  Li Baitian: “It doesn’t matter whether the video hall makes money or not, but movies! It must be supreme!”
  Luo Hetu nodded perfunctorily. She felt so-so about movies, but when she saw Li Baitian’s look, she suddenly wanted to say a few more words.
  “Your family should be very rich. If you like movies, why don’t you learn to be a director or a cameraman?”
  “My dad said that I was wasting my time on material things. There are so many people in my family, so it’s normal that they look down on me. I’m just an ordinary beta. There are top betas and top omegas in my family. My grades are also average, and I’m used to being a marginal person. I think it’s not bad. Anyway, no one has any expectations of me.”
  “Oh. That’s good too.” Luo Hetu said.
  Li Bai Tian smiled: “You are a very interesting person.”
  “Me?” Luo He Tu didn’t know what she meant, and envied her from the bottom of his heart: “A life of being rich without lying down is what I want in my life. I want to tell you that VCRs should be upgraded soon. At that time, a disc player will be available, which is much cheaper than VCRs. The price of discs is dozens of times cheaper than videotapes. It is also convenient to record and spread. If you want to do related business, you can either sell that player or sell VCD discs.”
  Li Bai Tian was confused by what she said: “What C and what D?”
  Luo He Tu had no choice but to explain it to her again.
  “According to the spread speed of VCD, people will no longer need to go to the video hall to watch movies. They can buy discs and watch them at home. Of course, they are all pirated discs, and the cost is very low, but they can also let many movies spread to thousands of households. At that time, there will be no market for video halls and videotapes. If you like movies and want most people to be exposed to good movies, it is better to open an audio-visual product store in advance, specializing in various discs. At that time, the demand must be very large.”
  Li Bai Tian’s drunken eyes lit up all of a sudden.
  ***
  A fried food store opened in the east of the city. Ye Qingzhu went to buy some, and went to find Luo Hetu with some wine in the evening.
  She made much more money in just a few months than when she was a gangster in the south of the city, and she burned more paper for her grandmother’s grave. She knocked on Luo Hetu’s door with food, but found that she was not at home.
  She knocked on the door again early the next morning, and only then did she hear a messy-haired person.
  “Where did you go last night?”
  “I drank with Li Baitian.”
  “Li Baitian?” Ye Qingzhu frowned and thought: “Landlord?” Luo Hetu
  exclaimed, yawned and let him in: “Come in and sit down.” After
  sleeping in a room without ventilation for a night, even if it was a waste, the faint pheromones filled every corner. Ye Qingzhu frowned as soon as she entered the door: “Open the window, open the window.”
  Luo Hetu looked at her silently, feeling very aggrieved: “You dislike me.”
  Ye Qingzhu: “It’s a normal physiological reaction. The pheromones of A and A will repel each other.”
  “Are the pheromones of useless A also useful?”
  “Of course it is useful!!” Ye Qingzhu frowned: “Don’t mention useless A all the time. You are so powerful.”
  Luo Hetu was satisfied with Ye Qingzhu’s flattery. He stopped pretending. He almost learned to be a bit like Chunyu Yan, who was full of tea. He would not dare to learn from her in the future.
  Ye Qingzhu bought breakfast and arranged everything as if he was at home. He sat in the small living room with Luo Hetu to drink soy milk and talked about going to Chengnan Market yesterday and
  seeing some things about his former brothers and sisters.
  When opening a milk tea shop, the shop was too small to accommodate so many people. Ye Qingzhu picked two people to come with her, and let the rest find jobs by themselves. This time when she went back to see it again, she found that there were not many people looking for jobs at all. Most of them were still hanging around Chengnan Market to collect protection fees.
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  Luo Hetu frowned: “Why, can’t they find a job?”
  “They have no education, no skills, and don’t want to be a gangster on the construction site. They think they are unstable in fighting. They don’t necessarily like to go to work. They work hard all day and don’t make much money. They are used to living an idle life like me before.”
  Luo Hetu knew that she must have a reason for mentioning these. He drank some soy milk and asked: “What do you think?”
  After all, they are sisters who have worked hard together, and it is still a bit uncomfortable to hear people say this. Ye Qingzhu was silent for a while and asked: “Is there any way to find them a job, or let them come to the milk tea shop?”
  “The milk tea shop doesn’t need so many people.”
  Ye Qingzhu certainly knew that it would be a small milk tea shop to recruit more than a dozen thugs. What does it look like.
  After breakfast, Luo Hetu looked at her and comforted her: “Okay, you value friendship and loyalty. If you can’t stand it, I’ll give you some money and ask them if they want to do some small business together. Working hard will earn more than doing odd jobs.”
  Ye Qingzhu said with backbone: “No, I’m not without money. If I want to help them, I’ll help them myself.” Ye Qingzhu
  left, and Luo Hetu touched his chin and thought for a while.
  Those gangsters have good physical strength and can fight. If they still covet the freedom of being gangsters, they will still end up like Luo Hetu “threatening” Ye Qingzhu, or go around and around, and finally follow Zhang Sheng, who has the destiny of the protagonist, to become his thug tool man for doing dirty things. Although she is only a good friend with Ye Qingzhu now, she can’t bear to let those gangsters become a part of the male and female protagonists’ play. Not only Ye Qingzhu, she doesn’t want to leave any of them for Zhang Sheng.
  ***
  Ye Qingzhu had something on her mind, so she forgot to ask what Luo Hetu was busy with these days. She was rarely seen in the store. She sent books to the store every day and asked the store to help sell them, but she ran away as soon as she said she would.
  Luo Hetu was looking for houses everywhere while staying with Li Baitian. They talked about the future VCD for a long time.
  “Do you know when this thing will be released? I found that the business of video halls is still good. There are many people who come to watch movies. If you really say that a disc only sells for about 10 yuan, then there will be a lot of people who can buy the disc back.”
  “Believe me, this is an inevitable trend of social development. If I guess correctly, it should be in the research and development and promotion stage now, and this thing should be on the market soon.”
  Li Baitian scratched his head: “Very soon, how soon?”
  Luo Hetu remembered that the original book seemed to mention it once, that Cheng Group monopolized the production of the first batch of VCDs in China, and occupied the top resources for many years. Until the emergence of DVD, it was still the leading enterprise in this field in China.
  Luo Hetu said: “Do you know anyone from the Cheng Group? You can ask privately. But it doesn’t matter if you don’t ask. I remember… I guess it should be in winter, or before the New Year, to buy New Year’s goods.”
  Li Baitian looked at her with suspicion: “It’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s just that the time is a little too accurate. How did you guess it?”
  Luo Hetu rubbed the bracelet on his wrist, looking unfathomable: “It depends on whether you believe it or not. Of course, it’s not accurate. You can also go and ask.”
  So Li Baitian went home at night.
  Although she looked a bit like a puppy that had played outside and came home, her parents only perfunctorily asked her what she was busy with recently, and grumbled a few words about not studying hard and doing useless things, and then let her do what she wanted.
  She had dinner with her family and asked her father: “Is my eldest brother coming home today?”
  Her biological brother, Li Baiwu, a top beta, is now the deputy director of the Municipal Industry and Commerce Bureau.
  “Your eldest brother is so busy that he doesn’t have time to come back for dinner.” said her mother.
  Li Baitian pouted, found an excuse to slip away after dinner, and went to hang around in front of his eldest brother’s house.
  It was already eleven o’clock when Li Baiwu got home. The Santana from the unit sent him downstairs. The drunk male beta was almost scared by the figure who looked like he was wandering around with bad intentions.
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