Chapter 215 - Gossip (2/2)
“But anyway, Long Fei is my good friend,” Liu Shuai raised his head, looking at Hao Ning. He added, “If you go to Qingbei University for Mr. Ren, I will go there with you. I will stand beside you listening to you while you two are talking.”
“Liu Shuai, no need to do this…” Hao Ning knew Liu Shuai wanted to compensate. He said half of a sentence and realized that it might be useless. So, he nodded, “Ok.”
Looking at the two flirting, Zhou Yuan got goosebumps. He yawned and said weirdly, “Hey, Hao Ning, you like wearing pure cotton blue-black underwear.”
“Err. It’s breathable and comfortable,” Hao Ning answered, realizing it was not a decent question. How did Zhou Yuan know my underwear so clearly? He even knew the color of my underwear, Hao Ning thought. He asked promptly, “How do you know this?”
“Your pocket,” Zhou Yuan pointed to Hao Ning’s trousers, containing his laugh. “From my standing angle, I can see it.”
“You bitch!” Hao Ning realized it. He tore it down in the day to wipe the stone in the stone speculation. He totally forgot about it. And then he took the car home, had his dinner and went back to his room. What Zhou Yuan said reminded him of his pocket. Zhou Yuan could see it clearly from his standing place. He grabbed a pillow to cover it and said sadly, “I have to buy a new one tomorrow.”
“Ha, ha. You do have strong reasoning ability. But your ability in theology and life is so low,” Liu Shuai laughed, falling on the ground. He continued to ask, “Logically, you are a giant. On life and theology, you are a dwarf.”
“What a shame on you,” Xiao Hong smiled. He reminded Liu Shuai, “Be polite when you speak.”
“Woo, you should be polite,” Liu Shuai smiled, adding, “I am an ordinary person. Nothing will scare me.”
“Oops!” Zhou Yuan screamed as his phone was vibrating. Zhou Yuan took out his phone, looking at it, and saying, “Spiritual Flying Bugs is doing its work now. You guys want to have a look?”
“Ok!” Hao Ning said. Liu Shuai and Xiao Hong answered too at the same time. Their heads got together. They both were trying to check Zhou Yuan’s phone.
“Too crowd. The phone is small. We cannot see it clearly as you are crowded,” Zhou Yuan couldn’t stand them. He waved his hand. One image appeared on the TV screen. It was about Hao Ning and Zhou Yuan who were leaving the stone speculation. The color of it was white and black and it was not clear at all.
“Oh? it’s not right. This was the thing that happened a few hours ago,” Hao Ning wondered. “Your Spiritual Flying Bugs can’t see what is happening now? And the quality is so poor, and the color is white and black?”
“About this question, you have to ask Liu Shuai,” Zhou Yuan pointed to Liu Shuai as he was watching the screen. “You know, this is a fake product and the time delay…” added Zhou Yuan.
Hao Ning understood immediately. Liu Shuai did not make his Spiritual Flying Bugs a perfect one. There were many limitations to use the fake Spiritual Flying Bugs. According to what was on the TV screen, the time had been delayed hours. That was the reason why they had to watch images that occurred hours ago. Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai, saying nothing.
“Well… It’s better to have one!” Liu Shuai said with a red face. “One small step for me, one big step for gossiping about others…Zhou Yuan, You and I have to stay up later tonight to improve this product.”
“You…” Zhou Yuan was speechless. Watching a smiling Zhou Yuan on the TV, he said, “Wow, from other’s perspective, I am so handsome!”
“…” the three stayed away from this shameless moment god.
“This thing,” Wang Jun said, coldly, adding, “What’s your idea?”
“I know,” Yi Pingzhi, the man in the center of the screen, replied. “Good-bye,” he added.
“Heee!” Wang Jun replied in a cold face. He left with a cold smile on his face.
Seeing Wang Jun leaving, Yi Pingzhi whispered coldly, “How dare you are to talk with me like this. Ok, let you live for two more days. And then, I will teach you how to behave.”
He adjusted his dress, speaking to the people, “The outsiders have gone. Let’s do our business.”
“Ok. Thank you, Mr. Yi!” the people shouted happily, leaving the sad mood in the day behind. “We almost cannot stand any longer!” they screamed.
“The more you can stand, the more you know what you need,” Yi Pingzhi said with a smile. “So, you will be satisfied with your work. Super golden finger, let’s start our work.”
“Yes, sir,” the man named Super golden finger stood out. “I will call the roll, Super white finger!”
“Present!”
“Super green finger!”
“Yes!”
“Super tissue finger!”
“Yes!”
Super paper finger, Super draft finger, Super silver finger, Super brass finger
…
Listening to the names, Hao Ning and others were stunned. They knew what Super golden finger was. It was a book name about the stone speculation. But they had no ideas about the rest of the names.
Zhou Yuan murmured unintentionally, “What are Super white finger and Super tissue finger? They sound like the names of pirated books?”
Hao Ning wanted to say something. He saw the Shhh gesture made by Xiao Hong. He said nothing and continued to watch TV.
“Mr. Yi,” Super golden finger said after finishing calling the roll. “Everyone is here!” he continued.
“Very good!” Yi Pingzhi nodded. And then he lifted both hands. The ground started trembling. They seemed like they knew what would happen over there because they stood still calmly. “Bomb!” The place they were standing was separated, becoming a round platform. The platform started rotating with them on it. It fell. Yi Pingzhi was standing on it too. The platform stopped rotating after a short while. They arrived at a big warehouse under the ground of the stone speculation. All of them ran to different directions as soon as the platform stopped. Nobody was on the platform in a minute. And then, the platform started rotating in the opposite direction, lifting itself to the ground.
“Well… Xiao Hong,” Hao Ning was stunned seeing this. He did not care about the image quality any longer. He patted Xiao Hong’s shoulder and said, “You did not tell me about this!”
“I don’t know either!” Xiao Hong answered. “I have been there with my customers many times. I never saw it or heard it! Why did they build a mysterious place like this?”
“Shh…” Zhou Yuan said, pointing to the screen. “Look. What are they doing now?” added he.
The people on the screen ran to workbenches respectively. The workbench was used for cutting raw stones. There were many stones on the ground. Some of them appeared green. Some were common stones so far.
One of them picked up a stone and underlined on the stone. And then he cut the stone along the lines. After cutting, an intact green jadeite appeared.
“Oh, my God!” Liu Shuai said, looking at it straightly. He saw a super jadeite in the day. However, it was a fake one “made” by Hao Ning. The real one cut by an ordinary man shocked him very much. “It must be worth a city,” he said.
Xiao Hong nodded to agree with him, saying nothing.
Watching the TV, they found a strange thing. After the man got a jadeite, he threw it into a bucket rudely. And then he picked the second one, underlined it and cut it.
The others followed his suit. They threw jadeites into their buckets, underlined stones and cut them.
“Attention, everyone!” Yi Pingzhi said with a smile, “What are your feelings about the stone speculation?”
“Very good!” some of them laughed. “Thank you, Mr. Yi. If you haven’t told us, we should not know that the key part of the stone speculation is not how many jadeites you earn, but in the process of cutting it out. Now, I just want to underline and cut all day long. About these jadeites, I regard them as trash now!”
“I agree!” the other one nodded while he was underlining. “I am thinking that my pleasure of my life lies in underlining and cutting. And when I get the jadeite out of the stone, I don’t want to see them anymore!”
“Good speech,” Yi Pingzhi said, applauding. “You already attained the Way. Congrats. This is the source of pleasure in your deep heart. As long as you are willing to do it, we can provide as many stones as you need. But these jadeites will be our payback…”
“All of them belong to you!” they said, waving their hands. They even looked at the jadeites in disgust. “We don’t need those. They are not our needs!” they added.
“Good!” Yi Pingzhi nodded. “Now excuse me, I have to leave for a while. You continue your work.”
The video shook much. Obviously, Yi Pingzhi left the place. The light in the video became dimer. Yi Pingzhi must be in a dim place. And it might be caused by the poor quality of the Spiritual Flying Bugs too.
Hao Ning and others looked at each other. They said nothing for a long time. Hao Ning asked Xiao Hong suddenly, “Is this the legendary personality that regards gold as trash?”
“Hey, don’t say it,” Xiao Hong smiled bitterly. “They are not that kind of persons. They just enjoy the stone speculation. Or we can say that they enjoy the process of cutting stones. I have been a Sudhana for many years. This is the first time I saw people who don’t like money, and so many people at the same time.”
“Yes,” Zhou Yuan nodded. He also thought that it was incredible. “What they thought is just like sages. How is it possible? It may take 500 years to develop a sage. How is it possible that so many sages are in H City at the same time and willing to be workers cutting stones?”
“Stop your nonsense,” Liu Shuai said. “I don’t think it is a normal thing. I remember that I saw this before, but I can’t recall the details,” added he.