Riding the wind of rebirth

The location of this courtyard is even better than that of Haichao Temple. The wall at the end of the courtyard is built directly to the lakeside, and a terrace facing the lake is built. Sitting on the terrace, you can touch the lotus flowers in the lake with your hands. Sitting between the curtains that separate the guest seats, the lake breeze carries the fragrance of flowers, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. An, here." Matsui Zou and Jin Chunyi were already waiting there. When they saw Zhou Zhi and his group coming, they greeted them warmly.

The two of them were in the best spot on the terrace, a space separated by wooden lattice windows. In ancient buildings, such buildings were called "Linshui Pavilion" or "Water Pavilion", which were used by wealthy people to cool off in the summer. The most impressive one in historical records was the "Crystal Palace" built by Meng Chang, the ruler of Shu, in Maha Pond.

However, this pavilion is much simpler. I guess the owner must have received guidance from an expert. The overall structure is elegant and concise, and it looks a bit like the famous painting "Linxi Water Pavilion" by Qiu Ying of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's been a while since we last met." Zhou Zhi greeted them with a smile: "What happened to Mr. Matsui's hair? Mr. Jin seems to have gained some weight."

"I'm already using 11 hair growth tincture." Matsui is very confident about his hair: "It's a magical shampoo from you Chinese people."

"You are a scientist, but you still believe in that stuff?" Zhou Zhi was stunned.

As the saying goes, "If you stand in the right place, even a pig can fly."

After Zhouzhi's rebirth, he has caught up with several hot spots, such as land speculation on the southern island, taxi roofs, wholesale market storefronts, as well as the original shares of Laojiao and Yilitte, etc. If you count them carefully, he has participated in quite a few.

However, there were some types of money that he was too lazy to pick up, namely various "magic potions", whether for internal or external use.

They're basically placebo scams.

But it is precisely such things that have been able to sell well for decades, creating countless wealth myths and billionaires, and are even highly sought after overseas. It is unique.

11 Hair Growth Tincture is undoubtedly such a thing. This thing even created the first generation of "Chinese Buffett", "the richest man in the capital", and "the richest man in Shanghai". It also allowed the Hong Kong media tycoon and the capital's real estate tycoon to make their first pot of gold.

The founder of the hair growth tincture was once a rural "barefoot doctor" in Wenzhou. It is said that he worked hard for six years to treat patients' hair loss problems and failed more than a hundred times before finally developing a potion with stable efficacy and no obvious side effects.

However, the inventor dropped out of junior high school to work as a farmer. He had neither a medical license nor an approval number for his new drug. As a result, he was constantly criticized for being a "fake drug" or a "swindler." In the nearly ten years before 1983, he could only sell "hair growth tincture" in glass bottles like a quack doctor.

By chance, the inventor met a reporter and published a report in the newspaper about the miraculous effect of hair growth tincture in treating hair loss, and finally he began to become famous.

As the reputation of the "Hair Growth Tincture" grew, the inventor was not only invited to go north to Zhengzhou to serve as a dean, but relevant departments in the capital also visited him three times and invited him to set up a factory and practice medicine in the capital.

Later, with the recommendation of the Science and Technology Commission, "Hair Growth Tincture" participated in the World Expo six times and won fifteen international gold medals in a row.

For this kind of so-called gold award, the Chinese people will know that it can be operated in ten years, and its authority is also questionable, but in the eyes of the Chinese people today, it is still a very remarkable thing. With these endorsements, the hair growth tincture also found a great opportunity to operate, which is to be presented as a gift to the visiting prime minister of the island country.

The baldness rate among men in the island nation ranks first in Asia. When people heard that such a product had appeared in China, they almost went crazy. There were even countless tour groups organizing "hair growth tour groups" and "hair regeneration sightseeing groups" to come to the capital.

At that time, the hair growth tincture was extremely well-known in the island country, but there were no distributors. Many overseas students living in Japan discovered the business opportunity. Some smart people returned home and gave the factory a large bus to facilitate the employees' commuting, and thus won the Japanese agency distribution rights.

After returning to the island country with the distribution rights, he used the large number of international students as the main distributor of the product. Soon this innovative sales model made "Hair Growth Tincture" a household name in Japan. Even though the selling price was dozens of times higher than the export price, the Japanese still lined up day and night to buy it, and some stores' cash registers were even burned out.

By acting as an agent for the hair growth tincture, this overseas student not only became famous in the island country, but also became China's first billionaire, even a few years ahead of the inventor of the hair growth tincture itself.

Another "Shanghai richest man" used his many years of experience in smuggling cigarettes and electronic products to smuggle "hair growth tincture" to Japan for sale. After saving a large amount of start-up capital, he met many political and business people by opening a restaurant, and then used bank resources to get a large loan, resell unfinished buildings, and also bought a large number of stocks of state-owned enterprise employees in the name of self-employed, making a lot of money.

This person is very popular now, but later he fell into trouble for "not following the rules".

Zhou Zhi had always treated these stories as jokes in his past life and this life. Now, a "superstitious person" suddenly appeared around him, who was a scientist and an international friend. He couldn't help but feel both amused and sad.

However, Zhou Zhi was not so ignorant as to tell people that this thing was essentially a placebo. He smiled and said, "According to Chinese medicine in our country, 'hair is the flower of the kidney.' When the kidney qi is strong, the hair is thick and shiny. When the kidney qi is weak, the hair will become dry and fall out. External shampoo is only a temporary solution. Protecting the kidney qi and replenishing it is the fundamental solution."

"Then is there any way to fill it up again?" Matsui Zou was the one who had climbed Mount Qingcheng with Zhou Zhi. He felt that Zhou Zhi knew a lot about these ancient Chinese studies, so he hurriedly asked.

"There are actually two methods: increasing income and reducing expenditure." Zhou Zhi said: "Increasing income means regulating the body through medicine and stones, and reducing expenditure... means paying attention to abstinence."

Mai Xiaomiao was still confused, Ikeda Qiu and Zhang Silu had already started to snicker, while Jin Chunyi and An Chunjia looked at Matsui Zuo with a look of understanding.

"Haha, then I'll go to Tong Ren Tang another day." Matsui Zao said with a smile: "From a mathematical point of view, as long as the inflow is greater than the outflow, accumulation can be formed, so saving money should not be necessary, but it is enough to ensure that the intake is greater than the outflow."

Good boy! Now you are talking about science again!

"There are so many delicious foods in China." Jin Chunyi pinched his stomach and shook his head, saying, "I take in more than I lose."

Everyone was very happy. Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Why don't you go to the south, Lao Jin? The rice in the north is very nutritious. There is more oil in the rice than in the south, and there are more noodles. The dietary structure contains more carbon water than in the south, which is indeed easy to gain weight."

"Eh? It seems that there are not many fat people in Shuzhong?" Jin Chunyi recalled the situation when he was in Shuzhong: "It seems to be true what you said." (End of this chapter)