After showing off, he felt refreshed and brushed his teeth, washed his face, and ate.
Ouyang Lei sat watching the two of them display their affection. "Are you done? Are we going up the mountain or not?"
"You go yourself, where are my cement and plastic sheeting?"
"You finally remembered? Lin Guangde wouldn't dare enter your house, and my truck is still waiting outside the river!"
"Then why did you let Chen Suozhu leave?" Li Zhengguo said grumpily, "He's practically the head manager who does chores for my family."
"It must be pitiful to be your brother-in-law."
"Go ask him how he feels!" Li Zhengguo retorted.
"Okay, okay, no more arguing with him."
Tian Jing appeased Li Zhengguo. "Hurry and find someone to help transport the supplies. Captain Ou and Secretary Yang must also be anxious." Su Dan Novel Network
Li Zhengguo pushed the wheelbarrow. "Ouyang Lei, is there anyone on the cart?"
"Yes."
Li Zhengguo pushed the cart away.
Ouyang Lei quietly asked Tian Jing, "Why is he always targeting me?"
"What do you think? Your first meeting, a man's pride."
"I even knelt down."
"If it were in front of the woman you liked, and you knelt down?"
"He didn't kneel either?"
"Fortunately, he didn't kneel, otherwise, you wouldn't even be able to enter this door. No, your legs would be broken."
"Who would break them?"
"A mixed doubles match."
Ouyang Lei...
He might as well go up the mountain.
Li Zhengguo, along with Chen Suozhu and Wang Dage's father and son, moved the cargo. A hundred bags of cement were successively moved into the main hall.
When the three rolls of plastic sheeting were pushed into the yard by wheelbarrow, Tian Jing was still surprised. "Li Zhengguo, are all three rolls ours?"
"Yes. Captain Ou and Secretary Yang each got two rolls. One roll is a bit short for covering an mu of land, and Ouyang Lei was unwilling to give them more."
"Then tell them to figure it out themselves. They can use adobe or stones to build walls at the ends, or just cover a smaller area. We'll give these three rolls to Wang Dage, one roll each."
Wang Dage excitedly thanked them, "Thank you, sister-in-law. I won't be polite. Hongwei, hurry, carry it home!"
Li Zhengguo, supporting the cart, looked helplessly at the father and son who had already carried off one roll and were running. "Tiantian."
"I'll carry it with you."
"No, I mean you're too generous."
"Wang Dage is a good person, and he's truly devoted to you. Besides, if we don't give it to him early, it will be troublesome later. And it will be easier to explain to Sister-in-law Niu."
Li Zhengguo immediately understood. His Tiantian was indeed smart. Plastic sheeting was a rare commodity, and the supply and marketing cooperative couldn't get more stock.
"Captain Ou and Secretary Yang are asking what a reasonable price would be."
"Go and tell them that they must say the plastic sheeting was obtained through a deferred payment for our vegetables, as a trial investment in rare materials."
"It's not that we're not selling it to the supply and marketing cooperative, but that we're using it first for our investment. Once the trial planting of vegetables is successful, half will be sold to the cooperative and half will be used to repay the debt."
"Tell them to write a formal report to the commune, and draft a deferred payment agreement, have them sign it, and then have Ouyang Lei sign it when he comes down the mountain."
"Then hurry and carry it in, I'll go tell them right away!" Li Zhengguo was anxious. If this got out to someone with ill intentions, Ouyang Lei would also be in trouble.
Captain Ou and Secretary Yang were called over by Li Zhengguo. After hearing his words, the two immediately separated to do their tasks.
One wrote the report, the other the deferred payment agreement.
The deferred payment agreement was written according to Tian Jing's instructions of half repayment and half sale. Li Zhengguo read and organized it together. Soon, two copies were drafted. After the two leaders signed, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Captain Ou was still worried. "Zhengguo, take this to Ouyang Lei for his signature, and ask him to give me a ride. I must submit the report today. A small bit of opportunism almost led to serious consequences."
"My wife and I have decided to each give up one roll. We will decide at the village meeting who is qualified to participate in this deferred payment task."
"Alright, I gave Wang Dage one roll. I'll have him sign it too."
Li Zhengguo left. Captain Ou and Secretary Yang reviewed the report again. "Zhengguo's wife is truly capable in both civil and military matters."
"Indeed. If she didn't want to live a leisurely life, we wouldn't be able to keep her in Kushan. Your idea of making her the head of the women's federation should be dropped."
"I don't dare to think about it anymore."
...
Ouyang Lei came down the mountain with several wild rabbits and pheasants and was forced to sign the deferred payment agreement.
The critical point was that he was being forced into the role of creditor. "Sister-in-law, is this really necessary?"
"Of course it is. Human hearts are insatiable. What is due must be collected, otherwise, they will ask again next time."
"If they ask, will I agree? It was you who agreed this time." Ouyang Lei was still a bit displeased.
"So, we signed the deferred payment agreement. If they really manage to grow off-season vegetables, you will have sufficient reason to take half of them, and no one can frame you or us."
Ouyang Lei was confused by her. "Who exactly are you planning for? Yesterday you agreed to give them plastic sheeting, which looked like you were helping them. Now you've come up with this agreement, which looks like you're ripping them off."
"If they can't grow them, nothing will happen. If they can, then everyone will be happy. I haven't helped anyone, nor have I ripped anyone off."
"Haven't you ripped me off?"
"You delivered yourself to my door, why wouldn't I take advantage of it?"
Ouyang Lei... He finally understood. No one could win an argument with Tian Jing's mouth. If she was right, she could make others speechless. If she was wrong, she could use illogical reasoning to make others furious.
"I'm leaving." Ouyang Lei bent down to pick up the pheasants and rabbits.
"Wait." Li Zhengguo called out to him.
"What is it? Are you still inviting me to dinner?"
"There's no food for you to eat. You need to report the wild pheasants and rabbits you caught, and it will be deducted from our work points. Also, Captain Ou wants a ride to the commune."
Ouyang Lei glanced at the pheasants and rabbits in his hand. "Can I throw them back on the mountain?"
Li Zhengguo shook his head. "It's too late, someone must have seen."
Ouyang Lei asked Tian Jing, "Sister-in-law, is this the leisurely life you like?"
Tian Jing gave him a sidelong glance. "Secret leisure. Who told you to be openly leisurely? By the way, you must insist that those two plants were sold to you by someone else. I already have enough troubles on my hands."
"I've searched several places on this mountain, and I haven't seen that thing. You're too cautious."
"Caution is the mother of safety."
"Alright! I'm leaving."
Li Zhengguo pulled him to Wang's house, had Wang Dage sign it, and then let him take a copy of the deferred payment agreement. "Keep it safe. If they all succeed, and you want it, you'll still need this agreement."
"Alas~ This is too humiliating."
"Just bear with it a little longer. It will pass."
"I hope so."
After seeing Ouyang Lei off, Li Zhengguo returned to Wang's house and explained the purpose of the deferred payment agreement to Wang Dage.
Wang Dage agreed. "Yes, it should be like this. It's right to be careful. When will you start sowing the seeds? I want to shamelessly join you in sowing the seeds."
Li Zhengguo also wanted to help Wang Dage. "I'll tell you when we start sowing, or, you can give me the seeds, and we can germinate them together."
"Okay, I'll discuss with your wife which vegetables to plant, and then I'll bring them over."
"Yes, because we need to harvest before the New Year, we are planting single-season vegetables that mature in one month."
"I understand."
Mother Li returned from digging wild vegetables and excitedly reported to her daughter-in-law, "Tiantian, I can dig wild vegetables now. Next spring, I'll go to work and earn work points."
Tian Jing was tidying up the wild vegetables with her mother-in-law. "Mother, help me look after the plastic sheds at home. Let Li Zhengguo go to work alone."