"This is truly a massive profit, we must sell. I'll inform my mother-in-law in the countryside to hurry and send the grain over. Once this opportunity is gone, it won't come again."
"I'll go too!"
"..."
As Zhang Liunian and Du Ziteng were on the road, they suddenly heard people discussing the grain purchasing team and both showed signs of joy.
"Brother Liunian, we absolutely must sell. Five mao per jin! If we can sell all the grain, we'll be making a fortune." Du Ziteng's heart pounded wildly at the thought of Er Mao buying grain for two mao and then selling it for five.
The price difference was incredibly enticing.
"Indeed, we need to act." Zhang Liunian curved his lips into a smile, then went to the old shop and found the two touts he had spoken with two days prior. He asked them to pretend to be grain sellers and sell the grain to the purchasing team in their names.
Initially, Zhang Liunian didn't dare have them transport too much stock, fearing they might investigate the origin of the grain. So, he had them start with ten thousand jin as a test.
To his surprise, they didn't suspect anything and accepted the entire batch.
"Since they accepted it, we can take bigger steps now. Let's start with a million jin," Zhang Liunian said to the touts.
The two touts didn't have any doubts and followed his instructions. The result was still smooth sailing.
Thus, they began to gradually increase their scale, from one million jin to two million jin, and finally directly up to five million jin.
Du Ziteng watched as things went so smoothly and began to question reality.
"Brother Liunian, what does this mean? We can't sell, but someone else can? They're targeting us!" Du Ziteng was furious and cursed loudly after finding out that the two touts had helped them sell their goods.
"It doesn't matter who appears. All we need to do is sell the grain we have," Zhang Liunian said as he looked at the money on the table, instructing the touts to continue releasing the goods.
Meanwhile, the grain purchasing team captain quickly discovered two major clients who were selling a substantial amount of grain, almost enough to fulfill their entire task.
This made them suspicious, but the captain did not have his subordinates investigate the origin of this grain.
In fact, he knew what was going on, but since Zhang Liunian was having someone else sell it, he could pretend to be ignorant and accept it.
After all, when Zhu Lao San inquired, he just needed to say he didn't know.
Moreover, there was significant room for operation in such matters; all it took was changing the person involved.
Even if Zhu Lao San knew that they were actually buying Zhang Liunian's grain, they couldn't be blamed.
Besides, they were on a mission, and if they couldn't collect the grain within five days, their fate would not be pleasant.
Therefore, to complete the mission, the purchasing team captain simply pretended not to know who the grain was coming from.
In this way, Zhang Liunian's seventeen point five million jin of grain was all secretly offloaded into the hands of the grain purchasing team.
Watching the grain being loaded onto trucks and the money accumulating, Zhang Liunian smiled gleefully.
After all the grain was sold, the two touts were overjoyed when they received their five thousand reward from Zhang Liunian, even stating they would be happy to help again if such good opportunities arose in the future.
After seeing them off, Zhang Liunian began to calculate his earnings. He sold seventeen point five million jin of grain for five mao per jin, having purchased it for two mao per jin. His net profit was 5.25 million.
In half a month, he had earned 5.25 million yuan just from purchasing grain, a truly colossal profit.
"Holy cow, there must be tens of millions here!" Du Ziteng's face flushed red with excitement as he looked at the money filling half the room.
"You're thinking too much; we're still a few million short." Zhang Liunian looked at the money, his confidence growing for the upcoming auction of the department store and food factory.
"My goodness, I'm truly witnessing something amazing." Faced with so much money, Du Ziteng appeared even more excited than Zhang Liunian himself.
"Everyone worked hard today. Later, you take everyone out for a good meal." Zhang Liunian pulled out a stack of money and asked Du Ziteng to treat everyone to a gathering.
"Aren't you going?" Du Ziteng asked, accepting the money, not objecting.
"I..."
"Liunian." Before Zhang Liunian could answer, Yan Guoguo's voice appeared from downstairs.
"You go ahead and handle it. I might not be able to make it." Seeing Uncle Yan arrive, Zhang Liunian dismissed Du Ziteng, got up, locked the room, and went downstairs to greet him.
As the two met, Yan Guoguo got straight to the point.
"Liunian, you want the old Tang family mansion, right? Bring the money, and come with me. That house will be yours."
Zhang Liunian's eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward. "Really? That's great, let's go now."
"Don't you need to prepare?" Yan Guoguo was referring to raising the funds.
Zhang Liunian paused, then turned and went upstairs, bringing back a black leather bag. He smiled and said, "Let's go."
Yan Guoguo nodded and led him to the office. After a few brief words, they began the process.
However, just as Zhang Liunian was about to sign the contract and purchase the old Tang family mansion, someone suddenly appeared and interrupted him.
This person was none other than Tang Jia Shangqiuren, and the recently released Brother Tang.
"We want this house," Brother Tang, after nearly a month in custody, had received instructions from his third uncle upon release to buy back the old mansion.
Seeing the considerably dispirited Brother Tang, Zhang Liunian smiled. "Are you going to continue your human experiments in it for the Tang family?"
Pfft!
The office staff, upon hearing this, burst into laughter.
The words were indeed harsh. The Tang family used this mansion for those heinous experiments, and they still had the nerve to come and buy it?
Weren't they afraid of being pointed at by everyone?
"It's none of your business what we use it for. You were going to sell it anyway, who it's sold to doesn't matter," Brother Tang didn't know why his third uncle wanted him to buy the mansion back, and he was actually a bit scared.
He truly didn't know about the hidden research facility beneath the house before, which was why he could live there with a clear conscience.
But now, being asked to live there again, he was afraid he would be scared to death.
However, since Third Uncle said to buy it, he had no choice.
"That's what you say, but there's a matter of first come, first served. Comrade Zhang has already prepared the funds to purchase it. If you come now saying you want to buy it, unless he gives it up, it's not your turn," the office clerk also disliked the Tang family. The actions of the Tang family truly made the people of Nancheng despise them.
Now they had the audacity to want to buy the mansion back; they certainly didn't want the previous incident to repeat itself.
Nancheng had enough notoriety; they couldn't become infamous again.
"You..." Brother Tang was choked with anger, but he ultimately didn't throw a tantrum. He had learned his lesson during this time and knew that with the Tang family's downfall, his life could never return to what it was before; he couldn't be so arrogant.
"Of course, I won't give it up. This is the residence the Tang family lived in. I will absolutely not let it fall into the hands of the Tang family again,"
Zhang Liunian looked provocatively at Brother Tang, then signed the contract in front of him.
"Zhang Liunian, you will regret this." Brother Tang watched helplessly as Zhang Liunian bought the mansion, so angry he almost ascended to heaven. If Shangqiuren hadn't held him back, he would have directly fought Zhang Liunian.
Zhang Liunian paid no mind to his mood, took the keys, and turned towards the old Tang family mansion.
The mansion was indeed very large; it could easily house over a hundred people.
As for the experimental facility below, it had already been sealed off, and no one could enter it now.
This suited his plans perfectly; he had also intended to bury the experimental site beneath the ground.
Now that they had sealed it off, it saved him the trouble.