Chapter 24 The Son of Fortune
"Brother, just buy one pair. Really just buy one pair."
In the military service center in Qingshui County, Li Juan grabbed Li Ye's arm tightly to prevent him from taking out money.
She had already told Li Ye that she would only buy a pair of suede cotton shoes for her sister Li Ying to relieve the pain of her frozen feet.
But when Li Ye arrived, he asked the waiter, "Give me two pairs of suede-lined shoes, one size 35 and one size 32."
Although she was touched, the timid Li Juan could not accept it. If she took the shoes back, wouldn't her mother scold her to death?
[Are you still ignorant at your age? All your brother's money was used to buy you cotton shoes. Are you going to live on starvation? Are you going to stop smoking? Are you going to stop eating meat? ]
But just as the two of them started to pull, the salesperson at the service center said, "We don't have a size 32, nor a size 35. The smallest size is 36. Do you want it?"
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Now the siblings had no choice but to fight. Li Juan's size 35 feet could wear size 36 shoes, but Li Ying was still in elementary school and she definitely couldn't wear size 36 shoes.
"Okay then! Sister, can you give me a pair of size 36 first? Can you also reserve a pair of size 32 for me? If not, a pair of size 33 will be fine too."
Li Ye took out his money while asking questions to the saleswoman.
"Reservation? You are such a strange young man."
Perhaps because he was handsome and sweet-talking, the salesman didn't get annoyed and explained to Li Ye: "We don't sell shoes in small sizes here. If you want to buy them, you'd better go to the department store! But I don't think they can be found."
Li Ye thought about it and realized that children these days are actually quite miserable. They basically wear cloth cotton shoes made by their mothers, and wear clothes that have been worn by their sisters and mothers.
Without a market, there will naturally be no buying and selling. Qingshui County is not a big city, and the awareness of serving the buds of the motherland is not strong. For example, those fashionable children's leather shoes can only be found in big cities.
"Come on, try it on."
"Brother, forget it! I have shoes to wear."
"What nonsense."
The salesperson took out a pair of size 36 shoes and Li Ye asked Li Juan to try them on.
Li Juan hesitated for a long time before taking her feet out of the wet cotton shoes. There were three holes on the wet socks, revealing three radish heads.
Li Ye quickly bought two more pairs of socks and asked Li Juan to change into them with her shoes and socks.
"How is it? Do you need two more pairs of insoles?"
"No, brother. It's just right. It's really warm."
The little girl no longer resisted. Although suede shoes looked tacky and low-end from the perspective of future generations, the little girl looked pretty in them.
"Okay, let's go!"
Li Ye put Li Juan's cotton shoes into a shoe box and turned to leave the military service center. However, Li Juan did not follow him. Instead, she said softly from behind, "Brother, brother, wait a minute. Change your shoes."
Li Ye looked back and understood that the little girl was reluctant to wear her new shoes and walk in the snow, so she wanted to change into her wet old cotton shoes before walking.
Li Ye said unhappily: "I bought this pair of shoes for walking on snowy roads, otherwise why did I buy it?"
Seeing Li Ye's stern face, Li Juan reflexively shrank her neck, lowered her head and followed carefully.
When she and her mother had just gotten married, this brother had a stern face all day long, and his eyes were like that of Dahuang whose dog bowl had been stolen, which was very scary.
Li Ye took a few steps and found that the little girl was getting farther and farther away from him.
It turned out that in order to avoid getting her new shoes wet, she carefully avoided places with thick snow, walking in twists and turns like a maze.
Li Ye couldn't help laughing and thought of himself when he owned his first car in his previous life.
The new car is dearer to me than my wife. There is a scratch on it from my fingernail, so I have to go to my fourth son's original spray paint shop.
Later on, as long as he could leave, he would never repair it, he was a typical person who got bored with the old and loved the new.
"Hurry up, we still have to go to the grocery store to buy White Rabbit!"
"Brother, why are you buying candy? I just ate some hemp candy a few days ago, so why don't you buy some?"
The little girl who was walking around heard this and tried to resist, but her natural reflex of drooling made her very embarrassed and blushed.
Sweets are too tempting for children of this generation. It is no secret that a lollipop can abduct a child.
"You look beautiful in your new shoes, but what about Xiaoying? You know what's wrong with us, not poverty, but inequality? When she cries out of grievance, won't you use candy to shut her up?"
Li Juan is 14 this year, and Li Ying, who is even younger, is only 11. Li Ye can guess with his toes how resentful the little girl will be when Li Juan comes home wearing the new shoes. If there is no sweet benefit, there will be conflicts between the sisters in the family.
"No need for that. Sister Xiluo will only cry for a while, it's okay."
Although she felt embarrassed, Li Juan quickened her pace and followed her brother.
White Rabbit! The Queen of Sugar, White Rabbit~~
My mother ate it once when she came home, and she will remember the taste for the rest of her life.
As for what Li Ye said, that if he went back wearing new shoes, his sister, who was not treated equally, would cry and shed tears of resentment, she didn't care!
These days, my sister's bloodline suppression is so overbearing. If you want to wear nice shoes and clothes, wait for me, your sister, to replace you!
You don't accept it? If you don't accept it, I'll beat you up. Even if I beat you up, you won't respond. After all, you are the younger sister, not the younger brother.
Li Ye spent three yuan to buy two kilograms of White Rabbit milk, packed it into two bags and gave it to Li Juan. Li Juan quickly unbuttoned the front of her cotton-padded jacket and put the milk in, holding it tightly as if she were her son.
"After you go back, one bag is for you to eat, and the other bag is for grandma to distribute. Remember?"
"Mmmmm. Mmmmm."
Li Juan held the candy in her mouth, reluctant to chew it and swallow it, and nodded her little head repeatedly, indicating that she promised to do it. Her brother had already grabbed a handful for her to eat on the road, so no matter how they were divided, she would earn money.
Li Ye accompanied Li Juan for a while, and only returned to the No. 2 Middle School of the county after seeing her small figure turn the intersection.
As he walked, he wondered how he could make money safely and quickly.
Since you have come to this world, don't talk about any lofty ambitions. At least you should let the people around you live a good life without having to worry about having a roast chicken a day, right?
In this day and age, there are winds everywhere that can make pigs fly, and even a chicken feather can soar into the sky with the wind.
But we don’t know how many pigs fell to their death or chickens drowned.
For example, if you go south to Guangdong Province to sell clothes and general merchandise, you may actually get to eat crabs.
But you may also have your bag picked on the train, have your goods stolen from you in Guangdong Province, or even be robbed or have your money confiscated. All kinds of accidents are possible.
Moreover, Li Ye's age and identity at the moment put great restrictions on him.
As a high school student in your 18s or 19s, your teachers have to report to class every day. Can you give up your studies to start your own business?
Believe it or not, your dad can break your legs, and your grandparents won’t even bother to stop the fight.
Even if we take a step back and say that your family agrees that you don't want to go to college, they will only let you get a job in a company. Will they let you go out and engage in speculation?
Even if the Li family is extremely open-minded and wants Li Ye to do whatever he wants, that won't work!
Born in this era, you don't take the golden road of "class transition" of the college entrance examination, but take a detour to do business.
That's something only a big SB would do.
The rise of private enterprises took many years to come, and today’s self-employed individuals have a lower social status than a janitor with a regular job in a state-owned unit.
So if you want to do business now, you basically have to follow the path of small trader - big trader - big businessman. You are an inspirational hero who has worked his way up from the bottom.
Then in this great country, after you have been in business for decades and made a fortune, you will inevitably encounter upper barriers.
Then you held the pig's head and went to the temple gate. When the temple gate opened, you saw
Wonima, the person in the movie who requires you to kowtow and bow before he even raises his eyelids is actually a big boss who was a college student in the 1980s.
I just ask you whether you accept it or not, and whether you are angry or not.
College students in the late 1970s and early 1980s were promoted at rocket speed.
Especially at this time, there were many people who rose rapidly to the top of the four famous universities of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Renmin University of China.
If Li Ye is admitted to Peking University, Tsinghua University or Renmin University of China this year, it will only take four years for him to have one foot in the "temple gate" and cross several levels from the bottom of the pyramid.
This kind of opportunity is really precious, very precious to people from ordinary backgrounds. Basically, you will miss it once you miss it.
Even if Li Ye cannot stand the discipline in the future and does not pursue a career in politics, but chooses to go into business, then the huge network of classmates will be a huge boost, and he will naturally be several levels higher than those petty businessmen.
Because he and the bosses are either from the same circle or they can talk to each other in a roundabout way.
What was the name of the college student that Chen Jianghe met on the train? When he graduated, what was his status compared to Chen Jianghe's?
Are you better than Chen Jianghe?
Therefore, if you want to make money at this moment, you can only take both into account without affecting your studies, but there are too many restrictions in all aspects.
【What to do? 】
[Money is a must. A man cannot bend over backwards for a penny. You have to have your cake and eat it too.]
Li Ye walked back to the No. 2 Middle School of the county with his head down. Because he was thinking about something, he didn't notice a person squatting at the entrance of the No. 2 Middle School.
But the man saw him.
"Little brother, little brother. Hey, have you eaten yet? Have some candy, have some candy."
Li Ye looked at the man in front of him whose nose was running due to the cold but who still had a smile on his face, and he couldn't help but feel suspicious.
"Could it be that I am really the template of the protagonist, the child of luck, and someone just happened to send me a pillow when I took a nap?"
(End of this chapter)
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