After discussing it, the two decided that Wang Hongmei, the women's director, would give 100 of the remaining 700, and the other three brigade cadres would each receive 200.
Having successfully dragged all the village cadres into the mess—oops, I mean, made sure their hard work paid off and their efforts were rewarded—Lu Yuan ignored the two men and went off to call his father-in-law in a good mood.
My brother-in-law is getting married in October, and they plan to go to Hangzhou more than a month early. Firstly, to spend more time with his in-laws; secondly, well, let's not talk about it—he would never admit he didn't want to participate in the harvest. He'd already gotten the brigade a farm tractor, so one more laborer wouldn't make a difference, and one less wouldn't matter either. After hanging up the phone, he yelled at the two brigade cadres, who were still immersed in joy, "Uncle Zhang, I'm going home now!"
The two finally snapped out of their daze, put away the money, waved to him, and gestured for him to leave quickly.
Lu Yuan grinned as he walked home, thinking to himself, "Luckily I'm not an official, otherwise I would definitely be a corrupt one, the kind of corrupt official who is too cowardly to embezzle from his work unit, the people, or even the country, and who only dares to struggle and find a way out on his own."
As Lu Yuan thought to himself with self-mockery, a male voice suddenly came from ahead, "Xiao Fan, how could you do this? Huiyue went to the countryside for your sake, but you didn't suffer in the countryside at all. Instead, you went to work in the city. Now Huiyue is just asking you to help her find a job in the city. She didn't ask you to give up your job for her, and you won't even agree. Are you even a man?"
Holy crap, what a bombshell! And is the language he can't understand being used for emotional blackmail?
He glanced around and saw a large rock not far away. He plopped down on it and grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds from his spatial storage. Sitting on the rock, he ate the seeds and watched the three of them with interest.
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