"Otherwise, you can go to the capital to be a nanny! I'll offer you a thousand yuan here, and I'm sure there will be someone in the village willing to do it!" Old Mrs. Lu is not stupid either.

"Okay, fifteen hundred is fifteen hundred." It's much better than before.

Lu Youxi's words just now reminded her that she would be able to find the money from the two elders of the Lu family sooner or later.

"Give it to me now," said Ge Guifen, "or you will default on your debt after they leave."

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Lu said, "Go ask the village chief for it tomorrow."

"Are you crazy? I'll go ask the village chief for money. Why should the village chief pay for you?" Ge Guifen was so angry that she wanted to slap Mrs. Lu.

This damn old woman is playing a trick on her, right? Old Mrs. Lu sneered, "I gave the passbook to the village chief to keep for me."

"I can't move now. Should I just leave it at home and wait for you to dig it out and take it away?" Old Mrs. Lu said coldly, "After I was paralyzed in bed, the village chief came to see me. At that time, I gave all my passbooks to him for safekeeping."

"I trust the village chief, and he doesn't dare to embezzle my money. Otherwise, would he still be the village chief?" Mrs. Lu said, "When I need money, I ask him for it."

Ge Guifen: “…”

How come this old woman is so smart at this time?

Lu Youxi: “…”

The village chief does have a high prestige in Hexing Village.

Even Mrs. Lu, who was so selfish and suspicious and valued money more than her own life, could trust him and hand over her passbook to him.

This time, Ge Guifen stopped making trouble.

Lu Youxi went back to Grandma Xu's house with Zhou Shuyan and Lu Zhenguo.

The village head’s wife and Liu Yusu had already prepared most of the dishes.

Lu Youxi wanted to help, but was chased out by the two.

So Lu Youxi went to ask the village chief again about the passbook that Old Lady Lu had given him.

Speaking of this, the village chief couldn't help but sigh, "That family of theirs is really too outrageous."

"Before, Mrs. Lu was pushed by Ge Guifen and injured her waist. She was recovering in bed, but no one in our village took it seriously, including me." The village chief sighed, "Later, when Mrs. Lu was completely unable to get out of bed, I realized that it might be because she was pushed that time and did not receive timely medical treatment that she became like that."

"As the village chief, I couldn't just ignore it, so I went to check it out. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were arguing fiercely at home. Old Mrs. Lu said that Ge Guifen had been thinking about her money and was worried about leaving it at home, so she insisted on giving me the passbook for safekeeping."

"In the end, there was really no other way. Although I agreed, I also found Aunt Lin and Aunt Liu as witnesses, and wrote a list of how many passbooks there were and how much money was in them. After confirming everything was correct, I asked Mrs. Lu to put her fingerprints on it. This way, I wouldn't be able to explain it clearly later."

Lu Youxi nodded. The village chief was still cautious.

"It's also because I really don't trust Ge Guifen. She asks Old Madam Lu where she puts her money every day at home, and the whole village knows it. If she really finds the passbook, asks for the password, and runs away with the money, it's not impossible." The village chief sighed.

"Then you have to be careful. If Ge Guifen comes to ask you for money every month, you have to ask her to put her fingerprints on it. You have to keep a record of how much she takes away."

Lu Youxi was chatting with the village chief, while Lu Zhenguo and Zhou Shuyan went to the kitchen to help serve the dishes.

After the prepared dishes were served, everyone moved to the dining room.

Looking at the table full of dishes and so many people sitting around the table, it was lively and lively, coming to have a belated reunion dinner with Grandma Xu.

Compared with the quietness of New Year's Eve and last night, the house suddenly became so lively today. While Grandma Xu was happy, she couldn't help but think of her children. Her mood was indescribably complicated.

"Youxi, I actually have something I want to tell you." The village chief said to Lu Youxi, "I'm mainly worried that you might have something else to do tomorrow, and I won't be able to find a good opportunity to tell you again."

"What's the matter?" It sounded very important from what the village chief said.

"Our village has been selected as a model village for transformation." The village chief said with great joy, "Our village's economic conditions have always been poor. It is one of the poorest villages in our city."

"So this time, our village was selected and many support policies were given to us," the village chief explained. "For example, children like you who come from poor families but are good at studying no longer have to worry about the cost of going to school. Tuition and living expenses will be covered for you."

"We no longer have to look for wholesalers for the grain and vegetables produced in our village. The government has set up wholesalers to deal with us. As long as our products are of good quality, the prices they give us are very fair, which is much higher than the prices we got from the wholesalers we found before."

Before, they had found wholesalers themselves and they had tried their best to lower the price.

Unfortunately, their village is weak and the people there are just honest farmers. How can they bargain better than the wholesalers?

"In addition, we also need to improve the living environment of our villagers." The village chief said happily, "The leaders brought experts to check it out. They want to build a residential area near our village, that is, a large high-rise building, and people from our nearby villages will move there."

"After the bungalows here are demolished, we will have more land to plant," said the village chief. "When the time comes, we can add some machine planting. We can learn to use the machines and save a lot of energy. We don't have to work in the fields under the wind and sun like before, working all day and being unable to straighten our backs."

"First, we will be paid relocation fees per square meter based on the residential area of ​​each household in our village. Then, when the new community is built, we villagers can use the relocation fees to choose a house."

"You can choose the size of the house you can buy based on the amount of demolition compensation you have," said the village chief. "Anyone with a registered permanent residence in our village can participate."

"The relocation compensation is also distributed to each family based on the number of people," the village chief explained. "Your family and your parents' household registration is still in our village, right?"

The village chief knew that Lu Youxi and Lu Youxue’s household registration had been moved to the imperial capital.

I don’t know whether Lu Zhenguo and Liu Yusu have moved there.

As far as he knew, it was not easy to get a residence permit in the imperial capital.

That's why I asked.

"My parents' household registration is still here." Lu Youxi said, "However, my grandparents' house, even if it is vacant now, is impossible for us to own it. Moreover, this involves the issue of money, so it is even more impossible for my grandparents to give it to us."

Even though Mrs. Lu was paralyzed in bed, she would not have been willing to give the money to Ge Guifen unless she was moved by her words.

(End of this chapter)