Chapter 376: Chapter 372: Great Agricultural Talent

"Chen Beiguo, you ungrateful bastard! I rode my bike all the way over here in the dead of winter to give you a message, and this is how you treat me?!"

Li Dashan was furious.

He spun around, marched back into the village office, and started letting Chen Beiguo have it.

As Chen Beiguo looked up, a spray of spit hit him right in the face.

He squeezed his eyes shut and wiped his face.

"Li Dashan, get the hell out of here! You’re disgusting! You just sprayed spit all over my face."

Li Dashan: "..."

That was just how he was.

He was fine when he spoke normally.

But whenever he got excited, he’d start talking fast, and sometimes, he’d start spitting.

But he couldn’t be blamed for that.

"I was nice enough to bring you a message, and after you treat me like this, you think *you’re* in the right?"

Chen Beiguo couldn’t be bothered to argue about it. He cut straight to the point. "What is it you actually want?"

Li Dashan opened his mouth to speak, but then snapped it shut, putting on a haughty expression.

"Oh, so I should talk just because you told me to?"

Chen Beiguo’s patience ran out. "Speak or get out."

’As if he didn’t know Li Dashan was just looking for an excuse to poach his people.’

’He was already regretting it. If he’d known that guy Li Dashan was coming over today, he never would’ve come to the village office.’

Of course, Li Dashan wasn’t about to leave just like that. He hadn’t achieved his goal, so he wasn’t going anywhere.

Li Dashan planted his hands on the desk and leaned in close.

"Alright, I can tell you. But you have to let Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan come over to my village for a visit. How about it?"

Chen Beiguo looked up, his expression dead serious. "Get lost."

’He knew it. The guy was here to poach his people.’

’Trying to poach people from him? Not a chance in hell.’

But Li Dashan wasn’t one to give up so easily. As long as Chen Beiguo refused, he would keep pestering him.

At first, Chen Beiguo pretended not to hear, but it quickly became too irritating. He tried to hold his tongue, but couldn’t.

"Stop eyeing my people all day! Let me tell you, Gu Jiaojiao is an educated youth sent down to the countryside, and Leng Yuan is a commune teacher. Neither of them spends much time in the fields. They won’t be any use for developing your village."

’He had no idea what that guy was thinking.’

Ever since he saw how impressive the thresher was, he’d been convinced that Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan had to be farming experts.

He was even calling them "agricultural prodigies" and insisting that Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan had to visit his village.

Of course, Chen Beiguo refused.

’If they really had that kind of talent, it had to benefit the Qingshan Team first. After he brought in a bumper harvest, *then* he’d consider lending them to Li Dashan.’

Li Dashan was furious, but Chen Beiguo simply wouldn’t budge. Then, his eyes shifted as a new idea came to him.

"Fine, then. I’ll just take a stroll around your team’s territory in a bit. Mr. Leng lives at the foot of the mountain, right? That should be easy enough to find."

He’d only been there once, but he remembered the way.

If Chen Beiguo wouldn’t agree, he’d just go find them himself.

Chen Beiguo was speechless.

"Don’t you go making trouble."

"Fine, forget it. I promise. When spring comes, I’ll let them go over to Li Jiawan for a visit."

Only then did Li Dashan break into a grin.

"Now you’re talking! We’re practically brothers, after all."

Chen Beiguo: "..."

’Brothers my ass. His mother certainly never gave him a brother this punchable.’

Li Dashan paid no mind to Chen Beiguo’s expression, feeling quite pleased with himself. It was this very shamelessness, after all, that had helped him win his wife. She had been the village belle with a horde of suitors, and his family was struggling at the time. Yet he had won her over entirely through the strength of his own personal charm.

’That was one area where Chen Beiguo just couldn’t compare.’

Now that he’d gotten what he wanted, he was much more forthcoming.

"I was in the county seat today and ran into one of the county head’s aides. He was just about to come looking for you, so I figured I’d come back and save him the trip. He was coming to notify you about a meeting the day after tomorrow regarding the selection of the Advanced Village."