Chapter 16: An Unexpected Breakthrough
The publication of Li Ping'an's books, especially the publication of "Ping An's Bedtime Stories", in addition to sparking heated discussions among the readership again, Hollywood's large and small film and television production companies have once again found Fang Menghua, because most of the novels in this "Ping'an's Bedtime Stories" are too adaptable, and it is foreseeable that once these storyboards are put on the big screen, the box office success is obvious.
Fang Menghua is not a mediocre person, how could she not understand what others can see, so these guys who want to pick up cheap are all rejected by her.
When Christmas came, Fang Menghua, as Barbara's best friend, mailed a large number of gifts with Chinese characteristics to the Bush family, such as embroidery, Tang costumes, porcelain and other items, and of course some famous tea and dried fruit preserves, which were not expensive, but also represented a heart. During her stay in the United States, Barbara took Fang Menghua to get acquainted with the wives of many important political figures, which also allowed Fang Menghua to see the extensive connections of the Bush family. When she learned that Bush Sr. intended to run for the Senate again, Fang Menghua took the initiative to hand over a campaign donation of 500,000 US dollars, which also made Barbara attach more importance to this best friend.
The cold winter is quietly passing, and the pace of spring is approaching. In 1971, it flowed by Li Ping'an's side, and it was the Spring Festival, according to the convention, the Spring Festival was spent by Fang Menghua with Li Ping'an, but this time Shao Yifu took the initiative to ask Fang Menghua and Li Ping'an's mother and son to go to Xingzhou to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with everyone, Li Ping'an refused, he didn't want to be involved too much with the Shao family, but he persuaded his mother Fang Menghua to participate, and Fang Menghua thought about it and agreed again and again.
Because I was afraid that Li Ping'an would be lonely, Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao took the initiative to stay with Li Ping'an during the Spring Festival, and Zhou Xiaomei's family was also a lot more lively.
Just after Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Pingan received a New Year gift from Barbara on the first day of the new year, because he heard Fang Menghua say that Li Pingan loves jade, so Barbara bought a jade pei from a collector in the United States, this jade pei was transferred overseas from China during the Gengzi Rebellion, and was inadvertently obtained by this collector, this collector does not attach importance to this jade pei, and Barbara only spent 25,000 US dollars.
As Li Ping'an's income is getting higher and higher, more than half of the high-grade jadeite in Myanmar has been purchased by him in the past two years, and now the Chinese economy has not taken off, and the international situation is relatively turbulent, so the price of jadeite is far less high than that of later generations. In addition to jade and jade, Li Ping'an also acquired a lot of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, mostly Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Picasso and others, which can be regarded as an investment. Because Zhang Daqian and Picasso are still alive, the value of their paintings has not yet reached a sky-high price, so Li Ping'an's paintings of the two of them have purchased nearly 200 pieces, among which Li Ping'an is most surprised by Fang Menghua's "Boy with a Pipe", only this painting can easily make a person a billionaire after the millennium.
When Li Ping'an got this jade pendant, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart, and the affairs that made him so palpitating in his life had never appeared. After dinner, Li Ping'an warned others not to disturb him, took this jade pendant to the study, and gently pressed a bulge in the corner of the bookcase, and the bookcase was separated from it.
The room was empty, but it was spotlessly clean. Li Ping'an sat cross-legged on the ground, calmed down, picked up this jade pendant and began to examine it carefully, the jade pendant has not been carved too much, but it has been simply sculpted into a golden dragon spit bead according to the natural texture of blood red in the center. Li Ping'an held the jade pendant in his hand and began to run the Yellow Turban Lux Alchemy with all his might, and after a while, the jade pendant turned into powder and scattered around, leaving only a dark red droplet suspended in front of Li Ping'an. Li Ping'an opened his mouth and inhaled, and introduced this dark red droplet into the lower dantian to start refining. Suddenly, Li Ping'an's mind was in a trance, and the phantom of a golden dragon with huge wings roared and rushed towards his sea of knowledge, Li Ping'an clenched his teeth, guarded the spiritual platform, and kept running the Yellow Turban Lux Alchemy, maybe it was a day, maybe a hundred years, and when the dragon shadow dissipated, Li Ping'an came to his senses and found that the Yellow Turban Lux Alchemy had broken through to the early stage of the fourth layer, according to Li Ping'an's vision, it would take a hundred years to achieve this step, and it would also require an abundant amount of jade containing spiritual energy, and the most surprising thing for Li Ping'an was that his divine sense was not only doubled, but also more condensed, and began to liquefy。
When Li Ping'an got this jade pendant, he knew that the jade pendant was wrapped in the blood of the divine beast, because the blood of the divine beast was needed to speed up the progress in the cultivation process of the Yellow Turban Warrior's alchemy technique, Li Ping'an did not have this condition at all now, and finally found a drop, in order not to waste Li Ping'an, he swallowed it raw and refined it in his abdomen, but what Li Ping'an didn't expect was that this drop of blood turned out to be a drop of essence blood of an ancient Ying Dragon, fortunately, Li Ping'an was a human being in two lives, and he was born with strong divine sense, otherwise he really couldn't pass this pass, but also because of this adventure, Li Ping'an not only saved a hundred years, and also reaped an unexpected joy, because the divine sense has become stronger, some Taoist techniques that Li Ping'an could not use in the past can already be used flexibly, such as the jade pendant that was refined for Fang Menghua before, and now Li Ping'an can make it in just one day.
When Li Ping'an left the study, it was already dark, and he checked the time, this time it took a whole night to refine this drop of essence blood.
After breakfast, the three girls began to talk secretly, and Zhao Yazhi was the first to start gossiping, "Sister Qingxia, Sister Gillian, have you noticed that Young Master Ping An has suddenly grown a lot taller!"
"Yes, I also feel that the young master is a little different, especially the skin, which is like a pink baby!" Lin Qingxia also said very strangely.
Lin Fengjiao glanced at his children, "Didn't you notice that the young master seemed to have grown up?"
Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia's children began to make fun of Lin Fengjiao, who was flushing at the same time, "I know that Sister Gillian has a mortal heart for the young master, and now I must be thinking about how to wipe the young master clean!"
Not to mention the frolicking of the three daughters, Li Ping'an also stood in front of the mirror at this time and looked at himself carefully, his height changed the most obviously, he was close to one meter seven, and his face had grown a lot, a little like a sixteen-year-old young man, and now if he went out, no one would believe that he had just turned thirteen.