Rebirth in 1984: Starting the Rise Through Borrowing a Tractor

This novel avoids pretentiousness and revenge tropes, focusing purely on entrepreneurship, daily routines, emotional bonds, and family ties.

Winter Qing, a multi-millionaire tormented by regr...

Chapter 34 The Nature of the Jackal

Su Wei arrived at Zhang Li's house, where Yi Xiaofan was waiting. Su Wei handed Yi Xiaofan the engagement gifts and money, saying, "Take your things. From now on, I, Su Wei, have nothing to do with you."

Zhang Li asked, "What happened between you two? Why did you suddenly break off the engagement?"

Su Wei cried, "If you ask him why he broke off the engagement, he'll be too ashamed to say it, won't he?"

Yi Xiaofan said, "Auntie, could you go out for a bit so we can talk?"

"Alright, you two have a good talk!"

Zhang Li didn't think much of it, believing that young people's disagreements could be resolved by talking things out, and then she left the house.

Yi Xiaofan said, "Su Wei, what can I do to make you let me go? I promise I won't steal anymore, okay?"

Su Wei said, "Can you change? Unless a dog changes its nature and starts eating shit, stop wasting your breath. If you don't have anything else, I'm leaving!"

Yi Xiaofan said, "Isn't there absolutely no room for maneuver?"

Su Wei said, "No, I could never marry a thief in my life. Even if you could change, it wouldn't work. I want to marry a man with no blemishes in my life. You don't deserve it!"

After hearing Su Wei's words, Yi Xiaofan could no longer suppress his anger. He said, "Do you believe that if you say 'you're not worthy' again, I'll kill you?"

Su Wei said, "A wolf is a wolf. You've shown your true colors now. If you have the guts, then kill me."

In Su Wei's opinion, even if Yi Xiaofan had the courage to do anything to her at Zhang Li's house, she would not have dared to do anything to him. She had really underestimated the wildness of wolves this time. Yi Xiaofan was an absolute jackal.

After Su Wei finished speaking, she turned to leave. Just as she reached the door, Yi Xiaofan, in a fit of rage, dragged her back into the house and pinned her to the ground. He said, "Don't think I wouldn't dare kill you. I'll follow you after I die, and you'll marry me in the underworld!"

After Yi Xiaofan finished speaking, he forcefully grabbed her neck with both hands, and Su Wei instantly couldn't breathe. By then, it was too late to realize Yi Xiaofan's true nature. She grabbed Yi Xiaofan's hands and pulled her neck outward with all her might.

She was just a girl, no match for Yi Xiaofan. Soon her hands were powerless, and her legs were struggling.

She was, after all, a girl, and her hands quickly became weak. She held onto Yi Xiaofan's hand tightly for a moment, then lay on the ground waiting to die.

People struggle before they die. In her struggle, she kicked the table over with one foot, and the table made a loud bang. There were teacups and teapots on the table, and the sound could be heard from a great distance.

Then Su Wei lost consciousness and gradually fell into a coma.

Zhang Li hadn't gone far when she suddenly heard a noise from her house and hurriedly turned around and ran back home.

Zhang Li ran into the house, and the scene before her almost scared her to death. Su Wei was lying on the ground, unconscious, but Yi Xiaofan still didn't let go. He was waiting for Su Wei to die completely.

Su Wei's eyes were bulging out and her tongue was sticking out; in Zhang Li's eyes, she was already dead.

Zhang Li cried as she grabbed a shovel and knocked Yi Xiaofan unconscious.

Fearing that Yi Xiaofan might hurt her when he woke up, Zhang Li hurriedly ran out of the house to call for help.

Amid her screams, several people burst into the house and pinned Yi Xiaofan, who had just woken up, to the ground, tying her up tightly.

Zhang Li picked up the unconscious Su Wei from the ground. Su Wei was lucky; she gradually woke up from her coma amidst Zhang Li's cries.

When Su Wei's parents found out, they rushed over. Her mother hugged her daughter and cried loudly. They eventually called the police.

The police came to Su Wei's house, examined the injury on her neck, and found Yi Xiaofan guilty of intentional assault. They then put him in a police car and took him away.

If Zhang Li gets too far away, Su Wei is really doomed this time.

Yi Xiaofan wasn't just bluffing; he was really going to torture her to death. To be precise, he wanted to die together with Su Wei. After she died, Yi Xiaofan didn't plan to leave this house alive. With such thoughts, how could Su Wei possibly survive?

Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast. Dong Qing and his wife heard about Yi Xiaofan's murder of his fiancée Su Wei the very next morning.

Li Yuzhu said, "Could the girl I saw yesterday afternoon be Su Wei?"

Dong Qing asked, "How do you know her?"

Li Yuzhu recounted the incident that occurred outside the market yesterday afternoon to her husband, Dong Qing. Dong Qing said, "Yi Xiaofan's attempted murder won't get him sentenced to death. It's very difficult for a young woman to get rid of such a scoundrel."

Li Yuzhu said, "Perhaps this is her fate. There's nothing we can do to help her. People like Yi Xiaofan will only cause trouble if they don't die."

After breakfast, Dongqing and his wife drove to the porcelain factory. The factory manager, seeing their newly modified truck bed, said, "You've raised the truck again. How much cargo are you planning to load this time?"

Dong Qing said, "We'll install the railings as high as they can be, and as many as we can."

The factory manager was overjoyed. Why would a porcelain factory be afraid of selling its goods? With Dongqing's method of hauling goods, the factory's warehouse inventory would be depleted in no time. He was really worried that other factories would steal his customers.

Dong Qing said, "Do you know why I raised the truck? If I don't raise the truck bed, I won't make much profit from the goods I haul. If I haul more goods, I might make more money. You still need to lower the price for me. If it's still this price, I'll go to another factory to load goods next time. At this price, I really don't make much profit."

Dong Qing was saying the opposite of what he meant. Firstly, he was trying to cover up how much money he was making by raising the cart railings. Secondly, and more simply, he wanted to lower prices to earn more money—that's the rule of business; everyone wants to buy goods cheaply and sell them expensively to maximize profits.

Factory Director Li was genuinely worried that Dongqing would be taking other people's goods. Many factories had been forced to close down, and since Dongqing had just started taking goods, it was inevitable that someone would try to poach his employees later. How much money the factory made wasn't important; what mattered was that the goods couldn't be kept sitting in the warehouse for too long.

Goods will be crushed if left out for too long, and once they're crushed, they're worthless. It's better to produce them cheaply and sell them as soon as possible, so the factory can make a higher profit that way.

Factory Manager Li said, "Okay, I'll lower the price by fifteen cents per unit, is that alright?"

Fifteen cents may not seem like much, but for such a large truckload of goods, it adds up to a considerable sum. At the current basic wage of 50 yuan a month, the difference in wages for a truckload of goods would take a full-time employee ten years to earn. Too much of anything is bad, and even a few extra sparrows can add up to a lot of meat.

The truck was loaded at noon. The cargo on this truck was cheaper than the cargo on the previous truck, but the total value of the cargo was not small. It was loaded with more than 19,000 yuan worth of goods. Exclusive business is easy to do. Qingda estimates that the net profit of this truck will be at least 50,000 yuan.

After lunch, Li Yuzhu handed her son to her mother, and the couple left home, got into their car, and drove off.

When the tractor reached the vicinity of Su Village, it saw a disheveled woman walking in the middle of the road. Dongqing honked the horn several times, but the girl didn't move away.

Dong Qing said, "This woman is strange. Why doesn't she hide? Has she gone mad?"

Li Yuzhu said, "Stop the car and I'll go take a look."