Chapter 164

"Liu Yahang?"

Along the way, many people in the village saw him, and everyone's expression was about the same as The Little Guy's.

Didn't he get sentenced to eighteen years? How could he be out after only a few years?

Liu Yahang was no saint. In the early eighties, he started speculating and doing business, and his guts were absolutely boundless. Also, when he was dating Luo Yuezhen, someone bullied her, and he chased that person for two miles with a knife, scaring that person so much that they didn't dare to go home for several days.

But ever since Liu Yahang went in, some people returned to their old ways, and they didn't do few wicked things targeting Luo Yuezhen, a widow with children. Now that they saw him back, these people started to feel guilty and turned around to walk home.

The closer he got to home, the hotter Liu Yahang's heart became, and his pace became faster and faster. Feeling that the bag in his hand was too much of a hindrance, he threw it into a ditch by the side of the road with a flick of his hand. It only contained some old clothes, so throwing it away was fine, and then he started running wildly.

Luo Yuezhen was washing clothes in the courtyard. The ice-cold water froze her hands red, but she was still rubbing them hard on the washboard.

At the gate, the simple wooden door was pushed open. Luo Yuezhen heard the footsteps getting closer and closer and felt very strange; no outsiders had ever come to her house.

Luo Yuezhen raised her head in confusion, and then she saw the man she had been thinking about day and night appear before her. Her body suddenly stiffened, and tears streamed down her face.

"Dahang, is it you?" Luo Yuezhen couldn't believe her eyes. She looked up at the sun; the sunlight was very dazzling, warm, and very real.

Liu Yahang nodded heavily: "It's me!"

Luo Yuezhen stood up abruptly, the wet clothes in her hand dropping into the washbasin with a thud. Then she reached out both hands and stroked Liu Yahang's face, cautiously, as if she were stroking a priceless cultural relic, very afraid that she would break it if she were not careful.

Luo Yuezhen's hands were very cold and also much rougher than they were a few years ago. Liu Yahang felt it immediately. He grabbed Luo Yuezhen's hands, and that chill transferred from his face to his palms.

"Wife, I've let you suffer all these years."

Liu Yahang's large hands made Luo Yuezhen feel a familiar sense of security. Tears were still flowing, but a smile appeared on her face.

"Dahang, I'm not dreaming, you're really back."

Liu Yahang hugged Luo Yuezhen: "No, you're not dreaming, I'm really back. From now on, we will never be separated again."

Luo Yuezhen hugged Liu Yahang tightly, as if she wanted to knead him into her own body: "If it weren't for Dongzi, I might not have been able to wait for you to come back."

"Dongzi?" Liu Yahang was very confused, "Which Dongzi? What happened?"

Luo Yuezhen explained the matter in detail: "You don't know, how desperate I was that night. If I hadn't met Dongzi, if he hadn't brought me rice and meat, and even given me money, I might have gone to see Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, and Mom, because I wouldn't have been so miserable if I were with them."

Speaking of this, Luo Yuezhen fell silent for a moment: "Dahang, this is a life-saving grace for me and the children; you must remember it."

Liu Yahang muttered: "Hmm, I remember, I will never dare to forget."

How could they know that if it weren't for Zhou Andong, Luo Yuezhen would have truly gone to see Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, and Mom yesterday, and what Liu Yahang would be facing now would only be a cold corpse.

Luo Yuezhen took a deep breath and pushed Liu Yahang away: "The year you went in, Dongzi had just started working. Now he is amazing; he is already the winery's director."

"Is that so?" Liu Yahang was very surprised, "He's only twenty-six or twenty-seven this year, right?"

Luo Yuezhen nodded: "That night, he said something inexplicable to me. I didn't understand it at the time, and actually, I don't understand it now, but it came true."

"What did he say?" Liu Yahang asked curiously.

Luo Yuezhen thought for a moment: "He said, it won't take half a year for you to come out, because the sky is about to change, the haze will dissipate, and the sun will come out."

Liu Yahang was stunned. Of course, he knew the reason why he came out, but Zhou Andong had predicted this day before the New Year, which simply made him unable to believe it. No wonder he became a director at such a young age; this kind of predictive ability and keen insight into policy is truly not something an ordinary person can possess.

"Right now, I have an urge to see him immediately."

Luo Yuezhen smiled: "He definitely isn't in the village. If you want to see him, you have to go to the winery. Today is definitely not possible; let's make it tomorrow. Our whole family will go and treat him to a meal."

Liu Yahang nodded: "Let's go, let's go inside and talk."

In less than half an hour, the news of Liu Yahang's release from prison spread throughout the village. When Li Jiutang heard this news, he was still drinking at Zhao Quan's house, and it took him a long while to let out a long sigh.

"He's out, it's good that he's out." Li Jiutang picked up his wine glass and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

"Sigh!" Zhao Quan sighed, "Regardless of anything else, Liu Yahang is back, and that girl Yuezhen can finally be considered to have reached the end of her suffering."

At this time, Zhao Jianlong came out of Jiang Zhengmin's office in high spirits and then went to the hotel.

Huo Xing was already waiting. Seeing Zhao Jianlong arrive, he hurriedly asked: "How is it?"

Zhao Jianlong smiled: "No problem, tomorrow I'll go through the mortgage procedures, 12 million."

Huo Xing nodded: "12 million, for us, is still a bit tight."

Zhao Jianlong said: "I also wanted to borrow more, but this is already the maximum amount Jiang Zhengmin can give me; it's impossible to get any more."

Huo Xing tapped his fingers on the tabletop: "Then go to other banks to borrow."

"Hmm?" Zhao Jianlong asked in confusion: "Can I still borrow?"

"Yes!" Huo Xing said: "Go to other provinces, find some people, give some gifts, and it will definitely be no problem."

"Good, let's do it that way." Zhao Jianlong was very excited, "Based on my relationship with Jiang Zhengmin, tomorrow, in one day, I can finish all the procedures. The day after tomorrow, you find connections to go to other provinces to borrow money. Of course, the more money, the better."

Huo Xing said: "Okay, but as for Jiang Zhengmin, you must keep it a secret."

Zhao Jianlong said with a smile: "Rest assured, I'm not a fool; how could I let him know."

At the winery, Zhou Andong sent An Jing's luggage upstairs. Just as he entered the office, Gu Bing came.

"I'll tell you a piece of news that I don't know is good or bad: Zhao Jianlong's piece of land has been approved."

Zhou Andong's spirit was lifted: "This is naturally good news."

He knew that after Zhao Jianlong borrowed a loan from Jiang Zhengmin, he ran to other provinces and borrowed two more. In this era, there was no internet, and because of information asymmetry, the banks had not discovered it.

This kind of operation had always been something Zhao Jianlong was proud of. Because of these three loans, the later Tenglong Real Estate would come into being. His wealth would snowball, getting bigger and bigger.