You need to raise your pet using a system [Era]

Chapter 370 Lu Yuanhuan's Side Story 7

Back in a place that brought him joy, Lu Yuanhuan felt embarrassed for sleeping in late.

After washing up and going downstairs, I saw someone sitting in the main room, a very unexpected person.

Lu Yuanhuan stopped in her tracks, feeling a strong urge to return to her room.

But her appearance was already known to the people in the main room.

Lu Yuanqing rolled his eyes and said, "Get down first! What are you standing there for!"

Lu Yuanhuan twitched the corner of his mouth and continued walking down.

The moment she appeared, Niu Bao, who had been sitting and chatting with Lu Yuanqing, stood up and looked at her.

Lu Yuanhuan already knew that Niu Bao had returned to the village.

However, after Niu Bao returned to the village from the farm, Lu Yuanhuan rarely returned to the village, and even when he did return once or twice, he did not run into him.

Of course, she didn't want to see this person either.

After ten years of labor reform, Niu Bao and Niu Datou became very thin and dark-skinned. Even after returning for so long, they have not recovered to their former appearance.

Naturally, it makes her look older.

"Third Brother!" Lu Yuanhuan called out to Lu Yuanqing.

Lu Yuanqing pointed to the kitchen and said, "I left you breakfast in the pot. Go and eat it first."

Lu Yuanhuan's tone brightened as if he had received a new instruction, "Okay!"

Throughout the entire process, she did not say a single word to her former neighbors.

There's no such thing as saving face; if I don't want to interact, I simply won't.

After Lu Yuanqing and the others entered the kitchen, he continued to ask Niu Bao, "Is there anything else?"

Okay! This is no politeness either.

However, Lu Yuanqing really didn't need to be polite to Niu Bao.

Although Niu Bao received education and was punished, he now lives a mediocre life, relying entirely on the village's dividends.

However, because of Lu Yuanqing's status in the village, even though he returned, no one wanted to deal with him, just like how they treated the Niu family before.

Lu Yuanqing has really opened his eyes. Back then, Niu Bao was sent to the farm for reform through labor by him, and Niu Aixiang was kicked out by Gu Hailiang.

The Niu couple actually sold Niu Aixiang off, marrying her off to a distant place for only thirty yuan. I heard she was eventually brutally murdered by her new husband.

Niu Aixiang was also a tough woman. Even if she herself was going to die, she took the abuser with her in the end.

The Niu family had two daughters left, but because their parents frequently visited, they eventually became estranged and never spoke to each other again.

Niu Bao's second uncle's family was originally very strict with their daughters because Niu Bao was the only male in the family, but they were very kind to their nephew.

But after Niu Bao went to the farm, the two families fell out. Uncle Niu Er seemed to have come to a realization and started treating his daughter better, spending money to send her to school. In the end, the old couple lived a pretty good life and retired early to enjoy their retirement.

Conversely, Niu Bao's parents are disliked by their daughter, and their son is a good-for-nothing who does nothing all day, leaving the elderly couple to support the family.

After all, according to the rules of Shihua Village, families who indulge in pleasure should not expect to receive dividends from the bamboo ware factory.

Even now, with production distributed to individual households and the bamboo ware factory's dividends increasing year by year, there are still no widespread people in Shihua Village indulging in pleasure-seeking. This is largely thanks to the dividend regulations established by Lu Yuanqing and Zhao Zhongcai.

Lu Yuanqing wanted to roll his eyes at the fact that Niu Bao came knocking on his door as soon as Lu Yuanhuan returned.

"I'm telling you, didn't you learn a single lesson in those ten years? You're both so old, your parents' hair has turned completely white, didn't you see that at all?"

Niu Bao listened intently, but his eyes kept drifting towards the kitchen.

"Hehe, you said it yourself, I'm already this old, what's the point of striving anymore! I'll just live one day at a time!"

Lu Yuanqing rolled his eyes again. "So, you know that whenever you leave, there's no one in my house who will welcome you."

Niu Bao was afraid of being kicked out, and Lao Lai's face showed a hint of anxiety. "No! I heard that Xiao Huan is back, so I thought I would talk to her and apologize to her. I really didn't have any bad intentions."

Lu Yuanqing didn't even bother to roll his eyes. "Big Head Niu, have I been too kind, making you take advantage of me?"

"No! I really just wanted to say sorry."

“Who cares? You like to rot, so you want to drag others down with you, but you’ve got the wrong idea. I don’t care what you’re thinking, whether you’re genuinely apologizing or have some other purpose, but…” Lu Yuanqing’s gaze sharpened as he stared at him, “but you may have forgotten one thing: I can decide not to give you the dividends your family relies on.”

Upon hearing this, Niu Bao disregarded his own thoughts and said anxiously, "Impossible! I'm also a member of the village. You're saying you won't give my family a share of the profits? Isn't that abusing your power for personal gain? The villagers won't agree to that."

Lu Yuanqing sneered and crossed his legs. "The village rules state that any family that cheats or seeks pleasure will not receive any village dividends."

"My parents are still working!"

"Hmph, how old are your parents? The village pities them for being so old and having such a good-for-nothing like you. They're getting older and older, what kind of work can they still do? These past few years, they've just been growing vegetables, and the village doesn't hold it against them. But what if I were to hold it against them?" Lu Yuanqing said coldly.

Niu Bao was stunned.

If Lu Yuanqing were to make a fuss, the villagers would naturally agree immediately.

The reason why there are no elderly people receiving the five guarantees in their village is entirely due to the existence of the bamboo ware factory.

Every household receives a dividend at the end of the year, so there are naturally no quotas for the "Five Guarantees" households.

They're all from the same village, and when they're doing well, they naturally have the energy to pity others.

The Niu family's parents were the ones who were pitied.

The daughter cut off all contact with them, and the son was a good-for-nothing who hadn't been reformed at all. After returning to the village, he did nothing but laze around at home eating idle food.

The Niu family's parents are so old, they look unsteady even carrying hoes, but they still have to work in the fields just to get their annual dividends.

In matters like this, it all comes down to who takes it more seriously.

If we're being strict, they naturally wouldn't meet the rules for profit sharing.

Moreover, Lu Yuanqing is a man of principle, and the village is guaranteed to side with him immediately. If one less family receives dividends, they might even get a little more, so of course they'd be even happier.

"You can't do this! You're trying to kill us!" Niu Bao yelled, ready to act like a rogue.

Lu Yuanqing raised his hand to stop him in disgust. "Shut up and get out of my house now. If you dare to look for Xiao Huan again, I'll let you know if your family will get any dividends this year."

Niu Bao ran off quickly, all his little schemes vanished.

"Tch!" Lu Yuanqing scoffed.

Lu Yuanhuan only came out after everyone had left.

"Why does he keep coming to find me?" Lu Yuanhuan also disliked Niu Bao, but she was also curious as to why this person was now so focused on finding her!

The two families are now at odds with each other to the point of no return!

What is the purpose?

Lu Yuanqing rolled her eyes. "I'm asking if you're divorced!"

Lu Yuanhuan: "..."

Ok!

Although I already knew that in their area, if a married daughter returned home alone and stayed for ten days or so, someone would come to ask if she was divorced so that they could introduce her to a potential partner.

But Lu Yuanhuan never expected that he would be one of them.

"He's not married yet?"

Niu Bao has been back from the farm for so many years, and he's still single.

Lu Yuanqing snorted, "Lazy and good-for-nothing, who would want to work with that?"

Others aren't fools either!

"Niu's parents walk unsteadily, how can they still work?" Lu Yuanhuan was somewhat shocked.

They'll do anything for a son like Niu Bao!

Lu Yuanqing: "That's right. A couple of years ago, the village chief told me that, given the state of Niu's parents, what kind of farm work could they possibly do in a year? They could only grow enough vegetables for their own consumption, and they couldn't do anything more than that. The village chief discussed with me what to do."

“But his family is still receiving dividends,” Lu Yuanhuan said.

Lu Yuanqing nodded, "The village voted, and they felt sorry for them, so they didn't care much. Anyway, judging from their condition, they don't have many years left to live, so they just considered it a good deed and didn't care. When the old couple passes away, or when they really can't move anymore, and Niu Bao is still like this, then they can forget about his family's dividends."

Of course, it's impossible for Niu Bao to get a share of the profits just because he wants to grow some vegetables like his parents.

"There are many elderly people in the village now, and there are not many people competing for crops. Most of the young people who stay in the village work in bamboo ware factories, and they don't have much energy left."

It's impossible for them to balance work and other jobs like they used to.

Lu Yuanqing smiled wryly, "So I told Xiaoling that the bamboo ware factory needs reform."

Due to previous policies, bamboo ware factories belonged to the collective. In the future, the rate of abandoned rural land will increase, as young people will not know how to farm and the elderly will not have the physical strength.

Therefore, the development of bamboo ware factories requires reform and innovation.

As for how to reform it, that's up to Liu Ling, the factory director, to decide.

No matter what, the bamboo ware factory cannot go under.

We hope that the art of bamboo weaving can continue to be passed down.

"Never mind that, leave these things to the young people. I'm much more easygoing about everything now," Lu Yuanqing said with a smile.

Lu Yuanhuan smiled and was about to say something when the sound of a car came from the courtyard.

"Is it Xiao Nan and the others?" Lu Yuanhuan asked curiously.

Lu Yuanqing was also curious, "No, they were at the bamboo ware factory, they didn't drive anywhere, so who came back?"

As they talked, the two got up and walked outside.

The moment Lu Yuanhuan saw the license plate number, he knew it was his own car.

I thought it was the ancient Yushan Mountain, but it turned out to be the ancient Anping Mountain.

"Pingping is back!" Lu Yuanqing went to greet her.

Gu Anping turned off the engine, opened the car door, and said, "Third Uncle."

"Hey! Come inside and rest for a bit. You must be tired after driving for hours!"

Gu Anping didn't rush inside. Instead, he opened the trunk and took out the gifts he had bought.

"Mom!" Gu Anping called out to Lu Yuanhuan, who came forward to help.

Lu Yuanhuan smiled and nodded, "Let's go inside! Why are you here so early? How early did you get up?"

The roads are much better now, but it still takes at least three hours to drive home.

It had only been a short time since breakfast when Gu Anping arrived home, meaning he must have set off at dawn.