Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter Thirty-Two

After dining with Su Wan, Long Xiaoshan went home. With Long Xiaoling taken care of by Su Wan at the Lily Hotel, he had nothing to worry about.

He withdrew twenty thousand yuan from the bank in town and pocketed the money.

Back in the village, he called Couple Long Dashan into the house and took out the twenty thousand yuan.

The eyes of Couple Long Dashan bulged.

"Xiaoshan, did you really sell them?"

"Yes, I still have almost ninety thousand in my account that I haven't withdrawn," said Long Xiaoshan as he also took out his bank card.

Couple Long Dashan were speechless for a long while.

He Xiangyue exclaimed in shock, "How could you sell them for so much? How much is that per pound for those large shrimp?"

"Mom, you don't need to worry about how much per pound. I sold the shrimp to a big hotel in the county. They paid me in real cash, so stop fretting over it," Long Xiaoshan said.

"With this twenty thousand and the eighteen thousand from yesterday, that should be enough to repay the debts, right?"

"Enough, enough, old man, we can really pay off those debts," He Xiangyue said, her eyes welling up with tears of excitement.

"Yeah, yeah, it's all thanks to Xiaoshan's capabilities," replied Long Dashan, equally excited.

Those debts loomed over them like boulders pressing down on their hearts.

Now that they could pay off the debts, it lifted their greatest burden.

"With the extra money, let's buy some good liquor, dishes, cigarettes, and such to give away. After all, they're our fellow villagers. Some of these debts have been owed for so many years; they would have accrued interest if left in the bank. If it's not enough, I'll just withdraw more," Long Xiaoshan said.

"You don't have to tell us that," they said.

He Xiangyue and Long Dashan hurriedly fetched the account book from their room, checked off each debt, and then headed out the door with the money.

They were busy until darkness fell before Couple Long Dashan returned, carrying many items in their hands.

Both of their faces were glowing with a healthy flush, as if the wrinkles had lessened and they had rejuvenated by several years.

"Mom and Dad, have all the debts been repaid?" Long Xiaoshan asked.

"Paid off, paid off," Couple Long Dashan answered, placing the various-sized packages on the table. "We've repaid the debts and brought some tobacco and liquor. They gave us lots of things in return."

Long Xiaoshan saw that the packages were all local produce.

He thought to himself that, after all, his fellow villagers were honest and simple. They had been incited to come collect the debts previously, but now that the debts were settled, they even gave gifts in return without fussing over interest. In the city, it would be unheard of to lend money without interest for several years.

Thinking of how impoverished Longyang Village was, with even pickup trucks scraping bottom on the mountain roads.

"To get rich, build the roads first."

The poverty of Longyang Village wasn't without reason.

In the future, if he really wanted to start an industry, it would be better to do it in the village. Building a road, cultivating and breeding in the village would be more convenient. Moreover, it could help the villagers prosper. Long Fakui used to bully the villagers and exploit the women in the village with his little wealth, and Long Xiaoshan would certainly not stand for that.

If everyone in the village had money, who among them, like Zhang Widow, would sell themselves to Long Fakui for a few bucks?

Moreover, this would be a good deed too.

It wasn't only through healing the sick and saving lives that one could accumulate merit.

Long Xiaoshan had a blueprint in his heart, and the urge to get started was stronger than ever.

The next day, Long Xiaoshan ran to the village committee. Electricity had not yet been installed in his home, so he went to the committee. Ergouzi and a few idle young men from the village were squatting outside, smoking and playing cards.

Seeing Long Xiaoshan approaching, Ergouzi and the young men quickly stood up.

The tone fierce but the heart timid, shouted, "Long Xiaoshan, what do you want to do?"

Last time at Long Xiaoshan's house, he got beaten up by Long Xiaoshan, and Ergouzi had developed a shadow in his heart. Seeing Long Xiaoshan walking towards him, he thought Long Xiaoshan was going to hit him. Although there were two or three people nearby, last time it was also three people, and they still got beaten up by Long Xiaoshan.

Long Xiaoshan said, "I'm not going to do anything, you pulled my electricity, now pull it back for me."

As soon as Ergouzi heard Long Xiaoshan was here to get the electricity reconnected, he puffed up and snorted, "Wishful thinking. Your house still owes the village for water and electricity bills and hasn't paid yet. It's a rule, the law, for the village to limit your electricity. What, are you planning to break the law?"

Long Xiaoshan laughed, "You're lecturing me on the law now, forget it, I won't argue with you. I have brought the money; I'll pay whatever I owe."

Long Xiaoshan took out a stack of money, indeed a wad of red Chairman Maos.

It made Ergouzi's eyes stick out, a glint of greed appearing in them.

"Long Xiaoshan, just paying the overdue water and electricity bill is not enough. Your family also owes the village three thousand yuan for the contract fee. Have you forgotten?" Ergouzi chuckled.

Long Xiaoshan's face turned cold; he was well aware of the contract fee. After he was imprisoned, his family really had no money. Just then, Uncle Laotie was the village chief and took care of his family by giving them a quota for a five-guarantee household to contract a wasteland for free. But Long Dashan had bad luck; that year, he contracted the wasteland to plant fruit, and a drought happened, causing him to lose money on the seedlings as well.

The so-called contract fee had already been waived.

Long Xiaoshan was not a man of good temperament. He took two steps forward and stared at Ergouzi, "Ergouzi, are you trying to extort me?"

Being stared at by Long Xiaoshan, Ergouzi felt a chill on his back, and a shiver shot up his spine. He then remembered that Long Xiaoshan was no longer the bookish guy he used to be; the guy had changed completely after coming back from prison.

Ergouzi took a few steps back, got tripped up by the threshold of the village committee door and stumbled into the doorway.

Before he got up from the ground, he yelled, "Help, Long Xiaoshan is hitting people, help, he's going to kill someone!"

A few people ran out of the village committee.

Village chief Long Fakui was among them and he bellowed, "What's going on?"

Not to mention, Long Fakui had mixed it up in the county before, and now not only was his business doing well, but he had also become the village chief. His roar was quite imposing.

Long Xiaoshan walked into the village committee door and said, "I don't even know what's wrong with Ergouzi. I haven't touched him and he's yelling about being hit and being killed."

Ergouzi's face reddened, but now that the village chief had appeared, he felt like he had backing. He got up, ran to Long Fakui, and pointed at Long Xiaoshan, "Long Xiaoshan, don't be arrogant, you'll have a tough time ahead."

Long Xiaoshan ignored Ergouzi and said, "Village chief, I'm here to get the electricity reconnected. I've paid my water and electricity bills, no problem, right?"

Long Fakui said, "There is no problem with you getting electricity, but your family's five-guarantee household is not following the rules. The village committee has already decided, and that time contracting the wasteland was also a violation of the rules. You must pay the contract fee."

Long Xiaoshan frowned and said, "That was waived by Uncle Laotie when he was here, and it's been two years since. Why the need to pay now?"

Long Fakui laughed coldly and turned to a woman beside him, "Jin Lian, you're the village accountant, tell him."

This woman was indeed Long Fakui's wife, named Jin Lian, who was as beautiful as Pan Jinlian from the Water Margin, extremely attractive, and only in her thirties. They say when Long Fakui married her, she was not even eighteen, so she's not that old even now. It's a mystery how Long Fakui, who resembled a black monkey, managed to marry such a beautiful wife.

Jin Lian didn't look rustic; on the contrary, she had a bit of a city dweller's air about her.

But Long Xiaoshan remembered Jin Lian had always been in the village. Long Fakui had bought a house in the county a long time ago, and he had never seen him take his wife out.

When Long Fakui called her, Jin Lian glanced at Long Xiaoshan and said with a hint of pity, "Xiaoshan, your family's five-guarantee household status was in violation of the rules. A five-guarantee household is only for houses with only elderly, disabled, or minors, which yours isn't. Since it was a violation, it must be canceled, and those contract fees must be paid."

"Auntie Jin Lian, you know the situation of my family. At that time, I was in prison and my family was indeed in a difficult situation. I don't mind the cancellation of the five-guarantee household, but it's not fair to ask me to make up those fees, surely the village committee cleared these old accounts long ago, what's the meaning of bringing them up now?" Long Xiaoshan said, dissatisfied.

Jin Lian looked at Long Fakui and kept silent.

Long Fakui snorted, "The wasteland belongs to the village, it's a collective interest. If you don't pay, you're harming the collective interest, you're breaking the law. As long as I, Long Fakui, am the village chief, I absolutely will put a stop to such corrupt practices. No one should think of shearing the village's wool."

Long Xiaoshan, upon hearing Long Fakui's hypocritical words, really wanted to slap him across the face.

However, with Long Fakui harping on this loophole, knowing full well that Long Fakui was making a mountain out of a molehill, he found it hard to rebut. Could he really beat up Long Fakui? That would be useless; this wasn't jail, and fists alone wouldn't solve the problem.

Long Xiaoshan silently shifted his thoughts, then said, "Fine, since you put it that way, village chief, I, Long Xiaoshan, am not unreasonable. I can make up the contract fee, but I want to renew the lease on those mountains. I have the right of first refusal."

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