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Chapter 252: Repaying the Captain’s Kindness

Chapter 252: Chapter 252: Repaying the Captain’s Kindness

Chapter 252: Seeking the Captain to Express Gratitude (Part 1)

This Li Chunhua, just like in her previous life, once again ruined her own reputation.

The captain continued, "Later, news came from the county that the Jiang Family’s parents were arrested by the police because of your affair, thus, the whole village started gossiping about bandits.

Mengyu, what exactly happened?"

Mengyu recounted everything she could speak of.

Upon hearing this, the captain sighed deeply, and Aunt Ding couldn’t stop wiping her tears.

"That cursed Li Chunhua, she surely won’t have a good end," Aunt Ding couldn’t resist cursing loudly.

After saying goodbye to Aunt Ding, Mengyu then went to Captain Ding’s house. Upon seeing Mengyu, the captain’s aunt initiated a serious conversation followed by a thorough questioning, and Mengyu had to repeat her story once more.

After listening, the captain’s aunt also cursed loudly towards the direction of the Jiang Family, and after finishing, she intended to go catch a chicken.

Mengyu quickly stopped her, "Aunt, please don’t kill the chicken, the meat will go bad if not eaten today or tomorrow." Saying that, she took out two bottles of wine, a large piece of meat, and a big bag of sugar from her bag.

Only then did the captain realize Mengyu had also bought meat, leading to another round of criticism. Naturally, Mengyu accepted the criticism modestly but would not amend her ways.

The captain’s son, daughter-in-law, and their children were all out working or playing, so it was just the three of them at home.

Hence, Mengyu purposefully steered the conversation for Captain to express his grievances about the responsibility of contracting to households, and indeed, Captain spilled his hardships.

Captain Ding talked about everything from the Qian Family digging waters to nobody maintaining the water conservancy, from people not knowing how to farm properly, to the waterlogged crops during grain filling, to the abandonment of the production team’s pig, chicken, duck, and sheep farms, etc., making Mengyu internally sigh: The captain indeed misses the glory days of being the captain.

However, Captain Ding was actually a good captain. When leading everyone on the path to common prosperity, other villages’ points were just one or two dimes, or even just a few points, but their village’s points were as high as sixty cents.

In fact, if the points were evenly divided, it would amount to one yuan!

During the production team’s time, this was very rare.

After listening to the captain’s long grievances, Mengyu then led him to talk about how to get rich after contracting production to households.

Talking about getting rich, the captain shook his head heavily, "It’s hard. Previously, in our production team, some people farmed, some raised pigs, some raised ducks, some raised sheep. Now each household has their own fields to farm, and everyone manages their own, who can handle multiple operations? Other villages have large barren mountains where they can grow fruit trees, but we don’t have that."

Mengyu thought about those in rural areas who were first to get rich in her previous life, and suggested, "Uncle Captain, why don’t you try growing off-season vegetables?"

"Off-season vegetables? In this place, who would we sell the vegetables to?"

"Sell them to the city," Mengyu looked at the captain.

The captain shook his head, "Our place is far from the city. By carrying vegetables to the city, they would have wilted; who would buy them?"

Mengyu said, "We operate on a larger scale. Get a few households together to grow them, and once the off-season vegetables are harvested, partner up to transport them to the city by vehicle. I’ve heard that off-season vegetables sell very well."

Captain Ding seemed thoughtful: he had seen, during the winter, small cabbages being sold in the markets, nearly as expensive as meat.

"You’re right, that could be a way. However, to get our village’s vegetables out, first, a proper road must be built; the current ones, oh."

The current dirt roads were indeed too bumpy for transporting vegetables.

Mengyu then added, "I remember the commune’s brick and tile factory used to survey our village’s soil and said that the yellow clay at the foot of our mountain was very suitable for making bricks and tiles. Later, they didn’t build the factory here due to other reasons. With the reform and opening-up, construction surely needs lots of bricks and tiles. What if Uncle Captain, you could contract the brick factory in our village—"

Actually, suggesting growing off-season vegetables was just a probe; her real intention was to persuade the captain to run a brick factory.

The captain’s eyes lit up, but they quickly dimmed again, "We don’t have startup capital, how to run a factory?"