Chapter 228: Eight Billion International Coins

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After having dinner with Yu Xiaodi, Li Yan went home. Zhang Yurong saw him but didn’t ask where he’d been or mention that Yu Xiaodi had come over. But it was obvious she knew Li Yan and Yu Xiaodi were together.

What surprised Li Yan was that Yue Yao, who had been speaking in the morning, was already back!

This was indeed a joyful thing for them; with one more person, the spacious home suddenly felt much livelier. Zhang Yurong must have already chatted with Yue Yao about the situation since she left, and Yue Yao should have provided a reasonable explanation.

In front of Zhang Yurong, Li Yan couldn’t engage in too much intimate conversation with Yue Yao, only general concerns about her situation. Including not being able to seek her out at night, lest Zhang Yurong find her too and block them.

After a difficult night, the next day after breakfast, Yurong went back to the office to keep busy. Li Yan and Yue Yao chatted downstairs for a while, then moved to the second-floor balcony to drink tea and chat.

This place wouldn’t be overheard by Liu Sister, and if Yurong came over, she would be notified in advance. It’s a proper environment, unlike inside the room where there might be suspicions, so it’s convenient for them to hold meetings here.

"You’ve worked hard..." Li Yan simply remarked, then asked, "Has your injury not relapsed?"

Yue Yao smiled, "Completely healed, want to check?"

"Uh..." Though Li Yan wasn’t particularly focused on it, her departure was indeed for that mysterious ancient stone. Now that she’s back, it’s naturally a topic. "Was it opened?"

Talking about business, Yue Yao immediately grew serious. She quickly checked inside, then whispered swiftly, "It’s opened, and the material inside was obtained, which is made of unidentified elements resembling jade. Tests show it has radiation but is not harmful to humans; instead, they can relax the human body and influence the mind. After rushing the work, about a dozen pieces of jewelry have been made, though they’re not very intricate due to time constraints."

Upon hearing "unknown elements" and "radiation," Li Yan hesitated. Generally, such things often have harmful radiation causing unjustified harm. He originally planned to gift it to those he cared about, but what if it caused harm?

Yue Yao noticed Li Yan’s hesitation and said immediately, "The people I’ve found are top-tier professionals; for them, general materials aren’t worth noticing. It’s because this is an unprecedented material that they took great interest, almost working around the clock. After not identifying the material, they sent samples to familiar research institutes for testing alongside rushing the work, which is why it was concluded as harmless radiation. Of course, this is the result from one institute, or just several researchers. There’s still some debris left, and I’ve provided it for research, perhaps we can wait for the results."

"Alright." Li Yan nodded, "Even though this stone has been known for thousands of years, there was still a layer of stone covering it, and we don’t know about all previous owners, whether they suffered side effects. Safety first, did you bring it back?"

"Yes, I brought everything back because I’m rushing home before the new year so that you can take the opportunity to distribute them."

Thinking through so thoroughly, Li Yan was grateful but still said, "Find a bank that provides safe deposit boxes later. Tomorrow, put them all in an external safe deposit box, don’t keep them near you, it worries me!"

Yue Yao chuckled, "Isn’t that making a fuss over nothing? Previously, keeping it near me, I felt I slept well, except for feeling relaxed and lowering my alertness, maybe helping my injury recovery."

"I can’t feel reassured." Li Yan insisted.

Yue Yao smiled, "You’re overthinking. Generally, when people wear jade or crystal, claiming calming effects, and different crystals have different effects, it’s also a type of radiation. If the mineral doesn’t have radiation, how can it change a person? Don’t feel scared just because you hear radiation."

"I think whether jade, crystal, or jewelry, they are just decorative items. The additional functionality is merely psychological comfort and beautiful expectations from people, or a symbol. But this one, we all know, it indeed has issues!" Li Yan said seriously.

"I’ll follow your lead." Yue Yao mostly went along with his arrangements, now just suggesting her opinion. It was regrettable that her hard work for a month was being stored.

...

"There’s one more thing I need to discuss with you." Frankly speaking, Li Yan has been hands-off for a long time, not clearly aware of his wealth, all managed by Yue Yao, the all-rounded beauty butler.

"What is it?" Yue Yao nodded, whatever he said about discussions should be matters like organization, and more seriously.

"Strictly speaking, there are two things. Speaking of the first one, it’s about our financial problems. I wonder if we should reveal part of it, as Yurong is concerned about my finances, also worried about your economic situation. Today, Yu Xiaodi’s family also mentioned this..." Li Yan shared the ordeal Chen Mingying asked him to transform ten million into thirty million within three years.