Make A Billion In The 80s - Chatper 172
Buy, buy, buy, after school later, let’s bring back a surprise for my daughter! …
It was winter in January, and the temperature was extremely cold. Qiu Mingquan stood in the winter sun at the school gate and licked his chapped lips.
The old man in the reception room brought a glass of boiled water and waved to him: “Come on baby, drink some hot water, don’t freeze.”
Qiu Mingquan ran over gratefully, took the old man’s big enamel cup, and drank half a jar of warm boiling water with a “gudu gudu”: “Thank you, grandpa!”
“Your pen, can you sell it?” The old man chatted with him nonchalantly, “Golden pen, is the tip really made of gold?”
Qiu Mingquan smiled shyly: “The point on the nib is made of K gold, it’s really 14K gold, the workmanship is amazing.”
The old man laughed haha: “You are amazing. A pen is worth my family’s food money for several days. Why do you dare to sell this, little baby?”
Qiu Mingquan raised his sleeve and wiped his mouth, then smiled: “I will try too.”
At this moment, some parents began to come out of some classrooms. Qiu Mingquan quickly put down the enamel jar, and ran to the school gate quickly. He stood upright and looked anxiously at the crowd that filed out.
“Put away your puppy-like eyes.” Feng Rui said angrily, “You give me the look of ‘buy it if you love it, and leave if you don’t buy it’, be strong! Do you understand being strong?”
“Oh.” Qiu Mingquan straightened his back, and at a glance he saw the middle-aged woman who said he was speculative coming over.
She bent down and picked up a hero 100 gold pen, and asked unwillingly: “Little brother, I didn’t say that it’s too black-hearted—your pen costs six yuan at most, so I’ll take one. ”
Qiu Mingquan firmly clung to the death limit set by Feng Rui: “Auntie, it really can’t be done. I’ll pay eight yuan back, and I still have round-trip ticket money.”
A lesbian with a milder appearance next to him was calculating the fare and meals for the round trip in the city center, and looked at Qiu Mingquan’s little face flushed by the cold wind, and his heart softened: “Okay, I’ll buy one for eight yuan. All right.”
She shook her head, took out her wallet and counted out ten yuan: “I bought it for my son, which color is better?”
Qiu Mingquan was overwhelmed with surprise, and while looking for change, he followed President Feng’s instructions and said, “Auntie, why don’t you take this golden pen cap. With a golden crown, in the past, it was worthy of the number one prize!”
“Oh, you kid can really talk.” The lesbian picked up the classic gold pen with a golden cap with a smile, drew a few lines on the homework book provided by Qiu Mingquan, and put it in the exquisite pen case with satisfaction.
At this moment of the transaction, Qiu Mingquan was already surrounded by many parents.
The advertisement for the hero gold pen has just started to be launched intensively in the past two days, and many people are quite envious of this expensive 14K iridium gold pen.
Seeing that the lesbian placed the first order, some people became envious. What’s more, at this point in time when you just finished the parent meeting and learned about your child’s good grades?
“I want a full silver pen body, I think it’s very atmospheric.” Someone picked up another pen and rubbed it for a while, and was finally seduced by the good design and exquisite nib, and paid for it I bought one.
The sun is very strong, the north wind is very cold, happiness comes too suddenly.
Qiu Mingquan suddenly became a little dizzy, and only remembered Feng Rui’s “never lower the price” limit in his mind. After a while, seven of the eight hero 100 gold pens were bought!
Suddenly, almost at the same time, two people grabbed the last pen and said, “I want this one!”
As soon as Qiu Mingquan raised his head, the two who were fighting were the middle-aged man with glasses, and the woman who said he was black-hearted. The woman had been waiting to see if Qiu Mingquan could lower the price, but she didn’t expect that it would be sold out in a blink of an eye, and she immediately became anxious.
“I want it!” The middle-aged woman forcefully pulled the gold pen case into her hand, ready to pay.
The man’s expression was also anxious: “Oh, little brother, sell it to me!”
Qiu Mingquan looked at the two, slowly picked up the pen case, and handed it to the middle-aged man: “Uncle, here you are.”
The middle-aged woman was displeased, and raised her eyebrows: “Why, I said it first!”
Qiu Mingquan said indifferently: “No, this uncle is the first one to ask the price today.”
Wei Qingyuan let out a long sigh of relief, and quickly took out his wallet, suddenly feeling a little dazed.
He took out all the money and looked embarrassed: “Look, little brother, I didn’t want to bargain, I really came to hold a parent-teacher meeting, and I didn’t bring much money with me.”
Sure enough, there was only one five yuan in the whole wallet, a few ten-dollar bills, and a few steel coins.
At this moment, the middle-aged woman immediately regained her spirits: “I have, I have, and I have money.”
She flauntingly took out a ten-yuan bill, and stuffed it into Qiu Qingquan’s hand: “Here you are!”
Qiu Mingquan ignored her, reached out to take all the money in the man’s hand, and handed over the last hero iridium 100: “Uncle, here it is.”
The middle-aged woman yelled sharply: “You are crazy! He only has more than six yuan!”
Qiu Mingquan looked at the middle-aged woman, and said slowly, “Yes, but I’m willing to buy it for a thousand dollars.”
He turned his head and looked at Wei Qingyuan sincerely: “Uncle, thank you.”
“no need thank me?”
Qiu Mingquan said sincerely: “The market economy is a good thing. Right, uncle?”
Wei Qingyuan held the pencil case blankly, full of shock.
He didn’t expect that the child would be willing to sell him at a low price, but what he didn’t expect was what the child just said!
“Market economy is a good thing.”
This is a simple sentence, how many people around you dare to say it, or how many people understand the real truth?
He graduated from Dongshen City University of Finance and Economics. After graduation, he worked in the Central Audit Office. He has worked for more than ten years. Now he has just been transferred to Dongshen City to perform his duties. At the same time with doubts.
How could this teenage child say such words casually!
Wei Qingyuan tentatively proposed: “How about, at this time tomorrow, you come here, and I will bring you money to replenish it.”
“No, I won’t come tomorrow.” Qiu Mingquan smiled obediently, his little face flushed.
After all, he is still a child, Wei Qingyuan thought in confusion. I probably heard that sentence on the radio, so I remember it?
At this moment, a burly man bent down, wearing a huge gold ring on his finger, and nodded the last two remaining pen cases: “Is this the expensive one? – 50 Golden Eagles ?”
“Yes, yes, the big leader is visiting and giving the Soviet Union a national gift!” Qiu Mingquan couldn’t care about Wei Qingyuan anymore, his eyes fell on the thick gold chain around the man’s neck, and his heart beat faster.
The man nodded proudly: “Wrap both of them up for me.”
…
Lying on the only bed at home, Qiu Mingquan remained motionless. The grandparents around me were tired after going out all day, and they were already snoring.
The weather was very cold, and the quilts the three of them were covering together were not thick enough to keep them warm.
But his brain was burning hot!
“Mr. Feng…” Qiu Mingquan’s mind was filled with handfuls of change in the schoolbag under the bed.
The ten gold pens were sold out, which was a full profit of thirty-nine taels compared to the purchase price in the morning!
He had already put the passbook back, but in Qiu Mingquan’s old schoolbag, there was already more than one hundred and twenty yuan in it!
With a principal of more than 80 yuan, in one day, it is close to 40 yuan in profit!
All the gold pens were sold out, and the last two most expensive 50 gold carving hero gift pens brought him a profit of 20 yuan at once.
In his previous life when he died, this number was of course shabby.
However, this was 1988 in the previous life!
Even for employees of state-owned enterprises who are envied by everyone, the per capita monthly salary in Dongshen City at this time is only more than one hundred yuan. Yuan net profit is almost a month’s income from picking up waste, but now, Qiu Mingquan earns it in a day!
“Don’t get excited, it’s a small profit.” President Feng’s voice was laziness, with a trace of imperceptible complacency, “I have to go to the city again tomorrow to buy goods, don’t you want to rest early?”
Rest, where can I sleep?
Qiu Mingquan’s heart was beating thumpingly, and the last parent-teacher meeting recorded in the notebook was six days later. In other words, such a good thing with a profit margin of up to 45% can last for a total of seven days, a whole week!
A terrifying number jumped out instantly under Qiu Mingquan’s mental calculation.
“How is it a small profit!” He exclaimed excitedly in his heart, “The profit is 45%, seven times in a row. 1172 yuan!”
He felt that he could hardly breathe: “Selling for seven days in a row, with a principal of more than 80 yuan, you can earn 1,100 yuan, right?”
Feng Rui said triumphantly: “So this is called compound interest, do you understand compound interest? Remember it! The first knowledge point.”
But suddenly, he was silent again: “How can you count so fast?”
“Is it fast? It’s a good deal!”
Feng Rui asked suspiciously: “You’ve been calculating this all the way?”
“No, just now.”
President Feng Da suddenly asked: “What is the prescription of 158?”
about? “Qiu Mingquan almost blurted out, feeling a little apprehensive after he finished speaking, then sneaked out of bed to find the calculator in his schoolbag, and pressed it under the moonlight outside the window: “It’s about the same. ”
Feng Rui looked at the numbers displayed on the calculator and fell silent for a while. The answer is yes, on the body of the beautiful golden pen, the golden eagle with wings spread proudly. On the top, the hero logo is clearly engraved, showing good workmanship and quality control.
I wanted to buy gold pens for my son and the two children of the Xiang family, so I asked the driver to go around, but it was too late.
But why did it happen to be such a coincidence today that someone came to sell it?
Noticing her surprise, Qiu Mingquan hastily explained: “Auntie, I just took advantage of the winter vacation to sell some stationery to lighten the burden on the family. I guarantee that this gold pen is genuine, and I just bought it from a boutique mall.”
Liu Shuyan looked at his worn-out coat and the frayed cuffs, and suddenly felt amazed. Seeing the child’s well-behaved appearance and clear voice, she couldn’t help feeling overwhelmed with maternal love.
At a young age, at most he was about the same age as his son, but he was already going to the streets and trying to make a living.
She took a small leather bag from her side: “How much is one? I want three.”
Qiu Mingquan was startled: I really want three.
“Twenty-eight yuan each.” Qiu Mingquan waited for a while, but unexpectedly he didn’t hear Feng Rui’s instructions, and he didn’t wait for the agreed upon agreement, so he could only answer according to the past price.
Liu Shuyan smiled softly, counted eighty-five yuan without haggling, and handed it to Qiu Mingquan outside the window.
Qiu Mingquan searched frantically for a long time before he found a coin. Just as I was about to pass it through the car window, I accidentally dropped the coin on the ground, and it rolled round and I don’t know where it went.
“You don’t need to look for it, that’s all.” Seeing him anxious, Liu Shuyan couldn’t bear it.
“I found it!” Qiu Mingquan pouted his butt, finally found the shiny coin under the chassis of the car, and stretched out his hand in surprise, “Auntie, here you are!…”
But at this moment, a shadow shrouded from the direction of the setting sun, covering the originally good light.
“Where is the little beggar coming from?…” A cold and arrogant voice sounded, with the clarity of a boy’s voice, within a few steps, it seemed very close, but also seemed a little far away.
“Feng Rui, what are you talking about?” Liu Shuyan scolded, opened the car door, and greeted her son who just finished the English tutoring class.
…Feng Rui. Which core, which seal?
Qiu Mingquan froze suddenly! It seemed that something exploded in his heart.
He raised his head with difficulty, and saw a face that made him feel like a thunderbolt.
With handsome eyebrows and bright eyes, the eyes are like stars, and the straight bridge of the nose is as if carved out by a knife.
With his back facing the cold winter sunset, the handsome young man was half a head taller than Qiu Mingquan. When he looked down at him, his mother’s eyes were as beautiful as his mother’s. There was no tenderness of Liu Shuyan, but a kind of impatient arrogance.
Although there was no preparation, Qiu Mingquan already understood one thing after this glance.
The blood-stained face of the CEO Feng he saw before he died in the previous life was still astonishingly handsome, and it perfectly matched the appearance of this handsome young man at this moment.
… Time sculpts, people’s hearts change, what remains unchanged is each other’s faces when they were young.
Winter vacation in January 1988.
In the evening of this day, the young Feng Rui, Qiu Mingquan and Xiang Cheng met for the first time.
The encounters in life are so wonderful, an ordinary day in the long river of life, but after a long time, because of everything that happened that day, it becomes easy to mark, so that after many years, it is firmly engraved in the hearts of several people.
Feng Rui frowned his handsome eyebrows, and looked at the strange boy in front of him.
The clothes were very old, and her little face was flushed and a little chapped from the cold, but her brows were clean and delicate, and her pair of dark eyes were looking at her without blinking.
The setting sun was shining from the west, and every subtle expression change on this strange boy’s face could be seen clearly.
Yes, it was that strange expression—shock at first, bewilderment after that, and finally, surprise that was about to be said.
The young Feng Rui and Qiu Mingquan stood face to face like this, time seemed to have paused for a moment, but there was no distortion between them, and nothing strange happened.
Until Qiu Mingquan’s eyes suddenly and inadvertently fell on the slightly exposed red on Feng Rui’s chest.
Something flashed in his mind like a flash, he stared at the boy’s neck opposite him, and his breathing became short of breath.
As if bewitched, he reached out his hand unexpectedly, grabbed Feng Rui’s collar, and pulled gently!
The gentle Hetian white jade, with a crystal-clear color, has an emerald green in the middle… It is exactly the same, and it is connected with the flowing brilliance entangled inside. These days, it is also hanging on his chest, and it is often touched, so familiar!
That’s right, this is the young Feng Rui. He had been wearing this family heirloom jade pendant next to his body in his previous life, and it was only when he died that he accidentally tore it off.
So the one you brought back? …Qiu Mingquan clutched his chest blankly.
Suddenly, he vibrated, what’s going on? What about the jade pendant on his chest that he brought back from his previous life? !
No, just no! Even the rope around the neck suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.
“Little thief, put down Brother Rui’s jade pendant!” Just when he was feeling helpless and his mind went blank, suddenly a clear boy shouted in his ear, his face suddenly hurt, and a strong force hit his left cheek. , His eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.
Waking up from the shock and panic, Qiu Mingquan shook his head and felt liquid flowing under his nose.
Stretching out his hand to wipe it, the bright red blood was all over his hand.
“I don’t look like a little beggar, he looks like a robber.” A boy’s voice sounded from the side, which was obviously different from Feng Rui’s, with vigilance and defense.
Qiu Mingquan raised his head blankly and looked at the person who spoke.
Just now, she had been focusing on Feng Rui, but she didn’t realize that beside Feng Rui, there was another equally handsome boy.
She is a little shorter than Feng Rui, with picturesque eyebrows and a pair of phoenix eyes looking forward, looking like a pretty girl. Just looking at Qiu Mingquan’s eyes, there was an unconcealable vigilance and fierceness.
It’s strange… why does this young man seem so familiar?
“Xiaocheng! Why are you so rude!” Liu Shuyan was taken aback, got out of the car in a hurry, and hurried to Qiu Mingquan’s side, “How are you?”
The boy who hit someone was anxious: “Aunt Liu, you didn’t see just now that this little thief reached out to grab Brother Rui’s precious jade pendant! If I hadn’t beaten him down, he might have run away at this time! ”
He was good-looking, and his phoenix eyes looked extremely energetic when he smiled. Liu Shuyan was also a little puzzled when he heard what he said.
Feng Rui didn’t speak immediately.
He looked at the strange boy who was knocked to the ground by Xiang Cheng’s punch, and for some reason, he was a little dazed.
He thinks he has the ability to recognize people with a photographic memory, and he has never seen this person before, but what is this strange feeling in his heart?
Those dark eyes were obviously unfamiliar, but they seemed to have been seen somewhere, dazed and a little helpless, as if there was an unspeakable sadness.
Scared, is this the look of begging for mercy? Feng Rui hesitated for a moment because of a strange coincidence.
“No more…. There was a bug on my collar just now. He wanted to brush it off for me.” He said lightly.
“Huh? Brother!” Xiang Chengda was taken aback.
He could see clearly from the side, it was obviously the little beggar who reached out to grab Feng Rui’s pendant, and his eyes were full of greed. He was afraid that this precious thing would be snatched away by the little beggar, so he rushed to do it, Brother Rui Impossible not to see it, which muscle is wrong?
“Hey, he’s obviously trying to grab your jade pendant!” he cried anxiously.
Liu Shuyan got a little angry and raised her face: “Xiaocheng, you beat someone even if you made a mistake. If you do this again in the future, Auntie won’t make any delicious food for you.”
Qiu Mingquan stared blankly at them, and finally struggled to get up. Don’t look at the mayor who looks like a girl, but she is famous for being mischievous in fights. This punch was so eagerly punched that half of Qiu Mingquan’s cheek was already slightly swollen, and a piece of his palm was also worn out when he fell. Slowly oozing blood.
Liu Shuyan hurriedly took out the tissue box from the car, and helped Qiu Mingquan dry the blood on his face.
Remembering that Qiu Mingquan came to sell pens just now, but his family was in a tight situation, so he took out fifty yuan from his wallet and handed it to Qiu Mingquan: “Son, I’m really sorry, you take this money first, and go to the hospital to deal with it tomorrow.” ,OK?”
Xiang Cheng felt aggrieved, seeing this little guy reaching out to grab Brother Rui’s things, Aunt Liu didn’t believe him! With a snort, he rolled his pretty Danfeng eyes and looked at the sky.