Chapter 111 The Ultimate Dream
Lu Xiangyang shrugged, looking helpless: "There's nothing I can do. We agreed on this when we got married."
"I'll handle the big matters, she'll handle the small ones."
"What you and she have is a small matter, it's no use telling me."
Jiang Haibing: "..."
Lu Xiangyang, who claimed to be indifferent to everything, ended up having a bunch of relatives eat at the housewarming party.
We happily booked three tables at a restaurant.
Jiang Haibing: "..."
Okay.
They're a perfect couple, the wife leads and the husband follows. He's the outsider.
After being siblings with Jiang Jiani for twenty-four years, he suddenly became an outsider.
Not long after the housewarming party, an important news item appeared in the newspaper.
Li Honggang impersonated a qigong master, not only defrauding more than three million yuan, but also causing many people to lose their fortunes and their families to be ruined.
He also committed bigamy, having officially recognized three wives through ceremonies, and deceiving more than thirty other women through various means.
These are nothing compared to what's really going on.
Most seriously, Li Honggang has several lives on his hands.
Most of them died because his reckless actions delayed their treatment. Two others even killed their partners' wives because they had taken a liking to them and then took the wives for themselves.
The amount of money this person defrauded was enormous, the circumstances of the crime were serious, and the impact was extremely negative, making him one of the most heinous criminals in the 41 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
He was sentenced to death and the sentence was to be carried out immediately.
Two of his subordinates, who were equally wicked, were also sentenced to death, while the others received prison sentences ranging from three to thirty years.
Jiang Jianni was stunned when she saw the amount: "Three million?"
"Did he rob a bank for three million?"
"How many people did he have to swindle to amass three million in just three years?"
Three million today, in terms of purchasing power, is equivalent to one hundred million in later years.
If we only consider the house price, it would be more than 100 million.
Lu Xiangyang loathed this person: "This kind of person should have been shot long ago."
He also contributed to Li Honggang's execution, for example by finding people to collect evidence of Li Honggang's misdeeds and frauds during his time in Pingyang City.
Several key witnesses were found by him through connections.
Extremes beget their opposites. The fact that Li Honggang was a big-time swindler and murderer caused a great stir in Pingyang City.
The qigong industry, which had already shrunk due to Li Honggang's arrest, has shrunk again on a large scale.
The once ubiquitous Qigong classes are now almost nowhere to be seen.
Because everyone started investigating the qigong masters and qigong practitioners around them, starting with their family, relatives, friends, and even their spending habits.
For a time, the qigong craze in Pingyang City subsided considerably.
This influence is even continuing to radiate outwards.
Jiang Jianni sighed, "You can't cut ties with this kind of person."
There will be more Down syndrome scams, pyramid schemes, gambling, drugs, and other forms of prostitution in the future.
As long as the profits are large enough, many people will take risks for money.
Jiang Jianni was so indignant that she decided to write a novel specifically targeting these crimes.
For example, the bizarre and disturbing novel genre that hasn't yet become popular.
However, we'll have to wait and see.
Every novel genre has its specific environment in which it exists.
The two major trends in novels nowadays are martial arts and romance.
Before these two themes declined and before the concept of Cthulhu was introduced, writing horror novels was a dead end.
She was interested in writing novels, but it was also for the money.
I would never go against money.
She enthusiastically wrote "The Legend of Investiture of the Gods" one day and "Spicy Little Couple" the next, occasionally jotting down her inspirations, while also engaging in a battle of wits with more than two hundred students from four classes.
My days are incredibly fulfilling.
Just when she had almost forgotten about mobile networks, she received two emails.
She glanced at the two letters and jumped up excitedly.
"Ahhhhh..."
Lu Xiangyang can walk normally now, but he can't run or jump yet. Hearing her shouting in the study, he went to the door to ask her what was wrong.
Jiang Jianni rushed up and hugged Lu Xiangyang tightly: "Ahhh, I'm so happy, I'm so happy, I've never been happier than I am now."
Lu Xiangyang: "?? What happened?"
Jiang Jianni proudly waved the envelope in her hand: "My royalties have increased!"
"It used to be 1,500, now it's 1,300."
"It's doubled!"
Even the book that earned her the most money in her past life couldn't make her as happy as she is now.
no way.
In my past life, I typed on a computer.
Once you've got the outline and character design right, you can sit in front of the computer and write two or three thousand words in an hour.
Now when she writes, she really writes, entirely by hand.
It still needs to be revised after it's written.
Submitting an article also requires copying it.
The final draft is 10,000 words, but the actual amount to be written is at least 25,000 words.
Twenty-five thousand handwritten notes? What does that even mean?
That would take two or three days of non-stop writing.
This has already taken up all of her spare time.
Lu Xiangyang couldn't help but chuckle: "You're this happy about mentioning the payment for your work?"
Jiang Jianni was already lost in beautiful fantasies about the future: "This is money! Money I worked so hard to earn, how can I not be happy?"
"If they ask for payment the second time, there's a good chance they'll ask a third or fourth time."
"It's 1,300 now, and it could be 1,300 later. As long as I write well and people like to read it, that's fine."
She had heard that the most powerful figure in the 1990s earned a thousand yuan per thousand words for his writing.
A thousand words a thousand is too terrifying, I don't even dare to think about it, three hundred words a thousand is her ultimate goal.
"With money, I can buy a house."
"Buy as much as you can in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen."
"Once I buy dozens of houses, I can become a landlady."
Do you know the landlady?
"Landladys own countless houses, and their biggest daily trouble is having to collect rent again."
"You don't have to do anything all year round, and you can make so much money just collecting rent that your hands are sore."
Being a landlady or landlord is a dream for many young people.
Unfortunately, the more beautiful the dream, the crueler the reality.
Jiang Jianni must have made a lot of money in her past life, enough to outdo many local men. Even so, she only dared to buy a 140-square-meter penthouse duplex in the city.
I wouldn't even dare to look at houses in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
I was afraid it would give me a heart attack.
But now.
As long as she works hard enough and earns more money, she can buy more houses before housing prices skyrocket.
The landlady's dream may come true.
She rushed to the table like she was on steroids, eager to start typing: "No, I have to work hard right now."
"If I don't work hard to make money now, what will I do when I get old?"
Lu Xiangyang asked, "Are you sure you can make money as a landlady?"
Jiang Jiani answered without hesitation: "Of course."
There are so many examples of landladies and landlords online, so she could certainly be one of them.
Lu Xiangyang couldn't help but laugh: "Do you know how much it costs to rent a house these days?"
"People only pay a few dollars to rent a room."
“The kind of apartment in your neighborhood can be rented for at most thirty yuan a month, which adds up to about three hundred yuan a year.”
"You need to spend 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to buy a house, and in the capital city of Haicheng, it would cost 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. Are you sure you can earn back the money you spent on buying a house through rental income?"
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