On the evening of the eighth day of the lunar month, the Doomsday Hotel held an auction.
In the afternoon, Tang Zhixi waited at home for Ye Hanzhi to pick her up.
She sat in the living room and watched Nan Cheng running back and forth in the room. His shoulder-length curly hair was all messed up.
"Come here, I'll tie up your hair."
Nan Cheng went to the living room bookshelf to get a box of small rubber bands, and took a Luban lock next to it.
He sat on the carpet with his back to Tang Zhixi, tinkering with the extremely complicated Luban Lock.
"Can it be cut shorter?"
Tang Zhixi smoothed his hair with her hands and said, "You have curly hair, and it won't break up if you cut it short."
"But there are no boys with long hair." After Nan Cheng finished speaking, he remembered something and said, "I don't want to be like that weird uncle."
"That strange man has nothing to do with his long hair." Tang Zhixi said softly, "If we go forward a few hundred years, there will be no one with long hair."
"That's feudal dross, it's unacceptable." Nan Cheng retorted.
"The dregs of feudalism are thoughts and certain systems." Tang Zhixi said, "Your current thinking is the dregs of feudalism."
"Oh." Nan Cheng agreed, and after a moment of silence, he added, "But who did I inherit my curly hair from?"
Uncle Rui was watering the flowers in the living room. When he heard what he said, his hand suddenly shook and he poured the water outside.
"Dad's hair is black and straight." Nan Cheng said, "Although Jing's mother's hair is a little yellow, it is also straight."
"Who knows who you inherited your quarter of the mixed-race gene from." Tang Zhixi gave him a half-crown haircut and said, "Let's have fun."
Nan Cheng touched his little balls, took the box of rubber bands and put them back in place, and started running around the living room again.
After a while, Uncle Rui served Tang Zhixi a bowl of white fungus soup that he had just made: "As soon as the young lady came back, the young master became lively."
Tang Zhixi sat up straight, took the bowl with both hands, and said, "It's annoying to talk too much."
Uncle Rui sat on the single sofa: "Miss, after you return to Yancheng"
Before she finished speaking, Tang Zhixi's cell phone on the table suddenly rang, and Uncle Rui stopped talking.
Tang Zhixi looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Yan Qi or a call from overseas. After she answered the call, she pressed the speaker phone directly.
"Going to Continent D?"
"Yeah." Yan Qi said, "I came here on the third day of the Lunar New Year."
"What's wrong?" Tang Zhixi took a mouthful of white fungus soup and said, "I don't feel happy when I hear the sound."
"Damn it, the price of jadeite in D State has increased several times." Yan Qi scolded, "I pay 40% of the price now, and I paid all of it before. There is not much difference at all."
Tang Zhixi frowned slightly: "What's going on?"
"I don't know." Yan Qi said, "I can't find any information. They just said that if you want to buy it, you pay. If you don't want to buy it, you leave."
"Where are the diamonds over there in F Continent? Have you asked about them?"
"What do you mean? Are the people who monopolize diamonds in F State and D State the same group?" Yan Qi asked in surprise.
"Yeah." Tang Zhixi said calmly.
Yan Qi scolded and wrote a short essay.
"I'll ask someone to inquire about it," Tang Zhixi said, "Why don't you come back first."
Continent D is too chaotic. Over time, if you are unlucky, something bad may happen to you.
"I'm going to see if the price of gold has increased."
If you go to see gold, you are on the territory of the Dark Night Alliance, which is quite safe: "Okay, let's go."
After hanging up the phone, Tang Zhixi thought for a moment and asked in the group: [Who is in Continent D?]
Yellow Shirt Ghost: [Boss, I’m here.]
Tang Zhixi: [Let’s find out what’s going on in those jade mines recently? Why did they suddenly raise their prices?]
Yellow Shirt Ghost: [Yes, boss, I’ll do it right away.]
Tang Zhixi: [Also, Yan Qi. He is the person who often buys our gold in China. When he comes to our territory, please keep an eye on him secretly.]
Yellow Shirt Ghost: [Yes.]
Tang Zhixi: [Pay attention to safety.]
Yellow Shirt Ghost: [Understood.]
The Doomsday Hotel in Imperial Capital is several times taller than the one in Yancheng.
If you pick a piece of slag from anywhere, it can be worth thousands of gold.
It is a complete ancient building, with carved beams and painted buildings, beautiful buildings and jade buildings. All the lamps are covered with lanterns. Strings of lanterns are dim and warm. And there are very special totems on the beams and pillars.
Like a unique logo.
As soon as you step in, you feel like you have suddenly traveled to a certain dynasty.
The auction was in the exhibition hall, and Ye Hanzhi took Tang Zhixi directly from the side door to the upstairs compartment.
The auction is downstairs and is about to start. The seats downstairs are already full.
The compartments upstairs are very private. Generally, those who don't want to show up or have special identities will be upstairs.
Even among the cubicles upstairs, no one knows who is who.
"You sat across from me last time," Ye Hanzhi said.
Tang Zhixi took off her coat and put it on the chair: "So I can see your bidding every time very intuitively."
Ye Hanzhi smiled and said, "How were you feeling at that time?"
"Qiu Fu." Tang Zhixi said, "My hatred for you at that time exceeded that of my first hatred."
"The first object of hatred?"
"Doomsday Hotel." Tang Zhixi said, "I've seen a lot of rich people. But people like Doomsday Hotel who show their wealth on the surface really deserve a beating."
He Yuzhe chuckled at the side, and then gave her a thumbs up: "Sister Xi, you are still brave enough to say that the Chu family deserves a beating."
"Thank you." Tang Zhixi said.
Ye Hanzhi looked at her and smiled.
"When I first entered the Doomsday Hotel, my first reaction was to make it my own," Tang Zhixi said.
He Yuzhe's mouth twitched. Such a lofty ideal. He would never dare to think about it in his life.
"Have you made any efforts for this?" Ye Hanzhi asked while pouring tea for her.
Tang Zhixi looked at the color of the tea, paused and said, "I have been observing for three years, and the only simple and reasonable way that I can think of is to marry into the Chu family."
"Ahem——" He Yuzhe was almost hit by the melon seeds.
Ye Hanzhi shook his hand and poured the tea on the table.
Lu Shang and Zhenlei had been sitting behind the three of them. They were also shocked. But Lu Shang reacted quickly and stood up immediately, took out a few tissues and wiped the tea on the table.
Tang Zhixi saw that his tea was poured outside and looked up at him.
Ye Hanzhi seemed to want to say something, but his lips trembled and he suddenly couldn't speak.
He suddenly remembered that Tang Zhixi seemed to be quite interested in the affairs of the Chu family. After all, the Chu family, apart from being so ostentatious at the Doomsday Hotel, was actually very mysterious, and it was normal to be curious. Everyone was curious.
But he never expected that she would have such thoughts.
The alarm bells in my heart rang loudly.
"Zhixi." Ye Hanzhi said seriously, "Actually, our family is also very rich, richer than the Chu family."
He Yuzhe, Lu Shang, and Zhenlei looked at Ye Hanzhi together.
"Does the Ye family's wealth have a lot to do with you? You don't even have shares, and you have no inheritance rights." Tang Zhixi looked at him and said calmly.
Ye Hanzhi's mouth twitched.
The other three people pursed their lips together, obviously wanting to laugh, but they were afraid that they would be unlucky if they laughed for a while, so they were holding back.
"I am also very rich myself." Ye Hanzhi said, "I am no worse than the Chu family."
Tang Zhixi looked at his expression of eagerness to prove himself. She held it in, but failed to hold it in and started laughing.
When he saw her smile, Ye Hanzhi knew that she was teasing him again, and he was fooled again.
"I just think that's a method." Tang Zhixi said with a smile, "I didn't say I wanted to implement that method."
He Yuzhe rubbed his face and suppressed the corners of his mouth that were trying to raise.
Ye Hanzhi grinded his teeth, pinched her face, and said harshly: "Sooner or later, I will deal with you and be honest."
Tang Zhixi rubbed the place he pinched with the back of her hand, lowered her head, and laughed even harder.