Zhou Xuan chuckled and sat down. He casually remarked, "Your dogs are quite good, very fierce."
"That's right!" the young security guard replied with a smile. "These are purebred wolfhounds our boss bought. They cost a lot of money each. Our boss is quite wealthy; tens or hundreds of thousands are nothing to him. He mainly bought these dogs to scare away robbers. We let them out at night when no one's around. It's better than any surveillance camera; no thief or robber dares to come in."
Zhou Xuan chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, with so many fierce wolfhounds, even the most fearless thieves wouldn't dare come here, haha. I also like raising dogs. Hey little brother, could you lend me that rock you used to prop up the dog pen? I'm thinking of buying a dog, but I can't find any rocks to prop up the pen in the city. I'll give you some money for cigarettes too!"
As he spoke, he took out another five hundred yuan and stuffed it into his hand.
The young gatekeeper immediately beamed and said, "No problem, no problem. But this rock is blocking the dog fence, and the dogs have peed and pooped on it, so it's quite dirty. I'll get you a few more clean ones. When my friend's car arrives, I'll just move them into the car. We don't have anything else, but if you want rocks, we have plenty here."
Volume One: The First Budding Buds, Chapter 129: The Voice of a Strange Woman
"Hey, Zhou Fu quickly shook his head and said, 'I'll go to a small shop in the city with dogs. A dog bought from there won't bark or bite randomly; it'll feel more natural.'"
The young man paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, okay, this is fine. I've already given him a thousand yuan for this one. He can have any one he wants. There are so many waste stones in this yard, like mountains. Every month, we have to call a truck to haul them away to a quarry a few miles away to dump them."
The young security guard's friend arrived in less than ten minutes in a white double-cab Changan van. The front had two rows of seats for passengers, and the back had a small cargo box for loading goods. He was also young, about the same age as the security guard.
The young man secretly slipped him a hundred yuan and then muttered a few words.
His friend was overjoyed. He'd given a hundred dollars for a twenty-dollar deal, so what was there to say? Without Zhou Xuan's instructions, he and the young gatekeeper immediately lifted the stone by the dog pen onto the car.
Zhou Xuan and ** got into the back seat of the Chang'an car, and then waved to the young man through the window: "Little brother, thank you!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome!" The young gatekeeper waved one hand in acknowledgment, while the other hand was in his pocket, presumably clutching the remaining nine hundred yuan.
His salary was only 1,500 yuan, but he made a net profit of 900 yuan in one go, which is more than half a month's salary. No wonder he heard magpies chirping outside the window as soon as he got up this morning. It really means something good is coming!
After the car started driving, the security guard's friend started talking while driving. He was very talkative, but his driving skills were quite good. The Changan car seemed to float a bit.
Zhou Xuan didn't waste time arguing with him. He took out another two hundred yuan from his wallet and handed it to the young man driving the car, saying, "Brother, you're from around here, so you must know the area better than us. Where are the shipping companies?"
The young man immediately stopped talking, took the money with a cheerful expression, and hadn't said anything yet. Zhou Xuan waved his hand again and said, "You don't need to talk to me about small things, just drive there!"
What a generous guest!
The young man thought to himself, "I've been driving for a year or two, and I've never encountered such a generous customer. Without saying a word, he just stuffed money into my hand!"
I decided to keep quiet. My little brother was just too excited today and had no sense of reason at all. Fortunately, he didn't make any big mistakes at Lingzhuang and didn't throw away millions of dollars. At this point, it doesn't matter if he throws away a little money. When you have money, you always want to show it off.
As the young man drove into the city, he found himself in an alley. There was a shipping company there, which shipped goods based on both weight and volume.
Zhou Xuan's stinky stone was weighed; it weighed 121 jin (approximately 600 kg) and cost over 400 yuan.
When they moved into the shipping company, the young man, disregarding the dirt and stench, rolled up his sleeves and helped out; money really does have power.
It's strange, but they're generous with the money, so they don't care about anything else.
The shipping company staff were also surprised. The delivery address was Beijing, so why spend a few hundred yuan to ship such a stinky rock all the way back?
However, in business, as long as the customer pays, they just accept the order.
After all the formalities were completed, Zhou Xuan and ** walked out of the shipping company. The young man approached them again and asked, "Where are you two going? I'll take you there."
"Hehe, no need, thank you. We'll be fine once we get to the city. You go back and get busy!" Zhou Xuan politely declined. The young man happily drove off again, having earned three hundred yuan. He was already thinking about where to spend his evening. After the outsiders left, ** stared at Zhou Xuan and asked, "Young man, this isn't right. You're just wasting money. You haven't even gotten a single drop of satisfaction. Even if you were to go to a prostitute, you'd at least have some fun, right? This..."
"Hehe, boss, you think I'm putting on airs?" Zhou Xuan chuckled and said, "When have you ever seen me care so much about face? There are no outsiders here, so I'll tell you about that stone. I reckon there's jade inside; I'm quite knowledgeable about rough stones."
"Really?" Zhou Xuan surprised him in so many ways, and now he also knew a lot about jadeite rough. Could there be jade inside such a smelly and dirty stone?
"Whether it's true or not, no one can guarantee it, but I've studied it, and this rough stone looks very much like it contains jade." Zhou Xuan certainly wouldn't mention his ice-qi ability or anything like that. It's easy to fool Boss Zhang here. Saying that he's learned how to identify rough stones is plausible. At this point, he won't give him an absolute guarantee, only saying that there's a very high probability. This gives Boss Zhang a 50/50 chance. When the jade is cut out, he'll just sigh that Zhou Xuan's luck is indeed extremely good.
"So what should we do now?" Little ** stopped caring about that matter and asked Zhou Xuan again.
"Go back, back to Beijing!" Zhou Xuan decisively gestured with his hand. "Book tickets immediately, leave today. Go back to the hotel now to get your luggage and check out."
It's past 2 o'clock now. Fang Zhicheng and his gang's golden stone will be exposed by 7 o'clock in the evening, and that will be their miserable time. In order to prevent them from taking revenge when cornered, it's better to leave first. After all, they are the local bullies here.
Back in Beijing, the self-proclaimed traitors went to seek revenge, but it's unlikely they would have followed them to Beijing anyway. The old guard no longer had the time to deal with such matters.
Of course, this is just an estimate. Zhou Xuan guessed that the Fang brothers would never understand who had done this to them. They would probably only be thinking about who switched their things, and wouldn't suspect anything about supernatural abilities or magic.
Although Zhou Xuan fought with them on the spot, neither Zhou Xuan nor ** touched the stone from beginning to end. Fang Zhicheng also stayed by the stone the whole time. They only kept their eyes open to find out at which point they were caught cheating. Let them regret it and rack their brains!
The flight was at 4:40. Zhou Xuan and ** picked up their luggage at the Yangzhou hotel and then took a taxi to Jiangdu.
Yangzhou itself does not have an airport. The Suzhong Airport is under construction and has not yet been put into use. To get there by plane, you have to go to Jiangdu Airport, a county-level city under Yangzhou.
From Yangzhou to Jiangdu Airport, the time had passed by the fourth time, and the wait at the airport was not long.
I lay down on the plane for a while and didn't feel anything before we arrived at Beijing International Airport. An hour or two passed in the blink of an eye.
I'm really frustrated. This trip to Yangzhou was full of excitement, but I returned disappointed. I didn't get any goods, nor did I see any pretty women. In the end, all I got was a piece of lousy stone. Although Zhou Xuan guessed there was jade inside, who knows if there is before it's cut open? Besides, with that shape, even if there is jade inside, it's probably just junk.
After leaving the airport, the two took a taxi to Xicheng District. They had not called their families in the area beforehand, so no one came to pick them up.
On the way, Zhou Xuan said to ** again, "Boss, when we get to the border of Xicheng, take a ride home, rest, and spend time with Yufang. Come to the shop tomorrow. Also, the address I wrote down for that stone is our shop's address. It will probably arrive in two days. Let me know when it arrives. When you get to the shop tomorrow, contact them again and see if there are any familiar cutting shops."
I didn't pay much attention to what he said, I just nodded casually, and got off the bus at the western border and took another bus back to Chaoyang.
Zhou Xuan returned to Hongcheng Garden by himself, but saw a furniture delivery truck parked at the entrance of the villa, with seven or eight people carrying furniture inside.
Zhou Xuan was a little surprised. Everything at home was fine, and they didn't lack anything. Why did they buy furniture again?
He followed them into the house, but there was no one in the living room. He then followed the furniture carriers up to the second floor, where the furniture was delivered to the third floor. They carried all the furniture to the largest room where he had previously slept.
When I entered the room, I saw that my mother and Fu Ying were both there. All the old furniture had been moved out and replaced with all the new furniture.
When Fu Ying saw Zhou Xuan suddenly appear in the room, she was stunned for a moment. When she saw him staring at the big pink bed in the middle of the room, she blushed.