sjar Chapter 267 Master Chen's Strictness Produces Outstanding Disciples
Chapter 267 Master Chen's Strictness Produces Outstanding Disciples
After Li Ju'an settled the old beehives in a corner of the apple tree nursery, he placed them. Of the 20-odd beehives, only two old hives were currently being swarmed; the rest would have to wait until those two hives were swarmed before queen cells could be built. He got up, dusted off his trousers, helped Old Wang onto the oxcart, and called out to Lu Zhiqiang, "Can I give you a ride back to the village on the way? Get on."
Lu Zhiqiang and Lu Jinyang had originally planned to walk into the mountains, but upon hearing this good news, Lu Zhiqiang, whose trousers were covered in mud and whose shoes were worn down, was worried about the long round trip to Changchong Gully. He wanted to shout "Godfather" to Li Ju'an, so he quickly jumped onto the oxcart and said with a grin, "This ox looks familiar, it's a good animal."
Lu Jinyang's expression was somewhat strange.
Li Ju'an said to him, "Lu Zhiqiang, this cow looks familiar to you, and it looks familiar to you too."
Lu Zhiqiang thought he was being insulted, and, breathing heavily through his nose, he grumbled, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can I be familiar with a cow? Even though I'm not a cultured person, you can't just talk nonsense to a cow, can you?"
Lu Jinyang couldn't stand it anymore, so he slapped the back of his head and said, "We've raised this water buffalo all winter, and you haven't mentioned it once."
Lu Zhiqiang's eyes widened in surprise as he carefully examined the water buffalo. He was startled by what he saw; he straightened up and exclaimed, "Isn't that our water buffalo? Why did Li Ju'an bring our buffalo here to do hard labor?"
When Li Ju'an was distributing land and farm tools in the production brigade, he drew a water buffalo. At that time, the Lu family helped raise the buffalo. Now that everyone was working in their allocated fields, the old man of the Lu family returned the water buffalo to Li Ju'an and had Lu Jinyang deliver it. Li Ju'an had been raising the water buffalo for about a month now.
He used to own a mule; large animals were only used for pulling sleds and plowing fields. Now the mule is gone, replaced by a water buffalo. Water buffalo eat much more feed and hay than mules, but they are incredibly strong.
Li Ju'an, driving the oxcart, said, "Alright, Lu Zhiqiang, you should get off and push the cart. If you sit on it like this, the ox won't be able to exert any strength and won't be able to pull the cart."
Lu Zhiqiang wouldn't listen to him. He was incredibly shameless. He clung to him with a grin, calling him "Li Pao Dai Gaoma" (a derogatory term for a high-ranking official) and hitched a ride on the oxcart back to the village.
On their way back to the village, the Lu brothers were still talking about Sun Weimin's recent affairs.
"Li Ju'an, do you know that Sun Weimin almost had his leg amputated because he was frozen in the mountains last time? He saved his leg, but his ear was really cut off. Oh my, that must have been really painful. It's a good thing he was given anesthesia, otherwise I don't even want to think about how much pain he would have suffered."
Last time, Sun Weimin was walking alone on one side of the road when he stepped on a frostbite net. At night, he encountered a swarm of swarms of swarmers and suffered frostbite on his legs. His hat fell off, and his ears were frostbitten off. If it weren't for his mother crying and insisting that Sun Quande take her son to the big hospital in the county town in the middle of the night, Sun Weimin would have lost his legs.
Li Ju'an asked, "Isn't Sun Weimin about ready to be discharged from the hospital?"
Lu Jinyang gave him a meaningful look, his expression somewhat complicated, and said, "Li Ju'an, don't take this to heart, and nobody else does either. If Sun Weimin makes a scene at you, just ignore him."
Lu Jinyang, a usually refined and cultured man, rarely swore. Upon hearing this, Li Ju'an's expression turned serious, and he asked Sun Weimin what was wrong.
Lu Zhiqiang sighed and picked up where Lu Jinyang left off, saying, "Isn't it his own fault? If you ask me, he deserves it. Where did we set that bait snare? It was hidden so well in the bushes, behind a snowdrift, with such a big clump of mud as bait. If you ask me, no one would have stepped on it, unless that person is as greedy as a bear, desperately craving the stinky mud."
The hiding place under the trap should theoretically prevent hikers or hunters from stepping on it. Moreover, the bark of several large trees nearby has been marked, repeatedly reminding people that this area is an artificial alkali field where hunting is taking place and there are traps and snares.
The trap was so obviously placed that only prey would step into it. Sun Weimin was able to step into it, and he deliberately ignored the warning signs on the tree bark, thinking he could sneak out and take the prey from someone else's trap.
The Lu brothers both said that Sun Weimin had brought this upon himself. Seeing Li Ju'an remain silent, Lu Jinyang sighed and recounted what Sun Weimin had said in the hospital: "That kid Sun Weimin said that he would definitely mess with you after he was discharged. He said it was because of you that he was deliberately tricked and almost lost his leg."
Li Ju'an sneered and said, "I harmed him?"
Lu Zhiqiang glanced at his expression and said reassuringly, "We all did it together, and we haven't even bothered him yet. He's just trying to steal our prey, and now he's blaming us. If Sun Weimin really dares to do this after he's discharged from the hospital, I'll break his other leg too, and see if he still dares to cause trouble."
Li Ju'an didn't care what would happen to Sun Weimin after he was discharged from the hospital; he would deal with whatever came his way.
After the Lu brothers and Lao Wang returned to the village, Li Ju'an went to the forest farm.
Last time, the head of the forest farm, Leader Chen, took him in as a specimen collector and promised to let him learn to drive and get a driver's license.
In his previous life, Li Ju'an learned to drive in the future, which was 90 years later. Learning to drive in the 80s was different from learning in the 90s; it was much more difficult. To learn to drive, get a driver's license, and obtain the red book, one had to endure all kinds of torture and psychological torment from the instructor, learn car repair, and various small tasks, and finally, one could drive alongside the instructor.
Before his rebirth, Li Ju'an learned to drive in the 90s and was often scolded by his instructor. He would often get a thorough dressing-down from his instructor when he drove a sports car. But learning to drive in the 80s was several times more difficult, and the value of a driver's license there was incomparable to that of a driver's license in later generations.
Li Ju'an asked Assistant Chen, "Who is the master? Is his surname Xu?"
Assistant Chen, without looking up from the meeting minutes, said, "The young master surnamed Xu has some leg problems lately, so we've replaced him with an experienced master surnamed Chen."
Li Ju'an was amused upon hearing this and asked, "Master Xu, Xu Da?"
Assistant Chen then looked up and asked in surprise, "You know Master Xu too? That makes things much easier. If you still can't figure it out, just ask your friend. He also has vehicles from the forest farm."
Li Ju'an grinned inwardly. Xu Da, how could he not know him? He knew him all too well. It was a good thing Xu Da's legs were so bad; if only he were this agile, he could go to the Lin family again to cause trouble for Lin Mei, and he'd hire Old Zhang, the shady dealer, to beat him up.
Li Ju'an waited for a while in front of the forest farm office building, and then Master Chen came in with a bunch of dangling car keys hanging from his waist.
Master Chen had a stern and imposing appearance, and he looked like a man who wouldn't talk to you. Li Ju'an smiled and offered him a cigarette, but Master Chen waved his hand, indicating that he didn't smoke. Then he got into the car and called to him, "Get in, kid. If you want to learn to drive, be prepared. It won't be easy to get a driver's license under my tutelage."