At the gate of Xiaoxianzhuang, Ye Liang had already instructed Li Xiaoliu to send someone to invite Village Chief Wei Shan and Young Village Chief Wei Shiwu over.

Since it was an invitation, they naturally had to tell Li Xiaoliu why they had invited the village chief. So, it meant that someone in their group already knew about the iron mine that Xiaoxianzhuang was going to open.

This is fantastic news, and such good news will surely spread like wildfire.

The villagers of Xiaoxianzhuang, who had heard the news in advance, were all hoping that this big business deal would be finalized as soon as possible.

The village elders have already calculated that, with the construction project on the mountain for the Bixian Sect, if another iron mine were opened at the foot of the mountain, there would be no one in the village who would go hungry.

Women may have to step up and do what they can to provide logistical support. Then the people of Xiaoxianzhuang will have a livelihood, and naturally, they will have hope for the future.

How could I not be happy?

Upon learning the news from Li Xiaoliu, village chief Wei Shan immediately summoned his son and urged him to come quickly to see Ye Liang.

When Ye Liang's daughter, Wei Wenshi, heard that he had come down the mountain to Xiaoxianzhuang again, she would come to see him whenever she had nothing important to discuss with him.

Once Wei Shan and his son are all present, things will be simple.

After discussions among the three parties, a general consensus was quickly reached. Then, Ye Liang personally took Wei's father and son, as well as Meng Gu, the other party in the business, to the place where the limonite was discovered to take a look.

Ye Liang also had some bottom lines regarding environmental protection that he wanted to tell them.

To reiterate, Ye Liang has a long-term vision and won't engage in destructive development just because limonite can be sold for money. Mining an iron ore deposit that could last for decades in just a few years is hardly a long-term plan.

Ye Liang envisioned Xiaoxianzhuang developing and prospering over the next ten or even several decades.

Therefore, Ye Liang still had to draw out some of the major constraints for them.

This is to prevent these people from failing to understand his grand development plan and messing things up.

After the on-site inspection, Wei Shan said that he would definitely follow Ye Liang's arrangements and select strong young men to come and learn mining techniques from the people of Menggu.

Meng Gu also stated that he would make preparations for the mining as soon as possible and strive to hold the opening ceremony in the near future. He would also cooperate well with Village Chief Wei to ensure that this matter, which is beneficial to both parties, is done well.

With both sides making this statement, Ye Liang had nothing to worry about.

He was good at delegating authority. After giving some instructions, he handed over the rest of the work to the village chief, Wei Shan.

He is mature and prudent, and people can rest assured of his abilities.

Seeing that it was getting late, Ye Liang mentioned that he still had to pick up his child from school, so he took his junior sister and Wei Wenshi and suggested returning to the village. Ye Liang wouldn't participate in the dinner party, trusting that Wei Shan would handle it.

Sure enough, just as Ye Lianggang said he was leaving, village chief Wei Shan took the initiative to invite the people from Black Stone City to visit the village.

Unable to refuse the hospitality, and besides, they really needed to eat, so they went along with Ye Liang and followed him back to Xiaoxianzhuang.

On the way, Wei Wenshi saw her village chief father, along with her brother, chatting happily with mining experts from the Black Stone City Sword Forging Workshop. Her heart was filled with joy for the future development of Xiaoxianzhuang.

"Senior brother, you've done another great thing for the villagers down the mountain." Wei Wenshi felt proud of Ye Liang and happy that the lives of the villagers down the mountain were about to get better.

"Wen Shi, I also played a part in this! If Ye Liang and I hadn't discovered the limonite together, and if I hadn't insisted on carving the words on it, perhaps we wouldn't have such a joyous occasion today," the junior sister happily chimed in.

These words made Ye Liang laugh and say, "That's right. It's not all my credit. My junior sister deserves the most credit. I didn't even let her carve the words back then. It seems I was wrong."

"Hehe, Wenshi, listen, even Ye Liang said that." Seeing Ye Liang speak up for her, the junior sister was even happier.

Knowing that her junior sister was joking, Wei Wenshi played along, saying, "So, senior sister's contribution is even greater than senior brother's."

"Hehe, I was just kidding. The credit still belongs to Ye Liang, I'm not going to compete with him." Since others said that, the junior sister was embarrassed to admit it and took the initiative to return the credit to Ye Liang.

Then, the three of them smiled at each other, all in good spirits, and strode towards Xiaoxianzhuang.

Meng Gu, following behind, went to Xiaoxianzhuang with Wei Shan and his son. On the way there, Meng Gu couldn't help but want to find out more about Ye Liang's background.

"Uncle Wei, this Young Master Ye is truly remarkable. He's a great immortal cultivator and a business savvy shrewd businessman. His decisiveness in doing business is something I can't even begin to describe!"

Meng Gu smiled and tried to get closer to Wei Shan.

Village chief Wei Shan didn't have as many tricks up his sleeve as Meng Gu. Even if he did, he wouldn't mind telling Meng Gu about the extraordinary things Ye Liang had done.

Wei Shan said, "This is nothing. Young Master Ye has done many great things. Any one of them is bigger than this. For example, you wiped out the vicious bandit leader, or you went to Hidden Mystery Valley for training and just fought the Flower King and the Queen Bee. The day he fought the Flower King, you could feel the commotion coming from the front of the mountain."

"Was it something that happened yesterday? We think we heard it too. Could it be the same noise we heard?" Meng Guqi asked.

Recalling the commotion he heard about the Beast King yesterday, Meng Gu still felt lingering fear and unease today.

Wei Shan said, "That's right. The beating of the Flower King happened yesterday morning. You all heard it, right?"

Upon hearing that the timing matched, Meng Gu immediately nodded excitedly and said, "That's it! It was yesterday morning when we were surveying the mine within a radius of about ten miles around here, and we heard it too. At the time, I thought it was some great immortal cultivator fighting the Beast King. I just never expected that the great immortal cultivator fighting the Beast King would actually be Young Master Ye!"

"In that case, Young Master Ye is even more impressive!" Meng Gu exclaimed.

In his heart, he also repeatedly reminded himself that he must earnestly befriend Ye Liang, this great immortal cultivator.

"Who says otherwise!" Wei Shan laughed, feeling very proud, thinking that he had really benefited a lot from following Ye Liang.

Upon arriving at Xiaoxianzhuang, Ye Liang, accompanied by his junior sister and Wei Wenshi, came over to tell Wei Shan that they were going to visit the unfortunate women who had been taken in by Xiaoxianzhuang. Wei Shan watched Ye Liang leave with deep emotion.

No one reminded him; Ye Liang just remembered to come and see these unfortunate women.

On the way there, Wei Wenshi told me that some of the women Ye Liang rescued couldn't stay in their hometowns after returning home, as they were ostracized and had no choice but to return to Xiaoxianzhuang to live.

Fortunately, Xiaoxianzhuang was willing to take in these unfortunate women who had been bullied by bandits, because Ye Liang had promised to do so beforehand.

Hearing that these women couldn't stay in the village after returning, Ye Liang felt very sad and wanted to visit these unfortunate women and the children who were suffering because of them even more.

On the way there, Ye Liang, along with his junior sister and Wei Wenshi, specially bought a lot of food to bring to the women and children.

When Ye Liang arrived, the children felt a mixture of familiarity and unfamiliarity. They hid from him, afraid to look at him, but their eyes remained fixed on him, never leaving him.

Such eyes, wounded yet yearning for closeness with Ye Liang.

The look in the children's eyes broke Ye Liang's heart.