My Beloved Super Fierce Wife
Chapter 312 Sigh, I’m just imagining things

Chapter 312: 312 Sigh, I’m just imagining things

Before long, she arrived in front of Lin Tang’s courtyard.

When the knocking sounds rang out, Lin Tang was studying an ointment for treating baldness.

Thinking of Yang Du in the office stewing over the few hairs on his forehead every day, she couldn’t bear to just watch idly by.

Hearing that very rhythmic knocking, Lin Tang had a hunch.

...It must be Comrade Gu, right?!

She left her room and went to open the courtyard door.

"I knew it, it is you! What brings you here?"

As she spoke, she stepped aside to let him in first.

Gu Yingzhou was in a hurry and originally intended to leave the little ancestor with the young girl and go.

But, since he was asking for her help, he had to explain himself.

So, he entered the courtyard first.

Unaware of Gu Yingzhou’s dilemma, Lin Tang smiled with her eyes curving nicely.

"What happened?" she asked.

Seeing the little white cat in the man’s arms, she walked over and casually stroked it.

The little milk cat was so well-behaved, it didn’t struggle at all.

With its wet, pretty eyes open, it meowed obediently.

It was incredibly soothing, almost enough to melt one’s heart.

"...Are you here to deliver a cat?" Lin Tang continued to ask.

Thinking the cat was a gift for herself.

Seeing that the young girl wasn’t averse to the cat, Gu Yingzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

He nodded.

"Mmm, I have to go out for a bit, and I was hoping to leave the cat here with you to look after for a couple of days."

Lin Tang: "..." Ah, how presumptuous of me!

Luckily, she hadn’t said it outright.

Her face was still intact.

"...Okay." she responded.

Accepting the little milk cat, Lin Tang asked, "Is this your cat? What’s its name?"

She did like the healing nature of the cat.

In future generations, many people would keep cats, but in the current times, when even food and clothing were concerns, those who could afford to keep cats and dogs were few and far between.

Gu Yingzhou paused for a moment, then pursed his lips and replied:

"...Little Ancestor."

He hadn’t thought much of the name before, but now, introducing it formally, he felt slightly uncomfortable.

"Little Ancestor?" Lin Tang laughed out loud.

She touched the tip of the little milk cat’s nose with her finger, her eyes brimming with shining laughter.

"It seems Comrade Gu is quite fond of you."

The usually cool and detached Comrade Gu actually liked such a small and cute little thing, which was... adorable!

After playing with the kitten, Lin Tang looked up at Gu Yingzhou.

"I’ll take good care of Little Ancestor. Be careful on your way, Comrade Gu. Little Ancestor and I will be waiting for you to come back."

She stood under the light in a long dress that spoke of ease and comfort, holding the milky white kitten in her arms.

Her lips curved upwards, and she tenderly advised him, as if... a wife was reminding her husband who was about to leave home.

Waves rippled in Gu Yingzhou’s heart.

Realizing what he was thinking, he chuckled quietly to himself.

He reached out to ruffle Lin Tang’s hair.

"Don’t worry, I’ll be careful. You also take care of yourself at home, and lock the doors at night."

Thinking that he had already arranged for someone to secretly protect this small courtyard, Gu Yingzhou felt slightly relieved.

Lin Tang: "I know."

After he had explained everything that needed to be said, Gu Yingzhou left Anning County.

-

Three days passed since Gu Yingzhou left, and he hadn’t come back.

Lin Tang, having no other choice, had to take the little milk cat back home with her.

Seeing the little cat in her arms, Li Xiuli curiously asked, "Tangtang, where did this cat come from?"

"...It’s my friend’s. He’s gone out on business and asked me to take care of it for a few days," Lin Tang explained.

She was still quite young and didn’t dare tell her family that she was seeing someone.

Otherwise, she feared her family would sharpen their knives at night.

Li Xiuli assumed her friend was Qin Suqing and didn’t pry further.

"Since you’ve promised someone, you should take good care of it," she said.

Don’t neglect the cat and affect your friendship because of it.

Of course, Lin Tang agreed.

Just then, Lin Lu came back with Lin Qingshan and Lin Qingshui, all in high spirits.

Before they even reached home, their hearty laughter came through.

"Hahaha..."

The boisterous laughter startled Li Xiuli.

She quickly put down what she was doing and went up to inquire anxiously, "What’s going on, dear? Did something good happen?"

Entering the courtyard, Lin Lu saw that Lin Tang had come home from work and greeted his daughter first.

Then he said, "Great news indeed, as good as it gets."

The brigade had decided to build a road; if that wasn’t good news, what was?

Li Xiuli playfully smacked Lin Lu’s arm in mock anger, demanding, "Stop beating around the bush, what exactly is the good news?"

"...Our brigade is going to build a road."

"Build a road? Is it going to happen so soon?" Li Xiuli hadn’t expected this and was equally excited.

Building a road is great; it makes everything more convenient.

Lin Lu sat down in the rocking chair under the tree, took a swig of cool tea, and then slowly elaborated.

"You might think our brigade’s sauce factory hasn’t been open for long, but actually, we already have a lot of orders."

He listed the known orders.

"The supply and marketing cooperative, the Cotton Textile Factory, the Machinery Factory, the Meat-Processing Factory, the Steel Factory... and even the orders Aiguo and the others secured are really not few."

"Once these orders are completed, our brigade can earn at least four or five thousand. Even after covering the costs, there will still be plenty left. The brigade’s leaders did some calculations and decided to proceed with the road building."

Seeing her uncle and the others driving the sauce factory business so efficiently, Lin Tang smiled.

Not bad.

People are driven by necessity.

Just think, from the brigade leaders’ initial reluctance, fearing any mishap, to their current decisive actions, it took a mere month.

It goes to show, human potential is unlimited.

Everyone can improve if they are willing to learn; no one is inherently lesser than others!

"Building a road is great; it will make trips to the county much easier," Lin Tang said.

Li Xiuli tapped her daughter’s forehead playfully, her face beaming with a smile, "You’re just worried about your bottom, aren’t you?"

"Not at all!" Lin Tang denied, hard-faced, "What I meant was that transporting sauce will be easier."

She couldn’t let her little fondness for comfort show.

Lin Lu laughed in his simple-minded way, "Our daughter is thinking about all the right things."

With that one sentence, he elevated Lin Tang’s stance.

Charmed by his words, Lin Tang’s eyes lit up with joy.

"Exactly, exactly, my father is right, that’s exactly what I think."

Zhou Mei, ever since she started at the sauce factory, had developed a certain air of authority.

She also became much more composed, and her once boisterous demeanor diminished significantly.

The only thing that the Lin Family and the wider Shuangshan Brigade couldn’t quite handle was that she became Lin Tang’s unabashed fan.

Like now, upon hearing her father-in-law’s words, Zhou Mei lifted her chin solemnly.

"The young lady’s educated, and she’s got a good heart. Without her, our brigade couldn’t have started the sauce factory. That dirt road would remain unpaved for ten or twenty more years."

"In my opinion, the name of the road should be after the young lady..."

Lin Tang felt like she was going to split apart.

Name the road after her? What a bizarre idea...

"No need, really no need!"

Lin Tang quickly repeated ’no need’ three times to express her inner refusal.

"The village can build a road thanks to the efforts of the brigade leaders and the factory workers, not much to do with me. As long as everyone lives a better life, that’s good enough," she said bluntly.

She worried lest her sister-in-law would take the suggestion to the whole brigade.