Chapter 17: Sitting And Waiting To Get Rich
These recent days spent in his own bedroom writing code gave Wang Heng a familiar sense of reassurance. Before graduation, when he hadn’t yet been targeted by Lu Qi, his days were just like this—simply burying his head in work, every thought in his mind filled with rational logic, without any distressing emotional entanglements.
In this way, he regained his previous efficiency and completed all the tasks in less than a month.
After sending the work achievement to Lu Qi, it wasn’t long before she replied with a line of question marks and a line of exclamation marks.
A few minutes later, Lu Qi sent a message: 【You’re moving this fast? Did you work overtime?】
Wang Heng: 【No need for overtime, it’s my summer vacation now.】
Lu Qi: 【I almost forgot you’re still a student. Impressive, really impressive.】
Wang Heng: 【So, big shot, can you raise the price a bit?】
Lu Qi: 【We have a budget limit for outsourcing each month.】
Seeing this message, Wang Heng dispelled his slight expectation of a temporary price increase.
However, just over ten seconds later, Lu Qi sent another message:
【But I can subsidize you from my personal salary.】
Wang Heng: 【So generous, thanks!】
Lu Qi: 【No need to thank me, I’ll just cover your odd change. And I still need to check it first.】
Wang Heng didn’t know how long the subsequent check took. But more than two hours later, the remuneration for this outsourcing hit his card. The original amount of 35,000 was topped up by Lu Qi to a full 40,000, plus the existing 23,000 in the card, totaling 63,000 yuan.
This remuneration was quite good even a few years later. Although Wang Heng had completed the work quite efficiently, Lu Qi had obviously expedited the payment process— for most programmers taking private jobs, this treatment was dreamlike.
But Wang Heng only replied with 【Thanks】 as his final response, without saying more gratitude or polite words. Then, he opened the Bitcoin trading platform, went through a series of procedures, transferred 50,000 yuan in cash, and bought a full 50 Bitcoins.
Because the price of a single Bitcoin was slightly over the 1,000 yuan RMB line, plus the handling fee, exactly speaking, the money he put in was slightly over 50,000, with a few hundred yuan in odd change extra.
This way, only a little over 12,000 remained in the bank card. He had calculated that it was enough to cover travel expenses, tuition fee, accommodation fee, and other necessary expenses.
After getting everything done, Wang Heng stretched, walked to the window side, and looked at the sunset outside.
“It’s really something to look forward to…”
He stood there, lost in thought for an unknown amount of time, until the notification sound from the Q account message pulled back his attention.
Wang Heng sat back in front of the computer and opened the chat window with Xiao Renjian.
【Let me tell you, a senior just sent me a batch of resources, absolutely amazing! Want them?】
Below were a few pictures, all stills of actresses from special action films, looking both beautiful and pure.
Wang Heng replied casually: 【Oh, Asuka’s films.】
Xiao Renjian: 【You know her?!】
Wang Heng was about to retort ‘You don’t even know her,’ when he suddenly realized this was still seven years ago, and Xiao Renjian had just turned adult at this time. Although he had seen quite a bit, he hadn’t yet found a stable way to download resources, incomparable to the veteran driver he would be years later.
So he replied: 【If you want them, I’ll give you the link, her HD complete collection.】
Xiao Renjian replied instantly: 【Big brother!!】
Wang Heng shook his head, feeling that their positioning seemed reversed, which was quite amusing. You know, Xiao Renjian, who had collected a ton of resources during this summer vacation, should be the veteran driver. Until university graduation, Wang Heng only rode in his car, never sending resources to driver Xiao.
Of course, after university graduation, Xiao Renjian had always been a single otaku, while Wang Heng didn’t have time for special action films… that was a series of very complex stories.
In just ten minutes, Wang Heng found those download links, sent them to Xiao Renjian, and got back a 【Big brother】 with over a dozen exclamation marks. Then, Wang Heng ignored it and opened the official website for buying train tickets.
Hard sleeper tickets to Rongdu were completely sold out. Between hard seat ticket and the expensive soft sleeper, Wang Heng hesitated almost not at all and chose the former.
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In the evening, when Wang Jian got off work and returned home, Wang Heng was cooking.
“The rice is already cooked, serve yourself. The dishes are about to go in the pan, I’m busy.”
Hearing his son say this, Wang Jian felt slightly gratified. However, after changing into slippers and looking into the kitchen, his expression changed.
“Scrambled eggs with tomato again? This has been days in a row!”
Wang Heng said without turning his head: “Don’t want to eat it, then make it yourself.”
Wang Jian helplessly shut up and silently served two bowls of rice.
A few minutes later, the dishes were out of the pan and on the dining table.
Father and son sat opposite at the dining table, each holding a bowl of rice. On the table were two dishes: one scrambled eggs with tomato, the other… cucumber salad.
Father grimaced: “This is too vegetarian, isn’t it?”
Wang Heng: “Eggs count as meat dish.”
“Didn’t I give you plenty of money? Don’t be stingy.”
“Save a bit, only 10,000 left in the card.”
Hearing this, father’s hand jerked, and the chopsticks dropped.
“What did you do! How is only 10,000 left?”
“Bought Bitcoin.”
“Already bought it?”
Wang Heng nodded and calmly picked up a piece of cucumber.
Father dejectedly picked up the chopsticks: “Shouldn’t have given you so much at once… Sigh.”
“Don’t sigh, you’ll know by year-end.”
“Know what? You gonna get rich overnight or something!”
Wang Heng smiled: “Getting rich overnight is impossible, but getting rich in a month is no problem.”
Father pursed his lips, ate his vegetables with rice, and stopped arguing.
After just two bites, he couldn’t help asking: “Do you still have enough money for enrollment?”
“Enough, I have it all figured out. The train ticket to Rongdu is bought, rest assured.”
“Oh?” Father looked up at him, “When are you leaving?”
Wang Heng replied: “The ticket I just bought today, leaving next week. These days I basically have nothing to do, planning to stay home playing games. Perfect timing, now I have a notebook too, we can finally play online together.”
Hearing about playing games online with his son, Wang Jian’s mouth involuntarily grinned. But he still noticed a detail and asked: “It’s peak season now, you can buy tickets online just a week in advance?”
Wang Heng: “Not sure about others, but hard seat tickets are plentiful.”
Wang Jian’s mouth twitched twice: “Hard seat… It’s normal not to fly, but at least get a sleeper ticket?”
“No need, I’m saving money however I can right now.”
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