When Zhao Liangcai heard that these two people were going to stay at Zhang Guilan's house, he was also stunned: "This is inappropriate."
She is now a single woman with four children. Although she looks older than the young people in front of her, she can't live on someone else's kang. Although Zhang Guilan's family has an empty kang.
But there is really no other family in the village who can spare a kang, and every family is very short of housing.
"Then, live at Mr. Hua Qiang's house?" He Jianning said, "Anyway, I'm here to visit his house this time."
"This is even more inappropriate." Zhang Guilan said, "I don't have room to spare. Captain, isn't the room in the team's watch room big enough to accommodate the two of them?"
In this era when the whole nation is on alert and preparing for war, almost every production team has a separate house built alone. At the beginning or end of the village, there lives an old man who doesn't even bother to watch, just to see if anyone comes to the village in the middle of the night.
If there is, it will be intercepted there.
If they are passing by and there is a letter of introduction, they may be able to stay overnight. If they are from unknown origins, they must report to the captain.
Zhao Liangcai looked at the attires of He Jianning and Xiao Zhao. They were more stylish than the biggest officials he had ever seen. Or were they coming from the capital to visit Hua Qiang and letting them live in the old man's house?
He looked at Hua Zhao.
Hua Zhao smiled and nodded.
"Okay, then stay there and I'll take you there." Zhao Liangcai turned around and led the two of them toward the village.
He Jianning looked at Hua Zhao: "I'm going to visit Mr. Hua later and I brought him a gift." He patted the box and said, "This box is full."
There are gifts, can he have a meal?
Hua Zhao looked at him, turned around and left without comment. As a woman whose man is not at home, it is best for her to behave in a calm manner. If she is too close or too far, she will cause people to gossip.
When she got home, she told her grandfather about He Jianning.
If you don't know this person well, it's easy to mistake him for a good person.
"Grandpa, have you heard of him back then?" Hua Zhao asked after finishing speaking.
Hua Qiang shook his head: "I've heard about his father and brother. When I left, he was only in his 20s. I only heard that he was in poor health. I didn't expect that he would look like this."
He had an accident early and was in the limelight. He came down in the first wave. And He Jianning came to prominence right after that.
Hua Qiang was a little sad. He had dealt with He Jianning's father, He Hongzu, and he was a very powerful person. He didn't expect that his youngest son would be even more "powerful".
"What is he here for?" Hua Qiang asked.
"He is in poor health and needs ginseng for hanging. The two ginseng trees I sold before were both in his hands. I guess he thought our northeastern wild ginseng was very effective and came here to buy again," Hua Zhao said.
She was very worried when she said this. There were no ready-made 100-year-old wild ginseng at home. Most of them were soaked in water for her grandfather to drink in 10 or 20 years.
Hua Qiang also thought about this problem: "Then I'm afraid he will leave empty-handed. He probably doesn't like what our family has now." The 50-year-old tree was given to him by his granddaughter, and he planned to keep it for himself.
How many more years to live?
Since two trees had already been sold outside, and they might sell more in the future, Hua Zhao decided to be more courageous, and not to let his grandfather feel uncomfortable.
"Grandpa, let's go into the mountains tomorrow and take a look. We might be able to pick wild ginseng. Then we'll keep the best ones for ourselves and sell the ordinary ones to him," Hua Zhao said.
Hua Qiang chuckled: "Do you think wild ginseng is Chinese cabbage? Go dig one in the ground?" But he didn't stop him. He went into the mountains and treated it as a walk.
"But don't go. It's a stumbling block in the mountains. I'll go by myself." Hua Qiang said.
Hua Zhao actually nodded in agreement. She would go into the mountains tonight and plant a few trees on the way where grandpa might go. Tomorrow she would also secretly guide grandpa to discover them.
With her current ability, she can communicate with the mountains behind her while sitting on her own kang. Although the distance is not very far, a radius of 10 miles is still no problem.
As soon as the two of them finished their discussion, they saw two people standing at the door of their courtyard.