Chapter 2100: Chapter 2060: Foundation Establishment Stage Second Layer Early Stage
The Ye Family’s antiviral drug research laboratory is a key project Li Zhiguo has focused on since taking office. Hearing about a collapse accident over there, which is also related to Ye Qiu’s business, definitely piqued his interest.
"How’s it going?" Li Zhiguo asked his secretary.
"Mayor, this morning there was indeed a collapse accident, and the injured were taken to Jiangbei People’s Hospital for emergency treatment. However, there were no fatalities."
The thing Li Zhiguo feared most was fatalities.
Because if there were, it would be bad news for both him and Ye Qiu.
Upon hearing that there were no fatalities, Li Zhiguo breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Are the injuries severe?"
"I heard the injuries were severe when they were first brought in, but after Dr. Ye treated them, they’re perfectly fine now."
Perfectly fine?
It must be that Ye Qiu personally went over to treat them.
"Handle this matter quietly; there’s no need to put it in the news. It’s about the reputation of a world-class research drug laboratory."
"Yes, Mayor."
The secretary hurried over to greet the news bureau, telling the reporters not to go for interviews.
After all, there were no fatalities.
And this antiviral drug research laboratory was carried out with the support and promotion of Li Zhiguo, so it is very significant.
Ye Qiu was unaware of these things. Back upstairs, he was playing computer games, pondering it over and feeling more and more perplexed. Was this collapse accident really caused by negligence in usual safety protocols?
Ye Qiu was quite puzzled about it.
Possibly because there were no fatalities, and since Li Zhiguo intentionally suppressed the news, the accident didn’t make it to newspapers or television, and not many people paid attention to it.
However, the construction workers on the site knew. Many witnessed the injured being taken away by ambulances and thought for sure there would be a few fatalities.
Unexpectedly, now they heard that there were none, and after one or two days of recovery in the hospital, the victims had no major problems and could return to work.
Was this a dream?
Or did they see it wrong that day?
On this point, no one really knew.
Come lunchtime, Lin Xiang drove herself back, and together with Xiaomai, they bought groceries to prepare dinner. After dinner, Ye Qiu continued his cultivation.
Now Ye Qiu was focused, devoted, and diligently cultivating.
Striving to achieve a breakthrough into the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage early period.
He cultivated all the way until the morning of the next day. Due to the spiritual energy expended during yesterday’s treatments being replenished, Ye Qiu would possibly have a breakthrough in another two or three days.
In the following two or three days, there was nothing special, and Ye Qiu did not seek out those socialites either.
And in the evening, after dinner, Ye Qiu returned to his room to play some computer games and then continued cultivating.
Not knowing how much time had passed, Ye Qiu suddenly felt the continuous absorption of moonlight essence into his meridians, turning into spiritual energy, which then flowed through his meridians into his dantian, transforming into a stream of true qi.
As the true qi gathered more and more in the dantian, Ye Qiu again felt that unstoppable momentum, like a dam about to burst due to the rapid increase in water level.
Suddenly, with a thunderous noise, the dantian exploded like a detonation, and the true qi flowed from high to low. Vaguely, Ye Qiu felt that lotus-shaped thing appearing again.
Until it disappeared, Ye Qiu opened his eyes again, knowing he had broken through from the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage’s first layer to the early stage of the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Although now at the early period of the second layer of Foundation Establishment, he clearly felt somewhat different.
Taking a deep breath and exhaling, feeling the sweat break out all over his body, Ye Qiu got up to take a pleasant bath, and upon returning to his room, Ye Qiu did not continue cultivating further.
Early in the morning of the next day, Ye Qiu woke up early, freshened up, went downstairs, and saw his parents and sister were already there; Lin Xiang hadn’t gotten up yet.
"Ye Qiu, what’s your plan for National Day?" Ye Weidong asked.
"Dad, what day is it today?"
"It’s the 29th."
September is a short month with thirty days, but the National Day holiday begins on the first.
Although today is Friday, the holiday should start on Saturday.
"Dad, what do you want to do? Don’t tell me you want me to take you all abroad for a trip?" Ye Qiu had long gotten passports for his sister and parents, so whenever there was time, they could go out traveling, or he could take the three of them out for a trip.
"Go back to our hometown; you’re already nineteen and haven’t returned once."
Hometown?
Ye Qiu had no impression of it. In fact, mainly because his predecessor never went back to any hometown—it seemed that over the past decade, he just lived in the old textile factory community.
Obviously, Ye Weidong was provoked by that old Ye in Capital City. Although Ye Qiu wasn’t his biological son, he was the one who raised him, so if he were to acknowledge his ancestors, it should be Weidong’s ancestors, not those of that old Ye in Capital City.
"You don’t want to go?" Seeing Ye Qiu lost in thought, Ye Weidong thought Ye Qiu didn’t want to go.
"Go, of course, I’ll go."
Hearing Ye Qiu say he would go, Ye Weidong was also pleased.
And then Lin Xiang, who had just finished freshening up, came downstairs and asked, "Uncle Ye, where are you going?"
"Going back to our hometown."
"Going back to the hometown sounds great; I really like rural life in Huaxia."
Growing up on the outskirts of a city in Malaysia, Lin Xiang wasn’t familiar with rural life in China. Now, hearing that they were going back to the countryside, she wanted to see if it was like what she saw in newspapers, television, and movies.
"Uncle Ye, I want to go too."
Xiaomai said.
Ye Weidong and his wife hadn’t considered letting Xiaomai and Lin Xiang go with them; they intended for Xiaomai to stay at the villa to watch over it or do some cleaning.
Of course, now the two girls wanted to go, that was even better.
"Sure, it’s just that our house in our hometown is quite run-down; I’m afraid you won’t be used to it. We might stay there for several days during the National Day holiday."
"No problem, I grew up in an orphanage, I’ve been through it all," Xiaomai said.
Ye Weidong thought that made sense too.
"Uncle Ye, I’d also like to experience rural life in Huaxia."
Sitting down for breakfast, after they finished eating, Lin Xiang glanced at Ye Qiu before grabbing her bag and driving to Jin University for classes.
Just from that glance, she could sense something different about Ye Qiu from yesterday. Why she felt that way about Ye Qiu, she didn’t really know. Actually, it had a lot to do with Ye Qiu’s breakthrough in cultivation last night.
Ye Weidong and his wife, along with Ye Xue, were also getting ready to drive to the Imperial Cuisine Restaurant to check in and give instructions. After all, the National Day holiday is the busiest time for the Imperial Cuisine Restaurant, and since the three of them were going back to their hometown, the situation here would certainly have to be left to the manager to handle.
