Best Son-in-law

When I woke up again, the car had already reached the dirt road from Hongdan County to Laoshantun.

Li Fan opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the cypress forest in front of him in confusion. He slowly came to his senses and stretched.

"Brother, where are we?" Li Fan asked.

"I just left Hongdan County. Mr. Li lives in Laoshantun, right? We'll be here soon." The driver in front said respectfully.

He naturally knows Li Fan's current identity.

"Find a place to park." Li Fan rubbed his eyes.

"What's wrong?" The driver's face suddenly looked a little unhappy, and he quickly thought about whether he had said the wrong thing just now.

"No, don't get me wrong. It's not easy to get by car in our village. There are no taxis at all. It takes a long time for the bus to come. Now you can go back to Hongdan County and take a bus. I can just drive back by myself. It doesn't have to be so troublesome. ." Li Fan explained with a smile.

After hearing this, the driver's face was full of gratitude: "Mr. Li, you don't want to rest anymore?"

"I've had enough sleep just now, thank you very much." Li Fan thanked him.

"Okay, then I'll go back first. Mr. Li, please drive carefully." The driver said gratefully, quickly pulled over and stopped the car, and then took a taxi back in Hongdan County.

Li Fan smiled and nodded, got into the passenger seat, stretched again, and suddenly felt more energetic. He smiled and pulled the handbrake, turned on the ignition and started the car.

The road from Hongdan County to Laoshantun was still extremely muddy, and Li Fan kept bumping while driving.

Fortunately, the journey was not too far. He only drove for less than an hour and returned to the village.

The car drove into the village and stopped at the door of his house. As usual, Li Fan first went to his vegetable garden to check the growth of vegetables. He had already entrusted Aunt Zhang next door to help take care of the vegetables.

After arriving at the vegetable garden, Li Fan found that the vegetables he planted were growing very well, and he couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth with a satisfied smile.

If you sell this batch of vegetables to Zhouji Restaurant, you will definitely make a lot of money.

When my pockets are bulging, I can prove myself like Hu Shulan, and at the same time I can help sister-in-law Meilu solve all the troubles.

After leaving the vegetable garden, Li Fan walked along the path to the fish pond he contracted. He was also very concerned about the eels.

On the way, he happened to bump into Xia Menglan, the new village chief.

I saw that her face looked a little unhappy. When she saw Li Fan coming back, it was like seeing her backbone, so she hurriedly greeted her.

"Li Fan, you're back, it seems something happened." Xia Menglan's tone became very heavy.

"Something happened? What happened?" Li Fan frowned and asked immediately.

"Come with me, I'll tell you." Xia Menglan waved to Li Fan and said softly.

Li Fan didn't say anything and silently followed the new village chief.

"There are rumors in the village that Zhouji Restaurant has collapsed. Do you know about this?" The two of them walked to a remote and small house, and Xia Menglan suddenly said with a serious expression.

"Zhou Ji Restaurant collapsed?" After hearing this, Li Fan naturally didn't believe it in his heart. He saw that Zhou Ji Restaurant's business was booming a few days ago. How could it be possible that it collapsed just because it was said to be bankrupt?

He immediately showed a suspicious look, looked at Xia Menglan and asked: "Village Chief Xia, how do you know, who spread this rumor? Absolutely impossible."

Li Fan held his breath and looked extremely solemn.

After hearing this, Xia Menglan looked a little hesitant and pursed her lips: "I'm just asking. Since you said it's impossible, it might just be a rumor. After you left, many villagers came to me and said they wanted to contract the land. We all paid the money, but soon such rumors spread, and now many villagers have come to me to ask for their money back, which is a bit difficult for me to do. When the time comes, you can just come forward and explain it to everyone."

"Don't worry, the business of Zhou Ji Restaurant in the county town is booming. How could it be possible that it just collapsed? It must be some nonsense from people with ulterior motives. Don't take it to heart. Although most of the folks are very honest, there is one thing. We won't work together." Li Fan narrowed his eyes, he knew the villagers of Laoshantun very well.

"Yeah. I also heard what Brother Yongzhong said about this. He came to the city and immediately asked me to refund the money. Anyway, it's all because of your words." Xia Menglan said with some relief.

After hearing this, Li Fan frowned: "Brother Yongzhong? Zhu Yongzhong? Has his family contracted the land?"

He had always known that Zhu Yongzhong in the village was very conscientious and would not say such words easily.

He must have discovered something when he entered the city, but now he hasn't received a call from Zhou Xiaoman.

"There should be nothing wrong." Li Fan felt something was not good.

"Yes, after you said those words, Sister-in-law Osmanthus came to me to contract the land a few days later. I contracted six acres of land to their family and signed a two-year contract." Xia Menglan said, "I just found this yesterday. I said Zhou Ji Restaurant collapsed and you would definitely stop collecting food, so you came to me to refund the money."

"Well, I understand. I'll call Boss Zhou of the county town later and ask about the situation. It should be fine," Li Fan said.

"Okay, then I'll be relieved. I'll go back to comfort those folks." Xia Menglan nodded and walked towards his residence helplessly.

Now her residence has become the village committee.

"Okay, go ahead and go ahead. I'll make a call right now. I'll tell you if I need anything." Li Fan said, picked up the phone and dialed Zhou Xiaoman's phone number.

But the bell rang for a long time, but no one answered.

"Maybe I'm a little busy. If not, I'll give you a call later." Li Fan thought in his heart. After all, the business of Zhou Ji Restaurant is very good now, and Zhou Xiaoman is of course very busy at ordinary times.

In this way, Li Fan and Xia Menglan parted ways. Xia Menglan continued to go home to deal with the contracted land, while Li Fan walked towards the fish pond he contracted to check the growth of the eels.

…

"Have you heard? I just said that Li Fan is not good, right? He just happened to be lucky enough to sell a batch of vegetables. Why is he going to the village pretending to be a big-tailed wolf? Yep, that's it, what else? Do you want to be good to our daughter? That's a pretty idea." As soon as Hu Shulan heard that Zhouji Restaurant in the county town had collapsed, she immediately went home to talk to her husband Han Changgui.

"You said, why don't you want others to do better? Why are you so evil-minded? Grandpa Li Fan helped our family a lot back then. By coincidence, when we were in high school, how difficult was our family? We weren't Li Fan. How can he help his wife with his bachelor's degree? He also buys stationery and tutorial books. It is already difficult for Qiaoqiao to major in music, so he has been a lot of help. Without Li Fan, Qiaoqiao would never have been able to study in this degree. Xue, tell me what you think, can't you just hope that others will do well?"

Han Changgui was smoking a cigarette and said something to Hu Shulan unhappily.

"Hmph." After hearing this, Hu Shulan did not feel the slightest bit ashamed, but continued proudly: "I am not doing it for our Qiaoqiao family. I admit that Li Fan is a good kid, but the reality is like this. There's nothing we can do about it. He helped us back then, and we can just give it back to him when Qiaoqiao gets married. You can't bring your daughter into this, right?"

"In the future, Qiaoqiao, you will be a city dweller. If you want to live a decent life, you must not turn your elbows outward. Besides, why don't our girls strive for success when they go to university? It's not easy for us to get out of the village. You think this Dad still wants his daughter to marry back to the village and continue to be a rural person? What do you think? That is your own daughter. "

"This life is not about repaying a favor. Look at Yang Meilu next door. In order to repay a favor, her family married her to Huang Sheng. What happened? On the day of the wedding, everyone was gone and she became a widow directly. Do you also want us to end up like that by chance? "

After hearing what Han Changgui said, Hu Shulan immediately became unhappy and immediately said a lot of things to fight back against him.

Han Changgui often listened to these words, sighed loudly, and took a few puffs of the cigarette.

"We are all farmers, and we have to do things according to our conscience. It's all Li Fan's sincere heart. You can pay it back with money? Money is easy to talk about, but how to calculate the debt of gratitude? Besides, Qiaoqiao doesn't like Li Fan very much? Is it Fan? If you ask me to tell you, just leave it alone. The two children will resolve the matter themselves. Whether it succeeds or not depends on fate."

"Isn't that your daughter? Are you a father? Are you going to push your daughter into a fire pit? I don't care. Is that silly girl Qiaoqiao going to stay in the countryside like us from now on?"

"I'm not saying that, I would rather be the person who goes to hell. I have to let Li Fan recognize himself. He and Qiaoqiao are not from the same world at all. Our Qiaoqiao has entered the music conservatory, whether it is university, or after graduation. Well, the people I have come into contact with are all big producers, directors, singers and dancers. Where is Li Fan? You will only be able to deal with crop fields for the rest of your life. You will only come into contact with farmers. They are short-sighted and short-sighted. If this is the case, there will definitely be no big future and it will be a drag on our daughter."

"Besides, there is a saying in the city that people from two different circles will not have anything in common. The gap will only get wider in the future. If you just look at Qiaoqiao and Li Fan now, then It's Qiaoqiao who is ignorant. She will understand later, but by then it will be too late."

"That's why I have to be cruel. It's for Qiaoqiao's good and also for Li Fan's good. You said that you, an old man, are more short-sighted than me." Hu Shulan said smugly.

"How do you know that Li Fan will have no future in this life? I think this kid is very ambitious, maybe he will succeed. Besides, why don't young people fail several times? We will learn from our experience after this failure. That's it, I can't stand your gloating look." Han Changgui also had a long face.

"Okay, I won't argue with you. Let's just see if the choice I made for Qiaoqiao is right. I forgot to tell you. Jiaming's father called me. The director of Yannan City Hospital personally I got a call and asked about the two children. Isn’t this a big deal? We are the only ones in the whole village who have it!" Hu Shulan said, feeling even more proud.