136: Meeting an old friend in a foreign land

With his driving skills having improved, it only took Ye Su twenty minutes to arrive outside Bowen Antique Shop. After parking the car, he pushed the door open and entered.

"Brother Liang."

He greeted him casually, pulled out a chair, and sat in his usual spot.

"Not bad. Haven't seen you in a few days, and you're already driving an Audi A6."

When Ye Su parked, Wan Yuanliang had seen what car he was driving via the security camera at the entrance.

"Others might not know, but you know the situation. That's the old car I bought from Chen Qi through your introduction last time. It was only because of your connection that he gave me a ten-thousand-yuan discount."

"What 'because of my connection'? Don't listen to that kid's nonsense. It's just that the market is being squeezed by domestic electric vehicles now, and second-hand BBA cars aren't selling as well as they used to, which is why he was willing to give a discount. If everyone out there was fighting over second-hand BBA cars, you'd see if my connection was still worth ten thousand yuan."

"Regardless, I still have to thank you."

"Alright, we're all acquaintances, so let's not talk about that." Wan Yuanliang added water to the kettle. "I haven't made tea this morning; wait for me to light the stove."

"No need for the trouble. I'll just sit for a while and then head out."

"Alright then."

Ye Su was always one to come and go like the wind. Wan Yuanliang was already used to this, so he didn't stand on ceremony with Ye Su and took the Huanghuali official's chest to begin his inspection.

Wan Bowen seemed determined to hand over Bowen Antique Shop to Wan Yuanliang once he turned thirty.

Now, not only had he become a hands-off manager, but he didn't even ask about transactions over one hundred thousand yuan, only telling Wan Yuanliang to call him when he truly couldn't make up his mind.

Starting to truly be in charge, Wan Yuanliang might have felt a little nervous if he were making a transaction of over a hundred thousand yuan with someone else.

Fortunately, it was Ye Su who came, so Wan Yuanliang didn't feel that much pressure. After inspecting the inside and outside a few times, he confirmed that this Huanghuali official's chest was indeed an old item from the mid-Qing Dynasty.

"The item is fine. Should I transfer the money to you as usual?"

"Transfer it to me. I still need to earn some travel money from him."

"What's up? Not picking up leaks anymore, starting to switch to flipping items?"

"No choice. There aren't that many leaks to be found out there. If I don't expand my business, I'll starve to death."

After chatting for a few moments and receiving the payment, Ye Su got up to say goodbye and drove back to Chen Xinyi's place.

The two of them weren't even fifty years old combined, yet they were already living their lives like an old married couple.

Seeing Ye Su return, Chen Xinyi couldn't even be bothered to greet him; she got up and went to the kitchen to start preparing lunch.

While Chen Xinyi was busy in the kitchen, Ye Su opened the system again:

"Spend two hundred thousand yuan to upgrade Monday's second-level intelligence."

[Upgrade successful!]

[Time until the next intelligence refresh is 13:35:29. Please wait patiently, Host!]

The money that hadn't even warmed up in his pocket was spent in the blink of an eye, and Ye Su's savings returned to 124,000 once again.

"Switch to system details."

[Second-level intelligence: tuesday, Wednesday, thursday, Saturday]

[Third-level intelligence: Monday, Friday, Sunday]

"I already have three pieces of third-level intelligence. If I upgrade intelligence four more times, I'll be able to upgrade the system to the third level."

"Today is the 11th. On the 21st, another [Intelligence Upgrade] will be gifted. That means if I earn another five hundred thousand in the next few days, I can complete the system upgrade on the 21st!"

Ye Su now understood what it meant by "the insatiable greed of a serpent trying to swallow an elephant."

When he first bound the system, he thought that if he could upgrade all the intelligence to the second level and earn ten or twenty thousand a day, he would be satisfied.

Now that he had actually upgraded all the intelligence to the second level, he started thinking that he had to earn over a hundred thousand a day, just to get the system to the third level first.

Ye Su knew his own nature better than anyone.

After a few days, when the system really upgrades to the third level, he definitely wouldn't be satisfied with the status quo, wanting to have an income of several hundred thousand a day, and aiming to make a hard ten million a month first.

"Ten million a month, that's a small goal in a year. With so much money, I don't even know how to spend it."

After a brief moment of petty annoyance, Ye Su got up and went to the kitchen, asking symbolically if she needed help, only to be shooed out of the kitchen by Chen Xinyi to wait for the meal.

By the time Chef Chen finished the two dishes and one soup, and they finished eating, it was already past twelve.

After sitting for a while to let their food digest, having nothing better to do, the two drove to the shopping plaza, partly to wander around and kill time, and partly to see if there was anything else they needed to buy.

"Ye Su?"

Just as they were strolling around, a female voice that sounded somewhat familiar, and was speaking the Guying dialect, rang out from behind, making Ye Su turn his head instinctively.

Following closely, Chen Xinyi, knowing that the Guying phrase was calling out to Ye Su, also curiously turned around.

"It really is you! I thought I'd seen the wrong person."

A girl wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue jeans, and white sneakers, with a neat 60/40 part shoulder-length hairstyle, who wasn't particularly stunning in appearance but whose fair skin added three points to her looks, walked excitedly up to Ye Su.

"Jin Le!" After recognizing who it was, Ye Su was surprised, but also carried a hint of pleasant surprise: "What a coincidence?"

The person greeting Ye Su was none other than his high school classmate from his senior year, Yu Jinle.

Yu Jinle was lively and extroverted, and the two had a very good relationship when they were in school. Apart from school, they would occasionally chat on WeChat, sharing the trivial matters of their youth.

However, after the college entrance exam, Ye Su got into a second-tier university, but Yu Jinle unexpectedly didn't even pass the undergraduate cutoff and ended up going to a junior college.

Although they were both attending university in Yangcheng, they no longer had common topics, and as time went by, the two lost touch.

They hadn't expected that while just strolling through a shopping mall, they would run into each other here.

Although it wasn't as dramatic as "meeting an old acquaintance in a strange land," while away from home, running into a childhood friend by chance still made Ye Su very happy.

"We haven't been in touch since graduation. I thought you wouldn't recognize me."

It was clear that Yu Jinle was equally happy to run into Ye Su unexpectedly.

"It's not that bad. I haven't blocked your Moments."

After leaving for school, everyone made new friends, and in Yu Jinle's updated Moments, there were occasionally selfies of her and a few girlfriends out having fun.

Of course, even if he hadn't looked at her Moments, Ye Su wouldn't have failed to recognize Yu Jinle.

"Fair enough." Yu Jinle then looked at Chen Xinyi: "And this is?"

"Forgot to introduce her. This is my girlfriend, Chen Xinyi."

Ye Su then pointed at Yu Jinle: "This is a friend from my hometown, Yu Jinle."

In front of an outsider, being introduced by Ye Su himself as his girlfriend, Chen Xinyi couldn't help but feel a sweetness in her heart, and a polite smile appeared on her face: "Hello."

"Hello."

While greeting her, Yu Jinle couldn't help but take a few extra looks at Chen Xinyi.

Big breasts, a slim waist, and long legs; men really do like this type.

What Ye Su didn't know was that Yu Jinle had a crush on him for a period of time while they were in school; otherwise, she wouldn't have kept finding topics to chat with him about back then.

Later, as the two went off to their respective universities, this crush ended without a result.

And later, after she started dating a boyfriend, this crush truly drifted away with the wind.