Chapter 69: Want to step on me to show your face? You're dreaming!

Li Long gave Gu Xiaoxia a guarantee, which made Gu Xiaoxia grit her teeth and accept the twenty yuan.

If it weren't for having no other way, she couldn't possibly have begged Li Long to take her to sell fish—once this step was taken, Gu Xiaoxia knew what kind of gossip she would face.

But life had to go on after all. Her father was not good at managing the family and was in poor health. Although it hadn't reached the point of having no surplus grain at home, if they continued to spend more than they earned like this, they really wouldn't be able to live when spring came.

This twenty yuan was not an exaggeration to call it charcoal in the snow.

Returning to the room, Gu Xiaoxia told Gu Bo Yuan the news that Li Long said the school would expand recruitment in the spring.

"Is this news reliable?"

"Li Long said it's reliable. He runs around outside, knows many people, and a leader said it."

"Then... you should start reviewing from now on, and pick up those original lessons. If they really recruit people, there will definitely be an exam." Gu Bo Yuan thought for a moment and said:

"This is a great thing, but you'd better not tell others..."

"Why? I also wanted to tell Shufen about this, she also graduated from junior high school..."

"What do you think will happen if you tell Wu Shufen about this?"

"What will happen?" Gu Xiaoxia hadn't realized the viciousness of human nature, her eyes were a bit blank, "I will ask her to keep it secret."

"She will keep it secret? She will definitely tell her mother, then the whole team will know, then how many competitors will you have when you take the exam?"

Gu Bo Yuan said this, and Gu Xiaoxia was scared into a cold sweat after realizing it!

"Li Long can tell you this, just wanting you to pass the exam by then." Gu Bo Yuan tapped the table lightly with his fingers, "Then you just review well. If you really take the exam, strive to be selected, that will be worthy of his painstaking efforts. As for the rest, don't think too much."

This isn't us being stingy, this is about your lifelong matter—once you pass, you will eat commercial grain in the future, and if you let the news out, it's very likely that someone will find connections. By then, if you don't pass, do you plan to farm for a lifetime?

Gu Xiaoxia nodded slowly: "I know." She now understood how much of a favor she owed Li Long, this was truly about a lifelong matter!

After Li Long gave the money, he turned and left the Gu family. On the way back, he ran into several people.

Xu Haijun, Gu Ermao, Tian Siping, Wu Shufen, and two other girls in the team, Liu Tianfeng and Wei Yuanfang.

Seeing Li Long, Xu Haijun was a bit surprised and said with a smile:

"Little Long, we just came out of your house—"

"Went to my house?" Li Long smiled, "I went to find Xiaoxia's dad to write couplets."

"Yeah, heard you hunted a wolf in the mountains, we wanted to go over and see the wolf skin or something." Xu Haijun said, "You weren't there, your brother let us see it, that wolf... did you really kill it?"

"Yeah." Li Long nodded, "Do you think hunting wolves is very dangerous? I don't know about others, but I'm not. Just ambush there, wait for the wolf to come, aim and fire."

"No wonder." Gu Ermao's tone carried disdain, "I just said, it definitely isn't difficult, otherwise could you, Li Long, hit it?"

Li Long was a bit surprised, how did Gu Ermao appear again?

He heard Li Jianguo say that because the news of reporting Li Long spread, Gu Ermao didn't have the face to stay in the team for the past two days, and his father, Gu Laoda, sent him to his uncle's house.

"Erwa didn't mean that," Xu Haijun wanted to scold as soon as he heard Gu Ermao's voice. Does this guy not have a brain? He hurriedly smoothed things over:

"He just came back from his uncle's house today—Erwa is now learning to drive as an apprentice with a truck driver in his uncle's team..."

Li Long thought to himself, no wonder, so he had confidence.

But you want to step on me to show your face in front of a few girls, you're dreaming. He sneered and said:

"Erwa, this tone is not small! But don't blame me for speaking unpleasantly, even if you ambushed like me and waited for the wolf to come, you wouldn't dare to shoot! Maybe when you see the wolf coming, you'll be scared into wetting your pants! Don't believe it? Hehe, then hit a wolf first before talking big!"

Gu Ermao was originally quite proud, after all, he was now a truck driver apprentice and had the opportunity to become a truck driver. In this day and age, workers, drivers, and sales clerks were all very popular and enviable professions.

So he dared to come out today, and once he said this, sure enough, the eyes of others looking at him changed, and the original contemptuous eyes turned into envy.

So he had the courage to come over with others to see Li Long's wolf. After all, even if Li Long made more money, he was just doing small business. Doing this in this day and age was shameful.

Didn't you see Wu Shufen, Liu Tianfeng, and the others looking at him differently?

Originally thought Li Long would look at his opportunity with envy, but he didn't expect him not only not to look at his opportunity but also to say he didn't have the courage, revealing his scar!

"You..." Gu Ermao was about to get angry on the spot, Xu Haijun hurriedly stopped him:

"Erwa, what are you doing? Everyone is in the same team, just joking, right Little Long?"

"Yeah, if he thinks this is a joke, then it's a joke. If he thinks this is not a joke, then hit a wolf first before talking. Being an apprentice doesn't count for anything, some people have been apprentices for three years following a truck master," Li Long said with a half-smile, "But this character and courage, you can't say it with your mouth, you have to prove it with strength!"

After speaking, he glanced at Gu Ermao sideways, without hiding the contempt in his eyes, and then said to Xu Haijun:

"You guys be busy, I have things to do early tomorrow, so I won't chat, leaving."

After speaking, he strode toward home.

Now he felt that chatting and farting with these people at night, visiting east and west families, was a waste of life. With this time, it's better to think more about how to improve life and live his own life better.

Just like that Wei Yuanfang, her family situation was similar to Gu Xiaoxia's, but she didn't think about how to improve her life like Gu Xiaoxia, but hung out with Xu Haijun and the others all day. He didn't feel it before and felt it was quite lively, but now it seems it's really a bit of a waste of time and wasting time.

At least Gu Xiaoxia knew how to make progress and knew how to find ways to improve her family's life, what about them?

Returning home, Li Long showed the couplets to Li Jianguo and then put them in the idle room. Sticking couplets had to wait until New Year's Eve, it was still early.

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Before dawn the next day, Li Long ate breakfast, went to the horse station to harness the carriage, returned to the Li family to load the fish, and Tao Daqiang also rushed over. The two of them drove the carriage, first to the county, bought buns as usual, and planned to eat while going to Shicheng.

As a result, when buying buns, someone in the shop pulled Li Long and asked:

"Little comrade, was it you who sold fish at our door last time?"

Li Long looked, it really was the person who let them not sell fish at the door last time, so he asked with a smile:

"Hello, may I ask what's the matter?"

"Can you get some more fish?" The person pulled Li Long to the side and whispered, "The New Year is coming soon, our canteen wants to add some dishes, but it's not easy to handle without fish. In addition, we also want to buy some fish to distribute as benefits to employees..."

"Yes." Li Long smiled and said, "How much do you want?"

"I've inquired, the fish you sell are all over two kilograms, I want ten."

"Alright, two yuan each, how about I bring them to you in a while? Is any fish okay?"

"You have them now? That's great, five carp, the rest mixed with grass carp, silver carp, etc. is fine."

This time they brought more than forty large fish over two kilograms, and about twenty kilograms of palm-sized crucian carp. Li Long carried the buns out to Tao Daqiang to eat, took a urea bag, loaded ten fish, and walked into the meat canteen again.

The person was waiting, and seeing Li Long bring the fish, a smile appeared on his face.

After counting the fish, the person took out two large group photos (ten-yuan bills) and handed them to Li Long:

"Little comrade, this fish is not bad, I'll find you again when I need it in the future."

"Alright, we will also come in summer, by then they will be alive."

"That's great!"

Leaving the meat canteen, the two of them headed toward Shicheng in a good mood.

Thanks to book friend Lanshanzhiyun for the reward, thanks to book friend 20230531110743499 for the reward, thanks to everyone for the monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and various suggestions and opinions. Yesterday's data was not very good, maybe because it was Thursday. New recommendation news will come out today, I don't know if ours is in it. Looking forward to it...

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