Xu Chongzhi crossed Erlang's legs, leisurely spit out a puff of smoke rings, sat casually outside the bank's self-service area, blew the free air conditioner, and counted the thick wad of renminbi in his hand. Tsk, not bad, not bad, the recent stock bear market, he was able to make a small profit, although he is still far from the amount he lost, but in the end it can be regarded as seeing the money back, I haven't seen a 100 yuan red ticket for a long time What kind of he, the first time to withdraw 20,000 yuan out of a little happy.

Money is a good thing, and with it you have everything, women, houses, friends. Well, forget about this last one, he Xu Chongzhi doesn't need friends. Friends are what they are to be sold.

In the circle of relatives and friends, the 47-year-old Xu Chongzhi's reputation can be regarded as a bad street, and he is a well-known old man. Originally, two years ago, he was also a formal employee of a public institution in the city, although the income is not much, but it is stable, there is a wife who works in the same unit and a daughter who is in junior high school, although the family is not rich and expensive, but also a small wealth is safe, there is a car and a house, and life is very comfortable.

His unit is Qingshui Yamen, and no oil and water also means that there is not much work, and a newspaper and a cup of tea are a portrayal of most of his working hours. For women, this job earns enough money to support their families, and it is rare to take time off to take care of their families. But a man in his forties, who still earns a salary of more than 2,000 yuan a month, shrinks aggrievedly in the office as a small clerk, and lets his boss call and drink all day long, and can't see the opportunity for promotion.

Xu Chongzhi felt that he was out of luck when he graduated from a secondary school and was assigned to work in this unit, earning such a dead salary that has not grown for 800 years.

If it weren't for that class reunion, maybe Xu Chongzhi would have been willing to be mediocre all the time. 30 years ago, the students of the same secondary school suddenly eagerly wanted to convene the class reunion, saying that they had not seen old friends for so many years, and everyone got together, and they all had a certain career foundation in middle age, and they no longer had to be as tired as before, begging for life everywhere, and they had no time to relax, and began to find fun in all aspects.

When Xu Chongzhi received the notice, he was also happy to go, he felt that his current life could at least be more than enough. But when he rushed to the meeting place in his best suit, he was poured a basin of cold water on his head, and the hotel where the party was held, he felt a little familiar when he received the notice, and now that he saw it with his own eyes, he understood.

Xu Chongzhi suddenly realized the gap between him and his classmates. In this small third-tier city, the five-star hotel in front of him is a place he has never been to before. He pinched the wallet in his trouser pocket, which contained his salary for the month, 2,800 yuan. He originally thought that he could earn a face, give up a month's salary, and show off in front of his classmates. But now he is a little unsure, the consumption level of this kind of place, I'm afraid it is the most ordinary vinegared shredded potatoes, can make him comfortable in the small restaurant to bring his family to have a good meal, his own money thrown in the hotel, I'm afraid I can't even see a splash. In the end, who among the classmates is so developed that they dare to have the courage to charter a few tables here, you must know that there were not many people in a class of secondary school in their era, only about 20 people.

He walked to the agreed private room with some trepidation, pushed the door in, and looked at these well-dressed and unfamiliar faces in front of him, most of whom did not look carefully at all like the so-called classmates in their forties, and for a while he only suspected that he had gone to the wrong room at all.

In the staggered period, a good class reunion has become a stage for all kinds of gods to show off their years of hard work, this said that he opened a small company, specializing in import and export business, and did not earn much, only a few million a year; The one said that he was the CEO of a certain multinational company with an annual salary of 10 million; There are also several female classmates who have studied abroad early, and now they have joined the nationality of the United States of America on the other side of the ocean. In short, when it was Xu Chongzhi's turn, his old face was flushed, and he couldn't talk about it at all, his humble job and pitiful income were not even as good as the clothes they were wearing now.

At that time, his family was still good and he was successful in his studies, but he had become the most down-and-out of the crowd, how could he, who valued his face very seriously, stand this huge psychological gap. A meal was eaten without knowing the taste, and finally at the end of the song, the group went out of the hotel, and several called the driver to ask them to drive the car to the door of the hotel, Xu Chongzhi naturally recognized this luxury car that drove over one by one, there are many of which he can only look at the pictures on the Internet and have a good time, and he really can't think about buying it, but some of these classmates are comfortable with this kind of car as their car, and they are full of uncare.

That day, Xu Chongzhi waited until all his classmates left, and then walked to his domestic car, he used to think that he spent more than 70,000 yuan to buy a car, the performance is very good, fuel-efficient and durable, after comparing many peers who have not had a car, he didn't mention how proud he was at that time, and today he deliberately drove over, originally to support himself in the scene, but the ending was so slapping in the face.

The classmates who graduated at the same time as him, now have a boss with assets of hundreds of millions, and sisters who emigrated abroad to enjoy life in a chic manner, it seems that everyone is better than him, and the worst one is him. But obviously he was the only one who was assigned to the best unit because of his excellent grades, and how valuable a stable job was at that time, many classmates were busy working hard when they first entered the society, and when they were very embarrassed, he could sit in the office safely, work step by step every day, and get a salary that was not expensive in the eyes of others at that time.

Since when did these classmates soar in places he couldn't see? They had already flown too high and too far for him to reach, and he didn't know what emotions to face these classmates except for deep jealousy.

In fact, Xu Chongzhi knows very well in his heart that his current life is more than enough, and he should be content. But after experiencing the baptism of such a class reunion, Xu Chongzhi can no longer sit in the office and enjoy his leisure with peace of mind, every time he sees the pitiful balance on his poor salary card, he has an urge to die headlong. The once warm little home now seems extremely small to him, and his former gentle and virtuous wife now looks terrible, even the food on the table with three meals a day makes him a little unable to swallow. At the same age of forty years, how can the gap between people be so big?

The balance in Xu Chongzhi's heart was broken little by little, he had never had such a strong desire for money as he did now, he didn't want to be resigned to mediocrity, he didn't want to endure poverty, he hoped that he could get ahead, and he hoped that one day he would not have to harm himself when he stood in front of these classmates again.

Without consulting his wife, he directly typed the resignation report. Although the salary is very low, there are still many young people who want to squeeze their heads into it. Xu Chongzhi decided to leave without any warning, which surprised many people, and scolded him behind his back for being so lofty and not knowing how to cherish the happiness in front of him.

His wife Peng Yuanyuan couldn't understand why a simple class reunion made her former gentle husband seem to be a different person, becoming more and more irritable in the unit, and when she returned home, she was even more like two people, no matter what she did, her husband couldn't look at it, and even her daughter became a thorn in his side. The original warm little home now seems to have dropped to the freezing point, and after returning home, the three of them are busy with their own work, except for eating, hurriedly gathering at the dining table for a while, usually staying in their respective rooms, and there is no laughter and laughter in the past.

She didn't say a word, and she would be reprimanded impatiently by her husband. has been married for more than 20 years, Peng Yuanyuan has never seen her husband like this, and she is also a little at a loss. Resignation is the last straw that broke the camel's back after the relationship between husband and wife deteriorated to the extreme, the daughter is about to go to high school, the grades are not very ideal, and if you want to get into a better high school, you need additional tutoring. Now her husband has resigned without consulting her, and no one knows whether he will make money in the long run, but at least he has no income in the last few months. He is 45 years old, has worked in a stagnant public institution for more than 20 years, and his survival skills have long been degraded, how can he adapt to the competitive pressure in the current environment? In the workplace, how can you compete with young people in their twenties?

Seeing that the once stable little family was about to be in turmoil, Peng Yuanyuan was like a shrew for the first time, and she quarreled with Xu Chongzhi and broke up unhappily. The two couples who have never blushed, after arguing for nearly a month without results, she was disheartened and filed for divorce, in order to try to save her husband whose brain was kicked by a donkey, and did not want Xu Chongzhi to eat the scales and iron his heart, and would rather not have a family than look for a chance to make a fortune, so he readily agreed to the divorce, only took a small part of the family savings, about 20,000 yuan, and left all the rest to his wife and daughter, and vowed that if he couldn't do a good job, he would never go home.

In the two years since that day, Xu Chongzhi has never looked back on the road of making a fortune. However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is always very skinny, he is no longer young, and he can't do it in terms of academic qualifications and ability, and the part-time job is not his dish, he has already been dazzled by the wealth of his classmates, thinking that making money is a simple thing, and how can he look at the dead salary of thousands of dollars a month.

Only a month after the divorce, he was targeted by bad people because he wanted to make money, fell into a pyramid scheme, was brainwashed thoroughly, and wanted to make a fortune, with a group of people who also had the dream of making a fortune, in a unit of less than 100 square meters, shouting neat numbers, eating the cheapest food, dedicating every penny in his pocket, and even trying to drag relatives and friends into the water in every possible way.

Maybe God thinks that Xu Chongzhi is not enough to be a demon, on the fourth day after he entered the pyramid scheme, this den was wiped out by the local police, and he, who had just been tricked in, was at the bottom and didn't know much about the inside story After asking for a confession, he was released.

The dream of getting rich overnight was shattered, and he didn't even know where to eat his next meal empty-handed, but he still had to be so persistent that he wanted to pursue the long road to gold and was unwilling to turn back.

He cheated his parents who were farmers in the countryside out of tens of thousands of yuan of pension money and plunged headlong into the stock market, because only there could he earn the most money with the least capital. He has never been in contact with online stocks, and he listened to the remarks of all kinds of scammers on the Internet, and tens of thousands of yuan were quickly lost, and he only had two junk stocks in his hands, and there was no chance of turning over.

But he was still unwilling, his parents couldn't squeeze oil and water from them, and began to extend their claws to his brothers and sisters, cousins, cousins, seven aunts and eight aunts, and even colleagues from his former unit, or friends who had been friends for decades. After receiving a pyramid scheme education, his eloquence increased day by day, blowing the sky and tickling people's hearts. These relatives and friends who don't know the truth don't know that in just a few months, Xu Chongzhi's changes, in their hearts, Xu Chongzhi is still a reliable one, he has a fixed job, and he lends him tens of thousands of yuan, which is completely within his ability to repay, and they borrow it with peace of mind. A family of no more than 50,000 yuan, adding up to 500,000 yuan. After having money, his courage is relatively greater, 500,000 yuan is all invested in, in the red, green, green and green plates, the numbers up and down always affect Xu Chongzhi's heart, he tries to do a good job, and tries to make the 500,000 become five million or even more, but getting rich overnight in this world is just a beautiful legend after all, and he knows almost nothing about stock speculation, just relying on his hot head, naturally he lost money without accident.

Several stocks he bought were green all the way, and the K-line that fell to the bottom made his heart cold. After being deeply trapped, he became penniless again, and fell into a vicious circle of borrowing money to speculate in stocks, being trapped, and borrowing money again.

Finally, after the third time, no one would lend him a penny, and whenever they saw him, they clamored for him to return the money he had paid back. Among his relatives and friends, there are no rich and noble families, and no one's money is blown by the wind, how can the hard-earned money saved by one hand and one foot make him so wasted, and naturally chase after his ass to ask for accounts.

At this time, where did Xu Chongzhi still have sense, posing as a scoundrel who asked for money but did not have a life, and still had his unrealistic dream of getting rich. (To be continued.) )