Oubei Middle School,
After classes in the afternoon, Fang Bai left the high school section and went to the neighboring middle school section to find his younger sister.
Without a phone to contact her and with no telephone installed in the dormitory, finding someone was a real hassle. Fortunately, he knew which class his younger sister was in. The school was not that big, and after asking a few students, he managed to find her.
More than ten minutes later, Fang Bai finally met his younger sister. In a secluded part of campus, he stuffed ten ten-yuan bills into her hand, startling her.
"Brother, where did you get so much money again?
Could it be the compensation your boss paid you?"
Fang Tingting's little mouth hung open. Seeing her brother pull out money from his backpack, she guessed that small stack had to be worth a thousand yuan.
"I already gave the compensation money to our parents. I did a little business in town and made some money. Keep this hundred yuan safe, so no one with bad intentions sets their sights on it. Buy some clothes and study materials on the weekend, and eat better during the week."
Fang Bai reminded her that having too much money was too conspicuous. These days, there were plenty of thieves among students, and some even openly robbed people at knifepoint outside campus.
One hundred yuan was a substantial sum. Their parents would give her some money too, enough to last her an entire semester.
He did not dare give her larger-denomination bills, or it would really draw attention.
Fang Tingting knew her brother had only been discharged from the hospital a few days ago, yet he had already earned over a thousand yuan. She found it hard to believe. "Brother, what kind of business can make over a hundred yuan a day?
Selling popsicles? One of my classmates wholesales popsicles during summer vacation and sells them around the village, carrying a foam box on a bicycle."
"There's plenty you don't know. Just focus on your studies."
Fang Bai tapped her on the head. "Don't worry, it's legitimate business, nothing illegal.
Besides, how much can one popsicle cost? You might not even make a hundred yuan selling them for an entire vacation."
He thought of the popsicle in his hand that had melted before he could eat it. It was fine if they sold quickly, but if they sold slowly, melted popsicles would bring in no money.
Fang Tingting cleverly ducked her head, but she still did not quite believe that her brother had gone into business and made money. "Brother, won't doing business affect your studies? Do our parents know?"
"Just worry about yourself. I'll tell our parents in a few days."
"Oh, okay."
"Come on, let's eat outside campus."
"Can't we eat at school? It's too expensive outside."
Fang Bai really could not get used to the school cafeteria food. The vegetables had no oil and were cooked into a sickly yellow-green mess, while the meat dishes had no flavor at all. Thirty years later, even dogs would turn their noses up at it.
Eating outside did not cost much. Now that he finally had some savings, he could not keep torturing himself, and he could give his younger sister some better food too.
"Stop nagging. Do you want a feast or not?"
"Of course I do, hehe, but it's not easy for me to leave campus. I'm not a day student."
"Just follow me."
Fang Bai brought his younger sister to the school gate and handed the exit slip to the Gatekeeper. "Uncle Wang, this is my younger sister. We're going outside for dinner, but she lives on campus."
The Gatekeeper took a look and, seeing that Fang Bai had directly obtained a note from the Principal, waved them through. "Little Fang, you siblings can just go out directly from now on. You don't need an off-campus pass."
Following behind Fang Bai, his younger sister could not make sense of his strange maneuver. "Brother, how did you do that? The Gatekeeper was so easy to talk to."
"The Gatekeeper saw your brother's overwhelming aura and let us through."
"Ugh..." Fang Tingting did not believe him and stuck out her tongue in disdain.
After leaving the school gate, they soon arrived at the rental house. Fang Bai gave her a key. "This is the place I rented. You can come over on weekends if you have nothing to do. I'm usually here.
After school in the afternoon, wait for me here and we can have dinner together.
If I'm not here, it probably means I have something to do. I'll leave you a note on the table, and you can sort out dinner yourself."
Fang Tingting took a lap around the rental house and more or less believed that her brother was really doing business. There were three more bedrooms and three beds upstairs, but only one room had bedding and a sleeping mat.
Fang Bai washed his hands and face, then took his younger sister to a nearby small restaurant for dinner.
Fang Bai ordered two meat dishes, one vegetable dish, and two bowls of rice.
The food tasted pretty good, and the siblings ate with relish. Only the price made his younger sister's heart ache—it cost as much as two weeks of her meal allowance.
"Brother, isn't eating like this every day too extravagant?" Fang Tingting asked after the meal, licking her lips.
"It's fine. We're both skinny as sticks. Studying requires nutrition, and your brother makes money quickly."
Fang Bai waved it off indifferently. They were only eating at a small restaurant, not a fancy hotel or banquet hall every day.
If he could not even satisfy himself with this much, then being reborn would have been too much of a failure.
Seeing the happy expression on his younger sister's face as she ate, Fang Bai felt quite accomplished.
After dinner, Fang Bai took his younger sister to buy some daily necessities, including bedding and a mat for another bed. His younger sister could sleep here on weekends too; there were three bedrooms on the second floor of the rental house.
As night fell, his younger sister returned to school while Fang Bai went back to the rental house, showered, and began reading.
When he had time, he planned to go to the bookstore and buy more test papers to practice on. The materials the teachers provided were still somewhat outdated.
Following the study methods of future Study Aces, drilling practice questions was one of the best ways to improve grades in subjects like mathematics and physics.
The next morning, Fang Bai did not go to school for class.
When Li Hui saw that Fang Bai had missed two classes, he went to the Homeroom Teacher's office after the second class ended and found the Homeroom Teacher.
"Li Hui, what is it?"
"Homeroom Teacher, Fang Bai didn't come to class today."
"Mm, I know. Go back to class." After hearing that, Zhan Feng waved Li Hui away.
Sometimes, she rather liked students who loved to tattle.
But Fang Bai's situation was different. Fang Bai had already told her yesterday that he might not come in today, and she had agreed.
Fang Bai had received the Principal's approval, so he did not need the teacher's permission.
The fact that Fang Bai had proactively asked her for leave showed that he still respected her as his Homeroom Teacher.
The next class was Class One's English lesson.
After the bell rang, Zhan Feng walked up to the podium, swept her gaze over the students below, and said, "First, I need to address something regarding Fang Bai not attending class this morning."
When Li Hui heard the Homeroom Teacher say that, he felt secretly pleased. Fang Bai, get ready to bear the Homeroom Teacher's wrath!
"Not only this time, but this may happen often in the future. Fang Bai's circumstances are different. He has my approval to attend as a day student, and he also has the Principal's approval.
So if you see Fang Bai absent from class, don't make a fuss about it."
After Zhan Feng finished speaking, she began the lesson.
Li Hui was somewhat surprised and disappointed by what the Homeroom Teacher said. When he saw her glance at him, he could not help lowering his head. He thought the Homeroom Teacher was dissatisfied with him. At the same time, he was somewhat jealous of Fang Bai. Why did the school allow Fang Bai to attend as a day student? He was the only one in the entire school!
Why the hell did he get to?!
Fang Bai did not know that a classmate had tattled on him. Today, he was going to discuss finding equipment with Master Chen.
Acquiring equipment was not that easy; it was the sort of thing that depended on finding overlooked bargains. Fang Bai did not hold out much hope for this route.
After finding Master Chen, Fang Bai spoke with him. If there was any news and Fang Bai was not home, Master Chen could simply slip a note through the crack in the door.
For any equipment successfully purchased, Fang Bai would give him a commission. Even if nothing came of it, he would still receive a little money for his trouble.
Last night, he checked his Golden Finger and discovered that his Network Count had increased by one. The second person in his network was the Principal of Oubei Middle School.
Of the three Golden Fingers, the Index Finger was currently the hardest to upgrade, followed by the Ring Finger's network. It required twenty connections to reach Level 2. The Middle Finger came last, requiring a net worth of one hundred thousand to upgrade.
Fang Bai already had over ten thousand in assets. He felt that upgrading was not too far away.
As for his next way of making money, finding overlooked equipment depended on luck, so he was not counting on it.
Therefore, his next plan was to deal in imported scrap, and secondly, to find his future father-in-law and use his experience from his previous life to become a middleman for valves.
These three paths were his ways of making money before the college entrance exam, but what about after it?
Or what about avenues besides these three?
He had considered that too and had several ideas that were not quite mature yet.
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