My dad's marriage into my family made me rich, and my fierce yet adorable older sister spoils m

Director Zhao couldn't help but re-examine the young man covering his face, and was secretly surprised.

Behind this person, there must be a huge, well-connected scalper organization!

This is the kind of person you absolutely cannot offend!

Especially in a year like this, a year of disaster!

"Okay! Deal!"

Zhao Dahai was a straightforward man. He looked around warily, then quickly counted out sixty yuan and a handful of grain coupons from his inner pocket and stuffed them into Lin Chuan's hand.

"Industrial permits are far too valuable; I definitely can't keep them on my person. Why don't you wait here for a bit, young man, and I'll get them for you in a bit?"

As he was saying this, he reached for the meat in the basket, but Lin Chuan immediately pressed his hand down.

"Cash on delivery. Give me the industrial invoice before I give you the meat."

I never expected this young man to be so cold and ruthless at such a young age.

"Okay, wait for me! I'll be right back."

Having witnessed Lin Chuan's decisive and uncompromising nature, Zhao Dahai could only nod, then turned around and hurriedly rode his bicycle to get the tickets.

He quickly stuffed the dozen or so extremely valuable industrial vouchers into Lin Chuan's hand, though he looked quite pained.

But then, he couldn't wait to hide the meat from the basket into his bicycle with a sidecar parked next to him.

"Young man, I'll still be waiting for you here on the fifteenth of the first lunar month!"

Looking at the meat in the car, Zhao Dahai's face turned bright red with excitement.

Lin Chuan carefully put the money away and nodded.

"The money and goods are settled, Director Zhao. I wish your factory a prosperous New Year."

After saying that, Lin Chuan turned and disappeared into the swirling snow.

Touching the thick wad of industrial coupons in his pocket, Lin Chuan's heart couldn't help but beat a little faster.

We have money, we have food coupons, and now we even have industrial vouchers to buy bicycles!

Waiting for the remittance slips for fifty yuan from my second and fifth sisters is the perfect excuse for "money laundering".

Now, he not only has to buy the softest cotton to make new clothes for his older sisters, but he also has to push a Flying Pigeon bicycle back to the Guan family compound!

After all, the village is not very close to the town, and getting around is not very convenient.

Having a bicycle would be incredibly convenient.

Moreover, he wanted to see whether the old woman who was pretending to be dead in the mud-brick house would be so angry that she would die, or go crazy with jealousy, when she saw the Guan family living such a good life!

Since she's willing to stay in the Guan family, then everything she's experienced can only be considered as what she and her grandmother deserved.

The wind in December feels like a knife cutting into your skin.

Inside the mud-brick house in the Guan family courtyard, the old woman was wrapped in a tattered, musty-smelling cotton quilt, shivering from the fever.

At this moment, her lips were cracked and peeling, and her hand, which had been caught in a mousetrap, was swollen and purplish-black, causing excruciating pain with the slightest movement.

She originally intended to loudly and falsely accuse Guan Hongying in Linhe Village.

I wanted to tell my fellow villagers how unfilial Guan Hongying was.

However, there was nothing they could do; the Guan family lived halfway up the mountain, and it was snowing every few days.

She's so sick right now, feeling terrible all over, that it's really hard for her to go out.

Even now, though she's delirious with fever, the evil old woman's murky, triangular eyes still gleam with a greedy green light.

Fifty yuan! Five jin of meat coupons nationwide! Ten jin of grain coupons!

The words the postman shouted at the gate yesterday were like a flaming hook, tightly gripping her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

In an era when a dime could buy two pounds of coarse salt, fifty dollars was an enormous sum that would make anyone envious!

Unexpectedly, Guan Hongying was living such a good life after leaving home.

If she had known, she would have come to seek refuge with Guan Hongying much sooner!

The thought of missing out on so many days of eating meat made her feel incredibly regretful.

"Jinbao... Jinbao..."

The old woman weakly called to her grandson, who was so hungry he was biting his nails.

"Grandma, I'm hungry, I want to eat White Rabbit milk candy..."

Jinbao sniffled, his eyes fixed longingly on the direction of the main house.

In just two days, Jinbao has been obediently drinking that bran porridge.

After all, he was starving, and if he didn't eat, he would really starve to death.

He was a little more obedient because of hunger, but he was still restless at heart.

Yesterday, he saw through the crack in the door that bastard named Lin Chuan gave each of those brats a piece of milk candy!

If each person gets a piece of candy, then he must have even more candy in his hand!

Just thinking about it made Jinbao's mouth water.

"Eat, eat, eat! All you ever do is eat!"

The old lady was so angry that she pinched her grandson's thigh with her good left hand, but after all, he was still her precious grandson, so she couldn't bear to use too much force.

She lowered her voice, her tone full of disappointment and frustration.

"You good-for-nothing! I just saw your second aunt go to the brigade headquarters for a meeting. That bastard and those brats are chopping wood in the backyard right now."

As she spoke, the old woman glanced outside guiltily.

"Grandma can't walk very well now, so hurry up and sneak into the east room along the wall. The money order and receipts the postman brought yesterday should be on the kang table!"

"Go steal it! As long as you have that slip of paper, Grandma will take you to town tomorrow to buy a big piece of fatty meat and a whole bag of milk candy! You can eat it every day!"

Upon hearing about the fatty meat and milk candy, Jinbao's eyes lit up instantly. He nodded repeatedly and then darted out like an eel.

The old woman lay on the broken wooden board, a sinister smirk curling at the corner of her mouth.

She's lived for so many years, and she's incredibly shrewd with her calculations.

Jinbao is only 8 years old. Even if he gets caught, it's just childish behavior.

If Guan Hongying dares to hit Jinbao, she will go out and make a scene throughout the village, saying that Guan Hongying is abusing her own nephew;

If she hadn't been caught, the fifty yuan would have slipped into her pocket without anyone noticing!

However, she had no idea that at that moment, in the east room, Lin Chuan was sitting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), looking out the window with a half-smile.

His gaze, however, fell on the small, dark figure with its rear end sticking out, crawling in along the window sill.

Lin Chuan had long anticipated that this wicked old woman wouldn't be so docile.

Sure enough, he guessed right.

He got up and tore a yellow sheet of paper filled with obsolete mathematical formulas from the notebook on the table.

He then skillfully folded it into a square envelope shape. To make it look realistic, he even drew a circle on it with a red pen, making it look like a post office stamp.

However, while doing these things, he still couldn't help but laugh.

There's no way around it; when people are doing bad things, they don't mind the hard work or the trouble.

And, most importantly, I'm the happiest!

He then placed the "fake envelope" in the most conspicuous position on the kang table, and then slipped into the shadows behind the door.