Chapter 71 Strong
He also didn't want to change the slightly strong personality of the rich woman, otherwise how could he earn money to support the family if his personality was weak.

This is different from Qin Huairu. The eldest daughter-in-law is suitable for taking care of the family, while Chen Xueru is suitable for doing business.

One is in the Lord and the other is outside the Lord, and he lives a good life in the middle.

As for Hou Cheng, he is not a good person either.

It’s good to be a tool now.

"Then you need to take good care of your health. Do you have enough money?"

Chen Xueru really has a wealthy family and ample cash flow, and cash can be seen in the store every day.

"It's enough for me to spend. I'm usually very frugal."

Well, even if he wanted to spend lavishly, he couldn't spend much. Having enough food and drink was considered a comfortable life in this era.

"Xue Ru, do you know how to massage my back? I'll lie down for a while and you can give me a massage. When I fall asleep, you can go and do your work."

He got up very early today and felt sleepy again.

"No, but I can learn. Just lie on your stomach."

Chen Xueru happily started massaging him. Not long after, the man fell asleep. She couldn't help but lower her head and kiss him on the back. Then she got dressed and left the office somewhat awkwardly.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but when Li Zhiguo woke up, he felt refreshed. He looked at his watch and it was already past four o’clock.

He sat up, grabbed his clothes and put them on. As soon as he opened the office door, he saw Fan Jinyou coming to the inner hall in front of him again, and Chen Xueru and Chuntao were sitting opposite him, listening to something.

Suddenly Chen Xueru noticed this and said hurriedly, "Comrade Fan, I know everything you said. I have to have a meeting with the tailors soon, so I won't entertain you."

"Boss Chen..."

Fan Jinyou wanted to say something, but seeing the man's attitude, he had to leave.

He just couldn't figure it out. Could it be that Boss Chen looked down on him at all? That couldn't be the case.

He is a street cadre and has no burden on his family. He now lives in a small courtyard with his own door. Such conditions are hard to find even with a lantern.

"Chun Tao, you should get busy too!"

"Okay Sister Xueru, why don't you see Brother Li?"

Chuntao was a little confused, but she was just curious and didn't dare to say anything, otherwise she would be sent back to the countryside.

"He has a stomach problem and is resting in the office. Don't spread any news about your brother Li. Otherwise, go back to farming and find a farmer to live with."

Chen Xueru is really strong in dealing with the outside world, and she always does what she says and shows no mercy to others.

"Sister Xueru, I won't say anything nonsense."

Chuntao left quickly to avoid bad luck.

"Li Zhiguo, you're awake."

Chen Xueru walked over with a smile on her face.

"Yeah, I slept well. What brought Fan Jinyou here just now?"

Li Zhiguo just asked casually, this man was no match for him anymore.

"What else can I do? Just show my kindness! He came and said he would give me the backyard, and then he rented another house with its own door and yard.

He just wanted to say how much he cared for me, but he was full of lies, unlike you who were sincere to me."

Chen Xueru came up and straightened the man's collar. She looked so handsome and attractive no matter how you looked at her.

"Well, he is just a toad wanting to eat swan flesh!"

Li Zhiguo took her to the sofa in the inner hall and chatted for a while before saying, "I have to go back. I'll come back tomorrow."

"Okay! When Hou Cheng goes to Chou Country in a while, I'll take you to my house to get acquainted with you."

Chen Xueru only has a grandmother in her family, otherwise she wouldn't come out to manage the silk shop personally.

"Okay!"

Li Zhiguo touched Chen Xueru's belly and said with a smile: "Give me a big fat boy. We will train him well. He will become a great man in the future. He will be well-versed in history and the present, and be proficient in both Chinese and Western learning like me. He will also be admitted to a university."

Before he traveled through time, he was a student at a prestigious university and scored exactly 666 points in the college entrance examination. However, he wasted his time for many years and gave a lot of knowledge back to his ex-girlfriend.

"That would be great. It's just that you sound like you've been to college."

Chen Xueru joked that she only knew the person's junior high school education.

"I didn't go to college, but I taught myself college knowledge. I usually read books at home when I have nothing to do."

Li Zhiguo boasted that this was different from winning over his wife Qin Huairu. Chen Xueru was not short of money and had received a good education.

Therefore, he must show more advantages in order to keep people.

"No wonder you understand so much. I misunderstood you before."

Chen Xueru leaned on someone's shoulder and understood Li Zhiguo's intentions even better.

After a while of tenderness, Li Zhiguo looked at his watch and decided it was time to go.

In the evening, Li Zhiguo was already having dinner.

"Huai Ru, my dad has found a job as an accountant at the Qianmenlouzi Grain Store. The monthly salary for internship is 18 yuan, and the monthly salary for permanent employment is 20.5 yuan.

I will be able to go to work in a few days. Tomorrow I will ask the bus driver to tell my dad to find some time to come to the city."

Li Zhiguo doesn't want to go back to the village for the time being. He needs to let his relatives take some time to rest and recuperate.

"What a good job! I work at a grain station."

Qin Huairu initially thought that it would be good to find a job to do hard labor.

“Well, after all, your husband is also from the Street Office, it’s just a small work issue.

Even our father, after carrying a hoe for so many years, can he still hold a pen? "

Li Zhiguo saw his father-in-law's genes in his two brothers-in-law, and they were not cut out for studying.

"My dad went to a private school for a few years when he was young. My grandmother said that he sold all the cattle in the family. Later, my second uncle went to another family to learn farming. I think his basic skills are still there."

Qin Huairu wasn't too sure, since she had never seen her father write.

"It's not a big problem. When our dad comes, we'll ask Uncle San to give us some intensive training. Accounting is just a matter of a few words."

Li Zhiguo also had a headache. It was a bit far-fetched to ask his father-in-law, who was a farmer, to switch to a civilian job.

"Well, then tomorrow you can have someone tell my dad to come to the city the day after tomorrow, and Guangming will go to pick him up at noon."

Qin Huairu didn't want to tire her man out.

"I'll go pick it up! I'll be going to the street soon and buying some wood. I'll ask Uncle San to make furniture for me later."

He promised the rich woman that he would be more diligent. If he missed the planting season this spring, it would be like a year's work wasted!
After chatting for a while and washing up, he took a rest half a day later. His wife was pregnant and there was nothing she could do.

The next day at noon, he ate a bowl of braised pork outside and then went to the station to ask the driver to pass on a message.

When the driver arrives at the supply and marketing cooperative in Qin's village, he will take the message there, and then someone from the supply and marketing cooperative will pass it on, or wait until someone from the village comes for a walk and spread the message by word of mouth.

However, because Li Zhiguo gave the money separately and it was an expedited matter, the news could be conveyed to the Qin family on the same day.

"Qin Changchun, your son-in-law sent a message."

"Come in quickly and tell me what you want to say."

Qin Changchun quickly took out the cigarette that he was reluctant to smoke and gave one to the person.

The man took the cigarette and put it on his ear. "Your son-in-law asked you to go to the city tomorrow and take the first passing bus. He will pick you up at the station and said he has found a job for you. Work in a grain store."

"Oh, you have a job so soon, or are you going to the grain station?"

Qin Changchun was shaking with excitement, thinking that he had been studying since he was young, and had made his parents poor and even the old cow in the family suffer. He never expected that he could still go to the city to earn money when he was over 40 years old.

"That's what I mean. Your son-in-law is capable. Your son has gone to work at the street office. It's not wrong for you to go to the grain station."

People in the supply and marketing cooperative are also envious.

"Then I have to clean up quickly."

"Mother, come home quickly. Something big has happened in my family. I have to go to work in the city."

Qin's mother was loosening the soil at this time. Sweet potatoes had already been grown in the field, and her youngest son was beside her.

When he heard this, he also shouted, "Is it the son-in-law who is back?"

Wow, the whole thing was made clear through just this question and answer. There were villagers working in the fields nearby, so the gossip could spread.

Qin's mother quickly took the hoe and trotted home.

After a while, Lao Qin's relatives and many villagers came to the door.

"Qin Da, your family has become rich, and your son has gone to work at the street office. You will follow him to the grain station. You will all be city dwellers in the future."

"When we get to the city, we can have a hot meal at your house. Please don't deny us a place to stay."

After hearing these words, Qin Changchun's face was full of red. "When I get to the city, you all can come and I will definitely entertain you."

Just make the big promise first, and then you can hide when there are too many people coming.

Besides, it’s not a festival now, and the villagers don’t have the spare money to go to the city.

After a long time, the villagers dispersed, leaving the two brothers of the Qin family here, chatting enviously.

At night, Qin Changchun couldn't sleep all night. He got up in the middle of the night, dressed, and walked around the main room.

After finally waiting until daybreak, he shouted, "Mother, I'm leaving first. You stay home and take good care of Guangyou. I'll come back to see you when I have a holiday."

"What time is it now? The morning bus doesn't go that fast. It leaves the county at 7 o'clock, but it's almost 8 o'clock here. If you go to the main road, you'll have to wait for more than an hour."

Mother Qin put on her clothes and went to the main room. She would still have time to cook breakfast and eat now.

"No, my son-in-law is waiting for me in the city. It would be bad if I missed the early bus. Mother, I'm leaving first."

As Qin Changchun said this, he walked out of the house with a bag in one hand and a wooden barrel in the other.

"Go slowly on the road and don't drop the money."

Qin's mother was a little worried because this man had never been to the city alone in his life and could not read many words.

"If you can't drop it, just wait and enjoy yourself!"

Qin Changchun jogged all the way to the edge of the road and stood in the cold wind for more than an hour.

Siheyuan, backyard! "Brother Li, it's time to get up. You asked me to wake you up earlier, Brother Li..."

Chen Bihua was shouting outside the Li family’s window.

"Dongxu wife, I'm coming right away."

Li Zhiguo woke up immediately and looked at the time. Fortunately, it was just half past eight and he would not miss his bus.

"Bihua, don't leave yet. I'm in a hurry. Help me get the breakfast in the pot to the main room."

Li Zhiguo took the mouthwash cup and started using it.

"okay!"

Chen Bihua put down the washbasin and went to Li's kitchen. It was okay inside. There was nothing good to see, but it was very clean.

There was a pot on the stove. She lifted the lid and there was still warm steam. There was a steamer in the pot, on which were two layers of flour, two eggs, and a plate of side dishes.

"Oh, what a delicious breakfast."

Chen Bihua did not dare to delay, packed the food and sent it to the main room.

"Excuse me, pour a cup of boiling water, the kettle on the right."

Li Zhiguo is considering whether to install a small stone mill in the backyard so that he can drink some stone-ground soy milk in the morning.

When he arrived at the main room, he saw that the eggs had been peeled. Dongxu's wife was really caring.

He picked up an egg and ate it in two bites, then took a bite of the flour and drank a sip of boiled water. The water he boiled yesterday was at just the right temperature after being left overnight, as today's kettles don't keep heat as well.

"Bihua, there's another egg for you. I can't eat it."

Li Zhiguo grabbed another piece of white flour and bit it in his mouth, saying incoherently: "Woo, hurry up, eat it, don't waste it."

"Thank you, Brother Li."

Chen Bihua ate the egg in a few bites quickly, as she was pregnant and needed nutrition.

"It's a small matter."

Li Zhiguo then locked the door and left ahead pushing his bicycle.

He really couldn't eat it, it was choking. The eggs were already peeled, they would go bad if left alone, so he took it as a reward for waking up.

After leaving the courtyard, the bicycle sped away and he ate the noodles on the road against the wind.

We arrived at the station five minutes earlier than expected. He was still reliable at the critical moment.

The main reason is that I’m afraid that my father-in-law will get lost, and I won’t be able to explain this to the Qin family.

"son in law!"

In less than two minutes, the bus arrived. Qin Changchun was so happy to see his son-in-law waiting so early.

"Dad, why did you bring so many things again?"

Li Zhiguo saw two tied chickens in the wooden barrel, still alive.

"These are all the gifts from the villagers last time. You forgot, there were nine chickens, you took three last time, and here are two more. Your family still has five left for you."

Qin Changchun was happy. He would be a city dweller in the future, thanks to his good son-in-law.

Li Zhiguo originally wanted to bring his father-in-law to the courtyard to settle down, but suddenly he thought of a serious problem.

"Dad, can you write? Do you know many words?"

I am still using traditional Chinese characters now, which are not different from what I learned before.

“Even if it’s a big word, I can still recognize a lot of it.”

Qin Changchun was a little embarrassed. He had learned this thirty years ago and had long ago returned it to his private school teacher, whose memory was vague.

"What's three plus two?"

Li Zhiguo thought it was okay, Chinese was the basics and he was not illiterate, so he could try math.

"Son-in-law, you said three plus two. Let me think about it. This, this..."

Qin Changchun was a little nervous because this private school teacher didn't teach arithmetic.

"Dad, you found three dollars, and you found two more dollars, so the total is..."

Li Zhiguo became anxious. It was not right that he could not even perform as well as a kindergarten kid in math.

"Five dollars. I don't even need to count the money I picked up. I can tell how much it is just by thinking about it."

Qin Changchun felt that he had saved face, but his son-in-law just didn't ask the right question.

"Dad, your education level is more than enough to work at the grain station, but you still need some intensive training."

Li Zhiguo wiped his forehead and thought, this is my father-in-law! I should pay more attention to him.

Li Zhiguo thought about it at this moment. He originally planned to ask Yan Bugui to give intensive training to his father-in-law, but the third uncle was a wicked person. He might expose his secrets.

"Hey, there is!"

He thought of a suitable person, Wobo'er Cai Quanwu. This guy was well-educated and good at math. He used to work at the grain station unloading goods and carrying grain. He was familiar with the accounting system at the grain station.

The key is that as long as Cai Quanwu knows some of his situation, there will be no problem.

But he still had to find a place, as he didn't want the location of his courtyard to be exposed so quickly.

Not long after, he brought his father-in-law to the courtyard and asked him to pack his luggage first and wait for Guangming to come back.

"Dad, I'm going to contact a teacher for you to do intensive training. I'll pick you up at noon and we'll have dinner outside."

"Going out to eat, that's going to cost a lot of money."

Qin Changchun has a wealthy family, but he is used to being frugal.

"I'm not short of money, your son-in-law. You can take a rest first."

Li Zhiguo immediately went out to look for Cai Quanwu, and after asking several tricycle drivers, he finally found He Daqing.

"Li Zhiguo, what a coincidence, you are here."

He Da had already gotten used to riding a tricycle early in the morning. He could take a break whenever he wanted, and no one cared. Now he was watching people perform monkey shows on the overpass.

"Lao He, where is your brother? I have something to ask him!"

Now the He family has two tricycles, which is really amazing.

"Over there, isn't it coming?"

He Daqing stretched out his hand and pointed, and his tricycle could be recognized from a distance.

"It really is!"

Li Zhiguo also had sharp eyes and followed suit, shouting, "Old Cai, come quickly."

"Brother Li?"

Cai Quanwu was quite surprised. Could it be that he, like his brother, liked watching people perform monkey shows on the overpass?

It’s not easy to say this now since Lao He is still here.

"No, where are you going?"

"Lao He, don't worry about it. Just look at your monkey."

Li Zhiguo shouted and took the man away.

"Old Cai, please go to the Donglaishun in Xinjiekou and wait. I will bring people over soon and we can talk in person."

"okay!"

Cai Quanwu didn't ask what it was, just do it.

Li Zhiguo then went to the courtyard, took Guangming's pen and notebook, and then drove his father-in-law to the restaurant.

"Son-in-law, the food in this restaurant is not cheap."

Qin Changchun felt a little nervous, but then he thought to himself that his son-in-law was very capable.

"That's not a big deal. Let's go. I've invited someone else."

Li Zhiguo brought his father-in-law in and saw Cai Quanwu sitting on a long bench, looking at the door, looking a little uneasy.

Donglaishun Restaurant, the mutton hotpot there tastes really good, and it’s also a time-honored brand.

"Hey, man, arrange a private room."

Li Zhiguo had been here before, so he made arrangements for the familiar ones.

"I'm coming!"

The waiter made all the arrangements quickly, and when they arrived at the private room, Li Zhiguo ordered the dishes without even looking at the menu.

"Bring up a bottle of good wine first, and don't miss the peanuts."

"Okay, follow me."

As soon as the guy saw these three people, he knew who was the boss, but there was something wrong with this combination.

The one coming in front is riding a tricycle, and the one coming behind is obviously an old farmer working in the countryside.

But the person who invited us seemed to be the son of a high-ranking official.

"Old Cai, let me introduce you to my father-in-law, Qin Changchun. He studied in several private schools in his early years. In a few days, he will go to the grain station in Qianmenlouzi to do accounting.

You are also familiar with the grain station. This afternoon, give my father-in-law a intensive training in this private room.

Don't leave at night, eat here. Donglaishun not only has great mutton hotpot, but other dishes are good too."

Li Zhiguo cut the Gordian knot and explained the matter directly. Treating people to two meals is not cheap.

"Brother Li, what is Uncle Qin's current level?"

Cai Quanwu didn't ask how he knew that he was well-educated and could do math, but he probably knew it was his eldest brother who told him.

"Well, ask yourself, I need to pee urgently!"

Li Zhiguo has escaped, and considering his father-in-law's situation, it's a bit embarrassing.

Qin Changchun replied: "As for the characters, I still remember more than a dozen and can write them all. As for the math, when it comes to money, I still know how to calculate."

(End of this chapter)