"Who is coming?" Lu Qing put down his arms around Shen Qiqi and looked towards the door with a frown.
A man wearing a Dacron shirt and with slicked-back hair stood at the Lu family's door. He held something that looked like a tape recorder and smiled at them. "Hello, we're here..."
Before the man could finish, Shen Qiqi interrupted him. She quickly glanced behind the man and saw several people wearing the same style of clothes, holding some colorful flyers in their hands.
"It seems that the village is about to become lively!" Shen Qiqi raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a meaningful smile.
Lu Qing looked at her face with an expression that said "she has seen through everything" and his heart skipped a beat.
Sure enough, the next morning, Shen Qiqi went straight to Uncle Zhang's house at the village entrance.
This old man is the most stubborn conservative in the village. When he heard about the "weird" things brought by outsiders, his face became longer than a donkey's.
Shen Qiqi walked on the way to Uncle Zhang's house with a firm step, as if she was going to a tough battle.
When the villagers saw her like this, they all looked at her curiously and whispered to each other, wanting to know what tricks this daughter-in-law of the Lu family was going to play.
"Knock knock knock!" Shen Qiqi knocked on the door of Uncle Zhang's house.
"Who is it?" Uncle Zhang's powerful voice came from the room.
"Uncle Zhang, it's me, Qiqi!"
"Creaky--" the door was opened, and Uncle Zhang had a stern face, as if someone owed him eight million.
"What are you doing here?" Uncle Zhang said in a stiff tone, not polite at all.
Shen Qiqi had expected this attitude from him, so she didn't get angry. She smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang, I just came to talk to you about the new gadgets those outsiders brought."
When Uncle Zhang heard this, his face darkened even more. He pulled Shen Qiqi into the house and raised his voice eight degrees: "You little girl, are you also fascinated by those colorful things? I tell you, those are all crooked ways, don't touch them!"
Seeing this, Shen Qiqi knew that she couldn't just fight hard, she had to be strategic.
She moved a small stool and sat down across from Grandpa Zhang, saying patiently, "Grandpa Zhang, I know you're doing this for the good of the village and you're worried we'll get cheated. But when it comes to new things, you always have to learn about them before you know whether they're good or bad, right?"
"What the hell? Those are good things?" Uncle Zhang blew his beard and glared, almost wanting to jump up. "Those are all heresies! We can't throw away our ancestors' things!"
At this moment, Mrs. Lu also came over with a cane, "Qiqi, don't listen to him. Those outsiders just want to cheat us out of our money. We can't let them into the village."
Shen Qiqi looked at these two old stubborn people and secretly groaned in her heart, these two are really tough guys!
Just when she was about to make another effort, Uncle Zhang suddenly said, "Have you forgotten who you are?"
Shen Qiqi was stunned. She didn't understand what Uncle Zhang meant by this.
Shen Qiqi was stunned by Uncle Zhang's sudden question. She blinked her eyes and said innocently, "Uncle Zhang, I haven't forgotten. I am the third daughter-in-law of the Lu family, Shen Qiqi!"
"Hmph! The third daughter-in-law of the Lu family? I think you've forgotten you're from our village!" Grandpa Zhang angrily knocked the ground with his cane. "These outsiders will corrupt the spirit of our village! As a member of the village, you don't think about how to uphold the village traditions, but instead speak for outsiders. Are you worthy of our ancestors?"
Old Madam Lu also chimed in: "That's right! Qiqi, if it wasn't Grandma saying anything, how could you be so ungrateful? We can't learn these nonsense!"
Shen Qiqi felt extremely aggrieved. She was clearly doing this for everyone's good, so how could she be considered as forgetful and ungrateful?
She held back her tears, trying hard not to let them fall.
The room was silent and the atmosphere was so oppressive that it was suffocating.
"Uncle Zhang, old lady, I understand what you're saying. I didn't say we should accept everything from outside." Shen Qiqi sniffed and pulled out a stack of information from her bag. "I just think we can take the essence and discard the dross! Look, these are some successful cases I've collected of other villages integrating foreign cultures..."
Uncle Zhang wanted to refuse outright, but when he saw the information in Shen Qiqi's hand, he became curious.
He took the information doubtfully, put on his reading glasses, and flipped through the pages one by one.
Old Mrs. Lu and other villagers who were watching also stretched their necks, curious to see what was written in the information.
As the pages turned, Uncle Zhang's frown gradually relaxed and an expression of surprise appeared on his face.
The people around them also began to talk about it, "Huh? This is really interesting!", "So it can be done this way!"
Shen Qiqi saw Uncle Zhang's reaction and knew that her efforts were not in vain.
She struck while the iron was hot, pointing to one of the cases and saying, "Uncle Zhang, look at this village! They've combined foreign planting techniques with our traditional farming methods, and the yield has increased significantly!"
Uncle Zhang put down the information, pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Shen Qiqi, and said slowly: "Qiqi..." Lu Qing had been standing behind Shen Qiqi, supporting her silently.
Seeing Shen Qiqi being wronged, he held her hand distressedly, wanting to give her strength.
Lu Qing's hands were warm and powerful, like a warm current flowing into Shen Qiqi's heart.
She looked up and glanced at him gratefully, her eyes full of tenderness and affection.
This wave of dog food was so sudden that the people next to him took a bite silently, and a sour taste filled the air.
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