Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 498 What reward do you want?
"Qiangzi, you are amazing! In just one day, you and your men have dug up eleven beehives from the mountains. At this rate, I'm afraid we can fill the number of beehives in the first apiary in a few days."

"Yes! I thought you could dig up three or four beehives a day, which would be great. I didn't expect you to give us such a big surprise."

"Otherwise, why do we say that you are the God of Wealth of our Jinshan Fort?"

"Go away, if you don't know how to speak, then don't say anything. If this gets out, people will think we are practicing feudal superstition!"

"Yes, yes, I said something wrong, I'll slap my mouth!"

"okay!"

Li Guoqiang frowned as he looked at the brigade cadres who were chattering around him, then said helplessly, "It's only our first day in the mountains. Although we got off to a good start, everyone should know that this kind of thing involves a lot of luck, so no one can guarantee whether we can dig up so many beehives tomorrow.

The only thing we can guarantee is that we will do our best to dig up enough honeycombs.”

"That makes sense!"

As soon as Xu Yuliang finished listening, he nodded hurriedly and agreed, "If you ask me, Qiangzi is in charge of the bee farm, so we shouldn't worry about it. I believe he will eventually come up with a result that satisfies everyone.

Besides, he has been leading people into the mountains for a whole day and is exhausted. Let’s not disturb him here and let him go home and have a good rest.”

After saying that, he pulled Xu Guanglu, Xu Yu'an and others away from the First Bee Farm, not giving Li Guoqiang any chance to speak.

When Li Guoqiang saw this situation, he didn't care much about it.

He knew that Xu Yuliang did this just to assign him a target task, requiring him to find a way to come up with a result that would satisfy everyone.

The result, of course, was the creation of the third apiary.

If it happened to someone else, doing what Xu Yuliang did might have some effect.

But for Li Guoqiang, doing so is no different from farting.

After all, even if he didn't build the third apiary, what would happen? Even if Xu Yuliang was brave, the other party would not dare to say anything about him, the person in charge of the apiary, at the risk of pests and diseases in the apiary.

However, his patience was limited when someone like Xu Yuliang kept causing trouble for him.

If Xu Yuliang is still unwilling to repent by then, he wouldn't mind replacing him with someone else to be the team leader.

Soon, he arranged everything at the apiary and returned home with a dozen bird eggs.

When Xu Yuping saw the bird eggs, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "Qiangzi, where did you get these from?"

"Ah!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted when he heard this, and then he laughed and said, "Where else could it have been brought back from? Of course it was brought back from the mountains!"

"Yes!"

When Xu Yuping heard this, she immediately reacted, nodded and said, "You once said that those wild mountains where birds choose to build nests usually have birds building nests nearby. I didn't expect this to be true!"

"Of course it's true!"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, and then said unhappily: "When have I ever lied to you?"

"have to!"

Seeing that Li Guoqiang seemed a little angry, Xu Yuping immediately bowed her head and admitted her mistake, "I was wrong. I shouldn't have doubted what you said. You are a magnanimous person, so don't bother with me, okay?

At worst, you can teach me a lesson later?"

After saying that, she winked at Li Guoqiang playfully, with a hint of anticipation in her eyes.

"Go! Go! Go!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said, "I think you want me to reward you!"

"What? It's not possible?"

Xu Yuping didn't feel embarrassed when she heard Li Guoqiang say that. Instead, she looked straight at him and said, "I see you like it too, don't you?"

"Forehead"

Li Guoqiang looked at Xu Yuping's straight eyes and was unable to refute for a moment.

"Pfft!"

When Xu Yuping saw Li Guoqiang's reaction, she suddenly burst out laughing.

Then, just as she was about to turn around to prepare hot water for Li Guoqiang to wash up, she saw Xu Dani walking over with a basin of hot water.

"Big brother, you've worked hard today, let me wash your feet!"

"Okay!"

Li Guoqiang glanced at Xu Dani, who looked well-behaved, and was happy. He nodded and agreed, "My feet are so sore after walking in the mountains all day. You have to exert some strength and help me massage them."

After saying that, he turned and went into the house and sat on the edge of the kang, waiting to watch Xu Dani's performance with a calm face.

When Xu Dani heard what Li Guoqiang said, she showed no intention of backing down.

Soon, she placed the basin of water in front of Li Guoqiang, then squatted down and held up Li Guoqiang's feet with her hands.

The next moment, just as she held her breath and prepared to welcome Li Guoqiang's stinky feet, she suddenly discovered that Li Guoqiang's feet were very dry, without any sweaty smell like other people climbing the mountain.

So, in addition to being surprised, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then hurriedly followed the process of washing feet that she usually saw Xu Yuping and others do.

Seeing that Xu Dani was doing well, Li Guoqiang couldn't help feeling happy and relieved.

In fact, this was not the first time Xu Dani had washed his feet. As early as last year, after he moved to Qu Yinfeng's house and became the head of the household, Xu Dani had washed his feet several times.

However, later, with the return of Xu Yuping, Zhu Caixia and others, and life at home getting better day by day, Xu Dani never washed his feet again.

And now, the fact that Xu Dani could think of using this method to please him was enough to prove that her nature was still pretty good. At least she had not become selfish and arrogant as he worried.

Of course, Xu Yuping's careful discipline and Qu Yinfeng's understanding were definitely indispensable.

Otherwise, even if Xu Dani could be corrected, it would not be that easy.

"How is it? Big brother, my cooking skills are pretty good, right?"

Not long after, Xu Dani took a towel to help Li Guoqiang wipe the water stains on his feet, then raised her head and asked with anticipation.

"Not bad!"

Upon hearing this, Li Guoqiang immediately nodded and praised: "In my opinion, your craftsmanship is almost catching up with your aunt!"

"is it?"

When Xu Dani heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and then she asked cautiously, "Is there any reward?"

"Reward?" Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, then asked with a smile: "What reward do you want?"

"that."

Xu Dani pursed her lips, then turned her head to look at the kang cabinet, her eyes rolling around like a little greedy cat.

Obviously, she was greedy and wanted to eat snacks and drink Coke.

It was just because she had made a mistake not long ago that she didn't dare to speak directly and could only signal with her eyes.

Li Guoqiang was delighted when he saw this, and then pretended not to understand what Xu Dani meant, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Hey, are you going to tell me or not? If you don't, I'm going to take a shower."

"Don't!"

When Xu Dani heard this, she became anxious for a moment, and then quickly said, "I said, I said it's not okay!"

As she spoke, she bit her lip, then lowered her head and said, "I want to eat what's in the kang cabinet!"

"Okay!"

Li Guoqiang smiled slightly, then nodded and said, "Since you performed so well today, I will reward you with a candy."

As he said that, he turned over, reached out to open the kang cabinet, then took out a most common fruit candy from it and handed it to Xu Dani.

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When Xu Dani looked at the fruit hard candy in front of her, her little face instantly fell.

You know, she didn't even look at fruit hard candies before, and mostly gave them as rewards to her playmates in the village.

Originally, she thought that if Li Guoqiang didn't just give her a bottle of Coke, he would also give her a few White Rabbit milk candies and some peanuts and melon seeds to satisfy her craving.

What she didn't expect was that Li Guoqiang only took one candy, and it was a fruit hard candy that she didn't like very much.

This is too insulting!

"What?"

Li Guoqiang saw that Xu Dani didn't reach out for the candy, and frowned slightly, then asked with some displeasure: "You don't want it? If not, forget it."

After saying that, he wanted to put the fruit candy back.

"No, I want it!"

Seeing this, Xu Dani no longer had time to show disgust and quickly reached out to take the fruit candy, then held it tightly in her hand, fearing that if she was a step slower, Li Guoqiang would take it back.

"Ah!"

Li Guoqiang looked at Xu Dani's tightly clenched hands and couldn't help but chuckle. Then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop standing here and take the water away!"

"Oh!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Dani nodded and agreed, then looked at the kang cabinet with some reluctance, and then squatted down to take the basin out.

Soon after, she poured out the water, washed the basin and towel and put them away. Only then did she have time to focus her attention on the piece of fruit candy.

Although she didn't get the Coke and the candy, but having a piece of fruit candy is always better than having nothing, right?
Thinking of this, she gently peeled off the outer packaging of the candy and put the candy into her mouth.

The next moment, a sweet taste with a fruity aroma spread in her mouth, making her squint her eyes slightly, and she felt a sense of emotion in her heart.

It turns out that this fruit candy can be so delicious!

In fact, this fruit candy is no different from the ones she had eaten before. The only difference is that she can't eat other more delicious milk candies now.

In addition, there may be a piece of fruit candy in it, which was earned by her hard work.

In short, some things are too easy to get, so we don’t cherish them. We only regret it when we lose them.

At this moment, Xu Dani had a bit of this feeling in her heart.

However, she is not very clear about the reason behind this and needs to slowly understand it in the future.

Soon, it was the next morning.

After a day's rest, Li Guoqiang got up early, had breakfast with the help of Xu Yuping and others, and then rushed to the first apiary.

After arriving, before he could say anything, Li Xiuqin and others urged him to lead the team out quickly, as if they were addicted to it.

He had no objection to this. He simply told Xu Yuping and others to guard the apiary, and then led his men into the mountains.

Since Li Xiuqin and others had already learned how to collect beehives yesterday, this time, after he brought Li Xiuqin and others to the location of the first beehive, he directly handed over all the work to Li Xiuqin and others.

However, he did not go to another place alone to dig a beehive immediately. Instead, he stood where he was and carefully observed the operations of Li Xiuqin and others.

After finding that there was no problem, he left alone and walked into the forest.

In this way, by the end of the day, they had dug up a total of thirteen beehives, two more than yesterday.

Among them, six were dug by Li Xiuqin and others, and seven were dug by Li Guoqiang alone.

Li Xiuqin and others were not surprised by this result. Instead, they thought it was quite normal.

They even felt that they were holding Li Guoqiang back.

Otherwise, with Li Guoqiang's skills, he could definitely dig up more beehives.

When Xu Yuliang, Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres learned that Li Guoqiang and his men had dug up thirteen more beehives, they were all delighted.

You know, in the first apiary, there were no more than 80 hives of bees at most.

Under this situation, perhaps within a week, they could restore the first apiary to its most prosperous scale, and then start selecting a location to set up the third apiary.

If it weren't for the issue of choosing a place, which required Li Guoqiang to do personally, they would probably have wanted to help choose one by now.

Li Guoqiang had no idea about this. After finishing his work for the day, he first took a rabbit and a pheasant home, and then took another pheasant to Xu Guangshou's home.

Because he caught all these rabbits and pheasants when he was acting alone, he only gave one rabbit as a snack to the workers in the apiary and did not distribute the others.

Although his actions might make some people jealous, he was not interested in giving up all the prey in his hands in order to please everyone.

What's more, with his current status and position, no one would dare to say anything even if he did something a little more excessive.

The reason why he took the prey home in this way was simply because he wanted to find a legitimate reason to eat meat at home.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to go through so much trouble and could just take it from the small world.

(End of this chapter)