Back to the 70s: My Childhood Sweetheart Spoils Me Rotten-Chapter 709 - 711: Rural People are Simple and Honest

"What, what did you say?" Li Jian Country was stunned.

Today, Zhao Xuran and the others were invited for a meal, firstly because the kids had returned home from afar, and it was not fair to ask them to cook; secondly, it was to thank them for their help over the past few years.

If it weren’t for Zhao Gang and the others, the village might have been much poorer, but look at the village now, life is getting better and it’s all thanks to Zhao Gang and the others.

Unexpectedly, after a meal, there was even new business, "You said you want to transport the village’s rice to Beijing?"

"Let the people of Beijing eat?" My goodness, how could Li Jian Country not be surprised, this was not what they imagined, but something that really happened. If word got out, Li Jian Country could already imagine the envious looks of the surrounding villages.

There were quite a few educated youths in the countryside, and many of them got into universities and left the village, but after they left, they never thought about here again, maybe they wanted to forget about it.

But at critical times, the educated youths who went out from here were really itching to find ways to bring benefits to the village.

Zhao Xuran hummed, seeing Li Jian Country’s excited expression, he knew there was something to it. Although Beijing was not very mysterious to Zhao Xuran, to the people here in the Northeast, Beijing was a very mysterious place, a place where great leaders had passed away, a place they wanted to go to.

If they were to take a trip to Beijing and see how they were living now, wouldn’t life be better? Zhao Xuran’s heart stirred, "Uncle Jian Country, how about after the new rice comes in, you go to Beijing with the rice delivery convoy?"

After the autumn harvest, there wasn’t much going on, and even though Li Jian Country had been in the village for so many years, would the village stop running if he were not there?

Ah, going to Beijing? Li Jian Country was stunned. He hadn’t thought that in the future, once life got better, he would take a trip to Beijing so soon. "I’m kind of embarrassed."

No way, going to Beijing would only be a burden for Zhao Gang and the others. After all, they were students, and Li Jian Country was a considerate person. Zhao Gang and the others were not from Beijing, and it was not easy to open up such a big business there, best not to disturb them.

It’s said that it’s not easy to eat meat in the city, and Zhao Gang and the others each love eating meat, so when autumn comes, they should go into the mountains more to hunt some game and send it to Zhao Gang and the others.

They couldn’t help them out with so much, but couldn’t ignore courtesy altogether.

"Go ahead, Uncle Jian Country, you should visit the memorial hall in Beijing and also see where we live. If the market is good in the future, we can sell some wild game." Zhao Xuran liked cooperating with considerate, unselfish people. Otherwise, if someone thought they deserved everything, Zhao Xuran wouldn’t want to partner with them.

There are lots of villages in the Northeast that grow rice, why work with you, "Uncle Jian Country, if business is good in the future, it’ll trouble you to venture out more."

Actually, Li Jian Country was embarrassed to ask as he didn’t know how the business would go. If most of the rice left behind in the village could be sold, that would be great. Knowing Zhao Gang and the others’ temper, the purchase price wouldn’t be low.

As for food, they could eat corn porridge and steamed buns, but who would have thought the demand would be so big, stunning Li Jian Country, "You mean the volume will be large?"

Zhao Xuran nodded, "There are many people in Beijing, and although not everyone will buy, there are surrounding cities as well."

Perhaps when Gong Zhuang finds out, he will also want to sell. Although this uncle of Gong Ruini’s has his own little calculations, he’s a good person, and since it’s just a small favor, there’s no reason not to help, especially when the person is constantly striving to be self-reliant and develop themselves, a little help is even more necessary.

"Okay, okay." Li Jian Country raised his glass for a toast, "Actually, I was also worried. The income from medicinal herbs is high, and some people suggested reducing the area for rice and planting herbs instead. But it’s such good land, it’d be a waste not to grow food."

Li Jian Country felt relieved now, maybe people were just saying that and wouldn’t actually stop growing food. But if someone were to set a precedent, Li Jian Country knew there would be many followers.

Although he’s still the village chief, the land is contracted to households, and what to plant is up to each family to decide. But if there’s good income, no one would do anything foolish.

Don’t look at how Zhao Xuran kept saying he wanted Gong Ruini to help out, but as things went smoothly as Zhao Xuran predicted, Gong Ruini didn’t even have the chance to participate and happily ate her meal.

It’s been a while since she had such fresh wild game, of course Gong Ruini wouldn’t pass it up, and her cooking skills were excellent, and Gong Ruzhi was anxiously waiting on the side, eager to eat.

While excitedly eating, Gong Ruini almost choked on her food when she heard Li Jian Country’s concern, she hadn’t foreseen her previous unintentional actions would have so many consequences.

Was this a butterfly effect? Gong Ruini didn’t know, she just knew she almost destroyed their future granary.

Luckily, Cai Ming’s idea was timely, otherwise, Gong Ruini really would have cried to death, "We can’t plant too many herbs, otherwise there won’t be delicious rice in the future."

Cao Na kept nodding her head at the side, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, I really like eating the Northeast’s big wheat."

"My grandfather always eats a lot when he has rice from the Northeast." Cao Na actually had an idea, wondering if she could get along well with the locals here and later buy some rice from the Northeast from them.

But this task was easily accomplished, since Gong Ruini’s uncle wanted to sell rice, would they lack it in the future? It’s just a matter of money, isn’t it?

Cao Na knew that Gong Ruini wasn’t hard up for money, but did her family lack money? There’s no need to owe a favor over such a small benefit.

Li Jian Country had just met Cao Na, but from the villagers’ conversations, he knew Gong Ruini had brought a friend from Beijing this time, and now hearing this girl speak, he was excited.

A girl from Beijing saying she likes their rice, and it’s not just empty words, Li Jian Country waved his big hand to show gratitude, what if this girl mentions it to her relatives, wouldn’t it boost business?

Don’t think Northeast farmers are honest, it’s not that they can’t calculate, but that they couldn’t find opportunities before, and now they’ve found one, of course they wouldn’t miss it.

"Take a bag of rice back with you then."

Oh, really? Cao Na didn’t know how to respond. She just said a couple of sincere words and ended up with such a good deal.

Cao Na increasingly felt that this wasn’t something easy, it must be a way to thank Gong Ruini and the others through her.

"Take it." Gong Ruini saw Cao Na’s silly expression and gave her a push. Sigh, in these times, a gift of rice makes people overthink, as if in later times, if you send someone a bag of rice, who would care?

It’s not a bag of RMB, people these days just have that kind of simplicity.

Oh, just like that? Cao Na heard Gong Ruini say this and agreed, seeing it as helping Gong Ruini carry it, she’ll give it to her later.