After dinner, the old lady called Zhang Junping into the room and handed him a passbook from Standard Chartered Bank, "Boy, you better keep those stamps!
If you take the money, it should be enough for you."
Zhang Junping took the passbook, opened it, took a look, and exclaimed: "Grandma Liu, I knew you were not short of money, but I didn't expect you to be so rich."
The old lady gave him a bankbook worth five million pounds.
Zhang Junping really didn't expect that the old lady would have so much money, and it was still in pounds.
"Grandma Liu, I can't take this money..." Zhang Junping returned the bankbook to the old lady.
"Boy, take it if it's given to you! I'm a lonely old lady. I won't take it with me when I'm alive or dead. I have no place to spend the money I have.
Besides, this money is not given to you, it is lent to you with interest." The old lady glared at Zhang Junping, and then thrust the passbook into Zhang Junping's hand.
"But……"
"Stop it! Just take it if it's given to you. Aren't you going to buy woodworking machinery when you go to Xiangjiang?"
This money can be used to buy woodworking machinery." The old lady said to Zhang Junping warmly.
"Thank you, Grandma Liu!" Zhang Junping stopped being pretentious. He will just repay the old lady's kindness twice as much in the future.
Of course, the old lady is not short of money, so all Zhang Junping can do is spend as much time as possible with the old lady.
"Although artistic creation is inseparable from financial support, I don't want you to put all your thoughts into business.
I just hope you don’t live up to your talent.” The old lady said to Zhang Junping in a serious tone.
Zhang Junping was even more moved. He touched his nose and said with a tearful smile: "Grandma Liu, you are spoiling me. I have almost lost the motivation to work hard."
As a master, I was really too arrogant. I wanted to study ancient furniture, but with a wave of my hand, the old lady bought all the used antique furniture from all the junkyards in Beijing for me to study.
Now, I planned to sell a few stamps to raise money to buy woodworking machinery. As a result, the old lady directly handed over five million pounds.
"You bastard! If you dare to be lazy, I will clean up the school and expel you from the school." The old lady laughed and scolded.
"Grandma Liu, I'd better leave this passbook with you first! Give it to me when I go to Xiangjiang." Zhang Junping returned the passbook to the old lady again.
"Okay, I'll give it to you when you leave."
"Grandma Liu, aren't you going to visit Xiangjiang this time?"
"What's there to do in Xiangjiang? It's damp and cold, so how can you live as comfortably as in Beijing?" When Xiangjiang was mentioned, the old lady said a little unhappy.
"I don't live there permanently, but I just go to visit. After all, I am one of the Four Asian Tigers."
"I won't go. I have been wandering outside for half my life. When I get old, I don't want to go. I just want to stay at home.
It's better to live comfortably in your own home and have peace of mind." The old lady said with some nostalgia.
Zhang Junping became very interested in the old lady's past.
It can be heard from the old lady's words that the old lady is a person with stories.
However, if the old lady didn't tell her, it would be hard for Zhang Junping to inquire about the old lady's past. That would be rude and disrespectful to the old lady.
Zhang Junping followed the old lady's words and said with a smile: "You are right, as the old saying goes, a home of gold and silver is not as good as a home of earth."
"Okay, get out of here! Don't disturb me while I'm listening to the show." After chatting for a while, the old lady started to chase people away.
The old lady listens to the radio every night. This is an unbeatable program.
The old lady also had a TV, but she didn't turn it on very often. She always used the radio to listen to the show.
In this era, there are no good programs on radio and television, but there are many programs on the radio.
Whether it's news, storytelling, cross talk, or opera, there are so many, you can always find something you like.
Back in his room, Huang Xue was washing up.
"Why is Grandma Liu looking for you?"
"Grandma Liu wouldn't let me sell stamps in exchange for money to buy woodworking machinery, so she lent me a sum of money."
"Lend you money? Don't you need foreign exchange when you go to Xiangjiang to buy woodworking machinery?"
"Grandma Liu lent me pounds."
"Ah? Where did Grandma Liu get the pounds?"
"Have you forgotten? Grandma Liu used to live abroad and stayed in the UK for a long time. With the old lady's artistic level, isn't it normal to have pounds?"
Having said that, seeing the old lady giving out five million pounds so lightly, Zhang Junping guessed that the old lady probably had other properties abroad, or it might be ancestral property or something.
Money in this era is still very valuable, not only RMB, but also US dollars and pounds.
Five million pounds, the purchasing power is at least equivalent to fifty million pounds in the 21st century.
"That's right. When Mrs. Thatcher visited China last year, she came to the school to visit Grandma Liu." Huang Xueshen nodded with approval.
"Okay, let's not study the old wives' stories.
Let’s study how to create humans! My sister found out she’s pregnant today, so we have to work hard,” Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"Bah! A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory." Huang Xue spat with a red face.
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The next day, Zhang Junping got up early and changed into clothes for drinking tea.
He wears a pair of black trousers on the lower body, polished soft leather shoes, a white shirt on the upper body, and a light gray tunic suit on the outside.
Zhang Junping is 1.8 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thin waist. He can hold up clothes very well and is a natural clothes stander.
This outfit not only loses the vitality of young people, but also has a sense of stability.
"How about it? Is your husband handsome?" Zhang Junping looked in the mirror and asked Huang Xue scornfully.
"Handsome! My husband is so handsome!" Looking at Zhang Junping's appearance, Huang Xue felt a sense of accomplishment.
She bought this dress.
After breakfast, the old lady got into the car that picked her up and left.
Zhang Junping and Huang Xue rode to school.
No, the old lady didn't let Zhang Junping and Huang Xue take the bus because Zhang Junping didn't want to do it.
It's a bit too high-profile to drive an old lady to school.
When she arrived at school, Huang Xue went to the studio to report. She, the monitor, had not been to the studio for a while.
Zhang Junping came to Yang Mingde's office.
"Master, are you busy?"
"What did Grandma Liu tell you yesterday?" Yang Mingde raised his head and looked at Zhang Junping and asked.
"Say it! Master, isn't it a relief that I scolded Chen Zengbi yesterday?" Zhang Junping knew that he would be scolded, so he simply brought it up himself.
"You brat, you still have the nerve to say that.
Do I need you to scold people for me? I don’t have the words to scold others?" As expected, when this matter was mentioned, Yang Mingde scolded him angrily.
"I'm not scolding you for this! It was Chen Zengbi who didn't abide by the rules and acted like an elder to teach me a lesson." Naturally, Zhang Junping would not admit that it was because of his master Yang Mingde that he was unreasonable and scolded Chen Zengbi angrily.
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"You brat, you're still reasonable. What's the point of swearing at others? If you have the ability, you can defeat him in the academic field."