About an hour passed before Lin Jishang and the other two left. Only then did Mother Ye and the others hurry anxiously inside.
"What did they say? Did they really come to buy our building plot?"
Father Ye had just taken a puff from his water pipe. He nodded. "Who knows where they found this feng shui master, but he said our plot had good feng shui and would bring him prosperity. He said he'd had bad luck these past two years and wanted to turn it around."
"He's not even from our village. What does he want to buy land here for?"
"He said he wanted to build a little house. Sometimes when he comes back from sea, he can't make it to the county town in time, so he wants to dock at our pier and stay here."
"Is he rich?"
"I heard he has a big boat. I don't know much else."
Ye Yaodong leaned lazily against the wall. "He wasn't being honest. My guess is he's smuggling out in international waters. He doesn't dare dock at a big port, and our village's little pier is just right for them to unload secretly at night. And if they unload at night, wouldn't they need somewhere to stay?"
"That plot isn't far from the beach, and there aren't many houses around it yet. Isn't that perfect? Maybe their belief that it has good feng shui is part of the reason too!"
In his previous life, he had heard a little talk about how Lin Jishang's family had made their fortune through smuggling. He just didn't know what they smuggled out in international waters.
Out here in the countryside, the villagers preferred to avoid trouble. Even if they knew something, they only discussed it in private and wouldn't go