Rebirth 78: Hunting for Treasure in the Mountains, Spoiling My Wife and Daughter to the Heavens

"Young man, I respectfully call you 'boss,' but isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to say it like that here?"

The old man at the head of the group frowned upon hearing this.

The person behind him continued, "You idiot! Are you out of your mind? Do you even know how many of you there are?"

"Exactly, the Huangpu River isn't covered by a veil, how can you not go?"

"You might as well just buy a block of tofu and run away with it, have you lost your mind?"

Perhaps driven to desperation, the group began speaking their local dialect in a frenzy.

This might be very effective with the locals, but Lu Weiguo couldn't understand it!

The string of curses didn't anger him; instead, it made him laugh.

You know what, that's actually quite interesting.

They didn't even use profanity when they were swearing.

"I said no, and that's final. Whether you're here to take shelter from the rain or for whatever purpose, I won't let you in."

Lu Weiguo pursed his lips, looking completely indifferent.

"Don't refuse a toast only to suffer the consequences."

"Oh? Are you sure?"

After Lu Weiguo finished speaking, he immediately stepped forward, where there was only that one beam of firelight.

Poor visibility.

Before the group could even see Lu Weiguo's movements, the dagger was already thrust forward in front of the old man.

Lu Weiguo was holding a knife and slowly slicing it down from the eye.

"Don't move, okay? I get scared when I see a lot of people, and my hands shake terribly."

"What...what are you going to do~"

The young man behind the old man mustered his courage and stepped forward, but still stood behind the old man.

"Let's not beat around the bush, and I'm too lazy to waste time with you. I know you're up to that shady business."

The fur-processing skills are good, but the raccoon's fur is too poor quality; even if you tried to pass it off as a fox pelt, it wouldn't look right.

You are farmers, why don't you just honestly farm the land? Deceiving people is never a long-term solution.

"You little punk, you're not a farmer, what do you know?" The old man, having seen much, could still speak with a trembling voice.

She reached out to stop the person behind her, and looked directly into Lu Weiguo's eyes.

"I know you want to catch that raccoon dog, but with me here, you can't catch it today?"

"You still manage to stay here every day?!"

The young man behind him craned his neck, looking defiant.

"I can't? But do you still want to go out?"

"There are more of us!!! This is the rule of law..."

"Oh? You guys know that too?!" Lu Weiguo shouted.

The four people opposite were so frightened that they dared not utter a sound.

The sound of raindrops outside seemed to reflect the emotions of the four people.

Until the young man's hair fell to the ground with a thud.

The old man finally let out a deep breath: "Alright, let's go. What goes around comes around. I'll treat you to a meal sometime."

After the old man finished speaking, he raised his hand and stepped back.

Behind him, three young men dressed as farmers, wearing straw raincoats, turned and walked away with resentment on their faces.

As he emerged from the cave, he cursed, "Damn it!"

Lu Weiguo knew this was definitely an insult, but he couldn't understand it.

He only breathed a sigh of relief when Zheng Lin came out, and stood at the cave entrance listening to the sounds outside.

"These old men are really rude; they can't believe they're saying such things."

Zheng Yu spat fiercely outside.

I feel Lu Weiguo is too polite, why shouldn't I curse back?

"Really? I can't understand it anyway, so why not just not let them in?"

"But...but they're right too. What if they come back to catch these raccoons tomorrow or the day after, even though we're here today?"

A woman is, after all, a woman.

She is quite thoughtful.

"Oh, Zheng Yu, it's all fate. We're helping them today because we're borrowing their home. Wei Guo did that to protect our safety."

"If you want to manage it, take it all back. Otherwise, we can't handle that many things."

Li Xiulian stepped forward to comfort her, after all, she was from Northeast China and knew how hard it was to get food.

Besides, she's getting old, and honestly, if she didn't have a single bite to eat today...

She had to choose between watching Lu Jiacheng go hungry and eating the raccoon.

I would absolutely choose the latter without hesitation.

In the face of danger, pity is only an option for the strong.

"Huh? Okay... I'll just play for one more day."

. . . . .

the other side.

In the Zhao family home, Zhao Kaishan was in his study, bowing and scraping as he answered the phone.

"Secretary Liu, Lu Weiguo really has taken leave. His wife got into university, and the young couple rarely get to see each other. It wouldn't be good to call him back now."

"How about I personally lead the team to welcome Commissioner Zhang for his inspection?"

The person on the other end of the phone spoke softly and gently, without any discernible emotional fluctuation.

"Brother Zhao, this really won't work. The leader specifically requested that Lu Weiguo accompany him. Forget about taking leave to visit family; even if he goes abroad, he'll be called back."

We're not in a rush, there's still a week, right? I know he's been gone for a week already, give him another week, he'll definitely be back soon.

"You agree, right, Brother Zhao? I'm just a worker, don't make things difficult for me."

In this day and age, being a secretary is no ordinary job.

To be a secretary to the commissioner of a prefecture is at least at the deputy division level.

Their abilities are definitely not lacking.

"Secretary Liu, this is really... I'm not making excuses, but although Lu Weiguo led the work on those reports, he doesn't know anything about the follow-up."

"If something goes wrong when reporting the work, it won't be good for either of us."

Zhao Kaishan racked his brains for a reason, but Secretary Liu seemed to have prepared it in advance.

He blocked them all.

"Brother Zhao, you're just being unreasonable. I'll be frank with you: is reporting work important? What we want to hear is the thought process, the ideas, the thinking."

A simple report on the work content would suffice. What the leaders want to hear is Lu Weiguo's open-minded thinking and innovative approach. That's how it'll be handled.

If the leaders go to inspect and don't see Lu Weiguo, you're going to make things difficult for your younger brother.

After Secretary Liu finished speaking, he hung up the phone immediately.

Zhao Kaishan heard the dial tone on the other end of the phone.

I couldn't help but sigh.

"Dad! If that doesn't work, then let Lu Weiguo come back. He's been gone for so long anyway."

"Come back?" Zhao Kaishan looked at his innocent daughter and thought to himself, why can't Lu Weiguo be his son?

"You've seen what Zhang Dexing is like, and the commissioner of the administrative office is also surnamed Zhang. What do you think their relationship is?"

"But work is work. Can a provincial leader use his position to settle personal scores?" Zhao Jiahuan replied dismissively.

"You! You really have no brains. Let me ask you this: if Lu Weiguo cracked my skull open one day, and you went to his office and saw him reporting to you, would you want to get revenge on him or want to work with him?!"

"Of course we work together; we keep public and private matters separate."

"You!! You!! Oh my heart!!!"