Chapter 69: The Xu Family’s great boat is soon to sail

On the second last day of Xu Tingsheng's holiday week, Mr Xu finally returned from his trip out of town. He hurriedly ate dinner with his family before going to the supermarket to understand how things had been going these past few days.

In truth, Xu Tingsheng very much wished to sit down with his father and have a proper chat with him. Ever since the university semester had begun, Mr Xu had virtually not mentioned to him anything regarding his business over the phone at all. Meanwhile, having returned this time, Xu Tingsheng had discovered a troubling fact: Their supermarket really had too many people in Management.

It was 10pm when Mr Xu returned home.

Xu Tingsheng had not yet gone to bed. He had been waiting.

“I just knew that you would be waiting for me,” Mr Xu said, “We’ll talk later. First, follow me..”

Mr Xu set down his things and led Xu Tingsheng outside the house before pointing towards a vast stretch of open land as well as a mountain that stood before it in the distance, “It’s less than a twenty minutes journey away from the county from here. Why then is this place still a poor village?”

Before Xu Tingsheng could answer, he continued, “...It’s...