Chapter 6 Making Money Opportunities

  School's out.

  Chu Tianfeng and Gao Dali left the classroom with their backpacks, although they didn't live in the same place, but usually they would go to the bus stop together, repeating this routine day after day.

  Today Gao Dali seemed particularly excited all the way, still talking endlessly about Chu Tianfeng's brilliant performance in the afternoon.

  "Wow, Tian Ge, the power of love is indeed great! You're invincible today, I admit defeat!" Gao Dali chuckled.

  "What is the power of love?" Chu Tianfeng smiled and pretended not to know.

  "Lin Yajing, eh! You must have a crush on her, there's nothing to be ashamed of, in our school, the boys who like Lin Yajing could fill up a truck, not to mention those from outside schools who admire her!" Gao Dalie said with a wide grin.

  "Alright, you little brat is really good at gossiping!" Chu Tianfeng patted his broad shoulder, the tall and powerful man was known as the "Gossip King". Usually in class, whenever a girl talked to a boy for more than a few sentences, he would spread rumors behind their backs that the two must be having an affair.

  "Tianfeng, you rascal, why did you release my pigeon?" Tan Kai was guarding the school gate and when he saw Chu Tianfeng come out, he burst into a fit of snickering.

  "Haha, Kaizi, I'm really sorry! I forgot that I had an English class to attend, and this is one class I couldn't skip!" Chu Tianfeng smiled wryly.

  "To be honest, the English teacher in your class is really beautiful, I even want to attend your class as a listener." Tan Kai wasn't a petty person, Chu Tianfeng's casual invitation didn't seem excessive to him. Who wouldn't want to attend classes taught by such a lovely and charming teacher?

  "Kai Zi, you haven't gone home yet? Where did you go just now?" Chu Tianfeng asked with a smile.

  "Wow, I'm telling you! You didn't go, so I had to go myself." Tan Kai said excitedly: "I played a game for two hours, called 'The Legend of Sword and Fairy', oh my, I found that this computer game is incredibly fun, and it's also good for improving your brainpower, much higher level than the electronic games in the arcade, not just anyone can play it!"

  In 1998, internet cafes were not yet widespread across the country and only existed in big cities. They had early standalone games and did not provide internet access, or only a portion of the computers could go online, so they were commonly known as "computer rooms".

  Tan Kai vividly described that "magical" computer game to Chu Tianfeng, implying: If you don't go today, you'll regret it!

  But unexpectedly, Chu Tianfeng reacted indifferently to this, and instead enlivened the tall and sturdy Gao Dali beside him, repeatedly asking about the location of the new "computer room" so that he could find time to try it out.

  "One day we'll go again, I heard that computer room is going to hold some game testing activity in two days! It's about finding bugs in the game, called Beta or something, all in English, and they say if you find any, they'll give you money. It's an event organized by a game development company." Tan Kai excitedly introduced.

  "That's just a game bug!" Chu Tianfeng smiled and said.

  "Right, right, it's called a game bug, haha, Chu Tianfeng you little scoundrel, have you secretly played before?" Tan Kai looked at Chu Tianfeng with a questioning face, thinking that he was more professional than him!

  "No, I... saw it in the newspaper." Chu Tianfeng casually replied, secretly amused: "Not to mention the current generation of Xianjian, but also including Xianjian 2, 3, and 4, as well as spin-offs - this is a legendary masterpiece in single-player game history!"

  Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea, he should take advantage of his rebirth to do some business, just like those online rebirths, with memories of the past life, being aware of things before they happen, that would be invincible!

  Especially after Chu Tianfeng's rebirth, his brain power has also increased. Apart from studying, if he doesn't do something with his career, it would be a waste of his so active brain cells.

  "Kai, what's that game testing activity you mentioned, when does it start?" Chu Tianfeng thought this was a good opportunity to make money. He is now penniless, with only the memories of his past life and a flexible mind, lacking startup capital, he can only start from scratch.

  "This Saturday, Tianfeng, want to give it a try?" Tan Kai asked with a smile.

  Chu Tianfeng nodded slightly, his mind tracing back memories from 1998, searching for business opportunities.

  Playing games to find bugs is mainly for making money, the right way is to develop games from scratch. Standalone games will decline in popularity over the next few years, and online games will eventually dominate the market.

  He also had a previous life in the financial industry, and 1998 was exactly the year when the Asian financial crisis broke out intensively. Now it's about to spread to China, and there are huge business opportunities in the financial crisis, but unfortunately he doesn't have any capital now.

  Chu Tianfeng's monthly living expenses rely solely on the meager 200 yuan of low-security gold issued by the street office, barely enough for one person to survive.

  Fortunately, after the school knew about his situation, they exempted him from tuition fees, so he could continue studying.

  He thought to himself: "I must seize the time to make money, this is as important as seizing the time to study!"

  Laughing and talking, they arrived at the station, where Gao Dali took a bus and left first.

  Chu Tianfeng and Tan Kai, along with Gao Dali, didn't take the same route. They waited for a 342 bus heading to the suburbs and arrived at their humble shanty town twenty minutes later.

  Back home, this was the loneliest time of Chu Tianfeng's day. He was the only one at home, his father was in prison, and his mother had lost contact with him since she divorced his father.

  There is only a family photo of three people hanging on the wall, indicating that this was once an intact home. Since Chu's incident, those relatives in the city have also rarely come to visit, because they think that Chu Gang has brought shame to his family and ignored Chu Tianfeng. This is what is meant by "being poor in a bustling city with no one to turn to, being rich in a remote mountain with distant relatives", how heartless the world can be!

  Chu Tianfeng stared at the photo of his father, Chu Gang, who looked spirited and had a warm smile, and he just couldn't believe that he was the corrupt official whom everyone pointed fingers at.

  In the past when Chu Gang was the factory director, every time there were festivals and holidays, those who came to give gifts would kick down his door, but Chu Gang never accepted any of those gifts.

  One time a gift-giver secretly left a small package at the door and slipped away quietly. The next day, Chu Gang found the package and handed it over to the Discipline Inspection Commission.

  How could such a clean and honest official become a corrupt offender overnight? Five million is no small amount! How is that possible?

  I remember the day when my father was taken away by the police, I was so emotional and shouted "Unjust!" three times to the sky, it's still fresh in my memory.

  "Dad, I will definitely clear your name!" Chu Tianfeng gazed steadily at the photo of his father, Chu Gang, with a resolute expression and full confidence. He secretly calculated in his heart that he should go to the prison to visit him in a few days.

  Although he also knew that wanting to give his father a retrial was a long, complicated and arduous task, as long as there was hope, he should not give up his efforts. His father is now in prison, often visiting him, sending some daily necessities, of course, also trying to understand the situation from the side, looking for clues.

  After dinner, Chu Tianfeng started reviewing his lessons, which was unimaginable in the past. At that time, he would either rush into the game room or dash into the billiard room after school every day, and sometimes even go to the video hall for an all-nighter.

  Today, he didn't go anywhere and took out the brand new textbooks for each subject from his backpack, which had only been flipped through a few times, and started reading them seriously.

  Since the rebirth, Chu Tianfeng found that his brainpower had become stronger than before, and his learning efficiency had also greatly improved. He was studying liberal arts, which required a lot of memorization, especially in politics and history, almost all of which were memory-based content. In the past, he would get a headache just by looking at it. But today, when he flipped through those textbooks that he used to hate, he found them to be surprisingly familiar.

  Those lengthy and tedious political theories, those hard-to-remember historical dates, once entered into Chu Tianfeng's brain, were like inputting them into a computer, clearly stored away.

  Of course, Chu Tianfeng's brain is not a real computer after all, and it will forget over time and feel physically exhausted. It seems that good mental power needs good physical strength to support it. If too much knowledge is input, he will feel dizzy and must adopt a combination of work and rest.

  One night, he made a breakthrough in half of the first volume of high school politics, but unfortunately, there were too many debts to pay off in the past. Even with his exceptional brainpower now, he could only review step by step and it was impossible to make rapid progress.

  The next morning, Chu Tianfeng got up early, ate a packet of instant noodles after washing up, grabbed his school bag and took the bus straight to school.

  The playground in the early morning, the sunlight sprinkles down faintly, reflecting a golden yellow.

  The hardware and software of Shi Yizhong were still relatively advanced at that time. There were two five-story teaching buildings, one apartment building for out-of-town students, and a two-story canteen that could accommodate more than 1,000 faculty members and students for meals.

  The playground has a large and small one. The larger one has a rubber track, the smaller one is a basketball court, and there is also a football field. This configuration was quite complete even among high schools nationwide at that time, and many high schools ten years later did not have such a configuration.

  On the small playground, a group of tall and handsome boys were playing basketball, shouting and cheering each other on. Of course, there were also girls watching from the sidelines, their innocent and lovely faces lighting up with bright smiles. With the girls watching, these guys played even more energetically.

  Chu Tianfeng gazed at the familiar campus scene, smiling faintly. When he was struggling to stay afloat in the competitive society, how many times had he dreamed of returning to school? Now that wish had finally come true.

  He came exceptionally early today, with more than half an hour before class. Walking into the classroom, a dozen or so classmates from Class 2 of Senior Grade 3 had arrived sparsely, and Lin Yajing had come even earlier than him, diligently reviewing her books with her head down.

  She was wearing a dress with a floral pattern, elegant and refreshing. Her slender legs were exposed outside the skirt, long, delicate, white, and crystal clear. A pair of black patent leather shoes and a pair of white short socks complemented her outfit.

  With the same snow-white skin, it reveals her student's true nature while not losing the modern girl's youthful fashion.

  "Classmate, good morning!" Chu Tianfeng smiled and slowly walked in front of her, quietly admiring her pure and serene beauty.

  "Mmm, good morning!" Lin Yajing lifted her head and smiled sweetly, her shoulder-length black hair neatly combed back.

  "Good morning, what are you reading?" Chu Tianfeng asked casually.

  "A high school entrance exam review guide!" Lin Yajing stretched out her pale small hand to reveal the cover of the book, on which was written "Haidian Exam King" in four characters.

  Chu Tianfeng nodded silently, secretly sighing to himself: "In the past, I was just sitting in the back row, looking at her from afar, but now not only am I at the same table as her, but I can also chat with her so casually, this progress isn't bad!"

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