The Investors

Chapter 17: I'm an Investor

From that day on, Cia Yonggan began busying himself to the land that had been asleep for five years. Starting with cleaning the bush, all the grass he trashed up to the roots.

His father's farm is almost three hectares. His parents while undergoing farming activities used to equip several machine tools to facilitate their activities, ranging from bush cutting machines, soil bulking machines, and so on, lawn mowing machines and machines to harvest carrot plants that do not burn during a fire. While to plant seeds and fertilize until spraying pests they usually do manually.

With Gao Mei Gui at his side, it seemed like the hard work was meaningless for Cia Yonggan. His spirit is encouraged by the presence of Gao Mei Gui here. How not, the canri girl always cheers cheering him like a cheerleader cheering the basketball team. Not infrequently also the girl suddenly jumped on his back when he was busy with his activities which of course made him shocked, yet he quickly twirled his body many times which made the two of them laugh happily. There was only the reason for the girl to insult Cia Yonggan which finally made them always laugh together.

The girl also often capture the moment of their togetherness with her smartphone, whether it's a video or photos that she took herself or a selfie with the young man with a background of green hills.

This is the beginning of the best times for those who can never be forgotten. For Cia Yonggan, Gao Mei Gui was the encouragement in her life, while in Gao Mei Gui's eyes, Cia Yonggan was a formidable figure she could rely on, just like what her father had hoped for. At this time the young man may appear to be a poor man, but who knows the fate of someone in the future. The girl believed that her father would not misjudge this young man.

Cia Yonggan always hoped this togetherness would never end. The way the girl gave her attention, the girl always paid attention to her food nutrition. The way he smiled, laughed, everything that was on Gao Mei Gui was a joy for Cia Yonggan. Gao Mei Gui was an angel in her life, thanks to this girl she finally returned to her hometown and became so excited about reviving a land that had long been neglected. The girl was so sincere about accepting him for who he was. Even girls who are accustomed to living a modern urban style can live with simple equipment. Such a girl was second to none in this world, then this girl was all she wanted to be her life partner in the future.

Likewise with Gao Mei Gui, the gentle treatment he received from the young man made him love Cia Yonggan even more. Perhaps in this world there will be no second person who will be able to treat him with tenderness, compassion and patience. As well as this young man he could truly trust as the one who looked after him, not once had Cia Yonggan tried to take advantage of him since they had lived under one roof in this remote area, not once had Cia Yonggan tried to take advantage of him, moreover, trying to plunge him into the valley of sin. Every night after dinner, he would fall asleep on the young man's shoulder and find in the morning he was already in a thin wooden bed in Cia Yonggan's room, while the young man always slept on the floor with a mat.

One week they were here, finally the land was ready to be planted with seeds. There was satisfaction in seeing the results of this hard work for Cia Yonggan, while Gao Mei Gui smiled proudly at her lover.

Because this was his first planting, Cia Yonggan had no seed preparation, forced him to buy it. He planned to plant potatoes, so he decided to buy potatoes and do a nursery until the potatoes had two buds then could be planted.

But there was a little problem for him. To farm this entire land, he would have to buy at least four and a half tons of potatoes, which would have cost him a lot. If he forced to provide all his land with seedlings, he was afraid that the savings he had were not enough to finance their daily living needs. So he decided that he would only plant some of his land first, he thought later after the harvest, he could slowly get more seeds from the harvest later.

So that night, after they had eaten dinner he told Gao Mei Gui that he would go to the traditional market in Shangwa to buy potatoes.

"Mei Gui, tomorrow I will go to Shangwa to buy potatoes and some household appliances and groceries. Do you have some things to buy too?" said Cia Yonggan

In his sentence indirectly Cia Yonggan invited Gao Mei Gui to come with him. He still felt a bit awkward to invite the girl along with him directly.

Currently they just sit and lean on the wall of the house with a mat that is usually used as a bed by Cia Yonggan.

Gao Mei Gui is currently playing a video on his smartphone in which Cia Yonggan is bulging the ground with a plow machine.

Hearing Cia Yonggan's words, Gao Mei Gui hurriedly placed her smartphone on the floor and chimed in. "Well, good then. Yonggan, I haven't eaten meat in a long time, other than meat, I don't have any special orders. I'm sure you'll know what we need at home."

Gao Mei Gui was happy to remember that in a moment she could cook meat, she had not consumed meat since this week.

"Alright, I will remember it," said Cia Yonggan slightly disappointedly.

He had actually hoped that this girl would ask him to take her along to the traditional market in Shangwa, but that was not the case.

Gao Mei Gui started to lean his head on Cia Yonggan's shoulder as he asked. "Oh yeah, you need how many potatoes for this entire land?"

The girl was silent for a moment. Actually he had enough savings to help capitalize on this young man. As a leader of an underground society, his father gave him monthly money, which is why he could buy an apartment. He wanted to help with modelling this young man, but with the nature that Cia Yonggan possessed, he was not sure that the young man would be willing to accept his good intentions.

For that he intended to lure the young man.

Enforcing his body while looking into the young man's eyes, Gao Mei Gui revealed. "Yonggan, in my opinion, you need at least four tons or so of potato seeds for this entire land."

Hearing the girl's words, Cia Yonggan became startled. It seems like this girl is not easy to trick.

"May Gui, I said... For the start of this, I will buy a ton and a half first, later if I need more seeds, I will buy more potatoes," Cia Yonggan replied a little nervously.

Cia Yonggan's nervousness can be captured clearly by Gao Mei Gui, that this young man is indeed experiencing capital problems.

"Plant some seedlings, then some time interspersing planting some more seedlings? Why don't you plant seedlings at one time simultaneously so that the harvest time is the same? Hm.. I don't think that's a good idea" Gao Mei Gui said.

Cia Yonggan was silent. He was always helpless whenever this girl cornered him. Anything he can't hide from Gao Mei Gui, like the girl is a worm in her stomach.

Gao Mei Gui could already understand, then he again leaned his head on the young man's shoulder and continued. "Yonggan, I want to invest in this venture of yours. Let's just say it's a long-term investment I'm making. I don't want to miss the opportunity to make an investment that will certainly bring benefits to me..."

"May Gui, you don't have to..." Cia Yonggan hurriedly wanted to cut.

"Yonggan, I'm not giving you free money, I want to invest, invest in your business. I'm your investor. That means I want to profit from your efforts and you don't try to fool me when I get the harvest later, I'll know that you cheated me. The division of results is fifty for me, fifty for you" Gao Mei Gui said firmly.

If this was the case, Cia Yonggan could only resign. He no longer wanted to argue with the girl. The way the girl was too smart so she could not refuse his good intentions anymore, even had to throw a threat not to deceive him when selling crops later, what kind of words is that?

"Where? Sinning your phone, Yonggan I will transfer to your Alipay account right now" said the girl again who can only be obeyed by Cia Yonggan.

Gao Mei Gui then scanned Cia Yonggan's Alipay account and sent a hundred thousand yuan and entered the transaction pin on his phone. A notification was heard on Cia Yonggan's mobile phone indicating that the money transferred by Gao Mei Gui had been successfully logged into his Alipay account.

Cia Yonggan checked his phone and was surprised at the amount of money the girl had sent. During this time let alone a hundred thousand yuan, even he had never had half of the amount of money Gao Mei Gui transferred.

"Mei Gui, isn't this too much? At most we will need twenty thousand yuan only. It's too much, I'll send you some more" said Cia Yonggan.

Gao Mei Gui looked seriously at the young man while saying. "Yonggan, I'll invest, how much. Later you will also have to buy fertilizer and disinfectant spray, of course, it costs more. Even if there are advantages, consider it your wages because you are working daily on this land. Hihihi!!"

The girl's words continued to melt the stiff atmosphere in Cia Yonggan's heart.