Chapter 629 The ugly duckling turns into a white swan
Listening to Guo Mengyao's account of Cheng Yuhan's experiences over the years, Chen Feng couldn't help but sigh.
In high school, Cheng Yuhan was undoubtedly recognized as the school beauty. From the first year of high school, she attracted the admiration and fascination of countless boys.
In the three years of high school, there has never been a girl in the entire school who is more beautiful and elegant than her.
Even Chen Feng, a bookworm, was full of affection for her and even had some admiration for her. This was the admiration of a young man, a natural yearning for beautiful people and things.
It was just that in his eyes at that time, Cheng Yuhan was a proud daughter of heaven. Not only was she a city dweller, but she was also very particular about food and clothing. It was obvious that her family was in a very good situation at that time.
In addition, she has too many suitors, including some rich and powerful second generation people. It is impossible for Chen Feng, a rural student, to compare with these people.
Of course, the more important thing is that Chen Feng has always had a clear understanding of himself. He knows that coming from a family like his, going to college is the only way to change his destiny and achieve a class jump to become a superior person.
Apart from taking the college entrance examination and going to university, all other things must be put aside. The love between children and other things will not be too late after getting admitted to university.
His idea is very correct.
For countless small town question writers, the college entrance examination is the only way to change their destiny. Only by going to college can small town question writers have the opportunity to escape from the lower class. After graduating from college, if they can take the public examination again
Only by successfully editing can one truly break away from the lower class.
Unfortunately, even if Chen Feng successfully entered a relatively first-class university, the four years of university passed in a blur. After graduation, he did not take the public entrance examination, nor did he take any further postgraduate entrance examinations, so he could only become a migrant worker.
Originally, if he had not been on the wrong team in the company, he might have been able to fight his way through the workplace and join the middle class in the future with his own abilities.
Naturally, he didn't get what he wanted because he was on the wrong team, was suppressed in the company, and became a complete loser.
What he experienced before his divorce last year is actually a microcosm and representative of many small town essayists.
Not all question-answers in small towns will have a good future after being admitted to university. Only a few of them can go ashore after passing the public examination. Most of them will eventually end up in the vast sea of people.
Ordinary migrant workers cannot afford to live in the city and cannot return to the countryside.
After Chen Feng sighed silently in his heart, he couldn't help but ask: "How do you know such details?"
Guo Mengyao smiled and said: "Yuhan told me herself. She asked me to keep it a secret. I only told you. You have to help keep it a secret and don't tell anyone else."
Chen Feng was speechless for a while. He really wanted to say that she trusted you so much and asked you to keep it a secret, but you told me instead.
It is indeed a woman's mouth, a liar.
Chen Feng nodded and sighed: "I really didn't expect that Cheng Yuhan would go through so many things in these years. Fortunately, it seems that she has a good ending now. At least her husband loves her and she has a daughter."
Guo Mengyao shook her head and sighed: "You don't know this. She actually doesn't like her current husband very much. She just wanted to fulfill her mother's last wish so she married an old man who was honest, reliable and good to her. Of course.
, it is also very important that this old man is richer.
However, the fly in the ointment is that her husband has a son with his ex-wife, who is in college, and her husband is very good to his son. Therefore, her husband’s property may not be left to her and her daughter in the future.”
Chen Feng asked curiously: "What does her husband do?"
"Shangtai Electrical Appliances, you know, right?" Guo Mengyao asked.
Chen Feng couldn't help but look shocked when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Her husband is not the boss of Shangtai Electrical Appliances, is he? However, it seems that the boss of Shangtai is probably sixty or seventy years old. Is he the son of the boss of Shangtai?"
Shangtai Electrical Appliances has a certain reputation across the country, and it is well-known in Lu City. It is the first batch of star private enterprises in Lushi to go international. Now the market value of the entire Shangtai Electrical Appliances Group is close to
It’s a scale of hundreds of billions.
The boss of Shangtai Electrical Appliances is a well-known figure, a famous private entrepreneur with many titles, and is talked about by many people in Lushi.
"Of course not." Guo Mengyao shook her head quickly, then smiled, "Looking at your expression just now, you were shocked. But also, if she really marries Li Guohui or his son, she will really make a fortune."
Li Guohui is the boss of Shangtai Electrical Appliances. He was once the richest man in Lu City, and now his net worth ranks among the top in Lu City. Chen Feng didn't think of his name before, but when Guo Mengyao mentioned it, he remembered it.
Chen Feng frowned and asked: "If it's not Li Guohui or his son, is it a shareholder of Shangtai Electric?"
Guo Mengyao smiled and nodded and said: "You guessed it right. Speaking of which, he and Li Guohui are somewhat related. So when Li Guohui had difficulty with capital turnover in the early days of starting his business, his father took out some money and followed him to invest in shares. After so many years,
, although the shares left by his father have been diluted to only a little bit, not even 1%, but compared to the current 100-billion-dollar Shangtai Electric Co., Ltd., it is not small. He is also one of the directors.
He makes a lot of money just from dividends every year. In addition, he has also opened a large-scale valve factory, so he must be able to earn several million a year."
"That's pretty good."
Chen Feng made some perfunctory comments. In fact, if Cheng Yuhan's husband was just like this, Chen Feng would really look down on her now. After all, he just opened a film and television company and made hundreds of millions in less than half a year.
In addition, when Guo Mengyao talked about Shangtai Electrical Appliances at first, he mistakenly thought that her husband was Li Guohui or his son, but it turned out that he was a small director of Shangtai Electrical Appliances who did not even have 1% of the shares. The gap was so big that Chen Feng
I lost interest all of a sudden.
This means that different statuses have different values, and the perspective and ideological realm of looking at people are also different.
Before his divorce, a rich man like Cheng Yuhan's husband was someone he always looked up to but could not reach.
Guo Mengyao saw the perfunctory tone in his tone and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate her husband. Her husband's net worth is over a billion, which is no worse than ours."
In the eyes of ordinary people, a person with a net worth of more than one billion is considered a wealthy person, but now it is nothing in the eyes of Chen Feng and Guo Mengyao.
"I don't even know her husband, how could I look down on him?" Chen Feng replied, then asked curiously, "You just said that Zhao Zixuan is more beautiful than Cheng Yuhan, what happened? She won't have plastic surgery, right?"
Guo Mengyao rolled her eyes at him and said: "Don't talk nonsense, it will slander someone's innocence. She was pretty to begin with, but she didn't like to dress up in high school, and even deliberately acted ugly. And because of her personality, she didn't like to talk much.
Because of her poor performance, no one paid much attention to her. Especially you boys, your eyes were all focused on Cheng Yuhan at that time, and you basically turned a blind eye to the other girls in the class."
Chen Feng heard a strong sense of sourness in her words. It seemed that he was apologizing for Zhao Zixuan, but in fact he was apologizing for herself.
This was indeed the case at that time. The eyes of the boys in the class were basically sucked away by Cheng Yuhan. Under the light of Cheng Yuhan, other women seemed to be eclipsed, including of course Guo Mengyao, the tomboy at the time.
"I believe you when you say that she doesn't like to dress up, but when you say that she deliberately looks ugly, how is that possible?" Chen Feng said somewhat seriously.
Guo Mengyao said sternly: "She really acted ugly on purpose in high school. She said it was her mother's request. Several female classmates in the same dormitory with her knew it. If she had let her hair down at that time, she would have worn her low-prescription glasses.
Take it off, and you will be a beautiful woman. And she was wearing big black-rimmed glasses, her hair was often tied into very rustic braids, and she wore very ordinary clothes. Of course, she couldn't attract the attention of you boys. And this is also
What her mother wants is to worry about her falling in love early in high school, or having boys harass her. She is a good girl, so she listens to her mother's orders and pretends to be ugly on purpose."
"There is such a weird mother?" Chen Feng didn't believe it.
"It's normal to have mothers like this. They worry about their daughter falling in love prematurely or asking her to deliberately act ugly in order to protect her daughter from bad people. Especially before she is underage, this arrangement is actually quite good."
Chen Feng thought about it carefully and it seemed that it was indeed normal and even very wise. If he had a daughter in the future and she was very beautiful, he might do this in middle and high school and deliberately make her look ugly to prevent her from falling in love prematurely or being targeted by bad people.
superior.
Of course, this also depends on her own wishes. If she firmly disagrees, it will definitely not be easy for her parents to force her.
"So, Zhao Zixuan was not ugly to begin with, and now she is even more beautiful. Do you have a photo of her? Send it to me."
Chen Feng was quite curious about the current appearance of Zhao Zixuan, his high school classmate. Especially after Guo Mengyao said that she was more beautiful than Cheng Yuhan, his curiosity was greatly increased and he wanted to see his true appearance.
Guo Mengyao replied angrily: "What's so good about the photo? It's up to you to see the real person the day after tomorrow. She will also attend Qin Zhen's engagement party."
Chen Feng smiled and did not insist on looking at the photo. Instead, he asked: "What is Zhao Zixuan doing now? Is she married?"
Guo Mengyao was a little unhappy when she heard him ask this, but she still said: "She is still single. In addition, she studied as a graduate student at Aurora University and now works at an investment bank in Shanghai with a monthly salary of 100k and an annual income of 100k."
More than ten thousand. Now, she has relied on her own efforts to buy a house and a car in Shanghai. Coupled with her impressive family background, tsk tsk, if I were a man, I would probably chase her. After all, I succeeded.
, not only did she get both people and money, but she also had the connections with her natal family to rely on."
Chen Feng asked: "Is her family unusual? I really didn't realize it when I was studying."
Guo Mengyao said: "You only knew how to immerse yourself in studying at that time. What do you know? But I have already seen it. Many teachers were very friendly to her at that time. Especially the mathematics teacher of Jiejie Shitai, she was very friendly to other students.
They are all very strict, but Zhao Zixuan is the only one who speaks softly."
Chen Feng had no impression of these, and just shook his head: "I didn't see it."
Guo Mengyao continued to reveal the news: "Her mother is from Shanghai. Her grandfather worked in the Shanghai Committee, and her grandmother was a university professor. In addition, she has two uncles, one more powerful than the other, and an aunt. I heard that
She got married to a good person, her mother is the youngest, and she and her father were classmates when they were studying at Aurora University, so it was good for her.
Her father is from Linnan. After graduating from college, he was assigned to work in Linnan. Of course, her mother also followed. When we were in high school, her mother was the leader of the Electric Power Bureau, and her father was working in Linnan.
Committee x work, do you understand? Now more than ten years have passed, and her parents have been promoted to work in Shanghai and have settled down there."
Chen Feng was really shocked when he heard the inside story. He really didn't expect that Zhao Zixuan, a female classmate who was not an outstanding student in high school, would have such a powerful family background.
"I really didn't expect this." Chen Feng sighed, "If I had known that she had such a family background and was so beautiful, the boys in our class would have chased her long ago."
Guo Mengyao glanced at him: "So, her mother had the foresight. In high school, she deliberately made her look ugly so that she could avoid being harassed by boys like you. Do you also regret not pursuing her back then?"
Chen Feng shook his head and said, "What do I regret? Her family background is not my cup of tea. I can't remember her exact appearance now. I will definitely not recognize her when I meet her the day after tomorrow."
"Don't worry, if you don't recognize it, everyone else will. I asked you to join the classmate group, but you didn't join. Don't you feel it's a pity that you missed the opportunity to hook up with a rich lady like her?"
Chen Feng said angrily: "I already told you that she is not my type. However, why don't I join the classmate group now? After all, I will meet so many classmates the day after tomorrow. If I don't join the group, they will definitely complain about her."
Guo Mengyao looked at him speechlessly: "Everyone has been complaining about you in the group for a long time, saying that you deliberately didn't join the group and looked down on everyone. Some people even said it more harshly, saying that you should be miserable, so you are ashamed to see others.
"
Chen Feng couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Did you tell them that I didn't join the group on purpose?"
Guo Mengyao quickly clarified: "I didn't say it, it was Xiaoyue. But you can't blame her. Qin Zhen, I, and she all asked you to join the group, but you didn't accept it. Of course other students did.
When I asked, she said smoothly, you don’t want to join the group.”
When Chen Feng heard what she said, although he felt a little embarrassed, he quickly thought about it. He really didn't want to join the group of classmates before, and he had nothing to be embarrassed about if he dared to act boldly.
"Okay. Then just stick to it and stop joining the group."
He wanted to join the group just now, mainly because he was curious about what Zhao Zixuan and Cheng Yuhan looked like now, and of course some other high school classmates. After all, everyone is curious, and Chen Feng was no exception.
"I think you should add it. Otherwise, when so many classmates meet the day after tomorrow, someone will definitely take this matter to challenge you."
Guo Mengyao actually thought about Chen Feng.
Chen Feng thought for a while and finally shook his head: "Forget it. As you know, I didn't have a few close classmates in the class when I was in high school. Some of them I can't even remember their names now. There's no need to talk to them again.
Keep in touch to avoid being harassed by them."
Guo Mengyao looked at him with complicated eyes and said, "I don't know whether your character is good or bad. However, your life is indeed very carefree now."