Marry a female star at a bargain price

Chapter 57 57. School District House Marriage Rate Unfinished Building

When Lin Xiao, covered in mud and limping with his right butt sticking out, came back to the town compound, everyone immediately stopped to watch.

Lin Xiao did not feel embarrassed. He felt more at ease than ever before - a sense of security as if his feet were on the mud!

When I entered the office building, I happened to meet the mayor Qin Zheng who was about to go out.

Qin Zhenggang saw him like this and couldn't help but frowned: "What are you doing?"

Lin Xiao smiled and explained what happened on the mountain.

Qin Zhenggang's eyes lit up.

"Going to patrol the mountains?"

"Yes, look at each village!"

"..."

Qin Zhenggang didn't say anything. He looked at the mud stains on his pants again and nodded, "Go home and rest, change your clothes, and apply medicine!"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "There are clothes in the office, don't worry, Qin Zhen!"

The implication is that he will not go home.

Qin Zhenggang was more and more surprised, but he didn't say anything and drove his old car to the county.

Lin Xiao returned to the office.

I took off my muddy pants, stuck my butt out and used a mirror for a long time to see the scars on my buttocks clearly. There was no bleeding, but it was red and covered with tiny dots made by chestnut shells.

This injury is not serious enough to be reported as a work-related injury, but it hurts so much that I can hardly sit down.

He just stood there, and when he got tired he sat down and rested for a while.

At this time, Deputy Mayor Jia Minglu knocked on the door and came in, smiling and telling him what Qin Zhenggang had told him in the morning.

"The mayor asked you, a great talent, to come up with some good ideas to help farmers increase the sales of chestnuts!" Jia Minglu smiled with ambiguous meaning.

Lin Xiao knew that this guy seemed to come to ask him for advice, but in fact he came to show his power.

He could guess what Jia Minglu was thinking: I want to see what a young man like you can do!

To be honest, Lin Xiao didn't need to prove anything to him, and he was too lazy to play such a boring game with him.

But if the market for chestnuts can be really opened up, it will indeed be a good thing for the farmers.

This has nothing to do with whether or not to compete with Jia Minglu.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Brother Ming, let me think about it!"

Jia Minglu smiled coldly: "Okay, then think about it carefully, the livelihoods of more than 4,000 chestnut farmers in the town depend on you!"

After saying this, Jia Minglu walked away leisurely, with an expression as if he was waiting to see a joke.

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes helplessly.

……

When he got home in the evening, his mother saw him limping and complained to him.

"You signed up for this Young Talent Program without even discussing it with us. Now look what you have here, and you come back every other day covered in mud and wounds!"

Zhou Xiuping felt distressed and angry. "You don't want to stay in the provincial capital, but come to the countryside to get involved. I really admire you. We are just ordinary people. Why dream of getting promoted and getting rich? It would be enough to live a stable life..."

Lin Xiao didn't say anything and let his mother scold him.

At that time, I signed up to be a young scholar, and the reason I gave to my parents was that I could go to the countryside to train for a few years and then be promoted to a full-time officer when I returned.

Only then did my parents agree.

I am in such a pitiful state now, it is only right that my mother blames me.

After taking a shower and applying some ointment, Lin Xiao went to have dinner.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw a sack of raw chestnuts piled at the door, which made him frown - he had been fighting with chestnuts all day!
"Where did you get these chestnuts?" he asked. "Your aunt brought them. They are all wild chestnuts grown in the mountains. They couldn't finish eating them, so they sent a sack of them."

Zhou Xiuping said as she brought a large pot of freshly cooked chestnuts to the table. "Here, they're freshly cooked. Eat them while they're hot!"

Lin Xiao had no appetite at all.

Suddenly I remembered that Han Xixi said she liked to eat sugar-roasted chestnuts, so I asked, "Mom, can you make sugar-roasted chestnuts?"

Zhou Xiuping smiled and said, "Why, do you like fried food with sugar?"

Lin Xiao scratched his head: "Hmm... boiled ones have no taste, fried ones with sugar are delicious!"

Zhou Xiuping nodded with a smile on her face.

As a mother, I love to hear my children say what they want to eat. Even if I don’t know how to cook it or it is difficult to make, I am willing to spend time and energy to research it.

"Okay, mom will make it for you tomorrow. How hard is it to stir-fry some sugar?"

"Hey, good!"

Dad Lin Jianping was still working outside and hadn't come back yet, so the mother and son were having dinner together.

As they ate, Zhou Xiuping sighed and said, "Alas, your fourth cousin will probably be single for the rest of his life!"

Lin Xiao raised his head: "Zhou Zhenpeng? Didn't you say last time that you had found someone you liked and brought him home... Did the talks break down again?"

Zhou Xiuping is the youngest daughter in her mother's family. She has four older brothers and a bunch of nephews.

Twenty years ago this was a good thing.

But now, only three of the six nephews are married, and the remaining three are still single. It is basically impossible to find girls of the right age in the surrounding area.

And it's not just their family. This situation is basically the same in every county, town and village.

Zhou Zhenpeng is 32 years old this year. He is the most promising among Lin Xiao's cousins. He drives a large truck for transportation and is willing to endure hardships. He just bought himself a four-wheel drive truck last year. He should be the one with the best hope of being single among his brothers.

However, even such a good candidate has been on blind dates for seven or eight years and still has not escaped the fate of being a bachelor.

Zhou Xiuping sighed and said, "We were talking very well. The betrothal gift was 18 yuan, and your uncle and aunt gritted their teeth and agreed. They even came to borrow money last week! But before I transferred the money to them, they told me that they didn't need it anymore. The girl changed her mind and wanted to buy a house in the county town - how could I afford it? So they just blew it!"

Before his mother finished speaking, Lin Xiao had already guessed the direction of the story.

Not to mention my grandmother's family, just take my own cousins, all of them require that the wives they are looking for have a house in the county town - building a house in the countryside is not even an option.

It is understandable that the new daughter-in-law in Linjia Village has this request.

After all, Linjia Village is close to the county town, so it is not excessive to ask for a suite in the city.

But Zhou Xiuping's parents' home is in Chaobai Town, the farthest town from the county, more than 30 kilometers away from the county. She has a family, a business, and fields in the village. Why must she come to the county?

Lin Xiao also couldn't understand it.

"Do I have to buy a house in the county? Can't I buy a house in the town?"

"Girls nowadays have their eyes on the top of their heads. Who would want to look at a house in town?"

Zhou Xiuping was very disgusted with the decline of morals and added, "But then again, studying in the village is definitely not as good as studying in the county town. Isn't housing in the school district important now?"

Lin Xiao smiled helplessly and said, "Speaking of school district housing, the number of students from Chaobai Middle School who are admitted to Anyang No. 1 Middle School every year is well-known in the whole county. The quality of Chaobai Central Primary School is also very good. This is a real school district housing, and the housing price is much cheaper than in the county. Isn't it better?"

Zhou Xiuping looked helpless: "That's right! Besides, Chaobai Town is close to the provincial capital. Don't young people like to go to the city to play? Then it would be more fun to go to Ninghai than to stay in Anyang... I don't know what young people think!"

Lin Xiao pursed his lips.

It is not difficult to understand the young girls' thoughts, but he suddenly realized that this might be a good business opportunity.

There are many older single men like my cousin Zhou Zhenpeng in Chaobai Town, and it is a common phenomenon in the entire province.

Improving the marriage rate among young people of marriageable age is also a key task for Nanzhou Province at present, and has almost risen to the same level of importance as economic development.

"Housing in school districts, marriage rates, unfinished buildings... I need to sort them out carefully!"

(End of this chapter)