Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 548: Laughing on stage, crying off (Part 2)

"When I was in junior high school, I was no longer a child, but a young man who knew how to secretly look at girls. In my mother's words, I started to pay attention to my appearance. In written language, it means I started to pay attention to my personal image.

So, at that time, I thought it would be best to make a good impression on the girl I was going to be friends with for the next three years.

Specifically, I tried to dress appropriately.

But at the time, I only had two T-shirts, not really T-shirts, to be precise, they were undershirts, one had yellowed from washing, and the other had several small holes in it. Although I usually ate a simple diet, I was at the age of puberty and growing fast, and my original trousers quickly became similar to the girls' 3/4 length or 8/10 length trousers. I didn't even have a pair of sandals, and usually I just slouched around in my parents' worn-out liberation shoes.

At the time, I thought it was pretty good, and I said to myself, 'If this novel is published and I get paid, I'll ask my parents for a couple of new outfits, and then buy a pair of sandals and a pair of cheap sneakers. They should agree to that, right?'

He had thought that these words would make the people below laugh, but unexpectedly, it was not at all the kind of result he wanted. Huang Jingping was burying her head in Jin Ling's shoulders, and both shoulders were shaking. Jin Ling, meanwhile, was rubbing his eyes.

None of his classmates from his own school would have ever dreamed that Feng Yiping, who was now so successful, had had such a difficult time at home a few years ago. Even Teacher Jin was silent.

Students from other universities, who had originally had some opinions about this show-off from Tsinghua University, now stopped caring after hearing Feng Yiping's speech.

Especially among the audience, whether they were still students at school or had already entered society and started working, those who, like Feng Yiping, came from a rural background, were even more moved after hearing this.

This was not pity or sympathy, but they were moved by what Feng Yiping had done.

Under such difficult conditions, at a young age, he knew how to think about his family and tried to find ways to help out, what a good boy who listens and understands!

Feng Yiping felt that the situation seemed wrong. Come on, this is not the 'Art Life' programme, where the success criterion is to make people cry. Besides, in the 'Art Life' programme, the host also tries every means to make the guests cry. You, as a guest, made the host and half of the audience cry. What kind of thing is this?

Immediately, he felt that the responsibility was his own. How was his style of speaking the same as those contestants on 'Avenue of Stars'?

Although these experiences of his were real, and although he had no complaints about those difficult times before, and now when he thinks about it, he doesn't even feel the hardship, and even less the desire to use these to win sympathy from everyone, objectively, however, it really doesn't make the listener happy.

The hostess, who was also aware of this problem, did not pursue the topic further, given her previous experience. Instead, she immediately changed the subject and asked a question that did not appear on the interview outline and could arouse everyone's emotions: 'Tell me, when you were a child, which cartoon character left the deepest impression on you? The Hula娃? 一休? Astro Boy? Sakuragi Hanamichi?'

It seems that there really wasn't one.

Later, when his family bought a TV, it was when he was in secondary school, so he wouldn't have watched cartoons back then. As for this time, it was also in the second year of junior high school that they bought a TV, and again, he wouldn't have watched cartoons.

So, later, when he heard others talk about Japanese comics, such as Slam Dunk and Saint Seiya, and even when they sang the song of the Hula Hoops, he couldn't get involved at all.

'So, the farthest distance in the world is not between life and death, but the fact that we are the same age, but while you were at home watching cartoons, I was herding cattle and chopping firewood in the mountains,' Feng Yiping said with a smile.

Well, this sentence finally made everyone a little more active. Huang Jingping even remembered that when Feng Yiping first started junior high school, writing this sentence brought a little excitement. Perhaps, from that time on, there was already a shadow of him in her heart, and she silently fell in love with him?

'Are you sure there isn't one?' The host felt that Feng Yiping was cooperating well, and asked with a smile.

'Let me think...there is one. Does Afanti count? I remember watching an outdoor movie when I was a child, and the name was Afanti,'

'Movie? That's not an animation, but there is an Afanti animation, so that counts,'

Seeing that he had finally got everyone in the mood, the host returned to the right track, 'Is it correct to understand that whether you write novels or study while running a business, you are trying to contribute to the family?'

'Yes. To be honest, ever since junior high school, I have been pondering what kind of business can make money? And what kind of business can my family do with our resources?

Next, after we get started, what problems are likely to be encountered, what competition will we face, how should we deal with the problems and competition?

After paying off the external debt and accumulating some capital, how do we upgrade, or what kind of business can we do with those savings that will bring better, longer-term prospects?

And then, how do we upgrade again?

In short, these are questions that can be pondered on forever. Not only did I make a lot of immature thoughts and plans at the time, but I also paid close attention to reports and related books in this area. I learned a lot from the examples of others and took a lot of notes.

It can be said that I pondered these matters since my teens, which is why this book is now available.' Feng Yiping has not forgotten why he is here today.

'So you decided to go into business when you were young?'

'Not really,' Feng Yiping shakes his head. 'When I was nine or ten, I didn't think about such things. I was just happy to be able to concentrate on my studies. It was during my fifth or sixth year of primary school that I became aware of the problem. Although my parents worked very hard, life at home was still very difficult.

But at that time, I didn't want to do anything. It seemed that apart from helping with more housework and doing more farm work to help out, there wasn't much else to do.

It wasn't until I was in junior high school that I became clear about what I wanted to do, and I had some not very mature ideas. With the support of my grandfather, I took a gamble and put them into action.'

'So you wrote novels?'

'Yes. After I finished writing the novel, I faced a very practical problem. At that time, I wasn't even sure I could get the money from my parents to buy the stationery, stamps and pay for the courier. I had to go to my grandfather,'

'So you decided to become a writer before you thought about doing business?'

'I wouldn't dare aspire to be a writer, that was really a desperate attempt,' Feng Yiping said with a smile. 'So, essentially, I should be the kind of person who doesn't have many ambitions. If the family's financial situation was still tolerable, I would probably just study hard, try to get into university, find a decent job, and then marry a wife who understands me, have a family, and spend our days together, watching your show in the evenings.'

Hearing Feng Yiping's words, the hostess smiled sincerely this time, with a slight smile that really had a few enchanting colours.

However, Feng Yiping didn't really pay much attention to it. It seemed that many of these female TV station hosts were the property of others, and he didn't want to get involved.

'In other words, the family's financial situation forced you to make this decision at such a young age?'

'It wasn't a compulsion, it was my own initiative. There was no other way. Since I couldn't bask in the light of others, I had to be my own sun. No, I had to strive to be the sun for my family.'

This sentence, coming from Feng Yiping, who had already achieved so much, really was quite inspiring. Everyone spontaneously applauded.

'So, have you ever resented your parents?'

This question was a little pointed. Generally speaking, children, no matter how sensible, will always have their limits.

'Why? In our village, everyone's lives were actually more or less the same at the time, except that my family's life was a bit more difficult because of my mother's illness and then my illness. However, my parents were both very hardworking. Although our financial situation was not good, it did not affect the love they had for me. How could I blame them?' Feng Yiping looked at the host in disbelief.

'Even your peers in the village, who had nice new clothes to wear and pocket money to buy delicious food and fun things, and who didn't always have to help out at home during the holidays, when you saw all this, you really didn't have any complaints at all?'