Chronicle of the 70s-Chapter 353 - 340: Su Yan Returns (Second Update)

Leng Qing only returned from the capital after a month, bringing with him a huge sum of two hundred thousand, along with a person, Xu Wu.

As soon as Xu Wu entered the door, the two little ones started shouting excitedly, "Uncle!"

Xu Wu dropped the bag in his hand directly onto the ground and rushed over to lift the two kids up in one go, and then you could hear the kids screaming with joy.

Qin Xi looked somewhat jealously at Li Xianglu; their son, his heart sour because when he returned from the countryside after a week, these two brats didn’t act like this at all. It’s just not fair.

Seeing her husband wearing that sour look, Li Xianglu shook her head with a smile, walked over, and patted Xu Wu on the shoulder, noticing that he had gotten broader and taller, now at least 185cm. Just that he still had delicate features, especially those rosy, plump lips. However, no one dared to think he was good-tempered. To the side, Da Li didn’t dare to laugh out loud, just helped with picking up the things and stood by.

Xu Wu played with the kids by lifting them up high for a while before sitting down. Today just happened to be Sunday at noon, and they had arrived at the guest house location the night before, driving back in the morning. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Hearing this, Li Xianglu smiled and asked Leng Qing, "Did you meet Third Brother?"

With a faint smile, Leng Qing replied, "He said he couldn’t make it out."

After saying that, Leng Qing went to change clothes and freshen up. Li Xianglu stared at Leng Qing’s retreating figure, slightly startled. Why did it feel like something was off between Third Brother and Leng Qing?

However, Li Xianglu couldn’t afford to think about those things now. Xu Wu had brought an architect with him when he came. The factory had investments from both Li Xianglu and Mr. Xun, so she had to lend a hand.

The first step was to purchase land to build the factory, and then to rent a piece of land for trial fields. They wanted to grow the plants themselves first, to prove and compare the results.

Leng Qing had Hu Zi who was very fast. Qin Xi directly approved a piece of county land for them, buying out thirty years, with the costs following the local land prices, all done publicly.

Meanwhile, Qin Xi told Li Xianglu that the seeds had already been bought, all kinds added up to ten tons. However, they had to be stored in Li Xianglu’s Storage Ring first.

Li Xianglu’s eyes widened: "You’ve been scheming to use the Storage Ring from the start, haven’t you?"

Qin Xi sighed, pulled over a stool and sat by the bed, helping his wife wash her feet and said, "Ever since the first time you mentioned that seeds stored inside would be optimized, I was moved. You know, in our previous life, a lot of food contained chemical fertilizers, and those genetically modified foods, everyone’s quality was poor, generally overweight."

Li Xianglu nodded and said, "That’s true. But can my little Storage Ring change the seeds of the entire country?"

Qin Xi smiled and said, "You’ve forgotten, in the first year when we were in the Siheyuan, Grandpa planted watermelon, muskmelon, and pumpkin with the seeds from your Storage Ring. Come autumn, we harvested a lot of seeds, and later gave some to Uncle An and Mr. Xun’s family. The results of their harvest were all very good, so I suspect the effect of the optimized seeds can last at least for one generation."

Thinking it over, Li Xianglu nodded and said: "That’s true, you’re really crafty!"

Qin Xi’s hand, while helping his wife wipe her feet, trembled for a moment, then he continued wiping.

One afternoon, Li Xianglu, driven by Qin Xi, went to a large warehouse. Fortunately, these seeds were bagged in sacks, which didn’t take up much space when stacked.

Next steps were to follow through with the plan: first to generate buzz, then promotion, and finally to start loan registration in February the following year.

Leng Qing’s factory construction began too. To speed things up, a lot of workers were hired, and in about a week, the surrounding three-thousand-square-meter perimeter wall had been erected. The gate was a custom-made steel door, initially secured by two gatekeepers.

Everyone in the family got busy. Mr. Xun started taking the children to a childcare class situated just three hundred meters from home every day.

Normally, children in the childcare class should be at least three years old, but his family had no choice. Li Xianglu went to discuss it, and the principal, who was the wife of a military officer, saw the two children could speak clearly, knew when to go potty, and could self-feed, although they still needed assistance. Fortunately, there were only two of them, so it was manageable.

For the first few days, not only Mr. Xun but also Li Xianglu made special visits during their lunch breaks to check on the children, seeing them brought out to play with their classmates by teachers during rest time.

The twins started to walk more steadily. As Qin Xi was tall, the nineteen-month-old children looked like three-year-olds. The twins enjoyed playing with older children.

After observing for a week and deeming the situation satisfactory, Li Xianglu stopped worrying. Mr. Xun, doting on the children, always dropped off and picked up the kids punctually and would even leave work early to do so, to the point that he would pick them up before five o’clock.

Thus, they stayed busy all the way until October. Su Yan was due to return soon, which left Mr. Xun restless, always worrying if the bedsheets weren’t soft enough or what to do if the wardrobe was too small.

He even went out early to the market to buy fish and prawns and asked Li Xianglu to make braised meat. Su Yan liked to eat soy-sauce pig’s trotters, though she thought of it as an unrefined habit, so she often ate in secrecy, showing disdain when others ate it. Li Huai Ren even caught Su Yan sneaking some braised pig intestines, prompting him to ask Xianglu to prepare some large intestines as well.

Li Xianglu didn’t get off work until 6:30 PM on Friday because she had to deliver money and gold to the provincial head office that afternoon, where she was responsible for checking and signing off, which took until 6:30 PM to complete.

The courtyard gate was closed but not locked. Li Xianglu pushed it open and brought her car in, only to hear the children’s cries upon reaching the courtyard entrance, which made her pause. She parked the car properly and headed towards the house.

Not yet at the door, Li Xianglu could hear a familiar voice: "Oh dear, what happened to Granny’s little darlings? What’s on your face? Who scratched you? Ah Ren, what’s going on? I was only gone for a short while and the children are already like this." Only Su Yan could be this serious, but what’s this about scratches on faces?

Li Xianglu hurried inside and was momentarily stunned by Su Yan’s flowing black hair, then quickly heard Su Yan scolding: "Look at the children’s faces, both the bigger and the smaller ones got scratched. What happened here?"

Li Xianglu didn’t have time to speak and immediately picked up Ba Yi, who Mr. Xun was holding, with a red blood mark on his forehead and signs of a skin break. Upon seeing this, her complexion turned pale, eyes wide with shock. At that moment, she could hear knocking on the door and loud shouting.

Li Xianglu frowned— who could this be, behaving so rudely? Hu Zi was at home servicing the car, so he went to open the back door directly.

Just as Li Xianglu was about to see to the more intensely crying Ba’er, she heard Hu Zi’s voice: "Comrade, it’s illegal to intrude into a residence without permission. If you insist on forcing your way in, don’t blame me for throwing you out!"