Chapter 20 New Year's Day

  Back in the room after taking a bath and lying on the bed, He Ming finally had time to think about it. After returning home, he was busy all the time. It wasn't until an unintentional visit to the treasure that he discovered the Tree of Life and came into contact with a ghost. With a casual shake of his body, he transformed

  Became a new noble in the archaeological circle. Then, unintentionally, I also became famous, it's really the butterfly effect, sometimes your behavior may not even know yourself, has already had a profound impact on this world.

  After becoming rich, He Ming felt that his temperament had completely changed. Now, he almost forgot that he was once an ordinary loser with a brain full of nonsense. So when facing the reporter's interview, he naturally said many ridiculous things. Moreover, due to He Ming's astonishing discovery, it caused a sensation throughout the country and even affected the international archaeological community.

  It's easy to imagine that Malanshan City will become famous because of this, and many scholars and archaeologists will come to hear the news. A large number of tourists will also arrive. No wonder the mayor was so enthusiastic yesterday. Because this is a tourist city, fame is money, it's development. It's estimated that the 850,000 residents of Malanshan City will all have to thank He Ming.

  He Ming's own physical transformation was also astonishing, and the toad exercise brought about a metamorphosis in just a few days. This is something that money can't buy; otherwise, wouldn't all the world's top billionaires be in great shape? Or what about politicians from various countries - are there any with robust muscles and boundless energy?

  However, from today's cultivation, He Ming also vaguely realized that the Toad Skill is a divine skill that only a very small number of people can succeed in. Even green light-level talents have a low success rate; white light, even the old man who just rejuvenated earlier did not succeed, and Xue Hu, being a green light, an ultra-strong in the military, also did not succeed.

  If the Toad Skill cannot achieve harmony between yin and yang, it basically has no great effect. After all, they are not ancient generals, even if they fail, there is no Viagra, he created this divine skill, before understanding the true words, there is a certain effect.

  This is also why the ancient general, who discovered this divine skill, unfortunately found that no one could practice it, including his descendants, so he hid it in some bronze statues hoping to preserve it and not lose it.

  Otherwise at the beginning of the story, He Ming said, "I'm not going home!" The extremely strong and tall Guo Bang turned his head and said, "Not going home? Be careful of your dad's shellfish skills!"

  Thinking about things, He Ming looked at the still-standing "cannon" and felt extremely headache. Should he find a girlfriend? However... should look for a foreign girl.

  He Ming glanced at his watch, it was past midnight, time to sleep. Before bed, he tidied up his treasures: first, the magical glasses that were as precious as his life; then a 392-gram piece of Life Wood; and two wild pearls that would have cost at least tens of thousands of yuan in the past, but now he could casually put them in his wallet. Oh, and there was also a box of gold and silver rings and necklaces, plus a luxurious mansion and two luxury cars.

  Everything is like a dream, I don't know what expression the relatives and friends who come to visit during the Spring Festival will have. At that time, be prepared for emergency heart medicine.

  He Ming intended to clean up a trunk of gold and silver, so he came to the underground parking lot and found a broken suitcase in the corner, which was still bought from Xiaolin Inn for 500 yuan.

  He Ming carried it back to his own bedroom on his shoulders and directly poured everything onto the floor with a rustling sound.

  Then try the weight, 20 kilograms of gold is about a bag of rice at home. 40 kilograms of silver, two bags of rice.

  There are more than 60 ring chains left. How to deal with them? One gram of gold is almost 300 yuan, and 20 kilograms is equal to 200,000 grams, which is 6 million yuan. Silver is 5 yuan per gram, and 40 kilograms is also 400,000 grams, only worth 2 million yuan, but it can be understood that the original was silver-based, now it's gold-based.

  This batch of precious metals is from the Qing Dynasty and now needs to be re-refined. There must be a lot of impurities, so it will cost a lot less.

  As for rings and necklaces, most of them are made of simple white silver and gold, the craftsmanship of gemstones is also poor, and the materials are also poor, so they are not very valuable.

  He Ming originally wanted to sell it at a cultural relic price, but Huang Xue-xiong wouldn't take it. He Ming had no choice but to give up. This country is different from others because there are no privileged aristocrats exploiting the people and sucking their blood, nor is there a planned economy with many large-scale projects.

  At first, although it was communism, it took the road of a free market. So the development of the folk economy is extremely rapid, and in just a few years after its founding, the country opened up nationwide. The great leader Chairman Mr. is simply like a traverser, in the northern big brother

  Western powers are playing a game of "wallhead grass" between them, with the saying "where there's milk, there's mother", neither country can give up on it and feel deeply ashamed about it. As a result, economic development is abnormally rapid, in 1995, with a population of 1.6 billion, GDP surpassed Japan and caught up with the US, but per capita income was not high.

  There's no way, because the population base is too large, but this is also very normal. Other countries are desperately encouraging childbirth, and they want our country to control birth rates to make room for them?

  Moreover, the country's wealth is stored among its people, and there are many wealthy individuals, but also some who are particularly poor. The rich especially like to pursue collecting cultural relics, artworks, etc., after all, not only can they be collected and appreciated, but also appreciate in value.

  However, the super-rich are fond of high-end and top-notch items, and have no interest in low-level cultural relics worth tens of thousands of yuan. He Ming still hoped to sell the ape-man skull for a sky-high price, but this thing is too sensitive, with too great an impact, so there's nothing to be done but hand it over to the state after all - it's an extremely precious relic related to human origins.

  Others don't even have a gold ring, but He Ming stared blankly at a pile of gold and silver. The ancient technology was backward, the purity was not high, and time had passed, so the gold and silver ingots were all mottled in color. If he took them out to sell to Jin Lou, they probably wouldn't be accepted.

  I've decided that when I have time, I'll buy a set of equipment to smelt and refine metals. I'll purify the gold and keep it for myself - after all, it's real hard currency that can be used as cash at any time. I'll also keep the silver; who knows when it might come in handy?

  A person pushed the door open and she immediately saw, under the bright light, a pile of glittering precious metals. She ran over, picked up several gold and silver ingots, and exclaimed: "Wow, what is this? It's so cool! So much gold and silver, it must be treasure! Ah——why aren't you wearing clothes!" Wait, you——

  It was He Fang, the second sister, who had just arrived. She smelled fragrant and carried a scent of perfume. Without knocking on the door, she rushed in and was immediately drawn to a pile of gold and silver ingots. Only then did she notice He Ming, who was proudly displaying his wealth with an air of arrogance.

  He Ming quickly grabbed the quilt covering himself and said: "You're still not asleep? You didn't even knock on the door. These are the treasures I dug up."

  "Have you found the treasure? How did you find it? Tell me." As she spoke, He Fang was holding gold and silver ingots, and randomly putting on rings and necklaces.

  He Ming stopped him: "Don't touch it, who knows what kind of virus the Qing dynasty things have, I haven't cleaned them up yet, they've been buried underground for many years. As for the treasure, it's like this."

  He Ming told the story of the treasure, He Fang's eyes widened in shock and she exclaimed: "You sold those two pieces of top-quality porcelain for 400 million? I really can't believe it. And little Ming, you're so reckless outside, casually acknowledging a god-sister, have you forgotten your own sister? Tell me, what does she look like, is she prettier than me?"

  He Mingdao said: "She's quite heroic, with short hair just like yours. You've also met her brother, that handsome guy Ying Yang."

  He Fang disheartenedly said: "Big brother is really handsome, in that case his sister must be extremely beautiful too, I'm no match for her. It's so sad." As she spoke, she leaned closer to He Ming and asked expectantly: "How do you think my lingerie looks?"

  "What are you doing?" He Ming asked with a wry smile.

  "Sleep with you!" He Fang giggled and lay on the bed, saying a lot of things, very excited and all that. It's really hard to believe all this is real. He Ming smiled and said a few words, sharing some exciting feelings with each other.

  When he woke up, it was already bright outside the window. He looked at his watch and saw that it was 8:36. His second sister had left early. Along with her, several gold and silver ingots that were piled on the floor had disappeared, and a ring and necklace were gone too.

  After finishing his prayer, Xiao Di hadn't cooled down yet. He Ming then took out his phone to check the messages. The messages were full, and he was too lazy to clean them up. There were countless unreturned calls, but he only found Guo Bang's new voicemail and replied to it. He Ming naturally told his best friend about the Frog Art.

  As a result, Guo Bang went crazy on the other end of the phone and said, "Fly over today, I'll arrive tonight, just in time to practice turtle breathing exercises together."

  He Ming naturally welcomed him, and then looked at some information, including unknown how to get his phone number, wanting to interview various reporters, as well as some harassing calls, but among them, there was a message called Zhou Qingyun, and an unconnected call.

  He Ming clicked on it and had a big sweep that night, but Zhou Qingyun sent him a message, however at that time He Ming was busy to death and didn't have time to look at the text.

  The latest is a text message sent at 8:15 today.

  Do you dislike me? Why didn't you return my message.

  He Ming was too lazy to send a text message, his Nokia would be painful if he sent a text message, so he directly called over.

  Connected immediately.

  "Is that Ming? Great, you finally picked up. Why didn't you answer my calls or return my texts?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded really nice.

  "Sorry about that, I was too busy and just saw your message. You should know, I'm famous now." He Ming said over the phone while brushing his teeth and washing his face.

  Zhou Qingyun laughed on the other end of the phone: "You're really amazing, discovering the ape-man skull. And you're especially popular online, with all sorts of nicknames flying around. He Ming, you're truly a perfect person. Did you know that?"

  He Ming hated you knowing what? He smiled wryly and said: "Calling is too slow, let's use Q. I type super fast."

  He Ming opened his computer, went online, and unexpectedly received a flood of messages. As soon as he came online, they frantically sent him information and even harassed him with violent videos. He Ming was furious and sent a group message saying "Don't bother me if nothing's going on" before directly blocking them. Seeing the countless messages, he couldn't help but shake his head.

  Used to be, even if there were a few elementary school, junior high school and high school classmates, they all hid silently for years. Now it's good, as soon as I became famous, everyone is like crazy, without thinking, what kind of relationship do you and I have?

  He Ming didn't bother with these people, too utilitarian.

  He Ming added Zhou Qingyun and then turned off the add friend function to avoid disturbing others. Then sent a message saying: "Just now, super many messages, annoying me to death."

  Zhou Qingyun returned a sly smile: "You're famous now."

  "I never thought I'd become famous, perhaps you don't believe me, I just made a phone call to get rid of some things and it ended up like this. The reporters are afraid that the world is not chaotic enough, the more I say something, the more excited they become, and some normal ones were cut off. They deliberately vilify me!"

  "Haha, so interesting! No wonder your expression on TV is so funny. My roommate said you're young but very hypocritical, definitely not a good person."

  "So you think I'm a good person or a bad person?"

  Zhou Qingyun fell silent for a moment, He Ming saw her sending a message but then cancelled it. However, Zhou Qingyun suddenly sent another message: "I think you're a good person. By the way, He Ming, do you have a boyfriend?"

  Boyfriend??? He Ming is as stupid as a wooden chicken, I look like a gay person?

  But Zhou Qingyun quickly sent a tongue-out expression: " Typed wrong, too nervous. Do you have a girlfriend?"

  He let out a sigh of relief and was asked by a pretty girl if he had a boyfriend.

  He typed: "I don't have." At the moment he was typing, He Ming thought of a girl.

  "Then... I'll be your girlfriend."

  "You got it wrong again? Come on, sis, be more professional."

  "I'm not, I'm serious." As she said that, Zhou Qingyun sent a video request. He Ming of course accepted it, and then he saw on the other end of the video, although it was quite blurry, apparently due to the poor quality of the camera, but still could make out that it was a beautiful girl. She was wearing a red sweater, obviously dressed up, with extremely pretty cheeks.

  He Ming felt a bit stunned, the beauty was almost typing away, non-stop typing.

  The chat bar keeps popping up with messages.

  He Ming, I'm a beautiful woman, 1.76 meters tall, with a perfect body. So from childhood to adulthood, many people have liked me, confessed to me, had good feelings towards me, and not a few people pursued me. I've always been the school belle, perhaps the dream lover of many people.

  …………

  Let's not mention those ridiculous pursuers and their affairs during my student days. Then I didn't attend college because my family was too poor, there is a saying that beauty is short-lived.

  Right?

  Then I went to work at LV specialty store, the treatment was pretty good.

  However, I got to know many rich people, and many of them hinted at being their mistress.

  I'm tired of this life and these people. They disregard my dignity, personality, they only want to buy me with money, just like buying an LV handbag.

  I'm extremely scared, in this big city, I have nothing to rely on.

  And some boys I know who chat with me on QQ, they are almost all very naive and self-abased, so their personalities are quite distorted. They like me, even love me. But I know that I won't fall in love with that kind of person. I don't want to ruin myself or my life.

  Women hurry to grow old, so I must find one, the person I've been waiting for.

  Except for New Year's Eve, I still thought it was an ordinary day, and as usual, wanting to have me, pointing at me to serve.

  But that night I was tired, and you appeared with a man and a pair of sisters.

  That man I could tell was poor, he seemed a bit uneasy at first but soon became numb to the prices of tens of thousands for just one handbag.

  That brother and sister look very excited, directly holding their bags, only looking at what they like, without considering the price.

  Then I noticed you. I couldn't see through you. You were quite explosive at first.

  You were also excited, but I soon noticed that your eyes were very calm, just like when buying Chinese cabbage.

  Your stride is full of momentum and you look very strong, but as I get closer, I find that your temperament is actually quite calm and gentle.

  You directly sweep the goods, we rarely see such a big customer like you, and we are all very excited.

  Then you saw me and like many people, you looked at my legs first.

  I know my legs are beautiful.

  Then you find out I'm looking at you too.

  Then you smiled at me, and in that moment, your face lit up, radiant and full of spirit...

  I've been thinking about you at that moment, deeply thinking.

  I knew it, I've been waiting and waiting for the person who has finally arrived.

  I've never been in love before, but I knew at that moment, I fell in love with you.

  So when I saw you guys were leaving, I mustered up the courage to ask a boy for his phone number for the first time. Then I found out it was unreachable, do you know how I felt at that moment?

  If you gave me a fake phone number, I'll miss you forever. This life, this world, never see each other again.

  That day others joked with me. We closed the door early, and after I went back, I kept thinking of sending you a text message. I thought, how should I get closer to you? Will you misunderstand me?

  But you never replied, did you know or didn't you know that last night's New Year's Eve was the most miserable one in my life? I've been waiting all along.

  Like waiting for the verdict of fate!

  If you keep ignoring me. I will definitely despair. I no longer insist on having love. I'll be someone else's lover. I completely give up myself, just because of your indifference and ruthlessness!

  But just now, you called me and I'm really happy.

  Now I confess to you, what's your idea?

  ……

  Ah——my eyes, it was so hard to finish reading, only to understand that Zhou Qingyun wrote so many words just to express one sentence: I love you, be my boyfriend.

  He Ming typed this sentence and added another one behind it, saying that it's simpler this way.

  On the other end of the video call, Zhou Qingyun's waiting expression suddenly broke into a giggle.

  She replied: "You... really, if I didn't make it clear, you would misunderstand that I'm after your money."

  He Ming typed: "How could that be? Even if you fall in love with my money, it doesn't matter. Men love beautiful women, and beautiful women love RMB. Isn't this the truth of our times?"

  In the video, Zhou Qingyun got angry and said quickly: "I'm sincere to you. Look at my QQ space and signature."

  He Ming went to take a look and saw that it was written on top: Before New Year's Eve, the person I've been waiting for has arrived. There are also many new articles in the space.

  What's clear after opening it up and taking a look. I thought of him, and it turns out that love is like this. Xiao Ming, do you know my feelings?

  Many people responded by saying "Goddess, don't leave me" or responding with a pretentious tone, "Oh, so you're finally in love?"

  It's clear that Zhou Qingyun is very popular, He Ming is too busy and hasn't opened other articles.

  He continued typing in the chat bar, and his ability to speak nonsense when seeing ghosts and speaking human language when seeing humans was once again put into play.

  "I saw it, I'm very touched. Thank you for your love. Bye, I have to go now, I haven't had breakfast yet. Let's chat when we're free."

  In the video, Zhou Qingyun was anxious, and a message jumped out immediately.

  "What's your answer? Are you going to do it?"

  "What's wrong? I'm still a virgin, don't imagine me as such a playboy." He Ming said foolishly.

  In the video, Zhou Qingyun bit her lower lip, feeling both angry and embarrassed. She somewhat understood He Ming's personality now - don't drag things out with him or try to divert the issue, she wasn't his match.

  "I'll be your girlfriend... later, you can do whatever you want."

  He Ming lowered his head and looked at it, saying: "Hey, buddy, don't be so impatient, ruining my reputation?"

  At this moment, He Ming felt a little regretful. The quality of the video head was too poor. His super vision, comparable to that of a pilot or a sniper, couldn't see Zhou Qingyun's clear appearance.

  "Do you want to be my boyfriend? Answer quickly." In the video, Zhou Qingyun almost cried.

  He couldn't bear it in his heart, he touched his chin and finally typed out a line of words that would undoubtedly change the lives of him and the beautiful-legged MM in front of the video.

  "Alright, I'll be your boyfriend. Considering those 95 points-worthy beautiful legs of yours."

  One reply later, He Ming stared intently at the video, Zhou Qingyun suddenly covered her mouth, almost shedding tears, but it could be seen that at that moment, she had a smile like a flower, exceptionally charming.

  Then Zhou Qingyun replied, "That's great, old man. When are you coming to see me? I miss you. Do you like my legs? I have many stockings, and when the time comes, I'll wear whatever you want to see."

  He Ming hastily ended this QQ conversation, ignoring other messages and shutting down the computer.

  Then he knelt down on the ground and continued to pray to the three great gods.

  Great God, don't provoke me anymore. I can't take it.

  He Ming finally couldn't bear it anymore, rebooted, and planned to find a certain stimulating website at home and take off once.

  The computer is still booting up, but his left hand was busy.

  "Quickly get up—" Just at this moment, the door suddenly opened and a person rushed in. He Ming was shocked and turned his head, it was his second sister.

  "Oh no! My reputation! He Ming covered his head and said expressionlessly, "Second sister, if there's something going on, go out for a bit, I'm going to take a bath. Let's talk later."

  Took a cold shower, and put on all the branded clothes again. However, after this, there were almost no more branded clothes left. After all, He Ming had bought fewer for himself, while the other men's clothing was purchased for his father, and most of it belonged to women.

  "What's going on?" He Ming asked as he went out the door, asking Er Jie who was standing by the gate. He Fang didn't seem to care about what had just happened because when He Ming was little, she used to change his diapers.

  He Fang smiled wryly and said, "You go down and take a look yourself."

  He Ming and Second Sister went out, and as soon as they entered the corridor, they heard a loud noise. They peeked from the stairs and saw that the living room downstairs was packed with people. At a glance, there were over 100 people. These people were both familiar and strange, apart from Father's relatives, who else could they be?

  In the crowd, there was a man wearing a high-end suit, with an extraordinary demeanor and handsome appearance, smoking a very thick and long cigar, introducing his luxurious mansion to people with great flair.

  He inadvertently raised his head and saw He Ming, delightedly saying: "Brother, you're up! Come down quickly, your uncles are here to pay their New Year's respects!"

  The person who shouted, with a sly and cunning expression on his face, could only be Situ Haoran.