Chapter 1090 Half a Millionaire

"Sister, you're back. Where's that brother? Didn't he send you back?"

Li Jia just got home when her cousin came up to her stealthily.

"You scared me. Why are you walking so quietly?"

"Don't change the subject. Tell me, what did you and that brother do all day?"

Looking at her cousin with a gossipy face, Li Jia laughed: "What do you think about every day?"

"Sister, if you don't tell me, I'll tell grandpa and grandma that you're in love."

Li Jia blushed instantly: "Don't talk nonsense. I'm not."

"Humph, I don't believe it. What did you do today?" The little girl rolled her eyes.

Li Jia had no choice but to tell the story of going to the Foreign Trade Building again. Of course, she didn't mention making money, but perfunctorily said she was practicing her spoken English.

Sure enough, the cousin lost interest as soon as she heard it: "What? It's not romantic at all."

"What romance? Read less Qiong Yao's novels in the future. Don't expect me to sign for you if you fail the exam next time."

After sending the cousin away, Li Jia carefully hid the three hundred yuan Qin Hao gave her in an old book.

This was the first time in her life that she had so much money in her hands. In the past, her parents gave her only a few dozen yuan for living expenses.

Li Jia suddenly felt unreal holding the old book, as if she was dreaming that day. It was not until her fingers ran across the wrinkled shell of the old book that she was sure that all this was true.

"It would be great if I could make so much money every day. Maybe I could buy a house in Shanghai and bring my parents and brother over."

However, this idea was quickly thrown out of Li Jia's mind. She knew very well that Qin Hao was able to make so much money today. She was just a vase. Whether she was there or not would not affect Qin Hao's making money. On the contrary, if Qin Hao was gone, with her foreign language level, she would not be able to communicate smoothly with foreign businessmen.

What surprised Li Jia even more was that Qin Hao not only knew English and French, but also had no problem communicating in German and Japanese. Li Jia even felt that she only met foreign businessmen from these countries today. If she met foreign businessmen from other countries, Qin Hao could still communicate in their native languages.

That night, Li Jia made a decision that she must learn more foreign languages ​​in her spare time in the future.

In the next few days, Qin Hao still took Li Jia to help people contact foreign businessmen outside the foreign trade building. In the first few days, Qin Hao and his team were still looking for customers. Later, as more and more contracts were negotiated, they gradually became famous in the foreign trade circle, and basically others came to them.

Those who came to Qin Hao for translation included factory directors of township enterprises like Zhao Hongbo, and state-owned enterprises that encountered foreign businessmen who spoke some minor languages ​​and could not find a suitable translator for a while.

In such cases, Qin Hao charged by the hour. For major languages ​​like English, he charged 200 yuan per hour, and other minor languages ​​were 300 yuan per hour. This price was not cheap, and he also had to pay Li Jia, the "assistant", 100 yuan per hour, but there was still an endless stream of people asking him for help.

Because Qin Hao was not only a translator, he would also negotiate with foreign businessmen for clients, and even find out what overbearing clauses were in foreign businessmen's contracts, clearing mines for clients to avoid risks.

Over time, Qin Hao's reputation became more and more famous, so that if you wanted to hire him, you had to make an appointment several days in advance.

This state lasted until the start of the school year at Tongji University. Li Jia even said to Qin Hao with regret: "It would be better if the school year could start later."

No wonder Li Jia was reluctant to give up. In just one week, she earned more than 5,000 yuan. You have to know that this was 5,000 yuan in 1984. In just seven days, she was half a millionaire.

Sometimes, Li Jia even thought that if she had Qin Hao's ability, she would drop out of school and become a translator. In a year or two, she would be able to buy a house and bring her family to Shanghai.

"Don't think about it. You can make money anytime, but college life is only four years. Enjoy it. It will be a lifetime of spiritual wealth."

Qin Hao said to Li Jia who was in a daze.

Li Jia raised her chin and looked at Qin Hao. This man was obviously three years younger than her, but he was terribly mature psychologically.

"You sound like you've been to college."

After saying that, Li Jia trotted down to the girls' dormitory, and then looked down at Qin Hao and said, "Tomorrow is the first day of school. Don't be late. The class teacher will check your homework."

Speaking of homework, Qin Hao suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten what homework was.

He quickly ran back to the dormitory and asked Zhuang Tunan, "Did the teacher assign winter vacation homework last year?"

"Yes."

"What homework?"

"One is to make a chair with corrugated cardboard, and the other is to survey the Tongji Library." Zhuang Tunan suddenly realized, "You didn't do it, did you?"

Qin Hao scratched his head. It was easy to make a chair with cardboard, but it was too late to survey the library now.

"Zhuang Tunan, how do I treat you normally?"

Zhuang Tunan's face was full of vigilance: "You are not asking for my winter vacation homework, are you? I have been working on that chair for several days..."

"I will make a chair tonight, and you can copy the surveying and mapping data of the library for me."

"It won't be exposed, right?"

"Don't worry, I am not Lin Dongzhe, I won't copy it completely."

With Zhuang Tunan's data, Qin Hao made some minor adjustments and modifications, and the homework was completed. The next step was to make a chair with cardboard, which was Qin Hao's strong point.

Before it got dark, Qin Hao came to the waste collection station and bought a bunch of waste paper. He then used scissors to cut the waste paper into two variant S shapes, glued them together, and finally pressed a stone with a wooden board.

Zhuang Tunan looked at Qin Hao's strange chair and said, "Are you sure you want to use this thing to hand in your homework?"

"What else?" Qin Hao patted the dust off his hands and said nonchalantly.

Zhuang Tunan didn't think much about it and just thought Qin Hao was just coping with it. After all, whether the homework was completed well or not was a question of ability, and whether it was handed in or not was a question of attitude.

The next day, students from the Department of Architecture of Tongji University each carried their own chairs made of waste cardboard to the classroom. Some of them even fell apart before the teacher came to inspect them, which caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding classmates.

Li Jia waited for a long time but didn't see Qin Hao's figure. Suddenly, she thought of a question: Did he forget to prepare his homework when he went home for the New Year?

Just as Li Jia's uneasy eyes searched for Qin Hao's figure, the head teacher had arrived first, picked up the roster and started to call the roll.

"Qin Hao."

"Is Qin Hao not here?"

Just as the head teacher frowned, Qin Hao came to the classroom door carrying his strange-looking chair.

"Report."

The head teacher looked at him and said, "Being late on the first day is not a good habit."

"Report to the teacher, I just forgot to take my winter vacation homework, so I went back to get it."

Zhuang Tunan, who was sitting in the classroom, laughed secretly. What did he mean by forgetting to take his winter vacation homework? He obviously overslept.

The head teacher pointed to the strange-looking chair that Qin Hao was carrying and said, "Let's start with you. Talk about your idea of ​​designing this chair."

Qin Hao came to the podium in a few steps and blurted out without changing his expression.

"Teacher Yao, I spent a whole winter vacation to design this chair. My design concept is: simple and practical, so I used the simplest variant S shape to stick 60 pieces of corrugated cardboard boxes together..."

Listening to Qin Hao's endless talk about his design concept on the podium, Zhuang Tunan was stunned. If he hadn't seen Qin Hao make such a thing last night, he would probably believe Qin Hao's words like other students.

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Ten minutes later, Qin Hao finished his speech, and the head teacher couldn't wait to say: "Qin Hao, you just said that your design concept is simple and practical, which means that the chair you made can be sat on, right?"

"Of course."

Seeing Qin Hao's confident look, the head teacher did not mean to take risks, but said to the students in the class.

"Who is willing to verify Qin Hao's masterpiece?"

Everyone looked at Qin Hao's weird cardboard chair without even a handle, and expressed doubts whether it could bear the weight of a person.

"Teacher, let me do it."

The head teacher's eyes lit up: "Okay, then please ask our class monitor to come to the stage to verify it."

Li Jia walked to the podium amid the applause of her classmates. Qin Hao whispered: "Aren't you afraid of falling?"

"If I can see you get humiliated, I'll fall." Li Jia smiled.

"You don't have confidence in me?"

Before Li Jia could answer, Qin Hao pushed her onto the chair. Surprisingly, this strange-looking chair could withstand the force of an adult sitting down from a high place without even deforming.

"How can it be?"

"Such a simple structure, how can it withstand such a great force?"

Li Jia was shocked by Qin Hao's push. When she came to her senses, Qin Hao had already approached her: "This is a punishment for your distrust of me."

The head teacher coughed a few times: "I can give Qin Hao's winter vacation homework this time an A+. His design is very bold and practical. On the contrary, I saw that many students' homework was just to use cardboard instead of wood to make a new chair. Such a chair can be blown away by a strong wind, let alone sitting on it. Is this how you deal with me?"

Most of the students in the class were scolded by the head teacher. Fortunately, for these students who had just been in school for a semester, the head teacher did not keep pulling their braids. He just asked everyone to prepare their homework again and then started the class.

After class, Qin Hao's chair became the target of "reference" by the students.

"Qin Hao, how did you come up with this design for a chair?"

"Comparing yourself to others is a pain in the ass. When the teacher said to make a chair, I subconsciously thought of replicating a chair made of cardboard. There is no creativity at all."

Faced with the flattery of his classmates, Qin Hao said with a lingering fear: This is also what I came up with after racking my brains.

Zhuang Tunan rolled his eyes when he heard it next to him. If he remembered correctly, it took Qin Hao no more than three hours from knowing the assignment for the winter vacation to completing the production. Is this considered racking his brains? Then what is his design? Did he work hard?

What frustrated Zhuang Tunan the most was that the chair designed by Qin Hao was much better than his in terms of creativity, practicality and difficulty of production.

The next class was Professor Sun's class. His course was obviously more professional and centered on "Basics of Architectural Design".

"Here I leave you with an after-class assignment. You should all know that there are many old alleys in Shanghai. I hope that students can use alleys as an example to write an article exploring the relationship between space and people, and draw a design drawing for a small living space."

Professor Sun gave the students a "surprise" at the beginning of the semester. The students in the class went crazy. There were basically very few educated youths in Qin Hao's class who had gone to the mountains and countryside. A group of students who were inexperienced in the world could not understand it at all. Regarding the relationship between space and people, the homework I handed in could only be described as horrible.

The only two people praised by Professor Sun were Qin Hao and Li Jia.

In the world of Golden Years, Qin Hao has done many interior decoration designs for small apartments and has rich experience in this area, while Li Jia has several years of experience in alley living. Although her designs are not as good as Qin Hao's, But he could barely get into Professor Sun's eyes.

As for the other students, Professor Sun, who had always had a good temper, got very angry and rushed everyone into the alley to let them experience life in a small space. Qin Hao and Li Jia were no exception. According to Professor Sun, , to do architectural design, the more experience you have in field surveys, the better.

By coincidence, the alley where Professor Sun drove Qin Hao and his party happened to be the alley where Li Jia's grandparents lived.

As soon as he entered the narrow and closed alley, Li Jia's face looked a little unnatural. Dozens of faucets were installed on the wall on one side of the narrow passage. Many long and short bamboo poles extended out from the windows on the second and third floors, and they were used to dry the water. Wearing clothes of various colors, mostly dark tones.

"Jiajia is back?"

A neighbor recognized Li Jia.

Li Jia nodded awkwardly at her, and the female classmate beside him asked curiously: "Li Jia, do you have any acquaintances here?"

"Well, my grandparents live here." Li Jia forced a smile.

"Oh, no wonder you and Qin Hao were praised by Professor Sun. It turns out you have a life." A female classmate said sourly.

Li Jia was speechless, and Qin Hao stepped forward to help her out: "Many times, the more things are around you, the easier it is to be ignored. The fact that the monitor can produce works that satisfy Professor Sun shows that she has enough observation skills. "

Zhuang Tunan nodded in agreement: "Yes, actually our family also lives in a small alley like this, and the room is not big. Unfortunately, I only read books before and never paid attention to these. Li Jia's works are indeed much better than mine." ”

After hearing this, the other students all agreed. Children who grew up in this era rarely live in big houses. Most of them have a large family crowded into a house of 20 to 30 square meters.

"Okay, let's stop chatting. Everyone should walk around quickly and look for design inspiration, otherwise Professor Sun will get angry again in the next class."

After hearing this, everyone dispersed.

Zhuang Tunan was just about to invite Qin Hao to join him, but he found that Qin Hao had no intention of leaving at all. He looked at Li Jia who was motionless and could only say something in a low voice.

"I'm going to the front."