Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 11 Farewell ()

The Spring Festival of 1986 passed quietly. People working away from home packed their clothes and hurried to the station with local specialties from their hometown. Because everyone was in a hurry to return to work, the peak period of passenger transportation was around the Spring Festival every year. When it came to the end of the s, with the development of the economy, people's living standards improved, and the number of private cars gradually increased. The increase in private cars not only caused traffic jams, but also caused countless car accidents. It was normal for cars to be destroyed and people to die.

The arrival of the Spring Festival also means the arrival of spring. Coastal areas have more rain than other places, and spring is the peak season for rain. Spring ploughing is also in full swing in the "spring rain". The same is true for Lu Shaohua's family. Although Lu Jiayao has given up a lot of land since he contracted the "lychee garden" and concentrated on managing lychees, it is still necessary to grow some rice, so Lu Jiayao started planting seeds underground on the third day of the New Year.

Lu Shaohua also cancelled his Spring Festival "holiday" and began to go to the beach every morning to strengthen his body, and went home to study high school textbooks. In his opinion, 1986 was a critical year, and he only had five months to study by himself, because lychees would be ripe from May, and he would go to Shenzhen, one of the five special economic zones in China, to start his plan to make a fortune. Sometimes he secretly cursed himself for traveling to 1985. If he traveled a few years earlier, he would have more time. However, after traveling to 1985, he could only slowly carry out his plan in a tight time. People always say: "Time is like milking cows. If you squeeze it, you will always have more." And Lu Shaohua's squeeze means giving up many opportunities to make money and only participating in those "relatively" profitable opportunities.

There was no other way, he could only do that. In the 1980s, an era when gold was everywhere, as long as you had a little brains, getting rich would not be a dream. Lu Shaohua, a man who understood the future economic trends, could make a lot of money by finding any opportunity. But now time was running out, he could only choose some more profitable and short-term money-making projects.

What is a "more profitable" and "short-term" money-raising project? In Lu Shaohua's plan, he has a project that can raise a large amount of money in a short period of time. The project that can raise a lot of money in a short period of time is nothing more than the stock market. As we all know, the stock market can make a person rich overnight, but it can also make a person bankrupt overnight.

As for the time of the outbreak, Lu Shaohua knew that the stock market crash broke out on October 1987, 10. This global stock market crash was known as "Black Monday" by later generations. This stock market crash was a good opportunity for Lu Shaohua to raise a large amount of funds. It was impossible to participate in that stock market crash in China, so Lu Shaohua had been trying to go to Hong Kong. But it was not so easy to get to Hong Kong in 19. The visa was a big problem, and there was also the first sum of money.

Lu Shaohua had already made a plan for the funds, which was to use the money from his family to buy lychees to make the first pot of gold, and then find a way to go to Hong Kong to prepare for "Black Monday". In that era, it was difficult to get a visa without connections, so Lu Shaohua had been trying to get a visa, but even if the visa could be obtained, the funds for selling lychees were from his family after all, and his family would not let an 8-year-old child go to Hong Kong with hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, so Lu Shaohua had always been troubled by this problem.

"Oh, forget it. If my family disagrees, I can just run away with the money. Well, I still need to get a visa. Visa..." Lu Shaohua's mind was spinning rapidly, trying desperately to find a connection to get a visa, but after thinking for a long time, he could not find a way and could only give up. He muttered to himself, "There are still about five months left, let's think about it slowly."

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Time passed unknowingly, and fifteen days had passed since the Chinese New Year. People were happily welcoming the traditional Chinese festival "Lantern Festival". The arrival of the Lantern Festival also meant the end of the winter vacation. Students from various universities rushed back to campus, and so did Lu Chang. He had to rush to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, to study for his last semester of university.

The station was crowded with people, and Lu Shaohua's whole family was obviously among them. Yes, they came to see Lu Chang off. After all, where they lived was more than ten hours' drive from Guangzhou, which was very far away.

"Okay, let's stay here. Don't see me off. I will try to graduate in May this year. My family is waiting for help." Lu Chang was a little excited that the whole family came to see him off.

"Okay, that's it. Take care of yourself out there and eat what you need. You don't have to worry about things at home. The third and fourth brothers are here to help." It was Lu Jiayao who spoke first. He was the eldest brother in the family, so he should be the one saying these farewell words.

"Well, take care."

"Take care. Take care." Lu Jiahui and Lu Jiacheng said in unison.

After saying goodbye, Lu Chang turned around and walked towards the bus to Guangzhou, but just as he was about to get on the bus, Lu Shaohua stopped him.

"Uncle. Uncle." When Lu Chang was about to get on the bus, Lu Shaohua suddenly remembered something, so he called him and walked towards the bus while calling.

Hearing that it was Lu Shaohua calling him, Lu Chang also stopped getting on the bus, turned around and asked, "Xiaohua, what's the matter?"

"Oh, nothing, I just want to ask you, do you have any classmates in college whose family is an official?" That's right, Lu Shaohua suddenly wanted to see if Lu Chang had any classmates whose family was an official. If so, then his visa could be approved. In the 1980s, the children of officials were generally sent to college, so Lu Shaohua asked Lu Chang tentatively.

"My family is an official, an official." Lu Chang muttered to himself when Lu Shaohua asked him this. He recalled whether any of his classmates in college were officials. After thinking for a while, it seemed that there was indeed a classmate whose father was an official in Guangzhou. "There is one, but it seems that he is not a high-ranking official."

Hearing Lu Chang's answer, Lu Shaohua was overjoyed, but he kept repeating in his mouth: "It's good to have an official, it's good to have an official."

Lu Chang didn't know why Lu Shaohua was so happy to hear that one of his classmates was an official, so he asked, "Xiaohua, why do you want to find an official?"

Lu Shaohua came back to his senses after Lu Chang asked him this. After his expression calmed down, he said to Lu Chang: "Uncle, can you help me find a way to ask your classmate to get me a visa to go abroad?"

"Overseas visa? What do you need that for?" Lu Chang asked with a puzzled look on his face. He really couldn't figure out what Lu Shaohua was doing with the overseas visa. After all, he was only 8 years old after the Chinese New Year. If it was an adult who needed to apply for a visa, he might be able to understand it, but he couldn't understand why he had to apply for an overseas visa at the age of 8.

"Oh, I am useful, don't ask him so many questions." Lu Shaohua would not tell him that he was going abroad. No matter how he explained it, it would not make sense, so he just laughed it off.

"You..." Lu Chang had originally said, "If you don't tell me, I won't help you." But the bus to Guangzhou was about to start, and if he didn't get on the bus in time, he would miss it. He could only agree as he got on the bus, "Okay, uncle will go talk to him. If he can't get it done, there's nothing we can do." In fact, after the last long talk, Lu Chang no longer regarded Lu Shaohua as a child. Although he was just thinking about what he wanted to do with his overseas visa, the bus was about to leave, and he didn't have time to ask clearly, so he agreed.

"Thank you, uncle. Please do your best to help me get it done." Lu Shaohua shouted to Lu Chang who had already boarded the bus. In his opinion, as long as you are an official, you have certain connections, and it is easy to get a visa. If you don't have official connections, you may not be able to get it even if you spend a year or half a year. This is the society in the 1980s. If you don't have power, you will be unable to move forward. If you don't have power, then everything will be smooth sailing...