Ten minutes later, Yu Guoan's men had arrived outside the courtyard carrying fifty million in cash.
"Go collect your money." Su Yi was fairly amiable toward the drunk.
Half believing, half doubting, the drunk walked outside the courtyard. Yu Guoan's bodyguards were carrying over a dozen cases, all filled with bright red banknotes. The sight nearly made him question his life.
"Holy shit! You're really buying it? All this money is mine?"
"It's all yours!" Yu Guoan truly had to concede defeat today. He had already been extremely nervous about coming to see Su Yi, and now he actually had to deal with this drunk, too.
After having the drunk sign a property sale agreement, Yu Guoan even gave him a luxury car before having someone take him away.
"Master, where... where have you been all these years?" After arranging everything, Yu Guoan walked unsteadily over to Su Yi and knelt before him. "Yesterday, when this old servant heard that the boy from the Tang Family had been disrespectful to you, I immediately went up the mountain. But by the time I arrived, you had already left. I thought you didn't want to see us."
Su Yi looked at Yu Guoan with a smile. Yu Guoan had men on the mountain, but those men had done nothing.
Under Su Yi's gaze, Yu Guoan felt a little frightened deep down, as though none of his thoughts had escaped Su Yi.
"Enough. I didn't call you here today for anything else," Su Yi said. "We were master and servants once, but your circumstances are very different now. You just bought this residence for me, so neither side owes the other anything anymore. Everything you possess now belongs to you. I won't ask for it back, so you needn't worry."
The expressions of Yu Guoan and the others changed drastically. The remaining four also knelt before Su Yi.
"Master, everything we possess now was bestowed by you. Just say the word, and we can give it all to you. Having called you Master, I will forever be your servant," the old man in a Tang suit said fervently.
He was Ye Lin, the renowned God of Medicine in Huaxia. Many called him Hua Tuo reborn, but he knew full well that back then, he had only learned a few superficial things from Su Yi.
By now, Ye Lin also owned dozens of pharmaceutical companies and various medical equipment factories, and his assets had long since exceeded ten billion.
With Ye Lin saying this, the remaining four could only echo him. Even now, they could not see through Su Yi. In fact, the more they understood him, the more unfathomable he seemed. Otherwise, they would already have had someone eliminate him.
Su Yi shook his head. "No banquet under heaven lasts forever. Give me what I want, and don't come looking for me again. I don't want to see you again, either."
Struggling to suppress his excitement, Yu Guoan asked, "What is it you want?" His wealth now rivaled a nation's. If Su Yi really wanted to take everything back with a single command, he might have no choice but to fight him until the fish died and the net broke. But Su Yi's words allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief.
"An ID card. Also, I want to attend school and learn about this new era." Su Yi took in every subtle expression on their faces. He could actually guess what they were thinking. "You needn't concern yourselves with anything else. I don't want to be disturbed. If you encounter me outside in the future, pretend you don't know me. Otherwise..."
He did not finish, but there was no need to.
Even if they were powerful figures in their own domains, before Su Yi, they were still nothing more than servants kneeling at his feet.
"As you command!" Yu Guoan and the others answered in unison. Since this was Su Yi's own wish, there was no question of them betraying him!
All they had to do was buy him a residence and arrange an ID card. Getting him into school was even less worth mentioning.
Ye Lin, however, asked tentatively, "Master, are you familiar with this era?"
Su Yi smiled. "I slept for fifty years."
Ye Lin hurriedly continued, "In that case, Master, you still need someone by your side to attend to you. How about I have one of the children in my family attend school with you? Just as a companion?"
The others might fear Su Yi, or even want to get rid of him, but Ye Lin had thought of something they had not.
How could old fellows like them not know the benefits of staying by Su Yi's side?
Yu Guoan immediately came to his senses. "Master, Ye Lin is right. You may not know how quickly this era is changing. There are many things you can't learn in school alone. I have a granddaughter who's eighteen, too..."
"None of that is necessary! Just have someone bring me the ID card later. You can all leave now." Su Yi's expression turned cold. Unwilling to say more to them, he turned and went straight into the house.
The five old men exchanged looks, then shook their heads. Yu Guoan called out loudly, "Master, then your old servants will take their leave."
After saying this, the five of them knelt and kowtowed three times toward the doorway to mark the end of their bond as master and servants.
After entering the house, Su Yi began tidying it up at a leisurely pace, preparing to begin his new life.
By the time he emerged from the house, all the rubbish and fallen leaves in the courtyard had been cleared away. He reclined in a chair for a while and also realized that he did not have a penny to his name.
He was starting with nothing again. He had experienced this far too many times already.
Thinking back, after waking up in the past, he would sometimes look for a job. It did not matter what the work was, as long as it kept him fed and clothed.
As for a life of great wealth and luxury, he had lived plenty of those, too. Thinking about them now, they seemed utterly flavorless.
He wandered the streets alone for a long time. Shops of every trade left his eyes dazzled. Many things were unlike anything he had ever heard of or seen, and there were many written characters he did not recognize, leaving him to guess at their meaning.
But that was precisely what made it interesting to him.
Having lived so long, what he found most tiresome was a life that never changed.
"Boss, are you hiring... servers?" Su Yi waited until evening to begin looking for work, because he knew at least one thing: school took place during the day. If he wanted to work while attending school, he would have to find somewhere that operated at night.
And so, he found a bar.
The girl at the front desk looked Su Yi over a couple of times and asked, "You're applying for a job? Hang on, I'll get the manager."
Soon, a man in a suit came over and asked, "Are you of age?"
Su Yi nodded. "I'm twenty."
"Twenty? You look quite mature. You're applying to be a server, right? The base salary is eighteen hundred. We hold back half a month's wages. You get three days off a month, and you need to request leave a day in advance. You get commission on alcohol sales. If you want the job, give me a photocopy of your ID card." The manager also thought Su Yi had a very good bearing. Perhaps the wealthy women who frequented the place would like him.
Su Yi nodded. "Then I'll come back tomorrow." Only then did he realize that he truly understood none of these things, whether photocopying or commission. Without someone to teach him, he was like an idiot.