Chapter 122 - Make Friends With Those Who Know How To Spend Money
Translator: Lav
Editor: Levs
After making sure this week’s sum was still 100,000 yuan, Shi Lei was relieved. He didn’t want to level up and with the Scepter’s crappy way of doing things, the next level was likely to be one million per week.
One million, although it was exciting to think about it, but if he really needed to spend that within a week, Shi Lei didn’t know how he would spend it other than purchasing cars and houses.
He was enjoying the satisfaction of spending money, but he also had to worry about not letting the weekly sum increase too quickly. It was an extremely entangling experience.
Occasionally, Shi Lei would imagine and think how he could spend when he reaches a hundred million or more per week without letting people noticing. He could only buy a car and house once, after all, the Black Card’s acknowledgement was that the things bought must be used and it could not only be used once. Otherwise, he could buy one car whenever the sum refreshes, or a mansion. Not to mention a hundred million, Shi Lei could even spend a billion per week easily.
If it was really like this, all those people wouldn’t have died.
Super expensive things such as cars and houses could only be bought once and Shi Lei must wait until the money was enough, otherwise, it was easy to buy a 100,000 yuan car, but he wouldn’t be able to do anything when the money was increased to a hundred million or a billion, after all, Shi Lei watched someone who drove a Porsche got killed because of 100,000 yuan! Of course, Shi Lei had completely understood that the man wouldn’t be killed just because of 100,000 yuan, most likely, it was because a majority of the money he spent wasn’t counted, hence he was killed. Otherwise, the sum should be above a hundred million and as he could afford a Porsche, 100,000 yuan would only be worth about a leg.
Shi Lei even thought that he shouldn’t buy a car at the price of a hundred million, but he should get a loan. Shi Lei really wanted to buy the Koenigsegg which was worth a billion. He would pay a hundred million deposit, then return the loan by paying one hundred million every week. Tsk tsk, how peaceful life would be like that!
It was the same as purchasing a house. Shi Lei would definitely buy a ten billion house, with one hundred million as deposit, then return the rest slowly…… All the way till now, Shi Lei’s concept of spending money was still on purchasing cars, houses and luxurious products. He just hoped that as he continued to spend money, he would improve his skill in spending money so that he won’t be worried about spending money.
Shi Lei was extremely butthurt to think that spending money was a skill.
His experience with the millionaire card was not as simple as pretending to be cool. He heard that Wu Haoyuan also dropped out from school and he apparently went overseas. Shi Lei knew that Wu Haoyuan was too scared to stay in Wu Dong University and had to move out of the country. When he used the card, he thought that it was simply letting him pretend to be cool, but as he gradually started interacting with Wei Qing and the rest, he realized that those interactions were the most valuable experiences.
Those billionaires’ ability in spending money was definitely extremely strong. Shi Lei estimated that if they were given ten million a week, they could easily spend it all. Of course, they wouldn’t spend like that normally, but obviously, they already possess the ability to do so.
So, as Shi Lei’s sum of money increases, Shi Lei thought that it was necessary to make friends with people who knew how to spend money, all the friends he had only knew how to drink and eat. It was fine when it was 100,000 yuan per week, they could still somehow manage to finish spending those. But what if the sum increased to millions? Would they eat abalones every single day, use top tier shark fin as toothpick, or use bird nest to rinse their mouth, and use caviar as snacks?
Shi Lei thought it was no good, if Shi Lei really spent like that, those guys would probably be intimidated. It wasn’t that Shi Lei looked down on them as he really cherished those three roommates, friends, and bros for three years. Except, their vision on this was limited due to their social classes. Shi Lei could even feel a slight distance between them already. What about in the future? Shi Lei didn’t dare to imagine.
So, even though the rules allowed Shi Lei to treat friends to meals, but because the category of friends must be within the Scepter’s acknowledgement, Shi Lei must make friends with those who have the capability to spend money. That was the only way which won’t seem strange when he treats them.
If he took a bunch of losers to places with consumptions of over 10,000 yuan, it would certainly attract many unnecessary trouble.
If he wanted to reach Wei Qing’s level, he would definitely need a long time. Shi Lei must also spend more in order to advance. But if it was at Wu Haoyuan’s level, Shi Lei could start preparing for it. Shi Lei believed that if he gave Wu Haoyuan a million every week, he could spend it easily. On this perspective, Wu Haoyuan was way better than Shi Lei.
After he took back the Black Card, he returned to the apartment. He roughly planned how he should spend the 100,000 yuan this week and fell asleep.
After he woke up, he wasn’t sure if he still needed to go to Zhang Liangliang’s place so he called Zhang Meimei.
Zhang Meimei initially thought that she should spend more time with her daughter more as Shi Lei’s words from yesterday really touched her. Last night, she asked Zhang Liangliang if she wanted to sleep beside her that night. Er’jie was obviously in a daze. She jumped onto Zhang Meimei’s bed without another word and they slept together in each other’s arms.
When Zhang Meimei was picking up the call, Zhang Liangliang was still lying in her mother’s arms in satisfaction. Although Zhang Meimei spoke softly, but Zhang Liangliang still woke up.
From her call, Zhang Liangliang could hear that it was Shi Lei on the other side. Seeing that Zhang Meimei told Shi Lei not to come today, Zhang Liangliang panicked.
“Mum, if you are busy, just go. Dashu still owes me a present, I need to finish this week’s homework and find him. Let him come!”
Zhang Meimei covered the speaker and whispered: “It’s not easy for him to earn money. He looks like he has an ordinary background, otherwise, he wouldn’t be tutoring you to earn money. I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to ask for a present!”
“I’m not asking him to buy presents for me, I just want him to play with me.”
“I can take you out to play……”
Zhang Liangliang’s expressions were filled with disdain: “Forget about it. Don’t you remember what happened last night when we went to the amusement park? You said that I wasn’t independent enough, I’m telling you, that’s me. If you have someone else as your daughter, before you even realize it, that girl would be probably sold somewhere in the mountains and get pregnant with so many children.”
Zhang Meimei was speechless. Was that her image in her daughter’s perspective?
“You are exaggerating, I only neglected you for two hours.”
“Isn’t two hours enough? During that two hours, I had returned to Wu Dong already. But at the same time, I could have also been kidnapped to Shanghai. It’s huge and even if you call the police, do you think that the police would compliment you ‘good girl’ for picking up a dollar and gave it to him instead of taking it(1)? Of course, you are not a child, but, if I’m not missing for 24 hours, you can’t even put it on record. You are a lawyer and are mainly in charge of lawsuits related to cases like this, I don’t need to give you a lesson on basic laws, do I? 24 hours, even if it was those green old trains, you tell me, how far I could’ve went? Then, wait for the police to set up the case, then start the investigation, but they may not necessarily find me either. There are so many children missing each year, but they weren’t even recorded and found. Do you still think I’m exaggerating?”
Zhang Meimei was shocked. A great lawyer like her was refuted speechless by her daughter.
This comes from a Chinese children’s song about a young child who picked up a dollar on the street, gave it to the police instead of taking it and the police complimenting the child.