Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
In his previous life, Wan Feng's sister lived a life so carefully that it was intriguing and made one want to cry.
Living in a city like Bohai, my husband and children have been wearing cheap goods for almost their entire lives.
When her children grew up, competition among students was a common trend. Not to mention the children in the city, even the children in the countryside wore domestic brands such as 361, Xtep, Anta, Li Ning, etc., let alone the children in the city.
Wan Feng does not encourage children to wear branded clothes, but if other people's children are wearing them and you don't, you will naturally feel inferior. Reality forces you to compare.
But Wan Fang was unmoved. I don’t care what your children wear. My children only wear clothes that cost ten or twenty yuan. Whoever wants to say anything can say it.
This is true for clothing, not to mention other aspects.
If you don’t know her, you would think her family is very poor.
But she has two houses in Bohai.
The couple's annual income, including rent, is over 100,000 yuan. Although they are not rich in Bohai, they are definitely not in the poor class.
What made Wan Feng speechless the most was that she rented out her own house to others and rented a house herself, and she proudly said that she could earn several thousand yuan a year this way.
Although thriftiness is a traditional Chinese virtue, we can't be that frugal.
If you go to Bohai and want to know where vegetables are the cheapest, which market sells the most economical clothes, or even where you can buy products from other industries at the most affordable prices, just ask Wan Fang and I guarantee I will tell you everything.
In his previous life, Wan Feng was very suspicious that his sister spent all her spare time looking for various cheap markets in Bohai, otherwise how could she be so familiar with it?
In this life, Wan Feng plans to give his sister tens of millions of assets at one time when she grows up and gets married.
In her previous life, she had little money and became Grandet. Now that she has a lot of money in this life, let’s see if she will still be Grandet.
If she still wanted to be Grandet, Wan Feng decided not to recognize her so as not to embarrass her when he went out.
As usual, Wan Feng gave money to his parents again.
Still two bundles per person, this time they were all hundred-yuan bills.
"Why do you keep giving us money? It's useless. I want grandchildren." Zhu Min made her request.
Look at how arrogant your mother is. Money is useless. Do you know how many people are willing to rob and sell their bodies for money?
"Mom, how old are you and you want to have a grandchild? It's not nice to have a grandchild when you're not even fifty."
"I'm not holding my grandchildren for people to see. What's so good about it? I don't care who you marry, just marry me one in the next two years."
"In a few years, when I'm twenty-five, I'll marry two of them to you at once."
Zhu Min casually picked up the kang-sweeping broom and slapped it over: "If it weren't for two, I would have my grandchildren by now."
Wan Feng jumped up and ran, then went up to the third floor and went to sleep.
Wake up feeling refreshed.
After eating the breakfast carefully prepared by his mother, Wan Feng came out of the house in high spirits, but after a moment's thought, he decided not to drive the Volga.
There is another car at the door of Han Guang's house. He will drive that one to take Qin Suzhen and the others to Wa, and then the other car will be sent to Nanwan Factory for research.
When they arrived at Han Guang's house, Wang Zhonghai and the others were already up and had just finished breakfast.
The two drivers, Wan Feng, paid them the bill, 200 yuan each for the drive and 50 yuan for the return trip, leaving each of them with 250 yuan.
From now on they are free. Whether they take the bus back or wander around Jiangwei for a few days is none of Wan Feng's business.
"Now that we've finished our meal, let's start today's tour. Are you ready?"
"I'm ready."
"alright."
"Let's get ready and set off. Today's tour will start from near and end at far. Our first stop is the entertainment city across the street. Brother Wang and Brother Yang have prepared this for you two. Cheer up and let's go!"
After coming out of the Hongying Hotel, Wan Feng took Wang Zhonghai, Yang Pao, Zhan Honggui and Qin Suzhen across the street and came to the entertainment city.
Because it was morning, there were not many people in the game hall, but there were still seven or eight teenagers each occupying a machine and playing games.
The game room was filled with the chaotic sound of game music.
Xu Bin probably stayed up late last night. He lay listlessly on the simple bar with his eyes closed, half asleep. It was not until Wan Feng threw his hand on Xu Bin's head that Xu Bin opened his eyes.
Wan Feng introduced Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao to Xu Bin.
"These are my two friends from Longjiang who want to buy game consoles. This is Wang Zhonghai, this is Yang Pao, and this is my brother Xu Bin, the owner of this entertainment city. You two should get to know each other."
Although Xu Bin is only twenty years old this year, he has been the owner of an entertainment city for almost a year. He has learned some things about public life from Wan Feng.
He extended his hand and shook hands with Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao respectively: "Brother Wang, Brother Yang, hello, welcome to visit."
"I didn't expect the owner of the entertainment city to be so young and promising." Wang Zhonghai was surprised.
"There's a lot of young people to feed." Yang Pao praised without giving in.
Who did these two country bumpkins learn this from?
"Xu Bin, please introduce your entertainment city to them."
Xu Bin took Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao upstairs to visit the billiard and video rooms.
Zhan Honggui went to a machine and watched a teenager playing games. After watching for a while, he felt that it was boring.
"Brother, how much is a machine like this?"
"Seven or eight thousand."
Zhan Honggui was shocked. "Holy crap! It's so expensive! I only spent 7,000 or 8,000 yuan to build a big house and open a shop, and it's only worth this much."
"That's not how it's calculated. Different systems have different values, and it's not about the size of the item. Electronic products are very valuable when they're popular, but they're worthless after they're out of fashion. It's fundamentally different from your house. Your house might be worth more in ten years than it is now, but this thing might be gone in ten years. That's the difference."
"So how do you make money with this thing?"
"Buy game coins. See these things that look like coins? They're game coins. Four for one dollar. You provide the machine and customers spend money to buy game coins to play games. That's how you play."
"How much money can this machine make in a day?" Qin Suzhen interjected.
"If a baseboard becomes popular, one machine can earn 70 to 80 yuan in game coins a day, which means on average one machine earns about 20 to 30 yuan."
Qin Suzhen turned around and counted the machines in the casino: "Thirty machines! He can make over a thousand dollars a day!"
"About the same."
"I think I should get a few back too. I can't let that idiot make all the money."
"If you want to do it, then go ahead. It's no problem for Heihe to have three arcades. After all, it's a city of 200,000 people."
Yang Pao is in the north district of Heihe, Wang Zhonghai is in the south district of Heihe, and Qin Suzhen can open a business in the west district of Heihe. Everyone manages their own territory and there is no conflict.