Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 1177 - 1151.

Secretary Xiaozu truly deserves the title of efficiency fanatic.

She strolled around the village with two handfuls of sunflower seeds, resolving several emotional disputes and subtle conflicts, and even managed to check in on the elderly...

Before night fell, she returned with a wealth of information.

Seeing everyone gathered around the tablet, pointing and commenting, she didn’t pay it much heed, quickly spotting her target and squeezing through:

"Hey, what’s your name, Lun Chuan, Mr. Lu!"

"And Auntie Lu, may I ask who’s in charge of this guesthouse? If I need to coordinate something, who should I contact first?"

Song Tan grinned and said, "Of course, it’s Auntie Lu! She’s already decided on the main elements of the rooms!"

What?

How did they finalize the elements after just a few hours away? You all don’t even know where the guesthouse is, do you?

Secretary Xiaozu was instantly delighted!

She, being efficient, matched with an equally efficient investor, was simply a joyful sight!

She hurriedly opened the tablet in her hand:

"Come, come, come, Auntie Lu, I’ve already made inquiries. The households in our village with clear property rights, where everyone on the household register can sign, and who are willing to rent out their old homes at a reasonable price, I’ve taken photos of all of them for you!"

"I’ve also taken photos of the areas on their newly issued certificates over the last two years."

If not for the time crunch, given just one more night, Secretary Xiaozu could have even created Excel spreadsheets, complete with two tables.

But before introducing this information, she absolutely had to explain the village’s current situation to the investors:

"Our Yunqiao Village is like this: seven parts mountain, two parts water, one part field. It’s remote, without any local features to develop."

"So, in terms of homesteads, it’s relatively lenient; every household’s residence is basically nestled at the foot of the mountains."

If it were building on a large plain, one would have to consider whether it encroached on arable land.

But here...

Forget it, who in their right mind would want to build a house on their few plots of field?

It’s on one’s own little hill, and as the saying goes, ’what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Want to extend the house? Just dig two extra shovels in the direction you want.

Of course, with satellite monitoring nowadays, you can’t push it too far, but overall, it’s still relatively forgiving.

However, this also leads to another problem—

"The asking prices for old houses in our village are relatively high."

"After all, with such a big yard, no matter how rundown it is, it’s still their house. If the rent is too low, even the locals are unwilling to rent it out."

"But frankly speaking, the price is indeed a bit steep..."

Secretary Xiaozu earnestly said, "We are all family here, so I won’t give you any of that fancy talk. Even if it’s a little more expensive, if we have the financial capacity, I suggest we go for it."

"After all, it’s for turning it into a guesthouse. I told them we could pay several years’ rent upfront. Correspondingly, you’ll have to bear a high penalty for breach of contract."

"This way, you can feel more at ease when investing."

Secretary Xiaozu was indeed doing her best to keep things balanced.

Lun Chuan is Song Tan’s boyfriend, and Song Tan is currently the person in the village with the most potential and the greatest likelihood of leading everyone to development.

Meanwhile, villagers have limited ways to earn money, and she also wanted to try to get villagers higher rents.

This way, everyone would be more willing, and conflicts would be fewer.

But as the one renting the house, Lun Jing was quite nervous: "Can’t the rent be lowered at all? How much is it exactly?"

Secretary Xiaozu sighed: "Really can’t be helped, I’ve done my best. Below this amount, they’d rather have the house sit empty than rent it out—look, Auntie Lu, at this biggest yard."

"Though it’s a bit rundown, the yard is poorly maintained. But precisely because of this, it’s easier to renovate, and the area is large, just slightly smaller than Song Tan’s home."

"In the whole village, this one is the most expensive, but it’s also the largest—500 yuan a month."

"Five hundred yuan?"

This time, Lun Jing was dumbfounded.

Having stayed in the Imperial City for a long time, upon hearing the rent increase, her first reaction was, [Again? An increase of several hundred, or a thousand?!]

However, Secretary Xiaozu had laid it on thick, and in the end, they were only originally asking for 500 yuan a month.

Uh this...

It’s only 6,000 a year! In Lun Chuan’s neighborhood, 6,000 is barely enough for a secondary bedroom!

But Song Tan hesitated, "Did you explain to them? What if next year our village develops well, and other investors with foresight want to come in too? We could increase the rent as per the market, so I don’t suggest taking several years’ rent at once."

Secretary Xiaozu sighed, this time pointing at the picture: "Do you recognize this house? Does it look familiar?"

Upon hearing this, everyone gathered closer. Wu Lan stared at the picture with a frown, suddenly realizing: "Isn’t this Old Man Li’s house?"

"What? Can he guarantee he won’t come back?"

"Who’s Old Man Li?" Lun Chuan looked towards Song Tan.

And Song Tan frowned: "Did you see an old yellow cow when you went to the Riverside Beach? It was given to us by Grandpa Li, and it’s called Dahuang."

"Its original owner was Grandpa Li, Old Man Li." frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Song Tan, knowing Old Man Li’s affairs all too well, turned to Secretary Xiaozu:

"Who agreed to this? His son did? I really don’t believe they can keep Old Man Li in the city permanently."

Once the house is rented out, won’t Old Man Li have no place to stay? If he comes back to the village, we’ll have to find a way to accommodate him.

Secretary Xiaozu snorted, her tone full of disdain:

"Didn’t you know? Old Man Li just came back today—he originally had an old house here. It’s fallen into disrepair, but it’s still barely inhabitable."

Song Sancheng was the first to react—"You don’t mean that small shack by the field, do you? Just a tiny piece of land with a single bed inside, and outside there are two chairs and a table..."

This was originally built by the field to watch over the melon patches!

This is not just falling into disrepair, it’s practically just a frame.

"Well, there’s no other way." Secretary Xiaozu said, helplessly: "Elder Mr. Li lived in the city for a few months, completely spent all his savings, and since the kids were on winter vacation, they sent him back."

"It was a coincidence. I was talking about leasing the house when his son overheard and immediately decided to rent out the old home! He immediately agreed to sign!"

Secretary Xiaozu let out a cold laugh: "Elder Mr. Li just can’t let go, crying his eyes out but not daring to confront his son directly, and still hoping they’d support him in his old age?"

"He even agreed to sign, and now his son will be holding the rent. All his bedding has already been moved to that little broken-down shack."

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