Chapter 4: How I Should Get Rich

  Liu Meng couldn't help but want to laugh, and thought to himself, "And what about his senior sister? If she knew that Liu Meng was actually 26 years old, he would be considered a weird uncle."

  The two of them exchanged a few more playful remarks, Liu Meng's words were still quite humorous, but with a hint of dry humor. Mainly because Cheng Fei had a low threshold for laughter, and soon they both became quite familiar with each other.

  "What's your phone number? Let's leave a way of contact. We can meet up and head back home together sometime, since we're both getting off at Xucheng anyway. I'll take care of you, sis."

  Cheng Fei took out a beautiful color screen mobile phone and wanted to save Liu Meng's phone number.

  Liu Meng almost wanted to report his previous mobile phone number, fortunately he stopped in time. At this moment, that ghost number was still unknown where it was.

  It wasn't until a month after entering university that Liu Meng bought a Nokia color screen mobile phone and got a cell phone number. At that time, he didn't have one at all. However, he suddenly had an idea and remembered the landline phone number from his undergraduate days in Ice City. If there were no changes, he should still be using that number, so he could tell Cheng Fei in advance.

  "I don't have a mobile phone yet, but I've already asked my fellow townsman to reserve a number for me in advance. You can store my phone number first, and remember to call me on September 26th, one month from now, it will definitely go through."

  Cheng Fei was unclear, didn't know what Liu Meng was doing, but still recorded the number as instructed, tried to dial it, and got a prompt tone: The phone number you dialed is empty... Not yet activated, what's going on.

  A confused look at Liu Meng.

  Liu Meng pretended to be mysterious and waved his hand, saying: "Don't ask about this, just consider it a little game between us. Just remember to call me when the time comes."

  "Hey, senior sister, are you dating someone at school? I heard from some alumni that if you don't date during your four years in college, it's a waste of time." Liu Meng quickly changed the subject.

  It's just that calling a young girl "senior sister" now feels somewhat unfamiliar.

  Cheng Fei's face turned slightly red and she snorted: "Nonsense, in college you have to study hard, can't just daydream."

  Liu Meng smiled and said, "So, sis, are you dating or not?"

  "No!" she replied bluntly. Cheng Fei's mind was racing with complaints, it wasn't that I didn't want to talk about it, but our normal college has too many girls and not enough boys, the boys are like a rare delicacy, just not as handsome as Tang Seng.

  "Wow, the boys in your school are really blind. Someone as beautiful as you is already almost a sophomore and still single, it's just not right."

  A burst of flattery and applause, Cheng Fei was indeed much happier and no longer continued to entangle the phone number.

  "Stop farting, I still have some bread here, do you want to eat some?" Cheng Fei saw that Liu Meng hadn't eaten anything since getting on the train and guessed that it was his first time leaving home, so he had forgotten to prepare food. The train's meals were ridiculously expensive and tasted bad, and she thought the kid couldn't afford them either, so with good intentions, she took out some food.

  As soon as he said that, his stomach was indeed growling loudly, and he was really hungry. Liu Meng didn't stand on ceremony, picked it up and started devouring it in big mouthfuls, stuffing himself quickly, but unexpectedly choked. Cheng Fei hastily handed over a cup of water, but she had drunk half of it and felt a bit embarrassed to hand it over.

  Liu Meng didn't care about these things, he just grabbed it and took a big gulp.

  It's already early morning, this green train from Xucheng to Bingcheng takes a total of 26 hours. The two chatted again and Cheng Fei suggested watching a movie instead. She took out her IBM laptop.

  It seems that this girl's family is quite well-off, Liu Meng thought to himself. In 2004, laptops were still very expensive, with prices often reaching tens of thousands of yuan, especially IBM, the cheapest ones cost over 10,000 yuan.

  No need to be polite, it just so happens that there's only one person on Cheng Fei's side and the other seat is empty.

  They sat down, and Cheng Fei opened the Harry Potter movie. The two of them started watching it. Liu Meng was very spirited and didn't feel sleepy at all. However, before long, Cheng Fei's eyelids began to droop, and after holding on for a while, her head slumped to one side.

  Look at this girl sleeping so uncomfortably, Liu Meng made an effort to sit up straight, trying to make his shoulders a bit higher so that Cheng Fei could lean on him, but Cheng Fei's height was not low either, estimated to be around 165cm, even with her head drooping down, she still couldn't reach Liu Meng's shoulder.

  She could only bow her head and stand halfway up, exhausted beyond measure, and unknowingly leaned against him.

  It's really uncomfortable to bow down like this, but who wants to eat someone else's bread? When you eat from others' mouths, you have to be short on words and can only grit your teeth and persist.

  A faint scent of flowers and grass wafted to my nose, refreshing my heart and lungs, very cool and refreshing. My heart was filled with joy, after all the hardships and difficulties, there's still some reward.

  It wasn't until a while later that he seemed to notice something wet dripping onto his neck.

  Ah, almost shouted out, glanced at the corner of his eye, and this wet thing was actually Cheng Fei's saliva. It turned out that the little beauty had fallen asleep and was drooling. Liu Meng thought that only he would drool when he slept face down.

  "Sorry, sorry." Cheng Fei woke up and immediately realized that she had fallen asleep leaning on Liu Meng's shoulder, and even drooled. Her face turned bright red with embarrassment.

  Grabbing tissues and wiping hastily.

  The whole person leaned against Liu Meng very close, close at hand, Liu Meng felt his heartbeat speed up a lot, with a look of just waking up, it was lovely, and couldn't help but scratch her delicate small nose.

  Anyway, Liu Meng still thought of himself as 26 years old, and when he saw Cheng Fei, he couldn't help but treat her like a little kid, which is why he acted this way.

  In Chang Fei's eyes, it was not the case. At this time, Liu Meng looked even more tender than her, and she couldn't help but blush, like a little apple.

  "You little kid, you're quite bold, even daring to tease your sister." Cheng Fei's words still sounded a bit unnatural, and she put on an air of seniority.

  "Sister, I was wrong." Liu Meng also immediately realized the problem and sincerely admitted his mistake.

  "Never mind, I'm a magnanimous sister who doesn't bother with trivial matters." With a wave of her hand, Cheng Fei said nonchalantly.

  Wow, Cheng Fei looked at his watch and it was almost 5 o'clock. He didn't realize he had slept for so long. Seeing Liu Meng exercising his upper body, he understood that he had been maintaining this posture to make himself sleep more comfortably, but also felt a bit embarrassed.

  She took out all the remaining food and handed it to Liu Meng. "Sister is getting off here, you're going to Ice City for the first time, be careful."

  Liu Meng suddenly realized that they were about to arrive at Checheng, where Cheng Fei was studying in college.

  It's hard to part with him, after all, he is the first acquaintance I've met since my rebirth.

  The two of them never saw each other again after that. They only occasionally chatted on QQ a few times, and later even lost contact with each other's QQ numbers.

  Thinking of this, Liu Meng was very reluctant to lose Cheng Fei as a friend and reminded him: "Remember to call me in a month, that number."

  "Got it, kiddo, what's with the mystery, see you later." Cheng Fei waved her hand and got out of the car.

  But after Cheng Fei got off the bus, Liu Meng felt a little regretful. Isn't this courting death? Why not just take down the number and be done with it? What if he can't get that number?

  Just as I thought of this, I wanted to catch up with Cheng Fei to ask for her phone number, but she had already disappeared into the crowd.

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  Cheng Fei got off the car, and Liu Meng was left alone to think about a very important question. Yes, he had gone back ten years. If he wanted to change his life and live differently, he had to make money. But how could he get rich?

  Continue to develop the previous product? It's completely unrealistic. In 2004, new energy was not developed at all, and the country's policy had not shifted yet. Moreover, setting up a personal small laboratory in a school dormitory is also unrealistic. The equipment needed would cost about 20,000 yuan, which is absolutely unaffordable.

  Buying lottery tickets? This is the best way to get rich, a beautiful idea, but a tragic reality. He used to buy Double Color Ball lottery tickets frequently, but it's impossible to remember which issue number, and each issue number is randomly drawn, making it difficult to guarantee no change. Liu Meng could only helplessly sigh, this plan was thoroughly vetoed.

  Sing a song? Forget it, Liu Meng has always been tone deaf and can't remember the lyrics of many songs. If I had to name a few songs that I can still remember but haven't appeared yet, they would be Chen Yisheng's songs, such as "Love Transfer", "Flashy", "Elimination", "My Backpack" and so on.

  It's because Liu Meng sings relatively poorly, every time he goes to KTV, he sings songs like "Twinkling Stars", "Sailor", "Great Citizen", "Forgetful Water", "Love You for Ten Thousand Years" and so on. Later, his colleagues wouldn't let him sing, so he practiced a few new songs by Chen Yisen, specially printed out the lyrics and repeated them many times, so he remembers them very clearly.

  But I remember that the lyrics of these songs don't seem to bring in any substantial income either. If you sing them yourself, you won't make money from it. A song sung by a super superstar and the same song sung by a nobody have completely different results and effects.

  It may be drowned in the internet and nobody cares about it.

  This is something I did myself ten years ago, in high school I read all the classic martial arts novels by Jin Yong, Gu Long, Wo Long Sheng and Liang Yu Sheng, later on I didn't read them anymore, then I went to rental stores to rent some pirated online versions, this "Dark God" is one of them.

  In the suitcase above, there was also a manuscript of about 200,000 words written during the summer vacation, "Space Guardian". Liu Meng could clearly remember that this book was uploaded to the internet and became very popular.

  The only three that are quite famous and leave a deep impression are "Hui Ming", "Tun Tian Xing Kong" and "Dou Po". I've read these three books many times, and even if Liu Meng wrote them now, they should still be about 80-90% as good.