CHAPTER 268: CHAPTER 265: CINDERELLA’S COMEBACK 10

Anning’s composure is really impressive.

When she said she wanted to continue with the stone cutting, there was already someone offering sixty thousand yuan to buy her raw stone.

But Anning stayed calm and insisted on continuing the cutting.

This time, the stone cutter didn’t aggressively cut further; instead, he slowly polished it.

When the entire stone was cut open and revealed a fist-sized piece of jade inside, spectators began to call out their bids.

"Young girl, I’ll pay you six hundred thousand yuan, sell it to me."

"Look, are you trying to take advantage of her because she’s young and inexperienced? This is ice jade, and you think you can have it for six hundred thousand?"

"I’ll pay one million yuan, young girl, sell it to me."

"I’ll offer one million two hundred thousand yuan..."

In the end, it was the customer who first spoke with Anning who bought the piece of jade for one million eight hundred thousand yuan.

Holding her newly acquired bank card, Anning walked out of the Jade Store, taking lefts and rights, finally managing to shake off the few followers behind her, and then she took a bus to Wu Linna’s home.

Wu Linna rushed out after receiving Anning’s call.

She took Anning to the electronics mall and helped her choose a decent laptop.

By the time the two of them bought the laptop, it was nearly noon. Anning looked up at the sky, "Nana, let me treat you to a meal."

Wu Linna, gripping Anning’s hand: "Sure, there’s a good place nearby, let’s eat there."

Wu Linna took Anning to a small restaurant and upon entering, she ordered, "Two bowls of beef noodles."

Observing Wu Linna ordering the noodles and finding a seat, Anning felt a warm feeling inside.

She understood that Wu Linna knew about her family’s poor financial condition and had deliberately chosen such a place to eat.

In fact, Wu Linna probably intended to treat Anning to the meal, aiming to save Anning some money. But since Anning insisted on treating, and if Wu Linna had refused, it might have hurt Anning’s pride. Thus, she brought Anning here and ordered the most affordable beef noodles.

Two steaming bowls of beef noodles were served, and Wu Linna added some chili oil to hers, "This place makes really tasty beef noodles. I come here often and am pretty familiar with the owner."

Anning also added some chili oil, "Yeah, it’s quite delicious."

"Right?"

Wu Linna, with a smile, said, "They’re really generous with the ingredients here, one bowl of beef noodles is definitely enough to fill you up."

Anning energetically ate the beef noodles, and when they were nearly finished, she discussed with Wu Linna about going to the library together to study during the weekend.

After lunch, Anning bid farewell to Wu Linna and took her laptop home.

When she got home, Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu were not there, so Anning gave Mr. Gu a call, asking him to come home quickly.

Mr. Gu was initially frightened, thinking something had happened to Anning, so he quickly rode the electric scooter with Mrs. Gu and hurried back.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, Mr. and Mrs. Gu returned.

They entered and saw Anning sitting fine in the living room with a laptop next to her, and they were relieved.

Seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gu return, Anning quickly stood up and poured them two glasses of water, handing them over.

Once they drank the water and caught their breath, Anning took out a bank card, "Dad, there’s one million eight hundred thousand yuan on this, you should go to the bank and transfer the money into your account."

"Um..."

"What?"

Mr. and Mrs. Gu were shocked, "How much money is on it?"

Anning repeated, "One million eight hundred thousand yuan."

Mr. Gu stared with wide eyes, panting as he looked at Anning: "What, repeat that, how much?"

"1.8 million."

Anning repeated it several times.

Only then did Mr. Gu confirm it was 1.8 million, not 180 yuan.

"How did you get this money?"

Mrs. Gu was almost scared to faint: "Ningning, we mustn’t engage in illegal activities."

Anning quickly sat down beside Mrs. Gu to calm her down: "Mom, why would I do anything bad? I was just buying a computer, and I passed by a Jade Store. They also sold raw stones. There was a pile of scrap outside their store, US$ 200 each, pick and choose as you like. I thought, didn’t I just win a prize of sixty thousand yuan a few days ago? I felt lucky these days, so I decided to buy one to try my luck. Who knew that after cutting it open, there really was something inside. It was a piece of ice jade, quite valuable. Then many people wanted to buy it, so I let them bid on it, and in the end, it sold for 1.8 million."

Anning briefly explained the incident to Mr. Gu and proudly asked Mrs. Gu: "Mom, isn’t my luck incredible?"

Mr. and Mrs. Gu didn’t know what to say.

A few days ago, although Mr. and Mrs. Gu were shocked when Anning won sixty thousand yuan, they weren’t scared.

Now that Anning brought back 1.8 million, they were truly terrified.

Mr. Gu nervously picked up the bank card: "You, you’ve really got guts, parading around the city with that much money?"

Anning laughed: "Who would guess that a little girl like me is carrying a huge amount of money? Dad, don’t keep asking, hurry up and transfer the money."

What else could Mr. Gu do but go to the bank with Mrs. Gu.

By the time they came back, it was already late afternoon, and Anning had already completed several sets of exercises.

Seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gu return, she discussed with them: "Dad, Mom, now that we have money, you guys shouldn’t set up stalls anymore. You cook so well, can we open a restaurant?"

That was indeed a good idea.

Mrs. Gu looked at Mr. Gu: "Dad, I think it’s feasible."

Mr. Gu thought for a moment: "Alright, let’s play it safe and start with a small store to test it out."

Anning then said: "Can we also get a new house?"

Since Anning earned the money, if she wanted to buy a house, Mr. and Mrs. Gu would surely not oppose.

After all, Mr. and Mrs. Gu also wanted to buy a house.

The house they were currently living in was very old, with all kinds of facilities aging. The electrical circuits and plumbing frequently failed, and now this home was only around forty square meters. It was really too small and living there was very uncomfortable.

Now that they had money, Mr. and Mrs. Gu also wanted a bigger house.

"Shall we go see the houses tomorrow?"

Mr. Gu thought for a moment: "This time let’s look at ready-to-live houses and buy and decorate quickly. Let’s try to get Ningning into a new house soon."

Mrs. Gu also smiled.

Now, she wasn’t scared anymore. Thinking about all the money they had at home, she couldn’t help but laugh.

"Let’s go see the houses now."

Anning felt that spending the money quickly would give her peace of mind; also, she wanted to move as soon as possible.

She still hadn’t figured out who was behind the attempts to harm her and was afraid that person might try something again.

The security in the old district wasn’t great. Anning thought about moving quickly to a housing complex with better security to feel safer.

On the way to see the houses, Anning discussed with Mr. and Mrs. Gu about buying a second-hand or fully furnished house, the kind that you could move into right away.

Mr. and Mrs. Gu thought Anning particularly disliked the current house and was eager to move to a new one, which made them feel somewhat sad.

They felt quite guilty, thinking they had let down the child by making her live in such a small and shabby house for so many years and for making her suffer.

Mr. Gu looked at Anning, feeling emotionally touched: "Alright, we’ll buy a move-in ready house."