Chapter 7: Failed Rebirth
Seeing the steel pipe smashing the floor tiles not far away, Xu Cang felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. If he hadn't wanted to help just now, his brain might have been smashed to pieces.
Before Xu Cang recovered from his fear, a panicked voice of a man came from above his head: "Sorry, sorry, maybe I didn't fix it properly."
Xu Cang looked up and saw that the sound came from the workers who were repairing the wall on the bracket. The steel pipe that fell from the sky was probably coming from there.
Xu Cang's heart was still pounding. He was only two or three steps away from being the shortest-lived reborn person. He did not lose his temper with the worker, but turned around and walked silently to the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman who was picking up things just now had her attention attracted by the noise caused by the falling steel pipe. When she saw Xu Cang coming over, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Young man, you are lucky to have survived a disaster!"
Xu Cang smiled bitterly and said, "This should be called good people get good rewards."
The ancients said that one should not let small kindnesses go unrewarded. This time, it was really just a small kindness that saved my life.
The middle-aged woman roughly understood what Xu Cang was referring to, so she took out an invitation from the picked up invitations and handed it to Xu Cang: "You are also an employee of the company, right? The day after tomorrow is my son's birthday. If you have time, you can come over and let my son share in your joy."
Xu Cang felt a little complicated in this situation, but he still accepted the invitation: "I probably can't go, but I accept the invitation. I wish your son a happy birthday."
In a sense, this middle-aged woman was half of Xu Cang's lifesaver, all thanks to her fall. It is said that those who survive a great disaster will have good fortune in the future, and I wonder if this woman can help him find a solution to his mother's illness.
This near-death experience was ultimately just a small episode. Xu Cang returned to the small hotel where he was staying and checked online for the nearest flight back home. He found that there was only one ticket available from Feiyu Airlines the day after tomorrow, so he wrote it down .
At that time, online payment was not well developed, so Xu Cang had to go to a nearby ticket agency to book a ticket. Since it was the day after tomorrow, and the ticket price was regulated at that time, there was no discount, so Xu Cang spent nearly 2,000 yuan on a ticket.
More than ten years ago, a ticket costing two thousand yuan was already considered high-end consumption, or to be more precise, civil aviation at that time was a mode of transportation for middle and upper class people.
This time, he probably wouldn't go back to Jianchuan City, so he planned to pack up all his valuables and take them back. However, after searching around in the small hotel, he found that the most valuable things were actually some game account cards. He had spent the past two years playing games.
"Xu Cang, you are really hopeless." Xu Cang looked down at the stack of account cards in his hand, feeling mixed emotions. If he could fly normally and get promoted normally in the past two years, the money he saved would be enough to pay for his mother's surgery.
At this time, Xu Cang thought that it would be great if he could be reborn a little earlier, so that he could get rid of the time of playing badly. If it weren't for his mother's matter, Xu Cang really wanted to throw away these game cards. But now he is very tight on money, and these account cards can still make some money, so he should keep them.
After packing up his things, Xu Cang saw that it was getting late outside and the people in the company had already left work, so he planned to send the flight certificate over tomorrow. With nothing to do, Xu Cang calmed down and thought about his future plans.
The advantage of rebirth is that you can know future information that many people don’t know in advance, such as lottery numbers, future commercial hot spots, and things that will appreciate in value in the future.
In fact, buying lottery tickets is the simplest and most efficient way. Unfortunately, Xu Cang never played lottery in his previous life, so he didn't save any useful information. As for the commercial hotspot, it seems that a future popular instant messaging software "Fei TALK" appeared soon. Fei TALK's parent company relied on this software to grow into a leading Internet company in China.
At this time, if he could find the founder of FeiTALK Software to invest and cooperate, the future profit would be tens of thousands of times. The problem was that Xu Cang himself had no money to sponsor that person, and he didn't even know where that person was now.
Xu Cang thought for a while. The man seemed to be called Zhao Fei, and he was probably not much older than himself now. It was said that among the investors who invested in Zhao Fei's business at the beginning, the most exaggerated one received a full 100,000 times return.
Xu Cang lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze. After a moment, he wailed, "My God of Wealth, where are you?"
If investing in future business giants is not an option, then the only option is to buy things that will appreciate significantly. Xu Cang was very impressed. If you were to ask what would appreciate the most in the future, it would undoubtedly be real estate. How many people in the future will achieve financial freedom by speculating in real estate?
In fact, Xu Cang had already thought of this approach. On his way back, he even paid special attention to the information posted by some real estate agents, so he had some idea of the housing prices at that time.
Take Jianchuan City for example, the price of commercial housing in the city center is more than 2,000 yuan per square meter, and in ten years, this price will rise to more than 20,000 yuan. However, at this time, most people have not yet realized the commodity attributes of housing, and the few real estate agencies he visited were all deserted.
In later times, being able to buy a house for 2,100 square meters in the center of a provincial capital like Jianchuan City was a real bargain. Even taking inflation into account, this appreciation potential is still extremely exaggerated.
Moreover, this is based on the fact that Jianchuan City is only a second-tier city. If it were located in a good location in a first-tier city, the increase would be even more exaggerated .
But the problem is that all the money he has now plus the life-saving money from his mother is only enough to buy a bigger toilet in a place like Jianchuan City. There are futures for houses, but I have never heard of anyone being able to dismantle and sell a toilet separately.
Besides, it will take some time for house prices to start to soar, and he won't be able to get much benefit from buying a house in the next one or two years. His mother can't hold out for that long.
In fact, Xu Cang’s problems were obvious. One was that he had very little start-up capital, and the other was that his mother’s illness limited his possibility of long-term investment.
The time limit for earning the first pot of gold made Xu Cang helpless. He had a strong feeling that he was reborn, but it seemed that he was not reborn. Why didn't the reborn people in novels or TV dramas stir up the situation happen to him at all?
Now the question is back to the beginning. Why did we have to give up in the first two years? If we hadn't, we would have had enough money for my mother's medical expenses and the start-up capital.
Xu Cang sighed: "What a failed reborn person!"
