Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

At the end of September 2023, Magic City.

"Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!..." Yan Youkuang heard the phone ringing, picked up the phone and took a look, then answered the call impatiently and asked, "What's the matter?!"

"Yan Youkuang! Don't think you are great just because you have the word Youkuang in your name. There is no mine in your family. What time is it?! Why don't you come to the company?! Don't you want to do it anymore?! If you don't, there will be a lot of people waiting to do it!"

Yan Youkuang said coldly: "Fathead Fish! Whether I have a mine at home is none of your business. I don't eat your food or drink your drinks, and I don't spend your money. You can't control me. Didn't your mistress tell you. Did I resign yesterday?!" After that, Yan Youkuang hung up the phone directly.

Yu Guang, who was called a fathead fish by Yan Youkuang, stared at his phone in a daze for a moment, then came to his senses and shouted, "Yan Youkuang, you bastard! Don't let me see you! Otherwise, I will cut you into eight pieces! Beat you so hard that your parents won't recognize you!"

At the same time, Yan Youkuang put down his phone, picked up the remote control on the coffee table, turned on the TV and muttered to himself: "Although I don't have a mine at home, I am a demolition worker!"

That’s right, although Yan Youkuang had to see off his grandparents and parents during the lockdown, and he himself had a close call with death, but people can’t be unlucky forever. Not long after the lockdown ended, news came that their old house was being relocated. The relocation didn’t officially start until before the Chinese New Year.

Although Yan Youkuang's family lost four people, their house was privately owned. In addition, Yan Youkuang had his own house so he did not ask for a relocation house. All in all, he received more than 20 million yuan. Today was the day to go to the relocation team to get the check. Yan Youkuang resigned from the machinery maintenance company where he had worked for five years and suffered four years of humiliation yesterday.

After watching TV for a while, Yan Youkuang picked up his mobile phone to check the time and muttered, "From today on, I'm going to lie down!" Then Yan Youkuang turned off the TV, took the car keys on the coffee table, and went out humming the tune of "Gong Xi Fa Cai".

More than half an hour later, Yan Youkuang arrived at the relocation team, signed the check, and then rushed to the bank without stopping. He transferred the money from his checking account to his bank card. When the text message alert sounded on his mobile phone and he saw the money was deposited into his account, Yan Youkuang finally felt relieved.

When Yan Youkuang walked out of the bank and was about to get his car, two people walked past him. One of them said, "It seems that the Dongtai Road Antique Market has moved to the business building in front."

"Really?! Will we still have business after moving into a commercial building?!"

“You don’t know this?!”

Yan Youkuang listened to the conversation between the two and smiled. He suddenly remembered the wooden box he found when he was selling his floor tiles during the relocation. He suddenly felt eager to do something and muttered, "I have to go back and see what's in the box?!"

Yan Youkuang is a talented guy. He heard that someone was buying old floor tiles, and the price was quite high. At that time, his old house happened to be relocated. Yan Youkuang, in line with the principle of making more money, pried a piece out for people to see. Unexpectedly, the people were looking for the same style of floor tiles as his. After some communication, the price was finally set at 650 yuan per piece.

After the price was agreed, Yan Youkuang went back to pry off the floor tiles. After three days of hard work, Yan Youkuang had pried off all the floor tiles in the house. No! To be exact, he had scraped off the cement underneath. However, when he was working on the floor tiles in the room where his grandparents used to live, he found a wooden box hidden under a floor tile. The style of the wooden box was very old, and the material did not look like good wood, but the lock on the box seemed to look pretty good.

Yan Youkuang didn't care at the time, he took the box back to his residence and threw it in a corner. Then he forgot about the box. If he hadn't heard the conversation between the two people just now, Yan Youkuang might not remember it now.

The car sped along, and more than half an hour later, Yan Youkuang returned home. As soon as he entered the house, Yan Youkuang immediately found the wooden box that was pressed under the clothes. He found tools, removed the lock on the wooden box, and opened the lid. In addition to a few small yellow croakers, there was also a round bead the size of a ping-pong ball made of unknown material. Yan Youkuang knew the small yellow croakers, having seen them many times in TV dramas. Yan Youkuang put the small yellow croakers away, threw the wooden box into the drawer under the coffee table, and then picked up the apples and fruit knife from the fruit plate to peel the apples. While peeling, the phone rang, and Yan Youkuang accidentally cut his hand when he answered the call. Yan Youkuang quickly turned on the hands-free, and asked, "Who is it?!" He quickly opened the first aid box on the coffee table and took out a waterproof Band-Aid from it.

"Yan Youkuang, you damned bastard! Do you have all the money for the relocation?!"

Yan Youkuang put on a Band-Aid, picked up his phone with a smile, and said, "Who did I think it was?! It turned out to be the aunt who severed ties with my grandparents?!"

"Yan Youkuang, I won't waste my time! Keep five million and hand over the rest! Otherwise, I will never forgive you!"

Yan Youkuang replied, "I'll wait!" Then Yan Youkuang hung up the phone and muttered to himself, "It was you who broke off relations with my family after my grandfather was labeled a rightist. It was also you who tricked my father into going to the countryside to work in your place. It's okay that you don't visit grandpa and grandma on weekdays. You didn't answer their calls before they passed away. You want money now? No way! Besides, I have the will in my hand, so why should I be afraid of an ungrateful person like you?!" Then Yan Youkuang stretched and said, "Why am I so sleepy? Lie down for a while!"

Not long after, Yan Youkuang fell asleep on the sofa. At this moment, the bead on the coffee table absorbed the blood that Yan Youkuang had accidentally dropped on it, and it lit up with a charming golden light. Then the bead floated into the air and slowly moved to the center of Yan Youkuang's eyebrows. Soon the bead flew into the center of Yan Youkuang's eyebrows. At this time, Yan Youkuang seemed to be dreaming and came to a strange place. This place was endless and there was nothing, only a big countdown clock. The time on the clock was a countdown of thirty days.

Yan Youkuang suddenly woke up from his sleep, sat up, rubbed his face with both hands, picked up the cigarette box on the table, took out a cigarette, lit it and started smoking. While smoking, Yan Youkuang suddenly found that the bead had disappeared at some point. As a long-time bookworm, Yan Youkuang soon realized that he might have won the jackpot.

After calming down, Yan Youkuang put out the cigarette in his hand and looked at the cigarette box on the table. Then the cigarette box disappeared. Then he thought "out", and the cigarette box appeared in the original place again. After playing back and forth several times, Yan Youkuang finally figured out that he could collect and release things within a radius of 30 meters. However, living things cannot be placed in this space. Because when collecting things, Yan Youkuang saw a cockroach crawling slowly on the ground. In order to test whether he could put living things in, Yan Youkuang planned to collect the cockroach. But the space would not collect it.

Since the space wouldn't accept him, Yan Youkuang could only use the old method, take off his shoes, and send Xiaoqiang into reincarnation.