Chapter 77

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[Holy shit? Zhen, are you for real?]

[You gotta be kidding, right?]

[Kick them, kick them out! Hurry up and kick this person out! This is even more unbearable than killing me!!!]

[Haha, congratulations to Zhang for receiving investment, I wish your studio gets better and better!]

[I really didn’t expect Old Lin to be so low-key usually, but he suddenly gave us such a big surprise!]

[You must treat us to a meal!]

Suddenly, the class group chat became exceptionally lively.

If you observed a bit, you would notice that the people talking in the group chat now were completely different from before.

As for those who were usually the most active in speaking, they were directly silent at this moment.

It wasn’t clear whether they were busy, didn’t see the group messages, or were playing dead.

[Sleepy Cat requests to add you as a friend!]

[Snowfall Beauty requests to add you as a friend!]

[Watermelon is the Lover of Summer requests to add you as a friend!]

in just a short moment, several friend requests appeared on WeChat, including the girl who thought Lin Mo had a crush on her during university, which the system’s intelligence mentioned before.

As for what she wanted to do?

The intent of Sima Zhao is known to everyone.

“Is this what it feels like to be rich?”

Lin Mo completely ignored all the friend requests, said a simple goodbye to Zhang Yihua, and refused Zhang’s offer to see him off. He left the animation studio, called a ride-share car, and hurried to Yuhang Pagoda Mountain.

He was definitely going back to Rakshasa City tonight, but before returning, Lin Mo wanted to do a slightly daring experiment.

Covering Yuhang Pagoda Mountain were numerous graveyards with histories that could be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

This was the location of the capital of the State of Wu Yue at the time, and the graveyards contained many historical artifacts and ancient tombs, the most famous of which was the mausoleum of King Qian Luo of Wu Yue.

Lin Mo had checked this information on his way here.

He had to visit such a place to see if he could acquire some valuable intelligence about history.

As for what he might gain, Lin Mo had no clue.

It was just an impulse, a desire to experiment.

Whether there were dates or not, take three strikes at the tree. Even if there was no intelligence, he would treat it as a tour.

After checking in at the graveyards of Pagoda Mountain, Lin Mo also visited historical and commemorative places like the Liangzhu Ancient City Ruins Scenic Area, Lingyin Temple, Tomb of Yue Fei by West Lake, and even toured around large corporations like Alibaba before taking the train back to Rakshasa

City.

In the days that followed, Lin Mo did indeed obtain relevant information from Yuhang and successfully found two lost antiques in Rakshasa City. He sold them to Manager Song from Yiyi Auction House, making over a million in total!

If it wasn’t for the fact that the two antiques he found were so dilapidated, treated like trash and carelessly discarded in an inconspicuous place, he might have earned even more!

However, Lin Mo was already satisfied, which proved the feasibility of his idea to visit these historical landmarks.

He definitely needed to visit more often.

Maybe someday he would come across the intelligence of the “Yongle Encyclopedia”.

Additionally, Lin Mo whimsically spent some time looking at military news, viewing a lot of pictures of things like the F22 fighter jet, B2 bomber, and Ford-class aircraft carriers, but sadly, he did not gain any significant related intelligence.

Besides that, Lin Mo did not stay idle over the next few days. While overseeing the renovation of the lottery shop, he tried to find different ways to acquire intelligence, and indeed, he made some small new discoveries.

First, a person’s lifespan can indeed be increased.

After Wang Youcai entered the hospital, intelligence one time mentioned that because he was diagnosed early with esophageal cancer and received aggressive treatment, his lifespan increased by several days.

However, as Lin Mo knew, Wang Youcai had recently been troubled enough.

His wife of many years now insisted on getting a divorce, his son and daughter were unwilling to visit him in the hospital, and the internet celebrity he was involved with had been detained for fraud.

A perfect case of a broken family, leaving behind only the legend of ‘Black Chicken-‘ in the world of short videos.

The second thing involved a few provocative photos of a female classmate that mixed in with Lin Mo’s intelligence reports a few days ago. The photos could be directly downloaded to a designated phone or computer, and at the time, the intelligence was about her considering which revealing photo to secretly send to Lin Mo.

This classmate was none other than the woman who claimed Lin Mo had liked her during university.

These two small matters were the new features of the system Lin Mo had explored in the recent days.

They were not very useful, but they did mark small progress in exploring the system.

Of course, the most important thing for Lin Mo these past few days was that Jizhou and Chuanyu had started to receive rainfall.

Jizhou’s situation was the most extreme, not only due to the large amount of rainfall but also because it bore the responsibility of flood discharge to protect the Imperial Capital.

Not to mention ginger shoots, the yield of other agricultural products was also severely damaged.

Although there were still some ginger shoots in reserve in Rakshasa City, wholesalers concerned about subsequent production issues had begun to continuously inflate the price of ginger shoots, intending to hoard them.

But even when they pooled their stocks together, it was only about as much as what Lin Mo had.

The wholesale price of ginger shoots kept climbing, and the retail price of ginger shoot futures likewise soared.

Lin Mo had bought his stock for 2.9 yuan per unit, and now people were willing to buy all of his inventory for more than 8 yuan each.

In just a few days, 2 million had easily doubled!

The futures market also went from an original selling price of 5-21 yuan per unit to 9.74 yuan, nearly doubling the profits as well.

If Lin Mo sold everything now, his profit would be around 8 million, and his total assets could reach about 20 million!

What an exaggerated figure that was!

Keep in mind that just a month ago, he was a manual laborer who worked over ten hours a day, so exhausted he couldn’t even stand straight, barely scraping together a thousand yuan.

And ever since the day of the torrential rains in Jizhou and Chuanyu, the first-level wholesalers in the wholesale market had been discussing Lin Mo’s investment almost constantly!

[ Really a damn thorough beating, I work myself to death for a whole year and barely make a million, and this guy casually rakes in two million in a few days!] [Stop whining, will you? Is your position worse than mine? 1 sold that batch to him for 2.9 yuan per unit, and now I want to buy it back for 5 yuan, but he won’t even give me the time of day; he hasn’t even replied to my messages!) [Who the hell is this Lin Mo, damn it, how did he get this information? I

| Maybe he just got lucky? Who could have predicted that this year’s rain in Chuanyu and Jizhou would be so heavy? Even the nation didn’t see it coming! How could he? Not just ginger shoots, rehmannia was also completely ruined, impossible to transport! If he was really so prescient, why would he only deal with ginger shoots?]

[Lucky? Have all your years of doing business gone to the dogs? This can’t be just luck!]

[Exactly, 1 felt something was off when he started buying, 1 should have stocked up too if I had known! ]

(Haha, a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacks, hindsight is a luxury; if you knew everything, you wouldn’t still be hanging out with us every day!]

Lin Mo’s success in hoarding ginger shoots also kept Li Lingling and Liu Miao, the husband and wife duo, very busy.

Endless phone calls all day long.

“Big bro, it’s really none of my business, my relationship with that Lin Mo is just average, and I don’t know where he got that information from.”

“It’s not… 1 really can’t get you any ginger shoots these two days, wait a little while, the next batch will enter Rakshasa City very soon!

“Alright, alright, I’ll try my best to find some for you!”

After hanging up his 250th call of the day, Liu Miao angrily threw his phone onto the table and said, frustrated, “Damn it! This is all your cousin-in-law’s doing!”

“All the ginger shoots are with him, and everyone thinks I’m the one who told him to hoard them. Where am I supposed to find stock for them?”

Li Lingling had a grim expression; she never expected that Lin Mo would earn more in just a few days than they made in half a year.

Having been in the vegetable wholesale business for so many years, she had never come across such an absurd situation.

If it had been any other first-level wholesaler who hoarded the stock, she would have simply admired their foresight and luck, and agreed that they deserved to make money.

But the one who made a fortune was her brother-in-law Lin Mo, someone she had always looked down upon.

This left her feeling extremely frustrated.

Li Jinwen was her cousin.

It was true that she couldn’t bear to see her cousin suffer.

But it was also true that she couldn’t bear to see her brother-in-law driving a Land Rover!

Li Lingling’s face was pale with anger, and after clenching her teeth, she said, “Husband, why don’t we go find him and ask him to share some of the ginger shoots with us?”

“If he won’t give them to me, then I’ll beg Jin Wen, or if worse comes to worst, I’ll call my uncle!”

“Hah.”

Liu Miao looked at her as if she were an idiot. After all this time with him, was she still so brainless? Annoyed, he said, “Could you not treat other people as fools, please?”

“Ginger shoots from other regions can’t come in, prices will only go higher, how far has it gone now?”

“You know full well how we used to treat him, and now you want to seek him out; do you think he’ll sell to you? Did he grow up drinking your milk?”

“Or are you suggesting I should go to him, grovelling, with two bottles of wine in hand?”

Not to mention it, but the more Liu Miao spoke about it, the angrier he got.

Li Lingling was also filled with regret; damn it, why didn’t she mend her relationship with Lin Mo a few days ago? Then she wouldn’t be in such a passive position now.

“Alright, alright, let’s just leave this matter as it is,” said Liu Miao with a cold face, “But remember this next time, your cousin-in-law is definitely not that simple.”

“Without some insider information, how could he have possibly foreseen a boom in ginger shoot prices?”

“I thought he was stockpiling the ginger shoots in the warehouse to sell them to Myanmar, but now it seems he might have predicted this price surge all along.”

“But at most he’s only going to make 20-something million, 1, Liu Miao, won’t stoop to begging him for that amount of money!”

Meanwhile, as Liu Miao and Li Lingling speculated wildly, Lin Mo and Li Jinwen were sitting on the wooden bed of their rented apartment, blissfully calculating their recent earnings.

Without crunching the numbers, they wouldn’t have known, but once they did, the result stunned them both and made them ecstatic.

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