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Chapter 112 The Golden Bust! (First Update!)

Lin Yaodong was in front, the excavator was behind, and further behind was a crowd of onlookers.

The excavator tracks made a creaking sound as they moved across the concrete road.

Looking at the mess in the nearby rubble, Lin Qide slowly reached out his right hand towards the bricks, but the moment his hand touched the bricks, he pulled it back as if he had been electrocuted.

He withdrew his hand, clenched his right fist, lay on the ground, and kept pounding it.

The second house to be demolished was not far from Lin Qide's house. Just as they arrived at the other house, they saw an old man, who looked to be about seventy years old, slowly walk out with a small stool and finally sit down by the wall.

Seeing Lin Yaodong approach, the old man revealed a few rotten teeth: "Yaodong, you have to call me brother. Your family was poor when you were young, and I helped you out."

"You've brought people to tear down my wall now, how dare you?"

"What's there to be embarrassed about!" Lin Yaodong handed his phone to someone nearby, calmly walked over, squatted down next to the old man, and said with a smile, "Brother Yaoyang, I heard that your Qihui is preparing for a promotion to deputy section chief. He's your family's hope, but if people outside say that Lin Qihui's father is abusing his power and bullying others back home, that might not be good for him!"

When Ji Yaodong said this, his voice was sinister, and the threat in it was self-evident.

This statement successfully frightened Lin Yaoyang.

The old man's face trembled with rage. He pointed his right index finger, which was gripping his cane, at Lin Yaodong: "You—you—"

You talked for a long time, but couldn't utter a single complete sentence.

Lin Yaodong smiled and held Lin Yaoyang's hand affectionately: "Brother Yaoyang, Qihui's promotion to deputy section chief is an honor for our entire village. We should celebrate with drums and gongs."

What do you think?

Another threat. Lin Yaoyang's face twitched. He was about to speak when Lin Yaodong interrupted him, "Brother Yaoyang, I know you don't want to cause us any trouble."

"But I still want to say that even though you are on welfare, none of us will look down on you. What's that saying again? When you're poor, no one knows you in the city; when you're rich, you have relatives even in the mountains."

"We will definitely make sure Qihui's promotion is a big success, and we will never let anyone know that you have received welfare."

Another strong dose of medicine. Lin Yaoyang gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "You tore down my walls, so you're not allowed to undermine me now!"

"What do you mean I'm undermining you?" Lin Yaodong pretended to be stupid and continued to hold Lin Yaoyang's hand: "I'll call Xiaoman later and tell her to get ready."

"We're all family, let's just have a nice meal together."

"Let Xiaoman get some Moutai, some Jiuzhizun, and some yellow beef from the Southwest. Let's have two hot pot meals and keep it simple."

After saying those two sentences, Lin Yaoyang, who had been sitting on the stool, got up, walked into the yard, picked up a hoe from the wall, and started knocking on the wall himself.

Seeing his anxiety, Lin Yaodong quickly went over and pulled him aside: "Brother Yaoyang, Qihui is an official now, how can you do such things?"

"Doing these things is embarrassing!"

Seeing Lin Yaodong threaten him again and again, Lin Yaoyang opened his mouth, ready to curse his ancestors for eighteen generations, only to find that the other party shared the same ancestor as him, and was even a great-grandfather.

He could only swallow his words, then grabbed Lin Yaodong's collar with both hands: "You better tear down the wall right now and get out of here."

"I fucking don't want to see you! You pimp."

After cursing, Lin Yaoyang pushed Lin Yaodong aside with both hands, then turned and went into the yard.

Seeing Lin Yaoyang enter the house through the gate, Lin Yaodong waved and shouted, "We're brothers, how can you be so heartless!"

"Since you are heartless, then don't blame me for being ruthless."

Turning his head, he indignantly directed the excavator: "Dig now!"

The excavator moved forward, its bucket swinging left and right twice at the wall, causing the brick wall to collapse and the dust it kicked up to engulf the alley.

Amidst the sound of the wall collapsing, Lin Yaoyang's curses rang out: "Lin Yaodong, you pimp!"

Hearing the curses, Lin Yaodong directed the excavator to pile all the construction debris into the yard, clearing the road, and then waved forward: "Next!"

In Mojiatan, Lin Man was leading Li Mingxiu and Lin Chengyuan into a family's home in Group Six. They arrived at a rather opportune moment, as the old lady in the house was feeding a child.

Lin Man chuckled and leaned closer, glanced at the things the old lady was feeding the child, raised his right hand, and slapped it on the forehead.

He then turned to Li Mingxiu beside him and said, "See? This is the rice and oil demon I told you about earlier, the one you have to guard against at all costs."

Li Mingxiu leaned over and looked at the bowl in the old lady's hand. Upon closer inspection, she realized that the bowl in the old lady's left hand did not contain milk powder, but something that looked like rice water.

But the color is slightly yellow.

As someone born in the late 1970s, Li Mingxiu immediately recognized what it was.

The older generation considers rice oil to be very nourishing.

The problem is that rice and oil were considered nourishing in those years because of the scarcity of food. When people were on the verge of starvation, a mouthful of rice and oil could keep them alive.

Or, to put it another way, when others are so hungry they can only swallow cold water, a bowl of rice porridge is truly nourishing.

But now—

Li Mingxiu turned around and patted her chest at Lin Man: "Leave it to me!"

She walked over to the old woman, took the bowl from her hand, and said, "Auntie, do you know why everyone in your family is short?"

"That's because you adjusted the wrong thing."

"Rice gruel is nourishing, but it's missing something. Do you remember how we used to eat rice gruel back then?"

"Boil it until it boils, then add some cooked rice noodles."

"We won't be mixing rice cereal with milk powder anymore. I see you have formula on that shelf over there, don't you?"

"Take that stuff and mix it with rice and oil; that's what you call nourishing."

As she spoke, Li Mingxiu picked up the bowl of rice and oil and walked into the living room, heading towards the milk powder can in front of the television.

I scooped five large spoonfuls of milk powder from the milk powder can into a bowl and stirred it continuously with a spoon. In the end, the originally clear and watery rice oil turned into a bowl of "thin porridge".

Holding the bowl of "thin porridge" back to the old lady, Li Mingxiu pushed the old lady aside and started feeding the child in front of her with a spoon.

Rice oil has little nutritional value, but it has a unique aroma and a good taste. Adding milk powder makes the aroma even more unique.

As soon as the spoon was brought to the child's mouth, the child, who looked to be about ten months old, opened his mouth and slurped up the thin porridge in the spoon in one gulp.

After feeding the old lady several spoonfuls, Li Mingxiu handed the bowl to her: "Look, you need to mix it with powder!"

The old lady took the bowl, turned around, picked up the spoon, and began to feed the child.

Just one spoonful of food makes my heart ache for her face.

Lin Man took two photos with his phone, then turned around and called Lin Chengyun and Li Mingxiu to go out.

Once outside, he turned back to the two of them and said, "Your main job is what I just told you about."

"Xiao Chengyun, you're in charge of ensuring people's livelihood, and while you're at it, take care of the food and drink for those elderly people."

"The company's finance officer and the village's finance officer will arrive in a couple of days, and then someone will be assigned to handle the funds for you."

"As for Aunt Mingxiu, as you've seen, every family has its own way of raising children, some normal and some abnormal."

"What you need to keep an eye on are those abnormal ones, especially those who get divorced and leave their children at home. We need to make sure that our next generation are human beings, not livestock."

"Understood!" Lin Chengyun and Li Mingxiu nodded in unison.

Lin Man took out his phone, glanced at the time, and waved to the two of them: "Let's go and check on the others."

Meanwhile, Amal led Rajad out of the hotel, and instead of wandering around, they went to the village's morning tea stall.

We went to the shop, ordered a cup of tea and a plate of peanuts, and the two of us ate the peanuts while drinking tea and exchanging information we had observed.

Rajad: "This is just an ordinary village, a bit richer than most villages in Iran!"

Amal: "You're right, but this is a village that produces the equipment we need, yet we lack the capability to do so. Where do you think things went wrong?"

Rajad: "Industrialization, China's industrialization process is terrifying. Things that they can buy easily here, we and other countries even need the whole country to deal with. Under such comprehensive industrialization, it is reasonable that this village can produce such equipment."

"But—it's still a bit too terrifying."

Amar: "Do you think we can be like them?"

Rajad shook his head repeatedly: "It's difficult. They made all sorts of preparations decades ago, starting to plan step by step."

"In contrast, in our case, when one president comes to power, he will tear down the platform of another president."

"When a new president comes to power, he will dismantle the platform built by the previous president."

"The cycle repeats itself!"

At this point, Rajad sighed, then pointed to the crowd and excavators emerging from the intersection not far away: "Do you know what they're doing?"

Amal: "I don't know!"

Rajad: "Their deputy village chief, with an excavator, is clearing out those in the village who disregard the rules and undermine their vested interests."

"This is just a small village, but in such a small village, we can actually see a mechanism for independent innovation."

"Think back to where we are now!"

Hearing this, Amar, sitting in the chair opposite him, picked up his tea and remained silent.

After finishing his tea, he looked up, his face full of envy, at the figures behind him. "That's the kind of freedom we want to pursue."

Rajad, who was standing to the side, did not agree, but simply drank his tea in silence.

The excavators were running all day in Hongxing Village, and the noise only subsided a little after 7 p.m.

After dinner, Lin Man discussed tomorrow's plans with Lin Yaodong and the others. Humming a song, she leisurely returned home.

After checking on Lin Xiaoxi's studies, deleting the low-quality videos her father was watching and replacing them with some legitimate ones, and praising her uncles appropriately to make her mother happy for a while, Lin Man finally went back to her room to play games.

Another week has passed, and tonight we can conduct another reward settlement.

A lot has happened this week, with mixed reviews from all sides. The score probably won't be very high; it's likely to be a white score.

I just hope this time the white reward is something good; if not, a maid outfit would be nice too.

Stop rewarding people with things like mutton-fat jade or jadeite vegetables.

That thing was really—

It's not presentable.

Another enemy was slain, and the time came to midnight. The countdown reached zero, and the system notification sounded precisely on time.

[Technology development progress calculation in progress, please wait!]

Villager satisfaction survey in progress.

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: Village Committee Election!

Event 2: Opening a village canteen to provide convenience for elderly people who have lost their only child or live alone.

Event 3: Remove the obstructing wall, repair the drainage ditch, and repair the streetlights and roads.

Event 4: Cleaning up the beach.

Incident 5: Cursing at people who litter.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the villagers' satisfaction score was 82 points.

Official satisfaction assessment in progress.

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: The village committee election was completed.

Incident 2: Wei Zhenliang framed someone, leading to numerous reports.

Incident 3: Cooperating with the disciplinary committee's investigation.

Event 4: Clearing up various historical issues.

Event 5: Advocating scientific and civilized development.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the official satisfaction score is 83 points!

[Enterprise satisfaction calculation in progress.]

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: A foreign business delegation conducted an on-site inspection and reached a preliminary verbal agreement.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the company's satisfaction score was 63 points.

Economic development accounting is underway.

The village collective received 0 yuan this week.

The village collective enterprise received 0 yuan this week.

This week, village enterprises received 0 million yuan in revenue.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the economic development score is 0.

[Teaching development accounting in progress.]

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: Caring for left-behind children and their intellectual development.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the teaching development score is 75 points!

Population calculation in progress.

Compared to last week, there were no new residents transferring out of the village this week, no new residents transferring in, and no new births.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the population development score is 0.

[Ding! The overall score for technological development has been calculated. After verification, the overall score for technological development this week is 5.]

0.5 points, reward: 1 Green Crystal Ore!

50.5 points!

Such a result delighted Lin Man; it was practically a cut-off score for qualifying.

The difference of 0.5 points is very small. If you're just a little unlucky, you'll get white crystal ore today.

But now, it is a green crystal mine.

White things may be expensive, but they are of little use to industrial production or to themselves.

Green is different. Last time it was gold, which is a hard currency. Besides serving as a valuable currency, it can be used to produce all kinds of metal connecting materials.

I wonder what it will be like this time.

Lin Man closed the system panel, and the green crystal ball appeared in front of him.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that this time the green crystal ore was heavier.

There might be something good inside.

It might just be a bag of gold!

Thinking of this, Lin Man squeezed the green crystal ore with force.

The next second, he felt a cold touch on his fingertips, followed by a tremendous force that almost knocked him to the ground.

Fortunately, he wasn't far from his bed, and he released his grip just as the force was about to knock him over.

The next second, with a loud bang, the thing in his hand fell onto the bed.

When Lin Man came to his senses, he could finally see what the thing was.

A bust approximately 35 cm high, 20 cm wide, and 15 cm thick!

Golden bust!

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