Chapter 421: Seventies: The Mature Husband 21

Hearing this, Xue Xingtong looked at her solemnly. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll take your money and run?”

She clearly didn’t care that profiteering was an act despised by others, nor was she using him.

If she were only trying to make use of him to earn some money, there was no need for her to give him fifty percent of the profits.

She was practically giving him money!

……

Hearing Xue Xingtong’s words, Tang Wan chuckled softly. “I’m not afraid. You’re not that kind of person.”

Then she asked, “So? What do you think?”

Hearing this, Xue Xingtong clenched both fists before nodding heavily. “Okay! But the split has to be changed from fifty-fifty to twenty-eighty. I’ll take two, and you’ll take eight.”

Tang Wan frowned slightly.

Then she said to him, “No. If this gets discovered, you’ll go to prison. The risk you’re taking is enough to justify you getting fifty percent.”

“I have channels. Nothing will happen.” Xue Xingtong told her bluntly.

Actually, he had wanted to go outside the village to buy goods and resell them for a long time.

But he had no capital.

Now that Tang Wan had placed this opportunity right in his hands, he would absolutely seize it tightly!

Once he had enough money, who the hell would still care about grain exchanged for work points?

By then, it wouldn’t even be a problem for him to move into the city!

……

“Forty-sixty at the lowest. If you keep this up, I’ll find someone else!” Tang Wan said, her expression turning stern.

Seeing this, Xue Xingtong stared deeply at her for a long while before finally nodding and saying with difficulty, “Fine. Then forty-sixty!”

In his heart, he silently owed her another favor, while bitterly thinking: The better you are, the more it makes me feel that I don’t deserve to love you.

Ever since the day his parents committed suicide, he had never thought about getting married. All he had thought about was how to raise his younger brother and sister.

It was only after meeting Tang Wan that he learned that there was actually someone so wonderful in this world.

But she was like a high cloud floating naturally in the sky, while he was nothing more than a lowly speck of dust in the mud. No matter how he looked up at her, he could never be worthy of the cloud’s purity and beauty.

……

After he agreed, Tang Wan reached into her pocket and handed him eight hundred yuan. “Here’s eight hundred yuan. Keep fifty yuan for travel expenses. Eat well on the way. If you run into danger, your life comes first. Forget about the goods if you have to, understand?”

Hearing this, Xue Xingtong accepted the money she handed him and nodded.

“Mm. Don’t worry. Nothing will happen.” Xue Xingtong spoke with certainty.

“Mm. Your safety comes first.” Tang Wan reminded him again.

At this time, some places were still quite chaotic. There were plenty of pickpockets on trains, as well as gangs of hooligans.

“I will.” Xue Xingtong greedily listened to her concern.

……

After Tang Wan finished giving him instructions, she got up and prepared to leave.

“Then I’ll leave this to you. Have a safe journey.”

“Mm.” Xue Xingtong silently saw her out of the Xue family home.

That very night, he packed his things, carrying the love he had desperately suppressed deep within his heart, and left overnight with a forged letter of introduction.

The village had only just begun raising seedlings, and there was still some time before the rice would be transplanted and they would have to start working in the summer. As long as he made it back before then, there would be no problem.

……

After returning home, Tang Wan sighed helplessly. “The Tongtong of this world is really difficult to deal with! In the original plot, the female protagonist only gave his family a little food, and he became completely devoted to her. Why isn’t it working when it comes to me?”

Little Cutie immediately said, “Host, don’t worry! Take your time. You’ll move him eventually.”

“There’s nothing I can do but that.”

Yet she didn’t know that some people weren’t incapable of loving. They were simply suppressing their love with all their might.

And feelings that were suppressed and restrained to such an extreme degree couldn’t even be detected by the system.

But when such feelings finally erupted, they would inevitably be passionate and unstoppable.