During the evening rest, Li Zhengguo asked his wife again what was wrong.
Not only was his wife’s expression unusual, but she also told Lu Shi to stop dealing with the Ao Du Group.
Tian Jing sighed, "There is something very wrong with Zeng Jingchu. I suspect something was done to him during the more than two months before he was rescued."
Li Zhengguo frowned, "Where is it wrong?"
Tian Jing looked at her husband, "Do you still remember the second life I experienced with you in the maze?"
Li Zhengguo's eyes narrowed, "Apocalypse? Zombies?"
Tian Jing shook her head, "I can't be sure, because his symptoms are what foreign ability users call berserker. It's berserker after using a serum, and there's no clue yet as to which country produced it."
"I can't tell Zeng Jingrong about this guess, so I'm worried."
Li Zhengguo was silent. If Tian Tian's guess was correct, it would be a world-shattering event.
The couple tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.
The next morning at breakfast, Shen Jianrong proposed to take her daughter and grandson back to Kyoto. The weather was getting warmer, so they would go back to rest for a while and prepare for the hundredth-day banquet.
Although the Li family was reluctant, they couldn't stop them from leaving.
Yu Ziyu's seven-seater car was at the Li family's, so it was convenient to drive back. Tian Jing prepared some local specialties. This time, with Si Ji present, she was more careful about the specialties.
She didn't bring any live animals with strong smells or dried game, only wild eggs, cured fish pieces, and fruits and vegetables.
After seeing off Shen Jianrong's family of three generations, the Li family seemed to have become much quieter.
Even Xuanxuan was not as prone to crying and fussing as before.
Jinnian and Jiyang lay obediently beside their sister, sleeping with her, playing with her. Life seemed to have quieted down.
Tian Jing, who had more leisure time, often found herself daydreaming.
On the weekend, Li Zhengguo, who was off work, pulled his wife to the unattended nursery courtyard.
The vegetables in the five hundred greenhouses were more overgrown than wild grass.
Even the rose vines in the greenhouse next to the guard room had grown countless messy thin branches, like the messy bushes by the roadside.
Looking at it all, Tian Jing's expression was calm.
Li Zhengguo put his arm around her as they stood by the rose vines, "The time of the second life was called the twenty-fifth century of Jin Yuan. Don't say it's not a plane, even if it is a plane, we don't know if we can live until then?"
"There's nothing you can do about your worries. Do you want to take the risk and tell Zeng Jingrong about the second life? Besides, you can't be sure that Zeng Jingchu's symptoms are zombie transformation."
Tian Jing waved her hand at the messy vines, and they immediately retracted and withered, turning into dust in an instant, revealing a pit in the middle.
Li Zhengguo was surprised, "Where is the ginseng?"
"It was dug up," Tian Jing said softly, looking at the deep pit, "You didn't guess my worry. I'm worried that this world has changed because of me, and ultimately headed towards the doomsday of the second life."
"Ability powers haven't upgraded, but I've not only upgraded, but I've also brought the special operations team to upgrade."
"The black and white tombs in the maze were destroyed by me, and finally, that rule of destruction and ruin entered my body..."
"If I hadn't used the maze to break the rules of this world, perhaps the serum wouldn't have appeared abroad. If I hadn't taken that piece of destruction..."
"It's not like that."
Li Zhengguo interrupted his wife's self-pity, "What you said is just a guess. No one knows what the situation would be now if you hadn't upgraded."
"If something unexpected happens, it can only be fate. Otherwise, how could we have been reborn? Rebirth has already broken the established rules of this world."
"Besides, we don't know what the situation was like in the first life."
Yes! Tian Jing sighed inwardly. In her and Zheng Ge's first life, they were shot years ago.
She and Zheng Ge no longer had their advantages...
Li Zhengguo tightened his grip on her shoulder, "Don't think about it anymore. Mother is worried. Let's go look to the west."
The couple left the nursery and went to the barren mountain to the northwest of the nursery.
This barren mountain covered an area of nearly five hundred mu and was connected to the mountain range behind the mountain. It was a place that the villagers had been afraid to come to before, as it was said to be inhabited by wild boars...
Now, it had been contracted by Wei Xiaoyong and others.
The soil quality of this barren mountain was not good, and there were many large stones. However, because Wei Xiaoyong and others did not want to leave Kuss Mountain, they contracted this barren mountain for twenty years at a very low price.
This was because the forty men believed that they would reach retirement age and could return to live out their old age in peace after working for at most twenty years.
At this moment, an excavator was digging by the side of the mountain.
Wei Xiaoyong, who was supervising, saw Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo and hurried over, "Captain Tian, Mayor Li."
Li Zhengguo waved his hand, "I'm no longer the mayor."
Wei Xiaoyong corrected himself, "Elder Uncle."
Li Zhengguo nodded, "I see you're preparing to level the mountain?"
"Yes," Wei Xiaoyong nodded. "If we level it, it will be convenient for us to go up and down the mountain. Also, the soil is not good, so we need to bring some fertile soil for the greenhouses."
Just bringing new soil was a huge project, but Tian Jing was very supportive. She not only asked him to build a courtyard wall after the greenhouses were completed but also asked him to build another road out of the village to prevent some villagers from being jealous and causing trouble.
Build another road out of the village?
Wei Xiaoyong looked to the southeast. Beyond the wasteland was the Kuss River. Was he planning to build a bridge?
The money needed to build a bridge...
Tian Jing followed his gaze and smiled, "I'll pay for the road and bridge construction. We'll build some houses by the roadside and let them all move here to live."
Wei Xiaoyong shook his head, "No need, I'll continue to apply for loans. I'll make all the expenses clear to the higher-ups."
"Alright," Tian Jing agreed. "Once the fruits and vegetables in Kuss Mountain are gone, your farmed fruits and vegetables will be unique. But don't let the chain stores enter Kyoto."
Since the people in Kyoto were so capable, they shouldn't eat the fruits and vegetables from Kuss Mountain.
Wei Xiaoyong nodded.
The May Day holiday saw the opening of the Hot Spring Valley scenic area. Even though the ticket price had increased by thirty yuan, it couldn't stop the tourists.
Kuss Mountain became lively again. The villagers, putting aside their recent unhappiness, seriously managed their industries on and off the mountain.
Industries off the mountain?
Of course!
The industries off the mountain were the breeding of wild chickens and rabbits.
This, which was originally a small industry in the eyes of the villagers, where the elderly spent their time to earn some pocket money, was now taken seriously by the villagers.
The scenic area's dividends dropped from over three hundred thousand to eighty to ninety thousand. It was impossible not to feel heartache and resentment.
But no one had any reason to complain. Even these poultry, which they were now taking seriously, were caught by Tian Jing and Ouyang Meihua from deep in the mountains.
The tourists clearly felt the change in the villagers. Where was the difference?
Enthusiasm.
They were enthusiastic before, but with a hint of arrogance and superiority. Now, their enthusiasm was filled with sincerity.
The tourists didn't know what had happened, but they preferred the current villagers of Kuss Mountain.
While Kuss Mountain was bustling, the county was also lively. Several leaders of the county party committee and government were suddenly dealt with.
Deputy County Mayor Tong was double-handed for investigation, and the County Party Secretary was transferred away. The new County Party Secretary was the county mayor of a certain county in the province.
The Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee and County Mayor was removed from office, and the other two Deputy County Mayors remained in their positions.
The new Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee and County Mayor was Comrade Li Zhengguo, and the previous disciplinary action against Comrade Li Zhengguo was revoked.
This last piece of news exploded throughout Ling County.
It even stunned Li Zhengguo even more.
He didn't want to be an official!
He was already 52 years old...
Why was it so difficult to retire?
The new town mayor received the same news almost at the same time as Li Zhengguo. He immediately went to Li Zhengguo's office to congratulate him. He was fortunate that he knew the background of the wife of County Mayor Li, otherwise...
The few clerks in the same office as Li Zhengguo also recovered from their shock and congratulated him enthusiastically along with the new town mayor.
Although the clerks congratulated him verbally, they were inwardly thinking if they had said anything inappropriate during the past month when Li County Mayor was in a cold seat.
People from other offices also came to offer their congratulations.
Even though he was dissatisfied with this sudden promotion, Li Zhengguo could only force a smile and thank these colleagues.
Finally, after sending away the congratulators, Li Zhengguo tidied up his personal belongings and left the office where he had worked for more than a month, and left the town government where he had worked for more than three years.