After a day's work, with every matter moving forward steadily and Machi County flourishing overall, Wang Yan, who had worked so hard and accomplished so much, returned home.
He found Xiao Yan sitting blankly on the sofa, so lost in thought that she did not even notice him come in.
Wang Yan waved a hand in front of her eyes and laughed. "They say pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. You're only three months in and you've already started?"
"Huh? You're back."
"What are you thinking about?"
Xiao Yan stood up, went outside to poke her head around and look about, then shut the door and came back in. The whole performance was downright furtive.
Under Wang Yan's puzzled gaze, she pulled him into the room.
The moment he entered, Wang Yan understood why she had been acting that way. A huge pile of things was stacked on the floor: all kinds of fruit and nutritional supplements. There was also a box on the table. When he opened it, he found five gleaming gold bars inside—square, sharp-edged, and lovely to look at.
Wang Yan picked one up and weighed it in his hand. Each bar was about a hundred grams. Gold was currently worth around one hundred and ten per gram, so the five bars came to fifty-five thousand yuan. The buyback price was lower than the selling price; rounding down, that made fifty thousand. Add in that pile of supplements, and the total was roughly fifty-five thousand.
"Boss Feng, the one running mines in our county, had someone deliver these," Xiao Yan said. "He said I'm pregnant and need to nourish my body. I only found out after I got back. They sent everything straight to my parents' place, and my parents didn't know what was going on