Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Dongcheng District.

Detention center.

Lou Bancheng sat blankly on the dormitory bed, his eyes filled with confusion and regret.

He's now kicking himself for it; he should never have helped Wang Feng with those old things.

He was always reliable in his work, and he never expected that Chairman Chen would turn out to be such a traitor. He and Chairman Chen had been friends for more than ten years and had often done business together. He still couldn't understand why Chairman Chen would betray him, since it didn't do him any good at all.

Now look what's happened! He's imprisoned, his wife is in trouble, and even his son is wanted by the police.

Although Wang Feng had sent him a note beforehand to reassure them that he would rescue them as soon as they arrived at the farm, he was still very worried.

After all, there are armed forces stationed in the countryside. No matter how powerful Wang Feng is, it would be incredibly difficult to rescue them from a farm guarded by armed forces.

To be honest, he still didn't quite believe that Wang Feng had such great abilities.

Fortunately, his son was not caught, so he was relieved.

Possessing 300 jin of gold is a serious case of speculation and profiteering, and a crime of disrupting the financial system. The verdict has not yet been handed down, but he knows that the minimum sentence is at least ten years.

He has been at the Dongcheng Public Security Bureau for some time and was just sent to the detention center a few days ago, so he has a basic understanding of many things.

Lou San bribed several squad leaders and a battalion commander. He and Tan Yali didn't suffer much during this time, except that being locked inside the iron gate was quite agonizing.

He has confessed everything he needed to, and the police have closed the case. He will go to the farm as soon as the verdict is handed down. He knows all of this.

But after arriving at the farm, he really wasn't confident that Wang Feng would be able to rescue him and Tan Yali.

Just as he was frowning in worry, the iron gate was slowly opened, and a middle-aged man in his forties with a square face and a black mole the size of a little finger on his face with a long black hair growing from it was pushed in.

"Wang Jiu, stay inside and behave yourself. If you dare to cause trouble, I'll deal with you."

After saying that, the guard locked the iron gate and left.

When Ninth Master walked to the front of the dormitory, he saw Lou Bancheng with a worried expression, and his eyes widened instantly.

At this moment, Lou Bancheng also saw Ninth Master, and he quickly made a 'shh' gesture towards him.

Ninth Master nodded knowingly and sat down casually to the side without greeting Lou Bancheng.

At that moment, a group of suspects from the detention center came up to Ninth Master and asked him why he had been brought in.

Ninth Master was tall and burly, with a black mole on his face. Anyone who could tell he was not someone to mess with would know. There was no drill or anything like that. They just asked what Ninth Master had done wrong and then returned to their seats.

Once everyone was alone with Ninth Master, Lou Bancheng sat down beside him and whispered, "Mr. Ninth, what brings you here?"

Ninth Master sighed and slowly recounted his experiences.

Upon hearing this, Lou Bancheng's eyes widened, and he said with annoyance, "Mr. Jiu, you are a great benefactor to our family. Your century-old pharmacy is going out of business, why didn't you tell me? Why did you go into this kind of business?!"

When Mr. Jiu was running the pharmacy, he was also a highly skilled traditional Chinese medicine doctor. When Tan Yali was having a difficult childbirth with Lou Xiao'e, she almost lost both her and her unborn child. It was Mr. Jiu who gave him the last of his family's ancestral pills for a smooth delivery and to ensure the safety of the pregnancy. After Tan Yali took the pills, both Tan Yali and Lou Xiao'e were saved.

In fact, Mr. Jiu was a great benefactor to their family.

Afterwards, he gave Mr. Jiu a large sum of money and promised him that he could come to him for help no matter what happened in Beijing.

So many years have passed, and Mr. Jiu has never looked for him. A few years ago, he asked Lou San and the others to look for Mr. Jiu, but they never heard from him. Unexpectedly, the two met again in the detention center.

Afterwards, Lou Bancheng told Ninth Master about his situation, but he didn't mention Wang Feng's matter.

Throughout the entire ordeal, whether it was the police interrogating him or people coming down from above, he never revealed anything about Wang Feng.

Now that he's in trouble, and Wang Feng is his son-in-law, if he were to reveal Wang Feng's whereabouts, given his son's personality, he would definitely hate him for the rest of his life.

Besides, even if Wang Feng were to be exposed for this, he would at most receive a lighter sentence, and he would still have to go to the farm.

When Ninth Master heard about Lou Bancheng's plight, he sighed repeatedly.

Who would have thought that Lou Bancheng, who was once incredibly wealthy, would one day be locked in an iron cage?

With a sigh, Ninth Master said, "Chairman Lou, I am no longer Mr. Ninth, nor have I been a doctor for many years. Please just call me Wang Jiu, or Lao Jiu."

Lou Bancheng nodded: "You're a few years older than me, so I'll call you Ninth Brother."

Wang Jiu was, after all, a great benefactor to their family. Calling him by his name or "Old Jiu" would feel disrespectful.

"become."

Lou Bancheng and Ninth Master spoke very softly, and the two of them sat in a corner, so no outsiders could hear them.

The other suspects also assumed that Lou Bancheng got along well with the newcomer, so it didn't arouse suspicion from others.

Lou Bancheng whispered in Ninth Brother's ear, "Ninth Brother, I have some people here. They told me that our group is going to Qinghe Farm in Baoding to reclaim wasteland. If you trust me, just stay by my side. I've been assigned to that reclamation team, so try to stay with me. I promise you won't suffer any losses."

Lou Bancheng thought about it and decided not to tell anyone about Wang Feng. After all, even he himself didn't quite believe that the armed forces had rescued them, let alone outsiders.

He hadn't seen Wang Jiu for over a decade, and in recent years Wang Jiu had even been taking on jobs involving cutting off hands. He wasn't sure if Wang Jiu's character was still trustworthy.

Having already been betrayed once and suffered a great loss, he is no longer willing to easily trust anyone.

When Ninth Master heard that Lou Bancheng was still among them, he was not surprised. After all, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Lou family was the biggest capitalist in Beijing, and the title "Half-Cheng" was not just for show.

Although the Lou family had declined by Lou Bancheng's generation, even a broken ship has three thousand nails, let alone a large family like the Lou family that had prospered for over a hundred years.

"Chairman Lou, since we have the chance to meet in the detention center, it must be fate. Let's support each other on the farm from now on."

Ninth Master hadn't guessed Lou Bancheng's plan. He just thought that with Lou Bancheng's influence, they could make their lives on the farm more comfortable.