Glory to the ancestors!
In the countryside, building a new house and moving into it is undoubtedly a monumental event, one that brings great pride to the family. Though there's certainly some vanity involved, the village culture is what it is. People see each other daily, and face-saving matters a lot. If one can build the tallest and most luxurious house in the village, it's considered an impressive achievement. This might be one of the reasons why the usually stubborn and dominant father, Xu, eventually stopped opposing his daughter's plan, albeit reluctantly.
When Xu's mother learned that the car her daughter had driven back cost 1.6 million, she couldn't resist running out to look at it for a while. Seeing that no mischievous children were around to cause trouble, and recalling that lunch still hadn't been prepared, she quickly instructed Xu Su to watch the car while she went back to the house to get busy.
Unfortunately, Xu Su had it tough. She dragged a chair to sit right in front of the house, carefully watching the car, making sure no one could tamper with it. Normally, she didn't get this kind of treatment. As the family's studious child, her only responsibility was to study. She didn't need to work in the fields, take care of cows, or even step into the kitchen. She lived a carefree life, with meals served to her and clothes brought to her, a true "princess" in the family.
"Xu Su, so this is what it's like?" Xu Duo couldn't help but tease her younger sister, her eyes glinting with mischief. She remembered how, as a child, she was the underachiever in the family, with vastly different treatment from her sister. "When we were younger, I never got any of the snacks or good food, you always ate them. I had to do the farm work and tend to the cows, then come home to wash the vegetables and cook. But you? You never had to do anything. And when something went wrong, I was the one who got scolded. Now it's your turn!"
"You're so smug now!" Xu Su rolled her eyes exaggeratedly but then softened when she remembered the iPhone 4 she had just received. In the last two hours, she'd accumulated many questions. "Xu Duo, just how much money do you have? I feel like you're fooling Dad and Mom!"
"Take a look for yourself," Xu Duo, understanding her sister's way of thinking, handed over her phone. She unlocked it and brought up her bank messages, casually passing it to her younger sister. "Just know this for now. Also, even though you're in the third year of middle school, it's never too early to think about your future. After high school, you should aim for a good university. After graduation, are you planning to start your own business, or do you have other ideas? You still have seven or eight years to plan it out."
Xu Su couldn't help but gasp as her eyes widened at the number on the phone screen. She stuttered, "I-it's in the billions? How do you have so much money? But wait, you're in the second-hand business, there's no way you made that much."
"Scrapped items are sold by weight, only a few bucks per pound. But we have the skills to turn waste into useful items. You see, how can that not make money?" Xu Duo explained vaguely, leaving out key details. She decided to take this opportunity to give her sister some advice. "For example, take used phone batteries. One pound can contain four batteries, worth just 2.5 yuan each. After processing, we sell them for 155 yuan each. So, one pound of used batteries can be worth 620 yuan. With large quantities, you can imagine how much we make. That's huge profit. But the key is having skills that others don't, or else it's all just talk."
"That's why you need to study hard, aim for a top university, and gain knowledge. Once you have that, you can branch into higher-level technical fields. As for me, I was lucky to meet some people in the past few years who opened up ways for me to make money. Otherwise, in Shenzhen, it would've been a struggle just to survive. Big cities aren't easy places to survive in!"
Xu Su's eyes glistened with thought, processing every word her older sister said. Xu Duo finally felt relieved, realizing her sister was taking her words to heart. She had worried that suddenly becoming rich might make her sister complacent, but it seemed that wasn't the case.
"Alright, let's go inside. Don't listen to Mom. If the car gets scratched or damaged, it's not the end of the world. Let's eat!" Xu Duo, seeing that her sister had understood, decided to stop talking and headed toward the house.
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