and loud in fighting, and brought a group of younger brothers with him. He directly threatened the owner of the sugar factory to give up the factory.

Please note that it is "let", not buy, and it is not even installed.

Naturally the owner of the sugar factory refused. This was a factory in which he had invested a huge amount of money and his entire fortune was bet on it. During the Chinese New Year, he did not even go home, relying on the sugar factory to turn around.

These people wanted to rob openly by relying on their loud voices, but the factory manager certainly did not agree.

So these people started to make trouble in the factory, and the factory director asked the workers to call the police.

Li Jianguo was forced to join the fight because he had brought the beer here and the sugar factory owner hadn't paid him yet. If the beer was destroyed by them, who would he ask for money from?

In fact, his fighting ability is quite good. He can fight with Li Hongguang for more than ten rounds. But they did not fight alone. Li Hongguang waved his hand and more than a dozen people surrounded Li Jianguo.

Li Jianguo regretted it at this time and begged for mercy, saying that he was not from this factory and was just there to deliver the goods.

After confirmation from the sugar factory owner, Li Hongguang smashed all the beer on Li Jianguo's walk-behind tractor and then released him.

Because the injury was too serious, Li Jianguo went to the hospital for re-bandaging and then returned to the brewery.

He was afraid that those people would also come to rob the brewery, so he called the workers together to discuss countermeasures.

The brewery was not owned by Li Jianguo alone; the workers in Lijiatun also had a share in it. They certainly did not want the factory to be taken away by others.

Just wait for these people to come with your weapons and fight them.

But after waiting all night, they found that the group of people did not come at all. It turned out that Li Jianguo's brewery only started production at the end of the year, and it did not make any money. The group of people did not take the brewery seriously at all.

When it was daybreak, Li Jianguo went to the sugar factory to get information, but he learned that no one from the police station came yesterday, and those people left after smashing and looting. The factory director went back to his residence and was beaten again on the way. The factory director didn't see the face clearly, but he knew it was the group of people who did it.

Li Jianguo allowed Zhang Xiuhua to apply medicine to him, and did not forget to talk about the subsequent developments of the sugar factory owner. "The sugar factory owner was beaten badly, there is not a single piece of healthy flesh on his body. Now he can hardly speak clearly."

Zhang Xiuhua never expected that not long after the crackdown, a gang of criminals would make a comeback, and this gang was very powerful, with the support of the provincial capital. The officials in their county did not dare to intervene!

Aunt Wang slapped her knees when she heard this. "Too arrogant! These people are too arrogant!"

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo could not think of a better solution.

Seeing that the two were silent, Aunt Wang asked tentatively, "Will the sugar factory boss give in?"

"This time it was just a warning, they just gave me a beating, I guess we won't be so lucky next time." Zhang Xiuhua said coldly, "These people have lives on their hands."

Aunt Wang didn't care whether the sugar factory would be transferred or not. She was worried about the brewery. "What should we do if they come to take over the brewery?"

That group of people were so arrogant, but there were only a dozen workers in the brewery, and they worked in three shifts, so no one worked at the same time. At most, only six or seven people worked.

Faced with those thugs who dare to kill people, these honest men in the village are probably no match!

Li Jianguo couldn't find a good solution either. He didn't know anyone.

Aunt Wang Er had been thinking of a solution. Seeing that the two were silent, she asked tentatively, "We can ask the owner of the sugar factory to report the case to the central government!"

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "This isn't ancient times. There's no need to beat the drum to file a complaint. Now, cases cannot be handled by higher authorities. They will be sent back to the original place of residence for processing."

Just when the three of them were frowning, thinking that the brewery might have to cut costs, Ergou and Jidong came back.

The two also went fishing and were lucky enough to catch four fish. Although they were not big, they were already very satisfied.

The fish was already dead, so the two men put the fish into a basin and planned to stew the fish in an iron pot at noon.

Jidong was worried that the fish would freeze, so he brought the basin into the house and looked directly at the faces of the three people. Li Jianguo's face was especially scary.

Ergou was startled, "Father, what's wrong with your face?"

Jidong also put down the basin and walked over in two or three steps. "Uncle, what's going on? Is there an accident?"

My uncle has always been a steady person. He has a good relationship with the villagers and can get along well with people from outside!

Zhang Xiuhua recounted exactly what happened last night.

Jidong and Ergou looked at each other, both of them were in disbelief.

Jidong is a researcher and he doesn’t know any higher-level officials. Ergou, on the other hand, has been in business for many years and knows quite a few leaders.

But if someone is higher in rank than the provincial leader, then he must be at the vice-state level, and he really doesn't know anyone like him.

However, he felt that this matter was quite serious. “I will go find someone when I get back to see if I can find someone to introduce me to someone in the central government.”

Aunt Wang can only place her hopes on Ergou.

If Ergou can't do it either, she tried, "Why don't we just give up? Will the loss be smaller?"

Li Jianguo was not willing to give up. "It's not even a month after opening, and it's too unlucky to quit. The equipment has been shipped all the way here, and then shipped to the south. It costs a lot of money to go back and forth. It's not worth it."

Aunt Wang also sighed, "Our village is too far from the county. Otherwise, if all our people went up to fight them, we would definitely be able to defeat them."

Zhang Xiuhua was not optimistic because the villagers of Lijiatun were all honest people who would never fight. If they really fought, one of them would be able to defeat three of them!

"Our factory has just opened, so they may not be interested. Give us some time to think of a solution." Li Jianguo comforted them and looked at Ergou, "Try to find a solution. If there is really no other solution, I will close the factory. When they catch us, we will reopen the factory."

Ergou nodded, agreeing to his arrangement.

Because of this incident, the family did not spend the New Year happily. It was not until Li Fengjiao came back from the south that the family began to change.