Can you be called a rich man if you don’t indulge yourself?

Chapter 40: Spent 22 to buy 1600 yuan

The boat is floating on the blue water, with quaint houses and bluestone roads on both sides, as if time has stopped. The breeze brings a touch of coolness and blows away the noise in your heart. The water surface is sparkling, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds and weeping willows on the shore, as if you are in an ink painting.

Fang Xun's skills are really good. He rowed for nearly an hour without any sense of weightlessness. As the oars slid gently, the ripples spread out and merged with the scenery of the ancient town in the distance. Stone bridges, flowing water, and houses can be seen along the way, and each place is a beautiful picture. In such an environment, people seem to become peaceful, and their hearts are cleansed and relaxed.

Gu Heng, who had been intoxicated for a long time, turned around and looked at Lin Ran who was holding a camera and recording something. He couldn't help but ask, "You've been shooting for an hour, and you haven't finished yet?"

Listening to Gu Heng's words, Lin Ran turned his head and glanced at Gu Heng.

The sun shone through the branches of the old trees on the roadside and fell on her face, giving her a layer of radiant light. Then she pointed the camera at Gu Heng and showed a cute tiger tooth: "Shoot a Vlog to record it~"

"Isn't an hour enough to record this?"

"Of course it's not enough. It's not like I can be this happy every day~"

Looking at her who was as happy as a little girl, Gu Heng's heart, which had been calm and at peace due to the quiet scenery, suddenly skipped a beat for no reason.

Not noticing Gu Heng's change, Lin Ran pointed the camera at him again and said, "Do you mind if I record you in my Vlog? Let me tell you, I have millions of fans on the Internet."

“Millions of fans?”

After all, I have been picking cotton in a media company for two years, so I am very sensitive to this data.

Internet celebrities with millions of fans, although not the top ones, can still be considered big Internet celebrities.
But didn't Gu Heng remember that the business card she gave him was not the deputy director of Hillhouse Capital? How did she become a big internet celebrity again?
"Aren't you the deputy director of Hillhouse Capital? How did you become an internet celebrity again?"

Hearing Gu Heng's question, Lin Ran looked at her in confusion.

“Is there a connection between the two?”

"Is there no connection?"

"Work is work. Filming daily Vlogs and uploading them online to share my life is my pleasure. I don't make money from my account. It's just like posting on WeChat Moments. I just share my life. What's the connection between the two?"

This sentence directly blocked Gu Heng's mouth.
He is just too small-minded.
Or maybe his values ​​are very different from those of the truly rich.
Like most ordinary people, when he heard the statistic of millions of fans, the first thought in his mind was how much money he could make in a month with millions of fans.

But for someone like Lin Ran who is already wealthy, what she cares about is not how much money she can make from millions of fans, but whether her life shared by more people can be seen.
On the other side of the boat, Fang Xun, who was rowing the boat with all his might, had beads of sweat all over his forehead.
She is a goddess who usually has many licking dogs in her circle of friends to ask about her well-being. Unexpectedly, she became a hard-working boatman. Now she has begun to regret her decision to row the boat by herself.
Especially listening to the conversation between the two behind me, I couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Although she was considered a high-income person in front of her friends and had a glamorous life, she knew very well that compared with Gu Heng and Lin Ran, she was still an ordinary person.
But fortunately, the Yuliuliang Coin Museum is not far away. With one less person on the boat, it won't be so hard to row.
Thinking of this, Fang Xun quickly said, "We are almost at the Yuliliang Coin Museum. Is the boat stopping there?"

"Uh-huh!"

After hearing this, Lin Ran put down the camera, ran quickly to Fang Xun, took out a tissue and wiped the sweat off her face, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Sister Fang Xun."

After getting on the boat, the three of them had already exchanged names. Fang Xun was 30 years old and Lin Ran was 28 years old, so it wasn't awkward to call each other sister.

Seeing Fang Xun's face covered in sweat that couldn't be wiped clean, Lin Ran couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and immediately suggested: "Why don't you stop scratching? Come with me to the Yuliuliang Coin Museum to have a look. It's a good opportunity for you to keep each other company and let Sister Fang Xun have a rest."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Gu Heng behind him.

She already knew that Fang Xun was Gu Heng's housekeeper, and whether Fang Xun could rest depended on his wishes.

"It's okay, I'm not tired, just a little hot."

Gu Heng couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard Fang Xun still being stubborn. "Today's maximum temperature is 8 degrees. You told me it's hot? I told you to hire a boatman a long time ago. Do you know how uncomfortable it is now?"

Hearing the complaints, Fang Xun tactfully shut his mouth.

However, despite his complaints, Gu Heng still followed Lin Ran's words and continued, "Then let's go for a walk. It's not comfortable to stay on the boat all the time. Let's go ashore and walk around to adjust our state."

It's true that he spent money to hire Fang Xun to enjoy life.
But you can't make people suffer, right? You're not Huang Shiren.
The boat was parked at the ferry near the shore and 200 yuan was refunded, which gave Fang Xun some comfort.
Not long after I got on the boat, Gu Heng paid me 500 yuan for renting the boat, and now he has refunded me 200 yuan, which means I have made a net profit of 260 yuan.
This shows that my hard work for one hour was not in vain.
"My dear friends, I am now in the Yuliulang Coin Museum in Wuzhen!
Friends who are familiar with me should know that I am a person with a serious collection habit. I want to collect anything that has collection value. It can be said that the Yuliuliang Coin Museum is the place I look forward to most in this trip to Wuzhen. Now I will take you to visit it~"

After saying that, he started jogging with a happy look on his face.

Gu Heng turned around and glanced at Fang Xun, who was still secretly happy about earning 260 yuan, and couldn't help but pat her on the shoulder: "Let's go, if you stand there any longer, I'll make you return all my money to me!"

"Can't!!"

Hearing the words "refund", Fang Xun suddenly became alert, not looking like he had just rowed for an hour, and quickly caught up with Lin Ran.
As for Gu Heng, he followed slowly behind.
He is a person who does not have any artistic talent in his body. In his eyes, things like antiques, calligraphy and paintings are just a description.

valuable.

As for traditional values, artistic values, and literary values.
Talk about this with him, a semi-illiterate man who just graduated from high school?

Two minutes later, Gu Heng slowly stepped into a blue-tiled house with a large door.
If it weren't for the sign at the door, he wouldn't have known that this was a museum.
Compared to the quiet streets, there are still quite a few people in the coin museum. At a glance, there are about a dozen people, each of whom is quietly wandering in front of the exhibition halls.
Gu Heng put his hands in his pockets and admired these coins out of boredom.
There are also professionals in the coin museum giving scientific explanations, and the sound of popular science floats in the small exhibition hall.
"The exhibition hall displays coins and commemorative coins from all over the world that Mr. Yu Liuliang has collected for 40 years. Even if you just take a quick look at the exhibition hall, you can still get a glimpse of the vast world of coins.

The coins on display in the museum include metal currency, paper money, and flower money, spanning a period of thirty centuries, from the Xia and Shang dynasties to the modern era. Each coin has its origin, nationality, and cultural history, and there is a corresponding text introduction for you to understand its connotation. It can be said to be a special entry point for understanding world history."

Gu Heng was listening to the popular science introduction and suddenly remembered that his old Gu who was still in his hometown seemed to have the habit of collecting coins.

When I was a child, there was a special small drawer at home, which was filled with a lot of various coins of one cent, two cents, ten cents, and twenty cents that Lao Gu got from somewhere.

Those coins are worth nothing. Others collect them by the piece, but Lao Gu’s collection is sold by the pound.
But I vaguely remember that one time, Old Gu took me out carefully and took out these treasured "treasures" from his collection, and told Gu Heng very seriously that these coins might appreciate in value if kept, and if he ran out of money, he would sell them all to get money to marry a wife.
But it’s ridiculous that even after waiting for the system, Lao Gu’s treasured “treasures” are still worthless.

As soon as he thought of this, Gu Heng had already thought of a gift for Old Gu.
I bought my mother gold jewelry worth 12 yuan. It's impossible for my old man to give me nothing in return. Wouldn't he be so careless as to kick me out of the house?
Then he walked directly to the glass counter at the door and asked the staff, "Do you have any coins for sale?"

The staff member who was taking a nap at the counter got up immediately after hearing this: "Yes, yes, yes, sir, do you want to buy some commemorative coins to keep as a collection?" Seeing Gu Heng nod, the staff member immediately became enthusiastic: "What kind of coins do you want to buy? Ancient coins or modern coins?"

The staff member's voice was so loud that everyone in the coin museum couldn't help but look over here.

Even Lin Ran, who was filming a Vlog with Fang Xun, couldn't help but walk towards Gu Heng.

"Can you sell both types of coins?"

"Yes, although the coins we sell are not as valuable as Mr. Yu Liuliang's collection, they are also very valuable for collection."

As he spoke, he placed the coins displayed under the counter in front of Gu Heng.

Lin Ran and Fang Xun also came to Gu Heng at this moment. Lin Ran, holding a camera, took pictures of the coins in front of him and asked, "Gu Heng, do you also have the habit of collecting coins?"

"No, I don't understand this thing."

Lin Ran, who thought she had found a common hobby, was choked by Gu Heng's extremely straightforward answer. She didn't know how to respond for a long time. It was Fang Xun who asked the question she wanted to ask.

"Then why do you buy these collectible coins?"

Gu Heng did not hide it and answered honestly: "The old man at home likes it. Since he saw it, I bought some back for him to collect."

"That's right, you can buy a few as souvenirs."

But the next second, Gu Heng's actions overturned Fang Xun's imagination, and even Lin Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes.

After picking for a long time and still not knowing what to choose, Gu Heng scratched his head and said directly to the staff at the counter: "Please pack all the things you showed me."

Fang Xun: “???”

Lin Ran: “???”

staff member:"???"

Seeing the three people staring at him with wide eyes, Gu Heng asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"

The first person to react was the staff member, who asked in a surprised tone: "Sir, do you mean you want all these collectible coins?"

"Yeah, can't we buy so much due to the purchase limit?"

"No, no. I'm just a little surprised."

He was not a shopping guide for luxury brands. He had worked here for a long time and this was the first time he had seen such a direct purchase of all the coins. He could not help but remind him, "Sir, the total value of the collectible coins here is 22 yuan. Are you sure you want them all?"

"It's okay, just help me put it all away."

More than 22
Although it was a huge amount, he had almost gotten used to this kind of high consumption, and his expression did not fluctuate at all.
After confirming it again and again, the staff quickly took out a lot of packaging boxes and began to carefully pack the coins for Gu Heng.
Lin Ran gradually recovered from his brief surprise.
She knew that Gu Heng was rich, otherwise he couldn't afford a luxury car like the Bentley Flying Spur, but she didn't expect Gu Heng to be so generous that he spent 22 yuan just to visit a coin museum without blinking an eye.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Lin Ran couldn't help but speak: "Gu Heng."

"?"

He turned around and looked at her with confusion.

"There's actually no need to buy so many. The coins here can only be used as souvenirs, and they have no collection value."

"Are you saying I was ripped off and these aren't worth $22?"

The staff member who was grinning suddenly changed his expression when he heard this. Just as he was about to explain, he heard Lin Ran continue: "It is indeed worth 22, but it is relative. It is worth 22, but the premise is that someone is willing to buy it, just like Dzi beads. A good Dzi bead is worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in the market, but if you really want to sell it, it may not even be worth a few million. Do you understand how I explain it?"

Gu Heng nodded.

Lin Ran, who thought he had persuaded him, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aren't these antiques like this? To someone who likes them, they are priceless treasures, but to a layman like me, they are just an eyesore.

It's okay, it's mainly for the old man as a New Year gift, it doesn't matter whether it has value or not, as long as it makes him happy."

Having said that, Lin Ran understood what he meant and stopped trying to persuade him.

At this moment, their values ​​overlapped.

Some people measure the value of an item by money, while others measure the value of an item by whether they like it or not.

If she particularly likes something, she will buy it without hesitation even if it is very expensive and she will be criticized as a sucker if she buys it.

Both values ​​are actually correct.

But it is obvious that the latter's values ​​must be supported by more material foundations, otherwise it will just be a false reputation.

For a moment, Lin Ran had some affection for Gu Heng, which was the rational emotion born from the adaptation of values.
As for Fang Xun.
She was still in shock.
22, almost her annual income, was spent by Gu Heng in the blink of an eye. The reason was just for the illusory "happiness".
Only after a clear comparison can we know that this world is so unfair.
Some people may spend a house at one time, while others spend their entire life just to own a house.

Where is the fairness?
A few minutes later, the staff member pushed the packed coins forward and said with a smile, "Sir, it has been packed for you. There are 65 ancient coins and 117 modern coins, including the currencies of 26 countries, with a total face value of 1600 yuan."

The staff's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by other people in the exhibition hall.
Alright
I spent 22 yuan to buy 1600 yuan.
It turns out that the world of the rich is so absurd
　Two chapters of 6000 words, making up for the missing chapter yesterday

　　
　
(End of this chapter)