Chapter 100: Ma Kaiyuan: You Are Very Important

"Alright!

I've got a rough candidate in mind!"

Wenzhou Yu was, after all, an old-timer of the Fuzhou Gang; with a moment's thought he roughly knew who to look for.

Chen Yaozu reminded him.

"Best if they've only immigrated in recent years!"

Wenzhou Yu nodded.

"A few years back, a family of three slipped in illegally; the man knew bone-setting, knew medical arts, thought he could make a go of it here.

Result: no legal status, could only do black-market labor.

The woman couldn't hack it, hooked up with an old white man, and ran off!

The son was targeted, passed a tissue-typing exam, was abducted, both kidneys gone, and he was gone too.

The gang valued his skills, helped him get revenge, even fronted him one hundred thousand dollars, found a white woman for a fake marriage — two years later he got his green card.

He has some standing in the gang, but not high standing; he should be willing to do this job!

After all, his own son had his kidneys harvested; he should hate this sort of thing even more!

And, because his son went through that, it would be perfectly reasonable for him to go investigate these matters!"

Perfectly reasonable indeed.

And the man truly is rather pitiable.

Still, Chen Yaozu didn't feel all that much sympathy for him; after all, everyone who chooses a path must bear the consequences of that path.

He simply had Zhou Jiping and Wenzhou Yu go back and discuss it with the man, see if he was willing.

If willing, then they'd hash out the remaining details.

Zhou Jiping had been itching to leave for a while, especially after hearing Zhou Yu finish telling about that man's wife running off with an old white man — he was desperate to get home and see his own wife.

The moment Chen Yaozu dismissed them, he hurriedly took his leave.

Only, just before leaving, he looked a bit reluctantly at that treasure mirror already placed on Chen Yaozu's vehicle.

Zhou Jiping and the others couldn't see it, but Chen Yaozu saw: after the mirror was put on his own car, a Republic-era qipao beauty stepped out from within the mirror.

Hu Ying, that soul imprisoned in the mirror, a warlord's concubine from the Republican era.

This female ghost watched the departing vehicle, and gave a slight bow of her head to Chen Yaozu sitting in the driver's seat.

"Mirror Spirit Hu Ying greets the Seal Mastery Fazu; this mission has not failed its trust — I have safely returned the person."

Right! The mirror female ghost Hu Ying could no longer be counted as a mere ghost, or rather not an ordinary female ghost — she had already become a mirror spirit.

She bore merit coiled around her.

When Chen Yaozu led a group to rescue a disaster area, it was this treasure mirror, under this mirror spirit's operation, that absorbed a few resentful souls and, wherever it went, resentment qi, death qi, disease qi, plague qi.

After making such a great contribution, it was only fitting that this treasure mirror and the mirror spirit Hu Ying had threads of merit coiling around them.

Chen Yaozu nodded to the female ghost; although he had already branded a seal/mark deep in her soul for control, that did not mean he withheld respect.

So he also nodded in return: "You've worked hard!"

The female ghost gave him a faint sidelong glance, but quickly turned her head, looking out the car window: "Is this place the most prosperous spot in Huaxia?"

Chen Yaozu thought a moment: "How to put it?

It probably doesn't count; the most prosperous place in America should be New York.

But this is California — it should be the state with the most Americans, and the highest GDP.

So it counts as more or less the most prosperous too!"

The female ghost leisurely made a request: "Then can the Seal Mastery Fazu take this little woman around to tour this prosperous Huaxia, see how it differs from the Ten-mile Foreign Concession?"

Hearing this, Chen Yaozu grew a bit curious:

"You've been on this far shore of the ocean so long, and you still haven't learned about this side?"

The female ghost looked a bit dim: "Ever since this little woman was trapped in the mirror, she has had no control over herself.

Even now, daring to entertain such an overreaching thought is only because she relies on having some merit.

If it's inconvenient, then forget it!"

Hearing this, isn't that a slap in the face?

Chen Yaozu hurriedly waved his hand: "No no no, this request isn't excessive at all!"

"Then I'll take you touring Los Angeles right now!"

Then he drove the car, carting a mirror, filled the tank, and circled the most bustling districts of Los Angeles all day long.

Not until 9 p. m. did he return to his own home.

The moment he entered, he saw Audrey and his younger brother and sister watching TV.

"Hey, brother-in-law!"

Alan greeted him in stiff Han language.

As for Claire, she was eyeing this mirror that her brother-in-law carried in with a face full of wariness; she didn't know what was special about this mirror, she only knew she had once tried to peel off the stuff originally wrapped around the outside of this mirror to see what was inside, and got beaten twice.

One beating from Olivia, one beating from her sister Audrey.

It made the Claire of that time very angry — didn't Mom and sister know hitting a child is illegal?

So even seeing this brother-in-law carry this mirror in, though curious in her heart, she didn't crowd over to look.

She merely discovered it was just a very ordinary mirror, and then lost all interest.

The current ghost mirror no longer needed to be wrapped in filthy things; Chen Yaozu just set it casually in the living room, not hidden away tightly like before.

After he put the mirror down, Audrey pulled him to the sofa to sit down, then stuffed popcorn into his mouth.

Chen Yaozu looked at the Haha Jie on the TV screen, a face full of question marks.

"Drinking Coke, eating popcorn, watching the news? How come it's just you guys — where's your mom?"

11-year-old Alan looked at his brother-in-law with utter disdain: "This is a presidential campaign speech, not the news!"

Oh! No wonder Haha Jie on the TV screen looked so generous and impassioned — turns out it's a campaign speech.

Audrey unscrewed the Coke bottle cap for him and said.

"Mom hasn't gotten off work yet, she has to work overtime today!" Huh? Chen Yaozu looked puzzled.

"A library administrator, what overtime is there to work?"

Audrey spread her hands: "I don't know either, they say the library has to inventory the books inside, so overtime is needed.

Those two are under my care tonight! Result: one wants to watch The Big Bang Theory, one wants to watch stand-up comedy!

There's only one TV, and what I care about most is which of those two people on the TV will laugh last.

So Alan and Claire can only wrong themselves a bit and follow me in paying attention to this issue.

Although for their ages this is indeed a bit early."

Audrey pulled Chen Yaozu to sit down, nestling in his arms: "A Zu, you say who will laugh last in the end?"

Chen Yaozu used his palm to push away Blair's head leaning over, while saying softly: "Whoever it is, it doesn't have much to do with us!"

Although he said that, he still hoped more that this world would be a bit more normal.

So his inclination goes without saying.

But Audrey didn't think so: "Dear, I'm worried your green card might have problems.

You know, that man said America wants to restore order, especially illegal immigrants and gender issues.

Aren't you an illegal immigrant?"

Chen Yaozu smiled reassuringly: "It won't!

You forgot, I already have a temporary green card now, plus my marriage to you, and my profession — I'm a teacher.

Most importantly, I now know a friend who has invested in that man, so no matter who controls America, my green card won't have problems!"

Audrey half-believed, half-doubted.

Chen Yaozu didn't continue explaining either.

But still quietly accompanied Audrey to finish watching Haha Jie's speech, though Haha Jie's speech this time was a bit subpar.

Even Audrey, such a newly adult young wife, could tell her speech this time was a bit mechanical and at a loss.

Listening to her speech gave a bit of a suffering feeling.

But luckily, Haha Jie's speech ended quickly.

Then the attention of the people in the room shifted to Big Golden Hair's speech content.

Big Golden Hair appeared on TV, and sure enough his opening was about immigration issues — like all illegal immigrants should be deported entirely and such.

Making Audrey frown as she listened.

Actually Chen Yaozu felt Big Golden Hair's words were quite right.

A country arbitrarily opening its borders, letting many people who never contributed to this country before pour in.

Whether talent or trash, accepting them all indiscriminately is actually irresponsible to this world or this country.

Even though he himself is an illegal immigrant, he acknowledges Big Golden Hair's words — this is a normal person.

Big Golden Hair then spoke about male-female gender issues.

"... Unbelievable, America already has over 99 genders!

Not just me, even God probably wouldn't believe it! You know, back then God only created two genders: male and female..."

Have to say, Big Golden Hair's speech is much more interesting than Haha Jie's, making the several people present watch with relish.

Just as they were watching TV, the phone rang. Chen Yaozu picked it up and looked — it was Ma Kaiyuan.

"Hello, Mr. Richest Man!

The East has an ancient saying: 'No business, no visit to the Three Treasures Hall' — I believe your call is the same.

So what's the theme this time?"

Tycoon Ma also cut straight to the chase: "Respected Archbishop, you know, I recently made an investment and need your support! What drives this call of mine is that today is the last day, and also the most critical and important day of this investment of mine.

If I lose this bet, starting tomorrow I might have to squat in prison indefinitely, or maybe flee to the East! So this investment concerns my life and death!

I need your help!"

Head full of question marks!

Thinking so highly of me?

Chen Yaozu looked at the TV: "Mr. Richest Man, seems the situation is quite optimistic now — the target of your investment currently holds the advantage, the Nasdaq index is rising, 700,000 to 600,000, the advantage is on your side!"

"No no no no, you don't understand — right now is the critical moment!"

Ma Yuanshen explained: investing in stocks requires comprehensive advantages from all sides, and data.

Although it's in the red now, no one can say for sure how long it'll stay red.

Who knows, the next moment it might turn blue! Because the decisive factors for victory or defeat are many going forward.

As an investor who has already gone all-in, Ma Yuanshen definitely wants to find a way to guarantee this stock keeps going red.

And Ma Kaiyuan called to try to confirm some swing stocks stop swinging as early as possible.

Like Georgia.

"You know, Georgians are one of the swing levers of this investment of mine, holding 16 points. These 16 points appearing on the long side or short side are both a problem.

And the share of these 16 points of leverage you can influence is as high as 1/3, maybe even more! Do you know the weight of your name among Georgians?"

Chen Yaozu was considering.

He didn't want to get mixed up in these things — after all, what does Ma Kaiyuan's investment win or loss have to do with him? Just then.

In his mind he received a prompt.

【Derivation to Opportunity: one share.

Help the stock supported by Ma Kaiyuan obtain investment from Georgia, and use this as a condition to demand the opposite side write a congratulatory letter.

If the invested party hits the limit up, have them, in their official capacity, issue a formal congratulatory letter for you and the Eastern Daoist Gate's Twenty-Fifth Patriarch establishing a sect on this land.

This is legitimately obtaining its Qi Luck!

Of course, this opportunity carries great Qi Luck, and also some Karma; whether willing or not to touch this Karma, it is all up to one's own will.

Ah, today I owe one more, owe three now (Chapter End)