Gu Boyuan hesitated, then shook his head and said:
"No, I won't go. I've been pretty busy lately. I only just brought in a truckload of fertilizer these past two days, and bought several hundred kilos of seeds too. All of it needs taking stock of, and there's a very good chance it'll sell in the next few days. Let's talk about it when I have some free time."
Li Long hadn't expected his father-in-law to be such a career-minded man. He didn't insist, chatting a little longer before leaving the Agricultural Supplies Store and returning to the Big Courtyard.
Watching Li Long walk away, Gu Boyuan actually had rather mixed feelings.
After Gu Xiaoxia married, Gu Boyuan had thought he would simply spend the rest of his days living peacefully in the Fourth Team.
He hadn't expected Li Long to set him up with an Agricultural Supplies Store. At first, Gu Boyuan had thought of it as looking after his son-in-law's property.
But once he got started, he found it quite interesting. At least it was more interesting than farming, and not nearly as tiring.
When things were quiet, he could even read. He didn't have to worry about whether the fields needed watering, whether it was time to weed again, or when the crops would need harvesting.
It was a good job. In time, he too would become someone who lived on commodity grain.
That was a good thing.
Although Gu Boyuan had been a farmer for many years, deep down, he had never really thought of himself as one. He had only come here to withdraw from the world and find somewhere to settle.
He hadn't expected the day to come when his status would change again.
When he first started running the Agricultural Supplies Store, Gu