Chapter - 298

As a rural girl, I can die without regret now that I’ve got to enjoy such a privilege.

However, who’s behind this?

She looked at Zeke.

Knowing what she was thinking, Zeke nodded his head at her. “Do you like it?”

A villager immediately asked, “Did you arrange this, Zeke?”

“Yes.” Zeke nodded his head.

Yet, Joshua couldn’t help but laugh as he said, “Haha! I wonder why you have the audacity to claim that you’re behind this. It’s the forest fire prevention period now. It’s illegal to bring open flame up the mountain, let alone setting off fireworks. Only the rich and powerful-not even some ordinary rich families-can obtain the permit for a fireworks display. So tell me, which rich and powerful person do you know?”

“Which rich and powerful person I know? I’m a rich and powerful person myself, why would I still need to know any others?”

Pfft!

Joshua laughed even more hysterically. “A rich and powerful construction site worker? What a joke. Let me tell you the truth, I’m the one who arranged this.”

Zeke was bereft of speech.

This guy’s awfully thick-skinned!

Joshua added, “As you know, I’ve many connections in the project department of tourism development in our village. Earlier today, I asked a friend from the project department to help me buy some fireworks. My friend must have wanted to surprise me, so he set off the fireworks without telling me. Of course, he applied for the permit for a fireworks display using the name of the project department, the boss of the project is the Williams family of Atheville, who possesses such a power.”

The crowd finally understood.

They believed everything Joshua said as his explanation was flawless. They started to fawn over him once more.

“It’s really true that many connections make light work.”

“You really have wide connections that involve all fields, don’t you, Joshua?”

“Hah, someone actually tried to take the credit earlier. Shame on him.”

“Sofia, now that you have seen Joshua’s dedication, you should really serve him well in the future.”

Sofia was at a loss for words as she was overwhelmed by mixed feelings.

In fact, she tended to believe that Joshua was behind all this as well.

After all, only those from the project department could obtain a permit for a firework display here.

It wasn’t that she didn’t believe in Zeke, but his actions simply couldn’t convince her.

Joshua glanced at Zeke with a look of contempt. “Alas, being poor is fine, but it’s disgusting to lie out of vanity, Zeke. How can you try to take the credit to satisfy your vanity, eh?”

It soon turned into a witch hunt.

However, Zeke didn’t get mad nor annoyed as he asked with a faint smile, “Do you have any other arrangements?”

Joshua thought for a while and replied, “I also ordered an engagement ring, which should be delivered here soon.”

“Oh, is it delivered by car?” asked Zeke.

“Of course. How else can it be delivered? By plane? Hah,” Joshua scoffed.

“That’s good then.” Zeke took out his phone to check the time, and added, “They should be here now.”

Next, he looked up at the sky.

Everyone followed suit, albeit feeling confused.

After a while, a distant rumbling sound was heard coming from the sky.

The rumble continued and then grew louder and louder…

When the noise got close enough, everyone was

Shocked to find out that it was actually the sound made by two helicopters.

The helicopters were flying very low, and thus the details on them were clearly visible.

The villagers had once again gone wild as the atmosphere came to a climax.

It’s helicopters! We’ve never seen a helicopter in our life!

In their opinion, those who could ride a helicopter must be high-ranking officials.

Are some high-ranking officials coming to this small village? Why have they come here?