All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

On the car.

"Your car must cost over two million, right? I searched online and found that the base model alone costs over one million nine hundred thousand."

Zhou Yongqiang looked at the car's interior with envy.

"Pretty much. I was lucky to make some money, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford this car."

"In this day and age, luck determines how much money you make. Look online, many people become unexpectedly famous and make a fortune because of good luck."

The two chatted as they arrived in town. With Zhou Yongqiang's introduction, Zhou Yongcheng bought some beef and pork, as well as some vegetables and fruits that he didn't know how to grow at home.

After loading the goods into the car, Zhou Yongqiang suggested that he wanted to drive a luxury car.

Without saying a word, Zhou Yongcheng told Zhou Yongqiang to drive.

As the car hit the road, Zhou Yongqiang was constantly amazed; luxury cars are indeed easy to drive.

The next day, all the people Zhou Yongcheng invited arrived. During breakfast, Zhou Yongcheng gave each person two packs of cigarettes.

"Yongcheng has made a fortune." Hu Xilin looked at the two packs of Hetianxia cigarettes in his hand. No one would dare to give out such work-related cigarettes if they didn't have some wealth. He glanced at the Audi A8 parked in the yard. People who can drive such cars must have a lot of wealth.

He had previously heard that Zhou Yongcheng had driven back in a luxury car, and he thought it was just a young man renting a car to show off. Now it seems that Zhou Yongcheng has really become successful.

"Such good cigarettes, it's a rare treat to smoke them."

Everyone says that Yongcheng has made something of himself.

After having breakfast and resting for a while, I started working, the first thing being to clear out everything in the house.

Everything usable was moved to my second uncle's house, and everything unusable was thrown away.

In the morning, we emptied the entire house. After the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sat in the main room, enjoying the fan and chatting.

“Yongcheng, you didn’t even shout a word when you demolished the house,” Zhou Guohua said, standing at the gate.

“My dear uncle, you asked about Yongqiang. I went to your house, and my aunt said you went to help build a kitchen for another family.”

Zhou Yongcheng took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to Zhou Guohua, who accepted it without hesitation.

"Yongcheng is still the most sensible one."

Zhou Yongcheng brought him a stool.

"Uncle, you've come at the right time. I have something to discuss with you."

"What do you need to discuss with me? As long as the house is built on the original homestead, no approval is needed; you can build it directly."

"No, it's the small ditch below our village. I'm planning to build a dam a little inside the bridge at the village entrance and turn the small ditch below our village into a fishpond, and then raise fish in it. What do you think of this idea?"

Zhou Guohua said happily, "It's promising, very promising. I'll take care of all the formalities for you."

"We also need to settle the land on both sides of the stream. Whether it's leasing or buying it outright, you should discuss it with everyone and come up with a plan."

"No problem, leave it to me."

At this moment, Tu Jinsha walked in carrying a basin of watermelon.

"Let's eat some melon seeds."

Tu Jinsha is Zhou Guohua's daughter-in-law and Zhou Yongrong's wife. Zhou Yongrong works on construction sites in another province, while Tu Jinsha stays at home taking care of the children.

Seeing that Zhou Yongcheng had bought so many vegetables, his second aunt was worried that she wouldn't be able to cook them all, so she called Tu Jinsha up to help.

The group sat chatting in the main room until after 3 p.m. before they went to demolish the house.

Hu Xilin and his group were supposed to start at 2 PM, but Zhou Yongcheng stopped them, saying that the sun was too strong and they could rest a bit before starting, since there was no rush.

When demolishing a house, you have to remove the roof tiles first. The roof tiles are quite old, probably fifty or sixty years old.

Zhou Yongcheng didn't want the roof tiles anymore. He had his men push them down, and the tiles fell from the roof, shattering into countless pieces with a crackling sound.

The demolition of the house lasted for two days. Zhou Yongcheng didn't want any of the wooden planks and pillars that were removed from the house; he sent them directly to his second uncle's house to be used as firewood.

After the house was demolished, Zhou Yongcheng wanted to hire a construction team to repair it.

My second uncle introduced me to the construction team, saying that it was the most responsible construction team.

The house Zhou Yongcheng wanted to build was very simple, only two stories high, and the house occupied a small area of ​​only about 100 square meters.

The house's blueprints were obtained by Zhou Yongcheng online; they weren't very luxurious, but rather suited rural aesthetics.

Rural houses shouldn't be built in a way that gives people a grand and luxurious feeling; doing so can easily attract unnecessary trouble.

While not afraid of trouble, we should avoid it.

The construction team quoted over 300,000 yuan for the house, but Zhou Yongcheng made a few more requests, and the house ultimately cost around 500,000 yuan.

Someone has already taken over the house, and Zhou Guohua has also reached an agreement with the village regarding the fishpond that Zhou Yongcheng wanted to develop.

The ditch was a collective asset of the village, so Zhou Yongcheng contracted it out for a certain amount of money per year.

The small ditch that Zhou Yongcheng wanted to contract started from a little above the bridge at the entrance of the village and went all the way to a little above the village. Because it was a small ditch, the actual area was not much.

Zhou Yongcheng contracted the property for 8,000 yuan a year, signing a 70-year contract with the payment made in a lump sum, totaling over 500,000 yuan.

This is just the small part; the big part is the land on both sides of the river, which Zhou Guohua negotiated with the people in the village to buy out directly.

Some people wanted to collect rent from the land by the river year after year, but Zhou Yongcheng refused them outright. How could he not know what those people were up to?

He said that if the villagers didn't sell him the land along the river all at once, he would hire an excavator to deepen the riverbed so that he wouldn't take up land on both sides of the river.

Upon hearing this, those people discussed a price with Zhou Guohua, and Zhou Yongcheng agreed without any haggling.

Zhou Yongcheng spent several million on the land on both sides of the river, all at the price they had agreed upon.

The highest price offered was by Zhou Guoquan from the village, and all the money was paid according to his offer.

Some people are quite reasonable and offered a fair price, but Zhou Yongcheng couldn't easily pay them. He couldn't make it a situation where you offered less and he offered more; he had to offer a uniform price for everyone.

Having secured the contract rights to the small river ditch and all the land on both sides, the next issue was planning.

Zhou Yongcheng stood on the bridge over the small stream, looking at the stream flowing towards the village entrance, and thought about how to plan it.

"Yongcheng, what are you doing standing here?"

Zhou Yongqiang came down from his cattle pen.

"Take a look at how this fishpond should be built."

“What’s there to think about? Just build a dam down here. If you think the water is too deep, build the dam down here a little lower and build another dam on top of it. That way you’ll have two fishponds.”

“Your idea is good and can be adopted. I’m just wondering if we should use an excavator to clear the land on both sides of the ditch so that the fishpond will be wider.”

“I think it’s better not to clear it. If we clear the land on both sides, all that will be left are stones. The fishpond will definitely not be good without mud.”

“You’re right, then we won’t clean it up, we’ll just leave the water here.”

Zhou Yongcheng assigned the task of building the dam to his second uncle, and he found someone to take over his uncle's original job.

The workers were villagers, and Zhou Yongcheng paid them 500 yuan a day, including meals.

Building a dam is no easy task; it involves moving stones and is very hard work, so we'll pay you a bit more in wages.

The workers' meals were prepared by Second Aunt and Tu Jinsha, and they were paid wages. Although Second Aunt said she didn't want the money, Zhou Yongcheng said that she was responsible for buying groceries every day and definitely needed to manage the money, so he gave the money to Second Aunt to manage.