Chapter 8 The dream of the seventh upstart

Miao Town, where Jiechen lives, is actually quite small. Most of the residents here are engaged in agriculture, and a few are handicraftsmen and small traders. Judging from their economic conditions, they are just average. There are also a few people with good economic conditions in the town, such as Li Benefactor in the town. He usually has more contacts with outsiders and often sells some local agricultural products to other places. Therefore, among the local young people, the economic conditions are considered to be excellent. However, it may be that he has dealt more with benefactors from other places, so instead of thinking that he is rich, benefactor Li feels that he is quite poor.

Donor Li lives very close to Maoshan, so sometimes after dinner, he would come to Tianming Temple for a stroll, and then sit for a while. Donor Li would bring a few pieces of cakes or bunches of candied haws every time. So Jie Chen and Jie Chi in the temple like Li benefactor very much. Benefactor Li looks a bit fat, but in his own words, he looks more graceful and wealthy.When chatting in the temple, benefactor Li expressed a lot of emotions. Whenever he mentioned the life outside the town, benefactor Li sighed from time to time and said that people are more annoying than others, just like himself. He looks like a nouveau riche, but in fact he is very poor.

Benefactor Li said that the current society is quite unfair. The rich will always be rich, and the poor will always be poor. Take buying a house as an example. As for those with poor economic conditions, when they have worked hard to save enough money for the down payment, the house price has already risen, and it is not enough.After working hard to save for a few more years, you will find that it is still not enough, because the house price has risen much faster than your income. Li benefactor's words have won the approval of many pilgrims, but Jie Chen is still confused, because for Jie Chen, buying a house is something that has no concept. I was stunned for a moment when I heard it.

Later, Li benefactor had no choice but to put it another way. He used himself as an example. He said that if he invested 100,000 yuan, if he was lucky, the profit would be 20-30%. hard work.And those with good family backgrounds don't need to use their brains, save 10 million in the bank, and the interest alone will be hundreds of thousands a year.Therefore, if the poor cannot be hit by pies falling from the sky, it will be too disadvantageous to compare themselves with those who are born with money. Li benefactor's second statement, Jiechen understood immediately, after all, this kind of low-grade mathematics four operations Jiechen is quite good, but Jiechen is too embarrassed to express the joy after comprehension, because Li benefactor said It ended up looking pretty depressing.

Sometimes Li benefactor would happily say that every year when he celebrates his birthday or sees shooting stars, he will make a wish quickly, hoping that he will have some good luck, win a big prize or something, and become an upstart all of a sudden. The remark of winning the grand prize was just a casual remark of Li Benefactor. In fact, neither Jie Chen nor Li Benefactor took it seriously, but two years later, Li Benefactor actually realized his dream of becoming an upstart. It turned out that there were several postage albums at Donor Li's house, which were relics left by Donor Li's uncle.Donor Li kept it at home and didn’t care about it, but one day, Donor Li suddenly saw some news about precious stamps in the newspaper, and some pictures of stamps looked very familiar to Donor Li, so he went back to look through the stamp album, and found that it was true. There are expensive stamps.Excited, Donor Li took a few stamp albums and asked knowledgeable friends to value them, and the value was as high as two million.Benefactor Li sold the stamp album and ran to the big city with the money.

Jie Anger and Jie Pride are also very happy for Donor Li, because I remember that what Li Benefactor used to complain about most was the lack of capital for doing business.But now it was all right, he was suddenly smashed by the pie that fell from the sky, and the problem that had puzzled him for a long time was no longer a problem at all. Benefactor Li has been away for a long time. During the period when he first left, the townspeople who came and went mentioned him from time to time. After it was too long, not many people thought of him, but Jie Crazy and Jie Chen. A young monk still misses him from time to time because benefactor Li promised to take them to eat, drink and have fun after becoming an upstart.

Almost two years later, a pilgrim who came to the temple accidentally mentioned Donor Li. He said that Donor Li had returned to Miaozhen, but life seemed to be not going well.The pilgrim's words surprised Jie Anger and Jie Pride.In any case, even if Li's assets have not increased in value, in a small place like Miao Town, with a fortune of two million, he is already a super rich man. I don't know if this news is misinformation. The person who finally confirmed the news was Li Benefactor himself.Because after a few days, Jie Chen met Li benefactor, Li benefactor's appearance has not changed much, but he is fatter than before, and his temperament is more like a nouveau riche.Because someone had mentioned his current situation, Jie An didn't have the nerve to ask him, instead Li benefactor complained to Jie An about his experience in the past few years.

Li Benefactor said that when he was poor, he used to be greedy for those rich people, thinking that if he had money, he would definitely be able to use money to make money and earn more.But after he really got the windfall, he discovered that making a fortune is not that simple.The former Li benefactors were all small businesses, and they were familiar with them.In the past few years, benefactor Li had more money, so he rashly invested in some businesses that he didn't dare to invest in when he was poor. Coupled with the sluggish stock market, after two years of tossing, Li benefactor lost more than half of his principal.The state of benefactor Li is only a little bit better than before he made a fortune.

Benefactor Li also said that he had seen a statistic before, saying that a considerable number of people who won the big prize returned to the starting point after many years because they did not know how to manage and wasted money.Benefactor Li said with a smile that when he first saw the news, he didn't believe it, but after experiencing it himself, he believed it. Sometimes I think about quitting anger: Donor Li’s sentiments are right. In life, we often dismiss the small and practical life, and even pin our hopes on being hit by good luck.In fact, the trajectory of life is gradual. Even if the trajectory is changed by sudden opportunities, how many people can really grasp it?

Maybe there is no shortcut in life. How much you can get is not entirely luck, but more about your ability and quality.So, why pray for an uncontrollable fate?Train yourself silently, quietly waiting for your own opportunity.