Xi Yang died, and his sons were sent to the quarry for different crimes. Except for Xi Xiang, who was sentenced to six months in prison, the rest of the Xi family were released.
After the Xi family's daughters-in-law left, they each went their separate ways with their sons. Xi's mother and Xi Xiang's two brothers hated her to the core because she had caused the Xi family's downfall.
The Wang family couldn't go back, so they had to take their mother and leave Beijing.
It is a pity that the once prosperous Xi family became deserted overnight.
Xi Xiang also became a negative example for the education of children by various noble families in Beijing, and all the heads of families let their descendants learn from him.
Luo Sen finally got his wish and took the position of Minister of Education. After solving the Xi family problem, Qian Shen decided to return to Hai City. With the Xi family down, no one would continue to embarrass his family.
"Are you leaving? Qian Shen, don't you want to stay in Beijing? With your talent, you will have great potential if you enter the officialdom." Rosen tried to persuade him to stay.
After this incident, he realized that if Qian Shen could stay and help him, he would definitely be a capable assistant.
"Thank you for your kindness! I still want to go back to Hai City to be an engineer. Entering the officialdom is not suitable for me." Qian Shen said with a smile.
"Everyone has their own aspirations, so I won't keep you here. As for your parents, don't worry, I have arranged everything." Rosen said with a hint of regret.
"Thank you, Minister Luo." Qian Shen said with a smile.
After exiting the Ministry of Education, he turned to glance at the building behind him. In just one month, he had witnessed Xi Yang and the Xi family's decline from glory. Power is truly a wonderful thing; no wonder so many people, from ancient times to the present, have been obsessed with it.
Over at the Red Flag Brigade, Yun Yan and Yang Qian had already made preparations. As for the workshop, operations had ceased due to a lack of raw materials.
The two of them took an oxcart to the county town early in the morning, and then boarded a bus to the provincial capital. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the train from Nan Province to Guang City slowly started.
Yang Qian didn't say a word the whole way. Yun Yan could tell she was worried, so she didn't bother her. Everyone has their own secrets, and she wasn't interested in other people's secrets.
After two days and two nights of train travel, they finally arrived in Guangzhou. It was already seven in the evening when they got off the train. Yang Qian led the way to a guesthouse and booked a double room.
After a simple wash, Yang Qian took Yun Yan to a state-owned restaurant near the guesthouse for dinner.
At night, Yang Qian tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep.
Her father was originally the owner of a textile factory in Guangzhou, but was later labeled a capitalist. To avoid bringing trouble to himself and his mother, he asked his mother to publish a statement in the newspaper severing ties with him.
My father was criticized and persecuted to death, and my mother couldn't bear the trauma and jumped into the river to commit suicide. I escaped the disaster by going to the countryside with the help of my father's former friends.
Now that I have returned to Guangzhou, everything has changed.
The next morning, Yang Qian proposed to promote the sweet potato vermicelli herself, because the manager of Guangshi Department Store was a good friend of her father, and she would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
Yun Yan didn't object to her words. Her main purpose in coming to Guangzhou wasn't to sell sweet potato vermicelli. Now that Yang Qian and she were separated, it would be easier for her to do her own thing.
Yun Yan followed her memories from her past life and found the CBD of Guang City. It was still a desolate place now, but who could have imagined that twenty years later it would become the commercial center of Guang City?
Yun Yan went to the Land Bureau and used a bag of brown sugar to ask a staff member there about several plots of land for sale in the commercial center city. Yun Yan decisively bought one of the plots of land, which was 2,500 square meters.
Before coming to Guangzhou, Yun Yan counted her savings, and with the profit from sweet potato vermicelli, she now has nearly four thousand yuan.
Land in Guangzhou now sells for 1.5 yuan per square meter, and after buying the land, her savings will be gone.
The payment was made and the paperwork was completed on the same day. It was clear that things were incredibly efficient these days. After Yun Yan received the deed, she immediately stored it in her space. In her opinion, there was no place safer than her own space.
In order to buy a shop later, Yun Yan decided to sell some of the rice and flour she had.
The next day, she wandered around Guangzhou for a long time before she found out the location of the black market. After disguising herself, she entered the black market.
The black market in Guangshi was much larger than in Jingxian, selling everything. Yun Yan found a small black market leader and asked him if he was interested in buying some grain.
"Auntie, how much grain do you have to sell?" asked the little leader.
"One thousand kilograms of rice and five hundred kilograms of flour, based on today's black market price." Yun Yan said in a hoarse voice.
On the black market, rice is now sold for one yuan per jin, and flour for ninety cents. So, 1,000 jin of rice and 500 jin of flour can be sold for over 1,400 yuan.
"Auntie, your price is too high. If we charge according to the black market price, how can we make any profit?" said the little leader dissatisfiedly.
"That's the price. If you don't want it, I'll leave." After saying that, Yun Yan turned around and pretended to leave.
Seeing this, the little leader immediately grabbed her and said, "Auntie, don't leave so quickly. We can still discuss this."
"Then I'll make one final concession. Rice and flour will both cost 90 cents per pound," said Yun Yan.
"It's still too expensive. How about this, auntie? I'll charge 80 cents per pound for rice and flour. That's sincere enough, right?" said the little leader.
"I won't argue with you anymore. This is my final price: 85 cents per pound. If it's okay with you, then it's okay. If not, then I'll leave." Yun Yan said with pretended heartache.
"Okay, then it's settled. Auntie, where are your things? When and where shall we trade?" asked the little leader.
When Yunyan went to look at the land, she found an old factory building and decided to hold the transaction there. The time was set for six o'clock the next morning, when there would be few people on the street and it would not attract anyone's attention.
The most important thing is that Yun Yan bought a train ticket to Hai City at 8 o'clock the next morning. After the transaction was completed, she took the train directly to leave Guang City and no one would be able to find her.
After agreeing on a transaction location, Yun Yan started browsing the black market. She ended up buying five chickens and two pounds of pork belly. While no one was paying attention, she put the items into her space and left the black market.
After returning to the guesthouse, Yang Qian, who had disappeared for a day and a night, finally showed up.
"You finally decided to come back. If you didn't come back, I would go to the police station to report the case." Yun Zhiqing said jokingly.
"I'm not a three-year-old child, how could I get lost so easily?" Yang Qian said with a smile.
"By the way, Yunyan, I have almost finished talking about the sweet potato vermicelli. Now we just have to wait for the Red Flag Brigade to deliver the vermicelli." Yang Qian continued.
"How much sweet potato vermicelli did Guangshi order this time?" Yun Yan asked.
She didn't want to share Yang Qian's commission, she just wanted to know how much vermicelli the Red Flag Brigade had left.
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