NOVEL NEXT Chapter 293: 293 come back
But don't worry about those sprayers in your hand, just keep them for yourself.
This time, Feng Baoshan drove Su Yuanyuan back. This girl can be considered a hero of the farm.
"Xiao Su, you didn't have time to visit Xiao Tan this year, did you?"
"Yeah, next year we'll just hire a truck from the city transportation team to take these barrels to the pesticide factory, and then I'll go there to see Tan Shaoting."
"Xiao Su. Can you manage without going yourself?"
"Even if I go, I can't get things done without the approval."
"I know, I'll make sure to get the approval early."
When Su Yuanyuan got home, the house felt quite warm, and it seemed that the Zhao sisters had just tidied up the place for her, saving her some trouble.
Once home, she closed the door and directly entered the space.
She felt her pores opening, and it was incredibly comfortable.
She had a rushed shower in the morning due to being in a hurry, but now she took a hot bath. She stayed in the space, resting comfortably for several days, to the point where even Zhao Yanli called her over for meals, and she didn't move. Moreover, she hadn't brought the sheep and little donkey back.
Eventually, it was the twenty-seventh of the lunar month when she came out.
She hadn't prepared much, just sat on the kang making shoes. Although the temperature in the room was okay, her exposed hands were still quite cold.
Zhao Yanli came over. Seeing Su Yuanyuan sewing shoe soles, she also got on the kang.
"Yuanyuan, you have no idea how formidable that Zheng Lanying you brought back is.
Fortunately, my elder sister's land was settled right after the autumn harvest. Otherwise, it would've been hers.
Somehow she got all chummy with Group Leader Ma, and now she's in our group.
Luckily, she's far from us. You don't know, just looking at her, I almost couldn't resist smacking her."
Su Yuanyuan frowned slightly, still in the same group?
She had underestimated Zheng Lanying.
Actually, that night, Zheng Lanying had already learned about the farm's situation from the gatekeeper, Uncle Li.
She also learned that Su Yuanyuan had actually donated all three years' worth of money.
But she didn't believe it, thinking even if it was donated, it wasn't all of it. So, she was quite dismissive in her heart.
However, Uncle Li mentioned that Su Yuanyuan and the person she was living with were quite capable. That person has already left the farm.
And she knew their previous land was particularly good, especially Su Yuanyuan's land next to the reservoir.
Now Zheng Lanying was tempted again, thinking about getting into Su Yuanyuan's group. It should be quite close to the reservoir.
"Uncle, which group will I be assigned to?"
"It's hard to say, Mr. Chen's group has fewer people and more land, you should go there."
"Uncle Li, I want to go to Su Yuanyuan's group."
"Group Leader Ma is indeed easy to talk to. But there's no particularly good land in that group, oh right, since Xiao Tan left, his hundred acres of land have been taken by the Li Family, and the Zhao Family's daughters are right next to them.
The adjacent hundred acres were also taken care of by Xiao Tan and Xiao Su. There should be another fifty acres.
But Comrade Zheng, without a hundred acres in the farm, you won't get a little donkey."
Zheng Lanying also heard from Su Yuanyuan that the money she had was saved to buy a little donkey. So she had been saving, not wanting to farm a hundred acres.
"Thank you, Uncle Li, I'll talk to Director Feng tomorrow.
Uncle Li, where does Group Leader Ma live? Should I also have a word with him?" Zheng Lanying asked while eating porridge.
Although it was just cornmeal porridge from the old gatekeeper, at least it was free and hot. Zheng Lanying ate two large bowls.
At night, lying on the kang, it was just a little warm, but it was more comfortable than sitting in a truck. So she fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
The next morning, she woke up feeling the bed was still quite warm. She knew it must've been the old man who lit a fire for her. The people here were quite nice.
She got up and tidied up, and Old Li called her to have some porridge again.
Zheng Lanying didn't hold back, ate two more large bowls, and asked again for the directions to Group Leader Ma's home, heading straight there.
She happened to bump into Ma Dongmei, they were about the same age. In just a couple of sentences, the two became best friends.
So Ma Dongmei took Zheng Lanying to explain the situation to Ma Changshun.
"Those fifty acres belong to Zhao Yanping. It was agreed upon after the autumn harvest and also registered."
"Group Leader Ma, I've already asked around the whole farm, among so many group leaders, you're the easiest to talk to, so can I stay in your group?
Rest assured, Group Leader Ma, I will definitely work hard, and I am literate and can do accounting."
Ma Changshun was indifferent. "In our group, there is only this piece of land here, if you want to stay, you have to open up the land yourself. If you go to Mr. Chen's, they have ready-made open land.
You know, opening land is very hard work. It's up to you to decide, I don't mind either way."
"Lanying, staying in our group is better, you don't know that Mr. Chen's group can't retain people, why do you think the land there is already opened? Isn't it because people leave after a year or two?"
"Alright, thank you for telling me, Dongmei. I'll go talk to Director Feng first."
It took Zheng Lanying more than half an hour to get back to the farm office.
She went straight to find Feng Baoshan to discuss joining Ma Changshun's group.
Feng Baoshan clicked his tongue, just yesterday, Su Yuanyuan told him she didn't want to be too close to this one, surprisingly, she still wanted to join this group.
"Comrade Zheng, I think you should go to Mr. Chen's group."
"Director Feng, I've already found out. There are too few people in Mr. Chen's group, and there are many single male comrades. As a young woman like me, it's really inconvenient.
Moreover, I just talked to Group Leader Ma."
She stopped talking there, which is a conversational tactic, making Feng Baoshan think Ma Changshun had agreed.
"Alright, if you want to go to Group Leader Ma's group, go ahead."
He felt bad for not fulfilling Xiao Su's request, so he arranged for someone to give Zheng Lanying a hundred pounds of grain and sent her to Ma Changshun's group.
He himself drove to Su Yuanyuan's home.
But the house was locked, so he went to the Zhao Family, knowing the two sisters were close.
He found out that Su Yuanyuan had left with a truck to get fertilizer.
Feng Baoshan had no choice but to go back. Since they couldn't intervene, even if they were in the same group, being so far apart, there wouldn't be many chances to meet. He decided to talk to Su Yuanyuan about it later.
Zheng Lanying was finally placed in the eastern piece of Ma Changshun's land. She wanted a hundred acres, but upon seeing the measurings by Ma Changshun, she immediately backed down. In the end, she settled for fifty acres.
Her plot had houses on both sides, which made it convenient. Zheng Lanying straightforwardly chose the house next to Ma Changshun, thinking it was always good to have someone to rely on.