Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 612 - 274: The Fungus Seedlings Got Targeted _1

Chapter 612: Chapter 274: The Fungus Seedlings Got Targeted _1

After dinner, Yan Fei and Boss Wang pretty much sorted out what they needed to discuss about, and the contract was drawn up. In these times, things weren’t very formal. The contract was handwritten, and once both parties appended their signatures and thumbprints, it was considered sealed.

The three of them went to the bank together to withdraw some cash. Yan Fei took out twenty thousand yuan without even counting, and handed it directly over to Boss Wang to count himself. He paused, then gestured to Xu Xiaoyan to hand over her passbook to the bank teller, saying, "I’d like to withdraw all remaining money to take with me, can I come back in the evening to collect?"

It was the same bank, the same clerk, who actually remembered him — or maybe he remembered Yan Fei’s attire which never changed except on trips to Provincial City. The clerk was slightly surprised and asked, "Before the close of business? I’ll need to request approval from my superior and make a call to our main branch to transfer the money here. Are you sure you want to withdraw everything?"

"Uh-huh, it’s more convenient for me to keep the money with me, rather than having to come here to withdraw it every time." Yan Fei nodded. "Not all of it, leave the remainder in the account."

He sneered at Miss Xu, who had just discovered her little secret of being thrifty and not spending money. She felt both shy and angry, and retorted, "Hum, I’ll be sure to spend money from now on. We’ll see how you like that!"

"Leave the remainder? Do you mean leave the eighty thousand or the four hundred thousand?" The clerk glanced at the passbook and asked, a little puzzled.

Boss Wang, who was counting the money, was taken aback. He tried to pretend to stay calm and continued counting, but he couldn’t remember how much he had counted so far. Helpless, he started counting again from the beginning...

"Spend it, spend it, I don’t mind. As long as you can spend..." Yan Fei was enjoying himself. Just before he could reply to the clerk’s question, Miss Xu interrupted, "Don’t leave either, take the eighty thousand too, just leave the remainder in the account...

"Let’s just leave the eighty thousand and I’ll take the rest." Yan Fei interrupted Miss Xu and turned to her, saying, "It’s fine, we won’t be able to spend it all at once. Keep it and buy whatever you want, don’t hold yourself back...

"Alright then! Without saying anything more, the clerk nodded. "Be sure to come in the afternoon! If you don’t come and I have the money here, I’ll be responsible for it! You can come a little later after work, just don’t be too late. You can come straight in from the back, you don’t need to come over to the counter."

"Don’t worry, I’ll try to come before closing." Yan Fei thought for a moment and said.

"Yeah, remember to bring a larger bag, this time it’s not the same as last time, your bag won’t fit it all." The clerk reminded him with a smile.

"I’ll bring a snake skin bag, that’ll be more than enough!" Yan Fei also replied with a laugh.

Just as Boss Wang counted the money properly and was leaning by the counter to write a receipt, he heard the snake skin bag comment and his hand twitched, tearing the paper. He quickly pulled out another piece of paper to start over.

After writing the receipt, he also left his pager number and cell number at the bottom, handing it to Yan Fei. "Feel at ease, Yan Fei, just let me know when you’re ready to start. I can be ready anytime. But the sooner the better, those old materials need to be found slowly, once we find them, we need to move them promptly, otherwise they’ll be taken by others."

"Okay, I’ll go home and find out which type of trees are suitable, then I’ll notify you after I plant them." Yan Fei put the receipt in his bag.

"Ah, why are you giving me so much money? I’m afraid to hold this passbook now." Just after Xu Xiaoyan left Boss Wang at the bank, the dissatisfaction hit her. Having said nothing while others were present, now she stared at Yan Fei as if she wanted to bite him.

"Spend it slowly, no rush." Yan Fei looked smug. "Soon, we’re going to have more and more money, you need to get used to living like rich people!"

"Pah!" Miss Xu spat at him. "Rich people? Looks like a nouveau riche to me! Hmph..."

As she reached the public phone booth at the school gate, she suddenly cheered up and said, "Oh, I’m going to go buy a phone card now! That way I won’t have to queue up at the campus shop to call you."

"Go buy it, go buy it..." Yan Fei waved his hand expansively. "As soon as our new house is built, we’ll install a telephone first... How about I buy you an old school mobile phone?" Suddenly becoming wealthy, Yan Fei’s words also grew more grandiose.

"Hmph!" Miss Xu gave him a disdainful glance, not bothering to answer that question. "I’ll go buy the card myself. You hurry up and go find Senior Brother Liu to learn about mushroom cultivation. Study well, and then come back tonight to pick up your money, and get home quickly. Oh, let me see the contract you just signed, I want to look at the house again..."

Unfortunately, there was only one version of the house design, Boss Wang didn’t leave them a copy. Miss Xu could only hold the contract and giggle. After a while she saw Yan Fei was still lingering around, she glared at him: "Go, go, I’ll walk you to the bus, leave this with me in the afternoon, I want to look at it longer."

Sr. Liu’s mushroom cultivation base was even more rudimentary than Yan Fei had imagined. The living quarters were just a little shanty, and the only advantage it had over Yan Fei’s greenhouse was electricity. The material used to construct the greenhouse was obviously old, especially the wooden poles, some of which seemed to have some years on them.

Seeing Yan Fei’s attention on this, Sr. Liu was a little embarrassed and explained, "In the initial stages, I didn’t dare to invest too much. These are all materials from people’s houses that were being renovated..."

Liu, who had seemed rather shy and reserved at first, was transformed once he started talking about technical issues. He spoke enthusiastically, not requiring Yan Fei to ask questions himself. While demonstrating and explaining at the same time, he proved himself a very competent teacher.

When Yan Fei was preparing to leave because of the time, Sr. Liu took out two thick notebooks, stroked them as if they were treasures one last time, and with a reluctant look on his face, handed them to Yan Fei, saying, "These are the work notes I’ve made during the two years of cultivation. Some of them contain issues I’ve encountered during actual operations, you can look at them when you have some time."

"I’ll take it home, make a copy and bring it back to you next week." Yan Fei was straightforward. Seeing how much he cherished the notebook, he readily promised a return date.

"No hurry, no hurry, take your time..." Senior brother Liu politely waved his hand, but his joy was so clear that even Yan Fei could see it.

In the end, he paid for the fungus seedlings, and senior brother Liu even offered to take him in his three-wheeled vehicle - senior brother Liu’s transport, a plain three-wheeler, and Yan Fei would bet it was definitely second-hand.

Looking at the rickety used agricultural tricycle, Yan Fei quickly declined. Anyway, he didn’t need to carry these fungus seedlings far, and this place was remote. He just needed to get out of sight of senior brother Liu, and he could place them on Vegetable Garden Island in the Jurassic World.

Back at school, he found Xu Xiaoyan. When the girl asked him about the fungus seedlings, he lied and said he planned to buy them on his way home. Then he went to the bank with her to withdraw money. He counted the 1.4 million at an inhuman speed and it took quite a bit of time. By the time they had packed up and left the bank, it was nearly dark.

Carrying a snakeskin bag and looking like a rustic old farmer, he was relaxed. The girl, on the other hand, was anxious, and glanced around as if she were a thief. She viewed each pedestrian as if they were a robber.

"Relax! What do we have to fear with me here? Who could rob me?" Yan Fei wanted to laugh seeing her. "We were fine, but if anyone sees us now, they might think we’ve just robbed a bank!"

"Better safe than sorry!" The girl muttered softly, continuing to look around anxiously.

"Stop looking, or people might think we’re eloping!" Yan Fei joked, not really worried about anyone stealing from him.

"Elope with you, my foot! Who’s eloping with you..." The girl was a little annoyed at Yan Fei’s comment, but it helped her relax a bit.

However, her relaxation was short-lived. She started looking around again and soon said, "Hey... there’s a guy behind us who’s been following us?"

"It’s a main road; we can’t stop others from going the same way, can we?"

"No! It’s true, I remember the people behind us, this guy started following us after we turned the corner. He doesn’t seem to live in this neighborhood..."

"Now you think everyone has bad intentions. Do people living here need to wear a sign? Maybe he’s just passing by!" Yan Fei was both amused and exasperated. "Trust me! If he really had bad intentions, would he be so careless as to be spotted by you?"

"Hmm..." She was still looking behind them now and then.

When they entered their building, she rushed up the stairs to look outside from the small window on the landing.

"What are you doing? Come on up! Let’s have dinner and I’ll go back tonight..." Yan Fei said as he climbed the stairs.

"Come over quickly, look at that man standing at the entrance of our community. Hey, hey, hey... look, he’s coming in...he’s stopped, he’s not coming in, he’s stopped at the gate, listen to what he’s doing?" Without looking back, she waved at him.

"Sure, sure..." Yan Fei came over and stood next to her, glancing outside. "The guy’s just buying cigarettes at the little store by the gate. What’s the fuss about? Let’s go!"

The girl turned around and ran upstairs. When she looked outside again from the window on the upper landing, she saw the shopkeeper handing cigarettes to the man, and finally put her heart down: "He’s really buying cigarettes!"

"I told you he’s buying cigarettes, let’s go back!" Yan Fei chimed in as he also climbed up.

"Hmm.." Just as they heard someone coming down from above, she felt too embarrassed to continue her ’counter-surveillance’, and followed Yan Fei up the stairs.

Even after they got upstairs, the girl was still not at ease. She opened the window to take a look outside, and when she realized she couldn’t see him, she opened the door and ran down to the landing to take another look. Then she rushed back and reported: "Yan Xiaofei, we are in trouble. We are really being watched. That guy’s still there! He’s smoking a cigarette at our gate..."

"Really?" Hearing that, Yan Fei also became alert.

"It’s true! At this moment, he’s by the store window talking to the old man!" The girl looked anxious.

"Then keep an eye on the pot, I’ll go take a look..." Yan Fei said, looking at the outside sky. It was not completely dark yet. He told her not to worry, "Stay here and make sure the food doesn’t burn. You have nothing to worry about when I’m here. Even if the earth were to explode, there’d be nothing to fear!"

That’s how awesome we are. After all, we have the Jurassic World!