Chapter 229 This girl has really grown up!

But before Li Guoqiang could be happy for long, Xu Guangfu thought of a very serious question, and then hurriedly asked in a deep voice:
"By the way! Qiangzi, if you go to Sijiu City to take charge of the office, who will be in charge of the apiary?"

Although he didn't have much education, he was a production team leader after all, and he had lived from the old era to the new society, so he could still figure out what was most important.

If you fail to run the office well, the most you will earn is less money.

If they fail to run the apiary well, it will directly affect the food problem of their Jinshanbao Production Team.

Therefore, if there was no one he could trust to be in charge of the apiary, he would never let Li Guoqiang go to Sijiu City to be in charge of the office.

Hearing this question, Li Guoqiang was slightly stunned, and then answered without hesitation: "In my opinion, our brigade cadres can be responsible for management at that time, which is equivalent to setting up a new management team at the bee farm."

"Just like if you are the team leader, you can also be the director of the apiary, and Uncle Maocai is the secretary of the apiary, and Uncle Changshun is the logistics director of the apiary."

"Then, the person in charge of each apiary below is the branch manager."

"In this way, the bee farm can become a formal brigade-run enterprise like the commune's brick and tile factory."

"It's just that what we pay to the workers every month is work points, not wages."

At this point, Li Guoqiang paused for a moment, then continued with a serious look: "Uncle Fu, I'm sure you've heard some gossip in the village recently. Basically, they all say that I abused my power for personal gain and arranged for Sister Yuping and Aunt Yinfeng to work at the bee farm."

"Some even said that I might use my position to enrich myself in the future."

"In short, to avoid suspicion, it would be better for me to be in charge of the office and research beekeeping techniques, and then come back from time to time to train the workers at the apiary."

After hearing these words, Xu Guangfu was suddenly silent.

In fact, he had originally planned to talk to Li Guoqiang about this matter and see how to solve it, but he didn't expect Li Guoqiang to bring it up first.

After a while, he took a deep puff of his pipe, then nodded and said, "Okay, I understand what you mean. I'll have a meeting with them to discuss it when we get back to the village."

"to make!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted, then he laughed and said, "Then I'll wait for your news."

In fact, the reason why he did this, in addition to partly because he wanted to solve the problem of returning to the city, the main reason was because he knew that when he returned this time, there would definitely be people who would be interested in the honor and benefits that the apiary could bring.

Instead of waiting for others to make a move, he might as well take a step back and advance, and deliver the big piece of fat meat of the apiary directly to the mouths of the cadres of the Jinshanbao Production Brigade, in exchange for the opportunity to return to the city to work. Then, when selling the honey produced by the Jinshanbao apiary, he would also sell the honey produced by his private apiary and the honey he had earned.

Anyway, as long as I can sell it at a relatively high price, I don’t have to worry about the villagers’ opinions.

As long as he can travel freely between Sijiucheng and Jinshanbao Production Brigade and arrange his own time freely, it will be worth it even if he has to contribute a little bit of his own money.

To him, money is just a number, and legal and compliant freedom is what he needs most now.

Besides, if he had not been commended by the old man for his trip to Beijing, he would not have to go through so much trouble now. He could have just found a company in the city to recruit him and brought him back.

But then again, this might be more beneficial to him now. Not only does he have the title of an outstanding representative, but he can also take care of both Sijiu City and Jinshan Fort. He doesn't have to worry about how to arrange Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others.

Moreover, he can use the office to accumulate various connections and occupy the honey market, and then when the reform and opening up comes, he can directly transform himself into a private entrepreneur.

At this time, Shang Xiuzhen had no idea what Li Guoqiang was planning. She only knew that if she wanted to go back to the city, the best way would be to let Li Guoqiang take her with him to take charge of the office.

Thinking of this, she immediately wanted to discuss it with Li Guoqiang, but after seeing Xu Guangfu, she had to swallow her words back.

Soon, the three of them ended their conversation, walked to the entrance of a restaurant not far from the county government, met up with Old Sun who was waiting there, and went back together on the donkey cart.

On the way, neither Li Guoqiang, Shang Xiuzhen, nor Xu Guangfu talked about the next arrangements for the apiary. They just recounted what they saw and heard in Beijing when asked by Old Sun, which unsurprisingly aroused Old Sun's envy.

More than two hours later, they returned safely to Jinshan Fort.

As soon as Xu Guangfu got off the donkey cart, he hurriedly asked Shang Xiuzhen to run to the field and call Sun Maocai, Ma Changshun and other brigade cadres to come for a meeting.

Li Guoqiang did not go to the apiary and went straight home.

When the two sisters Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani saw Li Guoqiang coming back, they glared at first, and then quickly threw themselves into his arms like young swallows returning to their nests.

"Brother Qiangzi, you're back!"

"Big brother, you're finally back. I missed you so much!"

As they spoke, the two sisters' eyes turned red, and then they each tightly grasped one of Li Guoqiang's arms, as if they were afraid that he would suddenly disappear.

"All right!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but said with some distress: "Don't cry, you see, I'm back now! And I brought you gifts!"

"Gift?"

When Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani heard that there were gifts, they immediately stopped crying and turned their eyes to the two large baskets that Li Guoqiang brought back on a shoulder pole.

Because the basket was covered with a piece of bamboo strips, they couldn't see what was inside and could only turn their heads to look at Li Guoqiang with curiosity.

"Ah!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted upon seeing this. He then reached out to lift up the bamboo strips and took out two floral skirts from the basket.

He bought these two skirts when he went to Sijiu City to buy clothes for Luo Huijuan.

At that time, he received several cold stares from Luo Huijuan.

Seeing such a beautiful dress in front of them, Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani couldn't help but widen their eyes, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

They never dreamed that the gift Li Guoqiang brought them would be a beautiful dress they had never seen before.

"What?"

Li Guoqiang felt even happier when he saw the silly looks on the two sisters' faces. He then laughed softly and said jokingly, "Don't you like it? Then I'll put it away!"

"do not want!"

When Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani heard that Li Guoqiang was going to put the skirt away, they immediately came to their senses, hurriedly reached out to grab the skirt, and held it tightly in their arms, fearing that Li Guoqiang would take the skirt away.

"what!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help laughing, and then said softly: "Okay, go into the house and try on the skirt to see if it fits!" "Yes!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani hurriedly nodded in agreement, then turned around and ran into the house.

After a while, they came out in their skirts with happy faces, and then turned several circles in front of Li Guoqiang, like two dancing butterflies.

"How is it? Does it look good?"

"It's beautiful, just like the fairies in the sky!"

Li Guoqiang looked at the two sisters' expectant eyes, nodded quickly and praised them.

Hearing his words, Xu Dani immediately burst into laughter, while Zhu Caixia lowered her head slightly shyly.

Then, she suddenly found that she seemed to be unable to see her toes anymore.

Li Guoqiang didn't pay much attention to this. He was only concerned with seeing if the skirt fit him. He didn't realize that Zhu Caixia, the little girl, had slowly grown into a big girl.

After making sure that the skirts fit perfectly, he immediately felt relieved and took out some Daoxiangcun cakes from the basket for Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani to taste.

Soon, the two sisters were attracted by the delicious pastries. They stuffed their mouths like little squirrels and almost choked.

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but shook his head with amusement, then carried the basket into the house.

Not long after, Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping came back from work. As soon as they entered the door, they saw Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani sticking to Li Guoqiang, listening to him talk about his experience in Beijing. Then, their somewhat uneasy hearts instantly became at ease.

"Grandma, Mom, you're back!"

"Grandma, aunt, look, these are the cakes that my big brother brought back. They are delicious."

"Also, look at the skirts we are wearing. Aren't they beautiful? This is a gift that big brother brought us specially!"

When Zhu Caixia saw Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping coming back, she just said hello, but Xu Dani was a little impatient to share the Daoxiangcun cakes with Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping, and to show off the floral dress she was wearing.

"Good good!"

Qu Yinfeng looked at Xu Dani's happy face and couldn't help nodding and applauding on the spot.

Originally, she was a little worried that Li Guoqiang's attitude towards Xu Dani would change after he returned home. Now, seeing that Li Guoqiang still dotes on Xu Dani so much, she is so happy!

Because this means that Li Guoqiang's family does not object to his relationship with her family, or it means that Li Guoqiang is not influenced by his family.

From now on, even if she was gone suddenly one day, she could close her eyes in peace.

At the same time, Xu Yuping was attracted by Zhu Caixia's beautiful floral dress, and soon noticed that Zhu Caixia was pressing Li Guoqiang's arm with a weapon.

[This girl has really grown up! ]

While expressing her emotion, she did not forget to secretly glance at the expression on Li Guoqiang's face.

When she found that Li Guoqiang was behaving as usual, she didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

After a while, Xu Dani finally calmed down, picked up two pieces of cake and stuffed them into Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping's mouths respectively.

Zhu Caixia's performance was not so pleasing. From beginning to end, she just held Li Guoqiang's arm tightly and sat quietly beside him, as if she wanted to make Li Guoqiang understand her feelings in this way.

However, Li Guoqiang had never thought about it in this way from the beginning, so her efforts were destined to be in vain.

"How is it? Is it delicious?"

Xu Dani watched Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping swallow the pastries, and immediately asked with a smug look on her face.

If you don’t know, you would think that all these pastries were brought back by her!
"delicious!"

When Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping heard Xu Dani's question, they nodded in admiration and answered hurriedly.

Afterwards, without waiting for Xu Dani to bring them some pastries, they took a piece from the kang table and put it in their mouths, slowly savoring it.

From this we can see that they were also conquered by the pastries of Daoxiangcun.

However, as they were eating, they suddenly saw Li Guoqiang take out two boxes from the cabinet and handed them to them, then signaled them with his eyes to open them and have a look.

Soon, they picked up the box curiously and opened it slowly.

The next moment, two bright silver Shanghai brand ladies' mechanical watches appeared in front of them. The bright and glowing glass dials dazzled their eyes instantly, making them somewhat unsure whether this was real.

After they rubbed their eyes carefully and looked into the box, they dared to believe that what Li Guoqiang gave them was a watch.

Then, Qu Yinfeng hurriedly handed the box back to Li Guoqiang, and then said in a panic: "Qiangzi, this watch is too valuable, you should take it back quickly!"

Hearing this, Xu Yuping also reacted immediately, and hurriedly put the box back in front of Li Guoqiang, and then said in agreement: "That's right, Qiangzi, this watch is really too valuable, you should take it back quickly!"

"Besides, we are just rural women. Every day we either go out to work or stay at home to do things. Why do we need to wear such expensive things?"

"fine!"

Seeing Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping's reactions, Li Guoqiang waved his hands and said, "This watch may be very valuable to others, but to me, it is nothing at all."

"Besides, we are a family! If you are so distant with me, I will be angry!"

After saying that, he reached out and picked up the box and put it back into Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping's hands.

"This"

Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping looked at the box in their hands, and then looked at the expression on Li Guoqiang's face that would not tolerate rejection. Finally, they could only nod with a touched look and agreed: "Okay then! Then we will shamelessly accept this watch."

"Come on, put it on and see if it fits."

When Li Guoqiang saw that Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping both accepted the watches, he hurriedly urged them with a satisfied look on his face.

Hearing his words, Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping showed an interested look on their faces, and then they carefully took out the watches from the box and tried them on.

Wearing it instantly gave them an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)