Rebirth 08: Equipment God

Chapter 63 [Joker Poker] Extension of the Effect
When Zhai Da returned home, Yu Xiaoli was watching TV, while Lu Wei seemed to be studying in her room.

She decided to prepare for the college entrance examination and put in due effort, regardless of whether she could be seen by Zhai Da or not.

Zhai Da sat next to Yu Xiaoli, which was a rare occurrence. He had not sat on this sofa many times since his rebirth.

Yu Xiaoli turned around and said, "What's wrong? You're not going to study today? Xiaowei is waiting for you in her room."

Zhai Da whispered, "Mom, is there any hidden secret in our family?"

Yu Xiaoli raised her eyebrows oddly: "Did you find the ice cream in the refrigerator?"

Zhai Da was stunned: "What kind of secret is this? I have finished eating it all, and there is only an empty box left."

Yu Xiaoli:
"I mean, does our family have any hidden identity?"

Yu Xiaoli curled her lips and said, "From you, three generations of your Zhai family have been workers, and those above you are poor and lower-middle peasants. Your father wanted to start a business, but unfortunately he was in the middle of the road. What hidden identity can he have?"

"Your aunt, whom you have rarely met, has done some business. Is that what you want to talk about?"

Zhai Da immediately said, "What do you mean by 'your Zhai family'? You and I are one family! Wasn't it you who decided not to change our surname?"

He has been called this name since he was a child and has long identified with it psychologically. He would definitely not want to change it now.

But it is not because his sense of belonging to the Zhai family is stronger than that to the Yu family. He was raised by his mother.

"I want to ask, did grandpa have any hidden identity back then? Like a top expert or something? A scientist? What was he doing in the northwest back then?"

Yu Xiaoli was surprised by the sudden mention of Yu Lihua and sighed:

"How would I know?"

"You don't know? Then who can know?"

"Your grandpa took the college entrance exam at the age of 30, but he didn't go to college and stayed in Northwest China for six or seven years. He was almost when he had me. How would I know what happened before that? And every time your grandma talked about this, his mouth was as shut as if it was sewn shut."

"So much so that your grandmother has always suspected that he had someone else outside when he was having sex. You know, it was not uncommon in that era."

Zhai Da:.
Yu Xiaoli was born in 67, the second year after Grandpa Zhai Da returned to Dongyang County. It is normal that she is not clear about what happened before that.

At least as far as Yu Xiaoli can remember, Yu Lihua was just a relatively respected technical expert in the woolen mill.

"As for the things you're thinking about, I also thought about them when I was young, but... they're all meaningless."

She was also young and fanciful once, and Yu Lihua's life trajectory does make it easy for people to think of some things.

"But I am only sure of one thing. The only thing your grandfather left us is this house. Oh, and the bicycle downstairs."

Zhai Da shook his head and took out the thick old notebook: "Maybe there is this one too."

He told her what happened today. There was no need and should not be any hiding of this kind of thing from his mother.

Yu Xiaoli opened the notebook and saw the familiar handwriting inside, and she was filled with emotion.
"It seems to be the case. Your grandfather was in poor health in the last two years. After he retired due to illness, he wrote some things at home. I think it was me who sent them to the reference room at that time."

Zhai Da's eyes immediately lit up: "There are several more, right? Mom, do you remember where they are?"

Yu Xiaoli shook her head: "It's been 17 or 18 years. The reference room has moved to three places. I thought it was gone, but there is still one copy. It turns out that your teacher is the nephew of Director Liu, and he introduced Lu Wei to me. This is really..."

I didn’t know what adjective to use for a moment, but it felt like I had gone around in a circle and returned back to my original state.

Yu Xiaoli closed the notebook, stood up and prepared to put it in her room. After all, it had special meaning and had to be well protected.

Zhai Da said that he wanted to study it, and Yu Xiaoli hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

Zhai Da spent the next half day with Lu Wei. He tutored Lu Wei in Chinese and English, while Lu Wei tutored him in math, physics, chemistry and biology. Occasionally, they also watched videos on the "Old Man's TV".

Under the premise that he already has sufficient self-awareness and self-discipline and has found the right method, in fact, the [Old Man TV] has little effect on Zhai Da, and he no longer needs external forces to make him "addicted to learning." Not to mention Lu Wei, she has almost no distractions, and decided to work hard with Zhai Da, so she will not hesitate any more.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Zhai Da went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he came back and saw Lu Wei's back in front of the desk, he was a little dazed for a moment.

Recalling that when I was at Teacher Shen Rui's house, I "hallucinated" and saw my grandfather's back.

That should be what the system calls "resonance", which seems to be an effect that all [Note] type equipment has.

He had studied [Lu Wei's Mathematical Notes (I)] before, but it seemed that it had never been triggered. Was it because of the blood bond?
Will there be more times? Will I be able to see more scenes of my grandfather? Zhai Da is not sure.

By the way, find some time to be alone and try to combine the three [Lu Wei's Math Notes]
And Lu Wei's "alexithymia".
Zhai Da received too much information today and his mind was a little confused.

I was lying on the bed and picked up my phone, on which there was a text message from a "literary girl".

Lu Siwen said in a very surprised tone that the number of readers of the blog post last night has soared to 13,000.
And it’s still growing.

This number far exceeds the proportion that a blog should have. After all, "Bed Explorer" originally had less than 3,000 followers, and blogs are not short videos with traffic.

The huge number of readers has even pushed up the number of followers of "Bed Explorer", which currently stands at 5,000.

What surprised Lu Siwen was that, judging from the comments, 30% of people were attracted by the tongue-twisting and philosophical phrase, and the remaining 70% were actually asking about the poker cards in the photo.
It was just a blog post with about twenty words and a photo. If we followed the price that Xinglang had agreed on before, it would have cost 1300 yuan.

Although it was cruel, Zhai Da couldn't help but take out the monetary units and compare them in his mind.

It was exactly one month’s salary for Lu Wei.

This is obviously something to be happy about, as this money is earned without any effort.

Didn't even move.

Even the publishing and contacting were done by Lu Siwen.

After confirming that [Joker Poker] can really extend its effect to a certain extent by using photos as a carrier, Zhai Da plans to make a lot of money from it.

That piece of text was just one of the large amount of copywriting he had accumulated in his previous life, from the famous "Retarded Bar" which was full of talented people.

In 08, "The Retarded Bar" was just a forum for psychiatrists to communicate with each other, and a large number of philosophy masters had not yet emerged. These contents can basically be regarded as his original works. Of course, it is also okay not to use the Retarded Bar content, after all, the key point is [Joker Poker].

This set of operations can allow him to earn some start-up capital in a short period of time, as long as Xinglang does not change his mind.

Considering that Lu Siwen was busy running around, although it was out of her own sense of participation, Zhai Da couldn't sit back and do his part, so he replied to Lu Siwen and gave two important instructions.

1. Urge Xinglang to implement the reward mechanism into a contract. Although the other party may find it troublesome, with the good results of the first blog, it should not be difficult to advance the process. They have the motivation to do so.

As for being crushed by Zhai Da in the future, it depends on Xinglang's character.

2. The profits generated from this round of "Bed Explorers" will be split : with Lu Siwen, and we can treat it as a joint venture.

The ratio is the same as when he shared the "cheating fee" with Lu Wei.

This is called treating everyone equally.

He knew that Lu Siwen was not short of money, and he also knew that no one would bring it up if he didn't mention it, so he could continue to use Lu Siwen's labor for free.

But for some reason, the local boss Yu Donglai from the daytime appeared in my mind.

If we cannot achieve common prosperity due to limited capabilities, then at least we should achieve distribution according to work.

Even Boss Tu received the notice, so why can't he, a reborn person, do the same?
Are you afraid that you won’t be able to earn more money in the future?

　Watching the sky at night, I see that the Purple Star is coming from the east today, and a great man will vote for me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)