Chapter 23: Rich or poor, go home for the New Year Wall Street, Ian...
Wall Street, Ian, he kept more than ten thousand dollars, but only spent very little on himself.
He still shared a house with others in a very remote neighborhood every day, and the clothes he wore were tattered. He carefully hung up his custom-made suit and would only wear it when needed.
He will use this more than ten thousand yuan wisely.
As soon as the specific publication date of "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" was announced, Ian began to take action, placing advertisements in newspapers and even clumsily writing letters to readers himself.
Of course, it was also because he had indeed read "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" several times. In the gaps between practicing his manners every day, he would choose to read "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" to relax and motivate himself.
As a typical lower-class person, the reader's letter written by Ian is more sincere and heartfelt, and his clumsy words can further prove the authenticity of this reader's letter.
Ian and Andre Miller gradually became familiar with each other because of their work.
Ian told Ander that the reason his father's story was translated was because it was recorded by a Chinese.
"Why?"
"No one on Wall Street cares about a homeless person, right? Wall Street doesn't believe in tears."
Wall Street doesn't believe in tears, this is what Li Daohua wrote in his adventures, and now Ian and Andrew firmly believe it.
In Wall Street, where the strong wield their swords against the weak, no one will look at a homeless person even if he was once successful.
Maybe I'll bring him up in a conversation with someone sometime, just as a joke and let it go.
Ian came to Wall Street from a small town, moved from a subway passage to a small, shabby house to share a house, and saw too much human warmth and coldness.
Ander has been on Wall Street longer than Ian, and his feelings are deeper than Ian. He has betrayed and been betrayed. He has paid a lot to climb to his current position.
But so what? Although he seems to be in a very glorious position as the copyright manager, he is actually nothing on Wall Street.
There are many old groups and upstarts here, and there are too many rich people. He is just a humble worker, and he has some advantages over newcomers to Wall Street like Ian.
"This author is a mysterious person. After she left the biography to me, she left. Perhaps, she went to discover another person's story."
"She? So... the author is a woman?"
"I thought, rice flower is obvious, isn't it?" Anyway, Ian felt that the name couldn't be a man's. Of course, Dennis also said that the author was indeed a woman.
Young, beautiful, energetic and talented, but unfortunately, she is already married.
Even from the distorted cross-border call, Ian could hear the deep regret in Dennis' words.
"So what? You can get divorced after getting married, right?" Ian didn't understand China. He was just expressing his thoughts, which was too common in America.
Ouyang Yuan, who was far away in China, had no idea that someone had already set his sights on his position.
Ander felt that he really couldn't imagine that an author named Rice Flower was a mysterious person. The name sounded like a farmer, perhaps she was from a farm in Texas.
The name "Rice Flower" seems to represent earthiness no matter which country it is.
"Does she have any other stories?" Ander felt that this author would become famous sooner or later, and of course, she would also become a thorn in the eyes of some people.
After all, it reveals the methods used by many people to become rich and famous. Among the ones he knows alone, there are three or four that match the numbers, not to mention those he doesn't know.
That is to say, he now has a career and a family, otherwise, after seeing this book, he would definitely give it a try.
He plans to collect a copy of this book and give it to his children to read. This is something that cannot be learned in school, but it is the most practical.
One day in November, "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" was on the shelves, and many bookstores began to promote the book, of course, with only a brief introduction.
After all, I'm not famous and I just promoted it in a tabloid, so it's great to have any promotion.
The introduction also contains the life biography of billionaires and the rise and fall of wealthy families.
Ian took advantage of this opportunity to secretly continue publishing some specious letters from readers in the newspaper.
Some of them are real feelings, while others are made up by him based on stories from his adventures.
He also spent money to be interviewed on TV, and the content of the interview was about Wright Lee's story and their family's story.
This time the price he offered was not low, and he was on a program with pretty good ratings.
"Hey, isn't that Ian?" In the supermarket, Ian's talk show was playing on TV.
Several young people who were working gathered together. They stopped working and just discussed how Ian got on TV.
"Damn it, isn't his name Ian Garcia? How did it become Ian Li?"
"I know, I know. His father, Uncle Garcia, was working on a farm in Texas. When did he die? Poor Uncle Garcia, I should have gone to his funeral," a curly-haired young man lowered his head and prayed silently.
A friend next to him slapped him on the head and said, "Idiot, the dead dad he was talking about was not Uncle Garcia, but that Wright Lee."
The young man couldn't figure it out at all, and even suspected that he had remembered it wrong. Ian's father was called Wright Lee, not Uncle Garcia.
Kyle, the quick-witted man who slapped his companion, was watching Ian's interview carefully.
He has definitely made a fortune. Judging from Ian's clothes and the TV show he is currently on, Kyle thinks that maybe he should go meet their old friend. How can he make a fortune without taking his brothers with him?
When he first became rich, didn't he immediately notify everyone to make money together? But Ian didn't want to do it, so it was none of his business.
As for the biography of his father recommended by Ian, sorry, his cultural level is not as high as Ian's, so he can't understand that thing.
Kyle returned to the subway tunnel where they originally lived, but did not find Ian.
Kyle didn't find it strange. After all, Ian was a big shot now. How could he still live in a subway tunnel?
His hope was that someone at the newspaper where Ian used to work knew where Ian lived.
On that street, everyone was rushing to and fro. Because of the coming of the cold air, many people were wearing scarves or hats, and Kyle was no exception.
A man in a set of high-end custom-made clothes appeared in his sight. Such a man must be rich. As a hard-working person, Kyle immediately awakened his work gene and quietly approached.
"Hey, man, that's not polite."
Kyle was caught by the other party before he could steal. Hearing a familiar voice, Kyle looked up. The other party was wrapped tightly, but Kyle, who was familiar with Ian, could still recognize him at a glance.
"Ian?"
"Kyle?"
Sometimes, it's just a coincidence that two people meet each other.
"You lied on TV, right!" Kyle was very sure.
"Let's find a place first. Are you sure you want to talk here?"
Kyle agreed. He came to Ian not to break up with him, but to make a fortune and let Ian take him with him, not to destroy this way of making money.
In a secluded park, Ian and Kyle stood opposite each other, one dressed neatly and concealed his head and tail, while the other wore baggy clothes and looked open and aboveboard.
"I can teach you how to make a lot of money, but I want a share. I'll give you advice behind the scenes, and you'll be in charge of showing up. We'll split the money we make 50-50."
Kyle stared at Ian for a long time: "You have changed."
"Of course I have changed. If I don't change, I will never make money and will always be suppressed at the bottom. Maybe one day I will have to steal and rob like you guys."
"I agree." He had nothing to lose, did he?
Ian talked to Kyle for a long time in the park. After Kyle left, Ian sat in the park until his lips turned blue and he left because he couldn't stand the cold anymore.
What he told Kyle was the Ponzi scheme in "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street".
Of course, you can't do this on Wall Street. The Adventures was first launched on Wall Street. Even though the sales are not ideal now, there are too many smart people here and it is still easy to be discovered.
He asked Kyle to go to Florida and try it there first.
In his adventures, he had never thought of doing this kind of low-end, crazy money-making, and exhausting-the-pond scam himself.
If he wants to be a successful person, he cannot have too many stains on him, at least he cannot be involved in a Ponzi scheme.
But it did not prevent him from accumulating some original capital as the man behind the scenes.
The sales of "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" have always been lukewarm, but anyone who has read the book feels that it is worth the money and is willing to share it with others.
This is a way to make money. Any way to make money, no matter how much money it makes, will soon become unprofitable as long as people flock in.
The less people know about it, the more chances they have of success.
This sales volume did not change until strong protests broke out in Florida, with countless residents taking to the streets and many places unable to even work normally.
"Okay sir, I've registered it for you. I can't tell you when you can get it back, sorry."
In the police station, people kept calling the police, saying that all their money had been taken away, ranging from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.
The total amount of money lost from those who came to the police station to report the crime is over one million dollars, not to mention that there are still some who have not yet reported the crime.
"F**, this is impossible. All the money I earned before is still at my house. They must just be adjusting their strategy." Some policemen in the police station also got involved and were now explaining to those who had fallen into the trap because of him one by one.
Under Ian's guidance, Kyle brought a group of younger brothers and traveled from New York to Florida. According to Ian, he should spread the news first.
The first person we found was a priest from a small place. We gave him a generous rebate, and then he expanded the program to include believers.
With the priest's endorsement, their angel investment quickly snowballed until it reached a critical point where even with new people joining, the new money was not enough to make up for the daily interest.
It was at this time that Kyle decided that they had to run away, otherwise the interest alone would be a huge sum of money every day.
One night, the company called Tucker Investment was deserted. The next day when people came to the company to collect today's interest, they realized that something was wrong.
The protests that broke out in Florida have drawn attention from people in other states.
Ian also took the opportunity to come on stage and pointed out that this was the so-called Ponzi scheme. He had encountered such a scam in his father's biography "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street".
"Once Upon a Time in Wall Street", which had originally had stagnant sales, officially entered the vision of most people.
Seeing that the popularity of "Adventures of Strange Things" was unstoppable, people who had already bought the book and read it began to join the carnival, taking the opportunity to show off their taste.
Some newspapers with big bosses behind them even use this novel to attack their rivals, especially when their rivals made their fortunes in a dishonest way.
“No other novel can expose the madness of Wall Street so nakedly. Yes, you can find the prototype of every scam in the novel on Wall Street. However, it is not easy for ordinary people to understand.”
This is the newspaper's evaluation of "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street".
In Florida, which was hit hardest, almost everyone bought a copy of the policy just to protect their money.
If they had seen this novel earlier, perhaps they would not have gone bankrupt.
Kyle left Florida and the group of friends who had shared weal and woe with him. After dividing the money he had defrauded, he changed his name, returned to Texas, and rented a farm.
In his later years, he often mentioned this incident from his youth to his grandchildren.
"If you want to be the boss on Wall Street, you have to step on the corpses of others. Unfortunately, I can't do that."
"Does she have any other stories? We need her!" Ander asked Ian again.
Ian is now a completely different person than before. With the popularity of "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street", he, the son of the protagonist, has also been invited by many TV stations and newspapers.
This time it was not him who spent the money, but the other party.
"I don't know. After all, she is very mysterious, isn't she? Besides, you have made enough money from "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street". You can't be too greedy."
The royalties for The Adventures of Wall Street are $50,000. So far, sales have exceeded 300,000 copies and are still rising. The regular bound edition is $5 per copy, and the hardcover edition is $15.
People with a little money will choose the hardcover version. The paper of the ordinary bound version is too poor. If it is read frequently, it will soon be unrecognizable.
"A dollar per word, Ian, that's the absolute best deal."
Ian knew that he was not lying, so after he returned, he called Dennis to ask if he had any new book by Daohua. It had to be an excellent one, as good as "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street", suitable for America.
"I'm sorry Ian, I can't contact Daohua right now. You don't know, it's the Chinese New Year holiday period in China, which is similar to our Christmas. Daohua went home to be with her family. I can only wait for a while."
Ian found it incomprehensible. Is spending time with family more important than making money?
He left a small town and has been working on Wall Street for two years. He achieved nothing in the first year, but only this year did he make a comeback. During this period, he rarely even talked to his parents.
The last time I called, I was scolded by my parents. They saw on TV that their son, Ian Garcia, is no longer their child, but Wright Lee's child.
After hearing him talk about how much money he made, Digger Garcia decided to change his name to Digger Lee, that’s what true supportive family means!
"Ian, don't use your thoughts to think about the people of this land. I promise that as long as Teacher Daohua comes back, I will help you ask."
Dennis was sure that Li Daohua would definitely agree to write a novel for America. He knew that they preferred to earn dollars.
Last time, Li Daohua gave them two 10,000 foreign exchange certificates, which he and Li Ziran divided equally, 5,000 each.
Dennis felt he couldn't describe Li Ziran's expression at that time. It looked a bit like crying, but also a bit like laughing.
In short, Li Ziran was never seen going out on a spending spree. He said he had sent all his money back home.
His family is from the countryside. His father passed away and his mother raised them all by herself.
He is the eldest in the family and the first to pass the college entrance examination. He has younger brothers and sisters. He exchanged 5,000 foreign exchange coupons for 8,000 RMB, which is enough for their family to live a worry-free life and his younger brothers and sisters can also use the money to continue their studies.
"I have to thank you and Teacher Daohua for this."
After the winter vacation at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Li Daohua and Ouyang Yuan packed up their things and went home to celebrate the New Year. They returned home early to avoid colliding with the large group of people going home for the Spring Festival.
Li Daohua and his friends were hurrying to catch the train with their belongings. Both of them were carrying two large bags.
When seeing so many things, Li Daohua was a little worried. She didn't exercise in her previous life, so she really couldn't lift anything too heavy.
After picking it up, I unexpectedly felt that it was not heavy. But that’s not right. It is still heavy, but this weight is really nothing for this body.
When doing farm work at home, carrying a hundred kilograms of wheat is not a problem.
Along the way, Li Daohua ran very fast while carrying two bags of things, and she actually managed to rush into the train and find two seats while there were not too many people.
Just as the two of them sat down, more people rushed into the car. They didn't have time to put their belongings away, and they slowly looked for a place to put their things after the train started.
The train was very slow and shaky. It took more than ten hours to get from Beijing to Henan Province. They took the train in the afternoon and did not arrive until the next morning.
It was so cold on the way that Li Daohua couldn't sleep well. Plus, it was a hard seat, so she would wake up after an hour or two of sleep, and fall asleep again in a daze.
She was careless, but Ouyang Yuan was miserable. Their bags were filled with good things and money. He didn't dare to sleep at all. If he couldn't hold on and fell asleep, he would suddenly wake up and rush to check if anything was missing.
Just like that, when they were about to get off the bus, they heard crying. Someone discovered that his money had been stolen. With so many people around, they couldn't find the thief. Besides, with so many people getting on and off the bus, the thief might have already gotten off the bus.
Only after they got off the train did Ouyang Yuan breathe a sigh of relief. Their money was hidden in the lattice of his underwear. His father-in-law, Li Sanzhu, Li Daohua's father, taught him that.
According to data, the national average temperature in the 1980s and 1990s was about 4 to 5 degrees lower than that in the 21st century.
When Li Daohua and his friends came out of the train station, they saw the ground was covered with snow that had been trampled and changed color.
The cotton shoes they wore were not waterproof, so when they walked they could only choose places with less water.
Sitting on the red bus, the ice flowers on the windows are set against the endless white fields outside the window. Under the snow are wheat seedlings that are accumulating strength for the winter.
Henan Province, Li Daohua is back.
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