After seeing Lu Chaoli's uncontrollable smile, the brothers who were about to ask him when he was planning to get married widened their eyes and stopped talking.

Lu Chaoli raised his hand and touched the corner of his mouth: "Did I smile?"

"Uh-huh!"

The brothers nodded in unison.

"Oh, Huzi is going to get married soon. I'm happy for him."

Lu Chaoli was talking nonsense in a serious manner.

The brothers all shook their heads again: "I don't think so. Boss, are you hiding something from us?"

"Go away. Why do you like to think about things like my mother?"

Lu Chaoli glanced at the brothers beside him, then walked towards Hu Zi and helped him sort out the branches piled in the yard.

The remaining few people stood where they were without moving.

Tiezhu put his arm on Zhao Congwen's shoulder and stroked his chin to think: "Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary!"

Zhao Congwen, who was standing beside him, looked at Tiezhu in surprise and asked, "Who did you learn this poem from?"

Tiezhu raised his fist and punched Zhao Congwen on the chest: "Go, is this the time to ask about this? The most important thing now is the boss!"

Zhao Congwen scratched his head stupidly: "Boss? What's wrong with you? Isn't he in good health and enjoying everything he eats?"

Tiezhu rolled his eyes and said, "Come on, come on, by the time you find any clues, it will be too late!"

Tiezhu walked over to another brother and said, "Goudan, do you think the boss is a little abnormal today?"

"Call me by my name."

Tiezhu choked and quickly changed his words: "Okay, okay, Brother Guofu, Brother Guofu, that's enough!"

"That's more like it!" The man, whose full name is Li Guofu and nickname is Li Goudan, snorted coldly, and then said, "Could it be that he found out the cause of the piglet's death, and he was happy about Huzi's engagement?"

Tiezhu immediately shook his head: "I don't think so."

All eight people looked at Tiezhu: "What's going on?"

Tiezhu shrank his neck: "Why are you looking at me? If I knew, would I need to ask you?"

"Suspicious!"

"Magic!"

After leaving Tiezhu with these two words, the brothers continued to step forward to help.

Tie Zhu stroked his chin and looked at Lu Chaoli in front of him. Could it be that he was wrong? Then he shook his head again.

Impossible! Men's intuition is always accurate. The boss must be hiding something from them!

Thinking of this, Tiezhu rushed forward and tried to get Lu Chaoli to tell him something, but since Lu's mother hadn't been able to get him to tell her anything even after pestering her, Tiezhu would be even less likely to get any information out of her.

Lu Chaoli kept his mouth shut to everyone! More people means faster work. In just one afternoon, a few people built a shed in Huzi's yard, cleaned up the branches and carried them into the shed. The yard instantly became spacious and tidy.

"Chao Li Tie Zhu, come in quickly. Thank you for your hard work. Auntie has prepared a few dishes. Eat them before you leave!"

Hu Zi's mother, who had been busy in the kitchen, came out after finishing cooking.

"Thank you for your hard work today, let's wash our hands and go inside to eat. There are many mosquitoes at night, let's go inside to have a drink!"

Hu Zi ran to the water tank and poured some water into the washbasin. He asked everyone to wash their hands and go into the house to eat.

"Ouch, what pricked me?"

Tiezhu suddenly cried out in pain, lowered his head and raised his finger to look at it.

"What's wrong, Brother Tiezhu?"

"Why are you bleeding? Brother Tiezhu, wait a minute, I'll get something to wipe it off for you!"

After Hu Zi finished speaking, he ran back into the house. Seeing this, Hu Zi's mother also hurried back to the house to get some medicine.

"Oh, it's okay, it's just a small cut, look how nervous you guys are!"

Tiezhu smiled indifferently, but Huzi and his mother were worried. They bandaged and applied medicine on the cut on Tiezhu's hand and quickly covered it up.

"Brother Tiezhu, don't touch water with your hand for the next two days. Wait until the scab forms."

Hu Zi gave another reminder.

Tie Zhu showed his big white teeth: "Got it, let's go inside and have a drink!"

Just as they were about to enter the house, Lu Chaoli suddenly said, "Aunt, Huzi, you guys eat first. I suddenly remembered that I have something to do at home!"

After saying hello, Lu Chaoli walked towards the gate. No matter how Hu Zi and others shouted at him, he did not turn back.

After leaving Hu Zi's house, Lu Chaoli walked quickly all the way back home. When they saw Lu Chaoli, Lu's father and mother were stunned.

"Zhao Li, why are you back? Have you eaten?"

In the past, whenever Lu Chaoli and his brothers got together, they would eat and drink together. Lu's mother thought that Lu Chaoli would eat at Hu Zi's house today, so she only prepared two portions.

"I have eaten, mother, where is our medicine for wounds?"

"Medicine for injuries? What's wrong? Are you injured?"

When Mother Lu heard that Lu Chaoli was looking for medicine for his wounds, she quickly stood up and walked up to him, looking him up and down.

Lu Chaoli said calmly, "It wasn't me. Tiezhu was scratched by something at Huzi's house. I'll bring him a bottle of medicine!"

"Just wait, I'll find it for you right away!"

After hearing that Tiezhu was injured, Lu's mother hurried back to the house to find medicine. After rummaging through the drawer, she quickly came out with the medicine.

"This is medicine for wounds. Hurry up and apply it to Tiezhu. This kid is so careless."

"Got it, mom. I'll go first!"

Lu Chaoli took the medicine and turned around and ran out. Lu's mother didn't think much about it at first, but after sitting down, she started to worry again.

"This silly boy, if Tiezhu is injured, why didn't he just ask Huzi's mother for some medicine to apply on his wound? Why did he make a special trip all the way here?"

After getting the medicine, Lu Chaoli did not go to find Tiezhu, but went towards the Youth League Institute.

He was careless. He only asked Comrade Xiao Jiang to prick the blisters, but forgot to ask her if she had brought any medicine! Just as Lu's mother said, Lu Chaoli was careless and might not have thought things through very carefully. For him, blisters on his feet were nothing. They would only hurt for a few days and heal.

So when he learned that Jiang Li had blisters on her feet, he didn't think too much about it and just told her to come back and pick one.

It was not until he saw Hu Zi's mother applying medicine to Tie Zhu that he realized that he had forgotten to ask Jiang Li whether she had brought medicine.

It was June and the sky had already darkened. The full moon hanging in the sky was exceptionally bright. The cold moonlight spread on the ground, illuminating the path under Lu Chaoli's feet.

He walked without slowing down and quickly arrived at the gate of the Youth League Institute.

The fence in front of the Youth League Institute had been closed. Lu Chaoli stood in front of the fence and was about to call for help, but he felt that it was a bit presumptuous of him to come here suddenly.

If the women in the village knew that he came to the Youth League Institute to look for Comrade Xiao Jiang so late at night, they might talk about Comrade Xiao Jiang behind his back!

He knew very well how talkative some women in the village were, and he didn't want Comrade Xiao Jiang to become the subject of their gossip! Thinking of this, Lu Chaoli clenched the wound medicine in his hand, intending to find an opportunity to hand the wound medicine to Jiang Li tomorrow.

He had just turned around when a clear voice came from the yard.

"Comrade Xiao Lu?"

(End of this chapter)