MMB Chapter 20: Arrival in Shouguang
Chapter 20: Arrival in Shouguang
"Thank you, teacher."
Lin Qi accepted the leave slip.
Seeing this, Song Shiyin asked curiously, "Seven days off? That's awesome!"
"Okay, let's get things settled at home."
With the leave slip in hand, Lin Qi's restless heart could no longer be contained.
"I'll be going now. I'll treat you to dinner when I come back next week."
He waved to Song Shiyin.
"Okay! But I get to choose the location!"
Song Shiyin smiled and tilted her head.
"no problem!"
Lin Qi readily agreed, then said goodbye to Liu Yan and left.
When he arrived at the school gate, he ran into Zhang Haozhe, who was also holding a leave slip.
"That's very efficient!"
Lin Qi asked with a smile, "How did you manage to get leave?"
Zhang Haozhe shrugged: "I told him I didn't want to continue studying and that I wanted to go home and discuss with my family whether I should repeat a year."
"We really are on the same wavelength."
Lin Qi raised his hand and bumped fists with him.
"You use that trick too? No wonder we're brothers, haha!"
Zhang Haozhe smiled happily.
For senior high school students, being able to escape the oppressive atmosphere of the school for a week is naturally a source of great joy.
"Where do we go now?"
Zhang Haozhe is already itching to get started.
"Go find my uncle first."
Lin Qi flagged down a motorcycle taxi, got on with Zhang Haozhe, and headed straight for the internet cafe.
At the front desk of the internet cafe, Zhang Xin and Qin Jiahui were having breakfast.
Seeing this, Lin Qi asked in surprise, "Uncle, you're back after getting the card?"
Zhang Xin rolled her eyes, speechless. "I haven't gone yet!"
"You didn't just get up, did you? I've already finished my morning self-study."
Lin Qi peeked at the time on the display screen.
"They must have just gotten up!"
Zhang Xin said matter-of-factly, "The banks aren't even open yet, why should I get up so early?"
"Banks don't start work as early as you students!"
"..."
Lin Qi had no way to deal with him, so he stepped forward and snatched two steamed buns to eat.
After urging him to finish breakfast, Lin Zhangxin finally set off to go to the bank.
In order not to waste his time, Lin Qi decided to go with him.
Seeing him about to leave, Qin Jiahui reminded him, "Take your bag with you, okay?"
Qin Jiahui had already packed their luggage this morning.
"Aren't you coming back after getting the card?"
Zhang Xin looked puzzled.
"How could there be time to come back?"
Lin Qi took the bag and slung it over his shoulder: "After we get the card, we'll go straight to the station."
As he spoke, Lin Qichong instructed Zhang Haozhe, "Haozhe, go to the station first and wait for my call to buy the nearest train ticket."
"it is good."
Zhang Haozhe nodded in agreement.
Why make such a fuss? It's like a war.
Zhang Xin muttered a complaint.
"Make money! Uncle, every day we delay makes money."
Lin Qi was helpless.
Those who haven't experienced it simply can't understand the importance of time.
Just this year, a fiber optic cable was secretly installed between the stock exchanges in Chicago and New Jersey.
This fiber optic cable can reduce data transmission time from 16 milliseconds to 13 milliseconds.
The 0.003-second time difference allows New Jersey traders to always get information ahead of their competitors.
This fiber optic cable cost $3 million.
$3 million, just to be 0.003 seconds faster.
This is the value of time.
But it's no use saying all this now; all he can do is keep urging his uncle to set off quickly.
"Xiao Qi".
Qin Jiahui also brought Lin Qi's bag.
As she helped Lin Qi put the bag on, she whispered, "I put the money at the bottom of the bag. I added some more; you can take it too!"
"what?"
Lynch was taken aback: "Where did you get the money?"
"I don't usually have many expenses, so I've saved some up."
Qin Jiahui explained with a smile, "I thought about what you said carefully last night and I think it makes a lot of sense."
When an opportunity presents itself, one must seize it, so I took out all my savings.
Go ahead and use it. Even if I lose money, I'll accept it.
"Don't worry, Sister Jia Hui, we won't make up for it."
Lin Qi smiled confidently: "I'll consider this money as your investment, and you'll get a share of the profits!"
"That would be great."
Qin Jiahui covered her mouth and laughed: "It would be great if I could earn enough to buy a new phone. Your uncle's phone is three years old."
"Tsk tsk!"
Lin Qi looked at his uncle with emotion.
Comrade Zhang Xin, what have you done to deserve this?
"The car is here!"
Zhang Haozhe called out from the doorway.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Lin Qi pushed his uncle in a wheelchair, greeted Qin Jiahui, and then went out to get into the car.
They split up and took taxis to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
While waiting in line, Lin Qi took out the money Qin Jiahui had put in her bag.
Upon receiving the money, Lin Qi noticed that it was much thicker than before.
After taking it out and counting it, he realized that Qin Jiahui had actually put in a full eight thousand yuan.
In addition to his original 2600 yuan, and the 1 yuan he borrowed from Zhuo Mingxiu.
He now has 20,600 yuan in principal.
In 09, this was already a huge sum of money.
When two thick stacks of money were placed in front of him, his uncle's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Uncle, here you take it."
Lin Qi handed the money to his uncle.
My uncle hurriedly took it, almost dropping it to the ground.
He steadied himself with both hands, weighed it in his hand, then flicked his sidelong bangs, muttering with feigned disdain, "Only twenty thousand, what's that?"
He said that, but you could tell from the way he looked at money that he didn't have many opportunities to handle that much money.
Lin Qi smiled faintly: "This is the initial investment. Our goal is to earn ten times, even a hundred times."
"Haha! Ten times? That's two hundred thousand!"
The younger uncle laughed heartily, clearly not taking Lin Qi's words seriously.
However, with those 20,000 yuan to keep him in check, his posture straightened considerably, and even his flamboyant hairstyle became much more upright.
Soon after opening the bank account, Lin Qi deposited the money into the card and then used his uncle's phone to call Zhang Haozhe.
Zhang Haozhe bought the nearest train tickets, and the two of them rushed to the station without stopping.
Finally, at 2 p.m., they boarded a long-distance bus bound for Shouguang.
Zhang Xin was sweating profusely, and his bangs were plastered to his forehead.
"Going out of the house is more exaggerated than going to war!"
He was panting as he complained, "It's already two o'clock, and I haven't even had lunch yet."
"Let's have some pancakes!"
Lin Qi opened his schoolbag, took out a pancake, and handed it to him: "My mom made these."
"Going out to earn money, isn't this too hard?"
Zhang Xin took the pancake, bit off half of it, chewed with difficulty as he bulged his temples, and complained, "I work in an internet cafe, at least I can eat some fried pancakes or something."
"If I run away with you, all I can eat are pancakes."
"When you're traveling, make do with what you have, we'll eat something better when we get there."
Lin Qi also took out a pancake and started eating.
The three sat side by side, munching on pancakes, while the long-distance bus swayed and rattled out of the city, heading west.
Two hours later, the three arrived in Shouguang.
Shouguang is a county-level city under Weifang, and it is only a little over 100 kilometers away from Laizhou.
After getting off the bus, the three of them first found a mutton soup restaurant, each of them ordered a bowl of mutton soup, and also some mutton and shredded flatbread, which they soaked in the soup and ate.
While eating, Lin Qi introduced Shouguang to his uncle and Zhang Haozhe: "Shouguang is known as the vegetable capital of China and is the birthplace of winter-warm vegetable greenhouses."
In the towns and villages here, every household has built a vegetable greenhouse in their field.
Every day, tens of thousands of tons of vegetables are transported from Shouguang to more than 200 cities across the country, and even exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as South Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Such a huge throughput has also led to the emergence of many electronic trading platforms in Shouguang that provide bulk fruit and vegetable warehouse receipt trading.
It is commonly known as a fruit and vegetable tray, or an electronic tray...