Chapter 10: Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Red Hare among the horses! The sky seems foggy. An indescribable damp coldness seemed unable to be blocked even by the quilt. “It would be nice if there was heating!” When he was half asleep, Cao Yukun subconsciously thought of the feeling he had when he was on a business trip to Jiangnan in his previous life - winter had come more than once, and at that time he didn't think there was anything wrong with the winter in Jiangnan. When he went out, there was greenery everywhere outside the car window. When he returned to the hotel, he turned on the air conditioner, stood or sat in front of the window with a cup of coffee, looking at the misty Jiangnan outside, he would feel indescribable poetic and picturesque. But the reality is, it’s damn cold! Then I gradually woke up. With sleepy eyes, he reached out to the table beside the bed and touched a digital watch. It's not yet seven o'clock. I leaned over and looked out the window, and sure enough, it was foggy as usual.
Winter in the south of the Yangtze River seems to be like this, especially in the mountains. After a rain, there will always be fog for several days. He huddled back into bed, but before his mind could come to his senses, he heard various subtle noises outside the door - the crackling of a fire, the crunching sound of the bottom of the pot when his mother stirred the pig food, and two people chatting in low voices. I smelled it carefully and it was indeed this strange fragrance. It smells nice, but you just don’t crave it. "I think it's pretty good. It's not shameful to drive for your future father-in-law! And he called you personally... Oh!" "If he doesn't want to go, then he doesn't have to go. He's grown up." "Then you should think of another way. You can't just let him stay at home like this!" "What can I do? He beat up Zhang Weimin, and it's good enough that he doesn't seek revenge. The people in the county should at least give him some face. How can I just use the person who beat him up?" "You always have a way!" "I have no idea!" The man's voice sounded muffled and suffocating. The woman's voice has an indescribable tenderness. As Cao Yukun listened, he felt more and more peaceful in his heart without realizing it. What they were talking about was what happened last night - as expected, at noon, my father received another call from Song Hongxing at the police station, saying that the second girl had returned home and said that she was very satisfied with him and was willing to spend some time with him, but for the time being she still wanted to finish high school first to see if she could get into college. Comrade Lao Song was obviously very satisfied with the result, so he told Cao Yukun not to look for another job. Since he originally drove for the leader in the small car team, it meant that he had driving skills, so he should go and drive for him. Indeed, there seems to be nothing wrong for a future son-in-law to drive for his father-in-law. Even in the current context of Cao Yukun being expelled, this is obviously still a kind of care. In the evening, Dad came back and brought back what Song Hongxing said, but Cao Yukun refused without even thinking about it - at that time, his parents didn't persuade him much, but now it seems that they still have some ideas. I can't sleep.
Cao Yukun got up and put on his clothes quickly. Hey, they were damp... Seeing their son get up, the couple immediately stopped talking. So the pig food was brought down, and while Cao Yukun was brushing his teeth and washing his face, the meal was already on the table. After dinner, Cao Weiguo found out that Cao Yukun would not be traveling far today, so he rode his motorcycle to work. After Cao's mother cleaned up the stove, the pig food had just cooled down, so she poured some leftover vegetable soup and pot waste water into the food and mixed it together. The two big fat pigs ate it with relish. Cao Yukun stood outside the pigpen, watching the two pigs eating heartily. "Are you really not going out today?" asked my mother. "Well, I won't go out. I'm going to go fishing later!" So my mother stopped asking any more questions. After seeing that the pig food was eaten up, Cao Yukun returned to the house with satisfaction, changed into rain boots, and then left the house. However, when he passed by his grandparents' house, he turned in again. The old man was making bamboo strips and grandma was helping him. Not only is he very good at making all kinds of furniture and utensils with bamboo from the mountains, he is also an old carpenter. His craftsmanship cannot be said to be very sophisticated, but the things he makes are very durable. Almost all the things used in the Cao family's homes and outdoors were made by the old man himself. Cao Yukun has an older aunt who married and moved down the mountain. He has a second uncle who is younger than his older aunt. He is a serious college student and was assigned to the Xizhou Automobile Factory after graduation. He is now considered a technical backbone of the factory. They also have a lot of furniture made by their grandfather in their home. The original owner remembered one incident. At that time, he was still very young and his second uncle was about to get married. His grandfather didn't want to take a car, so he rode a bicycle, loaded a dining table and six chairs, and sent them to Xizhou City, which was more than 200 miles away. "Zi Zi..." Grandma beckoned Cao Yukun over with a smile, as if just seeing her eldest grandson's tall stature was enough to make her smile. She held Cao Yukun's arm and said, "The biscuits your aunt brought last time are in the drawer, go get them yourself!" "I just finished my meal. I'll come eat later!" She was particularly happy to eat her food, so she smiled and said, "Okay!" So Cao Yukun squatted down and watched for two minutes, then stood up to help and took grandma's place. The grandparents and grandchildren chatted while they were working. "Your father said that Song Hongxing wants you to drive for him?" "Well, I told my dad that I'm not going." "Why not? Why not drive for him? Earn a salary. He'll never treat you badly." "One head shorter than the other." "Well. Don't be too aggressive. Boys need to be strong and have face, but being too aggressive is not good! Also, don't fight with others in the future. Look how difficult it is for your father!" "I understand, Grandpa." Cao Yukun stayed at his grandparents' house for more than an hour. He was not annoyed, but he had something on his mind. He was thinking while working and almost hurt his hand, so his grandfather drove him out. So I strolled leisurely, and before I knew it I arrived at my own pond. Of course, the Cao family is engaged in farming, but in fact they only have about two acres of paddy field for growing rice.
There are also about two or three acres of sloping land where orange trees are planted. But oranges cannot be sold at a good price. Sometimes the supply and marketing cooperative will buy some, and sometimes not. You have to go to the market to sell them yourself. But this area in the south of Fuping County is all mountains, and there are only three kinds of things planted on the hillsides: bamboo, tea trees, and oranges. You can imagine that it won’t be sold at a good price either. The situation has been better in the past two years. The oranges in Fuping are delicious and juicy, and very famous. So merchants from other places began to come to the foot of the mountain to purchase them in bulk. If they picked oranges from two acres of land, they could sell them for three to five hundred yuan, which was a huge income. In addition, there are more than ten acres of bamboo forest - it is even more difficult to say what income it brings. It rained quite heavily yesterday and the dirt road was very muddy. Cao Yukun walked by the pond, one step deep and one step shallow, looking at his own fish pond, his mind still turning over and over again about the stock subscription certificates. Unconsciously, he had stood by the pond for more than an hour, until his mother called him from afar at the door of the house, and he was shocked to realize that it was already noon. After lunch, he took his fishing rod seriously, found a piece of land beside the road, dug some earthworms for bait, set up a small bamboo chair by the pond, and sat down to start fishing. The pond is two acres in size and is emptied every few years, with mud dredged and the weir repaired. It has been two years since the pond was cleaned, so there are definitely fish in it, but Cao Yukun is not focused on it. Several times when he realized something was wrong and hurriedly raised the rod, the fish had already been hooked. Even so, he still caught a small white fish that was as long as a foot. But after removing the hook, he threw the fish back into the pond. Do you want to do it? do not know. Hard to say. Can't make up my mind. Subconsciously a little timid. Even though, whether in my previous life or this life, deep down in my heart, I always have some ambitious thoughts. I always feel that I just didn't catch up. If I did, I would be no worse than Jack Ma. However, when a real opportunity was presented before me, I couldn't help but feel a little scared. After all, he knew very well that he was just an ordinary person. Even if you travel through time, even if you foresee opportunities for wealth, you are still an ordinary person. An ordinary person's brain and an ordinary person's heart. However, the wealth, which might very well be tens of millions, kept stirring something in his heart, making him unable to control the surge of emotions, and he couldn't help but tell himself over and over again: It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get Red Hare among the horses! But...do we really have to make it this big? Borrow as much as you can from relatives and friends, even if you can borrow tens of thousands of dollars and earn fifty times the amount, it's already a lot! Two or three million is really a huge sum of money these days! It is easy to buy a few houses in the capital and the Magic City. Just this is enough to live a life of ease and happiness that you could not even imagine in your previous life. And if you really want to find a way to get the shell and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, if something goes wrong, the consequences will be serious and you can't cover it! People, no matter what you do, you must always know the beginning and the end, and do it well from beginning to end. However...it won’t collapse! No matter how you think about it, there doesn't seem to be any possibility of this thing collapsing! If we don’t do it on a bigger scale and use the maximum leverage, I will really feel unwilling! Moreover, I had worked for ten years in my previous life, and I had actually already understood the truth that wealth lies in numerology, not in hard work, and that benefits lie in the situation, not in hard work! Alas, so, ordinary people are just fucking ordinary people! People dare to go for it if they have a one percent chance. If they die, they die. If they survive, they will get rich. I, on the other hand, have a 99% chance of success, but I still habitually look back and forth - Dad, I always think that what you taught me is right, but now, I am so conflicted! ………… By the evening, the fog had dispersed a lot, and the pale yellow glow of the sun began to be seen in the distant mountains.
Cao Weiguo rode his motorcycle carefully up the mountain. When he turned a corner, he suddenly saw his son sitting in front of the pond fishing. When he got closer, he stopped, glanced at the tin bucket, and pursed his lips. Inadvertently, he saw that the ground under his son's feet was covered with more than 20 or 30 cigarette butts. He was silent for a moment, met his son's gaze, and said, "It's almost time to eat!" "Okay, I'll be back in a minute!" So Cao Weiguo got on his horse again and rode away at a rapid speed. (End of this chapter)