Chapter 9 Smelling the Smell of US Dollars



Han Chudong slept until a little after ten o'clock and felt like he was alive again.

Learning to repair things is not too tiring. Nowadays, objects have simple structures and there are only a few common problems.

But it’s very tiring to get along with Sun Laosan.

Jobs like buying cigarettes and groceries, cleaning, and delivering goods were thrown to him, and he also had to chat with them every day and comment on whose wife was prettier.

Our tastes and aesthetics are different, so we can't talk about the same thing.

This made Han Chudong feel that he and his master were definitely not the same kind of people.

The other party is already hungry and has no choice but to eat. He is still young and is increasingly worried about being led astray in terms of aesthetics. There have been some bad signs recently.

For example, the night before yesterday, he actually secretly glanced at a woman who looked to be in her thirties or forties in his dream, and when he woke up he had to secretly wash her underwear. This made Han Chudong feel like the sky was falling.

This was an unprecedented bad omen. They didn't dare to peek at anyone with Sun Laosan the whole day. His master was very disappointed because he thought he had lost a fellow traveler.

Fortunately, Han Chudong didn't know, otherwise he would definitely yell: "Who the hell is your kindred spirit?"

A perfect score.

It has been more than 20 days since I came to this era, and I have accomplished almost nothing.

It's not that he has accomplished nothing. He has earned thirty-five dollars from the repair shop. Since he took a day off today, another three dollars will be deducted. This is the rule set by Sun Laosan himself.

Faced with such a huge sum of money, Han Chudong was about to cry just thinking about it.

It is absolutely impossible to learn to repair electrical appliances, otherwise you will starve to death or die of exhaustion in the future. You want too much, but have too little, and it is absolutely impossible not to make money.

Seeing that many opportunities were about to arrive, Han Chudong was confident that he could tinker with a personal computer, even if it was just a gimmick, and make a lot of money.

If you wait another two, three, four, or five years, you will achieve overnight fame and success. Whether you copy Gates' path or Jobs' path, you will become a winner in life.

What is he doing now? Instead of accumulating startup capital, he is learning a skill to repair home appliances that is only enough to make a living.

To put it bluntly, the salary of an apprentice is worse than that of a beggar who kneels under the "天下为公" archway every day.

Really not as good as this.

The beggar could earn at least twenty dollars a day, and by defrauding tourists who came here to visit, he could earn more than the average income in Los Angeles. Han Chudong didn't dare to compete with him.

After waking up and lying in bed thinking about this matter, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. It's not that Sun Laosan was not kind to him, but he was treated like cheap labor and he couldn't help feeling aggrieved.

How could this future man, with his head full of money-making knowledge, only earn five dollars a day? Fortunately, he didn't know that his father had given Sun Lao San an apprenticeship fee, otherwise he would have been even more frustrated. One was profitable, and the other was losing money, with a difference of more than five hundred dollars.

I want to sit down and have a serious talk with my family members, and tell them straight out... I had been playing dumb before, but now I have finally become powerful.

An object suddenly flashed through my mind.

I got up in a hurry, without even having time to brush my teeth or wash my face. I put the feather duster, rolling pin, broom, mop and other things at the door, thinking I would throw them away when I went downstairs.

Must be thrown away!

There was no one at home. After taking a cold shower, I ate the cold porridge on the table with salted duck eggs. It was such a pleasure.

The leg injury was not serious to begin with, and walking is not a problem now as long as I move gently. After eating, I put my legs on the sofa and turned on the TV, but I didn't find any interesting programs.

Without a mobile phone, tablet or laptop, the time in each day seems to have suddenly increased a lot. I often reach out to grab my phone, and I still can’t get used to it.

I was bored, so I sat there and picked up the newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.

The golden age of Hollywood has passed, and nowadays, both male and female stars and works are showing a lack of successors.

The entertainment pages are still rehashing old stuff.

Audrey Hepburn, the goddess in people's minds, is in her forties this year. She was not happy after marrying a man named Andre Dotti three years ago and divorced again last year.

Recently, some reporters took photos of her ex-husband going to nightclubs and having intimate contact with other women.

This is no longer news. The editor's calmness is revealed between the lines, and at the end he did not forget to advise Hepburn not to look for such a scumbag next time.

Another Hollywood beauty, Grace Kelly, married and moved to Europe a few years ago. It was said that her husband sent maids to monitor her, and her husband had at least three lovers.

As for the female stars of this era, Han Chudong didn't know most of them, so he skipped them and started looking at the sports pages.

How could he remember the events of this era? He even saw the names of the people for the first time, so his idea of ​​taking advantage of the loopholes in sports betting was thwarted.

I saw a lot of familiar names on the economic page.

For example, the world's richest man, oil tycoon Paul Getty.

The old man was in the news for his poor health, and also for the kidnapping of his grandson, J. Paul Getty III, and the world's richest man's refusal to pay the ransom.

The old history in movies and books was actually experienced by Han Chudong, which felt very magical. He only remembered that his grandson would have one ear cut off by the kidnappers later. Even so, the richest man still bargained and was unwilling to pay.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

After all, there are too many descendants, so it doesn't matter even if they are killed. Playboy Paul Getty has experienced five marriages. Han Chudong even doubts whether he can remember the name of every descendant.

Turn the page and see a photo.

I always felt that the person above looked familiar, and only after reading the content did I realize it was Mr. Buffett.

I always had the impression that he was an old man, but the Buffett in the photo was just a middle-aged man.

If Han Chudong hadn’t seen the name, she really wouldn’t have recognized him.

I read the content of this article with interest and found out that it was blaming the future stock god.

Han Chudong couldn't help laughing when he heard that he was irresponsible to investors and picked a lot of junk stocks that caused investors to lose money. He didn't expect that this legendary billionaire also had a dark history.

Guess how many people will laugh later and how many will lose out by pulling their money due to these reports.

Anyway, he didn't buy Buffett's fund. Even if he lost a lot or earned a lot, it had nothing to do with Han Chudong. He was happy to be a spectator.

There was no civilian Internet, let alone search engines to look up information.

If I wanted to get any information, I could only get it through TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and other people's mouths. I didn't pay attention to newspapers before, but after reading it, I took out all the past newspapers on the balcony and read them as interesting stories.

Time passed by minute by minute, and from time to time there was the rustling sound of pages turning.

At this moment, Han Chudong was reading a report about a gang that was arrested for selling fake lottery tickets privately.

The case occurred last month in a suburb of San Francisco.

I finished reading it with great interest.

Just as he was about to continue turning the pages, he suddenly thought of something and stopped.

Staring at the page of newspaper, he fell into a state of deep thought.

Since he believes that capital accumulation cannot be achieved by repairing home appliances, Han Chudong must think of other ways out. Continuing like this is simply a waste of life.

A bold idea quickly took shape in his mind and gradually became clear.

I could vaguely smell the scent of US dollars.


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