Seeing that Huang Qinqin was anxious, Huang Jianguo pretended to look at her hair again and said slowly, "It seems to be gone now. Maybe I was mistaken just now."

Hearing that he might have misread it, Huang Qinqin was still not reassured and pressed Xu Junhui for more information: "Junhui, please take a look and see if he has any gray hairs."

Xu Junhui, who was standing right next to him, saw it all clearly. Huang Jianguo hadn't actually checked at all; he was probably just teasing Huang Qinqin.

However, even though he knew, Xu Junhui couldn't expose him; he couldn't afford to offend his brother-in-law.

Xu Junhui carefully combed through Huang Qinqin's hair, and after two minutes he said, "No, my wife, your hair is black and thick, without a single gray hair."

Huang Qinqin was relieved, but when she touched her hair, she found it was a bit messy: "Junhui, my hair is all messed up, can you help me comb it again?"

Seeing Xu Junhui combing Huang Qinqin's hair, Huang Jianguo didn't stay in the room any longer and quietly left.

......

Huangjia Village

Village Chief Huang originally wanted to convene the village for a meeting after the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the brigade secretary kept urging him and repeatedly emphasized that it was better to do it sooner rather than later.

In addition, Village Chief Huang himself was quite anxious, so he decided to immediately convene a meeting of the villagers.

Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!

The villagers at home suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums and ran out to see what was happening. Usually, the village would not play gongs and drums unless there was something important.

"Attention, all villagers! Attention, all villagers!"

"Everyone must come to the threshing ground for a meeting in half an hour. At least one person from each household must participate!"

"Attention, all villagers! Attention, all villagers!"

"Everyone must come to the threshing ground for a meeting in half an hour. At least one person from each household must participate!"

The person in charge of banging the gong repeated these words as he walked, and when the other villagers heard them, they all immediately started heading towards the threshing ground.

The villagers' discussions never stopped along the way.

"Why the sudden call for a meeting? The last time we had a meeting was when the village decided to build a pickled vegetable workshop, wasn't it?"

"Who knows? But it shouldn't be a bad thing. The village chief seemed quite happy."

"I wonder if they're planning to share the profits with us? I heard the pickled vegetable workshop made quite a bit of money!"

"It's only been a short time. Even if you've made money, it probably isn't much, right? Besides, there hasn't even been an autumn harvest yet, so how could you possibly be distributing money?"

"That's true, but even if I earn less, it's still better than last year. I'd be happy to get an extra dollar."

"Dream on! A dollar? Don't you even consider how many people are in our village? We'd be lucky if each person got an extra fifty cents?"

"But after next spring's harvest, there might be more, since more pickled vegetables will be sold then."

When Village Chief Huang and the brigade secretary saw that most of the people had arrived, they banged a gong.

Thump!

"Quiet down, everyone!"

After everyone quieted down, Village Chief Huang continued, "Everyone must be very curious as to why I called you all here for a meeting today."

The villagers below exclaimed in unison, "Yes, we are extremely curious!"

Village Chief Huang smiled and said, "Actually, the reason I called everyone here today is to tell you some good news."

"As everyone knows, a pickled vegetable workshop was recently set up in our village. Fortunately, we have already started supplying the department store this month."

"As the demand from the department store grows, the city leaders, thinking of our needs, decided to make an exception and bring electricity to our village. Aren't you all happy?!"

As soon as Village Chief Huang finished speaking, the villagers below became excited.

"power ups?!"

"Does that mean we'll be able to use the light bulbs from the city in the future?"

"Power on? Does it cost money? Will we have to pay for it?"

"Yes, yes, I heard before that you have to pay for water and electricity in the city. If you have to pay, that's not good news."

"That's right. And even if we had electricity, we couldn't afford fans or anything like that. We could only use a light bulb at most, but I could use a candle."

Although Village Chief Huang didn't quite hear what the villagers were saying, he could tell that they weren't really interested in whether or not there was electricity.

He secretly rejoiced: Luckily, Huang Qinqin had told him how to solve the electricity bill problem, otherwise today's meeting would have ended with the villagers disagreeing.

"Quiet down, everyone, please be quiet and let me finish."

Village Chief Huang struck the gong again, signaling the villagers to quiet down.

"Normally, after electricity is connected, every household needs to pay an electricity bill..."

These words caused an uproar among the villagers.

"That won't do!"

"I don't need electricity, so I'm not paying for it!"

"Village chief, how about we just leave the electricity off? It won't affect us since we don't have electricity right now!"

"That's right, we only earn a little money all year round, as you know, village chief. Why don't we just forget about it!"

Village Chief Huang knew the villagers would definitely have objections to paying the electricity bill, but he hadn't even finished speaking before they started complaining so much, which was really unnecessary.

Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!

Village Chief Huang banged the gong a few times, thinking helplessly: This is the downside of having a large number of people at a meeting; the villagers are uncontrollable, and their chatter can easily disrupt the pace of the meeting.

"Quiet down! I haven't finished speaking yet, what's the rush?!"

"Since I said it's good news, it must be good news. Let me finish what I have to say!"

Village Chief Huang practically roared his words. Despite his efforts to quiet everyone down by banging gongs and drums, a small group of villagers continued to whisper among themselves.

"I'm saying that under normal circumstances, every household should pay money, but!"

"With Qin Yatou's help, the city leaders decided to make an exception for us and let us pay the money directly according to the village's regulations."

"You still have to pay!"

"Exactly! Since they've already made an exception, why not just waive our electricity bill altogether?"

"That's right, that's right."

Village Chief Huang was really at his wits' end. If he didn't genuinely want the village to develop, he would have liked to quit and leave right now.

"If the money is paid by the entire village, then no one needs to contribute."

"Since the electricity is mainly for the pickled vegetable workshop, we've decided that the cost will come from the workshop itself!"

"That way, everyone won't have to spend a single penny, but they'll still have access to electricity. Don't you think that's great news?!"