"Serious business?" Guan Gensheng agreed repeatedly, "Okay, okay! Sister, let's go home now and have a good chat." Guan Gensheng greeted warmly.

The Guan family all live together.

This is a two-courtyard apartment. My uncle Guan Fuan and his family live in the inner courtyard, and my third uncle Guan Ningquan lives in the front courtyard.

When Guan Gensheng brought Ye Li and Jiang Xun home, it was almost noon. Everyone in the family had finished work and were fetching water from the well in the yard to wash.

"Dad, uncle, brother! Look who I brought here?" Guan Gensheng shouted excitedly as he entered the door.

Everyone turned around when they heard the sound and saw Ye Li and a strange man standing next to Guan Gensheng.

"Hey, isn't Li Li here?" Guan Fuan smiled, put a wet towel on his shoulders, dragged out two stools from under the eaves, and placed them in the shade of the yard. "Come on, come on, sit down! Every time you come here, you don't go home, and your uncle and I always blame Gensheng. This time, you finally come back!"

"You guys are busy, I'm busy too, so I haven't been back! This time, I have something to discuss with you, and I want to introduce someone to you." Ye Li said, smiling as he looked at Jiang Xun, "This is my uncle, this is my third uncle, and that is my eldest brother!"

Jiang Xun greeted everyone in turn.

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"Great, great!" Guan Fuan's eyes circled around Jiang Xun twice.

He was a straightforward person, without too many thoughts or concerns: "Li Li, didn't you say before that your niece's husband's legs were paralyzed and couldn't move? Is this... is it healed?"

Ye Li smiled awkwardly: "Uncle, I didn't say his legs were paralyzed, I just said that his legs were inconvenient to move and he has been bedridden."

Guan Fuan: "Isn't this paralysis..."

"Dad." Seeing Ye Li's embarrassed expression, Guan Haisheng hurriedly reminded Guan Fuan, "She's fine now, don't mention it! It's almost noon, hurry up and let my mom cook."

"Oh, right, right." Guan Fuan nodded repeatedly and urged Guan Haisheng, "Go, go, go to the tofu shop and tell your mother that Li Li and her husband are here, and ask her to come back and cook."

"I understand." Guan Haisheng agreed, wiped his face roughly with the towel draped over his shoulders, and walked out with big strides.

He had just taken two steps when he heard his father's voice behind him.

"Was this leg really paralyzed and then healed?"

Guan Haisheng: “…”

What I just said was in vain.

Faced with his uncle's irrepressible curiosity, Ye Li smiled helplessly and answered, "I used to think that his legs were paralyzed and he couldn't move them, but that's not the case. I can't tell you the specific reasons, but anyway, I went to the hospital to see a doctor, and the doctor performed an operation on me, and I'm fine now."

Ye Li did not explain the whole process. She did not want to reveal Jiang Xun's difficult days to everyone.

What's more, not everyone will care about the process. As long as there is a good result, that's enough.

"Okay, that's good. Speaking of doctors, they have to be from big cities with better skills! Look at our Tiedan, he was saved by a doctor from a big city."

Guan Fuan was deeply touched by this, so he said a few more words.

Jiang Xun smiled politely and nodded in agreement.

"Gensheng, go get some water. The weather is hot, pour a glass of sugar water for your sister and brother-in-law." said Third Uncle Ning Quanan.

There is nothing to entertain guests in this village, a glass of sugar water is the best thing.

"No, no, no, just plain water will do. Jiang Xun and I don't like sweet drinks."

"Okay, then pour boiled water for your sister and brother-in-law."

"Okay."

Guan Gensheng went there and brought back several large bowls of water.

After several people sat down under the shade of the tree, Guan Gensheng began to talk to his uncle and his father about the situation.

"My sister came here this time not only to collect herbs, but also said she had other serious matters to discuss with us."

"Oh?" Guan Fuan and Guan Ningquan looked at each other.

They all knew that since Ye Li came to them, there must be something good happening.

It is not easy for this girl to be raised by Zhuang Shihong for so many years without being led astray.

She has this family in her heart, as well as her uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters.

"Li Li, then tell us. Let's see if we can help in any way?" Guan Ningquan said.

"Uncle, Third Uncle, I want to ask, is it convenient for people in our village to buy cloth for clothes?"

When he heard the words "buy cloth", Guan Fuan immediately shook his head and waved his hands, looking helpless.

"It's not convenient and hard to buy. You can see that everyone in our village has patches on their clothes. They only wear new clothes when they go out or have important events."

Ning Quanan nodded in agreement, and then added a few more words: "There is a shortage of cloth! Very much! The cloth that is sold the most and fastest in the supply and marketing cooperative is work cloth. This cloth is wear-resistant, and we farmers rely on this work cloth to work. Other cloth is not good, and it will be damaged after a few wears. But this cloth is in fixed supply and it is impossible to buy it."

"Some time ago, someone got some scraps of cloth from somewhere and came to sell them. Oh, the price of those scraps of cloth was almost as expensive as this good cloth, but there were a lot of people buying them. The key is that they still don't need tickets."

Ye Li listened and took note of it silently in his heart.

"Uncle, how many people are there in our village?"

Guan Fuan said: "Oh, our village is really a big village! There are seven or eight hundred households in the village, and the total population is at least three thousand people."

Ye Li thought about it in his mind and thought that if so many people opened a weaving factory, they should be able to be self-sufficient.

Several people talked for a long time under the shade of the tree before Guan Haisheng called back his biological mother Liu Yan'e.

There was an inevitable round of greetings when they met. After that, Liu Yan'e washed her hands and went to the kitchen to cook. Only then did the topic return to the main topic.

"When I was working in the factory, I heard from my colleagues that their hometown village had opened a weaving and dyeing workshop, so they could be self-sufficient in clothing. I wondered if this could work in our village?"

Several people looked at each other.

Guan Fuan spoke first: "If it is possible, it will definitely solve the big problem. However, it is not allowed for private individuals to open weaving factories and dyeing workshops."

"Yes, yes." Ning Quanan agreed, "Even if we want to open a weaving factory, we must get the consent of the township. A factory in the village cannot be run by a private person."

Ye Li immediately said: "Yes, Third Uncle, you are right, that's what I meant."