After his inquiries, he finally found out that many people in the town were working for the Perez family's farm.
After all, with several hundred acres of land, once Maple Kite Grass grows, it's difficult to process it mechanically, requiring a lot of manpower.
This place isn't isolated from the world, so people in the Perez family thought instead of hiding it, they might as well pick a town easy to control and cooperate with the locals.
This way, rather than farming themselves or looking for work elsewhere, people in the town are more willing to work for the Maple Kite Grass Farm, and they pay quite well—at least fifty yuan a month, which is higher than the income of city workers.
The town has only about three to four thousand people, all well-fed from top to bottom, so they haven't disclosed this matter to outsiders.
If Burton's cronies weren't local people, he wouldn't have known about it.
