"System, how's it going? Is everything ready?" Yu Sheng asked. He went out to an alley outside the hotel on the excuse of fetching something.
The System had already made a list, but said with uncertainty: "I don't belong to human beings, so the gifts I've prepared are different from that of human beings. Check the list I've made; it will cost 200 million yuan."
Yu Sheng was completely speechless, for the System was too greedy--200 million yuan would be spent.
He looked through the list and complained: "What the hell? So farfetched! Martial arts cheats? Miscellaneous medicines? What is the laser sword? Shit! Why do you prepare a box of gas bombs for a guy who wants to propose? And who do you think will choose alien beauty as a betrothal gift?"
Products on the list came from various civilizations. Rare they were, but totally useless, so Yu Sheng directly threw the list. "I want to spend 50 million yuan on precious medicinal materials, like 100-year-old ginseng and 1000-year-old lucid ganoderma. I remember they are not expensive, just several million yuan for ten individual plants, but they're hard to get despite the sufficiency of money."
The System was not affirmative. "Sure? If all you want is this kind of products, you may need a truck to carry them. "
Yu Sheng answered after contemplation: "I'm sure. You can provide elder ones to control quantity. 50 million yuan to exchange for precious medicinal materials."
System: "Got it! Exactly 50 million yuan: one individual plant of each kind, and all together are 107 plants."
Yu Sheng was speechless to some extent. "So many! I can consider selling medicinal materials."
But the System disapproved. "These precious medicinal materials are only worth this price. You'll get harm rather than profit by reselling them."
Yu Sheng was clear that ordinary people would not use these medicinal materials, and those who might use them would treat them as treasures. If a big batch of them entered the market, the price would slump, because it would sharply weaken their collection value.
The rarer a thing is, the more it is worth: the reason why those medicinal materials were valuable was because their collection value far exceeded utility value.
Yu Sheng, after contemplation, exchanged some cloth, medicines for nursing body, and a plant of Eternal Thought.
Staring at the box in front of him, what he most cared about was the plant of Eternal Thought. On the straight stem, there was nothing but a purple flower bud.
Though the Eternal Thought didn't bloom, he could smell subtle fragrance. A single plant of it was worth 50 million yuan. The reason why he chose it was not only because its fine moral, but also because it was a flower of love, which, just like bodhi, would only bloom with the tears of true lovers. A single plant of this flower was equal to a bodhi tree, which can help people realize the truth or philosophic theory from the fragrance.
Yu Sheng had never used such a luxurious thing. Once bloomed, the flower could last 300 hundred years, so he wanted Shi Hu and Luo Mingzhu to have a try.
Even if it didn't bloom, putting it in the room would calm your mind and bring mental tranquility.
Yu Sheng directly took out a large piece of cloth and covered the big pile of products in front of him.
He sneaked in from a window of the Dihua Hotel.
Meanwhile, Shi Hu was trying his best to memorizing the lines, striving to meet Yu Sheng's expectation.
Luo Mingzhu, as the protagonist of the birthday banquet, had left for powder room and was putting on makeup. Beside her, her father Luo Tianwei stared at his baby girl with satisfaction. "My princess, you'll be engaged today. What a joyous event! Time flies and you've grown up and are going to marry."
"Dad, I've already told you-I don't want to marry Jin Fucheng. I've fallen in love with someone, and he'll be here to propose today." Luo Mingzhu made her final struggle.
Luo Tianwei patted Luo Mingzhu's shoulder and sighed: "My dear daughter, all men you meet outside are not reliable. They just hanker after your money, identity and status. Jin Fucheng is your perfect match. The most critical point is he is the only child of your Uncle Jin. You two will definitely have a good life by combining the advantages of our two families. That way, your Uncle Jin and I would be relieved."
Though the Luo family saw Luo Mingzhu as a treasure, Jin Fucheng didn't believe anyone would love her, for she was too fat.
If it was in the Tang Dynasty, she would probably be Lady Yang; but nowadays, she was not a patch on second-line online celebrities.
Luo Mingzhu was speechless. She gazed at her father and gasped: "Dad, Jin Fucheng is not an upright man. He is followed and surrounded by many women every day, and I won't be happy if I marry him."