All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

He got up very early the next morning. His parents thought he was going to study hard, but they only saw him staring at the door.

"Jianjun, what's so interesting about outside the door? Why are you staring at it the whole time?"

"nothing."

Cheng Jianjun went out and pretended to exercise in the yard more and more.

He quietly followed Han Chunming after he saw him leave.

They followed Han Chunming all the way to the warehouse where the supplies were stored.

He saw Han Chunming, Taozi, and Cai Xiaoli outside.

Not long after, he saw Cai Xiaoli and Taozi each carrying something out of the yard.

After Taozi and the others left, Han Chunming came out of the yard carrying a large bag of things.

He saw Han Chunming put the things on the back of his bicycle, tie them to it, and ride away.

Cheng Jianjun also quietly followed, wanting to see what Han Chunming and the others were doing.

He followed them all the way and learned that Han Chunming and his group were secretly plotting something.

Cheng Jianjun's lips curled up. Han Chunming was doomed this time, as was that Boss Zhou.

Once Han Chunming went inside, no one else would compete with him for Su Meng.

Cheng Jianjun stopped following Han Chunming and rode away quickly on his bicycle.

Then the betrayal began; Cheng Jianjun called and reported Han Chunming and his group.

Han Chunming, Cai Xiaoli, and Taozi were invited to have tea.

When Han Chunming was arrested, Zhou Yongcheng's warning to him immediately came to mind: be careful of Cheng Jianjun.

He knew that he was 90% sure that Cheng Jianjun was behind his arrest, because he saw Cheng Jianjun in the yard when he went out in the morning. He had never seen Cheng Jianjun exercising in the yard before.

It's highly unlikely that anyone would report him, because he sells everyday items, not contraband.

"Name."

"Han Chunming".

. . .

As the interrogation unfolded, Han Chunming answered every question without hiding anything.

"Where do you get the stuff you're selling? We don't have anything this good in Yanjing."

"this..."

Han Chunming was wondering whether he should reveal Boss Zhou's name.

"Is the batch of goods you sold that of a Mr. Zhou? Where is he now?"

Han Chunming didn't expect that Cheng Jianjun would also report Boss Zhou. It must have been him who reported him, because Cheng Jianjun only knew that Boss Zhou's surname was Zhou, but not his given name. Otherwise, the police would definitely know Boss Zhou's name as well.

"I don't know. That Mr. Zhou is very mysterious. I only met him recently."

Tell me how you met.

So Han Chunming recounted how they met.

The police didn't know how to arrest Boss Zhou either; they had too little information and could only wait and see.

"Officer, my two companions were just helping me sell the goods. If anyone should be punished, it should be me. They were just doing my job."

"What you've done could be a big deal or a small deal. We need to report it to our superiors and see how they handle it. For now, you can just stay here and relax."

That's how Han Chunming and the other two were locked up.

The police officers also began to plan the arrest of Boss Zhou. After all, it was very unusual that Boss Zhou had managed to bring so many things to Beijing so quietly without them receiving any information. They had to arrest him and find out the truth.

The next morning, Zhou Yongcheng didn't wake up until the sun had been up for an hour or two.

After washing up, Zhou Yongcheng had breakfast at his usual spot and then drove to the factory to complete his resignation procedures.

I first went to the production workshop office and asked the clerk for a resignation form.

"Yongcheng is leaving?"

People in the office were quite surprised by Zhou Yongcheng's departure.

Zhou Yongcheng was known as a workaholic. Everyone in the factory who knew him knew that he had almost never taken a day off in all the years he had worked at the dyeing factory.

Sometimes he would go to work even when he was slightly sick, and he would only ask for leave when he really couldn't take it anymore. He once said that he would not leave as long as the factory was up.

They never expected that he would resign now, and in such an emergency, which was something they hadn't anticipated.

This is the kind of job where if you don't resign, you're fine, but if you do resign, you leave immediately.

"I'm not planning to stay in the dyeing business anymore; I'm going to switch to another job," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"You've found a good place to go. Don't forget your friends from the bottom of the earth once you've made it big," the office clerk joked.

"Don't worry, I will definitely not forget everyone."

After chatting for a while, Manager Huang walked in from outside.

After exchanging pleasantries with Supervisor Huang, I had him sign the resignation form.

After leaving the office, he went upstairs to get the director's signature. The director didn't say much about Zhou Yongcheng's resignation, just asked a few formulaic questions and signed the document.

Finally, there was the factory manager. He was even more direct. He didn't ask any questions, just signed the document and glanced at Zhou Yongcheng.

Zhou Yongcheng was, after all, just a low-level foreman in the factory. Anyone could take the place of foreman. The factory leaders didn't care about ability; they only cared about who was beneficial to them.

After signing the papers, Zhou Yongcheng went to the office building to hand in his resignation form. After waiting for a while, the finance department settled all of his wages for the previous month and this month.

Zhou Yongcheng calculated his salary. Last month's salary was normal, but this month's salary was calculated based on the basic salary, with nothing else.

Since he was leaving in an emergency, there was nothing the factory could do. That's the factory's policy. If you leave normally, you get all the factory benefits. But if you want to leave immediately and get your salary right away, sorry, you only get the most basic salary.

Zhou Yongcheng didn't dwell on the fact that his salary from last month plus this month totaled around ten thousand yuan.

After leaving the factory, I sat in the car and looked around at the factory where I had worked for seven or eight years. I had a feeling that I couldn't quite explain.

It's not that I'm reluctant to leave; I'm just feeling sentimental and thinking about the path I came from.

I dropped out of university and came to this factory. I've been in Jiangnan Province all these years and have never gone back.

Once the reseller's business is on the right track and he's made a fortune, he'll return home in glory.

I wonder how the houses in the village are doing. My third uncle said they've started leaking. I should go back and check on them.

Zhou Yongcheng lost his father when he was young and was raised by his mother. The uncles and elders in the village were very kind to him and his mother and often helped them.

His mother died shortly after he started university due to overwork.

He returned home and, with the help of relatives, buried his mother. Originally, the uncles and elders in the village were going to support him to go to university.

However, he and his mother owed them too much over the years, so he refused their help and secretly went to work in Jiangnan Province.

Shaking his head, Zhou Yongcheng tried not to think about anything else, and drove away, probably never to come back again.

On the way back to his rented room, Zhou Yongcheng drove while thinking about what to buy.

In the 1970s and 80s, resources were scarce, so it was possible to procure more daily necessities. Although the money earned from these goods was less, the value of the money earned by the interdimensional trader was definitely different between the two dimensions.

Since he decided to purchase daily necessities, he needed to find a temporary warehouse and use his car to transport the supplies to the rented house. That would be too difficult, and he didn't know how many trips he would have to make.

With things sorted out, Zhou Yongcheng decided to rent a temporary warehouse first. He didn't need to rent it for too long, as he wouldn't be staying in Jiangnan Province for long anyway.

Then he would purchase more supplies and put them in the warehouse. He only needed to use the storage space in the warehouse to move the supplies to the world below Zhengyangmen.