Chapter 559 - 559 559 Three Naive Ghosts (8)_1

Chapter 559: Chapter 559: Three Naive Ghosts (8)_1 Chapter 559: Chapter 559: Three Naive Ghosts (8)_1 But she never expected that after a while, his restaurant really did open up.

Still, she thought that Ruan Jianguo couldn’t have made much money. Two months ago, his storefront was vandalized, and she was thrilled. She hardly slept well for days and nights, happy that his restaurant had finally failed!

But unexpectedly, two months later, he opened up again and even expanded the storefront. He had even managed to buy a small truck now!

How much money had he made!

She was genuinely so jealous that her eyes turned red. Seeing the village officials gathered around them, heading towards the building, she suddenly yelled, “Ruan Jianguo, you’re using the village’s game to run a restaurant, isn’t that a bit improper?”

“Does the mountain belong to you alone? Why do you think you can just sell it? Have you asked for our opinion? Now you’ve even bought a small truck. You’re exploiting us, sucking our blood!”

Liu Mei’s voice was always sharp, and with that shout, almost everyone heard her.

If people were to say they didn’t harbor any thoughts seeing the Ruan Family get richer step by step, that would be somewhat false. It’s just that no one else wanted to be the one to speak out, but now that someone had, they naturally chimed in.

“Yeah, how can Ruan Jianguo just decide on his own to sell the mountain, which after all belongs to our entire village?” Wu’s Aunt was the first to echo the sentiment.

“Exactly. I’ve said this before, but no one listened.”

“That’s right. How can we not say that the mountain belongs to our whole village? If money is made, shouldn’t we all share it?”

“…”

Some with more audacity directly challenged Wu Guoqun, “Captain, what do you have to say about this? You’re our captain, you should be looking out for our village’s welfare. Are you just going to watch Ruan Jianguo suck our blood?”

Of course, there were those who spoke in defense as well, mostly villagers who provided vegetables and dried veggies to the Ruan Family’s restaurant. With the restaurant’s expansion, their need for produce also grew.

The Ruan Family would purchase from the village first, paying market price.

In the countryside, vegetables and dried vegetables were not valuable items; you could have them as long as you were willing to work. Now that they could be exchanged for money, whether it was a few dollars less each month or nearly ten dollars more, all these were additional income. Naturally, everyone was happy about it.

Now seeing someone spewing jealousy, they came out to speak up.

“What you’re saying… If you claim that the mountain is for the whole village, and everyone has a share, Ruan Jianguo had the skill to hunt and bring back game. Can you do that?”

“Exactly, no one is stopping you. Go hunt for yourself.”

“So sour. Why don’t you just open your own shop? Whining here, it’s truly shameless to even think about sharing the money. If you’re so good at thinking, why not wish for money to fall from the sky and crush you to death!”

“…”

Everyone was arguing back and forth, making it impossible to reach an agreement.

The Ruan Family looked on, outwardly calm because they had already prepared for this situation when Shu Jiao came back.

Half a year ago, Ruan Jianguo had already signed a contract with the village to lease the mountains within the village boundary for five hundred a year, paying for six years up front.

Wu Guoqun also seemed to have anticipated this day. He made a subtle signal to someone by his side, who instantly understood and ran towards the village committee. When he came back, he was holding a document—the contract Ruan Jianguo had signed with the village half a year ago.