My sister broke off her engagement to marry someone richer? My older sister married me and became in

"dad!"

Yu Gaoyang's voice was trembling with sobs.

He burst through the door, looking as if he had just been pulled out of the water, with beads of sweat streaming down his face.

"Something terrible has happened!"

Yu Bo was immersed in the fantasy of being hit in the face with 200,000 yuan in cash when he was startled by the scream and shuddered.

He turned around abruptly, his bloodshot eyes fixed on his son.

"What's the panic! Is the sky falling down?"

"I...I can't receive it anymore!"

Yu Gaoyang was panting heavily, his face deathly pale.

"I...I took some men and ten thousand yuan in cash, and traveled to more than a dozen villages..."

"One!"

"We can't even find a single decent ginseng anymore!"

Yu Bo's mind went blank.

He rushed over and grabbed Yu Gaoyang by the collar.

"What did you say?"

"Where's the money! You can't spend it?"

"They all...they all say it was taken away early!"

Yu Gaoyang was so frightened that he trembled all over and could not speak properly.

"They offered a higher price than us, and... and it's in cash..."

"Travelers from all around have sold their goods to them!"

Yu Bo's hands were trembling.

He felt a chill run from the soles of his feet, up his spine, and straight to the top of his head.

"Who?"

"Who did this?!"

His voice sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth.

Besides him, who else in Hongshi County has such a grand scheme? Who else dares to go against Yu Bo?

Yu Gaoyang was terrified by his ferocious expression.

"I...I don't know..."

"They said...it was a company called 'Xiushan Industrial'..."

Yu Bo's pupils suddenly contracted.

Xiushan Industry.

"Lu...Lu Qingshan!"

Yu Bo's lips trembled as he uttered the name he hated to the core.

He loosened his grip, and Yu Gaoyang collapsed to the ground.

Yu Bo staggered back two steps and bumped his butt against the desk, making the teacups on the desk clatter.

It’s over.

It's all over.

He finally understood.

From the moment the news of the 200,000 yuan bounty came out, he had already fallen into the trap the other party had set.

This is not some windfall at all.

This is a death warrant!

That little bastard Lu Qingshan, he's not just trying to steal my business.

He's risking his own life!

"Dad...then...should we still accept it?"

Yu Gaoyang lay on the ground and cautiously raised his head to ask a question.

Yu Bo shoved him away abruptly.

The expression on his face slowly shifted from fear and anger to a morbid distortion.

"receive!"

"Why won't you accept it!"

He let out a low growl.

"If Lu Qingshan can take it, why can't I steal it?"

"go!"

"Tell my subordinates to raise the price by another ten percent!"

"No! Raise it by 20%!"

In Yu Bo's eyes, all rationality was gone, replaced only by the madness of someone who had lost everything.

"I don't believe it!"

"There are still people in this world who can't stand money!"

He wants to gamble.

He's going to bet all his money on it!

He refused to believe that Lu Qingshan, a nobody from a peasant background, could possibly have enough money to waste with him!

however.

Reality once again delivered a resounding slap to Yu Bo's face.

The next two days.

The purchasing agents from the Yu family were like madmen, running around between villages with bundles of banknotes in their hands.

Prices keep rising.

The price started 30% higher than that of the supply and marketing cooperative, then 40% higher, and finally even reached a sky-high price of 50% higher.

But the result was still the same.

They could no longer get a decent wild ginseng.

Even those lower-quality wild ginseng have become extremely rare.

The net that Lu Qingshan laid was too dense.

Those dozens of top mountain runners, whom he had fed with cash and reputation, were like dozens of the sharpest combs, having already combed through the mountains and forests within a hundred miles countless times.

Let alone wild ginseng.

Even a single, aged ginseng root wouldn't end up in the Yu family's pocket.

The money became a pile of worthless paper.

Lots of cash were piled up on Yu Bo's desk, but he couldn't spend a single penny of it.

The legend about "purple ginseng" and the 200,000 yuan reward continued to ferment in the county town, like a heavy mountain of gold, making it hard for him to breathe.

Yu Bo completely lost his mind.

He started drinking.

They drink regardless of day or night.

The office door was tightly shut, and the air inside was filled with a pungent smell of cheap liquor mixed with despair.

He dared not go home.

He was afraid to see the expectant looks in his wife's and Lin Xiumei's eyes.

He was even more afraid to see his spoiled son.

He had only one thought in his mind.

Embezzlement of public funds.

If this crime is exposed, it will lead to certain death.

He's finished.

The Yu family is finished too.

Sometimes, when he drank too much, he would slump over the table, staring at the gray sky outside the window, and let out a wild howl.

He hates.

He hated Lu Qingshan.

Without Lu Qingshan, he would still be the high and mighty food factory director.

He wouldn't touch those moldy mountain goods.

He won't be burdened with that huge fine of 87,000.

He would never have ended up in this desperate situation.

It's all because of him!

It's all because of that little bastard!

The third day, evening.

The empty wine bottles in the office had piled up into a small mountain.

Yu Bo got completely drunk again.

He lay on the table, half-asleep, and seemed to see the police kicking open his door and putting cold handcuffs on him.

"Bang!"

The office door was indeed forced open from the outside.

Yu Bo jolted awake and fell off his chair.

He looked up, his eyes unfocused as he stared at the doorway.

One of his purchasing agents scrambled in.

The man was running so fast that he tripped and fell to the ground as soon as he entered the room.

But he ignored the pain and crawled to Yu Bo on all fours.

"Factory Manager!"

"There's...there's news!"

The purchasing agent was out of breath, his voice shrill with excitement.

Yu Bo shook his head, trying to clear his mind.

"What...what news..."

"Participate!"

"We've got news about wild ginseng!"

The purchasing agent's voice suddenly rose in volume.

"County Guesthouse!"

"This afternoon, a big boss from outside the Great Wall checked into the county guesthouse!"

"I heard...I heard he has..."

The purchasing agent swallowed hard, his eyes widening in surprise.

"He has a whole box of top-quality wild ginseng!"