Rebirth 2004: I can make money by writing.

This time when he returned home, Hao Qiang mainly brought some clothes, while the blanket and mat were left at school.

To be honest, after using the mat for several years, I just threw it away.

When passing by a bookstore, he bought several books covering English, stock trading, business and other aspects. This knowledge will come in handy in the future.

Wu Hai asked curiously, "Qiangzi, do you still have the heart to read at home?"

"I have to find something to do. There's nothing to do at home. The rice isn't harvested until July. I only have a little over an acre of land, so I can finish it in two days."

"My family has planted more than two acres of crops, and it will be finished in a few days. I have nothing to do, so I plan to smoke the field mice on the ridge of the field, or pull the wire. I have an electronic mousetrap at home. I haven't eaten rat meat for a long time, and I'm tired of the food at school." Wu Hai thought of the delicious stir-fried field mouse meat with soybeans and garlic sprouts, and couldn't help licking his tongue.

The tenderness and fragrance of the meat are simply incomparable to pork or fish.

"Haha, that's good. I haven't eaten it for a long time." Hao Qiang laughed heartily. He also missed the days of eating Home Appliance Mouse.

Locally, villagers are also keen on using electronic mousetraps to catch rats.

On paths where rats often appear, first wet the ground, then place small wooden sticks side by side, and then wrap bare iron wire around the insulator and the wooden sticks to set up an encirclement area of ​​hundreds of meters.

After the power is turned on, the mice passing by will be knocked down by electricity, and a lot of mice can be caught in one night.

There is a saying among the people that "eating one rat is equivalent to eating three chickens", and everyone who has tried it praises it.

I've never tasted it, but it makes me feel extremely disgusted.

Can that thing be eaten?

"Okay then. If I catch a lot, I'll send you some after I'm done."

"Sure, just remember to chop off the head before sending it over." Hao Qiang likes to eat vole meat, but doesn't like to process it.

Those girls who like to eat lamb skewers are unwilling to deal with them. It’s the same principle.

Therefore, human beings are a very contradictory carbon-based creature.

Wu Hai and Hao Qiang's home is located on the west side of the county seat, about 30 kilometers away from the county seat and 50 kilometers away from the provincial capital.

Hao Qiang's family lives in Hualong Village, Lujing Town, and Wu Hai's family lives in Wu Village, Luancheng. The two towns are adjacent to each other, and the two families are only a few kilometers apart.

Local customs emphasize human relationships and etiquette. During festive occasions, families and friends are invited to a banquet. This is usually held annually. No red envelopes are required; bringing fruits, vegetables, or home-raised chickens, ducks, or fish is ideal. The banquet is held at home, with five or six tables of food, and the cost is relatively low.

Hao Qiang's family held a banquet on March 3rd, and Wu Hai's family held it on the Double Ninth Festival.

The two of them walked and talked, and arrived at the bus station after more than ten minutes. They waited for another half an hour before they saw a bus passing by their hometown.

While waiting for the bus, Hao Qiang took out a pen and started writing, which attracted the attention of the passengers around him. They felt that this student was studying very hard. Wu Hai was already used to this.

After getting in the car, Hao Qiang wrote while talking with Wu Hai, and took a short rest when he was tired.

Hao Qiang didn't want to waste every second, as if he was a machine that never stopped, and was eager to upgrade and open a technology store as soon as possible.

Starting from the bus station, drive west along National Highway 324 after leaving the city. Along the way, you can see vast jasmine fields and busy flower farmers.

As we move forward, the jasmine fields gradually decrease, and hills and fast-growing eucalyptus forests begin to dominate our view.

The mountain road winds up, and eucalyptus trees are everywhere.

In some places, eucalyptus planting is not allowed, but in Guangxi Province, it is a feature and it remains so twenty years later.

After driving on the mountain road for more than ten minutes, the bus drove out of the hilly area. On both sides of the road were endless sugarcane fields. When the wind blew, the green waves rippled, and the scenery was picturesque.

Half an hour later.

When the shuttle bus arrived at the intersection of Lujing Town and Luancheng Town, Wu Hai got off and took a tricycle, while Hao Qiang had to continue taking the bus for two or three kilometers.

When arriving at the Hualong Village intersection, Hao Qiang asked the driver to stop.

He got out of the car with his suitcase. He was still a mile or two away from home, so he pushed the suitcase forward leisurely.

There is no cement road connecting every village these days. Fortunately, it has not rained in recent days, so it is quite convenient for Hao Qiang to push his suitcase on the muddy ground. He hums a little tune and enjoys the familiar rural scenery around him. There is nothing else except rice fields and sugarcane fields.

The mountains in my hometown are not tall, they are mainly hills and low ridges. It is more appropriate to describe it as "one mountain, one water, and eight parts farmland".

The average per capita arable land is one or two acres, and farming can only sustain a living. Most villagers choose to spend their time at home, eating, drinking and playing cards every day. There are no factories nearby, and the per capita income is much lower than that of other areas.

The village has a population of one to two thousand people, with surnames such as Hao, Chen, Lu, Liao, and Wei. There are no particularly wealthy families.

In this day and age, a family with assets of 100,000 yuan would definitely rank among the top five in the village. There are only two vans in the village, which are mainly used for operations.

The richest families have already purchased land in the town to build their own houses and do business, but their assets do not exceed 300,000 yuan.

To put it nicely, the gap between the rich and the poor in their village is very small.

Therefore, if Hao Qiang's personal wealth were exposed in the village, it would indeed cause quite a bit of shock.

In less than half a year, Hao Qiang will become the richest man in the village.

Of course, it is inconspicuous in the city.

“Alas, the village is poor!”

Hao Qiang lamented the village's economic situation, but the villagers seemed happy. They could sleep in until noon or play all night long, with only one or two months a year dedicated to farm work.

If you go to the city to work, you will have to work from 7 am to 9 pm. Men will go bald early and women will have endocrine disorders, and they will be like office workers.

Since you can't afford a house in the city, you might as well stay in the countryside. There's nothing wrong with that. This is not irony, but when the real estate market is down, most young people see the essence of life clearly.

In these days, the bride price for marrying a wife from this county is extremely low, two or three thousand yuan is enough, and other requirements are not high. The woman only asks that the man have a decent job and a house in the village.

Of course, the requirements have become higher over time, but they are still extremely low for some provinces.

In his previous life, Hao Qiang had too high standards and was arrogant, otherwise it would not be difficult for him to find a local girl to marry.

Hao Qiang was pushing his suitcase and met many villagers on the way. Regardless of whether they were familiar with each other or not, they greeted each other.

"Qiangzi, you're back from vacation. It seems a little early."

"Second Aunt, I just finished the college entrance examination."

"Handsome boy, where did you come from working?"

"Uncle, I'm back from school."

After walking for a while, the village houses became clearer and clearer, and his house was vaguely visible.

Being homesick is exactly how Hao Qiang feels at the moment.

He missed his home and his parents these days.

After more than ten minutes, we entered the center of the village and passed by the village shop.

Outside the village store there is a big banyan tree with twisted roots that block out the sun.

Under the shade of the trees, dozens of villagers gathered together, chatting, playing cards or mahjong. When they saw Hao Qiang coming back, the villagers playing cards glanced at him and continued, while the women who loved to chat found new topics to talk about.

"Isn't this Hao Jianjun's son? Is school on vacation?"

"I'm in my third year of high school at No. 2 High School. I heard the college entrance exam is coming up soon. I wonder how it went."

"I heard that their grades weren't very good, only at the junior college level, and not many people were admitted to undergraduate programs after taking the second college entrance exam.

Chen Zhen's son, Chen Ming, from our village, is in his third year of high school at the county's No. 1 High School. His grades are impressive, and his mother says he'll definitely be able to get into college.

"Yeah, I heard that if you can't get into a university, there's no point in going to a junior college and you'd better just go out and do some hard labor. A year of university tuition is quite high, so what's the point in wasting that money?"

This area is the news dissemination station for the entire village. Once there is new news, it will spread quickly throughout the village.

Hao Jianjun, who was watching others playing mahjong, suddenly heard someone discussing his son and saying that he had returned. He quickly got out of the crowd and saw a familiar young figure in front of him, pushing a suitcase and walking forward slowly.

Isn’t this my own son!

Hao Jianjun quickly stepped forward, walked to Hao Qiang's side, and called softly, "A Qiang."

Hao Qiang heard a familiar and loud voice, turned around, and saw his father walking towards him with a simple smile.

My father was slightly shorter than Hao Qiang, with dark skin. He wore a white coat that revealed his sturdy frame, and slippers. Although he was in his forties, he was still strong from constant hard work, though he looked older.

Hao Qiang glanced at the lively scene under the banyan tree and asked jokingly, "Dad, you don't know how to play cards anymore, do you?"

"I didn't play, I just watched. I don't have the money to play, and they don't play much either."

"Have you been playing the Luhecai lottery recently?" Hao Qiang saw the lottery information in his father's hand and could tell it was the fancy printed font.

In recent years, this thing has become extremely popular in Guangdong and Guangxi. Almost every household in the nearby villages plays it. The police only arrest the dealers and ignore the gamblers.

If we arrest gamblers, the prisons won’t be able to accommodate so many people.

Hao Qiang particularly disliked this thing, but fortunately his parents were just doing it for fun.

"I play occasionally, just a few dollars. Recently I won five dollars, and I won over two hundred dollars. Haha, I should have invested more earlier."

"This thing is just for entertainment, you really believe you can make a lot of money, I don't know how many people in this village have lost money."

"Well, that makes sense, so your dad just entertains himself once in a while."

"Dad, I think if I catch you one day, shave your head and put you in a dark room for half a month, you'll wake up."

"How could you curse your father like this?"

Hao Jianjun didn't expect that his son talked more than usual, which was a big change. He was actually happy to be scolded by his son.

The father and son chatted as they walked. Hao Jianjun did not ask about his son's college entrance examination. He rarely asked about it and thought it was good enough for him to go to a junior college.

After a while, the father and son arrived home.

Hao Qiang's home is a one-story building with a foundation area of ​​about 80 square meters. It has three unfinished rooms, a hall in the middle, two bedrooms, and a bathroom under the stairs. There are also two tiled houses, one of which is used as a kitchen and the other as a pigsty where four pigs are raised.

It cost less than 20,000 yuan to build the building, and I still owe several thousand yuan to relatives and friends.

In this day and age, Hao Qiang felt that his home was not shabby at all. At least he had a place to live that could shelter him from the wind and rain.

He still has grandparents, but the old people live in the old house.

Hao Qiang has an uncle who has a son and a daughter, both of whom are a few years older than Hao Qiang. His cousin Hao Jian works in Yuecheng, and his cousin Hao Xiaofeng got married last year.

The two families have a good relationship. They get together for dinner during the New Year and other holidays. It is normal to have some small quarrels occasionally. Most of the time, it is because the land and property divided among the elderly were slightly unfair when the family was divided.

In the past, Hao Qiang laughed at his cousin for not getting married after he turned 30, thinking that his cousin had a problem with his thinking. But when it came to himself, he felt that it was normal not to get married in his 30s.

Later, his cousin got married at the age of 32. His sister-in-law actively introduced several candidates to Hao Qiang, but it didn't work out. Instead, she nagged him to find a partner and get married as soon as possible.

It's true that things change over time, and one shouldn't be too happy too early.

As soon as Hao Qiang stepped into the courtyard gate, he saw his mother wearing rubber shoes and stepping on pickled turnips in a clay jar.

Seeing her son come back, a warm smile appeared on her slightly yellow and wrinkled face, and she asked her son about his well-being.

Hao Qiang put the suitcase in his bedroom and chatted with his parents for a while.

Liu Fengqing asked with concern, "Son, how did you do in the exam? It's fine if you can go to a junior college, at least you're a college student. Your father and I will work hard to support you. You can't just work like your cousin and do hard labor."

Hao Qiang smiled and comforted his mother: "Don't worry, Mom, I'm sure I'll pass the key line. The school will give me rewards, and maybe you won't have to worry about tuition fees anymore."

His parents only have a junior high school education and cannot provide him with much help in his studies.

"Is this true? You did so well in the exam, you're not kidding us, are you?"

Hao Qiang's words surprised his parents and they looked suspicious.

Liu Fengqing had attended a parent-teacher conference 100 days before the college entrance exam, and she knew her son's grades were average in the class. She knew how difficult it was to get into an undergraduate program, let alone a key university.

Every year, only a few students can pass the key line of the second-level high school. Is it really because of bad luck?

Seeing his parents' faces filled with surprise and disbelief, Hao Qiang explained, "I ranked among the top 100 in the county during the third mock exam, and my college entrance exam score was even better. You'll know when the scores come out at the end of the month."

Liu Fengqing's yellowed, rough face was filled with joy. She was so excited that she couldn't close her mouth. She said to her husband who was sitting on the doorstep: "Jianjun, this is a big happy event. Let's kill a chicken tonight to celebrate."

"Okay, I'll go to the village to buy some cooked dishes, have a simple meal at noon, and then have a better meal at night." Hao Jianjun felt his pocket and found that he only had more than ten yuan, and his brows couldn't help but frowned.

Hao Qiang was deeply moved by his father's financial difficulties and said, "Dad, I'll go buy it. I still have a hundred yuan."

After saying this, Hao Qiang left without waiting for his father to respond.

Hao Qiang plans to go to a securities company in the provincial capital the day after tomorrow to open a stock trading account. After returning home, he will use the excuse of buying a scratch-off lottery ticket to claim he won 5,000 yuan and use it to support his family's finances.

After I start my own business and make money, I will completely solve the poverty problem at home.

After the money is transferred to his parents, his personal wealth will definitely decrease, but for Hao Qiang, it is all worth it as he can reduce the burden on his parents.

Ten minutes later, he came back and bought half a lemon duck and a pound of white wine.

My mother cooked rice by burning sugarcane leaves, and my father washed vegetables.

At lunch, the family of three happily gathered together to eat lunch, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, a bowl of tomato and egg soup, and lemon duck.

After lunch, Hao Qiang made his bed and took a short rest before continuing to copy books.

Now he just wanted to upgrade, collect 60 points of the four-dimensional attributes as soon as possible, and open the technology store.

At dinner, Hao Qiang invited his grandparents to his house to eat together, saying that he had killed a chicken.