Chapter 176 I Thought You Were a Team Leader
"Wife, wife, stop making trouble and come home with me!"

Soon, Xu Laosan caught up with Sun Yanhong and grabbed her arm hard to prevent her from going to find Li Guoqiang.

Seeing this, Sun Yanhong swung her arms violently, and then said angrily: "What's the matter? Didn't you ignore me just now? Why are you stopping me now? Are you afraid that I will embarrass you?"

"Wife, I was wrong. It's New Year's Eve, can you please stop making trouble with me?"

Xu Laosan's breathing was slightly choked, and then he spoke with a bitter face.

"Humph!"

When Sun Yanhong saw Xu Laosan's expression, her anger instantly dissipated. She snorted coldly and said, "You also know that today is New Year's Eve? I thought you didn't know anything except fishing."

"I"

Xu Laosan was about to open his mouth to refute, but thinking of his previous performance, he had to shut his mouth.

"okay!"

Sun Yanhong glared at Xu Laosan with some disdain, then waved her hand and said, "Don't show me that stinky face. I get so angry when I see it."

"I was really blind to marry a loser like you."

After saying that, she turned around and walked towards her home.

Xu Laosan stood where he was, looking at Sun Yanhong's swaying back, his face slowly turning pale and blue.

Then, he thought about how he had not accomplished anything decent in the village over the years, and he couldn't help feeling frustrated.

He originally thought that this time he could earn face in front of everyone by fishing and have a good New Year for his family. However, not only did he not make any money, he also wasted more than 100 kilograms of food and became a joke.

Is it possible that he is really destined to be a loser?
Thinking of this, he looked up at the dark sky with a gloomy expression.

Suddenly, wisps of white snowflakes slowly floated down from the sky and landed on his face, making him feel a chill in his heart.

Just when he was about to cry, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"What are you doing standing here? Hurry up and deliver the things to them. Although we are poor, we are not the kind of people who are ungrateful!"

As Sun Yanhong spoke, she stuffed two bottles of Laobaigan into Xu Laosan's arms and motioned him to give them to Li Guoqiang.

Although she had previously planned to settle accounts with Li Guoqiang, that was because she was so angry at Xu Laosan's performance that she lost her mind.

In fact, she was quite grateful to Li Guoqiang.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been thinking about Xu Laosan's promise to give Li Guoqiang two bottles of good wine.

Xu Laosan looked at the liquor in his arms, then looked at Sun Yanhong in front of him, and his lips moved slightly.

"Wife, I"

"okay!"

Sun Yanhong rolled her eyes, and then said unhappily, "It's almost noon now, and I have to go back to make New Year's Eve dinner for you guys! If you have anything to say, we can talk when you come back!"

After saying that, she twisted her body and walked away again.

Xu Laosan stared blankly for a while, and suddenly burst into tears with a feeling of heartache.

Over the years, every time he was depressed or suffered a setback, Sun Yanhong silently supported him behind the scenes, giving him the courage to persevere.

It can be said that the best thing he did in his life was to marry Sun Yanhong home.

So he must work harder to make Sun Yanhong live a good life.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly reached out to wipe away his tears, and then hurried towards Li Guoqiang's house.

After this lesson of fishing, he has deeply realized Li Guoqiang's ability and understands that if he wants to live a good life, he must find a way to cling to Li Guoqiang's thigh.

The two bottles of Lao Baigan in his arms were the stepping stones he had specially prepared.

Soon, he arrived at Li Guoqiang's yard, then stood outside the wooden house and shouted.

"Hadron, hadron!"

"Hey!"

When Li Guoqiang heard Xu Laosan's voice, he was slightly stunned, then hurriedly replied, stood up and walked out.

"Hey! Third brother, you're not at home for the New Year's Eve dinner, why do you have time to come to my place?"

"Ugh!"

Xu Laosan sighed and said with a guilty look on his face: "Stop talking, we have just started cooking!"

"what is wrong?"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, then asked in confusion: "Did something happen at home? Why did you start cooking so late?"

"without!"

Hearing this, Xu Laosan hurriedly shook his head and said, "Nothing happened to our family. I was just fishing at the creek bay, but it was too late, so I wasted some time."

"Oh!"

Li Guoqiang nodded, then asked curiously, "Did you catch any fish?"

"Ugh!"

When Xu Laosan heard Li Guoqiang's question, he couldn't help but sigh again, and then said with regret on his face: "It's all my fault for not listening to you before. These days, let alone big fish, I haven't even caught a small fish."

"And today, at the end of our fishing trip, we were about to catch a big fish, but it broke the rod and ran away!"

"Ah!"

When Li Guoqiang heard about what happened to Xu Laosan, he couldn't help but laugh for a moment, then he laughed and joked, "You're pretty unlucky."

"you do not say!"

Xu Laosan nodded vigorously, and then said with some emotion: "I now understand that we should not be too greedy, otherwise we will suffer in the end."

"Ok!"

Seeing that Xu Laosan seemed to have really figured it out, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but say with approval, "It's good that you figured it out. If it were that easy to make money by fishing, all the fish in the river would have been caught long ago."

"such a pity!"

Xu Laosan shook his head and said bitterly, "I figured it out too late, otherwise I wouldn't have thrown more than a hundred kilograms of food into the water in vain!"

After saying that, he suddenly thought of something and hurriedly handed over the two bottles of Lao Baigan in his arms, "By the way, this is the wine I promised to buy for you before."

"Eh!"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, and then hurriedly said: "What are you doing? We are all from the same village, why are you being so polite to me?" "Besides, you said that you threw more than 100 kilograms of grain into the water for nothing, how can I have the nerve to drink the wine you bought?"

"fine!"

Hearing this, Xu Lao San hurriedly said in a serious tone, "This is what I promised to buy for you. If you think highly of me, then you should accept it immediately."

After saying that, he stuffed the bottle of Lao Baigan into Li Guoqiang's hand, then turned around and left in a hurry.

When Li Guoqiang saw this, he couldn't help but feel amused, then he hurried to the corner of the courtyard wall, picked up a pheasant weighing more than two kilograms and chased after it.

"Come on, Third Brother, take this pheasant back to add a dish to your family, otherwise I won't accept this wine."

"This"

Xu Laosan looked at the slaughtered pheasant in front of him and hesitated for a moment.

"oops!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang immediately stuffed the pheasant into Xu Laosan's arms, and then said unhappily, "We are all grown men, don't be so shy, take it back quickly!"

"Row!"

Xu Laosan looked at Li Guoqiang's handsome face, and his heart warmed slightly. He nodded vigorously and agreed, "Then I won't be polite to you. If you need help in the future, just tell me. If I don't come, I'm a son of a bitch!"

"Got it!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted, and then he agreed with a happy face: "Then I will remember it!"

In his opinion, being able to exchange a pheasant for a loyal ally was a huge win.

Soon, Xu Laosan walked away with the pheasant in his hand with an excited look on his face, and he became more determined to hold on to Li Guoqiang's thighs.

Li Guoqiang immediately returned to the house and gave the two bottles of Lao Baigan to Xu Yuping.

After Xu Yuping knew that the wine was specially sent by Xu Laosan, she couldn't help but laugh and joked: "People like you who don't know you would think you are a brigade cadre!"

"what!"

Li Guoqiang was not embarrassed at all when he heard this. Instead, he said confidently, "That's because I don't want to be a brigade cadre. Otherwise, with my ability, wouldn't it be easy for me to become a brigade cadre?"

"That is!"

Xu Yuping nodded, and then very tactfully began to praise him: "Everyone in our village knows that you are a genius! You can learn anything quickly, so being a team leader is no problem for you!"

"Maybe he can even become a commune director or a county leader in the future!"

"Alright, alright!"

Li Guoqiang heard Xu Yuping's increasingly exaggerated remarks, so he quickly waved his hands and said, "Stop flattering me. If you keep talking, you'll end up talking about high-ranking provincial officials."

"You were the one who brought it up first!"

Xu Yuping rolled her eyes and spoke in a somewhat unpleasant tone.

After saying that, she twisted her plump waist, took the two bottles of Lao Baigan into the inner room and put them away, then came out immediately to continue cooking.

Seeing that the food was almost ready, Li Guoqiang hurried out to close the gate to the courtyard to prevent someone from suddenly coming to the door and disturbing their New Year's Eve dinner.

Afterwards, he returned to the wooden house and prepared New Year's money for Xu Dani and Zhu Caixia.

Not long after, he heard Xu Yuping coming over and calling for dinner.

When he walked into the inner room next door, he saw that the kang table was already filled with more than a dozen delicious dishes.

Among them are braised carp, braised pig's trotters, stewed chicken, garlic pork, sweet and sour pork, stewed duck, cold cucumber, candied sweet potato, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, stir-fried spinach, dumplings, fried peanuts, and pork ribs and winter melon soup.

It can be said that there are both meat and vegetarian dishes, salty and sweet, sour and spicy, and it is full of flavor.

When Xu Yuping saw Li Guoqiang sitting down, she hurriedly poured him a bowl of warm liquor, and then poured half a bowl for herself and Qu Yinfeng respectively.

But the two sisters Xu Dani and Zhu Caixia could only drink the soup.

After finishing her work, Xu Yuping sat down next to Zhu Caixia, and said with a smile: "Qiangzi, you are the head of the family. Today is New Year's Eve. Come and say a few words to us!"

"Ok!"

Li Guoqiang hesitated for a moment after hearing this, then faced the gazes of Xu Yuping, Qu Yinfeng, Xu Dani and Zhu Caixia, smiled softly and said, "Actually, I don't have much to say. I just hope that our family's life will get better and better every year."

"Also, I hope that Auntie can be healthy and live a long life. I hope that Xiaoxia and Dani can grow up happily and become useful people to society in the future. I hope that Sister Yuping can forget those unhappy days in the past and live a happy life."

"Finally, I hope my family and readers can be safe and sound and everything goes well!"

Hearing these words, Qu Yinfeng's face was full of relief, while Xu Yuping looked at Li Guoqiang with watery eyes and an infatuated look.

As for Xu Dani and Zhu Caixia, they didn't think too much about it. They were just happy that Li Guoqiang thought of them, and they just kept smiling foolishly.

"All right!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted when he saw their reactions, and then he quickly said, "Let's eat while it's hot!"

After saying that, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up a big chicken leg for Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani respectively, and then picked up two duck legs for Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping respectively.

Seeing this, Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping did not bother to be polite with Li Guoqiang. They immediately picked up the duck legs and started to eat them with sweet looks on their faces.

If this had happened in the past, even on New Year's Eve, they could only taste a little bit of meat at most. How could they eat meat in big mouthfuls like they do now?
And all this was brought to them by Li Guoqiang.

While eating the delicious meal, they recalled what had happened recently, and suddenly felt as if they were in a dream.

After dinner, Xu Yuping and Qu Yinfeng did not busy themselves with cleaning up the dishes as usual, but instead drank some wine and chatted with Li Guoqiang.

Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani were not thinking about the New Year's money, but instead were thinking about the new clothes that Xu Yuping and Qu Yinfeng had made for them.

Just when Zhu Caixia was wondering whether she should go to fetch some water and then take a shower and change into new clothes, Li Guoqiang suddenly took out two red envelopes from his pocket and handed them to her and Xu Dani respectively.

"This"

"What are you standing there for? Why don't you hurry up and wish your uncle Qiangzi a happy new year!"

Seeing Zhu Caixia standing there in a daze, Xu Yuping quickly smiled and said something to her.

"Oh!"

Zhu Caixia came back to her senses after hearing this, and then hurriedly said, "Brother Qiangzi, Happy New Year! I wish you good fortune as vast as the East Sea. I wish you all your wishes come true and everything goes well!"

After saying that, she reached out to take the red envelope with a shy look on her face and buried her head in the hillock.

Xu Dani also reacted at this time, snatched the red envelope directly, and shouted excitedly: "Big brother, happy new year, I hope you will become more and more beautiful, and make a lot of money!"

Hearing this, Li Guoqiang, Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping instantly forgot that Zhu Caixia almost said the wrong word before, and they all looked at Xu Dani with great joy.

I didn’t expect that this little girl is such a money-grubber!
(End of this chapter)