At this time, the big lock outside the courtyard gate had been opened by Fu Bo who climbed over the wall. With the efforts of him and Du Yu, the house was cleaned thoroughly.
Xiao Hei, who was released from the space, seemed extremely excited and kept running around in the yard with Er Hei.
Xu Jianguo stood in his yard halfway up the mountain, gazing at the village at the foot of the mountain in the distance, feeling exceptionally peaceful in his heart.
Hearing Lele's happy laughter coming from behind him from time to time, Xu Jianguo couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
I remember that when I came back from vacation last time, Lele was not born yet, and Wenwen was still a baby who was held in Wen Sitian's arms all day long.
This also made Xu Jianguo sigh that time flies and time really goes by too fast.
The new environment made Lele, who was already full of curiosity, particularly happy. He looked around and asked questions all the time.
As the person with the most say besides Xu Jianguo, Funiu could not bear the questioning of her little niece, so she immediately turned into a tour guide, leading Wenwen with her left hand and Lele with her right hand, and took them around the house.
Daya and Erya helped Wen Sitian to put things in order. After all, the whole family would be staying here for two days. In order to prevent someone from noticing something unusual when visiting, some necessary daily necessities had to be put out.
Fu Bo came to Xu Jianguo and asked, "Young Master, should we take out the things we prepared first?"
"Well, take it out and put it in the small warehouse!" said Xu Jianguo.
"Yes!" After Fu Bo agreed, he turned and walked to the small wooden warehouse in the yard and took out the things stored in the space.
Fu Bo neatly placed the cloth bags in the warehouse. In addition to cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea, Xu Jianguo also put some milk powder, malted milk and vanishing cream in them. He also put 20 yuan at the bottom of each pocket.
From the letter Li Mancang wrote to him before, he learned that after several years of development, the grain output of Sandaliang Village has increased year by year, and compared to when Xu Jianguo had just left, there has been earth-shaking changes.
In addition, Sandaliang Village is surrounded by mountains and has a pleasant climate. Although there is little land in the village and most of it is terraced fields, the per-acre grain yield is not inferior to other brigades, and is even among the best in the entire commune.
These are all closely related to the composting method that Xu Jianguo taught the village, as well as the seeds cultivated by Fu Bo in the space that he later mailed to Li Mancang.
After Fu Bo put everything away, he walked back to Xu Jianguo. After making sure that he had no other tasks to assign to him, he slipped back into the space and continued to work on other things.
Xu Jianguo looked at the time and found that it was not yet nine o'clock in the morning.
After thinking about it, he called Du Yu, who was helping Wen Sitian with the work, and told her to try the stove and boil some hot water to pour into the thermos.
Because it was already past breakfast time and Wen Sitian and the others had not finished packing up yet, Xu Jianguo did not rush to Li Mancang's house. Instead, he turned around and went back into the house to help with the work.
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The brigade headquarters of Sandaliang Village.
Li Mancang woke up early as usual. After washing his face and brushing his teeth and eating something simple, he left home and walked towards the fields.
Since it is already the end of August, the village will start the busy autumn harvest season in about a month. Whenever this time comes, he will be extremely busy and often has to run to the fields three times a day, morning, noon and evening.
Li Erniu, the director of public security and also the platoon leader of the militia, is not much less busy than Li Mancang. In addition to normal patrols, he also has to arrange people to keep watch at night, for fear that the crops that are about to be harvested in the fields will be stolen.
As usual, the two men met in the fields and then led several village militiamen to start their daily morning patrol work.
Because in addition to ordinary fields, there are terraced fields on the east, west and south sides of Sandaliang Village, so each inspection takes a long time.
After they had patrolled around for a long time, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning.
Looking at the villagers and educated youth busy weeding the crops in the fields, Li Mancang nodded with satisfaction.
When the educated youth first came to Sandaliang Village a few years ago, there was no suitable place to accommodate them in the village because the time was too short.
So the commune official who sent the educated youth set his sights on Xu Jianguo's old house, wanting to temporarily requisition it and turn it into an educated youth site, but he never expected that he would be directly and sternly rejected by Li Mancang.
Seeing that nothing worked, the official simply left everyone and returned to the commune. He found the commune secretary Zhang Aimin to complain, but was scolded by him instead.
Shortly after this incident, the news that a first-class meritorious serviceman had emerged in the Sandaliang Brigade spread throughout the entire commune.
It was also from this time that matchmakers from all over the country began to take action, and the single men and women in Sandaliang Village immediately became popular and well-known.
Those educated youth who were originally arrogant and full of self-superiority gradually became obedient and did not disobey management like in other brigades.
After finishing their inspection work, Li Mancang and Li Erniu put out the cigarettes in their hands, stood up from a big rock in the field, and prepared to go down the mountain.
Just at this moment, Li Mancang accidentally glanced in the direction of Xu Jianguo's old house halfway up the mountain in the distance, and then he just froze in place.
Li Erniu, who was standing next to him, was confused and asked, "Captain, what's wrong with you?"
Li Mancang came back to his senses and did not speak. Instead, he raised his hand to rub his eyes and looked in the direction of Xu Jianguo's old house again.
When he saw smoke coming out of the chimney of the old house that was originally uninhabited, the expression on his face suddenly became serious.
"Erniu, look over there and see if there is smoke coming out of the chimney of Jianguo?" Li Mancang said.
At this moment, he had not yet realized that Xu Jianguo had returned. He just thought that some villagers or educated youth had run into Xu Jianguo's house.
When Li Erniu heard this, he immediately looked in the direction of Xu Jianguo's old house. He saw the white smoke rising from the chimney at a glance, and his face immediately became gloomy.
"Damn it, who is so bold! Gather and follow me!" Li Erniu cursed, then called the militiamen who were squatting on the side to rest, and the group quickly walked down the mountain.
Li Mancang did not speak to stop them, but followed closely behind the group.
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