I'm incredibly ambitious after being reborn.

Chapter 23 A Big Tree Provides Good Shade

Since the date of the engagement banquet had been set, the Zhang family had communicated with Li Laidi and sent invitations to Sang Shouye and her close relatives, covering their round-trip airfare and accommodation.

Normally, it's impossible to discuss marriage during the mourning period. However, with a mountain of debts and secondary changes caused by creditors, Li Laidi simply didn't trust the Sang family. But what she never expected was that after news of her daughter's engagement spread, most of the creditors stopped pressing for repayment.

At first, Li Laidi couldn't understand why, but later she realized that the creditors weren't stupid. Now that Sang Shouye's wife and daughter had a powerful backer, they had nothing to worry about about not being able to pay back the money.

They had previously asked their brother-in-law and sister-in-law if they had any money, but now they've reverted to the same attitude they had when Sang Shouye was alive.

This made Li Laidi laugh in anger, but she also knew that no one's money comes from thin air, and besides, her husband really had too big an appetite and had borrowed money from every possible source.

Old Zhou, a true brother in the underworld, lent a full 40,000 yuan without asking for interest. After Sang Shouye's death, Old Zhou went to great lengths to help, which can be considered extremely kind and righteous. However, we cannot expect everyone to be like Old Zhou.

Zhang Daxiang also let his mother-in-law take Sang Yuke around Jiyang City, as a vacation to relax. If there was nothing else to do, they would go to the Yangtze River to turn over stones and catch crabs.

Li Laidi, who rarely takes a break, couldn't stay idle in the end. She got a temporary residence permit and went to work as a cleaner in a supermarket in the city. After work, she didn't go back to her residence but went to the construction site in Nanxingtou to watch the houses being built.

The original blueprints were for a two-courtyard building, but now they've all been changed to three courtyards, turning it into a complete bunker.

The simultaneous commencement of construction on the foundations of nine small buildings created a truly impressive scene, leaving Li Laidi completely stunned.

Building No. 1 is where her daughter will live in the future. She carefully checked the size and found it to be quite good. There are two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom on the first floor, and there are also second and third floors.

She had previously thought that she might as well try anything, take it one step at a time, since she wouldn't have to die anyway, which was still pretty good.

I feel like I got a bargain.

Many creditors have also come to visit her, saying that the matter of her repaying the money should not be mentioned again, and that they have a long-standing relationship with Lao Sang, comparable to that of brothers...

Five or six creditors of different types came and went, each with different demands, but they all took a look at the construction site in Nanxingtou.

After seeing it, I admired Li Laidi even more. I thought to myself that this wife of Sang Shouye was really not simple. In a short period of time, she was able to turn things around and support the family business even without a man.

Few people know the inside story, and among the creditors, only Old Zhou knows the truth.

Old Zhou isn't in a hurry for the 40,000 yuan. He even gave the IOU to Sang Yuke as a gift. The reason is simply that Zhang Daxiang made a promise that after "Golden Mulberry Leaf" is acquired, he can do long-term business with him.

At the same time, he will also be in charge of some of the cold chain freight business of "Zhang Family Canteen".

Why bother with 40,000 yuan? If his daughter weren't only five years old, he would want "Elephant Twelve" to call him "Dad."

It's a quick way to make money.

"The one who's keeping the family business... wait, is Zhao Di here too?"

Zhang Daxiang arranged for Li Laidi and Sang Yuke to stay at the guesthouse in Zhangshi Village, formerly known as "Niushi Street." This place was also where the village received visiting officials. It wasn't particularly luxurious; it was just a row of small bungalows, but it was clean and tidy, and had clean hot water all year round. At this time, two groups of people came from Hedong Road: one group was from Sangjia Village in the east of Sangjia, and the other group was Li Laidi's family.

Dongsangjiazhuang is Sang Shouye's hometown. Previously, the main investors in "Jinsangye" were the ones who raised funds. Then came the general manager of "Anbian Dongsangjiazhuang Asset Management Company", who was also Sang Shouye's cousin, named Sang Shouyi.

Sang Shouyi has visited Jiyang City several times, as he sometimes comes to check on the operation of "Golden Mulberry Leaf" and thus exercises his rights as a shareholder representative.

Because I had been to Jiyang City before, I knew a few people. After inquiring about Zhangshi Village, I learned that it was a large, but not very prominent, clan.

Although they don't hold high-ranking positions, their large numbers and extensive family connections mean they may not be particularly successful, but they are almost always good or bad.

Anyway, Sang Shouyi just thought that Zhangshi Village was an alternative secret society like the one in Jiyang City that "burns incense".

It's best to avoid trouble if possible. Although Sang Shouye still owes him tens of thousands of yuan, it doesn't matter. As long as he can sell his shares to Sang Shouye's son-in-law, he'll even make him kneel down and kowtow.

However, he did not expect that Sang Shouye's sister-in-law, Li Zhaodi, had also come to Jiyang City. He knew Li Zhaodi; she was quite different from her sister, Li Laidi. She was a shrewish woman who had also lent money to her brother-in-law, Sang Shouye, though he did not know exactly how much.

"Mr. Sang, I heard that there's demand for 'Golden Mulberry Leaves,' and the price isn't low?"

I haven't given you a definite answer yet.

Unlike Sang Shouye, who liked to go all in and leverage, Sang Shouyi, who became the general manager, was more conservative. He was not sure whether Li Zhaodi knew who wanted to take the "Golden Mulberry Leaf". Even though Li Zhaodi's sister was Li Laidi, could Li Laidi, who had experienced a major change in her family, really trust her relatives and sisters?

In particular, Lao Zhou, a friend of his and Sang Shouye, specifically reminded Li Laidi to keep her mouth shut and not to mention to anyone who was going to take the "golden mulberry leaf".

There's also the principle of building a good relationship with Zhang Daxiang here. If Zhang Daxiang can acquire "Golden Mulberry Leaf" with relatively little money, he will definitely remember this favor.

Even if he wasn't old enough to be shrewd and experienced, Sang Shouyi had still been through a lot. He was conservative in his conduct and actions, but that didn't mean he lacked foresight or vision; he was simply used to doing things within his capabilities.

“If the ‘Golden Mulberry Leaves’ can still be sold at the original price, Lai Di, wouldn’t you easily get 200,000 yuan? 200,000 yuan is enough to buy a building in the county town…”

Last month, Li Zhaodi had actually encouraged her husband to come and ask for money, but after her brother-in-law came to the door once, she was no longer willing. It was just that her brother-in-law had died and the family was in a difficult time. It would be too shameful for a grown man to do such a thing.

So on the second visit, he didn't mention money. Instead, he secretly borrowed three thousand yuan from his friends and gave it to Li Laidi to settle the bill for the funeral.

Although the funeral was kept simple, it wasn't so shabby that a proper feast couldn't be held, and it was a way to ensure that the brother-in-law could rest in peace.

Originally, it was supposed to be the day before the engagement banquet at the end of August that he, Sang Yuke's uncle, would come with his wife and children. However, Li Zhaodi had a sudden whim. Seeing that the people from the Sang family who were demanding money from her brother-in-law Sang Shouye had suddenly stopped, she made a few inquiries and heard that her niece had found a local "local tycoon" in Jiyang. So she paid out of her own pocket and traveled all the way to Jiyang City.

She didn't really have many ideas at first. She just thought that if her younger sister made a profit of 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, she would lend her some money. She planned to rent a storefront near the county bus station and open a snack shop.

However, after Li Zhaodi went with her sister to the construction site in Nanxingtou, all sorts of thoughts swirled in her mind, each one different.

(End of this chapter)