Chapter 201

Li Ye, Hao Jian, and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng were bored waiting in the living room outside, staring at a statue of Guanyin and observing it.

It had to be said that this Master Huang must be very famous in Hong Kong; the detached villa was decorated magnificently, and the furnishings in the house were not ordinary items either.

Just as Li Ye was preparing to use the half-baked skills he had learned from Old Song to determine whether this Guanyin statue was the real thing, Master Huang's assistant walked down from upstairs.

"Will the gentlemen please come up! Master Huang happens to be in the mood today and is willing to calculate the fortune for the year for you all."

"Is that so? That's truly great."

Hao Jian stood up in surprise, only then noticing that Li Ye was sitting on the sofa without moving his butt.

"Little Ye brother, are you coming?"

Li Ye shook his head and waved his hand, telling Hao Jian and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng to go by themselves.

Seeing that Li Ye wasn't interested, Hao Jian and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng couldn't force him; he was a league member, after all!

The assistant looked at Li Ye and explained in Cantonese, "This gentleman, Master Huang rarely calculates fortunes for people on the spot. Mr. Pei just now had made an appointment half a year ago, so this opportunity is very rare."

"No need, thank you!"

Li Ye waved his hand to decline again, and the assistant glanced at Li Ye coldly before taking Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian upstairs.

After the two went in, Pei Wencong was slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything.

Then, when Master Huang was reading their faces, he went through the same process he had used when reading Pei Wencong's face just now.

Furrowed brows, continuous divination, and flipping through ancestral divination and physiognomy books.

After a long while, Master Huang suddenly said to Pei Wencong with displeasure, "Mr. Pei, these two are not the person you spoke of. Do you not know the inside story, or are you deliberately hiding something?"

Pei Wencong was extremely surprised, but he maintained a smile and said, "Why does the Master say that?"

Master Huang threw the divination book aside and said coldly, "Although these two gentlemen's destiny patterns are different from yours, their experiences are the same. You all have the same noble person."

Pei Wencong looked at Master Huang in surprise; the mood that had just calmed down was once again surging with waves.

Just now, Master Huang had calculated Pei Wencong's fortune and said that Pei Wencong's destiny pattern was very strange, and that there was a noble person in the north who could grant him forty years of great fortune.

This was simply outrageous; the Master hadn't even heard of such a destiny pattern, let alone encountered it.

Then Pei Wencong had said that the "noble person" from the north was outside.

Master Huang had originally wanted to go down to welcome the guest himself, but in the end, he remained reserved. He was actually a bit suspicious as to whether there was an unusual phenomenon in the sky today that had interfered with his physiognomy calculations.

But now that Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian had come up, he hadn't said anything, yet Master Huang had calculated that these two were not the "noble person."

"Mr. Pei, although your fortune is flourishing, you must also remember that the human heart must be upright and you must treat people with sincerity. Otherwise, heaven's secrets are hard to predict, and it's not certain that your fortune won't be cut off halfway..."

Master Huang's tone was already not very good. People in their line of work hated deception from others. Even if Pei Wencong's fortune was currently like a rainbow, he wasn't afraid; after all, he was also a famous physiognomist in Hong Kong, and he had friendships with many high-society figures.

Pei Wencong hurriedly said, "No, Master, there are three people who came over from the north this time. There is one more who is too young, and I'm not quite sure..."

"What does fortune have to do with age?"

Master Huang stood up and walked downstairs, and the crowd hurriedly followed.

The assistant guarding the stairs was also very shocked to see Master Huang suddenly go downstairs, because apart from those few tycoon clients, Master Huang hadn't personally gone downstairs to welcome guests for a long time, especially those coming from the north.

The crowd went downstairs and happened to see Li Ye standing in front of that Guanyin statue, looking left and right.

Pei Wencong was just about to call Li Ye, but he saw Master Huang, who had been cold and stern just a moment ago, walking over with a beaming smile.

"This friend, do you like this Guanyin statue?"

Master Huang spoke in Mandarin.

Li Ye turned his head and said with a smile, "Oh, I was just looking. It looks quite good."

Master Huang immediately said, "Then I'll give it to you, friend. I've had it placed here for a long time, just waiting for a fated person, and today I've finally waited for one."

Master's assistant: "..."

Pei Wencong: "..."

The reason the master's assistant was dumbfounded was because he knew this Guanyin statue had only been placed there last month, which definitely couldn't be considered "a long time."

And Pei Wencong was dumbfounded because of the internal monologue: "Damn it, did you come down to calculate his fortune, or to steal my fortune?

You calculated so hard just now; were you calculating my fortune, or were you calculating your own?"

Everyone's fortune is limited; if you stick to a bit more, wouldn't others have a bit less?

But before Pei Wencong could think of a way, Master Huang had already started chatting with Li Ye.

As they chatted, Master Huang indicated that he could calculate a divination for Li Ye.

Li Ye didn't really care, but when Master Huang asked for his birth date and time, he indicated that he didn't know; his family hadn't told him the specific time.

Since the time was missing, there was no need to report the birth date, right?

On this point, Li Ye was still cautious; he had seen too many supernatural stories in his previous life, and some of them were quite eerie.

Master Huang didn't say anything either and just let Li Ye shake the divination coins.

Li Ye shook the copper coins six times at random and let Master Huang record the results in order.

Then Master Huang started to calculate.

It was fine at the beginning, but as he calculated, Master Huang started to sweat.

He first stared at Li Ye's face, then lowered his head to calculate, then looked up at Li Ye, repeating this cycle, and finally calmed down, but his fingers were calculating rapidly.

Li Ye saw his hand speed and doubted whether he had the skill of someone who had been single for forty years.

Everyone dared not make a sound, knowing that Master Huang had encountered an extraordinary divination pattern.

But as his face became redder and redder, red in an abnormal way, Li Ye couldn't help but ponder in his heart: "Is he going to perform a ritual on the spot? Is he inviting a god or is he possessed by a ghost?"

Just as this thought occurred to Li Ye, Master Huang's eyes rolled back, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground.

"..."

Everyone was stunned for several seconds before the master's assistant let out a cry.

"Call an ambulance quickly, the Master is having a heart attack~~"

The living room was suddenly in a flurry; the female assistant was feeding him medicine and water, while Pei Wencong was sweating profusely as he called for an ambulance.

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng was also helping on the side, but he was only helping with his mouth.

"I'm telling you, this doesn't look like a heart attack; I think it's a stroke."

"Stroke" is the local Qingshui dialect for "cerebral infarction," meaning something went wrong in the brain.

But Hao Jian was staring fixedly at Li Ye, his knees weak, as if he were about to kneel down and hug his thighs.

Many people in Qingshui County said that Li Ye had been visited by Old Huaiye in a dream, and others said that Li Ye had the bearing of a descending star of literature; this is a god!

Li Ye looked at Master Huang, who was foaming at the mouth on the ground, and then looked at that Guanyin statue, feeling quite regretful in his heart.

That Guanyin statue was really good, and the Master had agreed to give it to him; how could he bring it up now?

The ambulance arrived quickly. Pei Wencong took a stack of banknotes out of his wallet and handed them to A-Min; it looked like there were at least tens of thousands.

"A-Min, you take Mr. Li to tour Central; you can go see the big tycoons or whatever. I'll take Master Huang to the hospital."

A-Min took the money and said in a low voice, "Boss, the expenses for going to the big tycoons aren't included, but isn't it inappropriate for them to go to the big tycoons?"

Pei Wencong waved his hand and said, "Whether they are willing to go in is one thing, but whether we invite them is another. One must treat people with sincerity."

A-Min glanced at his boss, wanting to find that familiar "pain in the heart" look in his eyes, but only saw full generosity and excitement.

【You stingy boss have finally opened your mind. If you don't spend money after making it, then why be a boss?】

But after Pei Wencong followed Master Huang's assistant to the hospital, he only stayed for a while before slipping away.

Pei Wencong went out and hailed a taxi, threw a hundred-dollar bill at the driver, urged him to fly, and rushed all the way to Luo Runbo's Jinbo Financial Consulting Company.

As soon as he entered, he said, "A-Bo, I also want to speculate on the Hang Seng Index, just like that Mr. Li."

Luo Runbo looked at the panting Pei Wencong and, while pouring him tea, said, "A-Cong, it's been nearly ten years, why are you still so impulsive? If you hadn't impulsively resigned back then, you would have made it big long ago!"

"Are you talking about me? Aren't you the same?" Pei Wencong mocked, "If you had been willing to be a dog back then, would you be any worse than Liang Liang Jia Sheng now?"

"..."

"Hahahaha~"

The two looked at each other and laughed. After laughing for a long time, Pei Wencong said seriously, "My impulsiveness back then seems incredibly correct now, and today's impulsiveness is also correct."

"Alright then, I'll take your order. But brother is brother, and business is business. I'll give you a 30% discount on the commission. You know the risks of speculating on the Hang Seng Index; if you get liquidated, don't..."

"Ah, you crow's mouth! Nagging and nagging, don't you know how to say something nice?"

"Trade has its rules, you know! I definitely have to make it clear to you~"

Luo Runbo didn't talk nonsense anymore and took out the contract for Pei Wencong to fill out himself.

When filling in the amount of the entrusted funds, Pei Wencong filled in the number 490,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Luo Runbo frowned and muttered as soon as he saw it, "Which fortune-teller's bewitchment are you listening to again? You even filled in a number like seven-seven. Wouldn't it be better to just make it five hundred thousand?"

But Pei Wencong said, "Better to believe it exists than to believe it doesn't. For some people and some things, one must always have awe."

Li Ye had only invested five hundred thousand; Pei Wencong felt it was better for him to have a little less.

And this money, he had originally planned to use it to buy a new Mercedes-Benz, but now it seemed that maybe he could really trade it for a Rolls-Royce plus a luxury house on the Mid-Levels.

The next morning, Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian got up early again, ate breakfast, and sat there properly, waiting for Pei Wencong to come pick them up.

But five minutes past the scheduled time, Pei Wencong hadn't arrived yet, so the two stood by the window, stretching their necks to look outside.

Li Ye, who was behind them, put down the magazine in his hand and said lightly, "What, can't wait? The big tycoons don't open for business in the morning."

"..."

"No, no, we weren't thinking of going to the big tycoons again... Hehe."

"That's right, that's right, we saw it yesterday, no need to go again today. You've got the wrong idea, Little Ye brother."

"Heh~"

Li Ye smiled with disdain and said, "We can observe and study the decadence and luxury of capitalism, but we must never become addicted or deeply trapped in it, understand?"

"Understand, understand, understand, understand, understand~"

The two nodded repeatedly, as well-behaved as elementary school students.

That A-Min had taken them to the big tycoons yesterday, and it had completely numbed them.

That scene, that decadence and luxury of capitalism, had truly opened their eyes.

At the beginning, the two didn't dare to go in, because Li Zhongfa had once sternly warned Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng.

But Li Ye didn't care and wanted to go in to see one of the important era cultural symbols of Hong Kong, so the two cheered up and followed him in with high spirits.

And who is Director Li?

Do you expect a big brother who hangs out on the street and a speculator who is a second-hand dealer to have Li Zhongfa's strong will?

Seeing that Li Ye didn't have any look of stopping them, that stern teaching had long been thrown to the back of their minds.

A younger sister pulling you to sing and dance together; where had the two children ever tasted this kind of flavor?

After holding the little hand of a dancing girl and dancing a couple of times, all the inferiority and restraint were gone.

Here, money is the boss.

If it weren't for Li Ye, that "Liu Xiahui," getting in the way on the side, the two guys who had seen the sugar-coated bullets for the first time might have tried something new yesterday.

"I'm going out for a smoke."

"I'm going too, I'm going too."

The two waited until past nine o'clock, and seeing that Pei Wencong hadn't come yet, they went out together to smoke.

"Sigh, Old Hao, do you think today we... will change to another place to observe and learn?"

"Hard to say, and this matter depends on Little Ye brother's mood. We are just bodyguards..."

"You're right, it was Little Ye who led us there."

After indulgence comes regret. The two guys pondered back and forth and still felt that they should shift the responsibility onto Li Ye.

Anyway, he is tall and can take the heat.

At nine-thirty in the morning, Pei Wencong finally arrived.

But today he didn't mention anything about where to go for sightseeing or visiting, but instead had a private talk with Li Ye.

After closing the door, Pei Wencong took out a contract directly.

"Mr. Li, I've thought about it. The profit distribution plan you proposed the day before yesterday is reasonable, but my publishing house has other businesses, and the profit distribution among them is not easy to calculate.

So I suggest that we two cooperate to establish a company specifically to operate 'A Song of Ice and Fire.' If there are any cooperative businesses in the future, they will also belong to this company to operate..."

"Oh, then do you have any problems with the 30/70 share distribution ratio?"

"No problem," Pei Wencong said with a smile, "You are the boss of this new company, and I am a shareholder."

Li Ye was slightly surprised. He had originally wanted to establish a company in Hong Kong, but he hadn't had time to tell Pei Wencong, and the other party had already handled it for him.

And his minimum bottom line was actually 40/60. After all, judging by the current situation, basically everything in Hong Kong had to be entrusted to Pei Wencong. Without some benefits, how could the other party work hard?

As a result, Pei Wencong suddenly surrendered, as if he had washed himself clean and obediently delivered himself to the door.

【What is the reason?】

Li Ye pondered for a moment and suddenly asked Pei Wencong, "Mr. Pei, what was the result of the fortune calculation Master Huang gave you yesterday?"

"..."

Pei Wencong was stunned for a moment and said, "This cannot be told. If it's told, it won't be effective, hehe."

Li Ye observed Pei Wencong carefully, his burning gaze forcing its way onto his face, making Pei Wencong turn his face away with a sheepish smile.

Li Ye saw anxiety on Pei Wencong's face, even a little fear, but more of it was expectation.

"Is Master Huang doing alright?"

Pei Wencong finally twisted his mouth, shook his head slowly, and didn't dare to say a word.

"Alright then, let's find a law firm and sign this contract."

"Alright, I have a few familiar lawyers, and Luo Runbo is also one. Mr. Li can choose for himself."

Pei Wencong let out a breath and went out of the hotel with Li Ye.

When passing by a newsstand at the corner of the street, Li Ye glanced at it unintentionally and saw the news about Master Huang in a newspaper.

"Oh~, sorry! This really isn't my fault."

(End of chapter)