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Yao Lili's eyes lit up, but then she said, "If that's the case, we'll have to invest another few hundred thousand."

Lu Yang waved his hand: "Investment is inevitable in business. As long as the business gets better day by day, we can eventually break even."

Yang Lili wholeheartedly agreed: "In that case, let's wait until the factory is built before hiring workers, otherwise the whole factory will be a mess and it will be difficult to manage."

Lu Yang checked the time and decided to buy the building materials first, and then deal with building the factory after the New Year.

"There's no need to wait until the factory is built before training new employees."

"Let them stay in the factory here for a few months to get some experience. Once the new factory is built, they can start working right away, which will save a lot of trouble."

Yao Lili nodded: "Then I'll start recruiting tomorrow."

Lu Yang remained noncommittal. After the New Year's Day holiday, Lu Yang would have to continue going to school.

After returning to school, he noticed that the students around him treated him differently than before.

In the past, people would avoid him like the plague, fearing that he might actually be a murderer.

Moreover, the person he killed was a foreigner, which could easily cause him trouble.

But now that the truth has come out and Lu Yang has been cleared of suspicion, these people look at him much more kindly.

Lu Yang remained indifferent to these people's opinions; he went straight to his classroom and focused on the lesson.

Although he was always busy with work, he never neglected his studies and even ranked at the top of his class.

This made Zhou Yunkai and others look at him with new respect. When he first entered university, there were many sarcastic remarks from those around him.

Some people even think he's just trying to attract attention, and that he might be relying on the money his family gives him to make reckless investments and run some small businesses, thinking he's a big boss.

Many people wanted to see him ruin his studies and fail to make a living, like a clown.

Unexpectedly, two years later, Lu Yang's business was booming and his studies were consistently excellent, managing to balance both.

These classmates didn't say it, but they still admired Lu Yang a lot.

Therefore, after class, Zhou Yunkai and others couldn't help but ask, "Looks like you've cleared your name."

Lu Yang nodded: "Currently, it seems that Herix's partner Jack is more suspicious, but his identity is special and the police do not have any concrete evidence, so they have not convicted him."

Zhou Yunkai said with a pained expression, "This is a bit troublesome. If this Jack has some international connections, he is very likely to be extradited back to the country, and our local police may have a hard time convicting him."

Lu Yang had already thought of this, but he was powerless to do anything about it and could only wait for the results of the police investigation.

The group chatted as they walked and soon arrived at the school gate.

Zhou Yunkai whispered, "This guy is here again."

Lu Yang looked in the direction he pointed and saw a woman with a child on her back.

The woman looked young, maybe twenty-four or twenty-five at most, but she dressed very old-fashioned.

They look like they came from a village, and a poor mountainous area at that.

"Li Rongqing must be studying here, please let me in!"

The woman looked at the security guard at the door with a pleading expression, tears welling in her eyes.

The security guard was getting impatient: "I've told you so many times, there's no one named Li Rongqing in our school."

"Even if you get into the school, you definitely won't find him. You should try asking somewhere else, or you could call the police."

Upon hearing the words "call the police," the woman immediately shrank back, seemingly hesitant to go.

The security guard looked helpless, clearly not wanting to deal with her anymore.

Lu Yang was quite puzzled. He usually spent his time at school, except for attending classes, wandering around the library.

I don't know much about what's happening at school.

He asked Zhou Yunkai in surprise, "What's going on?"

Zhou Yunkai sighed and said, "This woman is from a village near Guangzhou."

She said her husband, Li Rongqing, was a sent-down youth who got into Shandong University. They agreed that he would bring them over after he went to university.

"But the woman waited in her hometown for more than a year, and Li Rongqing never went to pick them up."

"This woman couldn't make a living raising her child in the countryside, so she came here to find Li Rongqing."

Lu Yang frowned upon hearing this. In those days, it was not uncommon for educated youth who had gone to the countryside to return to the city to abandon their rural spouses.

Many people didn't say it outright, but they all knew in their hearts that this woman had most likely been abandoned by Li Rongqing.

Li Rongqing may not have attended Shandong University at all, but some other university.

This woman may be illiterate, which is why she was fooled by Li Rongqing.

Unfortunately, many people who get married in rural areas only have a half-table banquet and engage in a de facto marriage without actually getting a marriage certificate, so they are not legally husband and wife.

Just as he was pondering this, the little boy the woman was carrying started to cry loudly.

He couldn't help but feel sorry for the child, so he quickly walked over to the woman and said, "This child is probably hungry, right? My restaurant is nearby. Why don't you go and get something to eat? I'm also a student at Shandong University."

Seeing that both he and Zhou Yunkai came from Shandong University, the woman believed him to some extent and followed Lu Yang into a nearby food and beverage bar branch.

After the woman sat down, she glanced around nervously, looking very uneasy.

Lu Yang handed him the menu and said with a smile, "Order whatever you want."

The woman quickly waved her hands: "No, no, no, we don't have any money."

Lu Yang smiled and said, "Li Rongqing is indeed a student of Shandong University, and also our alumnus. It's no trouble for us to treat you to a meal. Don't be shy."

"Mom, I'm hungry..."

The woman hesitated, but her child's stomach was growling with hunger, and he tugged at her clothes, pleading softly.

The woman sighed and said helplessly, "Then I'll have to trouble you. Just make us whatever you want to eat, nothing too expensive."

Lu Yang nodded and asked the waiter to make them two bowls of knife-cut noodles.

Before the noodles were served, Lu Yang asked the woman about her recent situation in detail.

The woman's name was Chen Xiaohua, and she recounted her story with Li Rongqing.

It's a very old-fashioned story: a young intellectual sent to the countryside marries a local villager and has children.

They had heard the story of how the educated youth who went to university returned to the city and never came back, all at the school gate.

The woman didn't provide any further clues.

Lu Yang sensed something was off, so he quickly asked, "Do you know where he's from?"

Chen Xiaohua said helplessly, "His family is from a county near Guangzhou. I know the exact address because his family has mailed him things before."

“I went to all the addresses listed, but his family said he hadn’t been back.”

“Everyone says that Rongqing looks down on me because he got into university, but I know that Rongqing isn’t that kind of person. I’m just afraid that something might happen to Rongqing.”

Zhou Yunkai looked at her with suspicion: "Since you're worried about what might have happened to him, why don't you call the police?"