Chapter 480: Listening to advice vs

After the villagers all left, Sui Lingfang walked in.

The village chief was picking up a cup of tea to drink. Seeing her, he hurriedly put the tea down: "Hello, Manager."

Sui Lingfang's previous assertiveness had left a deep impression on the village chief. Compared to those two young artists, he felt the shrewd and capable Sister Fang was harder to fool, so he attached great importance to her.

Sui Lingfang smiled at him lightly and said unhurriedly: "Village Chief, I came here this time for no other reason than the matter of buying a house that I consulted with you about before. I don't know if you have run the policy yet, and if there is any room for operation?"

At that time, she had come to Chitang Village based on a burst of enthusiasm, ambitiously wanting to buy land and a house so she could have a place for retirement.

At that time, she thought the land and houses in the village weren't as valuable as those in the town and should be easy to buy.

But when the village chief refused her, saying land couldn't be bought or sold, and even houses required running policies to ask about, Sui Lingfang realized she had taken things for granted.

So she also went online to check some policies herself.

She didn't know until she checked; she was startled when she did.

It turned out that rural collective land and houses couldn't be bought or sold at will; they must belong to the same economic entity.

Although there were some very special situations in between that could be operated, Sui Lingfang believed she probably wasn't in any of those special situations.

Sure enough, hearing her mention this, the village chief's face immediately wrinkled, and he said with some difficulty:

"I asked about the relevant policies. Outsiders cannot come here to buy land or houses unless you move your household registration to Chitang Village, and then discuss with the villagers to see if they want to sell the house to you.

You live in that house for more than ten years, and when the ownership is re-divided, the house will belong to you. However, the time in between is too long. If the villager who sold you the house wants to go back on their word, you still won't get the house."

Sui Lingfang had expected this and sighed silently in her heart. It seemed that this geomantic treasure land of Chitang Village was destined to have no fate with her after all.

However, the next second, the village chief looked at her eagerly and suggested: "Why don't you invest in Chitang Village? Ye Dao from the crew is building a homestay here, and it's doing quite well.

I think Chitang Village won't lack foot traffic after its fame spreads. If you come to invest, it definitely won't be bad. When you earn a large sum of money, you can find a piece of land with excellent geomancy in the city and buy a villa directly!"

Sui Lingfang laughed and asked in return: "Village Chief, buying a villa in the city is not a few million; it costs tens of millions. Can you be sure that my investment in Chitang Village can earn that much money?"

The village chief said sheepishly: "It's actually that expensive? We can build a villa here for a few hundred thousand."

Sui Lingfang hadn't intended to invest, but hearing him mention Ye Weijie and thinking of the homestay she was currently staying in, a thought suddenly moved in her mind.

If she maintained a good cooperative relationship with Chitang Village and invested in a hotel or homestay here, and specifically reserved an empty room for herself to live in, wouldn't that be the same as retiring in Chitang Village?

The time for investment land approval isn't long, but it can be more than 10 years.

If Chitang Village really explodes in popularity in the future, even if she can't renew her contract with Chitang Village after 10 years, she will have earned money.

If it's not that popular in the future, it will be easier to negotiate a renewal, which is a disguised way to achieve long-term self-residence.

Most importantly, she just heard the village chief's muttering that building a villa in the village only costs a few hundred thousand. By the same token, wanting to build a hotel and homestay shouldn't be too expensive either.

So Sui Lingfang pondered for a while and said instead: "Which land in the village can be used for investment? I'll go take a look first. If the location is too remote, forget it."

The village chief's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly stood up, saying eagerly: "You will be satisfied with the location; it's not far from Ye Dao's homestay. I'll take you to see it now!"

The village has been engaged in large-scale construction recently, and they want to engage in various cultural and creative products, all of which require investment.

He was afraid that if they continued to invest like this, the village's development would instead become a heavy burden in the hearts of the villagers. By then, the village would no longer be a beautiful place, but a bottomless blood-sucking hole.

Don't let it become a burden instead of flourishing. He would become a villain, leading Chitang Village down the path of decline step by step.

Ye Dao's idea of building a homestay gave him inspiration. The village chief thought that if he called on people from outside to invest, he could recover some funds.

Then, investing the funds for development would reduce a lot of pressure on the villagers.

However, whether the village can attract investment is all based on the crew filming smoothly and the film and television drama being broadcast smoothly.

Therefore, the village chief attaches great importance to all major and minor matters in the crew. This is also the reason why he was so furious when he discovered strangers in the village yesterday.

He didn't want any uncertain factors to affect the cooperation with the crew; that would be falling short of success for lack of a final effort!

Sui Lingfang is a very decisive person with super strong execution.

In the afternoon, the village chief took her to see the investment land that could be sold, and that night she decided to build a homestay on one of the plots!

"Building a homestay, why so suddenly?"

In the evening, Jin Li and Sui Lingfang sat together chatting, and the two assistants sat on the other side playing games online.

Jin Li asked: "Didn't you want to build a house for retirement?"

Sui Lingfang said with a smile: "The village chief said that it's not a common economic entity, so land cannot be bought or sold, and real estate cannot be transferred."

"So that's why you want to invest in building a homestay. Isn't this too sudden? You have never had any business experience. What if..."

Jin Li stopped mid-sentence.

Sui Lingfang shook her head and said confidently: "There is no 'what if'. I bet that Chitang Village will explode after the TV series is broadcast. Investing now is like picking up money with your eyes closed.

When it really explodes, investors from other places will want to smash a large sum of money, but they will have no way to invest. I am just laying out in advance."

She paused and said: "Ye Weijie also has no business experience, but he dares to invest.

I calculated an account. Investing in Chitang Village now won't cost much money. Building a homestay looks like a huge goal, but it can be taken down for less than 1 million in the village.

He dares to bet, so as your manager, why wouldn't I dare to bet?"

Jin Li smiled: "So you are investing in Chitang Village for my sake?"

Sui Lingfang: "That's not it. You are only a small reason. I am more optimistic about the project itself, and the scenery of Chitang Village is indeed good. I believe it won't remain unpopular forever."

Although she made bold words, Sui Lingfang was also a bit uneasy in her heart.

She didn't have much savings, and what she could take out now was her entire net worth.

So she was still a bit worried about investment failure and wanted to find some sense of stability, so she asked: "Jin Li, what do you think of investing in Chitang Village? Will there be any risks?"

Jin Li glanced at her: "Investing in Chitang Village is fine, but I'm not sure if you can do business."

Sui Lingfang frowned, hearing the potential meaning in her words—

The place is fine, but you as a person might not be.

Her eyes turned, and she soon had a plan.

The next day, Sui Lingfang made no move. Instead, the village chief ran over to find her several times, all wanting to persuade her to sign the contract immediately.

But for some reason, Sui Lingfang never agreed.

The village chief now fully realized the cruelty of business.

They were talking well and laughing yesterday, so why didn't she acknowledge a word today?

Is this what people in the city are like? Their minds are too complicated!

This dragged on until the 4th day.

Even Ye Weijie, who was busy filming, heard about this and quietly asked Jin Li during his busy schedule.

"Didn't Sister Fang say she wanted to invest in Chitang Village to build a homestay? Why has there been no movement these past few days? Does she not want to invest anymore?"

Jin Li glanced at him and shook her head: "I don't know what she is thinking, but good things take time; taking it slow won't lead to mistakes."

Ye Weijie thought about it and felt it made sense.

It's just that the village chief comes to bother him every day, making him have to hide from the village chief now.

"After all, it's an investment, and once signed, it's for 10 years. Being cautious is correct.

My decision to invest in building a homestay was also a matter of chance. A relative in my family is in renovation and construction, and I asked him if he could do a homestay.

He came to step on the spot and looked, saying that this place could be done, but he was afraid there would be no foot traffic. If no one stayed, it would only be a haunted house.

But I think this place has good geomancy, and the biggest tumor has been cleared. It's impossible to have no foot traffic, so I hit it off with my relative and started renovating immediately."

The conversation between the two was no secret. They were communicating openly in the crew. Ma Mingqi, who was on the side, heard it and asked curiously:

"Director, what investment are you talking about?"

Ye Weijie said casually: "Investment in Chitang Village. Don't you think this place has mountains and water and good scenery? It's just undeveloped now. Once developed, it might make a lot of money every day."

Ma Mingqi didn't know what psychology he was acting out of, but he looked very tempted.

"Director, then can I also invest here?"

Ye Weijie turned his head and specifically sized him up a few times. He couldn't say what expression it was; it was just a bit complicated.

He said: "Ask the village chief. There should still be surplus land in the village that can be approved for investment. But investment is a big matter and needs to be cautious. You should discuss it more with your family."

Ma Mingqi immediately agreed.

His morning scenes had already been filmed, and he had no scenes until the afternoon. He planned to go to the village chief's place to ask in the afternoon.

After he left, Jin Li asked: "Your eyes were a bit strange just now. What's wrong with Ma Mingqi?"

Ye Weijie sighed and said: "I just found out during filming that this person is a bit stubborn, has a stiff temper, and is too concerned about face.

Wang Hongdou says one thing, and he likes to argue two sentences back. The two often argue with each other, but Wang Hongdou is better; she won't make promises easily, unlike Ma Mingqi, who always boasts about how he will do this or that.

Some actors in the crew don't know what kind of mentality they have, but they specifically stare at Ma Mingqi, wanting him to fulfill what he said. By the way, have you felt that the food has been very rich lately?"

This irrelevant turn made Jin Li a bit stunned. It took a while before she said: "It does feel much richer, and many fruits have been added. They are not common varieties. Are they expensive imported fruits from abroad?"

Ye Weijie clapped his hands: "Right, this is what that silly boy Ma Mingqi promised.

One day he said that the canteen didn't provide fruit and he wanted to treat everyone to good fruit. As a result, he was blocked by someone the next day.

This person is also stubborn; he actually took it seriously and bought a lot of imported fruit for the crew every day.

I told him several times that there was no need to spend so much money, but he didn't listen and even asked me with a stiff neck if I looked down on him and thought he couldn't afford it."

Ye Weijie shrugged and spread his hands.

"Then what do I have to say? Of course, I'm fulfilling him."

Jin Li suddenly realized and found it interesting. It was the first time she had encountered this kind of personality in real life.

I only thought Ma Mingqi spoke quite sarcastically before, but now that I see it, I didn't expect him to have the potential to be a sucker.

Ye Weijie said: "I didn't deliberately mention investment in front of him. If he wants to invest, he can invest; if not, forget it.

If he really invests, I don't count as pitting him. Chitang Village does have development potential."

Jin Li said "Hmm": "But the premise is that he knows how to invest. If he meets someone who doesn't know how to invest and only has money, even the most prosperous place can lose everything."

Not knowing what she thought of, she said casually: "I think his personality is quite paranoid. Don't let him really invest, see that the people around him are making money, but he isn't, and be careful that he comes to trouble you."

Ye Weijie's face changed greatly: "Impossible, right? This is too bizarre. He doesn't know how to invest himself; what does it have to do with me?"

Jin Li also suddenly had this thought, without any basis, and even less used divine power to measure it.

She hadn't worshipped gods for a while, and the divine power on her body was constantly flowing away, only able to barely maintain the level used in acting.

This was because Chitang Village had a superior geographical location, the geomantic array had a good effect of solidifying spirits, and some spiritual energy was imprisoned in the village, making up for the divine power she lost. Otherwise, the divine power on her body would flow away faster.

Ye Weijie didn't believe at first that Ma Mingqi would do this; it was too unreasonable to say it out loud.

Why blame the person who introduced you to invest if you didn't succeed in your own investment?

And he didn't guide others to invest; he just said a word.

But as soon as he thought this was said by Jin Li, his whole person felt worse and worse.

What was going on in Chitang Village before, and how powerful Jin Li's mouth was, he understood better than anyone!

Iron-mouthed and direct, iron-mouthed and direct!

Ye Weijie's thoughts were restless, his face pale, and he stood up with a thud, not even in the mood to film anymore.

He walked out in a hurry and met the floor manager on the way.

The floor manager held a board and said hurriedly: "Director, we are about to start filming. Where are you going?"

Ye Weijie said with a dark face: "I have something to do. We will finish work an hour early today. You all go back to rest first, and we will start filming on time in the afternoon."

When the others heard this, they were all stunned on the spot. Seeing the hurried look on Ye Weijie's face, and seeing him running later, everyone believed that Ye Dao had some urgent matter.

It was still early for lunch, and there was nothing good to eat in the canteen now, so everyone gathered to discuss, all guessing where Ye Dao went?

Xu Wenwen was also very curious and asked Jin Li: "Ye Dao has been chatting with you just now. Do you know what's going on?"

Jin Li pondered for a while and said uncertainly: "Perhaps he is troubled by metaphysics?"

Xu Wenwen: "Ah?"

Jin Li sighed and said: "Young people should not be too superstitious about metaphysics. The sea of suffering is boundless; this is something even gods cannot save."

Xu Wenwen was even more confused.

A stranger arrived at the entrance of the village, led in by Sui Lingfang herself.

This person is a professional manager, specifically responsible for helping investors around the world manage commercial investments.

Sui Lingfang felt that as Jin Li's manager, she indeed hadn't gotten any good announcements for Jin Li, nor had she planned her entertainment career much.

But in her cooperation with Jin Li, she had one good point, and that was listening to advice.

Whatever her artist said, she did.

So when Jin Li said she might not be suitable for business, but Chitang Village could be invested in, a thought arose in Sui Lingfang's mind:

Don't participate in the investment; find a professional to manage it!

And so, the professional manager finally arrived in Chitang Village to provide her with a comprehensive inspection.

There were roads in all directions in the village. On this side, Sui Lingfang led the professional manager to the village chief's office.

On the other side, Ye Weijie also ran to the village chief's office from another small road.

Although the direction they were going was the same, their purposes were inconsistent.

One was listening to advice, while the other was "anti-listening to advice." ===== CHAPTER 481 =====