Chapter 326: Urban Card Drawing System (32)

But no matter how busy things get, on New Year's Eve, one must still properly celebrate the New Year at home.

Xie Yang cooked a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner herself. Seeing her father go to the basement wine cellar and bring up a bottle of long-treasured red wine—which he said he had won at auction from a French winery last year, costing him quite a bit of money—she couldn't help but be curious:

"Do wineries over in France hold red wine auctions often?"

She remembered that Xue Ling also had a bottle of expensive red wine that her brother had won at auction from a French winery, and she still felt regretful that she hadn't managed to snag a taste of it.

Father Xie's tone was filled with pride: "Of course, you have to win an award to be eligible to bid. The bottle I won was the only Grand Gold Medal winner at the International Wine Competition held in Paris early last summer. It was also your father's good luck; I picked up a bargain, hehe."

Xie Yang understood: it was the credit of 【Good Luck Streak】; she understood.

"So, the wine Xue Ling brought to the club that day wasn't as good as this bottle of ours?"

"Are you talking about that Xue family that went bankrupt last year? It seems there was a young man surnamed Xue who attended that auction, but he didn't win any good wine at all. Others saw he hadn't won anything and felt sorry for him, so they shared a case of secondary-grade wine with him."

Xie Yang: "..."

Xue Ling really knows how to make things up!

Or perhaps Xue Ling's brother intentionally exaggerated the value of that bottle, and Xue Ling took it for truth.

"Dad, let's have a little drink!"

Xie Yang rubbed her hands together, waiting for her father to finish letting the wine breathe, ready to savor this most expensive wine in the human world.

When she ascends to the Immortal Realm in the future, she must taste the immortal grape wine of the Immortal World to see what the difference is between the two.

The Main System, which had intended to speak up and greet the Host to tell her it had returned: 【...】

It shrank its avatar, deciding not to make a sound at this moment, lest it remind the Host of her forcibly interrupted path to ascension and have her chase it for damages.

Outside, the snow flew like catkins; inside, it was as warm as spring. The father and daughter enjoyed the sumptuous side dishes, chatting and sipping a few glasses.

Early on the morning of the first day of the New Year, Xie Yang was called up by Father Xie to go to Yunqi Temple together to burn incense and pray for blessings.

Ever since they came to Yunqi Temple during that physical exam, Xie Qidong had never gone to Wufu Temple again.

For one, there were simply too many tourists there and it was too crowded; one had to queue just to burn incense and pray.

For another, he subconsciously felt that Yunqi Temple was more efficacious. Hadn't he seen that over the past half-year, whatever he invested in made money, his body was in great shape, he ate well and slept soundly, and his daughter was safely by his side, becoming increasingly sensible?

Father Xie knelt before the Buddha, piously made a wish, and then donated six hundred and sixty thousand as usual.

Xie Yang didn't donate as much as he did, but she brought up quite a few vegetables from the Greenhouse.

In the biting cold of midwinter, carrying two full bags of organic vegetables up to the mountaintop step by step was also quite sincere.

The temple had added a few young novice monks. The abbot said they were born deaf and mute and were often bullied by other children at the orphanage. Since the orphanage dormitory didn't have enough space, they were taken in to stay for a while, and would be sent back once they reached school age.

"Amitabha, this old monk thanks the two benefactors. Without your kindness and generosity, even if this old monk had the heart, I would not have the strength to help these children."

Upon hearing this, Father Xie felt great sympathy for these children. Being born deaf and mute was not their fault, yet they were abandoned by their families and bullied by normal children—how innocent were they? After thinking for a moment, he said to his daughter:

"I'll find some time after the New Year to visit the orphanage and help out if I can."

Xie Yang agreed: "I'll go too."

Winter passed and spring came; in the blink of an eye, it was the spring plowing season, the time for the year's planning.

Galaxy Entertainment was flourishing, and the special public welfare foundation for disabled children established at the beginning of the year was also on the right track. Xie Yang, who had finally finished a busy spell, received a complaining call from her old man:

"I don't know what's going on these past few days, my luck has been a bit off. My tire blew out just after leaving the airport, and I was almost trapped in the Elevator when I got back to the company. Could it be your mother reminding me that it's time to go burn incense and paper money for her? Is she short on money down there? Come to think of it, we haven't been to the temple to pray in two months; it's time to burn something for your mother..."

Xie Yang: "..."

Calculating the time, five days ago was exactly the one-year anniversary of using 【Good Luck Streak】 on Comrade Lao Xie.

In other words, the card had expired and lost its effect...

Fortunately, the original bad luck fate—which had been caused by Feng Xuanxuan using a Bad Luck Card in the original world—had been corrected. Comrade Lao Xie could live to be over eighty without illness or disaster in this life, so there was no need to fuss over these little annoyances in life.

Sometimes, little unpleasant episodes in life are also a form of warning in disguise:

Just like the Elevator malfunction; if he hadn't almost been trapped, he wouldn't have sent people to inspect it in advance. Without the inspection, he might have really been trapped next time, or even caused an accident.

Of course, the main thing was that she hadn't saved up enough points for a ten-draw yet. If she had enough and drew another 【Good Luck Streak】 or a Fortune Card like 【Good Fortune】, she wouldn't mind continuing to use it on Lao Xie to make him happy.

The expiration of the 【Good Luck Streak】 card meant that Xie Yang had completely shaken off the misfortune that Feng Xuanxuan had brought upon the original body's family and their close friends and relatives in the original world using the Bad Luck Card.

【Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully completing the task for this plane!】

The Main System rarely popped up.

The task for this plane was considered complete at this moment.

From now on, Xie Yang could live according to her own wishes until the next task began.

Feng Xuanxuan had spent the New Year and must have received quite a bit of lucky money; having saved up enough for the breach-of-contract penalty, she recently revealed she wanted to terminate her contract with the company, and Xie Yang let her be.

However, she thought Feng Xuanxuan was in such a hurry to terminate the contract because she wanted to jump ship, but she didn't expect it was to get married. She heard it was an arranged marriage by her family; the other party was twelve years her senior and was a divorced man with a child.

Xie Yang: "..."

The former group favorite had now actually fallen into becoming a family sacrifice?

This turn of events truly left her unable to understand.

She asked Father Xie: "Dad, is the Feng family's business doing very poorly now?"

Poor enough that they need their group favorite to marry into another family and become a stepmother to save it?

"It's not doing very well; the general environment is like that. Our family benefited from the whole-house smart home market. If we hadn't captured that sector, our overseas market would have been cut by at least half, and it would likely be precarious too.

But the Feng family... how should I put it? The internal infighting is too severe. Old Man Feng has four sons and seven grandsons, all of whom want to be the one in power.

Old Man Feng is getting old, and it will be hard to take back power once he lets it go. He can still hold on for now, but once he's gone, the situation will likely be even worse."

Xie Yang felt a bit of sighing upon hearing this.

Actually, if you ask her, with family businesses fighting and bickering until they end up in a life-or-death struggle and both sides suffer, it would be better to hire a professional CEO. The shareholders collect dividends without having to do anything, and the company can still thrive—isn't that great?

"Our daughter really has a brain!"

Father Xie laughed out loud on the other end of the phone after hearing his daughter's complaint:

"So that is how I have planned it, to save you from any pressure, daughter. You are my only child, so the company will definitely be left to you in the future. But the management is up to you; if you want to manage it, you can, and if you don't want to, we will just hire a professional CEO."

After a pause, Father Xie continued with a chuckle: "However, not putting pressure on you doesn't mean I won't urge you to get married. Wasn't the Feng family's little daughter a good friend of yours before? She is already talking about marriage. Chen's daughter has also gotten engaged to Lao Song's youngest son. What about you, daughter? When will you bring a boyfriend home for your old man?"

"..."