Chapter 142 The Baihe Brigade Has Arrived
On the fourth day of Qin Suisui's recuperation at home, someone from the security office of the family compound suddenly came to deliver a message, saying that people from the Baihe Brigade had arrived.
Baihe Brigade?
Qin Suisui was stunned for a moment. Wasn't that the hometown of Dahuang and Dahei?
Wait! Is it Xu Shouquan and his group?
When she went out to greet them, it was none other than Xu Shouquan and his gang!
Besides Xu Shouquan, there were also Cai Chong, Cai Chen, and Chang He.
Upon seeing Qin Suisui, Cai Chen and Chang He jumped up excitedly: "Little expert! Little expert! We've finally met you!"
Cai Chong's face flushed red again in embarrassment: "Comrade Qin, we've come to disturb you."
Xu Shouquan snorted coldly: "In this sweltering heat, you little girl are enjoying your retirement at home! You made us wait outside for so long before coming to pick you up!"
However, upon seeing the thick bandage wrapped around Qin Suisui's arm, his expression changed again, and he frowned. His words, as always, were unpleasant: "Oh! Where have you been gallivanting off to again? It's only been a short time since we last met, and you've already made yourself look so disheveled?"
To be honest, before this, Qin Suisui had always thought that Xu Shouquan was a very stubborn old man who was very argumentative. But she didn't know if it was because she hadn't seen him for a long time and because he had always been with her parents, but Qin Suisui actually heard a kind of "concern" from an elder in his critical words.
She pouted, her voice tinged with grievance: "I was ambushed! Why are you criticizing me the moment we meet!"
The little girl was unusually submissive and didn't argue with him, which surprised Xu Shouquan.
Before he could say anything more, Cai Chen and Chang He, who had no sense of propriety, started scolding him: "Yeah, Lao Xu, the junior expert is injured, why are you saying such nasty things?"
"I'm not saying this to be mean, but Lao Xu, your mouth is really annoying. Before we came, you told us to watch our mouths, but I think you're the one who should be watching your mouths the most!"
Xu Shouquan's close student, Cai Chong, also expressed his disapproval: "Teacher, you're being too harsh. Comrade Qin is already pitiful enough with his injuries."
Xu Shouquan's old face immediately turned red with anger. If it weren't for the fact that this was someone else's territory and he needed to maintain his image, he would have loved to take off his shoe and slap each of them across the face!
Qin Suisui covered her mouth and chuckled. After so long, these people were still the same as ever, so noisy.
They invited the people back into the house. It was a little past two in the afternoon, and the weather was quite hot. Qin Suisui went into the kitchen and poured each of them a cup of sweet rice wine. Then she ran to the backyard to prepare to hang up the watermelon that Pei Jiuyan had soaked in the well that morning and cut it for them to eat.
Cai Chen, quick-witted as ever, scurried up like a monkey: "Sister, sister, let me help!"
Chang He followed up, saying, "Yes, yes, sister, you're injured. We can handle this kind of work!"
On the way here, these two kept calling each other "little expert," which made the women in the family compound turn their heads frequently, making Qin Suisui very embarrassed. In addition, since both of them were a year younger than Qin Suisui, she simply told them to call her "sister."
Cai Chen and Chang He are both opportunistic, so they immediately called her "sister" without hesitation, and in an exceptionally affectionate way. Anyone who didn't know better would think they were siblings!
To be honest, after spending a week together in Changbai Mountain, in that unfamiliar place, these people really showed Qin Suisui a lot of care, so she was very happy to see them again.
Moreover, they didn't come empty-handed. Each of them carried a burlap sack filled with various dried matsutake mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, and monkey head mushrooms, as well as freshly picked chestnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, and other mountain products. Although she didn't lack these things—she had them in her spatial storage and hadn't even finished the ones she had exchanged with from Northeast China last time—it was still a token of their goodwill, and besides, they were all good things.
Qin Suisui led the two of them to the backyard, asking with a smile, "How did you two convince Old Xu to bring you here?"
It's no wonder she was curious. Xu Shouquan was a picky and old-fashioned person, and Chang He and Cai Chen weren't from their ginseng base. Logically speaking, Xu Shouquan wouldn't have agreed to bring them along.
As Cai Chen pulled the rope up, he complained, "How can we count on him? Chang He and I came to find our boss. Our boss is also on Qiongtan Island, so we came together."
Qin Suisui was taken aback: "Boss?" She didn't know that Cai Chen was involved in the black market.
Cai Chen leaned close to her ear mysteriously, glancing at Xu Shouquan sitting in the living room, and whispered, "Sister, I'll tell you a secret, but don't let Old Xu know. Actually, I'm in the black market. My boss is incredibly powerful; he controls half of the black market in East China."
Qin Suisui's eyelids twitched, and she glanced at Chang He beside her: "The boss you're talking about, it wouldn't be Liang Qi, would it?"
Chang He's face immediately turned a little embarrassed. Oh no! When they were all at the Baihe Brigade, Brother Liang Qi said that she couldn't know his identity!
Cai Chen, unaware of Chang He's ulterior motives, nodded hastily, "That's right! It's him! I thought you didn't know! So you did! That's why the boss told us to keep it a secret!"
Qin Suisui chuckled. Ever since she discovered Liang Qi's identity at the East Third Alley black market that day, she hadn't seen him for a long time, and she even deliberately avoided the East Third Alley black market when shopping.
Actually, Qin Suisui isn't as angry as she used to be. After all, Sun Ruwen was just a childhood playmate. It's just that his leaving without saying goodbye back then really hurt her deeply at such a young age.
At that time, she was a teenager, a stage where she valued friendship more than anything else. Although Liang Qi later apologized to her and explained the reason, Qin Suisui understood that he did not really leave without saying goodbye, but had a reason. However, the distance between Jiangcheng and Yangcheng was too great, and their friendship was worn down by time and distance.
When Qin Suisui saw him again on Qiongtan Island, she was still happy, after all, it was rare for her to have a friend there. But he deceived her once again.
She was indeed quite angry at the time. She didn't understand why he couldn't tell her about his identity. Was she supposed to report him? And why did she have to discover his identity under those circumstances?
But after so much time and so many things, Qin Suisui has come to terms with it. They are no longer children. Adults all have their own troubles and unspeakable secrets. Even though she and Pei Jiuyan are so close, she has not told him about the space.
So Sun Ruwen must have had his reasons for not telling her his identity, right?
Well, it's done now, there's no need to keep asking.
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