Back to the prime of life

Chapter 7 Future
The next day.

Zhu Xingyu was greatly surprised by Lu Changge's success. "Are you really going to use me as a facade and then get back at me? Isn't that a bit too casual?"

"It seems a bit random. But have you ever thought that maybe this is just the logic of how society works?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, people like you can handle many things easily in Huaishui County. For example, choosing a better school, getting into a better class, going to the hospital for a cold or fever, and even handling loan matters. These major and minor matters in life can basically be handled over a meal or even a phone call.

But as long as someone changes, like me going to school, I have to consider whether my score is high enough, whether my family has any acquaintances at school, and then I have to go through a lot of twists and turns to find an acquaintance and spend time thinking about how to arrange everything. This is certainly not casual. Pig brother, you don’t know how many more points I have to score in order to be in the same key class as you.

This is not rant and trolling, but stating the facts.

He Feier resonated with this. "My parents are just ordinary teachers. I'm okay with studying and don't have many problems, but other things... are just like what Brother Lu said."

"Didn't we teach in politics class that we should follow the laws of nature when doing things? Because I followed the laws, it seemed so simple. Just looking at this matter itself, the money is owed by him. Even if he thinks I might be cheating him, he won't lose much. But what if I'm serious about it? Wouldn't he be getting something for nothing? The risk is minimal, the reward is huge, why not do it? Do you think he's really stupid?"

This is not difficult to understand. Even high school students are not completely unfamiliar with social affairs.

"Wait, wait, even if what you said is true, why do you need those official documents?"

Lu Changge explained, "Because I've long known he's rather cautious and cunning. Perhaps he wouldn't take our mere mention of the Xianhu Renovation Project seriously. After all, you're not the real director, and I'm just a high school student. So he might ask to see something real."

If you think about it carefully, it's really hard to believe that people would be willing to pay just for a few words without any real evidence. In short, it's about making 100% preparations and striving for 80% results, that's all."

This was a habit he developed in his later work.

Also, he is a reborn person, and he really knows what kind of person Cai Yue is and how to seduce him.

Otherwise, this matter would not be so easy.

But even those who have been reborn can only make the most of the resources they have access to at this stage.

He himself is not a resource.

"Is that all you call it? You're being a bit pretentious." Zhu Xingyu said dissatisfiedly.

"So that's how you got the money. He didn't say anything?"

Lu Changge chuckled. "He's certainly cautious, but he still suffers from his lack of education. What does that mean? On the one hand, he can't understand those documents, but on the other hand, he's smart enough to think that after paying me, I might ignore him. After all, he can't do anything to me. So he asked me to make a copy of all the materials for him. I guess he's asking someone about it now, so it will take a few days for him to contact me."

People still need to read more.

"Hahaha, those are useless."

"So I gave him all that pile of waste paper." Lu Changge said with a bit of a smug tone, "I carry a bag to carry money."

He Feier continued to ask: "What if he offers to give half first and the other half after the deal is done?"

"He won't openly say he'll give me half. That would be too embarrassing. He'll definitely find an excuse, but if he really makes an excuse and asks for half first, I won't talk to him. He can't even come up with 28,000 yuan, so how can he know our Young Master Zhu?"

He Feier couldn't believe it. These were all thought up by that good student Lu Changge, and these were the words he said?
She looked at him from the side and saw that the boy's eyes seemed calm and confident, without any trace of the immaturity of a high school student.

"Now you can return the money to your father," Zhu Xingyu said. "Just ignore him from now on. He's just owing money and not paying it back."

As for this, Lu Changge just nodded and didn't say much.

In fact, he had never thought of returning it to Lu's father. It was not because he wanted to poach his own players, but because the odds of Italy winning the World Cup were 1:7.

It’s a pity that the score was not as exciting as the 1:7 match between Brazil and Germany.

He didn't even think about finding a private lottery through Zhu Xingyu, because his bets were a bit large and the amount of money he won was not small, so he was worried and went to the official sports lottery sales center.

As for telling them both about these arrangements, forget it.

After all, it is a bit strange and difficult to explain to spend so much money on football.

What if one of them, out of the mentality of "for Brother Lu's own good", insists on telling his parents, then he would be pulling his own balls.

So he went to the sports lottery sales center alone.

Last time it was two hundred, this time it’s directly twenty-eight thousand.

When the price was two hundred, the lady boss was still very polite to him and asked him if he was really buying it.

Twenty-eight thousand people only looked at me like I was stupid, and there was no extra nonsense. I didn't want to be punished for the sales I earned for free. Lu Changge had wanted to ask if he could claim the prize here, because the country has regulations on where to claim prizes of different amounts, and the regulations vary from era to era. He couldn't figure out the spirit of the relevant documents from 2006.

But after thinking about it carefully, I decided to forget it.
Asking this question is like knowing that you will win.

In fact, it will be exactly the same if you ask again on the day the results come out.

After getting the receipt and walking out of the store, Lu Changge breathed a sigh of relief. 20 days later, if Italy won the championship, he would have some money.

In fact, since his rebirth, Lu Changge has never dreamed of becoming a billionaire boss.

Two reasons.

First, it's not necessarily possible. He himself had been a department head in a state-owned enterprise, and managing 17 or 18 people was enough to give him a headache. It was difficult for him to imagine what it would be like to manage 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Second, you don't necessarily have to. Life itself has many different ways of living. Do you have to be a busy 7/24 entrepreneur to be successful? Can you find a way to make some money on your own, achieve financial freedom, and then live a comfortable life?
No one should reject anyone else's definition of how to live a good life.

The key is that he still has a way to make money without working hard. For example, he certainly knows that the stock market was bullish in 06 and 07. Lu Changge thought that after getting the money out, he would make some more from the stock market and buy a few houses later. With the appreciation of the real estate, he could live a stable life and at least be a human being instead of a slave.

In addition, as someone who has worked in rail transit for more than ten years, he basically knows the demolition scope and policy changes of a city, so it is not difficult to make some money from it if he uses his brain.

On the contrary, starting a business could easily wipe out all the hard-earned wealth, and then turn the rebirth story into a "True Return Story," which would be too ridiculous. So now that there is an easy way, he'd choose the easy one first.

Naturally, there is no point in going back to senior year of high school.

Education allows countless people to wear all kinds of hats, but for ordinary families, the most important thing is to make a living.

As June 6th approaches,
On this day, Dad Lu turned down all his social engagements, and Mom Lu had been restless since the afternoon.

Lu Changge was also at home.

It’s all because of checking the college entrance examination scores at 8 o’clock tonight.

From day to night, it feels like time has never been so tedious.

Lu Changge was not in agony, he was just a little helpless, because he only scored 588 points in his first college entrance examination, and the first-tier score line that year was 572. Overall, being able to attend a first-tier university did not seem too bad.

But his grades have always been good. He is one of the top students in the class and his scores in several mock exams have never been lower than 630.

So 588 is a serious performance abnormality for him.

As for the reason, Lu Changge also remembered that it was before the college entrance examination that Li Ruoqi had a quarrel with him, which caused him to suffer from insomnia for several nights in a row and was in a very bad state.

As it was getting dark, Lu's parents were in the kitchen cooking. He stood at the door and said, "Dad, Mom, I might not have done well on the test this time. I could feel it when I was doing the test."

Dad Lu was less than 5 feet 4 inches tall, and had a slight hunchback from hard labor as a child. Looking at the chubby boy, he said, "No matter how bad it is, you're still a college student. In our Huiyi Village Group 2, you're the second college student, and the Lu family is the first."

Lu's mother comforted her, "It's okay, don't be too nervous."

It is indeed as Lu's father said. Lu's father has a younger brother and sister in the Lu family, and the children of both families do not do well in their studies.

But they didn't mention Lu Ma's family.

There is a super academic master named Xu Qiuxue who always ranks first in the grade.

She is the granddaughter of Lu Changge's grandfather's later wife.

Lu Changge never met his biological grandmother, as she died before he was born.

It is difficult for such a combined family to be particularly harmonious.

A simple question: Lu Changge's grandfather has a pension, so how does he spend it? Is he spending it on his biological children, or on his step-grandmother?

Just these family matters, Mother Lu and her brothers and sisters could sit down and talk about them for an entire afternoon.

Fortunately, Mr. He is an old man with labor insurance, and his words always carry weight, so everyone maintained superficial harmony.

But they always talk about it in private, and those with the surname He and Xu would compare themselves with each other, comparing money, comparing their children's jobs, comparing their children's grades...

Lu Changge has no good solution for these things now. Of course, he wants to make his parents proud, but relying on the college entrance examination is not reliable.

It’s better to make money, which can also help you regain the face your parents have lost.

(End of this chapter)