Chapter 33: Xue Lao's Invitation
When you feel the most difficult, that's when you're closest to success.
This is the dialogue of the movie "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", Chu Zhen thought it was true!
Chu Zhen believes that Wang Cheng and Wang Ying, brothers and sisters, will definitely seize this opportunity!
After school the next Monday, Brother Chu Zhen took the "loot" to find Brother Jun. When Zhao Feng took out the food stamps and told Brother Jun that there were a total of 900 catties, Brother Jun was also taken aback, but it was a surprise.
Brother Jun didn't expect this kid to really succeed, and he praised him very much.
Brother Jun is also a person who has seen the world, he has dealt with some powerful people, and the firmness and confidence he saw in Chu Zhen's eyes reminded him of those great stubborn lords who once dominated the Forty-Nine Cities.
Brother Jun was happy, and at the same time, in order to befriend Chu Zhen, he also sent a "red envelope" to Chu Zhen and them.
It turned out that it was two cents per catty, and more than 1,000 catties would be two cents, and Brother Jun directly calculated the unit price of two cents per catty.
Not only that, but when they heard that Chu Zhen and they were confident that they would get more food stamps next week, Brother Jun took out another two hundred yuan to Chu Zhen and them, so that they could continue to expand, and this time they didn't even write an IOU!
And Brother Jun also said that if he can harvest more than 2,000 catties of food stamps next week, he will invite his brother to eat!
Either Brother Jun has a vicious vision, he was able to take the initiative to find Chu Zhen at the beginning, and later he was willing to lend them money, but in fact, Brother Jun is also betting on his own vision of seeing people.
Chu Zhen understood Brother Jun's intentions, and his evaluation of Brother Jun was a few points higher, and he felt that he could consider pulling Brother Jun into his chariot.
Chu Zhen summed up the gains they gained from their two trips to Tianjin and Hong Kong, and the biggest gain was to meet Wang Cheng's brothers and sisters and develop them into partners. Wang Cheng and Wang Ying are both available people, and they can also be pulled together to make money in the future.
Chu Zhen is already preliminarily building his future team, and at present, the brothers have their own development directions in the future, and the main task now is to study.
Relatively speaking, Brother Jun and Wang Cheng are more able to meet the development needs of Chu Zhen in the near future.
Especially Wang Cheng, this guy is very malleable, and with Wang Ying's assistance, he has great potential!
The next day, that is, at noon on Tuesday, Chu Zhen quickly finished lunch and walked out of the school gate alone.
Chu Zhen planned to contact Xue Lao, but he thought about it repeatedly before, and felt that his future development could not be separated from the support of a strong backing.
Since Xue Lao and him have this fate, he should not hesitate to seize this opportunity!
Chu Zhen walked to the commissary near the school, there is a public telephone at the door here, not to mention mobile phones in this era, telephones are considered a luxury, ordinary families rarely install telephones, the main reason is that it is too expensive.
At that time in 1988, it cost at least 6,000 to 8,000 yuan to install a telephone at home, and you had to queue up.
Chu Zhen has a phone at home, but it is installed by the Geology and Mining Institute, and it does not require so much installation fee, but the number is an extension, and if you want to call out, you have to ask the operator of the switchboard to call out.
The public phone at the entrance of the commissary is not cheap to call, five cents for the first three minutes, and two cents per minute for the rest. If you make a 10-minute call, it will cost you about two dollars.
You must know that even in the capital, many families now only spend two yuan a day on groceries!
Chu Zhen now has an excellent memory, and if he wants to, he can memorize the yellow pages of the entire capital city.
Xue Lao's number has long existed in his brain, Chu Zhen dialed Xue Lao's phone number, and the phone was connected without ringing twice, and Xue Lao's voice rang:
"Hey, who's that?"
"Hello, Grandpa Snow! I'm Chu Zhen! You remember me, right? ”
"Why don't you remember, grandpa is still wondering if you will call me!"
Xue Lao's answer made Chu Zhen breathe a sigh of relief, although the last time we met, we had a good chat, but Xue Lao is a famous big man in China after all, is he really so favored by him as a small high school student?
"Grandpa Xue, so you are still looking forward to me calling you? Then I'm flattered! ”
Chu Zhen felt that he was a freshman in high school, and in the eyes of Xue Lao, he was a child, so there was no need to be too restrained.
Xue Lao really liked Chu Zhen's communication style very much, and responded:
"You're right, I'm worried that you don't dare to call me, how about it, do you want to borrow a book? Grandpa Xue has some books at home that I can't borrow from the library. ”
Xue Lao is right, his family education is also high, his vision is extraordinary, many books in the family are rare solitary books or foreign original books, which is really rare in China.
"Grandpa Xue, you're right, but I want to tell you something before borrowing a book!"
"Say, what's the matter?" Xue Lao replied casually.
"Grandpa Xue, I just knew that the Pike gold pen you gave me is too valuable, and it is your beloved thing, a gentleman does not take the favor of others, I hope to return the pen to you by the way when I borrow the book."
Xue Lao was a little surprised when he heard it, but also a little moved, and felt that this child was very sensible.
"I'll call you Xiao Zhen, I said Xiao Zhen, you want to take the initiative to return this pen to me, grandpa thinks you are very sensible and considerate. Grandpa wants to thank you! However, you are also underestimating grandpa, this is just something outside the body, since grandpa gave it to you, how can there be a reason to take it back? ”
Xue Lao also pretended to be angry and said: "Don't be polite to grandpa like this in the future, otherwise I will be angry!" ”
Chu Zhen heard Xue Lao say this, so he no longer insisted on returning the pen.
"By the way, how did you know it was valuable?" Xue Lao was a little curious.
"Grandpa Xue, I not only know that this pen is very expensive, but I also know that it is ridiculously expensive. The sapphire on the cap alone is worth a lot of money, and if this pen is auctioned, I will immediately become a 10,000 yuan household, or even a 100,000 yuan household, am I right? ”
In the first year of this year, there is a glorious name of "10,000 yuan household".
"You kid, if you dare to exchange it for money, see if I don't clean you up! Tell Grandpa, how did you know? ”
Xue Lao really didn't expect Chu Zhen to know the true value of this pen, but he concluded that Chu Zhen was a child who knew how to measure, and if he knew, he would naturally cherish it and not waste his heart.
"Grandpa Xue, it's a long story, this was almost blackmailed on the train, and I can't tell you more about it now."
Xue Lao paid some attention when he heard this, and said, "What is it?" I wonder, can't you say it now? ”
Chu Zhen said a little embarrassedly: "I really can't talk to you for too long, the money I have now is enough to talk for another three minutes." ”
Xue Lao understood that the child was calling from the public phone outside, so he said:
"I'll talk about it later, I forgot to ask you last time, which school did you attend? I'll have someone deliver you a book. ”
"Grandpa Xue, I'm in the first year of high school in Beijing No. 2 Middle School." Chu Zhen replied.
Xue Lao was surprised and delighted when he heard this, and said:
"Xiao Zhen, it turns out that you are also in Beijing No. 2 Middle School! Beijing No. 2 Middle School is very good, it seems that Xiaozhen, you are also very good at studying! It's not impossible to get a top spot in the future! ”
Chu Zhen didn't notice the word "also" in Xue's old words, and replied:
"Grandpa Xue, you think too highly of me, I belong to the bottom of the second middle school."
Xue Lao said again:
"You have a good relationship when you go to school in No. 2 Middle School, my home is in Leopard House Hutong, very close to No. 2 Middle School. Long story short, why don't you come to my house after school today! Come to me to see if there are any books that interest me, and just to tell my grandfather about what happened to this pen. ”
Of course, Chu Zhen responded, wrote down the address of Xue's hometown, and hung up the phone.
Fortunately, the phone cost was five cents, which did not exceed Chu Zhen's budget.
Because he spent money to buy the book "Smart Investor", Chu Zhen has tightened his belt to live these days.
Xue Lao just hung up the phone here and suddenly remembered, oops, I forgot, it seems that Qin Zheng's girl also said that she was coming today?