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Chapter 324 Dragon Vein? (Third Update!)

Faced with Ye Jingting's assurance, Lin Yi did not respond, after all, this world is a huge makeshift operation.

Besides Ye Jingting, the makeshift troupe also consisted of people from this town.

Ye Jingting's assurances will likely be helpful, but not much.

Turning around, Lin Yi took out a camera from the trunk and snapped a few photos of the scene. He then casually changed the subject: "Mayor Ye, let's go take a look at the school address you chose."

"I'll go to the site, take a few photos, and then bring them back so our designers can work on them properly."

"Right, right, right!" Ye Jingting slapped his thigh, as if he had just remembered. "Let's go check out the scene!"

The group got back into the car and, guided by Ye Jingting, went down the mountain. They then drove around the town, eventually stopping at the foot of a hill on the edge of the town.

After getting out of the car, Ye Jingting pointed to the gentle slope in front of him, and a small patch of flat land below the slope:

"This is the place we carefully selected to build a middle school in the future."

"We plan to build the school on the mountain, which means rising step by step."

"After the school is built, we will add bus stops and some commercial areas to this flat land in front of the school."

"Then the town's commercial center will gradually shift here."

As Ye Jingting excitedly explained, Lin Yi raised his camera and began taking photos of the scene.

The mountain in front of us isn't very steep. Building the school on it would be slightly more expensive than on flat ground, but not by much.

Just as Ye Jingting was envisioning a bright future, he heard light footsteps nearby. Then, several burly men in their thirties approached, pointing at him:
"What are you doing? What are you filming here for?"

"Do you know this is the dragon vein of Xishan Island? Why are you taking pictures here?"

"You've disturbed the dragon vein and ruined the feng shui of Xishan Island. Let's see what you'll do about it!"

"Hey! Give me the camera! Let me see what you're photographing!"

Faced with the arrogance of these people, Lin Yi merely rolled his eyes and cast a glance at Ye Jingting.

Ye Jingting was very annoyed that his beautiful vision of the future had been interrupted.

He became even more agitated when he heard these people keep mentioning the dragon vein.

The group of people who had just arrived saw that Lin Yi didn't react and were about to reach out to grab the camera when Ye Jingting rushed over and kicked one of them, knocking him over.

The burly man was very unhappy after being kicked to the ground. He looked up and was about to curse, but then he realized that the person who kicked him was Ye Jingting.

Upon recognizing him, the burly man swallowed back his curses, his face turning pitiful. He then pointed at Lin Yi:

"Uncle, I saw these people acting suspiciously, taking pictures here."

"I thought they had ill intentions and wanted to harm the dragon vein."

Upon hearing the term "dragon vein" once again, Ye Jingting deflated like a punctured balloon, slumping down and letting out a long sigh.

After sighing, he walked to the burly man's side, took a deep breath, and kicked out with all his might: "Dragon Vein! Dragon Vein!"

"Go to hell with your dragon vein!"

"You never learn anything decent, all you do is talk about dragon veins all day long!"

"Are you Jackie Chan or have you flown to heaven?"

"If you're so keen on watching this, you might as well get your ass into an electronics factory. You can make three or four thousand yuan a month, which should be enough to cover your living expenses."

"And there's the dragon vein."

Ye Jingting lost his temper. The person lying on the ground was kicked and howled in pain. After beating the man up, Ye Jingting turned around and gave Lin Yi and the others an apologetic smile.

"Please excuse my poor appearance!"

“My nephew is a good-for-nothing. He only knows a half-baked feng shui and hangs out with those old geezers in town every day. Instead of working and making money, he just wants to get rich by relying on the dragon vein.”

"I understand, I understand!" Lin Yi waved with a smile, telling Ye Jingting not to worry about it.

He had the good fortune to hear about this situation from a friend he had met twice in his past life.

That friend is a highway engineer who once oversaw a national highway reconstruction and expansion project, which involved reconstructing and expanding an existing, old national highway.

When passing through a village, there was a village on the left and a mountain on the right.

After on-site inspection, Party A chose the option with the least financial loss, which was to expand towards the mountainside, thereby avoiding the demolition of houses.

The idea is beautiful.

But it is indeed very thin.

As soon as construction began, a group of locals jumped out to stop it, saying that the mountain that needed to be excavated for the expansion was their local dragon vein and could not be touched.

Moving it will cause big problems.

Men, women, and children took turns to defend the dragon vein, no matter how the locals tried to persuade them or even offered compensation far exceeding the local price.

The client was moved by their enthusiasm, and after repeated discussions, they came up with another solution.

That means changing course.

This section of the road is completely abandoned; we'll bypass the village and go through another village on the other side of the mountain.

The plan was finalized, and the other village cooperated fully.

After all, our ancestors chose to live near the dragon vein so that their descendants could live a good life. Now, with demolition compensation, isn't this another way to live a good life?

The dragon vein has done it!
The cold dragon vein was transformed into warm numbers.

By the end, that friend's face was full of sarcasm:

"Wasn't that village very united at first? But later, after not receiving a single penny, the villagers started fighting every day!"

“Sometimes when I drive past there, I can hear those people shouting and cursing.”

"Laughing to death!"

Remembering what his friend had said, Lin Yi couldn't help but smile.

He even laughed out loud.

The laughter startled Ji Shuangshuang, who was standing nearby. She frowned and couldn't help but roll her eyes: "You're still laughing? I feel like our control center is going to be a disaster!"

After saying these words, she noticed the astonishment on Lin Yi's face and pointed directly behind him: "Look over there!"

Looking in the direction she was pointing, Lin Yi saw that there were some more people there at some point.

Behind these people, there were a few younger people helping several elderly men walk this way.

Alright, here comes the fun.

Upon seeing those old men, Ye Jingting, who had just been aggressive, turned pale and hurriedly went to greet them. Immediately afterward, a quarrel broke out.

Lin Yi listened for a while, but couldn't hear it very clearly. However, he could vaguely hear things like dragon veins, things that were bad for the family, and other nonsense.

As he listened, he laughed again. The next second, a hand appeared on his waist, followed by Ji Shuangshuang's voice:

"You can still laugh? Didn't you notice that everyone is looking at you?"

"I know!" Lin Yi slapped away the hand that was pinching his flesh, raised his hand, and greeted the people who were looking at him:

"Hi, how are you?" Seeing his ridiculous appearance, Ji Shuangshuang slapped her forehead and turned her face away, not wanting to say anything.

Xiao He, who was standing nearby, waited for a while and noticed that Lin Yi was still greeting him. He quickly came over and said, "Stop smiling, be a little more serious!"

"Otherwise, people will think you're easy to bully!"

"I'm not in a hurry!" Lin Yi spread his hands and then continued to wave and greet people.

Not far away, Ye Jingting was arguing fiercely with several old men who had just arrived.
"Bullshit dragon vein, Ye Dashan, look at the Party emblem hanging on your chest. Do you think it's appropriate for you to say such a thing?"

"And you, Ye Deping, your name is truly fitting, your character is mediocre. You have the energy to believe in dragon veins, why don't you send your lazy pigs out and into an electronics factory? If even one of them went to an electronics factory, your life wouldn't be so difficult. Look at your clothes, how long has it been since you washed them?"

"And you, Huang Zhihong..."

The old men, having been scolded by Ye Jingting for a long time, were somewhat embarrassed. They waved their hands and, with the help of a few young men, walked past Ye Jingting and came to Lin Yi and his two companions.

Upon seeing that they were three young people, Ye Dashan wiped the gloom from Ye Jingting's scolding from his face and became extremely serious, yet with a hint of kindness in his seriousness.

He pointed to the distant hillside: "Gentlemen, what I'm about to say might not be pleasant to hear."

"In the eyes of the people of Xishan Island, these mountains are the dragon veins of Xishan Island."

“These mountains have existed in their memories since they can remember.”

“Every year during the plum rain season, Taihu Lake rises, and each time it is these mountains that save the people of Xishan Island.”

"To others, this is feudal superstition, but to the people of Xishan Island, it is the dragon vein, and it is their spiritual sustenance."

“If you want to build a control center here, that would be destroying the dragon vein.”

"This is destroying the spiritual sustenance of the people of Xishan Island. This spiritual sustenance is very important to the older generation."

"I can't imagine what the older generation would do if they lost their spiritual support."

"I've also heard that your control center emits radiation, and that radiation is harmful to the human body..."

"How much money do you want!" Lin Yi suddenly interrupted Ye Dashan.

This person has some skills, but that's all.

Ye Dashan was caught off guard by the sudden interruption and didn't react for a moment. After a couple of seconds of stunned silence, he stammered, "What did you just say?"

"I asked you how much money you want!" Lin Yi crossed his arms and repeated his words carefully.

Upon hearing about the money, Ye Dashan's smile widened. He forcefully suppressed his heartache and excitement, waving his hand and saying, "It's not about the money!"

"Is 1 yuan enough for everyone, regardless of gender or age?"

"I've said before, this isn't about money; it's about the future of the entire Xishan Island!"

"What about 5?" Lin Yi asked again. Hearing him utter this number, Ji Shuangshuang winked and made faces, almost squeezing her eyes out.

Meanwhile, Xiao He's face grew increasingly dark.

Across from him, several old men around Ye Dashan turned their gazes toward him, while the young men behind him were already counting money on their fingers.

Compared to them.

Ye Dashan appeared much calmer, and he waved his hand again:

"Young man, I know you have money, but don't use money to insult me..."

"10 million!"

"Really?" Ye Dashan was overjoyed and couldn't help but ask. But as soon as he asked, he realized that his words were a bit out of character and quickly shut up.

After a two-second pause, he tried to smooth things over: "If you're willing to make compensation voluntarily, I think the amount you mentioned is no problem!"

Meeting their expectant gazes, Lin Yi smiled and nodded, then shook his head. He pointed to Ye Dashan in front of him, but his gaze lingered on the parents with their children not far away.
"We want to build a control center and a data center here!"

"The conditions that Mayor Ye and I discussed were a junior high school, a modern junior high school that can accommodate three or four thousand students and is even better than the best junior high school in the city."

"I agreed!"

"But now, because this old man said that the dragon vein here is more important than the school, the school is gone!"

"Also, this old man is right. Our control center and data center emit ionizing radiation at regular intervals, and this kind of radiation is bad for the human brain."

"So you must stay away!"

The sudden change in tone caught Ye Dashan off guard, and it took him a while to process Lin Yi's words.

He looked up, wanting to question them, but out of the corner of his eye he saw the young parents not far away.

These younger people were all looking at him with strange eyes.

It seems to be saying that because of his nonsensical words, a school was shut down.

Feeling those gazes, Ye Dashan opened his mouth, then gestured towards the corner, but didn't utter a single word.

No!

What does this have to do with me?
Which sentence of mine mentioned school?
No!

How can you just say you won't build it?

Didn't we already agree on that?
He turned around and looked at Ye Jingting with a questioning gaze. Ye Jingting spread his hands and said, "This Mr. Lin came here today to talk about this matter."

"We had a good chat before you arrived."

"But you've seen what the situation is now."

"I will submit a report to the city later to clarify this matter. Of course, the town will also issue a public notice to clarify this matter."

After speaking with Ye Dashan, Ye Jingting turned to look at Lin Yi:

"President Lin, it's lunchtime. We may not have much else on Xishan Island, but we can have as much of the 'Three Whites of Taihu Lake' as we want."

"I know a restaurant that has really good food! I'll take you there to try it!"

Knowing that Ye Jingting was changing the subject, Lin Yi smiled and agreed, then waved to Ye Dashan, "Goodbye, old man!"

"I'll come back to learn about dragon veins from you again when I have the chance!"

"goodbye!"

He kept waving, and even after getting into his car and starting the engine, he didn't forget to drive up to Ye Dashan and wave goodbye.

He waved goodbye to Ye Dashan, and then waved goodbye to the other people around him who were looking over.

The crowd watched the car drive away until it disappeared around the street corner.

Once the car was out of sight, everyone turned around and focused their attention on Ye Dashan, the old men with him, and the young people.

These people had calm and gentle eyes. They said nothing, but it was as if they had said everything, and it was as if they had cursed very filthyly.

Under their gazes, Ye Dashan turned around cursing and, supported by the young men, slowly walked towards the town.

After taking only a few steps, a woman who looked to be in her mid-thirties, wearing an apron around her neck, walked up to Ye Dashan:

"Uncle, my daughter Pingping wants to attend the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Her score is high enough, but to register her there, we need to pay an 80,000 yuan school selection fee. Could you help her out?"

(End of this chapter)