Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1171 - 212:

Li Sanjiang: "Then don't push the cart, just sit on it."

Saying that, without waiting for Li Zhiyuan to react, Li Sanjiang picked up the young man and placed him on the front of the cart.

Xigou Village was neither far nor near, but the speed of pushing the cart was a bit slow. It took about an hour to reach the place.

The Old Pu's house was a small mud house, with a yard that hadn't even been paved with cement or gravel.

It wasn't that there was no money for repairs, it was just that no one had lived there for a long time and they were too lazy to fix it up.

At this time, the door to the mud house was wide open, and inside was an ice coffin connected by several long extension cords leading to the neighbor's house.

The house had long since lost power, and even paying couldn't restore it, so they had to borrow electricity from the neighbor to power the ice coffin.

Pu Xingsheng's wife and daughter were sitting on a bench. The wife was feeding her daughter eight-treasure porridge, and the daughter, who was about the same age as Li Zhiyuan, was wearing a princess dress and looked quite fashionable.

Pu Xingsheng was standing at the edge of the yard, talking to the neighbor on the other side.

The neighbor was leaning on a hoe, occasionally picking his earwax, with an attitude of indifference.

Pu Xingsheng became more and more agitated, his face turning red.

It turned out that the Old Pu's land had long been subcontracted to the neighbor to farm, under a long contract. Now, with crops growing on the land, in order to set up a shed for the funeral, they needed to level a piece of land, but the neighbor refused.

Pu Xingsheng offered compensation, and the neighbor was initially agreeable, but then quoted an exorbitant price, which infuriated Pu Xingsheng.

In normal rural relationships, if you needed land for a funeral, you wouldn't need compensation. At most, a small token red envelope would do, as funerals are important.

But last year, when the neighbor was rebuilding their house, they wanted to negotiate exchanging a small piece of land with the Park family to open a road to the village pathway, so both families could conveniently come and go.

But when they sent someone to discuss, Old Pu directly called the village to firmly refuse, saying even if he died, he wouldn't agree.

Since they didn't make it easy for them back then, the neighbor naturally wouldn't make it easy now. Even though the land belonged to them, the subleasing contract was with the village, and without the neighbor's consent, they couldn't level the land.

Finally, it was Li Sanjiang who stepped in, handed out cigarettes, pulled the neighbor aside, and while badmouthing the Park family together with the neighbor, persuaded him with "death is a big deal" to take a hit and step back.

The neighbor glanced at the ice coffin in the house, nodded, and allocated a piece of land to the Park family at the normal price.

Li Sanjiang was cautious, settling the payment with Pu Xingsheng first before asking Run Sheng and Xiong Shan to do the work.

There's a way to deal with people who follow the norms, but for those who don't, there's nothing you can do.

Upon hearing this, Pu Xingsheng showed displeasure, but without Li Sanjiang's help, his father's funeral couldn't proceed. He reluctantly paid and repeatedly reminded them to do the job well, as he would be watching closely.

Considering the money, Li Sanjiang didn't argue and directed Xiong Shan and others to set up the stage.

Originally thinking Lihua alone wouldn't handle all the cooking and another person needed to be hired, now it seemed unnecessary. Besides the funeral company that would arrive later, there wouldn't be many guests, and Lihua could manage alone.

Li Zhiyuan helped out as best as he could. He had the strength to carry and move things.

But the Grandmaster cherished his great-grandson dearly, not only pulling him away from work but also giving him money to buy snacks at the village shop.

Sometimes, the Grandmaster forgot that his great-grandson was already a college student, even interning, instinctively treating him like a child.

Li Zhiyuan put the money in his pocket and found a stone to sit on.

Pu Xingsheng's daughter, Park Minah, had noticed the young man long ago, and when he first appeared, she found him quite stunning.

Attractive people, regardless of gender, draw attention from the opposite sex.

Park Minah walked up to Li Zhiyuan, took out a gold-wrapped chocolate ball from her pocket, and said, "Do you know what this is?"

Li Zhiyuan glanced at her, then looked away, ignoring her.

Park Minah suddenly became angry, pointed at Li Zhiyuan, and said angrily, "Hey, I'm talking to you, you Northerner!"

Li Zhiyuan didn't react.

Children's catchphrases are often learned from their parents, especially ones like this.

The lower the social class in an area, the more they enjoy this kind of regional discrimination, because they only see a small piece of sky, and have little else to take pride in.

Families like the Old Pu's, there's an added touch of convert zeal.

"Hey, are you deaf, Northerner!"

The commotion also caught the attention of the others.

Run Sheng, Yin Meng, Xiong Shan, Lihua, and Uncle Qin all directed their gaze over.

Pu Xingsheng and his wife noticed too, still smiling, thinking their daughter's fierceness was good, believing she wouldn't be easily bullied in the future.

Pu Xingsheng called out to the others to hurry up and set up the stage, "What's so interesting about kids' stuff." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Park Minah saw Li Zhiyuan still ignoring her, treating her as if invisible, and this stoked her anger, perhaps more so because being ignored by a good-looking guy was harder to take.

"I told you not to ignore me!"

Park Minah reached out to push Li Zhiyuan.

Li Zhiyuan stood up, took a few steps forward, leaving the spot.