Lu Jingzhe hadn't expected Aunt Xiao Ping to be so forward. Seeing Aunt Xiao Ping's hand nearing Lin Feng, Lu Jingzhe felt a surge of jealousy.
She hurried to the courtyard gate and knocked.
"Auntie, I'm afraid not today. You have a visitor."
Lin Feng stood up promptly.
"Who is it? What an inconvenient time for a visitor!"
Aunt Xiao Ping showed a hint of displeasure. As she opened the courtyard gate, she saw a beautiful woman standing at the entrance.
"Auntie, I'm here to find Lin Feng. Uncle Wu has prepared dinner and asked him to come back to eat."
Lu Jingzhe forced a smile.
"He's not going back. Auntie will cook something delicious for him later, and he'll eat here tonight."
Aunt Xiao Ping replied with a straight face.
Lu Jingzhe frowned, thinking that Aunt Xiao Ping wasn't just offering to cook for Lin Feng, but rather to devour him!
"Lin Feng, are you coming back with me?"
Lu Jingzhe bypassed Aunt Xiao Ping and called out to Lin Feng.
"Of course, I'm going back to eat."
Lin Feng walked to the door. "Auntie Xiao Ping, I'll come to your place another time. Good food is worth waiting for. Wait for me."
"Alright, Auntie's door is always open for you. Come find Auntie when you're hungry."
Aunt Xiao Ping smiled even more happily. As she left, she couldn't resist patting Lin Feng's behind.
Lin Feng's rear clenched. This old woman was truly a flirt.
On the way back, Shen Xinyue's heart was pounding with annoyance.
"Why? What's so good about Lin Feng that Aunt Xiao Ping would actively try to seduce him?"
Shen Xinyue truly couldn't understand.
"Little Shen, you're still young and haven't experienced those things. You don't know how wonderful they are."
"When you experience them, you might be even more flirtatious than Aunt Xiao Ping!"
Lin Feng laughed heartily. "Regardless, you lost the bet this time. Today, you and Lu Jingzhe have to listen to me."
Hearing this, Shen Xinyue became even more displeased.
Seeing Lin Feng's mischievous smile, she knew he wasn't planning anything good.
Just as they were walking towards Uncle Wu's house, a helicopter flew overhead and landed in an open space in the village.
The appearance of the helicopter immediately attracted the attention of many villagers.
They all came out of their yards and gathered around.
Under the gaze of the crowd, a woman wearing a red trench coat and large sunglasses stepped out of the helicopter.
Accompanying her was a man in a suit.
The man seemed a bit unaccustomed to the situation. After stepping off the plane, he showed an awkward smile.
"Oh my, isn't that Uncle Wu's son and daughter-in-law? Why did they come back by helicopter, and dressed so well? Did they make a fortune working in the city?"
The villagers recognized the couple and began to discuss.
The couple ignored the villagers and headed directly to Uncle Wu's house.
Lin Feng and the other two followed closely. When they reached Uncle Wu's doorstep, they heard Yueyue's delighted voice.
"Mom and Dad, Yueyue missed you so much!"
"My dear daughter, Dad missed you too!"
Hearing the voices, Lin Feng and the others entered the house to find Yueyue throwing herself into the man's arms.
The father and daughter embraced and wept. The woman in the red trench coat, on the other hand, remained indifferent, her face cold and arrogant.
"Xiao Hui, Lili, why are you dressed like this?"
Uncle Wu looked at his son and daughter-in-law in their designer clothes, his old eyes wide.
"Dad, Xiao Hui and I have struck it rich. We are now managers in the purchasing department of Tang Corporation, and we've returned to sign a cooperation agreement with the villagers on behalf of Tang Corporation."
The woman took off her sunglasses, revealing a heavily made-up face.
Throughout the entire exchange, she didn't greet Yueyue, as if Yueyue wasn't her own daughter.
Yueyue hid in her father Wu Xiaohui's arms, looking at her mother, who seemed like a different person, and was hesitant to approach.
"You are representing Tang Corporation? Xiao Hui, what exactly is going on?"
Uncle Wu's expression turned grim, and he felt an aversion to the name Tang Corporation.
Wu Xiaohui knew what his father disliked and said with difficulty, "Dad, Lili negotiated this with Tang Corporation. I'm not entirely clear on the specifics."
Xiao Lili glared at Wu Xiaohui and said impatiently, "What's not to understand? You useless bum, if we relied on you to support the family, this whole family would starve to death!"
"Dad, here's the situation. I've already agreed with Tang Corporation that our village's medicinal herbs will be supplied to Tang Corporation from now on."
"In return, Tang Corporation offered me, Xiao Hui, an annual salary of fifty thousand yuan."
"But I heard the villagers don't want to sell their medicinal herbs to Tang Corporation, so this time, you need to personally go and negotiate with everyone. Don't be so ungrateful; sign the cooperation agreement quickly."
Xiao Lili said righteously, tossing a cooperation agreement at Uncle Wu.
Uncle Wu picked up the agreement and glanced at it, nearly exploding with anger.
"Lili, the price Tang Corporation is offering is too low. With such deceitful terms, let alone the villagers, even I cannot agree."
Uncle Wu's old hands trembled with rage. He never imagined his son and daughter-in-law would become representatives of Tang Corporation.
In the past, wouldn't this be considered pure collaboration with the enemy?
"Dad, what's there to disagree about? Xiao Hui and I have an annual salary of fifty thousand yuan, which is not something ordinary people can compare to in the city."
"In the future, you and Yueyue will come back to the city to live with us and enjoy the good life."
"Don't you worry about whether those villagers make or lose money. Herbs are sold to someone anyway, they can't just rot in the ground!"
Xiao Lili said with a sneer, looking at the dilapidated old house with disdain in her eyes.
"You, how can you speak like that?"
"How much money you earn has nothing to do with me, but you want me to talk to the villagers about this, and I can't."
Uncle Wu became stubborn and sat on the doorstep, quietly smoking a cigarette.
"Dad, if you don't say anything, who will? You are highly respected in our village, and everyone listens to you!"
"I've already agreed with Tang Corporation. Our village's medicinal herbs will definitely be secured. If you want to live a good life, hurry up and go talk to everyone."
Xiao Lili's attitude was overbearing. She pulled over a chair, took a wet wipe from her pocket, and began to wipe it meticulously.
She acted as if she was extremely clean.
"Hmph, you're back too late! The village's medicinal herbs have already been promised to Boss Lin! As for that Tang Corporation, they can go wherever they please!"
Uncle Wu snorted coldly, utterly unimpressed with his daughter-in-law.
"What? They've already been sold to someone else?"
"Dad, were you tricked? Besides Tang Corporation, who else has such great strength?"
Xiao Lili repeatedly sneered, completely disbelieving.
"It was me. I am the Boss Lin that Uncle Wu mentioned!"
Lin Feng couldn't stand it any longer and walked over with Shen Xinyue and Lu Jingzhe.
Xiao Lili sized up Lin Feng and the others, then said sarcastically, "You call yourselves bosses? Do you have money to buy up our medicinal herbs here? I think you people are just big swindlers!"
"Lili, how can you speak like that? Boss Lin is a great person. He promised to buy the village's medicinal herbs at the highest price and will buy them year-round. He's doing a great deed!"
"Unlike that Tang Corporation, which only thinks about making money and treating ordinary people like fools!"
Uncle Wu scolded her unreasonably, and then pointed at Wu Xiaohui, cursing, "Xiao Hui, whether you can earn a lot of money in the city or not, Dad doesn't care!"
"Dad never thought about enjoying the good life with you. As a person, you can't forget your roots!"
"Just because others give you a bit of dirty money, you think you're so great!"
"This is the place that gave birth to you and raised you. We'd rather starve to death than do anything to betray the villagers!"