Chapter 86

Early the next morning, Li Long and Tao Daqiang drove the horse-drawn cart, pulling a cart of fish and mutton offal to the county to sell, while in the team, Li Jianguo went to Xu Chengjun's house, wanting to let Xu Chengjun notify everyone about this matter.

Going door-to-door to tell them wasn't impossible, but it was a bit troublesome; some people couldn't save face and wanted to buy, but might not have enough money.

If it was shouted on the big loudspeaker, they would know for themselves whether they could buy it or not.

Xu Chengjun was much more polite to Li Jianguo, saying with a smile:

"Old Brother Li, does this matter require you to come personally? Wouldn't it be enough to let Qiangqiang or Juan come and say a word?"

"That won't do." Li Jianguo waved his hand, "How can children talk about serious business." He took the tea handed over by Ma Hongmei, took a sip, and said:

"It's also Little Long adding to the chaos, doing so many things every day..."

The words were words of complaint, but the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.

"How is that adding to the chaos." Ma Hongmei said with envy on the side:

"If my younger brother could be half as capable as Little Long, I could wake up laughing in my dreams."

"That's different, he's just messing around." Li Jianguo said, "Chengjun, do you think you can notify everyone now?"

"Fine, is it that your family has mutton offal, cleaned, five yuan a set, and if they want it, they go to your house to get it, right?"

"Right, right, right." Li Jianguo nodded.

"That's good, I'll plug in the loudspeaker first." Xu Chengjun operated the equipment, quickly got it done, turned on the switch, and first shouted twice at the microphone tied with red cloth:

"Hey, hey, Hongmei, you go out and listen if there's sound."

Ma Hongmei hurriedly opened the door and went out, and here Xu Chengjun shouted "Hey" again, and she hurriedly shouted:

"It's there!"

"Hey, notify everyone, Li Jianguo's family now has more than twenty sets of mutton offal, cleaned, five yuan a set, if you want it, go to the Li family to buy it. Hey, hey! I'll notify again..."

Notifying three times in a row, Li Jianguo listened very satisfied, stood up and said:

"Then Chengjun, you go ahead and get busy, I'm going back."

"Good, by the way, Old Brother Li, leave me a set of offal."

"Sure, come over and get it when you have time."

After Li Jianguo left, Ma Hongmei asked with some confusion:

"Why are you so polite to him?"

"He is a veteran who helped build the team, can I not be polite?" Xu Chengjun glared at his wife, "Don't look at Li Jianguo's age, in the eyes of those old people, he is a leader. If he had wanted to be the team leader back then, he would have been, but he didn't want to."

"Then I'll go get the offal in a while, can his family be a bit cheaper?"

"Cheaper what?" Xu Chengjun glared at her again, "How much it should be, that's how much it is! In the past two days, Li Long hasn't brought less things to the family, we can't just take advantage!"

"Fine, fine, fine, I know!" Ma Hongmei complained, "It's just not taking advantage of people!"

"Women! Long hair and short knowledge!" Xu Chengjun watched his wife go out, lit a cigarette, and thought about the policies on the radio.

It's going to change!

Ma Hongmei went out to the Li family to pick offal and happened to run into Wu Shufen's mother, Wang Yuzhen.

"Sister-in-law Yuzhen, are you also going to buy mutton offal?" Ma Hongmei asked curiously.

"Yes, go pick the good ones first. Let me tell you, Hongmei, if you know how to pick, pick those with a lot of fat, then take the fat off, put it in a pot and render it, and after rendering, put it in the idle room, it can be eaten for a whole summer! When stir-frying vegetables, put a little in, it's very fragrant!"

"Oh, oh, oh, I understand." Ma Hongmei nodded repeatedly and asked again: "Where is your Shufen?"

"Went to the Gu family to play with Xiaoxia." Wang Yuzhen's expression didn't look good when she heard Ma Hongmei mention her daughter. She had just heard the notification on the loudspeaker and immediately thought of going to the Li family. She wanted to take Wu Shufen; after all, Li Long had pursued her daughter, and although they broke up, maybe looking at the previous relationship, he could make it one yuan cheaper.

As a result, Wu Shufen refused to go no matter what, which made Wang Yuzhen furious. Saving one yuan is one yuan, even exchanging it for two jin of sugar would be fine. This dead girl!

Wu Shufen came to Gu Xiaoxia's house, and she still felt uncomfortable when knocking on the door.

Needless to say, that offal must have been brought back by Li Long.

This Li Long, why are you so capable?

Gu Xiaoxia asked in the house:

"Who is it?"

"Me." Wu Shufen responded.

She heard a commotion inside, and then the sound of the door opening.

"What are you doing?" Wu Shufen asked with some curiosity, "I heard the commotion was quite loud."

"Nothing... nothing." Gu Xiaoxia didn't want to lie to Wu Shufen, but Li Long and her father's words made her clear that some things really couldn't be shared. Even with a best friend—although there wasn't the word "best friend" at this time.

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Wu Shufen followed Gu Xiaoxia into her room. Before entering the room, she caught a glimpse of the basin of mutton offal in the middle of the room, and her heart skipped a beat.

However, Wu Shufen didn't ask. Entering Gu Xiaoxia's room, she saw the closed language textbook on the table at a glance, and she said with a smile:

"What, you're still reading? What year is this, what's the use of reading this?"

"Maybe... it will be useful later?" Gu Xiaoxia said hesitantly.

"What use can it have? Take the college entrance exam? Become a cadre? Become a worker?" Wu Shufen sneered, "We are destined to stay in the countryside for a lifetime, don't think about eating commodity grain."

"I'm not reconciled." Gu Xiaoxia put the book away and said, "Maybe there's a chance to take the exam and get out? The college entrance exam has been restored..."

"Then you can take it, I can't, the things I learned have all been returned to the teacher and the school."

Wu Shufen went to junior high school and was already considered an intellectual in the team. But compared to Gu Xiaoxia, who went to high school, she was still far behind. And after graduating from junior high school, she never picked up a textbook again, and most of her knowledge had long been forgotten.

"Anyway, there's nothing to do in winter, why don't you try?" Gu Xiaoxia ultimately didn't want her best friend to sink like this, and persuaded, "Maybe it will be useful later."

"My books were all taken by my mother to paste linings," Wu Shufen didn't pay any attention to Gu Xiaoxia's persuasion, shook her head and said, "She just wants me to marry someone promising now, a worker, a driver, a salesperson, anything is fine, and I'm thinking too..."

"No matter how well you marry, it's not as strong as being able to walk out on your own." Gu Xiaoxia persuaded earnestly, "Relying on others is never as strong as relying on yourself."

"Hehe." Wu Shufen sneered, "Relying on yourself? Aren't you still relying on others? Is that mutton offal in the basin outside sent by Li Long? Why did he send you these things?"

"Because... my dad helped his brother." Gu Xiaoxia stuttered a bit when saying this; in fact, even she knew that this reason couldn't stand.

Because he had helped, Li Long sent things over time and time again; if he wanted to repay, it would have been paid off long ago.

Then what else is there on her side that he cares about?

"Hehe." Wu Shufen stood up, "Li Long is not simple, you should think carefully about why he came. I advise you not to get too close to him. Tao Dayong was caught, Gu Ermao... was also caught, he might be the next one!"

After speaking, Wu Shufen turned and left the Gu family.

She was very angry, very depressed, and also very helpless.

What's the use? Having already given up, can you chase it back if you chase it again? Besides, she, Wu Shufen, isn't someone nobody wants, why should she chase Li Long back? A good horse doesn't eat back the grass!

Thanks to book friends Zou Shentou and 20220321155702401 for the tips, thanks to everyone for the monthly tickets and recommendation votes... I really didn't expect that I hoped everyone would support more yesterday, and I didn't expect that the monthly tickets would directly come to three times the number... Thank you very much! Thank you very much for everyone's monthly tickets and recommendation votes!

Two things today. First, regarding the "poison point" in Chapter 84. I read everyone's comments and also discussed it with some writer friends. In my opinion, there should be two problems. First, regarding the protagonist's personality, many book friends mean that the protagonist should not compromise and should be firm to the end—maybe I described the supporting character Li Xiangqian a bit too negatively here. In fact, this person will appear in the later text and will connect other events. So the description of this supporting character should be a bit biased. Second, regarding the price of mutton, it is normal for Shicheng to be more expensive than Bima County. After all, it is fifteen kilometers more, and it is normal for the travel expenses to be a bit more. The second is that Li Long is from Maxian, and he sees Li Xiangqian every day, so he will compromise a bit—more problems are that I didn't handle the details well and didn't explain some things that should have been explained clearly.

Another thing to say is that the new round of recommendations will start after zero o'clock. I can't help but say it again here. This week is really critical. Whether we can improve a level really depends on this week. I don't dare to ask for monthly tickets; after all, this thing really costs money to have. If you have free time for recommendation votes, please cast them for me! Also, collections and follow-up readings! Please!

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