Rebirth in Famine: She Thrives by Lucky Space-Chapter 991: Self-Recommendation

"It’s Li Xue."

"That educated youth?"

Guodong nodded with a smile.

"Getting engaged tomorrow?" Yang Zhongyi felt he had come at the right time.

"No, we’re going to the city on Sunday."

"Congratulations, brother. I’m really envious of you, I’m already over twenty and still don’t have a partner."

Guodong didn’t know how to respond and just smiled.

"How are you getting to the city on Sunday? Need a truck?"

"It’s not convenient, I’m afraid of causing trouble for you. Uncle Wei will drive to drop off the vegetables and Aunt Du, Aunt Zhang first, and then come back to pick us up. As for Village Chief Li and the others, they’ll take the tractor over."

"Oh, that’s a lot of hassle. So when are you going to the city? Sunday?"

"No, we’re heading there on Saturday, there’s a lot to prepare."

"I can drive over on Saturday and take you all there. But it’s really cold in the truck bed."

"Won’t it trouble you?"

Yang Zhongyi smiled and shook his head, "Not at all, don’t worry, I’ve got it all figured out. I’ll drive over Saturday morning."

Wei Kaiyun listened with a smile, this guy really seizes every opportunity. Since he’s willing, it saves us some trouble. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Lv Beiguang had just washed his hands and, hearing that someone was offering help, hurried to thank him.

"Uncle Lv, no need to be polite, Guodong and I are friends, we’re bros. If I can do it, I’ll certainly help."

In the afternoon, Du Fengying had already stewed the offal. But since it was needed, she was afraid there wasn’t enough. So they didn’t eat it that night.

The men had braised pork, a large braised bighead carp, along with sauerkraut, bean thread, and frozen tofu.

The women stuck with eight-treasure porridge. Jiang Xinyu feels ill if she eats dry food at night, so that’s what she brought. The other women and children were used to it too.

They had fish soup stewed with tofu, with a little cabbage added, which tasted quite good.

After dinner, Yang Zhongyi said goodbye and left, once again confirming he’d come over the day after tomorrow morning.

That night, Wei Kaiyun chuckled and talked with his wife about Yang Zhongyi’s little intentions.

Jiang Xinyu wasn’t interested in other people’s situations anymore.

"Tomorrow you go find someone to make tofu, tofu skin. Since there’s free labor available, it’ll be nice for the kids and Sister Jing Chu, Zhao Xiaoli to sit in the car with us. The rest can take the truck."

"Since we’re staying overnight, let Guodong go ahead and light the fire, and we’ll take the bedding in the afternoon."

"This way, the kids won’t suffer. It’s quite nice."

Wei Kaiyun hugged his wife and smiled, "Shi Jing and Jianbin can sit in the truck cab, making it even more comfortable."

"Those two are too boisterous; I don’t feel at ease."

"Then let Jing Chu go with them to keep an eye on them."

Jiang Xinyu gave Wei Kaiyun an exasperated look, "You’re giving Yang Zhongyi a chance."

"Hehehe, even if I give him a chance, he wouldn’t dare do anything. Without word from home, if he dares make a move, he won’t be welcome at our house in the future."

On Friday, Du Fengying and Zhang Qiu’e started getting busy. There really were a lot of things to take, plates and bowls, and all sorts of food.

Everything had to be packed up in advance.

Lucky that Jiang Xinyu had prepared a lot of things, otherwise they really couldn’t manage. Even so, they still had to take some of their everyday bowls and chopsticks over on Saturday morning.

The tofu and tofu skin were delivered in the afternoon. To prevent the tofu from freezing, they put it in the warehouse. They were afraid there wouldn’t be enough time to make it tomorrow, so they had to prepare it today.

For lunch, the family had cornmeal pancakes and tofu pudding. The tofu maker gave them a basin of tofu pudding, and Du Fengying steamed a big bowl of red pickles. It tasted quite good.

In the afternoon, Lv Beiguang and Wei Kaiyun bottled the liquor, and Lv Beiguang brought some sweets over. All that was left were peanuts and sunflower seeds, which they would broil in the afternoon. However, there were no sunflower seeds, only peanuts. They’d have to make do with whatever they had for now and add what was missing in the city tomorrow.

Lv Beiguang was full of energy. Busy and bustling, he didn’t feel tired at all.

After preparing everything that needed to be taken, he checked everything again to ensure nothing was missed.

Then he asked Wei Kaiyun to go with him, looking for older folks to ask what ought to be given to the girl’s side for the engagement.

After asking several people, he confirmed that the engagement gifts he brought were quite ample, more than enough.

"Now are you relieved?"

"Absolutely, I was just afraid we’d be rude."

Wei Kaiyun looked speechlessly at Lv Beiguang, really not understanding him at all.

That evening, Wei Kaiyun shared the next day’s arrangements: Jing Chu and Shang Zhenkun with the two boys in the cab, and the Lv family father and son with Du Fengying and Zhang Qiu’e in the back. They had no other option.

"Guodong, once you get there, quickly light the fire and prepare two rooms, one for the women and kids, and one for us."

"Got it, Uncle Wei."

Finally, everything was arranged, and Wei Kaiyun thought that if engagements were this complicated, weddings with many guests would be even more so.

Jiang Xinyu had already taken leave. The two teachers just taught the middle and small classes. There was no one in the senior class, all going to attend the engagement banquet.

The next day was Saturday, and by eight o’clock, Yang Zhongyi drove over by himself, without bringing a guard this time.

With so many people helping, all the prepared food was loaded onto the vehicle quickly, and everyone got onboard.

Yang Zhongyi saw his little girl get into the cab, and he was very excited, wasn’t it? He knew this was an opportunity given by Wei Kaiyun, and being able to stay together a little longer made him very content.

He knew that Old Yang and the others had gone to the capital and would definitely bring back news for him. If his family didn’t agree, he’d call them directly. Now he just wanted this little girl, no one else.

Sitting beside the girl he liked, he felt thrilled.

He wanted to talk to her, but seeing the elder at the side, he swallowed all his words. He wasn’t qualified yet.

Shi Jing and Jianbin were very excited in the truck, chattering all the way, constantly asking questions, to which Shang Zhenkun patiently responded.

"Sister Jing Chu, when we get to the city, take us to the scrap station, okay? We brought money to buy books for Feifei."

"No problem, but I’ll need to clean up the house first, okay?"

"Alright, you just need to take us there."

Hearing this, Yang Zhongyi knew the opportunity had come. He was wearing casual clothes, so it’d be easy for him to buy things.

"Shi Jing, Jianbin, I’ll come with you and help carry the things you buy."

"Uncle Yang, we don’t even know if we can find them."

"Don’t worry, you definitely can. The little girl likes old books, right? I can find them for her."

"Really?"

"Of course. You can trust me."