Chapter 7 [Bloody Disaster?]
Gold bars! The kind as thick as a thumb.
Not just one, not ten…
But a whole pile!
Chen Yan's eyes almost popped out!
The old lady... so rich?
Suddenly, he remembered when he was young, the old lady half-jokingly said she wanted to teach him something, but he disdainfully refused.
And then, over these years, he had to scrimp and save just to buy a worker manga.
He couldn't even bring himself to buy a bottle of Nutritional Express when staying overnight at an internet cafe.
Me...
Wasn't I just being an idiot!
Chen Yan couldn't help but slap himself!
If I had known this earlier…
Overnight at an internet cafe?
I would have just bought the whole internet cafe!
No, wait…
Was my poverty for the past twenty years all self-inflicted?
His mind was bombarded with astonishment, complaints, and various scattered thoughts.
After a few minutes of this chaos, Chen Yan finally began to calm down.
As he cooled off a bit, his intelligence returned, and he immediately sensed something off.
This... a stash of gold bars, valuable indeed... but there's no way to turn them into cash!
Chen Yan suppressed his excitement and roughly estimated the amount of gold.
Each gold bar weighed 100 grams according to the markings.
Multiply by the number of gold bars.
Then multiply by the current gold price…
Chen Yan took a deep breath of Lanzhou noodles.
He roughly calculated the value: converted into Dragon Country Coins, it was just over ten million.
Over ten million!
Taking out a third of it could buy a three-bedroom house in Jinling Prefecture, plus a car.
The rest could go into the bank for a conservative investment, generating one or two hundred thousand a year.
For a bachelor like me, owning a house and a car, with an annual income of one or two hundred thousand.
I could live quite comfortably.
But…
Chen Yan, cautiously thought: Turning so much gold into cash is still a troublesome matter.
Fortunately, besides gold, there was also some cash in the stash.
The notes were somewhat old, greenish M country dollars, and two large stacks of Hong Kong Dollars.
Each M dollar note had a face value of one hundred.
Each Hong Kong Dollar note had a face value of one thousand.
Chen Yan counted, roughly sixteen thousand dollars, and fifty thousand Hong Kong Dollars.
Converting this, it was just over a million in Dragon Country Coins.
A million isn't a small amount; in Su Province, Jinling Prefecture, you could buy a small apartment with it.
Whether these small private banks can exchange gold is uncertain… or they could sell it on behalf…
But, no matter what, the bank can always handle the transfer!!!
Chen Yan looked at the items in the stash.
Besides the gold and half a box of dollars.
There were also some jade carvings.
Not sure how much they were worth, but definitely valuable!
One jade ring suddenly caught Chen Yan's eye.
A bright green color.
Chen Yan didn't understand much… just thought this green looked incredibly appealing at first glance.
To put it in layman's terms: It's so green it looks fake.
Could it be the legendary emerald?
He liked it so much that he pocketed it on the spot.
If he couldn't bear to take it off, he could just wear it back home.
At the checkpoint, he could just tie it with a string around his neck and say it's a craft shop item, made of acrylic, if anyone asked.
Chen Yan gathered his thoughts for a moment and made a decision.
Leave the gold and jade here for now.
Come up with a secure way to deal with it later.
Don't think the outside is entirely safe.
As an outsider, if he rashly took out gold worth millions, where would he find a place to sell it?
Official banks would not accept it without clear provenance!
Underground channels… get targeted by villains, and he wouldn't know how he'd die.
Think long-term!
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When Chen Yan walked out of the bank, he was empty-handed.
He opened an account at the bank and deposited the cash into it, then immediately transferred it to his mainland bank account.
So now, he was worth a million directly?
He had money now!
Shouldn't he treat himself to a nice meal first?!
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Gu girl, covered in black coal ash, crawled out from the woods beside the railway tracks.
Her stomach growled.
Uh... hungry.
The girl pouted in grievance.
Leaving the woods, she asked for directions along the way… though her dirty clothes were very conspicuous, she managed to get the directions right.
She walked for half a day more.
Gu girl finally entered a village, searching towards the south in the village.
Eventually, she stood outside a courtyard gate.
Inside the courtyard, there was a small well.
All around it, in a circular trench, southeast, northwest.
Gu girl jumped in, stamping as she landed inside the courtyard.
Looking at the circle around the well.
What kind of setup was this?
Who digs trenches around a well?
It's like they have a serious problem!
Further in…
She pushed, seeing a big brass lock on the door.
The girl raised an eyebrow, and with a bit of force from her delicate fingers, the big brass lock clicked into two pieces!
As Gu girl pushed the door into the hall, she immediately saw a black-and-white portrait hanging on the wall.
In the frame, an energetic old woman smiling confidently.
The girl froze, quickly straightened up, dusted off the coal ash on her body, and turned to rummage through the cabinet. She did find a box of incense.
Lighting three sticks, she bowed in front of the portrait and then inserted them into the incense burner.
Her mouth softly murmured: "Greetings venerable! Great lady, health to you!"
After searching through several rooms…
In a drawer in the inner room, she found two delivery receipts, both addressed to the same place, in Jinling Prefecture.
The recipient's name was Chen Yan.
These were from a few months ago when the old lady mailed some home-cooked dried meat and snacks to Chen Yan.
The old lady saved everything, couldn't bear to throw anything away, and kept it in the drawers.
"Chen Family member? As expected, hidden by this great lady."
Gu girl's eyes lit up with joy. After memorizing the address, she was about to leave but then turned back again.
She dug through the wardrobe, finding a slightly old-fashioned black cotton jacket.
This coat was bought by Chen Yan last month in Jinling Prefecture and sent back for the old lady to wear in winter.
Besides the old style, there was nothing wrong with it.
At least after the girl swapped her shirt for it, she didn't look like she had stepped out of a period drama anymore.
The girl studied herself in the mirror for a while, nodding in satisfaction.
Her stomach growling, the girl didn't hesitate and directly walked into the kitchen. She found half a bag of rice and some pickled vegetables.
There was nothing else—before Chen Yan left home, there was still some bacon, but he gave it to the neighbors before leaving.
The girl started a fire in the kitchen, cooked a pot of rice, and ate it with the pickled vegetables…
Miamiamiamia…
The happiness of being full made the girl's lips curl up.
But… her brows furrowed again.
She still had to hop a train to Jinling Prefecture.
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Chen Yan sat in the Port City airport lounge, with a few traces of suppressed excitement on his face, his eyes darting around as if searching for something.
Truth is, he was looking for ghosts.
Last night, bored in the hotel, he tried using a simple spell he found in a book.
Open Celestial Eye.
It sounded grand, but it wasn't really like that.
In fact, it was just a qi observation skill.
Soak fresh willow leaves and peeled tender branches in water for an hour, then use this water to wash your eyes.
Then recite the incantations in the book, circulate primordial qi through the body, and moisten the eyes.
Then you could open the Celestial Eye, to see things ordinary people couldn't. When looking at people with energized eyes, the rise and fall of their qi could be observed.
This was the only miracle art Chen Yan determined he could attempt after going through the book.
It was said that once you opened your Celestial Eye, you could see the evils and strange things around, and even observe people's qi.
Right now, he was quite interested, unable to stop looking around.
Just like a child with a new toy.
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However… since opening the Celestial Eye, from the hotel to the airport, staring around with wide eyes, he hadn't seen anything.
Movies often depict people born with Yin-Yang Eyes who can see ghosts and monsters…
Why haven't I seen even one?
Is the spell ineffective?
When it was time to board, Chen Yan…
Of course, he flew first class!
Now he had money.
For someone like Chen Yan, who had been poor for twenty years, first class still held some curiosity.
After all, he'd read posts online about how to flirt with flight attendants…
People summarized various methods with high success rates.
The article ended by saying: These methods only work in first class.
Isn't that… obvious!
If you're flying first class, rich guys naturally have a charm buff when hitting on girls.
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Sitting in the first-class seat, Chen Yan was initially fresh to explore the seat's features, then pretended to be calm, asking for a drink.
But flirting with the flight attendant? No, Chen Yan was a gentleman.
After all, domestic rumors often featured various scandals involving flight attendants... making Chen Yan less fond of this group.
After the plane took off, Chen Yan donned an eye mask to rest.
He had stayed up all night practicing the spell, and his first attempt to perform it kept him excited and awake.
Now, he did feel a bit sleepy.
After closing his eyes, he slept for almost an hour before suddenly shuddering all over!
It was like that sensation of dreaming about stepping into a void, feeling chilled, tightened chest, short of breath.
In short, everything felt wrong.
Chen Yan took off his eye mask and realized something was wrong!
He had primed his body with primordial qi and begun practicing the transportation technique. As primordial qi entered his body, his senses became more acute than ordinary people's.
Particularly sensing omens or changes in the external world.
Realizing this, Chen Yan quickly steadied his breathing and calculated his fortune using the Destiny Cycle.
The results were terrible, and Chen Yan's face immediately darkened!
"How could this be?"
This flight's fortune was extremely unfavorable.
There would be a bloody disaster!
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