Lin Chuxia looked around quickly and kissed him, “I absolutely must have it, Qin Yang, I truly love you to death.”
Qin Yang stopped abruptly, then his face burst into a smile, even his deep eyes lit up with bright, passionate light.
She said she loves him.
Although he knew it might just be his wife speaking impulsively in her excitement, he was still overjoyed.
Lin Chuxia walked around the empty space. In the future, this land would be hers.
Although the deal spoken of now was not the same as an actual transaction, since collective land could not be sold, there were unwritten rules, and if the village agreed, it would not change.
After twenty or thirty years when the urban village development began, she would own all the compensation for this land.
Thinking about such immense wealth, Lin Chuxia felt utterly delighted within.
Seeing her so happy, Qin Yang also walked around with her, “The village hopes that the payment can be made in these few days. How much do you still have? If it’s not enough, I can help you borrow.”
“Borrow? This land will cost at least 6,000 yuan, where are you going to borrow it from?” Lin Chuxia asked him curiously.
6,000 yuan was not a small sum, and Qin Yang’s salary, even though considered high, would take almost ten years to accumulate that amount.
“There’s always a way. Let’s see how much you’re short.”
Ever since he came out of the brigade headquarters, he had been thinking it over.
He would first get an advance on some of his salary from his unit, where his colleagues all made good salaries, and he should be able to borrow some, as well as from the minister, who had a high salary.
Far away in the Northwest, Minister Wang suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, looked at the weather outside, and sighed, “It looks like it’s going to snow again,” wondering why it was suddenly so cold.
Seeing him really planning to borrow money, Lin Chuxia laughed, “You fool, are you not afraid that I will lose all the borrowed money, and then you will be surrounded by your creditors?”
This man hates trouble the most, but now he was willing to make a big hassle for her.
Qin Yang was fearless, “In that case, wouldn’t we be sharing weal and woe?”
Watching his eager look, Lin Chuxia rolled her eyes. Does he really want her to lose money?
“I’ll go back and check the books first. I should have a few thousand in the account.”
Aside from supporting the shop’s operations, she should have nearly three or four thousand yuan on the books. She had earned 1,000 yuan as a design fee for creating vacuum packaging machines for the machinery factory and used it to purchase the mountain top, but Qin Yang had also given her more than 2,000 yuan.
All in all, she should have enough money to buy the land, but the expenses after purchasing the land would be greater.
Building a factory, buying machinery, raw materials, each of these required money, and no small amount at that.
With the New Year approaching, she had to repay the 3,000 yuan loan guaranteed by Li Jian and borrowed from the bank earlier; she had to ensure Li Jian could have a worry-free festival.
Thinking about it, money was needed everywhere; the bigger the plate, the more money required.
She looked up at the tall man beside her, smiling like a sly fox.
“Spit it out, what are you scheming now?”
Qin Yang didn’t need to think to know that her scheming once again involved him.
But being able to help his wife, he would be happy to do whatever she wanted.
Only he knew the sense of defeat felt by a man, seeing the Bun Shop when he got off the train.
He wasn’t chauvinistic, yet he wanted to protect his wife from the weather, and he didn’t want his wife to bear all the pressure alone.
Now, being able to work for his wife, he found joy in it.
“Qin Yang, I want to use the Bun Shop to get a bank loan, I need a guarantor.”
Last time the loan was secured with the bun shop by the train station, this time using the storefront in the city should allow for a bigger loan.
“Alright, I’ll go be your guarantor.”
Qin Yang agreed without hesitation, also thinking that his wife was clever, indeed bank loans are more convenient than borrowing from individuals.
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Meanwhile, at the Lin Family in Daqing Mountain Village.
Lin Jiayi had come yesterday and hadn’t left, waiting at home for news from Mother Lin.
She could hardly wait until she saw her mother returning and immediately went out to greet her.
“Mom, how did it go? Is that bun shop owned by that damned girl Lin Chuxia?”
Mother Lin doesn’t ride a bike, and although she took the bus to the county, she also walked quite a bit, leaving her legs sore from the journey.
She went straight into the house and poured herself a cup of water to drink first.
Lin Jiayi was extremely anxious, “Mom, come on, talk to me. I heard that there are two Qin’s Buns Shops owned by the same boss, is it that damned girl?”
Finally catching her breath, Mother Lin shook her head, “It’s not her, the shop is owned by the Qin Family, she’s just helping out there; the boss should be Qin Yang’s older brother.”
“Impossible, how could the Qin Family open a shop?”
Qin Han and Zhang Guilan are shrewd enough, but they only know how to farm, the couple spent their whole lives farming.
Not just them, even their son was a farmer too.
Mother Lin got irritated by Lin Jiayi’s reaction, “Why impossible? I asked around before I came back.”
She had inquired secretly from the shop’s staff, who exactly was in charge of the bun shop.
The employee pointed clearly at Qin Han saying, Qin Han is the shop manager, he has a say in everything that goes on in the shop.
“Regretting it now? I told you, such a good marriage with the Qin Family is hard to come by even with a lantern, but you, on the other hand, had to fall for that pauper Li Guangyuan, kept saying he would make it big in business. Where is this big business of his? Instead, Qin’s Buns Shop is doing quite the business. If you’d married Qin Yang, would you still be suffering in poverty at home? Look at that dead girl Chuxia, she doesn’t have to worry about anything, still gets to eat the choicest foods.”
Even if she didn’t take care of the business, working in the bun shop every day, there would be endless meat buns to eat.
Lin Jiayi knew this all too well, thinking about how she had to budget to buy a meat bun for herself, whereas Lin Chuxia easily had more than enough meat buns to eat, her face twisted in a hideous scowl.
Even the pride of being pregnant was utterly squelched.
“Did you ask her for money? How much did you ask for? 300 or 500? You should’ve directly asked for 1,000, you’re her mother, it’s only right for her to honor you if she’s living well.”
Li Guangyuan selling vegetables for several months still isn’t enough to cover expenses, if they had the money, they too could run a decent business.
With Li Guangyuan’s capabilities, they could quickly surpass the Qin Family and crush those people and Lin Chuxia underfoot.
At the mention of this, Mother Lin became even angrier.
“Don’t even mention it, I did want to ask for it, but you don’t know, that damn girl’s man has come back too, at that time, it was like he wanted to devour me.”
Thinking back on Qin Yang’s demeanor then, Mother Lin shivered again.
After all, she is Lin Chuxia’s mother, and Qin Yang’s mother-in-law, what sort of attitude was that?
She had given her daughter to him, what’s wrong with asking for a few hundred yuan?
“Qin Yang came back? How is that possible?”
Lin Jiayi felt the world had turned surreal.
In her previous life, Qin Yang couldn’t make it back home more than twice a year, she clearly remembered, during the year they got married, Qin Yang didn’t even come home for the New Year holiday, and it wasn’t until after the first month of the lunar year that he returned with a child in tow.
“Why isn’t it possible, I wouldn’t recognize that dead girl’s man? But I don’t know what happened, he’s lost an arm, probably became disabled and got fired from his workplace.”