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Chapter 628: What's the point of giving you face? Hire a babysitter

Inside the house, after Zhang Jinbao mentioned the truckload of yellow pineapples yesterday, Yang Jun put down the bowl he was holding. He had high hopes for this truckload of timber, as it was related to whether he and Yang Yi could survive this winter.

Finally, Zhang Jinbao said that the yellow pineapple logs were made into 16 and a half cubic meters of boards, and at 90 yuan per cubic meter, this truckload of yellow pineapples was sold for 1485 yuan!

Yang Jun was very excited when he heard this. When Zhang Jinbao mentioned selling the bark to the pharmacy, he said bluntly that he didn't want the bark and just thought of it as buying wine for the workers in the sawmill.

When Yang Yi saw his father so happy, a smile also appeared on his little face. After all, because of his mother's affairs, Yang Jun had been drinking a lot and was depressed all day long during this period.

"Bao'er, if you need wood again in the future, I will definitely deliver it on the same day. I will never delay you!"

Zhang Jinbao said with a smile: "Brother Jun, we've had drinks together so many times, how could I not know what kind of person you are? You don't have to deliver it on the same day. My timber factory has to prepare for work in advance. If anything is missing, I can make up for it in advance. We can then negotiate the price."

"Okay! Let's drink again when we have a chance. I have to go do something with Er Ning today."

"I know. Aren't we just going to Changshou to pick someone up? We can drink when we have time."

After the meal, Zhang Jinbao went into the house and took out 1485 yuan and handed it to Yang Jun, but he did not take it. Instead, he said, "Bao'er, I can't take this money. I only own 28% of the shares in lengchang, and Erning owns %. He is the real boss!"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Hey, Jun brother, you can tell the difference so clearly. I won't be polite, okay? I'll take the money first, and we'll settle it when we get home."

"Okay! Whatever you say is true!" Yang Jun nodded heavily.

After walking around the shops on the first floor twice, when Xu Ning was ready to leave, Zhang Jinbao carried the rocking horse into the carriage and gave Yang Yi a bottle of soda.

"Drive more carefully."

"Okay, go back to the house."

Xu Ning held the steering wheel with both hands, nodded to Zhang Jinbao, then stepped on the accelerator to drive the car forward, heading straight for Jingang Village, Changshou Township.

When talking to Zheng Dazhi on the phone, he was clearly told to let Feng Ye (Scarface) wait in Laoshanzitun, and Xu Ning had to go to Jingangtun first, because Jingang was farther away than Laoshanzitun.

While enjoying the mountain scenery along the way, Xu Ning and Yang Jun divided the money in the car. He took 891 and Yang Jun took 594!

Yang Jun's eyes lit up as he counted the money. He finally saw the money back. He counted out 200 yuan and handed it to Xu Ning, saying, "Here's 200 to you first."

"You take the flowers first, and we'll talk about it after we finish selling today's train."

Yang Jun thought about it carefully for a moment and nodded: "Okay! Then I will spend it first, and I will pay you back when I make money from the opening of the mountain."

Xu Ning nodded and said, "Brother Jun, you have to get paid for managing the 28th floor. I will give you 40 yuan a month, which will be deducted from the public account of our floor."

"No need. How can I get paid for managing a place like this? I also have shares..."

"This is different. I don't usually take care of the place, but you take care of it. There must be some reward. How can you work in vain? Listen to me on this matter. Shitou, Hu Zhiyong, and my uncle all get paid. You can't get any special treatment."

Yang Jun grinned and said, "Alright! It's good to pay you. I'm happy about it!"

The mountain road was rugged, so the car refueled halfway and arrived at King Kong Village smoothly at 2:40 pm.

There were more than 10 people standing at the entrance of King Kong Village. Some of them were standing against the wall, some were sitting on luggage, and some were squatting and smoking. Their skin was very dark, darker than bronze. They were thin but full of energy. When they saw the car slowly stop, they whispered to each other and stood up to look...

Dazhi squeezed out of the crowd, and when he saw Xu Ning, he ran over with a smile and said, "Erning! Brother Jun!"

Yang Jun nodded, looked at the crowd not far away, and asked, "Why are there only two of them?"

Xu Ning explained: "Didn't I mention Laoshanzitun to you before we came here? Feng Ye's family is from Laoshanzitun..."

"Oh, I see. Let them all get in the car then!"

After Yang Jun finished speaking, Zheng Dazhi, who was standing next to Xu Ning, showed an awkward look. Xu Ning took two steps to the side and frowned, "What's going on?"

Dazhi said: "It's still about my childhood friend, Pan Jizhaozi. He insisted that you go to his house for a meal."

"Don't be ridiculous! Is he going or not?"

Dazhi saw Xu Ning's unhappy face and said, "Go! If he doesn't go, he will definitely not survive this winter. But if the three brothers leave, it will be dangerous for his little sister to stay at home alone. I really have no idea..."

Two or three groups of people came over from a distance and started to speak: "Boss Xu, please have mercy and let Xiao Pan take care of Xiao Mei."

"Xiao Xu, please give me some face and don't give Pan Xiao any money. Let her go to the mountain to cook..."

"It's not that great, I don't need this meal, otherwise you can just deduct some money from Pan Yan's salary."

Xu Ning's face became darker and darker. He frowned and looked over, and saw two middle-aged men in their 40s and a man in his 30s talking.

He looked directly at the three of them and asked, "Are you three going there to make money?"

The 30-year-old man opened his mouth and let out an "ah".

"Then why should I give you face? Who do you think you are? You still want me to give you face? I have to agree to recruit anyone in the venue. If I don't agree, no one can enter! Who do you think you are?"

The 30-year-old man was speechless upon hearing this, and the two 40-year-old middle-aged men looked at each other. They had never expected that this seemingly handsome young man was so difficult to talk to.

Dazhi said: "Erning, everyone who can stand here has some relationship with me, please give me some face."

"There's nothing wrong with giving you face, but you should not make things difficult for me, okay?" Xu Ning said with a gloomy face.

"I know. I'll ask someone to call Pan Yan..."

Just as Dazhi raised his hand to call for help, Yang Jun came over and said, "Erning, what do you mean? A woman wants to enter the arena?"

Xu Ning nodded: "She is Dazhi's childhood friend's younger sister. But no matter what the relationship is, we must not let women into the field, otherwise we won't be able to work."

"Indeed..." Yang Jun nodded, and then asked, "How old is his little sister?"

Dazhi said: "He is exactly 18 this year, but his family is poor. The matchmaker introduced him to a date, but my childhood friend refused because she was afraid that his younger sister would suffer if she got married..."

The reason is obvious. The people that the matchmaker introduced to Pan Xiao were basically ugly, had bad personalities, or had bad habits.

In other words, the matchmaker treated Pan Xiao as a favor and introduced them to families with bad reputations who had difficulty finding wives, so that the matchmaker could make a profit.

After Zheng Dazhi finished talking about the basic situation of the four Pan brothers and sisters, Yang Jun turned to look at Xu Ning and said, "Er Ning, how about..."

Xu Ning raised his hand when he saw him opening his mouth: "Come on, Jun brother! You are already 35, why are you talking about this?"

Yang Jun was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh my god, what are you thinking. No matter how stubborn I am, I can't find an 18-year-old girl. I was thinking of letting her go with me so that she can help me take care of Baozhu. You said that when the Lengchang opens, I have to take care of two Lengchangs, and I really don't have time to take care of Baozhu..."

"Let my mom and the others take care of you first, and we'll talk about it later when you find a partner."

"This is not a long-term solution. I don't know what will happen to me for the rest of my life with my appearance. I just thought about it. If I let her go to Qing'an, I will let her live in the old house of my second uncle to take care of Baozhu. I will live in the mountains and come back home every now and then. Or when I am in the field, I can pick up Baozhu during the day and send him back in the evening. What do you think?"

"Brother Jun, you are really capable. Let me play the good guy and you play the bad guy?"

Yang Jun laughed: "Hahaha, isn't this the right time? Besides, there aren't any familiar girls in our village. The three Pan brothers are all working under my nose, so I know them well."

"You can do whatever you like."

Seeing Xu Ning's resignation, Dazhi quickly said to Yang Jun: "Brother Jun, thank you." "Don't be polite, this is for each of us to do. Tell them to come over quickly, and we'll get in the car and go."

"Pan..."

Before Dazhi could finish his words, three people squeezed over from the crowd. One of them was about the same age as Xu Long, but his left hand was disabled, with only three fingers shaped like a chicken claw. The other two were young men, about sixteen or seventeen years old.

"Xu Baotou!"

Xu Ning stared at him and said bluntly, "Pan Yan, right? I sympathize with your family's affairs, but it is a rule that women cannot enter the mountain field. We can't talk about this anymore."

When Pan Yan heard this, he said with a smile: "Boss Xu, please be flexible..."

"No compromise!"

Xu Ning waved his hand, turned around and ignored him, took out 50 yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Dazhi's crotch pocket and said, "Dazhi, take the money home."

"Erning, I can't accept this!"

"Just think of it as an advance salary for you. You and Feng Ye are both the same. Settle your family down and go to Lengchang to work hard."

Zheng Dazhi felt warm in his heart and nodded with a smile: "Okay, then I'll go back first."

Originally, Pan Yan wanted to use Zheng Dazhi as a lifeline, but when he saw him leave without even looking back, his heart sank to the bottom.

While he was stunned, Yang Jun said, "Can your little sister wash clothes and cook?"

"Yes! You are..."

"My last name is Yang Jun. I am also the boss of the Lengchang. If you want to work in the Lengchang, you have to be under my supervision."

"Hello, Mr. Yang. My little sister can wash clothes and cook. She does all kinds of work at home and is very diligent in everything she does."

"Well, she definitely can't enter the mountain field. This mountain field has its own rules, but she can come to my house and help me take care of the child. See? The one sitting in the car. He is my son."

Pan Yan was a little confused when he heard that. After thinking carefully, he did not dare to ask why his wife did not take care of him. He was not a fool. After analysis, there were two reasons. One was that she was gone and the other was that she ran away. Why did she run away instead of divorced? Naturally, it was related to Yang Jun's appearance.

Besides, Xu Ning explicitly refused. This was the only way Pan Yan could go. He couldn't ask too much. He just asked, "Then my younger sister will go to your house to take care of the children, and you..."

"Don't worry about it. I have two farms and I'm usually too busy to take care of them. I basically don't go home after winter. Even if I go home, I stay in my brother's old house. Don't worry."

"Oh, OK! Thank you, Boss Yang. Then you can bring the children to my house and sit for a while. My little sister has prepared the meal."

Yang Jun waved his hand and said, "No, it will take too much time. Go home and pack the food for the journey. We will arrive at the destination in the middle of the night."

"Okay, I'll go back and clean up now. Wait for me for 10 minutes! Sorry for bothering you, Boss Yang, and thank you, Boss Xu."

Xu Ning looked at him without saying a word. He just opened the car door, sat in the driver's seat, and started playing with the small building blocks that Zhang Jinbao had given him with Yang Yi.

Yang Jun stood under the car smoking and said to the crowd not far away: "Hurry up and get on the car."

The people who were whispering to each other heard his words and immediately laughed and said, "Boss Yang is a good man..."

"I'm not a good person. You will definitely suffer if you work under me. You should be prepared."

"It's okay. Have you ever done any dirty or hard work?"

"..."

While everyone was getting on the bus, Zheng Dazhi came running over carrying canned food and two pounds of glutinous rice cake.

"Brother Jun, canned food is for children. You and Erning can eat this little bit of trough cake if you get hungry."

Xu Ning tilted his head and smiled, "My brother Dashi is really good at handling things. Have you got your luggage and bedding?"

"He took it. He should have thrown it into the car. Did Pan Yan get in the car?"

Yang Jun said: "He hasn't come back yet, but I guess he will be back soon."

Five minutes later, Pan Yan and his two brothers and a short-haired girl with a sallow complexion, slightly dark skin and decent looks came running hurriedly, carrying luggage, bedding, washbasins and other things.

"Boss Yang, this is my little sister Pan Xiao."

"Hello, Mr. Yang." Pan Xiao looked timid and seemed a little scared.

Yang Jun said with a smile: "Just call me Jun brother from the back, and get in the car quickly."

Pan Yan turned around and took the cloth bag from Pan Xiao, then handed it to Yang Jun and said, "Brother Jun, this is the food my little sister made, you can eat it on the way."

"Okay, I won't be polite with you. This is a good opportunity for my son to have a taste of your little sister's cooking skills."

Pan Yan nodded and said, "Okay, let's get in the car first."

Afterwards, Zheng Dazhi and four others walked to the rear of the car and climbed into the compartment, while Yang Jun also got on the passenger seat carrying a cloth bag. When he opened the cloth bag, Xu Ning took a look inside, because he could smell the aroma of stewed beans as soon as Yang Jun got into the car.

The food in the cloth bag is not in an aluminum lunch box, but a wooden lunch box. The advantage of this type of lunch box is that it keeps warm, but the disadvantage is that it is too heavy. Moreover, this wooden lunch box has three layers, the upper and lower layers, and the craftsmanship is quite rough. At first glance, you can tell that it was made by someone with no carpentry skills using a scraper to scrape it out of a whole piece of wood.

"This lunch box is really clever. I'll ask Baoer to make a few more so we can use them on the mountain."

Xu Ning nodded: "It's really good."

There were 10 people standing at the entrance of Laoshanzi Village. Before the car stopped, Feng Ye stood on the side of the road and waved.

Xu Ning first asked everyone to get in the car, then stuffed 50 yuan into Feng Ye's pocket and asked him to take him home quickly and settle him down.

"Dazhi has been settled, so stop wasting time."

"Eh!"

Feng Ye hurried home with the money, said a few words in a hurry and came back. When Xu Ning saw him get into the car, he immediately started the car and drove towards Qing'an.

This time the journey took longer, because it would be dark after more than 3 hours. Even with the lights on, Xu Ning and Yang Jun still didn't dare to drive too fast. Besides, there were people in the carriage, and if the speed increased, the people's buttocks would definitely suffer. Even with such a slow pace, some people got carsick...

Xu Ning and Yang Jun took turns driving. When they were hungry, they ate some caozigao and drank some boiled water. In addition, the temperature dropped sharply at night, and it was quite cold in the car. Yang Jun put his coat on Yang Yi.

"Hey, I was in a hurry to go out this morning, and I forgot to get him a cotton jacket."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Men are definitely not as meticulous in taking care of children as women."

Yang Jun used chopsticks to pick up the can for Yang Yi. When he saw Yang Yi's little face, all his worries disappeared.

"I really have to find a new house when I go back."

"Why are you in such a hurry? You can stay in your second uncle's old house for the winter and move out next spring, or find a good house later."

(End of this chapter)