Chapter 1208: Chapter 1208: Resolution
Qu Xiaoli was stunned by her son’s words. They divorced Old Fourth just for this? What kind of mind is this? What were they thinking?
"Mom, also my Fourth Aunt’s older sister-in-law said she can only stay at home for ten days, after that she has to leave quickly."
Li Yungui sighed, "Alright, go to sleep. Tomorrow you have to go up the mountain with your master to gather herbs, right?"
"Yes, my master said some herbs have the best medicinal properties at this time."
"Then hurry and go to sleep."
This time, the couple couldn’t sleep.
"Dear, what do you think about what his Fourth Aunt is thinking?"
"How would I know?"
"I guess it must be his Fourth Aunt seeing the changes in her older sister-in-law, which makes her constantly think about city life."
"Long hair, short knowledge. Big Brother is only there because of his position, typical city life doesn’t even compare to ours."
"Who could say it better? This idiot will definitely regret it in the future." Qu Xiaoli had nowhere to start ranting about this sister-in-law. Her reason was truly peculiar.
The next day, Li Yunqiang’s family all woke up late, Xiang Dong didn’t even worry about making breakfast and hurried off to work.
Li Shuzhi was concerned about work, so he got up after his big brother.
Li Yunqiang used last night’s leftover thin porridge and dough sticks for breakfast directly. The children didn’t eat enough yesterday.
He also steamed a bowl of salted red vegetables. There were no stews, as it was already late, and he wanted to settle accounts today, to distribute the money these days.
Actually, this year, it’s not just one public fund of thirty-two cents.
This number was negotiated by several people, and the rest of the money needs to be kept for the chicken and pig farms. Furthermore, the team needs to save more money in case Xiao Wei has any good news in the future, so they wouldn’t have to borrow from the bank.
The two young ones were eating breakfast listlessly.
"You two, hurry up and eat, go to class later, and decide for yourselves in the future whether you have skills or not, it’s your own business."
The two little ones nodded with their heads down but also quickened their pace of eating.
Li Shuzhi was very anxious, but he didn’t dare to rush, so he waited dryly.
He saw his dad cleaning up the table after eating and followed along.
Li Yunqiang didn’t speak a word to him and, after tidying up, went out.
Li Shuzhi followed closely behind him.
Li Yunqiang had already talked to Zhuang Zhiyun, who did not make things difficult and agreed outright.
Thus, Li Shuzhi was arranged to work in the pesticide factory.
The event that happened last night was already known to most of the village. Nowadays, when people meet, the first thing they ask isn’t if you’ve eaten, but if you heard about Li Yunqiang’s family dividing property and divorcing last night.
The news spread very quickly. Yesterday, the neighbors on both sides of Li Yunqiang were standing by the wall listening. Although not complete, they sure understood the gist.
Li Yunqiang just felt everyone was looking at him, smiling bitterly in his heart, knowing it would be like this, letting people talk.
He called three accountants, and the four of them spent the morning in the team office calculating the public funds, of course from today onwards.
After calculations were done, Little Ju was responsible for transcribing, according to the family unit, each person’s public fund count and the amount of money.
At noon, Li Yunqiang hurried back, but there weren’t enough pancakes left from the morning, so for lunch he just boiled sorghum porridge and stewed potatoes.
Xiang Dong and Shuzhi didn’t return, it was just them having lunch with the trio.
Today the two young ones really studied pharmacology earnestly, but having lagged far behind before, even if they listen carefully and take careful notes, it’s still a muddle.
So both became a bit discouraged.
"What’s wrong?"
"Dad, both of us want to study well. But we really can’t understand."
Li Yunqiang sighed, "If you don’t understand, then don’t go. Wait for school to start, and you listen to Teacher Jiang in class seriously.
If you can’t study medicine, you can do something else. But no matter what you do, you must be attentive.
Do you know why you don’t understand?"
Both kids shook their heads.
"It’s because you didn’t treat it earnestly from the start, that’s why such things happen."
"Dad, we remember now. We will definitely study well."
Suddenly, the two children seemed to have grown up. They knew they wouldn’t have the opportunity to work in the future unless they relied on their own efforts.
After lunch, the trio cleaned up. The two youngest went to find Liu Xuefa since they wouldn’t be learning medicine anymore, they had to inform Master Liu.
Li Yunqiang was quite satisfied with this.
In the afternoon, when he got to the team office, the three had already calculated everything and checked others’ transcriptions. There were no mistakes.
Li Yunqiang reviewed it, then took it to meet Li Yungui, suggesting to distribute the money tomorrow, and then the grain.
Li Yungui looked over it and set it aside.
"Old Fourth, do you know why Liu Cuilan divorced you?"
Li Yunqiang shook his head. He just thought Liu Cuilan was quarreling with him.
"Yesterday, when they went to Liu Family Village, Liu Cuilan kept asking when Xiang Dong would buy a house in the city, she wanted to live there."
Li Yunqiang just smiled bitterly at this.
"She can do whatever she wants, Xiang Dong won’t accept her."
He knew his son wouldn’t let Liu Cuilan go over and affect his future life.
"Second Brother, shall we distribute the money tomorrow and the grain the day after?"
"Alright, we can take a quick trip to the mountains later, this year Xiao Wei and Old Yang can handle it, that way it’s safer."
"Sure, I’ll go to Xiao Wei’s house, this should be shown to Xiao Jiang so she can prepare the money."
"I’ll go with you."
The two brothers went to the Wei Family, and Jiang Xinyu glanced at it, quite satisfied with the three accountants she taught.
This way of distributing directly by family would save a lot of change.
"Alright, I’ve got it. I’ll bring the money to the team office tomorrow."
"Teacher Jiang, where’s Xiao Wei?"
"He took the kids up the mountain to play. When did Village Chief Li decide to go up the mountain?"
"Tomorrow we distribute the money, the day after the grain, if time allows, the day after tomorrow we’ll go up the mountain."
"Alright."
"Teacher Jiang, are you going too?"
Jiang Xinyu shook her head, "I’m not going. It’s too crowded, I don’t plan to compete with everyone. Besides, I already have plenty of things at home."
Indeed, she had plenty, with a yard full of chestnuts drying in the sun, and persimmons hanging from the eaves like lanterns.
"Village Chief Li, there are plenty of good things inside, but there are too many people, and with large actions, even with guns, it’s particularly dangerous."
"I don’t want to be scared for nothing. It’s better to circle the outskirts, finding whatever there is."
Li Yungui really didn’t want to worry anymore. The village had such a good harvest this year, there was truly no need to take risks.
"But when there’s an opportunity, Xiao Wei and I will go alone, we might have unexpected gains."