What could Lai Cai have come to see me about?
This morning as soon as Li Xiaobao climbed the mountain, he saw Lai Cai at Mountain No. 3, where the vegetation looked almost the same as the unplanted areas, just bare and desolate, with some of the seedlings even having withered from drought.
So when he saw Zhang Bin and Lai Cai coming to him, Li Xiaobao had a pretty good idea what it was about and went straight to the point with Zhang Bin, "Zhang Bin, just spill it, what's up?"
This...
Hearing Li Xiaobao's words, Zhang Bin was on the verge of tears—after all, Lai Cai was his dad! But he also knew that his father wasn't exactly well-regarded in the village.
Zhang Bin initially wanted to be polite, but seeing that Li Xiaobao was in no mood for niceties, he laughed and said, "Brother Xiaobao, you're still as straightforward as ever!"
Straightforward?