Chapter VII Self-financed tuition fees
Baishan is a proper noun in Guangdong and Guangxi. Sweeping and visiting tombs during the Qingming Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation. It can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and gradually formed customs during the Middle Tang Dynasty.
Su Jingzhen's family was not a local in the traditional sense. His grandfather was a veteran who went south. After fighting Hainan Island, he obeyed the distribution and demobilized in Nansha. On the contrary, Jiang Xiuxia was a native of a strong family. The surname Jiang was a big surname in Tongguan Town. Famous figures include Jiang Guangnai, Jiang Yingchou, etc.
Therefore, the Su family's tomb sweeping is much simpler than that of ordinary local residents. Grandpa Su suffered too much during the war and died when Su Kuang was less than ten years old. Grandma Su, a woman, pulled Su Kuang up, and before she could enjoy her happiness, she also fell seriously ill in a winter and couldn't get through it.
If you turn up, you will have to go back to Grandpa Su’s hometown in North China. Su Kuang has never been there. Grandma Su told him that a few years ago, but when he left the town, he had to issue a letter of introduction, let alone save money. That was a very troublesome thing. Su Kuang’s generation has been atheists who were brainwashed by his teachers since he studied. He did not pay much attention to the graves of his ancestors. He was already very good if he could take good care of his two old men.
Down from the mountain, Su Kuang patted his son's shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Son, your mother said, are you writing the stock market in your small notebook this time?"
Su Jingzhen had already done this to his mother, and his father would ask, and his tuition fees for the next few years would have to be earned from the stock market. It would be very stressful to rely on his parents to open a factory and start a business.
"Well, let's study it. The domestic stock market has only been open for a while. A bear market like this is probably not what the country wants to see. I guess some policy measures will be introduced. I will try to guess the time period for the measures to be introduced." Su Jingzhen briefly told his father about his thoughts.
"Can you guess this?" Su Kuang was a little disbelief and stared at his son with wide eyes.
"Try it, and I don't plan to invest too much money. At most, it's pocket money. If you lose, you won't hurt the fundamentals. Besides, can you guess this time? "Su Jingzhen changed the hoe on his shoulder to the other side and said to his father in a low voice.
Seeing the mother walking in front of her, she seemed to be relieved, Su Jingzhen felt a little puzzled. There were too many people who had lost money in stock trading during this period, so it was no wonder that her parents were so concerned about this matter.
However, what they probably didn't expect was that their son really wanted to make a big fuss in the stock market and was about to make his first pot of gold, but it was too horrible to say it, and Su Jingzhen didn't dare to tell the truth.
"How much pocket money do you have? This little fight is not enough. Dad will sponsor you a little." Hearing that it was Su Jingzhen who wanted to invest his pocket money, Su Kuang let go of his worries, and patted his son on the shoulder and boasted about his mouth.
Jiang Xiuxia, who was walking in front, couldn't listen anymore and turned to her husband and said, "Hey, Jing Zhen has a lot of pocket money, okay, maybe it's more than your private money."
"Well, I don't have much private money..." Su Kuang always had a thread in his heart, and he immediately refuted when he heard the word private money.
"Then do you go to the sponsorship of Jing Zhen?"
"Isn't you still there? Isn't it very appropriate for us to sponsor our son together?"
Jiang Xiuxia was choked after hearing her husband's words...
"No, I have saved all the benefits of the New Year in the past few years, and the pocket money you usually give me is several thousand." Su Jingzhen couldn't let his parents quarrel, so he quickly changed the topic.
"Hey, son, why do you have so much money?" Su Kuang felt a little strange. These days, thousands of yuan is not a small amount. Many families don't have that much money in total.
"My cousin is rich. The benefits he gives during the Chinese New Year are usually a Taurus..."
"Xiuxia, if your cousin has a child in the future, we will also benefit this way, right? But that would be a big pack, which is so ugly." Su Kuang was thinking about at this time that his son was not about how much pocket money he had, but how much should he give when he was to give red envelopes to others in the future.
"You stupid bull, you won't exchange it for Hong Kong paper in advance. Then you will be given to Zhang Jinniu, and you won't be able to get a big bag." Jiang Xiuxia was walking down the mountain. The small mud road after the rain was particularly slippery. She could only walk carefully, and she gave her husband a loud answer without daring to look back.
Su Jingzhen was worried that these few thousand yuan was really not enough. If he just wanted to earn some pocket money or study in China, the money would definitely be enough. But when he thought that he would go to the US imperial examination in the future, he would still go to the US imperial economic center, so the consumption would definitely be high. The living expenses and tuition fees would probably cost tens of thousands of dollars a year.
If it is exchanged for soft girl coins, it will be hundreds of thousands. If the money is paid at home, it will be under great pressure. If there is a small mistake in the business of my parents, I guess I will have to lose food in the US. So Su Jingzhen has to find a way to earn the tuition fee now.
If it were a few years later, I might be able to encourage my parents to open an Internet cafe or something, but this kind of business with small investment and big profits cannot be opened now. It is not because I have no money, but because I don’t have such conditions. Nowadays, the Internet has only existed in various scientific research institutions or universities. Ordinary people have never heard of such a term.
Besides, even if there is an Internet, where do you find games suitable for students to play? Commands and Conquest are games in 1995, and the subsequent ones are the most brilliant commands and conquests. Red Alert was released in October 1996, and another real-time strategy game that was popular all over the world was released in 1997, which means that in 1994 there was no game that could be played by hand.
As for another game that can be played on a computer, MUD is even less suitable for novices to play. How can you adapt to so many input commands in MUD if you let a group of people who can't even type?
So in 1994, opening an Internet cafe was simply unreliable. You can consider the game hall, but the biggest problem with opening a game hall is that it is unsafe.
In places like Tongguan Town, where the majority of the migrant population is, opening an Internet cafe or a game hall is not a good choice, because the origin of outsiders is complicated, and Internet cafes and game halls are places where dirt and dirt are easily hidden, and something will happen if you are not careful.
This is not ten or twenty years later. At that time, I needed identity certificates to go online before I could get on the computer. In the 1990s, individuals could come in and get on the computer. If they were fighting, stealing, or something, you would not be able to chase after someone. So although Su Jingzhen knew that the game hall might be money quickly, he never had the idea to open a room.
Treasury bonds? Stop joking. The golden age of treasury bonds was in the mid-to-late 1980s. Su Jingzhen was a ten-year-old baby. Even if he told this, would Su Kuang and his wife believe it? Even if he believed it, in that era when speculation or criminal crimes, if you want the couple to do this, if something goes wrong, Su Jingzhen would probably go crazy.
Sometimes, even if you know that you have the opportunity to make money, but you don’t have the conditions to implement it, it is a special worry. Su Jingzhen is in such trouble, listening to his parents’ bickering, while thinking about getting more capital from there.
Chapter completed!