In the blink of an eye, the last class in the afternoon was still a self-study class.

Teacher Wu still didn't show up, and without the teacher staring, with the self-control of junior high school students, the result is not difficult to imagine.

Except for a few "good students" led by Xu Xiaowen who are doing their homework, everyone else is messing around.

Yes, some read comics, some chatted together, Guo Hua held a GBC and played super robot wars, but was snatched away by Fu Haitao after a few plays, crying and talking nonsense with Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was "new to the city" and was happy to have someone introduce him to the situation. Under his deliberate guidance, Guo Hua pulled the classmates enough, Li Yuan remembered it carefully, and reluctantly matched the familiar faces with their names.

There are not many rare words in the name of the post-80s, but it is not easy to remember at all, there are twenty-one boys in the class, six Hua, five soldiers, and four Tao, this is not counted, stand up and shout to build an army, and three people can promise you.

The girls are similar, but the "building army" has become "gorgeous".

This phenomenon also reflects from the side that the parents of the post-80s generation copy their homework.

Speaking of names, this is also one of the reasons why Li Yuan likes Xu Xiaowen.

"Wen", there is rain and literature, and she is the representative of the class when she is born.

……

After chatting for a while, Li Yuan suddenly asked, "Do you have a watch?"

"Watches?"

"Any watch will do, I'll look at the time. ”

"Oh, yes, you wait a minute. ”

Guo Hua put his hand into his schoolbag, cautiously glanced at Fu Haitao in the back row, secretly took out a mobile phone, covered it and handed it to Li Yuan, and whispered: "This is what my father just bought for me, don't let the boss see it." ”

Li Yuan was surprised.

At the end of the nineties, mobile phones were still a luxury, many people still used BP machines to strengthen the contact information, and Big Brother had not completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and he didn't know what Guo Hua's family did, so he bought him a mobile phone when he was in junior high school.

Li Yuan remembers that his first mobile phone was bought before graduation in his senior year, and he still used PHS before that.

……

The phone is Ericsson brand, and there is the word GH388 under the number keys.

Li Yuan glanced at the date, called up the host number again, copied it in the notebook, and returned the phone to Guo Hua.

Guo Hua hurriedly put the phone back in his schoolbag and asked curiously, "Have you used it?"

He originally wanted to teach Li Yuan how to use it, but he didn't expect Li Yuan to be so neat, he hadn't opened his mouth yet, and everyone had finished checking it.

"What's so hard about that. Li Yuan tapped his mobile phone number with the tip of his pen and said, "I'll look for you to play with your mobile phone again." ”

"Good. Guo Hua was very excited.

He admired Andy Lau, so he begged his father to buy this mobile phone endorsed by Andy Lau, but the mobile phone was bought back and never used once, it was purely an ornament.

Guo Hua admires Andy Lau for reasons that are different from others, others either like the songs he sings or like the movies he acts, but Guo Hua is because both of them have the word "Hua" in their names.

Thinking of being the same "Andy", people are majestic in "The Gambler", and they can only rely on sycophants to survive, why is the gap between people so big?

……

Guo Hua was depressed for less than thirty seconds, and then began to talk nonsense again.

Li Yuan listened absentmindedly, and his heart flew with the words on the paper.

……

Friday, September 4, 1998.

What happened in '98?

Faye Wong and Na Ying's meeting in 98, the Indonesian riots, the Yangtze River flood, "Titanic", "Huanzhu Gege", Windows 98 came out, and Song Zuer was born......

Uh, looks like there's something weird mixed in.

If you want to say why Li Yuan remembers that Song Zuer was born in ninety-eight, it is because she looks like Xu Xiaowen, as for how Li Yuan knows what Xu Xiaowen will look like when she grows up, it is because of Renren.com.

It's a bit far.

Li Yuan recalled the important events that occurred in '98 in order to find business opportunities from them.

Li Yuan does not plan to study and work step by step, he knows that in another two years, housing prices will start to heat up driven by the real estate investment boom, and eventually become the heaviest shackles tied to their generation.

Making money and allowing his parents and the people he loves to live a happy life is Li Yuan's greatest wish after his rebirth.

……

Li Yuan pondered for a long time, but he didn't think about what to do.

Or rather, what can he do.

He has a vision that has been leading the world for 20 years, but his vision cannot be directly exchanged for real money.

Some people might say that you can sell concepts. But the concept of this thing, to say that it is valuable, worth a thousand dollars, to say that it is not valuable, is worthless.

At the end of the day, it depends on who came up with the concept.

For example:

Jack Ma tells you that you can make a fortune by raising alpacas, and alpacas tell you that you can make a fortune by raising Jack Ma.

Who do you trust more?

Li Yuan believes in alpacas.

……

Li Yuan used to look at rebirth, and he also fantasized about traveling back to pick the peaches of the old horse and pony, but if he thought about it carefully, he couldn't stand scrutiny at all.

He knew that the Internet would take off, but he didn't understand IT.

He knows the general trend of the international economy, but he does not understand international trade finance.

He knows Taobao, but that's the next century, and he can do it as a Taobao shopkeeper or a courier boy, but that's never the life he wants.

What about taking the literary route?

Li Yuan shook his head while thinking.

He has seen a lot, and he remembers most of the plots, but he can't write about the charm of others.

I've listened to a lot of songs, I can play the guitar, and I'm not bad at singing, but I'm not a professional after all, and the theory is too bad.

Making a movie - hehe, not to mention that this is a complex project of teamwork, even if he shoots it according to the cat, there is no guarantee that there will be a box office in his previous life, you must know that the film schedule is a few days apart, and the result may be very different.

……

"Brother Li, are you free tomorrow, I heard that the department store is holding a lottery, go and have a look?"

Guo Hua said.

"Lottery, it's better to buy a lottery ticket......"

Li Yuan said casually, suddenly stunned.

Lottery?

Influenced by his father, Li Yuan liked to watch football when he was a child and was an avid fan.

He remembers the results of many important tournaments, the most impressive of which was the World Cup in South Korea and Japan four years later.

That year, he finished the college entrance examination, and the World Cup was just in the knockout stage, and he watched all the games without falling.

In the second half of 2001, the football lottery was launched, and initially there were only 13 games of win-loss and draw. In the 2002 World Cup, the country issued a World Cup lottery ticket, adding the quarterfinals and the semifinals.

Li Yuan remembered that almost all the boys in the class bought lottery tickets at that time, but unfortunately the results came out, and no one was right.

Buying a lottery ticket is much more difficult than the college entrance exam.

That cup was unpopular, only four people in the country guessed the top four, and the prize money for a single bet was as high as more than two million, as for the top eight, which was even more difficult to guess, no one in the country won the lottery.

Because it happened in the special period before and after the college entrance examination, Li Yuan still remembers the results of the game vividly and clearly remembers which teams are in the top eight.

Does this mean that even if he does nothing, he can buy a few lottery tickets in four years and enjoy a million-dollar or even million-dollar jackpot?

Li Yuan's eyes lit up, and his breathing became rough.

No, you don't always win.

Li Yuan rubbed his face and reminded himself to be calm, he still knew about the butterfly effect.

……

Either way, write down the results first.

Li Yuan opened the notebook, picked up the pen, and as soon as the tip of the pen touched the paper, the movement suddenly stopped.

He remembered his father, who gambled, his crying mother, and what his mother said to him while lying on the hospital bed—

"Son, you have to be a down-to-earth person in the future, work hard, don't always think about getting something for nothing......"

Li Yuan sat like a wax statue and was silent for a long time, not even knowing when the bell rang for the end of class.

When he came back to his senses, his classmates were almost scattered, and only a few students on duty were left cleaning.

Li Yuan hurriedly packed his schoolbag and ran out of the classroom.

He can't wait to see his mother now.

……

Unexpectedly, I met Xu Xiaowen again at the stairs, standing gracefully, like a blue lotus blooming quietly.

"You haven't gone home yet?" Li Yuan greeted her.

"I'm waiting for you. ”

"Huh?"

Li Yuan looked at her in surprise, and then smiled: "Okay, let's go home together." ”

……

Li Yuan and Xu Xiaowen's home are in the same direction, not far from the school, so they slowed down and walked there in ten minutes.

This is probably a major feature of the four parts.

The fourth department, the full name is Jizhou Petroleum Exploration Department No. 4, located in Yingzhou City, is a subordinate unit of PetroChina.

In the 90s, the oil unit has not yet realized the separation of government and enterprise, although the fourth department is located in Yingzhou City, but there is an independent leadership team, there is an independent and perfect infrastructure construction, from the factory to the residential area, and then to the school, hospital, theater, stadium, etc., although the sparrow is small and complete, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a pocket city.

The four even have independent TV towers, when the people of Yingzhou are still watching TV programs in the province, the oil people are watching various satellite TV programs, including Phoenix Satellite TV, even if they do not consider economic income, only the vision, both sides are not on the same level.

What's more, the oilfield workers are far more generous than the locality, and they are far ahead of the people of Yingzhou in all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, so they naturally have a sense of superiority over the soil buns.

Li Yuan also had the same sense of superiority when he was a child, and he lived again, but only the sunset was infinitely better, but it was just a sigh of near dusk.

……

Along the way, Xu Xiaowen never said a word, and when she arrived at the door of the house, she suddenly spoke.

"There is still a year to go before the high school entrance examination. ”

"Hmm. ”

"My mom wants me to get into a good high school. ”

"Hmm. ”

"I don't want to talk about friends. ”

Xu Xiaowen said the words that she had been thinking about for a long time, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and turned around to go upstairs.

"Wait. Li Yuan stopped her.

"Huh?" Xu Xiaowen turned around and looked at Li Yuan suspiciously with bright eyes.

"I have two questions. ”

Li Yuan raised his finger: "The first question: Do you not want to talk about friends, or do you not want to talk about friends 'now'? The second question: Do you not want to talk about friends, or do you not want to talk about friends with me?"

After Li Yuan finished speaking, he put his hands in his pockets and looked at Xu Xiaowen quietly.

Xu Xiaowen frowned slightly, thought seriously for a while, and said, "I don't want to be friends with you." ”

It's the worst outcome.

"Okay. Li Yuan spread his hands and said: "Although it is very sad to be rejected, I respect your choice." ”

That being said, there was not a hint of sadness on his face.

He asked these two questions just to tell her tactfully that he liked her, and as for her answer, it didn't matter.

Li Yuan figured it out on the way, now is not the right time.

He was willing to wait, wait for her to grow up, wait for her to be ready to accept the happiness he gave.

"Let's go home and see you on Monday. ”

After Li Yuan finished speaking, he turned around and left, leaving Xu Xiaowen standing at the entrance of the corridor with a complicated face, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.