Li Jumei laughed and said, "Okay, we'll do as you say and prepare fifty."
Song Sanhe had no objection: "Mm."
Li Jumei: "I'll make more scallion pancakes with the two-ingredient dough tomorrow morning."
Song Sanhe: "Hmm."
Li Jumei: "We have a lot of vegetables growing in our yard. I'll pick some out and give some to Lanlan's father-in-law, and some to Lanlan to take to the factory."
Song Sanhe: "Just do it your way."
"By the way, do you think Zhu Guihua got any compensation from that heartless girl?"
"They've got eight or nine out of ten of them, but it's hard to say how much they've gotten."
"Given Zhu Guihua's character, I reckon it would take at least five yuan to get rid of her."
"It's none of our business. Let her ask for as much as she wants."
If they can get a hundred or eighty, that's only what the neighbor's family originally wanted.
Separated by a wall, Zhu Guihua lay beside Song Tiezhu, too excited to fall asleep.
She nudged her husband with her elbow and said, "Honey, aren't I amazing?"
"Wow, you've asked me at least twenty times tonight! My ears are still ringing!"
Song Tiezhu turned over, his back to Zhu Guihua, and said with his eyes closed, "Go to sleep quickly, we have to get up early tomorrow!" He was exhausted from working every day; if he didn't rest well at night, how could he have the energy during the day?!
"I can't sleep."
Zhu Guihua took out three ten-yuan bills from under her pillow, glanced at them happily in the moonlight streaming in from the window, then casually stuffed them back under the pillow, saying:
"Thirty yuan! That's equivalent to a city worker's monthly wage. If it weren't for that brat Jiao Jiao's ruthless attitude, refusing to give me a single penny, I would have stayed on her bed until I received a hundred yuan in compensation!"
Song Tiezhu: "What are you dreaming about? Even if someone has a hundred yuan, they won't let you swindle it away for nothing."
"Who are you speaking to?"
Zhu Guihua was dissatisfied.
"I'm telling you to stop daydreaming," Song Tiezhu said. "After all, you were in the wrong today. You went to the educated youth compound to ask Jiaojiao for compensation, which was purely..." picking on the weak!
"Shut up, I don't want to hear what you're saying right now."
That old man, he wants to accuse her of extorting money and picking on the weak, but who is she doing it for?
Was it for her own sake?
Zhu Guihua felt suffocated.
She did it all for their family!
Otherwise, why would she go to the educated youth compound and try to extort money from Song Jiaojiao?
The next day, before dawn, Song Lan and Song Qinghui had breakfast and left home carrying large and small bags.
"Second brother, which way are we going?"
Seeing that Song Qinghui was leading her on a different mountain path than the one she knew, Song Lan couldn't help but ask him.
“I know the shortest mountain road to the forest farm. Just follow your second brother.”
As soon as they entered the mountains, Song Qinghui strung all the bags together with vines and carried them on his shoulders. In addition, Song Qinghui was carrying a bamboo basket containing about twenty raw eggs.
As for Song Lan, she was carrying a cloth bag.
It doesn't look very heavy.
Walking along the narrow path in the forest, Song Qinghui, out of curiosity, would occasionally ask Song Lan about things in the capital. Song Lan, of course, answered all his questions without reservation. The brother and sister chatted as they walked, and didn't feel that walking on the mountain path was particularly tiring.
About an hour after they entered the mountains, they faintly heard sporadic gunshots. Immediately, Song Lan and Song Qinghui became alert.
"Second brother, the sound is coming from over there!"
Pointing to the right front, Song Lan looked at Song Qinghui with a serious expression: "Why don't you hide first, and I'll go take a look."
"no!"
Song Qinghui refused, his expression serious: "You're a girl, I can't let you take such a risk."
"Second Brother, I know martial arts, do you?" Song Lan's eyes were calm and composed as she said, "You saw me practicing that staff technique in the yard this morning!"
Okay, actually it's not a staff technique, it's the Song family spear technique!
"That won't work either."
Song Qinghui still disagreed, saying, "If something happens to you, how am I supposed to explain it to Mom and Dad?"
"..."
Song Lan remained silent for a moment, but finally had to give in: "How about we go together? But this time you have to follow behind me and walk quietly so as not to be discovered by someone who doesn't know whether they are friend or foe."
"good."
Song Qinghui nodded.
At that moment, Song Lan crouched down, picked up a handful of small pebbles the size of soybeans from the weeds, and held them in her palm. Then, she stood up and moved closer to the direction from which the gunshots were coming.
Actually, the road to the forest farm was in that direction, and it was unlikely that they could go around it now.
Therefore, the only option is to bite the bullet and proceed with caution.
"Second Brother, it seems like they're coming. There are three people, judging from the footsteps. Come on, let's hide behind the bushes over there and see if they're friends or foes!" With that, Song Lan grabbed Song Qinghui's arm and led him behind the nearby bushes.
The bushes in this area are very dense, making it difficult to spot someone hiding among them.
"You two hurry up and take the stuff. Don't worry about me. We've come this far to get this research data, so we can't let all our efforts go to waste in these mountains."
"No, we can't abandon you!"
"I'm not asking you for a discussion, this is an order, understand?"
"..."
Two of the three were low-ranking officers, and they remained silent for a long time after hearing what their leader said.
"Release me right now, and you all need to get out of here as quickly as possible!"
The leader who was speaking had been shot in the leg and also in the body. His face was deathly pale, and he was being helped forward by two soldiers, one on each side. However, at this moment, the leader stopped moving and instead stared coldly at the two soldiers.
"...Hi! We're leaving now, please take care!"
Upon hearing this, Song Qinghui's expression changed drastically, and at the same time, Song Lan's expression also changed.
With the memories left behind by the original owner, she knew that the way the three people spoke proved that they were enemies, not friends.
"Make sure to bring these things back to China!"
"Hi!"
"Let's go quickly."
The footsteps grew closer. Song Lan gave Song Qinghui a wink, then crouched low and moved stealthily. Once she could clearly see the three people's faces, she didn't hesitate for a moment. She channeled her inner energy and launched a series of pebbles from her right hand.
"ah!"
"ah!"
...
Several screams rang out in succession, and the three people who had been hit by Song Lan's gravel all fell into the weeds.
Song Lan not only pierced one of their lower legs, but also shattered their wrists, preventing the three from having a chance to retaliate with their weapons.
"Second brother, all done!"
Before Song Qinghui could respond, Song Lan straightened up, stepped out of the bushes, and came to the three of them.
"Did you attack us?"
The leader of the three men stared at Song Lan with bloodshot eyes, demanding an answer.
However, Song Lan didn't waste any words with them. She casually plucked a two- or three-meter-long vine from beside her and tied the three of them together.
Unexpectedly, the sound of rapidly moving footsteps came from behind the three of them.
Song Qinghui: "Sister, gag them and then drag them behind the bushes."
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