Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 869 Only I Win
"Okay, why did you decide to go to Europe to buy goods?" Huang Kewu asked Huang Yijiang with a smile.

"I just felt that if some people can find good things in America, so can I. And you know what? I actually found quite a few good things on this trip to Europe." Huang Yijiang looked up at Gao Dongxu with a smug look and smiled proudly.

"Tch, just because you think it's good doesn't mean it is. With your amateurish skills, you might have bought some counterfeit goods that are actually made in China..." Huang Yanyan looked at the smug Huang Yijiang and sneered venomously.

"You brat, are you looking for trouble?" Huang Yijiang was already annoyed by Huang Yanyan, and now that was the perfect opportunity, she stood up and scolded her with her beautiful eyes narrowed.

"Alright, what's all the noise about? Don't you know where you are? Shut up!" Huang Lide said coldly in a low voice.

Huang Yanyan stuck out her tongue, while Huang Yijiang gave a soft snort, glared at Huang Yanyan, and then looked at the silent Gao Dongxu with resentment in her eyes.

"Are you mute? You're looking at me without even asking me anything?"

"I saw it. You're fine. Why ask so many questions?" Gao Dongxu said casually, acting as if they weren't that close.

Huang Yijiang was so angry she almost laughed. She glared at the scumbag who had taken advantage of her and was now denying everything. Her own home and everything else had been ruined; how could he possibly deny it?! Gritting her teeth, she said, "You just wait—"

Gao Dongxu wasn't afraid of her causing trouble. He had already figured out all of Huang Yijiang's secrets. She was all talk and no action; once she got serious, she was like a fish on a chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.

“Mr. Huang, I heard that you were good friends with Zhu Boqin when you were young. You must have a photo of Zhu Boqin, right?” Gao Dongxu asked Huang Lide in a low voice.

A sharp glint flashed in Huang Lide's eyes as he looked at Gao Dongxu and said with a faint smile, "It's been over twenty years, and I don't remember if we have any photos together. Can you tell me why you're looking for his photos?"

"It's nothing. I'm just guessing that Zhu Boqin might not be dead. If we have photos, we can have Director Luo issue an arrest warrant for him on charges of counterfeiting. That might make it easier to find him," Gao Dongxu said calmly to Huang Lide.

"Not dead?" Huang Lide's heart sank, but his face showed surprise and disbelief. He then frowned and said, "Impossible... Back then..."

“Nothing is impossible. After all, his body hasn’t been found. I guess he might have faked his death. Otherwise, there’s no way to explain the sudden appearance of new counterfeit Zhu products on the market,” Gao Dongxu said, looking intently at Huang Lide.

"I see..." Ever since the fake Zhu appeared on the market, Huang Lide had suspected that Zhu Boqin was still alive and had arranged for people to conduct a secret investigation. He did not expect Gao Dongxu to be so perceptive, which made him a little anxious.

"I'll go back and look for it. If I find it, I'll have Yijiang deliver it to you."

"Okay, thank you for your help." Gao Dongxu said gratefully.

After a while, once it was confirmed that Tong Ziqing's memorial service was scheduled for tomorrow morning, Director Luo, Gao Dongxu, Huang Kewu, and the others left the funeral home.

"Why are you following me?"

Huang Yanyan, holding Gao Dongxu's arm, questioned Huang Yijiang, who had come uninvited and gotten into the car, with a coquettish tone.

"You brat, if you bare your teeth at me again, believe me, I'll beat you up—" Huang Yijiang scolded Huang Yanyan while secretly pinching Gao Dongxu's waist.

Gao Dongxu twitched his lips, glanced at her, and accidentally caught a glimpse of her proud conscience hidden in the collar of her white t-shirt. He could only tolerate her little temper.

Seeing Gao Dongxu's guilty look, Huang Yijiang couldn't help but smile smugly and let out a soft snort.

There's no way around it; you're beholden to those who treat you well.

"You talk like you can beat me." Huang Yanyan, oblivious to the exchange between the two, curled her lip and said with a disdainful look.

"I'm not going to stoop to your level. Do you really think your mediocre skills are anything special?" Huang Yijiang retorted disdainfully.

"I could easily beat you," Huang Yanyan sneered.

"Fine, you just wait. I'll sign up for a Sanda class tomorrow, and then we'll see who beats whom..." Huang Yijiang retorted with a cold smile.

"You? Ha! You practice Sanda? Do you want to make me laugh?"

"You wait... I'll do what I did when you were a kid, pull down your pants and spank you."

"..."

Throughout the journey, Gao Dongxu felt his head was about to explode from the two sisters' constant bickering. Even after finally arriving at the Huang family's old residence, the two sisters continued their old grievances and sarcastic remarks. "Alright, you two, shut up! Every time you meet, it doesn't last half an hour before you start arguing. Sit quietly, and whoever starts trouble will have to leave," Huang Kewu finally spoke up, and the two sisters exchanged a glare, snorted, and obediently sat down to drink their tea.

Huang Kewu lit his pipe, squinted at Gao Dongxu who was leisurely sipping his tea, and asked, "How was the trip to Changbai Mountain?"

"It's fine," Gao Dongxu said with a calm smile.

"Found them?! As far as I know, there were over a thousand people involved this time. I heard the losses were quite heavy, and many people have perished." Huang Kewu's eyes lit up first, then he said meaningfully, referring to the intelligence he received from the underworld.

"Found it, but it's almost the same as not finding it. The imperial tomb is built in a volcanic crater, full of poisonous gas, and there's a human-faced owl from the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a tomb guardian beast, hundreds of millions of arm-sized wall-like structures, and a seven- or eight-meter-long centipede..."

Gao Dongxu did not hide anything from the three of them and gave a general account of his experience at the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds.

The three of them were stunned, their eyes wide with disbelief as they stared at Gao Dongxu.

"Really?" Huang Yanyan asked, her beautiful eyes wide and her voice trembling, as if she were listening to a myth.

"Why would I lie to you?" Gao Dongxu chuckled, took out his phone, opened it, found some footage he had recorded, and handed it to Huang Yanyan, smiling, "Seeing is believing, take a look—"

Huang Yanyan immediately took the phone, stared wide-eyed at the screen, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh my god... that's terrifying, what kind of monster is that..."

Huang Yijiang also hurriedly stepped forward to look, and then an expression of disbelief and horror appeared on her pretty face.

"Click-clack-"

Huang Kewu took several puffs of his pipe with a solemn expression. The smoke swirled around him, obscuring his face. Although he really wanted to go closer to take a look, he still maintained a calm and composed demeanor and endured it.

From the expressions and exclamations of the two women, Huang Kewu knew that what Gao Dongxu said was true. He frowned and sighed, "No one knows who wrote the Classic of Mountains and Seas or when it was written, but what is certain is that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is definitely not made up. It is definitely an encyclopedia from ancient times."

With a civilization spanning five or six thousand years, the ancients who invented writing would never have idly fabricated myths and legends to pass down to future generations just to deceive them.

People today are not necessarily smarter than people in ancient times. What people in ancient times recorded with their own knowledge and understanding is naturally absurd and difficult to understand when people today interpret it with their own modern knowledge and understanding.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, how could you possibly believe that such a mythical creature as the human-faced owl truly exists?
Humans are too arrogant. The more advanced technology becomes, the more arrogant humans become, always thinking that they are the masters of the earth and can control and conquer everything.

Ironically, humanity understands only the tip of the iceberg of the world we inhabit. Countless mountain ranges, primeval forests, and vast, mysterious oceans... Humanity still cannot venture into these areas. Our true understanding is limited to the surface world before our eyes. This world holds so much that is unknown and mysterious.

Listening to Huang Kewu's感慨 (sentiments/reflections), Gao Dongxu nodded in deep agreement. Huang Yanyan and Huang Yijiang, after watching the video, fell completely silent. Huang Yanyan was a little better off, since she had learned a lot about the extraordinary world from Gao Dongxu, so the impact was less.

However, Huang Yijiang's worldview was completely refreshed. Her beautiful eyes widened, and her pretty face was filled with shock and disbelief.

It's like you suddenly telling your family that dragons really exist in this world, that you saw one with your own eyes, and that you even filmed it. After showing it to your family, they are skeptical and look shocked.

Huang Kewu took the phone, his gaze deep, his brows furrowed, and his hand holding the pipe trembling slightly as he looked at everything on the screen.

After watching the video, Huang Kewu closed his eyes to process it for a while. He then opened them, looked at Gao Dongxu, and sighed, "People die for money, birds die for food; those who set up the cooking pots didn't die unjustly—"

What Huang Kewu didn't tell Gao Dongxu was that the entire underground antique world in the north was now in complete chaos. The gangs that previously dominated the underground world had all fallen in Changbai Mountain, leaving a huge void and a complete lack of supply. The underground world's supply of goods had been cut off, and the prices of all funerary objects were doubling.

After dinner, Huang Kewu called Gao Dongxu into his study and immediately asked for all the funerary objects Gao Dongxu possessed.

"Right now, the most scarce commodity in the entire underworld is goods. You can sell those funerary objects for double the price this time. Make the most of this lull. This is the first time in decades that such a good opportunity has come. Don't miss it."

Upon hearing Huang Kewu's words, Gao Dongxu's lips curled up into a bright smile.

The scheme orchestrated by Cloud Palace truly maximized his personal interests.

(End of this chapter)