Black Market Boss: His Beloved Wife's Lazy Life

Educated Youth Settlement

He Lingling and the others had also eaten and were cleaning up their morning's spoils.

Shang Yanfang walked in at that moment.

Seeing their morning's harvest, I couldn't help but praise them.

"You guys are amazing! So many!"

"No, I'm fine. Do you want to come with me this afternoon?"

“Go ahead, I just came back to get my basket. Do you want to come with me?” Shang Yanfang asked.

“Okay, let’s go together. Didn’t you say you were going to pick walnuts?” Li Zhaodi asked.

"Come on, let's go together."

After the group left the educated youth settlement in a large group, they locked the door.

These past few days, the former educated youth have been acting like they've gone mad. They haven't even come back for lunch.

Gao Jianguo and Shang Guohua led the way.

Four little girls were chattering away in the back.

"We've arrived?" Shang Yanfang felt like they hadn't gone very far before they arrived.

"This is a chestnut grove. Shall we pick some here or go pick some walnuts?" Gao Jianguo asked the group.

"Let's pick them here. It's too close; what if someone sees us?" Shang Yanfang said.

“Okay, pick them here.” Gao Jianguo made the final decision.

"How do we pick these?" Shang Yanfang asked, looking at the green chestnuts on the tree with brown fruits inside.

"Don't pick them up with your hands. Just pinch the thorns on them and throw them into your basket. Dried chestnut shells are a great kind of tinder," Gao Jianguo explained.

"You guys go pick them up somewhere else first," Gao Jianguo said, climbing up a tree. He glanced around to make sure no one was below.

He had only jumped a few times on the branch when chestnuts fell from the tree like a shower of flowers.

"Gao Jianguo, be careful," Shang Yanfang warned, noticing the man's dangerous movements.

"I will. You need to be careful with your hands too," Gao Jianguo reminded the little girl.

The little girl's older brother, standing on her side: It's just climbing a tree, right? It's not like anyone can't do it.

Shang Guohua also climbed up the tree closest to Gao Jianguo and jumped a few times, imitating Gao Jianguo's movements.

Chestnuts also fell down.

He felt that having fun was quite enjoyable.

"Brother, there's no need to do any more. It's a waste if we can't pick up all the fallen ones."

A jarring remark reached Shang Guohua's ears.

Shang Guohua awkwardly scratched his head and said, "I just wanted to go and see if there was any wild game around here."

"Big brother, go ahead, there should be some. The rabbit we caught today was the one we caught on the mountain yesterday," Shang Yanfang said, waving her hand.

The remaining few people picked things up from the ground.

"I'm back." Shang Guohua returned with his spoils. The group had already picked up almost all the chestnuts from the ground.

They transported the supplies back to the educated youth settlement twice in just one afternoon.

"Brother, you're amazing! You hunted so many wild animals!" Shang Yanfang exclaimed, looking at her older brother with three chickens in his left hand and three rabbits in his right.

"Put it in your baskets later." Shang Guohua put the wild game he was holding into Gao Jianguo and Shang Yanfang's baskets, along with a lot of freshly picked chestnuts.

No one would have guessed that there was wild game inside.

The group quickly finished picking up the remaining chestnuts and prepared to head down the mountain.

When they arrived at the educated youth settlement, they went straight to the backyard and dumped the chestnuts on the ground.

It needs to be dried further in order to be preserved for a long time.

"Lingling, my brother is going to stay at the brigade leader's house tonight. You guys eat by yourselves later. I won't be eating at the educated youth station," Shang Yanfang said to He Lingling.

"Go ahead, everyone can tell you have a special relationship with the captain. We're just benefiting from your connections," He Lingling whispered in Shang Yanfang's ear.

"I'm leaving, I'm not talking to you anymore." Shang Yanfang was a little embarrassed and angry.

"Brother, let's go. Let's go now."

"Okay, I'll take my luggage."

On the road.

Shang Yanfang asked her brother, "Brother, have you prepared a gift for Uncle Lu?"

“I’m all set. When I learned from my dad that Uncle Lu knew him, I bought a bottle of Moutai with me when I came here.”

"Oh, right, I forgot to ask, have you told our parents about your relationship?" Shang Guohua asked.

"I wrote a letter and mailed it back yesterday morning," Shang Yanfang said.

"You two just got together?"

"Yes, we've only been together for less than a week," Shang Yanfang said honestly.

“Okay, Jianguo seems like a good guy. He’s been treating you well now. If he ever treats you badly in the future, just tell me,” Shang Guohua said.

"Brother, I haven't asked yet, how long are you going to stay here?"

"I have a total of ten days off this time. I need three days to come and three days to go back. So I can only spend three more days with you."

Shang Guohua thought for a moment and said,

"You might as well have gone back to our home for the next ten days; you could have stayed longer then."

“My parents told me to come and check on you. She doesn’t have time off when she’s bored. If they had time off, I wouldn’t be here.”

Shang Guohua jokingly said to his younger sister.

"Aunt Lu, I'm home. It's my brother, Shang Guohua."

The two chatted as they walked to the village chief's house. They saw Aunt Lu picking vegetables in the yard and greeted her.

"Hello, Shang Zhiqing, please come in. Youyou, come and greet our guests." Shang Yanfang was still a little shocked by Aunt Lu's sudden change in tone, even though it wasn't the first time she had seen it.

"You're here, Mother." Lu Youyou came out from the room next door.

Upon seeing that it was Shang Yanfang and her group, they quickly put their arms around each other's shoulders. They even introduced Shang Guohua to their mother, saying, "Mom, this is my comrade-in-arms and good friend—Shang Guohua."

"That old Shang you always talk about?" Aunt Lu asked.

"Yes, it's him." Aunt Lu became even more enthusiastic after receiving her son's confirmation.

She didn't even cook; she just pulled Shang Guohua to sit on the kang (a heated brick bed) and chatted with him.

Although Shang Guohua's answers were always the same few simple "Yes, that's right..."

Aunt Lu didn't feel that the other party was being perfunctory.

"Old woman, is dinner ready?" Team leader Lu returned from a meeting at the commune.

"No, no." Aunt Lu grabbed the groceries and ran to the kitchen.

The group noticed that Captain Lu's expression was still not very good.

Lu Youyou, the son, asked first, "Dad, what's wrong?"

"Sigh. Two more people who have been sent down to the countryside will be coming to our village tomorrow," Captain Lu said with a sigh.

“The person who came this time is different; it’s someone we’ve all heard of,” Lu Youyou guessed.

"Is it that Mr. Liu Nian'en?" Shang Yanfang asked curiously.

She wanted to know if the history of this timeline was the same as the history of her previous life.

They all sat there in silence.

Shang Yanfang then understood; it was indeed the person she had thought of.

"Uncle Lu, you don't need to think so much. Just do what you should do. If you promise not to mistreat them, the villagers won't mistreat them either. They probably won't live a hard life."

Shang Yanfang put forward her own ideas.

"Shang Zhiqing's method is quite good." He is now dealing with patriotic people. He is old now, and he can turn a blind eye to some things.