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Lin Xiao's sudden revelation of his assets effectively killed the game.

Zhang Bo, who had started the trouble in the audience, was speechless.

It's unclear whether they were speechless because they were shocked by Lin Xiao and his wife's 4300 million yuan in assets, or because they were stunned that they donated such an astronomical sum.

In short, he was stunned on the spot.

Faced with such an amazing act of kindness, any further doubts are futile.

So much so that when Zhang Bo came to his senses, the few questions he struggled to ask were easily defused by Lin Xiao.

"Stop bragging! Over forty million, you think you can just donate it like that?"

"This was broadcast live. I dare say this if I hadn't donated. How solid is my foundation that it can withstand scrutiny?"

"Then...who knows if your foundation is real or fake? Maybe it's just a smokescreen for you and your husband to launder money under a false name?"

"Dude, have you been watching too many movies?"

Lin Xiao laughed and said, "The foundation is registered under the names of the Nanzhou Provincial Education Bureau and the Nanzhou Provincial Charity Association. Both can be found on their official websites. The detailed accounts of the foundation's operation will also be published regularly. Do you think you can just fabricate things like that? You will be held legally responsible for what you said!"

In a few swift moves, Zhang Bo was thrown into disarray, stammering and unable to utter a single word.

In the end, they could only slink away in disgrace.

In the live stream, millions of netizens had gone completely crazy.

The comments were flooded in like Gatling gun fire, completely erasing the previous dissenting voices. In their place were only "Holy crap," "Awesome," and "Mr. Righteousness," making it even more like a gangster movie than a criminal gang.

Lin Xiao knew nothing about this.

All he cared about was that the troublemakers had been driven away so that the housing selection process could continue.

However, things did not go smoothly.

Those standing at the scene were all villagers from surrounding villages and towns, and the vast majority of them were middle-aged or elderly.

Xingguang Town was never a wealthy place. The villagers were poor, and the middle-aged and elderly who couldn't leave were even poorer. Even if they made some money selling oranges this year, it was all because their children got married and they were still out there with a lot of debts. They might not even have enough to pay off their debts, and very few of them had any money left over.

As a resettlement housing project that is a key project supported by the government, the developer, Dijin Group, can receive a large special subsidy from Mashan County for the second phase of the Xincun Garden project.

After deducting this subsidy, villagers only need to pay a very low price of 500 yuan per square meter to choose a house. For example, a 40-square-meter one-bedroom house can be purchased for 20,000 yuan. All taxes and fees are also covered by special funds from Xingguang Town.

This price is really not expensive.

But for some elderly people living alone, it really isn't cheap.

Therefore, some elderly people at the scene actually wanted to move into the new house to retire, but because they were short of money, they did not dare to go forward to look.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao had anticipated this.

At today's house selection event, he also invited staff from the bank's credit department. Before the ceremony, he had discussed the loan policy with the bank.

This loan is not the kind of loan commonly found on the market.

Firstly, the loan interest rate is very low; it's an ultra-low rate that's offered at a 50% discount, even in a market where interest rates are gradually declining.

Secondly, the loan is not to be repaid by the villagers themselves. Instead, the village collective signs a contract with the bank, using the income from renting out the village's orchards, rice paddies, and other assets to offset the villagers' "mortgage" payments.

This sets forth requirements for the leasing and contracting of various village collective assets, in addition to the work of merging villages and towns.

Only if these orchards can be rented out at high prices can the villagers pay off their mortgages as soon as possible and live comfortably in their new houses.

If it remains the same as before, with only a few hundred yuan in income each year, then even a loan of 2 yuan is a bottomless pit that could completely drain the remaining years of some elderly people.

Lin Xiao didn't want the elderly couple to live in an apartment building and have to live in constant fear.

So he immediately patted his chest and promised that he would do his best to realize the industrialization and intensification of navel orange planting in Xingguang Town, so that the orange orchards in the village would become more and more valuable and the villagers' dividends would become higher and higher.

If he can't repay the loan within five years, he'll have to pay the bank's debt himself.

This is written in black and white on the loan agreement with the bank.

After this explanation, the villagers finally understood.

Lin Xiao said he didn't pay anyone, but after all the calculations, it was essentially like the villagers got to stay "for free".

Although the burden of these loans rests on the village collective, the village's annual revenue is transparent, and it is certain that such a large loan cannot be repaid within five years.

To achieve a leapfrog increase in collective benefits.

Ultimately, the pressure fell on Lin Xiao, the town mayor.

Essentially, Mayor Lin used a more reasonable method to provide all villagers with free housing.

After this explanation, the more than 300 villagers who were worried finally let down their guard and their faces became calm and composed.

Finally, the house selection ceremony, which had been meticulously prepared for half a month, successfully concluded with 25 households signing contracts on-site.

Compared to a total of 420 households.

25 households is by no means a lot; in fact, it can be described as pitifully few.

But for the village and town merger project, which has been struggling for the past six months, this is an unprecedented leap forward, a feat worthy of being recorded in history and celebrated with great emotion.

With these 25 households taking the lead, and the village chiefs constantly giving speeches and doing their work, victory is in sight for the remaining 300-plus households.

It is already early November.

With just over a month left, this year will come to a successful conclusion, and the higher authorities will begin to inspect the final results of the merger of Xingguang Town and its villages.

There is a high probability that Lin Xiao will successfully cross over.

……

It was already evening when I got home.

The story of Lin Xiao and Han Xixi donating 4300 million yuan to establish an arts education fund has become a trending topic on major social media platforms across the internet, even crashing the servers of several websites.

In an instant, a flood of praise poured down on the couple.

Those who are more rational praise them for their loving hearts and sense of justice, calling them modern-day heroes and saints.

The more insane ones would kneel on the ground and call them living Buddhas, offering to serve them like cattle and horses, slaves and maids, and some even said they would build a shrine for them.

Lin Xiao was nearly scared to death when he saw these crazy words.

Even more outrageous, some people said that if he ever overworks himself and damages his kidneys, they would kneel by his bedside and help him into bed...

Lin Xiao was utterly embarrassed: Thank you so much, kind netizen, but could you please wish me well?

Of course, amidst the overwhelming praise across the internet, there were also dissenting voices.

Some people question whether it's meaningful to promote arts education in remote mountain villages where even compulsory education is difficult to guarantee, suggesting that the money would be better spent on providing nutritious lunches for the children.

Some have criticized that while it is indeed worthwhile to do charity, such extensive publicity that it becomes widely known raises suspicions of deliberate hype.

Lin Xiao was completely expecting to see these sounds.

Actually, he didn't want to make such a big fuss.

I was really cornered by the haters today. If I didn't speak out about this, the house selection ceremony would have been ruined.

He wasn't threatened by the haters, but given his and his wife's fame, such a big thing as donating more than 4000 million yuan to establish an education fund was bound to be known by netizens sooner or later. It was bound to trend on social media sooner or later, and he was bound to receive praise from the entire internet sooner or later.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to take the initiative to expose the information at that time, which would also be a way to refute the trolls and push forward the already difficult work of merging villages and towns.

Why not!
As for the criticisms circulating online, he doesn't take them to heart at all. After all, he has long understood that you can't please everyone.

He was too lazy to care about other people's feelings and would just glance at it and move on.

He didn't care, but netizens were outraged.

Overwhelmed by the incredible act of kindness by the Gardenia Couple, countless netizens were unable to express their overwhelming emotion and profound shock. Simply praising them online wasn't enough to quell the outpouring of emotion. Ultimately, this immense enthusiasm transformed into a raging inferno, which surged towards those few trolls. Gardenia fans: My CP, I'll protect you! Keyboard warriors, prepare to die!
Those netizens who disagreed had their personal accounts immediately banned.

"Yes, it's meaningless for other people to do charity, but it's meaningful for you to be a troll here!"

"Don't children in the countryside have the right to experience art? Don't they have the need to learn to sing and paint?"

"Do you know that many artists come from poor families?!"

"They donated over 40 million yuan of their own money to charity, and you, without even offering your share, have the nerve to question it!"

"What era are we living in? You don't still think that rural kids don't get enough to eat at school, do you? Stop scrolling through TikTok!"

"Many children from poor families simply lack the opportunity to engage with art. Once given that opportunity, you'll find that their abilities are no less than those of children trained in urban training classes!"

"Even if 99% of these children don't pursue careers in the arts, I believe that learning art will plant a seed of beauty in their hearts! This is a level of understanding that you internet trolls could never comprehend, even if you died and turned to ashes!"

"Who says you have to do charity quietly? If I donated 4000 million, I'd shout it out louder than Lin Xiao!"

"You big idiot, still yelling here? They did such a great good deed, can't we even say anything?"

"Why can't this kind of good deed be publicized? This kind of good behavior should be publicized. Our society lacks this kind of positive energy and has too many keyboard warriors like you!!"

"..."

A massive barrage of criticism surged towards those few dissenting netizens.

These accounts had no way to retaliate. They were terrified when their posts, which usually only got a handful of likes, suddenly received tens of thousands of comments.

Faced with such a magnificent sight, they dared not fight back and sheepishly deleted their comments.

But it was too late.

Enraged netizens were not about to give up and quickly uncovered their true identities through their social media platforms.

Then came all sorts of doxxing and unboxing, getting more and more exaggerated and outrageous.

Another online farce.

The next day was Saturday. Lin Xiao slept in late and only then learned about the incident from his mother-in-law.

He was startled.

To my utter surprise, a few negative comments that I hadn't taken to heart at all turned into a frenzy of relentless attacks from enthusiastic netizens, even escalating to the point of exposing my real identity and making in-person threats.

Lin Xiao then realized the seriousness of the problem.

He quickly spoke out on Weibo, urging netizens to remain calm and not to maliciously harm others.

He posted three messages in a row, and it became a trending topic again.

Netizens cheered and encouraged the project, which slowly brought this "good thing" that had gradually gone astray back on track.

After breakfast, I played with my daughter for a while.

Lin Xiao then drove straight to Yizhou Airport.

Yizhou also has an airport, although it is not as large as the airport in Ninghai, the provincial capital, but it is sufficient for daily commutes to and from major cities.

My wife, Han Xixi, has been performing out of town for the past two days.

The event only ended last night, and I took a plane back this morning. My destination is Yizhou.

Lin Xiao wanted to see his wife as soon as possible, so he volunteered to pick her up at the airport.

I left my home in Mashan County at 8:30 a.m. and drove for an hour before arriving at Yizhou Airport.

I arrived just in time for my wife's plane.

He sat in the car for a while before going to the arrival hall fully equipped.

Before I could even check my wife's flight information, I saw the customs area from afar, where crazy fans and passersby had surrounded the two figures, shouting "Xi Xi" at the top of their lungs.

Lin Xiao could hardly believe it: Has my wife become this famous?
It's important to know that Yizhou Airport is just a small airport in a prefecture-level city, and its passenger flow is usually very small.

My wife is a celebrity, but she never engages in the fan culture.

Some celebrities are surrounded and chased at the airport, which looks very lively and shows their high popularity. In fact, those fans are all arranged by themselves, mainly for their own entertainment.

But Han Xixi has never done this kind of thing.

She never cared about fame before. Now, as the chairperson of the Rural Primary School Art Education Foundation of Nanzhou Province, she is focused on the operation and replenishment of funds for the foundation. Her mind is full of how to make money, so she has no time to play these tricks.

That's why Lin Xiao found it so puzzling that Han Xixi's discreet itinerary caused such a huge commotion at the airport.

The only explanation is that my wife is incredibly popular right now.

As soon as they were spotted at the airport, they immediately attracted the attention and admiration of fans and passersby, creating a grand scene that other celebrities couldn't create even for their own entertainment.

Seeing that Xixi and her agent Chen Jiajia were having difficulty breaking through.

Lin Xiao rushed forward to rescue his wife, but his appearance only drove the passersby and fans even crazier.

"Ahhh...it's Lin Xiao!!!"

"Lin Xiao!!!"

"Boss Lin!!"

"Wow, Boss Lin came to pick me up at the airport! How lucky!!!"

"What an auspicious day! I actually ran into the Gardenia Couple! Wow, this life is worth it!!"

"Lin Xiao!!! Xi Xi!!!"

"..."

The scene erupted into frenzy, the crowd becoming increasingly packed, leaving no hope of escape.

Han Xixi was a little frightened by the scene just now.

However, when she saw that familiar face rushing over and that familiar hand tightly grasping hers, the slight unease in her heart was quickly soothed.

Instead, there was only tranquility.

The commotion and noise around her suddenly disappeared, and amidst the intense dopamine rush, she felt the sweetness of love that had never faded.

Xi Xi even seemed to enjoy the atmosphere, a slight smile appearing on her lips.

Ultimately, the farce was brought under control by a full-scale mobilization of airport police and staff.

Lin Xiao and Han Xixi were able to escape.

Back in their car in the parking lot, the couple, still shaken, looked at each other in a panic, then burst into excited laughter.

Chen Jiajia said she had just been squeezed in the rib area and needed to have a big meal to relieve the pain.

I won't go and be a third wheel for that young couple.

Lin Xiao and Xi Xi naturally went along with her good intentions and heartlessly left her at the airport.

Lin Xiao drove away.

After driving for a while, we didn't get on the highway, but instead entered the city.

Xi Xi found it strange and asked in confusion, "Where are we going? Aren't we going home?"

Lin Xiao's eyes flashed, his smile sly.

"Come with me somewhere first... I have something important to take care of!" (End of Chapter)