After lunch, Chen Feng chatted with the two women for a while and then went back to his room to meditate.
The two women continued chatting downstairs for a while before going back to their rooms to take a nap.
Chen Feng only brought a piece of calligraphy with invisible energy to America this time. It was not very big and could just be carried.
I took it out and smoked it for the first time today. After about half an hour, I had absorbed almost a third of it.
You can only smoke three or four times at most.
However, he only needs to smoke once every two or three days now, so he is not very urgent.
In this way, this painting is enough for him to stay here for ten days.
The reason why he needs this invisible energy is, in Chen Feng's opinion, mainly because of his illness.
If he had not absorbed this invisible energy by mistake, his condition should not have suddenly improved, and he would have been dead by now.
As for his super good luck, it may not have much to do with this invisible energy.
There is also the sixth sense before encountering danger, which should also have a lot to do with this invisible energy.
Therefore, just to save his life, he still had to absorb this invisible energy regularly for a long time.
It's just that the more these things are used, the less they are. Although there are still some reserves at home, Chen Feng still feels a sense of crisis and always wants to get more.
Therefore, when he came to America this time, he also wanted to look for various works of art that contained this invisible energy.
As we all know, the prices for some artworks here in America are generally relatively high, especially those that are well-known.
Even if he wanted to collect some unknown works, he would have to spend some money, or even a lot of money.
Making money and earning dollars became his top priority.
Anyway, he is idle. Tomorrow Chen Feng plans to ask Brina to take him to see some art works, or to find some unknown artists to see if they have any works he needs.
It was almost time for dinner when Chen Feng came out of the room and came downstairs. At this time, Brina was busy in the kitchen alone, preparing dinner for everyone.
Zhou Qianru and Miao Na were sitting on the sofa playing poker. They were obviously very bored.
"You finally came down. What were you doing alone in your room? Have you been sleeping?"
Zhou Qianru temporarily put down her cards and teased Chen Feng with a smile.
Chen Feng told the truth: "I am meditating."
"Meditate? Are you talking about practicing qigong? Can you sit cross-legged for so long?" Zhou Qianru looked curious and disbelieving.
Chen Feng said matter-of-factly: "I can sit cross-legged for two hours now, and my legs won't be too numb after I finish."
"Then you are really good." Zhou Qianru was somewhat convinced, "I have also practiced yoga and meditation before. If I sit quietly, I can sit for more than ten minutes at most, and then it will be difficult to calm down."
"This can only mean that you have no connection with cultivation. From now on, you can just concentrate on practicing yoga."
Zhou Qianru nodded solemnly and said: "You are right. I used to practice yoga mainly to keep in shape, and I practiced it intermittently, but I will practice it regularly in the future. In addition, I also need to eat properly and stop eating randomly. I used to
I really like to eat pickled things, such as salted fish, pickles, and some pickled seafood. I suspect that my disease is related to my previous liking for eating these things."
Chen Feng thought for a while and said, "How about I assign you a nutritionist and a chef? I can cook for you. You really need to eat a reasonable diet due to your disease."
Zhou Qianru quickly shook her head and refused and said: "No need for the moment. This is America after all. Without our domestic ingredients, the nutritionist and chef you find may not be able to make a meal that satisfies me."
Chen Feng smiled and said: "As long as you have money, this is not a problem. In fact, there is no shortage of domestic ingredients here. There is a special Longguo Supermarket here, and Longguo Supermarket basically has all the domestic ingredients. As for nutrition,
We can hire professional chefs here, which will definitely not be worse than those in China, and we can also hire professional Chinese chefs for chefs.”
Zhou Qianru was a little moved when she heard this. After all, she was a wealthy woman before and was used to living in fine clothes and fine food. All the meals at home were cooked by a chef.
Otherwise, her cooking skills wouldn't be so average.
It's just that Chen Feng must pay for the hire first, so she couldn't agree to it right away.
Chen Feng saw what she meant and said with a smile: "Actually, it doesn't cost much to hire a nutritionist and a chef. The nutritionist just asks him to help you make a reasonable and healthy diet plan, while the chef only needs to come over at noon to help us."
Just cook the food, and you can eat the leftovers from lunch in the evening, or we can simply make some ourselves and eat it. This way, it shouldn’t cost a lot of money."
After Zhou Qianru heard what Chen Feng said, she nodded and said, "Okay. That's not bad, especially if you invite a chef to come over and cook. Otherwise, you can't let Lina be the cook every day to cook for us."
"That's what I mean. Then when you have dinner later, tell Lina and ask her to help find a nutritionist and chef for you."
After the two chatted for a while, Brina's dinner was finally ready and she asked them to come over and eat.
After the four of them sat down, Chen Feng told Brina that he wanted to hire a nutritionist and a chef.
Brina also agreed, and said that there should be nutritionist medical centers, and they are more professional. As for chefs, especially Chinese chefs, there should be some here, but the specific cooking skills can only be seen at that time.
After eating, Brina called the medical center for consultation. As expected, there was a very professional medical nutritionist who could arrange a reasonable and healthy diet for the patient based on the patient's condition.
We provide door-to-door appointment services, and the price is nothing compared to the high cost of cancer treatment.
After Chen Feng and Zhou Qianru agreed, Brina made an appointment with a professional medical nutritionist.
As for the Chinese chefs, it was a bit difficult to find them all of a sudden. First of all, one was Chinese, and the other one had better cooking skills, and Zhou Qianru had to be satisfied.
There are also issues of security and trust that have to be considered.
After all, if you have him come over every day to cook for you, if he has a bad character, or has other messy problems, or even attracts wolves into the house, you might as well not look for him.
Therefore, Chen Feng directly vetoed Zhou Qianru's move to post on the Chinese forum here to recruit people.
People are separated from each other, especially in foreign countries. Not every compatriot can regard you as a brother or sister, and not every compatriot is a good person.
For the time being, I can only slowly think of ways to find it again.
Tomorrow, let the nutritionist come to your home to arrange a reasonable diet plan, then buy the required ingredients, and then find a way to find a good chef.
No one had any objections to Chen Feng's arrangement.
Next, everyone went to the teahouse on the second floor.
The lobby on the first floor indeed lacks an atmosphere and feeling compared to the teahouse on the second floor.
Everyone was watching TV and chatting, waiting for the Mega Millions lottery draw at 10:12 tonight.
Talking, laughing, and eating some snacks, time flew by very quickly.
During this period, Chen Feng was finally freed from his part-time job as a translator because he discovered that Miao Na's English proficiency was actually not weaker than his, and she was fully capable of translating for Zhou Qianru and Brina.
Miao Na can now earn 5,000 yuan as a daily salary, including food and accommodation, and basically has nothing to do. Of course, she can't refuse if she is asked to work part-time as a translator.
Chen Feng finally no longer had to act as a mouthpiece for the two women, and immediately felt much more relaxed. He could quietly scroll through his phone and read novels.
Unknowingly, it was time for the lottery draw, and everyone immediately stopped talking and locked the lottery channel.
Everyone's eyes widened, waiting for the live broadcast of the lottery results.
The rules of Mega Millions Lotto are to first select 5 unique numbers from 1 to 75, and then select a number from 1 to 15 as a special number.
The live broadcast of the lottery was also very straightforward. The host did not say much nonsense and immediately started the live broadcast of the lottery.
Zhou Qianru and Brina both had their lottery tickets in their hands, but of course Chen Feng didn't and just watched the TV with a calm expression.
The five white ball numbers were quickly shaken out one after another, and the last red ball number was a special number.
"8, the first one, I won." Brina was very happy at first, but soon the second number, the third... and the fifth number were drawn, and her face collapsed, and finally
Even the special number was called out, and her face became even more ugly.
She bought five bets, with a total of five numbers in front. She could win at most one number for each bet, but she could not win two numbers, let alone win the prize.
The special number was not selected either, which was what made her the most angry.
She made five lottery bets, and the special numbers she chose for each bet were different. She chose them specially, which meant that there was a one-third chance that she didn't guess correctly.
Otherwise, if she selects the red ball with a special number, she can get a bonus of one dollar.
Zhou Qianru bought 10 bets. After checking for a while, she sighed and said helplessly: "I only won two white ball numbers in two bets, and I didn't win any red ball numbers. It seems that I don't have any money to get them."
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Brina took hers and looked at it, then smiled and said: "You are worse off than me. After all, I only bought five bets, and you made ten bets, but one of them missed. Our luck is really not good enough.
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After saying this, she immediately turned to Chen Feng: "Why don't you check the numbers? Come on, take out the lottery tickets and let's check them together."
Chen Feng didn't say much, just took out the stack of lottery tickets from his pants pocket and handed it to her.
Brina was not polite. After taking it, she gave some to Zhou Qianru, and then she started betting according to the numbers just drawn.
First, I scanned it roughly from top to bottom to see the special number 13 on the red ball, but it turned out that I missed it.
Brina winked at Chen Feng and said with a smile: "At least half of the lottery tickets I have here have not won the red ball. It depends on Zhou's side."
Zhou Qianru also looked at the red ball numbers first, and then saw that two bets were successful. Then she checked them one by one based on the numbers just drawn, and her eyes widened after a while.
The other three people all looked at her, and Brina quickly asked: "Zhou, don't tell me that he won the lottery."
Zhou Qianru raised her head and looked at Chen Feng with complicated eyes: "You...won the prize."
"Let me take a look." Brina immediately took the lottery ticket in her hand and quickly found the two bets that had won the special red ball numbers. After comparing them, it turned out that she had won the prize.
"Chen, you are very lucky. You won both bets. The third prize is US$5,000, which adds up to US$10,000. But you have to pay at least 25% tax, so you only get more than US$7,000. It's a pity.
There is a white ball in the bet that misses. Otherwise, you will win the first prize."
Brina said with some envy and some regret, and of course it was inevitable that she was a little gloating. After all, Chen Feng had lost to her and missed a million dollars.
Zhou Qianru said with some envy on the side: "He can win 10,000 US dollars, which already shows that he is very lucky."
Brina nodded and said: "That's right, but he didn't win one million and still lost to us. Chen, are you willing to admit defeat?"
Chen Feng looked at her speechlessly and said, "Are you right? I made 50 bets, and you are right on two bets now."
Brina couldn't help but laugh when she heard this: "You don't think there is another bet that wins a million, do you?"
"Tell me again after you make every bet right." Chen Feng said with determination.
He no longer believed in his financial luck, not after coming to America.
He had deliberately lowered his standards before. He was not confident that he would win the first prize of tens of millions of dollars, but he felt that he should still be able to win the second prize of one million dollars.
"Okay, then I'll make sure every bet is correct."
Brina really didn't believe it anymore, and then she started checking the numbers again.
The first lottery ticket has three white ball numbers and a prize of $5. Set it aside.
The second one actually has two bets with three white balls, which costs $10.
On the third card, one bet actually won four white balls, worth $500.
The fourth one...$5.
The fifth one...$15.
On the sixth card, the first bet didn't hit any of the numbers, the second bet, the first number was right, the second number was right, the third...and the fifth one, all five numbers were right.
Brina couldn't help but open her mouth, eyes widened, and the hand holding the lottery ticket was trembling.
Zhou Qianru and Miao Na, who had been watching from the sidelines, were both surprised when they saw her performance, thinking that they might not really have won a million dollars.
Just as Zhou Qianru was about to stretch her head over to take a look, Brina suddenly screamed "Ah", then jumped up excitedly holding the lottery ticket, and threw herself at Chen Feng, hugging him tightly.
, yelling: "You won! A million dollars! God! God! It's incredible! You really won a million dollars!"
When Chen Feng saw her like this, he couldn't help but smile on his face, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as his good luck still exists, his sense of security will rise to a higher level by staying here in America.
Confidence in making money here has also increased significantly.
After Chen Feng let her hug him for a while, he pushed her away and said with a smile: "You don't have to be so excited. This is only one million US dollars, and you have to pay a high tax. Did you get 600,000 in the end?"
It’s hard to tell for dollars.”
Brina quickly said: "If you win the lottery in Texas, you don't have to pay state taxes. You should be able to get $650,000."
When Chen Feng heard this figure, which was almost the current 4.5 million yuan, he was quite satisfied. He smiled and nodded: "That's not bad."
If you invest this money in the stock market, you will probably be able to double your earnings in a few days. By then, it should be enough to buy a house and a car here.