Another two weeks have passed.

The days in Silicon Valley are uneventful, and every day goes by quickly.

Su Mu is still busy studying, and in addition to his high school classes, he is still studying programming frantically day and night.

In addition, it is also necessary to understand the rules of survival of companies in the Silicon Valley area, and he often explores the history of successful companies from newspapers and magazines to learn useful things from them.

The three Stanford students who live in the same house, George is developing smoothly at IBM, and he is very hopeful of turning from an intern to a regular employee, with a salary of up to $3,500 a month, and he can increase again when he becomes a regular student.

And James and Li Zhekai started a small company in the garage of the villa, called "Rota", which is the name of a small lake near James's grandfather's house.

At present, there are no products, and three Stanford students are employed, and they are busy working early in the morning to develop office software for processing text forms, which is similar to Microsoft's product Word.

The red Ferrari that often stopped at the door of the villa has not been seen in this time.

Li Zhekai sold it to raise a sum of money, and started a business with Daniel James, because he had no technology, he contributed 60% of the money, only accounting for 40% of the shares, which could not help much, and was more like doing miscellaneous work for James.

Su Mu felt that he didn't really care how many shares he owned, and just wanted to make a little bit of success to prove that he could also be successful, so that the rich father who was far away in Xiangjiang would pay more attention to himself.

James celebrated his birthday a few days ago, and Li Zhekai drank too much.

Su Mu heard him casually mention that his brother had started a business in Canada and invested in the development of a real estate business, and felt that it was like a TV series plot of a brotherly fight, so he vaguely guessed the reason why he had worked so hard recently, and even did not hesitate to sell his Ferra and ride a bicycle like Su Mu......

Unlike the leisurely life in Chinatown, most of the students at Castellar Public High School only know how to play, while here in Silicon Valley, the rich people who are obviously not worried about food and clothing are desperately continuing to struggle.

Take Menlo Park Middle School as an example, when the teachers are in class, the students are eager to ask questions, and the learning atmosphere is very strong.

Every day when Su Mu went to school, there were already people reading in the classroom, and after he left, many students stayed in the library to study.

I have to say that it is really important to have an excellent learning and living atmosphere, and he finally understands why the rich can't wait to leave Chinatown, and why the children of rich families are more likely to succeed.

The starting point is different, the concept education they receive is also different, and the living environment affects them all the time, so that those people know how to climb up from an early age.

In Chinatown, whose children earn $2,000 a month and can make a good living, their parents think that they are already great, even if they are students with good academic performance, their goals are only to get into a good university, and then find a job to make money, and lack long-term goals.

At Menlo Park High School, there are students who have already made hundreds of thousands of dollars by developing mini-games, and there are students who were brought to the company by their parents when they were a few years old to sit in on board meetings, and Su Mu is a big step behind.

During this time, he slept six hours a day, was busy reading books during the day, preparing for the ACT exam, and went to training classes at night to learn to write programs......

On the afternoon of October 17th.

Menlo Park Private High School, on the third floor of a red building, Su Mu sits in the middle of the classroom, and each student has a separate desk, separated by a corridor on the left and right.

The teacher is on the podium with chalk in his hand writing the strange "English", this is a Spanish lesson.

The school stipulates that every student must master a foreign language in order to graduate from Menlo Park, and they do not need to learn to be proficient, but only need to meet the daily oral communication.

Private high schools pursue elite education, there are only about a dozen students in the classroom, and the rest of the students prefer to learn French with an elegant tone, and there are not many students taking Spanish courses, and the small classroom is not large, and it still seems empty at the moment.

When the middle-aged male teacher turned around, he saw Su Mu who was writing something, and after stopping his pen, he asked in Spanish: "Leon, can you read aloud this passage I wrote, do you know which book it is about?"

Su Mu looked up, not standing up to answer the question, he glanced at the blackboard and read slowly in Spanish: "When Grigor Samsa woke up from his restless dream, he found that he had turned into a giant flea in bed. ”

His back was made of a steel-armored hard shell, and when he looked up, he saw his arched brown belly, which was stiff, arched, and divided into small pieces that were joined together...... Mr. John, it's Metamorphosis, right?"

Su Mu's reason for learning Spanish was simple, mainly because he wanted to understand the content of the song called "Despacito" that he heard on the radio, and the melody often swirled around his head, but he couldn't sing along, which made him very uncomfortable.

In addition, there are many Mexicans in Castellar Public High School, and the official language of Mexico is Spanish, so he is very familiar with the Spanish intonation, and he feels that Spanish is simpler than rapping French.

In foreign language courses, Su Mu has taken a big advantage, not only English, but also Cantonese and Mandarin, which can converse with nearly half of the population on the planet, and can easily solve the mandatory requirement of "second language" in the graduation requirements.

The teacher named John thought that Su Mu was not listening carefully to the class, but in fact Su Mu was listening, and most people knew the content of "Metamorphosis", which was difficult for him.

Teacher John was not embarrassed, and praised him: "The pronunciation is very standard, very good, the end of class is almost up, we are here today." ”

"For the next two months, you're going to finish reading The Metamorphosis in Spanish, and if you've read it, you're going to watch Wuthering Heights. You can find these two books in the Random House near the north gate of Stanford University, and I can ......buy them for you if you need them."

.......

After Su Mu finished answering, he lowered his head again.

He is writing the purchase list.

As early as half a month ago, he planned to buy a computer, and he has not bought it until now, and just in class, he listed the cost of starting a company and hiring two programmers.

No matter how he calculated, Su Mu found that he didn't have enough money in his hands, and there was no Ferrari to sell.

The cost of the school is not small, and the black school uniform on his body alone is worth five hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and it is not discounted, so he always has to keep a little money as expenses.

Therefore, the funds that can be used are only about 20,000 US dollars, and it will cost about 10,000 US dollars to purchase three computers with good performance, and the cost of renting an office and hiring staff will definitely be more than 10,000 US dollars.

Only hating that he didn't learn programming well and couldn't complete the development work alone, Su Mu sighed helplessly, depending on the situation, if you don't find someone to partner, you have to start finding a way to make money.

He recently discovered that he seemed to have something good to sell for money — the songs he heard on the radio.

I can't remember the lyrics clearly, but fortunately, my memory is far beyond ordinary people, and the melody can still be hummed, maybe it can be sold for a little money......