Chapter 42: The Property Rights of the House Come Down

Today is again a pleasant day. When returning to the village, Li You couldn't help humming a ditty.

However, when the mule cart was about to leave the city, from a distance, he saw quite a number of people queuing up, and he didn't know what had happened.

When the mule cart got closer, he found that a temporary checkpoint had appeared out of nowhere in front. Several armed police soldiers in olive green were armed and guarding the intersection and checking the passing pedestrians and vehicles.

At the sight of this situation, Li You knew that maybe that thing had happened.

He clearly remembered that after that thing happened, all the military police and militia in Zhengqingshan County were mobilized. Even thousands of people were borrowed from several neighboring counties to search for people together.

Even in the situation of being forced and having no choice, the county issued an order requiring the whole county's people to look for people together.

As a result, after more than ten thousand people tossed and turned for nearly a month, still nothing was found.

In the end, the person was not found, and the case was not cracked as scheduled. Such a big commotion was also made. Dozens of related responsible persons including the director and deputy director of the county bureau and the criminal police captain were punished.

It can be said that this incident triggered an unprecedented earthquake in the political circle of Zhengqingshan County.

More importantly, this case was not cracked until eighteen years later.

When Li You reminded Wang Anguo before, he was talking about this matter. Unexpectedly, it happened so soon.

Soon it was Li You's turn. When the armed police soldiers saw the big red mule cart, they inspected it very carefully.

After all, if those human traffickers wanted to smuggle people out secretly, they must use means of transportation. Cars were not common, so the most likely thing for them was to borrow a carriage to transport people.

Coupled with the fact that there were so many big baskets on Li You's cart, it was too easy to hide something.

It's just that what disappointed these little soldiers was that there was nothing on the mule cart except some rice, flour, oil and grains.

Therefore, after the inspection, they could only let Li You leave!

In the split second when passing by each other, Li You saw the faces of these young soldiers flushed red by the scorching sun, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart.

In fact, he knew where those human traffickers were hiding. Due to some special reasons, Li You personally participated in the entire process of this case being cracked.

Although those human traffickers were not caught because of this case at that time, only after one of the criminal suspects was caught for other things and in order to make contributions, he voluntarily confessed this case.

Only then did people know that the child disappearance case that alarmed more than ten thousand people eighteen years ago was actually done by these people.

At that time, Li You was already a business tycoon, and he was just involved in this case because of work matters and was forced to participate in this case throughout the whole process, so he also knew some details of this case.

But even though he knew these things, Li You couldn't tell them. After all, there were some things he couldn't explain.

Fortunately, he also knew that those human traffickers just wanted money and didn't mean to kill. Those children were still safe for the time being.

So Li You didn't have the idea of taking action for the time being. If the relevant departments in the county had the ability to crack the case, that would be the best.

If it still couldn't be cracked in the end like in the previous life, then Li You would have to go into action himself.

Fortunately, he had already reminded Wang Anguo. If he wasn't too stupid, he would come to him. It was also okay to save people through his hand.

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After returning home, Li You found that except for the third sister, Li Na, there was no one else in the yard.

In the morning when he left, the dozen or so people who came to help were all gone, and even the parents were not at home.

"Sister, why is there only you left? Where are the parents?"

While coming up to help unload the cart, Li Na replied, "All the adobe bricks have been made and just waiting to be dried and then can be used. While it's not dark yet, the parents followed Uncle Feng to measure the homestead at the east end of the village!"

Hearing this, Li You immediately stopped what he was doing and stuffed the canvas bag with the money at his waist into Li Na's hand.

"Sister, you move them in by yourself. I'm going to take a look!"

After saying that, Li You ran out of the yard in a flash!

Li Na immediately shouted, "Slow down..."

Li You's home is not far from the location of the new house's homestead, so he arrived in no time.

From afar, Li You saw quite a number of people surrounding the black stone field. Some were holding ropes and some were holding shovels. It was obvious that they were measuring the land.

When seeing Li You coming, Feng Kai immediately shouted, "Youwa, come here!"

After coming to Feng Kai, Li You immediately greeted, "Dad, Uncle Feng!"

"Youwa, the homestead you wanted has been approved. The homestead is five cents of land, and the private plot is two and a half mu, a total of three mu of land!" Feng Kai said.

Li You was happy in his heart and immediately said, "Thank you, Uncle Feng!"

"This piece of land is almost dozens of mu. Where do you want it? We'll measure it out for you!" Feng Kai said again.

Li You looked around and chose a place that looked very flat overall and said, "Here. Build a house here and build a small courtyard. The rest will be the private plot!"

"Okay!"

Subsequently, under the auspices of Feng Kai and with the joint witness of more than a dozen commune members, Li You's homestead was determined like this.

And after the homestead was determined, they could start building the house.

In the evening, after Li You sent away the group of children who came to deliver mountain goods, the whole family could finally sit down and take a rest.

On the small stool at the stove opening, Li Shankui was filling the tobacco pipe with tobacco leaves while saying, "The homestead has been determined. Then tomorrow I will bring people to the quarry to pull stones and then lay the foundation. Remember to cook for the helpers!"

"The third girl, don't go to work tomorrow. Stay at home and help your mother cook. She can't handle it alone!"

Li Na nodded and said, "Okay!"

At this time, Li You also said, "Mother, I bought quite a lot of tofu and vermicelli today, and also bought a few catties of meat. You cook it tomorrow!"

"Making the tofu and vermicelli is fine, but I think it's better to wait until the roof beam is erected to use the meat!" Zhang Yuehong said with some heartache.

In these years, as long as the food for the helpers is passable, after all, the family still has to pay the labor money in the end.

After Li Shankui took two hard puffs on the tobacco pipe with a "bata" "bata", he said in a deep voice, "Listen to Xiaoyou and make it!"

"The head of the family, really make it? What will we eat when the roof beam is erected?"

Li You immediately said, "Mother, I'll buy it again when the roof beam is erected. It's not that much money anyway!"

"You child, you don't know east, west, south, and north after earning a little money. You can't be like this!" Zhang Yuehong scolded a little.

Li You smiled and said, "Mother, I only spent five or six yuan on buying these meats and vegetables today, but do you know how much money I earned today?"

"How much?"

"Five hundred yuan!"

"How... how much?"

"More than five hundred. To be exact, it's 608 yuan and fifty cents!" Li You said.

Everyone in the family was startled by Li You's words. A few days ago, he earned only a hundred or so yuan a day, and at most a hundred and sixty or seventy yuan.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, the son could earn five hundred yuan a day, which was comparable to someone else's annual salary.

Li You smiled and said, "There are now more than forty children helping me pick mushrooms. Every day, there are a total of seven or eight hundred catties of various mountain goods. With more things, naturally, I earn more money. There's nothing to be surprised about!"

"Besides, this mountain goods business doesn't earn so much every day. With so many people going into the mountains every day, the output will come down in a few days."

Li Shankui nodded and said, "Well, it's good that you know this principle. Then save more money after earning it. After all, you still have to support the family in the future!"

"Okay!"

Now that they knew Li You could earn so much money, Zhang Yuehong didn't feel sorry for that little meat anymore and immediately decided to make pork and vermicelli stew for the helpers tomorrow.