His mother's sudden appearance only caused some ripples in Chen Zhao's heart, but he quickly calmed down.
Chen Zhao would fulfill his promise. When his half-sister needed a bone marrow transplant, he would donate his own bone marrow.
After calming himself down, Chen Zhao went to Mr. Doman's house.
Chen Zhao had missed Normans' weight loss training for four days, but Normans had trained at home too.
However, Chen Zhao wasn't there, so Normans wasn't that enthusiastic.
When Chen Zhao left four days ago, Normans weighed 195 kilograms. After four days, her weight had only dropped to 187 kilograms.
"* sshole, were you scared that day?" Normans ran alongside Chen Zhao.
"Yeah, of course I'm scared," Chen Zhao answered honestly. "Of course.
He was indeed scared, but when he was extremely scared, he wasn't that scared anymore.
When a person was excited or scared, their blood would gather in the brain, causing it to overload with oxygen.
Excitement and fear were similar, so Chen Zhao couldn't tell if he was more scared or excited.
In extreme situations, people might not be scared. They might be excited.
"Oh, how's Wouter's training?"
"Not bad. You can bring him back anytime."
"You've finished training so quickly? If you can't handle it, I won't pay. "
"As long as you don't ask him to do math problems, he should be able to understand your intentions." Chen Zhao was very confident about this. After all, he'd drunk the wisdom potion. He was smarter than regular animals.
"Then I'll go to your place today and bring Wouter back."
"Then you better prepare the check first."
After the training, Normans gave Chen Zhao the check and followed him home. He left with Wouter, earning another $100,000.
Robio had already given Chen Zhao and Fali the design and preliminary budget. Including the two-kilometer asphalt road, the total budget was around $1.3 million.
This meant that the cost of the main building would be $1.1 million.
This had already exceeded Chen Zhao's initial estimate. However, Chen Zhao and Fali still couldn't decide which part of Robio's design to cut down on the budget.
After all, almost every design point in Robio's design had a function or purpose.
The entire design was like a piece of art. Comparing it to the renderings, Chen Zhao and Fali both fell in love with the house.
"Chen, how much money do you need?"
"Let me calculate." Chen Zhao picked up a pen and calculated. "First, after buying the land, I have $200,000 left. My income in the past half a month is around $100,000. Today, I have another $100,000. Normans successfully lost weight, so I have $400,000. That's about it."
"You forgot to calculate. After the movie rights were sold, we still have 200,000 USD. That means we have a million USD to build a house."
Chen Zhao thought for a moment. "Then I still need $300,000."
"How about …"
"Don't ask your family for money," Chen Zhao said. "This is our home. Let us use our own hard work to pick it up. Also, there might be an unexpected income soon."
"What unexpected income?"
"Remember Pierce South? Last time, he came to me for a collaboration. "
"Cooperate with what? He doesn't look like a good guy. "
"He said that before Trede died, he divided his wealth into two parts. One part is gold, which we found and distributed to the townspeople. The other part is his collection. They're all valuable art or relics," Chen Zhao said.
"Will he betray us?" Fali's first thought was about Chen Zhao's safety.
Chen Zhao burst into laughter. He hugged Fali and kissed her heavily.
"Darling, it's not that I look down on Pierce South, but if that old fox dares to betray us, I promise he'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life."
…
The next day, Chen Zhao received a call from an unknown number.
"Hello, who's this?"
"Hello, I'm Felwood Cisco. I'm Robio's friend. Are you Chen Zhao, Mr. Chen?"
"Oh, yes. How can I help you?"
"I opened an engineering company. Robio said you're going to build a house, right?"
"Yes. When are you free? Let's arrange a time to talk."
"Actually, I'm at the central intersection of Mountain Town. I want to do this as soon as possible. Can you show me the way?"
"Oh, go straight to the left of the supermarket. It's about one kilometer. My house is here. It's older, so it should be easy to recognize. Oh … I have a few big dogs playing in front of my house."
"There seem to be a lot of dogs in town. Are you sure I'm not mistaken?"
"I can't be wrong."
Soon, Felwood found Chen Zhao's house.
"Hello, I'm Chen Zhao."
"Hello, I'm Felwood Cisco." Felwood glanced at the Silly Twins running around in the yard. He finally understood what Chen Zhao meant.
As expected, they were two unbelievably big dogs.
"Mr. Chen, Robio has already sent me the design and budget. The cost is roughly the same as he estimated, but there will be a fluctuation of around $100,000. I can't guarantee this, and I have to tell you because you're Robio's friend. Robio told me to tell you that if we're responsible for buying the building materials, we'll also make some profit. Of course, if you have your own channels, you'll save $100,000. I can make a list for you, but it'll take more time."
Chen Zhao thought about it. If he bought the building materials himself, he could save $100,000 or $200,000, but he'd also have to spend a lot of time. It wasn't worth it.
To build such a complex house, the materials needed were not just bricks, tiles, cement, and sand. There were hundreds of materials involved.
It wasn't something that could be done in a day or two, so Chen Zhao felt that it was reasonable for the engineering company to earn some money in this area if they were responsible for the purchase.
"I can let your company buy the materials, but I hope the budget won't exceed $100,000. After all, I'm tight on money right now. Any more and it'll be too much pressure on me."
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