This place can be planted all year round. Now the land is full of vegetables. This land is not short of water. Looking into the distance, the lush green vegetables are growing very well.
My cousin and his wife were working in the field with the people they had hired when Dongqing honked his car horn and got out with his wife.
When my cousin and his wife heard the car horn and looked at them, they put down what they were doing and quickly stood up to walk towards Dongqing and his wife.
My cousin and his wife walked up to them, and my cousin said, "Sister-in-law, you're here?"
No matter how unhappy Li Yuzhu was inside, she didn't show it on her face, and said with a smile, "Your cousin and I just arrived."
As they talked, they went inside, sat down, and chatted for a while. The cousin said, "I just sold a batch of vegetables and made over 6,000 yuan after deducting costs."
Dongqing knew his cousin and his wife very well; they were both very honest, and he felt completely at ease entrusting the place to them. He said, "I won't ask how much money we make here, and you don't need to give me any of it. Building materials are very cheap right now. Keep enough for your and your wife's wages, and as soon as you make money, buy bricks and put them in the yard. Remember, don't keep any cash on hand; buy bricks immediately after you sell a batch of vegetables."
Dong Qing has many other expenses, and the ten or twenty thousand yuan he earns from selling vegetables here won't make much of a difference to his current situation; it's negligible.
Prices are extremely low now. If the money from selling vegetables each year is used to buy building materials and stored here, it will become a considerable fortune in the future.
Dong Qing's approach is like buying a hen that lays eggs and leaving it there to wait for prices to rise. The bricks he buys now are worthless, but they will multiply in value several times over in a few years. At that time, whether he sells them or uses them himself, it will be an immeasurable income.
He's a man who's lived a full life and knows a lot about this.
Since they couldn't stay there, the couple drove to a hotel in the city that night.
Dongqing booked a room at the hotel. He was very tired after driving for several days in a row, so the couple went to bed after dinner.
I was woken up in the middle of the night by a room check. The room check was nothing more than checking for men and women who were not following the rules and were having private transactions in hotels.
Dong Qing said, "We are husband and wife."
The police officer said, "Please show me your marriage certificate."
In those days, there were no ID cards, so when law enforcement conducted nighttime checks, all you needed to do was show your marriage certificate.
However, Dong Qing forgot to bring her marriage certificate when she went out, so she had no way to prove their marital status.
In the 21st century, it's perfectly fine not to carry a marriage certificate when going out. ID cards are linked nationwide, and it's easy to find out if someone is married just by checking online. There's no need to carry a marriage certificate at all.
But in this day and age, who has an ID card? Even if they did, it wouldn't be of any use. There's no internet, so how could they check online? In the end, the two were taken to the police station for improper sexual relations.
This room check actually uncovered several illicit couples checking into the hotel, and several of the women were involved in prostitution. Dong Qing and his wife were also implicated.
The police asked who in the city could prove they were a couple, and Dongqing said his cousin and his wife could prove it.
The police took the couple to the outskirts of town in a patrol car overnight. When they stopped outside a wall, the officer said as they got out, "If you want to prove your innocence, remember not to say anything carelessly, and especially don't give the other side any hints."
After hearing this, Dongqing and his wife nodded in agreement. There was really no need for any hints in this regard; the truth would not come out, and the falsehood would not come out. Now, only their cousin and his wife could prove their innocence.
The police called my cousin and his wife outside. Seeing the police and Dongqing and his wife standing outside, my cousin asked in surprise, "Cousin, what have you two done wrong?"
The police knew there was no need to ask any more questions; they could easily prove that the couple were indeed husband and wife. They apologized to Dong Qing and his wife.
Dong Qing said, "Investigating and arresting prostitutes is your duty and obligation, it doesn't matter, as long as you can clear our names, could you please take us back to the hotel to rest?"
The police officer said of course, and Dongqing gave his cousin and his wife a brief explanation, telling them to go back to sleep. The couple then turned around, walked to the gate, and got into their car.
The police car took them to the hotel, and after getting out, the officer apologized to the couple and drove away.
When Dong Qing and his wife returned to their room, they looked at each other and laughed. Li Yuzhu said with a laugh, "We've become targets of a prostitution raid."
The couple didn't have much of an emotional reaction to the matter. They were a real married couple and had no reason to worry. There were still people in the city who could vouch for their marital relationship.
Dongqing said, "Looks like I'll have to carry my marriage certificate with me when I go out from now on. Consider it a life experience. It's getting late, let's go to sleep."
Li Yuzhu nodded after listening to her husband's words, and went to bed with him, taking off her clothes to sleep.
After all that commotion last night, the couple woke up very late the next day.
Li Yuzhu nestled in her husband's arms and asked, "Honey, I really see no hope for that piece of land in the suburbs. Why don't we sell it? We'll even accept a loss. Our company really needs the money!"
Li Yuzhu's performance was already quite good. If it were any other woman, she would have made a huge fuss long ago. That's not a few hundred or a few thousand, it's an investment of five million or eight hundred thousand. There's no hope for that piece of land now. It would be strange if his wife didn't make a scene after seeing that.
Dong Qing said, "Let me put it this way, that piece of land wouldn't sell for 3 million yuan now, and nobody would want it. Believe me, I made the right decision to buy land here."
Li Yuzhu asked, "You knew perfectly well that you couldn't sell it for 3 million, so why did you still spend 5.8 million to buy 500 acres of land?"
Dong Qing said, "How can I not explain it to you clearly? When I was buying land, I found someone else who was buying land, but they wouldn't sell it if I offered too little. If I find another buyer to purchase the land, will I be able to sell it?"
I don't regret buying that land. To be conservative, in five years at most, it will be a prime piece of land, and I wouldn't sell it for 58 million then.
“Fine, keep dreaming. I really don’t see any hope in that land.” Li Yuzhu paused for a moment and asked, “Let’s put that aside for now. Even if you were to invest, shouldn’t you have bought land in the city center? Why did you choose that kind of place? Can you give your wife an explanation for that?”
Dong Qing said, "This is easy to explain. Land in the city is as precious as gold. How much land can we buy with this little money? We can only buy more land in the suburbs with the same amount of money. After the reform and opening up, cities across the country are developing rapidly. Believe me, after the 1990s, this city will be as developed as the land I bought. At that time, it will be as valuable as land in the city now."
Besides, even if we bought land in the city, would we have the money to build anything? Since we're just buying land to let it appreciate in value, why not choose the suburbs?
Li Yuzhu said, "The land we bought is too far from the city center. What if the city doesn't develop to that extent in the future?"
Dong Qing, having lived a lifetime, knew what would happen later. In reality, who could have known what would happen later? People couldn't understand Dong Qing's actions, and his wife couldn't understand them either. No one with a sound mind could agree with his absurd behavior.
Dongqing said, "Let's not talk about the distant past, let's talk about the recent past. When I was buying land in Su Village and taking out a loan, you made such a fuss that we got divorced. And look what happened? Now I won't sell that land there for 5,000 yuan per mu."
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