Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 17: Be a Rich Second Generation

The weeds on the ridges of the fields have gradually turned yellow, and morning frost condenses on the tips of the leaves, flickering in the morning sun. Smoke rises from the chimneys of the farmhouses, slowly blending into the cold sky.

It's already November.

Today Li Xu is going to the county town with his cousin to buy some things.

The two of them walked slowly towards the village entrance.

For the people in this township, going to the county town is quite troublesome.

There are two types of towns in this land. One is along the national or provincial highway. The highway often passes through the edge of the town. Such towns can develop well. After all, they are close to the main traffic arteries and everything will be convenient.

And Xieyang Township is the latter.

The nearest national and provincial highways to Xieyang Township require a county road stretching more than ten kilometers.

Naturally, in this era, there are not many extremely difficult roads in the countryside. Whether it is a county road or a rural road, at least the roads are still quite flat. The inconvenience is that there are few vehicles passing by.

If you want to go to the county town, if you don’t have your own car, you need to wait at the village entrance for the bus which only runs twice a day.

This is the first time Li Xu has officially gone to the county town since his rebirth.

Ye Ling and Li Xu stood together at the entrance of the village.

Seeing Li Xu looking around aimlessly with a leisurely look on his face, Ye Ling felt a strange feeling in her heart.

This kid doesn't seem to have any difficulty adapting to life here, and even seems to be enjoying it.

She still remembered the first week the boy had arrived here.

Although he didn't cry bitterly, he never stopped complaining after arriving at the township government.

In Li Xu's words, this place is simply not a place where people can live.

I was actually quite helpless at that time, and couldn't help but sigh that my cousin was such a failure in education.

However, after going to the county town and being brought back by his father, Li Xu seemed like a completely different person.

Of course, it’s not that I know Li Xu very well.

After all, I have been in college for four years, and there are only two holidays every year, which gives me a short time to contact Li Xu.

So sometimes Ye Ling couldn't help but think, maybe the current Li Xu is his true self?
What about Li Xu, who has just been here a week?

But to be honest, it seems that Li Xu and I haven't had an in-depth talk yet.

Ye Ling asked, "What do you think of this place?"

Li Xu was staring blankly at a sparrow on the treetop. When he heard his cousin's question, he nodded subconsciously: "It's okay."

Ye Ling snorted in annoyance. "What's so good about the countryside? The roads are difficult to navigate, and there's no infrastructure. If we want to buy anything, we have to go to the county town, which is so far away. We have to wait for the bus for more than half an hour, and then we'll be delayed for more than an hour on the way... What's so good about it?"

Li Xu looked at Ye Ling with some surprise. He didn't expect his cousin to make such a shocking statement... Aren't these the same words he expressed before his rebirth?

"Uh...cousin, what do you mean? Don't you like the countryside very much?"

Before Li Xu could finish his words, Ye Ling hit him on the head.

"I'm not a masochist, so why would I like this kind of environment? I stay here..." She sighed softly, "I stay here just because I feel that those children... like Xia Xiaohe..."

"Cousin...you are so great!"

"I'm not great, I'm just too soft-hearted..." Ye Ling shook her head, not intending to go deeper into this topic. She looked at Li Xu and said, "Come, let's talk about you."

"Talk about me? What about me?"

"Tell me what you think. What are you really thinking now? After all, you've been here for such a long time."

"Didn't I tell you? I won't drop out of school. I'm going to study hard when I get back..."

"Go on, why did you have such a change of heart?"

"I've grown up."

"Be serious!"

"I said that after looking at the students here and their lives, I felt that they were not easy. Then I felt that I was very happy and that I should cherish the life here..." Li Xu answered casually.

Ye Ling fell silent, squinting her eyes at Li Xu for a moment, then shook her head, looked away, and said unhappily, "Not sincere." Li Xu was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "Then, cousin, let me tell you the truth."

"Hmm? What's the truth?"

"To be honest, I don't care what life is like for people in the countryside. I feel fine here, that's the truth, because I don't have to worry about life. The infrastructure here doesn't mean much to me. The air here is very good, very quiet, and very suitable for studying. They do have a hard life... That's how it looks from our perspective, but I also know that everyone has their own destiny, which I can't change. In conclusion, their lives are their own and can't touch me..."

"Even earlier, I didn't think I could make friends here... Well, they and I... probably won't have much contact in the future."

Li Xu glanced at Ye Ling and continued, "Let me continue with your question. Why did I change? Well, actually, it's because I want to be a rich second-generation."

"Ok?"

"How can I explain this? Perhaps it was just a dream, and I suddenly understood..."

"I didn't have any big ambitions. I just wanted to be a second-generation rich kid, living a life of idleness and waiting for death. Living under my dad's protection might not be healthy, but I'd grow up happily. I didn't expect to make his business bigger or stronger in the future... I just wanted to keep it going."

Ye Ling pursed her lips, a little surprised, but also a little disdainful: "Haha, quite insightful..."

Li Xu's expression turned serious. "But the problem is...it's not that easy to achieve."

Ye Ling was stunned and looked at Li Xu with some confusion. Isn't this kind of thing difficult to achieve?
Li Xu sighed slightly and said, "There are too many examples of billionaires who eventually went bankrupt and fell into selling vegetables, delivering takeout, and even moving bricks... The world is changing, and sometimes the speed of change is astonishing. For example, my father's company's main business is office supplies and some software system development. The times are changing too fast. If he were to be eliminated, it might only take a few months, and a few months is just a moment for the lifeline of a company..."

"This is about the market, and also about internal affairs. For example, my father's company isn't controlled solely by him. There are shareholders, directors, and so on. Within this large interest group lie many smaller, intricately distributed interests..."

"Whether it's inside or outside, there are huge waves that are constantly rolling. It's not easy to protect what my father left behind in such an environment."

"If I want to just eat and drink for free and wait for death, I must have the ability to do so..."

Ye Ling was stunned...

How could these words possibly come from a freshman in high school, someone who had just threatened to drop out?

She recalled that it was during this period that Li Xu began to occasionally utter these seemingly profound words.

Are these really insights he came up with himself?
"It's not as serious as you say. There are so many second-generation rich people who are incompetent, but I haven't seen them all go bankrupt in the end, right?"

"Because their big tree didn't fall down..."

Li Xu sighed helplessly, looked at Ye Ling and smiled: "Alas, you won't understand even if I tell you. Anyway, I really plan to study hard. My goal is, at least to get into a 985 university."

Ye Ling looked at Li Xu with a complicated expression...

She now felt that her cousin's education seemed to be quite successful... No matter what happened before, the fact that he could say these words today was enough to surprise her.

Ye Ling snorted and said unhappily, "Pretending to be profound again."

Just then, the bus finally arrived.

There are not many people in the car yet.

Liu Tao sat next to Liu Ruilan. They were also going to the county town to buy some things today.

Liu Tao was very excited because his sister promised to buy him snacks worth less than three yuan.

At this time, Liu Ruilan was sitting next to him reading a book. Liu Tao looked out the window with some boredom, and then he saw Li Xu who was waiting for the bus.

Hey, isn’t that the uncle who gave me chocolate?
The car stopped and Li Xu and Ye Ling got in. There were no seats side by side, so Ye Ling sat in the front. Li Xu walked to the back, saw a seat, and sat down directly.

When Liu Tao realized that Li Xu didn't see him, he touched his sister Liu Ruilan and whispered, "Sister, he is the uncle who gave me the chocolate..."

Li Xu was wearing a jacket today that he had never worn at school. He was quite tall, and from the back, he looked a bit like an adult.

Also because of preconceived notions, Liu Ruilan did not recognize Li Xu for a while.

At this moment, she felt that she should be polite, so she called out softly, "Uncle... hello?"

Li Xu was just joking with the little kids by calling himself uncle, so when Liu Ruilan called him that, she didn't realize she was calling her and ignored her.

Liu Ruilan frowned, then gently touched Li Xu's shoulder and called out softly, "Uncle... um?"

The next moment, Liu Ruilan's eyes bulged out like lanterns.

Because Li Xu turned around.

"Li Xu!"

(End of this chapter)