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The elderly man, clearly the leader, frowned and asked, "Young man, who are you...?"

"Oh...you're renovating this house, mine," Li Chaoyang said, pointing casually into the house.

"Yours? No way?" The old man looked very surprised.

"Xiao Jiang said that the leaders of their factory live in this house..."

"So young, how could he be a leader..." Muttering to himself, the old man narrowed his eyes, looking at Li Chaoyang with a wary expression. "You're not trying to take advantage of the owner's absence... to swindle something from us, are you?"

They do their work secretly, afraid of being reported.

Now this young man says he's the homeowner.

Naturally, they immediately became more vigilant...

When Li Chaoyang heard the old carpenter's words, he was both amused and exasperated!

Is this person trying to portray themselves as a fraudster...?

But thinking about it again, it seems that such a young and handsome leader is indeed rare...

Looking around, he saw that the Third Uncle was standing at the archway and hadn't followed him in, so he waved and called out, "Third Uncle."

"It seems I'll have to trouble you to explain this to me..."

"These are the people I asked a friend to invite to help me tidy up the house."

"But we've never met each other before..."

Upon seeing this, Yan Bugui's furrowed brow suddenly relaxed...

It turns out these people weren't thieves after all...

Indeed, in broad daylight, even a thief wouldn't dare to be so blatant...

I was just worried that the hot-tempered Li Chaoyang would start a fight with these people at the slightest provocation...

To be honest, he had already started to regret coming with Li Chaoyang...

I kept thinking, if a fight broke out, should I go up and help or run back as fast as I could...?

If we go up and help, our old bones and limbs will definitely get us beaten up!

Should we go up and help...?

The effects of currying favor with Li Chaoyang over the past few days are definitely going to be diminished.

But it turned out these people were hired by Li Chaoyang through a friend to do the work...

Not knowing if these people had heard what he just said... the third uncle gave an awkward, self-deprecating laugh.

"Hehehe... So they're all your friends, Chaoyang."

"I thought it was your family again..." He quickly realized what he was saying and turned around to explain for Li Chaoyang, "Gentlemen, I am the third uncle in charge of this courtyard."

"I think I can prove that this house belongs to Section Chief Li Chaoyang..."

"Are you in charge of this yard?" The old carpenter in charge frowned, his expression showing that he was even more suspicious. "Don't tell me you're all in cahoots to try and cheat us?"

"How can you prove that you are in charge of this place?"

Seeing the somewhat sly smile on Yan Bugui's face, the old carpenter chose to trust his own judgment, and his old face immediately fell: "Excuse me, you two! We've just come to help with some work."

"If you two have nothing else to do, please leave now!"

As he spoke, he waved impatiently, signaling Li Chaoyang and Yan Bugui to leave....

Yan Bugui's smile froze instantly, and he turned to look at Li Chaoyang with some caution.

But he found that Li Chaoyang didn't seem to care.

Li Chaoyang certainly wouldn't care about such trivial matters; in fact, he even admired the old carpenter's vigilance.

Seeing that this man neither believed the Third Uncle nor himself, he thought for a moment and stepped forward to speak.

"Uncle, is the old Jiang you just mentioned Jiang Datong?"

"You worked as a carpenter in the logistics department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, right?"

"Didn't he tell you that the owner of this house is Li Chaoyang, the head of the publicity department at the steel rolling mill?"

Upon hearing this, the old carpenter frowned.

What the young man said was indeed correct, and it all matched up.

But the head of the publicity department at this steel rolling mill couldn't possibly be as young as him...

Seeing that he still didn't believe him, Li Chaoyang simply took out the documents from his bag again: "Uncle, if you still don't believe me..."

"These are my documents regarding the housing allocation..."

"You'll understand once you take a look."

At this moment, the third uncle finally came to his senses and stepped forward with a smile, saying, "Hey, old friend..."

"The steel mill leader you're talking about is him, there's absolutely no mistake!"

"Comrade Li Chaoyang is the highest-ranking administrative officer in our entire institute."

"Moreover, most of the residents in our No. 39 compound are steel rolling mill workers."

"If you don't believe me, I can call other people over to help testify..."

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Hearing this, the old man finally relaxed his guard a little. "That won't be necessary."

"Whether it's the owner of this house or not... we can find out by looking at the documents."

By this point, the man had basically come to believe what Li Chaoyang had said...

After reviewing the relevant documents, the old carpenter's face immediately turned somewhat embarrassed: "Oh dear..."

"I'm so sorry, Section Chief Li..."

"I had a preconceived notion that since you're a leader, you must be at least in your forties or fifties..."

"Who would have thought you'd be like a student..."

"That Xiao Jiang, he didn't even explain it to us beforehand."

"As a result, it turned into a misunderstanding..." The old carpenter apologized repeatedly, and the expressions of the men behind him who had been on guard immediately softened. In an instant, the atmosphere in Li Chaoyang's small courtyard became much more relaxed.

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However, in just a short while, the third uncle realized something!

These people were probably hired by Li Chaoyang to do the work, right?

These days, hiring someone to do housework seems to be considered exploitation...

Suddenly, Yan Bugui, who had just been smiling, became somewhat fearful and uneasy....

He had stumbled upon Li Chaoyang's secret, and he knew that Li Chaoyang had a rather bad temper!

What to do now? Yan Bugui was thinking of just turning around and running away.

Pretend you didn't see anything...

But turning around, I really couldn't bear to leave like this...

If he leaves now, Li Chaoyang will definitely know that he understands what happened.

Watching the four carpenters chatting and laughing around Li Chaoyang, Yan Bugui began to plot in his mind...

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Li Chaoyang is so generous; if I could help him cover this up...

Maybe I can even get some benefits out of it...

Before he could figure it out, Li Chaoyang had already walked towards him with a smile.

"Uncle, these guys have been working all day and haven't eaten yet."

"Could you do me a favor and go to the little restaurant at the end of the alley to buy me some food...?"

"You want me to buy food?" Yan Bugui was taken aback, wondering what was going on.

Are you being so impolite?

You want me, your old man, to run errands for you, young man?

Yan Bugui hesitated, but then he heard Li Chaoyang say to himself, "How about this, Third Uncle, you buy enough for five people, and keep the change."

As he spoke, Li Chaoyang took out the grain coupons from his pocket and handed them over.

National grain coupons!

Yan Bugui's eyes lit up immediately, and it was five jin!

Buy enough food for five people, and keep the change?

Five catties of grain is enough for one person's food rations for a week, so it's more than enough to feed six people for one meal!

Moreover, these were national grain coupons!

Yan Bugui quickly began to calculate...