Chapter 217: Finally Received a Future Phone Call

"Dare to bully my sister? Do you know she's a minor?"

Two boys, aged about twenty or so, burst in and pinned the man on the bed, giving him a sound thrashing.

The man was already feeling guilty for doing such a thing, and he panicked when faced with such a sudden turn of events.

He slapped himself in the face and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

"I really didn't know she was a minor," the man said, terrified. "How about this, the two hundred yuan we agreed on—I didn't do anything, I'll give you five hundred as compensation."

"Five hundred yuan? Are you trying to brush off a beggar!" Shen Yuan jumped up and slapped him hard across the face. "Two thousand yuan, or we're calling the police! And I'll notify your old lady at home while I'm at it."

The man finally realized that he had run into an Immortal Trap.

But there was no other way; his wife at home was heavily pregnant, and if a scandal like this broke out now, it would only mean the ruin of his family.

"Fine, give me half a month. As soon as I get my paycheck and scrape the money together, I'll give it to you," the man compromised.

"Today. If you don't have it, go borrow it, otherwise we're going to the police station," Shen Yuan said, enunciating every word.

Two hours later, the man had scraped together two thousand yuan.

Shen Yuan handed two hundred yuan of it to her mother, and she split the remaining eighteen hundred yuan with the two other classmates she had brought along.

She felt quite smug; as expected, she was the smartest one in their family.

Without having to do anything, she could earn a thousand yuan in half a day.

That was enough to cover ten times what her mother made.

Moreover, Shen Yuan felt there was no risk in this, as the men who came to solicit prostitutes were already acting in secret.

Having fallen for her "Immortal Trap," would they really have the nerve to report it to the police?

Therefore, it was impossible for anyone to find out; it could be considered foolproof.

Li Xuan naturally didn't discover it either, though she did feel that something was a bit off.

Business had been hard to come by these past two days.

The old customers who used to pass by her and her daughter always walked by in a hurried manner.

Even new customers were not as easy to solicit as before.

Once, while she was soliciting, a customer let slip a bit of information to her.

He said that the wind was blowing very hard on this street lately, and that someone was operating right under the nose of the law.

Who could it be?

If someone was operating under the nose of the law, why were she and her daughter still fine?

Could it be their competitors?

Li Xuan racked her brain but couldn't figure it out.

……

When Si Rong returned home, her son asked about Li Xuan, whom they had encountered while out.

Although he was very mischievous, he was sensitive at heart. Si Rong thought for a moment, then pulled both children to her side.

She briefly explained to them the complicated relationship she had with Li Xuan.

"In any case, if you ever run into her in the future, you must protect yourselves. Do not go anywhere with her alone, do you understand?"

Although they had been separated for six or seven years, a leopard cannot change its spots; no one knew if Li Xuan might be brewing some new bad idea in her head.

"Mom, I understand."

Jiang Siyu nodded obediently.

"Mom, don't be afraid of her, I will protect you!" Jiang Sinian waved his little fist.

Si Rong pulled the two soft little ones into her arms, feeling warm inside.

Soon after, Jiang Cheng finished his business and returned from Haidao.

That red phone was still placed neatly on the bedside table.

Six or seven years had passed, and she had never received a Future Phone call while on Haidao.

She wondered if something had happened to her other self in that other dimension.

The sunset glow shone on the phone, flickering with the same faint light as before.

Si Rong picked up a soft towel and wiped it gently, not expecting the phone to suddenly ring.

Feeling a sense of intuition, she picked up the receiver. "Hello, this is Si Rong."

"I know, you finally answered."

The familiar voice on the other end sounded somewhat aged, the breathing heavy with excitement.

This sentence made Si Rong feel strange. "Finally? Have you been calling me all this time?"

But she hadn't received a Future Phone call in six or seven years.

"Yes, for about nearly a year," the voice on the other side said again. "Let's not talk about that. How are things on your end now?"

"Everything is fine on my end," Si Rong felt as natural as if she were sharing her daily life with an old friend. "I previously went to Haidao with Jiang Cheng to follow the military, and the two children are growing up more and more now."

Could it be that she could only receive Future Phone calls in Huaiyang?

"What about Li Xuan and her three children?"

"Shen Chi was sent to prison by me, but he's likely getting out soon. Li Xuan and her daughter are still in Huaiyang, and it doesn't look like they're doing very well."

"That's good. You must be very careful of them. Besides the three of them, you also need to watch out for one other person."

"Who?"

"Lin Meixi."

Lin Meixi? Si Rong frowned. "Okay."

She agreed immediately, even though she hadn't seen Lin Meixi since returning this time.

"We don't have much time. Write down another stock, and sell it one month after you buy it."

Stocks? Si Rong knew that right now was the height of the nationwide stock-trading craze.

She quickly took paper and a pen from the drawer and wrote down the string of numbers being read from the other side.

After confirming there were no errors, she asked impatiently, "What about on your end?"

Previously, she only vaguely knew that the father-son duo Shen Chi and Shen Lan had conspired to plot against her eldest brother's and second brother's company.

"I have already bought back half of the company's shares..."

She could not hear the rest of the words clearly.

But Si Rong thought it must be good news; even the version of herself twenty years in the future would not let Shen Lan and Li Xuan succeed easily.

Si Rong stared at the string of stock numbers in front of her.

She turned on the computer in the house.

It was a gift from her second brother when she first returned, saying that since she had been cut off from news on Haidao and the city economy was now developing at lightning speed, everyone had started trading stocks.

Even the old men sweeping the streets would take their retirement money to trade stocks.

But Si Rong had never thought about trading stocks; for one, she was quite busy every day, and for another, the two properties she had bought in Jing Shi over these years, as well as the properties in Luo City and Huaiyang, had already increased in value more than tenfold, and just the pocket change from collecting rent was enough for their monthly expenses.

But since it was given by her future self, she had to buy this stock.

Thinking of something, Si Rong took out the mobile phone she had bought back in Huaiyang and called her second brother.

"Little sister, missing your second brother?"

Her second brother's flippant voice came from the other side.

"Yes, I missed my second brother." Si Rong ignored his glibness, "I'm telling you about a stock, you should buy some!"

A hearty laugh came from the other side, and her second brother laughed for quite a while before stopping, "Little sister is studying stocks? Go ahead! Second brother will definitely support you and buy some!"

"Second brother!" Si Rong emphasized, "This stock will definitely skyrocket; a white-haired old man told me in a dream last night."

She made up a lie.

"I'm planning to take all of our savings to buy this stock!" Si Rong added.

Si Han finally stopped laughing on the other side, and he said, "Little sister, go ahead! I've found a computer, let me look at the stock you mentioned now."

In fact, Si Han was in a meeting at this moment; he only answered calls from a very small number of people when in meetings, and his little sister was one of them.

On the other end of the phone, her little sister recited a stock.

Si Han opened the page for that stock.

The several managers and vice presidents behind him frowned at the same time.

Because, from their investment perspective, this stock was truly trash.

Not only had it been in a downward trend, but it also had almost no trading volume.

But their President Si made the final decision, "Buy!"