Why don't you believe I'm a reincarnated person?

Chapter 15 Chen Xiaoyu's New Year's Wish

"How can you ask your classmate for a New Year's red envelope?"

Shen Jiayi dried her clothes and quickly replied to Ye Kai on her mobile QQ.

"I wanted to buy something, but I didn't have any money in my Alipay account."

"Now, if you go to a nearby bank to deposit money, you probably won't find an ATM that's still open."

Ye Kai explained with a hint of helplessness.

Although he had a bank card, the account was often empty, and the little online funds he had were all used to buy Bitcoin. So when he saw the huge opportunity to buy 2000 Bitcoins, he was naturally unwilling to let it go.

Asking Professor Xu for money is certainly not a problem, but Grandma will definitely ask him what he intends to do with the money. After a lot of explanation, it might be even more troublesome. It would be better to just borrow money directly from the rich girl Shen Jiayi.

"Zhi Fu Bao" (致负宝).

"Your description is quite apt..."

Shen Jiayi was ultimately a soft-hearted person, so she directly transferred two hundred yuan to Ye Kai without asking him when he would repay the money.

After all, she had already lent Ye Kai 15,700 yuan of her own money, so what was 200 yuan?

Shen Mingsun and Jiang Xin sat on the sofa watching TV, occasionally making a comment, but they didn't notice that their little darling's savings of seventeen years had all been swindled away by that little blond-haired Ye Kai.

Shen Jiayi is a goddess!

You're such a gentle Australian lamb, you have so much wool!

Ye Kai happily bought the 2000 bitcoins in the link, and after seeing the account data automatically sent over, he quickly started a new round of key replacement operations.

Fortunately, he has recently become quite skilled at this kind of thing, and it can be said to be second nature to him.

From the study on the second floor, one could hear Ye Kai's rapid typing on the keyboard, as well as Professor Xu's occasional taps on the keyboard and the sound of him flipping through documents.

Inside the small red building, there was a harmonious scene of grandparents and grandchildren studying together.

As the Spring Festival Gala was about to end, Ye Kai finally finished modifying the key. Together with the previous 4100 Bitcoins, he now has 6100 Bitcoins stored on his hard drive, and the cost of holding them has been reduced to below 3 yuan.

With such low holding costs, it's practically free.

The final task was to back up these Bitcoin accounts and keys to five newly purchased external hard drives, and then thoroughly erase all traces on the computer to prevent leaks due to hacking or other reasons.

"Finally done!"

After all this was done, the New Year's bells finally rang.

"Crackling and popping—"

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

The sky outside was once again illuminated by a dense barrage of fireworks and firecrackers, and he could no longer hear a word the hosts on the television screen were saying.

Ye Kai ran outside the courtyard again, arranged the 10,000-firecracker string into the shape of 888, and then lit it.

"Crackling sound—cracking sound—"

The Year of the Dragon has finally arrived.

……

Perhaps influenced by his recent stroke of luck, Ye Kai lay in bed unable to fall asleep.

He opened his QQ app and scrolled through the messages in the class group chat.

This Spring Festival, the messages in the class group chat were unusually dense, with over a thousand at first glance. In addition to New Year's greetings, some people sent red envelopes, and then there were all sorts of flirtatious topics and meme battles flooding the screen.

The only downside is that mobile data is expensive, and most regular phones don't support Wi-Fi, so the limited data allowance is simply not enough.

Of course, simply using QQ's chat function doesn't consume much data.

"Once I make money on Bitcoin on Mt. Gox, I'll buy myself an iPhone 4S so I can enjoy the benefits of the mobile era ahead of time."

Looking at his old Nokia phone, Ye Kai made a decision in his heart.

Apple's iPhone 4S is a new phone released at its headquarters in California last October. Compared to its predecessor, it has been greatly improved in all aspects and is considered a classic model.

The iPhone 4S has excellent camera performance, with significant improvements in both speed and image quality. The experience of opening apps, browsing the web, and playing games is also good. While the battery life is only average, it can still last a whole day. Although there was a bug a few days ago where the phone would suddenly go silent when making a call, making it impossible for the caller to hear anything, it's not a major problem.

The iPhone 4S was released in China in early January this year. The rush to buy it wasn't as intense as it was later. Due to its relatively high price, it wasn't widely accepted by Chinese users. So Apple came up with the idea of ​​partnering with mobile operators to offer iPhone 4S phones to users "for free" by pre-paying phone bills and increasing monthly fees.

The campaign was clearly a success, especially since users who could get their mobile phone bills reimbursed quickly embraced the new phone, and this trend rapidly spread throughout the country, leading to the legend of the "kidney phone".

When Ye Kai's thoughts returned to the Nokia phone screen, he saw some topics posted by his classmates.

"My dad got drunk and threw two bags of sugar on me, saying he wanted to make candied hawthorns."

"When I was in fourth grade, my dad got drunk and thought my room was the toilet in the middle of the night, so he peed on my schoolbag. Then my mom cleaned up the room and found my failing test papers..."

"My dad..."

Okay, you guys are all talented!

Ye Kai gave a big thumbs up below, then opened each of the red envelopes one by one, and surprisingly received 7.98 yuan, a very auspicious number.

Even after leaving the class group chat, QQ Space is still very lively.

There was a girl in the class who was about a 7 out of 10 in looks. She took off her school uniform and put on a tank top. With her long, wet hair, she posed as if she was drying her hair with a towel and posted a slightly blurry selfie on her QQ space, along with a poem: "Listening to the spring rain all night in the small building, selling apricot blossoms in the deep alley tomorrow morning."

Within minutes, her profile received hundreds of likes and numerous comments filled with sycophantic remarks.

"Good heavens!"

"She hasn't even graduated high school yet, and her tea ceremony skills have already reached amateur level three!"

After appreciating it for a while, Ye Kai gave a fairly objective evaluation.

I casually browsed through my friends' QQ spaces, politely commented on a few topics that were just casual acquaintances' posts, and then came to Chen Xiaoyu's space.

As the top student at Xinghua No. 1 High School, Chen Xiaoyu disdained posting selfies. Although her looks and grades were equally outstanding, she still posted a status update during the Spring Festival: "Happy Year of the Dragon, may all your wishes come true," along with a picture of Tsinghua University's gate.

Chen Xiaoyu's grades were relatively stable, and the teachers unanimously believed that she would definitely be admitted to Tsinghua University this year. It was hard to say which major she would be admitted to. However, Ye Kai knew that his childhood friend's younger sister wanted to go to the School of Economics and Management to study finance, and her future career path was to become a senior executive in an international investment bank.

But to be honest, it's quite difficult to realize this wish.

Although Chen Xiaoyu's overall score is consistently above 650, she also has a significant weakness: her Chinese language score is similar to Shen Jiayi's, and neither of them has ever scored above 125.

"Oh dear."

"Should I help her or not?"

Thinking of the little girl who used to follow him around, calling him "Brother Ye Kai" over and over again, Ye Kai felt conflicted.