Chapter 122 Chapter 122
Gu Weidong looked at the deed in his hand and said truthfully:
"It is a standard three-courtyard quadrangle, covering an area of more than 800 square meters. It seems to have been the residence of a fifth-rank official in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, it fell into the hands of my friend's grandfather. The property rights of the house are clear, but it may have been smashed and destroyed by the Red Guards a few years ago during the "Four Olds" campaign. It is quite damaged, but my friend said that he could help find someone to repair it."
"The title deed is in my hands now. The house is registered in your name, so you can't run away. But I think it would be better for you to wait a few years until the situation improves before you come and take care of it."
Gu Weidong reminded Ye Qing implicitly that it would be too high-profile to renovate the house at this time. The housing supply in Jicheng was tight right now, and many families had seven, eight, or even a dozen people squeezed into a small room of 20 to 30 square meters in a large courtyard. But she, a young girl, owned such a big mansion and was going to renovate it lavishly. Wasn't that a blatant attempt to attract hatred?
But Ye Qingyi didn't listen to a word of Gu Weidong's reminder.
Because her mind was now filled with the words "more than 800 square meters".
Jicheng, a three-courtyard house covering an area of more than 800 square meters, these words were so strange and shocking. Ye Qing had never thought that one day, these words would be related to her.
Even though she traveled through time and space to this era and possessed supernatural powers that ordinary people did not have, the most she wanted to do was to buy a small courtyard house before the house prices in Jicheng increased after the reform and opening up. However, there were so many smart and rich people in the world, and it was not easy for her to make a fortune. She did not have too much pursuit and ambition, so she was lucky enough to buy a 200-300 square meter courtyard house with clear property rights and no disputes.
But Ye Qing really couldn't have imagined that Gu Weidong could bring her such a big surprise. A piece of old mountain ginseng actually directly exchanged for her a three-story house of more than 800 square meters! This is really crazy!
If they were not still inside the commune and there were not so many cadres and clerks working outside, Ye Qing would probably not be able to control his emotions and would scream out loud in excitement.
Ye Qing was still a little dazed until she hung up the phone with Gu Weidong. She walked out in a daze, her mind full of thoughts. She had a house in Jicheng, and a large yard within the Second Ring Road. Even if she didn't renovate it, it would be worth hundreds of millions by the millennium just by waiting for a promotion.
The more she thought about it, the more shocked she became. Ye Qing muttered to herself, if she had known that the house in Jicheng would be so easy to acquire, she would have given Gu Weidong a few more old mountain ginsengs to take over. This was a highly profitable deal, and she was making a fortune!
But Ye Qing quickly shook his head, throwing this inappropriate greedy delusion out of his mind.
You can't push your luck. It's obvious that Gu Weidong helped her get such a big bargain this time. And it just so happened that his friend had a wealthy family with a lot of properties, so he didn't mind selling one of his houses in exchange, so she got such a big bargain.
But such a good thing doesn't happen every day. If you want to take advantage of such a chance every day, that's definitely a daydream. It's wishful thinking.
She is not a bumpkin who has never seen the world. She is in Shanghai in the last days. There are so many high-rise buildings and small villas in the city center, but they are all empty in the end. So she should not be so excited and useless. No matter how big or valuable a house is, it is only enjoyable if you have a life to live in it.
Therefore, right now, the most important thing she should do is to keep a low profile. She must not reveal a single word to anyone about the fact that she has a big house in Jicheng, otherwise she might really attract the jealousy of villains.
Thinking of this, Ye Qing took a few deep breaths, patted his face to force himself to calm down, and pretended nothing had happened as he returned to Kaoshantun.
Just as Ye Qing had predicted, after four months of acupuncture treatment every day, Mrs. Zou could vaguely feel light, and slowly began to see blurry human figures. After the Chinese New Year, she could stretch out her hand and see her fingers clearly, and could basically tell what objects within one or two meters were.
The situation has been continuously improving. In another month or two, the old lady's eyesight is expected to return to the normal level of her peers.
The old lady has now thrown away her crutches and no longer has to grope her way to walk. She does not need help from others for daily chores and can take care of herself. This makes her very happy. Every day, she happily carries little Zou Yun around the village to visit neighbors and chat with a group of old men. She is no longer the taciturn widow of a martyr who stayed indoors all year round. She has become a carefree, cheerful and smiling old lady.
No longer tormented by illness, with the company of her grandchildren, and the ability to visit her son and his wife in Shanghai in the future, the old lady, who has hope and expectations for the future, lives happily and comfortably every day. Her condition is certainly getting better day by day. After a new year, her complexion has become much more rosy, and she walks steadily and quickly, almost as fast as flying.
Everyone in the village saw the change in the old lady. Who wouldn't be filled with emotion?
Who could have thought that a girl from Shanghai could actually help Grandma Zou to be reborn. It turned out that Grandma Zou's sacrificed husband and son were blessing her in heaven. Otherwise, how could the old lady, who was old and about to be buried, still have such a great fortune.
She eats well and dresses warmly every day and doesn't have to worry about anything. The key is that there is a great doctor at home who takes care of her on a daily basis. If she feels a little unwell, she can be treated immediately. If this trend continues, it would not be surprising for Old Mrs. Zou to live another 20 or 30 years.
At this point, no one was whispering that Ye Qing recognized Old Lady Zou as his godmother in order to seize the housing land of Grandma Zou's family.
Compared to Ye Qing's help to Old Lady Zou, a worthless piece of residential land in the village is nothing! If Ye Qing really wanted to get a residential land, she wouldn't have to apply for it. The team leader or the old party secretary would rush over to give it to her. She could choose any large piece of residential land in the village, and no one would have any objection no matter how big it was.
No one criticized Ye Qing's gossip anymore. Even the old men in the village who were about the same age as the old lady were very jealous of her.
When people reach their sixties or seventies, what they care about is whether their children are filial and their grandchildren are around them, and whether they can live a comfortable and happy life in their old age, right?
But most families have their own problems. The larger the population, the more complicated the relationships. The poorer the countryside, the more common this phenomenon is. It is common for families to be in chaos and quarrel with each other. In the end, it is considered good if the family can be divided in a decent manner and brothers and sisters do not fall apart and become enemies.
Many elderly people have become sandwiched between their children. They cannot treat their children equally but are unwilling to give up either one. Naturally, they are constantly in conflict and sigh every day. They can only catch their breath when they sit outside and chat with other old men and women.
So after seeing Grandma Zou living a happy life without worries, they couldn't help but feel envious. Who wouldn't want to live like that? But for these people, such a good life can probably only appear in dreams.
Some old men were even extremely upset. When Ye Qing first went to the countryside to work in the production team, why didn't they discover the girl's ability in advance and invite her to live with them? If they had warmly invited Ye Qing to live with them, would they have become the ones that Ye Qing treated as his own grandpa and grandmother?
Ye Qing didn't know that the old men and women in the village were jealous of the good life that Grandma Zou was leading. After she finished with the sow pregnancy, she began to concentrate on the small pig farm pilot in the village.
Wu Yongbing is reliable in his work. After Ye Qing proposed the pilot project, he submitted the application without delay. Fearing that Lai Guochang would not pay attention to it, he would urge him every now and then. Later, Lai Guochang became impatient and took people directly to the county agriculture bureau to meet the leaders. No one knew how those two people did it, but just a few days after the Lantern Festival, the county approved the application and even allocated a sum of money to support the scientific breeding pilot of a small pig farm in Kaoshantun.
As soon as he got the relevant documents, Wu Yongbing started to recruit people enthusiastically. The snow by the Yazi River had not melted yet, but he couldn't wait to start expanding the pigpen.
Moreover, perhaps Ye Qing's artificial insemination of the farm's sows inspired the production team. Within two days, Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary actually acted without authorization and directly snatched three sows from the supply station. They seemed to be copying the model of the neighboring army's farm and expanding the breeding scale by producing piglets themselves, which left Ye Qing speechless.
The production team already had an adult sow, and now with three more, it's very lively. Ye Qing estimated that this year, they don't have to count on the supply station for external aid for the piglets in Kaoshantun. The pigpen can be full with just these few sows. If Wu Yongbing doesn't expand the pigpen quickly, it may not be enough.
No matter what, the sows that the two production team officers had snatched back with their own skills would definitely not be returned. Ye Qing had no choice but to work hard and feed the four sows with rice in the same way.
The officers of the production team were not allowed to enter the military farm. They only heard Lai Guochang mention it vaguely and knew that Ye Qing had used this method to breed sows in the neighboring farm, but they had never seen it with their own eyes, and they could not figure out what was going on just by imagining it.
Knowing that Ye Qing was going to do the same for the sows he raised in Kaoshantun, Kaoshantun was in an uproar. Lai Guochang immediately summoned the captains of several other production brigades in Hongqi Commune to observe the event on site. Even the technician from the town's agricultural technology station, Sister Xu Xianzhen's husband, came to Kaoshantun to see the excitement.
This time, Ye Qing didn't even demonstrate. He was only responsible for inserting the needle. The rest of the work was handed over to his four apprentices. Each apprentice was responsible for one of the four sows. In the end, we would see whoever was in charge of the sow would produce the most piglets with better quality.
The breeding process was not complicated, but the onlookers were skeptical. Most of them thought Ye Qing was kidding. If it was so easy to make a sow give birth, then wouldn't the breeding method that has been passed down for so many years be wrong? Wouldn't all the pig herders who drove boars around the streets and made a living by this skill be out of work?
Ye Qing ignored all the voices of doubt and ridicule. She insisted on using this method anyway. If someone was curious and wanted to discuss this topic with her, she would warmly welcome them and be happy to communicate with them. But if they were just being sarcastic and trying to make trouble, she would just tell them to leave.
Wu Yongbing was busy expanding the pigpen, not knowing that his wife was crazy and had an affair with that ill-intentioned girl behind his back. He secretly took the children to the health station and registered several numbers, and then had Wu Yueying take them to the military family compound and sell them at a high price.
Those families got a number and came to Kaoshantun, and they were successfully treated. Ye Qing's technique was precise, and he identified the conditions of those families right away, and gave them acupuncture on the spot to relieve their pain. When the patients saw the effect of the treatment, they excitedly ran back to the military family home to spread the word. Now, the entire large family home knew that Wu Yueying was from Kaoshantun and had connections at the Kaoshantun health station.
This led to a sharp increase in the number of people coming to Wu Yueying to ask for help in registering through the back door, and they were all willing to pay Wu Yueying, and were afraid that their spots would be taken by others.
Wu Yueying tasted the sweetness of this matter. Her appetite was instantly whetted and her self-confidence became more and more overflowing. Before, she was only secretly thinking about the ambition to take over the entire ticketing business of the health station, but now she can no longer restrain it at all.
So, on Wu Yongbing's birthday, Wu Yueying did not let Xia Hangyi accompany her, and went back to her parents' home with two bottles of good wine.
When Wu Yongbing came home from his work in the pigpen in the evening, Wu Yueying confessed her mistakes to her father and said many nice things about changing for the better. She also took the initiative to serve food and pour wine for her father, saying that she would never make the same mistake again.
Wu Yongbing thought that his daughter had finally repented after getting married, and he was very happy. He ate the food and drank the wine, and gave her a sincere lecture. He did not expect that his young lady kept pouring him glass of wine, and he drank too much without warning.
After a night of hangover, Wu Yongbing woke up the next day to find that there was a commotion outside. In the early morning, there was a notice posted at the entrance of the health station:
In order to facilitate unified management, the daily consultation numbers of the health station will be managed by the team leader in the future. Patients who want to register must first go to Wu Yueying to register, and Wu Yueying will make reasonable arrangements to prevent someone from taking advantage of loopholes to make improper gains.
This notice confused all the residents of Kaoshantun.
After all, over the past half month, the villagers in the village have taken advantage of the proximity to the water and have made a lot of money by acting as scalpers to help register patients from outside.
Now the captain says this is unjust enrichment and needs to be rectified. He has also confiscated the convenience of queuing for registration. How can anyone sit still?
Immediately, many villagers ran to Ye Qing to ask what was going on, and some even rushed to Wu's house to confront the captain.
Wu Yongbing had been drunk the whole night and was not fully awake yet. He was a little confused when he suddenly heard a loud noise outside. But when he called them in and the villagers started talking about what happened, Wu Yongbing's face immediately darkened.
"What notice? I didn't post any notice at all!"
Wu Yongbing directly refuted.
"It's written in black and white on the health station paper, with your signature on it, and it's also stamped with the official seal of our production team. How can you deny it?"
The people in the village used to have great faith in Wu Yongbing. After all, when he was the team leader, he was a man of high moral character, selfless and had provided many benefits to everyone.
But if Wu Yongbing wants to intervene in the matter of registration at the health station, then everyone will have to re-examine this team leader. Everyone knows how much the scalper tickets at this health station are in short supply, and there is a lot of money to be made! If Wu Yongbing is so one-size-fits-all and holds such a big benefit in his hands, then his previous reputation of being selfless is purely for fame and pretense. The people in the village will definitely not agree to let such a hypocrite be the head of their production team. They must drive this person out of office and re-elect a more suitable person to be the boss of their Kaoshantun Production Team!
Wu Yongbing had a terrible headache, thinking that this was complete nonsense. How could he stamp and sign such a notice? He knew nothing about it. But looking at these indignant residents, he immediately realized that something was wrong.
Without caring about any more arguments, he quickly walked out of the door and headed towards the toilet.
When I arrived at the entrance of the health station, I saw a new notice posted on the wall outside. The signature on it was indeed his handwriting, and the official seal was indeed the seal of the production team.
Wu Yongbing was so angry that his face turned blue on the spot.
A vague image suddenly flashed through his mind. Last night, after he had a drink, his daughter said she wanted to go to the county for a prenatal check-up, but Xia Hangyi was too busy with work to take care of her. She wanted her mother to accompany her and asked Wu Yongbing to sign a letter of introduction for her.
Wu Yongbing was drunk at the time, and since she was his daughter, he was not on guard and signed and stamped the document without even looking at it carefully.
Thinking about it again now, Wu Yongbing understood it instantly.
Wu Yueying asked him to sign, so where was the letter of introduction? It was clearly this notice!
Wu Yongbing's eyes were almost spitting fire. He rushed forward and tore down the notice. He turned around and bowed to the villagers who had gathered around him to apologize:
"I'm sorry, everyone. It was my birthday yesterday, and I drank several times more in a moment of excitement. As a result, I got drunk and confused, and made a mistake in the notification document. This notice does not count. Everyone should do what they should do. The registration at the health station, whether now or in the future, is decided by the stationmaster. No cadre of the production team has the right to interfere, including me. The unified management of ticketing is pure nonsense, there is no such thing at all!"
No one was sure to believe Wu Yongbing's excuse, but Wu Yongbing's attitude was still very sincere. He pushed all the power of the health station's ticketing to Ye Qing and promised that he and other cadres would not interfere. This made it impossible for people in the village to find fault, so the farce ended so abruptly.
However, after the crowd dispersed, Wu Yongbing clenched his fists tightly and was determined to settle the score with Wu Yueying as soon as he got home.
As a result, he did not see Wu Yueying or his wife at home. When he asked his eldest daughter-in-law, he learned that his good daughter had taken her husband to the city for a birth check-up early in the morning.
"Dad, you have to talk about our mom. Recently, she has been taking Baoya and the others to the health station to queue up at 4 or 5 in the morning every day, just to register Yueying. Yueying herself doesn't need so many appointments, right? She just takes them back to the farm and sells them. My brother-in-law is a serious provincial researcher, and his monthly allowance is not small. How can he be short of money? Even if she wants to make money, she can't ask her family to do it. Mom is old and in poor health. How can she bear this every day? Baoya and the others are only a few years old. They are just lacking sleep. Getting up so early will delay their growth!"
Qin Xingzhi couldn't help but complain.
After hearing this, Wu Yongbing realized that his wife had been busy with this matter recently, and even dragged his grandchildren to queue up for registration while they were awake. No wonder the villagers in the village looked at him strangely recently, the reason turned out to be here!
Wu Yongbing was so angry that his chest heaved up and down. As the captain of the team, his family actually took the lead in reselling the health station's consultation numbers. It was simply a disgrace to his entire family.
That's not all. His concubine was plotting against him behind his back. She borrowed his status as the captain and tried to take control of the ticketing of the entire health station. She was so audacious that she completely ignored the law. Did she really think she was the local emperor of Kaoshan Village?
Wu Yongbing had been extremely disappointed with his daughter before, and now he was even more heartbroken by Wu Yueying's backstab. This heavy blow woke him up completely. He knew that this young lady was hopeless, and he didn't intend to show mercy anymore.
He waved his hands at his eldest daughter-in-law, his face extremely stern and serious:
"Go and call the old Party Secretary over for me."
Seeing that her father-in-law looked unhappy, Qin Xingzhi was puzzled, but she did not ask any more questions and just went to the old branch secretary's house to call for help.
When Wu Yueying happily brought her mother back from the county after a prenatal check-up, she felt that the notice posted at the health station should have been seen by everyone in the village by now, and moreover, after most of the day, she guessed that the people in the village had already vented their dissatisfaction.
With her father's autograph and seal, the matter was a done deal. She just had to go back to the village and admit her mistake to her father. Once her father's anger had subsided, the matter of getting the health station ticket would be set in stone and there would be no way for her to escape.
But what Wu Yueying never expected was that when she and her mother had just reached the entrance of the village and had not yet entered the village, two serious-looking commune office staff and uniformed policemen came out and said to Wu Yueying in a serious tone:
"You must be Wu Yueying, right? Someone reported you for stealing the production team's official seal. Please come with us!"
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