I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

Chapter 4 How to Make Money
"What's wrong? You look so miserable."

After coming back, Dongdong found that Chen Xi's face looked a little unnatural, and he thought Chen Xi had a stomach upset.

"It's okay, I met Li Yuqing." Chen Xi shook his head.

"Oh, she is from the same university as us, so it's normal to meet her." Dongdong nodded.

Chen Xi waved his hands, avoiding the questions he didn't want to mention.

His thoughts were focused on his business plan and trying to convince the two people in front of him to join him.

After his chance encounter with Gouzi, an idea to make money came to his mind.

Dinner time.

Box Hill has many Chinese-owned restaurants.

Although the taste of most dishes has been improved to a certain extent, they still retain the characteristics and unique flavor of Chinese culture.

In Australia, every meal is a difficult choice because there are few varieties of food.

Xiao Ming pays attention to quantity, Dong Dong likes pasta, and Chen Xi prefers Jiangnan-style food.

Although the three have different tastes, they all love Cantonese cuisine.

In most cases, they would go to places like tea restaurants for their meals.

"Let's go to Zhenzhen Bistro and order a Wuxi pork ribs pot and a piece of black bean sauce chow..." Chen Xi made a suggestion.

Zhenzhen Bistro was a restaurant that Chen Xi liked very much, but it went bankrupt later. He thought the food there was pretty good.

The three of them found an empty table and sat down.

Chen Xi picked up the phone and frowned.

He was used to using advanced smart phones in his previous life, but now he has to use this ancient communication tool, which is really a big challenge for him.

This was before the iPhone was even invented, and people didn’t hold onto their phones tightly while dining.

Before you are reborn, you should read dozens of rebirth novels to learn how others live their lives.

I've been reborn, why don't I have a system? Where is my cheat code?
Maybe it’s not time to wake up yet.

Will the air conditioner turn me into a vegetable?
I'm lying in the hospital now, is this just my imagination?

The dishes were served quickly, but he was still thinking about his rebirth.

He picked up a piece of pork ribs he had not tasted for a long time and put it into his mouth.

Yes, that’s the taste!
He always craved it, and after returning home he never tasted the same flavor again.

"We have an appointment to go to City (downtown of Mo Village) for a gathering this weekend." Xiao Ming looked at Chen Xi and said.

"I don't want to go. I want to study hard at home." Chen Xi shook his head.

"Come on, all the high school students are going on the weekend, including that senior from Sakura Country." Dongdong started persuasion mode.

"Okay." Hearing that all his high school classmates had gone, he no longer refused and also wanted to meet his high school classmates when he was young.

Most of these high school classmates have a good relationship.

Later, we all returned to China and got together once a year, and we have always maintained a good relationship.

However, he was impressed by the senior from Sakura Country.

She is very beautiful, but the worst thing is that she likes to tease these junior students.

When I was in high school, the school organized a trip and this woman actually ran to a boy and threw a disposable raincoat there.

As soon as the classmate showed some reaction, she ran back to her room and locked the door.

He couldn't help laughing when he thought of this.

"I really can't stand this hairstyle." Chen Xi muttered to himself.

Looking at a selfie he had just taken on his phone, he turned his gaze to Xiao Ming and Dong Dong across the table. The hairstyles of the three of them were all in the Shamatte style.

He decided to get a haircut after dinner. There was a Chinese barber shop next door. The barber skills were very good, but each haircut took an hour or two to complete.

"You just had your hair permed, why do you need to cut it again?" Xiao Ming looked left and right at Chen Xi.

"Because I feel like there's a chicken coop on my head!" Chen Xi pointed to the top of his head.

"This is the most popular hairstyle for us." Dongdong said, touching his curly hair.

"..."

Two hours later, Chen Xi looked at himself in the mirror and found that he had returned to his normal aesthetic standards. He nodded slightly with satisfaction.

I was quite handsome when I was young. "Teacher Tony's craftsmanship is pretty good." Chen Xi said to a handsome man around 30 years old next to him.

Tony is the gold medal barber at the Craft Barber Shop. Chen Xi has been having his hair cut by him since high school.

Although Tony did not advocate that Chen Xi choose a hairstyle that was too fancy, Chen Xi was influenced by the "Funeral Love Family" at the time, so Tony could only try his best to meet the customer's requirements.

However, Xiao Ming and Dong Dong who were waiting there laughed at him and said that his hairstyle was so unfashionable.

"You two can go home and sing I Miss You by yourselves. I won't go crazy with you." Looking at their explosive hairstyles, Chen Xi thought of the old hit song of Funeral Love Family.

This really suits both of them!

"How do you know I like this song?"

"I'll sing for you when I get back!"

The two of them looked at each other with a smile, then pulled Chen Xi out of the barber shop.

"Cigarettes are so cheap nowadays, only a dozen or so yuan." Chen Xi bought a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store, and he couldn't help but sigh after paying the bill.

"The price has gone up, how can it still be cheap?" Dong Dong pouted.

Chen Xi shook his head at Dongdong's words and did not refute.

In the previous life, the price of cigarettes in Australia experienced an astonishing increase.

In order to achieve the goal of getting citizens to quit smoking, the government has taken a series of measures to increase tobacco prices.

This caused the price of cigarettes to soar from a dozen yuan to nearly 40 yuan, which is equivalent to about 300 yuan a pack in domestic currency.

This has made it impossible for many people to smoke.

All he can do now is to get start-up capital and then return to his old business.

In his previous life, he made a fortune by trading used cars and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few months.

But it's still too early now, and I haven't met the two people I was going to be partnered with at that time.

International students usually come from well-off families, so it is not difficult for them to make money.

It’s just that most people can’t let go of their face to do things, and some have high expectations but low skills and look down on small businesses.

Sitting on the bus on the way home, he began to plan what he needed to do next.

It is better to study hard during this period.

Go to a party on the weekend and listen to everyone’s hard college life.

"Li Yuqing will probably be there this weekend too, so be careful," Dongdong kindly reminded.

"What's there to pay attention to? Can't we encounter it in college? You can avoid it on the first day, but you can't escape it on the fifteenth day." Chen Xi shrugged.

He didn't take this matter seriously at all, but he couldn't just hide away forever.

He shook his head and continued to think about ways to make money.

It is actually not difficult to make a living in Australia.

He remembered a couple who graduated from the University of Melbourne, both of whom had PhDs, and who earned more than 200,000 Australian dollars a year just by picking up scraps at night.

With a little diligence, money will no longer be a problem.

Junk picking is not a simple job. It actually involves collecting items discarded by others, taking them home to clean and repair them, and finally posting information online for sale.

Australians generally like to save trouble, and often throw away things once they are damaged or no longer needed.

Since recycling items costs extra, they prefer to leave them at their doorsteps.

Those smart people who know how to seize business opportunities will sort out the second-hand items they pick up and sell them publicly online.

There are many illegal businesses in Australia, one of which is the illegal trade of smuggled cigarettes.

Many Chinese people are not used to smoking non-flue-cured cigarettes from Australia, so some people smuggle some cigarettes from China to sell here, making more than ten times the profit.

These cigarettes are often sold covertly in restaurants.

He used to have money and looked down upon these crooked things, so he never thought about it.

For example, Gou Zi asked him to join in opening a private club, which had some gambling and entertainment, free drinks, and beautiful women as companions, but those things were all illegal.

He heard that Gouzi earned 30 million Chinese yuan in just half a year.

The main group of consumers are international students, but Chen Xi felt that this was unethical, so he rejected the invitation.

(End of this chapter)