Rebirth 77: From Beachcombing to Becoming a Tycoon and Spoiling My Wife

He did the math: in crab farming, if you have 1,500 catties of mud crabs, and keep 200 catties of juvenile crabs for breeding in the twelfth lunar month, you can sell 1,300 catties of crabs. Even the worst crabs can sell for 1,000 yuan, and the good crabs can fetch another 300 yuan.

This income can bring tangible benefits and jobs to many people in the village.

If the remaining four farms were built together and the higher-ups saw it, he might even make it into the newspapers.

"Xiao Yang, if you have time, grab it and go down to the farm right away."

Yang Bai nodded in agreement.

"If there aren't any big orders tomorrow, I can catch crabs right away and try to get them all in one day."

"Secretary Ma, are the other farms progressing steadily?"

Ma Hou was overjoyed to hear that they could gather 1,500 catties of crabs in a single day.

"Keep things moving steadily. Leave the cement and everything else to me. Don't worry about it. I'm really motivated now."

He loosened his muscles and bones. He used to be a complete layabout, able to stay in his house all day as long as nothing major happened in the village.

Now he wants to build up the village and improve the lives of the villagers. He has boundless energy for this hopeful future.

Before this, who would have thought that a collective breeding farm could be established?

Money alone is a huge problem, not to mention all sorts of professional issues.

After Yang Bai became a different person, these problems were no longer problems for him.

Yang Bai got on the motorcycle and let Qiao Manman sit on it.

"Secretary Ma, I'll leave you with a lot of trouble from now on. I'll take Manman to the educated youth compound."

"Manman?" Ma Houcai noticed the girl behind Yang Bai, his eyes filled with excitement. "Oh, Secretary Qiao's daughter, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Qiao Manman was taken aback. "How did you know me?"

Her father always told her not to use her status as the secretary's daughter to go out.

So she didn't mention her visit to anyone at all.

She pouted.

"Is Yang Bai the one you mentioned?"

Ma Hou shook his head and quickly said.

"No, when you got into trouble last time, Yang Bai got involved too. He's the village's benefactor, so naturally we have to ask him. We'll find out by asking. Okay, let's go."

Qiao Manman paused for a moment, then said, "Alright, Yang Bai will take me back."

Yang Bai watched Ma Hou leave, then accelerated his motorcycle towards the educated youth compound.

On the way, Qiao Manman asked curiously, "Yang Bai, why did you start a crab farm? Isn't it a waste of your time? You might even lose money."

In her view, the collective breeding farm was a thankless task. Yang Bai put in most of the effort, but the crabs sold still had to be split equally with the village collective.

If Yang Bai doesn't earn much money, it can certainly improve his living conditions.

But Yang Bai made a lot of money; collective farming was completely unnecessary and would only waste his time.

The wind whistled past Yang Bai's ears. He glanced at Shang Qiao's puzzled expression in the rearview mirror and said...

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Do you think no one is envious of my high earnings?"

"Only by helping others make money will people consider you one of their own."

"Let some get rich first and then help others get rich, so that we can eventually achieve common prosperity."

This is just one of them.

Qiao Manman cannot see a future.

He has already lived for seventy years.

Everything we do now is for the future.

Qiao Manman seemed to be deep in thought. Soon she arrived at the educated youth compound and saw Wang Yao, whose face was covered in bruises, coming out to get water.

Qiao Manman got out of the back of the car and nodded emphatically.

"The rich help the poor, Yang Bai, you're amazing! I must tell this to my father."

Yang Bai smiled and nodded, "Let's go back."

He waved goodbye to Qiao Manman, then looked at Wang Yao, his lips almost trembling with suppressed rage.

Wang Yao also saw Yang Bai and ran towards him with a washbasin in her hand.

"Brother Yang, do you know why Yang Jun broke off contact with me?"

She had just been injured and wanted to go to Yang Jun's house to get some money to take her to the county hospital for treatment. But as soon as she arrived at his door, Yang Jun told her that they had nothing to do with each other anymore.

She was stunned for a long time and couldn't react, so she had no choice but to return to the educated youth compound in a huff.

Even in the county town, he abandoned her and returned to the village.

Yang Jun coughed, suppressing his inner laughter, and gave a perfunctory analysis.

"Based on my understanding of Yang Jun, you must have done something to make him very sad."

"Think carefully, did such a thing happen?"

Although hitting her was disheartening, I had to make her understand that some mistakes required a personal apology.

Pretending nothing happened? No way.

Qiao Manman thought for a moment and realized something was wrong.

Could it be that her illicit affair with Zhou Qing in the county town has been discovered?

She forced a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"No, I think so. I'll ask tomorrow morning. I won't bother you any longer, Brother Yang."

Yang Bai shook his head.

"It probably won't work tomorrow morning, we have to go out to sea to fish. You should ask tonight."

He pointed to her injured face and said, "Do you know who hit you on the face?"

Wang Yao shook her head. "I don't know. If I catch him, I'll definitely send him to jail."

"Brother Yang, if you have any clues, please tell me."

"have no idea."

Yang Bai shook his head as well. He drove his motorcycle away from the educated youth compound and only laughed out loud after he had gone a long way.

......

Daybreak.

At the dock, Yang Bai inquired about Hou Sanli.

"Manager Hou, have any orders come in from the cannery?"

Hou Sanli shook his head, somewhat disappointed.

"No, it's probably because you've been making too much money lately, and the factory is busy processing your orders."

Yang Bai smiled.

"Bullshit, how could I have that many? If not, could you send the boat over to the brigade's crab farm to harvest farmed crabs?"

Hou Sanli agreed.

"Sure, just come over and go through the procedures after you've finished fishing."

Yang Bai clasped his hands in a fist salute. "Manager Yang, thank you. I'll be going now."

He boarded a sixty-ton ship and sailed to the Widow Sea.

Yang Jun sat alone at the bow of the boat, smoking one cigarette after another, which he then threw into the sea after they burned out.

Liu Dade walked over and, seeing his somewhat sad expression, asked, "Oh, what's with all this environmental damage all by yourself?"

Yang Jun waved his hand.

"Old Liu, stop destroying the environment. Western capitalists have destroyed just as much as we have."

"Don't bother me."

Liu Dade, with his hands behind his back, asked, "I'm the one who lost his wife."

Yang Jun looked up. "How did you know? Did Brother Yang tell you?"

Liu Dade waved his hand, "Xiao Yang isn't that kind of person. I guessed it. He was all smiles the other day, but today his face is as dark as Bao Zheng's. Only a blind person wouldn't guess it."

Yang Jun glanced up and down twice, then turned back to continue smoking in silence.

"Don't worry about me, I can calm myself down. I'll still do my work as usual, it won't be delayed."

Liu Dade didn't leave; he was still standing to the side.

"Now you know the difference between you and Xiao Yang, right? You haven't even studied for a few days and you're already dreaming of marrying a swan."

"I knew you were going to start lecturing again."

Yang Jun sighed and chose to let it go in one ear and out the other.

Liu Dade laughed.

"I'm really not like that. As long as you're willing to live a down-to-earth life, you don't need to dream of getting the moon. There are still plenty of good girls around you."

He took a deep drag on his cigarette and slowly exhaled a cloud of white smoke.

"I really don't dare to think about anything now. As long as they look good and are virtuous, that's enough. I'll settle down and get married in a couple of years and live a peaceful life."

His tone was low, and he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. He used to be so proud and arrogant, but now he didn't even have the confidence to find an ordinary girl.

"Even so, no one wants me. Old Liu, who are you talking about?"

Looking at his dejected state, Liu Dade slowly spoke.

"I mentioned her to you before, she's my cousin. You two should get to know each other sometime, it'll be a really good idea."