When he took over as Li Zheng years ago, he specially set up a table in a restaurant in town to thank the chief security officer and several official officials.

After drinking for three rounds, the security guard took an opportunity to remind him privately that it would be best to go to Tianxiang Tower for a treat next time.

Also, we must have a good relationship with the neighboring villages of Changping Village. Whether it is cutting firewood in the mountains or doing daily irrigation, we must restrain the villagers and try not to cause conflicts with Changping Village.

As for the reason, it is that the Yang family and the Luo family in Changping Village cannot afford to offend them.

Especially the Luo family.

"Li Jia just met Mrs. Luo in the small Lijia Village." After Li Jia came up, he politely greeted Yang Ruoqing.

"I apologize for disturbing Li Lizheng's sleep in the middle of the night."

Facing Li Jia, the village chief of Li Village, who bowed down to salute when he came up, Yang Ruoqing also politely turned sideways as a return salute.

In Changping Village, people of all ages know that she rarely puts on airs in the village and never uses her status to oppress the villagers.

Everyone praised the couple for not being too prosperous even after they became rich, and they often helped the village do good deeds.

Building schools, paving roads, repairing bridges, recruiting herb collection and transportation teams, and driving some families in the village to become rich.

Of course, these comments were given by villagers who were sensible and had been favored by her and Tang Yazi.

As for the remaining villagers, they are divided into two categories.

The first type is the kind that don’t care about themselves. This kind of people can often rely on their own hard-working hands to have enough food and clothing. They don’t have excessive pursuits and desires and are content with what they have. They don’t have too much either.

The enterprising spirit and adaptability to the situation.

So they looked at it all with indifference, not applauding, lifting, or stepping on it.

Of course, even if you want to step on it, you don’t have the ability to step on it.

There is also a group of people who like to eat, are lazy to cook, and are jealous and hot-handed.

These people are often poor, lazy, sick, and pink-eyed. They can't bear to see you living a better life than them, and at the same time they are greedy and want to get benefits from you.

In front of you, there are tongues all over your body to lick you, and when you turn your back, there are mouths all over your body to make irresponsible remarks to you.

For the third type of people, Yang Ruoqing basically didn't open her eyes to them.

For the second type of people, although they will not come to compliment or please, Yang Ruoqing still appreciates them in her heart.

At least be consistent in your words and deeds, and stick to your original intentions.

As for the first type of people, Yang Ruoqing admires them because they are proactive, know how to size up the situation, hold their thighs tightly and walk higher.

As for the Li family village leader in front of her, Yang Ruoqing didn't have to return the gift. After all, her identity was there.

But we were all fellow villagers, and the other person was about the same age as Yang Huazhong, so she politely turned aside.

This small sideways move made Li Jia secretly shocked.

He glanced at Yang Ruoqing secretly. This woman was tall and tall, with an outstanding figure.

The pair of eyes under the thin and long eyebrows seem to absorb all the moonlight above their heads. Beautiful, really beautiful!

However, the nobility and majesty blended into the intimacy cannot be ignored.

Li Jia bent down slightly, withdrew his gaze, and said with a more respectful expression: "On the way here just now, Yang Lizheng of your village told me about the whole story of the matter. Mrs. Luo called me here. What's your mission?"

"

Yang Ruoqing got straight to the point and said, "We can't talk about dispatches. I want to ask Li Lizheng something."

"First of all, I have a mentally ill and somewhat crazy sister-in-law who ran away last night or this morning. I would like to trouble Li Lizheng to help pay attention to it. If anyone in your village can help find it or provide useful clues, I will definitely have it.

Thank you very much."

Li Jia's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered that he was resting at home during the day and heard the gossip brought back by his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law from outside.

It is said that a young daughter-in-law was lost in Changping Village. She was a fool. Now many people in Changping Village are looking for her.

He didn't take it seriously at the time, but he didn't expect that the lost fool's wife turned out to be from the old Yang family, so this matter must be taken seriously.

If you find it, not to mention the huge reward promised by the general's wife, even if there is no reward, taking this opportunity to show off in front of the general's wife and leaving a personal favor may come in handy in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Jia respectfully responded: "Yes, I'll leave the instructions later. I'll ask Mrs. Luo to continue the instructions."

Yang Ruoqing nodded and immediately cast her gaze towards the lotus pond in front of her. Risong and the others had already entered the water that day and were gradually approaching the deep water area where the lotus leaves were lush.

"Let's get straight to the point. There is a monster in this lotus pond. It is extremely strong. Its hands and arms are covered with hair. It can grab people and won't let go. Even three grown men can't pull it off."

"This lotus pond belongs to your Lijia Village. I would like to know if anything similar to the lotus pond has happened in the past?"

Although Li Jia had already heard from Yang Huazhong and Yang Yongzhi on the way here and was already prepared in his heart, he still couldn't bear to stand on the shore and watch Yang Ruoqing's men move closer to the deep water.

He looked a little scared and uneasy.

"To be honest with you, Mrs. Luo and Yang Lizheng, although this lotus pond reservoir belongs to our Lijia Village, the people in our Lijia Village usually don't drink water or wash themselves here. We all use the small pond at the entrance of our village, and the small pond behind the village.

The water in the river.”

"Unless there is a special drought year when the reservoir is opened to divert water for irrigation, other times the people in our village tell the children not to play near the reservoir because the reservoir is deep and there are water ghosts in it."

"Are there really water ghosts?" Yang Huazhong couldn't help but ask.

Li Jia looked at Yang Huazhong: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but the older people in our village all said so. They also said that the water ghost was put in by Li Yuanwai, the richest man in our village at that time, decades ago.

"

Mr. Li from Lijiacun?

Yang Ruoqing narrowed her eyes.

Fifteen or sixteen years ago, she and Tang Yazi had demolished Yuan Li's family home.

The cause was that a servant of Yuan Li's wife's family had a conflict with Yang Huazhong over the matter of fields and cattle. The other party actually came up and beat Yang Huazhong.

Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang went to help Yang Huazhong find a place, but accidentally bumped into Mr. Li, who was in his fifties and had a concubine who was fifteen or sixteen years old.

Not to mention, in the backyard and basement of Li Yuanwai's house, they discovered that Li Yuanwai was actually from the Black Lotus Sect, so...

"More than ten years ago, wasn't Mr. Li from your village had his house confiscated by the government because he believed in a cult?"

Not only did Yang Ruoqing think of this past event, Yang Huazhong also didn't forget it, and he was still a person involved at the time.

Li Jia nodded and said: "Yes, the Li family's house was confiscated, and the Li family's house was also sealed by the government. But this reservoir was dug by someone from the ancestors of Yuan Li's family. In the past, Yuan Li's family raised fish and shrimp in the reservoir.
Chapter completed!