Chapter 11 Give 800 million first
Master Wu exclaimed in amazement:
"This is at least a thousand-year-old Phoebe zhennan tree! It must have been preserved for thousands or even tens of thousands of years to reach this quality! I'm afraid its price is no cheaper than that of gold of the same weight!"
"Ms. Ning, let me give you 800 million yuan first. That's all the liquid funds I have at the moment."
"I'll send a car and people to move it in a few days. Of the final sale price, 90% will be yours for the portion exceeding 800 million. The operating expenses will be deducted from another 10%, and I'll just have a small share of the rest. Is that alright, Ms. Ning?"
Wu Sanye held the golden nanmu ebony, his eyes gleaming, and said a lot, but received no response.
"Miss Ning?"
He looked up in confusion.
Ning Jinli was stunned. "How much did you say?"
Master Wu got up and patiently repeated it again.
Ning Jinli knew this thing was valuable, but she didn't expect it to be this valuable.
Master Wu explained that ordinary golden nanmu ebony is not this exaggerated.
The main reason is that this one is large and of top quality; there is currently no other like it in the world.
"Okay... then give me 800 million first." Ning Jinli nodded mechanically.
Master Wu transferred the money swiftly.
Eight hundred million yuan arrived instantly.
Master Wu clicked his tongue in surprise. He had a lot of money involved in his business, so he was a customer that the bank treated specially.
But it took him more than 20 years to achieve this.
Ning Jinli is so young yet has such high access to bank cards. She received a huge sum of 800 million yuan and the money arrived instantly. The backing behind her must be incredibly strong.
I've turned misfortune into blessing and managed to latch onto a powerful patron.
"Miss Ning, is there anything else I can help you with?" Master Wu asked with a smile.
Ning Jinli thought that since he had a wide network of connections, she could ask him to help contact suitable food factories and pharmaceutical factories.
Just as she was about to speak, her phone rang.
It was a call from Xinghan Hospital in the city center, where Aunt Su is hospitalized.
Ning Jinli inquired about the situation and immediately set off.
Fortunately, Uncle Wu was there to drive her, otherwise it would be very difficult to get a taxi in this suburban area late at night.
Seeing her anxious, Master Wu sped off at breakneck speed.
Ignoring the red light, they rushed her to the hospital as quickly as possible.
He originally intended to leave after dropping the person off, but he was still cautious and secretly followed them.
Ning Jinli went straight to Aunt Su's ward and saw several doctors, nurses, and security guards there.
There was also a man in his thirties sitting on the edge of the hospital bed with his legs crossed.
"Su Qiang!" Ning Jinli stormed up to him angrily. "How dare you cause trouble here?"
This is Aunt Su's biological son.
His biological father ran away when he was just born.
Aunt Su gave him his mother's surname and raised him single-handedly with great difficulty.
Su Qiang looked Ning Jinli up and down, then smiled and said, "What trouble have I caused? Can't I even come to visit my own mother?"
Ning Jinli was furious.
She brought Aunt Su to the hospital early yesterday morning; Aunt Su is still in a coma.
She didn't believe a single word of Su Qiang's nonsense about coming to visit.
"Stop pretending!"
She pointed at Su Qiang's nose and yelled, "If you had any conscience at all, you wouldn't have kicked her out of the house back then! In the past ten years, have you cared whether she lived or died?!"
As she was cursing, she started crying.
Ten years ago, she was kicked out of the Ning family by her own uncle.
She knew how painful it was to be driven away by her relatives and feel utterly alone.
It was around that time that she met Aunt Su, who made a living by collecting garbage.
Aunt Su only rented a cheap room, but she still took her in.
They treated her like a daughter, and supported her schooling...
"What business is it of yours what happens between my mom and me?" Su Qiang said shamelessly, poking and pinching the IV tubing here and there.
"Speak, what exactly do you want?" Ning Jinli wiped away her tears and asked coldly.
Su Qiang grinned.
"Ning Jinli, Ning Jinli, I really didn't expect you to be so rich."
"They sent her to the best hospital in Xinghan, and even put her in a deluxe single room, and hired two nurses to take care of her, tsk tsk..."
"I'm a bit short on cash lately, you know what I mean?"
Seeing his shameless behavior, the doctors and nurses all wanted to slap him.
"How much do you want?" Ning Jinli gritted her teeth in hatred, but she could only try to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Su Qiang stood up and walked to her. "My wife told me that she wants to buy a house in a better school district for our son. I'm still short 300,000 yuan for the down payment."
Suddenly, Master Wu walked in and hooked his arm around Su Qiang's shoulder. "It's just 300,000 yuan. Does Miss Ning need to spend so much?"
Ning Jinli was stunned for a moment.
"Who are you?" Su Qiang frowned and looked him up and down.
"Who do you care who I am? You just want money, don't you? Come with me."
Master Wu deliberately flashed the multi-million dollar watch on his wrist.
Su Qiang's eyes lit up as he followed him out, completely unaware of the ruthless glint that flashed in the old fox's eyes.
Ning Jinli breathed a sigh of relief and stayed with Aunt Su for a while before leaving.
Just as I left the ward, I ran into Mr. Zheng's secretary.
It turns out that Mr. Zheng was hospitalized here.
Upon learning that the old gentleman was still awake, Ning Jinli, with her secretary's permission, went to visit him.
Mr. Zheng was very happy to see her and immediately put down the notes he was writing.
"Hello, Grandpa Zheng."
Ning Jinli said softly, "Actually, there's something I'd like to ask you."
Old Zheng smiled kindly and said, "Alright, go ahead."
Ning Jinli asked, "Do you know what happened when Prince Xuan, Xiao Qidi, was eighteen years old?"
She learned about the situation the soldiers in Linxian Village were facing from their words.
But I still want to know how it all ended.
I happened to meet Mr. Zheng here, and I thought that perhaps the old expert who had devoted his life to studying ancient artifacts could give her the answer.
"When Xiao Qidi was eighteen..." Old Zheng's expression gradually turned serious, "Xiao Ning, do you really want to know?"
The atmosphere suddenly became serious, and Ning Jinli nodded nervously.
Old Zheng took off his reading glasses and slowly began to speak:
"This is a previously unpublished...tragic secret."
"That year, Xiao Qidi was trapped in the Xitun Pass area of Xuan Kingdom. He led the border soldiers to deal with the invading enemy army of Yu Kingdom."
"The troops at Xitun Pass were few in number and poorly equipped, and they were also hit by a drought that cut off their water and food supplies. Under these circumstances, surrounded by an enemy force that outnumbered them several times over, Xiao Qidi was powerless to turn the tide. In the end, all the border soldiers were killed in battle, and about 60,000 local civilians were massacred by the enemy..."
Ning Jinli felt a pang of heartache as she listened, her nose stinging with tears. "Then... what about Xiao Qidi..."
Old Zheng's face was grave. "He was seriously injured and fell into a coma, where he was captured by the enemy. However, by the time the Xuan Kingdom's reinforcements arrived, the enemy had gouged out his eyes, cut off his limbs, and removed his ears and nose, turning him into a 'human stick'!"
"Ah!" Ning Jinli exclaimed in surprise.
It took her a while to recover from the shock, and she said incredulously:
"Grandpa Zheng, that's not right, is it? If he became a human stump, how could he later unify the world and become the ancestral emperor?"
"Sigh..." Old Zheng sighed and continued:
"Because the ruling forces of Xuan Kingdom replaced him with a puppet who resembled him in appearance and stifled his talents, making him scheme behind the scenes."
"He lived like neither human nor ghost, contributing his wisdom to help the Xuan Kingdom destroy the six other kingdoms, and painstakingly creating the first great unification in our country's history. Yet, the one who became the ancestral emperor in the eyes of the world... was that puppet!"
"From the age of eighteen when he became a human puppet, he was imprisoned in a secret room until he was drained of his life force and never got to go out and experience the great dynasty he founded..."
Ning Jinli felt as if she had been struck by lightning; her heart ached terribly, and tears quickly blurred her vision.
She dared not think about what kind of life Xiao Qidi had lived after he turned eighteen.
The young king who appeared alive before her met such a tragic end!
"Grandpa Zheng, thank you! I have to go now!"
Ning Jinli wiped away her tears, turned around and rushed out of the ward.
The secretary had just brought the fruit when he called out to her retreating figure:
"Miss Ning! Where are you going in such a hurry?"
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