Chapter 757: Chapter 757: Qingyan Village

Getting off the train and walking towards the station exit, they quickly saw a young man holding up a sign, here to pick them up.

Lin Chuxia proactively approached and greeted him, “Thank you for your effort, I am Lin Chuxia.”

The other person was visibly surprised to see Lin Chuxia, then enthusiastically extended his hand, “I am Yu Fusheng’s grandson, Yu Fei. We’ve been looking forward to your arrival. The car is outside.”

Yu Fusheng is an old friend of Old Master He, who once said that Yu Fusheng has a grandson regarded as the fifth generation successor of their Yu family.

Lin Chuxia didn’t expect Mr. Yu to have his grandson personally come to receive her.

Upon exiting the train station, Lin Chuxia noticed that the living standards here were noticeably lower compared to An City and Yan City.

She actually realized this a few years ago when she visited Qin Yang in the Northwest.

Speaking of An City, although it opened up later, due to its proximity to the capital, it has geographical advantages in economic and agricultural development, improving people’s living standards rapidly.

In remote areas far from the capital, not to mention reaching the standards of a millionaire, some places are still struggling on the subsistence line.

From the attire of the people and the transportation on the road alone, one can feel the poverty of the region they’ve come to.

The vehicle receiving them was a tractor. While Yu Fei helped load their luggage onto the car, he explained. Googlᴇ search N0velFire.ɴet

“The place we’re going to is called Qingyan Town, Qingyan Town has a Qingyan Village where many farmers plant herbs. Several surrounding villages also cultivate herbs, and upon hearing about our visit for investigation, the village chief of Qingyan Village sent this vehicle specially, but we should still seek your opinion: do you want to rest here for a night or head directly to Qingyan Village?”

Mr. Yu’s home is not here; Yu Fei came here on the special request of Old Master He to assist Lin Chuxia and her team.

However, as the Yu family comes to Qingyan Town every year to purchase herbs, they are quite familiar with this place.

Lin Chuxia asked Yu Fei where to stay, and Yu Fei smiled and said, “This lodging place may not be to Mr. Lin’s liking, but it’s at the large vehicle store in Qingyan Town.”

Qingyan Town is somewhat famous for planting Chinese herbs. Every year during the harvest season, many herb vendors come to Qingyan Town to purchase Chinese herbs.

Hence, there is a large vehicle store in Qingyan Town.

However, the accommodations are quite rudimentary.

Lin Chuxia directly said, “What’s there not to get used to? Let’s head to Qingyan Town.”

The second half of the sentence was directed at Gu Peng.

Yu Fei specially came to guide them, the sooner the matter is done, the better.

If they go to Qingyan Town today, they can visit Qingyan Village early tomorrow morning.

Gu Peng had no objection to Lin Chuxia’s arrangement, climbed onto the tractor first, then extended his hand to Lin Chuxia.

Lin Chuxia placed her hand on his, borrowing his strength to climb onto the tractor.

Yu Fei patted Niu Dali, who was driving, “Master Niu, the people are received, we can go now.”

Niu Dali, around thirty years old, clearly suited for farm work, his skin tanned darkly, and when he smiled, it revealed a set of large white teeth.

He responded honestly, smiled at Lin Chuxia and the others, and then took the crank, inserted it into the front of the tractor, and shook it vigorously a few times.

“Da-da-da-da-da” the tractor started up, emitting a burst of black smoke from the chimney.

This diesel smell, Lin Chuxia hadn’t smelled for a while.

On the vehicle, Yu Fei introduced to Lin Chuxia and the others that Qingyan Town is more than 30 li from the station.

The entire town is almost in mountainous areas, many regions cultivate herbs, and Qingyan Village is the most renowned.

Throughout the village, aside from personal grain fields, almost all are medicinal fields.

Lin Chuxia listened to Yu Fei’s introduction while observing the scenery along the way.

Though this area was somewhat impoverished, the scenery before her was quite nice, with clear mountains and waters, albeit the road was a bit bumpy.

Lin Chuxia moved slightly, reminiscing about riding a tractor during her wedding, with blankets beneath her to add comfort.

Just as she was thinking, a bundle poked at her waist.

She turned and saw Gu Peng seriously stuffing his canvas bag under her bum, “It’s more comfortable sitting with this cushion.”

Lin Chuxia couldn’t help but laugh, “Your bag is full of clothes; I’ll crease them all sitting on them throughout the journey.”

Seeing her unwilling, Gu Peng directly pulled her arm, lifting her a bit, stuffing the canvas bag under her bottom.

“Creases are just creases; things aren’t as important as people.”

Since it was already stuffed, Lin Chuxia couldn’t pull it back out, she smiled and thanked him.

Yu Fei teasingly said, “The assistant of Senior Sister is thoughtful indeed; I should have brought you a cushion when you came.”

For these rough fellows, sitting on a tractor was just sitting on the vehicle’s edge; when tired, they would stand up, hardly needing a cushion, so it naturally didn’t occur to them.

The tractor traveled more than ten li, reaching the area of Qinglong Town.

Yu Fei pointed to the distant hills, “Senior Sister, you see over there, and over there, as well as here, are medicinal fields; these plots are peonies, and that distant patch is angelica.”

On the distant mountains, patches of greenery were visible.

“Many villagers here plant medicinal herbs, but in small quantities, with varied quality. Consequently, the buying price by herb vendors isn’t high. The lower the price, the less willing villagers are to plant more, fearing they can’t sell them; unlike grain, this can’t be consumed personally.”

Lin Chuxia nodded; she had already understood this situation.

This isn’t an issue.

As long as the villagers have the experience of planting medicinal herbs, she could later recruit tech personnel for training, leveraging Xiyang’s purchasing capacity to alleviate villagers’ planting concerns.

The tractor directly took them to the large vehicle store in Qingyan Town where Yu Fei was staying.

The large vehicle store was a courtyard adjacent to the street, rooms divided into individual spaces.

The rooms in the main building had single beds, accommodating 4 to 6 people per room.

The three connecting side rooms had large communal beds.

Of course, the prices varied too.

During this herb purchasing low season, not many were lodging.

Yu Fei currently had a room to himself.

Gu Peng requested two rooms from the storekeeper.

Then selected one seemingly more pleasant for Lin Chuxia to stay.

The room was very basic, with just some plank beds, not even a table.

Fortunately, Lin Chuxia was the only one in the entire room, she placed her luggage on a bed and spread her bedsheet to make the bed.

The storekeeper’s wife sent hot water to the room, and Gu Peng fetched a bucket of cold water for her.

“There’s no place for bathing here; you might want to simply wash inside the room while I’ll keep an eye on the door.”

He spoke naturally, leaving Lin Chuxia momentarily stunned.

If it were their relationship in the previous life, she wouldn’t be surprised by this statement; yet, they’ve merely been acquainted for at most three months now.

This wasn’t her first time feeling this way, she often experienced this feeling while on the train.

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