Where did you come from?

"You have to pay a toll to use the roads in our Shixia Village, didn't you know?"

"Stop dawdling! Fifty! If you don't have it, call your family and have them send it over!"

Lin Yifeng took an open pack of cigarettes from the passenger seat and smiled as he offered them to the people outside the window.

"Brother, can we pass by for a bit? We'll be coming out again in a little while."

"You can take these cigarettes. I have something to discuss with your village chief."

When the group saw Lin Yifeng reach out for Hua Zi, and then looked at Lin Yifeng's smiling face, they didn't know if it was because he was in a good mood, but they just waved their hands and let Lin Yifeng and his group pass.

After driving for a while, Xu Qingyi put the machete back under her seat and breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just seen these people with kitchen knives and axes strapped to their waistbands and thought they were up to no good.

At this point, even Xu Qingyi couldn't help but complain.

"These guys are mad dogs."

"Brother Feng, shall we go back first?"

"I reckon we won't be able to reach an agreement with them on this."

Lin Yifeng also felt this way.

They charge you fifty yuan just for passing through the road. Lin Yifeng didn't even dare to imagine how much these people would demand if he started working here.

But since we're already here, let's meet first and then talk things over.

Guided by George Lam, the car drove all the way to the propaganda department of Shixia Village.

The propaganda department here is much more luxurious than that in Shitou Village. This is all thanks to the fact that Shitou Village has a larger population and is a key poverty alleviation village in the city, so its annual funding is much higher than that of other villages.

However, almost seven or eight years have passed since the poverty alleviation plan was first implemented, but Shixia Village shows no sign of escaping poverty.

Of course, the simplest reason is that the people here have a rather outlandish mindset. They believe that once they are lifted out of poverty, the higher-ups will stop giving them money. Rather than being stuck in poverty, they might as well just stay like this and still receive a lot of subsidies from the government every year.

"Let's go check it out."

Lin Yifeng sighed helplessly and led the two into the publicity department.

...

Half an hour later, inside the propaganda department of Shixia Village.

An old man who was half-blind was angrily roaring at Lin Yifeng.

"What the hell?"

"You want to take our land, but you won't give us money?"

"You think we're doing charity work?"

Seeing the old man's anxious expression, Lin Zixiang patiently explained.

"Uncle Liu, that's not what we meant."

"We want to cooperate to create a tourist attraction, which will benefit the development of our villages."

"You don't want us to continue like this, do you?"

Blind Liu stared intently at George Lam with his only good eye wide open.

"Cooperation? No problem!"

"As long as the money is right, we can cooperate!"

"But you told me to cooperate with Stone Village!"

"That's absolutely impossible!"

"As long as there are still people alive in Shixia Village, as long as they can breathe, we will never let these people from Shitou Village fawn over us!"

"Pooh!"

As he spoke, Blind Liu deliberately spat to the side, intending to disgust George Lam in front of him.

Xu Qingyi frowned upon seeing the other party's attitude.

He couldn't understand what deep-seated hatred existed between the two villages, and how Shixia Village could be so stubborn.

Not to mention him, even Lin Yifeng was puzzled.

What does it mean for the Stone Village to curry favor with the Stone Village?

Given the current situation in Stone Village, it has a primary school and roads, and the surrounding villages will all depend on them in the future. How come it has become much better than Stone Down Village?

Lin Yifeng's expression turned somewhat grim; he hadn't participated in the conversation.

As for the rest, Lin Yifeng was too lazy to bring it up again.

Given their attitude, there's absolutely no possibility of cooperation. Continuing to talk about it will only be like offering a warm welcome only to be met with a cold shoulder, and you'll just be asking for trouble.

After everything fell apart, Lin Yifeng led a few people away from Shixia Village.

Not long after Lin Yifeng left, a man hurriedly pushed open the door and walked in.

He looked at Liu the Blind, who was sitting comfortably behind the table, and called out anxiously.

"Fourth Brother! Fourth Brother!"

"I heard that they're going to build a road in the neighboring Stone Village!"

Do you know that?

Liu the Blind raised his eyebrows when he heard the news.

"Road repair?"

"How much money do they have in their pockets to repair roads?"

"Who told them to fix it!"

The man explained anxiously.

"Really, Fourth Brother!"

“I heard from people who came back from our village that they’ve already started turning over the soil over there.”

Liu the Blind became a little uneasy. He took a couple of puffs on his pipe, his expression turning rather unpleasant.

"Could it be that Lin the Fool really made money?"

"They even have money to repair the roads!"

"hiss……"

A brief silence fell over the room.

But soon Liu the Blind Man started complaining with a relaxed expression.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, they're all talk and no action."

"Next month, let's go to Shili and talk to Wallace, the one who sponsors their elementary school."

"Aren't they preventing our people from attending their primary school? Let's get them to sponsor a primary school!"

"Let's see how arrogant he can be then."

Liu the Blind was still holding a grudge about the Stone Village Primary School incident. Now that he heard that Stone Village wanted to build roads again and was asking them to develop tourist attractions, how could Liu the Blind possibly agree?

What Liu the Blind Man found most unacceptable was that Stone Village was now developing better than their Stone Down Village. Driven by evil thoughts, he had to find a way to bring down Stone Village.

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