Standing pretty old

Chapter 445 Returning to Los Angeles

After a successful interview, Ruan Erniu once again became the national idol of the Celestial Dynasty after the broadcast of this episode.

This time, he is no longer a high-ranking superstar, but an inspirational young man who has achieved success through his own continuous efforts, and the latter is obviously more popular than the former.

Now Ouyang Haotian and Leon Ross have raised their standards a lot in choosing endorsements. The amount does not exceed 500 million yuan, and they are not even qualified to be presented in front of Er Niu.

The youngest FMVP in history + a freshly-baked Olympic champion, such a promising superstar must match the top commercial endorsement.

Even so, those domestic pirated small advertisements did not take advantage of Erniu's popularity.

However, in view of the limited punishment of intellectual property rights in domestic laws, it is extremely difficult for Erniu to recover its rights and interests.

The helplessness of late-developing countries also lies in this. If you want to break the blockade of the first-developing countries, you must first copy it. If you really get up, you want to protect property rights. This requires more effort to rectify the market. The transformation process has a long way to go.

Ruan Erniu couldn't take care of this. After finishing Hao Jing's interview, he flew directly back to Los Angeles by plane. Sun Yue and Chen Jianghua still had some personal affairs to deal with, but if there were no accidents, they would soon Will meet in Los Angeles.

Er Niu went to training, Hua Tsai went to treat injuries, and Sun Yue was about to report to the Lakers.

"Why don't you go to my house?" Ruan Daniu said to his second brother who just got off the plane.

He now also owns several properties in Los Angeles, all of which are bargain-hunting types.

He and his wife, Fiona, naturally live separately from the Gallaghers, but the distance between them is only about 20 minutes by car.

"No! I already got an apartment at UCLA!" Ruan Erniu politely declined the elder brother's invitation.

He didn't tell the truth again. The reason why he didn't want to live with his eldest brother was not only because he had already rented the house, but more importantly, if Jennifer came to him, he didn't want to be killed by Dr. Han's best friend Fiona. See.

As a big star at UCLA, Ruan Erniu seems to have returned to his student life these days. Even if it is less than a month, he still maintains the rhythm of taking classes to collect credits and doing physical training every day.

UCLA also took this opportunity to hold a retirement ceremony for Ruan Erniu's No. 44 jersey.

And Er Niu just donated a sum of money to his alma mater.

This is also the tradition of American society.

Americans have a different concept of colleges and universities than those of the Chinese Empire. They don't just regard their alma mater as a simple place for further study.

It is even more of a base for them to expand their social circle.

Why donate to American schools?

Because most colleges and universities in the United States are private, they have such an unspoken rule, that is, whoever donates money to his alma mater will increase the enrollment ratio of this ethnic group in the next year's enrollment. After donating money, your children will also enjoy priority admission opportunities when they come to study here in the future.

That's right, this is the very important reason for the solidification of social classes in the United States. Their distribution of educational resources has never been fair, and even the standards are vague.

Compared with the scene where Yanda and Mizuki immediately compete to grab the top scorer in the college entrance examination in one place, the American people opened the back door enough to make people speechless.

This is especially true for Asians with good grades. If you do not have a deep enough background, it is difficult to get admitted to the so-called Ivy League schools based on grades alone. (Please note that this grade often also includes various talents and related social activities. Resume, that is, meet all the requirements for the admissions of prestigious schools.)
Isn't it fair?

unfair!
But there is no way, this is how Americans play.

A few years later, Chinese netizens crazily abused a wealthy man named Pan on the Internet for donating [-] million yuan to Harvard.

The reason is that Pan's business has earned money from the people of the Celestial Dynasty, but he does not donate the money to domestic universities, so his behavior is traitorous.

However, there are two prerequisites for this abuse that have not been clarified:
[-]. The various colleges and universities of the Chinese Dynasty are mainly maintained by government funding. They are public colleges, and they do not have the tradition of accepting massive donations and the corresponding acceptance mechanism.

By the way, some people often euphemistically say: "Never bow to money."

[-]. After Mr. Pan donated the money, it will be extremely positive for Harvard to expand the enrollment of Chinese students.In addition, this money is mainly used to subsidize the poor foreign students of the Chinese dynasty, which is clearly written in Mr. Pan's donation terms.

The trolls of the Celestial Dynasty apparently selectively forgot about this point.

Of course, it is undeniable that this donation is very likely to have positive significance for the future education of Mr. Pan's children.

But good deeds are good deeds. Domestic colleges and universities do not think about how to improve their mechanism for accepting donations, but instead blame businessmen for being unpatriotic. This is also biased.

Finally, there is also a school of opinion that thinks that if Chinese universities also accept donations like the United States, will there be serious educational class differentiation problems like the United States in the future?

This point is indeed worthy of thought-provoking.

Fortunately, because Er Niu kept the amount of his donation a secret, the Chinese media also brushed aside the news, and did not arouse criticism of donations like the rich man surnamed Pan on the Internet.

Ruan Erniu's jersey retirement ceremony officially opened.

When his jersey was raised high, Ruan Erniu said a lot of bold and inspiring words to the juniors, as well as his alumni and fans, and received countless applause by the way.

Some things seem like yesterday, and some things seem like a lifetime away.

Ruan Erniu is walking on his own path of glory, he will not look back, he will only keep walking firmly.

In addition to the coaches he is familiar with such as Ben Holland, some of his alumni such as the bearded Baron Davis who just signed with the Los Angeles Clippers this season attended the retirement ceremony.

Surprisingly, even the old man John Wooden came to join in the fun. The old man is old, and he may be recalled by God at some point. He said: "Maybe Kraft is the last piece God gave me. Gift."

How can such an occasion be missing Westbrook.

Westbrook was selected by the Supersonics with the fourth overall pick this year, but instead of going to Seattle, he will go to Oklamaho City in the near future. There is no Supersonics in the league, only the Thunder!

Ruan Erniu still blessed Westbrook: "Russell, you are lucky. The Thunder is a young team, and it is most suitable for a guy with excess energy like you."

Westbrook said dissatisfiedly: "Come on, you guys won the championship, and now you will make sarcastic remarks."

Er Niu curled his lips and said, "So someone has finally realized the difference in level and is ready to hug my thigh?"

Westbrook gritted his teeth: "You wait, I will beat you with KD!"

Ruan Erniu laughed loudly and said, "OK! OK! I'll wait and see."

In the following days, Erniu and Westbrook started rigorous training together, except for the daily draft courses.

They seem to have returned to their college careers, eating and lodging together, climbing mountains together, doing push-ups together, and running with weights together.

The two compete with each other, each unwilling to admit defeat.

The NBA is a field of fame and fortune, and the reason why people can't help but get together, Er Niu and Westbrook certainly understand, but this will definitely not affect their personal relationship.

They will be good brothers for life!

In mid-September, Sun Yue and Chen Jianghua came to LA. Sun Yue went to the Lakers to report immediately, while Chen Jianghua went to the UCLA Medical Center to treat injuries with the help of Erniu.

The bad news is: Chen Jianghua's injury does have hidden dangers, not only his foot injury, but also his wrist, which requires timely surgical treatment.

The good news is: this is only a minimally invasive operation, and Chen Jianghua will soon be able to return to the arena alive and well.

　PS: In reality, the basketball player who donated the most to UCLA is Westbrook a few years later, so UCLA named the main basketball stadium after Westbrook.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)