All for subsidies!
The little girl's words made Qin Mu fall into deep thought.
If what the other party said was true, it would be terrible.
Planting yellow peaches was a decision made by the Standing Committee of Huaining County. Doesn't it mean that... the entire Standing Committee of Huaining County Party Committee has problems?
Whose pocket did all the millions of subsidies go into this year?
"Anyway, just remember not to do the yellow peach business. I'm going home first."
After the little girl finished speaking, she put on the basket and prepared to leave the tea mountain.
"Hey... don't be in a hurry!"
Qin Mu hurriedly followed and asked, "You just said that this yellow peach orchard is all superficial engineering. What does that mean?"
"It's just planting some yellow peach trees casually to deal with the inspection. Isn't this a superficial engineering?"
The little girl asked back.
"I see that the yellow peach trees inside are full of them, aren't they?"
Qin Mu was puzzled.
"That's from a distance. They're all planted. When you go in and take a closer look, you'll see that some of them aren't yellow peach trees at all. They're just wood with some leaves to decorate them."
The little girl rolled her eyes and said unhappily.
What?
There's something like this inside?
Qin Mu was shocked. These people were so crazy to get subsidies?
"Anyway, I've said everything I should say. I don't know anything else."
The little girl waved at Qin Mu and said, "This yellow peach orchard is simply a disaster. Sooner or later it will be destroyed."
"You, do some other business, don't do this!"
"Thank you for helping me prune the tea trees today. Goodbye!"
After saying that, she walked to the other side of the path, as if she was going back to the village.
Qin Mu looked at the other side's back, thought about it, pushed his bicycle, and chased after her.
He had a hunch that this little girl knew something he didn't know. It would be better to follow her and see. Maybe, there would be more discoveries.
"Hey...what's wrong with you..."
"Um...is your home far from here? It's late, I'm hungry, is it convenient to get a meal?"
Qin Mu chased after her and said shamelessly, "Don't worry, I'll pay you, I won't eat for free!"
"Okay, come on!"
The girl hesitated for a moment, but nodded and agreed.
The two walked and chatted, and Qin Mu also got some general information about the other party.
Pei Xinyue, a native of Dawang Village, Wanghe Town, Huaining County, returned to the village after graduating from university to help his grandfather maintain the tea mountain and make a living by frying and selling tea.
"Your accent doesn't make you a native of our area, right?"
Pei Xinyue asked casually.
"I'm from the provincial capital. I heard that they are planting yellow peaches here. I thought it was a business opportunity. I want to contract some land and grow yellow peaches to make money!"
Qin Mu smiled and said casually.
"I know that there are generally two types of people who come here to inquire about the yellow peach plantation, and one of them is planning to do this business." Pei Xinyue looked as if I had guessed it long ago. "Then who is the other type?" Qin Mu asked curiously. "The other type is probably an official who came here to conduct a secret investigation!" Pei Xinyue said with certainty: "The situation of this yellow peach plantation will be known sooner or later. By then, all the corrupt officials in the county will be arrested!" Oh? Qin Mu listened to Pei Xinyue's words and didn't know whether to praise the other party for being smart or to say that the other party had no vision. He was obviously an official, standing in front of the other party, but he thought he was a businessman! "Then why do you think I'm not an official who came here to conduct a secret investigation?" Qin Mu simply asked. "How can there be an official like you!"
Pei Xinyue laughed and said, "You are wearing such old-fashioned clothes and riding a bicycle. The key is that you are so skilled in planting tea trees, obviously you are not an official!"
"How many leaders have such good physical strength?"
This...
It sounds impossible to refute it!
Officials basically sit in offices, and their physical strength is indeed not good!
"Okay, you make sense."
Qin Mu did not refute it again, but followed Pei Xinyue down the mountain and walked into Dawang Village.
"Xinyue, you are going down the mountain!"
"Who is this, is your boyfriend?"
"Xinyue has brought her boyfriend back to the village, and he looks good!"
...
They met several villagers along the way, all of whom started gossiping about Qin Mu's identity. Pei Xinyue could only explain one by one, so that Pei Xinyue's face turned red.
She didn't expect that her kindness and bringing someone back for dinner would cause so much trouble.
"I'm sorry to bother you."
Qin Mu was embarrassed and apologized quickly. After all, it's easy to cause criticism in the village.
"Forget it!"
"It has nothing to do with you. Villagers love gossip."
Pei Xinyue shook her head, saying that it was nothing, but she had made up her mind that she would never be a good person again. The environment in the village was really embarrassing.
Soon, the two walked into Pei's house, which was an ordinary self-built house in the countryside. However, the outside was still a red tile wall and was not painted. The inside was painted and the layout was also very simple. The yard was messy, with farm tools and various bags placed randomly. Of course, there was no shortage of chicken and duck feces here...
"I'm sorry, the house is a bit messy."
This time, Pei Xinyue was a little embarrassed, and she quickly picked up the broom and swept it simply.
"It's okay, the village is like this, raising chickens and ducks is inevitable."
Qin Mu could understand.
"Xinyue... who is this?"
At this time, a thin old man came out and looked at Qin Mu, asking curiously.
"Grandpa, his name is Qin Mu, he is my friend, he just helped me prune the tea trees, I brought him to my house for a meal."
Pei Xinyue said simply.
"Friend... OK... OK... there are not many vegetables at home, why don't you go... go to the town to buy some meat."
The old grandfather said quickly.
"I will..."
"No need!"
Pei Xinyue was about to say that she would buy it, but was stopped by Qin Mu, who said: "I just want to eat some farm vegetables, preferably vegetables grown by myself. I might as well go to the town to eat instead of buying vegetables."
This...
Pei Xinyue hesitated for a while, but Qin Mu said it sincerely, so she agreed.
"Okay, I will just cook some simple dishes."
After Pei Xinyue finished speaking, she went to the kitchen to work.
And Qin Mu sat beside the old grandfather and chatted with him casually.
This chat also brought Qin Mu a lot of gains.
"Grandpa, you are too thin, is it natural?"
Qin Mu looked at Pei Xinyue's grandfather's body, which was a little abnormally thin, and asked casually.
"Before, because the village wanted to flatten the tea mountain and turn it into a yellow peach plantation, I didn't agree, and I had a fight with them. I got sick and stayed in the hospital for a while. I lost weight at that time, and now I can't grow back."
The old man smiled and explained, but the smile was full of emotion and sadness, and a little self-mockery.
Flatten the tea mountain to plant a yellow peach plantation?
Qin Mu vaguely knew something and asked: "Before, the area of Dawang Mountain was all tea mountains?"
"Yes, the current yellow peach plantation used to be a tea garden."
The old man nodded, chuckled, and said: "It's a pity that the eldest master doesn't like tea, he likes yellow peaches, look, all planted with yellow peaches!"