The light from the small bulb flickered wherever it was placed. Li Guifang squatted beside the bed and rustled out a mooncake box from the bottom of the camphorwood box, opening it with a clanging sound.
Li Jianghai was just about to make a move when he was awakened by the noise made by Li Guifang.
"Oh, old woman, what are you doing again!" Li Jianghai sat up with a start. "It's the middle of the night, are you still asleep? You have to catch a bus tomorrow morning!"
"Hush—keep your voice down!" Li Guifang peeled back the layers of blue cloth, revealing the yellowed passbook inside. "Tomorrow morning, before you go to Haicheng, take this with you!"
Li Jianghai stared at the passbook and scratched his head: "Passbook? Why? I brought enough money for the purchase..."
"Who said I was buying goods for you?" Li Guifang slammed the edge of the kang anxiously. "I asked you to give this money to my eldest brother so that he can help me buy a piece of land in Haicheng!"
"Buy land?" Li Jianghai's voice suddenly rose, then quickly lowered, "Buy what land?"
"Sell your village land!" Li Guifang rolled her eyes. "What land are you buying? Give it to my eldest brother. You must be asking my brother to help me buy land in Haicheng!"
Li Jianghai was even more confused. "No, why should we buy land there? We don't have any development there. You buy land and build a house, but you can't even go there once or twice a year..."
He suddenly stopped talking and said, "Wait, could it be that your elder brother is fooling you..."
No matter how hard he tried to think about it, he couldn't figure it out.
Why would you travel thousands of miles away from home to buy land in another place?
"Shut up your fart!" Li Guifang picked up her big palm-leaf fan and hit Li Jianghai!
"During the Chinese New Year, my brother told me that they had bought land in Haicheng and were planning to build a house!"
Her eyes sparkled. "I thought, could my eldest brother's vision be any worse?"
Just based on his courage to venture into the Special Administrative Region alone, he deserves to be successful!
Seeing that Li Jianghai still looked skeptical, Li Guifang slapped the passbook on his chest and said, "Take the passbook and tell my eldest brother, 'Guifang wants two yuan for the road.' Then he'll know what I mean! We already agreed on this!"
Li Jianghai flipped the passbook over and over, his brow furrowed so tightly that it could kill a mosquito: "No... What on earth can we do with this saline-alkali land in Haicheng? Buy it to pickle vegetables?..."
"What do you know? When my eldest brother first ventured into Haicheng, you all called him a fool! Now, he's not so successful, but at least he's returned home in glory!"
Li Guifang snatched the passbook back in a huff, gritting her teeth in anger: "My brother said that he will definitely achieve great things over there in the future, so we should strike first!"
After hearing this, Li Jianghai was still confused and looked incredulous!
Li Guifang lost her temper and said, "I want to see the sea! Is that okay?"
If there hadn't been a large balance to be collected before the New Year, she would have wanted to ask her eldest brother to help her buy it.
The cash flow is good now, and the fixed-term loan is about to mature, so it’s just right to sell the land and build a house.
No matter how much Li Jianghai asked, Li Guifang couldn't tell him what that place would be used for in the future!
Even if I tell him, Li Jianghai, a blockhead, may not be able to do it!
In fact, those who have vision now know that Haicheng is a Feng Shui treasure land.
It’s just that the policies have been changing back and forth in the past few years, making people panic. Now there are opportunities everywhere, but no one dares to take action.
Fortunately, even though Li Jianghai's brain wasn't working very well, he was obedient. Based on the principle that Li Guifang was the head of the family, he didn't ask any more questions. With a lot of questions in his mind, he fell asleep!
There was no other way. The next morning, he had to carry a huge sum of money and go to his standing ticket for a day and a night!
Li Jianghai was wearing a double-breasted shirt that looked even shabbier than usual, with several patches on his wrinkled trouser legs.
He was wolfing down the leftovers at the stove.
Li Guifang stuffed two boiled eggs into his pocket and said, "Remember, the passbook is sewn into the secret pocket of your pants."
"I know, I know..." Li Jianghai rolled his eyes as he choked on the egg yolk.
The sound of a tofu vendor's clappers could be heard outside the courtyard gate. Li Guifang suddenly lowered her voice and said, "If...if anyone asks..."
"I know! I know. Just tell them your son has done something wrong!" "The police are calling..."
It was barely dawn and the train station was already packed like a can of sardines.
Li Jianghai hunched his neck and squeezed through the crowd. The snakeskin bag with "XXX—Urea" printed on it on his back was deformed by the crowd.
"Make way! Make way!" He used his elbows to clear the way and finally squeezed to the door of the green car, with half of the heel of his shoe being stepped on and broken off.
Just as he was catching his breath, the crowd coming from behind pushed him into the car.
The aisles were filled with snakeskin bags, shoulder poles, and clucking chickens.
Li Jianghai protected the secret pocket in his crotch and moved sideways to the car door like a crab.
But before he could stay still for a while, a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit appeared next to him.
He came over and started a conversation: "Where are you going, comrade?"
"Hai...Haicheng." Li Jianghai subconsciously covered his waistband.
"What a coincidence! I'm going to Haicheng too." The man took out a wrinkled cigarette and asked, "What's your business?"
Li Jianghai seriously suspected that this enthusiastic man was either a liar or a pickpocket!
So, Li Guifang brought out the lines she had prepared, and forced out two turbid tears: "Ah! How can I be destined to do business!"
The voice suddenly rose an octave, attracting the attention of the surrounding passengers.
"It's all my disappointing son's fault!" He slapped his thigh and acted out the lines taught by Li Guifang vividly.
"He stole the coffin book from home before the Lunar New Year and said he was going to Haicheng to make a fortune!
Then yesterday, the police station called—" His voice suddenly choked up, "This little bastard is actually committing fraud!"
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