Chapter 166
She's so high-profile when she's out and about, as if she's afraid people won't know she's rich and can be robbed. Humph.
“Jiajia, they also came from this side. Why don’t we go up and ask them later which family they’re from? Maybe they’re from some big family, just back from abroad, so we don’t know them.” Zhang Qi, who was standing to the side, rolled his eyes and interjected. After all, in this day and age, if someone can be so high-profile, their family background can’t be poor. Getting to know them might come in handy in the future.
“No need to go, I know the place,” Sun Lin said.
"Huh? Really? Young Master Sun, you know him? Then, whose family does this belong to?" Zhou Ling looked at Sun Lin in astonishment.
All three pairs of eyes were fixed on Sun Lin's face. Sun Lin showed a moment of impatience. "Grandpa's students all go to Chuanlou on weekends. You can see them when you go to Chuanlou next year when school starts."
"Oh? So you're studying medicine? Then, which family are you from?" Zhang Qi pressed for details.
"I don't know, but her family is quite wealthy, and she lives in..." She was about to say Xingyao Residence when she suddenly realized she was about to reveal someone's home address, so she quickly stopped herself. "Don't ask me anything else, I don't know either. You guys stay here, I'll go say hello."
"Hey, bro, wait for me! I'm coming with you." Upon hearing this, Sun Jia quickly shook off his friend and caught up with his cousin.
Zhou Ling, who had been left behind, looked rather unpleasant, while Zhang Qi watched them leave indifferently.
Fu Le was about to have his ticket checked when a voice suddenly came from behind him, "Fu Le."
Wang Li suddenly turned his head, his sharp eyes glaring at the newcomer.
Sun Lin: ...
Sun Jia shuddered at the glare and shrank behind her brother, secretly glancing at the girl so close to her.
How come her skin is so good?! Are those eyelashes real?!
"Sun Lin? What are you doing here?" Upon seeing that it was Professor Sun's grandson, Fu Le walked over.
"Winter break is really long, and I was bored at home. My sister wanted to go to a small town in Yunnan Province with her girlfriends. The girls are a bit timid, so they dragged me along to be their protector." Sun Lin was stunned for a few seconds by Wang Li's sudden gaze, but quickly recovered and said to Fu Le with a smile.
Fu Le's gaze fell on Sun Jia's delicate face. He smiled and nodded. The latter was somewhat flattered and immediately returned the smile. Wang Li took a few steps away, and she was no longer afraid.
"Sister, your bodyguard is terrifying." Sun Jia said, still shaken.
"He meant no harm. I'm sorry I startled you."
"No, no, sister, are you my grandfather's student?" Sun Jia stepped forward, small in stature and with a gentle personality.
"Go away, go away. Adults are talking, kids shouldn't interrupt." Sun Lin pulled Sun Jia aside with a look of disgust. "This is my cousin, Sun Jia. By the way, where are you going?"
"We're heading to the same destination as you."
"Oh, sister, you're from the same place as us? How about we play together?" Sun Jia looked at Fu Le excitedly, her eyes sparkling.
There's no way around it, this older sister is just too beautiful. She's also Grandpa's student, and you can tell at a glance that she's an exceptionally talented person. Her mother often says that she's not very bright, so she should spend more time with outstanding people so that at least she won't become even more foolish.
"We came here for some work-related matters. It's inconvenient for us to come together," Fu Le said, feeling a pang of sympathy for the young girl's disappointed expression. "I'm not very familiar with Yunnan Province, but I know quite a few people here. If you encounter any problems you can't solve, just give me a call."
Sun Lin raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Thank you. Then, let's exchange phone numbers."
The three exchanged phone numbers, and then each checked their tickets and boarded the train.
Unexpectedly, it's quite a coincidence that we're all on the soft-pack side.
"Sister Fu, we meet again!! Wow, that's great!!" Sun Jia excitedly greeted Fu Le upon seeing her. As for the suitcase, her brother had it.
Sun Lin reluctantly pulled over his suitcase, nodded to Fu Le, and then put the suitcase into the private room.
Zhang Qi and Zhou Ling exchanged a glance but didn't move closer to Fu Le. They were both perceptive; the girl seemed unapproachable. Sun Jia was probably accepted because of Professor Sun's influence, given the social standing of the Sun family.
While they were still putting away their luggage, Sun Jia was already enjoying the fruit. "Wow, Sister Fu, these strawberries are so delicious! I bought them from the market before, and they were so sour!"
Wang Li carried the fruit because Zhao Xi was there, and they needed to use the main road.
Besides strawberries, there are also apples and grapes.
"Try this too, it's all delicious." The fruit from the Ice Age is truly exceptional. In their words, it's the best of the best, the result of natural selection, with all the bad genes removed, so of course it's delicious.
"Thank you, sister." Sun Jia, who was being fed, stopped calling her by her surname and kept calling her "sister."
When Sun Lin arrived, he saw his cousin eating fruit without even looking up, which was quite embarrassing.
Sun Lin: ...
“She can eat it all. She’ll finish it for you later. There’s nowhere to buy it on the train.”
"It's okay, there's still a small bucket left, that's enough." Fu Le pointed to the small white bucket on the table, which was about thirty centimeters tall and filled with strawberries. She also had a few ordinary spirit fruits in her handbag.
"I want to eat it too." Sun Lin pursed his lips, and the next second, a pitiful expression appeared on his face.
Sun Jia: !!!
Wow, her brother has lost all sense of shame just to get a bite to eat.
Sun Lin's expression amused Fu Le, "Eat, it's okay after you finish eating."
"Well then, I'll gladly accept your offer, hehe!"
Neither of the siblings were ignorant of the rules. They each ate about ten pieces and then stopped. Sun Jia ran out and came back with a large bag of imported snacks, mainly chocolates, biscuits, and beef jerky.
"Sis, sis, eat whatever you want. I've tasted all of these myself, and they're absolutely delicious."
For the two-day, one-night journey, the brother and sister were basically with Fu Le whenever they opened their eyes. There was no way around it; the dried meat in Fu Le's place was delicious, so delicious that they couldn't stop eating it. Once they got to know each other well, they became thick-skinned.
The relationship between the three of them progressed several levels. With the two of them around, it was never boring. However, the other two never came over, which surprised Fu Le.
I learned from Sun Jia that both of their parents were from the district government, which makes sense; without some status, they wouldn't be able to get together.
After getting off the train, Sun Jia was still reluctant to leave, but in the end, Sun Lin carried her away.
As it was getting dark, the three decided to stay in town for the night and go to Zhangjia Village the next day.
Once inside the room, Fu Le dialed the number Zhang Zan had left. The call was answered quickly, but she couldn't quite understand it, so she kept it brief: "My surname is Fu, my given name is Le, and I'm looking for Zhang Zan."
As soon as he said that, something fell to the ground with a thud on the other end of the phone, but soon came a slightly stuttering Mandarin voice, "Wait a moment, I'll go find Brother Zan right away."
Zhangjia Village.
Zhang Zan was feeding his two wolfhounds in the yard when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside. Then, someone called out, "Brother Zan, Brother Zan, Boss Fu is calling for you, Brother Zan..."
Since reaching an agreement with Fu Le, Zhang Zan has received a lot of support from his clansmen. Even his father and stepmother's family dared not say a word after being warned by Zhang Ye. However, this support was exhausted after a long wait of four months.
The village's medicinal herbs couldn't be stored for too long, so they were all sold to the company in R country with which they had been cooperating for a long time. However, someone told the people there that their village was secretly looking for domestic sales channels in China, which made them very angry. They then lowered the price by another 10% on top of the original price. Although they were unwilling, they had no choice, because the drug dealers they knew were buying at even lower prices than those in R country, and they couldn't afford to take all the money at once.
As a result of this incident, the R country delayed the final payment even longer, citing their lack of sincerity, and the final payment is still outstanding.
Because of what happened in Country R, he received a lot of gossip in the village. Many people even came to his door to scold him, saying that it was because he contacted the company in China that this 10% loss occurred.
He also had his own unspeakable suffering.
Last month, R country proposed to sign a supplementary long-term cooperation agreement, for ten years, at a very low price. Zhang Ye did not agree immediately because the price was not right.
After he found out, he knelt at Master Zhang's door for four hours before Master Zhang relented and said he would give him one last chance.
For the last month or so, he endured every day in agony. The woman's words were so harsh and hurtful that he simply couldn't be bothered to go back to the old house.
He knew he shouldn't trust a herbal medicine merchant he'd only met once, but the events of that day lingered in his mind. His intuition told him that the woman might be the turning point in his life. So, he'd been gathering information about Minyan Pharmaceutical for a while, planning to make a trip to Hubei Province in a few days. If she wouldn't come, he would; if she wasn't coming, maybe she was held up by something. He didn't think the woman would lie; otherwise, she wouldn't have given them five thousand yuan that day.
The name "Boss Fu" had been his deepest obsession for the past few months, and now, she had finally arrived.
Zhang Zan's eyes reddened, he stood up and walked out.
For the past few months, he was worried that his father would cause trouble, so he found two of his best brothers to guard the phone at the village office day and night, taking turns to come to his meals and toilets. It was worth the wait.
The time it took to dial the number and wait for the call to be answered was only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity. Zhang Zan's heart was pounding wildly, as if it were about to jump into his throat.
"Hello? Zhang Zan?" The call connected, and a pleasant voice came through.
Zhang Zan's throat tightened slightly. "Yes." He pulled the hem of his shirt long with his left hand, and sweat beaded on his temples.
"I am Fu Le. I would like to discuss the supply of medicinal herbs with your Master Zhang. When would you have time?"
"Sure, tomorrow is fine with the whole day. It takes more than two hours to drive from the train station. We'll wait for you at the village entrance."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zan felt completely exhausted and slumped to the ground, letting out a breath of stale air.
"Brother Zan, how's it going? Is Boss Fu coming over?" Although he could guess from Zhang Zan's reply that the matter was probably settled, Zhang Gouzi still wanted to get a definite answer from Zhang Zan.
"Brother Zan, Brother Zan, Brother Zan, I heard news that there's news!" The man outside spoke before he arrived. It was another close friend of Zhang Zan. The moment he poked his head out, he almost tripped over the threshold and flew off, but Zhang Gouzi pulled him back.
"Hey Da Nan, can't you watch where you're going?" Zhang Gouzi complained as usual.
"Get lost!! Brother Zan, how's it going? When is that Boss Fu coming over?" He rushed to the village office as soon as he heard the news, even tripping and falling along the way, but he didn't feel the pain at all in order to get the real information as soon as possible. It was worth it!!!
"Tomorrow!" Zhang Zan grinned, revealing his large yellow teeth, and laughed heartily.
"Awoooooo..." The three of them swaggered through the village, heading towards Grandpa Zhang's house. Zhang Zan, who was leading the group, grinned from ear to ear, holding his head high and looking extremely proud.
Although negotiations haven't started yet, he felt that it was practically a sure thing. Their goods were fine, and Boss Fu could afford the price. If this still didn't work out, then it must be Zhang Ye trying to pull strings, and in that case, it wouldn't be Zhang Zan's problem anymore.
Thinking of the humiliation he had suffered over the past few months, Zhang Zan felt like grabbing a gong and banging it all the way from the village entrance.
When they arrived at Grandpa Zhang's house, someone was already waiting at the door, indicating that Grandpa Zhang had also received the news.
Restraining his arrogance, Zhang Zan walked into Master Zhang's house and immediately saw Master Zhang sitting at the head of the table drinking tea.
"Master Zhang."
Master Zhang put down his teacup and looked at him with a smile, his appearance as kind as could be.
"Come here, let's talk about this."
hotel.
Fu Le slept soundly through the night. When she woke up early in the morning, Zhao Xi and Wang Li had already finished breakfast and returned, bringing her rice porridge and two baskets of steamed buns.
"Boss, the air quality here is really good, it smells so nice." Wang Li smiled as he set out the breakfast and handed over the chopsticks.
"Yes, the villagers are very welcoming, but we can't quite understand what they're saying," Zhao Xi said with a smile.
"Hmm." Fu Le nodded, ate a xiaolongbao, and after one bite, he knew the meat was bad; it was made from scraps.
After drinking the porridge, I lost my appetite.
"Boss, aren't you going to eat?" Wang Li felt a little sorry for the boss. There were so many buns. When did the boss's appetite become so poor?
"The meat wasn't very good."
"Oh, then I'll eat it." He knew the boss was a picky eater.
"By the way, boss, the car rental company's car has been delivered."
After finishing their meal, the three of them set off.
Two and a half hours later, we finally saw the large stone sign for Zhangjia Village.
"Brother Zan, is this the car?" Zhang Gouzi craned his neck. Why does that black car in front look like it has local license plates?
"No..." Before he could finish speaking, the window of the black car rolled down, and a delicate face appeared in Zhang Zan's line of sight.
"Hey, Zan-ge, she's waving at you, right?"
"Stop the car." Fu Le had already seen that six people had arrived, including Zhang Zan.
"Boss Fu, you've arrived." Zhang Zan walked forward somewhat nervously.
Fu Le stepped forward and shook hands with Zhang Zan, saying, "Sorry I'm late."
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