Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The next day after Fang Qing and Ji Tong came back, the four of them gathered in the dining room to have breakfast together.
Ji Tong was playing with a black invitation letter, his face hesitant. Fang Qing asked curiously, “What is that?”
Ji Tong: “It’s an invitation for my 35th elementary school reunion. The class monitor called me and asked me to go next week, but I can’t make up my mind… It feels futile to rush to H City for the classmates who happened to go to school with me more than 30 years ago.”
Fang Qing poured the dressing on the salad and said casually, “If it were me, I would surely go. I was both the school beauty and the school bully. Everyone called me the boss. I miss my friends so much.”
Ji Tong looked at her jealously. As a nerd since childhood, he was not so impressive in school. From elementary school to junior high school to high school and even college, he was always a very inconspicuous person.
“Speaking of invitations, you two also have it.” Fang Qing pulled out two three-day tickets to Hong Kong Disneyland from her bag and pushed them to Ji Wenfeng and Lu Rong. “We went out on our honeymoon, leaving you to study at home. So we felt bad. We promised that after we return from our honeymoon, it will be your turn to go.”
Lu Rong said with a sluggish face: “Don’t say such ambiguous words.”
Ji Wenfeng took the ticket with a smile: “Thank you, Auntie.”
Lu Rong took a look, snatched the ticket and returned it: “We don’t have time, the weekend is only two days.”
Fang Qing thought this was not a problem at all: “You can take a day off, Friday or Monday, and add the weekend, and you will definitely have enough time.”
Lu Rong: “We are high school students now, Mom. We will take the college entrance examination in three years.”
Fang Qing made a face and imitated Lu Rong’s tone: “The college entrance examination will be in three years, blah blah blah blah…”
Lu Rong: “…”
At this time, Ji Wenfeng said in a devilish voice in Lu Rong’s ear: “Clothes in Hong Kong are very cheap.”
Lu Rong resolutely took the ticket: “I’ll go!”
Ji Wenfeng reminded him that this was Hong Kong! The promised land flowing with honey and milk! Not only were clothes cheap in Hong Kong, but luxury goods were also much cheaper than in China. Many purchasing agents traveled between Hong Kong and Shenzhen to make their fortunes.
Lu Rong opened Taobao and began to search what the Hong Kong purchasing agents were selling, to see if there were any goods that could be brought to Chengnan Middle School…
His eyes suddenly lit up: authentic sneakers!
Adidas and Nike had lower prices in Hong Kong than in China, and payment was in Hong Kong dollars, which was equivalent to a 20% discount when converted into RMB!
There were RMB popping out of Lu Rong’s eyes. Get rich!
He had long wanted to be a sneaker purchasing agent! Although Chengnan Middle School was a key middle school with a strong learning atmosphere, the nature of human beings was to compare with each other, and the trend of showing off wealth had been repeatedly banned. The school required students to wear school uniforms from Monday to Friday, so there was no room for private clothes. Thus everyone spent their time on shoes, and it had reached a point where not wearing branded sneakers would let you be despised.
As a result, Lu Rong felt at ease wearing Feiyue shoes, felt at ease being isolated by his classmates, becoming a marginal figure in his social circle, and enjoying his peaceful life of making a fortune in silence.
Although he himself was not involved in this comparison, he knew that the demand for genuine sneakers was huge and the market was broad. Li Nanbian now had the copying business of all the students in the school. The cost of acquiring customers for their new business should thus be extremely low. If they promoted the sneaker purchasing business on this basis, as long as the products were genuine and the price was competitive, they would not have to worry about not being able to do it.
He gave Li Nanbian a task: to conduct internal testing on the genuine sneaker market.
Li Nanbian: “Boss, have you found the source and channel?”
Lu Rong: “Yes.”
Li Nanbian: “Okay, I’ll ask the core customer base if they have any needs.”
Half a day later, Li Nanbian pulled out a list and gave it to him: “The deposit has been paid.”
Lu Rong looked at the request for 20 pairs of sneakers and the prices on the official website, and estimated in his mind that he could make at least four to five thousand yuan on this trip.
Ji Wenfeng looked at Lu Rong who was immersed in calculations and couldn’t extricate himself, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: “This will definitely be an unforgettable trip.”
Lu Rong: “That’s right.”
The two of them planned a trip to Disneyland, and Ji Wenfeng accompanied Lu Rong to apply for a Hong Kong and Macau Pass.
Lu Rong had already looked up all the guides online and prepared all the materials. The two of them went to the nearest customs building, submitted the forms, and left their addresses. The staff guaranteed that they would receive the card within a week.
After finishing, Ji Wenfeng went to the parking lot to pick up the car, and Lu Rong was waiting for him at the door.
Ji Wenfeng passed by the customs building while on the phone a short while later. Lu Rong got in the car and heard Ji Wenfeng say to the person opposite: “…Uncle Jiang, does my dad need to use the plane next weekend? No schedule? That’s great. Rong Rong and I are going to Hong Kong next Friday. Please submit the flight route application first.”
Lu Rong paused as he fastened his seatbelt: “We are flying to Hong Kong?”
Ji Wenfeng hung up the phone: “Did you think we were walking?”
Lu Rong raised a business-like smile and said, “I saw the recent news that the high-speed rail to Hong Kong has been opened. Why don’t I take the Harmony Express with you? You just returned to China, and you haven’t experienced the high-speed rail that our country is so proud of? The track length is the longest in the world, and the maximum speed is up to 380km per hour!”
Ji Wenfeng narrowed his eyes: “Compared to experiencing the high-speed rail, wouldn’t the average Cinderella prefer to experience a private jet?”
Lu Rong’s expression froze.
Ji Wenfeng hit on his mind and asked temptingly, “So, why don’t you want to go by plane, huh?”
Lu Rong looked ahead proudly: “I am not Cinderella, you got the wrong person, I don’t talk to strangers.”
Ji Wenfeng: “I will figure this out eventually.”
Because they refused to leave while parked in front of the customs building, the traffic police came to put a ticket on them. Lu Rong, who was looking straight ahead, quickly reminded Ji Wenfeng: “There is a ticket.”
Ji Wenfeng only had an American driver’s license, not a Chinese driver’s license. In order to prevent him from getting caught, the two had designed a complete set of countermeasures against traffic police vehicle checks.
At Lu Rong’s command, Ji Wenfeng immediately and skillfully lowered the backrest, lay flat, and covered himself with a layer of middle-aged and elderly style bamboo mat, blending into the sports car.
Lu Rong leaned against the car window and said sincerely, “Uncle police, my father suffers from severe prostatitis. He went to the toilet in the customs building and will be back soon. You see our car is not turned off, please don’t give us a ticket, okay?”
The traffic police showed a sympathetic expression: “Frequent urination, urgent urination, and incomplete urination?”
Lu Rong nodded.
The traffic policeman held up three fingers and said, “I’ll give you three minutes at most. Parking is prohibited in front of the Customs Building.”
Lu Rong smiled sweetly and said, “Thank you, uncle!”
After the traffic police walked away, Ji Wenfeng pressed the electric button and slowly lifted his seat up, questioning Lu Rong with a gloomy face: “Prostatitis?”
Lu Rong stared at the rearview mirror nervously: “It’s much better than hemorrhoids, let’s go!”
Ji Wenfeng returned home and secretly found Fang Qing. After confirming that Lu Rong was not nearby, he asked her seriously: “Aunt Fang, does Lu Rong not like flying?”
Fang Qing waved her hand with a look of disdain: “It’s more than just not liking it. He is afraid of heights and doesn’t even dare to look down when he goes to the third floor.”
There was a three-story open staircase on the east side of the villa, and Lu Rong usually went upstairs from the west. Seeing that Lu Rong had just walked up the west staircase, Ji Wenfeng looked down at his figure and said lovingly: “Then I should take the high-speed rail to Hong Kong with him.”
Fang Qing: “You’d better do this. Flying with him is a disaster. When he was a kid, we once won the Coca-Cola grand prize, which was a trip for two to City B. On the plane, he kept holding my hand and asking me to explain to him how the plane flies. After I told him it was magic, he kept crying. I couldn’t comfort him even by telling him the story of Shi Yuzhu’s rise to wealth. Later, I had to pretend that he was the son of the man next door.”
Ji Wenfeng’s eyes lit up.
Fang Qing recalled the past, her face radiating maternal radiance, becoming gentle and loving: “At least my Rong Rong would cry at that time, so cute…” But thinking of Lu Rong now, she immediately warned Ji Wenfeng seriously, “Now he can’t even cry, he can only hold your hand tightly, take the high-speed rail – but is there a high-speed rail to Hong Kong?”
“Yes, the maximum speed is up to 380km per hour, but I decided to go by plane.” Ji Wenfeng looked at Lu Rong’s figure with amusement. While the latter was knocking on Ji Tong’s study door.
Ji Tong was on the phone. When he saw Lu Rong come in, he quickly hung up and awkwardly asked him to sit down.
Although he had successfully held a wedding with Fang Qing, he had not developed much affection with Lu Rong. Lu Rong looked at him like a stern old father-in-law, and Ji Tong was always nervous when facing him.
Lu Rong crossed his arms and sat down opposite him. He smiled mysteriously, “Don’t be nervous. I just want to talk to you about something.”
Ji Tong reflected: “I have been a bit busy recently. Because I went on my honeymoon, I have accumulated a lot of work. As a result, the whole company is waiting for my signature, and I don’t have much time to spend with your mother… Oh, I am not complaining that the honeymoon has slowed down my work progress. That’s not the case. I volunteered to go on the honeymoon and I am very happy. But I am not happy that I don’t have much time to spend with your mother. I am very unhappy.”
Lu Rong: “…”
The last time he saw Ji Tong, Ji Tong’s desire to survive was not so strong. Marriage was really a man’s grave.
Lu Rong pushed the invitation letter out of his pocket: “Uncle Ji, I think you should go to the class reunion.”
“Are you here for this matter?” Ji Tong stretched out his hand to take the invitation but pulled back when he was about to touch it: Wait a minute, maybe Fang Qing sent Lu Rong to test him.
He immediately shook his head firmly and said, “I won’t go. Of course, I have to keep this wonderful weekend for my family.”
Lu Rong: “…I am not an undercover agent sent by my mother. I am just making this suggestion from a personal standpoint.”
Ji Tong breathed a sigh of relief and told him honestly: “I have just thought about this carefully. I don’t think there is any need for me to go back to my classmates. Although we are all childhood playmates, it is obvious that we are now living completely different lives. Even if we meet, we can’t talk about the same thing. It is better to keep some good memories with each other.”
Lu Rong: “Uncle Ji, were you the leader of the kids when you were little?”
Ji Tong’s face froze.
Lu Rong smiled disdainfully: “Haha, of course not, you must have been Ji Tong, the nerd who always scores 100 points in every exam, but is short and weak. Not to mention being the leader of the kids, they don’t even take you to play with them.”
Ji Tong pushed his glasses up awkwardly: “How did you know?”
Lu Rong: “I also know that you were called Four-eyed Frog because you were the first one in class to start wearing glasses.”
Ji Tong: “…”
When Ji Tong was reminded of these sad things, he took off his glasses and pressed his temples, then put them back on and stared into Lu Rong’s eyes.
Finally, a painful crack appeared on his frozen expression: “No, it’s far more than that. They even called frogs Ji Tong.”
He would never forget the scenes when his friends said “Let’s catch a few Ji Tongs and skin them for bait” when they went out to fish for frogs, or when summer came, they pointed to the pond outside the window and said “The Ji Tongs are croaking again”.
Lu Rong held the invitation and tempted, “You should go. Do you know why? Because Ji Tong, whom they looked down upon the most, is now a Forbes billionaire and married to a wife as beautiful as a celebrity, while they are all a bunch of losers. Their wives nag tem, their children have poor grades, and their factory is going to lay off employees. He, the gatekeeper, may be the first to be laid off. If success is not for returning home in glory, then it is meaningless. They may even ask you to borrow money. Just think about it, them humbly asking you to borrow money! You can enjoy their hospitality to the fullest and then reject them in the end.”
Ji Tong was tempted by the sweet revenge and snatched his invitation: “I’ll go!”
Lu Rong then said in a devilish voice: “Remember to take your private plane.”
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