#400 - It turns out that the one being kept is actually me

In this world, the common people have no choice but to be either human or dog.

Soon, Chu Xianping, speechless with shock at this statement, left.

Wei Changtian stood alone at the door for a while longer.

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

I never thought the day would come when I would have such an understanding!

Is it because my status is different that the height from which I view problems is also different?

After all, in my previous life, I worked 996 every day, so where would I have the time to ponder such social issues?

Wait a minute, thinking about it that way, it seems like there wasn't much difference in my previous life either.

Although a crowd of "life mentors" were shouting "Take charge of your own life," Wei Changtian really couldn't understand how someone like him, who worked hard for decades but couldn't even afford a house, was supposed to "choose his own life."

Alas.

Perhaps, no matter which parallel world, the historical process of humanity is ultimately the same.

I wonder when the ultimate social form that countless pioneers fought for in my previous life will finally be realized.

...

Regaining his thoughts, which had wandered who knows where, he shook his head and turned to step over the threshold.

In his previous life, he was a "dog" oppressed by the world, and now, he is a "human" with the ability to change this world. After thinking about it for a long time, Wei Changtian suddenly realized that his motivation didn't seem that complicated.

Maybe he just simply disliked this world.

Although it was already late at night, there were still lights on in two rooms in the small courtyard.

Yang Liushi had already moved in with Qingxian, and Liang Qin had long since returned to the General Commander's mansion for a family reunion.

So, the only ones waiting for him at this late hour would be Xu Qingwan and Lu Jingyao.

Hesitating for a moment, he stopped in front of the latter's door.

Wei Changtian knocked lightly on the door twice, and almost at the same moment, a response came from inside.

"Who is it?"

"Ahem, it's me."

"You, you come in..."

"Okay."

Hearing a voice that sounded somewhat delighted, Wei Changtian pushed the door open and looked at the figure sitting by the bed, asking, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

"I, I was waiting for you..."

Lu Jingyao answered truthfully, while also moving her body, as if she was about to get up to greet him.

However, before her butt could leave the bed, Wei Changtian's words had already floated over.

"Oh, now that I'm back, you can sleep."

"I'm leaving."

"Creak~"

From entering to leaving, Wei Changtian had stood in the room for less than ten breaths in total.

Lu Jingyao stared wide-eyed at the closed door, stunned for a long time before suddenly grabbing the embroidered pillow beside her, then raising her small fist as if to hit, seemingly wanting to vent her anger on the pillow.

But just as this fist was about to land on the pillow, she suddenly stopped her strength, and finally it turned into a gentle pat.

"Whack!"

"Bastard!"

Biting her lip, Lu Jingyao patted the pillow again and again.

...

"I'm back!"

Just as Lu Jingyao was treating the pillow as someone, venting the resentment in her heart with both anger and tenderness, Wei Changtian had already appeared in front of Xu Qingwan.

"It's so late, why aren't you asleep? What are you doing?"

He leaned over with great interest, and then saw a thick stack of account books.

"Are you doing the accounts?"

"Yes."

Xu Qingwan smiled and pushed the account books over: "I didn't know when you would be back, so I thought I'd reconcile the accounts."

"When did you learn this?"

Wei Changtian was greatly surprised, flipping through the account books at random, discovering that this should be the accounts of his "small family."

"I learned it during the days you went to Fengyuan."

On the other side, Little Xu Comrade answered somewhat proudly: "I specially found an accountant to teach me."

"So, you're in charge of the money at home now?"

Wei Changtian asked with a smile: "Then how much money do we have now?"

"Including what Sister Lu brought back from the capital, there's a total of more than fifty thousand taels."

Xu Qingwan pointed to a string of capital numbers on the account book and explained: "Look, it's all recorded here."

...

Fifty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven taels and one qian.

Wei Changtian glanced at it, thinking that she actually remembered it so accurately.

More than fifty thousand taels wasn't too much for a family like his, and this was actually inseparable from him.

He didn't want the industry of the Suspended Mirror Division's Shu Prefecture branch, and he didn't take a share of the money earned by the Co-prosperity Society.

To put it bluntly, Wei Changtian usually only knew how to spend money, not how to earn it.

Even the income on this account book was basically the dividends from some businesses that Xu Qingwan and Lu Jingyao had previously invested in.

"Hahaha, so it turns out you're the one supporting me."

Laughing twice, Wei Changtian casually made a joke.

Xu Qingwan also smiled, gently hitting him before closing the account books and running to the cabinet to prepare to lock them up.

Having been together for a long time, she had long been accustomed to this kind of unreliable joke, and would no longer seriously discuss with Wei Changtian the question of "who supports whom."

"Click~ Click~"

The sound of the copper lock twisting rang out one after another, and Little Xu Comrade actually put three locks on a cabinet.

Wei Changtian watched her behavior like a little hamster from behind, and suddenly said with a smile:

"By the way, let me ask you something."

"Yeah, ask away." Xu Qingwan was still rustling around hiding the account books.

"If we only have ten taels of silver now..."

Wei Changtian asked very curiously: "How are you going to spend it?"

"Ten taels?"

Little Xu Comrade turned her head back with a puzzled look, actually seriously thinking about it for a while before earnestly answering: "Then naturally we have to use it to buy grain. We can buy more coarse rice, it's cheaper, and the rice husks can also feed the horses..."

"Wait a minute."

Wei Changtian interrupted with a surprised look: "We only have ten taels of silver, and we still have to raise horses?"

"We have to raise them."

Xu Qingwan nodded seriously: "Even if you don't take a carriage when you go out, you still have to ride a horse."

...

We're so poor that we can only eat coarse rice, and you still want to raise a horse for me??

Wei Changtian didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to ask the next question.

"Then what if we have a hundred taels?"

"Then we can do some small business!"

"A thousand taels?"

"Hmm, if we have a thousand taels, then you can take a carriage!"

"Don't just think about me, what else?"

"Besides that, we can also open a grain store."

"Why open a grain store?"

"Because although a grain store doesn't earn much, it won't lose money at any time, especially in troubled times. Recently, grain prices have been rising sharply."

...

Good fellow, I didn't expect Xu Qingwan to have the potential to be a profiteer.

Wei Changtian smacked his lips, just preparing to continue asking "How would you spend ten thousand taels".

But at this moment, a fleeting thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"You just said... grain prices have been rising recently?"

"Yes."

Xu Qingwan nodded: "Shu Prefecture is actually still good. I heard that other prefectures have risen even more, and some places are three percent more expensive than this time last year."

"Is that so?"

Wei Changtian frowned and lowered his head, no longer speaking.

Little Xu Comrade waited for a while, finally unable to resist asking: "Changtian, what are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking..."

"How many grain stores can I open with ten million taels."