Successful Sale

Life in his hometown was peaceful. Since the house was being renovated, Li Yang took Chen Qian to stay at a hotel in the county town. They could return whenever they wanted, while his parents stayed at a relative's place.

His parents supervised the renovation. Although redoing the plumbing required breaking up and reconstructing the cement floor, money paved the way, so it was not much trouble.

Li Yang took Chen Qian sightseeing everywhere. When his younger sister had the weekend off, he made her finish her homework on Friday night, then drove her to Heyang on Saturday morning and let her have a good time for two days.

They returned on Sunday afternoon. He bought her several new outfits, a few pairs of new shoes, a phone watch, and a pile of toys and snacks. That night, she happily went to sleep. The next day, she cheerfully went to school with the hundred yuan Li Yang had secretly stuffed into her hand.

His younger sister went to school on Monday, while his older sister only had one day off each month. With the weekend still far away, they got straight to work. His parents supervised the renovation, while Li Yang played.

Of course, he was not just fooling around.

"Uncle, are there still people in the village who haven't sold their crops?"

On Monday morning, Li Yang brought Chen Qian to sit at his uncle's house for a while. During their visit, he glanced at the wheat piled up on the first floor and suddenly asked, his eyes flickering.

"Probably. What's up? You want to buy grain?"

Li Yang's uncle nodded. Looking at Li Yang's expression, he asked in confusion.

"If I drive around the village buying grain, no one will mind, right?"

Li Yang tapped his fingers and suddenly asked.

"Who would care? Whoever drives a truck pays the highest price, and that's who they sell to."

Li Yang's uncle raised his brows. "You really want to buy grain?"

"I do. I'll see how much I can get first. As long as there's some, I'll take however much there is!"

A smile curled up at the corner of Li Yang's mouth. His gaze then shifted toward the farmland ahead, and his eyes grew brighter.

Buy food?

Why go to the city to buy it?

The countryside had vegetables and grain, and people raised pigs, ducks, chickens, cattle, and all kinds of livestock.

He could simply buy a small truck and purchase everything right in the villages!

Buying grain in the countryside was different from buying it in the city. He drove around calling out, and if a household had grain stored away and felt his price was fair, they would sell it to him.

Li Yang bought a secondhand cargo truck and had his uncle, who possessed a truck-driving license, drive it. He paid him six hundred yuan a day to help purchase grain. After running around for a day, the two of them had bought a full truckload of wheat.

He then hauled the wheat to a place that could mill it, had all the grain ground into flour, and packed it into bags before "transporting it to his own warehouse for temporary storage." Then he continued taking his uncle around to purchase grain.

He bought more than just grain. He purchased chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, sheep, and pigs as well. After going back and forth like this for a month, the harvest finally satisfied Li Yang. He "transported" all the livestock he had bought out alive, then smiled and gave his uncle twenty thousand yuan as compensation for his hard work before ending this grand purchasing operation.

By the time that month had passed, the house had also been renovated into a completely new home. During that time, Li Yang had only returned to Heyang once, moving the one hundred and twenty Supercomputers into the Gold Shop in the Apocalyptic World.

He had also checked on the progress of the two slaves and received the full 1.5 TB of categorized study materials that he had asked them to store on hard drives.

Other than that, he took his older sister Li Ling, who had just escaped the confines of high school, and his younger sister Li Na, who had a week off and had returned with her, out for another outing, buying her a pile of things and fulfilling the girl's wishes.

His grain had come easily, but he could not let others feel that it had come easily.

Therefore, although the two slaves had made extremely thorough preparations and drawn up one cautious sales plan after another, Li Yang had never been in a hurry.

Instead, he kept waiting for time to pass, allowing the difficulty of transporting such pure food over to become apparent before making his decision.

"Dad, the car's license plate and insurance are all taken care of. I'll leave it parked at home. There's a fuel card inside, and money has been loaded onto it—more than enough for you to use. Start driving it once you get your license."

"There's five hundred thousand yuan on the card. Keep it and spend it."

"I've rested at home for a month, and it's time to get busy with things over there. I'll be leaving first."

The freshly renovated and tidied house was truly comfortable. After staying there for two days, Li Yang parked the car he had bought for the family at his hometown, then drove Chen Qian back to Heyang while his parents saw them off.

"Ah, after staying here for so long, I suddenly feel a little reluctant to leave."

On the way back, Chen Qian stretched and looked at the side of Li Yang's face from the passenger seat, her face blooming with a smile.

"If you want to come back in the future, I'll bring you here again."

Li Yang smiled. "Everything's settled on your family's side, right?"

"It's fine. After you explained everything, the rumors there collapsed on their own. No one believes whatever stories her family spreads anymore."

Chen Qian sighed emotionally. "Good news doesn't leave the house, but bad news travels a thousand li. I truly experienced that this time. The rumors about your family had already appeared in the chat group with my former classmates in less than a month. They were even discussing censored versions of it. It's unbelievable."

"Nowadays, the internet is well developed, so all kinds of news spread quickly. Things people enjoy gossiping about spread even faster."

Li Yang smiled, then shook his head. "Those two clowns are in the past. They can't cause us any trouble anymore. From now on, we should put our minds at ease and prepare properly for the civil service exam. That's what matters."

Liu Lili's family was completely finished. They had thoroughly disgraced themselves among the local villagers. When desire was exposed to the sunlight, all it received was a devastating burn until nothing remained. They no longer had the ability to stir up any trouble.

As for the things he and Chen Qian had heard Liu Wu say over the phone for excitement while they were playing in bed, they could simply listen and forget them. With such brainless ideas, there was no way they could actually pull them off.

"Mm. There's an exam next month. I'll go and give it a try then."

Chen Qian nodded seriously, finally putting the matter of Liu Wu's family completely out of her mind.

In reality, she had not neglected her studies during that month either. Every day, whenever she had free time, she studied with her tablet and phone. Although she was missing quite a bit of material, she could learn about other subjects, so she had not wasted her study time.

Li Yang glanced at her, smiled, then turned back and concentrated on driving.

East District Villa, Heyang City.

The owner, who had been away for a month, had returned. A low-key yet luxurious black car pulled into the parking lot, and the man and woman walked into the villa together.

That noon, the auntie stewed a nourishing pork-rib soup. After drinking it, they had a good nap.

That afternoon, Chen Qian immediately immersed herself in her studies, while Li Yang drove from the villa to a suburban residence with a backpack full of external hard drives.

His figure flashed, and from the second floor of the residence piled high with flour, he entered the Gold Shop once more.

Master, all one hundred kilograms of pure flour have been sold. They brought in a full fifty thousand Base Currency. The Gene Testing Device you ordered has also been delivered!