The Scum Gong’s Redemption Manual (Quick Transmigration) 31p2

Chapter 31 p2

Lu Ze helped Xu Qingyan carry the sheep down. The person who greeted them at the door quickly called the manager out after hearing their intentions. To avoid delaying business, a group of people moved to the back kitchen, but many customers in the lobby also saw the sheep in the bag.

The manager had someone weigh it and asked a few questions. After learning that it had just been caught last night and had only been frozen outside for one night, he couldn’t help but nod.

“Alright, this sheep is indeed fresh. I won’t press you on the price. I’ll give you two hundred and seventy-four yuan and eighty cents for the whole sheep. What do you think?” the manager said.

Hearing this, Xu Qingyan was happy in his heart, but his face was expressionless as he said, “Our state-run restaurant is naturally fair in its business. How about this, you give me two hundred and seventy yuan, and then give me a few jin of meat and two bones. Is that okay?”

Seeing that he was straightforward, the manager didn’t haggle anymore and immediately said, “Okay! I guarantee I’ll leave you a few jin of good meat!”

Only then did Xu Qingyan show a smile. The manager had someone go and get the money. When he got the thick stack of large bills, the smile on his face deepened.

Lu Ze had been watching from behind him and didn’t say anything. He watched as he negotiated with the manager bit by bit, with a maturity that did not belong to his age. His brows furrowed inadvertently, and then he slowly relaxed.

A seventeen-year-old boy, not too young, should also slowly grow up.

Lu Ze thought to himself.

The sheep was not easy to handle now, so they agreed to come and get it in the afternoon. The manager knew that he also had mountain products and, after looking at the quality, decided to buy them. Although it was half a percent lower than what was sold outside, at least it was all sold out. In the past, there would always be some left over.

Xu Qingyan was satisfied.

Lu Ze watched as he carefully put the money away, opened his cotton-padded jacket, and lifted his sweater, revealing a small pocket sewn on the inside of his undershirt, which was tightly sewn on all sides, leaving only a two-finger-wide opening for the money to go in, and there were even two buttons on it.

Lu Ze glanced at it and moved his gaze away. Xu Qingyan tidied his clothes and smiled embarrassedly.

He said, “I have to go to the market later to sell the rest of the bamboo baskets, and I also have to go to the bookstore to buy some books in the afternoon. Do you want to go with me?”

Lu Ze shook his head. “I have other things to do.”

Xu Qingyan also knew that he must have his own things to do when he came to the city. It was already very good of him to help him like this. Hearing this, he didn’t ask any more questions and just reminded him, “Are you still going back to the village tonight? Uncle Zheng’s tractor usually leaves at four in the afternoon. If you’re going back, you have to wait here then.”

Lu Ze nodded. “I know.”

Seeing his attitude, Xu Qingyan was relieved. The two of them parted ways and walked in different directions.

777 looked at Xu Qingyan carrying the large and small bamboo baskets and couldn’t help but ask, “Host, aren’t you going to follow him and have a look?”

Lu Ze’s steps paused. “Look at what?”

He said, “He’s a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man. Even human traffickers wouldn’t abduct someone like him. Can he get lost?”

777 was speechless for a moment, and after a long time, it stammered, “You weren’t like this to the last mission target.”

Lu Ze smiled. “That was my wife. Is he?”

777 was silent for a moment, then managed to say, “Host, this is what you humans often call a double standard, right?”

Lu Ze just said, “Thank you.”

Following the place in his memory, Lu Ze had his own business to attend to in the city this time.

To protect Xu Qingyan for the rest of his life, he had to first establish himself so that he could lend a hand when Xu Qingyan encountered problems.

In this era that was about to usher in a period of rapid development, Lu Ze had also thought about what to do. Xu Qingyan’s future was definitely on the path of an intellectual. His talent was there. Lu Ze had originally thought of being a pioneer on this path, as the knowledge in his mind was enough for him to gain a high status in this era. But the original host’s qualifications were there, and everyone knew that he had a junior high school education. He couldn’t achieve it overnight, and he couldn’t explain it. But if he were to take it slowly, climbing up from university step by step, the time to cash in would be too long.

After thinking about it, the most suitable thing was to go into business.

The original host’s parents had worked hard and had always been frugal. They had saved a lot of money after working for so many years, which was a huge sum in the eyes of outsiders. In addition, both of his parents had died in an accident, and the compensation from the factory and the person who caused the accident, added together, was a considerable sum of money in this era.

Real estate had not yet emerged, and other high-tech industries were not even in sight. If Lu Ze were to go into business, he could only start from the real economy. And among those real economies, the one with the lowest cost and the easiest to get started with was the clothing industry.

Lu Ze’s mind was spinning. The original host’s parents had left a lot of money, but it was far from enough to start a clothing factory from scratch.

Since he couldn’t do it himself, he would rent it…

The original host had been hanging out with a group of cronies in the city, and through them, he had met a group of people who said they were opening a clothing factory in the local area. They had hinted to him both openly and secretly how good the prospects of this clothing factory were. They had done professional research in the south and had also done market research in the local area. They had even hired two old masters and two technicians from outside at high salaries. The original host had gone to the factory with them once and had been moved when he saw the professional equipment and production line. He felt that it had great potential. After a lot of persuasion, he finally convinced them to take him along and invested two thousand yuan with a wave of his hand.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with the factory itself. The equipment was real, the employees were real, and the designers and masters hired from outside were also real.

But the group of people behind the factory, on the surface, were in the clothing business, but in reality, they were in the business of trafficking women and children. This was just a cover for their business behind the scenes.

After the original host got on their boat, for the first two months, they all said that the factory had just been established and the benefits were not good, and asked him to wait a little longer. The original host also knew that haste makes waste, but he didn’t expect that this wait would lead to the police arresting them. The original host was forced to go through the bureau and was only released after it was confirmed that he really didn’t know.

In the end, although the money was returned, he had been to the bureau, which was a complete waste of effort, and he got nothing.

Now, the original host had already invested that two thousand yuan, and Lu Ze’s trip this time was to collect the interest.

After that group of people went in, the factory became ownerless, and all the equipment inside was confiscated by the government. But there were still many uninformed employees in the factory. Some of the old masters had even brought their families from the south. How to settle this group of people had become a headache for the government.

If Lu Ze was willing to take over at this time, it would be considered a solution to their problem.

Walking towards the police station, a closed-loop chain gradually formed in Lu Ze’s mind, and his heart gradually settled down.

He casually looked around. The police station was close to a residential area, and most people were at work at this time, so there were few pedestrians. There was only a plainly dressed middle-aged woman, holding a wailing child and coaxing him as she walked.

Lu Ze’s gaze paused on the child’s clothes and shoes, and he thought to himself, what a coincidence. Isn’t this the perfect offering to enter the police station?

…

At four in the afternoon, Xu Qingyan was waiting on time at the entrance of the state-run restaurant. He was still carrying a basket and some of the things he had bought.

He put the mutton and bones that the restaurant had given him at the bottom, and also bought some vegetables. Xu Qingyan looked around, but Lu Ze had not yet arrived.

There was a clock hanging in the state-run restaurant. Xu Qingyan glanced at it. It was already four o’clock, the time they had agreed on.

But Lu Ze had not yet arrived.

Uncle Zheng was usually very punctual and would not be more than ten minutes late. Xu Qingyan was a little anxious. He watched the clock tick by, and his movements of looking around also became larger.

If he missed Uncle Zheng’s tractor, and he didn’t have a bicycle, it would be inconvenient to go back.

The rumbling of the tractor was very loud and could be heard from a long way off. Xu Qingyan looked up and saw that it was Uncle Zheng.

The tractor stopped in front of him, and Uncle Zheng asked him, “Why don’t I see the Lu family’s kid? Isn’t he going back to the village?”

“He is,” Xu Qingyan said. “He might have been delayed by something. It will be a while.”

“Huo, we can’t wait for him then. It will be dark if we go back any later,” Uncle Zheng said. Xu Qingyan was about to say to wait for two more minutes, but the other villagers also spoke up, “He’s not here yet at this time. Maybe he’s not going back. The Lu family’s kid is familiar with the city. It’s not our place to worry about him.”

“Speaking of which, when did Qingyan and the Lu family’s kid get so close?” someone asked knowingly.

Xu Qingyan paused and just said, “We talked a few times a few days ago, and we slowly got to know each other.”

“As expected, young people have things to talk about.”

Xu Qingyan pursed his lips and didn’t speak.

Uncle Zheng had already started the tractor, but Lu Ze had not yet arrived.

His eyelashes lowered slightly. He thought that Lu Ze was really not planning to go back, but he didn’t expect that just as the tractor started to move, two hands suddenly climbed onto the side of the tractor, and then Lu Ze propped himself up, took a long stride, and got into the back of the tractor.

The tractor started instantly.

Xu Qingyan’s eyes instantly lit up, and he unconsciously moved closer to him. “You’re here!”

Lu Ze met his bright eyes, paused for a moment, and then nodded. “I was dealing with something. I’m a little late.”

Xu Qingyan was also happy, and he felt that his reaction was a bit exaggerated, so he pursed his lips slightly, but his eyes were still slightly rippling. “It’s good that you made it. I thought you weren’t going back.”

Lu Ze sat down beside him and, hearing this, said, “I’m going back.”

He met the child’s gaze, thought for a moment, and handed him the bag he was carrying. “Have one.”

Xu Qingyan looked down and saw that the oil paper was wrapped around a few pieces of sponge cake. They were freshly baked and looked soft and fluffy. He could even smell the fragrance.

This kind of thing was not cheap. Xu Qingyan wanted to refuse, but Lu Ze had already picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth. “See if it’s good.”

He had eaten his pancakes in the morning, so he had to return the favor in the evening.

Xu Qingyan hesitated for a moment, then held the sponge cake with both hands and ate it in small bites.

Lu Ze glanced at him. The child’s cheeks were puffed up, and he ate carefully, afraid of dropping a single crumb.

He glanced at him again.

Then he withdrew his gaze.