Chapter 4: What Are You Smiling At?

  Guangyuanzi stood to one side, savoring the TV with relish, occasionally letting out a surprised exclamation. This TV had left Guangyuanzi utterly astonished; even using immortal magic, it was unlikely that such an extraordinary object could be refined.

  A few minutes later, Lin San hung up the phone with a somewhat sorrowful expression. The call was from his parents, who said they wouldn't be returning to Lanzhou City for the time being. They planned to start a breeding farm in their hometown and also take care of his elderly grandfather. His parents instructed Lin San to take good care of himself and visit them in Lanzhou City when he had time.

  Lin San was in a bad mood. Growing up, he had never left his parents, even when he went to college, he would often return home to live. Now, his parents suddenly returned to their hometown to start a breeding farm, which made Lin San very melancholic. To be honest, Lin San didn't like the place where information was blocked in his hometown. Probably any young person with ambition would prefer to live in a bustling metropolis.

  "Guangyuanzi turned his head and took a glance at Lin San: 'Why does your face look so ugly?'"

  Lin San shook his head: "I'm fine." Lin San didn't want to talk about family matters with Guang Yu Zi, so he calmed down and asked: "Are you hungry? I'll go get you something to eat?"

  "We gods don't need to eat, but if you can get good wine..." Guangyuanzi smacked his lips. In the immortal realm, Guangyuanzi was a famous wine god. Every day, apart from practicing immortal techniques, he would drink alone. Guangyuanzi himself had also picked many immortal herbs to brew fine wines.

  "Wait, I'll go find some." Lin San ran into the kitchen, rummaged through the cabinets and found two bottles of Er Guo Tou. He handed them to Guang Yuan Zi: "There's only this at home, you'll have to make do with it." To be honest, Lin San was a bit embarrassed, Er Guo Tou was really too cheap. It's just that they couldn't find any better wine at home. Lin San himself didn't usually drink, and his father would occasionally have some, but to save money, he would also buy cheaper wines like Er Guo Tou.

  Guangyuan took over the Er Guo Tou (a type of Chinese liquor), opened the bottle cap and took a sip, his eyes widened instantly.

  Lin San was startled: "Guangyuanzi Daxian, what's wrong? Is it hard to drink?" After finishing speaking, Lin San felt a slight tension in his heart.

  "It's too good! It's simply a top-notch product!" Guangyuanzi shouted, and in one breath, he drank an entire bottle of Erguotou: "It's delicious, really delicious!"

  Lin San stared blankly at Guang Yuanzi, curled up the corner of his mouth and thought: The immortal actually loves to drink Erguotou?

  In the blink of an eye, Guangyuanzi had drunk two bottles of Erguotou. He wiped his mouth and said with a lingering aftertaste: "Is there more? This wine is simply too good to drink."

  "That's... I only have these two bottles at home. If you like drinking it, I'll buy some more for you next time." Lin San said.

  "It's settled then, I'm waiting for you to bring the wine as soon as possible." Guang Yu didn't think that there was such a delicious wine in the mortal world, and it tasted much stronger than the wines he drank in the immortal realm.

  Lin San nodded: "Don't worry, I'm a man of my word. You rest for now, I'll go get some food." Guang Yuansu was an immortal and didn't need to eat, but Lin San was just an ordinary person who needed to fill his stomach with food.

  Guangyuan waved his hand: "You don't have to take care of me, go do whatever you want." After finishing speaking, he walked to the side and sat on the floor, with both hands flat on his knees, pretending to meditate.

  In the afternoon, Lin San walked out of his house and took a bus on the side of the road to Taidong Road.

  Lin San came to Taidong Road, mainly to buy some daily necessities and food, of course, also to buy a few bottles of Erguotou for Guangyuanzi. Since his parents were not at home, Lin San had to take care of himself.

  In the afternoon, Taidong Road was still very lively and crowded with people.

  "Whoosh!" A silver Mercedes sped past Lin San's side and quickly drove off into the distance.

  Lin San was startled and pointed at the Mercedes-Benz in front of him, scolding loudly: "Damn it! How can you drive like that? Are you blind?"

  The Mercedes-Benz drove for several hundred meters before stopping in front of a building, where the door opened and out stepped a woman wearing a long blue dress. She was tall with jet-black hair cascading down her shoulders like a waterfall, her cheeks had a subtle flush, her eyes sparkled brightly, she had high cheekbones and a small, rosy mouth... It turned out to be an extremely beautiful woman.

  Lin San stared blankly at the woman, his whole body numb, and his mind kept saying: How can there be such a beautiful woman in the world!

  The woman got off the car and walked straight into the building. The security guards standing on both sides of the entrance bowed slightly to her.

  It wasn't until the woman had completely disappeared from view that Lin San snapped back to reality, swallowing hard and striding towards the entrance of the building the woman had walked into. Without hesitation, he lifted his foot to enter the building.

  The two security guards standing at the entrance stretched out their hands to stop Lin San: "Sorry, sir, this is a key area of the company and no unauthorized personnel are allowed to enter."

  "No, two brothers, I'm looking for someone..." Lin San hastily explained.

  "Who are you looking for?" a slightly older security guard asked, his eyes very vigilant, looking at Lin San's ordinary clothes, not like someone with status, so the security guard's attitude was somewhat cold.

  "Ah? My name is Lin San." Lin San said politely.

  The slightly older security guard furrowed his brow: "You said you came looking for someone, who is it?"

  "Oh, it's just the beautiful woman who just went in." Lin San said, pointing at the entrance of the building.

  The slightly older security guard looked Lin San up and down and asked suspiciously, "Who are you? Do you know our boss's daughter?"

  "What? The woman who just went in is your boss's daughter?" Lin San was stunned, thinking to himself: No wonder the woman who walked into the building earlier had such an outstanding temperament, it turns out she's the big boss's daughter.

  "That's right? The woman who just went in is our big boss's only daughter." The slightly older security guard nodded.

  "Who is your big boss?" Lin San asked subconsciously.

  "The chairman of Ding Sheng Group is Gu Changfeng." The slightly older security guard hesitated for a moment before answering, it's not a secret anyway, and it doesn't matter if he tells Lin San.

  "What? Gu Changfeng?" Lin San's eyes suddenly widened: "The richest man in Lanzhou!" Lin San had lived in Lanzhou for so many years, and he had a particularly deep impression of two people. One was his first love girlfriend, and the other was Gu Changfeng, the richest man in Lanzhou. As for Gu Changfeng, Lin San admired him from the bottom of his heart. Gu Changfeng was a legend in Lanzhou, starting from scratch and relying on his own efforts to become the richest man in Lanzhou. It could be said that Lin San had always regarded Gu Changfeng as his idol, hoping that one day he would also be able to create a brilliant career like Gu Changfeng's.

  "That's right," said the slightly older security guard.

  "Good fellow, after making a fuss for half a day, it turns out to be Miss Qianjin!"

  "Sir, what are you trying to do? Do you know Chairman Gu's daughter?" asked the slightly older security guard.

  "Oh, I don't know... Lin San curled up his mouth."

  The slightly older security guard's face sank: "You don't know her, why are you looking for Director Gu's daughter?" He took a step forward, eyeing Lin San warily.

  "No, I...I was just asking casually...hehe..." Lin San's expression was somewhat awkward. At this time, Lin San secretly blamed himself for being too impulsive, and now he was being interrogated by the security guard, which was really frustrating.

  "Sir, I don't have time to chat with you. If you don't have anything else to do, please leave and don't disturb my work." The slightly older security guard said in a low voice.

  "I... never mind, you're busy, I won't bother you." Lin San saw the security guard's unpleasant expression and tactfully turned around to leave.

  The slightly older security guard saw Lin San leave and curled his lips: "Wasted half a day for no reason."

  He walked a long way before stopping, turned his head to gaze at the building, and thought to himself: I really didn't expect that the beautiful woman who was just a mess would actually be Gu Changfeng's daughter, the richest man in Lan Zhou, a real-life thousand-gold young lady! No wonder she had such an elegant demeanor. Suddenly, Lin San's eyes widened, staring fixedly at the entrance of the building.

  The woman who just walked in is slowly walking out of the building.

  The two security guards at the door respectfully greeted the woman.

  The woman glanced at the two security guards and drove away directly.

  Lin San let out a sigh: "So elegant, so stylish! If I could marry such a beautiful wife, I'd be willing to die!" After a moment of admiration, Lin San turned and left.

  Lin San bought some bread and biscuits, a few bottles of Erguotou at the mall, then he went home with these things.

  Seeing Lin San carrying Er Guo Tou walk in, Guang Yuan Zi's face suddenly lit up with joy. Without saying a word, he snatched Er Guo Tou away and started drinking it in big gulps.

  Lin San then went to the kitchen to cook.

  Guangyuanzi still only drank wine and had no interest in the meal Lin San made.

  At night, Lin San moved a stool and sat in front of Guang Yuanzi, spreading out the small book that Guang Yuanzi had given him, asking about learning immortal methods.

  Guangyuan Zi looked at Er Guo Tou's face and responded one by one to Lin San's questions.

  After Guangyuan's explanation, Lin San finally understood that the red dots in the booklet were the acupoints of the human body, and the movement of the red dots also had a certain rule. First, Lin San had to be familiar with all the acupoints of the human body, then according to the sequence and rules of the moving red dots, absorb the weak spiritual energy (in other words, pure breath) from the surrounding air. When Lin San absorbed enough spiritual energy in his body, he would slowly improve his physical constitution, form a dantian (a place to store breath) inside his body, only after forming a dantian could he be considered to have truly entered the ranks of cultivating immortality. As the amount of breath stored in the dantian increased, it would eventually break through and condense into a golden elixir. Once condensed into a golden elixir, one could be considered a half-immortal body. Only after condensing the golden elixir could one learn more advanced immortal techniques... In short, the process was extremely complicated and couldn't be accomplished in just one or two days, requiring long-term practice.

  In short, the small booklet given by Guangyuanzi to Lin San is a method for changing one's system and absorbing spiritual energy, which can also be considered as an introductory practice for cultivating immortal methods. The booklet has ten pages, also known as the "ten layers". In the immortal world, this is called the "qi-refining foundation-building period", which is divided into ten layers. Breaking through the tenth layer allows one to condense the golden elixir and become a half-immortal body. After the golden elixir period, there are still the yuan ying period, the hua shen period, the du jie period, and the xian ren period.

  In the fairy world, fairies are also divided into levels, which are: immortal, spirit immortal, heavenly immortal, golden immortal of Mahāyāna, immortal above heaven and fairy emperor.

  The night just passed like this.

  The next day, Lin San came out of the bedroom with two black eye circles. Last night, Lin San and Guang Yu Zi chatted until after 2 am. If Lin San wasn't extremely sleepy, they would have probably talked all night.

  Through Guo Yuanzi's introduction, Lin San gained a brand new understanding of the world and realized that there were too many unknown things in this world.

  Today is Monday, a working day. Lin San had some breakfast and said goodbye to Guang Yuanzi before rushing out of the house in a hurry.

  "Hey, don't forget to buy me some wine!" Guangyuanzi shouted from behind.

  "Got it." Lin San said without turning his head and went straight downstairs.

  After going downstairs, Lin San came to the bus stop and took a bus to his network company.

  Lin San sat down at his own desk and casually turned on the computer.

  "Lin San, the manager is calling you." an employee shouted at Lin San.

  "Oh, I see. Right away." Lin San stood up and walked into the manager's office, respectfully saying to a man in his 30s who was wearing glasses: "Manager Li, you called me?"

  Manager Li looked up and glanced at Lin San, asking: "Is the plan done?"

  "What plan book?" Lin San was taken aback.

  Manager Li frowned: "Didn't I assign you to make an advertising plan last Friday? Today is Monday, and you still haven't finished?"

  Lin San's heart went "thud", no mistake, last Friday, Manager Li indeed instructed Lin San to do an advertising plan book, but Lin San had forgotten.

  "Why aren't you speaking? Is the plan done or not?" Manager Li asked in a low voice.

  Lin San opened his mouth: "Sorry, Manager Li, I forgot about the plan book..."

  "What? You forgot?" Manager Li's eyes widened: "What have you been eating, I've told you a thousand times, ten thousand times, to make sure the plan book is done on Monday, I'm in urgent need of it, and you actually forgot?"

  "I'm sorry, Manager Li, I had some things come up over the weekend and got busy and forgot." Lin San explained hastily.

  Manager Li waved his hand: "Stop telling me those objective reasons, Lin San. Do you know that because you forgot to make a plan book, I had to postpone the production of advertisements, and do you know how much loss this will cause to the company?"

  "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll go make the plan book right away." Lin San apologized repeatedly.

  "No need, I'll find someone else to do the plan book. As for you, making such a big mistake, you must be severely punished and deduct half a month's salary." Manager Li said.

  "What? Deduct half a month's salary?"

  "What? You have objections to your punishment?" Manager Li said coldly.

  "Manager Li, my monthly salary is barely enough for living expenses. You deducted half a month's salary at once, and I can hardly survive..." Lin San said.

  "Hmph! I don't care if you can live or not, in any case you've made a mistake and I'm going to punish you." Manager Li said.

  "No, Manager Li, there are many types of penalties, please don't deduct my salary." Lin Sanqiu begged.

  "Listen carefully, there are two options in front of you. The first is to deduct half a month's salary from you, and the second is to fire you. You choose." Manager Li said.

  "What? Manager Li, isn't it just that he forgot his seat reservation? Is it necessary to punish him so severely?" Lin San said.

  "Manager Li snorted: 'If you're not satisfied with my punishment, go ahead and complain to the boss.'"

  "Manager Li..." Lin San wanted to say something more.

  "I'm busy and don't have time to chat with you, get out now." Manager Li said with a stern face.

  "No, I..." Lin San was about to speak when he was interrupted by Manager Li.

  "I'm saying it again, if you're not satisfied, go complain to the boss. Now, get out of here immediately!" Manager Li's voice was icy and piercing.

  Lin San took a deep breath, nodded, and turned around to walk out of the office.

  "Hum! A small clerk like you dares to talk back to me? You're looking for death!" Manager Li snorted.

  Out of the office, Lin San's face was iron-green with anger. If it weren't for being in the company, Lin San would have burst out scolding long ago.

  The morning passed quickly.

  At noon, Lin San came to the company cafeteria for lunch, ordered a bowl of cold noodles, and sat down in a position by the window.

  After dinner, Lin San directly returned to the dormitory for a nap. Although the salary and benefits of the internet company were not high, the working environment was still very relaxing and not tiring at all, which was also one of the reasons why Lin San could stay in the internet company.

  At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin San came to the office with a drowsy look.

  Time flies quickly, and it's already time to get off work.

  Lin San picked up his things and left the company. He then bought two bottles of Er Guo Tou near the area before taking a bus back home.

  Back home, Lin San put the wine in front of Guangyuanzi and walked into the kitchen to cook a pot of instant noodles. He then served two bowls and placed them on the coffee table, saying to Guangyuanzi who was enjoying his drink: "I cooked some instant noodles, eat if you want." After that, Lin San sat down on the sofa with a plop, turned on the TV with one hand, and started eating the noodles while watching TV with relish.

  After the TV series is over, it's followed by commercials.

  "Huh?" Lin San suddenly widened his eyes and stared intently at the TV screen.

  At this time, a recruitment advertisement was posted on TV: Due to the expansion of business, Ding Sheng Group urgently needs to recruit security guards. Those who are interested can go to Ding Sheng Group for an interview on the 18th. The probationary period is three months, with a salary of 1200 yuan. After the probationary period, the salary will be 1500 yuan.

  Dingsheng Group? Isn't that the company owned by the father of that rich young lady I saw on Taidong Road just two days ago?

  Lin San's heart was racing, ever since he met that rich young lady on Taidong Road two days ago, Lin San had been thinking about her nonstop, it could be said that it was love at first sight. Every night, Lin San would dream of that rich young lady, in his heart, he had already regarded her as the goddess of his dreams. This time, Ding Sheng Group's recruitment of security guards was a great opportunity to get close to his dream goddess.

  "18th for the interview." Lin San flipped through the calendar, today is the 16th, which means the day after tomorrow is the interview. Lin San put down the calendar and made a secret decision in his heart: he would go to Ding Sheng Group for an interview as a security guard the day after tomorrow, so he would have the chance to see his dream girl.

  "Hey, what are you smiling at?" Guang Yuansu patted Lin San's shoulder with his hand.