A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 20 A Cow
[It was late at night and the mountain village fell into a silent sleep. The only sound was the sound of cows chewing grass next door.

She sat before the lamp, doing these tasks carefully and slowly. This labor brought some comfort to her aching heart. She worked slowly because she was afraid that if she finished these tasks quickly, she would fall into pain again.

After choosing "only draw but not take", Zhou Qing immediately thought of a passage from a novel. This was a scene where "Liu Liying" returned to her parents' home and lived in a hay shed after getting divorced again.

The next moment, the panel also changed——

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: Waiting to be selected
Complete reading library: "The Mistake by the River", "The Return of the Condor Heroes", "Border Town", etc.
Intensive Reading Completed Library: Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind

Cumulative number of draws: 1
Extractable items: a yellow cattle, a bottle of methaqualone, a black travel bag, pebbles, etc.

……

"A cow?!"

Zhou Qing was the first to "see" the extra things in the "extractable items" and was immediately surprised and happy.

What’s surprising is that you don’t know whether the one you drew is a living cow or a dead cow.

The content of the text is "I only heard the sound of cows chewing grass next door", which is obviously alive.

He focused his attention, puzzled.

Feedback came immediately: the concept of "a yellow cow", including the arbitrary state of this yellow cow, whether it is dead or alive, depends on what he wants in his mind when he extracts it.

What he wanted was a dead cow, and what he extracted was a complete dead cow.

He wanted a live cow, and what he extracted would be a live cow. But there was one thing: this live cow would be completely clean, free of any microorganisms, parasites, or dust. If such a live cow were to appear in the real world, it would be much more fragile than a newborn calf, and its continued survival was uncertain.

"I won three pounds of pork in the lottery, thinking it would save my life if I ever ran into an extreme food shortage. Now, I have a cow! According to the description in the book, it's a yellow cattle that's been raised in the countryside for a while. Even if it's not an adult cow, it's definitely not a calf. It must weigh at least three or four hundred pounds. If it were a full-grown yellow cattle, it might even weigh seven or eight hundred pounds!"

Zhou Qing's family raised cattle when he was a child, so he is very familiar with this aspect.

"I just don't know how much a yellow cow can be sold for in the countryside now."

He sent a WeChat message to his father: "Dad, how much is a pound of beef in the village now?"

After sending the message, I looked at the time on my phone and found that it was already past midnight. My parents must be asleep by now.

He opened the browser and searched the price of beef raised in the countryside.

"The price of beef in rural areas fluctuates greatly, but the price of authentic yellow beef is generally higher. Recently, the price of yellow beef in Nanyun Province has exceeded 50 yuan per catty, and in Nanhu Province it is 55 yuan per catty..."

Zhou Qing thought that according to the book, his yellow cattle were local yellow cattle raised in the countryside in the 1980s, and they couldn't be more authentic.

The meat yield of native yellow cattle is generally not high. If we calculate based on 150 kilograms of meat, 51 kilograms would be 7,500 yuan.

This number made Zhou Qing's mouth curl up - this was the "joy" in his initial surprise and joy!
"That's still a low estimate, at 7,500 yuan. That's much more than three kilograms of native pork."

Having thoroughly read "Yellow Leaves," he knew full well how "poor" the novel was. From beginning to end, not a single valuable object appeared. This included items that might have been cheap in the 1980s but would be very valuable today, like collectible stamps.

"A whole cow and three pounds of pork. It seems the difference between 'intensive reading extraction' and 'extensive reading extraction' is even greater than I thought!"

Comparing the results of "through-reading extraction" and "intensive reading extraction" of the novella, Zhou Qing's mood suddenly became excited.

The benefits of intensive reading of novellas are so great, what about novels?!
He rubbed his hands, called up the panel, picked out the only long novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes" from the completed reading library, and chose to read it carefully.

Then he pulled out two express boxes from under the bed. These were the complete works of Jin Yong he had bought online from Sanlian Publishing House: "Flying Snow and Shooting the White Deer, Laughing Book, Divine Heroes and Leaning on the Green Mandarin Duck," plus "The Swordsman of Yue Girl," fifteen volumes in all, fifty-six in total.

He opened the books, selected four volumes of The Return of the Condor Heroes, placed them on the desk, and took out his notebook and pen.

Take out the first volume and open it.

After all, I drank a lot of wine, and after reading a few paragraphs, my head became dizzy again.

Zhou Qing had no choice but to close the book and go to bed.

I slept until the next morning, and when I woke up, it was already bright. My head felt a little swollen, so I lay in bed for a few minutes. When I felt better, I reached for my phone under my pillow, unlocked it with my fingerprint, and checked the time.

It's already 9:50 in the morning.

I received a reply to a WeChat message I sent to my father last night: "Beef is selling for 38 yuan per pound in the town's vegetable market right now."

Zhou Qing turned over and sat up, thinking that the beef in the town market was all wholesale beef, not local cattle. But at 38 yuan per pound, it seemed cheaper than before.

He typed back, "Dad, eating beef replenishes blood and strength. From now on, you should go to the street and buy beef at least once a week to stew it with Mom. If there's mutton, you can buy that too."

Then he transferred another five thousand yuan with the note: For eating meat only.

In the next few days, Zhou Qing stayed at home all day reading novels and read "The Return of the Condor Heroes" carefully from beginning to end.

While reading, I was thinking about the second step of the "three-step intensive reading method": which character to choose for analysis and research.

There are so many characters in The Return of the Condor Heroes that I still hadn’t figured it out until I finished reading the last chapter.

"Did you choose 'the cool and beautiful fairy' Xiaolongnu?"

"Or is it Guo Xiang, who 'once met Yang Guo, she was ruined forever'?"

"Or maybe choose Li Mochou, the 'ruthless, infatuated, and resentful woman'?"

"Or... choose Huang Rong, the 'intelligent and kind wife'?"

Zhou Qing closed the book, stretched, and stood up from the chair.

I went to the bathroom to flush the toilet first, and then went out with my phone.

As I walked downstairs, I continued to think:
"Based on our previous experience and the panel's feedback, the second step in analyzing and researching the characters will determine who will be associated with the triggered 'Lucky Mission'."

"So, from the perspective of completing the mission, it's best to choose someone who is close to the character, so you don't have to search for them on the spur of the moment like last time."

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing suddenly had an idea in his mind.

He knew who to choose.

After coming out of the unit, I took out my phone and opened the WeChat address book. After browsing for a while, I found a number and sent a message.

After returning to my residence after foraging, I immediately took out my notebook, opened a new page, and wrote:

An analysis of Huang Rong's behavior in The Return of the Condor Heroes after she became a wife.

(End of this chapter)