Shen Shixun didn't ask any more questions. Xiang Nanzhi took a sip of water and lay down. "It's fine."
The place wasn't big, but it was very clean. She had a career, and so did Shen Shixun. No matter how busy he was, he would come back to cook for her and do her laundry. They weren't rich or powerful, but they were happy together every day.
"What?"
"nothing."
When she first fell in love, Xiang Nanzhi never imagined that she would come to like this simple and pure life.
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The next day, Xiang Nanzhi received a phone call and rubbed his temples in annoyance. "I said, aren't you guys very capable? Is it really that difficult to find just one thing?"
"I'm giving you so much money, you should be motivated!"
Xiang Nanzhi didn't want to hear any excuses, so she hung up the phone directly.
"It's not about the money; those Buddha statues are indeed quite hard to find."
"Back then, Chairman Li searched for several years before finally finding one of the Buddha statues. He has been inquiring about the whereabouts of the Buddha statues ever since."
Without a Buddha statue, even if she managed to sneak in and meet with Chairman Li, it would be difficult to have a proper conversation. What would she have to offer him?
"Where's the jade? Has it been found?"
"The people on Master Zhou's side said that you have too high standards for quality. They will keep an eye on it, but not necessarily..."
Before, I had everything I wanted; now I have nothing I want, and all the bad luck has come at once.
"I knew it might be difficult, but I didn't expect it to be this difficult. In previous years, when technology was less advanced, it would take years to find something. Now that technology is so advanced, how can it still be so difficult to find..."
"This kind of thing might be somewhere, maybe on the market, or maybe it's already been leaked overseas, or maybe someone has kept it at home for many years without knowing it, or maybe it fell into the water, into the sea, or was buried in the ground..."
Just listening to it gave Xiang Nanzhi a headache.
Ma Xiaorong sat down and said, "You and Jiang Yao must be careful at the wedding. If Song Ze sees you, he will definitely make things difficult for you. Your and Jiang Yao's positions are awkward."
"Yes, I know Zhai Ying. We're not exactly close, but we're not bad either. I don't want her to misunderstand that I'm here to cause trouble."
However, the Li family and the Zhai family have some connections, and Chairman Li will be attending the wedding, so she definitely can't miss it.
The jujube seedlings arrived, and Xiang Nanzhi dared not delay at all. Despite being heavily pregnant, she stayed at the forest farm to watch the workers plant trees. With each swing of the hoe, mud and sand filled the air, and Xiang Nanzhi coughed from the suffocation.
She had been drinking flower tea, but now she couldn't drink anymore. Her mouth and nose were full of mud and sand, so she quickly moved away from the wind and sat down in another spot.
Sun Xing is passionate about doing these things. He usually plants and cares for trees in the vicinity. When the jujube saplings arrived, he got involved and became a free source of labor.
Xiang Nanzhi picked up his phone, snapped a picture.
To be honest, the Xiang family's involvement in agriculture was out of necessity, but Sun Xing genuinely wanted to do it, and he was different from other entrepreneurs.
Other entrepreneurs who want to farm have to be fully dressed up, wearing leather shoes, having their hair styled, and pretending to dig a few times, all while the cameras are pointed at them.
Once the photos were taken and I was satisfied, and the overall composition was good, I threw down my hoe and went to have some tea, regardless of whether all the trees had been planted or not.
Their external publicity was excellent.
Sun Xing was genuinely there, digging and planting, finishing one sapling and continuing on to the next. He was a real go-getter, without any shirking or cheating.
The land was bought by the Xiang family, and he was doing things for the Xiang family for free, which made Xiang Nanzhi feel a little embarrassed.
"Uncle Sun, come and rest for a while."
"The more you rest, the less you want to do anything; if you want to be diligent, you have to keep working."
In the evening, Uncle Zhou called to say that the jade she was looking for had been found, and Xiang Nan rushed to the market without stopping.
The bracelet for Zhai Ying was almost finished, and Xiang Nanzhi asked Zhang Man to deliver it to her personally while she went to see the jade at Zhou Erye's place.
When they arrived, they found Shen Shixun there as well. It was the first time the two of them had bumped into each other on Zhou Erye's territory.
What are you doing here?
Shen Shixun was looking at the jade with a serious expression, selecting from a large pile of jade stones and attaching labels to them.
Upon seeing Xiang Nanzhi, he was also stunned, looking at Master Zhou with confusion.
"You've chosen your jade. It's a newly delivered piece, and you need to take it to the market tomorrow morning."
Xiang Nanzhi didn't immediately spot the rough stone she wanted. Instead, she walked towards Shen Shixun, who was holding a flashlight and looking very professional, while A Ding was taking notes beside him.
Xiang Nanzhi curled her lips into a smile, "What's this...?"
She's doing something for Master Zhou, but how come she has no idea when this started?
“Miss Rachel, please don’t disturb his work. He has a very important task at hand right now.”
"Which piece of jade?" Xiang Nanzhi asked him. "Didn't you say you wouldn't agree? You refused to my face, but then you came here."
Shen Shixun didn't answer her question, but simply pointed to a rough stone, "Over there..."
With outsiders present, Xiang Nanzhi didn't want to argue with Shen Shixun, so she went to check on her jade piece first.
A large batch of raw stones arrived, and Shen Shixun was overwhelmed with the task. Xiang Nanzhi saw the man's back and felt a pang of sadness...
He knocked on it. "Second Master, the jade I found has a great use. Please don't dilute it."
"You're making me sad. When did I ever add water to the jade I gave you?"
Following her gaze, Zhou Erye said, "If it really was diluted with water, it's not my fault; it must be that he misjudged it."
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