The next day, Wang Defa was woken up by the notification sound of an electronic transfer.
His wife beside him, still half asleep, asked, "Husband… what is it… so early…"
Wang Defa rubbed his eyes and opened his phone, "Boss Qin sent money… holy shit!"
"Waaah! Waaah!"
Wang Defa's sudden shout directly startled the son sleeping beside his wife, who immediately woke up and started crying.
"Why are you yelling so loud! You scared the kid awake!"
Wang Defa rubbed his eyes again and stared at the account information.
"F… five silver coins?"
Looking at the money transferred into his electronic account, Wang Defa's eyes widened like two winter jujubes.
"How much?"
His wife immediately sat up while holding the child and took a look at the phone.
She patted Wang Defa, "A-Fa, Boss Qin is way too generous… just tossing out money like this and our family's assets more than doubled! Following him, wouldn't that mean a bright future?"
"This money… it's enough to buy several of my lives."
Hearing this, his wife's expression turned tense as well, "What do you mean? Are you saying Boss Qin wants your life?"
"You think I'm worth that much? You're giving your husband way too much credit," Wang Defa wiped his face and clenched his teeth, "Anyway, working for anyone is selling your life. If you can sell it for shark fin and abalone prices, who the hell would be willing to hang in a butcher shop like chickens, ducks, pigs, and dogs?"
Hearing him say this, his wife suddenly looked worried, "A-Fa, how come you've always been doing such dangerous work…"
Wang Defa sighed and gently ran his fingers through his wife's long hair, "Before, there were some things I didn't want you and the kids to worry about, so I never told you. But this time, Du Wei didn't follow the rules and dragged you into it too. I can't hide it anymore."
His wife leaned against his chest, "I know. In the apocalypse, wanting to live with dignity is definitely extremely hard. A-Fa, you've worked so hard."
"With you and the kids here, it's not hard."
Seeing that Wang Defa was still staring at his phone, his wife asked curiously, "A-Fa, what are you looking at? Is there something wrong with the five silver coins in this electronic account?"
Wang Defa shook his head, "No. Even though I've never used an electronic account, I still understand this stuff pretty well. The money Boss Qin sent really did arrive. It's already mine. It's just that the account that transferred me the money… why does it look so strange?"
Staring at the words [South Glory University Guesthouse Rental Dedicated Account], Wang Defa felt inexplicably puzzled.
Then he received a message from Qin Siyang.
[Take a few days off first. Get some rest and spend time with your wife and kids. When I find some time, I'll look for you, and A-You and A-Zhong too, and we'll chat together.]
Wang Defa immediately replied, [Thank you, Boss Qin! Standing by anytime!]
"A-Fa, Qin Siyang even knows A-You and A-Zhong?"
"Yeah. I thought Boss Qin was only looking for me. I didn't expect him to want to find the two of them as well. Looks like he's counting on our Wang family to do something big. Then I probably shouldn't keep these five silver coins all to myself."
After thinking for a moment, he transferred one silver coin each to Wang Dezhong and Wang Deyou.
His wife asked, "Don't just think about your own brothers. Why didn't you give She Haoqiang a silver coin? He did help save us yesterday, after all."
Wang Defa shook his head, "What Old Snake did was a life-saving favor. One silver coin won't be enough to send him off. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
"Mm, as long as you've got it figured out."
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[South Glory University East Guesthouse, Room 1001]
Qin Siyang lay on the bed, playing with the seed of the Nightmare Lantern Tree in his hand, while thinking about the sequence group.
"Since Wang Defa accepted the money, he should understand that he needs to help me get things done. I just don't know what Wang Deyou and Wang Dezhong are thinking. Hopefully A-Fa can help persuade them."
After Wang Defa nearly had his head chopped off by Du Wei, Qin Siyang decided to let him catch his breath first. There was no need to rush him onto the stage right now.
So his focus returned to himself.
He dialed Li Tianming's number again.
Ever since returning to the safe zone last week, he had no idea how many times he had called Li Tianming, yet not a single call had gone through.
Not only that, Li Tianming hadn't even replied to a single text.
["Sorry, the number you dialed is unreachable. Please try again later."]
Qin Siyang frowned, "What's going on with Old Li? Not answering calls or replying to messages. Can he really be that busy? Don't tell me he's dead."
He then called Chen Fenghe.
"Hello, Mistress, what are you doing?"
["Little Qin. I'm picking up Little Fei from school. What's the matter?"]
"Oh, nothing much. I just haven't been able to get in touch with Old Li recently. Do you have any news about him?"
["He told me he's going to meet an important friend, so he'll be gone for a few days. We talk on the phone and message every day. He's doing fine. He'll probably only be back at the end of the month. Why are you looking for him?"]
"Ah… ah, nothing important. As long as he's doing fine, that's good. I won't bother you, Mistress."
["Oh right, when you have time, come see me. I've prepared a first aid kit for you. It's got quite a complete set of medicines."]
"Okay, thank you, Mistress!"
["Bye."]
After hanging up, Qin Siyang cursed loudly, "That damn Li Tianming! Calling and texting Director Chen every day, but not even a single word back to me?"
"That ungrateful bald freak! An old bastard who forgets his friends when he sees a woman! He might as well just die!"
After cursing a couple of times, he remembered what Chen Fenghe had said, and most of his anger immediately dissipated.
"Mistress is still the best, always thinking of me no matter what! If it weren't for Mistress's sake, when he comes back I'd definitely slap him with a couple of big earfuls!"
After venting for a bit, Qin Siyang started thinking about what to do next.
Then he received a call from Hu Chan.
["Hello, Boss Qin, where are you? Why don't I see you! Come watch the excitement together!"]
"I'm lying in bed. I'm in a bad mood right now, not in the mood to watch any excitement. If you don't have anything important, hang up."
["Uh… Chu Baxing is going to fight Rong Xin on the combat arena. Aren't you coming to watch?"]
Qin Siyang rolled out of bed in one motion, "Fight Rong Xin on the combat arena? When did this happen? How did I not know?"
["Rong Xin posted about it on the school forum three days ago. You didn't see it?"]
"I've been busy with sequence compi… uh, sequence compilation stuff lately. I didn't pay attention to the forum."
["Sequence compilation? Is that Professor Wu's research direction? Boss Qin, can you take me along?"]
"No time to take on newcomers. When are the two of them starting?"
["Fine. They're scheduled for four in the afternoon. Two minutes from now."]
"I'm coming to find you right now. By the way, what are you disguised as right now? The sickly guy or the honest middle-aged man?"
["Boss Qin, you're amazing! How did you know I was disguised?"]
"What a dumb question. When have you ever shown your real face at South Glory University."
["Uh, fair enough. I'm still in the sickly guy look."]
"Got it. I'll come find you and we'll watch the fun together."
["Didn't you say you weren't in the mood?"]
"When the Chu tycoon's involved, that's something you have to watch!"
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