Ten thousand!
For Gao Fei, a fresh graduate, and indeed for most people, ten thousand yuan is definitely a huge sum!
He previously only knew that Hu Xu’s family was very wealthy, with parents doing business locally.
But he never expected that his "foolish" big brother’s family was so rich!
They could casually lend out a hundred thousand Long Guo currency!
This is definitely the epitome of a wealthy patron!
“Da Xu, you can casually lend me ten thousand yuan, aren’t you afraid your parents will find out?”
“What’s there to be afraid of? This ten thousand yuan is the New Year’s red envelopes I’ve saved every year since I started high school. Now that high school is over, I can spend this money as I please!”
Hu Xu on the other end of the phone was not boasting; he was simply explaining the origin of the ten thousand yuan.
But to Gao Fei, it sounded incredibly jarring!
Ten thousand yuan saved from three years of red envelopes. He had lived two lives, and the total red envelopes he received amounted to just over ten thousand, merely a fraction of Hu Xu’s.
He never expected that even a reborn person could be shocked!
Indeed, comparing oneself to others leads to anger!
Returning to the previous topic, Gao Fei still only wanted to borrow ten thousand yuan.
But Hu Xu on the other end of the phone was full of confusion. What kind of business only required ten thousand yuan as startup capital?
In his impression, his family’s businesses always started with at least a million.
He could hardly imagine what kind of business would only require ten thousand yuan.
Gao Fei didn’t hide anything, directly stating his idea of opening a barbecue stall in the night market.
When the stall opened, Hu Xu would definitely come to help, so it was better to tell him the truth now.
If they could reach an agreement, Hu Xu’s ten thousand yuan could be considered an investment!
Gao Fei had thoroughly implemented the principle of getting things for free.
Meanwhile, in a three-story villa in the riverside villa district.
At first, Hu Xu could understand that Gao Fei wanted to borrow money from him to open a barbecue stall in the night market.
But as Gao Fei launched into his eloquent explanation and his intention to get that ten thousand yuan for free…
Hu Xu barely heard the rest of the conversation, instead sitting on the sofa in a daze!
What was this street stall economy, this night market culture, this franchisor business…
In short, it was like listening to an audiobook.
However, Hu Youcheng, Hu Xu’s father, listened to Gao Fei’s words with narrowed eyes, nodding occasionally.
“Xiao Xu, ask Xiao Fei, since he wants to make the barbecue stall bigger and stronger, and even consider franchising, how will he attract customers in the early stages?”
Father Hu took a sip of tea and instructed his son in a low voice to ask the question.
Hu Xu relayed the question back verbatim.
At this moment, Gao Fei, who was lying on his bed and spewing nonsense, suddenly stopped talking.
This question was definitely not something Hu Xu would think of; it had to be his father.
Gao Fei, quickly recovering, laughed, “Da Xu, don’t forget, I’m currently the most talked-about graduate in the college entrance exam news.
Not to mention nationwide, within our Fengyun City, there’s probably no one who doesn’t know me.
As soon as it’s revealed that I’m opening a stall in the night market, it will definitely attract a large number of customers and traffic!
This business is absolutely guaranteed to be profitable!”
As he finished speaking, there was suddenly silence on the other end of the phone.
After a moment, Hu Xu said that he should come and get the money tomorrow, as an investment, and not as a loan.
Gao Fei understood that it must be Da Xu’s father advising him.
Otherwise, his foolish big brother would never have thought of investing.
Anyway, he had initially wanted Hu Xu to invest, to get that ten thousand yuan for free. Now that there was an opening, he simply agreed.
After ending the call, Gao Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He casually opened his phone’s browser and began browsing news about himself on various websites.
“Hailed as a role model for the new era, this young man has done such outrageous things in his three years of high school. Truly a tragedy of the times.”
“You sympathize with Gao Fei’s life, but you didn’t expect him to be an unmotivated fool who can’t be helped. Being last place for three years was just putting on a show for the cameras.”
“Shocking gossip, Gao Fei broke into the school’s livestock farm in his second year of high school, and the screams of the sow in the middle of the night were terrifying!”
“A student who gets into fights and harasses classmates is actually seen as a microcosm of the times, disgusting!”
A continuous stream of exposes and slanderous posts were trending on major websites.
Gao Fei looked at the posts that were fabricated at will and maliciously smeared him, and saved them all.
It was only after the college entrance exam, and the results were not out yet, so it was not the time for him to fight back.
After half a month, when the results were released, it would be his best time to retaliate against these online trolls.
However, Gao Fei also noticed some posts defending him.
But they were no match for the onslaught of the black hats, and these posts had already sunk deep.
He noticed that most of the posters speaking out in his defense were from Fengyun City.
Upon clicking on them, most were from students in the enhanced class of No. 1 Middle School.
Gao Fei closed the webpages of various websites and began browsing local forums in Fengyun City.
The forums were also occupied by online trolls, and it was almost impossible to find any positive comments about him.
Those posts defending him and proving he was a “score manipulator” and a “top student” had almost no traction.
Only a few posts were still fighting at the top of the forum.
When Gao Fei looked, good heavens, Hu Xu and Yao Zhen and a group of school team students, who had just hung up the phone, were using their own photos as avatars and publicly revealing their identities.
They were angrily confronting the black hats and even announced that they would meet the black hats offline tomorrow in Fengyun City.
The black hats, who only dared to use their keyboards as weapons, would certainly not dare to meet offline, and after a few mocking remarks, they stopped replying.
When Gao Fei saw that the IP addresses of the black hats were from Fengyun City, he immediately entered each person’s background to view the posts they had made.
“I’m really puzzled, why are these trolls and black hats slandering me like this? Did I steal your rice, or burn down your house, that you’re targeting me so intensely!”
Looking at the posts that were fabricated out of thin air and smeared him, Gao Fei was very helpless.
From his previous life to the current Long Guo, he had never understood why trolls would inexplicably cyberbully someone they had no connection with.
It was as if they had no brain stem, their heads were full of excrement!
…
In a civilian house in the urban village of Fengyun City.
“Ah Yao, it’s already twelve o’clock, why aren’t you sleeping yet? You’re still playing on the computer!”
“I’ve already graduated from high school, why are you rushing me? I’ll sleep in a bit!”
Wu Yaoxing, a thin and weak young man, impatiently replied to his mother, then picked up his phone and took a flurry of photos of the score report on the table.
After taking the photos, he logged into a social website, found a certain big influencer who had contacted him a few hours earlier, and sent all the photos.
Soon, Wu Yaoxing received a bank transfer of three hundred yuan.
At the same time, the influencer sent him a message: “Pleasure doing business with you!”
Looking at the three hundred yuan earned from side income, Wu Yaoxing was very satisfied. Then, he typed furiously on the keyboard: “Big Brother, I have more explosive material on Gao Fei, do you need it?”
“What explosive material? Don’t tell me it’s the same old gossip that’s been circulating online again and again!”
“This is my new, first-hand explosive material, almost none of it is online. If you need it, you’ll have to pay extra!”