The Kitty Became a Cutie and Was Pampered in the 80s
Chapter 560: Three Naive Ghosts (9)_1

Someone in the crowd took it and glanced over the contents from beginning to end before reading it aloud.

Not everyone could read, but they were still able to understand what was said.

When they heard that Jianguo had contracted the land for five hundred a year, everyone fell silent.

Wu Guoqun sneered while looking at those who had just been making a fuss: "Go on, keep making trouble, keep it up, and let’s see how Jianguo is ’sucking your blood’."

"..."

"It’s not that I want to criticize you, but you never think about how to improve your own lives, instead you are constantly envious of how others live theirs. It’s a shame, really, since Jianguo even mentioned that if he becomes truly wealthy in the future, he’d pave roads for our village. But now, I think it’s unnecessary—just so you won’t again accuse him of ’sucking your blood’!"

"The mountain was there all along, and nobody stopped you from taking advantage of it. Why didn’t you think of making money from it yourselves? Now that someone else is earning money, you turn green with envy?"

"Your awareness is really inadequate. Jianguo signed this contract six months ago, but he kept it to himself. Why, you ask? He was worried you’d feel burdened, allowing you to go in and gather wild vegetables, mushrooms, bamboo shoots... He didn’t say a word, yet now you’re the ones complaining."

"And talking about him ’sucking your blood’, it makes me feel embarrassed for you!"

"I’m not going to say anything more, just think about it yourselves." After saying this, Wu Guoqun took the contract back from the villagers with a disappointed look and headed into the Ruan Family courtyard first.

The villagers who were just complaining about being ’bled dry’ were left with their faces burning with embarrassment.

When they finally realized who had instigated this uproar and wanted to find the person, Liu Mei had already run off at a jog.

"..." The people, somewhat sheepishly, apologized to Jianguo.

Jianguo immediately responded with a hearty laugh, indicating it was no big deal. He even had the Ruanlin Family distribute cigarettes and candies, inviting everyone to come inside the courtyard to chat. But those who had instigated the commotion didn’t have the face to join, and after accepting the cigarettes and candies, they hurried away.

"Jianguo, are you still going to buy dried vegetables?" an elderly village woman living alone asked. Her life had been extremely hard, relying on village support just to scrape by. Now, working for Jianguo, she had finally found a way to make a living and was afraid that the villagers’ upheaval would make him too angry to keep buying their produce.

"Aunt Xin, of course, I’ll buy them. Please bring over as much as you have," Jianguo replied with a smile, reassuringly patting Aunt Xin’s hand and stuffing a handful of candies into her palm.

Seeing this, everyone else felt even more ashamed and refrained from gossiping further.

During the past six months, because there had been no incidents of wild animals injuring people on the mountain, everyone’s courage grew. Seeing Jianguo catch wild game from there, many villagers entered the mountains hoping to try their luck and see if they could also catch something. Although they didn’t manage to bag any game, they did eat a lot of the mountain’s bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

They never imagined that the mountain had been contracted, and that Jianguo, seeing them forage for wild vegetables, hadn’t said a word despite several villagers selling the dried mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms to him...

Thinking of this, they felt truly shamefaced.

However, because of this commotion, the Ruan Family’s prestige within the whole sixth production brigade had also risen significantly, with everyone agreeing that the Ruan Family was generous and deserving of great fortune.