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Wu Jingui then breathed a sigh of relief and his expression became relaxed.

Then he looked at the Huanghuali box in confusion and asked, "Zhou Chen, I really don't understand. Even if it is an antique, is it really worth that much money? Three thousand yuan, maybe you can buy a house in this area."

Although he also studied history, he had no knowledge of antiques at all, and the main reason was that the era of antiques had not yet arrived.

In the eyes of the vast majority of people, things like antiques are not worth anything at all. Only in the eyes of people in this industry are antiques truly valuable.

But its value is very limited. After all, there are not many rich people who collect antiques nowadays.

Zhou Chen explained: "You can't say that. There is a saying that money can't buy what you love. In the eyes of others, this thing is worthless, but in my eyes, it is a treasure, just like some people like houses, some people like cars, and some people like beautiful women."

Wu Jingui was speechless: "Is there anyone who makes a metaphor like that?"

Zhou Chen smiled, closed the box, then took out a stack of money from the drawer next to him and placed it in front of Wu Jingui.

"Here, this is your commission."

Wu Jingui was shocked when he saw it, and quickly refused: "If you give me ten or twenty yuan, I can still accept it, but I dare not accept so much, so you should put it away quickly."

"One thousand yuan is indeed not a small amount, but this is what I promised before."

Zhou Chen did not take the money back, but said: "This money is not only your commission, but also the money for you to settle down in Yanjing. I said before that I would ask you to help me collect things, not just this time. It is not convenient for me to come forward most of the time, so I have to find someone to help."

Wu Jingui said: "If you want to help, I have no objection, but this money is really too much."

Zhou Chen said, "How can I ask you to do something for me without paying you? Take this money and rent a house in Yanjing, then go back and bring your wife and children over."

"this."

These words touched Wu Jingui's heart. He dreamed of bringing his wife and children to the city.

"If I stay in Yanjing, I can rely on my own efforts. Zhou Chen, I really cannot accept your kindness. It is too heavy."

Zhou Chen: "If you feel it's heavy, there will be plenty of opportunities to repay you in the future. Everyone has difficulties. Now I'm helping you, you can repay me in the future."

"But..." Wu Jingui was still hesitating.

"Old Wu, we have such a good relationship, so I'll just say some things directly. It may not sound good, but it's for your own good."

"It's true that men have self-esteem and pride, but compared to making their wives and children live better, I think any normal person would know what to choose."

"Besides, what is our relationship? Do you really think that accepting my help will make you lose your dignity? If that's the case, then I really misjudged you. You underestimated our friendship."

Seeing Wu Jingui's heavy face, Zhou Chen sighed again and said, "Old Wu, you can think of it this way. In fact, according to economics, when I give you money, I am investing in you because you can bring me rich returns."

Wu Jingui was silent for a while, then suddenly put his hand on the stack of money and said to Zhou Chen seriously, "Thank you."

Zhou Chen then smiled, and then said, "You will graduate soon, so hurry up and go back to pick up your sister-in-law and the others. As for the job, do you remember the library I told you about before? I can introduce you there. You are a student of Peking University, so you will definitely get a good position."

Since he had already accepted Zhou Chen's money, he naturally would not refuse the job that Zhou Chen found for him.

Although he was about to graduate from Peking University, he was also very clear that in a place like Yenching, it didn't mean you could find a good job just because you had a high degree.

For a student like him who comes from a rural area and has no money or background, it is very difficult to find a good job.

In fact, the best option is to stay at Peking University as a counselor and teaching assistant, but the problem is that the competition for such positions is fierce and it is not his turn at all.

When Wu Jingui left, his steps were brisk. Although he was reluctant to accept Zhou Chen's help before, now that he accepted it calmly, he felt much more relaxed.

After seeing Wu Jingui off, Zhou Chen began to study the huanghuali box, especially the inscription by Emperor Qianlong on the bottom, which he read over and over again.

This thing finally lived up to his expectations. He had been waiting for four years. If it didn't meet the system's requirements, it would be a real bummer.

Zhou Chen was very happy that there was one more antique that met the system requirements. Although it was still a long way from fifty pieces, it was still pretty good.

Now he has six antiques that meet the system requirements. If he gets six in seven years, at this rate, he will be able to successfully complete the task in eight seven-year periods. He still has twenty years before he turns 100, so he still has plenty of time.

Of course, this was just Zhou Chen’s own optimistic idea. In fact, he knew in his heart that the closer it got to the end, the harder those precious antiques would become.

What's more, the system requires ten different types of antiques, which means that the antiques he is collecting now cannot be counted even if he gets similar ones in the future. In this way, the speed and difficulty of his collection will be increased by several levels.

However, Zhou Chen also has his own plan. When the time comes and it becomes difficult for him to collect the information alone, he can ask others to help him. This is when his superpowers come into play.

Before that, because reform and opening up had not yet begun and he was still in college, he did not start to make money.

Now he is about to graduate, and the spring breeze of reform and opening up has already blown. Now is the time for him to show his talents.

But in order to consume less of his own energy, Zhou Chen was not prepared to devote himself wholeheartedly, but to invest slowly.

Han Chunming is one of his investment targets. Other friends with business acumen, such as Yang Huajian, Mao Ditu, etc., are also his leeks, no, targets.

Instead of working hard to start a business yourself, it is better to invest in these people, then hold shares yourself and make money easily.

As for whether these people can make money, he is not worried at all. These people can all succeed without him in the TV series. Now with him who has more experience and broader vision, things will only get better, not worse.

While Zhou Chen was planning the Huanghuali box with Qianlong's inscriptions, Han Chunming was also busy.

He was busy with the goods recently and he borrowed a large sum of money. As a result, he had just bought the goods and had not had time to sell them when Su Meng's father fell ill.

This made him very anxious. He wished he could sell the goods right away, get the money, and lend it to Su Meng's father for his medical treatment.

Unfortunately, there is no such good thing in the world. Although he found an acquaintance this time and the other party was willing to accept his goods, the other party did not have the money to pay in one lump sum, but was prepared to pay in several installments.

So there was no point in him being anxious. He could only get the first batch of money first, but it was still far from 30,000, so he had to borrow from people everywhere.

Originally, the first person he thought of was Zhou Chen, but considering that he had just taken 10,000 yuan from Zhou Chen not long ago, it would be difficult to borrow more if he went again.

So he had to change his target and look for his master, Grandpa Guan.

He knew that his master usually kept a low profile, but was definitely a master. Even if he had no money, he would definitely find a way to get it.

Mr. Guan agreed to his request, but also taught him a lesson, telling him that money can be borrowed, but not recklessly or in a hurry to borrow, but to borrow at the right time.

Han Chunming is such a smart man. He understood what his master meant as soon as he heard it. He also realized that he was too anxious and lost his sense of proportion. The best option would be to wait for Su Meng to come and borrow the money.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the graduation defense. Zhou Chen completed his graduation thesis very easily and was just waiting to get his diploma. These four years can be considered a complete success.

In fact, universities in this era are really not as interesting as universities in later generations.

Because they were the first batch of students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, the school management was particularly strict. Boys and girls were not allowed to have close contact. As for dating in school, that was even more prohibited. Once caught, there would be severe punishment.

Although many people are secretly dating in private, no one dares to make it public. After all, these days, college students still have to save their face.

After completing their graduation thesis, everyone started to prepare to go their separate ways. Many people were ready to return to their hometowns. Huang Feilong and Wu Jingui both decided to stay in Yanjing with the help of Zhou Chen.

Zhou’s small commodity store has been almost set up and has already started purchasing goods. It won’t be long before it can officially open.

Huang Feilong has been very busy recently. The matters of contacting manufacturers and purchasing goods have been assigned to him. Now he travels back and forth between the surrounding cities and counties all day long by car.

Wu Jingui rented a house near the library. He originally wanted to rent a courtyard house, but the current courtyard houses have a complicated population. After some consideration, he decided to rent a new building with two bedrooms and a living room on the second floor.

Although there are three children in his family, they are all small. The youngest is only two years old and can sleep with them. The other two can also share one room.

It was Zhou Chen who personally approached Zhao Lijie about his job at the library. As he graduated from Peking University, the employment process was naturally smooth.

However, before starting work, he decided to go back to his hometown to pick up his wife and children before starting work.

Su Meng's father successfully completed the operation. As for the operation fee, it was borrowed by Han Chunming. In the end, Han Chunming was the one who was taken advantage of.

In the evening, Han Chunming came to Zhou Chen's house carrying wine and food.

After just a few drinks, Zhou Chen took the initiative to ask about the matter.

"Chunming, the business you talked about last time has been going on for such a long time, you should have received your payment, but where is my money?"

Han Chunming laughed dryly: "No, it's not that fast. People pay in installments. I just received the first installment. Don't worry, as long as I receive the full amount, I will send the money to you as soon as possible."

"Oh, why do I not believe what you say?"

"How can I lie to you? Besides, you don't need the money right now. If you put the money in my hands, it will make more money."

Zhou Chen sneered, "I don't need money? You know that I opened a store for my sister. How can such a big store not need money?"

Han Chunming smiled and said, "Zhou Chen, brother, brother-in-law, please give me some time, and I promise to send the money to you before the end of the year, how about that?"

Zhou Chen did not answer, but suddenly asked: "I heard that you opened a restaurant with someone?"

Han Chunming was shocked and asked, "How did you know? Cai Xiaoli, Taozi and I opened a restaurant together, but it hasn't started business yet."

Zhou Chen said, "Chunming, sometimes I really don't know how to say hello to you. With your relationship with Cai Xiaoli, you actually do business with her. Aren't you afraid that you two will break up?"

"How is that possible? Cai Xiaoli and I have such a good relationship, there is no way we will break up. You can rest assured about this."

Han Chunming was very confident. In fact, he had thought about getting Zhou Chen to join the group before, but he didn't bring it up because Zhou Chen was not familiar with Taozi and Cai Xiaoli.

"Zhou Chen, you must come to our hotel on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony."

"It depends on the situation. If I'm free, I'll go over and take a look."

Zhou Chen responded casually. He knew that after the restaurant opened, it wouldn't be long before Han Chunming and Cai Xiaoli would fall out.

Although Han Chunming has a business mind, he often does wrong things because he attaches too much importance to friendship.

When doing business, you can find a partner, but it is better not to find a good brother or to cooperate with a woman who likes you but you don’t like.

But Han Chunming is so good that he not only partners with his good brother Taozi, but also adds Cai Xiaoli. Isn't this just courting trouble?

Although Zhou Chen knew the result, he did not try to persuade him much. He knew that no matter what he said at this time, Han Chunming would not believe it. Only after he experienced it himself would he know how unreliable such things were.

Zhou's small commodity store opened very quickly. Under Zhou Chen's arrangement, all goods were priced at 20 cents in the first seven days of opening.

As soon as this promotion appeared, it immediately aroused the curiosity of countless people. These people walked into the store with curiosity, and when they saw the rows of goods in the store, they were all shocked.

Daily necessities, school supplies, children's toys, fresh flowers, artificial flowers, everything is available...

In just one day, Zhou's small commodity store attracted countless people and sold a large amount of goods.

It’s just that a lot of things were sold, but I didn’t actually make any money. On the contrary, I even lost a lot of money.

Because many of these products are priced at more than 20 cents, and Zhou Chen only lowered the prices to attract customers because the store has just opened. Once the store becomes popular, some items will slowly return to normal prices.

Of course, even after seven days, the price of most of the goods in the store will only be 20 cents.

For seven consecutive days, the number of customers in the store increased day by day, and Zhou Chen and Zhou Yi were busy with several employees.

After seven days, although the number of customers decreased a lot, business was still very good, especially after some commodities returned to normal prices, the store began to make a profit.

After the small commodity store got on track, Zhou Chen finally felt relieved. From then on, he didn't need to go to the store every day. He just needed to step forward to solve problems when they occurred.

Zhou Yi is in charge of the store, but Zhou Chen found an assistant for Zhou Yi, who is a female college student, so he is not afraid that his sister will be deceived.

On this day, Zhou Chen accepted Han Chunming's invitation and prepared to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the restaurant he co-opened. For this purpose, he also prepared a big red envelope.

Because Han Chunming was only one of the partners and he was not the main person in charge, Han Chunming did not make a big deal about it this time. Among his relatives and friends, he only called a few close friends such as Zhou Chen.

"Tea House."

Zhou Chen looked at the restaurant in front of him. The size of the restaurant was very ordinary, and the facade was also ordinary, but the name reminded Zhou Chen of something.

He remembered that the name of this restaurant corresponded to the four wine glasses that Grandpa Guan mentioned, but he didn't know whether the four wine glasses met the system's requirements.

"Zhou Chen."

A familiar voice came from behind him. Zhou Chen turned around and saw Yang Huajian and Mao Tutu walking towards him with smiles on their faces.

"You two are here too."

Yang Huajian said with a smile: "Han Chunming, this kid, has unknowingly built a restaurant. We were not planning to come, but when we heard that you were coming, we followed him to take a look."

Zhou Chen said: "Don't let him hear this, otherwise he will think you don't give him face."

"I've heard it."

Han Chunming walked out of the restaurant, followed by another man. He came up to the three people and punched Yang Huajian first, then said with an unhappy face: "Yang Huajian, I can't pretend I didn't hear what you just said. You will be fined at least three glasses later."

"Okay, three cups then." Yang Huajian agreed readily.

Han Chunming pulled the man behind him and introduced him to Zhou Chen and the other two, "This is my brother Taozi, Li Chengtao. This restaurant is owned by him, me, and Cai Xiaoli."

"Taozi, this is Zhou Chen, Yang Huajian and Mao Ditu. The three of them are all capable college students. Our restaurant will depend on them to take care of the business in the future."

Li Chengtao immediately bowed and greeted Zhou Chen and the other two.

"Hello, nice to meet you. You can just call me Taozi."

Zhou Chen and the other two greeted Li Chengtao and then walked into the restaurant.

Zhou Chen and his friends sat down at a table under Han Chunming's arrangement.

After sitting down, Zhou Chen looked around and found that the space inside the restaurant was not very large. There were only about seven or eight tables in the lobby on the first floor, and there were some private rooms upstairs.

But looking at the decoration and environment, it is already quite good in this era.

There were already some people sitting in the restaurant at this time, and Zhou Chen and his friends had no intention of getting to know them, so the three of them just sat together and chatted.

"Zhou Chen, your small commodity store is very popular now. It is almost known to everyone in Yanjing City."

Yang Huajian talked about Zhou's small commodity store. Since the store opened, it has indeed spread like a virus in Yanjing City. Even if many people have never been there, they have heard about it.