Chapter 16 So, Now It's Time to Consider How to Spend Money
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 16
Chapter Title: So, Now It's Time to Consider How to Spend Money
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When Su Yi walked out of the Shen family villa while holding the document bag, he was still a bit dazed.
The truth was that when he came here last night, he truly only intended to sell the gold for money, and then use that money to first pay the deposit for Yuanfeng Farm on one hand, and on the other, to purchase grain from the food processing factory to sell to the other world, getting more gold to exchange for more money.
He never expected that in just one night, he had almost achieved financial freedom and no longer needed to worry about money at all.
Even the farm he had racked his brains trying to acquire in order to legally obtain bulk grain commodities was now his, and it wasn't just a large-scale farm like Yuanfeng Farm, but a behemoth several times the size of Yuanfeng Farm.
Sure enough, plans could never keep up with changes.
When one held a certain means of production that others didn’t have, the speed of accumulating wealth far exceeded ordinary people's imagination.
Su Yi was previously just an ordinary person and had never thought that something capable of curing diseases could actually be so profitable.
His mind had still been pondering on how to juggle that little bit of gold before that.
Of course, the most important thing was to see who he was treating.
It was only a wealthy young lady like Shen Yingying, who had a father who wasn't short on money, who could afford such a price.
If it was an ordinary person, if treating cancer really required so much money, they would probably have no choice but to end their own lives instead.
Apart from sighing that people were born equal but had different fates, Su Yi had no other solution to that.
There were many people in the world who got cancer, and every family with a cancer patient had a history of blood and tears.
The Water of Life from the other world wasn’t infinite, and the magic power of Yue Ling, an elf who could cast healing spells, was also limited.
It was impossible for him to save everyone.
Among the limited number of people he could save, naturally, whoever offered the highest price would be the ones he would save.
He was a vulgar man, greedy for wealth and lustful for beauty.
He didn't have some great soul that had transcended low-level tastes, and the wealth and power in his hands were far from reaching the point where he would rather help the world instead.
For him, just making money was enough for now.
"So, now it's time to consider the problem of how to spend money."
Looking at the thirty million lying in his account, Su Yi felt that it was necessary for him to go on a good spending spree.
The operation of the farm actually wouldn't cost him much money. The farm account, after Shen Mingshu had consolidated it for him, already had over sixty million in funds, and it also had a large batch of mature agricultural products that could be sold at any time to recoup costs.
He could directly use this thirty million for himself right now without considering leaving it for the farm's operation.
"Speaking of which, I'm now a person with a net worth of several hundred million. It's not appropriate for me to still live in a rented apartment. I'll buy a house first."
Su Yi quickly made a decision and drove straight to a very famous villa district in the southern suburbs of Jiangcheng.
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Liu Sheng had been in a very bad mood lately.
Ever since returning to the country, he always felt like his luck hadn't been good.
He had finally managed to rely on his brother-in-law's connections to find a lucrative job in the factory, but he never expected to poke a hornet's nest right after taking office, causing the factory to lose several hundred thousand.
If it wasn't for the fact that he had someone under him to take the fall, his brother-in-law Li Wenyuan would probably have no other choice but to make him leave the factory this time.
But another problem arose. The purchasing department only had a few scattered people in total, and previously, its matters were basically all handled by Su Yi.
But recently, in order to clean up his mistake for him, he had heard that Su Yi was busy running around every day and had no time at all to handle the work in the factory.
As a result, the purchasing work all fell onto his head.
Damn it, what he had studied abroad was a useless master's degree just to coast by. How would he know anything about this kind of proper frontline work?
It could be said that he had been in a terrible state these past few days.
Which supplier's goods were good but too expensive, and which supplier's goods were cheap and affordable— he had absolutely no idea.
As for what money he could accept and what he couldn't, he was even more clueless about it.
Whichever supplier gave him more gifts, he would purchase their goods.
After working for less than a week, complaints from the frontline production department fluttered into the boss's office like snowflakes, and for this, he had been reprimanded quite a lot by Li Wenyuan, who was both his boss and brother-in-law.
And this was only at work.
His life was also a tangled mess.
The fiancée he had been dating for seven to eight years and was about to marry was clamoring for him to sell the downtown marital home his parents had bought for him and buy a new house in the suburbs.
He felt that the woman had mostly lost her mind.
Yet he just couldn't stubbornly win against her.
Just now, he received a call from his fiancée, telling him to go look at houses.
Good heavens, upon looking at the address, it was actually the famous Jiangwan Villa District in Jiangcheng.
The houses in that place started at ten million at the very least. He absolutely couldn't afford one.
Whenever he thought about how he would have to humbly beg his fiancée not to be angry later, and then paint her a big pie* about buying one in a few years, he felt stifled.
But she had just called him to go look at houses, merely to look. If he at least didn't go, he wouldn’t be able to explain it to her.
Otherwise, his fiancée might slap another label of "lacking ambition" on him, and he couldn't afford to offend her.
"Sigh, it's really hard."
While sighing, Liu Sheng drove to pick her up.
He soon picked up his fiancée, who had just finished getting her hair done and had just come out of a hair salon.
Looking at his fiancée's face, which, with just a little makeup, scored over an 8 out of 10 and was even prettier than ordinary celebrities and models…
The resentment in his heart instantly dissipated.
With a wife this beautiful, what was wrong with her making a few demands? He was the one who should work hard!
Thinking of this, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he said to his fiancée mysteriously:
"Lingling, guess what good thing happened to me today?"
"?"
The eyes of the woman in the passenger seat lit up, and she tentatively said:
"Did another supplier give you a big gift?"
"......"
The awkwardness on Liu Sheng's face flashed by, and he shook his head, saying:
"Guess again."
"Could it be that your company paid salaries?"
"Uh......"
Liu Sheng barely managed his expression, then he looked at his fiancée and said with deep affection:
"None of those. It's that I got to see you again, Lingling.
Every time I see you, it’s the most beautiful thing in my life."
"......"
The corner of the woman's mouth twitched, and she looked out the window with a look of disgust.
"Boring!"
"Let's go, we're going to look at houses. I've already contacted them."
Liu Sheng didn't mind his fiancée's disgusted expression. He knew very well that this wife he hadn't yet married just had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
Although she said that it was boring, who knows how happy she was in her heart right now!
After saying his cheesy pickup line, Liu Sheng was in a great mood and immediately drove straight towards the Jiangwan Villa District.
It wasn't the morning or evening rush hour at this time, so there was no traffic jam on the road.
The two arrived outside the villa district in less than half an hour. The sales representative they had contacted long ago was also already waiting for them at the entrance of the sales office.
When Liu Sheng parked his car, there was even a doorman who proactively came forward to help him open the door.
To this kind of treatment, Liu Sheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart that as expected of a high-end villa district, their service was just thoughtful.
If it weren't for his lack of money, just for this service alone, he would definitely want to get a villa in this district to enjoy himself.
But the next moment, when he saw the person stepping out of the beat-up car in the adjacent parking spot, he couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
"Su Yi?"
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*A very common Chinese idiom meaning to make grand, empty promises about the future that are unlikely to be fulfilled.
T/N - And here we go, this wouldn’t be a Chinese web novel without some classic face-slap scene. The author even lined it up perfectly for the MC. I do hope that it doesn’t go too far though. Overdone face-slap scenes are more of a chore to read than anything else, especially when repeated over and over again.
