Genius Club - Chapter 1336 - 24 Fireworks and Clock Tower_2
Chapter 1336: Chapter 24 Fireworks and Clock Tower_2
CC seemed to be convinced.
Indeed.
If that money box were to be seen by the gangsters, it would surely mean trouble. It would be safer to spend it quickly.
She closed her eyes and began to think.
Even though she felt truly happy and content now, almost to the point of overflowing.
Were there still regrets?
Were there still wishes?
Immersed in past memories, a long-buried and forgotten pure wish suddenly surfaced in her mind—
“[Fireworks].”
CC said softly.
She laughed gently, with curved eyes and small dimples appearing on her charming face:
“[If I could really make a wish… I so wish to see a fireworks display, one that blooms just for me!]”
For a moment, Lin Xian held his breath.
Fireworks.
He never expected to hear this word here!
It seemed as if history was completing a circle at this moment.
years later, CC also had said this, also with an obsession for fireworks.
That was at the end of The Seventh Dreamland.
Lin Xian jokingly asked CC what birthday gift she’d want if she ever reached the age of 20.
At the time, without thinking, CC blurted out:
“Fireworks. I really want to receive… fireworks of my own.”
This answer was unexpected to Lin Xian.
He truly didn’t expect CC’s wish to be so simple yet dreamily extravagant; even CC herself didn’t know why she wished it, only saying that this obsession had always been in her mind.
Similarly, Lin Xian later learned that Chu Anqing would also murmur the word fireworks in her dreams, suggesting that in her Millennium Stakes dream, she also dreamt of scenarios involving fireworks.
And now.
The truth seemed to be clear.
Whether it was Chu Anqing’s dream or CC’s obsession…
It probably all originated from the First Generation Pillar CC of 1952?
She was the beginning of everything.
She was the source of it all.
“Hehe, am I being too unreasonable?”
CC scratched her head and laughed:
“Actually, I was just saying it off the cuff, you don’t have to take it to heart. I do love fireworks, and watching them too… but there’s never been a good opportunity. After all, there are few fireworks displays in Brooklyn.”
“Manhattan does have frequent fireworks, but they’re too far away, so far they just look like little dots, you can’t see anything clearly. That’s why since I was little, I’ve always wanted to see a fireworks display of my own, one that would explode above my head, filling the sky and surrounding me, illuminating the entire night sky!”
“However, as I grew up, I realized this thought was too unrealistic, so I gave up long ago. It was just because you kept asking me to think that I remembered it.”
“What’s so difficult about that?”
Lin Xian shrugged:
“Lighting a fireworks display, that’s the easiest wish to fulfill.”
“Really!” CC’s eyes lit up.
“Of course.”
Lin Xian was rather puzzled, what’s hard about lighting fireworks?
As long as the money is there, the sky can explode.
He stood up:
“Since you’ve said it, my Aladdin’s Lamp will have to make your wish come true. Don’t worry, I’ll check and prepare tonight, and tonight or tomorrow night… I’ll give you a fireworks show that will light up the whole of Brooklyn!”
Action followed words.
After a simple dinner, Lin Xian went out with CC to inquire at various shops.
Only to find… it was a bit awkward.
In New York, there’s a complete ban on the sale and use of high-altitude fireworks.
Those small handheld fireworks can be sold and lit freely, but large-scale high-altitude fireworks are strictly regulated.
Perhaps it was due to the era, or maybe because there were so many skyscrapers in New York, considering safety.
Fortunately, Lin Xian was well-acquainted with Mi Country’s culture.
Here, the greatest superpower is indeed money power.
With a small stack of US dollars out… the law-abiding shopkeeper immediately changed his tune:
“Ahem, this prohibition isn’t absolute, every year there are people setting off high-altitude fireworks! The police are busy, they can’t catch everything!”
“And don’t worry, lighting fireworks is our personal matter, it won’t bring trouble to you! But… there’s a problem right now, we dare to light them, but we don’t have any fireworks on hand.”
“After all, personal usage is hard to control, but store sales are easier to regulate. No one dares sell high-altitude fireworks in all of New York, usually one has to go to Pennsylvania next door to buy them, and then transport them back to Brooklyn to set off.”
Lin Xian slapped the money into the shopkeeper’s hand:
“No worries, just tell me, what’s the soonest I can see my fireworks.”
“Tomorrow night, absolutely!”
The shopkeeper patted his chest and stomach:
“Tonight I’ll drive a pickup… no, the price you offered is so generous, I’ll gather all my brothers and drive pickups to Pennsylvania to buy fireworks! Fill up all the pickup trucks!”
“Come here tomorrow morning, tell me the desired time and place for the display, and then you don’t have to worry about anything! Just stand at the best viewing spot and enjoy the fireworks by night! We guarantee to fire every piece of firework into the sky for you! We’ll turn the night into day!”
A perfect deal was reached.
Lin Xian shook hands with the shopkeeper:
“Reliable.” “Pleasure doing business!”
…
At night.
Lin Xian and CC lay in their respective beds, CC unable to stop squirming, too excited to sleep.
She turned over.
Wrapped in her blanket, looking at Lin Xian’s back on the opposite bed:
“Lin Xian, you’re really too good to me, I don’t even know how to repay you.”
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