Chapter 2551 - 1475:

When she sang and acted, she usually made use of holidays and weekends. She had to study and build her career, so she sacrificed some of her leisure time.

The time she sacrificed for fun did earn her some money and also boosted her popularity.

The company made money too.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei was preparing to leave this house. Over there, the Puppet that had always been protecting her biological parents had already helped buy land in a place of clear mountains and clean waters.

A house had also been built on that plot of land.

In some big metropolises, more and more people are originally from mountain villages, and in some places people have already deserted the buildings.

There are even many fine houses where no one lives anymore. It might be a Feng Shui issue, or it might be unfinished buildings from tourism projects.

The land and house bought for her were also in a mountain village. No one lived there anymore; all the houses were empty.

Many of the houses even had a somewhat dilapidated look.

After buying the houses and land, he even hired people back home to repair the house.

There weren’t many houses in the mountain village. The house he bought was quite large. No one knew why the original owner never returned, why they gave it up.

He chose this place precisely because no one lived here and no one would disturb them.

The mountain village also had farmland, only it had gone to waste.

The Puppet followed his master’s wishes and rented all these fields, though it was only about 100 mu of land.

There was also a small hill, and all the land there was terraced fields.

It wasn’t flat land, and the rent for such land was not expensive. The lease period was quite long, set according to policy, at the maximum term.

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How had Luo Feifei’s Puppet managed to purchase the house?

The original owner never came back, and the entire mountain village was abandoned. Someone wanted to buy a house and rent land, so they contacted the house owner, who very readily sold the house.

The Puppet didn’t know the Bagua, so why would they give up the house here?

This Puppet of Luo Feifei’s was capable; one look and he knew there was a problem here, and that he could solve it.

Of course he didn’t solve it first and then buy; he bought the house first and then dealt with the problems around it.

According to his master’s wishes, the house had to be repaired, and the fields had to be reclaimed.

Land like this usually needs large machines to work it, and it would take more than a day.

The Puppet simply didn’t need those machines; with the amount of money his master had given him, how could buying just one house in a small mountain village be enough?

If they made things too good here and the other house owners came back, wouldn’t that disturb them?

So, for the sake of his master’s future peace, he went ahead and bought all the other houses as well.

As for those other houses, their owners had never returned. Everything followed the information on abandoned land, and the money was issued by the government.

It was handled as a land expropriation.

With this kind of compensation, those people received their payout. Losing the old home was losing it; they weren’t going back anyway.

In recent years some people had bad memories of this place; some of the house owners had died.

Their daughters had married far away, so this money could only be handed over to the daughters.

Within a month, the Puppet had already leveled the other houses and rebuilt a bigger house.

The house he’d prepared there would just be used as a place to store supplies.

As for those terraced fields, that small hill, he had already used his Spell to plant crops. The small hill was planted with fruit trees, a wide variety, though there weren’t many trees of each single kind.

Those 100 mu of terraced fields sound like a lot and look quite impressive.

Planted, the area was about the same as steps and landings.

The Puppet planted part of the terraces with grain, part with vegetables, and part with Medicinal Herbs.

He had already laid a Formation over this area. Even if someone came, they wouldn’t be able to see the entire mountain village or this stretch of terraces.

This place belonged to a small county. From the county seat it took more than an hour to get in, and you had to pass a reservoir; inside the reservoir area lay this mountain village, the innermost of all the mountain villages.

The Puppet had already discovered that in some of the villages outside, very few people were still living there.

After all, young people leave to make a living elsewhere, buy houses outside. Some take the elderly with them; some elderly can’t bear to leave and stay behind, leaving only a few of them.

As for the problem of children attending school, people can already resolve it outside now, so the children go too.

The few remaining people, the few remaining Earth Gods, had become absurd.

Not to mention that when there used to be more people, the land on the mountains wasn’t enough, so they could only plant fruit trees to make a livelihood.

But those fruit trees had already aged and died; neglected fruit trees were swallowed by weeds.

At most, after decades, a hundred years or even several hundred years, fruit trees without anyone to tend them could no longer bear much fruit.

Fruit trees once planted by people had turned wild.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei knew her Puppet worked so efficiently and felt quite pleased.

She stopped cultivating in this place.

By then her journey had already begun. The first trip would be to meet her biological parents. As for whether she would later live by her biological parents’ side again—

That was something for the future.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei’s Flying Treasure was in motion, and at this moment it took her from the city where she lived to another city.

It only took half an hour; even by airplane it would have taken two.

The Flying Treasure was very fast. It could actually go faster, but she wanted to enjoy the scenery, so she spent half an hour to reach the city where her biological parents lived.

It was a second- or third-tier city, under which there was a county.

In this county many houses had been built, but there weren’t many factories. From her observations, people’s living standards were naturally not as good as in bigger cities.

Just as the Puppet had reported, many villagers had moved into the cities, and the number of people in the villages had dwindled, leaving the land to become absurd.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei arrived in the small city where her biological parents lived.

It was a Sunday morning, and choosing this day was also carefully arranged.

The Puppet had already phoned her biological parents to say she would come home that day.

She chose Sunday of course because her younger siblings wouldn’t have school.

Though the Spring Festival holidays were already approaching.

In junior high and high school, for ninth-graders and twelfth-graders, they might not get Saturdays off, but they still had Sundays.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei’s biological younger siblings, one was in twelfth grade, one in ninth.

As for why they were able to have three children when others were only allowed one—

Wasn’t there a fine?

Maybe the boss could afford the fine.

Her biological parents probably didn’t have formal public positions; they were just manual workers, still living in their old family home.

Doing manual work takes more than ten hours a day.

Each of them earned only a thousand or two yuan, just enough to cover living expenses and pay for three children’s schooling. They had previously applied for certain poverty funds.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei had looked into why her biological parents didn’t start a business like other people did.

It wasn’t that they hadn’t tried—they had, and failed, and even ended up in debt.

Perhaps just as she’d found out, the True Lady Xia Yuxin had brought with her this unlucky constitution when she was swapped in. It was already pretty good that it hadn’t doomed the family to die.

Even though they weren’t related by blood, living together still meant a contagion of misfortune.

Just not as severe.

The fake daughter Luo Feifei’s Magical Treasure descended from the sky. Under the preset concealment, she arrived directly at the front door of her biological parents’ home, unseen.

Other people lived in villas, three or four-story houses; her family’s home was only two stories, and a very old one at that.

The architecture was that 1980s style.

Maybe it had been renovated, but the house had no courtyard, and the entire place was only about seventy square meters.

That area included the kitchen and toilet.

In the 1980s, when people built two-story houses, the front of the house was a concrete platform and the back was a tile-roofed structure; even the kitchen was under tiles.

The tiled side was relatively low. This kind of architecture was quite common in this village.

No one had torn them down to rebuild.

They used repair as their method: blue bricks, red bricks, slightly better than mud bricks.

The foundation of the house was made of stone, with no real foundation poured. If an earthquake came, such a house would collapse.

After the fake daughter Luo Feifei observed the house, she saw that the main door was open.

A gift bag appeared in her hand.

Several boxes appeared on the ground.

There were fruits, nutritional supplements, biscuits, meat, clothes and shoes for the family.

There were also gifts from sponsors for commercials she had shot before.

These things were already of no use to her.

Rather than giving them to others, she might as well bring them and give them to her family.

Many of these items could in fact be sold off once you couldn’t use them up.