Chapter 47: There is another story

I don’t know how long they talked, but Jin Yun came in with a takeaway box, and those people were still in the meeting room.

"Let me tell you, I recently heard a shocking piece of news. Do you want to hear it?"

Jin Yun put his takeaway box on the table while chatting with us.

Anyway, I was just sitting around in the store, and Lin Mu and I had run out of topics to talk about.

"Tell me about it?" Lin Mu looked gossipy.

"You guys have been a bit busy lately so you don't know. I went to an auction a few days ago and someone actually auctioned off a piece of land. I thought this was outrageous enough, but I didn't expect he actually made the deal!"

A poor country boy like me certainly didn't know what an auction was, and I didn't understand their rules either. I just listened for fun.

But unexpectedly, Lin Mu was also surprised.

Later he explained to me that auctions have their own rules.

Generally, items auctioned are gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, and cultural relics. As for large-scale land auctions, they should be handed over to government officials.

If the land auction were held at a general auction, the reserve price would be reduced many times, so few people would do this.

But this person was very strange. After he used his strength, several people coveted it.

Moreover, the asking price was outrageous. The piece of land was not very big. Normally, in a public land auction, it would only be sold for 200 million yuan.

The man offered five hundred million yuan at the first price.

"And most importantly, someone actually bought him for 1 billion yuan. Isn't that double the price?"

Jin Yun said this with golden light in his eyes.

"Five hundred million please, I may not even make one hundred million in my lifetime!"

Lin Mu was also curious: "Where is that place? Are there any gold and silver treasures hidden underground?"

"You may not believe it even if I tell you. Do you know Tugouzi Village?" Jin Yun asked back.

Tugouzi Village?

I know this.

Tugouzi Village is composed of five villages in total, and these five villages are known to be the poorest villages in the vicinity.

I don’t know if it’s a feng shui issue, but nothing grows there, and the younger generation doesn’t make much money when they come out to work in the city.

But their population is not extinct, they just want to have enough food and clothing. If they suddenly get a serious illness during this period, they may die because they have no money to treat the disease.

"You said Tugouzi Village is so poor, and that piece of land is in Tugouzi Village. Normal people would not want to invest it back. But that person bought the place at twice the price."

Listening to Jin Yun's words, I also felt that there was something fishy about this matter.

"Do you think this is the end?" Jin Yun looked at us with a cunning smile on his face, and then asked himself and answered: "No, I heard that the land is not clean. It used to be a school, but it was abandoned. Now the person who bid for the land also wants to use it to build a school, but as soon as the construction started, strange things happened one after another."

What?!

I looked at Lin Mu and the group of people sitting in the conference room. Am I discussing this very thing?

Is this the same thing?

Just then, the door of the conference room was opened.

I signaled Jin Yun to stop talking until that group of people left, and then my cousin sat down next to us.

"What? Have you reached an agreement?" I asked a little anxiously.

I particularly want to know the progress of this matter, because I know very well that this matter is very complicated and cannot be solved so easily.

And if I'm not mistaken, the pitfall of this matter should be very big.

"The negotiation is settled. I will go to Tugouzi Village tomorrow night."

It really is Tugouzi Village!

When Jin Yun heard this, his expression changed: "No... did you take this job?"

"What's wrong?"

My cousin was a little confused because Jin Yun never cared what kind of work we took.

Jin Yun shook her head. Since her cousin had already gotten married, she couldn't say anything.

So she turned around and looked at me: "Why don't you go with your cousin?"

I nodded helplessly. This was the only way.

She made this matter sound so weird. If I don't go, wouldn't that be costing my cousin's life?

"How much money did they give you?" I asked my cousin.

"The base price is three hundred thousand. If it is handled well, we may pay more."

I frowned when I heard what my cousin said.

Finished!

This must be a trick!

"So what happened?"

My cousin looked at the three of us and saw that our expressions were not very natural. He was a little panicked.

So Lin Mu told his cousin everything he had just heard.

"Tsk, ah!" My cousin sighed. He had already received the deposit and the other party had also come to the store. There was no way he could refuse this matter.

"Come on, Wen Jie, let's go home and pack our things."

I nodded resignedly. This was the only way now.

My cousin drove me back home in the second-hand jeep he had just bought.

On the way, I had already informed Dong Jing and told her our itinerary.

Just as I finished packing my things, Dong Jing arrived.

Dong Jing's complexion looked better than before, probably because he had made some medicinal pills and eaten them.

In our circle of friends, Dong Jing is the only one who is unmatched in alchemy.

Seeing that she looked good, I felt relieved.

"This job may be a little special. The place we are going to is an abandoned school. I heard it is quite weird. If possible, we need more equipment." I explained to Dong Jing.

In fact, I had discussed this with my cousin before. We planned to pack up our things, go out to cook, and by the way, go to the funeral shop in the city to see if there is anything we can buy.

I checked my treasure bag and found that there was only a small amount of yellow and white paper left in the bag. Almost all the other things had been used up.

There was no other choice, so my cousin drove us to the funeral shop.

This time, I bought a few more things.

This included a peach wood sword and some cinnabar.

On the way home, we bought some more grains, the most of which was black glutinous rice.

These things are quite useful to us.

I lay on the sofa all night and gave the room to Dong Jing.

After dawn, my cousin went to the flea market again.

Our plan was to set off in the afternoon. It would only take two hours to get from the city to Tugouzi Village.

As long as we go there in advance, check out the terrain and familiarize ourselves with the environment, there will basically be no problem.

If there is anything else, we can only wait until the evening to find out.

I was still curled up on the sofa when someone rang the doorbell.

Dong Jing thought I was still asleep, so she walked from the kitchen to the front door.