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Besides, at this moment, Gao Qilin only wanted to meet with the village chief of Shangguan Village to find out the situation of the village.

Only in this way can he address the root cause of the problem; otherwise, how can he alleviate poverty if he doesn't even understand the situation of this village?

"Hello, you must be the village chief!"

As soon as Gao Qilin saw the village chief, he bowed to him.

The village chief of Shangguan Village was also wearing a tattered garment of indistinguishable color, with several holes in it.

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But the village chief's airs remained, and he saw Gao Qilin greeting him.

The village chief handed Gao Qilin a long pipe that was almost covered in patina.

"Guest, have a puff! This is aged tobacco, it's really good! Homegrown, it's strong enough!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Qilin glanced down at the pipe that was almost covered in patina and couldn't help but shudder.

However, Gao Qilin knew he couldn't refuse.

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He understood that these elderly people, though seemingly old-fashioned, were actually very warm-hearted.

If I refuse to even smoke the cigarettes they offer me.

These villagers will feel that you dislike them, and then they won't stop talking to you.

Gao Qilin often deals with all sorts of people, so he understands this principle better than many others.

At this moment, Gao Qilin took a few puffs of the tobacco the village chief handed him, and he felt that his mind was much clearer.

However, smoking this ancient tobacco, which has not been tempered by modern civilization, is really quite intoxicating.

"How about it, young man? The tobacco leaves from our Shangguan Village are pretty good, aren't they?"

"Excellent! This is truly the best tobacco I've ever smoked, sir. But why don't you find a way to sell such fine tobacco?"

Gao Qilin's words were just a casual remark; he wanted to inspire the villagers of Shangguan Village to get rich through business.

But when the old man heard this, he was so angry that his hands trembled.

"Sigh! I don't want to read it, but this matter isn't as simple as just talking about it!"

"Young man, you're too young to understand!"

Chapter 256 The Village Chief's Difficulties

“Young man! To be honest, I’ve been the village chief in this village for almost thirty years, but this is only the third time I’ve seen an outsider come to our village.”

"I don't know what brings you to our Shangguan Village, but I do know that our village is extremely poor!"

"Let's take Jinghai City for example. I went there once when I was young, forty years ago, and there were already buses there!"

When the old village chief talked about this, his face was full of pride, and Gao Qilin knew it when he saw this.

It's likely that very few villagers in Shangguan Village have ever been to Jinghai "320" City.

They usually just carry the vegetables they grow to the surrounding towns to sell.

After selling the vegetables, they would run home before it got dark.

But when it gets dark, they will just find a place to sleep anywhere. These are the people who are called refugees.

But refugees are people too, and Gao Qilin felt extremely sad when he thought of this.

But he did not interrupt the village chief, as was the case at the Qiangsheng Group meetings on a regular basis.

No one ever dared to interrupt Gao Qilin's speech. Whenever someone wanted to say something, they had to wait until Gao Qilin had finished speaking.

They only dared to speak then, but now, Gao Qilin seemed like a child in front of the old village chief of Shangguan Village.

After the village chief of Shangguan Village had finished saying what he wanted to say, Gao Qilin smiled and said to the old village chief.

"Since life in the village is so difficult, haven't the villagers ever thought about leaving the village to try their luck elsewhere all these years?"

It would have been better if Gao Qilin hadn't said those words; they only made the old village chief angrier!

"Ugh! Who wouldn't want to leave this awful place!"

"Once you leave home, you have to rely on yourself for everything. No one helps you, no one cares about you, and you don't even know if others team up to cheat you!"

The old village chief was trembling with anger when he said this!

The old, patina-covered pipe in his hand trembled violently along with the old village chief's body.

According to the old village chief's description, Gao Qilin learned that the villagers of Shangguan Village had also wanted to leave before.

Moreover, those who left the village were mostly young and middle-aged men.

They knew it was tough to make a living outside, but this village was just too poor.

To avoid being bullied by outsiders, a dozen or so young people from Shangguan Village left the village together.

But they were of no use after leaving the village, and later these young people returned.

They cried to the villagers, saying that life outside was unbearable for humans.

Not only do they have to work more than ten hours a day, but when it comes time to pay wages, those bosses deduct their wages for various reasons.

"Waaaaah! These bosses don't treat us like human beings at all!"

"They're not human. They promised to pay me 1,500 a month, but they only give me 100 a month, saying they'll only pay us at the end of the year!"

"But by the end of the year, after all the deductions, they only gave us a few hundred yuan. After deducting the transportation costs, we only had a few dozen yuan left! Waaah!"

After such a painful lesson, the young people in Shangguan Village never had the idea of ​​going out to work again.

In their view, life in this village was a bit poor and a bit hard.

But by helping each other, they managed to get by. And while working away from home offered glimpses of the outside world...

But that glamorous world has nothing to do with me; it's the world of the rich.

"Kid! This big city is a paradise for the rich, but also a hellish battlefield for us poor people!"

As the old village chief said this, he couldn't help but sigh again.

"Hahaha! I only earned eighty-nine after working for a year! Hahahaha!"

No sooner had the old village chief finished speaking than a madman wearing only a pair of dirty underwear ran out.

No matter where he goes, he repeats the same sentence.

Upon seeing this, Gao Qilin immediately understood.

He knew that the young man must have gone crazy because he couldn't handle the stimulation.

"Look at that young man, he went out to work ten years ago and was swindled by his boss. Kid, you know we rural people are pretty simple-minded!"

"We'll believe whatever those bosses outside say!"

"Yes, we country folk are naive! But you can't just lie to us like this!"

The old village chief's words made Gao Qilin feel as if this impoverished village, with a poverty rate of 1.9, was hiding an unfinished history of blood and tears.

Gao Qilin felt that he could not let the village continue to be so poor, no matter what.

He had to find a way to change the fate of this village. Even if Zhong Xiaoai no longer expected the gift, he still had to change the village.

However, change is not something that can be achieved overnight; it must be put into practice.

At this moment, Gao Qilin looked at the crazy young man in the distance, and some other thoughts began to form in his mind.

He felt he could at least help this young man escape his current situation.

Chapter 257 A Good Start

"Village chief, I can guarantee you with my own hands that your village will never suffer again!"

At this moment, Gao Qilin looked at the young man who had gone mad, and suddenly an idea came to him.

Gao Qilin had done too many successful things in the past, and he always felt that as long as he could think of something...

He was definitely capable of doing it; he simply misjudged the situation.

When he naively thought that as long as he shouted a few slogans in front of the old man, the old man would believe him, he was wrong.

To everyone's surprise, the old man merely glanced coldly at Gao Qilin, then let out a sneer.

"Baby, countless people before you have said the same thing!"

"And one of them is even a high-ranking official, saying he wants to help our Shangguan Village escape poverty and become prosperous!"

"And what's the result? All these years have passed, and our lives are still the same as before, aren't they?"

"Honestly, although we're having a tough time right now, I don't think things will get any worse!"

The old village chief then recounted what the swindlers had said and what they had done.

It turns out that before Gao Qilin, several people had indeed visited Shangguan Village.

However, after these people arrived, they didn't really want to change the village like Gao Qilin did.

They simply felt that the village had a lot of usable natural resources and a large pool of very cheap labor.