Especially after she was trapped in this mountain village forever in her second life due to Li Fangqi's scheming, and even died less than a year after getting married, she felt a deep sense of grief.
Her wish was not only to make Li Fangqi and Liu Quan pay for their actions, but also to change the fate of the girls in these mountains.
During break, Chu Nian went into the school library.
This library was donated by a great philanthropist in the town during the Republic of China era and has been preserved since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Chu Nianlai's intention was to look for some scientific information, but upon entering, he felt as if he had entered an exhibition hall of books from the Republic of China era, one that was rather dilapidated and run-down, leaving him quite bewildered...
It must have been at least ten years since they received any new books here. Not to mention science books, they don't even have any of the currently popular novels or reading materials—they're incredibly poor.
Chu Nian wandered around for a while, but apart from inhaling the dust from a bunch of old books, she didn't find anything of value and left rather disappointed.
When Ling's father picked her up, he gave her a long leave of absence. The teachers all thought she wouldn't be coming back.
Chu Nian knew the high school curriculum like the back of her hand, not to mention that she also had the memories of the original owner's two lifetimes, so she even knew the questions for the future college entrance examination. Therefore, she did not want to waste her time at school.
After returning disappointed from the school library, she never went back to the classroom.
The next day, relying on the two lifetimes the original owner had witnessed and her understanding of the plot, Chu Nian bought a particularly old and dilapidated courtyard on the west side of town for 280 yuan. She didn't go back to school that night, planning to spend the night there.
In the middle of the night, she dug out two jars of buried gold from a corner of the yard.
According to the plot, next week, Li Fangqi, who already has enough money, will buy this courtyard. Before renovating, she wanted to dig up the sycamore tree in the corner of the courtyard, and that's when she discovered this gold.
This was Chu Nian's first time intercepting a winning ticket, and after succeeding, she went to the city.
The city was much wealthier than the small town where the original owner lived, and there were already jewelry stores selling gold jewelry. Due to inflation, the current exchange rate for gold was only around 60 or 70 yuan per gram. Chu Nian took two gold bars and exchanged them for more than 10,000 yuan, which he then put in his pocket and left.
The manager in charge of exchanging the gold was a bit bewildered by her age, clothing, and attitude towards money. Judging from her young age and her clothes, she seemed to be a poor villager, and the gold was old gold, so he guessed that she was exchanging gold that had been passed down in her family for generations.
But seeing her casually carrying over ten thousand yuan, it's as if she doesn't care about such a large sum of money at all! In those days, the economy hadn't developed yet, and in big cities, this amount of money was not small; it was enough to buy several houses.
He had originally intended to call the girl back and tell her to be careful with the money, but the girl was quick enough to disappear in the blink of an eye.
Chu Nian boarded the bus and went straight to Zhou Chaoyang's company. She slapped 10,000 yuan on his desk, leaving him a little dumbfounded.
"I heard you're going to bid for that piece of land in the city center. I don't have much money, but I'd like to invest in it. What do you think?" Chu Nian asked. She didn't want to run her own business, but she could make some investments!
Zhou Chaoyang asked in surprise, "Where did you get so much money?"
Chu Nian said, "You don't need to ask about that."
Zhou Chaoyang thought for a moment and asked, "What happened between you and Li Fangqi?"
Chu Nian: "Don't get involved in what's between me and her."
Zhou Chaoyang hesitated and said, "Ten thousand yuan may seem like a lot to ordinary people, but if I want to invest..."
Chu Nian: "Then tell me, how much is the minimum investment required to acquire a stake in your company?"
Zhou Chaoyang: "Fifty thousand."
Chu Nian asked with a smile, "Does Li Fangqi have that much money to spare right now?"
Zhou Chaoyang: "What I value is her connections."
Chu Nian understood his implication, raised an eyebrow, and thought to herself: It seems that Li Fangqi has already gotten involved with that officer.
She said, "Okay, fifty thousand it is!"
Zhou Chaoyang asked in surprise, "What, you can come up with so much money?"
Chu Nian: "You think I can't come up with that amount, so that's why you said 50,000?"
Zhou Chaoyang remained silent.
Chu Nian suddenly realized, "It was Li Fangqi who forbade you from cooperating with me."
Zhou Chaoyang: "That's why I asked, what exactly happened between you and her? Weren't you two very close before? I told her a while ago that I could include you when I invested, and she agreed at the time."
Chu Nian gave a cold laugh, said nothing, put away the money, and turned to leave.
Zhou Chaoyang watched her leave with a hint of disappointment, feeling as if the beauty he had just spoken of had flown away. After thinking for a moment, he called Li Fangqi and told her about Ling Nian's investment request.
Although he coveted beautiful women, Li Fangqi was someone he couldn't afford to offend.
Chu Nian went into the city library, which at least resembled a proper library. However, she still couldn't find some of the high-tech books; she figured she'd have to go to the libraries of some top universities to find the relevant information.
After that, she went to bookstores and visited several—fortunately, these bookstores were quite good.
When she returned to her dorm that evening, her roommates were astonished to see her carrying a bunch of strange books—something about systems, some about software, some about circuit tutorials…
Hao Jia flipped through the pile of books she had no idea what they were about, and asked in surprise, "Niannian, what kind of books did you buy?" Then she looked at the prices on the back of the books and was shocked. Each book cost several yuan, which was half a month's worth of her food money.
Chu Nian said, "I saw books on this topic in a bookstore, flipped through one of them, and found the content quite interesting, so I bought a few to take a look."
Having actually lived in a futuristic technological world, she was already familiar with the contents of these books; she bought them simply to set an example for others. Additionally, she wanted to see the level of computer technology development in this era.
Hao Jia asked, "You skipped class all day just to buy these books?"
When Li Fangqi returned and saw the books spread out on Chu Nian's bed, she was quite surprised. These books were considered unconventional these days; apart from some college students majoring in certain fields, no one would buy them. She hadn't expected that Ling Nian, who was only a sophomore in high school, would bring these books back.
She asked curiously, "Ling Nian, why did you buy all these books?"
Hao Jia and her roommate Fang Hua looked at her with some surprise when they heard her call "Niannian" less affectionately than before. Both of them had noticed that Ling Nian and Li Fangqi had suddenly become much more distant since she returned from home.
It's well known that Li Fangqi is well-off and generous, often buying things for her roommates. Hao Jia and Fang Hua both like Li Fangqi quite a bit. Ling Nian and Li Fangqi were previously close friends, so the four of them have a good relationship.
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