binnovel Chapter 15 No Rural Areas in the Past 8
Chapter 15 No Rural Areas in the Past 8
In the six months that followed, just like in Liu Yuxi's original world history, several important leaders passed away one after another. Many elderly people cried uncontrollably upon hearing the news, wishing they could go with the deceased.
Those who don't live in this era simply cannot understand the feeling of "the sky has fallen!" that people of this time felt when they heard this news. After all, the Chinese people have suffered too much in the past half-century, and the elderly are the nation's faith and spiritual pillar.
During that time, Liu Yuxi, like everyone else in the hospital, couldn't stop crying. Everyone was in a daze until October when the news came that the "SR Gang" had been dismantled and sentenced. Everyone was clapping and celebrating. Some set off firecrackers, and some wanted to donate oil. This phenomenon of a specific era once again shocked Liu Yuxi.
With the tumultuous year of 1976 over, 1977 seemed to open a new chapter for China, marking the beginning of a new era. In October, news came that the college entrance examination would be reinstated, and Liu Yuxi was already in her second year of high school.
At the end of last year, people were exonerated in various places, and many people returned to Beijing. When Liu Yuxi was chatting with people in the institute, he mentioned, "Now it seems that many of the exonerated people are highly educated. Do you think the country will reinstate the college entrance examination?"
The speaker meant it, and the listener took it to heart. People in the compound who had children sent to the countryside sent their children textbooks and materials and gave them tips in the letters. Those whose children hadn't gone to the countryside also told their children to study hard and to come back and ask Liu Yuxi if they didn't understand something.
After all, Liu Yuxi's grades have consistently ranked first in her grade for the past few years, making her well-known in the area; everyone knows her.
Ten years later, the college entrance examination was reinstated for the first time. It was like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Many educated youths had been away from their textbooks for too many years, and the time for review was short. Many people broke down in tears as soon as they left the examination hall.
Fortunately, everyone in Liu Yuxi's courtyard had made preparations in advance. Wang Jianjun from Aunt Liu's family and the third son from Uncle Li Hai's family were both admitted to local universities in Beijing thanks to Liu Yuxi's nearby tutoring.
Li Haishu's second daughter only got into a junior college in Beijing, but Li Haishu and his wife were very satisfied that their daughter was able to come back. After receiving the admission notices, both families made a special trip to thank Liu Yuxi, which was equivalent to changing the children's life destiny and was a life-saving favor.
Li Hai and his wife also became stricter with their youngest son. They all understood the saying "spoiling a child is like killing a child." In the past, everyone was similar, and since they only had one son, they were a little more lenient with him, hoping he would grow up safely.
But things are different now. Three college students have come from the family, two of whom are the fourth brother's older sisters. So how can the younger brother, who is a college student, not be a college student himself?
As mentioned before, the fourth son of the Li family is also a good child. He just didn't like studying much before, but now he has to study even if he doesn't want to. "Poor kid!" Liu Yuxi muttered to herself.
Then he started watching the jokes about Li's fourth son every day. After all, he hadn't laid a good foundation, and now if he wanted to catch up, he would have to start all over again. Fortunately, there were two college students in the family, otherwise Liu Yuxi would probably be mourning for himself!
She doesn't want to tutor the students in the courtyard anymore; it's too tiring! So, these little ones should cultivate a good study habit from a young age!
In July 1978, Liu Yuxi took the college entrance examination and applied to the clinical medicine program at Peking University Medical School. After all, this skill could save lives! It was better to master this skill himself!
For five years of university, Liu Yuxi lived a very simple life, going between home, school, library, and cafeteria. She truly lived up to the motto, "Study until you drop."
She also found a renowned traditional Chinese medicine expert through her department head and became his disciple. Liu Yuxi decided to dedicate her life to studying both traditional Chinese and Western medicine, since traditional Chinese medicine is difficult to master and Western medicine has too many subcategories.
During summer and winter vacations, taking advantage of the craze for going abroad, Liu Yuxi successively used gold to exchange for a three-courtyard house, a two-courtyard house, and a one-courtyard house. She plans to keep the one-courtyard house for her retirement, and renovate the two-courtyard and three-courtyard houses so that she can rent them to film crews when the film and television industry develops in the future.
You can buy a courtyard with gold, but you still need RMB to renovate it. The larger the area of the old courtyard, the more expensive it is to renovate. In order not to attract attention, she took the young people in the courtyard and the aunts and grandmas who were idle at home to find someone to wholesale a lot of clothes to sell at a stall.
I didn't go to Guangzhou. After all, it's still very dangerous to travel long distances with money and goods these days. Instead, I sourced my goods from a big boss in Beijing who deals in bulk goods. Although it's more expensive than in Guangzhou, it's profitable and safer, so why not?
Liu Yuxi had the foresight of a modern person and the eloquence of a salesperson. The people in her courtyard worked in pairs every day, setting up stalls separately. Liu Yuxi took turns with each group for one day. Once everyone was proficient at selling goods, they separated and worked independently.
After all, everyone's abilities are different, and over time, conflicts are bound to arise. It's best for friends not to do business together, because once money and interests are involved, no relationship can last.
So apart from the initial batch of goods where everyone split the profits based on their investment, afterwards each company sold their own goods.
Liu Yuxi only sold clothes during winter and summer vacations. Later, he also sold electronic watches and sunglasses. Although sunglasses are not worth much, the profit margin is high.
If you buy in bulk from Guangzhou, the price is 1.5 yuan per pair. Once it reaches Beijing, the price drops to 3 to 5 yuan. Liu Yuxi and his team sell it for 8 to 15 yuan, nearly doubling their profit margin. The total price is low, it's easy to sell, and there's no risk of unsold stock tying up capital. It's a quick and easy business. That's why Liu Yuxi always wears sunglasses when selling clothes during the summer holidays.
Because of their experience selling goods with Liu Yuxi over the past few years, when the wave of layoffs came in the mid-to-late 80s, the people in the courtyard were not panicked at all. Some even took leave without pay to open their own shops and do business.
Liu Yuxi didn't hide the fact that she bought a courtyard house from her neighbors. Later, as she made more money from selling goods, she bought more houses. The people in the courtyard all believed that following Liu Yuxi was the right thing to do, since everything she had done since her parents passed away had benefited everyone.
So wherever Liu Yuxi buys a house, they buy a house there too. If they can't afford a big one, they buy a small one. If they don't have enough money right now, they save up and buy a house when they have enough.
Liu Yuxi never actively tries to persuade anyone in the courtyard to do anything, but she will tell them the truth whenever they ask her anything.
When the educated youth returned to the city in large numbers, Liu Yuxi found a reliable educated youth from the neighboring courtyard to help her manage the rental of the houses she bought later. Houses bought by other people in the courtyard were also handed over to that person whenever they were vacant.
Later, when that person was too busy, he hired a few more educated youths who had returned to the city and whose character was good, and started a real estate agency. After all, he had dealt with Liu Yuxi a lot, and even if he didn't listen, he could learn a lot.