Chapter 36: First High School Experience

At the end of August, when high schools across the country were about to start the new school year, He Yuzhu completed the reorganization of the company.

Originally, the plan was to split the company into two companies. However, under the guidance of an expert recommended by Fang Jinxin, He Yuzhu hired a lawyer, financial and other teams to complete a reorganization of the company.

The reorganized Tianzhu Trading Company was changed to Tianzhu Industry.

Tianzhu Industry has added four wholly-owned subsidiaries, namely a financial investment company, a port trading company, a department store retail company, and a cultural media company.

These four branches will each have new subsidiaries under their jurisdiction.

The company in which Fang Jinxin owns 20% of the shares is the securities subsidiary of the financial investment company.

He Yuzhu scratched his head for a week before he finally figured out the tricks of these talented people.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than the transfer of corporate legal responsibilities.

Earn the highest profit with the least responsibility.

He Yuzhu has learned a trick.

After finishing the company affairs, He Yuzhu took He Xiao back to the mainland.

After returning to Sijiu City, the first thing He Yuzhu did was to report the company information to Lou Zhendong.

This time, He Yuzhu was able to successfully reorganize the company thanks to the connections of his father-in-law Lou Zhendong.

It must be said that Lou Zhendong is worthy of being called "Half of Lou" before the founding of the People's Republic of China. His network of contacts has continued to this day, and has benefited future generations over the past thirty years.

After listening to He Yuzhu's report, Lou Zhendong didn't say much. He had long since handed over the Lou family's relationships to his son Lou Minghe.

This time they said that Lou Zhendong's connections were used, but in fact it was done with the help of Lou Minghe.

Of course, things are very complicated, so let me put it simply.

The matter started with Fang Jinxin, who helped to find a solution and recommended an expert.

The expert pointed out the direction.

He Yuzhu followed the advice of the expert and received strong support from Lou Minghe.

Finally, with the help of the Lou family's connections, the company was successfully reorganized.

Let me say again here that company reorganization is not just about going to the industrial and commercial tax bureau to change the nature of the company and being done with it.

This involves many issues, especially corporate structure, finance, legal responsibilities and so on.

Without guidance from experts, implementation by professionals, and strong power in charge, the company may collapse tomorrow even if it is announced as a reorganization today.

Ado.

After returning to Sijiu City, Lou Zhendong took He Yuzhu to visit old friends to help He Yuzhu expand his network.

In September, He Xiao entered high school and began his life as a boarding student.

Among the four sons, the eldest son He Xiao received the most guidance from He Yuzhu.

Now He Xiao suddenly entered a semi-militarized high school campus known as "half society".

He Yuzhu and his wife couldn't help but worry.

He personally sent me to school, made a bed for me, stuffed me with money and food coupons, and repeatedly told me not to cause trouble at school and to go to the teacher if I had any problems.

If there is really no other way, just leave school and go home.

In a word, safety comes first.

He Xiao had been looking forward to high school life, but after hearing what his parents said, he almost regarded the school as a den of wolves and tigers, and was somewhat afraid to stay there any longer.

On the first day, when we entered the class, the teacher ranked us according to our height.

He Xiao is only fifteen years old, but he is nearly 1.8 meters tall. There are only three people in the class who are slightly taller than him.

There are 47 students in a class, and they are considered locals of the city.

The four tall men lined up in the last row, and to outsiders they looked like the standard heroes of Yan and Zhao.

In fact, these four "Heroes of Yanzhao" were all top students in academic performance. They attended classes carefully every day and looked at the distant blackboard with a wry smile.

Fortunately, He Xiao had been practicing martial arts with He Yuzhu since he was a child, so he had good eyesight and could see the small words on the blackboard clearly.

The classmate on his left had blurred vision and was ready to talk to the teacher to see if his seat could be adjusted.

If the teacher doesn't adjust his position, this comrade might have to wear a pair of glasses.

Being far away from the blackboard, not only was my vision blurry, but the teacher's voice was also very low when it reached the last row.

If a student in the middle makes a noise, the students in the back row won't be able to hear anything.

It was under such circumstances that He Xiao began his difficult journey to high school.

On the first day, after the morning classes ended, He Xiao took his lunch box and followed the crowd to the cafeteria.

Because it is a key middle school, there are nearly twenty classes in each grade, with an average of fifty students in each class.

There are three grades in total, which means about three thousand students.

Excluding the hundreds of students who may go home for meals, and adding the hundreds of faculty and staff who eat at school, there are three thousand people crowded into such a cafeteria to eat every day.

When the bell rang, countless students ran out of the teaching building in a few steps as if they were charging into a battlefield, and went to the cafeteria to line up to buy meals.

As a freshman, He Xiao had just arrived and didn't understand the situation, so he ran over slowly with a few classmates.

When they walked into the cafeteria, they found that seven or eight teams like a long snake had formed a line forty or fifty meters away.

The number of people in the team was still increasing rapidly, and soon, the people at the back were standing outside the cafeteria.

Are there too many people here?
It was the first time that He Xiao knew that having a meal could be so difficult.

"He Xiao, He Xiao..."

"Hmm? Sister Huaihua?"

He Xiao was just about to queue up outside the cafeteria when he heard someone calling him. He turned around and found that it was Huaihua, his next-door neighbor in the courtyard.

Huaihua's full name is Jia Hua, and she is originally two levels higher than He Xiao.

However, because high school and university classes were not serious in the past few years, Huaihua was admitted to a key high school after school classes resumed last year.

Now, Huaihua is one level higher than He Xiao.

"Come here, give me the lunch box and ticket, and I'll buy it for you."

Huaihua has a very good impression of He Xiao.

The He family has never lacked food and clothing since childhood. In the courtyard, the four children of the He family often have snacks in their pockets.

All the friends like to play with the He family’s children because they always generously share their snacks.

Huaihua had received a lot of snacks from He Xiao before.

When we meet at the same school at this time, we naturally feel close to each other.

He Xiao was stopped by Huaihua, and several male classmates around him immediately started to make a noise.

He Xiao was a little embarrassed and annoyed. He didn't want to say hello to Huaihua at first, but he hesitated for a moment, looked at the long line, and finally decided not to let his stomach suffer:
"Okay, Sister Huaihua."

He Xiao handed the lunch box and food coupons to Huaihua, then stood aside and slowly walked forward with the crowd.

"What do you want to eat?"

Huaihua checked the food coupons given by He Xiao and asked in surprise: "Why did you give me so many food coupons?"

He Xiao was stunned. He looked at the food coupons in Huaihua's hand again and scratched his head shyly: "Sister Huaihua, the food coupons are correct. I eat a lot, so two kilograms of food coupons may not be enough."

"What do you want to eat? A big steamed bun costs one liang of food coupons, a steamed bun and a sesame cake costs two liang of food coupons, a pot of porridge costs one liang of food coupons, and vegetables without meat cost two liang of food coupons, with meat they cost three liang, and with meat they cost four liang."

He Xiao had already eaten in the cafeteria that morning and knew the prices, so he said directly: "I'll just have a bowl of millet porridge, a three-ounce meat dish, four steamed buns, and four sesame cakes."

Huaihua was shocked when she heard this: "He Xiao, can you finish all the food you bought?" He Xiao felt a little shy when Huaihua questioned him, but he still said: "I practice martial arts every day, which consumes a lot of energy. When I'm at home, these may not be enough for me."

"You eat a lot, but how do you carry it?"

"The sesame cakes can be stacked up, but the steamed buns are as big as a fist, and it's hard to carry them in a lunch box."

"It's okay, just wrap the bun in paper and put it in your pocket."

He Xiao was also prepared and took out a piece of white paper from his pocket.

When Huaihua saw this, she smiled immediately. It seemed that she had been prepared for this.

As they were talking, it was Huaihua's turn.

Huaihua ordered for herself first, and then ordered for He Xiao.

After a while, the two of them left in the surprised eyes of everyone.

When preparing to eat, Huaihua and He Xiao sat separately.

Boys and girls are not allowed to get too close to each other in school.

The cafeteria is a key supervision area.

"He Xiao, come earlier next time. If you're late, there might be no food."

Huaihua said this and found a female classmate to sit over.

He Xiao could only find an empty seat and sit down.

The people around him were stunned when they saw him finish a fist-sized bun in just a few bites.

After finishing the buns, I started eating the sesame cakes.

The dish was gone before I finished eating the sesame cake.

In the end, He Xiao could only drink the millet porridge and swallow the biscuits.

"If I had known, I would have ordered two dishes."

Back in the classroom, many students did not go to the cafeteria to eat.
Some of these students brought their own dry food from home.

There are also students who have leftover steamed buns from breakfast.

Most of these students are girls.

Boys who bring their own dry food usually go back to the dormitory to eat for the sake of face.

Some students who have the conditions will go home to eat at noon.

When He Yushui was in high school, he craved the food cooked by He Yuzhu. He would go home to eat at noon every day and also bring a portion of dinner with him.

Both the courtyard house and the Lou family villa are four or five kilometers away from the school.

He Xiao thought about it and gave up the idea of ​​going home for dinner.

There is a physical education class in school in the afternoon.

Although He Xiao was strong, he didn't want to show off. He just followed the crowd and did gymnastics, ran, pulled up on the horizontal bar, and played table tennis.

Several students borrowed the school's basketball from the teacher and jumped around on the basketball court.

He Xiao didn't know how to play and didn't go to see it.

After the last self-study class in the afternoon, everyone came to the cafeteria in a noisy manner and found that there were not many people queuing for meals.

He Xiao asked around and found out that many senior students had already prepared their meals before their self-study classes.

It turns out that lunch is only served from 11:30 to 1:00.

From 11:30 to 12:00, generally only faculty and staff come to get lunch.

Students can only get their meals during the hour between 12:00 and 1:00.

Dinner is served from 4:50 to 6:30 pm.

The last self-study class in the afternoon is at five o'clock.

In order to save trouble, some students simply prepare their meals before self-study classes.

Have dinner early when there is no teacher in charge in class.

There are also some classes where there are no teachers supervising during self-study classes, so students simply skip classes and come here to eat early.

It is true that those who eat, those who have a spirit of eating, and those who eat are the best.

He Xiao had dinner and returned to class.

There were two evening self-study sessions. After the classes, a group of people rushed towards the dormitory.

The weather in September was very hot, and many people were sticky with sweat after a day of classes.

Those who ran back desperately wanted to be the first to take a cold shower.

When He Xiao returned to the dormitory, the naked boys had already occupied the bathhouse and the areas for washing faces and brushing teeth.

If you come late, just wait with the washbasin.

Of course, there were also some people who were impatient. They filled a basin with water from the faucet and started washing outside the bathroom door.

He Xiao looked at the students coming and going in the corridor, and finally lined up to wait.

I finally queued up and finished taking a shower.

He Xiao returned to the dormitory and lay on the cool mat. He felt that the temperature of the mat was a little hot on his back.

This is of course an illusion of having just finished a shower.

There are no fans in the school, so we can only open the doors and windows, hoping that there will be a breeze in the dormitory to cool everyone down.

There are eight students in the dormitory. We didn’t know each other yesterday, and today we are just familiar with each other.

No one was in a very good mood for conversation.

However, there are always one or two talkative students who are looking for people to chat with.

He Xiao was lying down when he suddenly heard someone outside the door ask, "Is He Xiao in this dormitory?"

He Xiao crawled out of the mosquito net and saw that the people looking for him were two classmates from junior high school.

The one with a dark face is called Liu Kangqiao. I wonder if the elder who gave him this name likes the poem "A Farewell to Cambridge".

The tall and thin guy with a white face is called Wu Liyou. What a domineering name. Is there any reason for it?

The three of them sat together and chatted for a while. It turned out that the two of them were assigned to the same class, but in two different dormitories.

Because Liu Kangqiao took a closer look at the crowd just now and saw that He Xiao lived in this dormitory, so he wanted to come over and chat.

Wu Liyou was not very interested in the conversation, and most of the conversation was done by He Xiao and Liu Kangqiao.

Although the three were in the same class in high school, He Xiao had a good relationship with Liu Kangqiao, but an average relationship with Wu Liyou, and they rarely had the opportunity to talk.

The reason is that Wu Liyou is a repeater.

Wu Liyou's parents are both workers. Because they have a low level of education, they are extremely strict with their son's schooling.

Wu Liyou failed to get into a key high school last year, so he repeated a year in He Xiao's class and finally got into this key high school.

Of course, no matter what Wu Liyou's situation is, after all, they are from the same school, and now that they are together, they must feel a close relationship.

The three of them chatted for a long time, and waited until the lights in the dormitory were turned off before the two said goodbye and left.

Perhaps the presence of two old classmates relieved He Xiao's tense mood after a day of tension, and he fell asleep as soon as he returned to bed.

(End of this chapter)