Chapter 623: A strong dragon is a strong dragon wherever it goes
The crowd was noisy. When Lu Yiming and his friends arrived, a fierce quarrel was taking place, and it looked like it was about to turn from a verbal fight to a physical one.
In the center of the storm was the hotel owner, who had his head down and argued with reason but to little effect, and Huang Wenyang, who was arrogantly pointing at the hotel owner's nose and attacking him crazily in Zaun.
Lu Yiming listened to a few words outside and felt that it was similar to what he expected, so he pushed through the crowd and walked in. Zhao Tiezhu was worried about Lu Yiming's safety and hurriedly followed.
Lu Yiming came to the hotel owner, looked at Huang Wenyang, and said in a joking tone: "Hey, Huang, how come you come here to make trouble when I just went out for a meal? There are no telephone poles here."
Ah Huang sounds like a dog's name. Lu Yiming is being wild and a telephone pole, isn't he saying that Huang Wenyang is a dog? The people around who were watching the excitement laughed at the same time.
When Huang Wenyang saw Lu Yiming, he immediately remembered how Yi Sheng had been submissive to Lu Yiming. The arrogant attitude on his face immediately subsided, replaced by a look of doubt.
He had no idea where Lu Yiming came from, but the change of ownership of the hotel went against his family's wishes, which made him feel uncomfortable. Therefore, he said to Lu Yiming in a timid manner: "I advise you, an outsider, to be sensible and get out of here quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being rude to you. Even if you have someone behind you, if you want to do business here, you still have to get the nod from our Huang family. I think you understand the principle that a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake, right? I don't care who you are, I can't do anything to you, but you can't stay here forever, right? As long as you leave, I will have the final say in this place."
Lu Yiming nodded slightly and said expressionlessly: "Well, that's the truth."
Huang Wenyang sneered: "How is it? Are you scared?"
Lu Yiming shook his head slightly and said, "Don't be afraid. What era is this? Are you still playing the role of ordinary local tyrants?"
Huang Wenyang's face froze, and he asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "It's meaningless. How can the light of a firefly compete with the brightness of the bright moon? A dragon is a dragon. It is a dragon wherever it goes. In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are paper tigers. What a local snake, isn't it just a small reptile in front of a dragon?"
"you……"
There was a lot of sarcasm in Lu Yiming's words. He first called him Ah Huang and scolded him as a dog, and now he said he was a bug. He could no longer bear it, so he roared and rushed towards Lu Yiming, intending to use his fighting power to let Lu Yiming know what it meant to know why the flowers are so red.
However, he seemed to have forgotten that Lu Yiming had bodyguards.
Lu Yiming stood there without moving. Zhao Tiezhu rushed out from behind him. Facing Huang Wenyang, who posed a threat to Lu Yiming, he was not polite at all. He kicked Huang Wenyang directly in the stomach, causing Huang Wenyang to step back several steps and sit on the ground.
Huang Wenyang was angry and shouted to his lackeys, "What are you still standing there for? Come on! This outsider is bullying the locals. There's no need to talk to him about the code of conduct. Come on, fight together."
A dozen young men rushed towards Lu Yiming, shouting.
The people watching the fight stepped back consciously to give the fighters more space to avoid being affected.
However, at this moment, a siren sounded from far away, and a policeman shouted with a loud speaker: "What are you doing? What are you doing? Disperse immediately."
The crowd dispersed at once, but they did not go far away, still watching in the corner.
Huang Wenyang's younger brothers didn't dare to move and looked at Huang Wenyang.
Huang Wenyang was extremely depressed, secretly cursing these guys for not coming earlier or later, but he could only helplessly say to those little brothers: "Come back."
Several police officers got out of the car, and the team leader Wu Guozhi walked up to everyone with a serious face. His sharp eyes swept around, paused for a moment on Huang Wenyang's face, and then shouted: "What's going on?"
Huang Wenyang ran to Wu Guozhi and said with a nod and a bow, "Officer Wu, these outsiders came here and acted wildly. I will help you teach them a lesson."
Wu Guozhi scolded with a stern face: "Everyone is equal before the law. Anyone who breaks the law will be punished by law. Do you want to meddle in other people's business? Get out of the way?"
"Oh, okay."
Huang Wenyang looked like a smug villain. He stood behind Wu Guozhi, looked at Lu Yiming, and shouted, "Let me see how arrogant you, a foreigner, can be!"
Lu Yiming was a second-generation human being. He had been reborn for several years. What monsters and demons had he not seen? Wu Guozhi seemed fair and used the law to justify his actions, but in fact, he just covered up Huang Wenyang, the instigator, with just a few words. He saw it in his heart, but did not say anything.
Wu Guozhi looked to be two meters tall, half a head taller than Lu Yiming, and had a very sturdy build. He came in front of Lu Yiming and said arrogantly, "Are you from out of town?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Yes."
Wu Guozhi looked at the gate of the scenic spot not far away and asked, "Are you here for tourism?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "No, I'm here to do business."
"Come to do business?"
After hearing this, Wu Guozhi smiled and spoke in a lighter tone, asking, "Then do you know the rules of doing business here?"
Lu Yiming shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know."
"You don't know? How dare you come here without knowing?"
Wu Guozhi laughed out loud and made a money counting gesture with his right hand. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps. A group of people were carrying black cannon-like things on their shoulders, and some were holding things as thick as their arms and half a meter long, with long electric wires trailing behind them, and were running towards this side.
Wu Guozhi was a little surprised, and then asked one of his men beside him: "What's going on?"
The subordinate ran over to take a look and said, "It looks like a reporter."
"reporter?"
Wu Guozhi immediately put down his hands and his expression became serious.
When local journalists and media learned that Lu Yiming appeared in Taohuayuan, they went crazy. Wherever Lu Yiming went, he would usually bring investments there, such as Baiyun City and Zhonghai City. Now that Lu Yiming came to Taohuayuan, they were all excited.
The reporters surrounded Lu Yiming and completely ignored Wu Guozhi and others next to him.
"Mr. Lu, are you coming to Taohuayuan to invest here?"
The richest man in Lu?
Hearing these three words, Wu Guozhi's face suddenly changed, his eyebrows twitched wildly. He looked at Lu Yiming again, his expression had become extremely terrified.
Is this guy the richest man in Lu?
On the other side, facing the cameras and microphones of the reporters, Lu Yiming spoke freely: "Taohuayuan is a place with beautiful scenery, outstanding people and a good environment. It is a good place to invest. I do plan to make an investment here. However, the main purpose of my coming here this time is to record a TV show."
"Recording a show? What show?"
"What kind of show could invite Mr. Lu, the richest man in the world? Wouldn't his appearance fee be outrageous?"
Lu Yiming's words immediately made people curious and itchy.
Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said, "I plan to create a travel variety show here. The specific content is kept secret for the time being, so please stay tuned."
The words "stay tuned" immediately whetted everyone's appetite. However, no matter how much they asked, Lu Yiming just wouldn't give in, so everyone had no choice but to give up.
Before the reporters dispersed, several more cars came over, and local officials got out. After exchanging pleasantries, they invited Lu Yiming to a big hotel in the city center to welcome him.
Lu Yiming also took the opportunity to raise the issue of Huang Wenyang, and some officials said on the spot that they would investigate and deal with it seriously and resolutely ban it.
Are you kidding me? The richest man comes to invest and you dare to make trouble for me? You are a local snake. You have destroyed the snake's nest.
After the meal, these officials wanted to drag Lu Yiming to a meeting again. Lu Yiming immediately became unhappy and refused on the spot.
Meeting? What kind of meeting? Isn't it just a series of people crying poor and asking for rewards from various departments?
Do you really think Lu Yiming doesn't know about their little thoughts?
The news that Lu Yiming was going to record a variety show in Taohuayuan was soon spread through local media.
Although there is a lot of information to prove that the Peach Blossom Spring is located in this place, how can others let you take all the fame and fortune? Moreover, with the opening of the Golden Week and the rise of the tourism industry, all places are trying to make their own chassis more strange and bizarre for hype.
Apart from anything else, in Youyang, thousands of miles away, a Peach Blossom Spring that claims to be authentic has been initially built and is about to open.
At this time, Lu Yiming came to the authentic Peach Blossom Land to do a show, which was equivalent to promoting Peach Blossom Land.
The local officials were not stupid, so the propaganda department, tourism department, external relations department, etc. all took action, mobilizing national resources and channels to widely publicize the fact that Lu Yiming was coming to Taohuayuan to do a variety show.
For a time, the news spread like wildfire, and various newspapers and media produced countless explosive news every day. Everyone knew that Lu Yiming was doing the show.
At the Home Inn headquarters, Ji Qi turned on his computer and saw that the portals were all filled with news about Lu Yiming doing a show in Taohuayuan. It could be described as dominating the charts. He was immediately shocked. He clicked on a few of the posts and took a look, and immediately burst into laughter.
"Mr. Lu is Mr. Lu. Everyone can spend money on publicity, but Mr. Lu's method of using a small force to achieve a great result is really brilliant. Not only does it not cost any advertising money, but the effect of this advertisement is unmatched! It seems that I have to speed up the process and quickly decorate the Home Inn."
He did it as soon as he thought of it. He picked up the phone on the table and called the construction team to urge them. The next day, he went to Taohuayuan with the convoy - he wanted to personally supervise the renovation and reconstruction of this Home Inn, working in three shifts around the clock, and complete it and put it into use as quickly as possible!
Peach Blossom Spring.
There is a food stall not far from the scenic area.
The Home Inn decoration team, which had just finished work, and the "Super Travel Group" program crew, which had just finished work, made an appointment to have a barbecue together.
Seeing Ji Qi wearing a safety helmet, blue overalls, and looking dirty, Chen Xiaoqing was very curious: "Mr. Ji, excuse me for asking. You said that you are a top student who graduated from Jiaotong University and a graduate student. You should be able to enter a good enterprise or institution. Why do you want to start your own business? Starting a business is a very risky thing."
Ji Qi smiled and said, "I came from the countryside. My family was very poor. How poor was it? I remember when I was in junior high school, on a cold winter day with snow and wind, I walked for an hour to get home for lunch, but my mother told me that there was no food at home. In the end, I had to walk for more than an hour on an empty stomach to get back to school, wiping away tears as I walked , and vowed to get into college and escape from this poor place."
Chen Xiaoqing nodded slightly and said, "So that's how it is."
Ji Qi's experience can be said to be a microcosm of most poor families in Xia Country, so his words also touched Chen Xiaoqing deeply.
Ji Qi never complained about his background. Not only that, he was very grateful to his parents for raising him under such difficult conditions.
He laughed and said, "So later in the college entrance examination, I got what I wanted and entered Zhonghai Jiaotong University with the second place in the county. Actually, I originally wanted to apply for automation or computer science, which sounded very fashionable, but my class teacher told me that those majors had no future and asked me to apply for engineering mechanics, saying that I could help the contractor calculate earthwork in the future, and I could get more bonuses if I did a good job."
Lu Yiming teased, "You're in trouble. Civil engineering is not a good major, but you're not even as good as civil engineering."
Ji Qi still feels a little amused when recalling this, saying: "Yes, it was only when I went to school that I realized that this major had nothing to do with earthwork. All I learned was how to calculate the forces on submarines and the take-off speed of missiles."
Although his major was disappointing, Ji Qi was still very happy.
Because he finally succeeded in setting foot in a big city like Zhonghai, and no longer had to roll in the mud like his parents.
After taking a deep breath, Ji Qi continued, "I still remember that day when the ship docked at Shilipu Wharf in the early morning. I, a child from the countryside, was instantly stunned by the prosperity of Zhonghai. The shock was so strong that staying in Zhonghai became an important reason for me to make several major decisions in my life later."
When talking about his past as a student, Ji Qi couldn't help but feel emotional.
As a "country boy", he was poor and unsophisticated in the Zhonghai campus, and was inferior to others in every way. Those days were extremely difficult.
Ji Qi picked up the beer in the glass, drank it all, and said to himself again: "When I was a sophomore, I experienced the darkest moment of my life. Now thinking back, there was actually no special reason at that time. I just suddenly felt that my life was so boring. I felt like a walking corpse. Everything was arranged by the outside world. I didn't have any free will."
"In order to relieve my depression, I spent a lot of time in the library, looking for answers to life from philosophy, literature and poetry. The final result of my thinking was: life has no meaning, only process and experience. So after graduating from university, he didn't want to go back to Nantong to work. I wanted to stay in Zhonghai. I wanted to take my destiny into my own hands."
Chen Xiaoqing said: "You graduated in the 1990s, right? The job placements for college students in those years were generally not good."
As for why it is not good, that is a topic that cannot be discussed in depth.
Ji Qi said: "My situation was very difficult at the time. It was very difficult to be accepted by a unit in those days. I had to use a lot of connections to get this. In addition, my family situation also expected me to make money as soon as possible. But after thinking it over, I finally gave up my job and chose to study for a master's degree."
Lin Yuzhen was puzzled and asked, "Since you are short of money, why don't you start working and earn money earlier?"
Ji Qi looked at her and explained with a smile, "Because if I went out to work at that time, I wouldn't have made much money. With only a bachelor's degree, I might never be able to climb higher in my life, or meet more powerful people, so I had to fight. Only by gritting my teeth and holding on, could I control my own life."
Lu Yiming thought back to his previous life. He failed to grit his teeth and hold on like Ji Qi did, which led to him taking many detours.
Therefore, he admired Ji Qi's choice even more and immediately raised his glass to Ji Qi: "This glass is to thank you for your original choice, for not following the crowd, but for walking your own path."
Ji Qi said with emotion: "Yes, I am also grateful to myself for not taking the shortcut, but taking the most difficult path."
Is studying difficult?
It is difficult. The mountain of books and the sea of questions are undoubtedly the most difficult path, because it tests a person's IQ and perseverance. No matter what your family background is, whether you are lucky or unlucky, you will not pass the exam.
The fact that Ji Qi was able to withstand the pressure of life and obtain a master's degree shows that his talent and determination are unmatched.
Lin Yuzhen asked curiously, "Didn't you study missile calculation? Why are you working on the Internet?"
Ji Qi smiled and said: "When I was studying for my master's degree, I chose the robotics major in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Then I started to get in touch with computers and learned about the 'huge profits' of this emerging industry. So I worked hard to get into it in order to make a lot of money in the future."
I have to say that Ji Qi is a genius.
It didn't take him long to grow from a novice who didn't even know how to turn on the computer to an expert who was proficient in computer use and installation, and even learned networking technology.
As more and more people came to him for help installing computers and setting up networks, he simply opened a computer company with his classmates and started doing it part-time.
By the time he graduated with a master's degree in 1992, he had saved tens of thousands of dollars.
This was tens of thousands of dollars in 1992!
The prices at that time were not what they would be ten or twenty years later. A meat bun was one cent, a vegetable bun was five cents, two White Rabbit milk candies were one cent, and a bag of instant noodles was fifty cents.
During the Chinese New Year, ten yuan is considered a favor, and the general amount of New Year's money is one or two yuan.
Talking about this past, Ji Qi smiled: "When I earned my first 10,000 yuan, I was really happy, and I was more certain of my original choice. So while working part-time, I did not give up my studies. After all, my money was earned by the knowledge I learned. In 1992, my paper was published at the International Robotics Conference, and the dean of the school at that time hoped that I could stay on to teach."
Lin Yuzhen's eyes lit up when she heard this. In her opinion, Ji Qi's experience was so similar to Lu Yiming's.
Studying and earning money to support the family at the same time, this is simply the best role model for her.
Although she has made a lot of money now, she still feels uneasy. After all, Lu Yiming and Ji Qi make money by their "skills" and they are irreplaceable. But the money she makes depends on her "luck" and "looks". She may be replaced by someone else at any time, which makes her feel uneasy.
Lu Yiming smiled and asked, "Then why didn't you choose to stay in school?"
