Volume 1 Chapter 281 Asking about the situation
Dad opened his mouth wide and looked at Li Tian in disbelief: "Have you found a market for our village's oranges?"
Li Tian nodded and said, "I happen to know a friend in Binhai who has some power. He wants to buy oranges. The buyers will come in the afternoon. According to the current market price, he will buy our oranges for two yuan per pound."
He was happy to help as he could get something done for Lijia Village with just a phone call.
"Xiaotian, this is not a joke. If it is there, it is there. If it is not there, it is not there. Don't get involved." Dad said seriously.
Li Tian smiled and said, "Dad, no matter how unreliable I am, I can never joke about this kind of thing."
"Okay, I'll go to the village office now. Everyone has been gathering there every day lately, looking worried and at a loss as to what to do. We've used our face and made the calls we needed to make, but the oranges are in full bloom in Jiang Province and the people who are buying them are too busy to handle them all. By the time it's our turn in Lijia Village, I'm afraid the oranges will have fallen off the trees and rotted."
My dad is very concerned about the affairs of the village. If we can solve the problem of the sales of oranges, it will be a good thing to make a contribution and bring honor to the village.
After saying that, he hurried to the village office to tell the whole village the good news that Li Tian had a market.
Watching his father's back as he left, Li Tian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally saved his legs.
The house built on the family’s residential land has three floors and has not been decorated much. The ceiling and walls have only been painted, and the ground has been paved with cement.
Even so, it is kept very clean and tidy.
"Grandpa, grandma!"
As soon as Li Tian entered the door, he saw his grandmother and grandfather.
"Xiaotian is back. Grandma knows everything about you and Zhong Lijuan. It was Zhong Lijuan who didn't know how to cherish you. Now is the perfect time. Let's marry Ruoxi. Ruoxi is a hundred times better than Zhong Lijuan. Grandma can't wait to hold her great-grandson."
Grandma's hair was completely white, and her face was full of wrinkles and age spots. She smiled kindly and held Li Tian's hand tightly with her rough hands.
When she heard her say that she wanted to hug her great-grandson, Gu Ruoxi's cheeks flushed. Then she recalled what Li Tian had done to her that night and could not help but glare at Li Tian fiercely.
"Zhiyuan, Ruoxi is here. Where have you been? Why didn't you come and greet her?"
Grandpa has Alzheimer's disease. He mistook Li Tian for Li Tian's father Li Zhiyuan. He started blaming Li Zhiyuan for not treating the good guy well.
"Old man, this is our grandson Xiaotian, not Zhiyuan." Grandma raised her voice.
"Not Zhiyuan? Then where is Zhiyuan? Ruoxi is here, Zhiyuan has to come back and greet her."
Grandpa's logical thinking was no longer normal. He leaned on a cane, looked around, and anxiously searched for Li Zhiyuan. His words were full of blame, blaming Li Zhiyuan for not coming back in time to greet the guests.
Li Tian was deeply touched. Both his grandpa and grandma looked much older.
He inherited the "Tai Shang Yi Jing" and believed that if acupuncture was used, grandpa's Alzheimer's disease should be cured. However, grandpa was old and could not stand stimulation. After a period of stimulation, the Alzheimer's disease might be cured, but he was afraid that some other problems would arise.
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Li Tian and Gu Ruoxi were originally arranged to stay in a large room, with new beds, bedding, dressing tables, and wardrobes.
But when the old mother saw that Gu Ruoxi had grown up to be a fairy, she felt that her son was not worthy of her, so she vacated a small room for Li Tian and asked Li Tian and Gu Ruoxi to sleep in separate rooms. She believed that this marriage could not be accepted and the Li family must be self-aware.
Li Tian packed his luggage and came out of the small room, just in time to see Gu Ruoxi coming out of the big room.
She changed into a white dress with blue dots that looked quite youthful and campus-style. It cinched her slender waist and let her long black hair down, revealing a pair of slender white calves. She was wearing a pair of yellow high heels.
For a moment, the cold and beautiful president seemed like a girl next door, extremely pure and full of youthful aura, which made Li Tian's hormones rise rapidly. If it weren't for the still coldness in her beautiful eyes, he would have almost thought that he had recognized the wrong person.
"You look good in any clothes, clothes hanger." Li Tian gave a thumbs up.
"I will return to Beijing tomorrow. There are still many things waiting for me to deal with in the company. The serving of tea and paying homage to the Li ancestors that you mentioned must be completed today." Gu Ruoxi said in a cold voice.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I want to wait until the ancestral temple ceremony is over before going." Li Tian actually wanted to confirm whether the ghost was still there.
"You can stay in Lijia Village for a few more days. I'll go back first." Gu Ruoxi said.
"Okay." Li Tian nodded.
At this time, the sound of many people talking came from downstairs, and then his father called him down.
It should be the uncles, aunts, uncles, and many peers from the village who came to ask about the sales of tangerines.
After Li Tian went down, as expected, all the villagers came to the door of his house. Li Qiudong was also among them. It seemed that he was pulled to the village office to make plans for the sales of the village's oranges.
"Xiaotian, you said you helped us find a market, is that true?" a fat middle-aged woman asked anxiously.
What everyone is most concerned about now is the sales of oranges.
"Yes, Xiaotian, the oranges are ripe. We have been worried about the sales these days. You can't joke with us about this."
"If you can sell the 200,000 kilograms of oranges in my orchard, I'll give you one-third of the profit."
"So can I."
The people of Lijia Village expressed their opinions one after another. After working hard for a year, if the oranges were to fall into the trap, many of them would even want to die.
Li Tian smiled and consoled, "Don't worry, it's not a big problem. The buyer should be here by 4pm. We are all family, and we don't talk about profit or loss. Family members don't talk about money when they help each other. Besides, I'm just lucky. I just happen to know some friends who can help me."
"Xiaotian, we feel relieved when you say this. Donggua said that there are too many oranges now, and the supply exceeds the demand. There is no way to deal with it. We can't find a market for them. I didn't expect that Xiaotian could find one. You really helped us a lot." The fat middle-aged woman shouted.
Li Qiudong suddenly felt embarrassed and immediately corrected him seriously, "Auntie Taoxiu, I didn't say there is no way, it just takes time to find a buyer." Then he asked Li Tian, "Towering Li Tianwang, is the buyer you found reliable? How much is it per kilogram? Don't sell it below the market price, let us sell it to him for one yuan or a few cents?"
This question touches everyone's heart. It would be best if the price could be higher, but if it is not high, it cannot be lower than the market price, otherwise it would be a big loss. A difference of one or two cents can mean a difference of tens of thousands of dollars.
"It's settled. Two yuan per pound. The current market price of tangerines is two yuan per pound. That should be correct, right?" Li Tian said calmly.
Aunt Tao Xiu nodded: "Yes, it's two yuan per pound."
"That's fine. The buyer is absolutely reliable. He will settle the payment for each truckload of goods and will never default on the payment." Li Tian assured.
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to praise Li Tian, saying that Li Tian had not wasted all these years outside. So many people could not develop a sales channel, but Li Tian did it easily. This is ability and talent.
Li Qiudong gritted his teeth, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
"Xiaotian, I heard that you came back this time to bring your new wife to introduce her to your family. Where is your new wife?" Aunt Tao Xiu started gossiping.
"What new bride? When did Xiaotian get married?"
"That's right, I can't even speak."
"Xiaotian's wife is Ruoxi. When Ruoxi was five years old, she lived in our Lijia Village for a year."
"So, Ruoxi is Xiaotian's child bride."
The villagers started talking about it, trying their best to hide the fact that Li Tian was married.