Chapter Eighteen: The Revelation of Heavenly Secrets

  It's okay, Yang seemed not to have heard what Jin Gang Pao said and drove away from the San Huai Antique Market.

  I and Jin Gangpao sat in such a good car for the first time, I pretended to be calm and still, while Jin Gangpao touched left and right, later pointing at the DVD on the driver's seat and exclaimed to me "Lao Yu, this car even has TV!"

  The beautiful woman sitting in the passenger seat turned her head and smiled, pressed a few buttons, and the DVD played with sound and images. It was Wong Fei-hung's theme song "A Man Should Strengthen Himself".

  The golden cannon stared at me unblinkingly, I closed my eyes and let out a sigh.

  "Haha, Old Yu, look at them practicing the worst military boxing in our unit!" The camera shows Huang Feihong leading a militia to practice martial arts. Jin Gang Pao immediately recognized that the actors were practicing military boxing and couldn't help but speak up again.

  "Can you die from not speaking?" I blurted out in a loud voice.

  "What's wrong with me?"

  "Haha, little brother, I've long seen that you two aren't Taoist priests. Don't blame your friend." Manager Yang said with a smile while driving the car.

  "Actually, the watches on your hands have already revealed your identities, it's just that you don't want to say and I'm not convenient to ask." Mr. Yang smiled again. It seems that rich people may not necessarily be good people, but they must be clever people!

  I forced a smile and said, "Director Yang, there are some things I can say and some things I'd rather not say. In short, I didn't mean to deceive you." Since the money hadn't been paid yet, I spoke very politely.

  "It's okay, it's okay." Mr. Yang waved his hand. It seems that he has already suspected us two, and it is uncertain whether we can get the money without showing some real skills in a while.

  The BMW made three turns and two turns to the entrance of a luxury hotel, where a young man wearing a security uniform came forward to open the car door for us, then took away the key, and I don't know where he drove the car.

  We stood at the entrance of the grand hotel, at a loss. Jin Gang was even more comical, still holding a bag of flour in his hand.

  The two of us followed Yang into a large private room. In an instant, many dishes that neither of us could name were brought in like flowing water, and next to them stood tall and slender girls pouring tea and water for us, making me and Jingga feel very embarrassed, so we asked her to leave.

  "Little brother, who did you learn your fortune-telling from?" Yang Zong put down his wine cup.

  "I put down the chopsticks, I'm different from Jin Gang Pao, I don't have an appetite for food, while Jin Gang Pao held a small ceramic bowl like a chamber pot and didn't stop eating."

  "How's my luck been lately?" Yang asked tentatively.

  Finally, I cleared my throat. "Mr. Yang, what are you referring to?"

  "Then take a look at my wealth first," said Yang, stretching out his hand.

  I waved my hand, indicating no need. "Mr. Yang, your fortune has been very prosperous recently. If you develop in the direction of due east, it will be a little better."

  "Wow, little brother is impressive! Haha, I collaborated with an oil company to develop a gas well in the East China Sea recently and the returns were pretty good." He said, handing over a cigarette. "Little brother, take another look at how long I'll live?"

  "I can't see this," I said evasively. In fact, it's not that I didn't see through it, but rather I saw through it and couldn't say it - Yang Zong's vital energy is not bright, he won't live to a ripe old age.

  "Oh" Mr. Yang felt slightly disappointed.

  "Director Yang, you're not most concerned about these things, are you?" I took a look at the time and changed the subject to our children.

  "Alas, I'm already 47 this year. More than a decade ago, I had a son, but he passed away at the age of four. Until now, I still don't have any children. I'd like to ask little brother to take a look." Manager Yang was quite disheartened.

  "Who is this lady to you?" I didn't answer him directly, but instead pointed to the young woman who was eating fruit with a toothpick.

  "Oh, I recently got divorced from my ex-wife after our relationship fell apart. She's also my secretary and girlfriend." This old thing Yang is really something else, once he got rich, he immediately replaced her with a younger one, damn it.

  "Director Yang, there are some things I can say and some things I cannot say. Saying too much is not good for me." My intention is clear now.

  Yang took out two bundles of RMB wrapped in white paper strips from his interlayer bag and handed them over, "A little token of my appreciation, for the young brothers to buy some cigarettes."

  "Thank you, thank you." Before I could even open my mouth, Jin Gang cannon had already put down the small can and accepted the money.

  I took a glance at the cannon and turned to Director Yang, saying: "Director Yang, I'll be honest with you. You were destined to have no children, even if you did, they wouldn't live past five years old."

  "Please, Master, show me a clear way." Yang was worried and restless, unable to sit still.

  "You belong to the metal element of the five elements, but your birth month is in conflict with the water element, and the water element overcomes the child element. Therefore, your childbearing energy is very weak. If you want to have a successor to inherit the family business, it's best to find a woman who belongs to the water element, and also do more good deeds to accumulate virtues, maybe there's still hope." I told the truth.

  "Master, what element am I in the five elements?" The young woman couldn't help but ask me.

  "Water." I replied definitely. "And..."

  "What's up, little master?" The young woman's face was a mix of excitement and anxiety. I leaned back against the headrest, pulled out my pack of cigarettes that cost two bucks each, lit one, and pondered whether to say something or not.

  Yang Zong misunderstood my intention, took the bag and looked at it before putting it down, turned around and said to me: "I think this Buddha Jumps Over The Wall suits this young brother's appetite, I'll go out and order two more." As he spoke, he got up and walked out. It wasn't until then that I knew the small jar that Jin Gang Pao was holding onto tightly was called Buddha Jumps Over The Wall.

  "What's that? Tell me quickly!" The beauty pouted at me, but I wasn't having it. Changing the subject: "How old are you this year?"

  "Twenty-two!" The beauty replied "How about you, little brother?"

  "Haha, we're about the same age. What's your surname?"

  "And you?"

  We just chatted like this. I can see that this woman has a certain weight in President Yang's heart, so we can't offend her too much.

  Director Yang pushed open the door and came in "Hehe, sorry about that, I just received a phone call. Young man, say what you have to say, I won't treat you unfairly."

  "Director Yang, you misunderstood me, that's not what I meant." Two million is already a lot, why do you still want a watch? And then he continued to say...

  "This young lady not only has a birth element of water, but I think she should be pregnant, and it's a boy!"

  "What?" "What's going on?" "Lao Yu, is this for real?" As soon as I spoke, the three people present stared at me with their eyes wide open.

  Yang turned around and looked at the woman beside him with a puzzled expression. The beauty's hair was straight, "Just a few days ago, I haven't had time to go to the hospital for a check-up, I thought I'd wait for you to accompany me."

  "Little brother is really a god, haha, come on, I'll toast you a glass. If little brother isn't mistaken, Yang will definitely thank him heavily." Manager Yang laughed loudly and was very happy...

  This meal lasted almost three hours, and Jin Gang Pao ate five or six bowls, which was a great satisfaction. When it was time to leave the table, a young man with good manners knocked on the door and brought in two medium-sized handbags. Yang Zong gave one to each of us. Jin Gang Pao hastily opened his and exclaimed, "Wow, a cell phone!"

  That BB machine would still cost several hundred dollars, and a mobile phone would be even more expensive, up to tens of thousands.

  "Hehe, don't worry about it, the phone bill is on my company's account. You two young brothers go ahead and use it." Mr. Yang said with a generous face.

  "It's impolite to receive without giving, so I'll give this ginseng to Director Yang as a gift for his health." I grabbed the bag next to Jin Gang Pao and took out the ginseng. The dinner party was joyful and everyone had a great time. After finishing the meal, we didn't let Director Yang send us off, instead, we hailed a taxi on our own. Jin Gang Pao handed me the two stacks of cash that Director Yang gave us earlier, I counted them and they were almost 5,000 yuan. I kept 1,000 yuan and returned the rest to him.

  "Get something for the old man. When you get back, have those people write a receipt for you and return both your military ID and IOU." Jin Gang Pao's tough guy act may be formidable, but there are still places where he can't push his luck. In the end, someone managed to grab hold of his weakness and blackmail him a bit.

  I don't want to take the train, I forced him: "Don't take the train, just spend a thousand or eight hundred yuan to take a taxi back, finish early and call me." Halfway through, Jin Gang got off the bus, bought two packs of cigarettes and threw one at me. He was still muttering in his mouth: "Haha, we are also rich people now, we don't smoke two-yuan cigarettes anymore, if we want to smoke, we will smoke five-yuan ones..."