Su Lin nodded. "Ye Feng grew up with her. It would be strange if he felt good about it. Xiao Wan, go talk to her and comfort her later."
Lin Xiaowan nodded. "You don't need to tell me. I'll go."
"Hehe."
After chatting idly with Lin Xiaowan for a while, Su Lin finally began studying the European Emperor Treasure Chest.
Simply put, this European Emperor Treasure Chest was a random treasure chest. It could draw anything.
Su Lin instantly lost interest. He understood the odds of this kind of lottery all too well.
"Draw."
With a silent command, a terribly shabby treasure chest appeared in Su Lin's mind and began spinning.
Then, a golden light appeared.
Wow! A golden legend! Congratulations, Host, for drawing all the knowledge from Xia Kingdom's nine-year compulsory education.
Su Lin felt no change in his mind. He merely remembered the knowledge he had learned before more firmly.
Fuck!!!
Su Lin viciously gave the system the middle finger.
His grades ranked among the best in the entire class and even throughout Jiangnan Province. This complete set of knowledge was utterly useless to him.
"Forget it. Better than nothing. This monthly exam is the perfect chance to surpass both Xiao Yu and Xiao Wan and knock them down a peg."
After all, Lin Xiaowan had been the undisputed top student at Jiangning No. 1 High School for three years.
It should be quite interesting if Su Lin suddenly surpassed her.
When Ye Feng returned to his seat, he felt his memories becoming even blurrier. He hurriedly took out his notebook. Only after looking at the symbols that only he could understand did he vaguely recall things.
He patted his head. "My memory is so strong now, so why do my memories of my previous life feel like they're getting blurry? What exactly is going on?"
"Sigh! I'm just unlucky. I finally got reincarnated and thought I could make up for my regrets from my previous life, but what happened? The butterfly effect turned things into this."
He looked at Xia Shiyu in the front row, and his heart ached again.
Were they really going to drift farther and farther apart like this?
This was not the outcome Ye Feng wanted. He had to repay the money as soon as possible, then help Xia Shiyu gather enough for her father's surgery.
"Dad should have started taking action already, right? Once today is over, our family will be millionaires. Su Lin, you won't be arrogant for much longer."
However, Ye Feng did not know that his father had taken two hundred thousand yuan to the countryside to buy Gastrodia elata, only to discover that there was nothing left to buy.
Li Hongyang was extremely capable. Like locusts sweeping through a village, he had cleaned out every household's Gastrodia elata. In just one day, he had already secured all the villages and towns around Zhongjiang.
At noon, while Su Lin was eating with Xia Shiyu and Lin Xiaowan, Li Hongyang called to report the situation.
What pleasantly surprised Su Lin was that Li Hongyang had collected a total of twenty-four tons of Gastrodia elata during this trip to the countryside. That was nearly fifty thousand jin. If sold for three hundred yuan per jin, it would bring in nearly another fifteen million yuan.
Including the money Su Lin already had, once this deal was done, he would have more than twenty million yuan on hand.
In less than a month, he had made more than twenty million yuan. This money had come a little too easily.
In such a good mood, Su Lin even found Ye Feng more pleasing to the eye.
"What's wrong, Su Lin? You got so happy after answering a phone call. Did something great happen?" Lin Xiaowan asked curiously.
At the same time, Xia Shiyu stopped eating and looked at Su Lin.
Su Lin nodded, then said, "Same old rule. Only you two can know about this. Don't tell anyone else."
Xia Shiyu and Lin Xiaowan exchanged a glance, both nodding excitedly.
People were like this. Once something involved keeping a secret, it naturally aroused their curiosity.
And Lin Xiaowan was eager to understand Su Lin now, so her curiosity was even stronger.
Su Lin thought that Xia Shiyu would be entering his business empire before long, so it would not hurt to let her get in touch with some of these matters now.
"Here's what happened. Some time ago, there were floods in northern Hubei and southern Anhui, causing Gastrodia elata production to plummet. Starting from those places, even our Jiangnan Province began scrambling to buy the stuff. This year, Zhongjiang had favorable weather, and the wild Gastrodia elata here grew exceptionally large."
Xia Shiyu's mind worked quickly, and she blurted out, "So you went to buy up Gastrodia elata?"
Su Lin snapped his fingers. "That's right. I had people buy up all the Gastrodia elata in Zhongjiang. The cost was fifty yuan per jin, while the purchase price at the Donghai wholesale market has risen to three hundred. My employee just called to tell me that we collected twenty-four tons. Tell me, isn't that worth being happy about?"
"Gasp!!"
"Gasp!!"
The two girls were stunned at the same time.
Lin Xiaowan quickly did the math in her head, then looked at Su Lin. "So you made more than ten million yuan on this trip?"
Su Lin waved his hand. "It hasn't been sold yet, but there shouldn't be any problem."
Lin Xiaowan looked at Su Lin as if he were a monster. "I've been so proud of taking first place in the school every time, while your business has already grown this big. Su Lin, how is your brain even made?"
Su Lin chuckled. "There are business opportunities everywhere in life. Xiao Wan, if you want to make money, we can start a business together later."
"Ah! Forget it. My family doesn't want me getting involved in business."
Not get involved in business?
Su Lin scoffed inwardly. In the original novel, Lin Xiaowan had still abandoned politics for business under Ye Feng's influence.
And she had done extremely well.
"Your family won't let you get involved? It must be your father who doesn't want you touching it."
Lin Xiaowan nodded. "Su Lin, how did you know?"
Su Lin laughed. "Your father's intentions are obvious. Does he look down on businessmen? Isn't Xia Kingdom's economy driven by businessmen like us?"
"Xiao Wan, what about you? What do you want?"
"I don't want to spend my whole life sitting in an office with the air conditioning on."
Su Lin smiled. "Then that settles it. We'll start a business together later. Even if you want to become a civil servant, you still have four years. At the very least, you should live for yourself during those four years."
"Su Lin, why do I feel like you're egging me on?" Lin Xiaowan stared blankly at Su Lin.
Su Lin spread his hands. "I've never hidden what I wanted."
"..."
Chen Yang's Plan for a Chain Supermarket: Asking for Flowers and Votes
In the end, Lin Xiaowan was defeated by Su Lin's aggressively possessive gaze.
She thought to herself that Su Lin's gaze toward her had become more and more unrestrained. Yet Xia Shiyu was always there, egging him on.
And Lin Xiaowan only considered Su Lin and Xia Shiyu her friends.
They spent every day together, and she found herself becoming less and less daring to meet Su Lin's eyes. His deep gaze was like a vortex, drawing her in.
"Alright, I'll go home and think about it."
The smile on Su Lin's face became even more obvious.
When Lin Xiaowan said she would think about it, it basically meant she had agreed. She only said that because she needed time to go home and convince her parents.
However, Su Lin felt that Lin Xiaowan would probably have a hard time convincing them. They would definitely oppose her.
But that suited him perfectly. With Lin Xiaowan's personality, she would make up her mind to start a business with him then.
Just after returning to the classroom, Su Lin was preparing to coast until school ended when Chen Yang called him out.
"Yangzi, why are you in such a rush? The goods haven't even been sold yet. What are you so anxious about?"
Chen Yang shook his head. "Brother Lin, I'm not looking for you to ask for money."
Su Lin was somewhat surprised. "If you're not asking me for money, then what are you looking for me for?"
Chen Yang scratched his head, then said, "Brother Lin, do you remember asking me before what I wanted to do?"
Su Lin nodded. "Yeah. What about it?"
"I've already figured out what I want to do." Chen Yang sounded excited.
"Uh... tell me."
Su Lin was a little surprised. Chen Yang was a qualified manager, but not a qualified entrepreneur. He had not expected Chen Yang to actually come up with something.
Chen Yang took a deep breath. "Then I'll say it."
"I want to open a chain supermarket."
This surprised Su Lin even more. He carefully sized Chen Yang up from head to toe. "A chain supermarket?"
Chen Yang thought Su Lin looked down on the idea and hurriedly explained, "Brother Lin, there are already many chain supermarkets abroad, and there are quite a few domestically too. But most of them are only found in major cities. Walmart and Carrefour, for example. Zhongjiang is only a county-level city, so we don't have them here."
"Mhm, mhm. Yangzi, don't rush. Take your time."
"A chain supermarket is a place that gathers together the things we normally need, like rice, vegetables, snacks..."
As Chen Yang spoke eloquently, Su Lin became increasingly surprised. This theory was not something a high school senior could come up with.
It was clear that Chen Yang had carefully researched it and studied many foreign supermarkets.
"Yangzi, where did you get this idea for a chain supermarket?"
"I..."
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