Li Rui smiled: "If he knew what you thought, he would probably vomit blood." Ding Yijing said lightly: "I didn't let him chase me, he deserved it." Li Rui suddenly thought of something and said, "Won't you also tease me?" Ding Yijing laughed and said, "Did you just realize it? It's late, I've already played with me." When Li Rui saw her joking with herself, he knew that she was in a good mood, and said: "I haven't been free for a while recently, once I am free, I will definitely go over to see you." By the way, do you like to eat sour dates? I don't have anything on the mountain here, but there are sour dates, I'll pick some for you and mail them over?" Ding Yijing said: "Then go pick them quickly, what are you talking nonsense?" Li Rui said happily: "Wait, I'll pick it and send it to you as soon as possible." ”

After making this call, he didn't have the heart to chat with the poor households, said goodbye and left, drove to the west of the village, took out a big plastic bag from the car, found a pair of gloves to wear on his hands, and climbed up the mountain. That is, after more than half an hour's work, I rushed to the mountainside where I picked sour dates yesterday, and I didn't rest, I walked into the sour dates bushes, and picked them up excitedly, thinking while picking them, I originally wanted to take revenge on Ding Yijing's indifference to me before I wanted to conquer her, how did I know that after a period of slow communication, I was fascinated by her, and now I have the slightest idea of revenge against her? I fell in love with her completely. Alas, I'm really useless, and I'm played around by a woman.

After picking for a while, I have already picked two large handfuls, and it is estimated that in another hour, I can pick at least three or four catties. Ding Yijing couldn't finish eating so much by herself, so she simply sent half of it to Qingman. Ding Yijing is certainly worthy of love and cherishment, and kissing his eldest wife must not be neglected.

He was picking up his strength, and five or six people turned from the north direction of the mountain, all of them men, ranging in their twenties to thirties, each of them had a guy in his hand, either an iron hammer or a pickaxe, and some people held an electronic device in their hands, and the other person carried a long stick with a fishing net in his hand, and at the end of the stick was an iron ring, and naturally there was no net pocket in it, and no one would go up the mountain with fishing utensils.

Ignoring Li Rui's existence, these people got busy on the hillside, some smashed iron drills on the rocky ground, and some swept the ground and mountain walls with the long stick, looking like a minesweeper.

Li Rui was curious, but he didn't have time to pay attention to them, and he was still concentrating on picking sour dates.

Later, a middle-aged man in his thirties came over and grinned, "Fellow, are you picking sour dates?"

Li Rui snorted, listening to his Mandarin, not the local dialect of Qingyang, slightly curious, staring at this person, and seeing that he was dressed in orthodox office worker clothes: black trousers on the lower body, a white shirt on the upper body, a brown and yellow jacket on the outside, and a blue rope work card around his neck, it seems to be a staff member of a certain institution, but looking at this person's appearance again, it is not a thief's eyebrows, it also gives people a strange feeling, especially his face is pale, so white that he is not a normal complexion, as if he has just run out of the morgue。

The man asked again: "What are you doing picking jujubes? Don't you eat them? You have picked a lot of them, can you eat them all by yourself?" Li Rui saw that he took the initiative to talk, so he simply asked him: "What are you doing here?" This person shook his work card in front of him and said, "We are from the geological exploration department, and we are here to conduct exploration." Li Rui asked curiously: "What are you exploring?" Can there be any mineral deposits in the poor mountains and bad waters here?" The man nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it is to explore mineral deposits." Li Rui pointed to the long stick-like equipment held by the man in the distance, and said, "What is that for? Detecting metal minerals?" The man continued to nod: "Yes, yes." ”

Li Rui smiled: "Could it be that there are gold and silver mines in this mountain?" The man shook his head and said: "I don't know, I have to explore to know." Li Rui said: "Which unit are you from? Not from Shannan Province, right?" This person originally wanted to say hello to him, but it was just to say hello, and when he saw that he was asking endlessly, he was slightly annoyed and said, "You can pick it." So saying, he turned and walked away.

When he left, Li Rui also wanted to rest for a while, so he stopped, put the bag in a stone pit, pressed it with stones, and saw that they were very busy over there, so he walked over to see the excitement.

When these people saw him coming, they were all a little vigilant and stopped.

The man who greeted him just now came over and stopped him, and said, "Fellow, where are you going?" Li Rui said: "I'll see how you explore." The man smiled, "This is not good, we have an important job to keep secret." You stay away, stay away. ”

At this time, Li Rui was a little puzzled, did they have any secrets in geological exploration, were they worried that they would be the first to dig out a big gold mine after finding out? How could it be? Excavating any mineral deposit requires countless equipment and procedures, how could it be something that an ordinary person could do? In this case, what else are they worried about? However, since they said that they would keep it secret, and they didn't know the rules of the exploration company, they should not think nonsense, and they should not delay their work, so they turned around and went back to the jujube grove.

Sitting on the rock where Ling Shuyao had sat yesterday, Li Rui looked up at these people, suddenly laughed, and said in his heart, these people are really funny, oh, when I went to look at it, they stopped and didn't allow them to look at it, saying that they wanted to keep it secret, but when I came back, I could still see the details of their work, how could they have any secrets?

Seeing Li Rui looking at him from afar, the man couldn't help but come over again and said to him: "Fellow, let's leave quickly after you finish picking sour dates, don't delay our work." Li Rui was unhappy when he heard this, and said lightly: "Delay your work? Are you kidding me? I'm ten feet away from you, how can I delay your work?" The man said: "You are watching here, we are distracted, be considerate and considerate." After speaking, he sighed, took out a pack of Zhongnanhai from his pocket, took out one from it and handed it over. Li Rui said: "I don't smoke. The man picked it up by himself, took out a lighter and lit it, and said, "It's not easy, understand each other, you can go." ”

Li Rui said: "I haven't finished picking the jujubes yet." The man asked, "How long do you have to pick it?" Li Rui said, "Why should it take half an hour?" The man frowned and said, "Will you come back tomorrow to pick it up?" Li Rui asked: "I wonder, why am I delaying your work?" Seeing that he didn't agree, the man took out his wallet, took out ten yuan from it, handed it over and said: "Hard work, be considerate and considerate, go back and buy a pack of cigarettes to smoke, and leave quickly." After saying that, he came up and pushed him with his hand, but he was going to drive him away.

Li Rui was furious, raised his hand and pushed his arm away, and said, "What do you mean? Drive me away?" The man laughed and said: "No, no, won't this give you money, you take the money and leave, it can be regarded as supporting our work, okay?" Li Rui said loudly: "If I don't finish picking the sour dates, I will never leave." The man frowned and said, "Why are you like this?" I have said all the good things and the money has been given to you, why don't you leave?" Li Rui sneered: "Because you have no reason for me to leave." ”

The man thought for a while, then took out a fifty yuan ticket from his wallet, handed it to him, and said, "Let's go, fellow, I beg you, okay?" Li Rui suddenly felt that something was wrong, remembering that last night, Ling Shuyao wanted to go to the courtyard to relieve himself, but he didn't say anything, he only said that he should go back to sleep quickly, and today this person was even more excessive, giving himself money to let him leave, didn't he say that he had a secret that was more private and invisible than a woman's hand-free? No, is fifty yuan worth money now? I can pick some sour dates casually, and I have to earn a few hundred by selling them at the entrance of the village primary school. ”

The man said angrily: "You are still too little, my day, how difficult is it for us to earn these fifty yuan, you ...... Don't be embarrassed. Li Rui's face sank, and he said, "How can you talk? If you say that, I can whip you." The man obviously didn't want to have a conflict with him, sighed, and said, "Okay, okay, you say, how much do you want?" Li Rui said: "One thousand!" The man's face changed greatly, and he scolded: "What the hell are you...... You ......" Li Rui smiled: "Don't worry, bargain, we have a discussion." The man said impatiently: "It's only fifty yuan, you leave quickly, if you don't leave, I will notify the local government organs, arrest you, and let you see the power of the democratic dictatorship." Li Rui laughed and said, "The government? What I am most afraid of is the government." Come on, try to scream, and see who dares to arrest me?"

The man realized that he might be the thorn in the village, so he was not afraid of the government, frowned, and said: "You are too unreasonable, just say that we will delay our serious work, you just don't listen, okay, okay......"

Before the words fell, his companion shouted in surprise: "Boss, there is a situation!" The man glanced back, then turned back to look at Li Rui, gritted his teeth, took out a hundred yuan bill from his wallet, handed it over and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, this is the bottom line, just one hundred, you hurry up and let me go, don't let me see you again." Li Rui took the money, thinking to himself, there are jujube trees everywhere, and he doesn't have to spend it with them here, what is wrong with this money, at least he can eat and drink with Wang Tiekui, Xie Sanping and other village cadres, so he took it, turned around and picked up the sour jujube bag, and picked it up elsewhere.

The man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him go, turned and ran to his partner.

He didn't know that after Li Rui disappeared around the corner of the hillside, he quickly stopped, poked his head out, and looked at them secretly, thinking to himself that he wanted to see if they had any big secrets.