Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

Anna, the talkative classmate on the phone, showed off proudly for a while, then hung up the phone.

"dududu~"

"dududu~"

……

After hearing the 'beep' sound on the phone.

Stark, who had never been hung up on before, held the phone in confusion, his mind still resonating with the truth about the dog hair, which he had already guessed a little bit.

It was only a million, he didn't care at all. He was confused just because he felt uncomfortable after being ridiculed by a 6-year-old kid.

Stark turned his head stiffly and stared blankly at Pepper and Happy standing at the car door for a long time.

Finally, something extremely embarrassing came out of his mouth.

"She actually hung up on me..."

"..."

"Yes, Mr. Stark. The electronic signal at XXX in Wilburton, Kansas has ended instant communication..."

In Stark's earphones, the voice of the artificial intelligence Jarvis sounded timely, completely unaware of the situation and arriving late.

"Maybe I should try hanging up the phone someday!"

Seeing Stark's unhappy and confused face after someone hung up the phone, Pepper, who was waiting by the car door, also spoke to Tony with a gloomy look on her face.

Happy, the fat bodyguard standing nearby, opened his arms and shrugged helplessly at the dog owner. He looked as if there was nothing wrong with hanging up on you, and it was fun to watch.

Chapter 018 Start shorting stocks!

"Mr. Steve, please stop looking at me like that!"

In the basement, after hanging up the phone with Stark, Anna looked at Steve's tearful eyes on the sofa.

Up...

"Think about it another way. Even though I can't get my beloved red cape back..."

"But you've become a dog whose hair is worth a million dollars, right?"

This is poisonous chicken soup! ~

Anna was about to give herself a thumbs up for her wit.

"Woof~Woof woof woof!~"

--I don't believe you! ~You are such a bad shit shoveler!

Steve on the sofa barked at Anna a few times. Knowing that he couldn't get his cloak back, the dog ran out of the basement dejectedly and grieved alone.

"You're still so naughty... Anna. Steve will probably hate you for a long time..."

After witnessing the various "confrontations" between Anna and Stark on the phone, Julia's mother, who was as beautiful as a goddess in a painting, said to Anna with a smile on her face.

However, she had no opinion on the fact that Anna had used a piece of dog hair to cheat Stark out of one million. After all, for dog owners like them, neither she nor Stark cared at all.

And because no one cares about money, if Steve wants Anna to get the red cape back, it will naturally be extremely difficult...

"These damn rich people! Ugh! ~ Julia Mom, I'm not talking about you..." After understanding Stark's approach to the cloak issue, Anna in the basement also cursed casually.

Although she used to love wearing that cape, it was essentially just a dispensable item. After all, it only cost 2.99...

This isn't some Superman nanosuit.

The only one in the family who really missed it was Steve.

So Anna didn't think much about the red cloak.

"It doesn't matter! Lorraine and I will make you a rich man in the future..."

Ms. Julia said to Anna with a smile, implying that you, little brat, will eventually become one of those 'damn rich people' you mentioned.

"You did a great job today! You even thought of confirming with the seller before shorting the stock... and you didn't lie."

After watching Anna's phone call, Julia's mother also praised Anna. The most important thing was that Anna's way of asking Stark for inside information without telling a lie was very pleasing to her.

Anna, her adopted daughter, doesn't care how much money is involved, but whether it is a lie or not is the most important thing to her.

"Uh!~ Then can you teach me to become a rich man now?"

After receiving praise from Julia's mother.

After feeling happy for a while, the little brat Anna started to become more and more demanding, acting like a shrimp in front of Julia's mother.

"Like, let's say you lend me some money first, and then start by shorting Stark's stock..."

"..."

"Haha! Earn your own money... We won't lend you money for speculative business."

"But I'll let Lorraine's men do it for you."

When Ms. Julia heard that Anna, this little brat, wanted to borrow money, she laughed, but she did not agree to the little brat's request.

"So, Mother Julia, is your and Mother Lorraine's stockbroker still Larry, who looks like a winter melon?"

"It's Larry, indeed. But you'd better not let him know this." Julia knew what the little brat was going to do as soon as she heard her words. "And after using their financial services, you have to remember to pay..."

"Okay! I'll pay him... I'll call him right away."

After hearing Julia's mother's permission to use their stockbroker, Anna started making calls again. As for the commission, she had no objection.

After all, Tony is already at the airport and he is about to go to the company's California headquarters for a press conference, so the time is actually quite tight.

Then Anna in the basement took out the big cell phone that she had just used to talk to Stark and started typing on it.

Of course, this Guatai phone itself is silent when operated.

After all, it is not a mechanical keyboard and there is no keyboard sound effect.

But when these idiots are operating their phones, they always sit on the sofa and use their mouths to make "crackling" dubbing for them, right?

I have to say that the signal in Anna's basement, which is connected to a private satellite, is very good, and it only takes less than two seconds.

Anna, who was dubbing the beeping sound on her cell phone, called old Larry.

So from the basement connected to the satellite and filled with various electronic devices, the tender voice of the little girl could be heard talking to her family's stockbroker, old Larry, in a haughty manner after getting her mother's permission.

"Hey! Old Mr. Larry! ~ I called you again... Surprised?"

"Ah!~ Did Lorraine's mother tell you? Oh~oh!~ I have obtained authorization from both mothers."

"You know my account number. Help me short Stark's stock with 20x leverage. Get it done before the press conference officially starts..."

"I know Stark is back! I just called him... But I just want you to short their stock. Don't worry about the fact that Stark Industries' stock is rising because Tony is back..."

"My mother didn't send agents to the press conference to kill him, and I didn't plan to throw a meteorite at the press conference, you bastard! Stark is very safe, no one will kill him at the press conference..."

"All you need to know is to follow my orders and short the stock. I won't kill Stark just for shorting the stock! You guys shouldn't believe everything you hear and keep trying to make a big news, bastards!"

"..."

"Yes, yes, all the money in my account! Now! Immediately!"

"Don't worry, there won't be only $8.5 in it this time..."

"I've always been rich, asshole! Hurry up, I'm watching you on the computer. A Wall Street worker..."

"Asshole! Why are you talking to me like a kid? I'm six years old, don't you know?"

"Where is your professionalism as a real estate agent? Why hasn't my mother fired you yet?~~Ah!~"

……

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Chapter 019: Can you believe that I picked up the blueprint of the Ark Reactor?

After Anna finished talking to her stockbroker in the basement, Julia's mother, who was sitting opposite her, patted her head and went out to swim.

Head.

Before leaving, Ms. Julia told Anna about the latest decision the two mothers had made about her.

"Little Anna...you can use the barn at home from today."

barn?

After hearing this word from her mother, the little kid Anna instantly became energetic again.

You have to know that this thing called a barn in their house is not the kind of tool room that ordinary American families use to store tools, mops, wrenches, chainsaws and lawn mowers.

Well, although these things are also stored in the barn, how many people have you seen whose tool room is as large as half a football field and has an underground space of about the same size?

Furthermore, Anna's barn, just looking at the items displayed, contained, in addition to the standard tools, a complete set of blacksmith's tools, including anvils, hammers, furnaces, steam hammers, and other items. It also contained a full set of machining equipment, including lathes, milling machines, grinders, plasma cutters, laser welders, and more. With all this equipment, even building a working tank with bare hands wouldn't be difficult.

Well, in fact, there are many barns with so much machining equipment and a complete blacksmith shop set in the redneck areas of the United States.

Like the wealthy internet celebrities on YouTube in later generations, when they build cars, airplanes, furniture, and repair tanks at home, these people basically have a complete set of mechanical processing equipment in their homes.

The reason these people have become YouTube stars is not only because of their hands-on skills and technical prowess, but also because these ordinary urban workers have access to processing equipment and large workshops that the average middle-class worker or factory worker doesn't have. After all, becoming a star or celebrity requires some unique skill or capital that ordinary people don't have.

In Kansas alone, there are at least forty or fifty private barns with complete facilities like Anna's. Any farmer who owns thousands of acres of land can accumulate these things naturally and unconsciously over a period of ten or twenty years.

After all, for these farmers, their farms are so large that they have more and more machinery, equipment, and vehicles. If these things break down, they don't always have the money to hire someone to repair them. So these farmers tend to buy tools and tinker with them themselves.

In places like the United States, although the farmers are all wealthy people who own thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land and have fixed assets worth millions or tens of millions of dollars, in fact, these people do not live a rich life.

Why? Because every year, when the planting season begins, they might need hundreds of thousands of dollars just for seeds, and hundreds of thousands more for fertilizers and pesticides. On average, these three expenses alone account for about 80% of a farmer's annual income.

Taking a 3000-acre farm as an example, the annual expenditure on seeds, fertilizers and pesticides alone would be around $110 million, and their total annual income after government subsidies would generally only be around $140 million.

Then, during the crop growing period, this 3000-acre farm has to find an agricultural service company to spray pesticides by plane, ask researchers to solve the problem when crop diseases appear, and hire an agricultural company to transport the crops during the harvest, etc.

So if the price of agricultural products fluctuates slightly, or if the business is not doing well, farmers may find out when they calculate their accounts at the end of the year...

Ugh! This year has been wasted! I worked for those big companies for nothing.

What's more, when I bought the farm machinery, I owed the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Gan!

To save money and avoid being ripped off by farm machinery companies with repair bills exceeding thousands of dollars per operation, most farmers learn to repair farm machinery themselves. They often have a full complement of manual machining equipment and tools at home. If someone knows how to operate their own equipment, it's not uncommon to find a laser cutter or CNC lathe in their barn.

However, the two mothers have now shown special favor and opened up the permissions to the "barn" that made Anna so excited.

Of course, it is not the ordinary barn that American farmers have.

Although the complete set of machining equipment in their barn, such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders, was worth a combined total of $100,000 to $200,000, at most, she had one more set of equipment than the average redneck farmer, from smelting to forging, which could be used to run a blacksmith shop. But this was not enough to excite her, because if she didn't have these machines at home, she could actually rent them from the shops in town that had them.

But can you believe that little kid Anna once found a set of Ark reactor blueprints from the barn at home?

This thing, which is at least a rare blue item in the Marvel Universe, was actually found in his own barn...

Moreover, Anna knew clearly that this set of blueprints was definitely not something that the two mothers put in there, because the box containing the blueprints was also sealed with a lot of things belonging to the previous owner of the farm, such as photos of the previous owner when he was young, dog tags, CIA documents of unknown authenticity, cash from various countries, various passports, equipment, firearms, etc., all of which were things from the 1960s and 1970s in this world.

What made Anna even more certain that these were the things of the previous owner of the farm was that after Anna excitedly brought the box containing the blueprints and various items to her mother, Lorraine's mother just casually flipped through the things inside, and only glanced at the blueprint of the Ark reactor. Then the mother said to the little brat, "Oh, these are these things. Here you go..."

Then I gave her all the stuff in the box...

Give it to her!

……

Lorraine's mother is so powerful. Anna wouldn't believe it if she didn't have another set of reactor drawings.

So when she could run around the farm and found the blueprints, the barn had always been Anna's favorite, because she could always accidentally discover some treasures in the barn left by the previous owner of the farm.

Especially after she discovered the second and third treasures in the barn and a locked underground space that she could not open, she became more and more fond of the barn left by the previous owner of the farm.

Of course, the reason why Anna suspected that Lorraine's mother was a big boss with a thousand-layer pancake style was also closely related to the suspicious former owner of the farm.

P.S.: The average farm value in the United States is around $77 per acre, so the total income for a 3000-acre farm is around $140 million. The costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides account for about 80% of the total income. These are the numbers I found. I'm using the average here.