Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 580 Completion of the Beekeeping Research Institute
"What are you doing?" Li Guoqiang's eyes flashed with anger, and then he suddenly shouted.

This woman is really something else. Give her a little face, and she'll really take advantage of you.

"I'm giving you one last chance. Get out of here now, or do you believe I'll make sure you can't even stay in Golden Mountain Fortress?"

"No, I'm clearly the prettiest one, why do you want them all but me?"

Xu Wanling was somewhat possessed at this moment, her eyes fixed on Li Guoqiang.

In her view, as long as she could become Li Guoqiang's woman, with her figure and looks, she could completely outshine Shang Xiuzhen and Pan Qiaoyan, and become the envy of everyone.

Moreover, after a long period of investigation, she discovered that Li Guoqiang was quite responsible towards his women, almost as if he had a kind of mental fastidiousness.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, she finally decided to take a gamble and force Li Guoqiang to take her.

In this way, she might be able to turn the tables and control Li Guoqiang!
Seeing Xu Wanling's movements quicken even further, Li Guoqiang felt a surge of anger rising within him.

Row!
Since you're so ungrateful, I'll grant your wish.

The next moment, to Xu Wanling's somewhat surprised gaze, Li Guoqiang suddenly took a step forward, and the door closed behind him.

When she woke up again, it was already past three in the afternoon.

"here it is?"

"How did I get here?"

Xu Wanling opened her eyes, sat up abruptly, crawled out from a patch of weeds, and looked around at the empty space with an expression of disbelief on her face.

At this moment, her memory was still stuck in the midst of the storm, and she had no idea what happened afterward, let alone why she had ended up in this desolate mountain.

"That shouldn't be happening. He shouldn't treat me like this."

"What exactly is going on?"

"I've already given him everything, why did he leave me here?"

"No, I have to go find him, I have to go find him and get to the bottom of this!"

After muttering to herself for a while, Xu Wanling finally remembered the most important thing, and then she started to stagger and ran towards the village.

When she returned to the village and arrived at Li Guoqiang's house, she found the house quiet and the door locked.

This made her heart sink, and then she ran towards Xu Yuliang's house like a madwoman.

"Huh? Comrade Xu Wanling, what's wrong with you? You look so pale." Xu Yuliang was almost startled when he saw Xu Wanling's haggard appearance.

"Captain, where is Li Guoqiang? I need to talk to him!" Xu Wanling grabbed Xu Yuliang's arm and asked urgently.

"Qiangzi? He recently went to the commune in our brigade's donkey cart, saying he had some business to take care of. What do you need him for?"

Xu Yuliang was slightly surprised when he heard this.

"He's gone? How could he leave? How could he leave? Waaah~" Upon hearing this, Xu Wanling felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and her emotions instantly collapsed.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Xu Yuliang was a little confused.

"me."

Xu Wanling opened her mouth, wanting to complain to Xu Yuliang several times, but the words just wouldn't come out.

Because she knew that once she spoke up, given Li Guoqiang's position in Jinshanbao, no one would believe her.

It might even make people think that she is deliberately slandering Li Guoqiang, trying to curry favor with him, and framing him.

At that time, in order to prevent Li Guoqiang from being affected in the slightest, the villagers might even lock her up and drive her completely insane.

Thinking of the terrible consequences, her body trembled violently, and she clenched her teeth tightly, afraid that she might impulsively reveal the truth.

"You look so pale, are you sick and want Qiangzi to help you see a doctor?" Xu Yuliang quickly found a very reasonable explanation for Xu Wanling's behavior.

"Ok!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Wanling, despite her reluctance, could only nod and agree.

"Oh dear! This is quite unfortunate. If you had come an hour or so earlier, you might have made it." Xu Yuliang patted his thigh and looked at Xu Wanling with a regretful expression.

"More than an hour?" Xu Wanling was somewhat surprised.

“Yes! I remember, Qiangzi left around 1 p.m. in a donkey cart.” Xu Yuliang nodded, his face full of seriousness.

"How is this possible?" Xu Wanling exclaimed inwardly.

As I recall, she entered the house with Li Guoqiang around 12:00, and then Li Guoqiang kept urging her on for at least an hour.

This doesn't even include the time it would take to get her to the remote mountains and then back to the village!

How on earth did he do it?
Fortunately, she didn't choose to complain earlier; otherwise, no one would have believed her just because of the time discrepancy.

At that point, she really won't be able to clear her name even if she had a hundred mouths.

"Are you alright? Should I have someone take you to the county hospital to get checked out?" Xu Yuliang's heart jumped when he saw Xu Wanling looking somewhat unsteady.

Although he didn't really like Xu Wanling and the other educated youth, he felt that they were only able to benefit from Li Guoqiang's success.

However, if something were to happen to Xu Wanling, he, as the captain, would inevitably be implicated.

"No, no need, I'm fine!" Xu Wanling forced a very awkward smile, then stumbled away.

She originally thought that she could finally get on Li Guoqiang's big ship, become a "strong girl" that everyone envied, and get rid of her peasant identity.

As it turned out, she ended up losing both her wife and her money.

Gone!

Gone!
Even if she accepts her fate and decides to get married, she won't know who she can marry.

In other words, her life is over.

"Woo~"

At this moment, Li Guoqiang had no idea that Xu Wanling was hiding in a corner, regretting her actions to the core.

He had already been very considerate of the other party, but since the other party insisted on courting death, the only thing he could do was to comply with their demands!
Furthermore, in order to make the other party aware of how serious the consequences of doing so would be, he did not use his watering skills.

In other words, apart from a novel memory, the other party gets nothing.

Moreover, he used teleportation to create a time difference and set a trap for Xu Wanling. If Xu Wanling had been a little smarter, it wouldn't have been so bad.

If Xu Wanling still wants to settle scores with him, then what awaits her is being locked up as a madwoman who talks nonsense.

After all, blocking someone's path to wealth is like killing their parents!
"Qiangzi, how about I wait for you here until you're done, and then I'll take you back?" Old Sun hurriedly suggested with a fawning expression when he saw Li Guoqiang preparing to get out of the car.

"No need, I don't know when I'll be able to finish my business here, you go back first!" Li Guoqiang waved his hand, jumped off the donkey cart lightly, and then, without giving Lao Sun a chance to speak again, quickly strode into the supply and marketing office.

"Sigh!" Seeing this, Old Sun could only sigh with regret, then urge the donkey to turn back.

In fact, the main reason he was trying to curry favor with Li Guoqiang was that he had already found a wife through a matchmaker and wanted Li Guoqiang to do him the honor of attending his wedding.

After all, the reason he was able to get married at his age is 99% thanks to Li Guoqiang.

He would feel bad if he didn't invite Li Guoqiang to a few drinks at his wedding.

Of course, more importantly, he wanted to use Li Guoqiang's status and position to enhance his own image, so that he could boast about it to others for a while in the future.

Unfortunately, Li Guoqiang is too busy right now, so much so that he doesn't dare to speak up casually, for fear of affecting the important business that Li Guoqiang is trying to handle, and thus affecting the good days of the whole Jinshanbao.

After he drove his donkey cart away, Li Guoqiang also walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative empty-handed.

He glanced at the donkey cart disappearing into the distance, then strolled into a nearby alley and used teleportation to head towards the hidden gem he had chosen earlier.

Incidentally, on his way, he caught a batch of various kinds of prey, racked up some rewards, and replenished his inventory.

By the time he arrived at his destination, it was just past 5 p.m.

The setting sun casts its rays upon the babbling brook, creating a shimmering, sparkling effect.

And there are the lush green weeds along the stream.

What a paradise!

However, this is not good news for Li Guoqiang either, because in order to set up the beekeeping research institute, the first thing to do is to clear away the weeds.

Of course, he's a man with extraordinary abilities, so he definitely wouldn't use those traditional methods.

With a thought, a large stone slab, over 20 square meters in size and weighing more than ten tons, suddenly appeared in the air, several meters high, and then crashed down onto the weeds on the ground.

Then, the large stone slab suddenly disappeared again, returned to mid-air, and crashed down once more.

In this way, not long after, he cleared out a space of over a thousand square meters and compacted the ground as solid as a rock.

Then, more and more pieces of burning wood appeared in the air and scattered across the open space, burning the compacted weeds.

Finally, as night fell, the open space became smoky and pitch black.

Immediately afterwards, a series of houses with stone foundations, half mud-brick and half wooden, appeared out of thin air on this open space, forming a large courtyard.

With the last wooden archway erected at the gate, the entire beekeeping research institute was more than half completed, with only the beekeeping area yet to be set up.

Li Guoqiang wasn't in a hurry. He simply slipped into the courtyard, stood at the entrance of the main house, and reached out to pull the consecration charm on the wall.

With a crisp "click," the entire courtyard instantly lit up.

By the light, one can see a line of large, flowing characters on the archway: Changxian Beekeeping Research Institute.

Moreover, there are a total of eleven buildings from the side of the archway to the main building. One of them is a rat power generation room, one is a toilet and bathhouse, three are beekeeping warehouses, five are dormitories, and one is an office and kitchen.

Then, each house has two rooms, which means there are ten bedrooms, and each bedroom has a heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove), enough to accommodate ten families.

As for domestic water, the stream nearby can meet the requirements.

With water, electricity, and a house, the most basic needs of life are met here.

Li Guoqiang spent some time re-inspecting the entire courtyard, fixing some uneven ground issues, and then took out sections of the already-built stone wall from his small space to enclose the entire courtyard, leaving only the entrance in front of the archway.

That way, we won't have to worry about wild animals suddenly attacking us when we live here.

After he finished his work, he went into each house and carefully checked all the daily necessities and food supplies.

After making sure nothing was missed, he left the yard and went to a flat area at the foot of the mountain upstream of the stream, where he took out boxes of the new generation of bees he had bred and placed them there.

The total quantity is not very large, only 100 boxes.

He still needs to keep the rest in his little world and continue to nurture them.

If all goes well, these 100 hives of bees could grow into more than 200 hives by next year.

Although the number wasn't large, he didn't plan to use the small area to collect more bees.

On the one hand, raising a new generation of bees requires a certain period of time; otherwise, there is simply no way to explain it.

On the other hand, it is because the new generation of bees needs a process of replacement and comparison before the achievements of the beekeeping research institute can be gradually seen by the higher authorities.

According to his plan, he would not truly unleash his full potential until the reform and opening up period.

Prior to this, we quietly accumulated scientific research strength, allowing bees to evolve and develop into the best bee breeds.

They worked on it until after 8 p.m. before finally getting the entire beekeeping research institute set up.

With this beekeeping research institute, he no longer needs to worry about being suddenly sent over for inspections.

Then, he pulled the power switch to turn off the lights, and with a thought, he used teleportation to rush to the bee farm deep in the mountains.

When he arrived at the door of the three large brick houses, he suddenly heard a series of humming sounds, which made him raise his eyebrows.

"Cough cough!"

"Who?"

Soon, a sharp shout came from inside the room.

“It’s me!” Li Guoqiang replied in a deep voice.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a commotion erupted inside the house, with chickens flying and dogs barking.

Then, not long after, Zhao Limin and his son Zhao Dajun hurriedly opened the door and came out, their clothes not yet properly put on.

"You two are having a good time!" Li Guoqiang said with a mischievous smile.

"Hehe!" Zhao Limin and Zhao Dajun exchanged a glance and then laughed somewhat awkwardly.

(End of this chapter)