Movie: Get Alpha Dog at the start

Chapter 1090 Half a Millionaire

"Sister, you're back. Where's that brother? Didn't he send you back?"

As soon as Li Jia got home, her cousin came up to her stealthily.

"You scared me. How come you walked without making any sound?"

"Don't change the subject. Tell me what you and that brother did all day."

Looking at her cousin who was full of gossip, Li Jia laughed: "What do you think about in your little head every day?"

"Sister, if you don't tell me, I will tell grandpa and grandma that you are in love."

Li Jia blushed instantly: "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't."

"Hmph, I don't believe it. Then what did you do today?" The little girl rolled her eyes.

Li Jia had no choice but to tell the story of going to the Foreign Trade Building again. Of course, he omitted the question of making money and instead passed it off as practicing spoken English.

Sure enough, my cousin lost interest as soon as she heard it: "What? It's not romantic at all."

"What romance? Read less Qiong Yao's novels in the future. Don't expect me to sign for you if you fail the exam next time."

After sending her cousin away, Li Jia carefully hid the three hundred yuan Qin Hao gave her in an old book.

This was the first time in her life that she had so much money in her hands. In the past, her parents only gave her a few dozen yuan for living expenses.

Li Jia suddenly felt a sense of unreality as she held the old book in her hands, as if she had been dreaming that day. It was not until her fingers ran across the wrinkled cover of the old book that she was sure that all this was real.

"It would be great if I could make this much money every day. Maybe I could buy a house in Shanghai and bring my parents and brother over."

However, Li Jia quickly got rid of this idea. She knew very well that she could make so much money today because of Qin Hao. She just acted as a vase. It would not affect Qin Hao's ability to make money whether she was there or not. On the contrary, if Qin Hao was not there, with her foreign language level, she would not be able to communicate fluently with foreign businessmen.

What surprised Li Jia even more was that Qin Hao not only knew English and French, but also had no problem communicating in German and Japanese. Li Jia even felt that he had only met foreign businessmen from these countries today, and if he met foreign businessmen from other countries, Qin Hao could still communicate in their native languages.

That night, Li Jia made a decision to learn several foreign languages ​​in her spare time.

In the next few days, Qin Hao still took Li Jia to help contact foreign businessmen outside the foreign trade building. In the first few days, it was Qin Hao and his team who looked for clients. Later, as more and more contracts were negotiated, they gradually became famous in the foreign trade circle, and basically others came to them.

Those who came to Qin Hao for help with translation included factory directors of township enterprises like Zhao Hongbo, as well as foreign businessmen from state-owned enterprises who could not find suitable translators for some minor languages.

When encountering such situations, Qin Hao would directly charge by the hour. For major languages ​​like English, he would charge two hundred yuan per hour, and other minor languages ​​would charge three hundred yuan per hour. This price was not cheap, and he also had to pay Li Jia, the "assistant", one hundred yuan per hour, but there was still an endless stream of people coming to hire him.

Because Qin Hao is not only a translator, he can also negotiate with foreign businessmen on behalf of clients. He can even find out which unfair clauses are in foreign contracts and help clients avoid risks.

As time went by, Qin Hao became more and more famous, so much so that if you wanted to invite him, you had to make an appointment several days in advance.

This situation continued until the start of the school year at Tongji University. Li Jia even said to Qin Hao with regret: "It would be better if the school could start later."

No wonder Li Jia was reluctant to give up. In just one week, she earned more than 1984 yuan. You have to know that this was yuan in . In just seven days, she became a half-millionaire.

Sometimes Li Jia even thought that if she had Qin Hao's ability, she could drop out of school and become a translator. In a year or two, she would be able to buy a house and bring her family to Shanghai.

"Don't daydream about it. You can make money anytime, but college is only four years long. Enjoy it. It will be a lifelong spiritual treasure."

Qin Hao said to Li Jia who was in a daze.

Li Jia raised her chin and looked at Qin Hao. This man was obviously three years younger than her, but he was terrifyingly mature mentally.

"You make it sound like you went to college."

After Li Jia finished speaking, she trotted down to the girls' dormitory, and then looked down at Qin Hao and said, "Tomorrow is the first day of school. Don't be late. The head teacher will check your homework."

Speaking of homework, Qin Hao suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten what homework was.

I quickly ran back to the dormitory and asked Zhuang Tunan: "Did the teacher assign winter vacation homework last year?"

"Yes, I have."

"What homework?"

"One is to make a chair out of corrugated cardboard, and the other is to survey the Tongji Library." Zhuang Tunan suddenly realized: "You didn't do it, did you?"

Qin Hao scratched his head. It was easy to make chairs with cardboard, but it was definitely too late to make a surveying and mapping library now.

"Zhuang Tunan, how do I treat you normally?"

Zhuang Tunan looked alert: "You don't want my winter vacation homework, do you? I worked on that chair for several days..."

"I'll make a chair tonight. Please copy the surveying data of the library for me."

"Will it be exposed?"

"Don't worry, I'm not Lin Dongzhe, I won't copy it exactly."

With Zhuang Tunan's data, Qin Hao made some minor adjustments and the assignment was completed. The next step was to make a chair out of cardboard, which was Qin Hao's strong point.

Before it got completely dark, Qin Hao came to the scrap collection station and bought a pile of waste paper. He then used scissors to cut the waste paper layer by layer into two mutated S shapes, and then glued them together layer by layer. Finally, he used a piece of wood to press a stone on top.

Zhuang Tunan looked at Qin Hao's strange-looking chair and asked, "Are you sure you want to use this to hand in your homework?"

"What else?" Qin Hao brushed the dust off his hands and said nonchalantly.

Zhuang Tunan didn't think much about it and just thought that Qin Hao was just doing it to get it over with. After all, whether the homework was completed well or not was a question of ability, but whether to hand it in or not was a question of attitude.

The next day, students from Tongji University's Department of Architecture came to the classroom carrying chairs they had made from used cardboard boxes. Some of their chairs had even fallen apart before the teacher came to inspect them, causing laughter from their classmates.

Li Jia waited for a long time but didn't see Qin Hao. Suddenly, a question came to her mind: Could he have forgotten to prepare his homework when he went home for the New Year?

Just as Li Jia was looking around for Qin Hao with uneasy eyes, the head teacher had already arrived, picked up the roster and started calling the roll.

"Qin Hao."

"Isn't Qin Hao here?"

Just as the head teacher frowned, Qin Hao came to the classroom door carrying his strange-looking chair.

"Report."

The head teacher looked him over and said, "Being late on the first day is not a good habit."

"Teacher, I just forgot to pick up my winter vacation homework. I went back to get it."

Zhuang Tunan, who was sitting in the classroom, laughed secretly. What did he mean by forgetting to bring his winter vacation homework? It was obviously because he overslept.

The head teacher pointed at the strange-looking chair Qin Hao was carrying and said, "Let's start with you. Tell us about your idea for designing this chair."

Qin Hao took a few steps to the podium and blurted out the answer without changing his expression.

"Teacher Yao, I spent an entire winter vacation concentrating on designing this chair. My design concept is: simple and practical, so I used the simplest variant S shape to stick sixty pieces of corrugated cardboard boxes together..."

Listening to Qin Hao talking about his design concept on the podium, Zhuang Tunan was stunned. If he had not seen with his own eyes that Qin Hao had made such a thing last night, he would probably have believed Qin Hao's words like other classmates.

Ten minutes later, Qin Hao finished his speech, and the head teacher couldn't wait to say, "Student Qin Hao, you just said that your design concept is simple and practical, which means that this chair you made can be sat on, right?"

"of course."

Seeing Qin Hao's confident look, the head teacher did not intend to take the risk, but said to the classmates.

"Who is willing to verify Qin Hao's masterpiece?"

Everyone looked at Qin Hao's strange-looking cardboard chair without even a handle, and expressed doubts as to whether it could bear the weight of a person.

"Teacher, let me do it."

The head teacher's eyes lit up: "Okay, then let's invite our class monitor to come on stage to verify it."

Li Jia walked to the podium amid the applause of her classmates. Qin Hao whispered, "Aren't you afraid of falling?"

"It's nice to see you get humiliated, so just fall down." Li Jia smiled.

"Do you have so little confidence in me?"

Before Li Jia could answer, Qin Hao pushed her onto the chair. Surprisingly, this strange-looking chair could actually withstand the force of an adult sitting down from a high place without even being deformed.

"how come?"

"How can such a simple structure withstand such a great force?"

Li Jia was startled by Qin Hao's push. When she came to her senses, Qin Hao had already approached her: "This is a punishment for your distrust of me."

The head teacher coughed a few times and said, "I can give Qin Hao an A+ for his winter vacation homework this time. His design is very bold and practical. On the contrary, I saw that many students' homework was just to make a new chair with cardboard instead of wood. Such a chair can be blown away by a strong wind, let alone sitting on it. Is this how you deal with me?"

Most of the students in the class were scolded by the head teacher so badly that they could not even raise their heads. Fortunately, for these students who had just attended one semester, the head teacher did not keep picking on them. He just asked everyone to prepare their homework again and then started the class.

After the get out of class, Qin Hao's chair became the target of "reference" among his classmates.

"Qin Hao, how did you come up with the idea of ​​making a chair in this shape?"

"When the teacher said to make a chair, I subconsciously thought of replicating an armchair out of cardboard. There was no creativity at all."

Facing his classmates' flattery, Qin Hao said with a lingering fear: This is something I came up with after racking my brains.

Zhuang Tunan rolled his eyes as he listened. If he remembered correctly, it took Qin Hao no more than three hours from the time he knew the assignment for the winter vacation to the time he finished the work. Was this considered racking his brains? Then what about his design? Was it painstaking effort?
What frustrates Zhuang Tunan the most is that the chair designed casually by Qin Hao is much better than his in terms of creativity, practicality and difficulty of production.

The next class was taught by Professor Sun. His course was obviously more professional and centered around "Basics of Architectural Design."

"I'll leave you an assignment here. You all know that there are many old alleys in Shanghai, right? I hope that students can use alleys as an example to write an article exploring the relationship between space and people, and draw a design drawing for a small living space."

At the beginning of the school year, Professor Sun gave the students a "surprise". The students in the class were all crazy. There were basically very few educated youth who went to the countryside to work in Qin Hao's class. This group of inexperienced students were completely unable to understand the relationship between space and people. The homework they handed in could only be described as terrible.

The only two people who received praise from Professor Sun were Qin Hao and Li Jia.

In the world of The Golden Years, Qin Hao has done a lot of interior decoration design for small apartments and has quite rich experience in this area. Li Jia has several years of experience living in alleys. Although her designs are not as good as Qin Hao's, they can barely catch Professor Sun's eye.

As for the other students, Professor Sun, who usually had a good temper, got angry unexpectedly, and then he drove everyone into the alley to let them experience life in a small space. Qin Hao and Li Jia were no exception. According to Professor Sun, architectural design requires as much field survey experience as possible.

As luck would have it, the alley where Professor Sun drove Qin Hao and his group was exactly the alley where Li Jia's grandparents lived.

As soon as he entered the narrow and closed alley, Li Jia's face looked a little unnatural. There were dozens of faucets installed on the wall on one side of the narrow passage, and many long and short bamboo poles extended from the windows on the second and third floors, on which clothes of various colors were hung to dry, most of which were dark in color.

"Jia Jia is back?"

A neighbor recognized Li Jia.

Li Jia nodded awkwardly at her, and the female classmate next to her asked curiously: "Li Jia, do you have any acquaintances here?"

"Well, my grandparents live here." Li Jia forced a smile.

"Oh, no wonder you and Qin Hao received praise from Professor Sun. It turns out you have a life." A female classmate said sourly.

Li Jia was speechless, and Qin Hao stepped forward to help her out: "Many times, the things that are closest to us are more likely to be overlooked. The fact that the monitor can produce a work that satisfies Professor Sun shows that she has sufficient observation skills."

Zhuang Tunan nodded in agreement: "Yes, in fact, our family also lives in such a small alley, and the room is not big. Unfortunately, I only studied hard before and never paid attention to these things. Li Jia's works are indeed much better than mine."

The other students all agreed upon hearing this, saying that children growing up in this generation rarely live in big houses, and most families are squeezed into a house of 20 to 30 square meters.

"Okay, stop chatting and go look around to find some design inspiration, or Professor Sun will get mad again in the next class."

Upon hearing this, everyone dispersed.

Zhuang Tunan was just about to pull Qin Hao along, but found that Qin Hao had no intention of leaving. Looking at Li Jia who was lying motionless, he could only say something in a low voice.

"I'm going to the front."