Regardless of what he was thinking, Sun Changsheng still had a smile on his face.
"Don't worry, you'll get work points for looking after Grandpa Liu."
"What about the money for the meal?" Lu Yuan asked hurriedly.
"The village will reimburse me later."
He Shenghua had no objections, but Lu Yuan did not agree.
"No, Captain, I don't have any money or coupons. I spent all the few cents my wife gave me this morning."
As he spoke, he grinned, revealing his bright white teeth.
"Uncle Captain, why don't you give us the money tickets first? You gave Maodou the money tickets first yesterday too."
Sun Changsheng couldn't stand his greedy appearance and said directly with a stern face.
"You won't be needed here anymore. He Zhiqing and Maodou are fine here. Go back to work."
Hmph, giving him work points is already letting him off easy, and he's still not obedient at all, and even more ungrateful.
Let's just not use him anymore and let him regret it.
The scene of regret that I was hoping to see didn't happen. The other party wasn't even a little unhappy; instead, they clapped their hands excitedly.
That's great.
“We just separated our family and need to build a new house. This way I'll have time to build my own house.”
Then they asked Sun Changsheng for a plot of land for building a house.
"Uncle Captain, please approve a plot of land for me to build a house as soon as possible. My stepmother only gave me a month. I need to finish building the house and move out as soon as possible."
Seeing that Lu Yuan was so carefree and unperturbed, Sun Changsheng was actually seething with anger.
“There are no suitable homesteads in the village now. If you want to build a house, you can only carve out a piece of land in an abandoned house.”
Lu Yuan's eyes lit up.
The villagers all said that place was unlucky, but he thought it was a very nice place.
It's located near the hilltop, some distance from the village center, so if you cook something, no one else can smell it.
Sneaking around to hunt prey makes it less likely to be discovered.
He was overjoyed inside, but his face showed great distress.
“Uncle Captain, no one wants to go near that place except for Grandpa Liu. I don’t want to build a house there.”
Seeing that he was unhappy, Sun Changsheng felt much better.
"If you don't want it, there's nowhere else to go."
Lu Yuan said, "Isn't there a plot of land near your house? It even has a vegetable garden. I want that plot."
This matter-of-fact tone infuriated Sun Changsheng, who retorted irritably,
"That land has already been taken."
He reserved that prime piece of land for his nephew, Sun Ziqiang; how could he possibly give it to this good-for-nothing?
Lu Yuan pressed further, "Who wanted it? I haven't heard anything about it?"
"Self-reliance should have been sought long ago."
After saying that, worried that Lu Yuan would not let it go, she explained again.
"As the captain, I cannot show favoritism, but I also cannot wrong my own people because of my position. I can only follow the rules and act according to the order of arrival."
Lu Yuan looked unconvinced.
"Is it really first come, first served?"
"Of course. You can ask the accountants when you get back."
Sun Changsheng wasn't lying about this; he was worried that someone would try to take the land from him, and he had already spread the word.
Lu Yuan curled his lip, "That piece of land won't do, just give me another one. I don't want that abandoned house."
"If you don't want it, there's no land left."
Sun Changsheng was now quite assertive. It wasn't that he refused to give up the land; it was his own fault for not wanting it, so he couldn't blame anyone else.
"Don't listen to people who say that abandoned houses are evil or unlucky. That's all feudal superstition, and you'll get arrested and reprimanded for it."
This is forcing Lu Yuan to agree.
He didn't believe in superstitions or anything like that, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to that deserted place to do that kind of thing.
However, since that family died, the house has been deserted and dilapidated for many years. There are no other houses around, and it is located at the foot of the mountain, so it is indeed a bit eerie.
Ordinary people would certainly not want to build a house on this old site.
Even He Shenghua, who was standing to the side, couldn't stand it anymore and was about to say something fair when he heard Lu Yuan reluctantly agree.
"Alright, that abandoned house will do, but you'll have to make the land bigger for me."
Sun Changsheng agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, you can have it all. The rest is your private plot, you can cultivate it yourself."
Let this kid run around the entire abandoned house, and any undiscovered clues will be gone forever.
"You should know that people are lucky if they have three-tenths of an acre of land to keep when they build a house, but you've been given almost an acre."
This is like giving Lu Yuan a huge advantage.
He Shenghua frowned immediately. Wasn't this bullying?
That abandoned house was indeed quite large, covering an area of over a thousand square meters. Normally, a plot of land allocated to someone for a house, including their private plot, would only be three or four hundred square meters.
It seems like Lu Yuan was given a lot of land, but the land was too barren, and it would take a lot of effort to repair it.
The land had already been used to build houses and lay foundations. If it were to be used as a private plot for planting, it would have to be reclaimed and fertilized anew. That would take a lot of effort.
Lu Yuan is lazy and doesn't work. If we give them this piece of abandoned land and rely on Wen Moxue alone, how long will it take to finish it?
She wanted to give Lu Yuan a meaningful look so that he would refuse.
But to everyone's surprise, he readily agreed.
He Shenghua didn't know what to say. But he was still seething with anger.
This person knew nothing and was easily persuaded by the captain to agree in just a few words.
Lu Yuan looked at He Shenghua, whose face suddenly turned pale, and assumed that the other party was unhappy that the captain wanted him to continue guarding the health center.
He was secretly gloating.
"He Zhiqing, from now on, it'll be up to you and Maodou to take care of things here. I'll head back now."
"I thought you'd be free once the brigade leader arrived, but I never expected... Sigh, I knew you shouldn't have been catching up on sleep at the clinic; you should have gone back to the village sooner."
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