Two days later, the snow melted.
In the evening, Jiang Ning sent Xue Yuantong home. He took out his cell phone and called Shao Shuangshuang:
"Is the Huaicheng truck ready?"
"Tell him to wait by the lake. I'll send you the phone number right away." Shao Shuangshuang said. Jiang Ning seldom asked her to do things for him, but once he made a request, she would put down her work and try her best to arrange it for Jiang Ning.
"I asked someone about the Huqishan villa you mentioned last time. I have already chosen one. The price is about 13 million. With the company's current funds, it is completely possible to buy it. Do you want to take some time to take a look?"
"No, you decide."
"You are still short of three types of materials you need to collect. We have news on two of them and are negotiating."
"Increase our efforts and try to complete the collection before purchasing the villa." Jiang Ning said.
"OK."
"The market analyst I hired gave me a report saying that the number of bald people and the baldness rate are constantly increasing. He said that with the booming mobile Internet and real estate industries, there will be more and more rich people in the future. Instead of recommending a price reduction for Changqing Liquid, he suggested increasing the price and even hiring a group of scalpers to drive up the price and create a hot sales phenomenon." Shao Shuangshuang said.
"You decide." Jiang Ning didn't understand these things very well. Shao Shuangshuang decided everything. He just wanted money.
Seeing that Jiang Ning was not in the mood to talk, Shao Shuangshuang stopped bothering him and hung up the phone.
She sat in her independent office, opened the documents and began to check them one by one. The company was just established and there were too many things to do.
Before leaving the rented house, Jiang Ning took a Qi Gathering Pill and was ready to set off.
Xue Yuantong ran out wearing bear cotton slippers: "Jiang Ning, it's so late and it's so cold outside, are you still going out?"
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll be back soon."
"Really?"
"Of course." Jiang Ning walked towards the dam, observing Xue Yuantong with his spiritual sense. After walking a hundred meters, he used the Qi Concealing Technique to hide his body, and then rushed towards Huaicheng.
After hearing the news about Bi Lingmu on the forum a few days ago, he was always thinking about her and wanted to go to the lake as soon as possible to check it out and settle the matter as soon as possible.
At 10:45 at night, Jiang Ning arrived in Huaicheng, entered the park and came to the lake.
The moonlight is beautiful tonight, and the moon is reflected on the lake. It seems as if you can catch it in the water with just your hand.
The lake is a lake in the city. It is not very large. The lake surface is oval in shape, about two to three kilometers long and wide.
It was late at night and it was winter, so the park was extremely quiet. No one was out for a walk, which was perfect for Jiang Ning to search.
Jiang Ning activated the 'Water Control Technique' and stepped towards the lake. He actually stood on the water. He opened his spiritual sense and probed towards the bottom of the lake.
A few days ago, Jiang Ning broke through the third level of Qi training, and his spiritual awareness increased a lot, now it has a distance of 120 meters.
As soon as the spiritual consciousness probed, it was like a radar immersed in the lake, and everything in the lake was clear to the mind.
Jiang Ning walked forward, his spiritual sense passing quickly. The lake in the city was not very deep, and the deepest part was less than six meters.
The spiritual consciousness was like a net, scraping across the lake. Ten minutes later, Jiang Ning was standing above the northwest corner of the lake.
He closed his eyes to relieve the pain between his eyebrows, which was the aftereffect of using too much spiritual awareness in a short period of time.
After a short rest, Jiang Ning's palm glowed red and turned into a spear. He lightly pointed it, and the red spear pierced into the lake and rushed to the bottom of the lake.
At the bottom of the dark water, a wooden board was buried in the mud. The red light circled around the board and pulled it upwards. The wood that had been sleeping for who knows how many years lifted up the mud and made the lake water turbid.
The wooden board quickly floated to the surface of the water, and Jiang Ning cast another spell to remove the mud on the surface.
I saw that the wooden board was a deep green color.
"It is indeed the Biling wood." Jiang Ning said to himself.
The green silk wood is one of the most important materials for refining spirit boats. He had not held much hope and even planned to replace it with other woods. Who would have thought that he would actually find it today.
He brought the Bilingmu back to the shore and cast a spell to remove the moisture from it.
Jiang Ning then contacted a truck to deliver the Bilingmu back to the factory in Yuzhou.
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On the way back, Jiang Ning pushed the speed to the extreme, and the cars on the highway were left far behind.
At 11:50, Jiang Ning rushed home and used his spiritual power to tidy up his clothes. He was surprised to find Xue Yuantong standing at the door.
Xue Yuantong was wearing a hood, with his hands in his cotton-padded jacket pockets, his eyes shining brightly.
"Jiang Ning, you're finally back!"
"You're too slow, come in quickly."
She went up to him, grabbed Jiang Ning's arm and led him into the house.
Jiang Ning originally wanted to use his spiritual sense to investigate if there was anything fishy in the house, but he gave up. His spiritual sense had already been over-consumed in the search for the Bi Ling wood today, and what's more, the detection with spiritual sense was far less clear than that with the eyes.
He followed Xue Yuantong into the house, walked through the main hall, and arrived at Xue Yuantong's small room.
Unlike usual, Xue Yuantong's room was actually decorated with two warm-colored light strips, and what attracted attention was that there was a small round table next to the bed.
On the table lay a puffy white rug.
Xue Yuantong closed the door, put her hands on both sides of the blanket, and shouted:
"Look!"
Lifting the lid up, an exquisite box came into view. Inside the transparent box was a piece of fruit cream cake.
"Happy birthday, Jiang Ning!" She pinched her waist, looking like she was about to praise me.
"How did you remember my birthday?" Jiang Ning was a little surprised. He looked at the cake and then looked at her.
"You wrote it on QQ. I calculated the date specially. Today is your birthday!" Xue Yuantong said.
Jiang Ning was silent for half a second, and suddenly remembered that today was his birthday...
The word "birthday" seemed too far away for Jiang Ning, so much so that he forgot about it.
In the past, Jiang Ning was the only one who celebrated birthdays for others, but I didn’t expect that there would be such a surprise this year.
He looked at Xue Yuantong, sighed, and said:
"Thank you."
Xue Yuantong said hurriedly: "Don't thank me, just eat the cake quickly, there are still ten minutes before your birthday is over!"
She deftly inserted the candle, lit it, blew it out, and started eating, all in one go.
The two of them squatted beside the small table, very close to each other. Jiang Ning activated his magic power to envelope Xue Yuantong with warmth.
Xue Yuantong cut a piece of cake, gave it to Jiang Ning, and then cut a piece for himself.
Jiang Ning took two bites and the remaining cake was slightly warm.
Before he finished his piece, Xue Yuantong had already eaten three pieces. His mouth was covered with chocolate and cream. He didn't even bother to wipe it off and continued to stuff more into his mouth.
Jiang Ning was a little relieved to see Xue Yuantong remember his birthday, but now looking at her, it was really...
'Are you celebrating my birthday or do you want to eat the cake yourself?'
Xue Yuantong saw Jiang Ning stop talking and asked curiously, "Eat, why don't you eat?"
"If you don't eat it, I'll finish it."
Jiang Ning picked up a piece of cream and deliberately rubbed it on her face.
Xue Yuantong didn't care at all and ate with great relish.
In the end, Jiang Ning only ate one piece of the birthday cake.