Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 10 Uncle Weng ()

The first day of the new year, the first day of the lunar year. According to the rules of Lu Shaohua's place, it is not allowed to visit distant relatives. If it is relatives in the village, it is still okay, but Lu Shaohua is unwilling to visit those relatives. After all, he is now recognized as a "child prodigy". Whether he visits relatives or neighbors, they ask him all kinds of questions, which makes him very annoyed. So he simply does not go anywhere and just reads books at home. Besides, a person with more than 30 years of memory, will he follow others to play like a child? The answer is obviously impossible.

As the sky darkened, time passed quietly. Lu Shaohua read all day. He had been studying junior high school textbooks for more than ten days and finally finished reviewing all the junior high school knowledge on this day. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then he began to self-study high school textbooks. High school knowledge was not like junior high school knowledge, which could be flipped through page by page. He had to study it slowly.

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The sun sets in the west... in the dark night... Then it quietly rises in the east... in the daytime...

The sun sets in the west and rises quietly in the east, as if telling people, 'Twenty-four hours have passed.'

When Lu Shaohua got up from the bed, it was already daybreak. "Hey, it's time to get up."

After stretching and tidying up the bed on the living room floor, he realized that it was already nine o'clock in the morning and no one was home. "It looks like everyone is out." Seeing that no one was home, Lu Shaohua guessed that his parents must have gone out to visit relatives, and his brother and sister must have gone out to play, after all, they were still young.

After breakfast, Lu Shaohua was about to pick up his high school textbook to study for a while when his father pushed the door open. Seeing Lu Shaohua got up, he shouted at him at the door without even entering the living room: "Let's go to your uncle Weng's house."

"Here I am." Lu Shaohua originally wanted to seize the time to study on his own, but he didn't expect that Lu Jiayao would come back just as he picked up the book. He could only put down the book helplessly, got up and walked to the door.

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In fact, Lu Shaohua didn't know much about Uncle Weng. He knew his name was Weng Fuming, but he had no idea how rich his family was. He only knew that they built a five-story house in the early 120s at a cost of more than million yuan. But he didn't know what business his family was in. The only thing he knew was that his eldest son made a fortune by selling pirated CDs in the mid-s.

After walking for about twenty minutes from home, Lu Jiayao and Lu Shaohua arrived at a two-story building. The outer walls of the building were painted light red and looked very new. It should have been painted just before the Chinese New Year.

"Brother, where are you going?" Just as Lu Jiayao and Lu Shaohua were about to walk into the door, a middle-aged man who looked only in his 40s walked out. However, after hearing Lu Jiayao's greeting, Lu Shaohua guessed that the middle-aged man was the owner of the house - 'Uncle Weng'.

Since he knew who this middle-aged man was, Lu Shaohua of course had to greet him and called out sweetly, "Happy New Year, Uncle Weng."

"Jiayao, if you're a little slower, I'll go to your house. Let's go upstairs." Weng Fuming had just come down from the second floor with a bag in his hand. He lowered his head and was about to walk to the door when he heard Lu Jiayao's voice. He looked up and realized it was Lu Jiayao, so he smiled and said. But then he heard Lu Shaohua's sweet call, and he didn't react. His eyes rolled around and he frowned, as if he was trying to recall who this "child" was?

Seeing Weng Fuming's expression, Lu Jiayao guessed that it was because he didn't know Lu Shaohua. After all, children change every year. Moreover, after almost a month of exercise, Lu Shaohua has grown a lot taller. He doesn't look like an 8-year-old child at all, but more like a 10-year-old child. In fact, Lu Jiayao himself was also very depressed. His youngest son was only 8 years old after the Chinese New Year. Not only was his height similar to his eldest brother Lu Shaopeng, but his body was also stronger than his brother. Not to mention his brain, which was "smart". Moreover, he showed an adult-like expression from time to time, and his tone of voice was no different from that of an adult. What made Lu Jiayao even more depressed was Lu Shaohua's status in his generation. No one could compare to him. As long as he said something, all his uncles supported him. Just like this time when he wanted to transport lychees to Shenzhen for sale, the only college student in his family also supported him. Sometimes he suspected that Lu Shaohua's status in the family was higher than that of him as the "eldest brother".

These thoughts flashed through Lu Jiayao's mind. Seeing that Weng Fuming was still recalling, he quickly said, "Brother, you can't guess who it is, right?"

"Yes, I really can't guess who it is. From the looks of it, he doesn't look like Shaopeng. As for Shaohua, he looks even less like him. Shaohua is only 8 years old after the Chinese New Year. It's impossible for him to be so tall?" Weng Fuming searched through all the memories in his mind, but he couldn't find any that matched the child in front of him.

"Hahaha..." Lu Jiayao couldn't help but burst into laughter when he heard Weng Fuming's words. In fact, this was not the first person to say this. Just like Lu Jiahui and Lu Jiacheng, they couldn't recognize him. If Lu Shaohua hadn't called them at that time, they wouldn't have known it was Lu Shaohua. Later, Lu Jiahui secretly asked Lu Jiayao why he had grown so tall all of a sudden, which really made Lu Jiayao a little speechless.

After laughing for a while, Lu Jiayao patted Lu Shaohua's shoulder heavily and then said to Weng Fuming: "This kid is the 'old tail' Xiaohua. Don't say that you can't recognize him, even Jiahui asked me several times what happened, why he grew so tall all of a sudden." In fact, Lu Jiayao's words were a bit 'boastful', and Lu Jiahui didn't ask several times, only two or three times. After a few days of getting along, he gradually got used to it and never asked again. But saying this can also be regarded as giving Weng Fuming a way out and relieve his embarrassment. After all, if you don't recognize someone after not seeing him for a year, it is indeed a very embarrassing thing. If you haven't seen him for more than ten years, it may be normal not to recognize him, but it's only been a year...

"Hahaha... If you hadn't said it, I really wouldn't have recognized him." As expected, after hearing what Lu Jiayao said, Weng Fuming's expression improved a lot, and he was no longer embarrassed. If his own uncle couldn't recognize him, it was understandable that he, as an uncle of a family friend, couldn't recognize him. After Weng Fuming finished speaking, he seemed to realize that Lu Jiayao had been standing at the door all the time after he had said so much, so he quickly said to Lu Jiayao: "Let's go upstairs, your sister-in-law is not here, let's go have tea."

Weng Fuming put the bag in his hand on the ground, took out a big red envelope from his pocket and handed it to Lu Shaohua. "Here, uncle will give you a red envelope."

Lu Shaohua took the red envelope and put it in his pocket before saying, "Thank you, uncle."

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Lu Shaohua followed Lu Jiayao up to the second floor. The living room on the second floor really scared Lu Shaohua, because this living room was bigger than the house Lu Jiayao lived in now. Lu Shaohua couldn't help but sigh: "Rich people are different!" But then he thought: "There will be a big house, a car, and even more beautiful women." Indeed, for him, making money is just a small matter. If he can successfully earn the first pot of gold in his life and have the start-up capital, then the money will come rolling in. Not to mention the big house, even buying a few planes will not be a problem.

"Sit down, Jiayao. I heard Shaohua is a celebrity now. People call him 'child prodigy'. What's going on?" After going up to the second floor, Weng Fuming first asked Lu Jiayao and Lu Shaohua to sit down before speaking to Lu Jiayao.

Hearing that Weng Fuming asked this question as soon as he sat down, he looked a little proud, but soon returned to normal, and then asked back: "Do you remember the last time I borrowed money from you?"

"Well, I didn't ask you last time what you were going to do with so much money?" Weng Fuming was a little surprised. Out of trust, he didn't ask what Lu Jiayao was going to do with the money when he borrowed it. Now that Lu Jiayao mentioned it, he was a little curious and asked by the way.

"It was this kid's idea. He asked me to remove the oranges and plant lychees instead. He also contracted more than ten mu of land from the village government to plant lychees. When I went to the village committee secretary's house to contract the land, he dared to bargain with him. The original price was 200 yuan per mu, but he chopped it down to 120 yuan per mu." Lu Jiayao paused here, drank a cup of tea and continued, "I won't talk about the bargaining. Later, he wrote a contract, and the village committee secretary was so scared that he signed it. After getting the signed contract, he immediately took me away. After we left, the village committee secretary realized that this kid had set him up. Before the Chinese New Year, I heard that the village committee secretary warned the village officials in the village not to provoke him during a meeting. That's how he made people spread rumors about him."

Weng Fuming also listened with great interest. When Lu Jiayao talked about growing lychees, he realized that the money was borrowed for the land contract. However, when he heard that Lu Shaohua could write a contract, he was a little surprised. He was just a child. However, he couldn't help but say the word "smart" at the end.

Lu Jiayao talked for so long, stopped to rest for a while, drank a few cups of tea, and then said slowly: "Brother, I came here today...because...I want to ask you for help with something."

"If you have something to say, just say it. Don't be hesitant." Weng Zhangkun said straightforwardly.

"I... I... Well, let's let this kid speak." Lu Jiayao was a little embarrassed to speak. After all, asking for help from others is something that everyone would feel embarrassed about.

Hearing Lu Jiayao calling him, Lu Shaohua could only say: "Uncle Weng, you know, my family is planting more than ten acres of lychees, and we can harvest them in May two years later. But if we sell them directly at home, it may not exceed five yuan per pound, so we want to buy lychees first and transport them to Shenzhen to test the market. If the market is good, we can also transport our own lychees there for sale. What do you think?"

"Well, that's a good idea. The price can probably be doubled if it's shipped to Shenzhen. How about this, I'll ask 'Wende' (his eldest son) to help you find a better location, and you can ship it down and sell it." Weng Fuming was a smart man. When he heard Lu Shaohua mention Shenzhen, he knew that asking him for help was to find a better location, so without waiting for Lu Shaohua to speak, he directly stated the arrangement.

"Well, thank you uncle." Lu Shaohua said sincerely.

"Okay, don't thank me. Our two families are old friends. We should help each other. Okay, don't say anything. Let's drink tea... drink tea..."