The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 120 Famous

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"Oh my god..." Wei Qingqing exclaimed in shock, "How...how naughty they are..."

After struggling for a while, Wei Qingqing finally described her in-laws as "mischievous," unable to think of a better adjective.

"How dare you talk like that? 'Naughty'? Why don't you call them prickly?" Yang Ming reached out and pinched Wei Qingqing's chest. "If you keep talking nonsense, you'll regret it..."

"You're so annoying..." Wei Qingqing said coquettishly, swatting away Yang Ming's naughty hand. "You dare to mess with me? Do you know who protects me? It'll scare you to death if I tell you..."

"Who is it? You've really messed things up?" Yang Ming threw off his blanket, crawled into Wei Qingqing's bed, pinned her down, and looked down at her.

"Of course it's Mom! If you dare to bully me, see if Mom will teach you a lesson..." Wei Qingqing's breathing became a little rapid.

"I'm bullying you, go ahead and tell on me, let's see if Mom sides with you or me..." Yang Ming said, pulling the blanket up to cover the two of them.

The stars twinkled outside the window, but Zhang Yue felt a little melancholy. Staying in the government office all day long was incredibly boring. After a while, she wanted to find some excitement to spice up her life. Otherwise, the monotony would wear down her fighting spirit and passion.

"Lily, what are you doing?" Zhang Yue's slender fingers flew across the keyboard as she chatted with Liu Lili.

"Nothing much, Phoenix and I are just waiting for Hanfu at Aunt Liu's house..." A reply immediately appeared in the chat window.

"I'm so bored I'm practically rotting away..."

"Moldy? That means you're covered in green mold! Did you run into Shrek and fall into a love trap...?"

"Pah... If you keep talking nonsense, I'll crawl through the computer and chop you up..." Zhang Yue's fingers flew across the screen.

"Come on over if you dare. Let me tell you beforehand, I'm using my phone to access the internet, so be careful you don't get stuck inside." He ended with a smug emoji.

"Huh? Why can't we get out?" Zhang Yue asked, puzzled.

"Duh? You went in through the computer, so how can you come out through the phone?" The message ended with a "You're so stupid" emoji.

Zhang Yue looked embarrassed: "Once the Hanfu is finished, you must lend it to me to wear..."

"No, we have different body types. If I wear this, I'll definitely look slender and beautiful, but you'll look different. You'll definitely look like a little penguin."

Zhang Yue noticed a flaw in the tone of their conversation. Liu Lili would never speak to her in that tone. On the contrary, Zhang Fenghuang always bullied her: "Second brother, I found out. It must be you on the other end. You despicable and shameless bastard, you know you're deceiving my feelings, right?" She even sent an angry emoji at the end.

"You only realized it now? You're so stupid. I bet you're puffing out your cheeks and trying to get the hang of it right now. Be careful, your face is naturally round like an apple, don't puff it up into a toad face..." A mocking emoji.

"I hate it, I hate it, I hate it..." Zhang Yue uttered three "I hate it"s in a row.

"Thank you for the compliment. Once Aunt Liu has finished making the Hanfu for us, I will definitely let you see it. After all, we are good friends." A laughing emoji.

"You wait, when the boss comes, I'll talk to her and I'll definitely praise you in front of her..." Zhang Yue proudly played her trump card.

"Ah? Good Yueyue, please don't tell the boss..." A pleading expression.

"No way... You'd look absolutely stunning in Hanfu, how could I not call the boss over so he could get a proper look at you?" A mischievous grin.

"Yueyue, you can't be so inconsiderate. At worst, I'll bring you some milk when I get back..." with a fawning expression.

"Milk? Who hasn't drunk it? I want to wear your Hanfu..." Zhang Yue insisted.

"Apples, peaches, pears, grapes, melons, whatever you want to eat, I'll bring it to you..." Zhang Fenghuang openly bribed him.

Zhang Yue's eyes widened: "Apples, pears, and grapes are nothing new, but now there are peaches and melons?" She had an expression that said, "I don't believe it."

"That stinky farmer! You have no idea, there's always good food at that stinky farmer's house. Lily almost regretted not choosing that stinky farmer back then, and she's always jealous of Wei Qingqing." An exaggerated expression.

Zhang Yue swallowed hard: "Tell me, what delicious food do they have at home?" She had a curious expression on her face.

"Apples, pears, grapes, peaches, melons, watermelons, dates, apricots, chestnuts, persimmons, milk, eggs... Their village has already started agritourism businesses; the signs were just put up today, and they've even launched a promotional website..."

"Huh? Quickly give me their website address, I want to go and take a look..." with an "eager" expression.

"So, are you still going to tell the boss?" A provocative expression.

Zhang Yue's fingers flew across the keyboard: "I'll count to three. If you still haven't given me the website address, I'll call the boss over right now... one."

"Search 'Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring' on Baidu." Zhang Fenghuang responded quickly, which shows the extent of her fear of her boss, Zhu Yun.

"Hmph, you dare to lie to me? Just you wait..." With a smug expression, Zhang Yue opened her browser, went to Baidu, and searched for the six keywords "Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring".

Immediately, links to "Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring" appeared online. Zhang Yue looked at them, clicked on the official website of "Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring," and a webpage popped up immediately.

With a notification sound, the little penguin moved, "How about it? Did I lie to you? Yueyue, I wouldn't dare lie to you..." with a pleading emoticon.

"Wait until I finish reading this..." with a dismissive expression.

Zhang Yue quickly clicked on the webpage, checking the information on it.

"Oh my... this is Yang Ming's house? It's really quite charming..." Zhang Yue saw a photo of Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing in an interior picture and recognized the owner of the house.

Zhang Yue quickly browsed through the pictures, occasionally letting out exclamations of surprise. At the very end, she even found a note.

Clicking on the notes immediately brought up a video window on the webpage.

"Wow...this is...a hot spring???" Zhang Yue's eyes widened. She had heard that Yang Ming's family had a private hot spring, but she had never really paid attention to it. In fact, Zhang Yue was not a person who liked to soak in hot springs. She usually just took a shower in the rain, and her family didn't even have a bathtub.

But at this moment, seeing a hot spring with rising white mist amidst a field of flowers and tender grass, and the little wooden house beside it, her heart stirred. This was no ordinary place; it was a paradise on earth…

"Phoenix, I'm planning to visit Yang Ming's house tomorrow. Where will you pick me up?" Zhang Yue immediately sent a message to Zhang Phoenix.

"Take the 5 a.m. bus to Yungu County tomorrow! Wait for me at the bus station in the county, I'll pick you up there..." Zhang Fenghuang replied immediately, not daring to delay at all.

"Okay, I'm logging off. I need to take a good look at their website..." After sending the message, Zhang Yue immediately closed QQ and focused on browsing the web.

"Mom, where are we going to play tomorrow?" A little girl peeked into her parents' bedroom.

"Oh dear... Erfang... what time is it and you're still not asleep?" The person sleeping on the bed was startled and raised her head from her back to complain.

"Our school's senior students have exams tomorrow, and we finally get two days off. What's wrong with staying up a little later..." The little girl crawled into the room and climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed).

"Didn't we agree to go to the city to buy clothes..." The person on the bed sat up, casually turned on the bedside lamp, and slapped the person sleeping like a log next to them. "Your dad's a real heavy sleeper. If a thug comes in, it'll be up to us, mother and son, to handle it..."

"Dad teaches high school and he's usually quite tired, so let him sleep..." The little girl was very concerned about her father.

"Hmph, does Mom not get tired of teaching elementary school... Tell me, have you changed your mind again? Where are you planning to go?" The mother affectionately pinched her daughter's little nose.

"Let's go to a farmhouse tomorrow? It's not far from here..." the little girl said sweetly.

"You only have two days off..." Mom hesitated.

"One day is enough! Let's go, let's go..." the little girl pleaded.

"Okay, okay, tell me, where shall we go?" Mom had no choice but to give in after being pestered so much.

"Let's go to Zhengjia Village, in Huaishu Township, Yunggu County. They just opened a new agritainment business there, it's so much fun!" the little girl said.

"Hmm? This place name... I feel like I've heard it somewhere before?" Mom frowned.

"October 1st, on the train..." The father, who was sleeping, suddenly spoke, startling the mother and daughter.

"Oh my god, you scared me to death! Weren't you asleep?" Mom punched Dad in the bottom.

"I woke up when Erfang came into the room, and I didn't say a word." Dad sat up, pinched the bridge of his nose, and calmed himself down.

"Just to scare us?" Mom said irritably.

"Hehe, I'm protecting you guys. If any bad guys come in and see I'm not fully awake, they'll definitely lower their guard, making it easier for me to rescue you..." Dad chuckled. "What's that saying again? A dog that bites doesn't bark..."

"Pfft..." The mother and daughter laughed at the same time. The mother punched the father's arm and scolded, "How can you say that? You call yourself a dog..."

"Dad, is this a metaphor? How can a dog compare to my dad? My dad is much better than a dog..." The little girl is quite mischievous.

"Hehehe, did you hear that? In your daughter's eyes, you're much better than a dog..." Mom laughed even harder.

"You little brat, what are you saying? Comparing a dog to your father???" The father glared and scolded.

"Ah? Yes, yes, yes... Daddy is no match for the dog, the dog is much better than Daddy..." The little girl quickly corrected herself.

"Hehehehehe..." Mom laughed even harder.

"You brat, watch out or I'll give you a good spanking..." Dad's eyes widened even more.

The little girl mischievously stuck out her tongue and giggled.

"Alright, alright, what did you mean by October 1st, on the train?" Mom started to change the subject, or rather, to bring the topic back to the main point.

"I forgot, that family of three who tempted us with braised carp and pork belly..." Dad has a very good memory.

"Oh! It's the one we gave to eat..." Mom remembered, looking like she suddenly realized. The key point is that it was the best peach she had ever eaten, so it's normal for her to remember it so vividly.

"Yes, I saw their photos when I was looking up information about agritainment venues online..." the little girl said excitedly.

"I see, you've got your eye on their fruit, haven't you? No wonder you don't even want to go to the city anymore..." Mom suddenly realized.

The mother and daughter had already agreed to go to the city tomorrow to shop around and buy some pretty clothes. This should be the biggest attraction for the girl.

"I don't want to eat it. I just want to... buy it for Grandpa. Grandpa's birthday is coming up soon..." the little girl explained somewhat embarrassedly.

"Stop bringing your grandfather into this. His birthday is still over a month away..." Dad glared at him.

The little girl's face turned bright red, and she stuck out her tongue shyly.

"Alright, since our daughter is so hungry for it, let's go to Zhengjia Village..." Mom swallowed hard and made the decision.

"Okay!" Dad nodded, and even licked his lips with a look of lingering satisfaction.

"I'm not going to Zhengjia Village anymore. I need to prove to my parents that I'm not a greedy girl..." The little girl's eyes lit up when she saw her parents licking their lips and swallowing their saliva.

"Not going? You were the one who said you were going, and you're the one who said you weren't going. Don't you have any sense of what you're doing?" Mom said, glaring at her.

"Sigh... don't talk about children..." The father, clearly experienced, knew what his daughter was up to the moment he saw her eyes darting around, and immediately came up with a solution. "We'll still go to the city tomorrow, as planned..."

The little girl was dumbfounded and quickly said, "Let's go to Zhengjia Village, listen to Mom..." After saying that, she quickly slipped back to her room.

"This little girl is getting more and more cunning..." The mother's reaction was quick as well. Seeing her daughter's reaction, she immediately realized and couldn't help but shake her head and laugh.

"Alright, alright, let's go to sleep..." Dad lay down, yawned, and continued sleeping.

Mom couldn't sleep, so she leaned against Dad and asked, "Old Wang, do you think those two still recognize us?"

Dad fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow, and mumbled sleepily, "Of course we know each other, we're card-playing buddies, we even pretend to be ghosts together to scare people..."

"We're just strangers who met by chance, how could I possibly remember you..." Mom said.

"Whether you remember or not is up to you. Didn't we only remember them because of their fruit?" Dad said.

"Hmph, what you said makes sense. It's fate that we travel together by train, but that's all it is, just a friendship between fellow travelers..." Mom said.

"Dafang, are you dating someone?" Dad suddenly started to ask his eldest daughter.

"Hmm? I don't think so?" The mother was a little surprised, wondering why her husband would suddenly say this.

"When I was chatting the day before yesterday, I saw Da Fang's profile and there was a photo in it..." Dad's sleepiness disappeared, he put his hands behind his head and looked up at the ceiling.

"A photo, taken with a man?" The mother became wary.

"Of course, even though the man's face was blurred, I could tell at a glance that he was a man, and not ugly at all..." Dad said.

Mom raised her eyebrows, twisted her body, and let her legs dangle off the bed. She put on her slippers and went to her daughter's room: "Erfang, quickly open your sister's social media profile so I can see what your brother-in-law looks like..."

"What? Brother-in-law?" The little girl's voice rose excitedly.

"Gossip is a woman's talent, regardless of age..." Dad muttered, turning over to continue sleeping. But then, as if remembering something, he sat up and exclaimed, "Don't ask her. Let nature take its course. Maybe she's fine, but if you ask, something will really happen..."

"Old Tao? Did you see that... Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring website..." Tao Yangdong was sleeping when a phone call woke him up. After picking up the receiver, he heard his old friend Li Tinggui's excited voice.

"What's wrong?" Tao Yangdong perked up. Since Old Li was using this tone, he must have discovered a treasure.

"Turn on your computer, go to the Zhengjia Village Little Peach Blossom Spring website, and you'll see..." Li Tinggui said.

"Okay, okay..." Tao Yangdong hung up the phone, put on his clothes, got out of bed, and turned on his computer.

"What are you doing? Playing on the computer so late at night..." Tao Yangdong's wife, Zhou Yun, said groggily.

"You go to sleep first. Old Li might have found something good. Let me see what it is..." Tao Yangdong said.

"Okay, you can see..." Zhou Yun drifted off to sleep again.

Tao Yangdong turned on his computer, connected to broadband, and opened the promotional website for Zhengjia Village's Little Peach Blossom Paradise.

"What's going on with Lao Li? It's just a tourism promotion website, isn't it?" Tao Yangdong didn't understand what Lao Li meant.

Just then, the phone rang again.

"Hey? Old Li, what do you want me to see?" Tao Yangdong said as he answered the phone.

"Look at the picture above, and you'll probably understand: a donkey cart made of huanghuali wood, a kang table made of mahogany, a leather trunk made of zitan wood, a large wardrobe made of walnut wood..." Old Li's tone could no longer be described as excited, but rather as ecstatic.

Tao Yangdong's eyes widened as he listened to Li Tinggui's words. He threw down the phone, ran to the computer, and began to examine the pictures one by one.

"A donkey cart? Isn't that Yang Ming's donkey cart? A rosewood kang table... a sandalwood leather trunk... a chicken-wing wood long table... a beechwood eight-immortal table... a walnut wood cabinet... an ironwood armchair..." With each picture, Tao Yangdong was shocked. "What kind of place is this? How can it be so..."

"Old Tao, Old Tao..." Old Li's voice still came through the phone that Tao Yangdong had thrown down. In the quiet night, it sounded very jarring. The key point was that the call quality of ordinary people's phones was not very good.

"Yes, yes..." Tao Yangdong answered the phone quickly, his voice becoming extremely excited.

"Let's go to Zhengjia Village tomorrow, okay..." Old Li's voice trembled, and there was a sense of urgency in it.

"Alright, alright, let's hurry up and go, lest our competitors see it and beat us to it. Just the pictures on the website show fifteen pieces of woodenware; who knows how many more weren't photographed? I roughly estimated that Zhengjia Village, just in terms of selling woodenware, might rival Huaxi Village..." Tao Yangdong said, "Did you see that donkey cart? That's the rosewood donkey cart I told you about... the one from the wedding banquet we were crashing..."

"Oh? So the donkey cart you were talking about is that one. This world is really small, there are familiar faces everywhere..." Old Li said.

"Of course... what time should we go tomorrow?" Tao Yangdong said.

"Our whole family will go at 5 a.m. tomorrow. You should bring your sister-in-law too. We'll treat this trip as a vacation. I'll drive a ten-seater sedan..." Old Li said.

"Alright, let's treat this as a trip..." Tao Yangdong thought about it and realized that made sense. If they were tourists, the villagers wouldn't be too wary of them, and they might be able to buy those large wooden items for a few hundred yuan.

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