The village beauty and me!

Chen Huan didn't know how to answer.

Fortunately, the money was transferred shortly afterward.

To be honest, Zhao Siming is quite efficient.

In just a short time, the forest contract has been drafted.

Chen Huan carefully examined the document to make sure there were no traps or tricks involved before signing and pressing his fingerprint.

Zhao Siming, who still holds the village's official seal, finally has some decision-making power. Seeing Chen Huan transfer the money to the village's public account, he immediately stamped and signed the document.

In other words, from this point on, the entire grove of trees outside the village belonged to Chen Huan.

"Chen Huan, I've heard you've been going into the woods a lot lately. Do you know anything good there?"

"Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken out 300,000 so easily, would they?" Zhao Siming tried to probe indirectly.

Chen Huan countered directly, "What benefits do you see in that forest?"

"Why would that guy surnamed Li want to take over the contract?"

Zhao Siming frowned and thought for a moment, "According to the information I received, he seems to be preparing to start some kind of planting project on the mountain, and it is said that it has attracted investment from big bosses."

"I don't know the specifics."

"But it's clear that he's also very interested in this grove of trees outside our village."

"Although you spent 300,000, if you can withstand his pressure, raise the price a bit, and then resell the contract to him, it would be a good deal."

"Making tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan by simply reselling it, isn't that a pretty good deal?"

Chen Huan revealed a disdainful expression, "I'm not like you. I won't take a mere ten or twenty thousand yuan seriously, and I certainly won't easily give up what belongs to our Peach Blossom Village to outsiders."

Zhao Siming gritted his teeth in anger, and finally turned and went back with a dark face.

Chen Huan didn't plan to stay here either, thinking that he should hurry up and take a walk on the mountain.

After all, that place is now their territory.

The main thing is to investigate and see if we can figure out why Li Manjiang insists on contracting such a large area of ​​mountain forest.

He saw Zhao Jingjing staring at him with wide eyes, seemingly waiting for something.

Chen Huan rubbed his nose. "Well, now that your crisis is over, you should go home."

Zhao Jingjing was slightly disappointed and asked softly, "Then where are you going to go?"

Chen Huan grinned. "Of course, we're going to patrol the mountain."

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Zhao Jingjing frowned. "As expected, your real purpose is just that forest."

Chen Huan scratched his head.

Although Zhao Jingjing was right, he didn't intend to help the Zhao family at all by giving them 300,000 yuan, but he still couldn't hurt Miss Zhao's feelings.

So he replied seriously, "If it weren't for your sake, I wouldn't even give you 100,000."

Zhao Jingjing then smiled again, pursing her lips as she replied, "You do have some manners."

"Oh, right, there's something I need to remind you of."

"Li Manjiang and his gang are not to be trifled with; we need to be more careful in the future."

Chen Huan said "Oh," and added, "Okay, I'll keep that in mind."

"See you tomorrow then. Remember to pick me up in the morning." Zhao Jingjing waved to Chen Huan before reluctantly turning back to the courtyard.

Chen Huan got into the car, and they drove all the way to the edge of the village.

They went straight into the forest, picking any useful medicinal herbs they could find while surveying the area.

Looking at the lush greenery covering the mountains, I couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

He came a few days ago just to get a decent meal.

But now, this entire area belongs to the Chen family, which feels a bit unbelievable.

Feeling moved, I found myself walking deeper and deeper into the woods.

When they were about a few miles from the edge of the woods, Chen Huan suddenly noticed that the shape of the trees in front of him was a bit strange.

It looks awkward no matter how you look at it.

"What's going on?" Chen Huan quickened his pace and approached.

Then you see gaps appearing among those straight trees that were originally distributed naturally according to the growth pattern.

Only a very low tree stump remained on the ground.

And it seems to have been deliberately covered by fallen leaves.

If it weren't for Chen Huan's keen observation skills, it would have been difficult to discover.

"What kind of tree is this? It feels different from the ones around here." Chen Huan swept away all the loose soil and dead leaves from the tree stump.

At this point, he could clearly smell the unique woody fragrance emanating from the cross-section of the tree stump.

Then the corresponding information naturally flashed into my mind: "Rosewood?"

"This seems to be a valuable and rare tree species."

Chen Huan immediately took out his phone and searched online.

Although online prices vary, this still proves that rosewood does indeed have extremely high economic value.

Especially the core parts that are oily and dense, which are selected, are said to be worth more than 10,000 yuan per kilogram.

"The wood is sold by weight. This tree stump is about 30 centimeters in diameter. Just this one piece is worth as much as a wild ginseng."

Chen Huan frowned.

Judging from the color and degree of cracking on the surface of the tree stump, it is easy to tell that it was sawed off recently.

Even the tree roots exposed on the surface of the soil were carefully cut off, clearly intended to make the best use of everything.

There are several other similar tree stumps nearby.

In some places, it's just a pit, but it's obvious that rosewood used to grow there.

No wonder the distribution of trees here looks out of place when viewed from a distance.

"Could this be the reason why Li Manjiang wanted to contract the forest?"

Chen Huan immediately made that connection.

He locked onto the scent of the rosewood tree stump in front of him, then casually moved to another spot and waited for the mountain breeze to blow, using his internal energy to amplify his already extremely keen sense of smell.

Soon, within a radius of over 100 meters, any trace of the same aura could not escape his detection.

"And in just this one area, there are at least five or six more."

Chen Huan immediately went to the nearest place to search and found a complete rosewood tree.

Next to the rosewood tree, there are obvious traces of human intervention in recent times.

This included footprints and even stubbed-out cigarette butts.

"Someone has already scouted this area; it hasn't been logged yet." Chen Huan suddenly understood.

Next, he simply crossed the forest area under the jurisdiction of Peach Blossom Village and entered the territory of other villages.

It used its powerful sense of smell to look around.

Sure enough, they found many signs of rosewood trees being felled, and most of them had only appeared recently.

"I never expected that such a batch of resources, which can be called plant gold, would grow in the deep mountains and forests that have been untouched for so many years."

"That guy Li Manjiang is definitely after these rosewood pieces."

"Making a fortune quietly, spending a mere few hundred thousand to quietly reap profits more than a hundred or a thousand times over, that's really shrewd."

Chen Huan started walking back.

He didn't feel the need to cut down trees to sell for money. After all, there were many ways to make money, and there was no need to damage the natural environment of the forest he had contracted.

Now that we know the key secret, the most important thing next is how to protect these gifts of nature in our own territory.

As I was walking forward, I suddenly heard a strange noise coming from not far behind me.