The Investors

Chapter 16: Take Advantage of What You Have

"May Gui, I still have something else to say to you, hopefully you won't mind" Cia Yonggan said, opening her voice to break the silence.

"Hm.. Just tell me, I'm listening to you" Gao Mei Gui replied lazily.

Cia Yonggan was silent for a moment. He imagined, in his hometown, he only had a simple house. His parents' house that had run out in the fire and then he woke up again in installments every time he had the opportunity to go home and some simple household furniture typical of people in the far corner, far from the word luxury as commonly used by people in urban areas. He doubted, Gao Mei Gui as a person who was used to living in the city, was willing to stay in the village with makeshift equipment?

"Mei Gui, Director Hao advised you to take some time to calm your mind for a moment after the events of your father. What do you think?" he conveyed what Hao Zhao had suggested earlier.

"How could he think like that?" Gao Mei Gui asked back as he straightened his body, no longer leaning on the young man's shoulder.

Cia Yonggan certainly did not want to tell this girl the real reason, he would not want to make her worry.

"I don't know, maybe he thinks your father's death took you by storm and you need to find a new atmosphere to calm the mind of the goods for a moment in a new place" Cia Yonggan said somewhat hesitantly.

"Haihihah... How can he be an old man who can understand the wishes of a girl like me, beyond your understanding of me?" gao Mei Gui asked which made Cia Yonggan confused.

"May Gui, I..." Cia Yonggan could only fall silent.

"Oh yeah, what kind of place do you think we should go?" Gao Mei Gui asked again like he did not remember that he had stolen the talk between Cia Yonggan and Hao Zhao before.

"I only have one place that can make you much calmer, which is my hometown" said Cia Yonggan.

"really? Then when are we going to Mangdang Mountain?" he asked impatiently.

"It's best that we leave early tomorrow morning" Cia Yonggan replied quickly.

But then he realized something was wrong. "Wait a minute, how did you know my hometown was on the slopes of Mount Mangdang?"

"Ups... Ahahaha!!!" Gao Mei Gui laughed out loud.

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The next day, early in the morning at dawn, not long ago emerged from the eastern horizon, seen a car running slowly across the Nanping highway heading southwest. They only carry a little luggage. Cia Yonggan took the time to stop by the simple house that Hao Zhao had provided for him. He also brought some luggage to use during his life in his village.

"May Gui, if you still feel sleepy, just sleep," Cia Yonggan told Gao Mei Gui who sat in the seat next to him while not stopping yawning.

"Maybe it's because the night before you were sleep deprived, so your body still needs rest. Go to sleep, I'll wake you up as soon as we get there" Cia Yonggan said.

"Alright," replied the girl while arranging the seat position she was sitting in to half lie down, then she closed her eyes.

The girl did not fall asleep. However he still remembered, last night he fell back asleep resting on Cia Yonggan's shoulder, for some reason the young man's shoulder felt very comfortable for him. And this morning when she woke up, she found herself already in her soft bed while Cia Yonggan fell asleep on the living room sofa.

Did that young man last night put him back in his arms? Did Cia Yonggan not take advantage of her while she was deep asleep? Thinking of this made him subconsciously smile at himself.

Cia Yonggan was able to catch the girl's smile from the corner of his eyes. He could not stop thinking, for some reason this beautiful girl could trust him just like that and wanted to be his lover who was just an ordinary person. If the girl wanted to, she would definitely be able to get a young man from a rich family. Whether this was a blessing or a curse, he must have been determined not to ignore this girl.

The trip to Cia Yonggan's hometown takes about two hours. The car stopped in the yard of a simple but spacious house. This is the home of his parents who were rebuilt by Cia Yonggan after the fire that killed both parents.

He got down and brought all the luggage from Gao Mei Gui's car into his house. When he returned, he found Gao Mei Gui walking towards the back of this house. There is a large expanse of empty land but it is filled with bushes. That's where usually both parents used to farm, grow a variety of vegetables.

Not far behind the agricultural area, emblazoned with rows of green hills overgrown with green trees that make the area around here feel cool. To the right of the hills, there is Mount Mangdang which looks towering higher than the hills around it.

Gao Mei Gui himself felt very happy with the air here. Although in Nanping City there are also hills and trees surrounding the city, but because there are too many buildings and construction here and there, making his hometown is not as cool here. The atmosphere here makes him more at home.

"Yonggan, is this farmland that your parents used to use?" Gao Mei Gui asked as Cia Yonggan followed him here.

Cia Yonggan last night had told Gao Mei Gui a little about himself.

"Yes, but I still haven't worked this land back," Cia Yonggan replied, his eyes glaring far away.

"Why? Didn't your parents want you to be a successful man on the farm? Is it not too futile, have knowledge and land, but not used?Take advantage of what you have, Yonggan," Gao Mei Gui looked at the handsome young man beside her.

Cia Yonggan was silent for a moment. He himself did not know, why he was still expecting his meeting back with Jia Xiu. Didn't Jia Xiu tell him to be able to prove himself for the better? He suddenly came to a realization, Jia Xiu never said that he had to keep working at the King Palace Hotel for five years, but the old man wanted to see proof of himself that he was capable of being better than just spending his youth hanging out with members of an underground group. Now he has finished his education. Wouldn't he want to look better, he had to show the old man that he was able to apply the knowledge he mastered and make his own money?

It turned out that he had been misinterpreting Jia Xiu's sentence all along!

"Mei Gui, do you think I should take back this land?" he asked the girl for her opinion.

Gao Mei Gui smiled, grabbed the young man's hands and affectionately said. "Of course, Yonggan. If not you, then who else?"