sbdcsierra Chapter 1114: Prodigal Woman
Chapter 1114: Prodigal Woman
Chapter 1114: Prodigal Woman
When Li Ruhai slapped the table, Su Jinbao wanted to teach this boy a lesson.
Even though Su Jinbao doesn't care about practical matters now, that's because he will retire after the Chinese New Year. Besides, he is old and has less energy, so he is unwilling to take care of things.
You know, Su Jinbao is still the nominal head of logistics. Moreover, he is an old man in the forest farm, and Zhou Chunming always calls him "Brother Su" when he sees him.
In the past five years, no one in Yongan Forest Farm dared to slam the table in front of Su Jinbao.
But before Su Jinbao could get angry, he heard Li Ruhai's next words.
Hearing this, Su Jinbao hurriedly pulled Li Ruhai, then stretched his neck to look at the door, and then said to Li Ruhai: "Don't talk nonsense, don't you want to stay in the village?"
"I'm not talking nonsense!" Li Ruhai said, "Uncle Su, I went to his house yesterday afternoon and brought him a roe deer. Then I told him that I wanted to apply to be the director of the Women's Affairs Office, and he agreed."
Whenever Su Jinbao heard Li Ruhai shouting about electing a women's director, he felt overwhelmed. He frowned and looked at Li Ruhai, and asked, "What does Zhao Guofeng need from you?"
"Ah?" Li Ruhai was stunned and asked blankly: "Uncle Su, do you mean that my gift was too light?"
"What the hell?" Su Jinbao pulled Li Ruhai to sit down in a bad mood and said patiently, "What I mean is, he is the village chief after all. If he wants roe deer, there are plenty of people who can give it to him."
Li Ruhai squinted his eyes and said, "Uncle Su, what you said means that my gift was not enough."
"Tsk! You kid!" Su Jinbao said, "I know Zhao Guofeng, he's not that guy. You're still accepting gifts but not doing anything? Just wait, he didn't register you, and he won't take the roe deer from you. He will definitely find a chance to return it to you in the future. If he doesn't give you the roe deer, he will make it up to you somewhere else."
Su Jinbao was nearly sixty years old, and Li Ruhai was one year younger than his eldest grandson. Su Jinbao treated Li Ruhai like a child, and he was afraid that this child would offend others without any reason.
"But he didn't do anything for me!" Li Ruhai said unsatisfiedly: "My political ideals and ambitions..."
"What are your ambitions?" Su Jinbao interrupted Li Ruhai and asked, "Your political ideal is to become the director of the Women's Affairs Department?"
At this point, Su Jinbao patiently explained to Li Ruhai: "You are only fifteen after the Chinese New Year. You should work hard in our place. When you have the opportunity, you can change your position and leave the mail room. You can work in dispatching or statistics. After that, you can work your way up. How great is that?"
"Uncle Su, isn't that something for the future?" Li Ruhai said, "Isn't it okay for me to be the director of the Women's Affairs Office for a term?"
"Can you do it?" Su Jinbao pulled the registration form helplessly, pointed at the four names behind the director of Yong'an Women's Affairs, and said, "I only know Wang Meilan among them, who are the other three from?"
"This is Uncle Qi's wife." Li Ruhai pointed at Wu Dongxia's name and introduced her to Su Jinbao: "She is Master Qi from our workshop."
"Ah..." If Su Jinbao met Aunt Qi, he would recognize who the old woman belonged to, but if he mentioned Wu Dongxia, Su Jinbao would have to shake his head.
"This is my Aunt Sun." Li Ruhai pointed at Sun Yongrong's name and said, "Her husband is Zhou Dagui from our forest farm security team."
"Ah, I get it." Su Jinbao stopped Li Ruhai from introducing the other party and said, "There are only four people. Who can you choose?"
"Why can't I be selected?" Li Ruhai pointed at the name on the list. When he found that he was pointing at Wang Meilan's name, Li Ruhai quickly moved his finger back and then crossed out the three names behind it. Then he said to Su Jinbao: "These three are all mine!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Su Jinbao looked at Li Ruhai in surprise.
"They all follow me!" Li Ruhai said, "If I want to go to the village, they will all unite around me."
What Li Ruhai said was true. Usually, all the old women and young wives in Yong'an Village gathered around him.
Among them, Wu Dongxia, Sun Yongrong, Song Guizhen and Song Qiuyue, the second daughter-in-law of the Liu family, can be regarded as the four golden flowers accompanying Li Ruhai.
Normally, when Li Ruhai was gossiping, they were the only ones who could interrupt. People like Zheng Guangjun's wife Su Xiurong could only listen to the fun, sigh, or laugh along.
Unlike men, men only care about superficial relationships and will not jump out to challenge Zhao Guofeng unless they are in opposition. But women are different. For example, Wu Dongxia and Sun Yongrong usually don't get along. Now that Li Ruhai is gone, they fight on their own and win over people around them to compete for the position of Women's Director.
Only Song Qiuyue was younger than the others, so she did not participate and just stood behind Wu Dongxia and cheered.
After hearing what Li Ruhai said, Su Jinbao looked at him deeply. Seeing that Li Ruhai didn't seem to be joking, he asked in surprise, "Why are you so popular?"
"Ah!" Li Ruhai raised his neck and said, "For the women's election, I can get a hundred or eighty votes without any problem."
Su Jinbao smiled when he heard this, pointed his finger at Wang Meilan's name, and asked Li Ruhai, "Can you compete with her?"
Li Ruhai glanced at the three characters Wang Meilan, pursed his lips and said, "Why not?"
Su Jinbao smiled, then he took his hand back and said to Li Ruhai, "Do you know why Zhao Guofeng didn't sign you up?"
"He also accepted the gift but didn't do anything!" Li Ruhai raised his chin and said angrily, "I'll go on stage and talk about him in a few days at the party!"
"Hey!" Su Jinbao was startled and quickly stopped him, "I'm telling you, don't show off!"
"Hmph!" Li Ruhai snorted and said, "The red flag is rolling up the serfs' halberds, and the black hand is holding high the overlord's whip. For the sake of sacrifice, there are many ambitions, and we dare to change the sun and the moon into a new sky!"
Su Jinbao: “…”
In fact, Li Ruhai said this just out of anger. In his heart, he had already accepted his fate.
But Su Jinbao was scared. This kid was neither sharp nor fierce. He even dared to pick on his own brother on stage. What if he picked on Zhao Guofeng again? Wouldn't that offend people to death?
So, the misunderstanding occurred.
"If you want to sign up, I'll sign you up." Su Jinbao grabbed the registration form with one hand and the pen with the other, and said to Li Ruhai, "You can't say anything after this!"
"Hmm?" Li Ruhai had not expected such a sudden turn of events. He looked at Su Jinbao with surprise and asked, "Uncle Su, will it work if you fill it in for me?"
"Nonsense!" Su Jinbao rolled his eyes at Li Ruhai and said, "What do we do? If we are not useful, how can he report the list to us?"
As they were talking, Su Jinbao had already written Li Ruhai's name after Song Guizhen. Then, Su Jinbao handed the list to Li Ruhai and said, "On the day when your village elects cadres, our union must go there. When we get there, our union will preside over the election, read out the candidate list, and then count and verify the votes."
"That's great!" Li Ruhai happily returned the registration form to Su Jinbao and said, "Uncle Su, can you come to our village that day?"
"Sure!" Su Jinbao agreed happily. He said, "My little granddaughter heard that your family and Old Zhao's family were doing something about wintersweet flowers. She has been making a fuss at home for several days and she insisted on going over to take a look."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai asked in surprise, "Has this matter spread to your village?"
"Isn't that what you spread?" Su Jinbao glanced at Li Ruhai, then turned around and asked Li Ruhai curiously, "They say that Wang Meilan is living a more prosperous life than when her father was alive?"
"Yeah!" This news was also spread by Li Ruhai. He pursed his lips, nodded heavily with a smile on his face, and then said, "They have bought a big color TV. How could her father have a big color TV before that?"
Su Jinbao: “…”
"Oh!" Su Jinbao sighed and muttered as he put away the list, "Your sister-in-law Limin was talking to your brother Limin yesterday, saying that she wanted to make a gold brocade."
"Then just fight one." Li Ruhai said while standing, not feeling any pain in his waist.
"What are you fighting for?" Su Jinbao said, "We don't have any land. We support six people with our salary. Your brother Limin's son is one year older than you. He will have to get married in two years. Now..."
At this point, Su Jinbao thought of Wang Meilan again, but he did not complain, only said: "The bride price for marrying a daughter-in-law in our forest area has increased."
"Not so good!" Li Ruhai said, "Now it's six hundred or eight hundred."
"Is there anyone who wants one thousand?" Su Jinbao added.
……
"The Xu family wants a thousand dollars for the betrothal gift." Accountant Tan Chaoyang of Yong'an Village threw his hands up to the sky and cursed, "Fuck her! I'll just tell her no when I hear that!"
"Oh my god, is it like this?" Zhao Guofeng, who came to the village headquarters to avoid washing dishes, talked to Tan Chaoyang about his son's marriage, but he didn't expect to hear such news.
Tan Chaoyang's son is 20 years old this year and is thinking about finding a wife. But because Liu Tiezui was injured in Li's house and couldn't get off the bed, he asked others to introduce him to a wife.
Finally, last Friday, someone introduced his son to the daughter of the old Xu family in Yongfutun, who is Xu Baoshan’s younger brother Xu Baocheng.
The introducer was Xu Baocheng's brother-in-law's wife, and the woman asked for a thousand yuan as a dowry.
At the time, it seemed that there was still room for negotiation. But the asking price was only one thousand, so how much could we bargain for?
"Oh my!" Tan Chaoyang sighed, took the cigarette from Zhao Guofeng, and said to him, "Brother Zhao, don't you have any other candidates for the position of Women's Director? How about letting my sister-in-law take the position?"
"Then you are kidding me, aren't you?" Zhao Guofeng said with a smile, "I am the director of public security, and your sister-in-law is the director of women's affairs?"
"That's right..." After hearing what Zhao Guofeng said, Tan Chaoyang looked at the registration form on the table with some disappointment and said, "These three women can't compete with Wang Meilan!"
At this point, Tan Chaoyang turned to Zhao Guofeng and said, "Brother Zhao, my wife has been talking to me about this for several days."
"What is your wife talking about?" Zhao Guofeng asked, "Your nephew is short of money for the bride price. Tell me and I will arrange it for you."
"Brother Zhao, it's not that." Hearing Zhao Guofeng say this, Tan Chaoyang felt warm in his heart, but then he thought of what happened at home in the past two days, and said unhappily: "My wife kept asking me to make her a pair of gold earrings."
Zhao Guofeng's mouth twitched. His wife was still talking about it this morning. But the difference between her and Tan Chaoyang's wife was that his wife wanted a gold bracelet.
"Brother Zhao!" Tan Chaoyang took a deep puff of cigarette, frowned and exhaled the smoke, saying, "I have no grudge against the Zhao family, but if you let Wang Meilan come up, all the old women in our village will follow her example, and then it will be over, won't it?"
After saying this, Tan Chaoyang added: "One is more wasteful than the other!"
"Oh my God!" Zhao Guofeng was stunned and felt a little regretful. If he had known this would happen, he would have reported Li Ruhai's name.
At this time, Wang Meilan didn't know that she had unknowingly become the top celebrity in the village.
Today, she was the only one left at home. Wang Meilan closed the door, drew the curtains, put on a gold necklace, gold earrings, gold bracelet, and gold hairpins, and then began to count money.
The little lynx in the west room was lying on the edge of the kang, and the little black bear poked his head out of the pine box. The lynx and the bear pricked up their ears, listening to the "hehe" sounds coming from the opposite room from time to time.
Another person who is also in high spirits today is Zhao Baotou.
With ten people, eight dogs, and eight guns following him, leading such a large hunting gang up the mountain, Zhao Youcai's mood was as bright and clear as the sky today!
A group of people arrived at the mountain where Chen Dalai and others were blocked yesterday. Looking at the mountain full of frozen wild boars, Chen Dalai, Zheng Guangjun and Zheng Guangcai were almost in tears.
The famine was too late to pay back the money. Although Li Ruhai said he was not in a hurry to pay back the money, the money borrowed from him was interest-bearing. One day late, one day's interest.
As Zhao Jun whistled, the hunting dogs surrounding the wild boar's carcass returned to his side one after another.
"Brother Chen," Zhao Jun said to Chen Dalai, "If we can finish the job early today, we can take these pigs back. We can't keep the meat on the pigs, but the thighs and other parts are fine. We can take whatever we can."
The wild boar's stomach was stinking and its meat was inedible. When it was stewed in a big pot, the whole house stunk and it was impossible to eat it.
Actually, if you want to sell it, you can. Pull the stinky meat with cold water, freeze it outside, and pour cold water on it again and again after it is frozen, which can temporarily seal the stinky smell.
But Chen Dalai was a local, and when he went to the market to sell his meat, the people who bought his meat all lived in nearby villages. When they got home and ate the meat, it turned out to be rancid, and Chen Dalai's reputation also became rancid.
"Oh!" Chen Dalai sighed and continued on his journey with Zhao Youcai and the others.
Yesterday he saw clearly from the tree that all the cannon eggs had gone down the west slope.
The group led the dog down the west slope and walked west along the wild boar's hoof prints, and came to a pagoda meadow.
Tatoudianzi is a wetland located between two mountains, with many Tatoudun growing in it.
The piers of these towers can reach up to one meter in height, while the lowest ones are several dozen centimeters.
A few days ago, there was a heavy snowfall in Yong'an Forest Area, which buried many tower piers. If you rush through it, whether you are a person or a dog, you may get hurt if your legs hit the tower piers.
"Old jerk!" Zhao Youcai called Huang Gui and pointed at the opposite mountain and said, "You scared those pigs last night, and they won't rest until they run to that mountain."
"Yes!" Huang Gui nodded and said to Zhao Youcai, "Then let's go there?"
"Let's go back!" Zhao Youcai gestured, "Let's go back down the mountain and take a car over there. It's much faster than walking in the field!"
"I'll listen to you!" Huang Gui is not a local. Although he has been here to hunt, he is not as familiar with the terrain as Zhao Youcai.
So, everyone turned back. When they passed by the place where Chen Dalai was hunting wild boars, the eleven people did not go down the mountain empty-handed, and they all used ropes to drag the wild boars down.
But they only dragged the four big boars down the mountain once, and then everyone worked together to lift the wild boars onto the back of the car.
When carrying the wild boar, Zhao Youcai did not do anything. He called Huang Gui aside, handed Huang Gui a cigarette, and said, "Come here and stay for a while. After that, I will take you to the mountains to play for two days."
"Do I need you to lead it?" Huang Gui glanced at Zhao Youcai, but quickly took Shi Linyan and said, "Just go to work!"
“You…” Zhao Youcai said angrily, “Come with me up the mountain for two days and you’ll know.”
"What do you know?" Huang Gui asked, and Zhao Youcai replied: "It all depends on whether your spear skills are good or not!"
"Good shit?" Huang Gui sneered when he heard this, and said with disdain: "The good shit was eaten by the dog!"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Hearing this, Black Tiger, who was peeing on a tree nearby, lowered his legs and yelled at Huang Gui: "Ah! Ah!"
(End of this chapter)