Chapter 136: First Bucket of Gold
Zhang Bing shamelessly told Zhou Jiajia that his name was “Yang Ming”!
Yang Ming was about to explode! Zhang Bing, aren’t you just causing me more problems? How would Zhou Jiajia not know who Yang Ming was?
Beads of sweat dripped down Yang Ming’s forehead as he continued to peruse the chat history. Zhang Bing continued to ask for Zhou Jiajia’s real name, and Zhou Jiajia said her name was Su Ya!
But it was unfortunate that Zhang Bing never met Su Ya, and Yang Ming had never mentioned it to him. Therefore, Zhang Bing proceeded to compliment Zhou Jiajia: nice name!
Zhou Jiajia’s attitude toward Zhang Bing after that completely turned around. She was a lot more passionate than before. When Zhang Bing intimated how he would want to watch a passion video, Zhou Jiajia didn’t reject it either.
Yang Ming felt rather curious about what kind of medicine Zhou Jiajia was truly selling in her Calabash [1]. Would she have forgotten who Yang Ming was? From her answer “Su Ya,” it seemed like she hadn’t forgotten.
But what Yang Ming couldn’t understand was that Zhou Jiajia would undoubtedly know that he would have hated her to the max. She still wanted to show some passion video? Wasn’t she afraid that he would destroy her reputation? Especially in the case where she knew that he was Yang Ming!
Yang Ming was quite bewildered. Zhang Bing’s name was called “Big Bing.” It was still reasonable that the other day she was still calling him “Big Brother Bing” if she didn’t know his real name. However, why was she still calling him “Big Brother Bing” when she knew that he was Yang Ming? Wasn’t that just confusing?
What the heck is this Zhou Jiajia thinking? Whatever she wants to think, let it be then! But what’s important right now was that Yang Ming was about to explode!
“Zhang Bing, f*** you. Come over here right now!” Yang Ming shouted.
“What?” Zhang Bing went over there feeling somewhat perplexed.
“What? Look at it yourself. Who let you use my name to chat with others?” Yang Ming pointed at the monitor screen as he shouted angrily.
“Heh, this was nothing much.” Zhang Bing was only mildly embarrassed.
“F***, aren’t you too filthy?” Yang Ming wanted to show his force, but Zhang Bing was his brother. Realistically, there was no need to turn their relationship around for this.
“Okay. I am sorry. Bro, I just accidentally used your name while it was in the situation…” Zhang Bing scratched his head.
Actually, this was a fairly common thing to do. Yang Ming still remembered when he met a dinosaur girl who kept on digging for his name. Therefore, he just typed “Zhang Bing” to end the case.
Yang Ming waved his hand, closed the chat history and just blacklisted Charming Baby. He told Zhang Bing, “From now on, stop talking to this person.”
“Even if you didn’t tell me, I already planned to cut off contact. This whore was so passionate yesterday afternoon, but at night when I chatted with her, she gave me the cold shoulder.” Zhang Bing said with anger, “When I said I wanted to play webcam with her again, she scolded me! Damn, what a b****!”
Yang Ming also didn’t know what had happened, but he was also too lazy to think about it. Zhou Jiajia could do whatever she wanted. It had nothing to do with him. He only wanted Zhang Bing to stop using his name to associate with her.
This afternoon, Zhang Bing wanted another two bowls of cold noodles, a dish of red sauce tofu, and a plate of soy sauce beef. Once Yang Ming ate a mouthful, he exclaimed in his heart – this tasted too good.
“Zhang Bing, the shop underneath your house was indeed not bad!” Yang Ming said as he continued to eat.
“Of course, we were merely ordering delivery so the taste could be a bit off. If you went downstairs to eat at lunch hour, then you may not even get a seat!” Zhang Bing asked, “Don’t you have any nice restaurants near your home?”
“You already know I don’t have a lot of extra cash. Why would I eat out? Maybe in two days, I could go search around. I should be able to find some!” Yang Ming and Zhang Bing didn’t need to hide anything from one another. As classmates for three years, who wouldn’t understand who?
Zhang Bing didn’t have any intention of laughing at Yang Ming, “Ha, but this time you have earned a huge amount of cash. Maybe next time around you should buy me a meal instead!”
“Of course. Oh yeah, the fee for learning how to drive a car – can you settle that for me first? Once I get my debit card, I will withdraw the money and return it to you.” Yang Ming’s debit card was still in the drawer after he came back from vacation. He had no need for it now, so he didn’t bring it with him.
“No problem, of course, that was just a little bit of cash. I am guessing that my dad would have paid for you already.” Zhang Bing said indifferently.
In the afternoon, Zhang Jiefang’s driver came to take the both of them to Flying Fish Driving School.
Flying Fish Driving School hadn’t been established for long. It opened around 2000, but it was pretty reputable in Song Jiang City. Even though it was a Class II driving school, the facilities were quite complete. There was a closed training space for driving as well as a simulated exam environment.
Zhang Bing had already read about all these things online, but only after he saw it with his own eyes, he felt a sense of relief. Someone said that a driver’s license was something you pay for, but Yang Ming thought that it is always beneficial to learn a bit more.
Yang Ming was satisfied with the environment. He discussed it with Zhang Bing, and the both of them started their enrollment process. The total tuition fee was 2980 yuan. After they submitted their photos and photocopied their identity cards, the staff helped them complete their enrollment.
It was indeed as Zhang Bing had said. Zhang Jiefang had prepared the money for the instruction, and the driver handed it over. Since it represented the heart of an elder, Yang Ming didn’t feel that he should reject it. Moreover, if he insisted on paying by himself, it would be a bit troublesome for the driver too.
During the first day of class, the primary intention was to build up their logical knowledge. There were many driving instructors in Flying Fish Driving School. It was fundamentally a one-on-one setting. For people like Yang Ming, they learned whatever they were taught at that moment. Since the space was huge and there were many cars, the instructors would only stop once the students had understood it well.
This time Yang Ming had brought back from Yunnan quite a few high-quality gemstones. Gemstones were peculiar things. The price of a bad quality gemstone would increase by a lot after some detailed processing and carving. However, if a gemstone of excellent quality was processed and carved, its original value would decrease instead. The reason was simple. If the engravers were not skilled enough, the gemstone would be considered as blindly carved.
Therefore, many of the excellent quality gemstones would not undergo further processing beyond a bit of sanding. In this way, the gemstone could be either sold to someone who knew how to value the gemstone, or carved according to the buyer’s intention.
In Yang Ming’s batch of gemstones, there were at least three to four of these excellent quality gemstones. Zhang Jiefang only had one or two of these. For these gemstones, Zhang Jiefang would snap a photo and store them in the bank.
The remaining gemstones that are of average quality would be shaped into jewelry like a pendant or bracelet. But this type of moderate quality processed gemstones was also the highest in demand. Even though the profit wasn’t as huge, but the stones were very liquid. With a few good services, many people could pre-order a design that they liked. Therefore, by the time these gemstones went up for sale, half of them were sold already.
Because Zhang Jiefang had lost Yang Ming’s imperial gemstone, he always felt very guilty about it. Therefore he sold Yang Ming’s gemstones first. Since Yang Ming didn’t have many gemstones, it didn’t take long to sell them all.
Even though these were average quality gemstones, they earned about 260,000 yuan of revenue in total. This time Zhang Jiefang didn’t want to charge processing or procedural fees. He considered it as a favor to Yang Ming. Moreover, Zhang Jiefang didn’t need this money anyway.
Compared to Yang Ming’s gemstones, Zhang Jiefang’s gemstones were of a lower quality. Yang Ming’s gemstones were worth about 200,000 yuan or more. Even though Zhang Jiefang had ten times as many gemstones as Yang Ming, he could only sell a total of about 200,000 yuan. The reason was that there were too many inferior gemstones. Even if he attempted to process them, the quality wouldn’t improve anyway. So Zhang Jiefang just sold them at ten yuan per piece to those lower-class gemstone business owners.
This also meant that, for Zhang Jiefang’s trip to Liang Jinya, deducting the purchase price of 100,000 yuan and ignoring his processing and transportation fees, he had only earned about 200,000 yuan (this was also because Yang Ming helped him to pick two good gemstones). If the two good gemstones were not in the bank, he would only have earned a profit of 100,000 yuan!
Therefore, it isn’t that simple to earn money by gambling for gemstones. Most people don’t earn a lot doing this.
As he thought about this, Zhang Jiefang couldn’t help but be surprised at Yang Ming’s good luck! He increased his 10,000 yuan investment by about twenty-six times, and this did not include that top-notch quality imperial gemstone and his four pieces of good gemstones.
Yang Ming was just with Zhang Bing learning how to drive for the past few days. They would leave in the early morning and return late at night, looking pretty much like an office worker. Yang Ming’s parents weren’t having any doubts, especially when they saw Zhang Jiefang’s driver drop him off at home.
Regarding Lan Ling, Yang Ming would always take time out to keep her company. Even though Lan Ling was somewhat a clingy person, she also knew that Yang Ming had his own things to settle. Every time after they were done with one another, even though in her eyes she wished Yang Ming would stay, she would never voice it out.
Zhang Jiefang had already deposited the money earned from the sale of Yang Ming’s gemstones into his debit card. At this moment, we could say that Yang Ming now had an above-average net worth, at least when compared to the students of his age.
Who says that everyone in a university was rich? Those are just stories in web novels! Someone like Yang Ming, with a few hundred thousand in his bank, could be considered a rich person already!
