Chapter 17: The Rich Man of Babylon
Not far away, it was Shang Lin, Zhao Fanxue, and Liu Manyu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's rare for the four of them to get together on weekends to go shopping, chattering around and looking at the things they are purchasing.
"Ahem. Teng Can next to him coughed awkwardly, greeted everyone with a smile and said to one by one, "Then you play first, I'll go back to the studio." Call if you have something!" After speaking, he remembered the clothes in his hand, and explained, "The clothes will be returned to you." โ
"Hmm!" nodded obediently.
Seeing Teng Can walking away, the four of them formed a group again.
"Teng Can! Yiyi, why don't you stay for a while!" Liu Manyu looked at Teng Can's back, and shook Yiyi's arms nympholy.
"Ahem, Niu'er, have you forgotten that you are already famous?" twisted Liu Manyu's little face towards herself one by one.
"Having a boyfriend doesn't mean that you can't look at handsome guys!" Shang Lin, who was standing next to him, said with his eyebrows dancing.
"Hmm!" Listening to Shang Lin's words, Liu Manyu nodded fiercely in agreement.
"Huh. "How can this man say: things gather by like, and people by groups?
"The three elder brothers of my Teng family, at present, it seems that they are all unclaimed, if you are interested, hurry up!" smiled and glanced at the roommates one by one, focusing on Shang Lin and Zhao Fanxue.
The four of them laughed and went shopping, had lunch, watched a movie, and ended the day's play in the afternoon after Teng Can's phone call.
After picking up the car from the underground parking lot, Teng Can sent the other three back to school and took them back to his grandfather's house one by one.
When he got home, Teng Yu was talking to his grandfather about the hospital, and Teng Can took them to the balcony one by one to play with the flowers and plants.
After the meal, Teng Yu said goodbye with a smile in his grandfather's nagging of "You and your eldest brother hurry up and find a girlfriend!", and when he left the house, his grandfather's helpless roar came from inside, "Bastard boy! As soon as I say you, you will run, and you will still do your own thing! I don't believe it, no one will clean you up!"
Teng Can and Yi looked at each other and snickered. One by one, he comforted his grandfather to practice calligraphy, and the moment he lifted the brush, his grandfather calmed down and accompanied him one by one to grind the ink. Teng Can went upstairs to his room to prepare for the design of Yiyi's apartment.
Smiling one by one, quietly grinding the ink.
Undoubtedly, she likes this kind of life, the family is together, very warm, very lively, or happy, or angry, everyone is very real, although not yet fully adapted to each other, but every look, every look contains trust, so that one by one has a kind of homely steadfastness, willing to further familiarize themselves with them, and live with them, not like ใปใปใปใปใปใป
A subconscious avoidance of a book, there are some things, if you don't think about it, you can pretend that it doesn't exist, you can think that everything is as beautiful as you imagined.
On Wednesday, after class in the morning, I called Yu Mu one by one to make an appointment. On the way there, I specially went to the porridge shop where Teng Can took her last time to order takeout, knowing that Yu Mu didn't have breakfast, and she was making year-end preparations at this time, it is estimated that lunch will be later, so let's take it as brunch!
Carrying takeout, I came to Yu Mu's office one by one, and there were more and thicker reports on the table.
"One by one, sit down. Yu Mu walked out from behind his desk.
One by one, I apologized and carefully placed the takeaway on the coffee table. "Uncle Yu, I'm sorry to disturb you. Otherwise, you can get busy first, and I'll make an appointment later. โ
"No matter how busy you are, you have to eat and rest, don't you?" Yu Mu beckoned and sat down one by one.
"Is your last assignment complete?"
After a moment's thought, he replied, "There are some things I don't understand. โ
"Hmm, tell me about my uncle?" asked Yu Mu as he ate.
"I went back and thought about it for a long time, and I felt that there was a time limit for what I wanted, and each time period would have different purposes and requirements according to different circumstances. What you want is not what you want, but what you don't want is very clear!"
"Then you've been thinking lately: What don't you want?" Yu Mu stopped his movements and looked at them one by one.
"Well, I didn't think about it often. "Raise your hand one by one to smooth your hair, I'm sorry.
"Then how are you feeling lately?" Yu Mu looked at them one by one with a smile, like a teacher testing the students' learning results.
"Huh?" I don't understand one by one, what does this have to do with thoughts and moods?
"The things you don't want are generally things you don't like or dislike, right? How do you feel when you think about these things?" Yu Mu began to teach them one by one.
One by one, I thought about it and felt it, "I hate it, I am irritable, I don't want it, I want to avoid it." โ
"Yes! If you keep thinking about what you don't want, then your thoughts are full of bad things, things you want to escape! Where does the motivation for life come from? Where do you find and discover new opportunities when you avoid them like this?" Yu Mu said very seriously. For this potential little girl, he doesn't mind passing on all his life and work experience to her.
"Now, think about what you want?" Yu Mu reminded looking at the suddenly cheerful smile on his face.
"Now, how do you feel?" Yu Mu asked with a smile.
"Rejoice, excited, want to have it all!"
"Then go to action! sort out the clues, satisfy them one by one, and one day you will get it!" Yu Mu said very slowly and seriously. After speaking, he glanced at them one by one, smiled and lowered his head to continue eating.
"Let's go, accompany my uncle to the park next to me. After eating, Yu Mu took one downstairs.
Today is a rare warm sun in winter, and the shops on the street are preparing for Christmas on the weekend, and the festive joy is everywhere.
"How much did you master in the last lesson?" On the park path, Yu Mu turned his head and asked Yiyi beside him.
"Responsibility, controlling greed is like a guideline. In this big circle, I can do whatever I want safely and freely, but if I break it, I will pay the price. Out of this circle, although you may gain something for a while, you will lose something more important at any time, such as losing your lifelong freedom or life in prison or hiding everywhere. I will choose to do things safer, longer, and more at ease in the circle. โ
"It's like building a building," Yu Mu pointed to the tall buildings around him. "The depth of the foundation determines the height of the building. Now that the foundation has been dug, it's time to prepare the bricks!"
"Bricks?"
"Whatever you do, you need the original capital, which is the principal. With this amount of original capital, you can implement the plan, and the more original capital you have, the more it is like a snowball, and the bigger the original snowball, the faster you can build a snowman. It's like if you want to speculate in stocks, you have to have money to buy it to make money, right?" Yu Mu looked at them one by one, "People say that the first pot of gold is the most difficult to earn, and the difficulty lies in how to have the principal to earn the first pot of gold." โ
The 200,000 yuan given by Grandpa Teng can't be moved, and he has so many thousand yuan in his hand, and he has to throw away his living expenses and tuition fees for the next semester. Nervous! Very nervous!
Seeing Yiyi following behind her with her head down, Yu Mu knew that she was thinking.
"Hard work is the only way! โ
"One by one, have you ever used an account book?"
"Ledger?" looked up one by one. In my previous life, from the time I went to college until the first year of my job, I kept accounts. When I was in school, I kept accounts because I didn't have much money at that time, and I always felt that it was not enough to spend, so I wrote it down one by one to see where the money went.
After remembering for three months, I found that those random small money, dispensable small expenses, add up to a lot! So I began to exercise myself, control myself, since it is dispensable, then choose none. After going to work, with a salary, the first thing at the beginning of each month is to make a budget. I didn't have the habit of spending money indiscriminately, and gradually saved some money, and I didn't keep accounts anymore.
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"Tell me, what's the purpose of keeping an account book?"
"You can understand what is unnecessary and control your spending habits. One by one, he answered truthfully.
"Yes, reduce unnecessary spending. Reduce spending without compromising quality of life. โ
"Now that you don't have a job and you are still in school, you have to save money on your daily expenses, and when you have enough knowledge to earn an income through hard work, you must remember to save at least a tenth of all your income for yourself. Wealth is like a big tree, in fact, it also grows from a small seed. The first money you save is this seed, and the sooner you plant it, the sooner you can grow the tree of wealth. The more faithfully you nurture and water it with deposits and growth, the sooner you will be able to enjoy the shade of the tree of wealth. โ
After Yu Mu finished speaking, he found a bench and sat down one by one.
"Let me tell you a story, the story of an ancient Babylonian slave who became a rich man. โ
Seeing that Yiyi nodded with interest, Yu Mu began to tell the story.
Located at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, Babylon developed the world's first cities on this plain.
The city is home to not only the Hanging Gardens, one of the "Seven Wonders of the World", but also the earliest and best-preserved first legal code ever discovered: the Code of Hammurabi, and more to mention the simple and effective rules of getting rich that have been practiced and proven by wise and hard-working people in this fascinating city.
The protagonist Dabashir runs away from Babylon in order to avoid debts, but is caught by bandits on the way and sold as a slave to Syria.
Three years later, Dabashir escaped from Syria and returned to Babylon as a slave.
On this day, wandering down the streets, Dabashir met his father's former friend, a well-known philanthropic rich man in Babylon. When the rich man saw that Dabashir was so depressed, he invited him to a meal.
After lunch that day, Dabashir was no longer as lazy as before, and the next day he found a job that he was good at.
After receiving his payment at the end of the month, Dabashir did not spend all the money as usual, but used it everywhere as planned.
1/10 is stored, 7/10 is used for daily living expenses, and 2/10 is divided into fair portions to pay off debts once owed.
Because of his hard work, Dabashir's remuneration has also increased. According to the distribution plan, all the arrears were finally paid off after a year, and it was even happier that Dabashir had a large amount of savings in addition to the arrears.
Dabashir has finally fulfilled his dream of becoming a dignified free man. Eventually, he became a philanthropic billionaire like his father's friend.
"One by one, do you know why the cost of living is set at 7/10?"
"Because we have to meet the basic needs of life!" looked at Yu Mu one by one, feeling that it was a bit of a fuss to discuss this issue.
"If you want to save money, isn't it better to have more money? 5/10 of the basic living should be enough. โ
Seeing that one by one looked at himself in confusion, Yu Mu revealed the answer.
"In order to better enjoy the joy of life, instead of turning money into a burden in life. โ
The burden was stunned one by one.
Recently, my behavior has been a little anxious, has money become a burden to me unconsciously?
"Making money is just a game that we are interested in, and there is a lot of fun in life, and if it is only for money, wouldn't it be bitter? Seeing that Yiyi didn't answer, Yu Mu smiled.
"But none of us are misers. One by one stretched his brows and smiled brightly.
"Then now that you have this extra money, what will you do?" Yu Mu asked with a smile.