Chapter 39
He Qin looked inside and was stunned for a few seconds before shaking his head: "No."
The village chief's face suddenly became anxious: "Xiao He, these things are not cheap. If you only exchange them for four ounces of lamp oil, you won't lose anything."
The village chief had run out of lamp oil and tung oil nuts at home. It was too far to go to town, so he was too lazy to go.
Last time I saw that He Qin's family had a lot of tung oil fruits, I wanted to exchange eggs for some tung oil, or directly exchange them for tung oil fruits and squeeze them myself to light lamps.
He exchanged twenty eggs for four ounces of lamp oil, clearly letting these young people take advantage, but he didn't expect that He Qin would disagree.
Lu Xiaobai didn't understand what was going on, and asked doubtfully, "Village Chief, what's wrong?"
Seeing Lu Xiaobai coming, hope rose in the eyes of the village chief. He smiled and said, "Xiaobai, my lamp oil is all gone, but the town is too far away, and I am too lazy to go. So I took twenty eggs and wanted to exchange them for four ounces of lamp oil from you. What do you think..."
"no!"
He Qin refused again. Lu Xiaobai didn't understand why, and the village chief's face turned a little ugly.
But He Qin still insisted on his opinion and shook his head, saying, "Twenty eggs cost ten cents, and four ounces of lamp oil only costs eight cents. This is not worth it."
Village Chief: ???
I let you take advantage of me, but you still think it’s not worth it?
If I hadn't married Xiaobai to you, I wouldn't have let a outsider like you take advantage of her!
Lu Xiaobai also looked bewildered: "It's not worth it. Well, that's what the village chief thinks is not worth it. Why are you so angry?"
He Qin glanced at him coldly and said, "We have a total of 56 kilograms of tung oil fruit. Village chief, please help me press the oil. I can give you half as wages. You don't need eggs."
Hearing He Qin's words, the village chief's expression changed unpredictably, and there was a lot of shame: "That won't work. You have more than 50 kilograms, and you can only squeeze out two or three kilograms of oil. I will take half, which is too much."
He Qin shook his head indifferently: "It's okay, the village chief just does his job."
The village chief smiled sheepishly and said, "Okay, I'll help you squeeze it, but I'll only take my share. A full pound is definitely out of the question. You know not to take advantage of others, so as an elder, I shouldn't do that either."
He Qin nodded, which was considered as his agreement.
The village chief then smiled and said, "Then I will go back and carry a basket to fill it with tung oil fruit."
Lu Xiaobai understood that the village chief wanted to exchange eggs for oil, but He Qin did not agree because the village chief had more eggs and he didn't want to take advantage of him?
It seems that He Qin has always been like this, preferring to suffer losses himself rather than take advantage of others.
Just like last time I sold seeds.
At that moment, He Qin's image became taller in Lu Xiaobai's mind again. A person like He Qin must be a good official.
Although I always like to bully him, his character is impeccable and he is still a good person.
Lu Xiaobai nodded, feeling that his analysis was very correct.
He Qin turned around and saw Lu Xiaobai nodding foolishly, and subconsciously curled the corners of his mouth.
He suddenly understood why his eldest brother, who should have been the head of the family, would rather die than leave home with his eldest sister-in-law and become a pair of ignored country folk when he was a child.
It turns out that days like this are really beautiful, not at all as monotonous and boring as I imagined when I first came here.
If Lu Xiaobai could stay by his side forever, he actually felt that it would not be impossible for him to never go back.
Soon the village chief came and called Lingyi back from the field.
Ling subconsciously glanced at the snow-white pants on the bamboo pole, and was immediately fixed by He Qin's cold gaze.
Lingyi coughed uncomfortably, and took the initiative to help the village chief carry a basket of tung oil fruits on his back, and then followed the village chief to the place where tung oil was pressed.
Seeing Lingyi leave, Lu Xiaobai raised his foot to follow, but He Qin grabbed the back of his collar and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Lu Xiaobai was stunned: "I, I'm going to play!"
"Wait, let go, you've messed up my clothes."
Being grabbed by the collar, Lu Xiaobai angrily twisted his waist and struggled hard, trying to pull the clothes out of He Qin's hands.
But He Qin refused to let go and said with a frown, "You are not allowed to go."
Hearing that he was not allowed to go, Lu Xiaobai immediately pouted: "No, I haven't seen tung oil pressed yet, I want to go, let go!"
He Qin pulled too tight, and Lu Xiaobai struggled too hard, so the belt loosened. As soon as he relaxed his hands, the clothes on Lu Xiaobai's chest bulged out, and He Qin's eyes immediately widened.
Lu Xiaobai hadn't noticed anything was wrong with He Qin. He was afraid that if the village chief walked away for a while, he would not be able to find the way. He struggled hard, but was suddenly released. He struggled backwards with too much force and fell to the ground.
He Qin: ...
He was caught off guard and fell to the ground with a loud thud. The pain made his face twisted. He raised his head angrily, staring at He Qin with his big watery eyes and asked angrily, "You, why are you like this!"
He Qin: "I didn't mean it."
"You did it on purpose. You've gone too far, but I don't want to argue with you now!"
Lu Xiaobai was very angry, but he didn't have time to quarrel with He Qin. He rubbed his butt and got up. While untying his belt and retying his clothes, he walked out, wanting to catch up with the village chief and others.
Looking at Lu Xiaobai's bold actions, He Qin's face looked extremely ugly.
Does this silly guy even know what shame is?
In broad daylight, he actually ran while unbuckling his belt?
Moreover, the guy's hand was injured and he couldn't tie his belt for a long time.
Lu Xiaobai was extremely anxious. He walked a few steps and stopped to tie it up. He couldn't tie it up, so he walked a few steps forward, worried that the person had left. He repeated this process...
He Qin looked at this scene, and was actually angry and wanted to laugh. He was about to let it go, but he saw Ling Si coming back in the distance. He quickly ran over to block Lu Xiaobai, quickly put his clothes on, tied his belt tightly, and said: "Go."
Lu Xiaobai looked at the clothes that had become neat again, and he didn't blame He Qin for pushing him just now. He nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you wait for me at home, I'll come back and tell you how to squeeze it."
After Lu Xiaobai finished speaking, he ran away. His black hair flew as he ran, looking sunny and happy.
Looking at the cheerful figure, He Qin thought for a moment and followed.
A few of the Zero Four were thirsty while working and had forgotten to bring water, so they came home to get some water for everyone. Before they got home, they saw Lu Xiaobai running away in a hurry.
He Qin soon followed. Ling Si was puzzled and asked subconsciously, "Where is the master going?"
He Qin's face darkened, and he said coldly, "Go and watch the tung oil being pressed!"
He Qin walked quickly and walked a long way away after he finished speaking.
Ling Si scratched his sweat-soaked hair and muttered curiously, "When did the master start to like going out to watch the fun?"
He ran to the village chief, with beads of sweat on his forehead. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Uncle village chief, is the road far?"
The tung oil was ready. The village chief smiled brightly. He whispered, "It's not far, just ahead. You were there last year. Have you forgotten it so quickly?"
Lu Xiaobai's smile froze for a moment, he blinked, then pouted and turned his head away: "I really forgot, but, but I grow up so fast, the new memories in my head squeezed out the old ones, so I don't remember them."
Hearing Lu Xiaobai's nonsense, the village chief chuckled and said, "Brother, you only know how to talk nonsense. Hurry up, we're at the front."
Lu Xiaobai smiled with his eyes curved. Suddenly, he felt a figure beside him. He turned around and saw that it was He Qin. He tilted his head curiously and asked, "Why are you here?"
He Qin snorted coldly and ignored him.
Actually ignore him?
He greeted him with good intentions, but He Qin ignored him?
Lu Xiaobai also turned around angrily and ignored him!
The group soon arrived at the oil pressing site. Lu Xiaobai had never seen a modern oil pressing machine, so he didn't know how to make a comparison, but this... was really crude.
It was just a wooden rack with a big stone in front of it. There was a round hole as big as a bowl on the stone, and a small groove under the hole.
They put the processed tung oil fruits outside the cave into the cave, and then pushed the stone pillars tied to the wooden frame and matching the round holes into the cave one by one to beat the tung oil fruits.
When the tung oil fruit is broken, the oil comes out and flows along a smaller groove and drips into the container they have prepared.
The stone pillar was very heavy, and the village chief was sweating from pushing it, but in order to have lighting at night, he did not dare to stop for a moment.
Watching the village chief working diligently, Lu Xiaobai on the side was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth: "This, this is too simple, is this a primitive society?"
When He Qin heard this, he turned around and found that Lu Xiaobai's eyes were full of disappointment and sadness. He didn't quite understand, so he found a place to sit down and wait out of boredom.
Lu Xiaobai pouted, looking like he was about to cry.
The stone was too heavy, so the village chief and Lingyi took turns pushing the stone, but the oil output was small and slow.
Lu Xiaobai was already disappointed, and after watching for a while he felt it was too boring, so he turned around and ran to play by the paddy field next to him.
Because he just passed by a paddy field and saw a few geese squatting in the grass. Maybe they were laying eggs, so he wanted to go and take a look.
Seeing Lu Xiaobai running away, He Qin didn't care about him, as long as the person was not lost.
These geese were not in the center of the paddy field, but were sleeping in the grass on the side, so Lu Xiaobai could reach them by standing on the edge of the field and walking a few steps forward.
He ran over happily, grabbed a goose by the butt and lifted it up, only to find that there was nothing underneath.
Just as he was about to put down the goose in disappointment, he heard the goose he caught let out a loud cry and fluttered away. The next second, the other geese followed suit and cried.
The goose's cry was so loud and sharp that it scared Lu Xiaobai, who was not mentally prepared, and he fell to the ground.
But this was not the scariest thing. The scariest thing was that among the group of geese, three of them lowered their heads, stretched their necks and ran towards him.
Lu Xiaobai had never been bitten by a goose before, so he didn't know that the goose's posture meant it was going to attack people. He sat there without moving much, but he had a vague sense of crisis.
Before he could get up, the geese came up and bit his exposed hands.
Geese are big and rely on their mouths to fight. This bite made Lu Xiaobai scream. He got up and ran away in panic: "Ahhhh, why do geese bite people? He Qin, He Qin, help me..."
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