Chapter 084 Chapter 84
There are often some rhymes in the underworld that come from nowhere but are widely circulated.
When Ah Yan saw the message sent by Chu Bingbing, he immediately thought of these words.
The poor play with cars, the rich play with watches, fishing makes three generations poor, photography ruins a lifetime.
Of course, the price of fishing photography is nothing compared to that of cars and watches.
If possible, take Chu Bingbing to Lu Chen's dimension grocery store to shop, that would definitely be high-end consumption.
Unfortunately, the Plane Store is too mysterious. It would be fine if Chu Bingbing could trigger it herself, but Ah Yan and Zhu Jue had already been there once this month and spent most of the day reviewing bugs. According to the summary, it would take at least next month before they could enter the Plane Store.
Although Ayan and Zhu Jue were not from wealthy families, they had met quite a few wealthy people.
They have two children, Tan Dabao and Tan Xiaobao, who have been geniuses since childhood and whose assets have increased dramatically as they grow up. They are considered the first generation of entrepreneurs.
And their high school classmates were all extremely wealthy people.
After all, Ayan and Zhu Jue attended the top-ranked private high school in Ningcheng, the capital. Unlike them, other students in the same school were not admitted as top students. They were all rich or noble.
Normal schools in China have winter and summer vacations, private high schools also have extra spring and autumn vacations, group travel abroad, various club activities, high school classmates' coming-of-age ceremonies, birthday parties...
So, what about garages filled with luxury cars, rainbow sports cars of various colors, from Lotus to Lambo, Bugatti series, Rolls-Royce, etc. Although Ayan and Zhu Jue don’t have them, I have seen them all.
In private high schools, some people are high-profile, while others are low-profile, especially those who are not yet adults and only regard all the resources at home as their own assets.
Ah Yan has seen a room in a classmate's home that was dedicated to storing luxury and rare handbags. C's family had a cabinet, D's family had a cabinet, and H's family occupied half of the room. When she saw it at the time, she felt that the goods here were much more complete than those in the counters, with various colors and styles, including many second-hand models. It was simply a bag museum.
I have also seen male classmates invite them to look at their father's watch collection. The top layer is Patek Philippe, the second layer is Vacheron Constantin private custom-made loft craftsman series, followed by Richard Miller RM. As for Audemars Piguet and Jaeger-LeCoultre, they are already placed on the lower layer. Rolex, which is considered a must-have for the rich in the eyes of the public, is completely at the bottom layer.
So, when faced with spending a lot of money all at once, Yan's first reaction was to buy a watch.
A custom-made piece by a loft craftsman costs tens of millions, and it is sold at auction for hundreds of millions. Is there anything more expensive than playing with watches?
Of course, this falls into the category of ordinary wealthy people. If the hobbies of wealthy people are rather bizarre, for example, a friend in high school had a family that was in the engineering business. He was influenced by it since he was a child to like excavators and cranes. The hobbies of his whole family were very bizarre, which was to collect engineering machinery of various models and groups.
[Ayan]: Large-scale personal consumption, that is, buying a house, a car, and a watch? However, cars and watches basically have to be booked in advance.
Spending money seems simple, but it is actually quite difficult sometimes.
Especially in the upward circle, netizens often talk about who has new money and who is a nouveau riche, and they always like to judge who is noble and who is low.
These luxury brands, in order to demonstrate their own style, heritage and high-end, are not something you can buy immediately after paying.
[Chu Bingbing]: Yes. It takes a long time to wait.
After getting the Shenhao System, I had money and confidence, and when I entered these luxury stores, I found that there were thresholds for buying things.
VIP, SVIP, VIC, a series of consumption quotas have invisibly divided people into several classes.
Some people don't have a good face when they go to the SA, while some customers walk to the door and the whole store comes out to greet them and go directly to the VIP room, where small cakes and desserts are served, and there is no negative emotion on the SA's face.
Luxury brands’ private ordering events require a certain amount of consumption to be invited. Some brand dinners and exhibition invitations exclusive to VIPs only have a fixed number of places in each store in a region.
At the beginning, Chu Bingbing was indeed buying things with the mentality of a poor person who had suddenly become rich. She covered her whole body with expensive luxury brands, even her socks cost three thousand yuan a pair.
After all, this is not your own money to spend, so just enjoy life while you can and wear an outfit that costs no less than six figures. You seem to feel more confident because of it.
It's like I've become a different person. I'm no longer the nerd who can only rely on studying hard and who is praised by others for his studies.
The price of just one toner from the skin care products she uses now is enough to support her living expenses for a long time when she was studying.
Chu Bingbing had never dared to imagine a day like this.
She grew up in her uncle's house since primary school. Her aunt always kept her as a burden. If she took an extra bite of vegetable at the dinner table, her aunt would glance at her and she would not dare to move her chopsticks.
She lived in the same room with her cousin. There was a tattered bunk bed in the small room. She slept on it and dared not move, for fear that the creaking sound of turning over would displease her sister, who would pound the bed and attract her aunt, who would then start to blame her for all sorts of things.
Just because of raising Chu Bingbing, the Chu family is about to be wiped out.
The fortune teller said that she was destined to have one son and one daughter, but she raised someone else's child and that occupied her fertility palace, so she would never have a son in this life.
There was no tuition in junior high school, only some miscellaneous fees. Later, when she entered high school, the school waived tuition, and her homeroom teacher applied for several grants for her. Her board and lodging were almost free. Although the food in the cafeteria was not very delicious, it was enough for her to eat. She did not go back to her uncle's house on weekends, and her classmates, parents and teachers also brought her food to replenish her body.
Her personality gradually became cheerful after meeting her high school teachers and classmates. Her uncle used to say to her, "You can't get anything out of a fight. What's the point of studying? Can you make a lot of money? Your mother studied, but by the time she got to college, she was so stupid that she didn't even know who her man was."
Chu Bingbing had once fantasized that when she went to college and made a lot of money, she would throw a bunch of pink RMB in front of her uncle and aunt, and then leave in style with her bag.
Isn't it just money? After giving it to them, they will know that they have great potential but cannot get close to me, and they will cry and kneel down to beg me for favors.
This was the most "face-slapping" way she could think of.
However, after obtaining the Shenhao System after the college entrance examination, Chu Bingbing did not do so.
After her uncle and aunt held a graduation banquet for her and collected money, Chu Bingbing also received a bonus from her hometown's Education Bureau. Pingcheng was not rich, but any local student who could be admitted to Ningda Binda would receive a bonus of 50,000 yuan. The teachers at the school knew the family situation, and the high school also gave her a scholarship of 10,000 yuan.
The teacher put all the money into her own account. Chu Bingbing also took this opportunity to buy new clothes, prepare the procedures for transferring her residence, pack her few belongings into a suitcase, and go to her classmates' homes while attending their graduation banquets, taking her several sets of clothes with her.
She was the top scholar in Pingcheng, and no one would refuse a top scholar to come to their home.
After attending a graduation banquet for a familiar classmate, in order to avoid the harassment of her tutor and some top-ranking teaching assistant, Chu Bingbing went on a short trip alone for the first time, to another city.
Then, she inexplicably activated the Shenhao system.
Although this damn system would deduct one's life if the task was not completed, Chu Bingbing seemed to gain confidence all of a sudden.
The confidence to say goodbye to the past completely.
She is no longer the poor and taciturn little girl who lives under someone else's roof.
With the help of the Shenhao System, Chu Bingbing simply traveled to several major cities, went shopping when she needed to spend, and slowly learned a lot of new things.
During the three-month vacation after the college entrance examination, she actually got the Shenhao system for two months, and Chu Bingbing was completely transformed.
From the college entrance examination candidates wearing washed-out school uniforms and no makeup, to the wealthy girls dressed in clothes worth no less than six figures, no one could believe it.
She tried too hard at first, but gradually she found her favorite style and learned how to coordinate everything from makeup to clothing.
For the first time, she can think about what she really likes, not buying clothes that are cost-effective and versatile and not easy to get dirty, not settling for cheap suitcases just to save money, not buying "ace professional jobs". Finance major of choice.
However, Chu Bingbing did not change her major after school started. Firstly, she could not change her major in the first half of her freshman year, and secondly, with her limited life experience, she had not figured out what her interests and ideals were.
Anyway, now that I have the Super Rich System and have so much money, especially the rebates that have been deposited into my bank card, it makes sense for me to study finance in order to manage my finances and achieve steady growth of my assets, right?
After entering university, Chu Bingbing rarely mentioned her hometown, let alone her past.
She subconsciously sealed it all away, escaped, and stayed away from the past that was not so good for her.
But today, when Chu Bingbing went to watch the live broadcast, she clicked on the personal interface of one of the anchors and found that the retired teacher who was doing the blindness-elimination live broadcast with a small blackboard was from Pingcheng.
As the Chinese New Year was approaching, the IP of Pingcheng made Chu Bingbing a little silent throughout breakfast.
Putting aside those unpleasant memories, she also received a lot of kindness in her hometown.
Money is really just a number to her now.
She has become increasingly fascinated by high-end luxury goods and is no longer eager for brands that require reservations and waiting for the goods to be fully stocked.
After all, Chu Bingbing believes that she is essentially an ordinary person and her threshold can be easily met.
Even if I have too much money, I won’t spend it, but I still can’t help but be a little calculating, always wanting to maximize my profits.
With a spending quota of 50 million, she could certainly order yachts, watches, and luxury cars, but with such a small fortune, why would she buy yachts and villas by herself? Just sit there and do nothing?
Chu Bingbing only knew through her own experience that rich people can really feel lonely.
[Chu Bingbing]: Hmm. Not buying a house, a car, a watch, or something like that? For example, I want to do something purely for consumption, not for investment, nor for donation.
Chu Bingbing knew that the message she sent was outrageous, but there was nothing she could do. This was a shitty system requirement.
You can’t donate, you can’t invest, you can’t buy a house, so the things that most people think can help you spend money are immediately blocked.
She is a person without much vision. She is still buying luxury goods to make ends meet and does not have the vision of a person of this class.
Compared to giving out 50 million in rewards every day to create dozens of well-known anchors.
Chu Bingbing wondered if there was a better one that might benefit more people.
[Chu Bingbing]: It’s New Year’s Day, so I’m spending money to bring some joy to everyone.
She added another sentence.
A Yan on the other side quickly replied.
[Ayan]: I almost understand.
Chu Bingbing really liked this aspect of Ah Yan. When she suddenly and for no reason sent out a message that she wanted to spend money, Ah Yan did not ask anything and just stuck to the point, only discussing spending money with her.
[Ayan]: I'm in a good mood so I spend some money to cheer myself up, right? What's the budget? The more people the better?
[Ayan]: If you just want to buy something, if you don't need it for personal use, if you just want to do good deeds and not donate money, why not buy a few batches of medical supplies? I have a classmate who is in a medical group. In the past, the high school board of directors raised funds to donate AEDs and medical machines. We also bought artificial hearts, artificial earlobes, biological machinery, etc. The channels are convenient and can be directly connected.
[Ah Yan]: As for the general public celebrating, one of my classmates got good grades in the college entrance examination, and his parents were very happy. All the cities across the country where we had branches held fireworks displays, inviting the whole city to watch the fireworks displays, and bought a lot of billboards to celebrate the birthday.
[Ayan]: Or, take a look at my friend's company's annual meeting and book Ningcheng Amusement Park for free. It costs NT$4 million to book the park for 2,000 people for two hours.
Chu Bingbing's eyes became brighter and brighter as she looked at the message sent by A Yan.
Ah Yan gave her a complete plan! If it were her, she would never have thought of these ways to spend money.
And this classmate and that friend are indeed extraordinary.
Before Chu Bingbing reported the budget to A Yan, she saw another message from A Yan.
[Ayan]: If you don’t know what to buy, you can go to XCMG. I have a friend whose life dream is to collect XCMG figurines at home. Unfortunately, he only collected five excavators and forklifts before his family transferred the machines to the construction site. QAQ
Ah Yan felt extremely regretful when he posted this message, "I think, when can Brother Bao get the excavator back?"
I remember that they all learned how to drive an excavator on Brother Bao’s site. Compared to driving a car, these big vehicles were more fun.
Brother Bao said that they were the real-life version of the "Our World" team, digging the ground and shoveling soil. Some of them even passed the test to get their licenses. Unfortunately, they were later stolen and all the construction machinery was packed up and sent away. They haven't played for a long time.
"We can only put our hope on Brother Bao." Zhu Jue said silently.
"Brother Bao is currently in the south on winter break working on some project. He has turned black."
The two of them reminisced about the joy of working on real infrastructure with Brother Bao. On the other side, Chu Bingbing read the message carefully.
Xu Gong? Chu Bingbing thought it sounded familiar and quickly searched for it. What is it?
Then, she looked at the result of her search: "XCMG 2,600-ton wheel crane, only 100 million!"
Chu Bingbing fell into deep thought, and she felt her mind was opened up.
But... Ah Yan calls this a big figurine? Huh? Collected five of them? Your friend is obviously you!
As expected, when it comes to spending money on research, I still have to look to Ayan.
Buying an excavator, a shovel, and a crane as toy figures, just two words to describe it: awesome!
Is this the world of the truly wealthy? What does it matter if there are figures in a glass cabinet? They collect the real ones!
With 50 million, you can only buy half of a crane!
This kind of hobby is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people...