As the New Year is getting closer, the streets in Yuzhou city are much more congested than usual. Pedestrians have a thriving look on their faces, with a vision of a better life in the future.
These were the best years.
Jiang Ning received a call from his parents in the morning. His parents would not return to Yuzhou for the New Year this year. Now that Changqing Liquid is expanding rapidly, it is time to race against time. If they work for a few more days, they can buy a house for Jiang Ning in Yuzhou City earlier.
Jiang Ning's parents booked a high-speed train ticket to Wencheng on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. They are now managers of the Wencheng Changqing Liquid branch. Although tickets were difficult to buy during the Spring Festival, they still managed to buy the tickets with the connections they had accumulated during this period. They were just a little worried about whether Jiang Ning could take the high-speed train alone.
Jiang Ning held the phone and said calmly:
"Mom, please return the ticket. One of my classmates is from Wencheng. I will take their car to Wencheng on the night of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month."
Compared to taking the high-speed rail, he now has a flying boat, which makes traveling more convenient.
"Your classmates are nice people, right?"
"Yes, that classmate is very popular in the class, and we often play together. There are only two people in his car, so it's just right for him to take me with him." Jiang Ning made up a reason to avoid worrying his parents.
"Go back and give them 200 yuan." My parents reminded me that even though I was a classmate, I couldn't ride in someone else's car for free.
Just like they thought at the beginning, Jiang Ning would stay at his uncle's house, and even though his uncle was not short of money, they would give Jiang Ning's uncle one thousand yuan every month as living expenses for their son.
"Yeah, I understand, Mom."
"When you arrive, I'll ask your dad to drive and pick you up."
"Oh, my dad has a car?" Jiang Ning pretended to be surprised.
His father's hearty laughter came from the other end of the phone.
"It's a special car provided by the company." said Jiang Ning's mother.
Jiang Ning knew that his father had taken the driving test very early. He often saw his father browsing information about various cars and could easily give his opinions on the advantages of car models. It was obvious that he really wanted to own a car.
But because he had to buy a house for Jiang Ning, he had to suppress his hobbies and devote himself to heavy work. Until the end of his previous life, his father still could not own a car.
Jiang Ning talked for a while and then hung up the phone.
He walked outside and saw Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu basking in the sun. They were sitting on small stools, humming and whispering to each other.
Most of the time, it was Xue Yuantong who was talking, and Xue Chuchu was listening quietly.
Perhaps because the New Year is approaching, Hua Fengmei has been coming to Aunt Gu's place to help out recently, and Xue Chuchu has been coming along too.
I heard from Aunt Gu yesterday that the company has invited many well-known figures to attend the annual meeting of Changqingye Group.
Those things have little to do with Aunt Gu. She is just a small cook. She only knows that after the annual meeting, she will have a holiday.
Jiang Ning walked towards the dam. He planned to go to Ancheng today to get the puppet materials from Lin Zhongsheng Group and refine a puppet.
After he got the fragment of the five-colored law, he studied it and found that the fragment really had the effect of shielding the secrets of heaven, but the secrets it blocked were quite limited.
Even if Jiang Ning refined the fragment into himself, he still could not break through the barrier between the two worlds.
He can still conclude that no matter the creatures in the real world or that world, it is impossible for them to communicate with each other.
Therefore, Jiang Ning now faces two choices. One is to directly refine this five-colored law fragment. His cultivation level will directly soar to the perfect Qi training level.
The five-colored law fragment has such a miraculous effect, but after doing this, Jiang Ning will find it difficult to obtain a second law fragment, which is equivalent to a one-time deal.
The second option is for Jiang Ning to take a risk and refine the fragments of the law into a puppet.
Jiang Ning once consulted the puppet master in the sect. No matter how low-level the puppet is, once a law fragment is implanted, it will retain some of the characteristics of the law fragment.
At the same time, because puppets are inanimate objects, they have fewer restrictions, and because they are shielded from the secrets of heaven, perhaps puppets have a glimmer of hope of entering that world.
In order to seize this glimmer of hope, Jiang Ning decided to give it a try. Even if he failed, he could still obtain a high-level puppet. If he succeeded, he would be able to obtain fragments of the law continuously.
The most urgent task is to complete the refining of the puppet, and the materials from Ancheng Linzhongsheng Group are indispensable.
Xue Yuantong saw Jiang Ning walking away, and she quickly stood up from her stool and shouted:
"Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, where are you going?"
Jiang Ning turned around and looked at her small body: "I'm going out for a while. I'll be back before 10:40 in the morning."
It's nine o'clock in the morning, so there's plenty of time.
"Well, don't come back too late, otherwise I won't heat up your buns for lunch!" Xue Yuantong said firmly.
"When have I ever broken my promise?"
Jiang Ning waved his hand and walked towards the dam.
"That's right." Xue Yuantong thought about it and realized that Jiang Ning always kept his promises.
After Jiang Ning left, Xue Chuchu asked:
"Is he always this busy?"
Xue Yuantong said: "Yes, I have no idea what he is busy with every day. Humph, he is so secretive and doesn't tell me. Does he think I would be curious? It's impossible."
"I won't ask anyway, don't even think about me asking."
"I'll wait for him to confess himself one day. If I didn't like him, I wouldn't cook for him." Xue Yuantong said confidently.
Xue Chuchu automatically ignored most of the toughness in her words and quickly extracted the key points from them:
'Jiang Ning is usually very busy.'
Xue Chuchu came to Xue Yuantong's house for a few days and found that Jiang Ning often disappeared and his whereabouts were mysterious.
"Does he have any relatives in the city?"
"Yes, he moved into my house and someone helped him clean up the room." Xue Yuantong recalled the past and felt a little sad. At that time, she only regarded Jiang Ning as an ordinary tenant who could help ease the burden on her family.
After hearing this, Xue Chuchu said, "He should have gone to his relatives' home in the city."
The two of them chatted back and forth.
…
Jiang Ning sat on the spiritual wooden boat and went straight up to a height of two thousand meters.
He swallowed a pill to replenish his spiritual power. At this moment, the spirit boat was invisible, isolating himself from the cold and wind at high altitudes. Not a single hair of his was out of place.
Ancheng is about 150 kilometers away from here. Jiang Ning drove the spirit wood boat and it took about 17 or 18 minutes to travel there.
The spirit boat passed by the Yuzhou high-speed railway station. Jiang Ning's eyesight was extremely terrifying. He could see people's faces clearly under 2,000 meters. At this time, the high-speed railway station was extremely busy and crowded.
Middle-aged white-collar workers in suits, old men, young lovers, and couples with children make up the scene of the world.
Jiang Ning stepped on the spirit boat, and his spiritual power surged. The speed of the boat increased again, tearing through the air and passing the high-speed railway station in an instant.
…
Outside the high-speed railway station, on Xihai Avenue, Yuzhou's longest urban road, a black luxury sedan was driving smoothly.
Ding Shuyan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, fastened her seat belt very properly.
In the driver's seat was her aunt Lin Han, and in the back seat was Lin Zida, who was playing a video game.
Lin Zida is brushing his game achievements over and over again. His game console was lost during the last exam. In order to get it back, he asked the school to adjust the surveillance cameras and even spent money to collect fingerprints from the hole in the desk, but still failed to find the murderer.
Lin Zida had no choice but to buy a new game console.
Ding Shuyan suddenly asked, "Aunt, I heard that my eldest aunt and uncle are coming to Yuzhou?"
In their Lin family, grandfather has three sons and two daughters. Her father Lin Hongtu is the fourth child, Lin Han is her younger aunt, the fifth child, and her eldest aunt Lin Zhe is the third child.
"Yes, they should be leaving Ancheng by now." Lin Han said with a smile.
With a large family business and many children, it is hard not to have all kinds of dirty things.
"Why did they come to Yuzhou?" Ding Shuyan asked. She had a vague guess.
"It's all for the Changqingye Group." Lin Han said. She had seen everything that the Linzhongsheng Group had done recently, so she knew what her elder sister was planning.
But she was not optimistic.
Ancheng has developed rapidly in recent years, and their family group has developed rapidly. Some of them are inevitably blinded by this speed and think that they have led the group to its current development by relying on their own strength.
Lin Han is stationed in Yuzhou, so he knows the horror of Changqing Liquid better than most people. Within a few years of development, the size of the group will exceed that of Lin Zhongsheng Group.
Ding Shuyan's expression remained unchanged as she quietly stared at the traffic ahead.
"My eldest sister wants to invest in Changqing Liquid." Lin Han said with a smile. There was no need to hide it from Shu Yan.
She and her eldest sister have never gotten along. Her eldest sister Lin Zhe despises her and calls her a vixen, while she thinks her eldest sister is old and ugly, and the two often quarrel.
"She is really brainless. She just used those despicable means before, but now she really thinks she has found the opponent's weakness and dares to bring her team to Yuzhou to discuss investment?"
Lin Zhongsheng Group has a professional foreign investment team and a market analysis department, and often invests in potential companies outside.
As soon as Changqing Liquid became popular, Linzhongsheng Group approached them to discuss acquisition, but was rejected as expected.
Later, as the Changqing Liquid Group grew stronger, the eldest sister Lin Zhe assigned someone to come to Yuzhou to apply for a job and join the Changqing Liquid Company, smoothing out the relationships at all levels and getting close to the formula of the original liquid.
After getting the formula, the Ancheng experimental team immediately started research, but they couldn't copy it at all. It was a fake formula!
Later, Lin Zhe was unwilling to give up, so he offered high salaries to recruit R&D talents of Changqing Liquid, but he still could not get access to the real formula.
In order to obtain the formula, Lin Zhe tried every possible means, but to no avail.
Recently, the eldest sister Lin Zhe has set her sights on the materials purchased by Changqing Liquid and has spent money to intercept them. She has spent more than 300 million yuan so far.
She came to Yuzhou this time to use this as a threat to invest in Changqing Liquid.
There are not so many conspiracies and intrigues, such as suspecting the other party's psychology, adopting various high-end tactics, etc., but in order to achieve the goal, use the simplest, crudest and most despicable methods to attack.
Ding Shuyan did not respond to her aunt. No matter whether they were the elder aunt or the younger aunt, they were all her elders and she should not talk about them.
Lin Han knew Shu Yan's mind, so she didn't dwell on this topic for long. Instead, she said:
"When do you plan to return to Ancheng after the New Year?"
"Before the Lantern Festival." Ding Shuyan said. After returning to Ancheng, there will definitely be many of her former sisters who will invite her to play and attend various parties. She has always had a good relationship with people.
"Okay, tell me before you come back and I'll pick you up at the station." Lin Han was sending Shu Yan and Lin Xiaopang to the high-speed rail station. She would stay in Yuzhou during the Chinese New Year to keep an eye on the project.
Lin Zida in the back row shouted, "Aunt, don't you want to consult my opinion?"
Lin Han sneered, "You are the only one who can even throw away a game console."
Lin Zida protested: "The person I contacted told me that the murderer might have worn gloves when committing the crime!"
"This is amazing! Stealing a video game console and being so professional!"
…
Ancheng.
The spirit boat descended, maintaining its altitude at two hundred meters, and Jiang Ning stood on the spirit boat.
A manor was built on the ground, with a pond, rockery, green plants and houses.
In a modern steel city, this kind of manor can definitely be called a pure land in the city.
If living in a villa is equivalent to reaching the peak of life, then the manor under your feet is probably equivalent to an entire villa area. The cost of converting the manor starts at at least hundreds of millions.
Jiang Ning extended his spiritual sense. After breaking through the fifth level of Qi training, the range of his spiritual sense was nearly 500 meters.
The spiritual consciousness was swept down and broke through the wall of the house on the ground. The next moment, a huge amount of information was fed back from the spiritual consciousness.
Jiang Ning drove the spirit boat and scanned along the manor.
Soon, he found the materials for the puppet, but compared to the list provided by Shao Shuangshuang, it was still a little short. He was still missing a few ingredients to refine the puppet.
"Well, just take these away first."
Jiang Ning's flying boat descended, and he landed on the ground while hiding his body, his eyes fixed on the two-story building in front of him.
The buildings in the manor are generally not tall, and are not worth mentioning compared to the dozens of-story skyscrapers outside the manor, but this is often a symbol of status.
Jiang Ning walked into the small building and heard several men's voices, especially an old man, whose voice was as deep and powerful as a bell. The others could only listen to him timidly.
The powerful hand opened the compartment on the side, and what came into view was the quaint wooden shelves filled with a wide variety of toys.
Jiang Ning mobilized his spiritual power and put the several items he needed into the storage ring.
After doing all this, Jiang Ning saw an old iron kettle placed on the charcoal fire. There was a landscape pattern printed on the surface of the kettle, the lid was made of copper, and mountain spring water was boiling in the kettle.
"It's quite an elegant taste." Jiang Ning sighed. He sat down on a wooden chair, lit a spiritual fire, surrounded the old iron kettle, and boiled the mountain spring water.
He waved his hand and a steaming kettle flew towards him.
At the same time, a porcelain cup popped out of Jiang Ning's storage ring. He took a cup of boiling water and took a sip despite the scalding temperature of 80 or 90 degrees.
The water boiled in the old iron kettle tastes soft and sweet, and would be even better for making tea, but he doesn't have the time today.
Jiang Ning finished his cup of tea, stood up and walked towards the living room.
After setting up the soundproofing magic circle, Jiang Ning suppressed his consciousness. In a moment, several people who were discussing the world in the study room all lost consciousness.
He found a burly old man who was the owner of the manor.
Jiang Ning popped out a pill and helped him take it.
This is the elixir that Jiang Ning found time to refine. It can't prolong one's life, but it can definitely strengthen one's body and improve one's spirit.
The other party was wealthy, so Jiang Ning accepted his collection and exchanged it for elixirs that could not be bought with money on the market. He would definitely not let the other party lose money.
However, if he faced someone whose family was poor but had the materials Jiang Ning needed, Jiang Ning would not give them elixirs, but would give them gold to improve their family conditions.
Jiang Ning settled the matter and drove Lingzhou out of the manor. He took out his cell phone and saw that Shao Shuangshuang had just sent him a message.
"Do you still remember the Linzhongsheng Group I told you about last time?"
"Today they came to Yuzhou, intending to acquire shares in our company, and brought with them some of the materials that had been intercepted before, probably intending to use them as a basis for negotiation."
Shao Shuangshuang sent a lot of detailed information about the visitor.
"Where do they live?" Jiang Ning asked. He had previously thought that some materials were missing from the manor, and it turned out that they had been sent to Yuzhou on their own initiative.
"The Century Hotel."
"Yeah, I see."
Jiang Ning put away his phone. He was not in a hurry to return to Yuzhou. He planned to go shopping in the urban area of Ancheng and bring back some local delicacies for Xue Yuantong.