Chapter 73 Wealth that money can’t buy
On the night after the monthly exam, there was a New Year's Day party.
Fang Bai didn't go to the party. What he didn't know was that the skit performed by a high school freshman who borrowed his advertising lines was quite popular.
However, some knowledgeable students in the audience scolded them for plagiarizing other people's lines, and even whistled and booed, causing the scene to become chaotic.
In the audience, several students from the first class of repeat students started shouting, defending Fang Bai: "This advertisement line was recorded and broadcast by Fang Bai from our class. It is plagiarized."
"Yes, they plagiarized it without Fang Bai's consent. They even said it was designed by themselves. How shameless."
When the students in other classes heard that the student in class 1 said that the street stall lines were recorded and broadcast by Fang Bai, a student in their class, they were curious and asked more to find out.
"Isn't Fang Bai from your class often absent from class? This has happened again!"
Fang Bai is quite famous among teachers and students in several repeat classes. One reason is that the teacher publicizes it a lot, and many students are hit.
Many teachers often say in class: “You have to study hard to get into college!
You are not that Fang Bai from Class 1 who often skips classes!
Don't imitate others. They are different from you. If they don't come to class, they will still get third place in the grade. "
Because he frequently missed classes, had a broken finger, and had poor grades, Fang Bai was a legendary person, making more teachers and students curious to get to know him.
Therefore, in school, even the two classmates who were ahead of him in grades were not as well-known as Fang Bai.
On stage, the show continues.
In the audience, many students chatted with each other about Fang Bai's advertising lines.
Through this commotion, after the performance, more students in the repeat class learned that this line was a recorded advertisement by Fang Bai, a repeat class, who sells TVs at home.
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On December 31st and New Year's Day, the school will have two consecutive days off.
Fang Bai's family did not sell televisions at the stall, and the family celebrated the festival at home.
Every time the TVs are put out at the stall, they are snapped up by the public. There is no need to hold sales for the time being, so I will not rush for the next two days and let the students take a break.
But Fang Bai doesn't stop anyone who wants to repair the TV.
The capitalist gives you a holiday, but if you don’t want to take a break, you really can’t blame him.
This is a bit like piece-rate wages in later generations. Workers work hard overtime in order to make more money.
Little did he know that even though he was killing himself, the boss lowered the unit price and still made the same amount of money.
In the end, it was the boss who benefited, and the boss smiled happily.
Fang Bai still has some conscience. If he doesn't do that, the unit price will not change, and he will still have five tasks a day.
However, it’s not piece rate wages.
It won't work if you do it too quickly, as the product is prone to quality problems, and each TV must be repaired and neat and clean.
Yesterday, Fang Bai asked his mother to buy some candies and biscuits as holiday gifts, give some to these part-time students, and announced a two-day holiday.
The students got their holiday gifts for the first time, and their faces were all happy.
Fang Bai was reading at home, and the day passed quietly, and 1991 arrived.
In the early morning, the cold wind howled outside the window.
Last night, it snowed lightly.
After Fang Bai woke up, he lay in bed thinking about something.
It took three months for me to be reborn, during which I discovered a lot of things, but overall it was relatively smooth.
He also missed many important events. The 11th Asian Games was held in the imperial capital, the first comprehensive international sports competition hosted by the country.
In early December, the Shanghai Stock Exchange was established, marking the formal operation of the national stock market.
When 1991 came, he had no memory of the major events of the year. He only remembered that the Big Bear in the North had disintegrated. He could not join in the excitement and did not want to take risks.
There are also people who are struggling with whether the market or the planned economy is better. The debate on a certain topic has reached a fever pitch, and most people have no idea about the future.
He just wants to do his own thing well and make money in a low-key manner.
At present, his family has sold a total of five batches of TVs. Fang Bai's personal wealth has reached 780,000 yuan, and his middle finger is only 220,000 yuan away from being upgraded.
There is still more than 410,000 yuan in cash.
After a while, he will become a millionaire.
What is the concept of a millionaire in this era?
How much wealth is equivalent to thirty years later?
Fang Bai compared it and felt that there were quite a lot.
It depends on what you are buying. If you are buying a car, there is not much.
But if you use it to buy a house in Shanghai, you can buy four or five units of about 100 square meters.
When I think of this, I am quite satisfied.
In fact, many millionaire families now own a Poussin and are very prosperous. However, because their business has not started, their superficial wealth has not changed much in the past twenty years, and their actual wealth has continued to depreciate. Such families are really It is in decline.
Fang Bai thought for a while, then got up, rinsed his mouth, brushed his teeth and had breakfast.
A bowl of hot lean meat porridge, an egg, some pickles, and a cup of milk soaked in milk powder, this is Fang Bai's breakfast.
It's too luxurious for this era.
Most families are still trying to make money to buy meat, but Fang Bai has already begun to live the life of a "rich man".
"Son, would you like another bowl?" Liu Fengqing asked with concern when she saw her son finishing the entire bowl of porridge.
Two or three months ago, the only breakfast at home was white porridge and pickles.
Now, my son is tired of eating meat every day, so he wants to try something new and stop eating pork all the time.
"Mom, I'm full. I'll go out and buy a camera later."
Fang Bai wanted to take pictures of his home's electrical appliance shopping mall construction, street stalls, shops, family, Qin Shuyu...
He wanted to take pictures of every beautiful moment in this era, and when he gets older, he would take them out and look at them, and they would be beautiful memories one by one.
Every photo of this era that remains to future generations is extremely precious, an immeasurable spiritual wealth.
If he had more money, he would also like to hire a professional photographer and buy several high-end cameras to record the changes in the 1990s and leave wealth to thousands of future generations.
This is different from collecting old objects. Time is wealth that money cannot buy.
Fang Bai believes that this is the wealth of the times, and very few people do it.
Once you have money, your thinking will change and you will want to do something meaningful.
"Oh, buying a camera will cost a lot of money, right?"
"I'm not sure, I guess it costs a thousand dollars, it depends on the brand."
Fang Bai smiled casually, stood up, put away the dishes, and washed the dishes himself.
Put on your gloves and hat and get out on your motorcycle.
Two hours later, he came back with the camera.
Phoenix 205, 280 yuan; Seagull 206-A, 120 yuan...
They range from more than a hundred to more than a thousand, and there are also high-end cameras that cost tens of thousands.
Fang Bai chose the Ricoh XR-x2000 SLR camera from the island country. I heard it was just produced last year and costs 3,500 yuan.
Fuji color film cost 25 yuan a box, and he bought twenty boxes at once.
Fang Bai knows how to play SLR, and he spent some time quickly getting familiar with his newly purchased SLR.
When Liu Fengqing found out that her son had spent several thousand yuan to buy a camera, she didn't say anything. But when she heard that she had spent 500 yuan to buy film, she felt so sick.
"A box costs 25 yuan, but I couldn't take a few photos. It's too expensive!"
Fang Bai laughed and took a few random photos of his shop and his parents.
Fang Tingting, who had slept in and got up, heard that her brother had bought a camera, and she was clamoring to learn to take pictures as if she had heard about the New World.
On New Year's Day, the family played with the camera and used more than a dozen boxes of film, many of which were taken by Fang Tingting. A lot of negatives must have been discarded.
The film uses up one negative after one shot, and can take up to 36 pictures.
I still don’t know whether the photo is good or not, I won’t know until it’s washed out. Some beginners don’t know until after taking a roll that the lid is not open, and all the photos taken are black.
The next day, January 2nd.
Oubei Middle School, repeat class one,
The weak sunlight in early winter shines on the table through the cracks in the window, illuminating this quiet space.
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Morning, first class.
The head teacher Zhan Feng walked into the classroom podium with a smile and glanced at Fang Bai's desk. Fang Bai was not there, and neither was his deskmate.
However, this did not affect his mood. He spread out the scores collected during the two days of vacation and said loudly:
"Fang Bai, with Chinese 110, English 138, mathematics 120, physics 100, chemistry 115, with a total score of 583, first in the class and first in grade.
I would like to especially commend Fang Bai, who not only improved his academic performance quickly, but also came to ask me about Wang Dakai’s family situation after the exam and visited me on the same day after learning about Wang Dakai’s family affairs for the first time. This kind of spirit of cherishing the friendship of classmates Worthy of admiration.
Classmates, we must not only learn the knowledge in the textbooks, but also learn the ways of the world. "
In Fang Bai, Zhan Feng saw that his handling of life was very vivid and he was too mature to see through.
Zhan Feng glanced at the silent students under the stage and felt that they were very different from Fang Bai.
This is normal. Fang Bai is an alternative. He worked in a factory, came out of society early, experienced a catastrophe, and has a calm mind. He may be familiar with how to deal with people, and he doesn't act like a student.
This guy has compiled his total score today and hasn't come to school yet.
Could it be that you are reviewing at home?
What makes Zhan Feng most satisfied is Fang Bai's high score in English, which has improved rapidly.
It's just that she teaches English, but she doesn't seem to teach Fang Bai much.
But it doesn't matter. Many teachers think she was the one who tutored her, which is too embarrassing for her.
The students in the audience were shocked when they heard Fang Bai's score.
He actually ranked first in his grade!
The total score is 583, and my foundation is stable.
Moreover, the English score is 138, which is so exaggerated!
Did the head teacher give him special tutoring?
Some students think so. After all, Fang Bai has no time to go to the class teacher's office. It seems that he should go to the class teacher to ask questions when he has time.
The two classes ended quickly. As soon as Zhan Feng left the classroom and returned to the office, two students walked in and asked questions.
She was still a little suspicious. She had never seen students asking questions so actively, and there were two at once.
As a teacher, when students come to ask questions, of course you have to patiently explain them to them.
However, such a simple question was too untechnical, and she felt that the two students did not pay attention to the lecture.
At this time, Fang Bai was standing on the construction site of the electrical appliance mall to observe the construction progress. Standing next to him was Engineer Chen from the design institute.
"Mr. Fang, the main body has been poured. In a few days, we can remove the formwork and start decoration."
Fang Bai nodded and walked around the main perimeter of the mall.
His golden fingers don’t work on buildings, so why not take a look at what’s wrong?
Although the main body has been built and nothing else can be done without removing the formwork, there is still a lot of work to be done on site, such as laying the cement floor in front of the pavement, marking the parking area for bicycles and motorcycles, and welding a ten-centimeter-high strip on the parking lot floor. The steel pipe makes it convenient for the owner of the parked bicycle to lock the bicycle.
These piecemeal projects were all contracted out to the contractor Lu Dahai.
After the formwork is removed, Fang Bai wants to settle a batch of project funds with Lu Dahai.
Fang Bai has contacted the door and window decoration company and customized the display cabinet. After the mold is removed, the work can begin.
He invested a lot of effort in the electrical appliance store, hoping that the opening would be an instant success.
Next, he and his father will start looking for sources of electrical appliances.
Currently, refurbished TVs are the core, but we also sell new TVs, as well as household appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, fans, gas stoves, rice cookers, and electric pressure cookers.
It is very difficult to find the source of goods now. He wants a large quantity and plans to negotiate directly with the manufacturer.
If there are regional agents and dealers, you can only find these people first.
The electrical appliance companies Fang Bai knows include Haier, Lihua and Chunlan. Gree was only established this year.
His electrical appliance mall is destined to not have many categories of household appliances at the beginning. Take your time and build popularity with refurbished TVs first.
This is the shopping mall he left to his parents. If this shopping mall is done well, there will be no big investment in Wencheng for the time being.
In the future, we should still set our goal on Shencheng.
The last time he went to Shanghai, his eyes turned red when he saw the undeveloped treasure land.