Chapter 2: Humiliated

The next day happened to be Sunday, and Zhou Hao and Yan Tong came to the home of Uncle Zhou Lichang.
Zhou Lichang built a three-storey independent bungalow in Zhoujia Village, which is very conspicuous in Zhoujia Village, where many tile houses still remain. Zhou Lichang lives in it with his wife Xu Yongwei and a pair of children. There was also a black "Guangzhou Honda" parked under the bungalow, and the villagers would inevitably look more when they passed by.
Before coming here, Yan Tong specially spent more than fifty yuan on a basket of fruit.
"It's you, how come you remember to visit us?" When Zhou Hao's aunt Xu Yongwei opened the door to see their mother and son, the disdain in her eyes was very obvious, and she didn't hide it at all, so she stood in front of the door. The somewhat stiff Yan Tong became even more embarrassed.
Because of good care and no worries about food and clothing, Xu Yongwei, who is a little older than Yan Tong, looks more than ten years younger than Yan Tong.
Seeing Xu Yongwei's snobby face again after many years, Zhou Hao smiled inwardly, "It really hasn't changed at all!"
"Hello, sister-in-law." Yan Tong smiled to Xu Yongwei: "Zhihao and Xinxin are okay." What she said was the pair of children of Xu Yongwei, Zhou Zhihao and Zhou Xinxin, both of whom were a few years younger than Zhou Hao. In elementary school.
"Fortunately, you are interested, come in and sit down." Xu Yongwei's face was very impatient and invited Zhou Hao and Yan Tong into the room.
Compared with the small unit where Zhou Hao's mother and son lived, Zhou Lichang's bungalow is very luxurious, with leather sofas and large color TVs all available. Yan Tong was very nervous after entering the room, for fear that he would soil the room and didn't even know where to put his hands.
Entering the spacious hall, Zhou Hao saw his cousin Zhou Zhihao happily playing a video game, and his cousin Zhou Xinxin was playing with her Kitty cat doll on the sofa. Seeing Zhou Hao and Yan Tong recently, the two brothers and sisters didn't mean to pay attention, so they didn't even look at them.
Zhou Hao sneered in his heart when he looked at the two men who were invincible. These two guys were not good stuff since they were young, and they became even worse when they grew up. Zhou Zhihao learned to eat before graduating from high school, and Zhou Xinxin was not much better. After growing up, Zhou Lichang was sent to the United States by Zhou Lichang, but she heard that she contracted AIDS there because of promiscuity.
"Sit down." Xu Yongwei asked Zhou Hao and Yan Tong to sit in the dining room here, but she didn't mean to blame her children for being rude. Zhou Hao thought that the reason why Zhou Zhihao and Zhou Xinxin would fall for themselves in the future was due to Xu Yongwei's indulgence.
Yan Tong quickly handed the basket of fruits to Xu Yongwei, "Sister-in-law, where is the eldest brother? Isn't he at home?"
Xu Yongwei took the fruit and put it aside,
He went out for a drink with his friends last night, and he’s still sleeping on it.
She gave Yan Tong and Zhou Hao a look, and then sneered:
You guys. Do you want to borrow money again this time?"
Yan Tong immediately showed an awkward expression on his face when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Sister-in-law, can you help us? Liren took away the money from the family again, and now we don’t even have Xiaohao’s tuition. ."
"A Tong, it's not that I said you. The money you borrowed from my old Zhou last time hasn't been paid off yet." She said that she looked at Zhou Hao again, and said with a smirking smile: "Xiao Hao, you must use your heart. When you are studying, your dad is not up for good, so don't repeat his mistakes. Look, your mother is worried about what you are like."
"Auntie, I will." Seeing Xu Yongwei's full of ridicule, Zhou Hao really wanted to get up and slap her. But he also knew that it was not the time to be impulsive, so he firmly suppressed the anger in his heart.
At this time, Zhou Zhihao over there turned around and shouted to Zhou Hao: "Ahao, come and play the game with me. This game is really fun." He looked at Zhou Hao as if saying: " You must have never played a video game console."
"No more, so that he doesn't mess up our sofa." Zhou Xinxin next to him said with a look of disgust: "Mummy, when are they leaving? You see, the whole room stinks as soon as they come in."
"How can I talk to people like this?" Xu Yongwei said to them, but there was still no blame in her eyes.
Zhou Hao's fist on his leg clenched and trembled slightly, and the memories of the last life came to his heart again. At that time, Yan Tong was hospitalized with liver cancer, but the family had no money because Zhou Hao went to college. Zhou Hao had no choice but to borrow from Zhou Lichang, but he never expected that he had tens of millions of fortunes at that time. Zhou Lichang very simply rejected Zhou Hao, and Xu Yongwei who was present at the scene also said nonchalantly: "I have terminal cancer, and how much money is spent, you should hurry up and prepare for the funeral."
The humiliation of Zhou Lichang's family to Zhou Hao was not forgotten the moment Zhou Hao died.
At this time, Yan Tong, who was sitting next to Zhou Hao, reached out and grabbed Zhou Hao’s clenched fist, implying that he should not be impulsive, and begged Xu Yongwei: "Sister-in-law, please help us, Xiaohao’s tuition. Can't delay, we will definitely return the money to you as soon as possible."
"Okay, okay, it's a relative anyway." Xu Yongwei curled her lips and said, "How much do you want to borrow?"
"One"
"Ten thousand." Zhou Hao said before Yan Tong.
Xu Yongwei stared at Zhou Hao with wide eyes, "Ten thousand? What are you doing with so much money? Can you pay it back?"
Yan Tong also looked at Zhou Hao in surprise, she had only wanted to borrow a thousand.
Zhou Hao raised his head and said to Xu Yongwei: "We want to do some small business, aunt, don't worry, this is the last time we borrowed money from you, and we will definitely pay it off as soon as possible."
Under Yan Tong’s pleading gaze, Xu Yongwei thought about it for a while and said,
Well, lest people say that we don’t care about his brother-in-law’s family. But Tong, I told you in advance, you have to pay off these as soon as possible. Money, otherwise even relatives would not speak affectionately. It is not easy for our old Zhou to make money."
Then, Xu Yongwei took a new stack of hundred yuan bills from the room and handed it to Yan Tong.
However, when Zhou Hao saw Xu Yongwei's gaze, it was clearly a kind of charity to beggars.
"You will wait for me, one day, I will return your'great kindness' back!" After walking out of Zhou Lichang's house, Zhou Hao secretly vowed while looking at this luxurious independent house.
On the way back, Yan Tong asked Zhou Hao: "Xiaohao, why do you borrow so much from my sister-in-law? When are we going to engage in business?"
Zhou Hao smiled softly, "Mom, we are not going to engage in a small business. After paying the tuition, I plan to use the remaining money for stocks."
"Stock speculation?" Yan Tong was surprised. At this time in 1998, stock speculation had gradually emerged among the common people. However, for Yan Tong, who can barely maintain his life, there is no money left to invest in stocks. Moreover, even if he does not understand stocks, Yan Tong also knows that stock trading is a very risky behavior. There are frequent rumors in the society that certain people are bankrupted because of stock trading, and some people even commit suicide because of this.
"That's right." Zhou Hao said with a smile: "Didn't we just open a securities company opposite the Bank of China? We can go there to open an account and invest the money in several potential stocks."
Regarding Zhou Hao's words, Yan Tong disagreed, and reproached: "You are a kid who knows what stocks, we'd better pay back the remaining money, lest your dad know about it and use it to gamble."
Zhou Hao sighed slightly. He is only fourteen years old and does not have an ID card, so he can't open an account and trade stocks by himself. If you want to trade stocks, you must use Yan Tong to do so. Therefore, Zhou Hao must convince Yan Tong. He pointed to the noisy market across the street, and the place full of garbage not far away, "Mom, that market will be demolished soon. In the future, there will be a large supermarket. And over there. A five-star hotel will also be built in the open space of Beijing. Mom, Xiangcheng is developing faster and faster. We must seize the opportunity to improve our lives." He looked at Yan Tong deeply, "Mom, I You don’t want you to sweep the streets hard, and you don’t want you to stay behind that food stall all night to wash the dishes, I want you to live in a villa, I want you to drive in a famous car!"
Zhou Hao's excitement and anticipation also infected Yan Tong more or less, making her involuntarily trapped in fantasy about the future. However, for her, the risk of stock trading is too high, not much better than Zhou Liren's money.
Seeing Yan Tong's deeply worried look, Zhou Hao asked him: "Mom, do you believe me? Do you believe Xiaohao?"
"Of course Mom believes in Xiaohao, but"
Zhou Hao interrupted Yan Tong with a smile, "Then you can give it to Xiao Hao. The 10,000 yuan is a little less, and not too much. Instead of keeping it, it is better to invest. I have analyzed a few. Stocks, I believe they will see significant gains in the short term. Let's open an account with that newly opened securities company next week."
In fact, Zhou Hao is only a fourteen-year-old boy, and it is not convincing to say that he wants to invest in stocks. But for some reason, Yan Tong felt that Zhou Hao's words would definitely come true. In a faint sense, she felt that her son was no longer the ignorant boy before.