Age of Legends

Chapter 157 See You Another Day
Yude final exam is coming.

In the morning, Huang Huifen prepared breakfast, fried eggs until golden and crispy, sprinkled some sugar on top, and paired it with a cup of soy milk, which was enough to make your dopamine explode.

Zhang Chen didn’t quite understand why some people put salt or soy sauce when frying golden poached eggs. If you want to eat it that way, why don’t you dip your fried dough sticks in soy sauce, and why do you have to eat them with sweet soy milk?
Isn’t it because the carbohydrates produced by fried foods and sugar can make the brain feel happy? I remember a documentary that explored why the whole world likes fried foods with sugar. This is the orthodoxy!

Everything else is heresy!

While enjoying this authentic fried egg, Zhang Chen remembered that he had not eaten Huang Huifen's cooking for a long time. During this period, she had applied for unpaid leave from her job at the unit and had been running around outside every day. She came home with a thick stack of information. Zhang Chen actually admired his mother Huang Huifen's enthusiasm. She was very stubborn. It was the same when she opened the fruit stall, but it was different now. She studied policies and related information every day.

Zhang Chen asked her, "Mom, how is your company going?"

"It's almost done. We are currently preparing for various qualification certificates."

This matter was pushing Zhang Chen forward, and he vaguely knew that the name of the company was "Xuhui Company", which was one character from each of Chen Xuran and Huang Huifen's names.

The reason why the real estate company was not named was that the relevant real estate industry information was not collected when it was registered. Zhang Chen knew that his mother had not been hanging around in the real estate exchange center for six months in vain, and had met many CEOs of real estate construction, design, and decoration companies.

They were all small companies that Huang Huifen met while doing business there. Since she bought Hexianju, several companies have contacted her. Some wanted her to remodel the place, some wanted to help her with the decoration, and some wanted to redesign the facade.

After Huang Huifen sold Hexianju at a high price, the originally taken advantage of Sister Huang became famous overnight.

In addition, the timing was right, and Chen Xuran somehow came up with a plan to join forces with Huang Huifen to mobilize these resources and established the Xuhui Company.

The conditions for establishing a small real estate company in this year are not harsh, and the registered capital only needs one million. The most difficult part is to find four full-time technicians with professional skills certificates in real estate and construction engineering, and two full-time accountants with professional accounting certificates. Huang Huifen accidentally got all of these together. She found the construction party, designers, and decoration companies, and they all hurriedly put together a team and assigned it to this "Xuhui Company", which is actually just a shell. In terms of engineering, Huang Huifen temporarily used Huang Zhengzhong, a contractor boss of a real estate company, because the other party had good character and reputation. In this day and age, isn't it all about character and reputation when cooperating with people?

These are really starting to take shape step by step.

In fact, Zhang Chen also knew that it was an excellent opportunity to enter the real estate industry these days, especially Rongcheng real estate. Rongcheng’s home purchase and settlement policy was promulgated at this time. The influx of a large number of people also prompted the government to quickly carry out urbanization transformation. There is relatively certain flexibility in land supply, project approval, etc. Real estate companies have more opportunities and space to obtain resources and carry out projects.

Moreover, the entry standards for small and medium-sized real estate companies were not as strict as in later generations. The later requirement of at least 50 million yuan in registered capital and at least five years of development and construction experience in related fields was enough to eliminate a large number of companies.

It’s a matter of acquiring land, which requires strong public relations skills. Zhang Chen is still a little worried about this, as Huang Huifen may not be the person who can handle this kind of public relations.

"The company has been established, but how do you get projects? For example, how can you guarantee that you can get the Lanyuan Park renovation project you mentioned before?"

Huang Huifen sorted out the documents in front of her without looking up. "Your aunt Chen Xuran has a cousin who is the deputy district chief. Plus, she has a good reputation in the old city renovation project, and the local residents recognize her."

Okay.

Zhang Chen understood. It was not surprising that there was such a relationship.

Many of the first projects that small real estate companies enter are old town renovation projects. Large real estate companies and state-owned enterprises generally do not bother to compete for such projects. There are too many large projects these days, and they are all competing for the bids for these plots of land. The government needs these small and medium-sized real estate companies to pave the way and undertake extensive old town renovation and many difficult projects. Old town renovation projects are a blue ocean that has paved the way for countless small and medium-sized real estate companies in the industry.

How to use Chen Xuran's reputation in this kind of project is probably also a plan and idea that Rongcheng has considered. Of course, the premise is that every project must be done well and the basic reputation must be guaranteed to facilitate subsequent sustainable development.

But this path is not foolproof. Countless small and medium-sized real estate companies have collapsed in later generations. So why are there basically no small companies in later generations? A real estate company is often a listed company, and billions of capital are all small companies.

If we miss this opportunity, there will never be another chance for truly small-capital private enterprises to enter the real estate industry.

"Okay, don't worry about these, just take the test carefully! Remember to check more and focus on the big things and ignore the small things!"

"I know."

After eating, Zhang Chen went out to Yude.

Zhang Chen feels that it’s not bad these days as there’s less nagging from Huang Huifen and less concern from his mother Huang Jingtiaozi.

My menopausal mother at least has something to do and doesn't have to worry at home all day. All her anger is directed at me and my father, which is really unbearable.

It's okay for her to get involved in real estate. She can do it if she can. There's no expectation. Just don't stay at home and waste her family.

……

The final exam is coming. Before the exam, everyone in the class agreed not to compare answers. In the past, every time we compared answers, we would be happy if they matched with those with good grades, but if they didn’t match, our faith would be shaken. There would be exams in the future, so what should we do?
Of course, those with good grades won’t mind this kind of thing.

Wang Shuowei and he handed in their papers at about the same time. He had finished writing earlier. Before he finished, he kept looking at Zhang Chen and winked at him, "That means, hand in your paper, hand it in and get out!"

As a result, Zhang Chen checked the paper again to see if he understood how to fill in the gaps. Even if he was 90 percent sure, he had to be clumsy in the actual checking. This was the way of military strategy.

Seeing Zhang Chen's attitude, Wang Shuowei had to check it again. Surprisingly, he really found a problem with it. When Zhang Chen finished the inspection and stood up, he hurriedly followed.

When I handed in the paper and came out, there were already a lot of people gathered outside.

Zhang Chen got a headache when he saw it. What the hell? Didn’t they say there were no correct answers?

After the math test, there were already people outside. Even if we agreed not to check answers beforehand, we could still wait for someone to come out and ask, "Hey, what did you choose for question 8?"

Once someone breaks the rules first, it is basically impossible to stop it. This is the most intuitive manifestation of the broken windows effect.

Among the people surrounded was Shen Nuoyi. She was almost like the correct answer. When people were asked questions that they were not sure about, it was like a magic mirror that knew whether you were a pig monster or a monkey monster.

Shen Nuoyi also saw them. They were not in the same examination room. She handed in her paper and came out first, but was stopped by someone outside. At this time, she glanced at them with a helpless look in her eyes.

"Damn, how come the answer to the question about population variance is 60? I calculated it to be 50!" Wang Shuowei was the first to get discouraged.

Zhang Chen shrugged his ears.

This is really... a pleasant surprise in my heart, I was right.

But he also entered the hub, and stopped with Wang Shuowei, standing on the periphery, listening to the answers to various questions discussed by the crowd.

“Is the equation of the tangent line x=2?”

someone asked.

沈诺一回应：“x＝2或者4x＋3y－17＝0。”

"Oh yeah!"

"Damn it! I'm wrong!"

At this time, Shen Nuoyi's eyes moved over and looked at Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen nodded slightly.

Zhang Chen is right.

It was hard to explain. Actually, Shen Nuo didn't like being stopped and asked to answer questions like this, because it would make people irritated. She couldn't guarantee that she would get all the questions right. She might get them wrong, and there were not standard answers for all the questions. Once she made such a mistake, it would affect her mood. However, now that Zhang Chen joined, she didn't feel so repulsive when she saw him answering questions with her. Instead, it seemed like she had some reasons to respond to others positively.

So when Shen Nuoyi was checking answers with others, he would always keep an eye on Zhang Chen.

However, Zhang Chen couldn't sit still afterwards. There were several difficult problems that didn't quite make sense when Shen Nuoyi answered them.

But Wang Shuowei was still beside him and said, "Hey, Zhang Chen, you didn't get this question right either? Hey, I guess there are only a few people in the class who got it right!"

This made Zhang Chen a little annoyed, and he said, "There's no need to gather here, can't we go back and talk in the group chat?" It was all because of this bad habit of gathering around to compare answers, why not go back and chat online, create a group of your own, and those who don't want to join will naturally not join, and there's no need to be so passive in accepting.

Wang Shuowei turned his head and asked, "What group?"

Zhang Chen just realized that group chat was a feature that was added to QQ in 2003, and this feature doesn't exist yet. It's true that there are still many inconveniences.

"Oh, nothing."

Zhang Chen responded casually, then thought about it carefully.

QQ must be very short of money now and needs investment. There even seems to be a rumor that it is going to be sold. Why not get involved and buy some shares?

He hadn't thought about acquiring it. He wasn't focusing on this track, so what would happen even if he bought QQ? Could you guarantee that it would develop like in the previous life?

You know, the success of many things is inseparable from the people behind them. Let’s put it this way, the success you see actually has an element of luck, and it is also the result of countless failures.

It doesn't mean that you have to take every step correctly to succeed. Of course, there are such people, but they are not the majority of survivors.

Those who survive successfully in the great waves have actually experienced countless crossroads where they could have failed. This is because there will always be countless crises in the process of development of things. Those who can overcome these crises are like a carp that has made it through the dragon gate.

If you can't overcome it, you will fall.

Can I handle it myself? Then what about the countless crises in the future? Can I handle it myself?
So to be on the safe side, it is better not to make drastic moves to influence the objective laws of things. If you intervene to a certain extent, things may correct your influence, but once you intervene too deeply, things that were originally on the historical track may very likely deviate from the track.

Therefore, investing in individual stocks and exerting some influence seems to be something that I can do now. Becoming an angel investor in many start-up companies is actually a very good track. Zhang Chen is now accumulating funds, in fact, he intends to use foresight to do this kind of thing.

He is not in a position to shoulder such a heavy responsibility right now, nor does he want to do so.

The core principle is to develop while lying down.

I am just a supporting player enjoying my life, why should I be the main player and take on the responsibility?

The final exam is three days long.

The results came out two days after the exam.

Zhang Chen scored 610, and everyone was happy, sitting firmly on the throne of 510 points. Wang Shuowei guessed what it was, and it was a serious . This made Zhang Chen feel very funny, and life was really more dramatic than novels.

The two have the same decimal places, just a difference of one hundred points.

When Wang Shuowei received the test paper, he was dumbfounded, "This is really... This is really..."

He was not the only one who was dumbfounded. People in the front row also turned around to watch the fun. Zheng Xue and Shen Nuoyi gossiped, "Wang Shuowei is now 100 points behind Zhang Chen!"

Zhang Chen added at the right moment: "This is really like the gap between a son and his father."

Wang Shuowei was shameless, "If you give me fifty, I can call you daddy!"

"No need, I'll go back and call him Brother Wang, and we won't divide the fifty."

"Go to hell with you, you have no respect!" He punched Zhang Chen on the shoulder. Even though they were fighting, Wang Shuowei was in a good mood because he actually scored 510. In the past, his best score was only 480, but now he is ranked around th in the class!

Yude is not without poor students. Wang Shuowei and Zhang Chen in the past are typical poor students. With Yude's undergraduate admission rate of 96% every year, the two of them are on the edge of the line.

Now, Wang Shuowei has actually reached 510. Although the jump in ranking is not much, only from 52nd to 48th, it is like rowing against the current, slow, but also very fulfilling.

When Zhang Chen looked at his ranking, he was not that happy. He was ranked 16th in the class.

From 25th at the end of last semester to 16th this semester, Zhang Chen has made steady progress, but he feels it is meaningless. Just as he predicted before the exam, he still did not make it into the 15th place.

Shen Nuoyi, who was in the top fifteen, performed very well this time. She used to be in the top five, and top three at best. Now she is firmly ranked second in the class, second only to Li Runjia, who is leading by a huge margin.

Zhang Chen was also happy about this. He estimated that Shen Nuoyi would be able to rank among the top 20 in the school this time. She must have had some inspiration again. He would learn from her during this summer vacation and carry out more private assistance activities, so as to promote the harmonious and integrated development of the social family by allowing the rich to drive the poor.

Everything is fine after the exam, and I feel like a wild horse running free, completely relaxed.

After returning home, Zhang Chen logged into QQ. He hadn't been online for the past few days, and now he saw a lot of messages about adding friends.

"I'm Zhao Tao." Zhao Tao probably got his QQ number from Wang Shuowei and sent him a friend message.

"Tian Jiayi, add one."

"I am Sun Lei, Zhang Chen++"

Lots of this information.

While Zhang Chen was processing this, a text message rang from his cell phone. Zhuang Yanyue asked, "How are you spending your summer vacation? Do you want to go out for a cold drink some other day? I'll treat you!"

All is fine.

Zhang Chen replied to Zhuang Yanyue, thought for a moment, and sent a message to Shen Nuoyi: "How are you going to spend your holiday? How about going shopping and drinking milk tea together tomorrow?"

Soon Shen Nuo replied: "The good friend I told you about has returned to China. I will accompany her tomorrow..."

"How about joining us? I'll treat you." Zhang Chen replied.

"A girls' party is not a good thing." Shen Nuo replied.

"Okay, okay, let's make an appointment another day."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)