Mu Xiaowan nodded. "Very well."
After a quick calculation in her head, she looked at Yang Guang and said, "It takes one pound to produce four ounces of dried goods. Considering the current market price, the price of these Tianma should be $3,000, which all together, is exactly $10,000 in total!"
"All right, no problem!"
Yang Guang nodded while he had another thought. "How about you pay upfront, and I will count it as income after receiving it, and then it can be included in the agreement!"
"Huh! You are not dumb!"
Mu Xiaowan gave a little laugh and then asked, "How about I give all the money to Old Chen so he can settle it with you?"
Yang Guang nodded. "That works for me!"
Soon, the $3,000 was successfully transferred, and Mu Xiaowan said to Chen Jianguo, "Draft the agreement we made just now and put it on paper!"
"..."
Chen Jianguo didn't know what to say. He wanted to mediate in the matter, but when he saw that these two young people showed no signs of backing down, he knew that it would be pointless to persuade either one of them. These two were in an impasse, so he had no choice but to start the paperwork.
After the draft was completed, Mu Xiaowan took the lead by signing and imprinting her thumbprint on the document, in a very formal manner.
After seeing Yang Guang's signature, she gave a cold laugh and said, "Oh, so your name is Yang Guang. Don't worry, it won't take long before you don't feel the sunshine anymore."
"..."
Yang Guang rolled his eyes silently and wondered how moments ago, he had thought that this girl was rather pretty. Now, he suddenly felt that she was very annoying.
After signing, the agreement was now in effect, with a time limit of three months. If Yang Guang failed to produce the Tianma he planted by that time, he would lose.
Although he was not all that sure about the whole thing and he did not know the first thing about planting Tianma, Yang Guang felt that with the Method of Divine Farmer at his disposal, there was nothing he could not solve, hence the confidence.
After he put together the red bracket fungi and Tianma, Chen Jianguo personally delivered them to Mu Xiaowan's vehicle.
Before getting into her car, Mu Xiaowan stared at Yang Guang as she gritted her teeth. She made a gesture by sliding her thumb across her neck. "You moron, you will regret it! You are dead!"
"You just wait and see. When you lose, I will let you give me a kiss like a good girl!" Yang Guang retaliated!
"Get away from me!"
Mu Xiaowan blushed and cursed as she quickly stepped into the car. She stepped hard on the gas, and the engine roared to life as if it was about to explode. It then jerked forward and sped off.
"Bro, what is wrong with you today? Don't you know who she is? She is not to be messed with!" Chen Jianguo walked over and asked with an irritated look.
"Who cares who she is. No one can be this arrogant and unreasonable in my presence!" Yang Guang replied. Then, he immediately asked, "Brother Chen, shouldn't you give me the money now?"
"Yep, let's go and talk inside."
After they got back to the store, Chen Jianguo looked at Yang Guang. "You heard it, that red bracket fungus was sold for $7,000. Along with the money for today's Tianma, you just managed to gather $10,000. I will give you another $5,000!"
"Don't!"
When Yang Guang heard this, he hurriedly stopped him. "We agreed that it would be $6,000. Anything extra is all yours—that was our agreement!"
"How is that? I just made a couple of calls and didn't do much, and you still need the money!" Chen Jianguo laughed.
"That's two different things!"
Yang Guang looked very serious and said solemnly, "An agreement is an agreement. No matter how much I need the money, I can't take it from you, bro. Besides, I will have everything when I make the trip to the mountain tomorrow. The $1,000 is nothing."
"Young man, I am impressed!" Chen Jianguo gave him a thumbs up and let out heartfelt praise.
This kid was young but sensible and understood the way things work. Nowadays, it was rare to find young people who comported themselves like this!
He even came up with the proposal that if Yang Guang didn't want to accept the $1,000 from him, he would simply make it a temporary loan, just to solve the most immediate issue first. The rest could be paid back later.
However, Yang Guang outright rejected this notion, saying that he didn't like to owe anybody money. He just wanted to rely on himself, and he was very confident in his abilities.
With no other choice, Chen Jianguo had to take back the $4,000 and hand it over to Yang Guang.
He Hua came back to him. When she heard that he had sold the medicinal materials and somehow gathered another $4,000, she was a little dumbfounded.
She had been talking to her sister-in-law and had no idea what was happening out front. Now that Yang Guang had finished his business, He Hua asked, "Are you ready to go back to the village?"
"I'm not in a hurry. If you have something else to do, I can wait for you for a while!" Yang Guang said.
"I don't have anything else to do really. I just came over to chat with my cousin and get the clothes that she was giving me!" He Hua said with a smile.
Yang Guang glanced at those colorful clothes and knew that they were children's clothing. It was obvious that those were clothes outgrown by children in Chen Jianguo's household, and they were being passed on to He Hua's children.
If Fu Zhonghua was doing so well in the city, there was no reason why his children would be wearing hand-me-downs from other people's households.
It was obvious that he might have abandoned his family and left them to their own devices.
In front of Chen Jianguo, Yang Guang couldn't say much, so he followed He Hua as she put the bag of clothing in the backpack. When she put the backpack on again, the two got on the electric scooter.
As they left Hongqi Town, they entered the windy country road heading back to Qingshan Village. Yang Guang could feel He Hua's arms around his waist again!
With her body pressed up against him, that familiar feeling returned.
At first, the two were silent. After they had moved along for a while, Yang Guang couldn't help but ask, "He Hua, doesn't Fu Zhonghua send you any money?"
He Hua was quiet for a moment. "Don't mention him. I don't want to talk about it."
"All right."
Yang Guang thought that this was a private matter between them, and it was rather inappropriate for him to probe, so he let it go.
He dropped the matter. Instead, he began to enjoy the feeling of He Hua's soft chest against him, and he felt pretty good the rest of the way.
But when they got close to the entrance of the village, He Hua suddenly released her hands and called out, "Stop!"
Yang Guang was taken by surprise and slammed on the brakes. As a result, He Hua suddenly banged into him from the back.
Yang Guang forgot all about that great sensation he felt just a moment ago and looked back at her instead. "What's wrong? Why did you yell? You startled me!"
"Let's go in separately. If anyone sees us like this in the village, I'm afraid people will gossip!"
He Hua was a little embarrassed, as she said this with her head down.
Seeing her bashfulness, Yang Guang understood immediately.
There were mostly women in the village. If someone were to see them coming back on the same electric scooter, there was no telling what kind of awful rumor would be weaved!
Therefore, Yang Guang smiled and said, "You are very thoughtful. All right, why don't you ride the bike back first? It won't take me long to walk back home."
"Well, I'll leave the backpack in front of the clinic when I get there."
With that, He Hua got on the bike and left soon after.
Watching her departing figure, Yang Guang suddenly felt a little lost. He stood in a daze for quite a while before heading back to the village.
He didn't notice, however, that in the field not far away, deep on the footpath, a pair of eyes were watching them with a surprised look. Those eyes had seen everything that had taken place just now!