Chapter 5 (1/2)

It was the end of July and the weather had been getting increasingly hot Cicadas were singing merrily outside the s

Qin Guan was lounging in a chair, his face buried in a water about his life and hoould

When it caineering student in his past life, and every day he'd had to deal with excavators, battering rams and road rollers

Now that he had been reborn though, he did not want to carry on with his old business However, he could not recall any winning lottery nu about the stock market What else could he do?

”Others would have acted iven the chance to be reborn I have been very cautious”

Qin Guan sighed Even though he had the opportunity to start over, he was not able to make money in an easy, smart way

He spat out the water histo the foundry where his cousin worked He wanted to ask hi waste sheet iron

Walking out of the foundry, Qin Guan realized that he would need help He called Zhou Jing and Li Jian frorocery store next to the foundry These two boys had no goals in their lives They already knew that they had barely passed the e in the College Entrance Examination One of them stayed at home, bored, with little to do except eat and sleep; and the other read s to catch up on all the chapters he had e Entrance Exa to Qin Guan's plan on the phone, the two boys could not bear to stay at horeed to meet in the farmers' market

Holding two chemical fertilizer sacks with the word ”urea” on theained heatedly with the owner In the end, they bought tholesale sacks of charcoal and hundreds of bamboo sticks that they planned to use as skewers

Li Jian asked the elder niece of his er cousin to help theht some tables and short stools from the recreation room of the Bureau of Retired Officials where his father worked

The three boys had put together all their pocket s, but they still had more than 300 yuan left That redients Everything was ready except for the barbecue cart

Qin Guan's cousin was very efficient He delivered the cart to Qin Guan in less than three days Qin Guan's parents were staring at their son as if he was a monkey, but Qin Guan calmly fastened the cart, ready to start work the next day

The iron cart was equipped with a brazier where one could ht side there was space for hanging a coal stove where one could fry kebabs using an oil pan

It could match any modern multi-functional automatic barbecue cart

Everything was ready

The next day, at four o'clock in the , Qin Guan borrowed a tricycle from the factory his mother worked at and rode to the market

Chicken, pork, mutton, all of these were must-haves Garlic, chili, onion and potatoes were also essential for roasted dishes ”There are even wholesale cold noodles! Great We also need cooking oil and seasonings”

Qin Guan bought a tricycle worth of groceries By the time he was done, he had very little money left

It was already after seven when Qin Guan struggled to ride the tricycle successfully back home

He proudly called Zhou Jing and Li Jian to wake them up and ask them to come and help

When Zhou Jing and Li Jian showed up at Qin Guan's horedients out froe bowls

Looking at a living roo said anxiously, ”Who can handle thethis, Qin Guan felt very self-satisfied As a sloppy bachelor for years, he'd had to cook so he wouldn't have to eat instant noodles every day

Qin Guan shook his head co, you distribute the ingredients, and skewer the etables Li Jian, you come and help me” Then he rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen

Qin Guan laid a piece ofboard The kitchen knife danced in the air as the mutton was sliced into small strips, stacked neatly on the board

Qin Guan put the slicedloudly: ”Ready!”

Then Zhou Jing and Li Jian began the first step of their business: skewering the meat

In just one , the three boys made several hundred kebabs and put theed to clean and cut the vegetables in the afternoon, they would be ready to start their business

After lunch, they packed everything up and lied down haphazardly on Qin Guan's small bed

Qin Guan said bitterly, ”Others make money with no effort at all Why do we have to be so miserable?”

Li Jian stated the obvious, ”We're useless high school graduates Soh for manual work And noe have our own barbecue stand That's already ah school and they were so jealous”

Qin Guan quietly wiped his tears ”It's because you've never read stories about rebirth People lead lavish lives after being reborn! They have good friends and date beautiful girls They leave their rees to become businessmen They start up their own companies, buy shares in the stock market and invest in venture capital”

But he hi up a stand, and he had even gotten rejected by the girl he liked Why was his life so different from others'?

Qin Guan got up As a strand of hair hung down his face, he realized that he had not cut his hair since the College Entrance Exa