Renting a young, attractive woman to take home for the Chinese New Year infuriates the entire villag

"Didn't you say you were trading cryptocurrencies? I remember Chenchen mentioned it during the Chinese New Year."

"Yeah, I remember Chenchen mentioned cryptocurrency trading too, and my son started trading cryptocurrencies after that."

When Jiang Chen returned to his village for the Chinese New Year, he met many of the villagers and even ate with them. Since his parents would also talk about it, it was natural to need an explanation for the money's origin.

Jiang Chen's answer was cryptocurrency trading.

Even many young people in the village have started trading cryptocurrencies.

Zhang Jianjun's claim that it was a tourist trip naturally aroused everyone's suspicion.

Zhang Jianjun rolled his eyes at him and gave him a look that said, "What do you know?"

"What do you know? Crypto trading is just starting capital. I've heard about it before. My son even wanted to trade crypto, saying he could make thousands or tens of thousands of times his initial investment. But I stopped him."

When this was mentioned, the villagers started chattering again, telling stories about cryptocurrency trading from their own lives.

Zhang Jianjun waved his hand, signaling everyone to stop.

"Look, you all said it yourselves, cryptocurrency trading is a losing proposition with very little profit. Only one in a million people can make it big. How could Chenchen have accumulated his wealth through cryptocurrency trading? He made it through his own real skills."

"You have no idea how big Chenchen's business is in Shanya. He's a true business genius."

These words immediately piqued everyone's curiosity.

He held up one finger and pointed south.

"You wouldn't believe it, Jiang Chen went to Shanya and, without a second thought, spent thirty million to buy a nearly bankrupt travel company. And guess what happened?"

He deliberately kept everyone in suspense.

As it turned out, these people were also very curious, and their appetites were immediately piqued, with them all asking, "What's going on?"

"Could it be that they've turned a profit?"

"I saw it on the news, it seems like they really made money?"

"I've seen some people say that not making money is just making a lot of noise."

"Thirty million! Even if it makes a profit, how long will it take to break even?"

Zhang Jianjun laughed: "You guys really have no experience."

The villagers were unhappy: "If you have any knowledge, tell me, did you make a profit or a loss?"

Zhang Jianjun raised his chin and snorted, "Of course I know, but I'm laughing at you for not even daring to guess. Chenchen's company has not only turned a profit in just over half a month, but someone even offered 100 million to acquire it. And yet, Chenchen didn't even look at it before saying he wouldn't sell."

Do you know why?

Everyone around shook their heads.

Zhang Jianjun was incredibly proud, as if he were the one who had rejected a hundred million yuan, saying, "Of course, it's because I could earn more!"

The surroundings suddenly fell silent.

Even the young man who was just secretly taking pictures of license plates lowered his phone.

That's a hundred million!

Someone swallowed hard and asked in a low voice, "Brother Jianjun, is it really 100 million? You're not lying, are you? You bought it for 30 million and resold it for 100 million, making a pure profit of 70 million. How long has it been?"

Zhang Jianjun finally heard those words.

He had a cigarette tucked behind his ear, and a smug smile on his face.

"If you don't trust others, why wouldn't you trust me? Besides, haven't I already posted the videos in the group? Even the big news has reported on Chenchen Travel Company, and everyone online is praising it. It's getting more and more popular, with many videos getting millions of likes. Aren't you guys watching the videos?"

"I just can't talk to you bunch of country bumpkins."

The village chief quickly stepped forward and said with a smile, "Jianjun, it's not that we don't believe it, it's just that nobody here has ever heard of so much money."

"But you're right, I saw the video too. It's really popular right now. Everyone's saying that if you're going to Shanya, you have to go to Chenchen's guesthouse. I also saw the woman in the video, and she really is the woman Chenchen brought back."

"Goodness, Chenchen has quietly accomplished something big again."

As he spoke, he looked at the villagers: "You don't know, this is no small matter. Let alone 100 million, the economic profits it brings to Shanya are more than several billion. Didn't you see that Shanya Cultural Tourism has already shared it?"

"Have you heard of Zibo? A couple of years ago, so many people went to Zibo for the barbecue. Not to mention others, even my son and his wife went."

"This isn't just a matter of a hundred million or two million."

As the village chief, he held considerable prestige among the villagers. His words immediately elicited gasps of astonishment from the crowd.

"hiss--"

"So, Chenchen is really capable."

Zhang Jianjun laughed: "That's right, Chenchen can do something that many people can't do, just by saying a few words."

"Take Zibo for example, what's the difference between it and here? My son went there too, saying he was going to Zibo for barbecue, but there's barbecue everywhere. He works at a restaurant and has never had barbecue before. They just added a small pancake. The Badaju area is just a vegetable market, no different from our old Dongguan vegetable market."

"It's just that now that more people are going there, they all consider it a good thing."

"If you ask me, the roast duck at our Dongguan market isn't bad either. It's only twenty or thirty yuan a duck, and it comes with pancakes and scallions. It's just that nobody promotes it for us."

"Old Wu's wife in our village makes really good flower-shaped steamed buns. She can make anything look like a real person. The little tiger and birthday god she made are especially lifelike. If it were advertised, it would be a local specialty."

The villagers didn't react much to this, since most of them were busy working and farming, and it wouldn't really matter to them if someone came to the village for tourism.

The vast majority of people present were elderly, many of whom had never even left their county town in their entire lives. Even when they did go to the city or the provincial capital, it was only to see a doctor or a sick person.

Having farmed all their lives, they had neither experience nor knowledge. In their eyes, they were not cut out for business and would rather just stay in the fields.

But the village chief is different from Zhang Jianjun.

Both of them were hoping to get something out of Jiang Chen.

The village chief paused for a moment, holding his cigarette, and his eyes narrowed.

"Tourism is great! We should do tourism! If Jiang Chen can do tourism in Shanya, why can't he do it in our village? He can help everyone get rich together!"

However, few villagers agreed with him after he said this.

"Tourism can be quite profitable, but our village doesn't have many tourism resources."

"That's right. The mountains and the sea are great, but what do we have here? Just a field of crops and a paved road. There's barely enough room for two cars to pass each other on this road. Every time we turn around, we have to move into the grassy areas on the side to avoid a collision."

"We can't exactly let people come into the village and see the few trees in front of our house, can we?"

As soon as those words were spoken, the once lively crowd suddenly became somewhat disheartened.

When they heard that Jiang Chen had made money, their first reaction was to follow suit and make money too.

But for tourism to work, there must be scenic spots, mountains and rivers.

What is Jiangmiao Village?

There is a river at the entrance of the village, but most of the time the water level is so low that you can see the bottom, so well water has to be used to irrigate the fields every time.

The villagers themselves want to escape; who would come to the village for tourism?

Seeing everyone's spirits dampened, Zhang Jianjun grew anxious.

Jiang Chen said he wanted to develop tourism in the village, so why did you give up?

In his opinion, Jiang Chen's talk about developing tourism in the village was just empty talk, and he also knew that Jiangmiao Village had nothing to offer.

But just because Jiang Chen doesn't make money doesn't mean he can't profit from it.

He was furious when he saw that the villagers weren't helping him.

If you don't bring it up with Jiang Chen, do you really expect me to bring it up?

Does that make me a bad guy? How am I supposed to make money off of that?

Thinking of this, he quickly said, "Who says it can't be!"

"Who says you can't develop tourism if you don't have mountains or rivers?"

"Tourism resources are all created by people. Shanya wasn't born with that many tourists. Zibo can become popular, so why can't our Jiangmiao Village? In what way is our Jiangcheng inferior to Zibo?"

"The emperor's throne rotates, and this year it's our turn! How can you boost others' morale and diminish your own? All the good things have never come our way before; if it's going to be a rotation, shouldn't it be our village's turn now?"