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Chapter 52: Half a thousand yuan household(1/2)

"Sister, you are back, where is that brother? Didn't you send you back?"

As soon as Li Jia arrived home, her cousin came up sneakily.

"I was scared, why didn't you walk soundly?"

"Don't change the subject, tell me quickly, what have you and that brother been doing all day long."

Looking at his cousin with a gossip on his face, Li Jia burst into laughter: "What do you think of every day, your little head is melon."

"Sister, if you don't tell me, I'll tell my grandparents that you're in love."

Li Jia instantly reincarnated: "Don't talk nonsense, I don't."

"Hmph, I don't believe it, then what are you doing today?" The little girl's eyes dripped.

Li Jia had no choice but to tell me about going to the foreign trade building. Of course, she hiding and making money, but instead used her oral English to practice perfunctory.

Sure enough, my cousin lost interest when she heard it: "What, it's not romantic at all."

"What a romantic thing? You can read less Qiong Yao's novels in the future. If you fail the exam next time, don't expect me to sign you."

After sending her cousin away, Li Jia carefully hid the 300 yuan that Qin Hao gave her into an old book.

This is the first time she has so much money in her life. In the past, her parents only cost her to make a living for dozens of yuan.

Li Jia suddenly felt unreal while holding the old book, as if she was dreaming this day. It was not until her fingers scratched the wrinkled shell of the old book that she was sure that all this was true.

"It would be great if I could have so much money every day. Maybe I could buy a house in Shanghai and take my parents and brother over."

However, this idea was quickly thrown out of his mind by Li Jia. She knew very well that it was Qin Hao who could make so much money today. She just acted as a vase. She did not affect Qin Hao's profitability. On the contrary, if Qin Hao was gone, with her foreign language level, she would not be able to communicate smoothly with foreign businessmen at all.

What surprised Li Jia even more was that Qin Hao not only knew English, French, German and Japanese communication was also free of obstacles. Li Jia even felt that today he had only met foreign businessmen from these countries. If he met foreign businessmen from other countries, Qin Hao could still communicate in their own language.

That night, Li Jia made a decision to learn more foreign languages ​​in her spare time in the future.

In the next few days, Qin Hao still took Li Jia to help people contact foreign businessmen in the foreign trade building. A few days ago, Qin Hao and the others were looking for customers. Later, as more and more contracts were negotiated, they gradually gained some fame in the foreign trade circle, and it was basically someone else who came to them.

Those who came to Qin Hao for help with the translation include township and enterprise factory directors like Zhao Hongbo, and some state-owned enterprises encountered foreign businessmen in some small languages ​​and could not find a suitable translation for the moment.

When encountering this, Qin Hao directly charges an hourly fee, such as English, for large languages, for 201 hours, while other small languages ​​are 300 yuan per hour. This price is not cheap, and he has to pay Li Jia, the "assistant", a salary of 100 an hour, but there are still constant people who come to ask him.

Because Qin Hao is not only a translator, he will also negotiate with foreign merchants for customers, and can even find out what are the overbearing terms in foreign merchant contracts to clear mines and avoid risks for customers.

As time goes by, Qin Hao's reputation has become more and more famous, so if you want to invite him, you have to make an appointment several days in advance.

This state lasted until the start of school in Tongji. Li Jia also said to Qin Hao regretfully: "It would be great if the school could start later."

No wonder Li Jia was reluctant to give up. In just one week, she earned more than 5,000 yuan. You should know that this was 5,000 yuan in 1984. In just seven days, half a ten thousand yuan household was.

Sometimes Li Jia even thinks that if she had the ability of Qin Hao and dropped out of school to be a translator, she would be able to buy a house in a year or two and take her family to Shanghai.

"Stop thinking about it, you can make money anytime, but you only have these four years of college. Enjoy it well. This will be a spiritual wealth for a lifetime."

Qin Hao said to Li Jia who was stunned.

Li Jia raised her chin and looked at Qin Hao. This man was obviously three years younger than her, but he was terrible psychologically mature.

"It seems like you've been to college."

After saying that, Li Jia trotted downstairs to the girls' dormitory, and then said to Qin Hao condescendingly: "Don't be late on the first day of school tomorrow, the head teacher will check the homework."

Speaking of homework, Qin Hao suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten what homework was.

I quickly ran back to the dormitory and asked Zhuang Tunan: "Did the teacher assign winter vacation homework last year?"

"Yes, I have."

“What homework?”

"One is to use corrugated cardboard to make a chair, and the other is to surveying and mapping Tongji Library." Zhuang Tunan suddenly reacted: "You might not have done it, right?"

Qin Hao scratched his head a little, and it was easy to use cardboard to make a chair. It is definitely too late for the surveying and mapping library now.

"Zhuang Tunan, how do I treat you normally?"

Zhuang Tunan looked alert: "You might want my winter vacation homework, right? I have been doing that chair for several days..."

"I'll make a chair tonight, and copy the library's surveying and mapping data."

"I won't be able to get it wrong, right?"

"Don't worry, I'm not Lin Dongzhe, I won't copy it completely."

With Zhuang Tunan's data, Qin Hao made some fine-tuning and modifications casually. Even if the homework is completed, the next step is to use cardboard as a chair, which is Qin Hao's strength.

Before it was completely dark, Qin Hao came to the scrap purchasing station and bought a pile of waste paper shells. Then he used scissors to cut the waste paper shells into two mutated S-shaped shapes, then glued them together layer by layer, and finally pressed a stone with a wooden board.

Zhuang Tunan looked at Qin Hao’s strange chair: “Are you sure you want to use this thing to hand in your homework?”

"What about that?" Qin Hao patted the dust on his hands and said indifferently.

Zhuang Tunan didn't think much about it, and just thought Qin Hao was dealing with it. After all, whether the homework was done well was a problem of ability, and whether to hand over it was a problem of attitude.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! A few days ago, the students of Tongji Architecture Department each came to the classroom with their own chairs made of used cartons. Some even had their chairs broken apart before the teacher could accept them, which caused laughter from the students around them.

Li Jia waited for a long time but didn't see Qin Hao's figure. Suddenly, he thought of a question: He wouldn't forget to prepare his homework when he went home for the New Year, right?

Just as Li Jia looked around with uneasy eyes, the head teacher had already arrived first, picked up the roster and started to call.

"Qin Hao."

"Didn't Qin Hao come?"

Just as the head teacher frowned, Qin Hao carried his strange chair to the door of the classroom.

"Report."

The head teacher looked at him: "It's not a good habit to be late on the first day."

"Report to the teacher, I just forgot to get my winter vacation homework and went back to get it."

Zhuang Tunan, who was sitting in the classroom, laughed secretly. Forgot to get his winter vacation homework, it was obvious that he had overslept.

The head teacher pointed to the strange-looking chair that Qin Hao was carrying: "Then let's start with you and talk about your idea of ​​designing this chair."

Qin Hao took a few steps to the podium and blurted out without changing his expression.

"Teacher Yao, I designed this chair after conceiving the whole winter vacation. My design philosophy is: simple and practical, so I used the simplest mutated S-shaped to glue sixty corrugated boxes together..."

Listening to Qin Hao talking about his design concept on the podium, Zhuang Tunan was stunned. If he hadn't seen Qin Hao make such a thing last night, he would probably believe in Qin Hao's words like other classmates.

Ten minutes later, Qin Hao finished speaking, and the head teacher couldn't wait to say: "You just said that your design concept is concise and practical, which means that the chair you made can be seated, right?"

"certainly."

Seeing Qin Hao's confident look, the head teacher did not mean to take risks, but instead told the classmates in the class.

"Who is willing to verify Qin Hao's masterpiece?"

Everyone looked at Qin Hao's cardboard chair that looked strange and didn't even have a chair handle, and expressed their doubts whether it could withstand a person's weight.

"Teacher, I'll do it."

The head teacher's eyes lit up: "Okay, then let's invite our class monitor to come on stage to verify."

Li Jia walked to the podium amid the applause of the classmates, and Qin Hao whispered: "Aren't you afraid of falling?"

"If you can see if you are defeated, you will fall." Li Jia smiled.

"I just don't have confidence in me?"

Before Li Jia could answer, Qin Hao pushed her onto the chair. What was surprising was that this strange-looking chair could withstand the force of an adult sitting down from a high place, and even without deformation.

"How can it be?"

"How can such a simple structure withstand such a great force?"

Li Jia was shocked by Qin Hao. When she came to her senses, Qin Hao had already come closer: "This is a punishment for you not trusting me."

The head teacher coughed a few times: "I can give A to Qin Hao's winter vacation homework this time. His design is very bold and practical. On the contrary, I saw that many students' homework only used cardboard instead of wood to make a chair again. Not to mention sitting on such a chair, it can blow away even if the wind is strong. Is this how you deal with me?"

Most of the students in the class were scolded by the class teacher so much that they couldn't raise their heads. Fortunately, the class teacher did not keep holding on to these students who had just been in the semester, but just asked everyone to prepare their homework again, and then started class.

After class, Qin Hao's chair became the goal of "learning from" for the students.

"Qin Hao, how did you think of using this shape to make a chair?"

"People are more dead than others. When the teacher said to make a chair, I subconsciously thought of copying a Taishi chair with a paper shell, without any creativity."

Faced with the praise from the classmates, Qin Hao said with lingering fear: This was what I thought of after racking my brains.

Zhuang Tunan rolled his eyes when he heard it. If he remembered correctly, Qin Hao would have no more than three hours in total from knowing the winter vacation homework to completing the production. This is also considered racking his brains? Then what is his design? Is it hard to work hard?

What frustrated Zhuang Tunan the most was that the chairs designed by Qin Hao were much better than him in terms of creativity, practicality and difficulty in making.

The next class is Professor Sun's class. His course is obviously more professional, and it revolves around the "basic of architectural design".

"I will leave you a homework here. There are many old alleys in Shanghai, everyone should know it. I hope that students can use the alley as an example to write an article discussing the relationship between space and people, and draw a design drawing of a small living space."

Professor Sun gave the students a "surprise" as soon as the school started. All the students in the class went crazy. Qin Hao's class has basically few educated youths who went to the countryside. A group of students who are not well-educated in the world cannot understand the relationship between space and people. The homework they handed in can only be described as terrible.

The only two people who were praised by Professor Sun were Qin Hao and Li Jia.

In the golden years, Qin Hao has done many interior decoration designs for small apartments, and he has rich experience in this area. Li Jia has several years of experience in living alleys. Although her designs are not as good as Qin Hao, they can barely catch Professor Sun's eyes.
To be continued...
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