I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

After downloading a video of a dance game, Chen Xi secretly found a place to watch it.

As she was leaving, Chen Caiyue looked at him with disdain and muttered to herself, "Just like his father, a lecher."

After browsing for a while, he felt the app was pretty good. It showed him girls who were available on well-known platforms, and also girls who weren't.

The main live stream on the QQ Dance platform is outdoor fishing, which at first glance seems to have nothing to do with pornography or anything like that. This name is probably just to attract attention and traffic.

"This thing is pretty good, but it's illegal, so it's practically guaranteed to win a lawsuit. However, very few people know about this kind of obscure software. Even if you get sued, you'll probably just switch to another app in no time. It's not even available in app stores, and you can't even find the company behind it..."

Just as he was getting into it, someone patted him on the shoulder. Zhang Youting, a cigarette dangling from his lips, sat down next to him: "Not bad, you guys in the mainland have this kind of good stuff, bring it over and share it. The girls are pretty good, look, there's even a VIP section, the stuff there must be even more exciting!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xi glanced at the small print on the side of the software; it was easy to miss if you didn't look closely. The well-informed Chen Xi scoffed, "It's probably just about paying to watch some nude chat live streams or something."

"Sure, you know your stuff. You've obviously browsed a lot of things."

"..."

After Zhang Youting's persistent pleading, Chen Xi finally shared the software with him.

"Oh, you actually use WeChat Moments?" Chen Xi glanced at Zhang Youting's phone screen.

He kept swiping and clicking on it with both hands.

This seems to be... a thumbs-up?

Chen Xi also has WeChat, but he almost never posts on Moments and rarely looks at what others post. Even with his closest friends, he's too lazy to click on that little heart.

"What's the point of you liking everyone's posts? You're from Taiwan, where do you have so many friends in mainland China?" Chen Xi roughly calculated that Zhang Youting had more friends than he did.

Including those in Australia and mainland China, Chen Xi's contact list only contains about a hundred people. Zhang Youting, on the other hand, has several times that number of friends.

"What's the point? It's to maintain relationships with clients, of course."

"Giving a like won't help maintain anything; at most, it'll ensure he doesn't forget you."

Chen Xi pursed his lips and lit another cigarette.

“Hey, how would a big boss like you know how your subordinates work? It doesn’t cost me to like his posts, but treating people to meals and giving gifts are time-sensitive. Clients won’t give you orders just because you like his posts, but they will almost never consider someone who never likes his posts, especially women! Because it means you don’t care about him.” Zhang Youting suddenly transformed into a teacher and started lecturing.

"Hey, you haven't been in the mainland for long, but you've already figured out all the ways of the world. It would be a real shame if you didn't become a leader back home," Chen Xi teased.

"When colleagues give each other a thumbs up, it's a sign of goodwill; when a superior gives a subordinate a thumbs up, it's encouragement; and when a subordinate gives a superior a thumbs up, it's a sign of taking sides."

“You can go work in sales; the mainland needs people like you.” Chen Xi gave him a thumbs up.

"Haha, you're the boss, these fancy things don't suit you. Besides, our Wan District doesn't have this kind of unique feature, so I'll take it back and promote it."

"Hehe, you don't learn the good things, you only learn the bad ones. I think you're going to cause trouble for the Bay Area in the future." Chen Xi laughed and exhaled a puff of smoke.

A fishpond in the suburbs of Jiangcheng.

By the pond, a pretty girl was striking a cute pose for the camera: "The fishing competition begins again today! Let me explain how it works. Players need to pay an entrance fee, then draw lots to choose their spots, and then start fishing within a limited time. Finally, the fish are weighed to calculate the prize money. If you catch a fish with a rare tag, you'll win the corresponding grand prize..."

Not far away, two men were smoking and chatting.

"Mr. Yang, your move was truly brilliant. The probability of catching fish is entirely controlled by us. With a series of operations such as fish control, water adjustment, and rod limit, the dealer's winning rate is over 70%. Now, with live streaming to attract viewers, the net profit from one pond is over 100,000 yuan!" The middle-aged man with very little hair praised Yang Dan in front of him.

Gambling activities disguised as recreational fishing have existed for a long time, especially in areas like Jiangcheng with many lakes. However, their models are outdated and lack credibility, resulting in consistently poor business.

"This is nothing, it's just a test now. I'll switch to a new mode later. The crackdown on gambling is quite intense right now, and the fishpond gambling has been on the police's radar for a long time. I plan to use live streaming to attract traffic, online betting, and virtual currency withdrawals to enhance security. My daily income will increase several times, or even dozens of times..." Yang Dan confidently described her grand plan.

Recently, some of the Yang family's companies have been investigated. Yang Dingtian specifically told his son not to stay in Huajing and Jianghuai, so he asked him to stay in the Australian region for a while. However, Yang Dan ignored him.

With so many college students in Jiangcheng and young girls everywhere on the streets, Yang Dan, that lecherous bastard, finally decided to stay here. After hanging around Jiangcheng for a while, a friend introduced him to several local business owners, and that's how his fishing business was started in a different way.

Yang Dan's actions set a precedent, and subsequently, various social media platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou saw a surge in the trend of using phishing influencers.

On the other side, Chen Xi had just received a call from Fan Hongyuan. He frowned slightly after hanging up.

A few days later... Shanxi Province.

"Ugh, the roads are terrible, there's not even a bullet train running on them yet," Zhang Youting complained as he drove.

"It's a good thing you got a mainland driver's license, so I don't have to drive." Chen Xi sat in the passenger seat with her eyes closed, resting.

"Damn, he said he'd take me on a trip, but it turns out he just wanted me to be his driver."

"I'm here to show you the scenery in the fields."

“There’s no scenery to be seen, all I see is a gray sky,” Zhang Youting pointed to the sky above.

"Holy crap, this is really eye-opening. Donkeys can even drive on highways here?"

"What's the big deal? I've even seen cows and sheep walking on the highway when I was a kid!"

"No way, this old man is really good at it, he's almost as fast as a motorcycle."

Zhang Youting stared wide-eyed at a wooden cart speeding ahead, its contents more alarming than its contents. The cart was loaded with a jumble of miscellaneous goods, including several bamboo poles. How dangerous it would be to crash into it!

"grass"

"boom!"

Just as Zhang Youting was surprised, the wooden cart in front suddenly veered off course in a strange arc. The car behind it was caught off guard and crashed into it, but fortunately, the speed was not fast and the impact was not great.

"Fuck you! Is this how you drive?" Zhang Youting cursed and got out of the car to check, only to find that the front bumper of the car was damaged.

The wooden cart was sent flying by the impact, its goods scattered all over the ground. The old man driving it got up from the ground, cursing and swearing, speaking in his local dialect.

"Are you blind? Look what you've done to my car! Pay up!" The old man argued with Zhang Youting for a few moments, then realized the other man couldn't understand him, so he repeated it in Mandarin.

"Why should I pay you? You were the one driving recklessly. Look at the front of my car, it's all wrecked. You should be the one paying me." Zhang Youting was very indignant.

Just as the two were arguing, several donkey carts suddenly drove by from behind, and several men jumped off and joined the fray, surrounding Zhang Youting and spewing a torrent of abuse in a dialect he couldn't understand.

"The car behind us rear-ended us, it's entirely our fault!" a man said.

"Come on, where do you think a donkey cart can go on the highway? I got my driver's license through a proper test, don't try to fool me." Zhang Youting sneered.

"A donkey cart on the highway, and drunk driving too, unbelievable!" Chen Xi opened the car door and got out, pointing at the old man and giving him a thumbs up. The group was enraged by their words and launched into another round of dialect-based banter. Chen Xi knew these guys were in the wrong and were resorting to shameless tactics to extort money.

After arguing for about ten minutes, a blue and white car suddenly appeared behind us.

They suddenly stopped as they passed by.

"What's going on?" A man in uniform poked his head out of the car and asked.

Seeing this, Zhang Youting felt like he had seen a savior and immediately shouted, "They're being unreasonable and trying to extort money..."

Upon hearing this, the uniformed man did not get out of the car, but turned around and asked the men in his dialect.

After a few words, the man in the car looked at Zhang Youting again: "Just give me some money and that'll be fine. I helped you bargain down the price. Look at the damage you did to the car. Luckily, the person and the donkey weren't hurt, otherwise it wouldn't be this price..."

Just as Chen Xi was about to step forward to argue, the blue and white car sped away.

Damn it.

Just leave like that?
What kind of place is this? Is there no law anymore?!

Chen Xi's mind was full of question marks.

Just as he was lost in thought, a group of people suddenly appeared in the fields beside the highway. These guys were all carrying tools such as hoes and shovels.

Chen Xi glanced at Zhang Youting again and noticed that one of the people from before seemed to be missing. These guys must have been called over.

Two hours later.

"Damn, this is really annoying. If this were in the Bay Area, I would definitely perform some Shaolin Kung Fu!" Zhang Youting parked his car in front of a hotel, sullenly patting the steering wheel.

"Alright, alright, stop talking about Shaolin martial arts. Yours is Longshan Temple, while Shaolin Temple is in Henan Province, a whole 108,000 miles away!" Chen Xi was also a little annoyed.

If they hadn't paid some money, the two of them probably still wouldn't be able to get off the highway.

"This place is really chaotic."

"If you look through a lot of period dramas from mainland China, you'll see that many important figures have fallen because of this, not to mention you."

Chen Xi thought for a moment, and realized that Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Qianlong, and Zhu Biao all seemed to have encountered trouble in Shanxi Province in TV dramas.

"Hey, why do you look so unhappy? Was the road bad when you came here? Well, we can't help it, our economy is one of the worst in the country, and we still don't have a high-speed rail in the city." After getting off the car, Dongdong walked over with a grin and punched Chen Xi in the chest.

"It's not just the road that's bad, the people are bad too," Zhang Youting muttered to himself.

"Who is this person?" Dongdong was very unhappy to be criticized about his hometown by a stranger on their first meeting.

“I invited a high-ranking monk from a temple,” Chen Xi shrugged.

"A high monk? Where would you find a high monk with long hair? He's probably a fake monk." Dongdong looked doubtful.

Half an hour later, in a private room at the hotel.

"Haha, don't even mention it, I've been there too." Dongdong laughed, clutching his stomach, after hearing their stories.

"Isn't your family considered quite powerful here? Who's so blind?" Chen Xi asked, somewhat puzzled.

“How long have I been abroad? Although this is a small city, not everyone knows me. I was hit by a car scam not long after I came back, and it happened on a highway in another city.”

"So how did you solve it?" Zhang Youting asked.

"Of course we should beat him up! Beat him into submission! In our small town, even those in uniform..." Dongdong picked up a piece of food.

Dongdong's family originally worked in agriculture, then moved into real estate, and now they're involved in both industries.

A few days ago, Chen Xi received a call from Fan Hongyuan, who said that there were problems with the promotion of agricultural drones.

Most farmers have low levels of education, and some can't even write. Asking them to operate a drone is extremely difficult.

Because there are many things to pay attention to when using agricultural drones, even with instruction manuals, many people still can't understand them, which ultimately makes promotion difficult.

Among the regions implementing the new rural development plan, Shanxi Province has the slowest development, which is why Fan Hongyuan hurriedly sent Chen Xi here to take a look.

"You're in agriculture? You look more like a fitness instructor." Zhang Youting stared at the big guy Dongdong with a suspicious look.

"Doing agriculture doesn't require working in the fields. I mainly cultivate cherry tomatoes now," Dongdong explained.

Cherry tomatoes are actually called cherry tomatoes, and many young people nowadays like to eat them.

"Are they selling well?"

"Hehe, actually the cherry tomato yield is not bad, it's just that the logistics in Shanxi Province are not good, plus the price of agricultural products is low, so we can't make money. It's not just me, the farmers here are in a similar situation." Dongdong smiled awkwardly.

"Then what's the point of growing yarn? You might as well switch to something else." Zhang Youting shook his head.

"You don't understand. There are policy supports now. The city provides subsidies, and there are also subsidies in the townships. It's like a two-in-one program. As long as you're genuinely operating, you can easily get a lot of loans from the rural commercial bank with your license. We can then use these loans for other things..." Dongdong said softly.

"Damn, you mainlanders really know how to have fun." Zhang Youting had been shocked several times today.

"This is nothing. Other industries also have subsidies now, such as trade-in programs, patriotic cultural tourism, and intangible cultural heritage..."

Chen Xi smiled after hearing this.

He knew all of this; in his previous life, after the real estate market crashed, Dongdong survived on these things.

"Hey, I just heard you were eating here, so I came over to say hello." At that moment, the door to the private room was suddenly pushed open, and a few young men walked in and patted Dongdong on the shoulder.

Dongdong warmly invited them to sit down and introduced them to Chen Xi: "These are my friends. Their families are all in the coal mining business, so I won't say much more. In short: they're rich!"

"Hello!" Chen Xi reached out and shook hands with them.

Dongdong had heard of these coal mine owner friends of his in a past life; they were the kind of people who could lose tens of millions in a single night in Australia without batting an eye. Coal mine owners might not be as wealthy as others in terms of assets, but when it came to cash…

Upon seeing these wealthy individuals, Chen Xi immediately had a new idea. After a few drinks and everyone had become acquainted, he cleared his throat and said, "Gentlemen, I wonder if any of you are interested in drones for coal mines?"

(This high-speed collision with the donkey cart was actually orchestrated by Chen Ran; I've modified it here. I was quite angry at the time; the uniformed officer just walked away like that.) (End of Chapter)