179: Chapter 179 A Lucky Draw for All, A Lucky Winner for the New Year! A Special Guest for the Spring Festival Gala, A Mysterious New Year's Eve Event!

Time passed quickly.

In mid-January, a heavy snow fell in northern Huaxia.

The Lin Mo Research Center in Yan Province had already turned into a silver-clad, snow-white world.

"Eh, where's my house?"

"Why is my house gone?"

Ma Jinlun, a graduate student who had just started his winter break, stared at the unfamiliar scene before him, completely stunned!

He had finally decided to bring his girlfriend of two years home for the New Year, intending to give his parents a surprise.

Yet, unexpectedly, the familiar village was gone, and in its place was this vast complex of majestic buildings!

"Brother Jinlun, is this your home?"

"Is that a factory owned by your family?"

Zhang Xiaoya, Ma Jinlun's girlfriend, asked dazedly as she looked at the endless rows of modern high-rises and factories.

"You've hidden this for so many years, were you planning to give me a big surprise!"

Ma Jinlun rubbed his eyes again and again, unable to believe everything before him.

"No! ... Yes! No, no..."

"Damn it!"

"Xiaoya, wait a moment, I need to make a video call to my parents on WeChat first!"

Ma Jinlun shook his head vigorously, pulled out his Huachen phone, and tapped on his mother's avatar to start a video call.

The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered, making Ma Jinlun break out in a cold sweat in the middle of winter.

Only now did Ma Jinlun suddenly recall the anomalies of the past two months.

Since the middle of last November, for such a long time, his mother hadn't called him even once!

In previous years, during his university days, Ma Jinlun would basically never call home proactively because he would get scolded every time he did, so he would just wait for his mother to call him every week.

However, in the last month or so, his mother had suddenly stopped calling him, only chatting a few times on WeChat occasionally, and the messages she sent were always erratic.

Things like the God of Wealth arriving at their doorstep, or daydreams coming true—Ma Jinlun hadn't taken any of it seriously at the time.

If she didn't want to call, fine; who would proactively seek out a scolding for no reason? That would be masochistic.

But thinking about it now, Ma Jinlun suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Methods for instant wealth are all written in the Criminal Law!

Could his parents have... committed some illegal activity and been arrested?

No, that didn't seem right either; he had chatted with his parents on WeChat just two days ago.

People in jail wouldn't be able to use WeChat, right?

Just as Ma Jinlun was feeling bewildered, the WeChat video call finally connected!

Seeing his mother dressed in bright red and purple on the screen, Ma Jinlun almost cried out: "Mom, Mom! You're okay!"

"Pfft!"

"You little brat, what kind of unlucky things are you saying?"

At this moment, Ma Jinlun suddenly remembered the purpose of the call.

"Mom!"

"Where's our house!"

"Why is our house gone!"

In the video, upon hearing this, his mother slapped her forehead.

"Oh no, I forgot to tell you!"

"Son!"

"Our house is gone, it's all gone! Hahaha!..."

Before she could finish, his mother seemed unable to control her emotions, and the phone camera started shaking.

Ma Jinlun was dumbfounded; had his mom lost her mind?

Suddenly, the video interface shook, and a few seconds later, his father appeared on the screen.

"Jinlun, my boy!"

"Our family has struck it rich this time!"

His father's face was written with the word "excitement".

"The small Western-style house we built just last year was urgently requisitioned by the government!"

"The old ancestral house your grandparents left behind was also requisitioned!"

"Even all the land at home was requisitioned!"

"The demolition compensation totals 3.8 million!"

After hearing his father's words, Ma Jinlun was completely stunned.

3.8... million??

The video interface shook again, and his mother's large face returned to the screen.

"Son!"

"You heard that right, 3.8 million!"

"And it's all cash, paid in full!"

"In our whole lives, we've never seen so much money!"

"If we take this money to the county seat, we could buy 10 houses!"

"To celebrate, your father and I decided to go on a trip!"

"Right now, we are in Mountain City!"

"Look, that's the Liberation Monument! Over there is Hongya Pavilion!"

"Is it tall? Are there many people? Hahaha!!..."

Looking at the 9D magical Mountain City scenery in the video that he had only ever seen online, Ma Jinlun could only smile bitterly.

"Mom, you knew I was about to go on winter break, why didn't you tell me before you left?"

Hearing Ma Jinlun's slightly accusatory tone, his mother's expression changed, and she became unhappy.

"What?"

"Your father and I have worked hard all our lives; now that we've finally struck it rich, can't we enjoy ourselves?"

"Do you have any objections?"

"No, no..."

Ma Jinlun waved his hands repeatedly, and seeing his mother getting angry, he simply turned the camera toward Zhang Xiaoya next to him.

"I was just planning to give you a surprise..."

Zhang Xiaoya was also meeting her boyfriend's parents for the first time, and her voice was slightly timid.

"Hello... Auntie, hello Uncle..."

"My name is Zhang Xiaoya, I am Brother Jinlun's girlfriend..."

In the video, his mother was stunned for several seconds, then suddenly let out a shrill shriek.

"Old Ma!"

"Old Ma!!!"

His father, who was busy taking pictures with his phone, turned back.

"What are you shouting for? I'm not dead yet!"

"Come over here and look, Jinlun brought his girlfriend back!"

"What?!"

Ten minutes later.

[Your Alipay has received 50,000 yuan!]

Ma Jinlun looked at the transfer notification that popped up on his phone, completely bewildered.

"Xiaoya, our parents won't be back until the day after tomorrow. Shall we go visit some nearby attractions first?"

"Okay! I'll listen to Brother Jinlun!"

Zhang Xiaoya's overly obedient demeanor made Ma Jinlun a little unaccustomed to it.

Where was that willful girlfriend from before?

Why did she suddenly change?

What Ma Jinlun didn't know was that Zhang Xiaoya was feeling wonderful inside right now.

Although the actual situation was a bit different from what she had just imagined, seeing her boyfriend suddenly become a second-generation demolition heir and a millionaire, Zhang Xiaoya was immersed in happiness.

"Alright then, I'll go to Alipay to buy tickets for the attractions!"

Ma Jinlun first opened the Alipay app to see if his huge sum of money had definitely arrived.

After confirming it was correct, Ma Jinlun breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to buy tickets for the local scenic spot through Alipay when a pop-up interface suddenly appeared in the Alipay app.

"Huh?"

"Special guests for the Spring Festival Gala, mysterious sci-fi New Year's Eve event..."

"Sign up for the lottery now for a chance to become Huaxia's luckiest New Year Koi?"

(Please use love to generate electricity!)