Send me to the countryside? Turn around and make you homeless!

Qian Zhong looked much older than his actual age. While Tan Yuan was looking at him, he also looked Tan Yuan up and down.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Tan. I'm an old man at home so late, so I won't keep you here."

Tan Yuan and Li Xiu were both girls. Although he was not young anymore, he was still a man, and a man who had not yet married. If he let them in, gossip would inevitably spread in the team.

Tan Yuan understood very well. She gave him a final word of advice: "Uncle Qian, Comrade Guan Jianguo asked me to tell you to make your medicine and eat well."

"I know, I know. Come back soon."

Qian Zhong limped and waved at Tan Yuan and Li Xiu, indicating that they didn't need to worry and that he could do it himself.

Tan Yuan didn't say anything more. As soon as she saw the food in the yard, she knew that Qian Zhong definitely didn't cook today. She made up her mind to ask the brigade's tofu factory to send some over tomorrow.

After coming out from here, the two of them walked back slowly.

Although this place is remote, the scenery is surprisingly beautiful. At night, you can occasionally see fireflies flying through the grass.

“If only I could stay here forever…”

Tan Yuan sighed, and Li Xiu looked like he had seen a ghost when he heard this.

"Yuanyuan, do you really want to stay in Huaiyin Brigade forever? Don't you want to find a chance to go back to the city? I can't do what you have in mind. Although Huaiyin Brigade is good, I will definitely go back to the city if I have the chance."

Her family and friends are all in the city, and she wants to go back no matter how good Huaiyin Brigade is.

Although the idea was nice, Li Xiu had no idea whether the opportunity would come to him.

Her family has no money and the whole family can't even get enough to eat. It is simply a pipe dream to want her to go back to the city by recruiting her back to work. However, apart from recruiting her back to the city, there is only one way left, which is to get married through blind dating. If she marries a city person, then returning to the city will become a natural thing.

But Li Xiu also didn't want to take this road. When he thought of this, Li Xiu felt depressed.

"You want to go back to the city? Don't worry, there will be a chance in the future!"

In a few years, when the reform and opening up comes, it will not be difficult for Li Xiu to return to the city as long as she wants to, as she has not started a family in Huaiyin Brigade.

When Li Xiu heard what Tan Yuan said, her depressed mood immediately recovered a lot, but her thoughts were still somewhat different from Tan Yuan's.

She still remembered that Tan Yuan said that they wanted to sell the tofu factory's products all over the country and open franchise stores in various places. When they opened one in her hometown, she could go back.

It seems like a good idea to think about it this way. It would be best if I could become a store manager. Then when I return home, my family will definitely look at me with admiration.

Just thinking about this made Li Xiu feel happy. He was full of energy and secretly vowed to seize this opportunity, perform well, and strive to be the lucky one when the store manager is selected in the future.

The two of them walked towards their residence with their own thoughts. Not long after they started walking, they heard the noisy barking of dogs not far away.

"Someone come, the thief is caught, come quickly!!"

Mixed in with the barking of dogs was this loud cry. Could it be that there was a thief in the team?!

The two looked at each other, and Tan Yuan was even more surprised. Whether in her previous life or this life, she had never heard of anyone in the Huaiyin Brigade stealing things.

Is it because of the tofu factory? Someone broke into the factory and stole something?

This shouldn't happen. The people on night watch at the tofu factory are men, but the voice is clearly a woman's.

Not only is she a woman, but she also sounds familiar...

Moreover, the direction from which the sound came was also wrong. The sound was particularly loud in the silent night. Not only Tan Yuan and Li Xiu heard it, but others could hear it as well. In a short while, countless doors opened at the same time, and many people walked out of their homes.

"Let's go and take a look. I hope the factory hasn't been robbed."

Tan Yuan pulled Li Xiu and walked quickly towards the direction where the sound came from, and the female voice did not stop and continued to call.

Tan Yuan and Li Xiu were relatively far apart. When they arrived, the people over there had already been caught and surrounded inside and outside, making it impossible for them to squeeze in.

Tan Yuan reached out and grabbed a person who ran out of the crowd: "What's going on? Was the factory robbed?"

The man struggled to break free, and seeing it was Tan Yuan, he quickly stopped and explained, "I don't know. They asked me to call the branch secretary and the team leader over."

At the same time, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Get out of the way! Director Tan is coming!"

As soon as they heard Tan Yuan coming, the noisy voices quieted down for two seconds. Then someone turned around and saw Tan Yuan.

"Director Tan, why are you here? It's not right for you, a single woman, to be in charge of these things. Go back quickly."

Everyone looked unhappy and urged Tan Yuan to go back.

Tan Yuan was even more confused. Go back? Why should she go back? After all, she was the youth leader of the brigade. If the brigade was robbed, wasn't it her duty to come and check it out?

"It's nothing bad. You all get out of the way so I can see what's going on."

While they were talking, the person who was going to report the news ran as fast as he could. He had to quickly invite the team leader and Party Secretary Zhou over.

Tan Yuan insisted on watching, and no one knew how to stop her, but they all tacitly agreed not to move aside to let Tan Yuan watch.

"What on earth is going on? Why can't you show it to us?"

Li Xiu stretched her neck. It was human nature to watch the fun, especially when others tried to stop her from watching, her curiosity grew.

"Young girls, don't look at this. You'll get stye if you do."

An elderly aunt stretched out her hand to cover Li Xiu's eyes.

Hearing the word "stye", Tan Yuan was completely confused. This matter... thief... the description seemed to be fine...

Tan Yuan understood everything. After waiting for a while, Li Xiu also reacted and her neck turned red.

This... This really seems a bit inconvenient. It's not too late now, so why would someone...

It's fine if they're just messing around, but why are they doing it in the brigade? I've heard of this happening before, but it was always in the cornfield. I've never heard of it happening in...

I don't know who it is...

I'm bursting with curiosity, but too embarrassed to ask.

"Auntie, who is that person in here? I won't go to see, but you have to tell me who that person is. Anyway, it will definitely be revealed tomorrow."