portable space

The furnishings inside the house resemble a farmhouse scene.

Zhang Taiping asked: "What is this courtyard used for?"

"Didn't you see the plaque on the door when you came in?" Chen Guoshi said with a hint of dissatisfaction.

Zhang Taiping knew that her attitude just now was really bad, and her emotions inside were normal, so she said without paying too much attention: "I didn't go through the main entrance when I came in."

"That's it." Chen Guoshi chuckled, "This is a simple and relaxing place where you can barbecue, play chess, cards and drink tea. There is also a fish pond in the back for fishing."

Zhang Taiping nodded, maybe it was a farmhouse under the name of some kind of club.

Apparently Chen Guoshi still had a bad impression of Zhang Taiping. After entering the room, he sat at the table and didn't even bother to pour a glass of water.

Zhao Qingsi understood that she was so close to her and understood what she was thinking, so he stood up and prepared to pour water for Zhang Taiping.

Chen Guoshi shook his head helplessly and said, "You'd better sit down, I'll do it!"

After eating something in the evening, he rested. Zhang Taiping looked at Zhao Qingsi who quickly fell asleep in his arms, and the thoughts in his mind were a little confused for a while. Sometimes he was excited, and sometimes he felt a little guilty for Cai Yazhi.

Zhao Qingsi felt Zhang Taiping's presence when he woke up the next morning. Speaking of the personal union in the coming year, it was a bit sudden and impulsive, but he had no regrets. Looking at Zhang Taiping's frowning brows in his sleep, he stretched out his arms.

He reached out and stroked her gently.

Zhang Taiping was awakened by the hand on his forehead and opened his eyes suddenly, meeting a pair of bright eyes.

"Are you upset? You frown in your sleep." Zhao Qingsi asked softly.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and gently touched the place where she was giving birth to life.

Zhao Qingsi put her head on his chest, listened to Jiang Jian's strong heartbeat, and said: "If you are worried about my affairs, there is no need. I said at that time that I will not disturb your life and family.

.I just need you to be there when I need you, like this."

Zhang Taiping smiled bitterly and said, "I don't dare to do something like this again."

"I was just making an analogy. I will never do such a thing again."

Zhang Taiping exhaled and said, "This is so unfair to you."

Zhao Qingsi shook his head and said: "There is nothing fair or unfair. What is the result I want if I don't die? And the child is the greatest fairness to me." As he spoke, he gently stroked his belly, with a look of motherly love on his face.

brilliance.

Sometimes Zhang Taiping really wants to tell everything to Cai Yazhi, but this is just an idea. Telling him before he understands Cai Yazhi's attitude is not only not a solution, but may also destroy the hard-won warm life.

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"No matter what, let's go back first," Zhang Taiping said.

Zhao Qingsi shook his head: "I can't go back now. How can I explain my big belly if I go back?"

Zhang Taiping was stunned by the question. Yes, it is difficult to explain an unmarried woman's big belly. Although this society is already very open, there is no shortage of people who can talk about such things. Gossips can kill people.

"Do you want to live here until the baby is born?"

"Yes." Zhao Qingsi said, "The environment here is very good, and there are Chinese nationals taking care of it so nothing will happen. I will go back when the child is born."

What else could Zhang Taiping say? He had no better solution.

I stayed with her for another two days before leaving at her urging.

Seeing Zhang Taiping turn around and leave, Zhao Qingsi showed some reluctance in his eyes.

All the changes in Zhao Qingsi's expression fell into Chen Guoshi's eyes, and she said: "Since you can't bear to let him go, why do you have to drive him away?"

"If you give up, you will gain!" Zhao Qingsi smiled and said, "He is not a person who likes the new and hates the old. Instead, he is a very family-oriented person. Too much entanglement will only make him tired in the end, which is good."

But after Zhang Taiping left, he did not take the two eagles into the space, but let them follow him in the sky.

His character is a little weird. Sometimes he is decisive in killing, and his cruelty when killing even scares him. But when it comes to matters involving the love between his children, he is a bit indecisive, feeling in a dilemma, and not knowing how to deal with it.

Going back was not as urgent as when we came, so I didn't rush on the road blindly, but paid a little attention to the scenery along the way.

It was already noon the next day when I got home.

"I'm back." Cai Yazhi said with a sigh of relief when she saw Zhang Taiping. After Zhang Taiping went to Sichuan, she had been worried at home. Now that Zhang Taiping came back safely, she was relieved.

"Back." Zhang Taiping nodded.

"How are things?" Cai Yazhi was a little curious about what kind of things he encountered when he went to Sichuan.

"It's nothing. The rain has stopped since then. Although there was indeed water, it did not cause any major harm." After Zhang Taiping finished speaking, he walked towards the house.

Seeing that Zhang Taiping was not very talkative, Cai Yazhi didn't ask any more questions. She just thought that he was too tired from going out this time, so she didn't have any extra thoughts and said, "You should rest for a while. The meal will be ready soon."

While eating, Yaya asked: "Dad, what have you been doing?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Dad went to Sichuan to take care of something."

"Brother went to Sichuan?" Fan Ming asked in surprise, "Why didn't you say anything when you left and didn't take me with you?"

Zhang Taiping glanced at her and said: "This time I went to deal with some things, not to travel. I will take you with me next time."

"Then when are you going to go next time?" Fan Ming stopped her chopsticks and asked. In the past, she could only be trapped in a small room and isolated from the world due to a strange disease, and could not touch anything. But now, although the strange disease is still there,

It has not been completely eradicated, but it can already live in groups like normal people, so she is like a bird out of its cage, wanting to see and play everywhere.

"I don't know when it will be, but it won't happen in the near future." Zhang Taiping said while eating.

"It won't happen in the near future?" Fan Ming was a little depressed.

After dinner, Zhang Taiping called the old village chief. He was supposed to cut down the golden nanmu tree that day, but in the morning he had an emergency and went out, so the tree was not cut down and the matter was shelved.

a few days.

"Commander, where have you been these past few days?" the old village chief asked first after answering the phone.

Zhang Taiping replied: "I went out of town and just came back at noon. I'll call you right now."

"Have you eaten yet?" the old village chief asked.

"I just ate."

"Just eat it. Come over quickly and let's figure out how to cut down the tree. It didn't matter if I didn't know where the value was before, but now that I know how precious it is, I'll be worried all day long if I put it there."

Zhang Taiping estimated that the old village chief hadn't even slept well these past few days. After all, buying tens of millions of things was an astronomical figure for a mountain person.

He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

When I walked to the nanmu tree, I met the old village chief who hurried over, and Wang Gui also walked out from the side.

"Commander, you have caused me so much pain in the past few days. You are trying to kill me!" The old village chief complained bitterly as soon as they met.

Zhang Taiping was a little frightened and asked: "Uncle, where did you start talking about this?"

The old village chief took a breath and lit up the cigarette and said: "You don't know how Wang Gui and I came here in the past few days. We didn't dare to leave this tree. The two of us guarded the tree for three days, morning and night.

sky!"

Zhang Taiping was stunned. No wonder Wang Gui walked out from the side just now. It turned out that he had been secretly guarding the nanmu tree. He licked his lips and said, "There's no need for this, right?"

Wang Gui shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the old village chief with his hands, expressing his helplessness.

The old village chief shook his head and said: "Why is it not necessary? This is now everyone's public property. What if someone has not paid attention to cut down a few tree trunks in the past few days?"

Zhang Taiping wanted to say that no one knew the value of this tree. It had been left here for decades and no one had touched it. Then someone suddenly cut off the branches. However, seeing the old village chief's insistence, he did not agree with him.

He argued, but instead made a joke and asked: "Did the old man have a meeting to inform the whole village about this matter?"

"Not yet. I was going to talk about it that day, but you suddenly disappeared, so I didn't say it. I planned to talk about it before cutting it down. As time went by, it caused more trouble." The old village chief said, exhaling a puff of smoke.

This approach is undoubtedly correct. Although the villagers are simple, not everyone is like this. A tree trunk may be worth more than ten or two hundred thousand. It is impossible for anyone to take risks due to the trend of profit.

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "Then let's hold a meeting to inform you now."

"I think so too." The old village chief pinched out the cigarette and said, "This matter has been done long ago and we have been relieved." After saying that, he turned to Wang Gui and said, "You can still watch here."

Zhang Taiping did not follow the old village chief into his home, but came to the door of the farm alone first.

Unexpectedly, there was a nest of little babies here, some squatting, some half-kneeling on the ground, all gathered together.

Zhang Taiping walked over and discovered that he was playing pinball. Three or four of these things cost a dime. No one in the city played with this anymore, but the children in the mountains still continued to play this way.

There are a group of boys playing this, and there is not a single girl in sight.

Zhang Taiping stood behind for a while before he was discovered, which shows how devoted these little kids are.

"Uncle handsome, do you want to play?" The snotty kid opened his hand, revealing the three marbles he held inside, which were still stained with a mixture of sweat and mud. I just didn't know if there was snot on them.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "I won't play, you can play by yourselves."

"Oh." The snot baby snorted and sucked in the two centimeters of snot that came out of his nose, then turned around and squatted down to continue playing.

Zhang Taiping was shocked. He could inhale this. It was really amazing. Babies always have a lot of runny noses. In addition, children in the mountains didn't know how to pay attention to hygiene when they were young, so when they had runny noses, they didn't inhale it.

Just wipe it casually with the sleeve, and the sleeve will often turn black after two days.

A moment later, the old village chief's speech was transmitted to all directions through the loudspeaker in the center of the village: "Now there is an emergency meeting, an emergency meeting. Everyone who hears it, no matter what they are doing, should put down what they are doing and come to the workshop to hold a meeting...

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The old village chief's words were serious, and he didn't reveal the slightest hint of joy in advance. The villagers thought that something big had happened, so they all put down what they were doing and quickly headed to the farm.

It didn't take long for villagers in twos and threes to arrive at the door of the farm. The little kids kneeling on the ground grabbed the pinballs on the ground and ran away.

The old village chief asked someone to go over and invite the old man and Mr. Zhao over.

After everyone had arrived, the old village chief looked around again and saw that there was no one else before he started to speak.

Zhang Taiping looked a little funny. It seemed like he was engaging in espionage activities. But after thinking about it, it was understandable. Anyone who has been poor all his life and suddenly encounters such a huge windfall would have some actions that are difficult to understand.

"Ahem!" the old village chief cleared his throat and began to tell, "I'm here today to tell you some good news! Great news!"

After hearing this, the villagers looked at each other as if they didn't understand what the good news was, and then started discussing in a low voice.

The old village chief pressed his hands, and the scene immediately became quiet. He continued: "Do you all know about the dead tree that was struck by lightning during the thunderstorm in the west of the village a few days ago?"

"Is it that old tree that has been dead for decades?"

"Maybe, there is only one visible dead tree in the west. But I haven't heard of it since when was it struck by lightning?"

"Yeah, I know! It was just a lightning strike after the hailstorm a few days ago and it was still smoking." Another person said.

Everyone started discussing again.

"Is it possible that the tree is still a treasure?" asked a whimsical young man.

The person next to him immediately retorted: "What kind of treasure can a tree be? If it were really a treasure, would anyone know if it had been there for decades? It can't be seen if it is cut down, so it can withstand burning when burning firewood. But who knows?"

If you don’t have anything to do after eating, go chop down that tree and use it as firewood?”

"Yes, yes. If you ask me, I must have found some coffin with treasure buried under the tree." Another person agreed.

The young man also felt that the situation he was talking about was impossible, so he nodded and agreed with the two people's statements.

The old village chief shouted: "Stop shouting and listen to me!" After the scene stopped, he said, "That dead tree has not rotted despite decades of wind and rain. It is a very valuable treasure. A few days ago

When the commander-in-chief discovered the key, he checked and determined that it was a nanmu tree, golden nanmu." The old village chief highlighted Zhang Taiping's role when he spoke.

Regarding golden nanmu, the villagers' thoughts are still on burning firewood and cutting furniture, and they don't know the value contained in these four words.

But Mr. Zhao knew it. His body shook violently and he looked towards Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang smiled and nodded.

The old village chief looked at the expressions of the people under the table looking at each other, and understood that they might not understand the value of this kind of wood like he did at the time, so he said loudly: "In short, golden nanmu is a very precious wood, and it is the fastest in the world."

It’s extinct. A tree that big can be bought for millions or even tens of millions!”

"Millions or tens of millions? Did I hear correctly?"

The villagers below the stage began to boil after a brief silence. Most of them had expressions of surprise on their faces. They didn't know whether to believe or not to believe this shocking news released by the old village chief. Believe it or not, this is also true.

It's a bit too exaggerated; if you don't believe it, the old village chief said it in front of the whole village at the meeting, and also invited the eldest Mr. Zhao and Mr. Zhang. There is basically no possibility of joking.

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Regardless of whether this was true or not, the young man who had just followed the good advice first stiffened his neck and became proud, and said loudly to the two people next to him: "I just said that this tree is a treasure, and you two insist that it is not."

A person next to me said: "You are a blind cat who met a dead mouse. You were fooled."

"This is not a lie, it is well-founded..."

The two people next to him were not in the mood to talk nonsense with him right now. Instead, they looked at the old village chief on the stage, waiting for him to continue talking.

This time the old village chief did not stop the noise of the villagers, but after the initial shock, the villagers stopped and focused their attention on the old village chief.

The old village chief said: "This is everyone's public property. I will make it clear today in front of the two old men. I plan to go over and cut down the tree later and sell it. I won't touch the money after the sale.

, the commander will take care of everything. How about it?"

The old village chief did this for two reasons. One was that the amount of money was too big and he was afraid that he would not be able to handle it, and the other was to avoid suspicion.

Everyone nodded when they heard what the village chief said. Everyone was relieved about what Zhang Taiping had done this year.

"Then let's discuss how to handle the money from the sale." After the old village chief finished speaking, he stepped back and lit up a dry cigarette.

But unexpectedly, no one made a sound, and no one whispered to each other. The scene became eerily silent, with only the sound of breathing and the chirping of birds in the distance.

"Tell me? Let's discuss it and we can handle it. To be honest, I don't know how we should handle it." Seeing that no one was speaking, the old village chief urged.

However, the scene was still silent. The villagers looked around but no one came forward to speak.

The old village chief said to Zhang Taiping: "Commander, please tell me your thoughts first."

Everyone still agreed with what Zhang Taiping had done over the past year and wanted to hear his thoughts. Dozens of pairs of eyes were focused on him.

Zhang Taiping did not go up to the stage, but stood directly below and said: "My idea is to save the money in the name of a village and form a factory or company."

The people below looked at each other, but they still didn't understand the benefits of doing this. Finally, one person asked: "Commander, tell me, how much money can I get for doing this?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "If you do this, you won't be able to get the money for the time being. You will have to wait until a period of time before you can get the money, maybe one year or two years later."

"That's it..."

In fact, Zhang Taiping can probably guess some of the thoughts in the villagers' minds. The most direct and most low-income method may be to distribute the money per head. This cannot be said that the villagers love money and do not understand the general situation, but it is a problem of limited vision.

You feel most at ease when the money is in their hands.

So Xia Min still had no objection or support.

After a stalemate like this for a while, Mr. Zhao, who was invited to sit in charge, suddenly said: "Since everyone has thoughts in their hearts and don't want to speak out, I will tell you my opinion."

"Uncle Zhao, tell me." The old village chief said quickly.

Mr. Zhao stood up and said: "When the time comes, the money will be divided into two halves. Half will be distributed directly per person, and the other part will be saved to find suitable projects for development."

This time the villagers reacted, and some people came forward to support. Although a large number of people did not express their opinions, at least they did not object. In the end, it was decided.

The old village chief said: "It's settled! Okay, let's adjourn the meeting. Go over and cut down the trees immediately!"

Although the old village chief had already said that the meeting was dismissed, no one left, and they all followed him to the golden nanmu tree.

ps: Please give me flowers!