A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 14: Photos! (Please read and collect)
What Zhou Qing asked the other party was the tax issues after selling the ancestral antiques.

"Yan Hui Xi Lou" really understood and quickly gave him the answer he wanted.

There are two situations when selling ancestral antiques: ordinary transfer, which requires a 20% transfer tax; and auction, where the auction company pays a 3% personal income tax on the antiques' behalf, plus the auction company's fees, which is generally around 10%.

He knew these knowledge points would be useful in the future, so he immediately typed: "Thank you for the guidance, sir! (Bow) (Bow)"

Yan Huixilou: "Boss?"

Zhou Qing: "I'm a novice in this industry, and you're the boss who's helping me, a novice. (Smiling face)"

After sending this message, he couldn't help but smile.

He admitted that he meant to flatter.

After several encounters, he felt that Yan Hui Xi Lou was very capable, straightforward, and reliable. No matter from which aspect, he wanted to make friends with him.

There was a pause on the other end, and two minutes later, another message came.

Yan Huixilou: "How old are you?"

Zhou Qing replied: "21."

Yan Huixilou: "Can I take a selfie now?"

Ok?
Zhou Qing was a little confused. Why did he suddenly want to see his own photo?

He wasn't used to taking selfies, nor was he used to sharing his photos online, so he made an excuse and said, "Boss, don't people who ask for leaked photos usually leak their own proofs first? (Smiley face)"

Based on his limited online chatting experience, girls generally don't want to send photos to strangers.

Unexpectedly, within ten seconds, the other party sent two messages:
"(video)"

"Okay, it's your turn."

Zhou Qing was once again shocked by her decisiveness.

He reached out and tapped the phone screen to play the video.

It was only five seconds in total. He just took out his mobile phone to take a picture. After seeing the appearance of "Yan Hui Xilou" in the selfie clearly, his mood suddenly changed from "surprised" to "amazed".

In the video, a girl with delicate features and soft contours is sitting at a desk. The lighting is dim and her age is hard to tell. At first glance, she looks like she is twenty-six or twenty-seven, but upon closer inspection, she seems to be only twenty-one or twenty-two.

None of this matters.

What’s important is that she is so beautiful, the kind of beauty that makes people feel that she is quiet and inviolable when they see her.

The five-second video was played over and over again six or seven times before Zhou Qing reached out and clicked "pause".

He couldn't help but admire the woman in the frozen image, whose beauty was both classical and modern. Especially under her long eyelashes, her bright eyes concealed a lively and quiet aura. For a moment, he didn't know how to describe it. Only a poem came to his mind:

The autumn moon in his eyes and a lonely body.

Zhou Qing tapped the screen again, and the frozen image continued to play.

The five-second video ended quickly.

He put down his phone, reached out to touch his hair, picked it up again, turned on the "shoot" function in the WeChat interface, took a five-second selfie with the front camera, and sent it.

He originally didn't like taking selfies like this, but he took them anyway, not because this "Yan Hui Xi Lou" had such stunning beauty and temperament that amazed him, but because he was thinking about doing business with her next - to make money.

"A bit handsome."

The other party made a comment and quickly said, "Okay, I have a lot of work to do, so I won't talk anymore. See you the day after tomorrow."

Zhou Qing thought, as straightforward as ever.

He activated the input method and replied, "See you the day after tomorrow."

He put the phone on the desk beside him, picked up the gold ingot again and played with it.

"Five hundred thousand! Even if you pay the 20% transfer tax, you still have four hundred thousand." "Add the seventy thousand on the card, that's four hundred and seventy thousand! How am I supposed to spend all that money?"

When Zhou Qing thought of this, he couldn't stop smiling.

Just like someone who fantasizes about winning the lottery, he was imagining what he would buy after the money arrived.

"First of all, we must improve our parents' lives and free them from heavy physical labor as soon as possible!"

"We can't do anything about the medicinal herbs we've already planted this year, but starting next year, we have to stop planting them and only plant vegetables for our own consumption."

“And buy a house!”

As a Chinese, the second thing he thought of was house.

I checked online and found that the current housing price in Tanzhou is around 11,000 yuan per square meter, and 470,000 yuan is enough to buy a small apartment.

"I used to think that if I stayed in Tanzhou and worked hard for a few years to save up for a down payment on a small apartment, it would be fine. But now, if I have to buy something, I have to buy a big one!"

"A big house would cost at least a million. If it's a luxury home, it'd be even more. When I was working part-time, I passed by Xiangshui Bay and it seemed like any house there would cost tens of millions."

"Come on, I'll be able to afford it sooner or later!"

Zhou Qing called out the panel and "stared" at the "Complete Reading Library".

We have tried extracting content from reading through medium-length articles, long articles, and the four great classics.

Next, he plans to independently choose to read from the completed reading library and try the remaining "medium-length intensive reading extraction" and "long-length intensive reading extraction"!
Start with the easy ones and then move on to the difficult ones, and start with the medium-length articles with fewer words.

"A Mistake by the River," "The Tree King," "The Chess King"... "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind," "Border Town."

Zhou Qing's attention "scanned" back and forth among the nine novellas he had read through. After hesitating for a while, he finally decided to choose "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind".

"The key to a thorough reading of this novel is to understand the four characters within it. The obvious contrast between the two men and two women makes it easier to begin understanding."

“If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. Before I start intensive reading, I have to update my reading method. After all, intensive reading and comprehensive reading are different.”

He thought about it and reached out to touch the gold ingot on the table.

You know what, gold feels pretty good to the touch.

Gold is a hard metal, but when you touch it, it feels soft, like plastic, perhaps because of its smooth surface, low friction, and good thermal conductivity.

Not that hard.

Of course, I didn't take it soft.

Well, it feels like soft yet hard, and hard yet soft.

Playing with the gold ingot, Zhou Qing began to search for "how to read intensive reading".

He found Liang Qichao's "Pay Attention to Reading Method" and Feng Youlan's "Twelve-Character Reading Method", and so on.

After reading it, I began to summarize the "intensive reading method" that suits me.

"My reading material is novels, so I have to start with the characteristics of the novel genre."

What is a novel?
Novels are a literary genre that focuses on character portrayal and reflects social life through complete storylines and specific descriptions of the environment.

“The three elements of a novel are character, plot, and setting.”

“But the most important thing is the characters!”

“The author expresses what he wants to express by creating characters.”

"So, my 'intensive reading' means selecting the characters in the novels and understanding them!"

(End of this chapter)