I'm incredibly ambitious after being reborn.

Chapter 17 The Whole Big Job

Although Lao Zhou had spoken to the mother and daughter beforehand, praising the young man they were to meet as a "great philanthropist," Li Laidi never expected the women from the Zhang family to be so polite and not at all pretentious.

There was no pressure during the meal, and unlike elsewhere, there was no one prying into the girl's background or secretly looking at her. When it was time to leave, Li Laidi was even asked to carefully choose the silver and gold.

When leaving the documents, they also arranged a new place to stay. There was the Jiyang City Radio and Television Center building and their own hotel near the North Gate. Zhang Daxiang had a cousin who worked as an electrician there, so he made a call and smoothly found a safe and clean place to stay for the mother and daughter.

That evening, Li Laidi and her daughter discussed the matter earnestly, and Zhang Daxiang also obtained the woman's birth date and time.

An uncle of mine who practices Taoism in Jiangbei went home a few days ago and helped me with my birth chart.

“This girl named Sang Yuke is a lucky wife. However, it would be best if she became the mother of Uncle Qiheng’s great-grandson, since she would be the first one. And the first one should be chosen in order, since Uncle Qiheng is the eldest among the three.”

"Okay, I have no objection to that. Since Uncle says so, I'll listen to him."

Zhang Daxiang didn't care about the superstitious talk. Even though he had been reborn, he still felt that it didn't matter which branch of the family he was following, since they were all great-grandchildren anyway.

However, the records in the ancestral hall are not based on mere words. After being included in the genealogy, it is true that Sang Yuke married Zhang Daxiang, but her first son was not the great-grandson of the old man Zhang Qihui, but the son of her deceased great-grandfather Zhang Qiheng.

After the Ghost Festival (July 15th of the lunar calendar), the offering of wine and the burning of paper money are for Zhang Qiheng.

If this is still a matter of spiritual significance, then on a material level, Zhang Qiheng's honor will fall on the descendants of Sang Yuke, and will have nothing to do with the other branches of the family.

The official honors, plaques, and certificates bestowed by the government as "martyrs" will certainly not be given to Sang Yuke's descendants, but within the Zhang family, there is still some discussion about it.

Even if Zhang Daxiang and Sang Yuke are incompetent, they will not skimp on the children's food, clothing, and other necessities for going to school.

However, when Laozi's father, Zhang Daxiang, was capable, there were other interpretations. Local society is a place where personal connections matter. It wouldn't be convenient for Zhang Daxiang to get himself an official title as a "descendant of a martyr" to take the civil service exam, but it wouldn't be a big problem to make the file of Zhang Qiheng's great-grandson look better.

If necessary, the previously suspended process of offering condolences will be reinstated and applied to Zhang Qiheng's great-grandson.

"By the way, Little Elephant, this girl is a year older than you. Want to hunt a golden rooster?"

"Huh? Is there any explanation for that?"

"A woman who is a year older than her husband will marry a golden rooster."

"..."

Are you perhaps a wandering Taoist priest?
Zhang Daxiang secretly grumbled to himself, but still followed the advice. After all, killing a golden rooster wouldn't benefit anyone else, so he might as well consider it a diversified investment.

The next day, after hearing that the Zhang family was very satisfied with the match of their horoscopes, Li Laidi was also very excited. She was completely at a loss. The creditors had been harassing her recently, and if it weren't for her husband's friend, Lao Zhou, mediating and telling the creditors about an excellent marriage, they would have driven her to her death.

Strictly speaking, the mourning period for Sang Shouye has not yet ended, but at this time, there are not many formalities. The expenses for Sang Shouye's funeral were secretly borrowed from the sisters by Li Laidi.

The reason she borrowed it secretly was because her husband still owed money to her brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

Two days ago, she was worried that she and her daughter would be sold, and she still had this worry yesterday morning. By evening, the worry had disappeared, but she was afraid that the Zhang family would despise them and leave them with a mountain of debt.

Instead of showing any disdain, the Zhang family made it clear that as long as the young man was destined to be with them, that was fine. As for the debt, they said that if he could owe it, he could pay it back; it wasn't a catastrophe.

This made Li Laidi feel anxious and uncertain, but she dared not confide in her daughter Sang Yuke too much.

“Sister-in-law, your future son-in-law has a plan with me. He heard that there are also creditors of the Sang family at ‘Golden Mulberry Leaf’, so he can pay off the Sang family’s debts first. However, he plans to acquire shares of ‘Golden Mulberry Leaf’. If the Sang family is willing to sell, he will buy them at the original price.”

"what?"

Li Laidi paused for a moment, then quickly said, "My brother-in-law also has shares. I wonder if it's possible to do it together with the Sang family?" "No problem. He just asked me to notify them in advance. We can finalize the transfer contract either in Anbian or here in Jiyang. However, since 'Golden Mulberry Leaf' is in Jiyang Port, I think it's better to have the Anbian family handle the entrustment and get it done in one go."

"That, that..."

Suddenly, Li Laidi became a little uneasy again and said to Lao Zhou, "Lao Zhou, could you help me sound out what the future holds if we continue with 'Golden Mulberry Leaf'? I don't mean all of it, just the original five percent."

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. When he came, it was like Twelve... oh, that's your son-in-law. He said that you shouldn't take Lao Sang's shares, but just have them notarized and transferred to Ke Ke's name. Then we'll add another five percent later to make it ten percent profit."

"..."

This left Li Laidi speechless. She wasn't stupid; she knew how much the "Golden Mulberry Leaf" was originally worth. Even if the "Golden Mulberry Leaf" neither made a profit nor a loss in the future, it would still be a solid 400,000 yuan.

However, after experiencing such a major change in her family life, she was completely lost and somewhat resigned to fate. Even though she had some doubts about whether the Zhang family could really come up with four million, she prayed that everything would go smoothly, remembering that the women in the Zhang family hadn't been mean or sarcastic yesterday.

Little did she know that Zhang Daxiang had caused quite a commotion in the ancestral hall.

"Twenty-four million?!"

"Little elephant, what...what are you doing?!"

"This amount is too large..."

“I’ve seen this ‘Golden Mulberry Leaf’ cold storage facility. It’s 5,000 square meters and can store 4,000 to 5,000 tons of goods. But even with all the ancillary facilities, it’s not worth 24 million. At most, it’s worth 4.5 million.”

Because the commotion was so great, even the few remaining great-grandfathers of the "Zhi" generation came out to see what was going on.

Upon seeing that he was Zhang Zhixu, the great-grandson of the Third Elder... then everything was fine.

reasonable.

This has always been the case in the Three Kingdoms. Zhang Zhixu himself even used sixteen gold bars to inquire about the Japanese smuggling of artillery, which is far more outrageous than anything involving twenty-four million.

Even Zhang Qiding, who cleans the ancestral hall every day, was speechless, thinking that his younger brother's grandson could come up with something new every day.

“I mentioned before that I wanted to open a gas station. Since we were able to take over the cold storage of ‘Jin Sangye’, it’s a reasonable thing to also build a good relationship with the oil depot company next door. Whether we let one flock of ducks roam freely or two flocks of ducks are different, as long as we can make money.”

"What kind of gas station costs 20 million? The gas station in Westgate, from application to construction, only cost a little over 700,000, not even 800,000."

"My gas station is quite large."

How big is it?

"It's about 150 acres in size."

"..."

"..."

"..."

The entire ancestral hall fell silent, and the ancestral tablets remained completely still.

(End of this chapter)