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After the couple left, Lin Haiping stared at Ren Lizhang. "Tell me how hard you worked on this. How could a broken mountain village like Zhoujiatun come up with 200,000? You... are you treating your own future and the people's hard work as a joke?"
Ren Lizhang comforted her to sit down. "When did you learn the Sichuan opera skill of 'changing faces'? Just a moment ago, we were all laughing together."
Lin Haiping swatted his hand away. "Stop joking with me. Speak quickly. We still have some leeway before the people from Zhoujiatun come to handle the procedures."
Ren Lizhang sighed as he looked at his wife. He genuinely wanted to help Lin and his wife, hoping to ease his own guilt. For years, in order to protect himself, his father had wronged his old leader, and he was afraid of being powerless. It felt like a heavy mountain pressing down on his heart. "Hai Ping, don't you understand my purpose in doing this?"
Lin Haiping's anger flared up. "So you're using the country's money to do favors? Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey? Aren't you afraid of going to jail? Aren't you afraid our family will fall apart?"
Ren Lizhang smiled bitterly. "You know how selfish I am. If this works out, it would actually be an opportunity for me."
"Opportunity my foot!" Lin Haiping slammed the table in anger. Ren Lizhang held her hand and said, "Really! The materials that Yezi wrote opened my eyes. According to those materials, they really can come up with this amount of money from Zhoujiatun. Do you know what that means?"
Lin Haiping replied dismissively, "What does it mean?"
Ren Lizhang gave her a mysterious smile. "It means great development for our province and significant opportunities for us."
"So just because it's a poor mountain village, the rice is a bit more expensive? Even if Japanese people find it rare, only a fool would buy it for five yuan. Are you serious? Aren't you being foolish too?"
Seeing that his wife couldn't be convinced, Ren Lizhang didn't want to discuss it further. "Just wait and see!"
Angry, Lin Haiping took their child back to her parents' house that day. When Lin Haitao returned home after class, he found Ren Lizhang alone and wondered what was unclear about the situation.
"Yezi went back to Zhoujiatun!" Lin Haitao nodded. "Did she have a fight with you?"
Ren Lizhang slapped him hard, "You brat! Is it that difficult to say 'sister'?"
Lin Haitao couldn't help but respond, "I'm really impressed by you three siblings. You're all so stubborn; no wonder you're family."
Thinking about it, Lin Haitao laughed, "Girls are outgoing; she is on your side."
Ren Lizhang shot him a glare, "Of course! She's my wife. Aren't you also on Yezi's side?"
Thinking of Yezi warmed Lin Haitao's heart. "Yezi makes me understand what family truly means. Ren Ge, why do you think she easily forgives him?"
This question was actually easy to answer. "Your sister has lost her mother; she doesn't want to lose her father again. In those ten years, we have lost too much, far too much."
Lin Haitao fell silent for a long time. "Lin Zi, think carefully. Cherish what you can while you can, and enjoy the time spent together; that is true happiness."
That night, Lin Haitao couldn't sleep, and neither could Ren Lizhang. The night without his wife felt truly desolate.
Fortunately, neither of them stayed desolate for long. The next day, Yezi appeared at the bank with dark circles under her eyes alongside Zhou Village Head.
Aside from marveling at Yezi's speed, Ren Lizhang quickly processed the paperwork.
As soon as Zhou Village Head stepped out of the bank doors, he collapsed onto the ground in disbelief: they actually lent him 200,000.
He pulled out the bright red loan certificate, with its dark red seal and flamboyant signature: he was definitely in deep now.
"Village Uncle, why are you sitting on the ground?"
Zhou Village Head looked at Yezhi with tears in his eyes, "What if Yezhi can't pay it back?" The bachelor holding a small red book said bluntly, "Aren't we Contracting the Mountain? If she can't pay, we can just use the mountain as collateral."
Hearing this, Lin Haiping, who had chased after Yezhi, almost fainted. "What did you say?"
Yezhi realized she had messed up; she was just joking. "Sister, I was just kidding. Uncle and I are in a hurry to get back to the village, so we're leaving now." With that, she grabbed Village Uncle and ran off.
On the bus back to the county town, Zhou Village Head pressed his hand tightly against his chest. Yezhi found it amusing and said, "Uncle, are you afraid others will find out you’re hiding something?"
"Shh! Keep your voice down, or what if someone hears us!" Zhou Village Head anxiously pressed his chest. Two hundred thousand was just a few flimsy pieces of paper; it felt unreal and lacked any weight. If it were in cash notes, it might fill the whole bus; if it were in steel coins, it could bury everyone on board. If they let Boss and his Transport Team handle it, they might not even finish in one trip...
The rich expressions on Zhou Village Head's face made Yezhi a bit worried. "Uncle, don't let the pressure of repayment overwhelm you before you've even secured the mountain!"
Coming back to his senses, Zhou Village Head asked in confusion, "What pressure?"
"I mean we will definitely be able to pay this money back." Zhou Village Head waved his hand confidently. "Aren't you using the mountain as collateral? Didn't you say that guarding the mountain is like guarding a treasure trove? I'm not worried about not being able to pay!" His attitude and mindset seemed strange; just a moment ago he was like a troubled person, and now he was fine. It was hard to understand.
So she mischievously said, "Uncle, if you scare away the Japanese Person, guarding that treasure trove will be useless." She didn't blame Village Uncle for driving away the Japanese Person, as they were originally trying to swindle money from him; if they couldn't do that, what good would it be?
Moreover, she had underestimated the intelligence of the Japanese Person, thinking he believed his goods were worth their price and had the right to raise it at will. In reality, during this era, they seemed to have no bargaining power and were being led by the nose by the Japanese Person. Sigh~ Who told them that the Japanese Person had money? Those with money really do act like they own the place!
"Why is little kid Jiajia sighing? The country believes in us; what do we have to fear!" Yezhi looked bewildered. "What?"
Zhou Village Head patted his chest. "This money is only lent to us because the country believes in us. I have confidence in you and our village."
Yezhi wore a mournful expression, deeply feeling that Zhou Village Head had misplaced his trust. She was someone who took things one step at a time and thought of ideas as they came; she really wasn't reliable.
Unreliable Yezhi turned into a thief at night, unable to solve the problem of the remaining half of the money through legitimate means, so she had to take a crooked path.
According to Xiao Fang's exploration, there really was something buried in the valley of Zhoujiatun. An old man said that there used to be a big landlord in this area, which gave Yezhi some confidence.
With a blast from the Shockwave Power Gloves, treasures buried underground revealed themselves. Three broken old altars appeared, and Yezhi gently touched the edge of the altar, feeling a bit pained. "This altar can't be from the Qing Dynasty, right?" She felt heartbroken at the thought of ruining an antique; she should have dug it out by hand if she had known.
"Not at all!" Xiao Fang said with a pained expression.
"Not at all? Why do you look like a steamed bun?"
Xiao Fang continued to express his pain, "But in 'Earth's Rarity', it's considered an antique. This old altar has some history. Master, can't you be gentler? No wonder Aunt Zhou says you're a 'wasteful daughter'."
"Stop talking! You're making me want to hide under the table. Let's see what's inside the altar!"
"What’s inside? Isn’t it just gold?" Xiao Fang hugged the altar filled with gold, looking satisfied.
"Don't get too carried away; keep watch!" Xiao Fang reluctantly touched it a couple of times. "Keep watch for what? Who would get up in the middle of the night to steal like us? Oh, such a good Honest and Simple Robot has been led astray by you, this bad master." What a stain on her life!
"Let it be bad; it might even be more appealing to female robots." Recently, Xiao Fang had developed feelings for someone online named “Turning Back to Smile”. According to Xingya, there was also a chubby system robot who often came to the store to buy things and blushed lightly whenever he saw Xiao Fang. Yezhi felt a faint sadness akin to watching her son grow up.
"Don't mention women; they are all unreasonable." Yezhi, no longer packing gold bars, put her hands on her hips. "Who are you calling unreasonable?"
"Of course, excluding the master." Hearing this made Yezhi very pleased as she continued packing her gold. As for Xiao Fang's romantic troubles, she chose not to interfere; those were growing pains he needed to experience on his own.
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