Chapter 912: Your Village Even Has Parking Fees?

Zhao Yiwan was stunned. "S-Surely not, right?"

Jiang Ran said, "Hard to say. He doesn't want to break up, you want to break up, and right now you're both just dragging things out. If you ever have a falling out and start fighting, it's easy for impulse to become the devil. That could put your personal safety in danger."

"Examples like this are all over the internet."

"A lot of people's biggest flaw is thinking that examples like this could never happen to them."

"And that leads to tragedy in their lives. They tell themselves their partner couldn't possibly be that crazy, or something along those lines."

Zhao Yiwan fell silent, then said with a heavy heart, "Sigh! I really have no choice anymore..."

Zhang Xue said, "For now, Yiwan can only keep dragging things out with Qin Chuan. That's all she can do."

Zhang Xue thought to herself that Qin Chuan and Zhao Yiwan were as good as done. There was probably no chance of them ever getting back together. And her own relationship with Gao Yang was also increasingly heading toward the breakup stage.

Zhang Xue couldn't help but recall when she and Gao Yang had first started dating. They had been inseparable, as thick as thieves.

But as time passed, perhaps it was true what people said - when two people stayed together long enough.

The novelty completely faded, and when it came to marriage and kids, it wasn't so much about love anymore, but rather the deep familial bond that grew over time.

Yet she and Gao Yang probably couldn't even make it to marriage and kids.

"Sigh, matters of the heart are so troublesome."

Zhang Xue sighed.

Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao watched the two women tangled up in romantic woes.

At the same moment, the same thought crossed both their minds: "Seems like being single isn't so bad after all. At least you don't have to worry about all this messy stuff."

The next day.

Jiang Ran and the others headed back to the Small Mountain Village once again.

Before they came, they had bought quite a bit of snacks, as well as supplies for the kids.

To hand out to the children in the village.

Of course, it just wasn't as much as the first time.

After they arrived, the small construction crew that Zhang Xue and the others had hired also showed up.

Since it was just building a cement road for a small mountain village, not some particularly complicated project, the two people who had come to survey yesterday immediately drew up a design plan after their inspection.

After Zhang Xue and Gao Yang confirmed it, they started work.

The small construction crew got to work, and the village was suddenly bustling with activity.

To shoot more video material, Zhang Xue would even help the villagers with farm work and such.

Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao, having nothing better to do, went to find the Green-haired Guy.

The Green-haired Guy was still in the Small Mountain Village at this time.

The three of them chatted.

Naturally, the conversation turned to those fourteen people from Zheng Zihan's group.

The Green-haired Guy told Jiang Ran about how eight of them had died at Alice Apartment.

So they thought Alice Apartment was a place with bad feng shui, too dangerous, and moved out.

As a result, just a few days later, Zheng Zihan suddenly died in a car accident.

Her boyfriend Lin Yu was completely devastated.

Hearing all this, Jiang Ran was stunned speechless.

Recalling Zheng Zihan who had been introducing herself at the last welcome party, now learning of her death from someone else's mouth, it really felt like times had changed and people had drifted apart!

The Green-haired Guy said, "So yeah, our little group is basically scattered now. I figured I'd take this opportunity to come back here for a while."

As the two of them talked, Wang Qingzhao listened attentively, occasionally lowering her head in thought.

At noon, Jiang Ran and the others ate boxed lunches that they had driven down the mountain to buy.

In the afternoon, the Green-haired Guy, carrying a large backpack, was ready to leave this place.

Speaking of the Green-haired Guy leaving - there should have been quite a few people in this small mountain village who knew him, and whom he knew. Yet when it came to seeing him off, only Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao showed up.

At the village entrance.

The Green-haired Guy took one last look at the small mountain village where he had grown up. The faint reluctance in his eyes ultimately faded away completely.

"Sigh!"

He let out a deep sigh, though even he didn't know what he was sighing about.

Jiang Ran thought he was still reluctant to leave his hometown, so he said, "If you really can't bear to leave, you can always come back and visit in the future."

The Green-haired Guy quickly waved his hands and shook his head.

"No, no. I'm just still regretting that if I'd known my friends were going to die, I should have used them to take out a bunch of online loans earlier!"

Jiang Ran went "Uh, uh, uh" without making a sound.

He thought to himself, the Green-haired Guy he knew was back.

Since they had to stay at this small mountain village for several days, waiting until the road construction was complete, they couldn't return to Alice Apartment. They had no choice but to ask Manager Wu Wen for leave.

The leave request went smoothly too.

Just a single "Got it" and it was done.

Time slowly passed by.

Soon, the village road was about a third of the way done.

The words the Green-haired Guy had said to Jiang Ran earlier began to take effect.

At this moment, Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao were with Zhang Xue at the home of a solitary old woman in the village, helping with household chores.

Suddenly, Zhao Yiwan came rushing in urgently and called them to the village entrance, saying something had happened.

When they arrived at the village entrance, they saw several members of the construction crew and a few villagers arguing there.

Jiang Ran thought it was a dispute between the construction crew and the villagers. But once he understood what was going on, he immediately recalled the wise words the Green-haired Guy had spoken earlier!

The reason for the matter was also very simple.

It was because Zhang Xue and Gao Yang's white SUV, plus the small construction crew building the cement road for the village.

With all the various vehicles combined, there were ten cars in total.

Furthermore, some of the supplies used for road construction were also all parked at the village entrance along with the vehicles.

Therefore, these few villagers had come to collect parking fees.

After learning the full story.

Zhang Xue stepped forward and asked those villagers, "Parking fees? Does your village even have a thing like parking fees?"

Never mind that Zhang Xue had never heard of it, even Jiang Ran and Wang Qingzhao had never heard of a small mountain village having parking fees...

If you said a parking lot in the city charged parking fees, that was acceptable.

But this...

Among the villagers, a middle-aged man with slit-like eyes said, "Our village has always had parking fees."

Zhang Xue said, "Then why have I never heard anyone mention it?"

The slit-like eyed middle-aged man said, "That's your problem, not mine. Anyway, I'm here today to collect parking fees!"

Zhang Xue was speechless. She had Qin Chuan go fetch the Village Chief.

After the Village Chief was brought over and learned the cause of the matter, he said to Zhang Xue, "I forgot about this myself! Our village does indeed have parking fees!"

Zhang Xue's beautiful eyes widened. "Village Chief, you're not joking, are you?"

The Village Chief said with a chuckle, "Now what kind of talk is that? Would I, as a village chief, joke about something like this?"

Zhang Xue said, "Fine, even if there are parking fees, we only parked our cars here because we're helping your village build a road! And the road construction is free, benefiting the entire village! Even so, you still want to charge us parking fees?"

The Village Chief sighed upon hearing this and said, "Let me talk to them."

Then, the two sides started negotiating.

But they were speaking in the local dialect.

Zhang Xue and the others had no idea what they were jabbering about. Anyway, it was all just jabbering back and forth.