Chapter 56

Bowl after bowl, Wang Danzhi ate the ten large bowls of Lanzhou noodles at an average speed of one bowl every one and a half minutes, while Jia Hongjian had only just finished his first bowl. This bottomless eating ability left the father and son from the northwest dumbfounded. After all, in this era, Lanzhou noodles were not divided into large or small bowls; one bowl was equivalent to a large bowl of 3 ounces of noodles in the future! The boss, who had forgotten to stretch the dough into noodles, just stared at this beautiful Han woman, who looked like a fairy, with his mouth agape. "Are all Han women monsters?" he muttered.

At this moment, Jia Hongjian saw Wang Danzhi take out a tissue to wipe her mouth and stop eating. "What's wrong? Are you full already?" he asked in surprise. "No," the little fox spirit, with her cheeks flushed red, smiled with her crescent-shaped eyes. "I ate too fast, and my mouth feels too hot. Besides, I had five rice cakes at home earlier. Although I'm not full now, my mouth feels a bit sour from eating non-stop..."

Hearing this explanation, Jia Hongjian almost burst out laughing. How bizarre! He, Jia Hongjian, only felt his mouth get tired after chewing gum for a few hours, but how could someone get tired of eating before they were full?

"Are we done for today?" Jia Hongjian deliberately feigned stinginess to provoke her. "No way! This is the first time someone has invited me to eat until I'm full. Once this opportunity is gone, who knows when it will come again! Of course, I have to eat! Do you not have enough money?" The little fox spirit's seductive smile suddenly turned into an angry, questioning face.

"I have enough money today. Just eat with peace of mind." Jia Hongjian saw that the little fox spirit had taken the bait and turned to the dazed boss with a smile. "Boss, please make more dough. The noodles you have left probably won't be enough for my sister. Make enough for forty bowls..."

"Forty bowls?" The boss was stunned. He wanted to ask more but, seeing the ten empty bowls next to Wang Danzhi, he closed his mouth and went to find a bag of flour.

"Alright, I feel better now. Let's continue!" When the boss returned, the little fox spirit patted her stomach and said. Following her hand, the boss and his son looked at Wang Danzhi's stomach, which was still flat, just like a slender girl who only eats a small bowl of food. "Han women are indeed monsters..."

After eating for about an hour, Wang Danzhi had finished forty bowls of noodles. When the boss took the 60 yuan from Jia Hongjian, he could only stare at Wang Danzhi in amazement, completely forgetting to count the money.

Outside, Jia Hongjian saw Wang Danzhi stretching lazily. "Are you full now?" The little fox spirit turned slightly, her face a bit red, and looked at Jia Hongjian. "Actually, I'm not full... I'm just tired of eating noodles and find them disgusting..."

Jia Hongjian almost fell over! Damn, after eating forty large bowls of noodles and five rice cakes at home, this fox spirit still wasn't full? And she said she stopped because she was tired of eating? He looked at her stomach, which was still as flat as when they left. "Were you abducted by aliens when you were little? Did they perform some strange surgery on you?" Jia Hongjian really couldn't understand Wang Danzhi's stomach.

"What are you talking about?" Wang Danzhi glared at Jia Hongjian. "When I ate thirty bowls, I felt about 60% full, but a few minutes later, my stomach felt empty again, as if the food had suddenly disappeared. Then I could eat again. Are you complaining about me?"

"Not at all, not at all," Jia Hongjian finally understood what the future medical report meant when it said Wang Danzhi's pylorus was wide—food left her stomach much faster. Others might take two hours to move food from the stomach to the intestines, but Wang Danzhi only needed about half an hour.

"Xiaojian, look! Roasted sweet potatoes!" The big eater girl suddenly pointed to a street corner. Jia Hongjian followed her hand and saw an old man selling roasted sweet potatoes from a large oil drum on a flatbed cart. "Do you want some?" "Yes!" "Old man, ten pounds of roasted sweet potatoes!"

"Xiaojian, I want to become a strong woman in the future!" The food-loving girl said while eating a roasted sweet potato. "Why?" he asked.

"In the future, I can eat like this every day! I want to eat ten cups of rice for each meal! I'll try to eat ten kilograms of food in one sitting! The feeling of being full is so good~" The 163 cm tall, 92-pound little fox spirit's eyes sparkled.

The next day, when Jia Hongjian arrived at school, he went to the head teacher's office to ask for leave. Now, he was a little star at the experimental school, and even if the teachers were unhappy about his frequent absences, they couldn't say anything until after the midterm exams. So, he easily got his leave.

When Jia Hongjian returned to the classroom, someone had already heard about his leave. Qiao Hui ran over before he could sit down and asked, "Brother Hongjian, I heard you're taking leave again? Are you going to Northeast China?"

"Yes... I have some business to discuss there."

"Discuss? Are you going to expose fraud?" Qiao Hui's eyes sparkled.

"Brother Hongjian is going out of town again? To expose fraud?" Immediately, the surrounding students, who had heard Qiao Hui's question, gathered curiously.

"It's not about exposing fraud. I'm going to Northeast China with my father to discuss some business..." Jia Hongjian's words shocked the students. "Brother Hongjian can already discuss business with his uncle?" "Is Brother Hongjian's family running a company?" "Brother Hongjian is already involved in the family business while still in school?"

Hearing these comments, Jia Hongjian suddenly felt like he had become a rich second-generation without realizing it. "No, we don't have a company yet. My father just quit his job, and we have a bit of money, so we're thinking about starting a project. We're going to Northeast China to investigate..."

"Oh, I see..." Everyone nodded. "But that's still impressive. If my parents were investigating a project, they wouldn't take me along..." Qiao Hui was now defending Jia Hongjian. "Exactly, my parents wouldn't either. Brother Hongjian is just Brother Hongjian..."

Since the start of the school year, Jia Hongjian's actions had left a deep impression on the students, and they seemed to idolize him blindly.

"The main reason they took me is because I proposed the plan. Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken me..." Jia Hongjian tried to be modest and downplay his achievements.

"Huh? You proposed the plan?" Jia Hongjian's modesty seemed to have the opposite effect, attracting even more people to gather around...

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At the same time, Liu Min was in the office of the Shanghai branch of the Consumer News, making a request. "Chief, I have information that the fraud-exposer Jia Hongjian is going to Northeast China to expose fraud, possibly related to the water-to-oil project. I want to lead a team to follow and report on it. What do you think?"

"Go to Northeast China to expose fraud? Water-to-oil? Are you sure?" The chief became serious.

"I'm 80% sure. An old classmate hired Jia Hongjian as a tutor for her family. She told me that Jia Hongjian, from the moment the water-to-oil project was reported in the news, said there were many dark secrets behind it..." Liu Min recounted what Wang Coulan had told her.

In her description, Jia Hongjian was clearly a righteous person who was furious at corrupt officials and had an extraordinary sensitivity to the dark side, far beyond his peers and even adults. In her description, Jia Hongjian was almost a young Bao Zheng, except for the lack of a crescent moon on his forehead—after all, Jia Hongjian had deliberately blackened his face on TV.

"How can he be Bao Zheng?" The chief looked at Liu Min disapprovingly. "Bao Zheng had the power to execute people and was a judge. Is Jia Hongjian a judge? If we have to compare, he's more like Zhong Kui, who catches ghosts! But your idea to follow and report is good. Let me contact the headquarters in Beijing to see if they can provide any support..."

"Great!" Although Liu Min didn't say much, she already had a dream headline in mind: "Young Bao Zheng Investigates in Northeast China, Exposing a Major Fraud in Harbin"

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At the same time, Jia Gang walked out of the Yanzhong Industrial Company, where he had worked for nearly ten years. From now on, he would have no more ties to this company. He turned and slowly looked at the small building of Yanzhong Industrial, and memories flooded back. Back then, after being imprisoned for speculation and being saved by the central work team, he refused their offer to arrange a job for him and, with the help of his mother and the neighborhood, joined the Yanzhong Copying Company, a community-run enterprise.

After auditing at South China University of Technology for four years, he was rapidly promoted due to his solid technical skills and hard work, becoming a mid-level manager in just a few years and eventually reaching a high position. He had thought he would spend his entire life with Yanzhong Industrial, but now...

"Whatever, I'll go to Northeast China with my son for a while, have a good time, and then come back to think of a way to open a store. If that doesn't work, I'll become a taxi driver!" Jia Gang, the middle-aged man, smirked and turned to leave the building where he had worked for so long...

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These past two days, somewhere has been burning straw, and the sea near my home is shrouded in a yellow haze. There are no large wheat fields in our city, so I wonder if it's from another city. Well, I changed my QQ signature to "The sky is dead, the yellow sky shall rise"...

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