Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 361: The Prime Minister Has Grown Cabbages in His Stomach

When Wan Feng heard someone calling him Brother Wan, his young... even mature heart was so excited that his blood became unbalanced and he slipped and fell on his butt.

The first one to react was Jin Guanqiang. He took small steps and ran to Wan Feng in two or three steps, bending down to help Wan Feng, who was still sitting on the ground sulking.

"Hello, Brother Wan!"

Wan Feng waved his hand and said, "I'm saying, are you guys here to annoy me in the middle of the day? I'm so young, and you call me Brother Wan?"

"Brother Wan, how are you small? In my eyes, you are as majestic as the Himalayas, and my admiration for you is like the mighty river flowing eastward."

Wan Feng was shocked. If this word came out now, what would Zhou Xingxing pronounce it as in a few years?

Besides, this flattery is too low-level. What is the difference between me and Himalaya? In the eyes of Himalaya, I am just an ant.

"Wait a moment, could you please introduce yourself?"

"My name is Jin Guanqiang, and I live in Miaoling."

"Oh, who are you, the cockroach who is so famous for being indestructible?"

Jin Guanqiang was confused. When did he claim to be the indestructible cockroach?

"That's just the brothers yelling."

"Brother Qiang..."

"I don't dare to be your brother, just call me Xiaoqiang."

Hehe, Xiaoqiang!

"Why did you bring them here?"

Jin Guanqiang straightened his back and kept turning back to the two guys: "Why don't you come over and apologize to Brother Wan."

He Tao and Yang Zun came over and nodded, "Brother Wan, we brothers are blind and don't know how to recognize a great man. We don't know if you have offended us by coming here. You are so stupid..."

"Asshole, how can you say that the prime minister has cabbages in his stomach?" Jin Guanqiang shouted harshly.

He Tao and Yang Zun looked confused: "What kind?"

"If you want to grow ginseng, you have to grow something valuable."

Wan Feng chuckled. "So you guys are here to tell me some crosstalk? Do you have any bananas in your stomach?"

"If you like, you can plant anything."

These guys must disappear quickly. They keep calling you old so much that Wan Feng thinks he is in his seventies or eighties.

"Alright, alright, it's over. I almost forgot about it. It's not easy for you to come here. I won't keep you for dinner. Let's hurry back and have lunch while we can."

Jin Guanqiang was overjoyed: "Brother Wan, what do you mean...?"

"It's okay, you guys can go back."

"I know Brother Wan must have been pregnant with cabbage. This is a small token of our appreciation, brothers. Please accept it."

There were four bottles of wine tied together with straw ropes, two bottles of Moutai and two bottles of Wuliangye.

Moutai costs more than seven yuan a bottle, and it requires a permit. How do these guys get it?

Two Daqianmen tickets with a face value of 35 cents each, and what surprised Wan Feng the most was that there were actually two pork tickets with a face value of 10 kilograms.

These things together cost more than 40 yuan.

This gift is quite innovative.

"Come on, why do you need to bring anything?" He said this, but Wan Feng took it without changing his expression or heartbeat.

"Brother Wan, please be busy now. We will go back."

"Take care."

Jin Guanqiang didn't expect that things would go so smoothly today. He was prepared to be scolded, but to his surprise, nothing happened.

The three guys rode away happily, and turned back to wave to Wan Feng from a distance.

Wan Feng was too embarrassed to leave now, so he had to wait until they disappeared from the village entrance.

Luan Feng had already run out of the house.

"What are they doing here again?"

"You've come to give me gifts, come and share the spoils."

The two men sat face to face on the sand pile in front of Luan Feng's house and divided the loot.

"One bottle for you and one for me." Wan Feng untied the straw rope that bound the two bottles of Moutai and gave each of them one bottle.

"One bottle for you and one for me." Wan Feng untied the straw rope of Wuliangye and gave each of them a bottle.

"One for you, one for me." Two meat tickets, one for each of us.

"One for you, one for me." Two cigarettes, one for each of us.

The spoils have been divided.

"These are for your family, and these are for my grandma's family."

"Wow, I have a meat ticket, this time I can have a big..."

The excited Luan Feng hadn't finished speaking when she saw Wan Feng's eyes, which had more white than black pupils.

"Can you be a little classy? Eat like a farmer."

Luan Feng was surprised: "Am I not a farmer? You little Wanzi, do you despise me because I am a farmer?"

Xiao Wanzi! Why does this sound like the little eunuch in the TV series? Who did she learn this from?

"That's not what I meant?"

"What does that mean?" Luan Feng was unreasonable.

"Okay, I was wrong. I scared you."

Luan Feng turned her anger into a smile: "How dare you look down on me because I'm a farmer." After saying that, she happily walked back with the things in her arms.

"Hey, take my grandfather's things and put them at your house first. If I carry these things with me, they will attract robbers. I'll come to get them at noon."

"Why don't you come in? My disciple still wants to admire the elegance of your master's wife."

"Get lost! Tell your disciples that if they call me "Master's Wife" again, I'll spank them one by one."

Er Man just happened to run out of the house and heard the second half of Wan Feng's words. She asked Luan Feng in confusion, "Whose butt is Master's Wife going to spank?"

"Slap your butt and help me get the stuff in."

This episode delayed Wan Feng for a lot of time. The bricklayers on the top of the mountain probably had the roof blown off by now.

Wan Feng left Luan Feng's house and hurried to the brick factory to find Chen Cang and told him the situation.

"Why should I object to you renovating the house? It's a good thing. Now I have a neighbor. Otherwise, it would be boring to be alone. In two years, when my son grows up, I'll have to renovate the house too. If I don't, I won't have a place for him to marry."

"We want to widen the front of the house, of course, towards the back. You'll also be renovating in the future, so I'd like to ask for your opinion on how much wider it should be."

"Widen it, that room is really too narrow. How about adding two meters?"

"Adding two meters still doesn't make it nine meters wide, so let's just use nine meters."

The nine-meter width of the house was unprecedented in the 1980s.

Chen Cang nodded in agreement.

Wan Feng found Zhang Hai again. Renovating a house and cleaning the house are two different things, and this requires the approval of the brigade.

"Aren't you cleaning it up? Why is it being renovated again?"

"Captain, you know the condition of that house. The bricklayer went to take a look today and said it's better to tear it down and rebuild it. It's not worth renovating. I saw that if I renovated it now, I might have to renovate it in two years, so I decided to renovate it."

"This needs to be notified to the brigade."

"This is your business. When you notify the team, please tell them that we need to move the new house back two meters, otherwise the space will be too narrow."

Zhang Hai thought for a moment: "Is the bricklayer at the top of the mountain now?"

Wan Feng nodded.

"Then I'll go to the brigade and inform them so they don't delay the bricklayers' work."

Zhang Hai pushed his bicycle and ran towards the team.