Chapter 66

Chen Yang kept waiting for Yexin to come home, but seeing that it had already gotten dark, he could only use her kitchen to cook two bowls of beef noodles.

This woman is much like Liu Qingqing—her fridge is full of ingredients, yet she never cooks.

When the noodles were done, Shen Anna smelled them and came downstairs. After a bite she found it to her liking and gave Chen Yang a thumbs‑up.

"Chen Yang, you're amazing—you make money, you're handsome, and your noodles are this delicious. I'm even a little jealous of Lin Wei, that girl."

Chen Yang enjoyed her praise, but modestly said, "Actually, aside from being a bit handsome, I'm just average in other respects."

Shen Anna looked at Chen Yang, suddenly seeming to have an insight. She sighed and said, "Actually, that person aside from not being able to cook, is pretty much like you in other ways. When I was young, for him I even fell out with my parents. I never expected to end up alone in the end."

Chen Yang asked, "Who is that person? What does he do? Later I'll help you teach him a lesson!"

Shen Anna said, "His name is Wang Yichen, the future heir of Wang Real Estate."

"Wang Real Estate?" Chen Yang froze for a moment—that was the developer that bought Plot No. 8 of International New City in his previous life and later ran into trouble. "Don't worry, his good days won't last long."

"Why?" Seeing Chen Yang's confident look, Shen Anna became a bit curious.

Chen Yang put on a mysterious air and said, "I just secretly cast a spell on him."

Shen Anna gave Chen Yang a sideways glance and continued eating her noodles.

"Really!" Chen Yang declared solemnly, "My spell is effective; he will surely get his comeuppance."

Shen Anna still didn't believe it, but she felt touched inside. When she's in a bad mood, having someone nearby to cheer her up is a treatment she hasn't enjoyed for many years.

After finishing the noodles, Yexin still hadn't returned. Unable to sleep, Shen Anna brought up work with Chen Yang. When they talked about the unsold agricultural products in Qingshui City, she suddenly had an idea she thought was not bad.

"Chen Yang, I think you should seize this opportunity to sign long‑term cooperation contracts with those farming households engaged in industry. First take control of Qingshui City's primary market; thereafter, whether wholesaling or retailing, you'll hold the initiative."

"It's hard—Qingshui City has over ten thousand farming households engaged in industry. I'm not Sun Wukong, able to manifest a hundred thousand clones to discuss business with them." Chen Yang actually had considered this, but after recruiting a few days at the Qingshui City Labor Bureau, he found no suitable candidates.

Shen Anna didn't quite grasp Chen Yang's words, saying, "You don't need to go yourself. Just hire more sales staff and assign them tasks."

Chen Yang sighed and said, "The people of Qingshui City are ordinary laid‑off workers. If you have them follow your instructions honestly, there's no problem doing the work. But running sales is truly difficult—not to mention going to the countryside, even asking them to go to the county towns around Qingshui makes them unwilling."

Shen Anna thought and said, "You can recruit in Xingcheng! Nowadays college students aren't being assigned jobs, right? Offer higher pay and better benefits, and someone will surely be interested. College students have strong learning ability; if you spend money hiring professional teachers to train them, they can be on the job in at most half a month."

Chen Yang thought it made sense and immediately agreed to her suggestion.

Shen Anna also said, "Regarding the contract, I suggest you hire the best lawyers to handle it. Spending a bit more is fine; we must tightly bind these merchants to our company so competitors can't exploit them later."

Chen Yang hesitated a bit at her suggestion. Because the list of those farming households in Qingshui City was provided by Xu Li. If the contract is too strict, once the farmers kick up a fuss, Xu Li and Lin Wei will be implicated as well.

If we don't use Xu Li's list, the required manpower and time would increase by multiples or even many times. Not only would efficiency be low, but it would also be easy for competitors to notice.

"The contract can be handled by a professional legal team, but it shouldn't have too many clauses. At least you need to make sure the farmers can understand the content. That way, if any dispute arises later, we'll still be in the right."

Shen Anna reminded Chen Yang, "In business you can't be too kind, or you'll suffer a big loss."

Chen Yang could only explain to her, "If the contract is too strict, my wife certainly won't agree. Her division is responsible for agriculture and rural affairs, and the farmers' list was also provided by them. If something goes wrong, they'll have to take responsibility."

Shen Anna fell silent at once. If it were Yexin, she would surely support me without hesitation. But Lin Wei is different—her maternal grandfather, when in office, was the famous Iron‑Blood Yama of Dongjiangsheng. If we anger him, neither she nor I will have good days ahead.

"How about this: we loosen the contract for Qingshui City, but tighten it elsewhere. Anyway you want to turn the whole Dongjiangsheng into a network, so we might as well lay it out early."

Chen Yang temporarily had no better solution, so he could only accept her suggestion for now. His bottom line is that he must not affect Lin Wei's prospects.

After the two reached an agreement, Yexin finally came back.

Seeing Chen Yang and Shen Anna chatting happily, she was quite surprised. "You two, a single man and woman, have been alone together in a room for so long—someone just happens to be emotionally vacant; you didn't do anything improper, did you?"

Shen Anna gave Yexin an annoyed glare. "Can't a man and woman talk about anything besides that? Like work."

"No!" Yexin replied firmly. "At least the sleazy guys I've met who pretend to talk about work are just thinking about dirty things."

Chen Yang felt a bit of a clash with Yexin and prepared to withdraw.

"How come? Feeling guilty? I just said you two definitely have a problem."

"Miss Yexin, have you ever seen a man and woman do that without taking off their clothes? Is it soul dual cultivation?"

"Soul dual cultivation? You can actually play it like that?"

"……"

Chen Yang decisively walked away. If they kept talking, Yexin might go to Lin Wei's place to say something bad. He really didn't want to become a bureau chief.

Seeing Chen Yang run off, Shen Anna hurried after him to remind him in one sentence: "Don't forget to prepare ten million yuan of startup funds for the company's account."

Chen Yang still wanted his stocks to rise for a couple more days, so he told her, "Have Yexin lend you the money first; I'll repay her after I sell the stocks."

Yexin, upon thinking of Chen Yang's stocks, got angry. "You can borrow money, but you have to pay interest. Not much—just one million yuan."

"Hey, talk about the interest with our company's CEO. As long as she agrees to cut company expenses, I have no objection." Chen Yang said that and then drove off quickly.

Shen Anna waited until Chen Yang's car disappeared before turning back, then began to complain about Yexin: "Chen Yang is, after all, Lin Wei's man—can't you treat him a little better?"

Yexin laughed angrily at Shen Anna's behavior. "That guy, stepping on my shoulder, made a fortune in the stock market—anyone else would have chopped him up long ago. Besides, regarding this International New City affair, I repeatedly warned him not to get involved, yet he still messed it up. You didn't see today how that dog couple were kissing my ass—really disgusting."

"It's fine." Shen Anna said indifferently: "Chen Yang already figured it out for me; that bastard's good days are almost over."

Yexin was speechless. This kind of petty trick to deceive ignorant women, Shen Anna actually believed it!