In the village, the Village Chief warmly invited everyone to stay for dinner.
Tang Enqi had originally refused, but the Village Chief's family had already started cooking. It would be wasteful not to go.
They had no choice but to agree.
When they arrived at the Village Chief's countryside villa, Tang Enqi, as the Student Union president and the students' representative, was speaking with the Village Chief.
This countryside villa seemed far less simple than she had imagined.
She walked around the Village Chief's home. The villa seemed like it did not belong in this village at all. It was not particularly luxurious, but it was very clean. Many rooms were unoccupied, yet every one of them was fully furnished, and they even had private bathrooms.
Standing beside the Village Chief, Tang Enqi asked, "Mr. Village Chief, was this villa built by everyone together?"
"Yes."
The Village Chief smiled and said, "Thanks to this, some big companies have already taken on projects in the village."
"What do you mean?" Tang Enqi asked, somewhat confused.
"Little Tang, you don't know. Before this, no one thought much of our village. But after you all came last year, a company set up a foundation so that all the children in the village could go to school."
Hearing this, Tang Enqi asked doubtfully, "After we came?"
"Yes. Didn't you know? It seemed to be your friend's family company, that classmate surnamed Gao."
The Village Chief continued, "Because of that, some other big companies began noticing our village too. But after they sent specialists to investigate, they saw that we did not even have a decent place to receive guests, so they left."
"But once the villa was built, things changed. Last month, a company representative came by. I invited him to have a meal