Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1045 - 547 Island Construction Concept

Chapter 1045: Chapter 547 Island Construction Concept

"If you have money, you gotta spend it. Earning money is a skill, but so is spending it. Saving money without spending it—that’s a serious problem. I must thoroughly criticize you," as soon as Chen Yingjun started talking, unless you turned against him, he could keep going on and on—even turning against him might not work depending on the person; most people couldn’t influence him. "Think about it, if everyone in society were like you, earning money but not spending it, how would anyone make money, whose money would they make? Especially for us wealthy folks, if you don’t spend money, you’re not giving others the chance to make money."

Yan Fei gave him a look: "Watch your step, there could be leeches in the water, big ones as thick as fingers!"

"Damn, why didn’t you say so earlier?" If it hadn’t been for walking through the muddy water, Chen Yingjun might have jumped out. "You know I’m most afraid of these squishy, sticky little things. If you had told me earlier, I would have had Er Bao carry me over!"

"It’s just sucking a bit of blood, what are you so afraid of?" Yan Fei was indifferent; those leeches wouldn’t even dream of getting on him. Besides, those leeches... they wouldn’t easily come to this spot anyway.

"Sucking blood isn’t scary?" Chen Yingjun’s eyes were wide with fear. "Or does it have to suck the marrow out of bones to be considered scary?"

"It’s not like it’ll kill you, what’s there to be scared of? Last time I was by the river here, I caught a Trimeresurus jerdonii! I’ve never heard of anyone bitten by that thing making it through." Because as far as he knew, all the stories about people getting bitten were just hearsay; the likelihood of encountering a Trimeresurus jerdonii around Sancha River was about as rare as running into a creature like him.

At the mention of this, Chen Yingjun turned pale, clamped his mouth shut, and stopped talking. He didn’t care anymore about the dirty water staining his pants and hurried to catch up with Yan Fei. He looked just like a little wife who had done something wrong and was being led home by a man.

Once they reached the main road, he scrubbed his feet in a tuft of grass on the roadside, then rinsed them in the water before sitting on the big stone stool that Yan Fei had partially broken. He obsessively checked his feet, terrified of actually spotting a leech or something.

After a long while, when even Yan Fei was getting impatient, Chen Yingjun started complaining discontentedly, "Brother Fei, you’re just trying to scare me! I was truly scared into believing there could be poisonous snakes or leeches..."

Yan Fei looked at him, clearly amused: "If there aren’t any, there aren’t any!"

As soon as Chen Yingjun saw the meaningful smile on Yan Fei’s face, he was instantly frightened and jumped to his feet: "Where, where? Don’t scare me, Brother Fei. Is it somewhere on me that I haven’t seen? I’ve heard that once these things get on you, they burrow into the flesh without you even feeling pain..."

Yan Fei remained silent, just watching him with amusement. This tactic, often employed by Heizi and the others to tease people, was to watch a person with an inexplicably amused look. If the individual wasn’t strong-willed, they would start to think there was something wrong with themselves for being looked at with such strange laughter.

It was the first time Yan Fei had tried it, and, well, the effect was excellent. Chen Yingjun’s face was getting even paler...

Only when Chen Yingjun was nervous and sweaty did Yan Fei finally say with a smile, "There’s nothing. I was just laughing for fun, giving you a little scare as a joke."

To which Chen Yingjun could hardly bring himself to believe: "Really? Brother Fei, stop messing with me. Is there really a leech on me?"

Yan Fei tried to reassure him by every means, but he didn’t believe it until Yan Fei found a passerby to check him over—Chen Yingjun even took off his shirt, revealing his pale, obviously unlabored body, to let a person passing by on their way to the market help him check. Finally convinced he was leech-free.

Now he was furious: "Brother Fei, you like picking on me, don’t you? If I actually get so scared something happens to me, I’m going to blame you for it!"

"You should blame the cattle farm, shouldn’t you? Are you coming or not?" Yan Fei waved his hand dismissively. "Forget it, I won’t bother with you anymore. If you want to stay here, go ahead. Later, I’ll have someone build you a shelter at the bridgehead so you won’t get wet if it rains..."

"Don’t go, Brother Fei!" Chen Yingjun had quickly forgotten his fright and got fired up again. "Wait and listen to me, come over here, and look that way!"

The man stood on the big stone stool, gesturing grandly as if he was devising great strategies: "Look at this whole area, surrounded by rivers on three sides. If the water rises, there’s no escape for you. It’s actually easy to solve, just dig this spot open, divert the river to fork off to the west, and your land will become an island. Have the river split into two here, then bring in some sand dredging boats to deepen the riverbed. After that, even when the water rises, you won’t have to worry about flooding."

"Nowadays everyone is building houses, you could buy a few sand dredgers, hire a dozen workers or so, and you wouldn’t have to do anything yourself, just sit here and collect money. Where would you find such a sweet deal? In our area, people fight tooth and nail for a sand dredging spot, but if you set up dredgers here, you wouldn’t have to worry about competition. If worst comes to worst, you could partner with some local heavyweights..."

Local heavyweights... he was obviously not talking about Mayor Chen and his group.

So, as Boss Yan looked around, he realized that in Sancha County, he couldn’t find any partners ’with more influence’ than himself!

"Alright, let’s get going! Look at you, people will think I brought a madman as a guest," Yan Fei said, clearly getting impatient with Chen Yingjun’s growing excitement.

"Alright, alright, I’m coming!" Having the ability to observe words and facial expression was Chen Yingjun’s expertise. Seeing Yan Fei was about to leave on his own, he jumped down from the big stone stool and followed.