I made 5,000 yuan just from sweet and sour carp. That's money so easy to come by!

If it were someone else, they would probably be overjoyed; but the fat man's reaction was the same as usual, as if this was just an ordinary little thing!

He even concluded that the volume would inevitably drop in the second half of the month. He was thinking about failure before winning. He's not even 40 years old yet. Isn't that too conservative?

After the two of them finished tallying the accounts, they first saw Aunt Pang out the door before Fatty came back to discuss with Yu Li: "Do we have 60,000 yuan right now?"

When the fat man asked for money, Yu Li never asked him why. She would just think for a while and then answer him, "It might not work. We only have about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan in working capital. We still need to pay everyone's wages and buy goods."

Upon hearing this, the fat man sighed, and Yu Li asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

“It’s Xu Damao. He wants to start a business. Qin Jingru’s village is developing tertiary industries and plans to invest in a parts factory, which requires 150,000 yuan. I want my brother-in-law to go with Xu Damao. But we’re still short 60,000 yuan…”

Yu Li hesitated for a moment before saying, "We do have this money in our savings account. I'll withdraw it on Sunday. You can give it to your brother-in-law first."

Just like Fatty said today, when they were raising money from all sides to open this restaurant, the eldest sister heard about it and gave all her savings to Fatty without saying a word. Not only does Fatty remember this kindness, but Yu Li also keeps it in her heart.

Look at her younger sister Yu Haitang, and then look at Chen Rong, Chen Yan, and Chen Fang; Yu Li really envies the fat man's family for being so united. After all these years, the four siblings are still so close!

Let's not talk about how Fatty and Yu Li discussed getting this money.

Back at Fatty's house, after he left, Cao Zhengyang began to feel uneasy.

Chen Rong's eyes spun from his dazzling display, and she said impatiently, "Shut up for a minute!"

Cao Zhengyang slapped his thigh hard: "Give me some money, I'll go make a phone call."

Upon hearing this, Chen Rong quickly gave him one yuan, and Cao Zhengyang took the money and went downstairs to make a phone call.

The call connected, and Cao Zhengyang's father immediately started cursing: "You bastard..." Then he launched into Foshan dialect, which is difficult for most people to understand.

Cao Zhengyang's father was exasperated: "You wouldn't come back to work at the factory even when we called you, so what are you calling for?"

Cao Zhengyang hesitated for a moment before telling him his decision to start a business: "I plan to partner with someone to set up a factory in Beiping. Can you lend me some money?"

On the other end of the phone, his father was equally bewildered: "Start a factory? Do you have the capability?"

Cao Zhengyang patiently explained the fat man's suggestion to his father. Old Cao remained silent for a long time. Just when Cao Zhengyang thought the call might have been disconnected, he suddenly asked, "That Xu, Da Mao's? Is he reliable?"

Cao Zhengyang said, "My brother-in-law is reliable."

"..."

Two more days passed.

Early this morning, Yu Li had just managed to drag Chen Mengqi out of bed and force her to brush her teeth and wash her face; Fatty was in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the family when Cao Zhengyang arrived.

After entering the house, he pulled out a money order from the post office without saying a word: "Brother-in-law, I got some money from home, but it's not enough. Can you lend me the rest?"

The fat man took the remittance slip with a look of surprise and saw that it contained a whopping 30,000 yuan!

She asked him incredulously, "Brother-in-law, did you ask your family for this money?"

Cao Zhengyang sighed: "My father emptied the family's coffers and only got 30,000 yuan, still short by half."

The fat man reassured him, "I'll have Yu Li give you the remaining 30,000 yuan later. Don't worry, once you seize the market opportunity, you'll earn this money back quickly!"

When Xu Damao saw the remittance slip in the morning, he was so shocked that he stammered, "Fatty, Fatty, you really dare to do this? Well, I don't even have much confidence in you."

The fat man gave him a weary look: "Where did your guts to take shortcuts and make quick money go?"

Xu Damao was provoked and became somewhat agitated: "Who do you think I am? Just you wait, I'll show you what I'm made of!"

"..."

In the TV series, Xu Damao was probably hit by a double blow: Lou Xiao'e first gave birth to a son for Sha Zhu, and then spent three million to invest in a large restaurant for Xu Damao.

That's when he lost his mind and, even knowing that Li Huaide and You Fengxia were the notorious thieves, still wanted to get involved with them.

He just wanted to make something of himself and show everyone in the courtyard that he, Xu Damao, could never be worse than Shazhu!

Now, he has Xu Xiyue, and Lou Xiao'e is nowhere to be seen. However, Ran Qiuye has returned with a son born to Sha Zhu.

Although Ran Qiuye is a foreign woman who returned from Singapore, she is still just a university teacher. She may be richer than the people in the courtyard, but she is far from being as wealthy as Lou Xiao'e.

Even if you asked her to give Sha Zhu three million to open a restaurant, she wouldn't be able to come up with it.

Therefore, Xu Damao's mentality was affected to some extent, but he was far from collapsing.

He was also spurred on by Sha Zhu, which is why he decided to deal in rebar with Liu Haizhong.

Now that's great, let Liu Haizhong play around!

What kind of person dares to offer 30% of the money and split it with Xu Damao? How can they be so shameless?

Now Xu Damao really doesn't care about the small profits from trading rebar anymore. He can't wait to drag Cao Zhengyang and Chen Rong along to Qin Jingru's village for a field trip.

Liu Haizhong was getting anxious, waiting and waiting, but it didn't come. He watched as others made money trading rebar, but he could only see it but not touch it!

It turns out that Xu Damao wasn't telling the truth at all—he was very unhappy that his second uncle was taking the opportunity to extort money from him, so he kept delaying the payment, genuinely not wanting his second uncle to have an easy time.

Today, Liu Guangtian came back from outside and asked again, "Dad, can Xu Damao give us a definite answer? Is he going to do it or not?"

Liu Haizhong angrily slammed his cup down: "Go to the side! I also want to know what this Xu Damao is up to!"

Outside the courtyard, Banggeng stopped Liu Guangfu as he returned.

Liu Guangfu looked him up and down with a disdainful expression: "Oh, you're Bang Geng? What's up, is there something you need?"

Banggeng gave him a sinister look and said, "Brother Guangfu, I heard your family is thinking of starting a business?"

Liu Guangfu jokingly said to him, "What, you want to invest?"

Banggeng felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

They even want to invest in his company, given their financial situation?

Back then, he was involved in smuggling, forced buying and selling, and bullying Shen Xuemei...

These were all fined.

Qin Huairu couldn't afford the fine, so she went to ask Jia Zhangshi for the money, but Jia Zhangshi stammered and hesitated. Qin Huairu, thinking she was abandoning her, angrily questioned her: "Mom, do you want to just watch Banggeng spend more than ten years in jail?!"

Finally, trembling, Jia Zhangshi revealed the truth: "I have no money, I really have no money. The pension from Dongxu, and the money you give me every month, I've spent it all on painkillers..."