A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 10: The wonderful use of drawing without taking!
This time, Zhou Qing specifically emphasized in his mind that he would only draw and not take.

The next moment, a passage from a novel emerged in my mind:

Gao Guanghou and Lu Ruoqin had been mentioning Bingbing's birthday for a while. Yesterday, they were in the city for a market, and Guanghou, saying he couldn't leave, asked Ruoqin to go buy Bingbing new clothes and a few pounds of meat for dumplings. Lu Ruoqin also bought Bingbing a birthday present: a cute little sweater from Shanghai and an inflatable plastic "Astro Boy."

The original text appeared and disappeared, bringing about changes in the panel—

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: "Yellow Leaves Fall in the Autumn Wind" [I won three pounds of pork, do you want to withdraw it?]

Complete Reading Library: "Border Town", "The Return of the Condor Heroes", etc. [Can be read in depth]

Intensive reading completion library: None

"Three pounds of pork?"

Zhou Qing was stunned when he "looked" at the panel showing the items he had drawn.

He knew that it would be difficult to draw anything good by reading through the whole thing, not to mention that this time he was reading a short novella, but he never expected that he would actually draw three pounds of pork!

It’s not that pork is bad. Compared to the homemade bamboo flute that I won the first time, pork is at least edible. It’s just that the time in the book is in the 1980s, which is at least 30 years away from reality.

Winning a piece of pork from more than 30 years ago... always feels a bit weird.

After extraction, should I eat it or not?
Zhou Qing went to the kitchen and took the only stainless steel bowl in the rental house, put it on the desk, concentrated his attention, and selected "Extract" on the panel. The next moment, a piece of meat appeared out of thin air in the steel bowl that he usually used to soak instant noodles!
The meat looks very fresh, with alternating fat and lean parts, and even has pig skin.

I picked it up and smelled it, and there was no strange smell.

"In the book, this piece of meat is fresh meat bought for making dumplings. I wonder what pork tasted like in the 1980s?"

After repeated and careful inspection, it was determined that it was just an ordinary piece of pork.

Zhou Qing suddenly became curious and wanted to cook it and try it.

Although there is an induction cooker in the kitchen, it is only one induction cooker. There is nothing else, including a pot for cooking or frying.

It's already past ten o'clock in the evening, so I can only buy it tomorrow morning.

"But it's just right. Now that we have money, our lives should improve!"

He went to the kitchen, plugged in the 185-liter Konka refrigerator, and moved the meat to the refrigerator.

After washing his hands and returning to the desk, Zhou Qing took out a notebook, thought for a moment, and wrote:
6. "Border Town", a novella, more than words, Cuicui made her own bamboo flute, which is worth about yuan in real life;

119. The Return of the Condor Heroes, a long novel with over 85000 million words. The porcelain bowl used by Yang Guo and Xiao Long is worth yuan in real life.
6. "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind", a novella with more than words. The three pounds of meat bought by Lu Ruoqin is worth about yuan in real terms.

He listed the three novels he had read through so far, and based on the information he had already obtained from the panel, he began to summarize his experience in "reading through and extracting" -

1. Without a sudden burst of luck, it seems difficult to draw something of high real value by reading a short novel. (Note: However, you can quickly accumulate the number of draws.)
2. The longer the article, the more likely you are to win something of high practical value after reading it through. (?) (Note: However, the longer the article, the longer it takes to read through, which is not conducive to accumulating the number of winnings)
3. It seems that things related to the protagonist are more likely to be drawn. (?)
……

Putting down his pen, Zhou Qing looked over his summary again and again.

"So there are three directions to choose from in the next stage."

"First, you can choose to continue reading short novels, quickly accumulate the number of extractions, and try to read the four great classics."

"Secondly, choose long articles with many words and read them through to obtain items of high real-world value and make money!"

“Finally, there is also the option of trying intensive reading extraction.”

He pondered for a moment and quickly made a decision: He now had over 70,000 yuan in his bank account, which would last him a long time unless he made any major purchases. So, he decided to try both the "Four Great Classics Extraction" and "Intensive Reading Extraction" methods!
In Zhou Qing's opinion, comprehensive reading and intensive reading are about "quantity" and "quality" respectively.

It is easier to quickly accumulate ten times through the "medium-length reading and extraction" and then exchange them for trying the four great classics than to choose any one novel to read carefully.

To read through, just concentrate on reading. Doing it ten times will only take a little more time. It is more of a pastime and entertainment activity.

Intensive reading, on the other hand, requires constant thinking and is more inclined towards learning and research.

So he decided to choose "Four Great Classics Extraction" first, and then try "Intensive Reading Extraction".

Zhou Qing summoned the panel, focused his attention, and touched it with his mind.

"Select the novella." The panel immediately changed -

Currently reading: The Chess King (Acheng)

……

The novel "The Chess King" was very much to Zhou Qing's liking, so he read it very quickly. After finishing the four chapters, he was still not satisfied, so he immediately called out the panel and chose to just draw without taking anything, and got a "chess piece".

When I took it out and examined it curiously, I found that it was just an ordinary white chess piece.

He was not disappointed, at least the number of draws had accumulated to 4 times.

He looked at the time and it was not yet midnight, so he touched the panel with his mind again and said, "Select novella."

This time, the panel randomly selected another novel by Acheng, "The Tree King".

He continued reading.

I had just finished reading a chapter when I suddenly heard a faint knock on the door next door.

Someone must be knocking on the door next door.

It’s so late, and someone is still coming to look for me. Zhou Qing was thinking about it when suddenly the knocking sound moved from the next door to his door.

"Boom, boom, boom."

Tap twice each time, very rhythmically.

Zhou Qing stood up and asked, "Who is it?"

The person outside the door didn't answer and the knocking stopped.

His heart skipped a beat, and he asked loudly, "Who's knocking on the door?"

There was still no response from outside the door, so he looked around hurriedly, trying to find a "weapon" to defend himself, but there was really nothing in the room. Finally, he bent down, picked up a stool, walked to the door, and looked out through the peephole.

The voice-activated lights in the corridor were on, but no one was there.

"Is it a prank? Or is there a thief trying to test me?"

Zhou Qing stared at the peephole for two minutes without opening the door. Only when he saw the door next door open and the couple living next door came out to check did he put down the stool in his hand that was not very convenient for him and opened the door.

"Did someone knock on the door just now?"

"Did they knock on your door too?"

"Knocked? I asked who it was, but no one made a sound. I couldn't see anyone through the cat's eyes. I was afraid it was someone trying to steal something."

"There's no access control at the entrance to the downstairs unit. It's too unsafe. I have to talk to the landlord about it tomorrow."

After chatting with the neighbors for a while, Zhou Qing and the husband went downstairs to check. When they got to the door of the first-floor unit, they didn't find anything unusual. After confirming that the person who knocked on the door had left, they each returned to their rooms.

After locking the door, he started reading the novel again.

At one in the morning, after finishing the 30,000-word "Tree King", Zhou Qing called out the panel and once again chose to only draw without taking anything. The next moment, a passage from the novel flashed through his mind, and the panel changed to -

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: "Tree King" [Draw a Chopping Knife, Do You Want to Take It?]

Complete Reading Library: "The Chess King", "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind", "Border Town", "The Return of the Condor Heroes", etc. [Can be read in depth]

Intensive reading completion library: None

……

"Hey, just drawing without taking can have such wonderful uses!"

(End of this chapter)