Chapter 47 I Don't Want to Force It
But Li Nanqiu's intuition told her that there must be something hidden, so she went to find Tao Xiaoxi without stopping.
Tao Xiaoxi neither welcomed nor rejected her arrival, and brought a stool for her to sit on under the eaves.
"I'll be frank. I want to know if it was your idea that my brother insisted on growing medicinal herbs?"
"What did your brother say?" Tao Xiaoxi answered calmly.
"He didn't say." Li Nanqiu played a trick.
Tao Xiaoxi smiled and asked, "So what are you doubting now?"
"To be honest, I suspect you are seducing my brother." Li Nanqiu blurted out.
"Well, you're really straightforward. I'll tell you the truth, then. I wanted to marry your brother, but he rejected me once, and then I rejected him again. So we're even. It's hard to say what will happen next, and I won't promise you anything."
Li Nanqiu actually laughed, "If you weren't married and had a child, I really think you and my brother are a good match."
"Even if I'm married and have a child, it can't be a reason why your brother and I are not a good match." Tao Xiaoxi retorted.
Li Nanqiu sighed and leaned against the jujube tree nearby. "My brother has had a hard time. I hope you won't hurt him."
This change in attitude caught Tao Xiaoxi off guard, and she softened her tone, "I thought you were different from them, but it seems I was wrong."
Li Nanqiu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but then regained his composure. "Of course I'm different from them, but I also hope my brother will suffer less in his life. He's already had enough."
"Who isn't suffering in this world? Do you dare to say that you aren't suffering?" Tao Xiaoxi looked at Li Nanqiu.
Li Nanqiu lowered his head and didn't look at her.
"So, let's not try to persuade each other. Neither of us is the type to listen to advice. In short, you protect your brother, and I protect what I should protect. If you don't make things difficult for me, I will never embarrass you. Am I clear enough?"
Li Nanqiu opened his mouth.
"Just say what you want to say. Since you came to see me, you are not the kind of person who would hide things."
"Okay, I'll do as you say, but I have something else to ask you today."
"What?"
"Thanks."
"What?"
"I said thank you. I remember you lent me money for my father's medical treatment. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten."
Tao Xiaoxi smiled nonchalantly, "Go back and ask your brother. I saved your father's life more than once. To be honest, your father is really an ungrateful person. Even if I don't expect him to be grateful, he wouldn't treat his savior like this, right?"
"I want to thank you on behalf of my father. I will shoulder his debt and will never default on it."
"Okay, it's getting dark, go back. I'll give you time to pay it back slowly, but that doesn't mean I won't pay it back."
"Don't worry, we will definitely return it."
Although Li Nanqiu did not get Tao Xiaoxi's confirmation on this trip, she was certain that it was Tao Xiaoxi's idea for her brother to grow medicinal herbs. Somehow, after confirming this fact, Li Nanqiu felt at ease. At least it meant that her brother was not acting on a whim or out of thin air. She inexplicably believed that what Tao Xiaoxi asked her to do must be reliable.
With Li Nanshan's separation from the Li family and his move to live on his own, the story of Lijia Mantou Village's richest man was completely over and passed into history. As the former richest man, everyone in the Li family felt a little ashamed and embarrassed to talk about it. Especially the second sister-in-law, she hardly dared to leave the house anymore, and her once-a-month trip to the county town finally came to an end.
While the outside world was in turmoil and changes, this valley in Mantou Village was still sleeping in the beautiful illusion of the past. No one thought it was wrong. As long as everyone didn't have enough to eat, it was tolerable.
So when Li Nanshan's small patch of medicinal herbs yielded a good harvest, even though the amount wasn't large enough to change his current situation, the whole village still gathered to watch. Some came to see the excitement, some to see the novelty, and some to see the joke.
They wanted to see what Li Nanshan could do with these medicinal herbs and how to exchange them for money.
Li Nanshan also wanted to know the answer they wanted to know. Tao Xiaoxi said that he didn't need to worry about it, and she guaranteed that someone would come to collect it, but where was the person?
Where are the people? They are coming.
Zhao Bin arrived on a motorcycle, sending dust flying everywhere he went, leaving the people of Mantou Village gazing in amazement. When the motorcycle stopped and the engine turned off, Zhao Bin, dressed in a long gown, got out first, followed by Tao Xiaoxi from the other side.
Everyone was stunned. In this day and age, people still wear long robes? Isn't it an eyesore? Isn't it hot?
But Zhao Bin was a gentleman, with his hair combed back in the style of Chow Yun-fat, shiny and slicked back. His back was not wet and there was no sweat on his face, so it seemed that he was not hot.
"Who has the medicine?" Zhao Bin stepped forward and asked, not minding at all that the people of Mantou Village treated him like a monkey.
"Me." Li Nanshan stepped forward.
"Let's go and take a look."
Li Nanshan took Zhao Bin to the edge of the field to have a look. Zhao Bin walked to the pile of medicine, bent down and moved some with his hands, picked up some and smelled them, and finally glanced at the whole pile of herbs and said two words: fifty yuan.
"Fifty yuan?" Li Nanshan repeated, neither happy nor disappointed. To be honest, he didn't know the market situation. But considering the amount, he felt it was not a loss.
"Boss Zhao, this is not fair. According to the market price and with this quality, it should be at least a hundred, right?" Tao Xiaoxi pushed through the crowd and said calmly.
Zhao Bin pointed at her and said with a smile, "I knew you were going to come and raise the price for your fellow villager. So, let's both make a concession. Eighty. Look, it's still wet. I have to process it when I get home. And it's not a small fee for me to drive here to collect the oil."
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