The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 852: A Barrel of Vinegar

Sanhe Village welcomed a radical transformation.

This tiny mountain hamlet, unchangeable as ever for a decade, suddenly seemed to hit jackpot, sprinting forward at breakneck speed.

After Lü Zong and Guan Ying’er finalized their plans, they hurried off, saying they were going to arrange for manpower, contact construction teams, and get ready for planning and renovation.

However, Lü Zong was held back by Shangguan Yu and Gong Ge, on the pretext of helping Li Qing.

Gong Ge was indeed helpful, but Shangguan Yu...

The help he offered—although Li Qing quite enjoyed it—was still somewhat inconvenient in the village.

Wu Xingxing and Qin Wenjun’s discerning eyes were getting sharper by the day.

If Gong Ge hadn’t been there to divert their attention, they probably would have already started interrogating Shangguan Yu about his true identity.

No sooner had Lü Zong and Guan Ying’er left than the suppliers Qin Wenjun contacted arrived.

A total of eight or nine large trucks, all loaded with pre-cut rafters and tiles.

The convoy rolled mightily into Burning Man Valley.

This place, compared to Mouse Lookout, offered somewhat more convenient transportation; there was already a road nearby, leading to a village to the south.

After a brief discussion with the factory representatives about the particulars of the construction process, they began the work.

The speed at which they were erecting those buildings was almost like playing with building blocks.

Even the pillars meant to be buried underground had been pre-cast.

An excavator would dig a pit about one meter deep, and after burying the pillar and leveling it, I-beams would connect it to precut square timber above, creating a platform.

They didn’t need to wait at all; they would start working as soon as everything was in place.

Although the pillars needed to be filled with concrete, there was no need to wait for the concrete to cure because the pillars had been pre-cast.

Li Qing stood by for a while, and in that time, the dozen or so workers had raised three platforms.

The speed and efficiency made Li Qing wonder whether they were actually working on a construction project or playing a building block game.

It was unbelievably fast.

Nowadays, these factories were making everything increasingly meticulous, preparing everything in advance so there was no need to waste any time waiting.

"President Li, why don’t you let me keep an eye on things here while you take a break?" Shangguan Yu, who had come with Li Qing, brushed back her hair and spoke softly. "This looks pretty simple, I’m only watching after all."

"No need to keep an eye out, let’s sit in the car," said Li Qing.

Although he didn’t have a car, Shangguan Yu had driven here.

"Alright, President Li, should I move the car to a more secluded place?" Shangguan Yu asked softly, a blush creeping across her cheeks.

Li Qing was checking messages on his phone and didn’t pay attention to her words, simply nodding his head.

Shangguan Yu timidly agreed with a muffled reply, got into the car, and drove around to the back of Burning Man Valley, away from the approach route, seemingly secluded from anyone passing by. This was a sand road connecting two villages, seldom traveled, nearly abandoned.

After parking the car steadily, Shangguan Yu stealthily peeked at Li Qing, who was deftly typing replies on his phone in the passenger seat, then she took off her coat with utmost care, placed it behind her, reclined the seat, and crawled into the back.

Although she was a delicate and charming young lady, the car she drove was a wildly robust off-road vehicle, offering ample space in the backseat.

Shangguan Yu folded down the back seats and then took a fluffy white blanket from the trunk to spread over them.

Once she had arranged all of this, Shangguan Yu sneakily glanced at Li Qing, noticed he was still busy replying to messages, and quietly slid her hand under her skirt to take off her leggings.

Her outfit today leaned more towards office wear, with a coat on the outside and a black, thickened long skirt underneath, making her look neat and smart without compromising the sense of elegance.

After removing the leggings, Shangguan Yu decided to also take off the two most intimate pieces of her attire, but she didn’t go all the way clean and kept the long skirt on.

Letting down her hair, which was previously tied up behind her head, to drape over her shoulders, Shangguan Yu then quietly leaned in and said to Li Qing, "President Li, I... am ready now, you can come over."

Li Qing was chatting about a decidedly indecent topic with Xu Keqing. Annoyed by the fact that he hadn’t visited the hospital in a long while, Xu Keqing was showing a bit of spite, and Li Qing was busy soothing her with his words. Hearing Shangguan Yu’s invitation, he turned his head to look at her and suddenly froze.

It seemed she had misunderstood something.

"I said we could sit for a bit, not, well, ’do it’..." Li Qing laughed.

Shangguan Yu looked slightly stunned, then smiled sweetly and asked, "Are you not in the mood today, President Li? We can just sit, but I could make do with a bit more, couldn’t I? Or perhaps you’d prefer to continue playing with your phone, and let your little secretary serve you?"

"That works," Li Qing smiled.

He hadn’t had any intentions before, but now that Shangguan Yu had prepared the battlefield, how could he remain indifferent?

Such an understanding and elegant little secretary definitely shouldn’t be left to make the bed for nothing.

Li Qing climbed over from the passenger seat and sat on the back seats that had been laid down.

Shangguan Yu considerately placed two pillows behind Li Qing to prop him up, then she turned her supple body around and lay beside Li Qing’s legs, extended her fair and slender fingers to undo his belt, and bent down to get busy.

Caught up in the moment, he brushed her hair over her face to provide a modest covering, then took a video and sent it to Xu Keqing.

Not long after the video was sent, Xu Keqing bombarded him with a series of frantic emoticons.

"Li Qing, you scumbag, don’t come looking for me anymore. I don’t fancy your thing!"

Li Qing’s mouth curled upwards in amusement; he couldn’t help but laugh at this woman who said one thing and meant another.

"I’m sneaking in a little fun amidst the busyness. If I had time, I would have come to see you long ago," Li Qing responded in kind.

Xu Keqing angrily asked, "Then who is this?"

"Officially, a secretary," Li Qing thought for a moment and replied, feeling it was okay to say so.

"You’re a real scoundrel, aren’t you? You have the secretary do the work, and when there’s no work, you do the secretary, right? I can see, she’s much prettier than this old, faded woman here. No wonder a certain someone hasn’t been seen around the hospital recently, not even a single message."

"The village has been busy lately, you’d know if you watched the news," Li Qing replied, "That, look at Nai!"

"What? You bastard!" Xu Keqing’s message was followed by a string of angry emoticons.

But after a short while, she still sent him a couple of photos.

"There you go!!!!!" 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Although the accompanying text had many exclamation points, the photos were tasteful.

She didn’t just simply snap a shot inside her neckline; instead, she fully exposed her bust in one photo from a distance that showed her face, albeit her expression in the photo was as furious as the emoticons she sent.

"How about a little video?" Li Qing suggested with a laugh.