Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life-Chapter 795 - 784: Nouveau Riche

An auspicious day was chosen, and Ye Qiu’s coal mine officially commenced operations. The son of the pawnshop Shopkeeper, Tang Li, and his uncle Yu Hongjun each took up a minor leadership role. The former troublemakers, Dongsheng and Da Qiang, became security officers. Additionally, Ye Qiu equipped the mine with a medical staff, and left the cooking entirely to his mother-in-law Zhao Yuhong. However, the mine had many workers, and one person alone definitely couldn’t manage the cooking tasks alone, so she was put in charge of procurement with two helpers also assigned to assist her.

Due to Ye Qiu’s mine’s strong emphasis on safety issues and good welfare for the workers, it quickly made a name for itself locally, to the extent that even the dirtiest and most exhausting job of coal mining was in high demand.

Now that the national economy was advancing at full speed, the coal he produced was in great demand. Before long, his mining company was on the right track, and the initial group of followers who started with him had successfully become wealthy, with the most significant transformations seen in the former troublemakers Dongsheng and Da Qiang. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Dongsheng and Da Qiang had never imagined that they would come to be seen as successful individuals in the eyes of others. Previously viewed as cockroaches or rats in dark alleys, they were now respectfully addressed as "Brothers," and some elderly women even began introducing them as potential husband materials.

After Ye Qiu’s company got on the right track, a dormitory was built, with Dongsheng and Da Qiang even getting their own suites. Now with their own homes, money, a promising job, and without the need to take care of in-laws, weren’t they just the ideal son-in-law every aunt wanted?

Both realized they weren’t getting younger, so they asked Ye Qiu to help them choose brides. Each actually did end up marrying a virtuous and beautiful wife, and within a year, children were born, much ahead of the timeline Ye Qiu had initially promised. Deeply grateful, they worked even harder for Ye Qiu.

It wasn’t much trouble for Ye Qiu, as all required certifications were complete, and taxes were paid on time every month. Having made his fortune, he didn’t forget to enrich the local community, even building roads and schools; his earnings were spent as quickly as they came, making him an active figure the government was eager to support. With governmental backing, even those who were jealous didn’t dare to do anything.

The series of developments made the government view him as more reliable, leading to him being granted several more mines. Whether it was sheer luck or not, two of these smaller mines ended up producing significantly more than expected, allowing him to make a hefty profit once again.

Ye Qiu was a man who believed in paying back; being vastly wealthy, he never skimped on the benefits for his workers, especially the most common and tired miners.

The workers were also grateful and knew Ye Qiu’s kindness, so they worked even harder, significantly boosting efficiency.

Furthermore, the roads, water channels, parks, and other infrastructure around were gradually improved with donations from Ye Qiu, sparing the government a great deal of trouble. Most importantly, while mining, Ye Qiu did not forget the environment, vigorously promoting planting. Soon, the surrounding villages and the county transformed aesthetically, contrasting starkly with other regions desolated by excessive mining activities.

Thus, any county around Ye Qiu’s mines became model cities, with local governments recognized as advanced units. As for Ye Qiu himself and his company, they received intense promotion and support, leading everyone’s lives onward and upward.

While his endeavors were steadily progressing, Baoqin in the capital was having a tough time, just as she had worried at the beginning. When the Cai Family showed their true colors by making demands on her and Jianjun, initially Jianjun was patient, but gradually, his looks towards her changed.

Lately, he even moved back to the Yan family’s old mansion, apparently trying to distance himself from the Cai family. In just two or three years, Baoqin transformed from a sophisticated woman to one who is irritable and gloomy, perhaps revealing her true nature that she had previously concealed well.

As for her career, it wasn’t going as smoothly as she had imagined. She knew future trends, but lacked extraordinary wisdom or capability. Initially, she wanted to seize the opportunity to control emerging industries of future generations, but she soon realized her knowledge was superficial. While she knew much from TV in her previous life as a rural woman, what did she truly understand about management or core technologies? Hence, her plans to start internet and gaming companies quickly fell through.

Subsequently, she focused on real estate but realized she lacked sufficient start-up capital. After purchasing two pieces of barren land without extra funds to develop them, she also felt she was too whimsical. Real estate’s boom would only come in the next decade; even if she held the land now, she couldn’t sell it at a high price. Also, the government would not allow long-term land hoarding; once bought, there was a deadline for development, and thus her plan to make a fortune through real estate failed as well.

After two failures, Jianjun’s opinion of her gradually shifted, especially as the Cai family interfered foolishly, lacking skills yet wanting managerial roles, which amounted to squandering his money.

Thus, when Baoqin finally faced reality and wanted to develop a real business by establishing a garment factory, Jianjun did not support her fully as he had in her previous life. Without sufficient funds, Baoqin, in order to prove herself, had to travel alone to the south for goods, directly leading to her not becoming pregnant with Jianjun’s child during this period as she did in her past life.

Returning from the south, she did make money, but was so busy that she had little time for home. Moreover, with Zhaodi and Cai Jinbao leeching off her, she couldn’t save much and therefore couldn’t hold her head high in the Yan Family as she did before, let alone suppress her sister-in-law Yan Juan and stepdaughter Lily.

Frequent trips between Shenzhen and the capital meant that Baoqin couldn’t take proper care of her family, prompting Jianjun to seriously reconsider whether marrying Baoqin was the right decision.

The once intelligent and virtuous woman now, for a bit of money and her family’s sake, was caught in a continuous whirlwind of activity, completely neglecting her husband’s feelings. Was his home still a complete home? Jianjun started to reevaluate his feelings for Baoqin, wondering where the woman who promised to give him happiness, support his career, and be his strong backbone had gone?

And just as Yan Juan had said, when out socializing, people would joke about his uncultured and ill-mannered father-in-law and mother-in-law, making him feel out of place.