Chapter 532

Jiang Village Residential Area.

As soon as Jiang Yuan's car drove in, the crackling sound of firecrackers rang out.

Immediately after, the sound of "Boom, boom, boom" cannons came from the residential area, giving Jiang Yuan a start.

Only after entering did he discover it was an electronic salute cannon newly purchased by the village committee.

"From now on, whenever the cannons sound, everyone will know it's time to eat; it's quite convenient." Auntie Hua was happy; this was equipment she had suggested the village committee buy, and the effect was significant—everyone knew.

"Quite unique." Jiang Yuan looked at the yellow cannon barrels; what could he say? As long as they liked it. In the Jiang Village warehouse, there was no shortage of such collectibles.

As for waste or whatever, any organization will have waste, and the village level is no exception.

"First-Class Merit... First-Class Merit!"

A group of children heard the commotion and, like hearing a feeding bell, came running wildly, jumping around Jiang Yuan.

The birth rate in Jiang Village is still very high. In a short while, a dozen small children had gathered at Jiang Yuan's feet. Auntie Hua stuffed a red envelope into Jiang Yuan's hand, and he pulled it out, handing them out one by one to the children below.

Ever since the demolition and relocation, Jiang Village has followed a path of showing off wealth, focusing on being rich. The children also have plenty of pocket money, and most importantly, their parents won't take their pocket money away.

Therefore, every bit of money they get their hands on now eventually appears in the small shop at the entrance of the residential area; it is truly liquid money that belongs to them.

For this reason, the children are also exceptionally diligent in running errands.

Jiang Yuan thinks it's quite good. The people of Jiang Village are no longer short of money, but in fact, there is no suitable way to distribute money to family members, especially teenagers.

By comparison, the form of giving red envelopes is quite good.

"I heard from Dad that a banquet is being held; is it going well?" Jiang Yuan finished handing out the stack of money and turned to ask Auntie Hua.

Auntie Hua smiled and said, "It's going quite well, very lively. Your dad has held so many banquets. He's been thinking about this banquet for your merit for a long time, just waiting for you to win another merit. There's even a band performing on-site. However, he didn't dare tell you this, just afraid that you would encounter danger in order to win merit. By the way, did you encounter any danger this time?"

Auntie Hua's rapid-fire questions didn't give Jiang Yuan any time to react.

Jiang Yuan smiled and shook his head: "I work in technology; I usually don't encounter criminal suspects, so there's no danger."

"It's good if there's really no danger. Your dad hasn't been able to keep up with collecting rent lately. If it's too dangerous, just come back and help your dad collect rent. That ranch he set up is quite large, and it takes over an hour to drive there; once you go, the whole day is pretty much gone..." Auntie Hua chattered on about the things the villagers often talked about.

Jiang Yuan accompanied Auntie Hua while talking, and upon entering the residential area, he saw that the public area was indeed bustling with people, a lively scene. There were people running around with wine, looking similar to Director Chai Tong and the others, but the impression it gave Jiang Yuan was much better.

"Dad." Jiang Yuan went straight to the back kitchen to see his old man. Father and son didn't have much sense of ceremony at home; when Jiang Yuan couldn't find anyone at home, he could basically find him downstairs.

Jiangfuzhen raised his head from the steam, beckoned Jiang Yuan to come over, and asked, "You won another First-Class Merit?"

"Yes." Jiang Yuan showed the First-Class Merit certificate and medal to his father.

Jiangfuzhen nodded, nodded again, sighed, and asked, "Was it difficult?"

"It was okay. The case wasn't too difficult," Jiang Yuan said.

Jiangfuzhen heard it, threw down the spoon he was using to skim foam in the pot, and asked, "The case wasn't difficult, so what was difficult?"

Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "The new bureau chief at the county bureau has a lot of ideas. Recently, he's probably going to contend with Bureau Chief Huang."

Some people really don't like to talk about things at work or school with their parents, or find it useless to talk about. Jiangfuzhen is different. As the richest man in Jiang Village, don't look at Jiangfuzhen boiling meat all day long; being able to maintain wealth is already quite good.

Jiang Yuan's problem didn't sound complicated to Jiangfuzhen.

"Are you supporting him?" Jiangfuzhen asked.

"Yes." Jiang Yuan explained a little.

"In units like yours, the gap between the primary and secondary positions is huge," Jiangfuzhen said, hitting the nail on the head.

The primary positions in the bureau are all high-ranking, and there are many tools that can be used. It was only because Director Chai Tong was a newcomer that he gave Huang Qiangmin a period of relaxation.

Jiangfuzhen asked two more questions and said, "Actually, it's a matter of time, but you don't have to pick a side."

Jiang Yuan curled his lips: "Doing cases with Bureau Chief Huang is quite refreshing, and the range of choices is large. As for Bureau Chief Chai, his purpose is too strong, and his standards for choosing cases are also different..."

Jiangfuzhen understood most of it. Honestly speaking, he didn't care what achievements Jiang Yuan made. From this perspective, even if it were the bureau chief, what he could give Jiang Yuan would be nothing more than a promotion, and it was unlikely to be an exceptional promotion.

But for Jiang Yuan, what did a promotion in Ningtai County count for? From the perspective of promotion, going to a higher-level unit would lead to much faster promotions, and it would be better to return to Ningtai County later. He wouldn't even choose such a path, so why bother pandering to Director Chai Tong for the sake of a promotion?

"Since that's the case, then just rest at home for a while; you should have vacation time, right?" Jiangfuzhen gave a feasible suggestion.

When Jiang Yuan heard this, he thought it was quite good. He took out his phone, didn't make a call, but edited a text message to Huang Qiangmin to request annual leave.

Annual leave for police officers is a metaphysical concept. Some units will arrange annual leave for police officers during slack times, which means arranging annual leave according to the needs of the unit rather than the needs of the police officer; others are more humane, giving some time for everyone to choose, and specifying that certain time periods are prohibited...

Jiang Yuan's request for annual leave had a very clear meaning, and Huang Qiangmin approved it without hesitation.

Director Chai Tong couldn't wait to tax Jiang Yuan until 30 years later and, regardless of others' opposition, pushed for sales. Jiang Yuan not appearing was in itself a powerful support for Huang Qiangmin.

After sending the text message, Jiang Yuan felt much more relaxed. He took a spoon and started helping his old man skim the foam.

The band in the small square excitedly started a new round of performances, and the cooked beef and mutton were served on the table in stacks, steaming hot, with the fragrance wafting throughout the garden.

Jiang Yuan didn't want to think about it so much. After helping to boil meat for a while, he simply went to the fried rice area, asked for a wok, and started making fried rice.

The fried rice technique gifted in the legacy of the Seventeenth Uncle hadn't been used for some time, and once it was served, it was immediately sought after by everyone.

The next day.

Jiang Yuan followed his old man to inspect the newly purchased ranch.

The Jiang Village residential area is on the edge of Ningtai County, and after driving for over an hour, there are large stretches of grassland at the foot of the mountains.

The altitude here rises sharply, and the value for cultivation is greatly reduced. Historically, there was sheep and horse raising, but because of the terrain and landforms, it couldn't form large grasslands, and the level of animal husbandry was not high.

The outermost grassland is now the world of farmhouse entertainment, and in the middle, there are a few places with signs for "XX Horse Ranch," mainly to increase the price for tourists to ride horses.

After going deep into the grassland for 10 minutes, they arrived at the ranch Jiangfuzhen bought.

Jiang Yuan got out of the car and looked into the distance, seeing a small stream flowing out from the foot of the mountain and passing through the middle of the ranch. On both sides of the stream were endless green grasses, and a little further away were large patches of bald spots where the land was exposed. Half of the grassland had a slope, and half of the slope had dwarf trees and stones.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but think that with this kind of terrain and landform, if no one passed by, throwing a corpse on the hillside would really be safe from being discovered for three to five years.

And with the environment here, it wouldn't even take two years for an exposed corpse to be decomposed to the point where only a forensic expert above LV2 could identify it.

Of course, if the murderer were an idiot or tried to be clever and set a fire, maybe it could be discovered a little earlier, and more information could be obtained.

"How about it? This ranch is not bad, right?" Jiangfuzhen showed Jiang Yuan the world he had conquered.

Jiang Yuan withdrew his gaze from the easiest place to dump a corpse, nodded, and said, "I thought you would buy one a bit closer to the outside."

"It's easy to have land occupied if it's on the outside; what if it gets demolished again?" Jiangfuzhen was very worried about this and couldn't help but say, "Demolition is too troublesome. These farm facilities that were just set up, as well as the newly recruited people, were finally straightened out, and then it was all disrupted..."

"That's true." Jiang Yuan had to admit that his old man's considerations were still comprehensive. If it were demolished, the farm that was painstakingly set up would be in vain again, and it would be nothing more than getting a large sum of money.

"I'll take you to the office to see. This ranch mainly raised dairy cows before; dairy cows are mainly kept in captivity, and then sheep are raised. The grass in the grassland is harvested on time. Later, I'll get more beef cattle and focus on grazing," Jiangfuzhen introduced.

Jiang Yuan asked, "With such a large size, is grazing enough?"

"Raising cattle here, grazing is also mainly based on grain feeding. Angus cattle breed, delicious when roasted," Jiangfuzhen said, pulling Jiang Yuan to the office.

There were three people in the office who stood up to greet Jiangfuzhen, without too many words.

Work in the ranch is very free, and plus the low wages, there is no need to pander to the boss at all.

After a while, the ranch supervisor came up with a stack of documents to ask Jiangfuzhen to sign.

The supervisor looked to be in his thirties, wearing a small leather jacket, wide jeans, and long boots, looking quite handsome. He nodded to Jiang Yuan and said, "Boss, this is the new contract for purchasing milk, as well as the contracts for buying sheep the last few times..."

"Help me take a look." Jiangfuzhen gave half to Jiang Yuan to look at.

He was willing to let Jiang Yuan participate in family matters; what if, by good luck, Jiang Yuan resigned?

Jiang Yuan flipped through the contract indifferently and asked casually, "Is the ranch here in a strong position? Do we issue the standard contract and ask the other party to sign?"

"That definitely won't work. Usually, the other party brings the contract to us. If we have any opinions, we sign them into the supplementary clauses," the supervisor explained with a smile and said, "Our ranch is the weaker party; otherwise, Boss Liu wouldn't have sold the ranch."

"The other party's standard contract?" Jiang Yuan was a little surprised.

"Yes, many prices and such are fixed, and there is no room for negotiation," the supervisor explained with a smile.

"That's quite troublesome. Boss, why don't we look at the contract later and deal with what I just said first?" Jiang Yuan put down the contract.

Jiangfuzhen agreed and smiled at the supervisor: "Then you go back to work first, and I'll call you when I'm done here."

"Okay." The supervisor nodded and went out the door.

Click.

The door closed, and Jiangfuzhen looked at Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan shrugged helplessly and said, "I've studied document examination; these documents were all printed by the same printer, nothing more than adjusting the font size and such. It's impossible for them to be contracts brought by the other party."

"Can you tell that?"

"There are techniques." Jiang Yuan couldn't say that his document examination was LV3, so he took out the portable hoof mirror he carried with him, rubbed it open with two fingers, found two contracts at random, taught his old man to look through the hoof mirror, and said, "You can look at the strokes, especially the same characters, such as 'contract', or characters like 'Party A' and 'Party B'. The serrations on the edges of the strokes, the wave patterns, and the misalignment of the strokes should all have tiny differences. None of these contracts have them; it's impossible."

"Aren't printed characters supposed to be the same?"

"Different printer driver versions from different manufacturers, different technologies, and different working precision of the inkjet heads definitely have different stability," Jiang Yuan curled his lips and said, "Moreover, these nozzles all use Epson technology. Seven or eight manufacturers all use the same model; the local Epson sales are a bit too powerful."

"Can you even tell the manufacturer?" Jiangfuzhen already believed him, just purely curious.

Jiang Yuan nodded: "HP uses thermal inkjet technology, Canon uses bubble jet technology, and Epson uses micro-piezoelectric technology. The characteristic of micro-piezoelectric technology is that there are fewer splashed ink dots, which is very easy to judge. Now that there is no comparison, it looks like they are all the same, but actually, if there were a comparison, you could tell at a glance. The text printed by Epson has very few splashed ink dots on the edges of the strokes, almost none."

After a pause, Jiang Yuan smiled again: "Inkjet printers are the easiest to judge. Their print head nozzles are often prone to clogging. Like the one being used now, it's a bit clogged, so it will regularly lack ink. Look at the stripes here..."

Jiangfuzhen looked in the direction Jiang Yuan indicated and indeed saw the appearance of obvious white stripes, and the width and length of the stripes were about the same.

"No wonder Old Liu lost money and ran away." Jiangfuzhen looked at the contract and suddenly laughed.

Didn't finish writing last night, stayed up very late again, woke up very late today, and only just finished writing~