Chapter 144 Retail Investors
"I wonder if Sister Guicheng is free. Let me invite them over so that the three of us can eat roasted lamb together. It will be lively."

Jiang An Ning's mind moved, and he spoke out the words.

Aunt Fang said in surprise: "Usually at this time, Sui Ran and his wife would be back around the same time, but today I haven't seen them yet."

"Then I'll go to Guicheng's house later to take a look."

After Jiang An Ning finished speaking, Aunt Fang said, "Forget it, I'll go instead! Otherwise, those old beasts in the village will suspect that you gave Sui Ran some benefits again!"

"What did you say?"

Jiang Anning was very surprised: "What benefit can I give to Sister-in-law Guicheng?"

"Isn't that what you said?"

When Aunt Fang mentioned those people in the village, she was no longer as enthusiastic as before, and was more sneered and disdainful: "In the end, it's just that they are jealous of Sui Ran and his wife for making money, so they speak sourly."

"They all think that Sui Ran and his wife suddenly have enough money to start a small business because they lowered themselves to please you and won your appreciation and free money."

Jiang Anning was extremely surprised: "Why would they think like this?"

No wonder when Chief Jiang saw her coming back, he asked her to use her money to subsidize the village and everyone, as if he treated her money as the common property of the villagers and could spend it at will.

It turns out there is another reason behind this.

"It's just shameless, it's just shameless!"

Aunt Fang looked down on those people in the village: "When they see others living a good life, they feel uncomfortable and try every means to slander them."

"Didn't Sister Guicheng explain it to them?"

Jiang Anning: "They were able to get the money because they used their own house deeds and land deeds to mortgage with me. Strictly speaking, I was just a lender."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Aunt Fang had a gloomy face and was reluctant to mention the faces of those people: "But what's the point of talking? When you meet those people who know the truth but pretend to be ignorant, even if you tell the facts and show the evidence, they will not believe or listen to a word you say."

"You have to pretend to be ignorant and lie with open eyes, saying that Sui Ran got some benefits from you."

She sneered: "Who doesn't know what he's thinking?"

"They are just thinking of using this incident as an excuse to find you someday and ask you to spend money to support them..."

Aunt Fang sighed, feeling sorry for Jiang An Ning: "You really shouldn't have agreed to pay for them just now!"

"Just wait and see, just wait and see, when these people go back home, who knows what they will come up with!"

"As long as you give them an opening once and don't reject their unreasonable demands, they will just think you are easy to bully!"

"I don't think of you at all."

Aunt Fang sighed, "You gave them this time, but if you don't give them next time, they will think you are dishonest."

She looked at Jiang An Ning worriedly, hesitating and seeming to want to say something.

"peaceful……"

Aunt Fang pursed her lips, clenched her hands into fists nervously, and struggled and tangled in her heart. After a while, she mustered up the courage to say, "Listen to my advice. If you have the ability and settle down outside, don't come back!"

"Stay away from here, the farther the better!"

Even though the Zhao family is gone, there are still so many black-hearted families.

those people……

Aunt Fang felt very upset when she thought about what she had heard from Jiang Xiu'e and recalled some things from the past.

Those people will not let An Ning go.

"Be obedient and leave if you can!"

Jiang Anning always felt that there was something else behind Aunt Fang's words.

When she wanted to ask more, Aunt Fang patted her hands with a sad face, and no longer mentioned the previous topic. She just said, "I'll go to Sui Ran's house to see you, you should pack up well."

"Aunt..."

Jiang An Ning called out to someone and wanted to ask more questions, but Aunt Fang had already left without hesitation. She didn't even turn her head back and waved at them, obviously not wanting anyone to ask any more questions.

She didn't even have the chance to ask any questions about Jiang Genshan.

After Aunt Fang left, the huge room suddenly felt a little lonely.

Jiang Anning thought about it and went to the Zhao family next door.

The two silkworm farmers invited by Jiang Wei were a little nervous when they saw Jiang An Ning coming.

"You two are both from Huzhou, and your families have made a living by raising silkworms and reeling silk for generations. I have great confidence in your abilities."

As soon as Jiang Anning saw the people, he didn't try to beat around the bush and directly stated his purpose: "I wonder if you two are willing to cooperate with me and teach me all the skills that my family has passed down."

Sang Nanshan turned his head and glanced at his brother Sang Donghai beside him.

"How do you want to cooperate?"

Sang Donghai fixed his gaze on Jiang Anning's face, making no effort to conceal his inquiring intention.

Jiang Anning smiled slightly and said, "I need you two to help me raise the most silk cocoons in the fastest time."

"This……"

The two looked at each other, and finally Sang Donghai spoke up: "Girl, to be honest, the price of these cocoons is really not high, and there is not much profit. Basically, it is just hard-earned money, barely enough to support the family. It is really not as profitable as you think."

During this period, Sang Donghai also had some dealings with the villagers.

The biggest feeling he had after interacting with the villagers was: wild imagination!

These people are really too whimsical!
It's as if making money is something that will fall from the sky. As long as you think about it and talk, you can get it.

It's like they don't understand what it means that scarcity makes things valuable.

Even if we can really raise a large number of silk cocoons, wouldn't the people who collect the cocoons take the opportunity to lower the price?
Not to mention, silk reeling is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, and it is not as simple as they imagined.

"Even if we two brothers can help you raise the cocoons, how can you handle so many cocoons?"

"If we hire someone to do it, the labor and cost will be another huge expense."

"Besides, you are still new to this business and don't even have a fixed sales channel. Ordinary bosses have their own fixed places to collect silk cocoons and have been cooperating with them for many years. They will not easily accept retail investors, especially new retail investors. Even if they do accept them, they will mostly give extremely low prices and will try to lower the price as much as possible. In the end, you may not only make no money after all your hard work, but also lose money on the cost."

Sang Donghai felt that he needed to explain these things clearly to Jiang Anning.

Even if it was very likely that after saying this, Jiang Anning would not use the two brothers.

They have come all the way here, and there is a high chance that they will return empty-handed.

But if they don't say it out loud, and make money against their conscience, they will feel uneasy!

If at the beginning they were still angry about Jiang Wei's sudden disappearance and whereabouts, they wanted the people in this village to give an explanation and pay them the wages as agreed between them and Jiang Wei.

After observing for a period of time, they no longer think so.

They had no doubt at all that what these people said about paying one hundred taels first and another hundred taels after completing the study was just a delaying tactic, or even a trick!

If sericulture is really that profitable and could easily allow these people to make back their investment of two hundred taels, why would the two brothers have to come out to beg for a living?

Haven’t you been raising silkworms for half your life, but have you never seen what two hundred taels of silver looks like?

Two hundred taels is enough for the two brothers to earn for two lifetimes if they work diligently! It is even possible that they will not be able to earn this much money in two lifetimes!

Therefore, there is a high probability that these people will use the excuse that they cannot make any money at all to intercept them and get their money back.

More likely, they are not satisfied with just getting the money back, and they also want to ask them for interest.

It's really because the people in this village have too unorthodox ideas.

The two brothers really couldn't believe the character of the people in this village.

Just a few days of getting along were enough for them to feel deeply frightened by the behavior of the people here.

Now they just want to leave here quickly.

They were really scared every day they stayed here.

But they did not dare to reveal their desire to escape.

They were afraid that once they were discovered by the people here, they would immediately counterattack, imprison them, and force them to help them make money. If they couldn't make money, they would beat them up and not give them food...

It is no exaggeration to say that the two brothers Sang Donghai and Sang Nanshan dare not close their eyes together when they go to sleep every day.

They were afraid that while they were sleeping, a group of barbarians would suddenly break in, slit their throats or tie them up and imprison them in some dark place.

terrible……

There were other considerations for telling the truth to Jiang Anning.

Before coming, the man surnamed Jiang said that he would help them introduce Aunt Jingwan's daughter.

But I didn't expect that the man surnamed Jiang was actually a liar!

They had just arrived here not long ago when the man suddenly disappeared without a trace.

However, after some time of asking around, they finally confirmed most of the information.

It is very likely that Aunt Jingwan’s daughter is really here.

And, it is very likely the woman in front of him.

In addition, even if the woman in front of them was not Aunt Jingwan's daughter, just looking at the way those villagers treated her like a blood bag and demanded whatever they wanted from her, they couldn't help but make some bold guesses that this woman might not be on the same side as those people in the village.

At least they wouldn't be so stupid as to think that they could make a lot of money if they could successfully raise silkworms and make cocoons.

He should be able to listen to some persuasion.

Of course, if the woman doesn't listen, they will never recognize her even if she is Aunt Jingwan's daughter.

Sang Donghai looked at Jiang Anning, waiting for her to make a choice.

If the person is not willing to listen to advice, then there is no point in saying more. It is better to think about how to get away safely.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Anning just laughed and said nonchalantly, "I don't expect to make any money from silkworm cocoons."

From the very beginning, she didn't expect to make money from raising silkworms and reeling silk.

Those who are dressed in silk and satin are not the ones who raise silkworms.

It’s already very difficult to support a family, let alone make a lot of money?

If it were really that easy to make a lot of money, wouldn't everyone in the world be a rich man?
If the villagers are honest and down-to-earth, like Sui Ran and his wife, and work down-to-earth, they may not be unable to make money.

The land in the village is not suitable for growing crops.

The harvest at the end of the year was just enough for the whole family to make ends meet.

But if we remove taxes, what's left will be enough to make ends meet.

If you take advantage of the terrain and raise silkworms to increase your income, I can't say how much money you can make, but at least it will be enough to feed your family.

It might even be possible to eat better.

At least we can add some meat to the New Year’s Eve dinner.

It wouldn’t be like it is now, where every household has to tighten their belts.

Normally, when people want to eat some meat, they only dare to add a little bit of meat oil to enhance the flavor.

I don't even dare to hope to buy meat or eggs.

Only a very small number of families in the village can afford meat and eggs.

But if you indulge in unrealistic dreams all day long, hoping for pie to fall from the sky, hoping to easily earn hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of taels a month, and put all your hopes on raising silkworms and leave your fields idle, I am afraid that your life will become even more difficult.

By the time……

Even if they are so hungry that they have to flee famine, they can only blame themselves for seeking death.

When Jiang An Ning was planning this matter, she had thought that if the villagers behaved themselves, she might be able to let go of the grudges from her past life.

But she won't live in the village in the future.

From now on, everyone will keep to themselves and never have any contact with each other, so naturally, out of sight, out of mind.

But now it seems that the villagers are just as she expected, and have never thought about keeping their feet on the ground.

Then what awaits them is naturally only an endless abyss.

I just hope that when that day comes, they will wake up.

Jiang Anning smiled and felt that her idea was a little too naive.

How could someone who has been taking advantage of others for so long possibly wake up?

They feel that everyone wants to harm them and can't bear to see them get any better.

"I never thought of making money from silkworm farming."

Jiang An Ning collected his thoughts, calmed down, and spoke again: "I just need you two to help me produce enough cocoons."

"As for how to deal with these cocoons, you don't have to worry. Anyway, I will not miss the benefits I promised you."

She smiled and said, "Of course, I also need you two to keep your mouth shut while you're doing things. You don't need to tell anyone what you just said."

“Especially the people in the village.”

Sang Donghai suddenly felt a chill running down the soles of his feet.

What exactly does this woman want to do?
"Don't worry about what I want to do. It's not about murder or arson."

At most, it will cause a family to be destroyed.

Can……

All the paths were chosen by those people themselves. Even if their families were broken up in the future, what did it have to do with her?

She would just clap her hands and say "good thing" with a smile.

Sang Donghai was shocked and felt a little panicked that he had just said what was in his heart without realizing it.

Looking at Jiang An Ning at this moment, he felt even more nervous.

The woman in front of him was clearly smiling, a very friendly smile, but he felt as if he was being stared at by a venomous snake, and his back felt cold.


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