Purchase of Rural Homestead Land

Hearing this, the villagers naturally answered that they wanted the latter.

Thus, Village Chief Du continued,

"If we want our village to sustain this business in the long run, we cannot do things that scam people. We know exactly the state of our own farmed land. Now, having benefited from the immortal sect, it is already wonderful enough that we can sell our goods at city prices without even leaving our homes.

As people, we must keep our feet on the ground. Our Xiushui Village does not engage in making money by cheating others, understand? In the future, as long as we villagers work hard together, good days are waiting for all of us!"

"Good!"

"Great!"

"The Village Chief is right!"

"We will all listen to the Village Chief!"

And so, under the leadership of Village Chief Du, every household gave up the idea of setting exorbitant prices and earnestly went about their own small businesses.

As more and more tourists arrived, Xiushui Village's business ventures expanded significantly.

Many tourists traveling in small groups felt that a single day was not enough to enjoy themselves, wanting to explore all the nearby mountains and rivers. Some even stayed overnight in the village.

Seeing this, Liu Yunan had an idea. He brought his mother, Tietou, Lin Yun, and a group of their peers together. At night, after the villagers had fallen asleep, they thoroughly spruced up the environment and scenery of Xiushui Village.

They went into the North Mountain and found many exceptionally beautiful flowers and unique green plants. Wrapping them in spiritual energy, they brought them down the mountain. Under Yang Jinshu's guidance, they planted these flowers in a well-proportioned layout and carried over some moss-covered stones of various sizes to stack, creating many elegant little landscapes.

Perhaps due to the presence of the spirit vein, the North Mountain now grew many beautiful flowers and peculiar plants.

In the past, when Liu Yunan and the others went up the mountain with Lin Xiao to catch wild animals and forage for food, they had never seen so many beautiful plants.

Early the next morning, the villagers and tourists of Xiushui Village all noticed the changes in the village.

Immediately, someone shouted that the immortals had cast their magic!

Before long, this news spread through the mouths of tourists to the county town, and even to the prefectural city.

Two days later.

An outsider suddenly arrived in the village.

He found the village chief and bought a large piece of residential land from him.

Furthermore, he bought a large tract of wasteland near Xiushui Village.

Although this wasteland was not very close to Xiushui Village, he had no other choice. After all, not a single household in Xiushui Village was willing to sell their cultivated land.

So he had to settle for the next best thing and bought the nearest wasteland.

At worst, he would just spend some more silver to hire people to clear the wasteland.

This person was the father of the only female student in Sun Yigao's private school, He Siyou. He was a merchant, and everyone called him Boss He.

Because Boss He had been traveling for trade for many years, although he had earned a lot of silver, he rarely spent time with his wife and daughter at home.

Now that his daughter was studying, and the village where her private school was located was very likely home to immortals, he slammed the table and decided to move his entire family to Xiushui Village.

He planned to hand over his trading firm to his nephews, while he brought his wife and daughter to the countryside to be a small landlord.

The reason Boss He made such a decision was not just because he heard the rumors.

It was because his daughter came home and told him that normally when they had classes, they couldn't hear any sound from outside at all.

Also, once when she urgently needed to use the outhouse, she saw a kitten outside and wanted to go out and play with it, only to find that when she reached the gate of the private school courtyard, she couldn't take another step forward.

At the time, she was both curious and a little afraid, fearing that she would never be able to get out and see her parents again.

However, when school was dismissed in the afternoon, she found that she could walk out.

Hearing this, combined with the news that had been spreading wildly in the county town recently,

he thought that his daughter's private school was probably extraordinary.

Most likely, when the teacher was giving lessons, the immortals must have cast soundproofing and barrier spells around the private school.

Thus, this strengthened Boss He's determination to settle in Xiushui Village.

As for the other students from outside Xiushui Village at the private school, although they would also be asked upon returning and would tell their families what they had seen and heard,

their families did not have the courage to abandon their homes and businesses to settle in Xiushui Village.

However, as long as these students' families were wealthy, they basically all gradually bought a piece of residential land in Xiushui Village, planning to build a small villa for their families in this village with immortals.

As the flow of people grew day by day, Liu Yunan also discovered some problems.

For example, the road leading to their village was too uneven.

He was just planning to take a few brothers to level the road when he heard that several families who had lived in Anqun County for generations wanted to fund the road repair for Xiushui Village.

Moreover, they acted very swiftly and had already reported it to the county magistrate's office. The county magistrate, Wen Keming, approved it immediately after seeing the report.

Thus, before long, the potholed small road of Xiushui Village turned into a flat main road.

Subsequently, these prominent families from Anqun County came to Xiushui Village one after another and bought residential land from Village Chief Du.

However, Xiushui Village was originally a barren little village, and there was not much residential land in the village. The few remaining plots had already been bought by the earlier arrivals.

Now, these prominent families had to settle for the next best thing and bought residential land on the outskirts of Xiushui Village.

They had thought about using coercion and bribery to make the villagers of Xiushui Village give up their residential land or exchange it.

But for some unknown reason, these villagers seemed to have unified their stance. No matter how much money they offered, they all refused.

Furthermore, as soon as they showed the slightest hint of wanting to coerce them, these villagers would start casually chatting about how so-and-so in the immortal sect on the mountain was their neighbor, how so-and-so was their little grandson's childhood friend, how so-and-so was their good brother...

Just like that, these prominent families of Anqun County ultimately did not dare to make a move.

They could only hurry up and buy the residential land on the outskirts of Xiushui Village.

Otherwise, if they were a little later, the residential land on the outskirts would all be sold out, and they would have to buy even further out.

This was the result of Village Chief Du and Patriarch Hu holding a private meeting with several village elders to discuss the matter.

They had lived here for generations, and the ancestral halls of various clans were also here, so the residential land in the village absolutely could not flow into the hands of outsiders in large quantities.

However, if this person sold and that person didn't, it would easily cause people to feel unbalanced. So, after their discussion, they decided that no one was allowed to sell!

Whoever dared to sell land would be expelled from the clan! And their ancestral graves would be moved!

They visited and persuaded every single household, appealing to reason and emotion, analyzing the pros and cons for everyone, and secretly applying the pressure of being expelled from the clan and having ancestral graves moved.

Thus, they managed to suppress many restless villagers.

Although they couldn't sell their own residential land, these prominent families were hiring workers to build houses and clear wastelands, and the wages they offered were quite good, so the villagers were very happy to do it.