Chapter 3 King John and His Man
John Wang, Hai Yueming's classmate in junior high school. When Hai Yueming first met him in middle school, he felt very Westernized when he heard this name, and Hai Yueming thought that this person's English must be good. But then I found out that his English was not ordinarily poor, and it could be said that it was a mess. At that time, in Dongzhou City, a city in southern China with a developed commodity economy, many children from wealthy families like John Wang wanted to study in the city's key middle schools, first, they had the financial resources to enter good schools through connections, and second, parents thought that their children could get a good network when they entered key schools.
Since Hai Yueming and John Wang became the same table, the two became good friends who talked about everything. Innocent children live a carefree life in a beautiful campus. Together, they look forward to the future. It would be perfect without those annoying exams, especially the English exams, of course. What surprised Hai Yueming even more was that John Wang's mother turned out to be an English teacher, and she was also an English teacher in a famous high school, which was not only shocking. According to John Wang's description, he was forced to learn English from a very young age, had to memorize a certain number of words at a fixed time every day, and was scolded by his mother and corporal punishment by his father if he could not complete the learning task. His mantra was, "I don't go abroad, and I don't need to translate, so what's the use of learning English?" This statement was already out of place and outdated in Dongzhou, which had already been reformed and opened up at that time, but it was spitted out sonorously and vigorously in his mouth. What's even more unexpected is that now the development of his career, he often has to go abroad to study and buy foreign advanced machinery and equipment and production technology, English is really useful, but he really doesn't need to bring a translator. As for how to solve the language problem, I will talk about it later.
However, John Wang's English score in the usual exam is still good, if Hai Yueming can score ninety-eight points, generally John Wang will not score less than ninety-five points. Because his neck is long. Besides, Hai Yueming sat next to him during the exam, and he also turned a blind eye.
After a few years of middle school career, John Wang's studies did not make much progress, but he made a lot of friends, the reason is that he is a bold person, and another reason is that he can speak well, according to the saying of Dongzhou people, he can bring the dead to life, which is also one of the important reasons why John Wang's business did well.
John Wang's family actually has very high requirements for his studies, and his mother puts forward some learning requirements for him from time to time, such as requiring him to be in the top 20 of the class before each major exam, and not to be in the middle or lower position in the class. His learning status has changed significantly, as if he is a different person, and it can be said that he has devoted himself to learning.
What makes Hai Yueming remember deeply is that there is one thing, in fact, it is not only Hai Yueming who remembers it deeply, it can be said that this is something that makes the whole class remember deeply. This happened to John Wang, after two classes in the morning, when everyone was going to do recess exercises, John Wang ran quickly to the playground, and accidentally he ran and crashed into the iron horizontal bar across the shelf, hitting the bridge of his nose, and in a flash, John Wang's nose was bloody, and the blood stained his face. At that time, there was chaos in the playground, many students watched John Wang, and in the chaos, John Wang was sent to a nearby hospital to be bandaged, and the recess exercise was delayed for a long time in desperation.
The follow-up story is even more dramatic: the school has a big controversy over John Wang's bloodshed, and the head teacher praised John Wang at the class meeting, praised his selfless learning spirit, worked hard for learning, and called on everyone to learn from him, which set off an upsurge of learning from John Wang's classmates in the class. Classmates who usually disagreed with John's attitude towards learning said that his performance was purely accidental, and that his highly myopic eyes were the root cause of this heroic incident, not that he ran to the playground and crashed into the iron horizontal bar because he was concentrating on memorizing English words. Despite the controversy, John Wang became famous all of a sudden, and the students in other classes would recognize it when they saw it, oh, this is John Wang who hit the iron single pole. For a long time, the bridge of John Wang's nose was bandaged with a small piece of white gauze, which in John Wang's feeling was a golden military medal.
A comedy or a farce always has moments when it is forgotten by others with the passage of time, but it is a shot in the arm for John Wang, this kind of honor, this taste of being valued by others makes him not dare to be as free and loose as before, it is like Tang Sanzang brought a collar that can be controlled with a tightening spell to his apprentice Sun Wukong, always standardizing John Wang's behavior, Only during this period of junior high school did his learning gradually go on track.
As the high school entrance examination approaches, everyone is studying hard and striving to be admitted to a good high school. In order to motivate everyone's learning spirit and improve everyone's enthusiasm for learning, the class teacher will also hold some activities in the class to enliven the atmosphere. In a class meeting, the head teacher asked everyone to write an essay on "My Ideal", and John Wang wrote that his ideal is to be an excellent entrepreneur, to establish a Fortune 50 company, and to create more wealth for the society.
The classmates were amused by his composition. In the environment at that time, people generally said that they would fight for the cause of communism all their lives and make more contributions to the construction of the motherland, and as soon as John Wang read his composition, the students laughed loudly.
"What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at? What's so funny? The ambition of the bird's nest An Zhihong hao (鹄)?" John Wang replied with a red face. The reading of this Honghao is definitely the original of John Wang, and the reading of the president of a famous university many years later should be a pirated copy of John Wang.
The students laughed even more happily when they heard John Wang's defense.
But who would have thought that many years later, John Wang would indeed make the company so big!
Now it can be said that John Wang is a very successful entrepreneur, and one of his companies has an annual output value of billions.
There are many dazzling titles under his name:
Top Ten Outstanding Youths in Dongzhou City
Dongzhou City Economic Person of the Year
Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs in Dongzhou City
Deputy to the Dongzhou Municipal People's Congress