Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1062 - 553: The Clothes are Torn

Chapter 1062: Chapter 553: The Clothes are Torn

On the main street of Sancha River Town, Lin Baoguo had just finished work and stepped out of the police station when he heard the familiar roar of a motorcycle.

In the entire Sanhe Village, Boss Yan’s motorcycle was unique. None of the other motorcycles sounded as deep as his. Not just Lin Baoguo, but anyone on the main street could recognize the distinctive sound of that motorcycle and know that nine times out of ten, it was Boss Yan coming to town—the other one out of ten, it was Heizi and his friends riding it occasionally.

As Lin Baoguo had expected, from the moment he heard the roaring sound, it grew louder as it neared and then quieter as it moved away—all in the blink of an eye.

Lin Baoguo was so accustomed to this that he hardly bothered to say that Yan Fei was now too arrogant. In fact, he was probably the only one who felt that way; the people of Sancha River Town thought Boss Yan should be just like that—after all, he was a big boss. If he rode a broken motorcycle like everyone else, what would that look like?

Moreover, many would think, it’s just a motorcycle, what’s so arrogant about that? If I were that rich, I’d have people carry me around in a sedan chair every day, accompanied by gongs and drums...

Lost in these thoughts, Lin Baoguo took a few steps down the alley towards home, then suddenly stopped, hesitated, and turned back towards the village government—Yan Fei, that rascal, never visited the town hall unless there was a reason. He had just rushed into the village government; could it be something important?

The past few days, hadn’t he brought some people over, secretly pacing back and forth on the land west of the river? Could it be related to that?

People in the town speculated all sorts of things. Some said the people he had brought over were Mandarin speakers from big cities, clearly intellectuals, measuring something on that land. Were they considering the possibility of discovering some kind of mineral deposit in our place?

If they found a gold mine here, then our Sancha River Town would truly prosper—those who said this were immediately ridiculed by others. A gold mine in Sanhe Village? You might as well dream of finding a currency mine—just grab a shovel and dig up bundles worth tens of thousands...

If digging is too troublesome, you might as well sit at home and daydream—hoping for rain, snow, and even money to fall from the sky, and perhaps gold bars to grow with the flowers and grass...

Even imagining a gold mine, you can guess to what extent people’s speculation had reached.

When Yan Fei was heading to Mayor Chen’s office, Mayor Chen was tidying up his things and getting ready to go home for dinner. Now that school was out, he was having a very comfortable time; he could eat hot meals right after getting off work—previously, both he and his wife worked, and sometimes Teacher Wen got delayed by school and came home late. As the top official in the village, he had to prepare dinner to keep their student from finding an empty kitchen and giving them a hard time.

Honestly, he had long wanted to persuade his spouse not to work as a teacher and instead stay home as a housewife or find some other job that wouldn’t interfere with meal times. Because when it came to cooking, he really didn’t enjoy it—it didn’t matter whether he was the village head or a county head. Cooking was something that at least half of all men disliked.

Just thinking about getting to eat a hot meal at home and being able to stay away from the kitchen for at least a month made Mayor Chen work faster.

Just then, Yan Fei walked in while Mayor Chen was in a very good mood. "Xiao Fei, you’ve come at just the right time. Today, Teacher Wen said she made some Douchi Vegetables tonight. Come over and join us for dinner! Don’t decline, this vegetable is rare now!"

Douchi Vegetables was the local name for a type of wild vegetable abundant around Sanhe Village. However, it wasn’t the right season now; the Douchi Vegetables had already grown old, which is why Mayor Chen said they were rare. Probably, the mayoress had found some tender ones from some hidden corner.

Actually, this vegetable wasn’t particularly tasty; if not cooked well, it tasted quite sour. It needed to be blanched first then served cold.

Nowadays, with better living conditions, eating wild vegetables was just a way to vary the usual seasonal vegetables on the dining table. Having them occasionally felt quite pleasant.

However, Yan Fei wasn’t planning to join them for dinner. He smiled and declined, "No need, I still have guests over, it wouldn’t be right not to go back. I came because I wanted to discuss something with you. Remember my greenhouse by the bamboo forest that was destroyed? Now, I have an idea—I want to lease the entire area west of the river, dig a channel along the road side so that if the water level rises a bit, we won’t have to worry about flooding..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Mayor Chen instantly forgot about packing up. "Slow down, let me understand clearly. You’re saying you want to lease the land west of the river, how big is the area, and you want to dig a channel?"

"Yes, the whole area, starting from the roadside all the way to the bamboo forest, right where my greenhouse was," Yan Fei said, pulling a paper from his pocket. "Look, here’s where my greenhouse was, this is the road, and this is the bridge. I want to lease the whole plot. If we dig a channel here, the area in the middle would become River Heart Island, and I could raise cattle on it. What do you think?"

Mayor Chen was taken aback, then stood up and walked over to the wall, pointing to a new map on the wall. "You’re talking about this area? Isn’t that over three thousand acres? Plus, the terrain is uneven; remodeling would be a huge project, not to mention digging a channel? If you dig a channel, you’d definitely need to build a bridge too—that’s no small project..."

That was when Yan Fei noticed that the mayor’s office now had an up-to-date, detailed map of Sancha River Village. They hadn’t had one before. The villages and hamlets were all clearly marked, making everything easy to understand at a glance.