Chapter 319: The ignorant boy of the past, the praise of the class monitor
"It seems that I can only go to the county town! Thank you!" Li Quan sighed, took back the bank card, turned around and walked towards Zhang Daniu. "Daniu, I'm afraid I can't have lunch with you today. I have to take a bus to the county town."
He smiled bitterly, apologetically.
I finally met my old classmates after not seeing them for many years, but I didn’t have time to have a meal together, which was really a pity.
"Are you in urgent need of cash?" asked Zhang Daniu.
"Well, my family owed a lot of foreign debt to support my college education. After working this year, I finally made some money. When I came back this time, I wanted to pay off the foreign debt."
Li Quan explained the reason frankly.
"Oh my god, you've only been working for a year and you've already earned over 50,000 yuan. You're an educated person! You're more than ten times better than me. When I graduated from junior high school, I followed an acquaintance to the city to work as a dishwasher. I only earned 300 yuan a month, and I often washed dishes until after 1 a.m., and had to get up at 6 a.m. the next day to work."
Zhang Daniu looked at Li Quan with admiration.
"The teacher told us that only by studying can we have a future, but I thought the teacher was talking nonsense. I also laughed at the teacher's despicable method of trying to trick us into studying. What future can studying have? If you say that it is easier to chase girls if you study more, I believe it. Alas, I have encountered obstacles everywhere in the society these years, suffered losses everywhere, and was looked down upon by others, all because of my lack of education."
"If I could go back in time and choose again, I would study very hard and become a college student like you."
Zhang Daniu's words were full of regret.
"Haha, you still remember the funny things that happened back then! To be honest, if I hadn't had a crush on Gong Shaping in my class when I was in junior high school, and I heard that she wanted to apply to the No. 1 Middle School in the county, I would have done the same as you and thought that the teacher was just trying to trick us into studying hard."
Li Quan couldn't help laughing when he recalled the funny things that happened during his youth.
Perhaps because his family was poor, Li Quan was particularly inferior and strong-willed when he was a child.
The class monitor Gong Shaping not only has excellent grades, but is also very beautiful. Many boys have a crush on her.
Once, the head teacher adjusted the seats, and Li Quan, a boy who had always been extremely inferior since childhood, had the good fortune to sit with the excellent and beautiful class monitor Gong Shaping.
At the beginning, Li Quan would blush and his heart would beat fast even if he took a peek at the other person.
I sat at the same table with her for a week, but I didn't dare to say a word to her.
Until one math test, Li Quan failed.
After class, Gong Shaping actually took the initiative to find him and help him with math knowledge and patiently taught him how to correct his mistakes.
After that contact, Li Quan and her gradually became familiar with each other.
Maybe it’s just the ignorant love of a teenager.
At that time, he thought Gong Shaping was the most beautiful girl in the world and the goddess in his mind.
He went from admiration to liking her, and then he fell hopelessly in love with Gong Shaping.
After the two became familiar with each other, the self-deprecating Li Quan gradually smiled more often and studied harder.
But the class vice-monitor Wu Ziming was unhappy.
Why?
Because Wu Ziming has always been recognized as the top student in the class, and his family is well-off. Wu Ziming's family runs a bookstore in the town, and their economic conditions are much better than those of ordinary peasant families.
Precisely because of his own superior conditions, Wu Ziming naturally thought that the most beautiful girl in the class should be with him.
Now a male classmate with poor grades and a poor family background actually wants to snatch Gong Shaping from him. He must teach this boy a lesson.
At that time, we were all just thirteen or fourteen years old, with very innocent minds.
After school, Wu Ziming and his men blocked Li Quan on a small path outside the school.
With his hands on his hips, he said arrogantly, "Li Quan, you are just a piece of stinky dog shit. Your family is poor and your grades are not good. Why do you compete with me for Gong Shaping? People should know themselves. You are not worthy of her at all."
Li Quan's self-esteem was greatly humiliated and he was angry at the time.
"Wu Ziming, let's compete. I'll compete with you in grades now, and when we grow up, we'll compete to see who's richer."
After hearing this, Wu Ziming burst into laughter.
He looked at Li Quan, who was angry and stubborn, with a contemptuous expression.
"Li Quan, you want to compete with me? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? I'm always number one in the class, but you're always one of the last. Can you beat me? If your score in the final exam this semester is lower than mine, you're not allowed to date Gong Shaping anymore."
"Pin and hang for a hundred years!"
Li Quan was also excited and agreed on the spot. The two young men made a bet to compete for the goddess Gong Shaping.
From then on, Li Quan began to study hard and got up before dawn every day to recite his lessons.
Whenever he encountered math problems he didn't understand, he would ask Gong Shaping or his teacher until he understood them.
During that period, he even often dreamed of solving math problems.
It was precisely because of this stubborn spirit of never giving up that he managed to get a good score of 682 points in seven subjects in the final exam.
Even the teacher praised him for creating a miracle of counterattack.
Wu Ziming, who made a bet with him, was twenty-one points behind him because of his arrogance.
However, the competition between the two men did not end there.
Wu Ziming also began to study harder.
By the end of the high school entrance examination, Li Quan and Wu Ziming were both admitted to the No. 1 High School in the county.
On the contrary, the class monitor Gong Shaping only got into an ordinary high school.
Later, Li Quan devoted himself to his studies and buried his innocent love deep in his heart. After several years, he had lost contact with Wu Ziming and Gong Shaping.
Recalling the things that happened in his youth at this moment, Li Quan still finds it particularly interesting.
"Li Quan, there are only one bus from our town to the county town in the morning and one in the afternoon. If you want to go to the county town to withdraw money, I'm afraid you can only take the 2 pm bus. I have a car, and there's nothing urgent anyway, so why don't I take you to the county town."
Zhang Daniu is still as enthusiastic as he was when he was a child.
“This… isn’t good!”
Li Quan refused.
"We've been classmates for nine years. Why didn't you say no when I helped you fight?" Zhang Daniu pulled him out. "Don't be so hypocritical with me. Get in the car! I'll let you experience my car."
Without further ado, Zhang Daniu dragged Li Quan into a silver van parked outside the bank.
It seems to be from Chang'an.
Although Li Quan didn't know much about cars, he could tell at a glance that the price of this van should be around tens of thousands.
"Hehe, this is the first car I bought in my life. It cost me more than 73,000 yuan. Although it is a garbage truck in the eyes of city people, I am very satisfied. It is very convenient to drive it to the city to transport goods."
Zhang Daniu introduced with a smile.
"Daniu, you are really good. Among our classmates, there are probably only a handful of people who have bought private cars. Next time I meet my former homeroom teacher, I have to tell her that Zhang Daniu in our class only finished junior high school, but he is still very successful now."
Li Quan's EQ is not so low that he would say this car is bad.
He also truly admires Zhang Daniu.
Because many young people at the age of 23 are still relying on their parents for money.
Not only did Zhang Daniu make his career flourish, he also earned enough money to buy his first car in his life, which is already very remarkable.
"Haha, please don't hurt me. I met our junior high school teacher, Ms. Bai, a while ago. She has retired and is at home planting flowers and grass, reading and writing. She is very leisurely and comfortable. It's just that her health is not very good and she coughs all the time. I guess it's because she was irritated by naughty students like me when she was teaching."
Zhang Daniu was praised by Li Quan and couldn't stop smiling.
"Has Teacher Bai retired? I must go see her when I go home for the New Year. It was thanks to her that I am where I am today." Li Quan thought of his former head teacher and felt a sense of gratitude in his heart.
Teacher Bai is a very responsible and good teacher.
Unlike some teachers nowadays, who are extremely commercial-minded and only pursue their own interests and do not care about the growth of students at all.
Parents are often asked to enroll their children in various cram schools.
Parents are also asked to check and tutor their children's homework every day.
These teachers have long forgotten their original intentions and their professional ethics.
It was supposed to be about teaching and educating people, but it turned out to be about treating students as tools to make money.
The van was speeding on the road.
Along the way, Zhang Daniu talked incessantly about his growth experience over the years, as well as some of his experiences and interesting stories.
Li Quan occasionally interjected a few words, but more often than not he was a qualified listener.
"Oh, by the way, when we get to the county town, why don't we go eat dumplings? I'll treat you and make sure you're full. In addition, I'll give you an unexpected surprise."
Zhang Daniu gave a mysterious smile.
"An unexpected surprise for me?" Li Quan had no idea what this old classmate was up to.
From the town to the county seat, they are all standard county roads with asphalt surfaces.
The country has been vigorously developing infrastructure in recent years , and Li Quan can feel the rapid changes in the countryside.
Forty minutes later, the van drove into the city.
Looking at the tall buildings rising from the ground, Li Quan couldn't help but sigh that the county town has changed so much.
"Li Quan, did you see that? That's the Country Garden property being built over there. It's likely to become the new city center in the future. The houses are still in the pre-sale stage, about 3,000 per square meter. If you have money, you can invest in one, even if you buy it with a loan, and you'll be able to make a lot of money from it in the future."
There was a shrewdness in Zhang Daniu's eyes that was unique to a businessman.
Li Quan really admires this old classmate. Although he has not received much education, he has a quick mind and a long-term vision.
In recent years, housing prices have been rising.
Buying a house has also become the most popular investment and financial management project.
"Three thousand yuan per square meter is indeed not expensive. Compared with the housing prices in Shanghai, which are around 70,000 to 80,000 or even hundreds of thousands per square meter, it is a bargain." Li Quan had no intention of buying a house in the county town.
"I have already taken on 11 construction projects this year. If nothing goes wrong, I estimate that I can earn more than 200,000 yuan. When the time comes, I will pay off the loan for purchasing equipment. If I have some money left, I will use it as a down payment to buy a house. If I have a house in the city, I will become a real city dweller and really stand out from the crowd."
Zhang Daniu told us about his plan.
"Li Quan, what about you? You can earn tens of thousands a year, and the down payment is only hundreds of thousands. Aren't you planning to buy a house?"
"I don't have that idea for now." Li Quan shook his head. "By the way, how much does it cost to build a new house in the countryside now?"
Li Quan wants to demolish the old house in his hometown and build a new villa so that his parents can live more comfortably.
Zhang Daniu is his old classmate, who happens to be engaged in this business. Instead of outsourcing the construction to others, it is better to take care of his old classmate's business.
"It depends on how big you want to build, whether it's a flat brick house, a two-story villa, or a luxury villa. Their specific costs need to be calculated in detail."
Zhang Daniu seemed quite professional when talking about these things.
"What if we build a villa?" Li Quan definitely wanted to build a villa.
"If you build a villa without a basement and the total area does not exceed 300 square meters, the general cost is about 500,000 yuan. This includes the cost of decoration, walls, floor tiles, etc."
The price Zhang Daniu offered made Li Quan's heart beat fast.
Five hundred thousand yuan can build a big villa, which is very tempting. In Shanghai, the price of a villa is hundreds of millions.
Li Quan already had the idea of asking Zhang Daniu to build a villa for his family.
"Okay, there's a branch of China Construction Bank right in front of us. Go and withdraw the money. I'll wait for you in the car. Don't wait too long. Long-term parking is not allowed here."
Zhang Daniu parked the car on the side of the road and turned off the engine.
…
A few minutes later, Li Quan had a China Construction Bank bag in his hand.
The 50,000 yuan I just withdrew was put in it.
Wrap it in a black plastic bag.
The bank's service is quite good.
"Hurry up and get in the car. I'll take you to have lunch. After lunch, I have to rush back to town to work."
Zhang Daniu waved at Li Quan.
After the van started again, it turned left and right and finally stopped in front of a dumpling restaurant.
“Northeastern Dumpling Restaurant!”
It's still a chain store.
The decoration of the store is indeed much more upscale and classy than that of ordinary dumpling restaurants.
"Don't be surprised later." Zhang Daniu winked at Li Quan, smiled mysteriously, and got out of the car first.
Li Quan got off the car carrying a paper bag from China Construction Bank.
He followed Zhang Daniu into the dumpling restaurant full of doubts.
Is there any secret about this dumpling restaurant?
"Welcome!"
As soon as he entered the door, a waitress greeted him with a smile.
"Li Quan, come here quickly and see who this is?" Zhang Daniu waved at Li Quan with a smile.
Li Quan raised his eyes and looked at the woman behind the cash register.
"Ah... squad leader!"
He didn't expect to see Gong Shaping, his class monitor in junior high school, here.
After not seeing her for many years, she has become even more beautiful, especially her big eyes that speak volumes, which are irresistible to men. She is wearing tight overalls, which outlines her hot body with particularly beautiful curves.
Snow-white skin and exquisite makeup.
She is definitely a top beauty rarely seen in such a small county town.
"You, you are my former deskmate Li Quan?" Gong Shaping was also extremely surprised when she saw Li Quan, and a happy smile appeared on her face.
"Haha, squad leader still remembers me. No wonder Zhang Daniu said he wanted to give me a surprise. After not seeing you for many years, the squad leader has become more beautiful." Li Quan greeted with a graceful smile.
After many years, Li Quan unexpectedly met the squad leader he once had a crush on, and he found that his heart was not stirred at all.
It's more of a kind of nostalgia.
The ignorant love in youth is actually not true love at all.
At that time, I only knew that I liked being with her, and I felt very happy every day when I saw her.
"Oh, the little boy who would blush when he spoke, would lower his head and dare not look at people, has really changed. His mouth has become sweeter, he has become more handsome, his temperament is also very unique, elegant and confident, generous and generous. Tsk tsk... I used to think that only girls change a lot when they grow up, but I didn't expect that you men can also become charming!"
Gong Shaping's big eyes stared at Li Quan up and down, full of admiration.
