Reborn 73 years later, he takes his mother-in-law hunting in the mountains.

Lu Yao looked at her, puzzled by her sudden change in demeanor – one moment she was all official authority, the next she was so humble.

Lu Yao spoke calmly:

"Team Leader Shi, please have some self-respect. I just got married and have a wife. You also have a family."

Shi Mengyi squatted there for a long time without moving.

Then she suddenly laughed, a laugh tinged with bitterness.

"I'm sorry." She sat back down, picked up her glass, and took another sip. "I... I couldn't control myself."

Lu Yao didn't say anything, poured himself a glass of wine, and drank it slowly.

After a long silence, Shi Mengyi put down her wine glass, looked at him and said:

"Xiao Lu, you're a good person."

Lu Yao laughed: "I wouldn't call myself a good person, but I do have principles."

Shi Mengyi nodded, stood up, and put on her coat:

"Come on, I'll take you to the glass factory."

After being rejected twice, Shi Mengyi dared not develop feelings again.

She didn't fall in love with Lu Yao; she admired his masculinity.

Apart from her elders and superiors, all the men around her were obsequious to her, so she couldn't feel any manly integrity at all.

After her brother Shi Shouyin returned, he praised Lu Yao to the skies.

He also said that he couldn't even control a small militiaman, and was trapped by love.

Shi Mengyi began to take an interest in Lu Yao, whom she had never met before.

Upon first meeting Lu Yao, I felt even more that my brother's description was truly not an exaggeration.

So it was only natural that they would try to win over Lu Yao.

Moreover, there is a physiological desire for it.

After being hit twice by Lu Yao, she suddenly felt a sense of being controlled by a man. .

Not only was she not angry, but she also enjoyed the process.

However, Lu Yao wouldn't listen to her and couldn't continue torturing her.

So I feel the timing isn't right yet.

He got up and took Lu Yao to run errands.

If she wanted Lu Yao to be on good terms with her, she had to do him a favor.

The two went downstairs and got into the car.

Shi Mengyi gave directions, and the car headed west of the city.

After driving for about ten minutes, we arrived at a dilapidated factory area.

A sign hangs at the entrance, white background with black lettering:

Jiangzhou County Glass Products Factory.

The lettering has faded, and the iron gate is badly rusted.

Shi Mengyi got out of the car and walked inside.

Lu Yao followed behind:

"Team Leader Shi, you haven't been in Jiangzhou long, have you? You seem quite familiar with this place?"

"Of course, my dad often brought me here when I was little. My brother also came often. And my husband, Liang Chunlin, his uncle lives in Jiangzhou."

Lu Yao suddenly had a thought and asked:

"What is your father-in-law's name?"

"Liang Dongxu, what are you doing? Do you know their family?"

Lu Yao shook his head: "I don't know him."

I have a general idea in my mind.

Shi Mengyi glanced at Lu Yao but didn't ask any more questions.

Lu Yao assumed that it was only because he had mentioned the Liang family that Lu Yao asked this question.

Perhaps it's because she's become closer to her man that she's become wary of him.

As they walked inside, he said to Lu Yao:

"Many of my father's former subordinates are here in Jiangzhou, so even though I've just been transferred here, I have more connections than you."

The factory was empty, with broken glass shards piled on the ground.

The factory buildings were all closed, and some of the windows were broken and boarded up.

We walked to the innermost room, the door was open, and people were talking inside.

Shi Mengyi knocked on the door and went in.

Inside sat a man in his fifties, wearing reading glasses, reading a newspaper.

Upon seeing Shi Mengyi, he quickly stood up.

"Mengyi? What brings you here?"

"Uncle Sun, I brought someone with me. He wants to buy some things." Shi Mengyi pointed to Lu Yao. "This is Lu Yao. He's from Jiapigou. He wants to start a winery and wants to get some wine bottles."

Factory Director Sun glanced at Lu Yao, nodded, and said to Shi Mengyi:

"Is your dad doing well?"

He first exchanged a few polite greetings, and then said:

"Now that you've brought it up, things will be much easier."

He walked to the door and called out:

"Xiao Li, open the warehouse door."

The group went to the warehouse, where rows of wooden crates were piled up. When they opened them, they found they were full of liquor bottles.

Green ones, white ones, tall ones, short ones, all neatly arranged.

Factory Manager Sun said, "These were all shipped before the Lunar New Year. The factory went bankrupt, and not a single one has been touched. How many do you want? I'll give them to you at the clearance price, not a penny more."

Lu Yao looked at them and asked, "I want these transparent liquor bottles. How much are they?"

"These... um... how about one cent and five pieces each? Is that alright?"

Shi Mengyi looked rather unhappy:

"What are you doing, Uncle Sun? If I hadn't brought anyone, all you'd have here would be junk. You have to throw it away!"

"How can you throw that away? Even if you have to sell broken glass shards, you can still get five cents each."

"Five cents then? You think you can make a profit? It's not easy for the commune to start a business and be self-reliant. Is this the price you're getting? If not, we're leaving and won't do business with you again!"

Factory Director Sun, looking utterly miserable, asked Lu Yao, "So, how much can you use?"

Lu Yao did the math in his head and realized that five cents was much cheaper than the price of a new bottle.

They asked Factory Director Sun, "How many do you have?"

"I still have at least ten thousand white bottles of the same size here."

Lu Yao nodded: "If it's five cents, I'll take it all."

Factory Director Sun looked at Shi Mengyi and asked:

"Mengyi, is this your... relative?"

"My younger brother, my two aunts' brother."

Factory Director Sun knew in his heart that Shi Mengyi was lying, but since she had said that, he was genuinely trying to help the young man.

He absolutely cannot afford to offend historians.

Our own factory has gone bankrupt, so we might be able to use the Shi family's influence in the future.

So I simply pretended to be generous and smiled:

"Young man, you're a straightforward guy. Just have someone come and pick it up tomorrow. I'll have them load it onto the truck."

Just as Lu Yao was about to agree, Shi Mengyi spoke again:

"Uncle Sun, don't you have trucks here for hauling goods? Why don't you deliver it? How could a small winery in Jiapigou Village have its own truck?"

"Huh? This..."

Factory Director Sun was in a bit of a dilemma:

"Five cents is already a losing proposition, if I were to drive on top of that..."

Shi Mengyi's face is becoming increasingly unattractive:

"Uncle Sun, when you came to my house last year, you told my dad that you needed to see me in Jiangzhou. You're making excuses for such a small matter. Never mind then, I'll take Lu Yao to Liaochun to take a look."

As she spoke, she tried to pull Lu Yao outside.

Factory Director Sun nodded quickly:

"No problem, I'll find a car. Don't be angry, niece!"

He knew Shi Mengyi's temper. If he walked out that door, not only would he lose contact with the Shi family in the future, but he might also face difficulties.

They cost five cents each, so ten thousand bottles would only cost fifty dollars, and they even deliver the bottles to your door.

Even scrap collectors can't get it this cheap.

Lu Yao hadn't expected this.

Shi Mengyi is practically buying, asking, and snatching.

Lu Yao immediately took out fifty yuan and gave it to Factory Director Sun.

Factory Director Sun then arranged for a vehicle to deliver the goods.

Shi Mengyi looked at Lu Yao:

"Are you satisfied, brother?"

"It's alright, thank you, Team Leader Shi."

"Are you still going to hit me?"

Lu Yao couldn't help but smile.

The Shi siblings broadened his horizons considerably.

I witnessed the multi-layered and diverse nature of humanity.

They might not be good people to others, or even be quite awful. But to themselves, they are inexplicably kind.

Shi Shouyin was a psychopath, which is understandable.

This Shi Mengyi seems much more normal than him, so why is she so unconditionally good to him?

He slapped her, yet she still catered to his wishes.

Seeing Lu Yao in a daze, Shi Mengyi reached out and pulled him:

"Let's go, are you still going to stay here counting bottles? Don't worry, he'll give you more, he won't dare to give you less."

"Where do we go?"

"Let's go to the riverbank. I'd like you to come with me for a while, okay?"