When they arrived at the brigade headquarters, they saw only a dark and thin man in his thirties. Tian Cai explained his purpose to him and was then taken to Li Jianguo's home.
Li Jianguo wasn't at home. His wife said she didn't know where he had gone. She pointed to the wall and said, "He's still in the village. Look, his bicycle is still at home!"
Tian Cai and Qin Ling looked at each other, hesitating whether to wait here.
At this moment, the dark and thin man who had been following suddenly laughed and said cunningly, "I know where it is. I'll go find it."
Sure enough, Li Jianguo came back after a while.
"Doctor Tian is here! What a rare guest! Look at me. I was busy helping the villagers mediate a dispute. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long." Li Jianguo looked to be only in his forties. His skin was much whiter than that of ordinary men working in the fields, and he was a little fatter.
The unsatisfied look in his eyes and eyebrows disappeared instantly when he saw Tian Cai, and he walked forward to shake hands with her.
Qin Ling, however, took the initiative and handed over Tian Cai's cloth bag. "Doctor Tian, let's get down to business. We have to go to Fengshan Brigade soon. We have been delayed for quite a while."
Li Jianguo's smile froze. What did he mean? Was waiting for him a waste of time?
Tian Cai understood and pretended to avoid Li Jianguo's hand. He took the cloth bag from Qin Ling with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, Secretary Li. We were delayed for quite a while because we couldn't find the way. Would you mind gathering the team members for a meeting?"
Li Jianguo glanced at Qin Ling with a forced smile. Seeing that the boy showed no change in expression, he was unsure whether it was a coincidence or not. He could only suppress his emotion and turned his gaze to Tian Cai. "Let's not rush about this. Since we're already in the Fangshan Brigade, I must show my hospitality and at least have a meal before leaving."
"I'm afraid that won't work," Tian Cai said in embarrassment. "Before I left, the captain told me several times to hurry up so that I could still have time to go with him in the afternoon to report on the progress to Secretary Feng!"
When Secretary Feng was mentioned, Li Jianguo's smile faltered, but soon returned to normal. Feeling a little annoyed for a moment, he reached out and loosened his tightly tied collar. "Since this is really unfortunate, let's leave it at that for now. Next time, please let me entertain you properly. Then let's get down to business first."
Tian Cai nodded hurriedly and made a false promise, "Next time, for sure, for sure."
Li Jianguo turned to the dark, thin man and ordered, "Wangfa, go find a few people to hold a meeting at the brigade headquarters. We need people who are willing to sign up to be health workers, regardless of gender. Let them decide for themselves. Don't let those who are nothing try to occupy the toilet without doing anything."
This statement seemed to make sense at first, but upon closer inspection it had many implications. Li Wangfa responded and went in the opposite direction.
Tian Cai's gaze could not help but drift over from the moment Li Jianguo unbuttoned his collar. Now he glanced at it again and saw very clearly that there was a dark red mark faintly visible under his collar.
Things went more smoothly after that. Since she didn't know the people who came, Tian Cai briefly explained the county's intentions and the duties of the health workers. As for the future treatment, she didn't know and couldn't make any promises. In the future, the public society would come up with a unified charter, and everyone would definitely not be treated unfairly.
Seeing the fair, beautiful, confident and generous Tian Cai, Li Jianguo was even more unwilling to give up. He invited Tian Cai to stay for dinner again, but was still rejected by Tian Cai. He was already a little upset, and his face couldn't help but fall when he was rejected again. Tian Cai didn't care about that. Anyway, the mission was completed, so she asked Qin Ling to ride away on his bike.
Qin Ling first turned to the house where he wanted to deliver the message, and Tian Cai sat on his bicycle and waited. After a while, he came out of the yard, and the two walked back together.
On the way back, Tian Cai couldn't help but share what she had discovered with Qin Ling, "This Li Jianguo, he probably has a lover outside."
"Um?"
Qin Ling was really surprised this time. He really didn't know how Tian Cai discovered it.
"I tell you, based on my many years of experience in catching, uh, my many years of medical experience, there was something wrong when he came back, and his wife is with us, so he must have another lover outside!" Tian Cai's eyes were burning with a raging fire of gossip. He didn't expect that in this age where promiscuity can cost lives, there are still people who go against the wind.
I guess the black-faced man called him back from the kang, no wonder he looked so unsatisfied!
The most crucial thing is the mark on Li Jianguo's neck. They are an old couple, so what wife would do this? These are all common practices that are not worthy of being mentioned in public. Is she trying to assert her sovereignty or to provoke? You have to ask her herself.
Seeing that he didn't understand, Tian Cai wanted to explain, but suddenly remembered that he might still be a virgin, and there was no point in saying so much, so he changed the subject.
It was already past eleven when the two of them left. They happened to meet a few educated youth who had just returned from the fields. The clothes they wore were obviously different from those of the villagers. They looked listless and numb. Moreover, none of the educated youth had attended the mobilization meeting just now.
Tian Cai had no idea that the educated youth here did much more work than those in the mountain villages. They worked more but received fewer work points, and the food they were allocated was not enough for them to eat. The children from the city had to rely on the relief from their families to barely get by. For example, they couldn't even drink meat soup, let alone meat. They hadn't even heard anything about the county recruiting health workers.
They just said that they would go to Fengshan Brigade in the afternoon, which was completely nonsense. Zhang Defa's original intention was that Tian Cai would go to Fangshan Brigade, which was closest to Beishan Brigade, and Doctor Liu would go to the remaining Fengshan Brigade and Fengchan Brigade.
Even if Qin Ling didn't take action, she could have broken Li Jianguo's arm by herself, but Li Jianguo was different from Zhang Chuanliang. He was a brigade secretary after all, and they were in his territories, so the follow-up handling would be much more troublesome.
When he arrived at the village entrance, Tian Cai thanked Qin Ling again and then went home.
Lunch was the vegetable steamed bread I made yesterday. I just took it out and heated it up. I also went to the vegetable garden to pick some cucumbers, eggplants and beans, and made two simple dishes.
Luo Xiuyan came over before I finished eating.
Tian Cai was extremely hungry and his mouth was full of food. When he saw Luo Xiuyan, he just raised his eyebrows and asked her with his eyes why she came.
"You're eating so late!" Luo Xiuyan didn't come to the table, but pulled a stool nearby. "I'm fine, I just wanted to tell you about a piece of news that happened this morning."
"What news?" Tian Cai became interested when she heard this. It was no wonder that she became like this. When she first came, she had no interest in other people's family affairs. Later, she didn't know whether it was because life was too boring or she was too bored, but she would go and join in the fun when there was something lively.
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