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Chapter 162 0159 [How Many People Have Been Changed Because of You]

The 2005 college entrance examination has ended, and the first and second year high school students have returned to school to attend classes, waiting for the upcoming final exams.

Class 1, Grade 1 (Experimental Class), No. 2 Middle School of the County.

The students moved their desks forward to create more space at the back of the classroom, where they would place two rows of chairs.

Why put out stools?
Let's learn from the advanced teaching experience of Li Runze, a distinguished Chinese language teacher.

Before his leaders and colleagues arrived, Li Runze walked into the classroom in high spirits.

"I have some good news to share," Li Runze said with a broad smile, "Your senior brother, your senior..."

"Chen Guiliang!"

"Hahahaha!"

Before he could finish speaking, the students shouted out "Chen Guiliang," and the whole class burst into laughter.

These students in the first year of high school experimental class had heard Li Runze mention Chen Guiliang countless times since their very first high school Chinese class.

After the laughter subsided, Li Runze continued, "I've told you all before that Chen Guiliang started two companies as soon as he entered Peking University. One of them is called ByteDance... See? Being good at Chinese makes even company names different. 'Byte' is a unit of measurement for computers, a cold, computer term, but adding 'jump' immediately makes it romantic..."

At this moment, leaders from the Education Bureau, school leaders, and Chinese language teachers from other schools have entered the classroom and taken their seats in the back row.

Before the school bell rang, let's listen to Li Runze bragging.

Li Runze said, "Currently, among Chinese internet companies, only Baidu's name can be compared to ByteDance. 'I searched for him a thousand times in the crowd, and suddenly, turning around, I found him where the lights were dim.' Baidu is a very fitting and poetic name for a search engine."

As he spoke, he unscrewed the lid of his water glass and took a sip of goji berry tea.

Then it was announced: "Chen Guiliang's ByteDance has received $500 million in venture capital, valuing the company at $3000 million post-investment. Based on Chen Guiliang's shareholding, your senior now... has a net worth of 1.6 million!"

"Wow!"

The students exclaimed in surprise, and then began to chatter amongst themselves.

The leaders and teachers sitting in the back row, although they already knew about the news, couldn't help but sigh again.

This small city doesn't produce many famous people.

I won't talk about the people from the past.

In recent years, there has been diving queen Gao Min, a few years ago Guo Xiaosi emerged, and now Rao Xueman is also quite popular.

Tan Weiwei's rise to fame will have to wait until next year.

Chen Guiliang has indeed become a leading figure, and his development has been incredibly rapid. At the beginning of the year, people were saying his books were selling well, and now he's become a multi-millionaire.

Especially those teachers who came to listen to the lectures, at that moment they were thinking: If Chen Guiliang were my student, I could brag about it for the rest of my life!

Li Runze, who had been boasting for almost a year, continued chatting idly despite the school bell ringing.

Demonstration open class?
Are there leaders and colleagues coming to observe?
Screw it, let me brag my bragging first.

Li Runze told his students, "Behind every successful person lies hard work and sweat. Don't just see your senior making a lot of money and fantasize about what your future will be like. Different stages of life have different goals. Take your senior Chen as an example..."

again!

The students in Class 1 of Grade 11 are so tired of hearing this.

……

Class 6, Grade 11.

The political science teacher, Gao Zhan, didn't give a lecture. Instead, he sat on the podium with a cigarette in his mouth, puffing out smoke and bragging to the students.

"Don't think politics is useless. This course can cultivate your critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and it even includes economic principles. Why was Chen Guiliang able to build such a large company? It's because he laid a solid foundation in high school politics..."

Just then, a student raised their hand: "Teacher!"

"Speak." Gao Zhan was very annoyed at being interrupted while casting his spell.

The student retorted, "Why do you often quote 'The Ugly Chinaman' and say that Bo Yang saw through the inherent flaws of the Chinese people? But Chen Guiliang said on a TV program that 'The Ugly Chinaman' is just a pile of shit?"

Gao Zhan opened his mouth, but was speechless for a moment, his face turning ugly.

"Hahaha!"

Many students laughed.

Gao Zhan tried to save face: "Chen Guiliang didn't understand 'The Ugly Chinaman'."

The student continued, "Chen Guiliang recommended that Bo Yang read 'A History of Chinese Thought,' saying that reading more books would benefit Bo Yang. Teacher, have you read this book?"

“I’ve read it, but I haven’t finished,” Gao Zhan said, stubbing out his cigarette and picking up the worksheet. “Now we’ll start going over the worksheet…”

"Ah~~~"

"Teacher, please tell me about something else."

"Yeah, the exam is in two days, teacher, are you just bragging to us?"

"Teacher, did Chen Guiliang have any early romantic relationships during high school?"

"..."

Faced with the students' enthusiastic requests, Gao Zhan put down the test paper again: "Then shall I explain it again?"

……

At the home of a second-generation smoker.

Qin Shanshan, who repeated a year of high school, finished the college entrance examination again and felt pretty good about it.

She worked extremely hard for the first six months of her repeat year, but became somewhat lax in the second half, yet she was still almost certain to get into a second-tier university.

When her parents got home from get off work, Qin Shanshan was still chatting with her old classmate on QQ.

There's only one computer at home. My mom came rushing over: "Get out of the way, I need to harvest my virtual crops!"

Qin Shanshan rolled her eyes.

She learned about this stupid game while chatting on QQ; many of her old classmates were talking about it enthusiastically in the group chat.

She dragged her parents into the same trap.

Dad's doing alright, but Mom's completely hooked. She sets an alarm for midnight every day to harvest her crops. To steal even more crops, Mom even uploaded the game to the tobacco company, and now a whole bunch of tobacco company employees are playing "Happy Farm."

One manager even casually recommended the game after a meeting. The very next day, he ordered all his subordinates to add her as a friend!
Qin Shanshan offered her seat and stood to the side.

Mom grumbled, "How come there's only the minimum payout left? No way, I'm going to steal them all!" Dad, sitting on the living room sofa watching TV, shouted into the study, "What you're doing now is called internet addiction."

"What's wrong with me just taking a break to harvest some vegetables?" Mom was even more annoyed.

Dad said, "You actually used SMS to recharge your account just to buy premium seeds and fertilizer. This game is free to play; how many people have you ever seen recharge?"

“I didn’t use your salary,” Mom said. “My company gives me a phone allowance every month, and I can’t use it all anyway, so I might as well use it. I’m just using it to top up my game account. Besides, with a membership, even if it gets stolen, I’m guaranteed to get more points!”

The father was both amused and exasperated: "Now I understand why Chen Guiliang is a billionaire. It's because you gamers are supporting him."

Qin Shanshan corrected, "The company that received venture capital is ByteDance. Although Renren.com also has 'Happy Farm,' that game was made by Game Science, and my mom plays games on the Game Science platform."

“It’s all the same, they’re all his companies,” Dad said, his mood brightening again. “Today, my boss even asked me specifically. Haha, he asked if my daughter was Chen Guiliang’s classmate. I said not only were they classmates, but they were also deskmates, and my boss was very happy to hear that.”

"What does this have to do with your boss?" Qin Shanshan asked.

Dad laughed and said, "He can brag about it too. His own daughter is sitting at the same table as a billionaire. He'll have plenty to talk about when he drinks with her."

Qin Shanshan exclaimed, "Your leaders have such low tastes!"

……

the village.

My uncle is playing cards again, a game with a stake of one cent.

Someone outside shouted, "San'er, aren't you home yet? A matchmaker is here!"

Because of a slight limp in one leg, my uncle, who is in his thirties and still unmarried, jumped up like a spring in his butt, threw down his cards, and ran outside.

My uncle runs incredibly fast; he doesn't look like a cripple at all.

A number of onlookers had already gathered in the courtyard, including a woman in her twenties who sat there nervously.

The matchmaker pulled the grandparents into the house: "She's 27 years old, from Wadian Township. Her husband died of illness, and they owed more than 20,000 yuan for medical treatment. If you can come up with 30,000 yuan, she's willing to marry into the family. She's very capable; she can do everything from digging soil to carrying loads."

"Did she have a baby?" Grandpa asked.

The matchmaker said, "One son and one daughter. The son is 6 years old and will be raised there. The daughter is 3 years old and can be brought over. Isn't that perfect? ​​Your Yao San'er is getting old, wouldn't it be great to get a daughter for free?"

Grandma said, "I don't have enough for 30,000 either."

"Your grandson is rich!"

"I need to make a call and ask."

In the courtyard, my uncle and that woman had already hit it off.

My uncle is actually quite handsome, but he has a limp because of an accident when he was young and inadequate treatment.

It's just a minor ailment, but in rural areas it's considered a lack of labor, which is why he hasn't been able to find a wife for so many years.

Now, matchmakers are actually coming to our door.

The woman's husband died of illness, leaving her with more than 20,000 yuan in debt. She also had a son and a daughter to support, making life extremely difficult.

After being persuaded by the matchmaker, she did not agree immediately, but instead came to meet the person first.

She was quite satisfied with her younger brother-in-law. Although he was a bit old and had some foot problems, his appearance wasn't bad.

He's even kind of handsome.

Before she arrived, she thought she was going to meet a slovenly man, so this situation was a pleasant surprise.

"Do you eat chili peppers?"

My uncle went to wash a tomato and handed it to the woman very enthusiastically.

"Mmm." The woman blushed as she took the tomato.

My uncle instantly felt energized and full of strength.

He decided to never gamble again and to work hard to earn money, because he now had a purpose in life.

Chen Guiliang became a millionaire, and many people's lives changed as a result.

……

Tao Xue changed.

This young girl, who loves literature, became increasingly diligent in her studies.

However, her grades were still a little bit far from qualifying her for Peking University.

Tomorrow is the final exam. Tao Xue chewed on her pen, lost in thought, and couldn't help but pick up her phone to send a text message to Chen Guiliang.

"Senior, are you asleep?"

After waiting for several minutes, Chen Guiliang replied: "Still at the company, I've been extremely busy these past few days."

"Oh, you go ahead and do your thing. We'll talk again when you have time."

After sending the text message, Tao Xue lay on the table in a daze.

Chubby Zhu Yun handed over a bag of potato chips: "Having a crush on someone again?"

"No!"

Tao Xue stuffed the potato chips into her mouth, making a crunching sound as if the chips had a deep-seated grudge against her.

Her roommate, Yu Tian, ​​advised, "Forget it, they're already billionaires."

"I'm going to take the entrance exam for Peking University, and I'm going to find him!" Tao Xue was seething with anger.

Her roommate, Xiong Xiaoying, stabbed her in the back: "You're lucky you even got into Sichuan University."

The chubby girl picked up a potato chip and examined it closely. Suddenly, she exclaimed, "What is love in this world that makes people willing to die for it? You're bewitched, lady."

Tao Xue didn't say anything more, but copied out a three-line poem with her pen. It was the one that Chen Guiliang wrote for the school's intranet activity.

First Time I Saw You

No wind,

The flag fluttered.

It's love at first sight!
(End of this chapter)