Chapter 3 Scattering Wealth
The feeling was very mysterious, just like the statue of God of Wealth was touched by something and was about to come back to life at that moment.
It’s like dry firewood encounters fire, it’s like positive electrode encounters negative electrode, it’s like thirsty wheat seedlings encounters water droplets, it’s like perverts encounters beauty, the desire is unconcealed. If this statue of the God of Wealth can talk, Ding Ning probably said the word “money”.
But this feeling did not continue. It flashed in Ding Ning's heart like a flash, and then disappeared without a trace.
But this time, Ding Ning was extremely convinced that this was not an illusion, definitely not an illusion!
He was not very sure in Guandi Temple. This time he finally confirmed that this statue of God of Wealth is strange!
Ding Ning's hands were trembling, and the problem of rapid heart rate seemed to be infinitely amplified at this moment. The heart was beating restlessly in his chest, and the sound was loud as if he was beating a drum.
Ding Ning felt that he should do something, the God of Wealth should be particularly sensitive to money.
He held the statue of God of Wealth in one hand, and carefully placed the coin on the statue with the other hand.
It's stable and won't fall. Ding Ning nervously held the statue and felt it silently.
Unfortunately, that feeling did not appear again.
Ding Ning was very unwilling to place the God of Wealth and the coins in various ways, close to each other, or set aside a little distance, but no matter how he tossed, the mysterious feeling did not appear.
After struggling until midnight, Ding Ning did not find any new discoveries.
It was late at night and sleepiness gradually came, and Ding Ning finally gave up.
However, he was sure of one thing, that is, this statue of God of Wealth is definitely not simple, but he has not found the right method yet, and is now in an inactive state.
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"Aning, wake up."
My mother's gentle voice sounded in Ding Ning's ears. Ding Ning rubbed her sleepy eyes and sat up with difficulty.
I stayed up too late last night, and Ding Ning didn't even get up in the morning to practice Tai Chi.
"Mom, I'm getting up late."
"It's okay. You're on summer vacation and don't have to go to school. It's no big deal to go one day late. But don't get up late tomorrow. You know that your health is not good, so you still need to exercise a little moderately."
Thirteen Niang gave a few words of advice and smiled at Ding Ning, "There are guests coming today and having dinner at our house. Later, you go out to the convenience store to buy some vegetables and prepare to entertain the guests."
"Well...who is coming?"
"It's your Aunt Wu and her Mengyao from the weaving field."
Ding Ning frowned slightly and remembered the two of them.
A woman wearing gold and silver and arrogant, also walked out of Qingshan Village. She was the sister of the current village chief. She bought the handicrafts such as Chinese knots and other handicrafts that her mother knitted. It is said that this woman is very powerful, with a net worth of tens of millions, and has a factory in the city. She has been to her house twice, and Ding Ning has a bad impression of her.
Aunt Wu's family was not that rich, and she was the only person who could talk to her mother in Qingshan Village. Aunt Wu felt good about Ding Ning when she was a child. After all, Ding Ning was handsome and polite at that time. I remember that Aunt Wu said she wanted to accept Ding Ning as her son-in-law, and her mother happily agreed. The old man was still present to witness this matter, and the two families exchanged a token of confidants.
But since Ding Ning became fatter, Aunt Wu has never mentioned this matter again.
As for Aunt Wu's daughter Wu Mengyao and Ding Ning, I still remember that every time Aunt Wu came over, the daughter would follow her. It was said that Wu Mengyao was pretty and was quite cute when she was a child, otherwise her mother would not have agreed to Aunt Wu's request to accept Ding Ning as her son-in-law.
But as time goes by, Wu Mengyao also changed. Every time she comes, she looks like a noble princess. Seeing that Ding Ning becomes fat, she even disdains her. Ding Ning dislikes the inexplicable superiority and philanthropy in her words.
When Ding Ning heard that these two people were coming, he was even more unhappy: "Mom, they are here to buy China and you just sell it to them. Why do you have to entertain them? I won't go."
"All nonsense is it, Mengyao of Aunt Wu's family has been married to you, right? Your Aunt Wu opens her mouth and wants to take over all the remaining Chinese knots in our family. You have started school and are all in high school. Now the tuition fee is not enough. This time, it will be almost done to sell the remaining Chinese knots in our family. We can be poor, but we cannot lose our ambitions and we cannot lose our courtesy. People are willing to help us, so the guests are here. If the hospitality is not rich, there is no way, but if we don't entertain, we will be looked down upon. We can't do such a thing, get up quickly."
Although Thirteen Niang is in her early thirties, she has never done heavy physical work and does not go out every day. She has not been exposed to wind and sun. She has taken good care of herself and looks like a 23 or 24-year-old young woman.
Moreover, she always works steadily. Ding Ning's impression is that her mother has never been really angry. Even if the tongue-in-laws around her arranged her, she seemed to have not heard it.
Although his clothes were simple, they were very clean and decent. Ding Ning always felt that his mother's past should not be simple, but he had never asked about it.
Thirteenth Lady took out fifty dollars and handed them to Ding Ning, "Get up quickly, buy the vegetables early, don't let your Aunt Wu and the others laugh at me."
Ding Ning reluctantly got up with the money, washed up and went out.
He still kept holding the statue of God of Wealth, but that wonderful feeling never appeared.
When he arrived at the convenience store in the village, Ding Ning bought a piece of meat and a bottle of canned food, and took a few bottles of drinks. It is summer now, and there are still vegetables at home.
Fifty yuan spent a lot of money, Ding Ning walked out of the convenience store with the statue of the God of Wealth in one hand and with something in the other.
Just after I went out, I saw a few children playing outside the door.
Several Taoists from the village pushed a girl down, snatched the ice cream from her hand and then scattered.
The girl is only five or six years old. The children in the village are so slim. It’s nothing to fall, but the ice cream worth one dollar was snatched away, and the girl burst into tears with sadness.
Ding Ning knew this child, Diandian, the daughter of Teacher Wang in the village elementary school, and Teacher Wang also taught him.
Teacher Wang had high expectations for Ding Ning when he was in elementary school and had always cared about Ding Ning's study. It can be said that Ding Ning's current academic performance is inseparable from Teacher Wang's teaching.
Seeing his daughter being bullied, Ding Ning would not chase and beat the children, but he could not stand by.
He came to Diandian with his things, and Ding Ning helped her up and comforted her softly: "Diandian won't cry anymore, don't cry anymore."
"I...I want ice cream..."
Diandian cried loudly, and the child didn't care if he broke his skin, but he was still thinking about his ice cream.
Ding Ning touched his pocket helplessly. The fifty dollars had already been spent. If he had known, he would have left one dollar.
"Well! There's this coin!"
Ding Ning suddenly touched the coin from last night, was delighted, took out the dollar, handed it to Diandian, and said to him: "Come on, brother, I will give you one dollar, and you can buy another piece of ice cream."
"Thank you brother!"
The little girl burst into tears and laughed. She happily took Ding Ning's dollar and ran into the convenience store quickly.
Ding Ning smiled and was about to turn around and leave, but at this moment, the statue of God of Wealth that he had been holding in his palm suddenly changed!
The statue that was originally pinched in the palm of the hand disappeared in this moment!
As the one dollar was given out, a thread that was extremely slight and a hundred times thinner than the hair appeared in Ding Ning's body as if it were essentially solid!
Chapter completed!