Chapter 434 You old codger, where were you all this time!

Upon hearing this, Yan Liti looked at Qiao Qiao, who was unwrapping gifts and watching TV with her brothers, pouted, and replied irritably, "I guessed it yesterday."

She didn't say it in front of the Qiao family because she didn't want them to feel indebted to her.

However, she guessed that the Qiao family probably knew the truth, but just didn't say it.

After all, there are only a few people who would build roads in Qiao Qiao's name and who could afford to do so. Excluding her and her son, that leaves only that old man.

In fact, when she returned yesterday, she called the housekeeper in Kyoto and arranged for someone to send the money to the nursing home where Grandpa Shen is currently staying.

I guess he knew about this news, which is why he made this call.

"As for showing his sincerity, come on, his paltry sentiment is hardly something to be proud of." Yan Liti said with a look of disgust.

And why didn't she do this earlier? If he had just lent a hand to her son when he first joined the army, she wouldn't have been so cold to him.

Now they refuse to sign the divorce papers and cling to them, they're really getting more and more shameless as they get older!

"Alright, stop talking about him. Talking about him makes me upset. It's this phone call that's so annoying! Why can't you set up a rejection function? It's so frustrating!"

Muttering to herself, Yan Liti walked back to the restaurant area to make tea for Yan Xiaoqing and Grandpa Wang.

At this moment, Qiao Changdong also went downstairs to his own small kitchen and brought up the boiled water.

After brewing the tea, the adults watched TV and chatted, while the boys played with Qiao Qiao.

Around 9:30 p.m., Qiao Changdong chased away a few reluctant young men and personally escorted the two elderly people back upstairs to rest.

Qiao Xiaoyun and Meng Zhengcheng are both on the night shift today. The two elderly people, Meng Zihuan, and Fu Yu are sleeping upstairs.

Fu Yu's current status in the Qiao family is no longer that of an orphan waiting to be adopted, but rather that of a guest fostered by the Qiao family.

His father is still alive. In fact, Fu Yu should stay in Haishi. Even if he refuses to be taken back and raised by his two uncles from the Xiang family, the Fu family's businesses are managed by professionals, and the Fu family's old house has servants and nannies who can take good care of him.

There's no need for me to follow them back to Hongfeng Town and act like a wild boy following the Qiao family.

Moreover, Shen Qingyan also said that someone in Fu Yu's father's workplace was secretly looking after him, and with his intelligence, staying in Haishi was the best choice.

But Fu Yu still resolutely followed the Qiao family back to Hongfeng Town.

His longing for the warmth of the Qiao family was one thing, but the bigger reason was that he didn't want to leave Qiao Qiao.

It was just like the first time he saw Qiao Qiao at the county hospital.

He felt that something was drawing him to her side, urging him to stay by her side.

The next day was Saturday.

The weather is fine.

Grandpa Wang and Grandpa Mo had arranged to meet early in the morning to go fishing.

Yan Liti and Yan Xiaoqing were busy with something else.

Meanwhile, Qiao Changdong, along with Qiao Qiao, began to busy themselves finding a house builder and studying his several courtyard house architectural drawings to see which design would be most suitable after the other plots of land were purchased.

What Qiao Changdong didn't expect was that before they could finalize which plan to use, something went wrong with one of the plots of land they had agreed to buy.

Qiao Changdong bought the land for 22 yuan per square meter.

And this time, he offered the same price.

This price is quite reasonable for Hongfeng Town.

But for some reason, the son of the family who had agreed to take a piece of wasteland suddenly approached Qiao Changdong.

One minute they'll say that the land was already given to a relative by the family's elders, and it's hard to sell.

A moment later, he told Qiao Changdong, "If you really want it, I can help you talk to your relatives, but the price might be a bit higher because his relatives are not short of money."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Changdong immediately understood; they simply wanted to raise the price.

In this day and age, it's rare for a family to own land and leave it to waste. Even the laziest family would plant some crops on it, and even if they planted them haphazardly, they would still get some harvest.

But the owner of this wasteland had no other choice.

The current owner of this wasteland is an old man in his seventies.

The old man had one son and two daughters. His daughters were married and living away from home. His son didn't like farming and was a lazy man who had been doing odd jobs outside for years, just getting by.

The old man is getting on in years and his legs are not very strong, so he can't farm as much land. He can only manage the plot of land in front of his own house, and the rest of the land has been abandoned.

The abandoned land is about two-tenths of an acre, or about 130 square meters.

Yesterday, Qiao Changdong came to our door, saying he wanted to buy this piece of wasteland for 22 yuan per square meter.

The old man was overjoyed.

The land was just lying there unused, but now that it could be converted into cash, and for such a large sum of money at that, the old man was naturally happy to sell it.

He called his son, who was working in the city, that very night.

The son rushed back yesterday afternoon and walked around the Qiao family's new house.

Then they went to ask the family who had previously sold land to Qiao Changdong, and learned that Qiao Changdong, who wanted to buy the land, was a very wealthy boss who wanted to buy several more plots of land to expand his house, which was already over 500 square meters, several times over.

A 500-square-meter foundation is already quite large in Hongfeng Town.

Nowadays, when building a house, excluding the yard, a size of 150 to 200 square meters is generally sufficient.

Upon learning that Qiao Changdong was particularly interested in the land, the old man's son immediately hatched a scheme, thinking that he couldn't let go of this opportunity to make a fortune and wanted to raise the price further.

He originally intended to get seven or eight other households to raise their prices as well.

But then he thought about it again. All the land together totaled about three acres, and raising the price for all of them would be a considerable sum. It might backfire, so he went to Qiao Changdong separately to raise the price.

"Comrade Qiao, we're all honest people. If you're really serious about it, how about you add three more yuan, no, six yuan per square meter, to make it a lucky number of twenty-eight yuan, and I'll help you discuss it with your relatives? What do you say?"

When the old man's son said this to Qiao Changdong, he even made an eight-shaped hand gesture towards Qiao Changdong.

"..." Qiao Changdong.

Qiao Changdong gave the man a fake smile almost without hesitation, then directly refused, saying, "It's not good. I don't want your land."

The old man's piece of wasteland was originally in a relatively peripheral location, on the other side of the grove of trees, and Qiao Changdong could take it or leave it.

It's the kind of thing that you can't have too much of, and you can't have too little of either.

Now that the old man's son has caused this commotion, he's thinking of simply giving up on the relationship.

The planned area has already reached 2,000 square meters, so the extra 100 square meters in the corners is really not that important to Qiao Changdong.

The old man's son never expected that the negotiations would end before they even began.

I was completely stunned.