Chapter 15 Su Yuanzheng is a love-struck fool.
Just like in the plot, Su Yuanzheng didn't have a moment's rest after returning to the countryside. The next day, he brought a man over to start a business with him.
That man was none other than Shang Xingchuan, Su Yuanzheng's benefactor, who was mentioned only briefly in the novel.
The reason he met Shang Xingchuan was because of the female lead. In order to satisfy the original owner's material needs, Su Yuanzheng worked all over the place and met Shang Xingchuan, who was out experiencing life.
As the heir of the Shang family, Shang Xingchuan had seen people who were fearless, but he had never seen anyone as fearless as this.
Upon learning that Su Yuanzheng was attending university and working several jobs to support his woman, he suddenly felt that he had accomplished nothing.
Both are college students, but he is still trying to break out of his original life and experience poverty, while those who are truly poor have already started earning money to support their families.
So Shang Xingchuan did not hesitate to go abroad for further studies and called Su Yuanzheng every day to ask him to start a business together.
Xu Lei also returned from the construction site and followed behind him.
What can you do in a place like the countryside?
The young people have all gone to the city, leaving only the elderly, the weak, and the young, which looks very desolate.
Only when the countryside is developed, and people have jobs and can support their families, will young people be willing to return.
Xu Lei suggested starting a farm stay business.
Su Qinglian suggested that they simply raise pigs, get rich from raising pigs, since everyone needs to eat meat.
Shang Xingchuan only wants to start a business, but he doesn't know what to do. He has money but nowhere to spend it.
The room suddenly became unusually quiet, and Xia Yutong brought over a plate of sliced oranges.
"Excuse me, have some fruit."
She wanted to give Su Yuanzheng a hint, but didn't want it to be too obvious, so she simply put a pink rose behind her ear.
The design looks like something out of Pigsy from Journey to the West, but it doesn't look bad on Xia Yutong at all.
She has everything, whether it's looks or figure. Before Shang Xingchuan met her, he had said that Su Yuanzheng was a love-obsessed person.
If a man goes down the path of becoming a sycophant, he's not far from achieving nothing.
After learning that Xia Yutong was vain, Shang Xingchuan felt even more that he was bewitched.
Wealthy local families like theirs in Haicheng have the utmost contempt for vain women. With just a wave of their hand, those women would swarm around them like flies.
After meeting Xia Yutong, I understood a little better. This woman was exceptionally beautiful; no wonder Zhou Hengzhi was so infatuated with her.
"You guys continue, continue..."
Xia Yutong put down the orange, and the pink rose by her ear fell onto Su Yuanzheng's table.
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Hints are useless; haste makes waste.
Xia Yutong was anxious for two days, and Su Yuanzheng still hadn't decided what to do. Everyone had their own opinion, and they discussed it in a small room every day.
It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day, when Xia Yutong was drying pickled vegetables with Luo Caixia in the yard, that Su Yuanzheng suddenly returned.
Why are you back?
Su Yuanzheng patted her head. "You don't need to do these things. You can watch TV, sleep, or do whatever you want."
A moment later, he pulled out a notebook, which Xia Yutong snatched and flipped through. She then saw that the entire notebook was filled with writing.
She asked incredulously, "What is this?"
The man took it back, "The notebook!"
Through the original owner's memories, Xia Yutong learned that this notebook was used by Su Yuanzheng in high school. Could it be that he had planned to start a business very early on?
Sure enough, that very evening, Su Yuanzheng told Su Jianguo and Luo Caixia directly at the dinner table that he planned to plant roses.
Xia Yutong's anxious heart finally found a place to rest.
Luo Caixia: "What's the use of growing flowers?"
Su Jianguo said unhappily, "You don't understand. If you don't understand, don't offer your opinions. City people love flowers and are willing to spend hundreds or thousands to buy them."
"Yeah?"
"There's a flower shop in our town, what do you think it does?"
Su Jianguo put on an air of knowledge in front of Luo Caixia, "You've never been to the city, so of course you don't know what I was like when I worked for the Xia family..."
He realized he had said too much, glanced at Xia Yutong, who silently ate her food without saying a word.
Su Yuanzheng wasn't there to hear his parents' opinions, but to inform them, "Xingchuan and I have finalized things; we'll start tomorrow."
"Is there anything we can do to help?" Su Jianguo asked.
"No, I'll take care of everything."
Su Yuanzheng was very efficient. He found a lot of land in the local town and managed to get almost all the land in the village under his control.
The whole village was extremely busy with planting and building necessary structures.
The older generation sat on their doorsteps, walking along the village paths, and saw a group of people busy digging the ground.
To improve efficiency, Shang Xingchuan invested a sum of money to purchase old seedlings.
"A wedding and flower planting, what is the Su family up to?"
An old woman sighed, "What's going on? Just messing around, look at this... tsk tsk..."
Her gaze, though distant, landed on Xia Yutong, who was helping out. "Miss Jiaojiao disliked the mud, so she's come down to the ground now..."
Xia Yutong turned around just then, and the old lady stared at her without any intention of looking away.
Several people huddled together, saying, "We still don't know what they're up to, but the Su family is quite happy..."
"Chen Wei's wife ran away a few days ago too..."
Xia Yutong suddenly felt like cursing, but quickly realized that the original owner had left too many stereotypes in the village, and it would be difficult to clear her name in a short time.
“Before, when I wore a short skirt, my butt was all exposed.”
Xia Yutong breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully she was wearing long pants today.
Su Yuanzheng was too busy to take care of her. The village was neither too big nor too small. All the barren land had been cleared, and people had been hired to manage it. Construction teams had also started work. He and Shang Xingchuan were running around doing all sorts of work.
Xu Lei and Su Yuanzheng both came from rural areas and were quite familiar with the village, so they worked with ease and seemed to have inexhaustible energy.
Exhausted, Shang Xingchuan found a place to sit down and had the construction team build a cement block, about half a person's height, with a hole in the middle, just big enough to fit a large parasol.
He moved a rocking chair under the umbrella, washed some local fruit...
Shang Xingchuan had only been in the countryside for a short time. He was from Haicheng and found it all very novel.
Seeing Xia Yutong moving things, Shang Xingchuan took off his sunglasses. "You're not quite what I imagined."
Xia Yutong paused for a moment, then put all the sacks used for storing fertilizer into a car and drove back and forth.
She wore a mask, revealing only her blue eyes, her long eyelashes casting shadows in the sunlight.
"You know me?"
"Are you still in contact with Zhou Hengzhi?"
Shang Xingchuan's questions were utterly blunt, stabbing the man in the heart.
Xia Yutong was taken aback. "You like him? You like men?"
Shang Xingchuan: ...
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