Chapter 32: Shenhao System in the City (31)

Because Xie Shuling's parents grew more fond of staying in their homeland as they aged, she accompanied them to stay in the Nancheng villa for a period of time before returning with them to Longjing Mountain Garden in Xiaoling County.

Occasionally, she would follow Xie Yang abroad to travel and see the scenery in various places, but generally speaking, she spent most of her year living at Longjing Mountain Garden.

Therefore, the main house of this villa in Shengshi Taoyuan was basically occupied by Xie Yang alone, while the bodyguards all lived in the guest wing.

Xie Yang could wake up whenever she wanted and go to bed whenever she wanted every day; it was incredibly comfortable.

Perhaps seeing her holed up in the villa all day long, the Shenhao System could no longer stand it, and on this day, it issued a Task to her:

【Ding! The Shenhao System is at your service! A Task is now issued: Building a harmonious society cannot be achieved without maintaining stability and public order! Please, Host, listen to the inner desires of fifty tourists within 12 hours. Upon completion of the Task, you will be rewarded with one security building equipped with the world's most cutting-edge ultra-high-speed network information equipment, top-tier security facilities, and excellent seismic equipment.】

Xie Yang: "..."

Just how much did it want her to go out and play?

Nancheng was neither big nor small, and if she wanted to gather 50 authentic tourists from out of town, just walking out of the residential quarter was not enough; she had to go to amusement parks with rich recreational facilities or popular scenic spots.

But the carrot the Shenhao System dangled in front of her was truly too tempting, and it seemed tailor-made for her—the security company she was preparing to establish in Beijing was exactly in need of these cutting-edge facilities and top-tier equipment!

Consequently, Xie Yang didn't even change her clothes; she called her bodyguards and hurried out.

Listening to the inner voices of 50 tourists in 12 hours meant contacting 4-5 tourists per hour on average.

If there were plenty of tourists, this task would be very simple to complete.

But now it was the off-season for tourism, neither a holiday nor a festival, and Nancheng was not a famous tourist city to begin with; even in the peak season, it didn't have as many tourists as a famous tourist city had in the off-season.

So... it was exhausting her!

She went to the amusement park first.

She discovered that the amusement park was actually undergoing construction and renovation during the off-season.

Xie Yang: "..."

Then she went to the nearby wildlife park.

After arriving, she discovered... emmm, there were fewer tourists sitting in cars than there were wild animals wandering around outside the cars...

These two places combined only provided her with 20 authentic tourists.

She was still 30 people short!

And four hours had already passed.

The sky was also approaching dusk.

"Xie Yang? Yang Yang? Why are you here?"

Just as Xie Yang was knitting her brows and pondering where she should go next to have a higher probability of completing the task, she ran into her old neighbor from Wanhua Residential Quarter—Wang Jiaqi from the second floor.

"I'm just strolling around. Sister Jiaqi, why are you here too?"

Wang Jiaqi called Xie Shuling 'Sister', so logically she should have called the other party 'Aunt'.

But the original owner had called Wang Jiaqi 'Aunt' at that time and was corrected by Wang Jiaqi, who said that calling her 'Aunt' made her sound so old, and since there was no blood relation, there was no such thing as seniority, so they could just address each other as they pleased; thus, it became the way it was now.

"Sigh, the company I was at previously went bankrupt, so I found a new job; I'm working at the information desk of the tourist center."

"Tourist center?" Xie Yang's eyes lit up, "Are there many tourists there?"

"It depends on the time of day; they are mostly here to take the shuttle bus. Generally speaking, we are busiest when the park opens and closes... Oh, I won't talk to you for now, I'm going to the restroom, and I'll chat with you when I get back."

"..."

Regardless, thanks to Wang Jiaqi, Xie Yang managed to gather 30 tourists who came to take the shuttle bus at the tourist center where she worked, and together with the previous 20 people, she finally completed this task before dark.

【Ding! Congratulations to the Host for completing the task of listening to tourists' inner voices. You are rewarded with one security building equipped with the world's most cutting-edge ultra-high-speed network information equipment, top-tier security facilities, and excellent seismic equipment! The title deed will be delivered to you through normal channels.】

The reward was in hand!

Xie Yang smiled and invited Wang Jiaqi, who was preparing to get off work: "Sister Jiaqi, it's rare that we met, let me treat you to a meal!"

Wang Jiaqi didn't expect Xie Yang to treat her to a meal, but she thought that with her current net worth, treating someone to a meal was probably about the same as treating someone to a glass of plain water.

So she didn't act coy and happily followed Xie Yang to enjoy a meal at the revolving restaurant on the top floor of a Nancheng landmark building.

While eating, Xie Yang heard Wang Jiaqi gossip about many old neighbors and learned that Bai Xuanxuan had gotten married, marrying a web writer she had known for less than three months in a whirlwind marriage.

"That young man looks quite handsome, but his hometown is in the mountains of the Northwest, and his economic conditions are a bit poor. Never mind a wedding house, even for the 280,000 in bride price requested by the Bai family, he only scraped together a fraction to buy the 'three golds'.

Big Sister Bai was dead set against this marriage, but guess what happened? Xuanxuan actually stole the family's household registration book and registered the marriage with that young man without even telling her family. Big Sister Bai was so angry that she declared she would act as if she never gave birth to this daughter and wouldn't care if she lived or died in the future."

After hearing this gossip shared by Wang Jiaqi, Xie Yang twitched the corner of her mouth; people with 'love brains' were always quite impulsive when it came to romantic matters.

It was fine if they met the right person, but if they met the wrong person, it would be a tragedy for a lifetime.

However, Bai Xuanxuan herself didn't feel there was anything wrong with it.

She felt that she had married for love; as long as there was love, she would be satisfied, and even if life was hard, she would find it as sweet as honey.

"What about you? Do you have a partner?"

After sharing the gossip, Wang Jiaqi looked at Xie Yang with a smile and teased:

"That's right! You are now a little rich woman who is famous not only in our Nancheng but across the whole country; what kind of partner could you not find? When you have a partner one day, remember to share some wedding candy with us old neighbors so we can soak up some of the joy too!"

Xie Yang smiled: "Sure, if I get married, I will definitely send wedding invitations to you and the others, Sister Jiaqi, and invite you all to come and drink the wedding wine."

"Good, good, good."

Wang Jiaqi nodded repeatedly.

Returning home that night, she couldn't wait to share the big meal with her husband, and when she got to the end, she couldn't help but sigh:

"The world is truly unpredictable! When we lived upstairs and downstairs, who would have thought Xie Yang would have such good fortune today! I always thought it was Xuanxuan who would make something of herself! As a result... sigh...

Let's not talk about this! Xie Yang said if she gets married, she will definitely send us an invitation, so I must prepare a wedding gift properly. That will be the wedding of the richest person who walked out of our Wanhua Residential Quarter; the people attending will surely be either rich or noble..."

The more Wang Jiaqi thought about it, the more excited she became, and ignoring her husband's speechless expression, she took her phone, tapped into Little Green Book, and started searching for suitable wedding gifts.

However, she was destined to be disappointed.

Perhaps because of "wealth and officialdom being heartless," in this life, Xie Yang never met the person she wanted to spend her life with.

There were many excellent men around her, but some, like Cheng Zhuo, were categorized into her cooperation circle from the start, and every time they met, they talked about project cooperation; others were as childish as juniors in her eyes—how could she fall in love when there was a generation gap?

Instead, her career was booming; she clearly only wanted to be a "wealth-distributing boy," but the more she distributed, the more wealth she had...