Rebirth in the 90s: Her Counterattack and Redemption

Chapter 1408: Chapter 832: Choices

The new county top leader had just been transferred here and his seat wasn’t even warm yet, but he already dared to come to Qin Mountain Town to back up the little Mayor—what did that say? Once he figured out the key to the matter, the way Liang Jiahe looked at Luo Feng clearly changed.

"Mayor Luo, your transfer to Qin Mountain Town is a blessing for our more than four thousand people here in Qin Mountain Town. Being able to serve on the same team with you is my honor.

I was muddle‑headed before, always thinking I’m getting on in years and have been in Qin Mountain Town for so many years, so I got a bit full of myself and played the old‑timer card.

Mayor Luo, you’re magnanimous, don’t stoop to my level. I, Old Liang, promise that from now on I will absolutely do my utmost to cooperate with Mayor Luo’s work!"

As he said this, Liang Jiahe lowered his posture extremely, calling himself Old Liang and calling Luo Feng Mayor Luo, basically placing himself in the position of the other party’s subordinate.

Before Luo Feng could answer, Qi Bin pointed at the stool by the door: "Bring that stool over, sit down and have a bite with us."

Happiness came too suddenly; Liang Jiahe was so excited that he snapped off a salute—unfortunately, he used his left hand... Realizing it, he hurriedly switched to his right hand, smiling awkwardly: "I was just... just too excited."

"Good thing you did that in front of us. Otherwise..." Zhu Hongyu shook her head and didn’t go on. As a soldier, she really couldn’t tolerate someone doing such a disgraceful move.

Old Liang’s face flushed red in a rush.

Having worked in the town for so many years, apart from going to the county for meetings or when county leaders came down to inspect and he had to bow and scrape like a grandson, most of the time it was others bowing and scraping to him like grandsons.

At his age, he didn’t harbor any wild dreams of climbing too high; being the number one on his own little patch of turf, he was already satisfied.

So these years, on the surface he showed respect to Jiao Zuoting, but in reality he hadn’t done few little tricks, always thinking of finding a way to push the other man down.

It was just that his calculations had never worked out.

When Luo Feng had just been transferred in, he hadn’t taken it seriously either. Nowadays the state strongly promotes young cadres and calls on college students to go to the grassroots, so having a graduate student like Luo Feng come serve as deputy mayor wasn’t anything surprising.

But after the other took out the greenhouse cooperation plan, he started to feel uneasy.

This thing was good for the people of Qin Mountain Town, he could see that. However, if the plan really succeeded, though he and Jiao Zuoting could bask in some reflected glory, the one who would benefit the most would still be Luo Feng.

What he worried about was that Luo Feng would replace him, while what Jiao Zuoting worried about was that the higher‑ups, thinking of promoting Luo Feng, wouldn’t let him extend his term.

Therefore, when he proposed a joint operation, Jiao Zuoting agreed without a second word. In order to keep their own positions, they would rather let the people of Qin Mountain Town keep living the hard life for a while longer.

As for the greenhouse plan, anyway they had already read the project proposal. If the little Mayor couldn’t take the blow and patted his butt and left, they could just pick this thing up, and by then, the credit...

The original plan had been calculated very well, but unfortunately, Qi Bin’s arrival made all his ideas come to nothing.

He was different from Jiao Zuoting, who had someone to rely on, so once he realized something was off, after carefully weighing things, he immediately swung his gun around.

Qi Bin had reached this position at such a young age; if he said there was no powerful backing behind him, he’d never believe it. Though they say a strong dragon doesn’t crush a local snake, even local snakes come in levels. People like Jiao Zuoting, like him, and even Jiao Zuoting’s backing, would probably all be pinned to the ground with one claw from a strong dragon like Qi Bin.

Only those who know the times can be called wise; of course he was going to be that wise one.

As for why Qi Bin was backing Luo Feng this way, that was easy enough to explain—just look at Qi Bin’s attitude toward Luo Feng’s younger sister and you’d know. The relationship between the two was definitely not ordinary, and then everything fell into place naturally.

He was willing to bow and scrape before Qi Bin, Luo Feng, and Luo Ye, but that didn’t mean he was also willing to bow and scrape before Zhu Hongyu.

Though Zhu Hongyu had flashed her gun license earlier and scared everyone, in the end the military and the government were separate. He didn’t have that same sense of awe toward Zhu Hongyu as he did toward Qi Bin.

Especially with Li Zejun also present. In his view, Li Zejun wasn’t even qualified to carry his shoes; he’d嫌 the man’s fingers too thick for the job, yet now he had lost face right in front of this guy—how was he supposed to keep his dignity?

But, humiliation was humiliation; with Qi Bin here, he didn’t dare vent his anger on Zhu Hongyu. He could only forcibly press down his temper and, picking up the earlier topic, asked: "Mayor Luo, you’re not mad at me anymore, are you?"

Luo Feng looked at him expressionlessly: "Mayor Liang, whether I’m mad or not—I really can’t say right now."