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Chapter 452: Five Stars Rising from the East Brings Good Luck to China (Please Subscribe!)

After leaving the courtyard, the two took a bus to Tsinghua University.

Along the way, he chatted with Xiao Han while secretly observing the expressions of his scheming wife. Fortunately, she didn't mention what happened last night until she got off the car.

Have you passed this level?

Thinking like this, he looked at the gate of Tsinghua University and asked, "Wife, you have been in Beijing for more than a month. Have you met Yang Yingwen?"

"Well, she came to the hospital to see me several times and told me the address of the rental house."

Xiao Han looked around and finally pointed to a hostel on the right and said, "It should be over there. Ying Wen said her rental room is next to the hostel, on the second floor, the second to last room on the left."

Li Heng followed her gaze and felt it was a coincidence. This was the hotel that Li Ran had told him in the letter that they were staying at.

Next, I found the rental address very smoothly.

"Is this the one?" he asked.

"Yes, these clothes belong to Ying Wen." Xiao Han pointed to the clothes hanging in the corridor.

"Boom boom boom!"

After confirmation, Li Heng reached out and knocked on the door.

As soon as the phone rang, a voice came from inside: "Who is it?"

"Old Rag, open the door, your old family is here." Li Heng shouted.

With a creak, the door opened, revealing Yang Yingwen who was tying her hair inside.

When Yang Yingwen met Xiao Han, he happily pulled her into the house. He only said to Li Heng, "Find a seat for yourself," and then went to call Xiao Han away.

Li Heng followed him into the house and looked around. The rented house was rather simple, with just a table, a bed, and two wooden stools. It was too shabby and there was simply no place to stay.

He stood behind the door and asked, "Old Rag, how much is the monthly rent for this house?"

Yang Yingwen said, "8 yuan."

Li Heng was surprised: "So expensive? An ordinary worker only earns a few dozen yuan a month."

Yang Yingwen complained: "Brother, don't act like a country bumpkin, this is the capital."

Li Heng rolled his eyes, turned around in front of Xiao Han, and asked, "Wife, tell me, who is more unsophisticated between us?"

Damn it! I feel so insulted when a country bumpkin calls me country bumpkin.

Xiao Han had a small dimple on her face and smiled gently, not helping anyone.

Li Heng asked Yang Yingwen with concern: "You didn't go home during the summer vacation, and you didn't ask for money from your family. How do you make money now?"

Yang Yingwen told him: "I am taking care of five children, helping them with English lessons, six days a week, and each class costs 5 yuan."

Li Heng asked: "4 yuan per person per class? 20 yuan a day?"

Yang Yingwen is right.

Li Heng looked at the rental house again and said with relief: "You have a high income, no wonder you are willing to spend so much money on renting a house."

Yang Yingwen said: "I teach children in the morning. In the afternoon, I teach foreigners to speak Mandarin. Occasionally, I take them shopping and introduce them to the customs and practices of Beijing."

Li Heng blinked: "Where did you get the resources?"

Yang Yingwen said: "My English teacher found out that I was in a difficult situation, so she took the initiative to introduce me to some resources."

Li Heng did not ask her about her income this time. It must be very considerable, so no wonder she had the confidence not to return to Shangwan Village. He reminded her, "Girls, please be careful when you are outside alone."

Yang Yingwen smiled cheesy, "It's okay, the foreigner is a woman, very nice, and often buys things for me. Besides, I'm not Xiao Han, and it's not safe for a beautiful woman to be out there. People with my looks usually don't have any intentions towards me."

Li Heng glanced at her and nodded seriously, "That makes sense. Walking on the street, 10 out of 8 women are better than you."

Yang Yingwen was furious: "You idiot, you can't spit out ivory. Are you itching for a fight? Do you want to fight me when we meet?"

Li Heng was satisfied after making her angry, and walked out the door happily: "You guys wait here for me, I'll go find someone."

Yang Yingwen asked, "Who are you looking for? I am familiar with this area. Do you want me to take you?"

Li Heng pointed at the hostel and said, "It's right next to it. No need."

In less than 10 minutes, he brought Li Ran to Yang Yingwen's room.

"Is it you?" As soon as he entered the door, Li Ran first exchanged a few words with Xiao Han, and then said this to the old rag.

Li Heng asked: "Do you know each other?"

Although Li Ran had been to Shangwan Village, Yang Yingwen did not get along with his family and was not at home during that time, so the two women should not have met each other.

Li Ran was very familiar: "These past few days, I've seen her go out every day."

Yang Yingwen smiled and said, "Me too, I often saw you on the street in the evening with a camera in hand, and I was deeply impressed by you."

"I was just bored, so I framed the scene and took some photos." Li Ran used to work in journalism, and he almost always had a camera with him. No wonder he is so memorable.

With this interruption, Yang Yingwen and Li Ran became familiar with each other and were too lazy to let Li Heng waste time introducing them.

After closing the door, the four of them chatted about some family matters first, and then got down to business after half an hour.

Yang Yingwen had written to him half a year ago saying that he had discovered a business opportunity and wanted to start a business with him. In order to convince him to start a business together, he was naturally well prepared and immediately took out a thick stack of newspapers and documents from the drawer and gave them to them.

The old rag said, "This is the material I collected, take a look."

When it came to business, Li Heng restrained his expression, took the newspaper and document and quickly read it silently.

In order to let him know the situation as soon as possible, Yang Yingwen also made additional explanations:
In 1984, the government issued the "Interim Regulations on Self-funded Study Abroad", which allowed individuals and public officials to study abroad at their own expense, thus triggering a wave of going abroad. A large number of young people and even middle-aged people with various purposes quit their stable jobs, abandoned their families, and sold their properties in order to go abroad.
Since the United States held the TOEFL test in our country in 1981, the number of candidates has been rising every year. In the capital alone, there were more than 85 candidates in 8000, more than 86 in 2, and more than 87 in 4. This year is even more crazy.
Although the trend of going abroad is getting hotter every year, you know the domestic situation. People’s English is not good, and there are no professional training institutions. Many people fail the exam. So I think this is a big opportunity, a big opportunity to make a fortune. "

She spoke of many ideas eloquently, and then said boastfully, "By the way, Li Heng, I also took the TOEFL test. Guess how many points I got?"

Li Heng looked up: "How much?"

Yang Yingwen said proudly: "It's only one point away from a perfect score."

Li Heng was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up: "Awesome, how did you do that?"

Yang Yingwen said: "I memorized two dictionaries."

Li Heng stood in awe: "No wonder your teacher recommended you to teach Chinese to foreigners."

"Well, the reason why those parents asked me to teach their children English is because I scored high in the test, and I often take foreigners around, so they all trust me quite a lot. I'm quite famous in this area." Yang Yingwen hadn't met his fellow villagers for a long time, and he had been suppressed for a long time. Today, he spoke so freely, and he kept talking like a machine gun.

It took two hours to finish reading all the documents and newspapers. Li Heng put down the newspaper, took a sip of the soda handed by Xiao Han, and asked Yang Yingwen: "Do you want to run a formal English cram school?" Yang Yingwen said: "Yes, I have traveled all over the streets and alleys of Beijing in the past six months and conducted detailed research. This piece of land in Beijing has huge market potential, but there is no relevant professional service.

Most of them are guerrillas like me who fight alone, without any regular troops. If we set up the first cram school in Beijing at this time, we will definitely be able to make a name for ourselves in a short period of time and make a quick buck.”

Li Heng calmly asked, "If you're just running a cram school, why did you ask me to come? You can do it yourself, right?"

Yang Yingwen thought he was dissatisfied, and quickly explained: "I don't have enough capital. And I am a woman after all, I want someone to support me. After thinking about it, you are the most suitable. You have money and fame. If something happens to me in the future, you can still use your identity as a great writer to save me.

The most important thing is, we grew up together wearing open-crotch pants, and I trust you."

These were words she truly meant.

After all, she is just a woman from a remote mountain village who needs someone to support her in this big city so that she can have courage and confidence and have someone to vent when she is under pressure.

Among all her peers, she admired Li Heng alone.

In other words, Yang Yingwen secretly admired him.

Of course, she would not express this admiration out loud, lest someone show off and use it to attack her.

We have known each other for so many years, so who doesn't know each other? Li Heng is also a person who shines brightly with a ray of sunshine. You can't praise him! You can't praise him!

Li Heng said: "To be honest, if it's just an English cram school, I'm not interested in it. I've even called Li Ran here. How about this, let's do something big and open an English cram school."

Yang Yingwen was surprised: "Cram school?"

Li Heng nodded: "I have just read the newspapers and documents you gave me. Since you wrote to me half a year ago asking for this, I have also been paying attention to this area.

There is absolutely no problem with the market. As you said, since the public-funded overseas study was allowed, along with the accelerated process of reform and opening up, more opportunities for contact with foreign countries, the whole society has a growing demand for English. Especially among contemporary young people, there is an almost crazy desire for English. "

In fact, this phenomenon is mainly caused by the social environment. The media is fanning the flames every day, otherwise it wouldn't be so crazy.

After all, the desire to learn English is mainly a desire for money and a yearning for modern life abroad.

Especially with the popularization of CET-92 and CET- and the influx of foreign capital into China after the Southern Tour, the market will only get bigger and bigger.

There is a market but no service. As time goes by, someone will find this sweet spot. For example, Yu Minhong in later generations reaped the great dividends of this era. Two years later, he founded a cram school business in Beijing and opened up the market by posting small advertisements everywhere.

In his previous life, Li Heng and Old Rag were in charge of this market in Guangzhou. Over the past few decades, he has become quite familiar with the business and management and knows it all.

He now has the experience of success in his previous life, sits on the throne of great dividends of the times, and has millions of funds in his bank account.

If I don't go back to my old business, won't I lose a lot of money?
He is very ambitious now. As the first person to have the opportunity to try something new, he wants to make this training school as big as New Oriental in the future, or even bigger. He wants to snatch the luck that belongs to Old Yu.

After a long chatter, Li Heng finally picked up a newspaper and pointed to a piece of news and said, "Look, the country encourages education and encourages private schools. There are great tax incentives. This is a huge advantage that other industries cannot compare with. We must make full use of it."

When Li Ran heard that he was going to open a cram school, he was eager to try it out and was ready to follow him to build something big.

Instead, Yang Yingwen seemed hesitant.

Li Heng asked: "What? Are you scared?"

Yang Yingwen said: "I'm not afraid, I'm afraid of taking too big a step and not having enough experience."

Oh, who said I have no experience? Immediately, Li Heng stopped hiding and described the structure of his previous training institution in detail. In the process, he also stripped New Oriental's underwear and analyzed and told them everything.

After speaking patiently for more than half an hour, Li Heng's mouth became dry and he finally drank the soda in his hand in one gulp.

Yang Yingwen opened his eyes wide and asked incredulously: "How do you know so much?"

Li Heng answered the question irrelevantly: "Who am I? I am a great writer. Do you have confidence now?"

Yang Yingwen pondered for a long time, digested what he had just said, and then nodded heavily, "I'm not a fool, I really think your plan is feasible."

Li Ran had no objection, Old Rag had no objection, and the three of them reached an agreement.

After some discussion, their respective responsibilities were preliminarily clarified, with Li Heng providing the capital and becoming the big boss.

Li Ran is an administrative manager, specifically responsible for the entire cram school.

Yang Yingwen is in charge of teaching, which is the top priority.

Li Heng said: "We need to find a school to affiliate with and give some money to the school, so that people in society can trust us and think we are legitimate."

Li Ran asked: "Which school?"

Li Heng analyzed: "The fame cannot be too big. If it is too big, people will not pay attention to us. The fame cannot be too small. If it is too small, we will have no credibility and influence in society."

Yang Yingwen said: "I will list all the schools in this area and screen them one by one when the time comes."

Li Heng nodded, and then said, "As for teaching, you know a lot of foreigners, Old Rag, see if you can get a few of them to work part-time. If our cram school has a few foreign faces, wow! The effect will definitely be great, and recruiting students won't be a problem."

Yang Yingwen agreed and wrote down the idea in his notebook.

He went on to say, "In addition to foreigners, the English teachers from nearby universities are the main targets we want to win over. You can go to each school and extend an olive branch to them, so that they can come to work part-time to earn extra money."

Xiao Han asked from the side: "He's a university teacher, will he agree?"

Li Heng was very sure about this: "Wife, what's the saying, money makes the world go round. Although university teachers have unlimited glory, but ten fingers are long and short, not every university teacher has a happy life.

Don't worry, as long as the remuneration we offer is attractive enough, some teachers may be too proud to do it, but there will always be some teachers who will be tempted."

Li Ran has been working in society for many years. His mother Zhao Jing is a professor at Xi'an University. She has a deep understanding of teachers and agrees with this statement:

"Indeed, many university teachers come from poor rural areas. Their monthly salary is not only for family expenses, but also for sending part back to their hometowns to help support them. It is simply not enough to cover their expenses, and their lives are very tight. I think it should not be difficult for us to open up a new path with money."

Yang Yingwen echoed: "Hanhan has never been involved in extracurricular tutoring, so she doesn't understand it very well. But I have a deep understanding of it. In fact, there are some university English teachers who are like me, privately tutoring students outside to earn extra money."

Li Heng's eyes lit up, and he ordered: "Pull these teachers over here, and we will recruit them together."

"Okay." Yang Yingwen wrote down these ideas again.

The next few people made detailed plans on how to recruit university teachers, how to teach, the teaching content, and how to recruit students.

Finally, Li Ran asked, "What's the name of the cram school? So I can register."

Li Heng blurted out: "New future."

Li Ran pondered the name and asked, "Does it have any special meaning?"

Li Heng said immediately: "It means exactly what it says. There is a brand new future."

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