Mo Xiaohao's life has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs these past few days.
He bought a car the moment he got the money.
He bought a new car worth over 400,000 yuan, and the moment he sat in it, he felt like a winner in life.
Once people have money, they want to show it off, and the people they show off to are often their former classmates or friends.
Mo Xiaohao was born in an orphanage.
But he also has classmates.
He called and took the initiative to organize a class reunion.
They even chose a high-standard hotel as the venue for the class reunion.
It's all so that others can see that I'm rich now.
There's a saying: "A scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days of separation."
He wanted to show them how much they had looked down on him before. To say he was an orphan was such a foolish thing to do.
The class reunion was a great success. Since they were all young people, they naturally didn't resist the idea of a gathering.
At the class reunion, Mo Xiaohao boasted about his new car and felt the envious looks from his classmates, which made him feel quite elated.
Then a classmate who was closer to him came over and told him that he now had money and could make investments.
Mo Xiaohao was initially a little worried.
However, after a few drinks, he began to feel incredibly heroic.
Based on that classmate's information, I invested in an internet company.
Unexpectedly, this decision plunged him into a quagmire. The investment wiped out all his money. Unwilling to admit defeat, he mortgaged his newly purchased car, but the result was still the same: he lost money.
Doing business is sometimes like gambling.
When someone loses money, they always think about making it back and earning back what they lost. In a moment of madness, he took out more than a dozen online loans.
When he invested all his money in an attempt to turn his fortunes around, the company he invested in disappeared, and the classmate who helped him make the contact also vanished.
He went from being a millionaire to being penniless with hundreds of thousands in debt in less than a month.
Mo Xiaohao was completely dumbfounded.
He lost 1 million in such a short time and still owed so much money. He was too ashamed to go back to see his master. He was so heavily in debt that he didn't even have a place to live.
He's been staying in the park for the past few days, looking utterly pathetic.
In the end, it was Chen Zhe who found him.
Then I helped him pay off those online loans.
Mo Xiaohao felt a little ashamed. At first, he looked down on Chen Zhe, but he never expected that the person who would help him in the end would be the one he looked down on.
His face flushed red, and he couldn't help but ask, "What exactly did I do wrong?"
Chen Zhe didn't discourage him; instead, he told him a story.
Long, long ago, there was a poor man who desperately wanted to get rich.
So he went to find a rich man in the same village.
A poor man asked a rich man, "How can I become as rich as you?"
The rich man said, "You need to work hard."
The poor: "I've tried, I work 14 hours a day, but I'm still destitute."
The rich man said, "That's far from enough. I work 10,000 hours a day."
The poor man was puzzled.
"My lord, if I may be so bold, you probably only work for two hours a day. The rest of the time you spend eating, drinking, and having fun. And there are only 24 hours in a day, how can you possibly work 10,000 hours?"
The rich man smiled. "Do you want to know why?"
The poor man nodded.
"Okay, I can tell you if you want to know, but I have a condition, I don't know if you can agree to it."
The poor man said, "I'll agree to any condition as long as you tell me how you make money."
"Okay, then come and work for me for one day. There will be no pay for this day, and no food or lodging will be provided. Can you handle that?"
The poor man hesitated for a moment.
[It's just one day, and the daily wage isn't much. The secret to making money is more important.]
The poor man nodded.
"Okay, I can work for you for free for a day, but you have to tell me how to make money afterwards."
"certainly."
The poor man, having received the rich man's promise, happily returned home and told his wife the news.
The wife was a little worried.
"Wouldn't it be a loss for us to work for him for free? We still need to survive."
The poor man waved his hand.
"Don't worry, you won't lose money. Once I learn how to make money, I'll be rich, and then you can enjoy the good life with me."
The next day, the poor man arrived at the rich man's house as promised. He started working hard from early morning and dared not slack off at all.
Because he worked so hard, his energy was depleted quickly, and he was starving before noon.
He saw other people going out to eat and wanted to go too, but he had no money in his pocket.
At this point, the rich man stepped forward and said, "I can lend you money if you need it."
The poor man hesitated for a moment, but hunger ultimately triumphed over thrift, and he borrowed money from the rich man to have a good meal.
After finishing their meal, they started working hard again.
The sun has set, and it's getting late.
The poor man wanted to finish his work, so he went to the rich man.
"My lord, my work is done. Can you now fulfill your promise?"
The rich man smiled.
"No rush. How about this, you work for me for another hour, and I'll waive your lunch fee, okay?"
The poor man thought it was a good deal and worked even harder for another hour.
He came back an hour later and asked again.
"Your Excellency, may you speak now?"
"No rush, you've been working hard enough. We have free soup here, have a bowl first."
Hearing that there was free soup, the poor man was delighted and quickly filled a bowl and drank it.
After finishing his drink, he asked again, "Respected sir, may I speak now?"
"Of course I can say that you worked very hard today and I appreciate it, so I plan to reward you with a bicycle first."
Upon hearing that there was a bicycle, the poor people stared wide-eyed, almost in disbelief.
Until the rich man actually pushed the bicycle in front of him.
Only poor people believe that.
He swallowed hard in shock.
"Sir, are you really going to reward me with this car without paying a single penny?"
The rich man smiled.
"Yes, but this car needs regular maintenance and repairs. If you can do that, then I'll give it to you."
The poor man nodded frantically.
"Of course I can do it."
The rich man then produced a contract.
"Then sign your name here to prove that you can do what you just said."
The poor man readily signed the agreement in order to get the bicycle.
He happily pushed the new car home, forgetting to ask the rich man how he made his money. His wife was also delighted to see the new car and praised the rich man as a good person.
The poor people thought their happy days would continue.
But his good fortune didn't last long. Not long after, his car broke down. He took it to a repair shop, and the mechanic quoted him a price that was hard for him to accept.
The poor people didn't want to repair it, so they just pushed it back into their homes.
But then the rich man sent someone to find him.
"It's clearly stated in the contract that you must perform regular maintenance and repairs. Although this car was a reward for you, it's nominally a rental, and the ownership of the car still belongs to me."
The poor don't have the money to pay for car repairs.
At this point, the rich man lent him money, but this time with interest.
The poor man gritted his teeth and borrowed another sum of money.
But when the due date came, he still couldn't repay it, and it seemed he had no choice but to borrow again...
As interest accumulates, the poor eventually find themselves in debt they can never repay.
He found the rich man with tears in his eyes.
"My lord, I asked you about ways to make money before, but why am I now heavily in debt?"
The rich man then smiled and told him, "Now I can tell you how I make money. I told you before that I work 10,000 hours a day, but I didn't say that all 10,000 hours are my own. In those 10,000 hours, you already owe me hundreds of hours, and there are many people like you who have to work for me. That's how I make money."
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After Chen Zhe finished telling the story, Mo Xiaohao blushed.
He now feels like the poor man in the story, always wanting to make money, but unexpectedly falling into the rich man's trap.
“I understand what you mean. I was really stupid. Master was right. I am indeed not as good as you. Now you have helped me pay off my debt. I have been owing you for many hours.”
Mo Xiaohao had already identified himself with the poor man in the story, while the rich man in the story was naturally Chen Zhe.
Chen Zhe patted him on the shoulder.
“Brother, I didn’t mean for you to owe me a favor. I’m helping you pay off your debt out of gratitude, after all, you once saved my life.”
Mo Xiaohao was suddenly moved when he heard Chen Zhe's words.
He remembered his master's words, and only now did he realize that his master was right.
He looked at Chen Zhe with tears in his eyes.
"Chen Zhe... no, Manager Chen, please let me follow you! I'll do whatever you ask me to do from now on."
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