Chapter 36
Cheng Jun entered the study and sat down next to his mother as soon as he arrived.
"Mom, don't listen to them later. They're just thinking of bad ideas."
Tao Zhi raised her eyes slightly: "From what you said, you have a different opinion?"
Cheng Jun came closer and said in a low voice, "I can ask my partner for help."
"How can I help?"
"This is his father." Cheng Jun gave a thumbs up.
Tao Zhi glanced at him and said, "What are you going to do to repay such a big favor?"
Cheng Jun muttered, "My aunt's family is unwilling to help. Are they worried that we can't repay this favor?"
"That's the Li family, not your aunt's family. Whether to help or not is their business. We don't want to frame others."
Cheng Jun said angrily: "At worst, I will give the shares to my friends."
Tao Zhi gave him a slap on the head: "Are you crazy?"
Cheng Jun rubbed his head and said, "Mom, let me tell you, this broken brick factory is always unable to collect the money. It's just an investment with no return. I don't want to work in it anymore."
Suddenly, something flashed through Tao Zhi's mind, and she suddenly remembered how Cheng Jun made his fortune.
She felt a tremor of excitement. She grabbed Cheng Jun and asked, "The client has no money. Did he provide a mortgage?"
Cheng Jun's pupils trembled. "Mom, you're amazing! You can tell fortunes? When did you learn this? I didn't even know it."
"I haven't learned it." Tao Zhi pushed him away in disgust.
Cheng Jun did it and answered honestly: "I gave him two pieces of land in S City."
Tao Zhi gasped: "Why two pieces?"
Cheng Jun was suspicious: "It's hard to divide the land between me and my friend."
Tao Zhi suppressed her excitement, took a few deep breaths, and slowly calmed herself down.
She said to Cheng Jun, "Don't give up. Work hard. Who knows, one day your father and I might come to join you."
Cheng Jun didn't believe her: "Mom, my place is in the mountains."
"I'm talking about City S."
Cheng Jun had been looking at Tao Zhi. When he heard this, his eyes lit up instantly: "Mom, do you have any inside information?"
"No, I just like the sea."
Cheng Jun wanted to ask more questions when Cheng Xing and Cheng Hui came in.
Cheng Xing saw him and asked, "Why are you running so fast? Are you here to complain to mom?"
Cheng Jun was very disdainful: "She's not three years old." He turned to Tao Zhi and said, "Mom, please control her. She pinched me so hard just now that my thigh is blue, and she didn't even apologize to me."
"You two go out and fight, and whoever wins will be the one to obey."
Cheng Jun sat down angrily, "You biased bastard, I don't need to be punished."
Seeing that everyone had gathered, Tao Zhi said bluntly, "Cheng Man plans to apply to the military academy."
Cheng Xing stood up and asked, "Military academy?"
Cheng Jun also didn't believe it: "Mom, did you hear it wrong? Cheng Xing still has a chance, but Cheng Man can't bear this hardship."
Tao Zhi glanced at him and said, "When Cheng Man was little, she would exercise with me every day without missing a single day."
"She lasted less than a year."
"You can't even make it a week."
Cheng Jun was speechless. He changed his words: "Mom, military school is very hard. Can you and Dad bear with it?"
"I'm reluctant, but I'm relieved."
Very good, very powerful, Cheng Jun was unable to refute it.
"I have three main points to make. First, since Cheng Man has made her decision, we must respect her. As everyone knows, military academy admissions not only consider grades and physical fitness, but also a political review. Therefore, during this period, everyone should be careful and not cross the red line. Even if we can't help, we absolutely cannot hinder her. Most importantly, no one should leak the news until Cheng Man is admitted."
"Secondly, Cheng Xing and Cheng Hui, I trust you guys. But the board factory is right there, and if someone really wants to cause trouble, I'm afraid they'll backfire on you. If this happens again, your father and I have two options: sell the factory, or donate it."
"The third thing is, Cheng Jun, you have to sell me the land in City S."
Tao Zhi dropped a bomb, shocking all three children.
Cheng Jun asked first: "Mom, are you moving again?"
"I have this plan." If I am not welcome here, there will be other places that will welcome me. This is the truth that Tao Zhi has just learned.
Then it was Cheng Xing who asked, "Mom, what about the workers?"
"I thought you'd want to keep the factory."
"This is Cheng Hui's obsession, not mine. Cheng Man is leaving home soon, so I'll go wherever you go."
Tao Zhi looked at his eldest son.
Cheng Hui scratched his head: "You all left, and I don't want to stay. I don't have a home here."
Tao Zhi said, "It's good for a family to thrive together. But you see, before we moved to the city, I thought I could help you both financially and socially. I was completely wrong. You've grown up now, and you definitely have your own ideas. As parents, we should give less advice and more support. Your happiness is what's most important."
Cheng Jun quickly changed his mind and said, "Then I'll go get another piece of land."
Cheng Xing also reacted: "Mom, then I will also go to S City and open a new factory?"
"Do you want to take all the workers with you?" Tao Zhi asked.
Cheng Xing nodded: "After all, some of them are from the same hometown."
"The villagers certainly won't follow you, and it's not hard to find jobs for them. I suggest you start with yourself and seriously consider what you most want to do before discussing whether to open a factory."
Cheng Xing listened to it.
"Everyone, go to bed. You can't leave even if you want to until things are dealt with."
The next day, the old man got up and said, "I'm going to go to Dongshan Village."
"Is it about the kindergarten?"
Cheng Xiangqian nodded, "Maybe they are waiting for me to come over."
Tao Zhi thought for a moment and said, "What do you think about letting the village take over the factory?"
Cheng Xiangqian was very surprised: "Excellent, excellent, this is a good move. I'll go talk to Village Chief Zhou, wait for my good news."
Tao Zhi didn't have to wait too long. Wen Xu called first and asked her to meet at a small restaurant.
Tao Zhi took the map and turned left and right before finally finding this small shop.
Wen Xu sat in the corner, next to a screen. Tao Zhi sat down and noticed there was someone else. She looked closely and saw, "Officer Yuan."
Wen Xu made a "hush" sound.
Tao Zhi lowered her voice: "What's wrong?"
"Officer Yuan came quietly."
Tao Zhi made an OK gesture and said, "Is it convenient to talk here?"
"This place is very close to my studio. I'll take you there after dinner."
Tao Zhi immediately understood that they were hungry. She quickly ordered the dishes and paid the bill.
When they arrived at the studio, Tao Zhi asked, "What's going on?"
Officer Yuan answered himself: "I was transferred back to the Municipal Bureau. It seemed like a promotion, but because I was new to the bureau, I became a marginal figure."
"Oh, a promotion in name only, a demotion in reality. What's the edge method?"
"I won't be able to encounter any cases for the time being."
"Why?"
Yuan Heng pulled out a paper document from his bag and said, "I got some key evidence."
Tao Zhi took it. It was a photo. It clearly showed someone twisting Cheng Man's body, and three people surrounding her. She asked, "Is this at school, or outside?"
"It's in the back hill of the school. I have to thank Cheng Man this time. She told me that the first floor could see outside, so we were able to get the evidence first."
Tao Zhi returned the photo disappointedly. "It's useless. Cheng Man has already dropped out of school."
Yuan Heng smiled. "That would be even more useful. Since they've forced someone to drop out of school, the media will definitely be interested. You know, this is a unique copy; no one else has it."
"So what can I do?"
"Keep playing scared and make them let their guard down, and soon the next victim will appear."
Tao Zhi couldn't bear it, "Will we harm others?"
"Don't worry, we will arrange for someone to protect her. As long as we can catch them in the act, these four people will definitely go to jail."
"What about the neighbors on the day of the incident?"
Officer Yuan shook his head. "I suspect they've been bribed a long time ago."
"It's okay, I have plenty of patience. But Officer Yuan, if you're discovered, I'm afraid your clothes..."
"The previous victim was a relative of mine."
"Ah~" Tao Zhi didn't know how to comfort him.
"It's okay, she has come out of it. Now she is attending a key university in another city, and her grades are also top-notch." Yuan Heng showed a relieved smile.
Having said that, like herself, no parent would let it go easily.
"Perhaps we can find some dirty laundry and hand it over to his enemy."
Wen Xu said, "Leave it to me."
Tao Zhi emphasized: "As I said before, be prudent and protect yourself. Safety is the most important thing."
There had been little progress, and even the police officer had been involved, so Tao Zhi wasn't in a good mood. However, she also knew that this matter couldn't be rushed, as it was easy to make mistakes, and right now, she couldn't afford even the slightest mistake.
She forced herself to calm down. While the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it, she had to remain patient and resilient at all times.
When she got home, Cheng Xiangqian was waiting for her: "Next time, tell your family when you go out, so that they won't worry."
"I'm sorry, I'll remember next time."
"There's good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"Good news."
"The good news is that Village Chief Zhou agreed to contract the factory."
"How much is the fee?"
"Profit sharing."
Tao Zhi nodded: "Village Chief Zhou is a kind man. What about the bad news?"
"I promised Village Chief Zhou that I would donate the kindergarten to the village."
“We were going to donate.”
"But Village Chief Zhou doesn't know."
Tao Zhi smiled: "You, you have learned the art of retreating in order to advance. You are quite clever."
"Actually, there's one more thing."
"What's up?"
"Tick, tick, tick, I got my driver's license." He handed over a small notebook.
Tao Zhi flipped it open and saw the three characters "Cheng Xiangqian" written on it. She snorted, "I'll go to class tomorrow."
"You don't care about the house renovation?"
"I don't want to care. This time it depends on the conscience of the construction party."
"Okay, then I'll go with you to practice driving."
Tao Zhi shuddered: "That's not right. You don't care about the machinery factory anymore?"
"I paid a lot of money to invite the manager back."
"Then you should go back and hang out from time to time."
Cheng Xiangqian had a headache: "Are you running out of time and you're trying to get me out?"
Tao Zhi said righteously, "Everything in our family needs money, can't you see? We are so lucky to have a hen that lays golden eggs, so we must treat it well. Only when we have money can we afford to move to S City and travel around the world when we are old."
After a beating and a candy, Tao Zhi played it very well: "Drive back, don't take the bus."
And made the old man happy again.
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