Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 257 Congratulations
Leaving the town government, Li Huaizhong sat in the carriage giggling as if he had been possessed by an evil spirit.

Chunsheng was frightened and asked Li Hongbing to take a look.

Li Hongbing glanced at it casually, and only said something about luck, but ignored him.

Passing by Lao Wei's mutton soup shop, the hardworking couple were busy at the stall.

The tricycle stopped on the side of the road.

"Uncle Red Soldier, something is up!" Chunsheng asked.

"Bringing you to dinner, your back molars are all exposed." Li Hongbing got out of the car with a smile on his face.

Chunsheng pointed to Li Huaizhong who couldn't help giggling beside him. "What about the village chief?"

Li Hongbing didn't turn his head back, "Slap me, the harder you slap, the better the effect."

Slap.

Will this work?

Chunsheng looked at Li Huaizhong who was giggling beside him, and looked down at his palm.

At this time, Li Hongbing was already chatting with the Wei family couple, when suddenly he heard a crisp cracking sound outside the stall, followed by a man's roar.

"Chunsheng, if you dare to smack me, you are looking for a beating, aren't you?"

"Uncle, Uncle Red Soldier asked me to smoke."

"He said to let you smoke, so you smoke, why don't you go when he tells you to eat shit, smack!"

There was another crisp sound.

When Li Huaizhong and Chunsheng walked into the stall angrily, they each had a red and deep slap mark on their faces.

Li Hongbing held back his smile, and pointed to the two big bowls of mutton soup on the table, "You guys eat first, I'll go to Sanpao's house for a walk."

Come to the business hall.

Sanpao squatted listlessly on the steps, holding a bowl in one hand and fried dough sticks in the other.

"Hey, isn't this Zhao Sanpao from the Third Street of our town? I heard that he wants to ask the mayor for help." Li Hongbing joked.

Hearing this cowhide coaxing nickname.

Sanpao lowered her head shyly, wishing that there would be a crack in the ground to get in, secretly annoyed that she was too greedy to drink.

He drank some horse urine and didn't even know his surname. At the wine table, he called the big bosses in the town as brothers and sisters, and dragged Mayor Zhao to burn yellow paper and chop off the chicken's head.

"Brother, can we not mention this matter? We'll go drink some returning wine later, so we can get through it."

Li Hongbing stared.

"Through your uncle, I still have to ride a bicycle, come to say hello and go back to the village."

"Come back now, then you have to wait, Chun Miao has gone shopping on the street." San Pao hurriedly put down the bowl.

While talking, Chun Miao walked back leisurely, behind him was a middle-aged man carrying a load, and two bamboo baskets were filled with green vegetable seedlings.

San Pao hurriedly put down the bowl, like a big housekeeper, nodded and bowed in front of Chun Miao to ask for his health.

"Chun Miao, who is this?" Li Hongbing was curious.

"There isn't much good stuff in the town. I just went shopping and saw someone selling strawberry seedlings, and they weren't worth much. I took them back to Anna and planted some strawberries to eat." Chun Miao said with a smile.

"Okay!" Li Hongbing didn't say a word of thanks, because saying thank you between them was a stranger, and after a short chat, he led the middle-aged man towards Wei's Mutton Soup.

Chatting on the road, I learned that this middle-aged man is Wang Xiding, from Liangshuihe Village.

Li Hongbing visited this village when he was a child when he practiced medicine with his grandfather. He remembered that the village was built by the river and mainly grew watermelons and strawberries.

It's just that too much time has passed, and the people I knew in memory are no longer there.

When I came to Lao Wei's mutton soup stall, Li Huaizhong sat on the side of the street with Chunsheng's five and six full meals, picking his teeth leisurely with a toothpick.

"Are you full?" Li Hongbing asked while looking at the two of them while putting the strawberry seedlings into the carriage.

The two nodded, propped their necks, "I'm full!"

Li Hongbing greeted Lao Wei and his wife, and rode three rounds on their way back to the village.

Go back to Caogou Village.

When the three parted at the entrance of the village, Li Huaizhong suddenly mentioned something.

Last time, the herb brought by the second brother-in-law was still stored in the old warehouse of the village committee. The rent was not much, but the old warehouse was in disrepair for a long time, and the humidity was high. If the herb was stored for a long time, it would easily become moldy and deteriorate.

If Uncle Huaizhong hadn't mentioned it, Li Hongbing would have forgotten about it.

Turn the car around and drive into the village. The old warehouse is built on the slope at the west end of the village, covering an area of ​​half an acre. It is a two-storey green brick quadrangle tile house.

In the mid-70s and [-]s, the production team was rebuilt from a cowshed. It was the symbol and political center of the production team at that time, and it was also a place for the village to store grain, place production tools, hold meetings and entertain.

In Li Hongbing's Youth Notes, this old warehouse used to be the busiest place in the village. At night, the adults who had finished their farm work would gather in the warehouse to listen to the instructions of the production team leaders and arrange the farm work for the next day.

When the adults had a meeting, the children ran around in the yard, playing hide-and-seek, and catching secret agents. As the population of the village moved out, production was divided into households, the production team was changed to a village committee, and the old warehouse was no longer dispatched. Useful, has since completed its mission.

When Li Hongbing stood in front of the old warehouse again, an aura of ruin rushed towards him.

The plaster skin of the enclosure wall has peeled off, exposing the yellow mud and rice stalks underneath, and the slogans and slogans left by the production team on the wall are also incomplete.

Chunsheng took out the key, walked to the dilapidated gate, and struggled to open the rusty lock.

creak.

The door opened slowly.

Li Hongbing walked in.

The original spacious rice field is now covered with weeds, and vines are also crawling on the walls of the green brick and tile houses. When you push the weeds away, you can still see scattered tiles.

Witnessing the status quo of the old warehouse, its former splendor and bustle immediately flashed in Li Hongbing's mind.

"Uncle Hong Soldier, your herbs are kept in the side room, so they haven't been hit by the rain." Chunsheng pointed to a relatively complete tile-roofed house next to the rice field.

Li Hongbing nodded, instead of checking the herbs, he walked to Li Huaizhong's side.

"Is the old warehouse for sale?"

Ah!
Li Huaizhong didn't react, with a dazed expression on his face.

Li Hongbing said with a smile.

"This old warehouse is empty and empty. I plan to buy it and turn it into a Qixiang powder processing factory. By the way, I will invite people from the village to come and work, so as to save me from gossiping all day long."

"Others can't buy it, but you can. Go to the village committee to go through the formalities later."

Li Huaizhong looked at Li Hongbing meaningfully.

Reciprocate favors and favors.

Li Hongbing naturally understood the meaning, an abandoned old warehouse, in exchange for a chance of promotion, no matter what.

After a quick stroll around the old warehouse.

The three of them came to the village committee again. The old warehouse belonged to the village committee's property, so they just had to talk to the village committee.

The two parties signed an agreement, asking Li Hongbing to prepare his ID card and household registration book, and Chunsheng would handle the real estate certificate procedures later.

2 yuan to buy an old warehouse covering an area of ​​half an acre.

It's not worth it.

If you look at it from the perspective of city people, you must think it is too worthwhile.

But if you want to use the eyes of the villagers and spend 2 yuan to buy a broken warehouse, it is purely brains that have been entered by dogs.

Too much money to burn, so I might as well find a piece of land and build a new house with that much money.

Li Hongbing naturally had his own plans.

The location of the old warehouse is good, the main road is in front of the door, and Sun Qiang's construction team will soon renovate this side, and when the time comes, people will widen the road at the door, so that the Bengbeng car can drive directly to the door.

Furthermore, it is also convenient to find people to work from the village, who would not want to be able to work at the door of the house without leaving the village.

Back to the old house.

Anna and her daughter took the doll clothes and chased the animals around.

The old man pouted, and carefully scrubbed a stone pot about one meter in diameter.

"Then the stone pot?" Li Hongbing asked curiously.

The old man was too lazy to talk to his unfilial son, and said without raising his head, "Your second brother-in-law brought it over in the morning, saying that he couldn't bear to see such a good tea smell like crayfish."

Li Hongbing squatted down, and the naked eye could see that the surface of the stone pot was polished and shiny, and it felt slippery when he touched it with his hand, and there were traces of firewood smoke on the edge of the pot.

Immediately please say.

"Made of marble? A little old."

snort!
The father used a towel to re-wipe the place where the youngest son had touched the stone pot, and began to chase people away.

"You know, please, this is a Maifan stone pot, an old tea pot that has been fried for three generations, go away, don't delay me washing the pot."

Got it!
Hot face sticking cold fart drum.

If you can't provoke me, you can't hide!

Li Hongbing got up awkwardly, and went to Shan Xing to comfort his injured heart, and just walked a few steps, he heard his father talking behind him.

"Don't look for a fool these two days, he has something to do with me."

"understood."

Li Hongbing waved his hand and walked into the kitchen.

During lunch, Li Hongbing triumphantly shared the joy of buying the old warehouse in the village.

But everyone lacks interest in this, and no one agrees.

This made Li Hongbing very hurt, and deliberately clinked the bowls, silently declaring that he was not happy now.

The mother on the side picked up food for the children, and hit Li Hongbing's hand with chopsticks.

"There's no fuss. We didn't say anything about your contracting the meadow, let alone a broken house that is about to collapse."

The old man took the opportunity to add insult to injury, "Who doesn't know that you are a prodigal son, even if you bought the Great Wall, we wouldn't be surprised."

This!
Li Hongbing was speechless by the two elders.

Silently picked up the bowl.

On the contrary, Shan Xing couldn't bear it, and was about to say something to comfort her, but was grabbed by her mother and signaled with her eyes to leave it alone.

Li Hongbing picked up two mouthfuls of rice, threw the bowl on the table, and rode away on Heifeng.

"Uncle, aunt, is it over?" Shan Xing asked worriedly.

Mom picked up a chopstick dish, put it in the apricot bowl, and said with a smile.

"Don't pay any attention to him, he'll be ostentatious as soon as he returns to the village, and now he's spending so much money to contract meadows, let him cool his mind."

"No, I thought he would be able to make a lot of trouble in Mingzhu City, but I didn't expect that he would be able to make a lot of trouble when he returned to the village." The old man took a sip of wine from the small wine cup, feeling comfortable all over his body, "Silly boy, after dinner, let's go to the backyard to pick some wine." tea."

"Oh!" The silly boy raised his head from the basin, responded, and buried his head back in the basin again.

Heifeng ran to the persimmon tree at the entrance of the village.

When we came to the communication platform, it was a break at noon, Da Mao and Er Mao squatted on the platform and ate peanuts.

Li Hongbing was not polite to the two of them, grabbed a handful of peanuts from the salary pile, and said while eating, "I work overtime at noon, go to Lao Gen, Shui Sheng, Fu Sheng, Tie Zhu, just say that I am waiting at Dakui's house." them."

Gah!
The two parrots raised their crests and stared wide-eyed at the unscrupulous master, working overtime, free of charge, and even paying back!

"Why? Do you have an opinion?" Li Hongbing rolled his eyes.

Got it!
You are the uncle, what you say counts!
Da Mao and Er Mao drooped their heads, took off listlessly, and sent the message away.

"It's a bad habit."

Li Hongbing reached out and stroked the platform a few times, took half of the peanuts and melon seeds and put them in his pocket, and ate them as he walked, not forgetting to give Heifeng a few dates.

"Da Kui, Da Kui, are you at home?"

Da Kui, who was eating, heard Uncle Hong Bing's call from outside the courtyard, put down his bowl and chopsticks and came to the gate of the courtyard, and saw Li Hongbing and Hei Feng standing in front of the steps.

"Uncle Red Soldier, something has happened."

"I have something to discuss with you, don't bother me!" Li Hongbing said with a smile.

Looking for us?
Could it be that there are other people? Could it be that Uncle Hongbing is going to toss about something again.

Come to live!
Dakui's face brightened, and he hurriedly greeted, "Why bother, come in quickly, if you haven't eaten yet, let Guifeng stir-fry two dishes and boil a pot of wine."

into the courtyard.

Guifeng's sister-in-law was cleaning up the simple meals on the square table, and she couldn't help complaining, "Uncle Hongbing, don't say anything, I'll make some tough dishes for you to try."

Dakui stared, "What are you waiting for, go kill a chicken, fry some peanuts, and then steam a plate of cured ribs. Uncle Hongbing is most proud of this, and heat up a pot of rice wine."

"Understood, it's up to you to say." Aunt Guifeng smiled, turned and walked into the kitchen.

Li Hongbing didn't stop her, but congratulated her, "That's right, Mrs. Guifeng is full of energy and blood, which means she's pregnant, and you're going to be a father!"

What!
Da Kui stood up abruptly, stared at Uncle Hong Bing in disbelief, and asked tremblingly.

"Really?"

Li Hongbing smiled subtly and asked, "You don't believe me?"

Da Kui slapped his forehead, he was really happy and confused, Uncle Hong Soldier's medical skills were superb, what he said was like being nailed to the wall, each nail had a hole, and it would never change.

"Father, mother, our old Liu's family has a child." Da Kui muttered to himself looking at the sky, his face changed when he heard the sound of killing chickens from the kitchen, and he ran into the kitchen yelling, "Guifeng, don't you!" Kill!!"

next moment.

Aunt Guifeng appeared, with tears in her eyes, she couldn't restrain her excitement, "Uncle Hongbing, I'm really pregnant."

Life without a baby is hard.

Since marrying Da Kui, she has not been able to conceive a child.

Although the parents-in-law didn't say anything and treated her kindly, she sighed as soon as she turned around.

Before leaving, he held his hand and begged to leave a heir to the old Liu family no matter what, even if he adopted one, as long as he could leave a root for the old Liu family.

Guifeng mentioned this to Da Kui countless times, but Da Kui always said that if you can't have a baby, you won't have a baby, and you want you if you don't have a child. Here, it hurts in my heart.

And the women in the village didn't say anything outright, but secretly joked that they were chickens that couldn't lay eggs.

Every time women have nothing to do, they gather together with their children and grandchildren to compete who is smarter than whom, whose daughter-in-law is pregnant before marriage, and whose family has not given birth for several years.

Not only Guifeng is the object of discussion by the seven aunts and eight aunts, but Dakui is also a loser in others' mouths.

Guifeng knew all these things.

But powerless.

It's a fact that you can't have children.

Now that I heard the news of my pregnancy from Uncle Hong Bing, the gloom in my heart was swept away, and I no longer have to be looked down upon or ridiculed by others.

"Come on, let me give you a pulse." Li Hongbing understood Mrs. Guifeng's mood very well.

Pointing to the stool beside him.

Guifeng sat down anxiously, and put her hands on the table. At some point, Da Kui also walked behind the mother-in-law with a nervous expression on her face.

Li Hongbing gently put his hand on his veins and narrowed his eyes.

The pulse phase is very smooth, smooth like pearls, powerful and round, fast and non-stop, which is in line with all the manifestations of the happy pulse.

Withdrawing his hand, he raised his head to look at the nervous couple, smiling and clasping fists.

"Congratulations!"

(End of this chapter)