"All right, that was the last Livestream Viewer’s fortune. We’ll call it a day."
"Finally done. These streams keep ending later and later."
Xiao Yu rubbed his head, shut down his computer, and ended the stream.
After ending the stream, the first thing he did was contact Su Yunyi and Yuan Yu. As his assistants and Penguin Group moderators, they were to tally the Livestream Viewers interested in buying Protective Jade and collect and verify their shipping addresses.
Yuan Yu naturally agreed with delight, but Su Yunyi muttered, "I knew a monthly salary of twenty thousand yuan wouldn't be that easy to earn. All you do is order us around. Hey, little brother Xiao, can't you give us a piece each, too?"
Seeing her looking at him expectantly, with Yuan Yu beside her looking just as eager, Xiao Yu laughed. "All right, all right. Pick them yourselves. I bought over a thousand pieces of jade, some good, some not so good. Just tell me which ones you want, and I'll make you special editions."
"Great! Hehe, don't mind if I do!"
Su Yunyi certainly didn't hold back.
She jumped onto the bed and picked out the biggest and best piece. Xiao Yu had spent over ten thousand yuan on that piece of jadeite!
Yuan Yu was a little embarrassed and chose an unremarkable piece worth only a hundred to a thousand yuan.
Su Yunyi snatched it from her, tossed it back onto the bed, and picked up another piece to press into her hand.
"This guy's loaded. He makes millions a day! We're robbing the rich to help the poor. Why are you saving him money? It's not like you're his girlfriend!"
Yuan Yu covered her mouth and giggled, but ultimately took Su Yunyi's advice.
Xiao Yu spent a few minutes turning the pieces into Protective Jade and even engraved their names on them.
It was an eye-opening experience for Su Yunyi and Yuan Yu. They watched the jadeite begin to glow in Xiao Yu's palm, then saw strokes appear on their own, one after another. Their names actually formed inside the jadeite, as though they had always been there!
Su Yunyi clicked her tongue in wonder. "Wow, that's incredible. You can't feel any trace of workmanship at all."
Yuan Yu nodded repeatedly. "Yes! If I hadn't seen it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. Brother Xiao Yu, are you really an immortal?"
"What immortal? These are just some simple Taoist arts. Fortune-telling, talismans, jade-they're all part of Taoist arts."
"Wow! So you're a Taoist priest, little brother Xiao? I thought Taoist priests were all frauds. Well, fortune-tellers too. Now that I think about it, though, it does make sense."
"You're amazing, Brother Xiao Yu!"
Xiao Yu smiled. "Now that I've satisfied your curiosity and given you presents, remember to keep my secrets. And do a good job as my assistants."
"Hehe! Now that I've found someone this powerful to lean on, I'm never letting go! I want to cultivate too. Master, could you see whether this humble girl has any talent for cultivation?"
Xiao Yu answered with an enormous eye roll.
"Don't worry, Brother Xiao Yu. From now on, you can leave all the heavy, tiring, troublesome work to the two of us!"
The next morning, Xiao Yu finished cultivating. When he woke, he had already reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining.
Advancing a layer every two days felt unbelievably good.
He spent the whole day at home making Protective Jade, while Su Yunyi and Yuan Yu were also run off their feet.
In the end, the two women divided up the work. Su Yunyi handled the packaging, while Yuan Yu communicated with Livestream Viewers and took orders.
"We seriously can't keep up, Xiao Yu. Why don't you hire another two... no, another four full-time maids? Men can never have too many pretty young girls around, right?"
Because the pieces were valuable, she was worried about breaking them. She had to be exceptionally careful while packaging every piece of jadeite, which made the work painfully slow.
They worked from morning until five in the afternoon and only managed to package just over three hundred boxes before calling a courier company to send them out.
That was with Yuan Yu joining in to help later, too.
So, as Xiao Yu was getting ready to stream, Su Yunyi voiced her suggestion with a face full of resentment.
"If you're paying, I have no problem with it."
Su Yunyi muttered, "Cheapskate! You make tens of millions a day and you're still this stingy!"
By tens of millions, she meant the Protective Jade sales.
That day, they had received orders for thirty-five pieces of Superior Protective Jade, three hundred and twenty pieces of Middle-Grade Protective Jade, and eleven hundred and twenty-two pieces of Low-Grade Protective Jade.
A total of 22.21 million yuan!
When the two women learned the figure, they were nearly scared witless.
Both marveled at how easy it was for someone with real ability to make money.
But for Xiao Yu, making that much Protective Jade would take about a week.
Compared with earning 2.2 million from a single giveaway on his stream... it didn't seem all that impressive. If anything, it had turned into manual labor.
Still, the effort was worth it. With that much capital, he could buy higher-value, top-quality jade, make Spirit Stones, and set up array formations!
"Sister Su, stop complaining. I'll double both your salaries this month. Surely you're satisfied now?"
"Hehehe, satisfied! More than satisfied! Sister Su will stay up all night packing for you! I'll go buy groceries and cook. We were so busy today that I didn't make anything. You can eat after the stream."
"All right."
Yuan Yu was overjoyed as well. Since Xiao Yu was making so much money, she certainly wasn't going to refuse.
Besides, with this much money to send home, she could greatly improve her parents' lives!
"Master Xiao, are you there? Reply when you see this!"
He had just turned on his computer to prepare for the stream when a Penguin message suddenly popped up.
Only a few of the stream moderators on the rankings could send him pop-up messages.
Other fans and Livestream Viewers couldn't add him as a friend.
"Miss Liu, what's wrong?"
"Our station just received a kidnapping report. Lin Hao, the young master of the Lin Group, has been kidnapped. He's the one whose fortune you told yesterday, who then dodged the fee. I thought there was something strange about this, so I wanted to ask whether you knew anything about it. Didn't you foresee this when you told his fortune yesterday?"
"Sorry, I really didn't. Yesterday's divination showed that he was safe. I'm afraid this disaster came about because he didn't pay the fortune-telling fee."
"Is it really that terrifying? Didn't he send twenty thousand yuan in gifts?"
"Revealing heaven's secrets brings divine punishment. I don't decide what that punishment is. That depends on heaven's mood. Gifts and transactions are ways of warding off disaster for everyone. Limiting each person to one reading a day is also meant to keep you from suffering retribution. It doesn't matter how much he spent on gifts. That's entirely separate from dodging the fee."
"I see. What do we do now, then? Is there any way you can help? He already gave you twenty thousand, but now he's been kidnapped for ransom over a mere five hundred yuan, and his life is in danger. That's just absurd."
Xiao Yu performed a divination with his fingers, then typed his reply.
"Don't worry. This will be over soon. The kidnappers will release him without incident. In the end, his father will pay five million to ransom him back safe and sound."
"...Losing five million over five hundred yuan?"
"Yes. That's divine punishment. Usually, the punishment isn't too severe. It's just a bout of terrible luck, generally either losing money or shedding blood."
"Master Xiao, you're way too ruthless!"
"I told you it has nothing to do with me! I'm not the one taking revenge! Besides, I warned him!"
"Don't be angry. I was only joking. Hehe, I'm already waiting in your stream!"
Xiao Yu shook his head and got ready to stream.
"Welcome to my stream, everyone."
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