Mixed in 1980

Chapter 463 2017
Two motorcycles, one old and one young, two figures.

From the Central Plains to eastern Shandong, we slept under bridges, lived in tents, ate fast food and steamed buns along the way, and occasionally stopped to find a construction site to work for ten days or half a month.

Two months later, as agreed with his wife, the old man was going home: "Son, come with me to Sichuan and Chongqing. We'll stay for six months, earn money for six months, and then come out again."

"Alright, Uncle!" The way he addressed me had changed.

We changed our route, searching and rushing all the way, and it took us another two months to return to Sichuan and Chongqing, finally arriving at Leshan, the location of the Giant Buddha.

The young man moved into the old man's house and lived with the old man's son. During the day, he would go around with the old man looking for work.

Six months later, right after the Spring Festival in 2016, the two traveled together again. They went away for half a year and then came back to work for another half a year. By then, it was already 2017.

"Uncle, let's go!"

Young people have become accustomed to this kind of life and enjoy it. Living with purpose is always better than living aimlessly.

Besides, the scenery along the way was beautiful.

Motorcycles sped along the highway, and a young man hummed loudly, "Nothing can stop you from yearning for freedom..."

The older man followed behind, a slight smile playing on his lips.

These past two years have definitely been different.

Two years is enough time to change a lot of things. After one more semester, Chen Yanche's master's degree will come to an end, and he will soon enter the workforce.

The new economic model for the Chinatown supermarket was completed during my second year of graduate school. Chen Lao Er was very satisfied after reviewing it and gave the research group an additional bonus.

For the next six months, Chen Yanche finally had time to do other things. He spent six months completing a business plan: "Second brother, please take a look."

Chen Lao Er took the laptop, opened the PPT, and looked at it carefully, page by page, without any expression on his face, which made Chen Yan Che feel very uneasy.

After a long pause, Chen Lao Er hummed in agreement: "Is this what you want to do? So, you don't plan to take over the Chinatown supermarket in the future?"

Chen Yanche nodded slightly.

Chen Lao Er frowned slightly, looked around, and picked up a feather duster: "You're not going to take it, huh? Fine, I'll beat you to death today."

"Second brother, can't we be reasonable?" Chen Yanche had already run to the door.

"I'll beat you to death. When we go to your grave, we'll have a good chat about what's right and wrong." Chen Lao Er waved the feather duster and rushed forward.

Chen Yanche yelled and ran away, shouting, "Second Brother, this is outrageous! Chen Lao Er, are you crazy? Help!"

They shouted as they ran!

He quickly ran out of the yard, and when he saw Chen Lao Er chasing after him relentlessly, Chen Yanche knew that this hurdle would not be easy to overcome.

The only one who can save me is my eldest sister.

Having made up his mind, Chen Yanche ran to Chen Yanxi's courtyard. At the end of 2014, the eldest sister's family moved back to Ya'er Hutong.

In 2015, the two-child policy was relaxed, and the eldest sister gave birth to a daughter. The little girl was adorable and lovable, and Chen Yanche liked to come over and play with her whenever he had free time.

Right now, the older sister is feeding the child fruit.

"Big sister, Chen Lao Er has gone mad!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Chen Lao Er chased in with a feather duster. Chen Yanxi frowned: "Lao Er, don't do anything yet, what's going on?"

Chen Lao Er shuddered, only then remembering that it was his eldest sister's house.

He put down the feather duster, hugged the little girl first, kissed her, and then said, "Sister, you have no idea how much this bastard deserves a beating."

"We spent over 4000 million yuan on a research project, hoping that he could gain a comprehensive understanding of Chinatown supermarkets so that it would be easier for him to take over in the future."

"They said they're not taking it over today!"

"They even came up with this ridiculous business plan. Does our family need to start a business? We have a ton of family businesses that no one can take over, and they want to start a business? Are they trying to show off their abilities?"

After hearing what he said, Chen Yanxi frowned.

Chen Yanche touched his nose and explained, "Sis, I just saw that the trend looked good and I thought it was an opportunity, so I wanted to give it a try."

"What the hell? Is that a hot trend? It's a trap. Working in agriculture and expanding into rural areas? What kind of capital do you think would do that?" Chen Lao Er laughed in anger.

Chen Yanche chuckled awkwardly, "Nobody doing it is the only opportunity, don't you think? As long as I do it, that's the next big thing."

Chen Lao Er gritted his teeth and picked up the feather duster again: "You're the one in the spotlight, right? Fine, I'll turn you into the one in the spotlight first, you stupid piece of trash."

"Second brother, stop fooling around." Chen Yanxi frowned.

Turning to his younger brother, he said, "Your second brother has been preparing for this all these years to make it easier for you to take over the Chinatown supermarket. Now you're just saying you don't want to do it anymore?"

Chen Yanche lowered his head and remained silent, looking dejected.

Chen Yanxi shook his head: "Alright, go back first, think the project through, and then talk to Dad and hear his opinion."

The hut was relieved and quickly left.

Seeing this, Chen Yanxi smiled wryly: "The younger the child, the more you have to worry about them. The fifth one is like this, and the fourth one is the same. You have to put in more effort."

Chen Lao Er curled his lip and said disdainfully, "What more do I need to worry about? I've been preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam since I was five, and two and a half years have passed. Suddenly he says he's quitting. Who can I complain to?"

"You shouldn't have stopped me just now. That little rascal deserves a good beating. He needs a good beating to clear his head. Starting a business? Ha! What a moron."

"I'm not going to say anything about finding the right opportunity."

"He said he wanted to get involved in agriculture, develop rural areas, and create a business model similar to rural cooperatives. What kind of nonsense is that?"

“Our Tianhe Agricultural Group mainly engages in large-scale farming, but we don’t make much money in a year. If we expand into rural areas and develop small-scale farming, we won’t go bankrupt.”

After listening to him, Chen Yanxi could only smile wryly. That's just how Xiao Wu is; at twenty-five, his mind is still unsettled. To put it nicely, he has his own ideas and is quite optimistic about many things.

After thinking for a while, he said, "They say that you only mature after you start a family and take on responsibilities. Xiao Wu is already twenty-five, it's time for him to find a partner."

"After he started graduate school, I told him to look for someone, but after more than two years, there was still no news. Could it be that he was beaten too badly back then and doesn't want to find a partner anymore?" Chen Lao Er touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

That was when I was a freshman in college.

That rascal changes girlfriends like he changes clothes; he's become a walking 300,000.

"It's hard to say. Why don't you go back and urge them?"

"Alright!" Chen Lao Er nodded.

After playing with her niece for a while, she went back and called Xiao Wu out: "You're not getting any younger, and our family doesn't have a tradition of late marriage. It's time to find someone."

Chen Yanche said in surprise, "Second brother, haven't you gone a bit off-topic? We were just talking about starting a business, how did it turn into urging me to get married?"

"Start a business again?" Chen Lao Er gritted his teeth.

Chen Yanche said sullenly, "Then I'll say I'm urging you to get married. I'm only twenty-five, I'm not in a hurry. Besides, I don't have a suitable partner. Where am I supposed to find one?"

"Then let's go on a blind date."

"Second brother, don't get me into trouble. You pretended to be poor for so many years in college just to find a partner, why should I go on blind dates?" Chen Yanche straightened up.

"Then let's go find them!"

“Okay, I’ll go look for it. I’ll start looking today. But second brother, about starting a business…”

"roll!"

"Okay!" Chen Yanche left quickly.

Once we left, we went straight to Furong Lane. We couldn't stay at home any longer. Judging from Chen Lao Er's attitude, he might explode at any moment, and we might end up getting a beating.

Zhou Jingshu was also there, busy researching and writing her graduation thesis: "Didn't you go back to talk to your second brother about the business plan? Why are you back?"

"Don't even mention it, I almost got beaten up."

Chen Yanche lay down on the sofa and crossed his legs: "If I hadn't run fast today, Chen Lao Er would have beaten me half to death with his attitude."

Zhou Jingshu stopped working and turned around: "My second brother had already decided to let you take over the supermarket project. Now that he suddenly says he wants to start his own business, it's no wonder he's furious."

"Don't blame your second brother for being angry; it would have been the same for anyone."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yanche sighed. Taking over the Chinatown supermarket wasn't out of the question, but before that, he wanted to do something he wanted to do himself.

The projects I chose weren't so bad after all.

Small-scale farming economy, rural cooperatives... those were just things my second brother hurled in his anger. The whole project was more about resource integration.

No one else could do something like this.

I am different; my family controls enormous resources, and I can leverage these resources to forge a unique path in business.

This is also very fulfilling.

"Find some time to have a good talk with your second brother. He's not really unreasonable. If you can persuade him, he'll definitely give you his full support," Zhou Jingshu advised.

Chen Yanche curled his lip: "He's quite reasonable with other people, but with me, tsk tsk..."

Zhou Jingshu chuckled: "Isn't this all your own doing? Putting everything else aside, how many things has your second brother worried about since you were little?"

"Especially the three years of high school!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yanche's lips twitched. He quickly took out a cigarette and lit it, not daring to think about what had happened in those three years; it was a complete nightmare.

During those three years, Chen Lao Er kept a close eye on him. Every summer vacation, he would throw himself into the mountains. The hardships he endured were no less than those of impoverished students.

They are truly impoverished students!
It's not the kind of student who owns a car and a house, can just get a certificate from the neighborhood committee, claim to be a poor student, and openly apply for financial aid.

The Second Aunt's foundation is designed to protect against this kind of person.

Every year we receive a huge number of applications, but after actual verification, we can eliminate about 80%. My second aunt used to complain a lot: "They're all a bunch of shameless people."

Now it's Ye Wan's sister-in-law's turn to complain.

Even though they know that the Xu Jinqiu scholarship is difficult to apply for and that it requires consideration of actual circumstances, there is always a group of people who refuse to give up and insist on trying, thinking that they might as well try their luck.

The result was that the foundation wasted its human resources.

Grassroots volunteers often complained: "What kind of people are they? With their family circumstances, they still want to apply for scholarships? They're better off than my family."

"And there are even more outrageous ones, whose outfits alone cost thousands or tens of thousands of yuan, and some who live in villas and still have the nerve to apply."

"Do you think we're from India?"

This is indeed the case with my third brother's family. It's a given that wealthy people apply for scholarships and low-interest student loans, with the aim of making it impossible for poor people to get them.

If the poor enjoy these things, what will happen when they turn their lives around?
Poor people shouldn't go to school.

If you really want to go to university, you have to borrow money from loan sharks. You have no choice but to borrow, especially in Uttar Pradesh, India. If a poor person gets into university without borrowing money from loan sharks, they are doomed.

It's a truly dead end; the whole family will be wiped out.

The high-caste elites monopolize this business. If you insist on applying for scholarships and low-interest loans through the proper channels, that's breaking the rules. Who else would we kill but you?
Xu Jinqiu's scholarship was funded by her own family, and she would never allow her family's money to fall into the hands of these people. Ye Wan was checking the accounts at the moment.

The accounts this year are not right.

(End of this chapter)