Chapter 33 Gu Liancheng can come to the house, but his wife can’t

If it were Jiang Zhen, she would stab anyone who stabbed her family and friends. She wanted to see what Wu Shouye would do this time when she knew that her sister would smash his head.

Wu Hui'e was busy in the kitchen. The goose in the iron pot was bubbling with fragrance. Wu Hui'e was squatting on the ground, holding a lively crucian carp. She was about to cut open the fish's belly with a kitchen knife when she noticed someone in front of her. She raised her head with a smile on her lips.

"Have you finished talking to my brother so soon?"

Jiang Zhen did not respond immediately. He squatted down and stared at the dying fish. After a moment, he said, "We are done. I just told your brother a secret. Now, I want to tell you too."

Wu Hui'e paused with the knife in her hand, feeling that Jiang Zhen had come with ill intentions. Her first reaction was, would he fail to reach an agreement with her brother and kill her brother? But Jiang Zhen and her brother have no conflict of interest.

Wu Hui'e can open the door in space, but her fighting ability is not high. She has always been the one being protected in the end times. According to her understanding of Jiang Zhen, Jiang Zhen's fighting ability is very strong.

Wu Hui'e clenched the knife in her hand and asked cautiously, "What do you want to tell me?"

Jiang Zhen stared at Wu Hui'e and spoke slowly, "Twenty-six years ago, due to some special reasons, my mother wanted to send me to the end of the world. At the place where the crack was opened, you led the warlord to cause trouble. Although I was young at the time, I witnessed the scene of you killing the warlord to silence him. You still had a conscience at that time and did not have the heart to kill a little baby like me. Instead, you threw me into the crack of time and space. Is that right?"

"Your brother still can't let go of what happened 26 years ago. Just now, he saw everything that happened in my memory. Now he wants to ask about it in person. Have you thought about how to answer him?"

Wu Hui'e's face was grim. Jiang Zhen really deserved to die.

She rushed over and said, "Jiang Zhen, we are helping you so much, and you actually come to destroy our brother-sister relationship?"

Wu Hui'e did not touch Jiang Zhen's body, but fell into a small space with a wooden house and a vegetable garden.

She understood that in addition to being able to touch corpses, Jiang Zhen also had another space.

At this moment, Wu Shouye was on the steps of the cabin. When he saw her come in, he dragged his injured leg and limped to her.

Wu Hui'e was a little panicked and retreated repeatedly, trying to run out of this space, but the space was infinitely mirrored, and she found herself back to where she was.

Wu Shouye was very sad and murmured to himself: "Parents are pitiful. Your sister-in-law just wants to go back to see the children. If you don't want to go back with us, you can stay here. Why did you collude with the warlords to kill your sister-in-law?"

Wu Hui'e denied it: "I didn't think of killing my sister-in-law, really, brother, I just didn't want you to leave me. At that time, I wanted to delay time until the crack disappeared so that you could stay. But my sister-in-law was crazy. She rushed towards those warlords regardless of everything. I didn't know she would die."

Wu Shouye has a young face but is very old at heart. He would not believe these words.

He closed his eyes, then opened them again, and decided to test her again: "You are my biological sister, I can't do anything to you. If you want to continue to stay in the village, I can only modify your memory. Can you accept it?"

Wu Hui'e was filled with pain. She didn't want any of her memories to be modified, but the current situation left her with no choice.

Jiang Zhen was impatient and urged: "Hurry up, both of you."

Wu Shouye held Wu Hui'e's face with both hands, struggling: "I don't want to do this either, but things have come to this point, there is really no other way. If you were not my sister, I would kill you without hesitation."

Wu Hui'e raised her head, and suddenly, she swung the fish knife in her hand towards Wu Shouye. Blood spurted out, splashing on her face and body. She once again chose to kill her brother.

Wu Hui'e said: "Brother, you forced me to do this."

Then, she turned around and looked at Jiang Zhen coldly, "My brother is dead. No one can help you deal with the aftermath or modify your memory. Jiang Zhen, you should take care of yourself."

…

Jiang Zhen was calm and composed: "This is my space. How can you be so confident that I will let you kill someone in my territory?"

Wu Hui'e was shocked when she heard this and blurted out, "Jiang Zhen, what do you mean?"

Jiang Zhen raised his chin and motioned her to look behind.

Wu Hui'e turned her head suddenly and saw another Wu Shouye standing quietly behind her with cold hatred in his eyes.

Wu Hui'e's mind went blank in an instant. Didn't she just kill her brother? Why did he appear behind me again?

She turned back in panic, and the corpse in front of her disappeared without a trace. The blood stains on the ground, her face and body were all clean as if they had never been stained.

The knife in Wu Hui'e's hand fell suddenly.

This time, Wu Shouye really held her face in his hands: "Wu Hui'e, that knife just now has killed your brother. The relationship between us brothers and sisters was severed by you, but I won't kill you. I want to go into your memory and see how many things you have hidden from me in the past few decades?"

…

Wu Shouye really didn't know that his sister had hidden so many things from him and used the ability of space teleportation to make money. For decades, the floor of her house was made of gold.

Jiang Zhen picked up a golden brick. She didn't know how to describe her jealousy at the moment: "Village Chief Wu, you told me to be low-key. Look at your sister. She has amassed so much wealth, but she hides in the small village and doesn't enjoy it. What is she trying to achieve?"

Wu Shouye smiled bitterly: "We have enjoyed it. The old Shanghai was more extravagant than you can imagine. Put the gold bricks back. I have changed this memory for her. When the time is right, you can come back to transport it."

"Sure." Jiang Zhen said, "Our abilities are somewhat similar, but I can only touch dead people. Oh, and I have one more question. Who is the person who informed you? I will deal with that person when I return."

Wu Shouye sighed, "This is Wu Hui'e's son with her first love. He is a professor who studies physics. Can you please not hurt him? You can bring him here and I will change his memory."

Jiang Zhen didn't dare to say absolutely: "I'll try my best, but if he has committed an unforgivable crime, I can't help you get him off the hook."

Wu Shouye understood and asked Jiang Zhen to look around the village: "The young people who brought you here are our new life in this world. If there are any bad apples, they must abide by the rules here."

…

Jiang Zhen has another extremely important thing to fight for with Wu Shouye.

"I have made so much effort before. A special department was set up for my matter. You changed everyone's memory at once. Wouldn't all my efforts be in vain? Can you restore the memory of a few people so that my efforts will not be in vain?"

Wu Shouye saw through Jiang Zhen's thoughts and asked with a smile, "Are you afraid that when you do whatever you want, you won't have anyone to back you up, right?"

Jiang Zhen did not deny it: "Fifty-one years ago, you came here to find a backer, didn't you?"

It’s not that Wu Shouye couldn’t agree to her request, but he was worried that Jiang Zhen would do something wrong and bring trouble to Sangyu Village.

"Do you know that our neighboring country is at war? Who knows what will happen in this world?"

Jiang Zhen said, "Do you know that Gu Liancheng was reborn? He said that we will definitely win. It is precisely because of our specialness that only by accepting the organization and being firmly under their control, or even becoming a part of the controller, can people feel at ease. Don't you want to take a gamble for the young people of Sangyu Village? If I win, I will do my best to help you in the future."

Wu Shouye still feels scared when he thinks of the thrilling things that happened when he first came here, but what Jiang Zhen said makes sense.

He sighed: "The era you caught up with is better than ours. Since you want to try, I will restore a few people for you. Which ones do you want to restore?"

Jiang Zhen felt that the fewer people who knew about this, the better.

"Xiao Qingfeng and Gu Liancheng work together to do practical things, and Xiao Jianzhou is responsible for connecting the upper and lower levels. They must restore their memories. Who do you think is more suitable for the rest?"

Wu Shouye said: "At the beginning, only Deputy Minister Qi strongly agreed to observe and protect you, otherwise you would have been arrested long ago. To restore his memory, three people are enough."

Jiang Zhen thanked him: "Village Chief Wu, you are so cooperative. I will have someone send you some of the food grown in the space regularly. Try eating it and see if it helps alleviate your physical decline."

Wu Shouye didn't hold out much hope: "I always think that there must be other reasons why the effect on the four of you must exist, but there's no harm in trying, so experiment on me."

…

Wu Shouye left the space with the help of Jiang Zhen.

At this moment, he found an exquisite box with a mechanism in his room. After opening it, he found dozens of colorful beads of different sizes densely packed inside.

Wu Shouye said: "These are the memory balls that I modified and extracted."

These colorful spheres vary in size, with the largest being the size of an egg, and the larger the spheres, the richer the colors.

Jiang Zhen asked: "Does it mean that the more you modify the ball, the bigger it gets? Then how much memory did you modify for this egg-sized ball? Isn't that too unfair?"

Wu Shouye recalled: "These largest ones are lifelong memories of people who are very important to me, including my lover and my best friend."

He picked up a colorful and relatively new one and looked at Jiang Zhen meaningfully: "This one was when I rushed to the crack site last year and extracted your sister's memory."

Jiang Zhen was suddenly shocked: "You keep these things, do you want to revive them one day?"

Wu Shouye asked: "Don't you want to?"

Jiang Zhen shook his head: "I don't want to. Once a person dies, he is dead. If people knew that they could be resurrected after death, can you imagine how much chaos it would cause? And you have stored these memory balls for decades, so you probably haven't found a way to revive them, right?"

Wu Shouye nodded regretfully: "Yes, I once tried to implant a memory ball in a dying person, but failed. I lost a good friend, and I dare not try again."

Jiang Zhen said: "It's best not to try it. If this method works, those powerful people will wait until they are old, extract their memories, and implant them into young bodies. Will this world still be fair? Time is originally a relatively fair thing. If even this is broken, I feel that the world will be destroyed."

…

The last bit of selfish thought in Wu Shouye's heart was extinguished. Yes, if that day comes, how can there be any fairness in this world? In troubled times, no one can expect to live a good life, and he cannot be the destroyer.

He closed the box again and handed it to Jiang Zhen: "Don't put it here with me. Your space is a relatively safe place. Can it be stored in your space?"

Jiang Zhen nodded: "Just leave it with me. How are you going to restore other people's memories?"

Wu Shouye said: "This is very easy. You just need to dissolve these balls and swallow them, and your memory will be restored."

Jiang Zhen was speechless. It was so simple. If these balls were lost, wouldn’t the world be in chaos?

"It's safer to leave it here with me."

After Wu Shouye stopped thinking about it, he became open-minded and said with a smile: "I have to remind you that if someone eats this by mistake, that person's mind will be disturbed. I will not be responsible for the consequences of accidental ingestion."

…

When Jiang Zhen found Gu Liancheng, he had already completed the case.

Shi Hongxiao's uncle was bribed by the Lan family, who wanted to take over the batch of rabbit fur blankets and resell them privately. While making a profit, he could also make Jiang Zhen breach his contract, killing two birds with one stone.

Jiang Zhen asked: "This was a motive for money, but Uncle Shi Hongxiao killed him in his previous life. What happened?"

Gu Liancheng deduced based on the clues he had, "At the beginning, Shi Hongxiao's father wanted to find a way out for the woman he loved the most. He was worried about handing her over to another family, so he asked his son to marry her. Shi Hongxiao's uncle came up with a plan and arranged for the girl, who was in love with Shi Hongxiao, to marry a fool. After the girl died, he lied to Shi Hongxiao, saying that she was married far away."

"This time, when Shi Hongxiao saw the gold bracelet he gave to the girl, it was on his aunt's hand. He wanted to call the police, but was hit on the back of his head with a stick. Shi Hongxiao refused to compromise and said that he would call the police as soon as he walked out of that door. I think he was so stubborn in his previous life and didn't know how to adapt. He killed himself with stubbornness."

Xiao Qingfeng was confused: "Brother, sister-in-law, what are you talking about? What happened in your previous life? Why are you talking about it in front of me? I don't want to know these secrets."

Jiang Zhen smiled and said, "I have already discussed with Village Chief Wu that I can restore the memories of three people, including Xiao Qingfeng."

Gu Liancheng was overjoyed: "That's great! Do we need to take the person to Wu Shouye for recovery?"

Jiang Zhen took out a colorful ball, about the size of a glutinous rice ball: "No, it's very simple."

She threw the colored ball into the water cup and said to herself, "I should be right. This belongs to Xiao Qingfeng."

Gu Liancheng was speechless: "Are you sure? You can't make mistakes on this kind of thing."

Jiang Zhen checked carefully and said, "There's no mistake. This is his."

She pushed the cup of water towards Xiao Qingfeng: "Drink it, and you will be able to recover your original memory."

Xiao Qingfeng couldn't stop trembling: "Sister-in-law, this thing is so strange, do you really want me to drink it?"

Gu Liancheng said: "It's hard to explain to you now because too many things happened. This is your memory. You will know the cause and effect after you drink it."

After a colorful ball was thrown into the water, the cup of water remained clear water. Xiao Qingfeng nervously picked up the cup and took a sip. It was colorless and tasteless.

Out of unconditional trust in Gu Liancheng, he gritted his teeth, tilted his head back, and drank it all. Soon, he felt like he was floating in the clouds, and all his memories were being restored and corrected.

Xiao Qingfeng's memory has recovered, and after a period of observation, no side effects have appeared. The next is Xiao Jianzhou. After Xiao Jianzhou's memory recovers, it will be Deputy Minister Qi's turn.

To restore the memories of these two people, they need to go to Jing City. Gu Liancheng suggested: "Go back to Jing City to celebrate the New Year this year, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the traitor."

I have to go to Beijing, and it would be better if I have a reason that will not arouse suspicion, but I have to deliver this batch of goods before I leave.

"You two should go and do some ideological work on Shi Hongxiao and Shi Hengjun. Since it was all a misunderstanding, you should run the factory well together from now on. I will go and deliver this batch of goods."

…

Jiang Zhen came to the department store and finally met the person who was in charge of the Lan family.

Lan Suyun's family runs a rabbit farm, and she is also the investment manager of a department store in the provincial capital.

She couldn't stop Shi Hongxiao from getting the business based on his own ability, but now the delivery time was a few days late, she took advantage of the situation and said, "You have breached the contract. We will not accept the goods, and you must pay double the penalty for breach of contract."

Jiang Zhen has already prepared himself for the possibility of not being able to deliver the goods, so it won't be easy for Lan Suyun to take advantage of his misfortune.

She poured cold water on Lan Suyun: "You may not know yet, but Qian Yuhe has been arrested and will be taken back to Fancheng for interrogation. We may need your assistance in the investigation later."

Lan Suyun was shocked. Qian Yuhe was arrested? How could he be so careless?

But fortunately, he only gave money to Qian Yuhe to investigate the secrets of breeding rabbits, and he did not personally let Qian Yuhe direct and act out the kidnapping and then blackmail him.

Feeling guilty, Lan Suyun said, "We will take this batch of goods first, but we can't pay you before the New Year. We will sell them first. If we can sell them, we will pay you half of the money. If we can't sell them, you can take the goods back in the spring and return our advance payment."

Jiang Zhen had seen this kind of procrastination tactic many times, so she flatly refused.

"If the department store in the provincial capital doesn't accept them, can I not sell these 500 blankets? Lan Suyun, you will soon beg me to deliver the goods to you."

Lan Suyun laughed and said, "Don't brag. If you have the ability, you can come back and show off your skills later."

…

It's actually not a big deal that this batch of goods from the Rabbit Factory was confiscated by the department store in the provincial capital. Department stores across the country are interconnected, and as long as you have reliable connections above, it's just a matter of a word.

But now my brother-in-law’s memory has not recovered yet, so many things are difficult to do.

Jiang Zhen already had a plan: "Let's take the goods back first and bring them to Beijing before the New Year. When my brother-in-law and Deputy Minister Qi recover their memories, the problem will be solved."

Xiao Qingfeng has recovered his memory and has no good feelings towards the Lan family: "The Lan family is really a villain."

Gu Liancheng said, "Don't worry about anything else. If you bring the goods to Beijing, they will definitely be sold. Even if you ask my grandfather to help you, he can still let you deliver the goods to the department store. But this batch of goods was hijacked when it was delivered. Now the provincial department store won't accept them. If you take them back as they are, you will probably be attacked at the Fancheng Municipal Committee."

Jiang Zhen knew clearly: "Not only me, but also Cheng Lisheng who guaranteed me will have a hard time explaining this time. But it doesn't matter. We said it was before the Chinese New Year, and the time has not come yet. As long as we complete this first order within the agreed time, those opposing voices will have no excuse to attack."

…

Jiang Zhen had just delivered the truckload of blankets back to the factory when he was notified to attend a meeting in the city.

The rabbit farm had been running for half a year and Jiang Zhen had become very familiar with the place. He was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning and had become more casual.

Seeing everyone's heavy faces, she said with a smile: "The goods have been brought back intact, why don't you see happy faces?"

Cheng Lisheng waved and asked Jiang Zhen to return to his seat and sit down to talk.

"We heard that the provincial department store offered conditions, but you didn't even discuss them and you pulled the goods back? The rabbit farm is waiting for the money from the sale of this batch of goods to pay the employees."

Jiang Zhen reported on the recovery of the goods and the recovery of the losses, but did not mention the argument with Lan Suyun in the department store.

She laughed and said, "Gossip spreads so fast. I just arrived and you all know everything. Who reported it and to whom? I seriously doubt that person's motives."

Du Mengping from the Economic Development Zone slammed his hands on the table and said, "Comrade Jiang Zhen, don't be so frivolous and indifferent. It's almost the end of the year and everything has to be done. What if the employees come to the door and demand their wages?"

Jiang Zhen said: "It's easy. I have shares in the rabbit farm. I will use the money to advance the wages of the employees."

These words choked Du Mengping so much that he could not utter a word with his mouth open.

Cheng Liwen said, "How long can you afford to pay for it? We don't want you to pay for the wages, we want the rabbit farm to be in good operating condition. Fancheng can't digest all the goods, and the New Year is coming soon. If we don't rush to ship them in winter and hold them until next year, it will not only undermine the confidence of the entire rabbit farm, but these seasonal products will be difficult to sell after the New Year."

Jiang Zhen expressed his thoughts: "Who said we won't sell it? We must sell it and sell it in large quantities. I plan to use the remaining rabbit fur in the factory to make another 500 rabbit fur blankets, and then send them to Beijing City and sell them in Beijing City's department stores. As long as the products sell well in Beijing City, we won't have to worry about next year's sales. By then, the department stores in the provincial capital will naturally come to us and ask us to supply them."

Du Mengping thought it was ridiculous. "Whether 500 can be sold is an unknown. You want to add more? You want to send the goods to Beijing, I have no objection, but you can only send the backlog of inventory. You can't continue to produce. If you can sell it, we can talk about it next year."

Jiang Zhen disagreed: "It's such a big capital, there's no way a thousand rabbit fur blankets can't be sold. If the goods can't be sold, I will bear the loss personally."

Du Mengping was almost mad: "You are so reckless, it will cause the entire rabbit farm to run out of funds. How can you bear the responsibility? It's not Gu Liancheng who has scraped together all the money and used his family fortune to squander it on you."

Jiang Zhen muttered, "That's my family's business. I said I would cover it, but you objected again and again. What do you mean? Don't you want Fancheng's economy to be good?"

Du Mengping banged on the table loudly: "Comrade Jiang Zhen, please be careful with the way you speak. You were wrong in the first place, and your remedies are more outrageous than the last, and you still won't listen to my advice!"

Cheng Lisheng cleared his throat and said, "After all the arguments, only Jiang Zhen has proposed a solution. If no one else can come up with one, then we should follow her suggestion."

…

With the support, Jiang Zhen found Shi Hongxiao and Shi Hengjun to arrange production tasks. He asked Shi Hongxiao to collect all the remaining rabbit hair and send it to the textile factory, and Shi Hengjun to produce another 500 rabbit hair blankets within ten days.

There is no big problem with time, but it is too risky for Jiang Zhen to arrange production before finalizing the business in Beijing.

After this time of sharing weal and woe, Shi Hongxiao and Shi Hengjun have completely resolved their misunderstandings and are working together.

It wasn't that they didn't trust Jiang Zhen, but because they cared about her, they asked, "Cousin, if it can't be sold in Beijing, we won't be able to explain it."

Jiang Zhen joked: "When that time comes, can you two help me advance some money?"

The two gritted their teeth and said, "We're just doing our best."

Jiang Zhen smiled: "If you can carry out my request and deliver the goods on time, that will be the greatest help to me."

…

Five hundred blankets were rushed out, and together with the previous ones, there were a total of one thousand rabbit fur blankets.

This batch of goods is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and many people are worried that they might be hijacked on the road, but Jiang Zhen and Gu Liancheng are personally escorting the goods, so there will be no problems.

The children were not very excited about going home for the New Year. Jiang Zhen teased them with a smile, "You have so many relatives in Beijing, you can get a lot of New Year's money, why don't you look excited?"

Gu Pan and Gu Hui explained: "There is a step-grandmother in my grandfather's house, and there is an annoying aunt in my grandfather's house. They don't like us, and we don't want to go to their houses."

Jiang Zhao and Jiang Tang were brought here by Jiang Zhen. They didn’t even like Gu Pan and Gu Hui, the relatives over there, so how could they like them?

Jiang Zhao said: "Mom, I'm afraid of being disliked."

Jiang Tang nodded repeatedly: "Last year's New Year was very good. In fact, I want to celebrate the New Year at home."

But at least Gu Liancheng's grandfather likes these children.

Jiang Zhen said: "Grandpa is very good to me and supports me financially and physically. You can just stay with me and live in Grandpa's house, okay?"

"Sure." As long as Jiang Zhen is willing, Jiang Zhao and the three little ones are willing.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the four children had a day off. At night, everyone was busy packing up the things they brought home for the New Year, and everyone sorted out their own clothes, shoes, socks, and toiletries.

Gu Liancheng made a bunk bed in the carriage and said to Jiang Zhen, "Qingfeng and I will take turns driving. You and the children can sleep when you are tired."

Jiang Zhao prepared a lot of food and planned to bring pots, bowls and stoves: "We will be on the road for two days. Bring a pot, a coal stove, and coal briquettes so that we can heat up our own meals on the road."

Jiang Zhen took down all his pots, pans, and utensils: "Just take the things with you. We can borrow pots and stoves from nearby farmers on the way."

Although Gu Pan and Gu Hui did not have many feelings for their relatives in Beijing, they were very happy to go on a long journey as a family. They were so excited that they could not sleep at night. As soon as they got in the car, they fell into a sound sleep.

At the same time, at my grandfather's house far away in Beijing, my aunt heard that Jiang Zhen was shamelessly going to live with us and firmly opposed it.

"Brother, you are confused. I don't agree with them coming to our house. What did we say in the beginning? Gu Liancheng can come to our house, but his wife can't, and the child brought by his wife can't either. You let her come to our house, which is a slap in my face. It's New Year's Day. Do you want to piss me off to death?"