Living in a small county town, earning a million a year

Chapter 3: The Master's Mission

My grass?

What's this guy thinking?

Is investing really something you can do like that?
If I did it this way, I wouldn't need to borrow so much money from online loans at all. I could just let Boss Bao take care of everything.
Is he a genius in the investment world?

"No way, what's this guy thinking? Although we didn't sign a contract last year, it was clearly stated that it was considered an investment and that we would share the profits and losses! We lost 500,000 last year, why shouldn't he share the losses?"

"And what was he thinking with that 50,000 yuan interest? Even if you were a loan shark, you wouldn't get 50,000 yuan in interest on 370,000 yuan over six months!"

Xu Mu was stunned!
"That's why I came here to discuss this with you."

Bao Yong's face was full of helplessness.

The farm is, after all, run by three people.

Xu Mu still has a certain amount of influence.

Xu Mu pondered for a moment before saying, "This is what I think."

"First, the contract clearly states that we cannot withdraw our shares within three years. If he does that, we only need to repay the loan of 70,000 yuan, and we don't have to repay the principal of 300,000 yuan at all!"

"Secondly, we did not promise him any interest last year; on the contrary, we talked about sharing profits and losses."

"Isn't he treating the contract like a joke?"

"Sigh!" Bao Yong sighed and said, "This is difficult! I find this kind of thing very troublesome."

"What are your thoughts?"

"Give him back the 370,000 yuan, let's part ways amicably."

Xu Mu knew Bao Yong's personality; he didn't like to cause trouble and preferred to make a fortune quietly.

Moreover, Xu Mu had learned that turtle farming was a viable business, and the longer one worked in it, the more money one could make.

To put it bluntly, it's about exchanging time for money.

"Where did this 370,000 come from? From selling turtles?"

"It can only be this way!"

"..."

Xu Mu remained silent for a while, unsure how to respond.

Suddenly, a system notification sounded in my head.

"Ding!"

"Task posted: Buy Shen Xingyu's shares for 300,000 yuan, receive a random blind box and 50 personal experience points!"

"No, Brother Tong, where did I get 300,000?" Xu Mu asked in his mind.

Xu Mu had already taken out a loan of 500,000 yuan to invest in the turtle farm, which was how he acquired 40% of the shares.

Where can I find the money now?

Moreover, Shen Xingyu requested that the money be transferred on the 15th of this month, but today is already the 10th.

That means there are only five days left before the refund is issued!
Xu Muman only has a balance of 70,000 yuan.

What about the remaining 230,000?
Does this mean I really have to resort to naked loans?

Seeing that Brother Tongzi didn't speak, Xu Mu wanted to see what kind of blind box this task was, whether it could offset the expenditure of shares, and the fifty experience points also made Xu Mu look forward to it. Could it be that he could level up as long as he completed two tasks?

Driven by curiosity, Xu Mu looked up at Bao Yong and said, "Mr. Bao, don't worry."

“We finally started producing and making a profit this year, so selling breeding turtles is not the right thing to do.”

"You need to figure out how to sell those turtles for 70,000 yuan in the next few days."

“I’ll pay the remaining 300,000 and buy his shares.”

"Where did you get the money?" Bao Yong asked, his eyes wide.

He knew that Xu Mu had invested with a loan, and he also knew that Xu Mu had been under a lot of pressure because of his mismanagement of the turtle farm last year, which resulted in losses.

He values ​​this brotherhood very much and has been trying to expand sales channels to make up for last year's losses and help Xu Mu earn some more money!
However, now Xu Mu is going to take over 20% of Shen Xingyu's shares, which is too much pressure for Xu Mu.

"Don't worry about it!"

Xu Mu waved his hand, not wanting to say more about the matter.

Since acquiring the system, Xu Mu is no longer worried about his debts or losses.

Furthermore, this blind box is indeed very tempting.

“Xu Mu, you already owe a lot of money in online loans,” Bao Yong advised. “If this 300,000 yuan issue puts you on a blacklist, I’ll feel terrible!”

"If all else fails, I'll contact the boss in Shanghai! Last time he offered 450,000 yuan to buy our breeding turtles, so let's just sell them this time!"

“I said I won’t sell, and I mean it!” Xu Mu shook his head and looked at Bao Yong, saying, “I believe in you, Baozi! Otherwise, I wouldn’t have invested in you without hesitation back then, even if I lost money, I would still stand firmly on your side!”

"Listen to me on this matter. We'll arrange a dinner later, return the 370,000 to him, and that'll settle things!"

Seeing Xu Mu's determined look, Bao Yong simply raised his glass and clinked it with Xu Mu's, "Brother, thank you."

"Let's work together to make this farm bigger and stronger!"

After discussing this matter, Bao Yong was visibly much more relaxed.

Xu Mu drank until around 2 a.m., then drove his electric scooter home.

As soon as she got home, Xu Mu fell asleep immediately and didn't get up until noon.

Thinking about what happened last night, Xu Mu opened her phone, wanting to contact a loan company or borrow some money from a friend.

With the system in place, Xu Mu only needs to persevere for a month to be able to pay off the debt!

Just as Xu Mu was thinking about who to contact, she suddenly saw a red notification in the long-dormant high school class group that tagged her.

When I clicked into the group chat, I found that my former classmates had already exchanged more than two hundred messages.

Xu Mu clicked on the tag, and it quickly popped up at the top of the class group chat. It was the class monitor tagging all the members.

"Classmates, as per our previous years, we plan to hold our third annual class reunion on Saturday, May 23rd this year. The venue is tentatively set for the Kaiyuan Taihe Hotel!"

"Classmates who want to attend the reunion can contact me to register, and I will add you to the reunion group chat!"

Xu Mu saw this profile picture and her contact name—Zhou Mengting. Dead memories suddenly began to attack her!
Xu Mu and Zhou Mengting had a tragic past.

Here's what happened: At their high school graduation dinner, Zhou Mengting confessed her feelings to Xu Mu in front of everyone.

At the time, Xu Mu did have a crush on Zhou Mengting, and with the encouragement of his classmates and his own shyness, he accepted Zhou Mengting's advances.

Not long after they got together, Zhou Mengting asked Xu Mu for an iPhone XS, claiming that her phone was broken.

Xu Mu didn't think too much about it at the time. Besides, Zhou Mengting was his first love. He thought it was just a cell phone, only four or five thousand yuan, so he bought it for Zhou Mengting!
After entering university, Zhou Mengting deliberately kept her distance from Xu Mu. Every time Xu Mu wanted to take things further, Zhou Mengting would refuse on the grounds that she was not ready.

But he never hesitated to ask Xu Mu for money.

In her second year of college, Zhou Mengting suddenly broke up with Xu Mu.

More than half a year later, Xu Mu found out that Zhou Mengting had hooked up with a rich second-generation at school, so she dumped her and went to a hotel with the rich second-generation the next day.

When Zhou Mengting confessed to her at their high school graduation dinner, it was only because her father had fallen at a construction site and was seriously injured and hospitalized. Her family had no money, let alone her living expenses and tuition for college. So she thought she would find a decent classmate to be her ATM.

So Xu Mu remained a resentful person for over a year, and even a year after the breakup, she was still paying off the installment loan for her iPhone XS.

From then on, Xu Mu closed her heart and stopped dating.

This led to his sister-in-law introducing him to potential blind dates.

After all, in a small county town like this, you should be married by the age of twenty-five.

Xu Mu clicked on the familiar yet unfamiliar profile picture and sent her a message: "I'm attending the class reunion this year!"

Zhou Mengting didn't say much, but simply added Xu Mu to the party group.

Because from beginning to end, she never liked Xu Mu; she only treated him like an ATM.

There are already eighteen classmates in the reunion group, plus Xu Mu, making it nineteen.

"Oh, what a rare guest! I've never seen Xu Mu attend our class reunion before!"

"Why are you planning to attend the class reunion this year?"

Upon seeing Xu Mu appear in the group chat, a classmate named Wang Wei sent a message.

However, there was a hint of sarcasm in his words.

Because he used to like Zhou Mengting, but Xu Mu beat him to it!

Later, when he learned that Xu Mu was being held captive by Zhou Mengting, he mocked Xu Mu mercilessly.

"It's been so long since I've seen my old classmates, so I thought I'd catch up with them!"

"Brother Mu, let's have a good drink together then, it's been so long since we've seen each other!"

The person tagging Xu Mu this time is Tong Wu, Xu Mu's former best friend.

They were comrades who watched movies and fired guns together in high school, but because they went to different universities after the college entrance examination and made new friends in college, their contact was not as close as before.

However, the two would still meet up for drinks and meals during holidays or summer and winter vacations.

Tong Wu was the one who told Zhou Mengting about her affair.

"Sure," Xu Mu replied with a smile. "See you then."

After saying that, Xu Mu left the group chat.

"Brother, how's it going with your blind date?"

Tong Wu sent Xu Mu a private message and asked.

"separated."

Xu Mu recounted the whole story.

This completely shocked Tong Meng.

"Damn, isn't this just a gold digger combined with Voldemort? Compared to that, Zhou Mengting is still lacking!"

"The past is the past."

Xu Mu didn't want to recall the painful past.

"And you? Where are you doing now?"

"Me? I'm raising cattle at home now!"

Tong Wu posted a meme of a simple, honest smile, saying, "It's not that I couldn't find a good job after graduation, so my dad said I should come back and raise cattle. At least it's better than going out to start a business and squandering money!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Mu suddenly remembered what Tong Wu had told him before: that he had told his roommates in the dormitory that his family had sold a cow to raise the money for his college tuition.

At the time, his roommates all thought Tong Wu was very poor and tried their best to help him!
During his sophomore summer vacation, Tong Wu invited them to visit Tianji County. Only then did his mother learn that Tong Wu's family owned more than a thousand cows. The reason he sold the cows to go to university was because his parents had just invested all their money in calves, so they had no choice but to sell one of their breeding cows.

On the spot, Tong Wu's three roommates beat him up and made him roast a whole lamb for them before the matter was considered closed.

“That makes sense. In the current market, it’s better to inherit the family business than to start a business.”

"Oh right, bro, I also ordered a Xiaomi SU7 Ultra."

"?" Xu Mu's eyes widened. "You fucking deserve to die!"

"Can I borrow your car?"

“It’s packaged!”

Tong Wu replied, then asked, "Brother Mu, didn't you never attend the reunion in previous years? You said you were afraid of feeling awkward seeing Zhou Mengting? So why did you decide to attend this year's reunion?"

Xu Mu smiled and thought of a rather pretentious remark, "People always have to face their past experiences and give their youth a satisfactory answer!"

"Awesome!" Tong Wu sent a thumbs-up emoji. "As expected of my Brother Mu!"

"It's all in the past, let's not talk about it anymore."

Xu Mu sent a message, thinking that Tong Wu's family should be well-off, and that Tong Wu should have saved some money in the years since graduation.

Or, should we ask him to lend us some?

Xu Mu hesitated for a moment before typing, "Tong Wu, lend me some money!"

(End of this chapter)