Chapter 113 Right or Wrong
It took Rong Yuan a day and a half to unpack the packages, and it took him a whole week to clean them all up, organize them, and adjust the settings.
When all the preparations were completed, this originally empty house had completely changed its appearance - a row of electronic instruments was placed on the right side of the wall, and power cords of various colors were originally spread all over the floor, but now they were fixed horizontally and vertically on the wall, like a complex and orderly geometric picture full of beauty; when the power was fully connected, more than a dozen black electronic screens lit up at the same time, light blue or light green lines jumped on the screen, and rows of data made any ordinary person feel the pain and awe of being crushed when stepping into this room.
There are two workbenches in the middle of the room. One is thick and solid, with heavy instruments such as CNC machine tools on it, and the workbench has good shock and pressure resistance; the other is wide and large, with several layers of partitions above and below, and several multi-directional faucets commonly used in laboratories. It is filled with densely packed glassware, including various types of beakers, test tubes, separators, desiccators, droppers, funnels, etc., all of which are neat and bright.
In addition, there were two large refrigerators that were usually used in restaurants placed against the other side wall, which were filled with various reagents and chemicals. There were also several things like ozone generators and vacuum pumps placed on the empty space on the ground. Because there were so many things, even though Rong Yuan had tried his best to tidy them up, it still looked messy in the end. But the high-end feeling was also very clear.
This is the laboratory that Rong Yuan built for himself.
Although it looks high-end, in fact, most of the things here are ordered from online stores like "Taotao Website", and some are brought back by Rongyuan from abroad, such as CNC machine tools or multi-function barrier testers. In order to ship them back, Rongyuan went through a lot of procedures, and Colwin also helped a lot. He has a cousin who works in a government department and seems to be in a high position. Although he was dissatisfied with Colwin's unauthorized gambling, he still helped to deal with the cumbersome procedures and approvals, so that Rongyuan finally received the precision instruments he bought shortly after returning home.
This was a very simple laboratory. The so-called "laboratory" was actually just a suburban warehouse far from the city center of City A. He paid a one-time three-year rent to rent it. His money was not enough to buy all the instruments he wanted, so he had to use some substitutes in the end. This new laboratory did not even have a special storage room to store dangerous experimental reagents such as liquid nitrogen cylinders. Rong Yuan could only find a few partitions to isolate it, and then installed a few small homemade alarm devices on it.
But it is a start, his first step towards his future.
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There seemed to be a car accident ahead. A truck carrying a lot of live chickens and ducks overturned on the road, causing a traffic jam. Fortunately, no one was injured. The traffic police finally cleared a passage on one side and directed the vehicles on both sides to pass in an orderly manner. The chickens and ducks were greatly frightened and kept making "chi chi chi" and "ga ga ga" sounds in the cages, with their fine feathers flying everywhere.
Jin Yang placed his hands on the steering wheel, patiently waiting for the road ahead to be cleared. He turned eighteen, and only got his driver's license two days ago, but he started learning to drive two or three years ago, and now his driving skills are pretty good. The car was a birthday gift from his uncle on his eighteenth birthday, a white domestic car that cost just over a hundred thousand. It was originally an imported Salamadi worth millions, but Jin Bai thought it was too ostentatious and sternly rejected it. Under the cold face of Jin's father, his uncle's standards were lowered again and again, and finally it became this car that had no special features except that it was white and crash-resistant.
Jin Yang had no opinion on what car to drive, and he was not the kind of kid who would throw a tantrum at his parents because his luxury car was replaced with a cheap one. Although he preferred the car that roared like a beast when it started, he also knew that this car was more suitable for his current status.
Being eighteen years old means recognition, but also more responsibilities and rights. Every family member of the company under his uncle's name gets dividends, but Jin Yang officially has the right to control his own money since his eighteenth birthday. How does it feel to become a small local tyrant overnight? Jin Yang felt that he didn't feel very happy, but added a lot of troubles. In the past, this part of the money would be directly invested by the elders, but now it is all in his hands. It is definitely not okay to just keep it in the bank. Maybe it will depreciate and shrink to less than one-tenth of its value in a few decades. But how to manage finances, he rarely touches this aspect, and he is also confused. The elders just smiled and watched him worrying, without giving any advice, letting him learn. Jin Yang currently knows about several stocks and funds, and has also looked at two angel investment projects, but where to invest the money and whether he has time to pay attention during his senior year of high school are all problems he has to worry about now.
“Boom boom boom.”
Jin Yang was daydreaming with a blank look in his eyes when he suddenly heard a few knocks on his car window. Jin Yang looked and saw a fat middle-aged woman sticking to his window and looking inside. When she saw him turn his head, she immediately smiled with a flattering look.
It was very hot outside the window, so hot that the air on the ground was slightly distorted due to the high temperature, and the evaporation could be seen with the naked eye. Fat people are afraid of heat, and the middle-aged woman was sweating profusely on her face, and she kept wiping it with her hands. Even so, she did not hide in the shade, but stood outside the car and looked at him expectantly.
Jin Yang lowered the car window, and the middle-aged woman immediately grabbed the top of the glass with her fat fingers, took out a stack of colorful papers, and said in a thick local accent: "Handsome boy, buy a scratch card! Two dollars a card, the highest prize is one million!"
Jin Yang was about to shake his head, but looking at the sweat and oil on the other person's face, he changed his words and said, "Give me ten." He was long past the age where he would buy all the goods on the stall out of pity for the other person. He didn't buy too much and then look like a fool, but buying some, no matter how much, would make the other person feel very happy and he wouldn't lose anything.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, the middle-aged woman smiled and took out a stack of scratch cards for him to choose from. Jin Yang randomly picked one, tore off ten small cards, and then handed the rest of the cards and twenty yuan to the middle-aged woman. He then took out an unopened bottle of mineral water from the car and handed it to her, saying, "Auntie, it's so hot, drink some water."
"Hey... this, this is embarrassing." The middle-aged woman said embarrassedly, but her hand had already taken the water bottle. She was doing business on the road during the traffic jam. She was already dizzy and dry . She couldn't refuse the cool water bottle, but she couldn't bear to give money. She tore off a scratch card and gave it to Jin Yang, saying, "Thank you, handsome boy. Auntie doesn't have anything else, so I'll give you another scratch card! I hope you can win a million!"
"A bottle of water is not worth much, no need." Jin Yang refused, but he could not stop the middle-aged woman from throwing the card into the car, so he had to accept it.
The middle-aged woman drank most of the water in the bottle in one breath, wiped her wet lips, smiled shyly, and asked, "Handsome boy, why don't you check to see if you have won a prize?"
Jin Yang put all the scratch cards he bought aside and did not scratch them immediately to see if he had won a prize. He smiled and said, "No hurry."
Just at this moment, the car in front of Jin Yang slowly moved, and the middle-aged woman quickly made way and said, "Hey, it's your turn, hurry up."
"Well, goodbye." Jin Yang said goodbye. Seeing the woman waved and turned to walk towards the car behind with a smile, he raised the window and joined the traffic.
Half an hour later, Jin Yang's car drove to the front of the suburban warehouse. Compared with the bustling city center, this area is a different scene, with low-rise residential buildings, narrow storefronts, small restaurants where it is difficult to walk side by side, cheap supermarkets and car repair shops. Because of the hot weather, there are almost no people on the roadside, only a mangy dog lying in the shadow of the corner with its tongue hanging out.
After parking the car, Jin Yang was about to get out when he saw several scratch cards on the passenger seat. He picked them up and scratched them one by one. Among the eleven scratch cards, three won prizes, one for two yuan, one for five hundred yuan, and the last one that the middle-aged woman gave him won eighty thousand yuan.
Jin Yang's face was not happy. He smiled bitterly. He was not surprised by the result. This was the reason why he did not scratch the lottery ticket just now. If he did not scratch the lottery ticket, the middle-aged woman would be happy that she had made a business deal and would get along well with him. If he scratched the lottery ticket, she would be very upset and even resentful.
The feelings between people are sometimes so complicated and irrational. Although Jin Yang is kind, he never denies that there is a dark side in this world, and he will never regard everyone he meets as a selfless and bright saint. Love, hate, greed, anger, and ignorance are all human nature.
But from one day on, his luck seemed to be terribly good. He won at least once out of three times when he participated in lotteries. The same was true when he bought lottery tickets. A two-dollar lottery ticket could at least get him five or ten yuan, and he almost never lost. He would always draw his name when he participated in activities. Once he won the first, second, and third prizes, which made many classmates shout that they had inside information. When he went shopping or went out to eat, he always encountered discounts, promotions, grand opening sales, and free meals for the first 10,000 customers. People around him thought he was very lucky. Even when he took exams, he found that at least one-third of the questions on the test paper were exactly what he had just reviewed the night before.
For example, Rong Yuan had asked him to help sell his house. As soon as Jin Yang posted his information online, someone contacted him that afternoon. After seeing the house the next day, the other party was very satisfied and bought it without much bargaining. Because it was a house in a very good location in the city center, the final price was more than 6 million. Jin Yang found someone to sort out Rong Yuan's things, and within two days, he found that someone in the house had started moving cement floor tiles in and out to redecorate it.
But the strange thing is that if he gives away the lottery tickets he bought to others, the chance of winning will be almost zero - this is the probability when a normal person gambles.
Jin Yang knew that the goddess of luck suddenly began to favor him starting from the time he received a certain gift.
He touched the green jade leaf hanging around his neck. Even Jin Bai and his wife thought it was a handicraft his classmate bought from a small stall. His mother even suspected that it was a gift from a girl. Only Jin Yang knew that it was a treasure.
When the weather is hot, the jade leaf is cool; when the night gets cold, the leaf gets hot. Thanks to it, Jin Yang never feels unwell no matter how bad the weather is. He didn't catch a cold this year, as he used to do every time the seasons changed. At the same time, Zheng Yirou's rhinitis gradually got better. Jin Bai was once retaliated by a vicious gangster, but the bullet that shot him was blocked by the mobile phone on his chest, saving his life. Jin Yang felt that this was all the blessing of this small jade leaf.
He thought about returning the item to Rong Yuan, but he threw it out mercilessly; he also thought about giving it to his parents to bless them with good health, but he didn't want to reveal the secret of the item. Fortunately, even if he wore it himself, it seemed to benefit the people around him, so he accepted it with trepidation. He never revealed a word about the magic of this jade leaf to others, but tried to avoid participating in such lottery activities.
He looked at Yuye, wondering how Rong Yuan got this thing. He gradually felt that Rong Yuan had changed a lot compared to before, and began to feel unfamiliar.
Sometimes Jin Yang would feel confused, not understanding whether the change in Rong Yuan was good or bad, and not knowing whether it was right or wrong to conceal it. He didn't want to hurt his friend, but he also didn't want him to go astray.
