"The more children today are exposed to the outside world, the more ideas they have, just like the current craze for studying abroad." Li Chu said casually while eating.
"I just remembered that when you said this, how much does it cost to study abroad at your own expense now?" Ding Qiunan raised her head and asked when her husband talked about studying abroad.
"How do I know this? It's definitely not less. It depends on which country you go to. Why do you think of asking this?"
"I was chatting with a few people in finance that day, and I heard from them that there are people who want to sell their houses now just to raise money to study abroad, or to raise money for travel expenses to go abroad to make a lot of money."
"Oh, selling a house?" Li Chu sneered disdainfully.
Ding Qiunan was a little surprised by her husband's expression.
"Why do you look like this? What do you mean?"
"I don't think it's worth it." Li Chu took the last bite of rice from the bowl and put down his chopsticks.
"If you go abroad to study through formal channels and broaden your horizons, I think it's pretty much the same. But if you think you can make a lot of money by going abroad, that's just fantasy."
Just a few years ago, in order to attract foreign investment, the country sent reporters from qualified media to go abroad for interviews.
In the past two years, both newspapers and radio and television stations have begun to report lengthy reports on some foreign news.
What these reporters report are the good sides of foreign countries.
But when people at home looked at the skyscrapers abroad, the cars on the streets, and the colorful and beautiful clothes, their eyes turned green.
In addition, those who have returned from abroad to visit relatives. No matter how they behave abroad, these people who have gone abroad before will definitely look like humans when they come back.
Then they keep saying that there are good places abroad, and making money is as easy as picking up money.
This makes the vast number of people who do not know the truth yearn for life abroad even more, as if it is paradise there and there is gold everywhere.
It is undeniable that in the 1980s, countries in Europe and the United States were indeed much better developed than domestic countries. If you had a skill, you could indeed make money relatively easily.
After all, our domestic enterprises are still in the big-pot stage.
It is precisely because of some misguidance by the media and the propaganda of well-intentioned people that many people are eager to go abroad.
This is because these people don't know what they will face if they really go out.
It is because of this mindless craze for going abroad that in the early 1990s, the TV series "Beijing City People in New York" was born, which truly reflected the struggle and struggle of a group of people from the Fourth and Ninth Cities to survive in New York.
story.
This TV series is also the first domestic film and television series shot on location in the beautiful country.
The reason why the country invested in the production of this drama is also to put a brake on the country's popularity.
Opposite me, Ding Qiunan had also finished her meal. She took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped her mouth, then nodded and said, "Don't say anything else, just a language barrier can make people miserable to death."
In the past two years, she has occasionally gone to the base with her husband. Every time she hears the chatter of those foreigners, she gets a terrible headache.
When she thought about it, if she was put in an environment like speaking a foreign language, her head would probably explode.
"It's not just the language environment." Li Chu slowly shook his head: "If you want to work abroad, you must get a work visa. If you don't have a work visa, if you still want to work there, you are working illegally. This is a point.
There is no guarantee.”
"Ah? Is there anything else to say?"
"What do you think? The wages there are indeed higher than in China. This must be acknowledged. There is also a minimum wage standard, but these guarantees are only for people who have gone through formal procedures.
If you don’t have a work visa, or even if you are staying there illegally, you have no protection when working.
Or you may have worked hard for a month, but when it comes time to pay your salary, your boss doesn’t want to pay it to you. If he calls the police, you will have nothing, and you may go to jail and be sent back.”
Li Chu's words made Ding Qiunan feel a little incredible.
"Then why are they all trying so hard to go abroad?"
"Make money, make big money."
At this point, Li Chu remembered what his wife had just said about selling a house and going abroad. He said, "If you know someone who wants to sell a house, just ask. If it is a detached house with clear property rights, we can buy it."
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Ding Qiunan stroked her forehead helplessly. How could she forget that her husband was a weirdo who collected houses?
"Why are you still buying a house? Isn't our house enough to live in?"
"You will know it later. I can't explain it to you now."
"Tch, don't you think that the price of houses will increase in the future? Who knows whether it is true or not." Ding Qiunan curled his lips dissatisfied, stood up, picked up the plates and bowls on the table, and walked over to the sink.
Looking at his wife's back, Li Chu smiled slightly, he just said it casually.
As for whether to buy a house or not, let’s decide when the time comes.
After Ding Qiunan finished washing, the two of them walked to the administration building together.
Instead of going upstairs to his office, he asked Tian Jun to drive him to the nursing home.
In front of the two-story building where Chief Wu lived, the old man was lying on a deck chair under the shade of a tree and taking a nap.
Worried about waking up Uncle Wu, Li Chu called Nurse Ning, who was standing aside, to move away a little, and then asked: "How are you doing, Chief, these two days?"
"The physical condition is not bad, but the leader is not here, so he keeps clamoring for a few sips."
Nurse Ning's words made Li Chu smile, turned his head and glanced at the old man not far away.
He thought of the last time he came here, the old man made him a request for the first time in twenty years.
In other words, it was a request, but it was also a request that gave Li Chu a big headache.
The old man's request is that no matter what, he will be guaranteed to survive until he returns to Hong Kong Island.
Li Chu almost hit the wall at that time.
Coincidentally, when he went to see the designer two days later, the old man also made the same request.
To be honest, Li Chu was ready to pack up and run away.
He really had no confidence at all.
Frankly speaking, it can be better here.
But as for Uncle Wu, he has already changed his destiny against the will of heaven, and there are still thirteen years left before his return. Who knows what unpredictable things will happen in such a long time.
However, no matter what, he will do his best to ensure that these two old men can survive until that day.
Oh, no, there is also Uncle Wang.
Uncle Wang can be more confident here, after all, he started conditioning early.
"Alas" Li Chu sighed silently, did not talk to Nurse Ning anymore, pulled up a small bench and sat in the shade.