Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"Ugh."

The village chief sighed. Just now, Li Yunshan had offended Director Jin by talking to him like that.

This made the village chief extremely annoyed. If he had known this would be the outcome, he wouldn't have called Li Yunshan over.

"Yunshan, can't you speak a little more tactfully?"

The village chief couldn't help but complain.

"Village chief, I don't know how to put it tactfully either. He's trying to steal our village's primary school construction funds. I'm being lenient by not killing him with a shovel."

Li Yunshan spread his hands.

"Why did that official leave in such a huff?"

Just then, several villagers ran over and asked.

Before the village chief could speak, Li Yunshan spoke first: "That official wanted the village chief to transfer all the construction funds for the village primary school that I donated to the commune's education office so that he could allocate and use them in a unified manner. The village chief and I blocked him, and he left in anger."

The village chief's previously grim expression softened somewhat.

"What? He wants to divert the construction funds for our village primary school? Who does he think he is? This money was donated by you, why should he get it?"

"They said it was allocated to the commune's education office for unified distribution and use, but in reality, they wanted to operate behind closed doors and embezzle a portion of the money."

"Once this money is transferred out, it's hard to say whether it will come back to our village to build our village primary school, and how much of it will actually be used for that purpose."

"Village chief, you can't let Li Yunshan take away this money he donated. Our entire village, young and old, will not allow it."

"Yes, it concerns the construction of our village primary school, which is related to the schooling of our village's children. Village chief, you can't make a mistake."

Several villagers were talking all at once.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

After the village primary school collapsed, the village children could only attend classes in the newly cleared vacant granary for the time being, but this was not a long-term solution.

Therefore, the reconstruction of the village primary school is of great importance and cannot be taken lightly. The village chief is well aware of the implications.

When Jin Jianbin came to the village office and hinted that he was going to transfer all the money, he only thought about playing along and keeping Jin Jianbin calm before seeking a solution.

Unexpectedly, when he called Li Yunshan over, Li Yunshan went straight to the point and rejected Jin Jianbin.

Since that's the case, then there's nothing to worry about.

If Jin Jianbin's primary school in Ganka Village is in trouble, he can simply report it to the commune, the county, or higher authorities.

……

After leaving Guapigou Village, Jin Jianbin returned to the commune in a huff and puff, and went back to his office.

He sat in his office chair, his face terribly gloomy.

The thought that his commune cadres held secure jobs with the state, and that his father-in-law was the second-in-command in the county's education system, making him someone everyone respected, was incredibly disheartening. Yet, this young man had dared to speak to him so openly and blatantly. Jin Jianbin felt utterly humiliated and lost face.

"This matter cannot be left like this. If we don't deal with it severely, how will I be able to live in Xiangyang Commune in the future?"

Jin Jianbin thought for a moment, and his originally gloomy expression gradually relaxed, with the corners of his mouth slowly turning up.

"Fatty Cai, come here for a second."

Jin Jianbin called out.

"Why."

An echo came from the next office, and soon a fat, middle-aged man walked into Jin Jianbin's office: "Director Jin, what can I do for you?"

Jin Jianbin, relying on his father-in-law being the second-in-command in the county's education system and himself being the director and head of the Xiangyang Commune Education Office, had long been accustomed to acting arrogantly and domineeringly.

After several years of his influence, the few staff members in the Xiangyang Commune Education Office were all corrupted by him and turned into his lackeys who obeyed his every command. If he told them to go east, they would never go west; if he told them to catch a dog, they would never chase a chicken.

"You know about the collapse of the Guapigou Village Primary School, right?"

"Yes, Director Jin, what's up?"

"Come here, I have something to say to you."

Jin Jianbin gestured for Cai Ren to come closer, and then whispered something in his ear.

"Director Jin, the village chief of Guapigou Village is really ungrateful. Don't worry, I will teach them a lesson and let them know that if they offend you in Xiangyang Commune, they will find it impossible to get anything done in education."

Fatty Cai patted his chest and made a promise, thinking that he had to do a good job of the task assigned by Director Jin. He was sure that Director Jin would get his share of benefits when he was promoted.

……

"Xiulan, I'm going to the county town."

The next day, it was dawn.

Dou Dou was still fast asleep in bed, and Lin Xiulan had just woken up when Li Yunshan had already prepared breakfast and filled his own stomach first.

Li Yunshan used a piece of red cloth to carefully wrap the money he had earned at the Hongxing Forest Farm, then put it in his inner pocket. After buttoning up his cotton-padded coat, he said to Lin Xiulan.

"Okay, go early and come back early, be careful on the road."

Lin Xiulan got up from the pit, walked up to Li Yunshan, carefully straightened his collar and hem, and gave him some instructions.

She knew that Li Yunshan had gone to the county town to deposit that money.

"Okay, I understand."

Li Yunshan nodded, kissed Lin Xiulan on the forehead, then went out, rode his bicycle, and headed towards the village entrance.

Although it was already daylight, it was still early, and there were hardly any people walking around in the village.

As Li Yunshan rode his bicycle toward the village entrance, he could see the ruins of the village primary school in the distance.

After two days of cleanup, more than half of the ruins of the village primary school have been cleared, leaving only two collapsed walls that are only half intact, as well as some broken bricks and tiles that have not been cleared.

"After clearing away these ruins, the next step is to dig the foundation, then prepare the building materials, and wait for spring to warm up so that the new school can be built."

Looking at the ruins of the village primary school, Li Yunshan couldn't help but think to himself as he rode his bicycle.

"Boom..."

Just then, a sound came.

When Li Yunshan looked, he saw that it was the ruins of the village primary school, where the two remaining walls had collapsed.

But at the very moment those two walls collapsed, Li Yunshan keenly noticed that something wrapped in cloth seemed to have rolled into the ruins along with the collapsed bricks.

"Something hidden in the wall?"

Li Yunshan was immediately puzzled.

He thought about it and realized that the village primary school was originally a landlord's compound. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, some of the landlords died or fled, and the landlord's compound was transformed into the village primary school.

Could that package that rolled into the ruins along with the collapsed bricks have been something left behind by the landlord when he fled back then?

With this in mind, Li Yunshan felt it was increasingly possible.

So when I passed the ruins of the village primary school, I deliberately stopped my bicycle.

He nervously looked around, and only after finding no one was there did he quickly run towards the two walls that had just collapsed.

Upon closer inspection, they found a lump of something wrapped in cloth lying on the broken bricks.

The cloth used for wrapping, perhaps because it was quite old, had a thumb-sized hole knocked out by the broken bricks when the wall tiles fell, revealing a golden-yellow substance inside.

"What's in there? Gold?"

Upon seeing the glimpse of golden yellow peeking out, Li Yunshan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Before picking up the items, he looked around again to make sure no one was around before picking up the bag that had fallen into the ruins.

Upon handling it, he immediately noticed that although the package was small and could be held firmly in one hand, it was surprisingly heavy.

He crouched down, carefully opened the package, and was immediately struck by a flash of light that shone brightly in the morning sunlight.

"Holy crap, it's gold."

Li Yunshan couldn't help but be surprised.

Inside the package he opened were six gold bars.

These six gold bricks are approximately twelve centimeters long, five centimeters wide, and one centimeter thick.

After Li Yunshan became rich in his previous life, he also bought a few gold bars. However, the ones he bought were 500-gram gold bars, which were the same size and length as the ones he is holding now, but were half the thickness.

Therefore, based on Li Yunshan's experience of possessing gold bricks in his previous life, the gold brick in his hand is most likely genuine, and its weight should be around 1000 grams.

Those six gold bricks weighed 6000 grams.

What is the price of one gram of gold now?

Although Li Yunshan didn't have much of an impression of this, he was quick-witted and immediately wrapped up the gold bricks and stuffed them into his pocket.

After doing all this, he felt like a thief, with a feeling that was hard to explain.

"Yunshan, so early!"

Not long after Li Yunshan put the gold bricks into his pocket, several villagers carrying shovels and spades arrived at the ruins of the village primary school.

Upon seeing Li Yunshan, one of the villagers greeted him with a smile.

"Good morning. I'm on my way to the county town, so I won't be able to help out here today."

Li Yunshan suppressed his nervousness and excitement and calmly said.

"Oh, it's alright. There's not much work left to do. There are just a few broken bricks and tiles left. Maybe we can clean them all up in half a day."

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now. If anyone asks, just say I went to the county town."

After Li Yunshan finished speaking, he got on his bicycle and left.

"Alright, go ahead and don't worry. If anyone asks why you didn't come, we'll tell them."

One of the villagers smiled.

"Hey, what do you think Li Yunshan is doing in the county town in this freezing weather?"

One villager couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Why do you care? Anyway, the village primary school is gone now. If we rebuild it next spring, our children will be able to sit in the new classroom and learn cultural knowledge."

"No matter how many outrageous things Li Yunshan has done in the past, just for his straightforward and generous donation of such a large sum of money to build a new school for the village, we should thank him. It wouldn't be too much to kowtow to him."