After getting off the plane, I took a taxi. The driver was unhappy at first, until Zhao Yi came up with US dollars to solve the problem.
Taxi drivers in this era are very good. The starting price is more than 14 yuan. How can ordinary people afford it in that era? A taxi driver earns at least thousands a month. In this country, the salary is usually several hundred yuan. In the 1990s, the golden-collar class became the norm, which caused some taxi drivers to look down on passengers from their own country.
The taxi driver arrived downstairs at the dormitory. Teacher Li got out of the car first to get his luggage, while Zhao Yi paid in the car. Since Zhao Yi had a lot of luggage, Teacher Li helped carry Zhao Yi's luggage into the dormitory. After a few polite words to each other, Teacher Li went back.
When Teacher Li returned home and put away his luggage, he went to the principal's office and reported Zhao Yi's overseas trip to the principal, including Zhao Yi's operations in the stock market.
The principal was stunned when he heard the report. He felt that Zhao Yi went to the capitalist market to pick up money. After Teacher Li returned, the principal reported Zhao Yi's situation to the superior.
And when Zhao Yi started packing his luggage, he saw Liu Yiming coming back from outside.
"Why didn't you go home?" Zhao Yi asked curiously.
"Don't you have money to buy a ticket?" Liu Yiming was single and didn't think it was a shameful thing.
"Want to go back?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Forget it, the new year is over and school is about to start again." Liu Yiming said.
"I also want to lend you some money, but it seems I won't need it." Zhao Yi said with a smile.
"No, even though I'm not going back, I'm still short of money right now. Why don't you come to Jianghu for help?" Although Liu Yiming didn't know where Zhao Yi got his money, and he usually had an average consumption level, he still had to fight for it.
"Okay, I'll exchange it for RMB tomorrow and lend you some more." Liu Yiming lived in the most difficult situation in this dormitory, and Zhao Yi said directly without teasing him.
"I know I shouldn't ask more questions, but I still have to ask, where did this money come from? Why are you so rich all of a sudden?" Liu Yiming still asked worriedly.
"Aren't you going to receive the prize this time? The bonus money." Zhao Yi explained.
"Oh, that's no problem. Thank you very much. I can finally eat meat." Liu Yiming chuckled.
Zhao Yi was too lazy to talk to him, he was a shameless person.
"Here, it's for you." Zhao Yi picked out a watch and gave it to Liu Yiming.
"What kind of watch is this? I've never seen it before." Liu Yiming took it, looked at it repeatedly, and asked.
"Don't worry about it. It's better than the Shanghai brand anyway. Just hold it and rely on it when you don't need it urgently." Zhao didn't reply at all and continued to organize things.
"Real or fake?" Liu Yiming took it in his hand and looked around, liking it very much.
"Forget it if you don't believe me. If you want love, don't give it back to me." Zhao Yi was too lazy to talk nonsense and said directly.
"It doesn't make sense to ask someone back if you give it away." Liu Yiming hurriedly avoided Zhao Yi, picked up a stool and sat down, looking at Zhao Yi and said.
Zhao Yi ignored him and continued to pack his things. When Zhao Yi had almost finished cleaning up, he looked up and saw that Liu Yiming was still fiddling with his watch.
"Why are you so idle? You're not like you usually are." Zhao Yi asked.
"Aren't you happy to see you? Spending some time chatting with you is compensation for your gift." Liu Yiming said frivolously.
"Seriously." Zhao Yi ignored his words.
"There are no classes in school these days during the Chinese New Year, and the library is closed, so I have nowhere to go." Liu Yiming told the truth directly.
After hearing Liu Yiming's words, Zhao Yi found that he seemed to have nowhere to go.
"Looking at you, the New Year's Eve dinner is probably too much. Why don't I invite you to a restaurant?" Zhao Yi found that staying in the dormitory was not a problem, so he said.
"Okay, does this count as what I owed last time?" Liu Yiming was alert.
"It doesn't matter. We'll pay for whatever we owe when they come back, okay?" Why did Zhao Yi suddenly realize that Liu Yiming was a bit of a thief? Why hadn't he discovered it before
"Then let's go quickly. The hotel will be closed if it's late." Liu Yiming heard Zhao Yi's words and immediately pulled Zhao Yi out of the door.
"Okay, stop it, come with me to the bank first, I don't have any RMB on me." Zhao Yi said.
So Zhao Yi and Liu Yiming went to the bank and exchanged 10,000 US dollars, and received 15,000 RMB, plus 15,000 overseas remittance coupons.
The banknotes are 10 yuan in a bundle, 100 in a bundle, a total of 15 bundles, and a 100 yuan remittance coupon, 100 in a bundle, which adds up to 17 small bundles. It is inconvenient to hold, so the bank staff are very considerate. Xindi gave me an opaque oil paper bag.
Zhao Yi took out ten Unity notes and one overseas remittance coupon from the bag and put them in his pocket, while the others were placed in his schoolbag.
Liu Yiming, who was following him, had his eyes widened. He was sure that he had never seen money being collected in bundles before.
"You are trying to scare me to death." Liu Yiming said excitedly.
"Don't get excited, this amount of money will not be enough for one month's salary in the future." Zhao Yi said lightly.
When Liu Yiming heard Zhao Yi's words, his face was full of disbelief, but he didn't say anything else. Just walking on the road, with a vigilant look on his face, looking left and right, everyone he saw looked like a mugger.
Zhao Yi saw Liu Yiming's performance and expressed his helplessness. After several attempts to persuade me to no avail, I didn't bother to talk anymore.
The two found a restaurant and went in directly to order some meat dishes. Perhaps because they were afraid that Zhao Yi and the others would eat the Overlord meal, a little girl and a young man were around them the whole time.
Zhao Yi didn't care when he saw this situation, but Liu Yiming was a little uncomfortable, but after Zhao Yi persuaded him to drink several times, he slowly let go.
At this time, the hotels were all state-owned, and there were no private hotels, so the service attitude was generally not very good, just like the supply and marketing cooperatives.
After he was full of wine and food, he asked the waiter to pack two more dishes and two boxes of rice. Then Zhao Yi went to the front desk and took out money and overseas remittance coupons to settle the bill. The overseas remittance coupons could replace the grain and oil coupons.
Zhao Yi is a relatively homebody, and generally doesn't want to go out unless something happens. So in the next few days, apart from making international phone calls and asking about the situation of investment companies, I spent the rest of the time staying in the dormitory. When I got hungry, I went out with Liu Yiming to have a toothpaste.
In a flash, it was the tenth day of the first lunar month, and some teachers had already returned to school. Just when Zhao Yi and Liu Yiming were about to go out for the tooth ceremony, the old professor came to Zhao Yi's dormitory and told Zhao Yi that he had been nominated for the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and that the specific award would not be until July.
After Zhao Yi was polite, he sent the old professor away, while Liu Yiming on the side was also envious. Zhao Yi's dormitory is mixed, and Liu Yiming majors in mechanical automation. Everyone knows that this major is quite difficult.
After such a delay, Zhao Yi was too lazy to run outside the school, so he and Liu Yiming had a casual meal in the cafeteria. Returning to the dormitory, I saw Lin Hexia standing at the door of the dormitory.
Lin Hexia saw Zhao Yi and walked over quickly. Liu Yiming looked at the two of them back and forth, made an excuse and went back to the dormitory alone.
"School hasn't started yet, why did you go back to school?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Didn't I say that my home is in Kyoto, and there is nothing going on during this period, so everyone who should visit has finished. I heard that you didn't go home for the New Year, so I came to see you." Lin Hexia explained.
"Oh, let's talk while walking." It was impossible for Zhao Yi to go back to the dormitory, so he led Lin Hexia towards Weiming Lake.
"How do you feel about going to Germany this time?" Lin Hexia asked.
"Germany has a high degree of industrialization, its people are highly educated, its business is relatively developed, and the rest is just like that." Zhao Yi said calmly.
"It's just like that. After all, we are a developed country and must be more advanced than us in many aspects." Lin Hexia rolled his eyes at Zhao Yi.
"I believe that our country will catch up in 20 to 30 years." Zhao Yi explained.
"So confident?" Lin Hexia asked puzzledly.
"Do you feel that this country is starting to become different? It will become more and more different in the future." Zhao Yi asked back.
"It's indeed different. I don't know if it's good or bad." Lin Hexia heard Zhao Yi's words, looked up at the clouds on the horizon, and said softly.
"I brought you a gift this time. I'll get it for you when I go back later." Zhao Yi didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he changed the subject.
"Okay, what gift?" Lin Hexia said in unison.
"Won't you know when you take it back later?" Zhao Yi said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Hexia responded.
“This time I made some money with my bonus in Germany.”
"So?" Lin Hexia asked.
"I just suddenly want to buy some property. I want to ask if you have any connections in this area." Zhao Yi replied.
"What kind of industry?" Lin Hexia asked curiously.
"In addition to a house, what else can it be?" Zhao Yi said.
"Then let me go and find out for you." Lin Hexia said without refusing.
"Okay, I'll wait for your news."
I walked around Weiming Lake with Lin Hexia, returned to the dormitory, and took the gift downstairs to Lin Hexia. The gift was an exquisite hairpin. (End of chapter)