Chapter 38: 38: Ten Pounds with One Needle
Descending from the Sky Garden via elevator, Su Wan led Long Xiaoshan to the finance department to settle the payment for the batch of Spirit Shrimps.
Over two thousand shrimps, amounting to a total of 1.34 million.
All of it was transferred to Long Xiaoshan\'s card.
Long Xiaoshan had never imagined that he would become a millionaire so suddenly, considering that just a few days ago he was sleeping in the park.
In a poor inland county like Niu Y County, millionaires were a rarity; a million could buy four or five houses in the county. If a person were lazy, they could just purchase several properties, become a landlord or landlady, and idle away their days.
Su Wan said cheerfully, "Now you\'re my big boss, I\'ll have to look to you for a meal in the future."
Since Su Wan was responsible for setting up the farm.
And since Long Xiaoshan was the major shareholder of the farm, owning ninety percent, it wasn\'t too far off for Su Wan to make such a comment.
"Hardly," said Long Xiaoshan hastily. "The farm hasn\'t even started yet, and besides, I\'m not the one paying your salary."
"That might change, you know. If your farm does really well, maybe I\'ll switch over to working for you," Su Wan said half seriously, half jokingly.
Long Xiaoshan scratched his head, "The farm is out in the countryside. Are you sure you\'d be comfortable living there?"
"I\'ve told you before, I\'m from the countryside too. I\'m from neighboring Kangshui County, so there\'s nothing I wouldn\'t be used to."
The two of them chatted and laughed as they walked to the hotel entrance, where Long Xiaoshan and Su Wan said goodbye. He then dashed to the opposite Yinmeng Cafe. Since curing the owner\'s, Zhang Yin, illness last time, she had indeed found him several patients.
They were her close friends. Nowadays, people who enjoy the nightlife often experience sub-health conditions.
Even if they weren\'t serious illnesses, physical discomforts were quite common.
Zhang Yin had praised Long Xiaoshan to the skies.
As a result, her circle of friends had agreed to let Long Xiaoshan take a look at them.
When Long Xiaoshan arrived, Zhang Yin immediately called her friends, and after a while, several fashionably dressed women arrived, all in their thirties and under forty years of age.
Women of similar family circumstances often become best friends or sisters, so Zhang Yin\'s friends were roughly the same age and from comfortable financial backgrounds, with some having husbands who owned businesses or being business owners themselves.
Seeing Long Xiaoshan, who was dressed plainly but looked strong, even handsome,
The women teased Zhang Yin, "Did you take in a toy boy and then make up ridiculous stories about him being a great practitioner of traditional medicine? Stop talking nonsense."
Long Xiaoshan was so young and looked like a little farmer; who would believe he was a Divine Doctor? They thought Zhang Yin was just trying to make herself look good by exaggerating.
"You\'re the ones talking nonsense," Zhang Yin defended. "Xiaoshan is truly amazing. He cured all of my stubborn ailments. I asked him to come here to see you. Don\'t be ungrateful."
Long Xiaoshan had nothing to be angry about. He had been through tougher times in prison, and these women were clearly close with Zhang Yin and were just joking around.
Without further ado, he pointed at one woman with a slightly sallow complexion and fuller figure, "Sister, you definitely suffer from insomnia and frequent dreams, and you have sweating due to a weak constitution."
"And sister, did you recently undergo surgery for uterine fibroids?"
Long Xiaoshan pointed to each of the women in turn, making his observations.
The women had started out joking, but gradually fell silent because Long Xiaoshan had hit the nail on the head with each one.
Zhang Yin watched them speechless, grinning, "Did I say anything wrong? Now you believe me, right? I told you Xiaoshan is remarkable."
"Is this for real? Zhang Yin, did you tell him about us?" the full-figured woman asked.
"Do you think I\'m that bored? Li Meifang, if you don\'t want a consultation, you can leave. I\'d rather not bother Xiaoshan to check on you," Zhang Yin said, annoyed.
"Sister Zhang, it\'s okay. I\'ll give the sister a needle treatment. She\'ll know whether it\'s effective or not," Long Xiaoshan said as he took out a Golden Needle.
The lady named Li Meifang felt a warm current surge through her body as soon as Golden Needle inserted the needle; then she became hot all over, and sweat poured out like fountains.
"Hot, hot!" Li Meifang shouted.
Golden Needle withdrew the needle and asked, "Big sister, how do you feel now?"
"Comfortable, I feel as if I\'ve lost several pounds," responded Li Meifang.
"Li Meifang, you should go up and take a shower, you\'re all sweaty," Zhang Yin hastily urged the lady, who was now shining from the treatment, to go upstairs for a bath. Since Zhang Yin sometimes spent the night at the cafe, her office was equipped with a bathroom.
A few minutes later, a showered Li Meifang came downstairs in Zhang Yin\'s strappy nightgown, looking less yellow in the face, noticeably slimmer, and even a bit rosy. As she reached the bottom of the stairs, she hugged Golden Needle and pecked him on the cheek, exclaiming, "Handsome boy, you are really amazing; I haven\'t felt this comfortable in a long time. I feel so light now. I just weighed myself on the scale in Zhang Yin\'s office and I\'ve lost ten pounds."
Li Meifang had always been trying to lose weight, to no avail despite eating many different diet pills, which only ended up harming her body. But now, with just one needle from Su Ze, she not only lost weight but also felt more energetic.
Zhang Yin quickly pulled Li Meifang away, admonishing her, "Don\'t be taking advantage of my little brother."
Seeing the miraculous effect on Li Meifang,
One needle, ten pounds!
The other ladies became envious.
Golden Needle then treated each of them with a needle, followed by a prescription for them to take back home.
Over an hour later, Golden Needle finally managed to escape from Yinmeng Cafe.
His clothes were wrinkled, bearing traces of perfume and lipstick.
No wonder they say women in their thirties are like wolves and in their forties like tigers. These ladies were so flirtatious that Golden Needle, a young man of only twenty, was completely overwhelmed; treating their ailments had nearly cost him dearly, and he decided he should do it less in the future.
However, upon leaving Yinmeng Cafe, his wallet was two thousand yuan heavier.
That was the fee for the treatments.
Furthermore, his merit had increased.
After saving Chun Tao\'s life last time, his Merit Spirit Liquid had significantly increased, with several drops of Silver Spiritual Liquid and even a drop of golden Spiritual Liquid forming, the cause of which was a mystery to him.
Could it be that curing illnesses also varied in merit?
Golden Needle hurried back to the village; by now, he had leased the land and had over a million yuan in funds, plus the gradual investment of ten million from Shangguan Baihe. It was time to make big moves.
He took out the land lease contract to discuss it with his parents first.
Upon learning that Golden Needle had spent ninety thousand yuan leasing land on Xishan and the beachland of Shieyan Rock to start a farm,
Long Dashan anxiously exclaimed, "Xiaoshan, why didn\'t you ask us first? The land on Xishan won\'t work; your mom and I planted fruit there last time and it was a loss. The soil is too poor, and the beachland is even worse. It\'s all rocks—how can we farm there? Why are you being so rash? This is just wasting money!"
He Xiangyue was also very anxious; Golden Needle had only recently started to make some money, but now he had spent it all on leasing a large tract of wasteland.
"Dad, Mom, don\'t worry so much," said Golden Needle as he took out several bundles of cash and a bank card from his bag and continued, "Here is a hundred thousand that I just withdrew. The card still has over a million on it."
Seeing the bundles of renminbi and hearing Golden Needle\'s words, the couple, Long Dashan, were stunned.
"This, this much money?" He Xiangyue stammered.
"Mom, as I said, those shrimps are very valuable. Remember the vegetables I grew in the backyard? Even if the mountains are barren, I have ways to enrich them. I plan to dig ponds on the stony beach for fish and shrimp cultivation, and even set up a breeding farm for various livestock. Not only will our family get wealthy, but we\'ll also bring prosperity to the entire village," Golden Needle explained ambitiously.
"Well, if my son says so, then let\'s do our best," stated He Xiangyue, who didn\'t understand all the reasoning but knew to support her son.
Taking a strong drag of his cigarette, Long Dashan threw the butt to the ground and stomped on it before saying, "I might not understand much else, but I can still help you with the farming."