I Ran Away After Transmigrating as a Wealthy Daughter-in-Law  - Chapter 8

Striking while the iron was hot, Jiang Pan went to see the village head after lunch.

After listening to her, the village head was full of questions. She was a good student, a top scholar who had been away for years. Why had she suddenly come home and said she wanted to buy land to develop a farming business?

From his experience, she must have suffered some kind of trauma outside the village that made her come back and buy land like a madwoman.

Village head: “Child, are you planning to buy all the unused land in our village?”

Jiang Pan nodded. “If you have the connections, I’d like to buy the unused land in the surrounding villages, too.”

Village head: “…Huh? What?”

The village head looked astonished. He frowned in confusion. “Why?” Without waiting for Jiang Pan to answer, he leaned in and lowered his voice. “Child, be honest with me. Did something happen to you out there?”

Jiang Pan answered calmly, “No, not really. I just got divorced, and I didn’t want to stay in C City anymore, so I decided to come home and start a new life.”

The village head thought about it and felt that made sense. He expressed his sincere sympathy.

But Jiang Pan was the first and only top student in his thirty-year career as a village head. He had been praised for it back then.

He never thought that just a few years later, the same top student would come back to the village to farm. It was the first time in his thirty-year career that he had a complete failure.

For a moment, the village head doubted his worth. He felt like he had failed as a village head.

He had let the only top student in the village come back to farm.

“Child, I am partly responsible for your current situation.” The village head felt a sense of guilt. The next second, he perked up. “Don’t worry. As long as I’m the village head, I won’t stand by and watch you farm. I’ll call my son and have him find you a job in the city. Or, I can take you to see him right now. He’ll at least hire you as an accountant at his factory.”

Jiang Pan: “…”

She wanted to laugh, but she couldn’t deny the village head’s good intentions. Jiang Pan just didn’t understand why farmers had started to feel that farming was no longer something to be proud of.

However, since she was here, she had to convince the village head to help her.

Jiang Pan first thanked the village head for his kindness and then began to discuss the benefits of farming.

“Farming here is in line with my major. It’s a shame to see so much land wasted. I want to buy it all so I can do large-scale farming. Of course, I’ll need the help of the villagers. The villagers will still farm their land, and they only need to give me 10% of their income. But, since the land belongs to me, they have to listen to me regarding what to plant, how to plant it, how to manage it, and how to sell the products. This will make it easier to lead the villagers to make money together,” Jiang Pan said sincerely. “Village head, I need your support.”

The village head was stunned by what Jiang Pan said. He was speechless for a moment.

After a moment of silence, he asked sincerely, “Where are you going to get all that money?”

“Don’t worry about the money; I won’t short anyone a single cent.” Jiang Pan took out her card and boasted calmly. “I have ten million on this one card alone. I have several cards like this.”

At that, the village head’s eyes widened in shock.

She was so young and already had so much money. He kept his furrowed expression and asked, “This money… you didn’t do anything illegal out there, did you?”

Jiang Pan promised, “The money is completely clean.”

The village head was relieved. “Good.”

Jiang Pan continued to persuade him. “Village head, so much land has been wasted and overgrown with weeds all these years. It’s better to plant trees or flowers than to let it sit there. No one has solved this problem for us, so we’ll solve it ourselves. When the villagers get rich, the surrounding villages will follow our lead. This is a benefit to…”

“Benefit to humanity!” The village head excitedly finished her sentence.

Jiang Pan’s mouth twitched slightly. “It’s not that big of a deal. But at the very least, we’ll be able to plant crops on the village’s unused land, and the villagers will definitely have more income.”

The village head nodded repeatedly. He was already starting to agree with Jiang Pan.

Jiang Pan continued her efforts. “Village head, the land isn’t afraid of people planting things; it’s afraid of being unused. As long as we all work together, the villagers will earn more money, and we’ll become the next Shouguang in no time. When that happens, you’ll be the biggest contributor as village head.”

The village head instantly felt a sense of pride. His eyes lit up with a newfound purpose.

“This is a great idea. I’ll go make an announcement on the loudspeaker for you tomorrow.” The village head stood up. “No, I’ll go right now. As a village head, I have to support every dream.”

Jiang Pan: “…Okay, thank you, village head.”

…

Jian Yue stayed home for two more days, and even Jian Guangtao couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Daughter, you’re so beautiful, you should go out more often.”

Jian Yue looked at him speechlessly. “What does going out have to do with being beautiful?” She walked to the sofa, sat down lazily, and said, “Dad, how about I go work at the company?”

“Work?” Jian Guangtao looked surprised and doubtful. His daughter had never worked a day in her life. He had always wanted her to work at the company, but she was never interested. Now he found it hard to believe. “Is that true?”

Jian Yue picked at her fingers. “What? You don’t want me to go?”

“Of course I do.” Jian Guangtao blurted it out. He paused, and a hint of heartache entered his voice. “But you haven’t been in a good mood lately, and you don’t have an appetite. Work is very tiring. There’s no rush.”

Jian Yue sighed. “But I’m so bored at home. Maybe working will help.”

Jian Yue had never known that being idle was so boring and a waste of time. Why had she never noticed before?

She had been stupid enough to refuse to go to the company and had even asked her dad to hand over all the company’s affairs to Jiang Pan, while she just wanted to be a lazy young lady at home.

Now, thinking about it, she was glad her dad didn’t agree.

“Okay, okay, if that’s what you want, then go to the company.”

The company’s affairs were going to be handed over to Jian Yue eventually. Now that she wanted to go to the company, it was exactly what Jian Guangtao wanted.

“I’ll go make the arrangements right now. You can go to the company after dinner.”

Jian Yue’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed. “That fast?”

Jian Guangtao smiled triumphantly. “My dear daughter, you’re the one who said you wanted to go to the company. Your dad just loves to support every dream.”

Jian Yue: “…”

Yin Li called Jian Yue just as she arrived at the company.

“Yueyue, I’ll be off for a few days tomorrow. Have you decided where you want to go?” Yin Li asked.

Jian Yue said weakly, “No.”

“How about we go to a hot spring first?” Yin Li decided for her.

Jian Yue sighed. “I want to, but I’m busy right now.”

Yin Li laughed. “You, the most laid-back person I know, are busy?”

Jian Yue told her that she was starting work at the company today.

Yin Li was shocked, then laughed. “You should have gone to the company a long time ago. You’re the sole heir. I don’t get why you let that scumbag go to the company. It’s a good thing you found out early, or the company would have become hers…”

Yin Li went on and on, and Jian Yue listened in silence.

At some point, Yin Li stopped talking and regretted what she had said. Jian Yue was soft-hearted, and Jiang Pan was her first love. It wasn’t easy to get over a relationship of six years.

It was best not to mention that person. She coughed awkwardly. “Yueyue, are you listening?”

Jian Yue replied lazily, “Yes.” She paused, then suddenly asked, “Lili, as a doctor, do you know how to kill someone without getting caught?”

Yin Li, who was drinking coffee, almost choked. She frowned. “Kill someone? Kill who?”

Jian Yue gritted her teeth. “Who else? The scumbag you just mentioned.”

Yin Li put down her coffee, frowned in thought for a while, and bit her lip. She seemed to have made a decision. “I’ve only saved people, so I’m not an expert on killing people, but I definitely know more than you do. Wait for me to find some information.”

Jian Yue’s beautiful eyes widened. “Killing is illegal. You’re not going to try and stop me; you’re going to join me instead?”

Yin Li said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, “I love to support every dream.”

Jian Yue: “…”

…

With the help of the village head, the land acquisition went smoothly. The villagers were happy with the profitable deal.

Jiang Pan was also grateful that the author of the novel hadn’t gotten too deep into the legal aspects of land transactions, which gave her relative freedom to buy the land.

The structure of the novel’s world always had cheat codes that weren’t possible in real life.

This was why so many people loved reading novels.

She was legally purchasing the right to use the land, thereby gaining control of it. Because Jiang Pan’s contract stated that she had the right to use the land, she could lease it to the villagers for free so they could continue farming. This prevented her from being accused of maliciously hoarding land.

However, the money Jiang Pan had wasn’t enough to buy all the land in the village. After thinking about it, she decided to buy the unused land first. She would buy as much as she could and pay for it all at once.

First, the villagers who were still worried would feel relieved when they saw that they would be paid upfront.

Second, her image as a wealthy person would be established and wouldn’t be easily shaken, which would make it easier for her to do other things in the future.

Zhao Cuiping and Jiang Qinghe supported their daughter and gave her their retirement savings.

This was something Jiang Pan hadn’t expected. She had never once thought of asking the two of them for money.

So, when Zhao Cuiping handed her the passbook, Jiang Pan felt like all she could say was thank you.

She was touched by their love for the original owner and angry that the original owner wasn’t a person worth loving.

The passbook had one hundred thousand yuan in it. It was a drop in the bucket for Jiang Pan, but for a person in the countryside, it was a considerable sum.

This money was the retirement savings they had accumulated by being frugal all these years.

Jiang Pan would not use the money, but she knew that returning it would make them feel distant, so she put the passbook away carefully.

That night, Jiang Pan couldn’t sleep.

If the original owner was in this house tonight, would she have regretted anything after seeing her parents’ love?

Unfortunately, the original owner was no longer here. She only loved herself and was killed by her own selfishness and extremism.

Thinking about a person like the original owner, Jiang Pan couldn’t help but wonder what the author had gone through to create such a ridiculous character.

Jiang Pan signed the contract and handed over the money for the unused land in the village. When all the formalities were completed, it looked like she had lost money, but no one knew that in the future, this land would be worth many times more.

Of course, Jiang Pan didn’t care much about money. Becoming a billionaire wasn’t her dream.

She just felt that since she was a person who knew the plot of this novel, and she knew how this place would develop in the future, why not seize the opportunity?

She had transmigrated here and become a minor character who was destined to die. To live a peaceful life, she had to pave her own way.

Becoming a rich person was a wise choice.

With money, she could do many things.

With money, she could help many people.

With money, maybe when she faced Jian Yue again, she could do something for her.

Thinking of Jian Yue, Jiang Pan’s eyebrow twitched slightly.

It had been more than two months since she had left. She wondered how Jian Yue, the female protagonist of this novel, was doing.

Her arrival had changed the trajectory of the original plot. Had Jian Yue’s storyline also changed as a result?

Her phone rang, bringing Jiang Pan back to reality. She picked up her phone, and her eyes widened in surprise.

The caller ID: Jian Yue.