Those two were members of the Hongshan City Poverty Alleviation and Development Team, Da Song and Brother Zhang. Before seeing the report sent by Secretary Zhang Daniu and Secretary Li yesterday morning, the young man thought it was a scam, but the various documents and photos outside the report proved that it seemed to be true.

"Oh, thank you so much, Hezibao! You solved two problems in just one trip. I wish you booming business, Hezibao, and that your business will grow bigger and bigger. Maybe we can do some more business together sometime! Hahaha!"

"That's eight thousand yuan in total!" Xu An pointed to the number '30' on the screen, gathered the banknotes that the money counter had spat out, and handed them to Li Sixin.

“Secretary Li, please don’t worry about the matters related to the Shuan Shuan Chili peppers. The seeds arrived around last week. I’ll send you a message after they’re shipped.” Xu An grasped Secretary Li’s hand and shook it vigorously. “By the way, Secretary Li, could you also ask the villagers to harvest the Sichuan peppercorns from outside the fields, dry them, and purchase them all before the Shuan Shuan Chili peppers mature?”

Those years of constant reminders didn't work. Look at these young men now; their awareness of scams is extremely low. We still have to keep reminding them...

"Oh, they're from Qingyan Province. They look so much like people from our area."

Because it concerned Zhang Daniu's seventy-four households and nearly two million yuan in funding applications, the young man had to take that matter very seriously.

Therefore, after detailed discussion, it was finally decided to send Da Song and Zhang Ge, along with seven others, to Haishi to conduct an on-site investigation and find out the truth.

"Uncle Zhang, there's eight thousand yuan over there. Can you show it to him on the machine?"

In just a few words, they picked up all the mushrooms that had fallen to the ground. Xu An and his companion gave up on the idea of ​​putting the mushrooms under the luggage rack and instead placed them obediently in the gap behind their seats.

"Yes, yes, you're from the area. You've come here to take care of some business."

Their eyes fell simultaneously on the train tickets, which showed that the train's final destination was Hai City.

Lu Ren opened a cardboard box, which was filled with bundles of hundred-yuan bills. He took out eight stacks of bills, tore off the white band binding the bills, and put the eight stacks of bills into the money counter. Before pressing the start button, the money counter hummed, and the bills were slowly swallowed and spat out. The numbers on the narrow display screen changed slowly and finally stopped at '30'.

As the number of passengers blocking the way decreased, Lu Ren suddenly exerted force, trying to push the protruding part of the bag back in. However, due to excessive force, the bag tore...

It has been less than eight months since Xu An started doing business, and this is the first time he has been away from the shop for so long. Although Wang Fulong and others report every day that everything outside the shop is unusual, Xu An has no worries.

After spending the entire afternoon signing seventy-four contracts, and with the mushrooms needed harvested by Li Yanfu's mother, Lu Ren and Zhang Daniu had achieved their goals. It was time to return to Haishi.

Seeing that others could receive 8,000 yuan simply by signing their names and pressing their fingerprints, everyone was filled with envy. One by one, they pulled aside villagers familiar with Zhang Daniu to ask about the details. A few even went directly to Lu Renbo's side and put their arms around his shoulders.

"Brother Niu, what he's saying is interesting. If he really thought it was a good deal, why did he even sign up? Have you heard? You need to build a small greenhouse to grow that, and one small greenhouse costs at least 70,000 yuan!"

"The accent of this special language sounds like it's from the south."

"Hahaha, Hezibao, you're just responsible for handing it over. If you want it, you'll have to talk to the villagers yourself." Boss Xu spread his hands and put the key in Xu An's hand, directly resorting to cheating.

Qingyan Provincial Low-Railway Station.

"It means bad, it means bad. That thing is so bad, it'll break right away if there's not enough of it!"

"What good fortune? They think that 'ghost-fearing' plant is a deadly seed. You dug up seventeen plants from the foot of the mountain, and only one survived..."

When Boss Xu saw the villagers coming, he wasn't worried at all. But when he saw that Uncle Lu and the others had finished their conversation in a few words, and then left without stopping, he felt relieved.

“Yes, these were specially selected by outsiders; they’re all high-quality but substandard goods,” Xu An replied with a smile.

It wasn't like when I was about to leave for get off work before going home for the Lunar New Year, when my grandma and people from outside the village prepared small and large bags for me...

Amidst the expectant gazes of the crowd, Li Sixin walked to the table where Xu An was and sat down, signing his name and pressing his fingerprint on the form as requested by Xu An.

"The mushrooms they picked were wrong; they weren't the valuable, spoiled mushrooms that were dried this year."

"Hehe, yes, yes." Li Sixin's grin stretched to his ears. Although he kept saying yes, his hands moved slowly as he counted the coins: "Hehe, there's a mistake, it's eight thousand yuan!"

Chapter Two: Late