Chapter 627 - 623: Good, Good, Good
"You clever kid. I knew you were scheming something, but I never thought you’d go this big."
"Once this pans out, the top credit for Qingshan Team will go to you."
However aggrieved and desperate Chen Beiguo had felt when he signed the contract was exactly how excited and thrilled he was now—doubly so, even.
Four hundred pigs!
Before, he wouldn’t have even dared to dream of it.
There were plenty of weeds in the summer, and the mountains were full of pig fodder. Come to think of it, there was hardly any cost involved.
It was a windfall, a total windfall.
Chen Beiguo paced back and forth in the room, so excited he could burst. He felt that Qingshan Team’s title as an "Advanced Village" was now secure.
Watching Chen Beiguo’s antics, Leng Yuan reminded him with a helpless sigh, "You need to keep this a secret for now. If word gets out, the other teams probably won’t let it go."
If a fuss was made before they even succeeded, it would be a huge problem.
The leaders of the other teams aren’t fools. If they find out about a deal this good, they’ll definitely come running for a piece of the pie.
Hearing this, Chen Beiguo immediately nodded. "You’re right."
"Don’t you worry. I won’t tell a soul. When the time comes, I’ll make those ignoramuses see just how right my decision was."
Back when he signed the contract, they were all watching the show, making snide remarks. This time, he would properly rub their faces in it.
Chen Beiguo had lacked confidence before because he didn’t understand Leng Yuan’s plan. Now that he did, he was completely captivated by the blueprint Leng Yuan had laid out.
Now, he was bursting with motivation.
Leng Yuan didn’t stay much longer. Once he had made things clear, he left.
But though Leng Yuan was gone, Chen Beiguo started acting strangely.
The team leader’s wife watched as her husband bolted down his meal in seconds and rushed out, full of vigor. She was utterly baffled.
Just this morning, he had been sitting in the house, sighing up a storm. She’d asked him why, but he wouldn’t say a word. Now, after one visit from Leng Yuan, he was like a completely different person—he was even more worked up than on their wedding night.
Even the team leader’s son noticed the difference and whispered a question to his mom.
How was the team leader’s wife supposed to know? Her expression soured. "Just hurry up and eat. Didn’t you see your father’s already finished? Finish your meal and get to school. And you’d better bring back good grades this time."
At the mention of grades, silence fell over the table.
Meanwhile, Chen Beiguo rushed to the fields. After assigning the day’s tasks, he specifically pulled aside the few people in charge of feeding the piglets. He told them with the utmost seriousness that they had to be diligent. Anyone who negatively affected the piglets’ growth would have their work points deducted.
That got everyone’s attention, and they all put in one hundred and twenty percent effort.
Normally, Chen Beiguo would head back after assigning the work.
Today, however, he just kept circling the pigpen.
The workers: "..."
’Seriously, just how little does the team leader trust us?’
’We’ve never seen him care this much about the pigs before!’
And the way the team leader looked at the pigs... his eyes were always sparkling. That gaze was more infatuated than the one he gave his own wife.
’Could the team leader have some... unspeakable fetish?’
The team leader ignored their strange looks. ’What do these people know?’ he thought. ’This is the very beginning of my grand enterprise of four hundred pigs! If these pigs aren’t properly looked after, what if it affects my future piglets!’
And so, from that day forward, everyone often saw the team leader’s figure loitering outside the pigpen, rain or shine.
「The School」
Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao arrived at school. Right before class was about to start, the principal informed Gu Jiaojiao that she would have to substitute for a class.
That An Dongyang hadn’t requested leave, yet he hadn’t shown up for class. The principal’s expression was quite sour.