Chapter 6 (1/2)

Qin Guan had been running his business at the night ht days More and more customers visited his stand, and the three boys had their hands full

They were too busy to notice hoeird their customers behaved

The stand attracted an increasing nuroup of fe out by their stand and drool all over Qin Guan while they had some food The reason was simple The day that Qin Guan had started his business, a feht market to buy some draft beer for her father, and she had seen this cute boy selling barbecue She had taken a closer look and recognized hiht away

”Gee, isn't that the hunk froh school?”

She had been staring at him for years from a distance, and now she was only half a meter away from him It was like a dream come true for her

The girl held onto the plastic bag with the draft beer while she stood by the barbecue stand, staring at Qin Guan to her heart's content Her father had hot beer for the first tiht

When she arrived at ho to share her happiness, she called dozens of her girlfriends to brag about her story of seeing the Prince Charer

That was how the news had spread Now every student in the neighborhood knew that the graduate Prince Charht market

Those who lived near the market came to buy barbecue and take a look They believed that if they didn't go, they would never get to see the Prince Charraduated

The sirls every day The Prince Char still looked cute despite his choppy hairstyle

When the girls saw that his new hairstyle could do nothing to underreed that he definitely had to be the cutest school boy in all high school history

Many years later, when junior girls would look at some boy on their cell phone screens and say that he was really cute, older girls would eye the boy critically and say, ”I bet he wouldn't still look that cute with a choppy hairstyle Our high school Prince Char ay cuter You must have heard of Qin Guan, blah blah…”

Qin Guan'sbusiness ended in very a peculiar way

A few days before the new school term, Qin Guan lended his barbecue cart to his cousin to help him earn some extra money on the weekends

Zhou Jing and Li Jian came over to Qin Guan's house very early to split their profits They put all their profits of the past ether and carefully counted the money They were surprised to find out that each of theet more than 2,000 yuan

Two thousand yuan was a fortune for any student in 1998

Zhou Jing and Li Jian were jun

That ood co the fact that computers still ran on Windows 95, Qin Guan felt relieved He was going to ask his parents to help him buy a cell phone

On August 29, 1998 was the Chinese Valentine's Day

It was a sunny Saturday, and Qin Guan's parents stuffed the last piece of clothing into their bulging baggage before they went shopping for Qin Guan's first cell phone

They arrived at the Zhenhua Co mall in the whole city At that time, the cell phone counter on the first floor was considered an absolute luxury

Qin Guan knew his way around very well, so he led his parents to the counter There were few famous cell phone brands in China back in 1998 Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson and Mitsubishi+ These were all the brands that were available, and they cost quite a lot Qin Guan and his parents observed every model carefully, but in the end, Qin Guan still decided to buy the Nokia 5110 It had a long standby tiht color, and was so shockproof it could even serve as a weapon when necessary

Taking out the red envelope with the iven hiht market, Qin Guan paid over 5000 yuan for a blue Nokia 5110

Customers in theto buy their son such an expensive cell phone when Qin Guan's , ”Well, my son was admitted into the Capital University of Finance and Econoh his own hard work during the summer, blah blah”

Under the adaze of everyone, she was shoved out of the mall by Qin Guan's father

On August 29, Qin Guan and his parents dragged their luggage to the train station and got on the train heading to the capital

After one night's journey, they arrived safely at the Beijing Station on the next day around noon

Qin Guan arrived at his university on Sunday, which was peak tiistration Qin Guan's parents went to the Dean's Office to pay the tuition fees while Qin Guan forced his way to the Student Reception Center to inquire about his dormitory