The next morning, Sheng Xiping told the team leader about the work of preparing the foundation.

The foreman agreed without hesitation.

Those things are useless to keep; we need to arrange for someone to clean them up, otherwise they'll be penalized if they fail inspection.

Sheng Xiping wanted to use the wood as firewood, which was perfect. It saved the construction team a lot of trouble and saved them some trouble.

"Xiping, then you just need to make sure the background is clear and that it passes the inspection."

"Well, I've arranged everything for you on the dispatch side, don't worry." The captain readily agreed.

Meanwhile, Zhou Qinglan used the factory's phone to call her mother's workplace and told her that she needed to bring firewood home.

When Zhou Qinglan's mother, Wang Chunxiu, heard this, she was overjoyed and immediately told her daughter that it would be best to have Sheng Xiping come down in the car to meet him.

My daughter has been dating for so long, but I still haven't seen what he looks like.

Besides, they helped us so much, so we should at least express our gratitude, right?

Zhou Qinglan was originally worried that her parents would not approve of Sheng Xiping and would not agree to them being together.

Now that she heard her mother's words, she felt a little more at ease, and the mother and daughter made that agreement.

On the morning of August 31st, Sheng Xiping found a few people to help him go up the mountain to clean up the base of the mountain.

The foreman has already arranged with the site that the internal combustion engine will throw the three large steel plates onto the stack.

Once Sheng Xiping and the others have loaded the truck, they can haul the rest of the truckload of rickety trucks down with them when they pick up the passengers in the afternoon.

Everyone knows that this is the firewood that Sheng Xiping installed for his future father-in-law's house. Everyone is very honest and has thoroughly investigated the details.

Wang Jianshe and his group also went into the woods and left some supplies there, mixing them into the truck. They filled a whole truck.

As evening fell, everyone returned together in the car.

In the evening, Zhang Shuzhen prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain everyone.

At the dinner table, Sheng Xiping brought it up, saying that Zhou Qinglan's parents had asked him to come along in the car so they could meet him.

"Oh my, Brother Xiping, are you going to meet your future mother-in-law and father-in-law?"

"Congratulations! If you perform well, your father-in-law will be so pleased that he'll agree to the marriage!"

Everyone was quite happy to hear this and started cheering.

"Hey, how about this, let's all go down together?"

That's a huge cartload of firewood; I wonder how many people the Zhou family hired to help. If they didn't have enough people, they probably wouldn't have been able to finish.

Why don't I go to the yard and borrow two chainsaws, and also get some gasoline from the materials warehouse?

"Tomorrow we'll go down with the truck and help transport the firewood to the Zhou family's house. We can just saw it out then."

Wang Jianshe was quick-witted and immediately came up with a good idea.

The tractor in the field needed to be towed to the machine repair shop by an internal combustion engine. Sheng Xiping had already arranged with the field dispatcher to use the internal combustion engine to tow the truck with firewood.

They will go down with the car early tomorrow morning.

The entire process of loading the trucks and cutting firewood at Songjiang River was completed in less than a day, saving the Zhou family the trouble of finding someone to clean up.

Besides, with these people around, under the guise of doing chores, Sheng Xiping won't feel awkward meeting his future in-laws.

When Zhou Qinglan's parents saw that Sheng Xiping was so good at handling things, they were sure to be happy. Wouldn't that make the marriage easier to arrange?

When Wang Jianshe said that, everyone felt that it made a lot of sense.

“Sure, the dismantling work is finally done, and there’s not much work to do these next few days.”

Let's go to Songjiang River together and help Xiping out. After we finish the work, we can take a stroll around a bit.

They're all young people; how many of them don't like to have fun?

I rarely have the opportunity to visit Songjiang River, so this is a good chance to go for a day or two.

"Yes, yes, it's settled then. I'll go borrow the chainsaw tomorrow morning."

Xiping, go and get a letter of introduction. We need to stay in Songjianghe for two nights; we can't do without this.

Everything's taken care of. Let's go to Songjianghe together in the car.

Everyone chimed in with their own opinions, and before Sheng Xiping and the Sheng family could say anything, they had already made the decision.

"Oh dear, this is not good. Everyone has to suffer because of our Xiping's matter."

Seeing this, Sheng Liancheng couldn't remain silent, so he quickly spoke up.

"Uncle, you're being too polite."

What kind of relationship do we have with Xiping? His business is our business; there's no need to be so clear about it.

"We're all pretty free anyway, so this is a good opportunity to go to Songjiang River for fun, isn't that great?" Gao Haining and the others laughed.

After everyone had reached a consensus, and since they had almost finished their dinner, they got up to say goodbye and go home.

Zhou Qinglan helped Zhang Shuzhen tidy up the kitchen, and Sheng Xiping also took her back to the Tang family home.

When Sheng Xiping returned, he saw Sheng Liancheng and his wife sitting on the kang (heated brick bed) in the east room with a kerosene lamp lit, looking at something.

"Dad, Mom, what time is it? Aren't you two asleep yet?"

"Boss, come here." Zhang Shuzhen beckoned to Sheng Xiping, gesturing for him to sit on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed).

"These are some cloth coupons, grain coupons, and money I've saved up. Take them with you tomorrow."

Zhang Shuzhen took out a stack of tickets from a cloth bag and handed them to Sheng Xiping.

"Mom, why are you giving me all this stuff?" Sheng Xiping was taken aback.

He's delivering firewood tomorrow, and at most he'll need food coupons, so why are they giving him cloth coupons? What's the use of those?

"Look at you, child, how can you be so stupid? What are you going to do tomorrow? To meet Qinglan's parents."

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