Chapter 54: Turning into a Jealous Green-Eyed Monster
[Qin Dynasty Tour Group] chat room.
Geng Cang: [WeChat Red Packet] Wishing you prosperity and great fortune!
Zhang Tao: [Holy crap! I grabbed 288!]
Fang Gaochang: [I grabbed 316! What is going on here?]
Zhao Lei: [Wait, isn't the red packet limit 200? I grabbed 276!]
Li Lin: [@Geng Cang Boss, what kind of dark magic is this?!]
Jiang Kai: [@Zhao Lei Less asking about matters of the pugilistic world!] (Note: WeChat in a parallel world, do not map this to reality.)
Li Lin: [Understood, understood!]
Followed by a zipped-mouth sticker.
Wu Xiaoshi: [Poverty has limited my imagination. ipg]
Zheng Chen: [Thanks, boss! The boss is so generous!]
Seeing Geng Cang, that scumbag, move with such speed, Qiao Wenbo and the others refused to be outdone. Almost simultaneously, the three of them sent out lucky red packets.
Qiao Wenbo: [WeChat Red Packet] First come, first served.
Wu Jie: [WeChat Red Packet] Come and grab them.
Feng Yiming: [WeChat Red Packet] Try your luck.
Shi Xiaoyu: [I grabbed 333 from President Qiao's red packet!]
Zhao Lei: [I grabbed 412 from Young Master Wu's!]
Li Jun: [266 from Young Master Feng's! What a great day today is!]
Liu Zhendong: [The big shots of Tour Group Three are way too wealthy, I'm impressed!]
The members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two stared at the generous red packets they had snatched, feeling as though they had been struck dumb with happiness.
Just when they thought it was over, suddenly, six more red packets popped up consecutively.
Zhang Huaiming: [WeChat Red Packet] A greeting gift!
Lin Ru: [WeChat Red Packet] Milk tea money!
Zhao Hong: [WeChat Red Packet] Test your luck!
Zhou Xingfu: [WeChat Red Packet] Fortune arrives!
Jiang Yijun: [WeChat Red Packet] Treating you all to coffee!
Li Qingyi: [WeChat Red Packet] Harmony and unity!
The chat instantly boiled over as members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two furiously rushed to grab them, eager to test their luck.
Wang Haifeng: [I grabbed 499 from President Zhang's!!!]
Zhang Minghui: [I managed to grab 388 from President Lin's!]
Li Jianguo: [521 from President Zhao's! I'm in love!]
Fang Gaochang: [President Zhou's fortune packet gave me 666!]
Wu Xiaoshi: [I grabbed 888 from President Jiang's red packet!!! Hahaha, looks like I'm going to get super rich this year.]
Zheng Chen: [I was the last one to grab President Li's and only got 76, sob sob, I'm heartbroken.]
Li Qingyi directly sent an exclusive red packet to Zheng Chen.
Zheng Chen opened the red packet, and the sight of those five eights left him utterly shocked.
Soon after, the chat screen was flooded with "The boss is generous" stickers.
The members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two were exhausted from grabbing red packets, yet the six big shots of Tour Group Three hadn't touched a single one.
Watching the members of Tour Group Three steal the spotlight, Jiang Kai could no longer hold back.
Sneakily, he posted a video to the chat. In the video, Qin-style gold, silver, jade artifacts, and bronzeware were prominently displayed.
After sending the video, he dropped a smug little message in the chat.
Jiang Kai: [Hehe, these were all gratitude gifts given to me by Emperor Zheng.]
Zhang Tao: [?????]
Li Lin: [Nani?!!]
Fang Gaochang: [Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!]
Zheng Chen: [Ahhhhhh! I want some too.]
Shi Xiaoyu: [I have officially transformed into a jealous green-eyed monster.]
After the initial shock wore off, the members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two went wild, spamming the chat with every imaginable sticker of envy, jealousy, and hatred, throwing them around as if they cost nothing.
Qiao Wenbo, Wu Jie, Feng Yiming, and Geng Cang—four rich second-generation heirs—could hardly resist showing off and immediately followed suit.
One by one, they eagerly posted photos.
Qiao Wenbo: [A gift from the Ancestral Dragon.]
Wu Jie: [I didn't want it, but Emperor Zheng insisted on giving it. No choice, had to reluctantly accept it.]
Feng Yiming: [Great Ancestral Dragon is way too enthusiastic, he even had exclusive seals carved for us. Pretty, right? ipg]
Geng Cang: [Whatever return gifts Emperor Zheng gave are secondary. The most important thing is that I have a photo with Emperor Zheng, and I even touched Emperor Zheng's hand.]
As soon as Geng Cang's message landed, the members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two completely lost their composure.
Zhang Tao: [Ahhhhhhhhhh!!! I'm going crazy, crazy with jealousy!!!]
Zhang Minghui: [Shedding tears of envy.]
Shi Xiaoyu: [Sob sob, I want to touch the Great Ancestral Dragon's hand too. I want to touch it~~]
Though the six big shots said nothing further, everyone in the chat knew they must have also received return gifts from the First Emperor and touched the Ancestral Dragon's hand as well.
They turned green with envy one by one. Even the extra few thousand or even tens of thousands of bucks resting in their wallets couldn't stop the sour bubbles from bubbling up inside their hearts.
Compared to Emperor Zheng, this pocket change was completely incomparable.
As the members of the two groups transformed into green-eyed monsters, Qiao Wenbo spoke a heartfelt truth.
Qiao Wenbo: [To be honest, the four of us managed to get return gifts from the Ancestral Dragon this time thanks entirely to Ah Kai. If not for his strong insistence that we bring those gifts along to present to the Ancestral Dragon, we might not have been so lucky.]
Geng Cang chimed in: [True, true. From now on, we must call Ah Kai Brother Kai.]
Calling Jiang Kai Brother Kai in the past had always been just a joke.
After this incident, however, they genuinely and sincerely wanted to call him Brother Kai.
Feng Yiming: [We rode on Brother Kai's coattails, but Uncle Zhang and the other five are different. They trusted Director Jiang and listened to Director Jiang's words, and look—they became absolute winners. The Ancestral Dragon was thoroughly pleased with the gifts Uncle Zhang and the others brought.]
With these words spoken, the members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two in the chat fell into instant silence.
When Director Jiang said they were going to the Qin Dynasty, not a single one of them had believed it.
Noticing the silent atmosphere, Wu Jie smiled and spoke up: [Don't be discouraged. Why not ask Director Jiang if you'll still have a chance to go to the Qin Dynasty in the future?]
Liu Zhendong: [From what I gathered of Director Jiang's words, future trips to the Qin Dynasty will come with conditions.]
Zhang Tao: [Yeah! It seems once you've been there once, you can't go a second time.]
Wu Jie: [That's all just your guesswork. Instead of guessing blindly here, you might as well just ask Director Jiang.]
Wu Xiaoshi: [Young Master Wu speaks wisely.]
The members of Tour Group One and Tour Group Two in the chat collectively tagged Jiang Ye in unison.
Jiang Ye had just stepped out of the shower when he heard the endless ding-dong chorus of notifications coming from his phone on the bedside table.
With a towel draped over his hair and wearing loose boxer shorts, he picked up his phone.
Seeing the 99+ unread messages in the new chat group made his scalp tingle.
These people really could talk!
Jiang Ye tapped open the chat room. Seeing a continuous stream of @Jiang Ye and reading through what they were asking, the little avatar inside his heart threw up its hands in a helpless gesture of resignation.
The questions they asked were too profound—he had no idea either!
Jiang Ye directly questioned the system.
[Little System, will these people have a chance to travel to the Qin Dynasty again in the future?]
Jiang Ye asked with a tentative mindset, not really expecting the system to give him an answer, but surprisingly, the system actually replied.
[Yes.]
That single, simple word gave Jiang Ye inner peace and provided reassurance to the people in the chat.
Jiang Ye came online.
Jiang Ye: [Rest assured, there will be a chance.]