novelhk Chapter 123 Anyway, I have another client
Chapter 123 Anyway, I have another client
"The cigarette coupons issued by the company every month aren't Class A cigarette coupons. How did you get these? It's impossible that you traded them with someone; you gave me all the other coupons. Where did these cigarette coupons come from?"
And all the food and supplies you bring back usually cost money. Where did the money come from? Did you go to the black market?
Bao Ya felt that there was something fishy about Jiang Yuan being sent to a farm for reform in the book.
At present, Lin Chuxue's actions are just minor. Even if she is discovered, Jiang Tao should be able to get Jiang Yuan out of trouble with his connections.
Lin Baoya's act of helping Lin Chuxue hide things may have been just the trigger; the real problem lies with him.
Jiang Yuan was somewhat puzzled. He felt he usually hid it quite well, but he hadn't been paying attention while smoking, and yet he'd been discovered? He glanced down at the cigarette in his hand before carefully speaking:
"Um, you won't be angry if I tell you I have some secret savings, will you?"
"Don't be angry, continue."
Bao Ya didn't even look up, waiting for his explanation.
"When a neighboring company hires us to slaughter pigs, they give us some compensation for our trouble. Sometimes they give us cigarettes and alcohol, sometimes they give us meat. We don't need either of those, so I just exchanged them for cigarettes."
Lin Baoya glanced at him sideways, giving him an expression that said, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
"Our brother company is so generous, consistently supplying us with Zhonghua cigarettes? The sales director of the meat processing plant seems to be smoking Daqianmen cigarettes."
The sales department of a meat processing plant is a lucrative position. With the current shortage of meat, the head of the sales department is sought after wherever he goes.
He only smokes cheap cigarettes like Daqianmen; I don't know if he smokes good cigarettes at home.
But my husband has always smoked Zhonghua cigarettes. Before we got married, I thought he was just putting on a show, but after we got married, I found out that he had never smoked any other cigarettes. For an ordinary worker, the cost of cigarettes alone is half a month's salary. Anyone would think that's a problem.
"Uh... I didn't notice that. I'll be more careful next time. By the way, the red envelopes are all hidden in the cabinets at the factory. I'll get them for you tomorrow, okay?"
Lin Baoya lowered her head, biting her lip and remaining silent. He was planning to take some money back to fool her again.
"I will smoke less in the future and gradually quit smoking altogether."
Look at this nonsense, it's all just talk. Men who say they'll quit smoking and drinking are lying, unless they have some serious illness and are about to die, it's just bullshit.
"Sigh~, never mind, I won't ask anymore. Anyway, I have another job. You'd better take care of yourself."
Seeing that he wasn't telling the truth, Bao Ya didn't want to bother thinking about it anymore, so she simply threw the problem at him and let him rack his brains.
Jiang Yuan's mind went blank for a moment. He felt like he had just hallucinated. What did that mean? She had a next suitor? Who was it?
"Wife, what do you mean? What next partner?"
Jiang Yuan was completely dumbfounded. He had thought that she would cry and make a scene after being discovered, and he had even thought about how to coax her. He never expected that she would drop such a bomb on him.
Jiang Yuan had no other thoughts but to find out who his next wife would be. How could he let someone else have the wife he had finally managed to marry? No, no, absolutely not.
Bao Ya isn't the type of person who likes to use her brain; she lets others do things that require thinking.
Nothing in this world is difficult if you're willing to give up. Since he doesn't want to change the outcome, then try to accept it. Saving up a dowry is better than arguing with him.
Seeing his wife humming a song as she went to cook, Jiang Yuan was even more bewildered.
She looked so serious just now, but now she seems to have suddenly changed her mind. Is it because she has found someone else?
Who's next? Daring to poach their own employees? Haven't they ever seen the butcher's knife they've wielded?
That evening, Bao Ya specially cooked two extra dishes and finished dinner in a good mood. In contrast, Jiang Yuan had a poor appetite and kept thinking about her next client.
"Honey, are you angry?"
Even before going to bed that night, Jiang Yuan was still uneasy. He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep until he figured out the problem.
"No, why would you think that?"
Facing a wealthy patron who was saving up her dowry, Bao Ya displayed 200% patience. She even used the signature smile of a service industry worker.
It was just a little creepy to Jiang Yuan. His wife's thought process was different from others, and she was particularly open-minded. He had no doubt that if something happened to him, she would find another man.
Jiang Yuan finally decided to be honest with his wife. It wasn't worth falling out with her over something like this.
"Hey honey, um, I need to tell you something. I used that money to do some work with some old buddies. I didn't tell you before because I was worried you'd be scared."
Jiang Yuan tried to speak, but he felt that his wife seemed to already know.
"Okay, I understand."
Bao Ya doesn't want to know anymore. She's already accepted the plot, so why bother telling her all this?
Are you angry?
"No, I'm just respecting your privacy and your choices."
Respect his choice, what does that mean? It means he chose not to tell her, so she chose to find someone else, right?
Jiang Yuan started to imagine all sorts of scenarios, and he felt that he had figured out the truth: his wife was going to distance herself from him.
"It's not that I didn't want to tell you, it's just that I was afraid you'd overthink it. During those years of famine, I made some money trading mountain goods, and I kept some gold, which is what I gave you. I also invested some with my brothers to do some small business on the black market."
I really didn't mean to hide it from you.
See, I was right. This guy was involved in the black market business. No wonder he ended up like that.
The transactions on the black market are different from my dealings with Jiangcheng. There are too many people involved in the black market: the buyers and sellers, the runners, and all the people connected to them. If anyone is targeted, it will implicate many others.
Only the three of them knew about their deal with Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng would take them to other places to sell when he went out on trips, only wholesaling and not retailing, and the people there didn't even know his name. Now that things are getting tense, they immediately stopped.
"What are you planning to do in the future?"
Bao Ya remembered that when Jiang Yuan had his accident, the original owner had already given birth to a daughter. She wasn't pregnant yet, so it would take at least two more years. It must have been around that time that the black market ran into trouble.
"I'll go tell them I'm quitting tomorrow and ask them to give me back my shares."
Jiang Yuan made his decision without hesitation. He knew that Lin Chuxue had been targeted a couple of days ago, and someone had even followed her to his house. He figured his wife must have been frightened, which was why she was so worried about him.
Moreover, things are getting increasingly tense, and we don't lack money, so there's no need to take any risks.
Jiang Yuan successfully convinced himself to stop going to the black market.
Bao Ya nodded. If he stopped now, he could avoid that disaster. Their family was already quite well-off in this era; there was no need to take that risk.
She wants to make money, but she can't risk her life to do so.
Jiang Yuan acted quickly, bringing back five thousand yuan the next day. He said it was the principal returned to him from the other side, and there was still some left, which they would give him when they had more money.
Recently, there has been a surge in whistleblowing. It is said that some of the brothers over there heard that Jiang Yuan was leaving, and coupled with the current chaos in the market, they all had the idea of quitting. Some even wanted to move their entire families to other places.