Chapter 28: Picking Up One Million

  Upon hearing the sound, Tang Xiaosheng quickly pressed the brake and stopped the car. After a series of checks, it was discovered that the bicycle tire had burst. The strangest thing is that both the front and rear wheels burst at the same time, and the tires were already flat beyond recognition.

  He originally thought he was having a pretty good day, earning 500 yuan from filming, but didn't expect to encounter such bad luck.

  Because the tire burst and couldn't find a repair shop nearby, I had no choice but to pull the bicycle and walk on foot.

  He Ping Road is located outside the third ring of the city, which is already considered a suburb. The road section is relatively remote, and there are not many people or vehicles coming and going.

  "Huh?"

  Just a few dozen meters away, Tang Xiaosheng suddenly found that more than ten meters in front of him, in the middle of the road, there was a very eye-catching black travel bag. He curiously walked over and took a closer look, instantly stunned.

  The black travel bag was bulging, the zipper had been pulled open, and under the orange-yellow streetlight, a stack of brand new 100-yuan bills could be clearly seen inside.

  Tang Xiaosheng originally thought he was seeing things, rubbed his eyes and looked again, only to find that his vision was fine, and the travel bag was indeed filled with 100-yuan bills.

  Why is there a travel bag on the road? And why is it filled with so much money?

  He looked around and saw no one, so he squatted down, took out a stack of 100-yuan bills from his backpack, and carefully identified them.

  It's really Chaotian!

  He roughly counted it and found that there were nearly a hundred stacks of cash in the travel bag, with one stack being 10,000 yuan and a hundred stacks being 1 million yuan.

  Who would be so careless as to leave a travel bag containing one million yuan on the road?

  Tang Xiaosheng felt like he had seen a ghost today, first two tires burst at the same time, then picked up one million, this thing said out estimated no one would believe.

  What to do? How to deal with this one million yuan?

  The first thought that flashed through Tang Xiaosheng's mind was to take the money back home, although his beautiful female teacher had taught him in kindergarten that if he picked up a coin, he must hand it over to Police Uncle.

  If Tang Xiaosheng picks up a penny, it's possible that he'll hand it over to the police officer, but the problem is that now it's not just one cent, but one million.

  One million! This is no small sum of money, how many years would he have to run errands to earn this amount? And now he's short on cash, this is a huge blow to his **power.

  In all these years, apart from the body art of Matsushima Akane, Aoki Shigeru and Takaki Maria etc., there really hasn't been much that has had such a huge impact on him.

  Tang Xiaosheng was a little shaken, he began to have the impulse to pick up this million.

  Picking up money seems simple, but in fact it is a highly technical task.

  If it were a 10-yuan note, I would just casually put it in my pocket and that's the end of it. But now what I've picked up is one million yuan, a full bag of renminbi, weighing tens of kilograms alone. If I really want to pick it up, how can I carry it? Where will I hide it after picking it up?

  He is still about three kilometers away from home, and the bicycle tire has burst again. If he carries the money back, it will take at least half an hour to walk. Besides, carrying one million on the road makes him feel uneasy, let alone this one million is ill-gotten wealth.

  The bigger problem is that after bringing the money back home, what if Hei Lung and Kwok Ying find out? If they know he's keeping the picked-up money for himself, won't he be despised?

  Considering these things, Tang Xiaosheng couldn't help but hesitate again, as if he felt that this million shouldn't be picked up.

  What if, on a deep night, on a road with no one else around, you found a million dollars and didn't pick it up? Wouldn't that be kind of stupid? He was also puzzled, how come there wasn't even a passerby nearby, it really tested his willpower.

  Pick up money or not pick up money, it's a dilemma.

  Tang Xiaosheng felt that he needed to calm down a bit, this wasn't a small matter, and shouldn't be decided hastily. He squatted down where he was, starting to carefully deliberate in his mind.

  These days, the things he encountered were getting stranger and stranger. First, he discovered that Guo Xiang had traveled through time, then he met Xiaolongnv, and just now two tires burst at the same time. Now he picked up one million dollars. The probability of these events occurring was definitely not lower than winning the lottery jackpot, but they all happened to him at the same time.

  Is it fate?

  After hesitating for a while, Tang Xiaosheng still had no idea in his heart, feeling that all this seemed to be arranged by the heavens, and it was really too coincidental.

  Since it's fate, he decided to let heaven decide for him. He planned to use the coin toss method to decide whether to pick up the one hundred thousand dollars.

  He then took out a one-yuan coin from his pocket and muttered to himself, "If it's heads up, I'll pick it up; if it's tails up, I won't." After saying that, he tossed the coin into the air. With a few clinking sounds, the coin bounced on the ground several times before finally landing with its head side facing upwards.

  It seems like heaven is letting him pick up this one million.

  Tang Xiaosheng thought for a moment, feeling that the randomness of winning or losing in one game was too high, and decided to toss again, with the winner being the first to win two out of three games. He picked up the coin from the ground and tossed it into the air for the second time.

  Ding! Ding! Ding!

  A few seconds later, the coin rolled around on the ground a few times and fell over again, this time with its reverse side facing up.

  One on one.

  Tang Xiaosheng picked up the coin again, and this last toss would decide whether he could pick up the million. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous, took a deep breath, flicked his finger, and the coin was tossed high into the air. After a moment, it fell to the ground with a clang, rolling several meters before coming to a stop.

  He walked past with a coin in the morning, and when he looked closely, it was upside down!

  Two tails and one head, it seems like heaven doesn't want him to pick up this one hundred thousand dollars.

  "It's heaven's will, I had no choice but to follow."

  Tang Xiaosheng let out a soft sigh of relief.

  Although he decided not to pick up this million, and let the big pie that fell from the sky go to waste, his heart felt more solid rather than lost.

  There's a saying that goes, "If you don't do anything shameful, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door." Recently, he has had a deep understanding of the feeling of "doing something shameful and being nervous". Since pretending to be Yang Guo, he has been living in fear every day, often having nightmares at night. If he picks up this one million yuan again, his nightmares will probably become more colorful. Now that he has decided not to pick up the money, he feels much lighter in his heart.

  He then dialed Detective Lin Shishi's mobile phone and decided to let the police handle this one-hundred-thousand-yuan case.

  The phone rang three times before he picked up and said, "Officer Lin, I'm Tang Xiaosheng, the patient from the psychiatric hospital."

  A voice came from the other end of the phone: "What's up? Is something going on with Guo Yixiang?"

  "No, I want to report a case to you, I just picked up 1 million yuan on the road."

  "What?" Lin Shishi thought she had misheard, "Say it again."

  Tang Xiaosheng slowly repeated in standard Mandarin, one word at a time: "I... picked up... 10 million... yuan... on the road!"

  "Are you kidding me?" Lin Shishi had always thought of him as a nutcase, prone to speaking nonsense, so she didn't dare take his words lightly.

  Tang Xiaosheng said: "Officer Lin, don't be biased against me! I'm reporting the case with good intentions, don't treat me like a suspect!"

  Lin Shishi fell silent for a moment before asking: "Where are you?"

  Peace Road.

  "Okay, I'll go right away."