Lin Sen brainstormed the entire way but still couldn't figure it out. Finally, he had no choice but to give up in frustration.
Meanwhile.
Half-Immortal Su, who had just escaped the foreign language class that always made him drowsy, was also wondering why his eldest niece was looking for him. It wasn't until they met that he learned she wanted to open a fertilizer factory and needed him to cast a divination for it.
He was both surprised and overjoyed.
Half-Immortal Su didn't know or care what fertilizer was; he only knew one thing—
His eldest niece was truly going to settle down!
As the saying goes, one must settle down to establish a career. In the past, although Su Ning always said she wanted to completely settle down in China and build a mansion, she still had so many properties and businesses abroad.
Conversely, she had nothing in China.
Who could feel at ease with that?
Half-Immortal Su had secretly performed several religious rituals for this very reason, asking the ancestors to exert themselves and bless his eldest niece so she could quickly start a big business and make big money in China.
He patted his chest and promised:
"Eldest niece, just rest assured. Today I will definitely use all my power to calculate this clearly for you."
"Mm, I believe you."
Su Ning played along perfunctorily. She handed over the map and then paid it no more mind, joyfully calling out to the system in her heart, "Lottery draw, I want to do a lottery draw."
The familiar dazzling light effect flashed by.
"Huh—"
The moment she saw the prize, Su Ning cheered happily in her heart. Sure enough, metaphysics could change one's fate. Although it wasn't a particularly expensive item, it was exactly what she needed.
A full twenty cars.
Note: You can choose any model. Modifications can be made as long as they do not exceed the current level of technological development. The modification costs will be added to the item's price.
Therefore, the price is a range.
Su Ning had already thought of many ways to modify the cars for protection in her head, but she just didn't understand the technological development level of the Republic of China era... So she called out to the system in a sickeningly sweet voice.
"Don't even think about it."
The Heartless Rich System said warily:
"This system has told you before that I cannot interfere with the host's missions. If the main system finds out, we'll both be in trouble."
"I'm just asking you to help me use it as a reference. At most, it's just skirting the edge of the rules."
Su Ning still didn't give up and played the emotional card:
"You also know that I don't have a single person I can completely trust in the Republic of China. If I ask about these things rashly, I'll be suspected. Who else but you can help me?"
"The environment here is too dangerous."
"Any random person with a pistol could threaten my life. System... You've seen my performance, isn't it highly likely that I'll complete the mission?"
"You don't want to see me die carelessly at someone else's hands one day, do you?"
"H-how could it be that serious."
The system retorted. Su Ning heard its hesitation and was about to push her advantage when she suddenly and sensitively noticed that the atmosphere outside seemed a bit off—
She wasn't the only one who had just gone "Huh."
There was also Half-Immortal Su.
...
"Uncle, are you saying that the people living in this place are all members of the Su clan?"
Su Ning didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. Although she had experienced Deshun's memories, she had started out lying on a board... Alas, the past was unbearable to recall.
In short, there were no memories of her hometown.
"You can't exactly say that."
Half-Immortal Su replied absentmindedly, "If I remember correctly, although most of the people in this village are surnamed Su, there are also a few families with other surnames."
"Otherwise, it would have been renamed Su Family Village long ago!"
He steadied his nerves. "Eldest niece, the place where you want to build the factory is here?"
"That's right."
Su Ning nodded, while simultaneously recalling the description of this Japanese observation base in the original plot, which included only a few brief sentences about the original villagers.
To hide information and isolate it from outside inquiries.
The Japanese first kept the villagers there by hiring them to help, and then they created an explosion that not only killed all the villagers.
But also made this area a famous cursed land.
Everyone avoided it like the plague.
This made it convenient for the Japanese to carry out major renovations here.
Why did anything associated with the word "Su" seem to have a bad ending? Su Ning felt that she was experiencing the deep malice of this world towards her—and she once again complained to the system in her heart.
In reality, she curiously asked why the clan and the Su family in Beiping seemed to have had no contact for so many years, and why Half-Immortal Su didn't return to the village even when he was so poor.
The reason was very simple.
Eunuch Su harbored hatred towards his family. Aside from adopting Half-Immortal Su's father, he had no contact with the clan.
Nor did he give them any benefits.
Of course, with the clan producing such a powerful eunuch, they still had a backer of sorts. Exorbitant taxes and hard labor conscription basically never fell on their shoulders.
The relationship between the two sides at that time was lukewarm.
But it was still maintained.
However, when Eunuch Su fell from power, the situation changed. In the words of Half-Immortal Su, the clan also suffered bad luck. The officials couldn't easily deal with the fleeing members of the Su family.
So they turned their sights on the Su clan.
It wasn't too excessive; they just took back all the previous privileges and were the first to collect taxes and conscript labor from them...
No wonder the relationship soured.
Su Ning thought, falling from heaven to the underground, even if they knew it was just returning to normal, most people couldn't help but feel a sense of misdirected anger.
However, having so many clansmen who appeared to be connected by blood to outsiders—she was very tempted. After all, it was different from what was written in some novels.
In the society of the Republic of China, people banded together for warmth.
Relatives and clansmen were always more trustworthy than outsiders!
Moreover, Su Ning deeply trusted the strength of the villains surnamed Su. Even if they couldn't compare to Half-Immortal Su and the others, they could win by sheer numbers when accumulated.
The speed of earning rewards and spending money could both greatly increase.
"...However, we have contact again now." Half-Immortal Su didn't notice his eldest niece's eyes lighting up. He lowered his head and said somewhat embarrassedly:
"It's just that, regarding the purchase of bricks, tiles, and stones that you entrusted to Chenzi, he found a reliable channel, but he doesn't have enough reliable manpower to mobilize. So, thinking that the wealth shouldn't flow into outsiders' fields,"
"He went to the village to recruit people."
Sorry, son, I still exposed your shortcomings.
Half-Immortal Su thought helplessly.
He knew that although Su Chen didn't say it, just like his daughter Zhenzhu, for some reason they both extremely valued their image in the eyes of their eldest cousin.
They didn't want to expose even the slightest bit of wretchedness.
Su Ning actually didn't mind this, and even somewhat appreciated Su Chen's drive. After casually praising him a few times, she smiled and said to Half-Immortal Su:
"Bones may break, but the sinews remain connected. When there are benefits, of course we should think of our relatives. Cousin did a good job... I didn't know before, but now that I know, I won't ignore them."
Half-Immortal Su nodded repeatedly as he listened.
The next second, he was stunned—
"It's also fate. I was wondering why this piece of land looked so pleasing to my eyes. It turns out it's our ancestral land; it will definitely bring me even more prosperity." Su Ning enthusiastically expressed that she wanted it even more.
Even Lin Sen hesitated to speak.
Using the ancestral land to open a fertilizer factory, is this your way of not ignoring your clansmen, Miss?
Su Ning: Of course, the relocation fee I'm giving is high, and I'm saving their lives. If they are still unhappy, then it's a case of good words being unable to persuade a damned ghost!
The next day.
Su Ning received a visiting card signed by Sato Kaneto. She directly had someone throw it into the trash can and put out the word that she was determined to get this piece of land.
Having the door slammed in his face.
Sato was angry, but there was nothing he could do. The municipal government stood completely on Su Ning's side.
No matter how hard he tried, he was at his wits end. After racking his brain, his thoughts eventually turned to the villagers. These people were ignorant and unruly, and he had already promised them that he would continue to hire them to work the fields once he bought the land.
If the land went to Su Ning instead, all of those promises would go up in smoke.
With that on the line, there was no way they wouldn't cause a scene!
