My 1978 Hotel

"What about me?"

Li Muchen remained calm and sat down. "Even if it's not very interesting."

"Hahaha."

"I knew it."

Wu Tong clapped his hands. "This is really boring."

"Was the person sent back?"

Li Feng stopped joking.

"Send it back."

Li Muchen took the tea and took a sip. "I ran into Accountant Han on my way back and we chatted for a bit."

"Uncle Tomita?"

Li Feng became interested. "Can you tell me what we're going to talk about?"

"nothing."

Li Muchen put down his teacup. "Just chatting."

"What do you usually chat about?"

Li Feng couldn't help but chuckle. "Did they ask what you do at home?"

"That's a good question."

Li Muchen said, not really caring.

"What did you say?"

“I said my parents are university professors.”

Li Muchen looked at Li Feng. "Is everything alright?"

"No problem, that's good."

Li Feng thought to himself, "You little rascal, haven't you figured it out yet? No wonder someone so handsome is heartbroken." "Anything else?"

"Didn't I ask if you own a house and how much you earn?"

"What's the point of all this?"

Li Muchen muttered to himself, "But you did ask about my literary skills."

"What did you say?"

"University, of course."

Li Muchen said.

"hehe."

Li Feng took a sip of tea and fell silent. Uncle Tomita really dotes on his daughter, inquiring about the young man's family background.

"Li Muchen, congratulations!"

"What do you mean?"

"Accountant Han probably has his eye on you and is planning to take you as his son-in-law."

Wu Tong couldn't help but laugh as she talked to Qin Yue. Hua Ziyao suppressed a laugh while sipping her tea, while Hua Ziyan burst out laughing and spat out her tea. She hadn't expected Li Muchen to be so oblivious to matters of the heart.

"Don't be ridiculous."

Li Muchen said calmly, "I only consider An Xin my younger sister."

"You treat others like your younger sister, but they don't treat you like their older brother. No, they probably treat you like their lover."

Qin Yue couldn't help but say, "Li Muchen, haven't you noticed that An Xin and An Ying treat you differently from others?"

"Are they different?"

Good grief, now everyone's speechless. "Brother, I won't say anything before, but now you should understand."

"What are your plans for the future?"

"I don't have any plans."

Li Muchen said, "We'll treat them like younger sisters, just like before."

"never mind."

Li Feng sighed helplessly. It was a complicated matter; Li Muchen wasn't interested, and he figured An Xin and An Ying would find out sooner or later. Li Feng didn't want to get involved. "Alright, let's leave it at that then."

"Drink tea."

Li Feng filled the teacup with tea. "Wait a moment, everyone please help me look through the readers' letters and see if there are any rare stamps left."

Hua Ziyao asked Wu Tong curiously what was going on with the reader's letter, and learned that Li Feng had copied the book and articles. "Oh, I see."

"Then can we do it too?"

"You'll have to ask Mr. Li about that."

Wu Tong said with a smile.

"Oh."

I spent the afternoon diligently unpacking readers' letters and packages, and surprisingly, some of them were quite valuable stamps. When I returned in the evening, I checked them and found that a few were worth tens of thousands of yuan. "Let's keep them for now. A friend is bringing some items over tonight, so you two should take a good look at them later."

"What's so good?"

"The ocean, and possibly some porcelain, jade and other items."

Li Feng said in a low voice, "It's from Anmin's wife's side of the family. They were landlords back then and they buried it secretly. It should be true, but you can't be sure. We'll have to be careful later."

"Don't worry, boss."

"Shall we meet in the main room or the small room?" Gao asked.

"It's a small house, the main room is a bit too conspicuous."

"Even though it's nighttime, we should still try to stay hidden as much as possible. It's always better to be safe than sorry. Things are different now than in later years," Li Feng said.

"That's true."

Gao said, "Then we'll need to prepare a lamp."

"A solar-powered flashlight, the light is pretty good."

"Row."

After dinner, Wu Tong, Qin Yue, Hua Ziyao, Li Muchen, and Hua Ziyan found two decks of cards and started playing Guandan. Li Feng saw this and laughed, "You guys play too? I thought rich kids were usually busy enjoying life and didn't have time to play this kind of common game."

"Just playing around with it occasionally."

"Mr. Li, what are you guys doing? Something feels off."

Wu Tong pointed to the small house. "Gao Lao Er, what's going on?"

"It's nothing. A friend just brought some items over. I'll have the second brother appraise them later."

Li Feng said casually that there was nothing to hide from Wu Tong and the others.

"Oh, it's an antique?"

"more or less."

Li Feng nodded. "And the hides, didn't I tell you?"

"Can the leather be brought along too?"

"They said they brought a piece over to take a look first."

Li Feng said with a smile, "As you all know, everyone was quite careful a few years ago, always afraid of causing trouble."

"Isn't that a bit too timid?"

Hua Ziyan muttered to himself.

“You don’t understand. You haven’t experienced it yourself. You’ve only heard about it from books or other sources. Without firsthand experience, you won’t understand.” Wu Tong shook his head. “You know what speculation and profiteering is, right? You think it’s nothing special, but that’s because you haven’t experienced it. We experienced it firsthand. When we were chasing you, we actually fired guns.”

"Ah, really?"

"What do you think?"

"You took it as a joke a few years ago."

Wu Tong played a single card. "It's not wrong for them to be cautious. After going through those days, it would be foolish not to learn to be careful. It's best to avoid people like that."

"Wu Tong is right."

Li Feng laughed. "If someone were careless, I wouldn't dare accept this. I might have exposed it and gotten myself into a lot of trouble."

"No."

"It feels like some kind of rendezvous." Hua Ziyan's voice carried a hint of excitement, which Li Feng noticed. "You could say that. To be honest, this is something that really can't be brought up in the open right now."

"What if someone comes to arrest us?"

Li Feng was a little confused by Hua Ziyan's question. "It shouldn't be, unless it's a setup, but that possibility is almost nonexistent."

"Oh."

"Oh, are you disappointed? Do you want us to get arrested?"

Wu Tong and the others looked at Hua Ziyan with mixed feelings of amusement and exasperation, and even Hua Ziyao didn't know what to say about her younger brother.

"I'm just a little disappointed."

Hua Ziyan felt a little embarrassed by the stares. "I just think it's pretty exciting when the police come to my door."

"This boy."

Li Feng wanted to say that the kid must be out of his mind, but in the end he gave him face and didn't say it.

What time are you coming?

Li Muchen changed the subject. "Later."

Li Feng glanced at his watch. "Around eight or nine o'clock."

"That was quite late."

"Why don't you come and have some fun, Mr. Li?"

"Fine, you guys have fun."

Li Feng waved his hand. "I'll take a walk around and check on Liu Wei and the others. It's not right to leave them unattended every day."

"The training is going quite well."

"He's alright, but Zhang Wei got a cramp this afternoon. I'll go check on him. If it's nothing serious, he'll still have to train tomorrow."

"Show some sympathy."

"I'm just worried that he's not getting enough training."

Li Feng said, "We'll be going to work on the river in a few days. If we're not trained enough and don't have enough stamina, we won't be able to do much work."

"Even capitalists aren't this ruthless."

"But, I like it."

Wu Tong's gloating was too obvious. He was probably still holding a grudge about her first time learning to carry water. He felt bad himself, and seeing others made him feel even worse, so this seemed to make him feel a little better.

"Wow, sis, you're so scary!"

"You're asking for it."

Wu Tong raised her hand to slap Tian Hao. This kid, he calls her his older sister, but he's always provoking her for no reason. Tian Hao wanted to say, "You're supposed to be pretty scary. Sigh, luckily I'm only slightly chubby, otherwise I'd really feel sorry for Liu Wei and the others."

"How about you let Tian Hao train for a few days, Mr. Li? He looks quite chubby."

Wu Tong turned to Li Feng and said.

"No way, I can't do it. I'm afraid I can't keep up with that training intensity," Tian Hao waved his hands repeatedly. "Sis, I was wrong, I'll kneel down for you, okay?"

"Cut off your breath."

"I admit I'm a loser."

Tian Hao quickly admitted that as long as they weren't allowed to train, that would be fine, because the training volume was too terrifying. Liu Wei and the others had only themselves to blame; they wanted to take advantage of him, and now look what happened. But the weight loss effect was really good.

Losing two pounds a day is considered a small amount; even Tian Hao's legs go weak at the thought. Letting him participate would be like taking his life.

"I was just kidding with you, look how pathetic you are."

"You can't joke like that."

"Mr. Li, you're not serious, are you?"

"You want to train, but I'm not happy for you to participate."

Li Feng waved his hand. "Go do your thing."

"Thank you so much, Mr. Li."

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

When Li Feng arrived at Liu Wei's group, he saw that everyone was looking at him as if he were a devil, and he laughed. "Don't look at me like that. If you want to lose weight, this is the only way. Otherwise, it will be difficult to reach fifty pounds."

"You...you, this is fraud."

"Fraud! Didn't our contract say that if I helped you lose fifty pounds, I'd win?" Li Feng said with a smile. "If I lost, I'd give each of you two hundred thousand. I don't need to explain what your intentions were when you participated in this bet, do I?"

"We all want to win, but I have a slightly better chance right now. But you should thank me, at least I really helped you lose weight, didn't I?" Li Feng glanced at Zhang Wei and realized it wasn't a big deal.

"Alright, you guys are pretty tired from the day, get some rest. Training will continue as usual tomorrow. Don't worry, I won't take you back until you've lost 50 pounds."

"devil."

"asshole."

The chubby guys gritted their teeth, while Li Feng laughed heartily as he walked out of the room. "Seriously, a bet involving millions? Do they really think I'm a philanthropist? Seriously, are all fat guys this naive?"

"Wow, Mr. Li, you look like a villainous big boss."

Hua Ziyan leaned against the door. "This kid's eavesdropping, isn't he?"

"Really? Why don't you join the training tomorrow? You seem quite weak; training would be good. It's settled then."

"No, no, Mr. Li, I was wrong. I'm the big boss, the villain."

Hua Ziyan was startled. He dared not take it lightly. This Boss Li exuded a mysterious aura, and he was quite in awe of him.

"just kidding."

Li Feng waved his hand and told Hua Ziyan to get lost. Hua Ziyan scurried away. "Go back and boil water and make tea. The guests will be here soon."

After Li Feng boiled the water and brewed the tea twice, a knock sounded on the door.

"Fengzi, it's me."

"coming."

When Anmin opened the door, he was accompanied by a man in his thirties. He had dark skin, but he had a different air about him. How should I put it? He had a bit of the air about him, like Ge You in "To Live." The playboy had become a peasant.

"Please come in quickly."

"This must be Comrade Wang Tianming."

"It's me, Comrade Li Feng."

"Come in, come in and have some tea."

He ushered them into the small house, where Gao had already poured tea. "Please sit down. Let me introduce you. This is Gao Jiu, my cousin. He's quite knowledgeable about gadgets. Let him take a look first." Li Feng didn't stand on ceremony, seeing that Wang Tianming wasn't some refined scholar.

There's no need to pretend to be a cultured person or someone in the antique business, and to set up a bunch of rules; it's unnecessary.

"no problem."

Wang Tianming said, "How could I not trust someone introduced by Anmin?"

"Yes, with Anmin around, this matter becomes much simpler."

After drinking tea, Wang Tianming laid out the items. Goodness, there were quite a few.

A tiger skin wrapped around a silver dollar, along with a few small porcelain pieces and some jade. Gao quickly shone the lamp closer and examined them carefully. "The silver dollars are fine." They were just ordinary silver dollars, nothing rare, but their condition was quite good.

"These porcelain pieces are from the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty, made in folk kilns. Fortunately, they are all exquisite pieces, made in Jingdezhen."

"These pieces of jade are quite good."

"Hetian Baiyu."

Gao took a look. "From the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty."

"One dollar and fifty cents, and these porcelain and jade items can be packed together for fifty dollars."

The total comes to about two hundred. Gao looked at Li Feng, who nodded. "What do you think, Comrade Wang Tianming?"

"Two hundred and forty-five yuan?"

"Cash?"

"Okay, cash, plus this piece of leather, let's make it three hundred."

The price Li Feng offered was already quite high. The main reason was that the tiger skin looked good. Although the price of over fifty yuan was a bit high, Li Feng didn't care about a few yuan more or less.

"it is good."

Three hundred yuan in cash—enough to build two mud-brick houses, or to marry a wife. Wang Tianming agreed without hesitation. "Count it," Li Feng said, handing over the money he had prepared beforehand.

It was originally supposed to be given to Han Anmin, but since they're relatives, we decided to skip that step.

"Good good."

Wang Tianming checked three times and found no problems.

"Okay, then we're even."

Without writing a note, it's better to keep this matter out of the open. Li Feng saw Wang Tianming and Han Anmin out of the courtyard. "Anmin, it might be difficult to travel tonight. Why don't you rest for the night?"

"That's what I said too, but it's his personality... Never mind, I'll go back with him later."

Three hundred yuan is no small sum, and Han Anmin was worried.

"An Bing, why don't you come along? You can look after each other on the way."

“You’ve thought this through. I’ll go back and tell Anbing.”

With their rifles in hand, the two brothers accompanied Wang Tianming back to Wangjiazhuang, only returning late at night. The next morning, Li Feng went to the team and was relieved to see that the Han Anmin brothers were alright.

"Anbing, let Anxin and the others train this morning. You can rest."

"OK then."

Han Anbing was indeed a little sleepy. "Then I'll take a nap first, call me if you need anything."

"Don't worry, it's nothing serious."

Li Feng laughed and said, "When I got home, I saw Wu Tong and the other girls playing with the tiger skin. How about it? Impressive, right?"

"Great, Mr. Li, could you make me one?"

"I'll ask about it later."

Li Feng called out to Li Muchen, "Brother, pack up, we're going to the county town later."

"To the county town?"

“Yes, bring your books,” Li Feng said with a smile. “I need to go there a day early to prepare for the seminar tomorrow.”

"Was it processed in the county?"

"Yes, it's settled then."

Li Feng waved the telegram that had just been delivered in his hand. "It arrived yesterday afternoon and was brought over this morning." (End of Chapter)