Chapter 118 Fortune

Back at the bookstore, he patted his hair, yawned, and after a flurry of activity and instructions, everything was arranged.

"Oh, the boss isn't back yet?"

Lawyer An walked to the bar and sat down.

Yingying sat opposite him, holding a cookbook in her hands, studying it intently and taking notes from time to time, focused and earnest.

Seeing Lawyer An return, Yingying got up and made him a cup of Super-Strong Coffee.

Recently, the supply had been plentiful, so it was necessary to seize the time to let Lawyer An consume it.

Lawyer An was so touched that he accepted the coffee;

However,

Lawyer An dared not eat the food made by Yingying. Hadn't he noticed that the old Daoist had been drinking water several times more than usual lately?

Just like the boss never agreed to let Yingying drive,

Someone who couldn't be killed in a car accident driving,

Someone who couldn't be poisoned by poison cooking,

This…

"Read the news, browse Weibo, things have started to turn around, the effect is very good. Reporters have even gone to her hometown. Her whole family are lazybones, and her father was just arrested by the police for theft. All their dirty laundry has been aired."

Lawyer An shouted to the old Daoist, full of pride.

"Yes, thank you."

The old Daoist nodded and smiled, not showing much excitement, just a hint of sigh.

"Actually, this time there really wasn't much difficulty. The opposing side was too clear-cut. It wasn't even a battle. They were covered in so much crap themselves, it was really easy.

It's just that I know you don't want to come out in the spotlight, otherwise I would take advantage of this reversal to promote you, let you come to the forefront. Maybe you could even be named one of the 'Ten Most Touching People in China' next year.

Internet celebrity? What is an internet celebrity?

Honestly, in the eyes of most people, an internet celebrity is a derogatory term. No matter how popular, how jumpy, how energetic, or how high your popularity is, it's useless. People who look down on you will still look down on you.

But this time, as long as you stand up, we can repackage you and promote you, and directly remove the 'internet celebrity' label.

Whitewashed,

Completely whitewashed,

With a halo on your head,

See who dares to report and shut down your livestream then!"

Lawyer An became more and more excited as he spoke, because this was indeed very feasible. He knew the old Daoist's character. The only black mark might be that he liked to comfort young women, but what kind of black mark was that?

The old Daoist wasn't married, was he?

And it wasn't like he was sleeping with subordinates or discussing scripts and exchanging acting skills at night,

If those current popular stars were exposed for going to street foot massage parlors to find women, the fans probably wouldn't be disgusted, but rather moved,

So moved that they would offer to sell themselves to get money for their idols to find escorts.

"No need, no need."

The old Daoist waved his hand, a little uneasy and embarrassed. He didn't really want the fame. He thought his current life in the bookstore was very good. He used to be a small-time celebrity when he was livestreaming, but that fame didn't affect his life.

Once he was really pushed out as a model for publicity, he might not be able to stay in this bookstore anymore.

"We'll talk about that later. By the way, old Daoist, how much money have you donated in your life?"

Lawyer An asked curiously.

Actually, in Lawyer An's mind, the old Daoist should have donated a small million, right? He estimated it was around three million? Or maybe a little higher, but not too outrageous.

After all, the livestreaming industry had only just started in the last few years, and the old Daoist wasn't one of those top-tier streamers, at most a slightly famous outdoor streamer.

The old Daoist used to be a funeral director, making a living with his mouth. He should have been able to live comfortably, but it was impossible to make big money and get rich. Before that, wages and consumption levels were low. How much money could he save to donate?

For example, twenty or thirty years ago, it was the most unprofitable to be unwilling to eat or wear well in those years. It was better to drink and eat meat every day, otherwise the money saved in those years wouldn't even buy half a square meter of a toilet today.

But even a few million was enough.

These days, even among celebrities, there were very few who had donated several million.

Plus, the old Daoist was in his seventies,

Tsk tsk,

In terms of image and actual actions, it was an explosive effect.

The old Daoist blinked and calculated silently, then said:

"Several hundred million, I guess."

"Oh, only a few... Pfft!"

The expired Nestlé instant coffee in Lawyer An's mouth sprayed out all over!

Damn it,

Several hundred million?

"Cough cough, old Daoist, I'm not kidding."

Lawyer An reminded him.

"It should be several hundred million." The old Daoist calculated on his fingers.

"Hey, hey, where did you get several hundred million? Did you rob a bank?"

Hearing this, the old Daoist actually smiled and nodded, saying:

"It's almost like it, I remember going to the South back then, in Shenzhen, it was like really robbing a bank."

"This…"

"Back then, wasn't there something called a subscription certificate, something related to the stock market? The country had just started it then, not many people knew about it, and not many people knew how to do it.

I only remember that it was assigned to everyone, and many people in the units were worried sick because they wanted to sell their share.

I was unlucky at the time, drinking with a department head or something, his family had an elder die, and I was doing the funeral.

I was forced to drink a lot of liquor, and I bought the subscription certificate from him in a daze.

There were also many civil servants who came to his house for the funeral meal. Seeing me, a sucker, foolishly paying for it, they forced me to buy the shares that were assigned to them.

I was really drunk at the time, so I bought them all.

Alas, after drinking, I regretted it so much. I spent more than one hundred thousand in savings to buy a pile of waste paper. After sobering up, I slapped myself a few times.

Money was valuable back then. I originally wanted to donate to a primary school, but couldn't afford to build a school building. It would have been more than enough to add desks and chairs for the children and improve the conditions for those teachers and give them welfare."

"…" Lawyer An.

Lawyer An knew that this was a dividend of the national reform. The level of pie in the sky and the exaggeration of the process far exceeded buying a house in the city center by selling pots and pans and borrowing money in the millennium!

"Later, I heard that this waste paper was suddenly valuable, and many people cried and shouted for me to buy it back, willing to pay double the price or something.

But I didn't sell it. I went to Shenzhen. To this day, I still remember the line-up, it was so exaggerated."

"You sold them all?"

"Yes, I sold them early, and only made a few million, so I was a middleman, anyway, I don't understand economics or the stock market.

After selling them, I lived in a small hotel. The next door happened to have a young man who sold his house and cheated money from a circle of relatives and friends, and smashed it all on the subscription certificate.

Then his family came and blocked him in the aisle and beat him, beating him until his head was bleeding, saying that he was blinded by lard and wanted to drag his family and clan into the fire pit!

Alas,

I was soft-hearted at the time,

Couldn't stand it,

His family saw me watching from the side, thinking that I was a rich master, um, I did have money in my pocket at the time, and said they would sell me the subscription certificate.

I thought, okay, let's help this poor young man.

So I bought them all."

"That young man doesn't know your name, does he?"

"No, his gang of relatives originally wanted to thank me properly, and even wanted to invite me to dinner and kowtow to me, but I refused.

It's good to do good deeds without leaving a name."

Lawyer An nodded, it was good that he didn't leave his name, otherwise they would have probably found him and hacked him to death.

"And then?"

"Then I sold them again."

"How much did you sell them for?"

"Ten million or so."

Lawyer An took a deep breath and nodded. "That's still not one hundred million."

"Well, later, around 2000, I was hanging around in Shanghai at that time, anyway, I was making a living everywhere.

I happened to be strolling along the river when I came across someone who jumped into the river to commit suicide, and I saved him.

He cried and shouted and cursed me, why did I save him, he said he couldn't make it anymore, he didn't want to live anymore, his girlfriend broke up with him, he was almost thirty, and he was still a failure."

"Who did you save?"

"I forgot his name, I just wanted to help him at the time, but I couldn't give him money directly."

"Yes, it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him fish."

"Yes, that's the principle, I thought this child wasn't easy, so I should help him with his work, so that he wouldn't think about jumping into the river again."

"Work? What does he do?"

"Real estate agent."

"Hiss..." Lawyer An gasped.

"I bought a house from him, he also earned a commission and got promoted, hehe, that's also fate. At that time, the housing price in Shanghai was only two or three thousand yuan per square meter, and it just so happened that my previous money had been donated, but because I donated directly to the point, I rarely donated directly to Project Hope, I didn't trust it very much, so I donated relatively slowly.

I had a few million left in my pocket, so I bought all the houses, anyway, the houses were bought and put there, and when I needed money to donate, it was the same to sell them."

Lawyer An rubbed his forehead,

Suddenly, he felt that the Fortune's favored one lying in the hospital bed next door was not wronged.

"Who knew that the houses would rise so fast, it was like money falling from the sky, I was dizzy, thinking that these houses were not for living in?

Why are they being speculated so fiercely?"

"And then, you donated them?"

"Yes, in recent years, the conditions have improved, and the information is better, it's easier and more transparent to donate money, so I sold the houses one by one, built schools or something, all spent.

I also happened to sell the last house in Rong City a few years ago, donated the money, and then left."

"Hoo…"

Lawyer An breathed a long sigh of relief,

Walked to the old Daoist's side, put his hand on the old Daoist's shoulder,

"Old Daoist."

"Hmm?"

"I think it's better for us to stay behind the scenes."

A seventy-year-old man is enthusiastic about charity and donates two million;

And,

A seventy-year-old man is enthusiastic about charity and donates several hundred million.

These are completely different effects.

"Yes, I think so too, this is good, hehe."

The old Daoist reached out and beckoned the little monkey over, sent a handful of peanuts he had just peeled to the little monkey's small hands,

And touched the monkey's head,

"This, is good."