Chapter 12: The 15,000-Yuan Baozi
Liu Mang didn't know that his departure had made Lü Bu and Chen Gong sleepless for the whole night!
He can't take care of that many things, what he's worried about now is how to settle the food for those two thousand people! He's not afraid of military orders, at worst he won't go, Lu Bu can still catch up with him! But he's afraid of that massacre! More than 300 lives, if he can't handle it, following the actions of the Eastern Han warlords, they might really slaughter the entire Zhouzhuang!
Liu Mang is neither a good person nor a bad one, but he can't just watch three hundred lives disappear before his eyes, even if they come from the Eastern Han Dynasty a thousand years ago!
After all, Liu Mang only had a surplus of over 1,000 yuan. This is still the living expenses for this month, and once he uses it up, he'll be left with nothing. Even so, over 1,000 yuan is enough for 2,100 more.
It's just something to eat for three days!
It's obvious even if you think about it with your butt!
"Am I supposed to go borrow money?" What's going on here! Now it can only be done this way! Liu Mang was about to take out his phone when he suddenly discovered a very serious problem.
The clothes he's wearing aren't his at all! His own clothes were changed out long before the breakout, they had too much blood on them, now he's wearing a clean traditional robe!
"My wallet! My ID card! My phone! My bank card!" Now don't even mention 1000 yuan, I don't even have 1 yuan left!
Liu Mang only then realized that the place he was in now was still the exhibition center where he had been flattened, fortunately, the Cospy competition lasted for three days, so Liu Mang disappeared for a day and appeared wearing ancient clothes without being noticed by anyone.
"Right, go find Chen Yi!" The school's booth will be set up for several days, and as the person in charge, Chen Yi must be there!
Liu Mang hurriedly ran towards the school booth, dragging his long sleeves and robes, and indeed Chen Yi was there directing some younger students to take props and combing fake fur.
"Yi Chen!" Liu Meng rushed in front of Yi Chen and shouted.
"Don't bother me, I'm busy!" Chen Yi didn't even look up and continued to instruct a student on how to apply makeup.
I'm going to die, I've been through so much because of you! Now you're ignoring me when I call out to you?!
"Chen Yi, am I Liu Mang?!" Liu Mang could only pull Chen Yi a few times, and finally got her attention!
"Liu Mang?!" Chen Yi's voice suddenly rose.
"Auntie!" Liu Mang hastily covered Chen Yi's mouth, he didn't want to be beaten up again. Last time, he was mistaken for a hooligan and almost lost his life, now he wasn't ready to lose it again!
"It's you! You finally showed up!" Chen Yi opened Liu Mang's arm, she also knew why Liu Mang was so careful. "Where did you go yesterday? It's been a day, I couldn't reach you by phone, and I couldn't find you at your dormitory. The people in your dormitory said you didn't come back, I thought you had sacrificed yourself yesterday! Today I was going to report you missing tonight!"
"It's hard to say, Granny!" Liu Mang didn't know how to explain either. He couldn't very well say that he had traveled through time and space, gone on a trip to Xiaopei City, accidentally rescued Lü Bu, and even gone onto the battlefield to kill people!
"Where did this set of clothes on you come from? Where is my Golden Holy Robe?! Chen Yi only now saw the clothes on Liu Mao's body, mainly black with a dull pattern, but it had a majestic aura! "Wow, it's still silk!" Chen Yi touched the clothes and knew their texture. "Huh, what's this?" There was a segment of dull thread on the pattern, Chen Yi put his hand on it and pulled hard. "Golden thread?!" He couldn't help but be stunned!
Liu Mang was worried about how to say it, first throwing his treasured sacred clothes at Lü Bu, and now he still wants to borrow money from her! What's wrong with him, why does he always get himself into such unlucky situations.
"What?!" Liu Mang was stunned for a moment "Golden silk?!" He hastily cast his gaze towards his own clothes.
"Wow, golden threads!" Chen Yixin admired the Han-style robe. Who had such a sense of style? This should be a general's uniform! A general's uniform originally should have embroidered golden thread patterns! But that was in ancient times, how could modern cosplayers possibly use real gold threads?!
Chen Yi thought he was already one of the meticulous ones, otherwise he wouldn't have used aluminum alloy products for that golden holy garment, just to show off the metallic beauty of his armor!
Now compared with the owner of this dress, I am really inferior!
Money, money! Liu Mang, who was just worrying about money, suddenly lit up in front of him. Isn't this money?! By a freak combination, Liu Mang asked, "If these golden threads are dismantled and sold, how much money can they sell for?!"
"Sold and dismantled?" Chen Yi was surprised, such a good embroidered golden general's robe was sold for its silk? Liu Mang hadn't gone crazy, had he? "According to the pattern made of gold thread, after extracting the thread, there would be about 50 grams left! At current gold prices, which are around 300, it can sell for 15,000!"
"15,000?! Liu Mang smiled. 15,000 divided among 2,000 people is only 7.5 yuan per person. For three days, it should be enough!"
"You can't be serious about selling it?!" Chen Wei thought Liu Mao had gone mad, this general's robe with gold embroidery was such a beautiful work of art, if he really sold it and pulled out the silk threads, it would be a complete waste!
"Yes, I'm short of money!" Liu Mang said.
"Short of money? How much is missing?" Chen Yi's little nose moved "One thousand? Two thousand?!" Chen Yi's family had some money, otherwise they wouldn't let him run the animation club! Because this club doesn't get any funding from school, props and costumes all have to be self-funded! It's not cheap!
Liu Mang shook his head "15,000!"
Chen Yi saw that Liu Mao had made up his mind to sell the embroidered golden robe. "Alright, Liu Mao! Since you really want to sell it, then let's not waste this good opportunity on outsiders! You can stop hesitating now! This is a rare find! Sell this robe to me instead! I'll give you 20,000!" Apart from the golden silk patterns, other parts of the robe were also quite unique, and Chen Yi had taken a liking to it.
"Two hundred thousand?!" Happiness came too suddenly, the hanged man had never seen a transaction of over ten thousand before.
"Ah!" said Chen Yi.
"Okay, okay! I'll go back to the dorm and take it off for you!"
"Hurry up and come back!" Chen Yi shook her head, such a good robe was actually in this kid's hands, what a waste! Concerned about the robe, Chen Yi had forgotten to ask for her holy clothes!
"Twenty thousand bucks, haha!" With money in hand and a sense of security, Liu Mang's confidence grew with the two old men's heads stuffed in his pants.
Three days of rations! Two thousand people?! Good food can't be eaten, but being full is still no problem!
What place can fill your stomach but can't be considered good food? That's definitely the cafeteria!
The canteen of Hongda has a divine food, that is the big meat bun! One bun is as big as a palm, with little meat but lots of dough. It doesn't taste good, but it's filling!
When 15,000 cash was placed in front of the canteen aunt, Aunt was stunned!
"Child, you're not having a fever, are you?" He raised his hand and touched Liu Mang's forehead.
"No way, Auntie! This 15 yuan is for buying buns, buns, those big meat buns that cost one yuan each!" Liu Mang was also struggling. If he had more money himself, he would have bought better ones long ago, why bother running to the cafeteria?
"This guy can't be stupid! 15,000 yuan for a baozi?!"
Liu Mang arrived at the worst possible time. The restaurant was packed, and everyone in the cafeteria saw the red ticket Liu Mang had placed on the windowsill and started buzzing with discussion!
"He's a local tyrant, absolutely a local tyrant!" A brother nodded in affirmation.
"Even if you're rich, you can't spend money like that! Buying buns? You can't finish eating these buns in a lifetime! What a waste!"
"That guy must be crazy! He actually spent so much money on a baozi?!"
"Is that so, won't you be stimulated by something? Did your girlfriend cheat on you? Was she snatched away by a rich and handsome guy? Even if you want to vent, you can't do it like this! Isn't this just wasting the family's money?! Alright! Now Liu Mao is a country bumpkin in front of boys, but in front of girls, he's just a poor kid who got cheated on!"
"Go ahead and split legs if you want to, I'll take you even if others don't! Little handsome guy, use the money you bought a bag with to buy me a bag, and tonight I'm yours!"
"It's all right, it's all right!" The two girls said with a smile.
Liu Mang's face was red as he loaded basket after basket of buns onto the car! The school cafeteria leader even kindly provided Liu Mang with a bread to help him transport the buns away!
The cafeteria really has over 10,000 buns! I hope these aren't all leftovers that have passed their expiration date! Forget it, as long as there's food to eat, that's good enough!
More than 30,000 buns filled an entire van, and Liu Mang didn't have anywhere to put them, so he temporarily placed them in the school's animation club activity room.
Grain is ready, it's also time to go back.
Liu Mang calmed down and looked around at the anime club's decorations, as he still had a few minutes to wait for the cooldown of his teleportation function.
The innermost are all trophies. The Red Big Awakening Animation Society is indeed the number one in the animation world! Whether it's the quality of the sisters, props or funds, they are all very sufficient!
"What's that?!" Liu Mang's gaze was drawn to a suit of golden armor.
Fish scales densely covered, the crown attached to it, and in the golden armor, the stripes seemed like the waves of the sea! On the side, there was also a matching weapon, a trident, which was also gold!
Liu Mang had been preparing to take out his trident and play with it for a while.
Suddenly found an embarrassing problem, that is, one hand can't lift it up, and two hands are needed to deal with it!
Liu Meng is not very strong, but he's quite tall! So holding a 50-60 kg weight with one hand was no problem before, but now it's really hard to hold this weapon!
"This thing won't be a steel product, will it?!" Liu Meng had really guessed correctly, this was indeed a steel spear! The whole body was made of alloy steel, with a layer of gold plating on the surface! Without looking, one could tell that this was also another masterpiece of Old Man Chen.
"This weapon, this armor?! Liu Mang remembered that Lü Boss seemed to have lost his own Fang Tian Hua Halberd! If he were to switch to this one, wouldn't it be even more handsome?!"
Time to cool down!
Liu Mang nodded slightly, and the golden light shone again, enveloping all the buns in the classroom. Liu Mang casually pulled the trident and armor into the golden light as well.
"Whoosh!" The activity room of the Animation Club suddenly fell silent, empty and deserted! The dumpling armor trident had all disappeared without a trace!