As soon as she entered the yard, Zhang Lan saw Li Yuan sitting in the yard, chatting with Liu Xiaoyu.

Zhang Lan smiled in surprise and said, "Why don't you call me? I can come back earlier."

"Auntie said you went to your relatives' house. I thought it was fine for us, so I'll just wait here for you to come back." Li Yuan explained with a smile.

"By the way, the planning permit has been obtained, and now we can officially push forward the project." Liu Xiaoyu said on the side.

"Is just a license enough? There shouldn't be any problems with the procedures, right?" Zhang Lan asked.

"As long as we have one of the two certificates and one book, we can start construction and approve it at the same time. What's the problem? Even if there is no problem, there won't be any major resistance to our project. So many people are watching it." Liu Xiaoyu said.

Zhang Lan nodded: "I don't understand the details of this, Xiaoyu, just tell your sister later."

"It's fine for you to be a hands-off boss, but don't forget the golden medicine." Liu Xiaoyu quickly added to the bet.

"I won't forget it, don't worry."

"Tian Qingyong and Shen Huayu will be here soon, and we'll talk about what's going on then." Liu Xiaoyu continued.

"Okay, I'll arrange someone to prepare what we should eat later." Zhang Lan nodded.

"Tian Qingyong said he would bring people over. I have also asked people to prepare at Xipo. When they arrive, we can just go over there. There is no need to make any other arrangements."

"Okay, then let's chat here for a while and talk about it when they come over." Zhang Lan nodded.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was filled with sunset glow, Tian Qingyong and Shen Huayu drove to Zhang Lan's house one after the other.

As soon as he got off the car, Tian Qingyong laughed and said, "We didn't eat well last time, so this time I specially invited a barbecue chef from the pastoral area. Let's have a good meal this time."

"What is that big cart following behind you carrying?" Zhang Lan asked.

"Look, I just got a camper, and today is a good time to try it out. Xiaoyu, have your people cleaned up the place?" Tian Qingyong asked Liu Xiaoyu who was standing beside him.

"It's done. Let's go over and see if there's anything else that needs to be cleaned up." Liu Xiaoyu replied with a smile.

"Shall we drive or walk?"

"Let's walk there. It's not far. Just follow the road to the west. We can chat and talk on the way."

After leaving Zhang Lan's house and walking for five or six minutes, the group began to walk up the hillside to the west.

The road was a cement road at the beginning, but after walking for a while, it turned into a dirt road. After walking for a while and reaching the foot of the mountain, the road was filled with rocks and grass.

"We still have to build the road first. Shouldn't this road be the Grain in Ear Road built with funds from above? How come there is no road built when there are so many arable lands here?" Li Yuan stood on a big rock beside the road, looked around, jumped down from the rock and said.

"There is Grain in Ear Road. That's the road we took at the beginning. It was not repaired later because of lack of funds." Zhang Lan said with a smile.

"It's normal that it hasn't been repaired. If it weren't for these roads, some of our procedures would not have been implemented so quickly. The resettlement village next to Qingshan Village was built with funds allocated from the province, and then after the flood a few years ago, another batch of funds was allocated from above. At the beginning, everyone felt comfortable getting the money layer by layer, but now after calculating the accounts, everyone is panicking." Shen Huayu was very familiar with the inside story in this regard, and said to Li Yuan with a smile.

"I was wrong." Li Yuan shook her head and laughed.

“This can’t actually be blamed on those below. When a sum of money is allocated from the top to the grassroots, it’s considered pretty good if five out of ten levels can use it. Things have gotten a little better since the implementation of big data on the Internet in the past two years. But after the implementation of big data, each level has started to make up for the previous holes. The allocations are considerable, but we are even more short of money.” Tian Qingyong also knows some of the inside story.

"Let's not talk about this. It has nothing to do with us. On the contrary, we have gained the advantage. If we didn't need money to fill the hole, it would not be easy to approve such a large area." Zhang Lan said with a smile.

"In fact, we can delay it a little longer. The mountain bridges and roads that were damaged during the flood have not been repaired yet. We are short of money right now." Shen Huayu said on the side.

Zhang Lan shook his head. "That's enough. You'll have to give it back sooner or later. A new emperor appoints new ministers. Follow the formal procedures, and you won't be afraid of bringing up old scores when the time comes."

"We are not afraid of people digging up old issues. We are already behaving ourselves as long as we follow the procedures strictly." Liu Xiaoyu said with a pout.

After walking along the foot of the mountain and climbing over a small hill, we saw a camper parked on a piece of wasteland, with an excavator and a pickup truck parked next to it.

On a small hill not far away, there is a large piece of rock that has been cleaned up and has a few canopies erected on the side.

Under one of the canopies, several people were busy moving back and forth.

When I got closer, I found that all the barbecue materials were ready under the canopy, and the chef was putting charcoal into the stove, ready to start barbecue.

Although it is autumn now, the weather is still very hot. Another disadvantage of being on this hillside is that there are many mosquitoes.

Liu Xiaoyu stood on a rock and said, "Is there anything here to repel mosquitoes? Don't wait until you start eating before letting the mosquitoes eat you up."

"Everything is prepared. Don't worry. I have made full preparations. There is everything in the car. There will be a new energy vehicle coming over later, which will be responsible for power supply." Tian Qingyong said with a smile.

"Wow, you have prepared a lot of things." Li Yuan curiously opened the foam box placed under a canopy, and said in surprise after seeing the things inside.

"There's not much, just some daily barbecued food and drinks. The lamb skewers are the freshest, and the authentic grassland lamb, vegetables and other meats are specially brought from the hotel before I came. We have all kinds of them. Just ask the chef to grill whatever you want to eat." Tian Qingyong said, pointing to the busy chefs and helpers on the side.

"Sister Yuan, what do you want to drink? There are beer and drinks here." Liu Xiaoyu also walked over after hearing Li Yuan's surprise, opened a foam insulation box casually, and turned around to ask.

"Do you have any iced beer? Barbecue and beer go best together." Li Yuan said with a smile.

"There is beer and a refrigerator in the car. If it's not enough, I'll call someone to come over and pull a freezer over." Tian Qingyong said on the side.

"There's no need to make such a fuss. There are only a few of us, and what we have now is enough." Li Yuan waved her hand and said quickly.

"Sister Huayu, do you want to drink? Here's beer." Liu Xiaoyu took out a few cans of beer from the thermal box and shouted to Shen Huayu who was on the phone.

After hearing this, Shen Huayu turned around and pointed at her phone, indicating that she was on the phone. After seeing Liu Xiaoyu pick up a can of beer and gesture to her, she nodded to indicate that she wanted one too.

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