Chapter 71 – How To Deal With The 2 Million Yuan?
After returning home, Yang Yi waited for Xixi to sleep before taking the two duffel bags to the study room.
Today, Yang Yi went to the bank to withdraw money, that he put in the gray duffel bag, which was his income from the book “Soldier Assault” last month, rounded up. The other dark green duffel bag contained the “reward” for reporting corrupt officials.
Of course, it was no longer 2 million. Yang Yi bought a car, renovated the coffee shop, and other expenses. This cost him more than 800,000 yuan, nearly 900,000 yuan!
That’s a lot!
Fortunately, Yang Yi earned it back easily…
He opened the dark green duffel bag, took out the scattered money, and then began to take the money out of the gray duffel bag and put it neatly into the dark green duffel bag.
He counted until the money in the dark green duffel bag reaches 2 million!
There was 122,700 yuan left in the gray duffel bag. Yang Yi also took them out and neatly put it in the cabinet in his study, leaving them for normal use.
Yang Yi likes to keep a large amount of cash at home, on the one hand, because the concept of mobile payment doesn’t exist in this world, on the other hand, it is also because of his habit in his previous life of being able to run away with money at any time.
Although there was no need for this now, Yang Yi still felt the lack of sense of security.
Anyway, after Yang Yi sorted out the dark green duffel bag, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At the beginning, when he took the 2 million yuan from the hidden wealth of the corrupt official Luo Jinrong, Yang Yi thought he would have no qualms about it and leave with the “reward”, just like in his previous life.
However, under Mo Fei’s interrogation, Yang Yi discovered that although he deceived her by making up lies, there was a heavy shackle in his heart.
It turns out that there were so many restrictions in the world of ordinary people!
Yang Yi gradually distinguished the conflict between his previous ideas and hiss present life. Taking this “reward” as an example, Yang Yi may still consider it as a reward for himself, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this money was an ill-gotten gain.
How can the wealth of the people that was plundered by corrupt officials be used for the people?
Enforces justice on behalf of heaven, but also wants to “lead away a sheep in passing”, then what capital does he has to say that he is on the path of justice?
(TN: (顺手牵羊) Lead away a sheep in passing – to take the opportunity to take away someone else’s things.)
He has even deceived his daughter’s mother, so how can he spend the money with peace of mind?
Now that he has decided to thoroughly integrate into the world of ordinary people, Yang Yi is also slowly changing his ideas.
Although Mo Fei couldn’t have discovered the existence of the money, Yang Yi felt that if he didn’t deal with it properly, he would always have this demon inside his heart.
But how could this be done?
Yang Yi wants to live a free and easy life!
So, after he got his copyright revenue from last month, Yang Yi took back the money that really belonged to him and patched up the hole he had originally dug out.
The only remaining thing to do was how to deal with the 2 million yuan!
Fortunately, Yang Yi already has a plan.
……
After two weeks of promoting her new songs, Mo Fei can finally come back and have a few days off. Although it’s not a complete break, she still has to participate in some programs in Jiangcheng one after another, Mo Fei still asks Yang Yi to send Xixi home. She missed her daughter!
When Yang Yi saw Mo Fei, she was still cold, but in front of Yang Yi, she didn’t conceal anything. Her eyes were still full of fatigue and loneliness.
“I read about it in the newspaper.” Yang Yi hesitated for a moment and said, “The situation of your new album is not very good.”
Mo Fei hugged Xixi. The mother and daughter were interacting intimately. Hearing Yang Yi’s words, Mo Fei pursed her lips and said stiffly, “Don’t talk about it.”
Although her relationship with Yang Yi has eased up, Mo Fei’s understanding of Yang Yi was still that of the past. She felt that Yang Yi was still very dissatisfied with her work in the entertainment industry, so she couldn’t talk about it with Yang Yi, and she didn’t want to talk about it.
What’s more, in the past two weeks, Mo Fei has been devastated by the poor sales of her albums, and her home seems to be her only safe haven. Why should she bring those bad moments into her house?
Mo Fei’s tone was still rather jarring, but Yang Yi didn’t get angry. He still thought that Mo Fei’s situation was very bad, but the problem wasn’t with Mo Fei herself, but the songs on the new album were too bad!
If he comes to “write songs” for Mo Fei, then with Mo Fei’s ability, it’s not impossible to return to the top. Besides, if he can sell songs to an unfamiliar singer like Chen Yijie, how can he stand idly by and watch Mo Fei feel sad?
She, she is Xixi’s mother!
Yang Yi pondered for a moment and then said, “I think, maybe I can help you…”
“No, you just stay at home and take care of Xixi. Let me deal with my career problems, okay?” Mo Fei was a little upset, and she interrupted Yang Yi and said impatiently.
Choking for a bit, Yang Yi swallowed back all the words, that he wanted to help by writing songs for her.
Really! Dog bites Lu Dongbin and doesn’t know people’s hearts! (TN: A saying to describe people who do not know good from bad.)
Yang Yi is also a guy with a strong sense of self-esteem. He wasn’t someone that is so utterly shameless to stick to other people’s cold buttocks.
Mo Fei watched Yang Yi keep silent, but she was actually a little flustered in her heart. Of course, Mo Fei couldn’t have thought of what she had missed, but she did not know why, but she inexplicably cared about Yang Yi’s feelings.
“Will he be angry? Ah, did he lose his temper again just now?” Mo Fei blamed herself.
However, in spite of this, because of her cold personality, it was very difficult for her to apologize to Yang Yi on her own initiative. Mo Fei’s idea was also very strange. She was not willing to give in on the issue she insists on. At the worst… make it up to him somewhere else.
The meeting between the two seemed to be a bit unhappy and parted on bad term.
After sending Xixi to Mo Fei, Yang Yi could be said to have a few days of vacation. Following his plan, he threw the dark green duffel bag into the car, then simply took some clothes and drove westward all the way to the poorer western provinces.
“Are you Zhu Luyan?” Yang Yi met with a person he contacted earlier.
Zhu Luyan, the founder of a non-governmental charity, has dark skin, skinny and dresses like migrant workers, but Yang Yi still knows that this guy’s background is not small and was born into a big and wealthy family in Beijing.
But because Zhu Luyan was strongly and emotionally interfered by his family, he left Beijing angrily and dropped his original pride and status!
Of course, Zhu Luyan still hoped to make some achievements to prove himself, so he chose to do charity with his girlfriend, and he had the idea to set up a project called “Dream Primary School”, which raised fund to build well-equipped schools in poor areas to help children realize their dreams.
Of course, at present, they have only helped build three schools. After all, they haven’t raised much funds. What’s more, most of the fund came from Zhu Luyan selling his luxury car, and he is unwilling to use his family’s connections to trick others into making donations.
Prior to this, Yang Yi had done a detailed investigation and even borrowed the dark forces of this world, so he was still very assured about Zhu Luyan’s project, which happened to give his 2 million a suitable destination, and Yang Yi didn’t have to worry too much. (TN: I’m not sure about the dark forces, might be referring to the underground forces.)
After Zhu Luyan and Yang Yi confirmed each other’s identities, he was trembling with excitement as he carried the dark green duffel bag given by Yang Yi. He said, “Mr. Yang, your 2 million yuan is really too timely. And now, we can give the children in poor areas more places to study!”
Naturally, Zhu Luyan’s excitement wasn’t because he had never seen so much money, but because this was the first time he has received such a large donation, and it came in a timely manner. With this, he didn’t have to ask for help from his family, and he also regained his confidence in doing a good job in this charity.
Yang Yi smiled and said, “Mr. Zhu, I have a question that I don’t know if it’s inappropriate to say.”
“Say it.”
“I just want to give a slight suggestion. The name of your project, “Dream Primary School”, sounds strange. Would it be better to call it “Hope Primary School”?”
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