Zhou Haoting actually wasn’t sure how current law defined this kind of investment either. But this investment company was very likely running a Ponzi scheme. So no matter what, at the very least, it could serve to alert people.
After coming out of the police station, Tian Tian stretched.
“Finally got one thing settled.” She hadn’t expected either that the trap to make Zhou Qiaoqiao bleed heavily would end up taking three months. Fortunately, she hadn’t wasted those three months.
Because the Liren Garment Factory that Zhou Qiaoqiao had set up kept copying Lifeng Factory’s designs, Tian Tian hadn’t made any new clothing styles in those three months. Lifeng Factory had been making school uniforms the whole time. And she had shifted her attention to Zhou Haoting’s home appliance factory and preparations for buying the vegetable plot.
As for the home appliance factory, the electric fans hadn’t sold well locally. Tian Tian gave Zhou Haoting an idea. Not long after, a batch of newly developed handheld mini fans came out.
Now, walking down the street, eight out of ten people were carrying this kind of mini fan. There were battery-powered and manual versions, and both sold extremely well. The profit wasn’t less than selling clothes.
Tian Tian even felt the urge to just keep partnering with Zhou Haoting forever. Yes, this mini fan was a partnership between her and Zhou Haoting. She provided the idea and took five percent of net profit. And even that was after she’d cut it down by more than half. Because Zhou Haoting’s brain had been addled by beauty—he’d actually wanted to give her half the profit.
Of course Tian Tian couldn’t agree to that.
Business was business, and personal feelings were personal feelings. Besides, both of them had been busy making money these past months. Both wanted to build a solid foundation while young. Their relationship was still at the stage where the window paper hadn’t been pierced.
Anyway, she’d gone off track. The point was, for this mini fan, Tian Tian only took what she deserved. The rest she didn’t concern herself with.
The other matter was the vegetable plot.
After asking Uncle Village Head, Tian Tian confirmed there were no problems with Granny Cui’s vegetable plot. Besides that, there were quite a few other plots in the village without disputes. But Tian Tian couldn’t easily get her hands on them. In the end, it still came down to her being an outsider.
Now that she had time, Tian Tian started thinking about transferring her household registration to the village.
The simplest way was actually to marry a local. But Tian Tian ruled that out. She had the ability to solve this problem herself. There was no need to give people something to hold over her later.
Seeing Tian Tian fall into thought, Zhou Haoting drove directly to a newly opened small restaurant.
As soon as the car stopped, Tian Tian snapped back to reality and tapped her head. “I forgot we needed to eat.”
Zhou Haoting smiled. “As long as I didn’t forget.”
Tian Tian said, “You. By the way, I heard a foreign trade company wants to order a batch of mini fans?”
Zhou Haoting nodded. The mini fan had no technical difficulty. But it had the advantage of being cheap, with a low price. It sold like crazy domestically. And this was their first foreign order.
“The quantity they ordered isn’t small. The production line is maxed out.” Thinking of the factory’s recent prosperity, Zhou Haoting felt for the first time that this factory was a bit too small. Clearly, according to the original plan, the high-speed development phase wasn’t supposed to come until three years later.
Tian Tian’s mind started turning. “How about you just buy a plot of land around the village and build a new factory?”
The area around the village would become a commercial district in the future. But that didn’t stop them from building a factory now. By then, whether it was demolished or kept, it wouldn’t be a loss. And she herself could ride this wave, buy the vegetable plot and some surrounding land, and build two buildings to rent out. Whatever she did in the future, those two buildings would be her fallback.
Mm, this idea was good. Tian Tian felt she really was clever.
Zhou Haoting had always known Tian Tian had a kind of obsession with buying land. Hearing this, he didn’t object. Mainly because although their area hadn’t been expropriated yet, a village not far away had been included in a municipal engineering project. In the end, the whole village was relocated and compensated a lot of money.
He had money, but he didn’t mind having more.
Still, buying land from villagers required sorting some things out. Otherwise, there could easily be situations where they went back on their word afterward. Don’t think only outsiders buying land got bullied. Locals buying could also run into trouble.
Mainly because everyone in the village was related somehow. If you bought land from one family, and later the land got expropriated, the other party might show up with their whole family, or all kinds of relatives, to guilt-trip you.
Zhou Haoting didn’t care about these things, but his mother and several uncles still had to live in the village.
After hearing Zhou Haoting out, Tian Tian waved her hand. “That’s why the land I’m eyeing all belongs to people with different surnames.”
Outsiders with different surnames in the village were still different from the original settled families. And Granny Cui’s vegetable plot was even less of a concern.
She had already asked Granny Cui and learned that she really did want to sell the vegetable plot. In her past life, she’d been looking for a buyer all along. It was just that the plot really wasn’t very good and couldn’t fetch a good price. So Granny Cui just scattered some cabbage seeds on it, more or less to keep it from going fallow.
Zhou Haoting said, “Alright. I’ll go discuss it with my uncle when I get back. Then we’ll see how to arrange the land.”
The plan to buy land, build a factory, and build rental buildings was thus settled. Over the next few days, both of them put part of their energy into this. They went to the Land Bureau to look at redline maps, inspected plots on site, and hired experts to evaluate. In the end, they set their target on a large plot at the border between the village and the neighboring village.
Granny Cui’s vegetable plot just happened to border these plots.
That way, when buying the land, they could arrange it all together.
Of course, since Tian Tian’s household registration hadn’t been transferred yet, after buying Granny Cui’s plot, it would temporarily be put under Zhou Haoting’s name. Tian Tian wasn’t worried about this. The man had once given her all twenty-odd gemstones. Just a vegetable plot—Zhou Haoting wouldn’t covet it. If the paperwork weren’t so troublesome, he might even have put the factory land under her name.
After the transfer procedures were completed, Tian Tian finally felt a sense of reality.
The vegetable plot that had been a regret in her past life had actually been bought just like that.
It felt a bit surreal!
“Alright. September weather isn’t so hot. How about I take you home for a few days, and you can transfer your household registration while you’re at it?”
“No need. You’re busy buying land lately, and there’s a lot at the factory you haven’t finished. I’ll just take the bus back myself.”
Zhou Haoting wanted to persuade her more, but Tian Tian didn’t agree.
While the two were happy about buying the land, not two days later, someone came to their door wanting to buy the land they had just purchased.
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