CHAPTER 1931: CHAPTER 911: SUCCESS COMES EFFORTLESSLY

Under the blue sky and white clouds, in a lively little market.

Inside a small shop, Chen Yingjun asked Xu Xiaoyan with great flair, "Sis, which one do you like?"

"This one!" Xu Xiaoyan pointed to a small ornament made of colorful shells.

"Alright, watch me!" Chen Yingjun turned his head and asked the shop owner opposite. "How much money..."

Yan Fei held his wife’s hand, and the two were laughing joyfully. Xu Xiaoyan was quite taken with this foreign flea market, looking around as soon as she came in, wanting to buy some small items.

But when Chen Yingjun volunteered to be the main force in bargaining, Xu Xiaoyan’s leisure turned from shopping to watching... a monkey show.

Classmate Xiaochen’s foreign language skills... Occasionally spouting a few words was an extraordinary performance. However, in his words, he was paying for a learning opportunity, and Yan Fei and his wife enjoyed the lively scene.

In the past two days, unable to stand his frustration with not understanding foreign languages, Chen Yingjun took the initiative to seize the chance to practice, forced by circumstances. Imagine walking down the street, not understanding the map, or even being unable to read many roadside signs—how does that feel?

It’s like suddenly becoming illiterate, unable to understand even bus stop signs. Looking at those shops, if you can’t see what’s inside from the outside, you wouldn’t even know what they sell.

Can’t read the menu to order food, can’t find someone to ask for directions—it’s truly frustrating beyond words.

"Done!" After who knows how long, Chen Yingjun joyfully paid and took the item. "This wasn’t a rip-off, was it?"

Yan Fei nodded, "Nope, it’s fair."

"That’s good, I’ll note it down." Chen Yingjun happily took out his paper and pen and jotted down the stall’s location.

His little notebook already had several shops and stalls logged, some took advantage of his lack of language skills to rip him off, while others, like this shop owner, did business honestly.

Of course, for those who intentionally overcharged, Xu Xiaoyan would suddenly say no—even so, such shops would be blacklisted by Chen Yingjun.

Chen Yingjun whimsically called this testing the local people’s integrity while practicing foreign languages. But in this small market, what standards could he test, and besides, Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan often couldn’t tell if he was being ripped off.

Honestly, they didn’t care about the money, it was all just for fun.

The effect was still quite good; a morning’s practice probably yielded more results than three months in school. Now Chen Yingjun was no longer afraid to talk to foreigners, daringly stepping up to haggle—using foreign words with foreigners, proficiency didn’t matter much as long as he spat out a few words, they could mostly guess his intent. Especially in straightforward scenarios like shopping, it wasn’t that complicated.

By lunchtime, Chen Yingjun even took the initiative to communicate in English with the restaurant waiter and started ordering food himself!

"The kangaroo meat I ordered myself is delicious!" Chen Yingjun ate with oil dripping down his chin, bragging. "But the beef is really mediocre, not as good as ours. Brother Fei, you were right to come here..."

Yan Fei didn’t even bother to reply, as the three of them had just randomly picked a roadside restaurant. Such places couldn’t possibly serve high-grade beef, and if there was kangaroo meat, it was because its price was almost the same as beef’s and not considered a rarity.

As for other seafood, the three weren’t too enthusiastic. For example, the most popular abalones here couldn’t compete with those made in China, which were the most delicious.

"Yan Xiaofei, look at this, look at this..." Xu Xiaoyan, who had finished eating, was reading the newspaper and suddenly exclaimed to Yan Fei in excitement.

Yan Fei turned his head and saw a news article in the newspaper: Spiter Ranch for Sale.

"Comes so easily!" Yan Fei took the newspaper; his first reaction was to look at the address, and then he grinned.

"What’s that?" Chen Yingjun looked at Yan Fei’s happy face, leaned over to take a look, and appeared puzzled.

Yan Fei saw his expression and gloated, "Haha, serves you right for not studying well. It says here a ranch is for sale in Queensland, not far from here."

"Then we should hurry over to take a look!" Chen Yingjun was also excited.

"No rush, this ranch isn’t small; it probably won’t sell quickly." Yan Fei smiled. "Over three million acres, more than twenty thousand hectares, over two thousand square kilometers... The key is it’s suitable for raising cattle, not bad at all!"

"Wow, over three million acres, more than two thousand square kilometers, much larger than our Black Gold City..." Chen Yingjun marveled. "How much would all that cost?"

"It’s almost as large as our entire county!" Xu Xiaoyan also marveled. "Luckily, the price isn’t too high."

Chen Yingjun’s face turned dark; a ranch of three million acres, even at a hundred per acre, would cost three billion, and that’s not expensive? Poor him, now reminiscent of being illiterate, couldn’t find where the price was listed after looking for a long time.

Miss Xu Xiaoyan, though frugal with small amounts, had now seen tons of gold, and thinking about becoming a big landowner, she genuinely felt the price wasn’t expensive!

"Really not expensive." The lady kindly explained to Chen Yingjun. "This ranch probably isn’t great, asking for less than five million. We can bargain further, hopefully cutting it down by half."