Chapter 613: Chapter 190: It’s Alive
Chapter 190 [It’s Alive] (6000)
Chen Yan smiled; "What did you find out?"
"You’ve got some money, live in a villa, drive a luxury car, and have some properties and shops in University City." Lu Xiuting said coldly, "But I looked into your family background... you’re just from an ordinary family, both your parents are deceased, and your only grandmother has also passed away. You have no job, no personal business, no company.
Your money must have been inherited, but what I want to tell you, young man...
Just having some liquid assets doesn’t make you truly rich!
If you don’t control the means of production, if you don’t control social resources, in the eyes of truly wealthy and powerful people, someone like you is nothing but a fat sheep."
"I think... you’re right." Chen Yan laughed.
"Hm?" Lu Xiuting was stunned.
"I mean it sincerely." Chen Yan laughed, "I’ve been to college too, Aunt Lu, I’ve read social economics. People who don’t control the means of production, who only have some cash, can only be considered wealthy in the consumption domain, really just fat sheep.
The real big shots are the ones who control the means of production and social resources.
Take your husband, Lu Sisi’s father. The Yang Family’s business in Jinling Prefecture isn’t huge, but it has several factories with thousands of workers.
With the upstream and downstream supply chain, it directly and indirectly affects the employment of tens of thousands, stabilizing tens of thousands of families.
Even though I might have more cash than your husband, in terms of social influence, I can’t even hold a candle to him.
For example, if something happens to your husband, he can call the top official in charge with a single phone call.
And someone like me, a nouveau riche with a little cash, a parasite collecting rent, doesn’t even qualify to meet them.
Is this what you mean?"
As Chen Yan spoke, he looked at Lu Xiuting, "If I’m really just an ordinary nouveau riche, what you said would actually be correct.
Unfortunately, I’m not."
Lu Xiuting narrowed her eyes.
"Did I not make myself clear earlier? Or did you overlook the details in what I said?" Chen Yan smiled, "As I said, Lu Ding’s body, I was the one who helped with the burial!"
Only then did Lu Xiuting’s expression change abruptly, "You... you really went to that place?!"
"Yeah, you thought I was bluffing." Chen Yan laughed.
Lu Xiuting’s face turned ashen, "You, how could you..."
Chen Yan calmly took out his phone, opened a map app, then navigated to a specific location and pushed the phone in front of Lu Xiuting.
Lu Xiuting glanced at the location on the map app and her face changed drastically!
"You, you really know!" Lu Xiuting’s voice was panicked, "You really have been there?!"
"You thought I was tricking you." Chen Yan took back the phone.
At this point, he felt the timing was about right, put away his arrogance and the deliberately displayed indifference on his face, and said slowly, "Aunt Lu, you are Lu Sisi’s mother. So unless necessary, I actually don’t want to tear faces with you or harm you. After all, that would upset Lu Sisi and put her in a difficult position. So..."
Lu Xiuting’s face changed several times instantly, "So, what exactly do you want to do."
"Nothing, let’s first talk about that story I mentioned earlier, the part of the story I haven’t figured out yet.
The treasure from the Ancient Tomb, it must be in your hands, right? What I’m curious about is whether your father secretly brought it back and kept it from your cousin to give it to you, or if you took it from the Ancient Tomb when your cousin was in prison."
Lu Xiuting said nothing, just looked coldly at Chen Yan.
Chen Yan thought for a moment, "Actually, I understand your concern now... you don’t believe I really have the ability to threaten you, you think the things I said to threaten you are just empty words, just to scare you, right?"
Saying this, he stared at Lu Xiuting and then smirked, "You know Chu Keqing, right?"
Lu Xiuting’s face changed slightly, "In the Profound Cultivation circles of Jinling Prefecture, who doesn’t know the famous Elder Zi."
"Mm, you know her." Chen Yan laughed, pointing at Lu Xiuting, "And, from what I can see, you should quite admire her, right? That’s why your attire is all imitating Chu Keqing."
Lu Xiuting looked a bit embarrassed, shook her head and said, "Elder Zi is renowned, and she is well-received among the powerful and influential. Many dignitaries treat her as an honored guest, and as a woman, to have achieved such success is not at all surprising that I have some admiration for her."
Pausing for a moment, Lu Xiuting glanced at Chen Yan, "Elder Zi is truly an extraordinary figure with real cultivation! Chen Yan, you better show some respect in your words. You young people don’t understand, thinking there are no extraordinary forces in this world; actually, you don’t know, Elder Zi, she... hm?!!"
At this point, Lu Xiuting’s expression suddenly changed!
It was just because mid-sentence, Chen Yan had already silently reached out his hand and gently touched the teapot placed between them on the table.
The teapot instantly disappeared without a trace!
The next moment, Chen Yan waved his hand, and the teapot reappeared on the table!
"You?!" Lu Xiuting stared wide-eyed at Chen Yan.
Chen Yan spread his hands, "I told you, I’m not an ordinary person."
Lu Xiuting stared at the teapot on the table!
Such a large teapot, had just disappeared suddenly under her eyes, and then suddenly reappeared!
In Lu Xiuting’s perspective, this was absolutely not some kind of magic trick!
Chen Yan laughed, "Since you know Chu Keqing, do you have her contact information? Phone? WeChat?"