Lu Wanqing had figured it out. The beggar was acting crazy and was just using Lin Baoguo's name, but his insistence that he was Lin Baoguo showed that he was very sensitive to the name.
She recalled that Zhao Xiaolan would sometimes unconsciously call out Lin Baoguo's name in her dreams, and perhaps the beggar actually knew something.
She tugged at Lin Ye's sleeve, signaling him not to get agitated, then took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from her pocket and handed them to the beggar. "We'll come to see you again in a few days. If you remember anything, I'll reward you with even more delicious treats."
The beggar took the White Rabbit milk candy and curiously examined what it was. After Lu Wanqing taught him how to eat it, he peeled one and put it in his mouth. He immediately laughed and shouted as if he had discovered a new continent, and stuffed the rest of the candy into his pocket as if he was afraid that someone would snatch it away.
The dilapidated temple was filled with all sorts of trash picked up by beggars, emitting a foul stench. Lu Wanqing and her companions did not linger and decided to come back later to try and extract information from the temple.
Just as everyone turned to leave, Zhao Xiaolan, perhaps seeing the beggar eating candy, also felt a little tempted. She took out a piece from her pocket and was peeling off the wrapper when the beggar, like a madman, pounced on her and tried to snatch her candy.
If Liu Zhengfeng hadn't reacted quickly and caught Zhao Xiaolan, she probably would have fallen to the ground.
"You're crazy!" Lin Ye shoved the beggar away.
The beggar was overjoyed to have snatched the candy. He didn't even care that it had fallen to the ground. He got up and ran to hide in the dilapidated temple.
Liu Zhengfeng released Zhao Xiaolan and instructed Lin Ye: "Next time you come, please call me. This person has violent tendencies."
Lin Ye nodded silently. He couldn't bring his wife and the others next time. He didn't want them to get hurt before he even found them.
Back in the county town, it was noon, and Liu Zhengfeng insisted on taking Lin Ye and the others to his home for lunch.
"This was instructed by Liu Ying. She heard you might be coming, so she's been going home for lunch every day these past few days. Normally, she just eats in the cafeteria."
Unable to refuse their hospitality, they went to Liu Zhengfeng's house.
This was Lin Chunhua's first time visiting Liu Zhengfeng's house, and she was surprised to find that Lin Ye and Captain Liu were already so familiar with each other. Moreover, the way Liu Zhengfeng had hugged Zhao Xiaolan just now was both swift and powerful, as if he had been waiting for her reaction. Standing together, he and Zhao Xiaolan, one handsome and masculine, the other gentle and quiet, seemed quite well-matched.
Lin Chunhua patted her head. What was she thinking? Lin Baoguo had a lead, and he might still be alive. How could Zhao Xiaolan find another man?
The group sat down in the living room and chatted. Liu Zhengfeng went to knead the dough, and soon Liu Ying returned as expected.
Seeing so many guests at home, they quickly brought out melon seeds and candy.
"My dad didn't even know to take out the sunflower seeds first," Liu Ying muttered as she took them out. After taking them out, she went to make sesame tea with boiling water.
After pouring the tea, Lu Wanqing pulled her to sit down, "Don't bother, chat with us for a while."
She hadn't seen Lu Wanqing for a long time and she really missed her. Her girlfriends also wanted to ask her to make them a snowflake wool coat.
They don't know where they saw it, but those kinds of clothes are very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan. They think they're fashionable and good-looking. When they went to the department store, they found that they cost more than thirty yuan a piece. Their monthly salary wasn't even enough to buy one of those coats.
At that time, they thought, "Doesn't Lu Wanqing know how to make clothes? If we ask her to make them, will it be cheaper? Even if it's only ten yuan cheaper, that would still save a lot of money!"
After listening to Liu Ying's idea, Lu Wanqing laughed and said, "Why not? Just think it through yourself. In the dead of winter, those clothes are not as warm as cotton-padded jackets, and they are more troublesome to wash. You can only wipe them, not soak them, otherwise they will shrink."
"This is so troublesome!" Liu Ying frowned, but in the end, she was won over by her love of beauty. "I already have a cotton-padded coat, but I still want a snowflake one."
Without further ado, after finishing their meal, the group went to the supply and marketing cooperative and department store, searching everywhere for snowflake wool fabric.
Snowflake wool fabric is very expensive. Four feet of fabric is sold by the meter, and one meter costs five yuan. The cost of the fabric alone is more than ten yuan to make a wool coat.
Liu Ying chose a gray snowflake pattern and bought the fabric herself.
Lu Wanqing then said, "Captain Liu has done us a great favor. We don't need to pay the processing fee. It's only a matter of half a day."
She believed that if Elaine Chao were sober, she wouldn't have asked for those few dollars in processing fees.
Liu Ying refused, saying, "My dad is my dad, and I am me. I don't know how much to give, so I'll just give you five yuan!"
Lu Wanqing took the money and thought to herself, "I must make a beautiful coat and never let her down."
Besides, making her a coat is just the beginning. When she wears it to work, she'll be a walking advertisement, and who knows how many orders she'll attract.
Lu Wanqing went back with the orders.
Lin Chunhua said goodbye to them at the fork in the road between the two brigades and returned to Wangjia Village.
Lin Ye let Zhao Xiaolan sit in the back seat, while Lu Wanqing sat on the front bar. The two of them returned to the Victory Brigade, all lovey-dovey.
As soon as she reached the courtyard gate, she saw Li Fang standing outside looking around. Upon seeing Lu Wanqing, she burst into laughter.
"So you guys went out. I went there this morning but there was no one there, and there's still no one this afternoon!"
Lu Wanqing quickly opened the door and welcomed her inside.
"If I wasn't afraid that Zhou Ling and the others would come and cause trouble, I wouldn't have closed the gate."
While speaking, he used his consciousness and the snowball to understand the situation.
Snowball wagged its tail and followed behind her, barking loudly, "Nothing happened! I'm so dedicated, even when the neighbor's female dog called me to go out and play, I didn't go out."
Lu Wanqing twitched her lips and tossed it a bone. "Good, keep it up. You're a spirit dog, you can't be easily seduced by those female dogs."
She was mainly afraid that the female dogs would be scared to death if they found out the secret of the space.
Before they could exchange more than a few pleasantries, Li Fang said mysteriously, "Have you heard? Our brigade has a new captain. He's not from our brigade, and he's having a meeting at the brigade headquarters right now! Wanqing, why don't we go and see him later?"
The new brigade headquarters is located at the educated youth settlement; I imagine there are already quite a few people gathered there.
"Forget it, I just got back from the county town, I'm exhausted, and I still have to design clothes. Let me know when you've finished looking at them." Lu Wanqing was too lazy to join in the fun.
When Li Fang heard her say that, the topic turned to making clothes.
She picked up the snowflake-patterned fabric and kept clicking her tongue in admiration. "This fabric must be very expensive. If it's ruined, the loss will be huge."
She didn't mean it that way. Once, when Aunt Luo was making clothes, she didn't calculate the amount of fabric properly. The clothes were made by piecing together several different kinds of fabric, and the final result was very ugly.
Making clothes is still quite risky.
Unbeknownst to her, Lu Wanqing and Zhao Xiaolan worked together flawlessly, almost never making a mistake.
Seeing that Lu Wanqing was busy packing her things and didn't pay attention to her, she didn't stay long and went to the brigade headquarters to watch the excitement.
Lu Wanqing was also a little curious: who exactly was the new captain?
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