Rebirth: Truth Does Not Dig Coal

Five years later.

United States, Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia.

As the fifth largest city in the United States, Philadelphia has the characteristics of all economically developed cities: congestion, rush, and traffic jams.

However, as one of the oldest cities in the United States, this city is clean, the sky is cold, the architecture is beautiful, the food culture is diverse, and the artistic atmosphere is very strong.

This is an ancient and vibrant city.

Andre likes Philadelphia not only because of its beauty, but also because of its down-to-earth atmosphere.

Compared with metropolitan cities like New York and Los Angeles, the prices in Philadelphia are still affordable. The food around the campus is delicious, and of course, there is never a shortage of nightlife.

Andre walked on the road with his pockets in his pocket. The free graffiti that can be seen everywhere in Philadelphia spread like ivy in every block, and the clouds were clustered together. Andre trotted all the way through the university In the core block of the city, I walked all the way into a high-rise student apartment.

Andrea has the usual features of Italians, tall, with brown curly hair, three-dimensional and deep eye sockets, and a pair of passionate and charming green eyes.Andre is warm and sociable, and has a reputation as an Olympic-caliber rower.This led to constant scandals during his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, some of which are still talked about by some students.

Andre is happy today, not only because he has just finished a two-week trip to Hawaii and met two French beauties during the trip, but also because his best partner from college returned to Philadelphia from New York today.

Right now, in this apartment.

Humming a little tune, Andre took the elevator all the way up to the 19th floor, then found one of them, and hurriedly pressed the doorbell a few times to show that he was anxious to meet.

After a while, the door opened.

The person who opened the door was an Asian male, aged 23 and four years old, taller than the average Asian, almost on the same level as Andre, with a good appearance, which belongs to the category of handsome in normal aesthetics.He was wearing a black sweater and gray slacks with the sleeves rolled up to the elbow, and he put one hand on the door frame. As soon as he saw Andre, the Asian man spoke fluent English with almost no accent. Said, "Andre, it's been a few years, and the rhythm of your ringing the doorbell is still so stylish."

Andre hugged the Asian man in front of him, and shouted happily, "Hale, my brother, you are back, I want to tell you good news!"

The Asian man, known only as Hale, smiled and hugged Andre and said, "I don't believe there will be better news than me."

After embracing, the two entered the house. Andre took a bottle of whiskey from the cabinet with ease, took a glass and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the apartment. The river view was wide under his feet, and the surrounding city had a panoramic view. Andre took a sip of wine , Said, "No wonder you don't want to change places to live, your place is really nice."

Andre's friend had already entered the bedroom and said, "It's a bit hot in the room, I hope you don't mind me changing clothes, you know I just walked in, and you came so fast."

Andre laughed loudly, "I happened to be eating nearby, so I hurried over when I received your call. In short, as long as you don't come out naked, you can do whatever you want."

After finishing speaking, Andre looked at the interior of the room while drinking again.

On the whole, it is a common living style for a single man. The furniture is simple and the decoration is in a Nordic style. However, things are in a mess. There are a few clothes piled up on the sofa, a pile of books, a pad, and a handwritten one. A notebook with a pen pinned to it.There is nothing in the living room. There is a small blackboard next to the refrigerator, with a few curve equations drawn on it, and lines of notes like tadpoles, very academic style.

Andre suddenly said for no reason, "I said, do you Chinese have any peculiar racial talent for mathematics?"

Just as he was talking, the man came out. He changed into a light unlined garment, took the wine bottle handed over by Andre, poured a small glass of wine into the glass, and then half-raised the glass and said, "We are just mathematics. Basic education is relatively early, I have told you this many times, and I came back this time to tell you that our plan is in sight."

Andre was not surprised by this. As early as a month ago, his partner was going to New York, and Andre knew why he went.They are classmates in the same period of the undergraduate business school of the University of Pennsylvania. Before going to school, Andre never thought that one day he would be a Chinese partner, let alone do something together.

It's not that Andre is so racist.Andre has inherited the romantic and enlightened nature unique to the Italian terroir, which is extremely vivid in choosing a spouse - Andre never creates barriers for women who appreciate beauty because of skin color, language, and cultural barriers. There is indeed no such heavy exclusivity in his nature.

But making friends is different from choosing a mate.

When choosing a mate, you can fall in love with and appreciate a person purely because of the beauty of a human form, and you can even omit many steps and directly generate human social empathy and subsequent love between two people who do not understand the language through a few simple actions. Breeding hormones, after all, body language is also a kind of language.

But making friends, especially a partnership officer, is completely an internal exchange, a collision and integration of personality, spirit, culture, and social outlook. For people who grew up under the two civilization systems, Andre does not think These two people can get along very well.

However, in the year when the University of Pennsylvania was enrolled, the school allocated a dormitory and assigned Andre such a Chinese roommate, which changed Andre's one-sided perception of China in the past.

Recalling Andre’s first meeting with his new roommate in the dormitory apartment, this Chinese roommate was dressed in sportswear and was sitting on the sofa operating a computer. Hand over, "Hi, my name is Xu Hao, you can call me Hale."

Andre was taken aback for a moment, and asked directly, "Japanese? Or... Chinese?"

This question is actually a bit presumptuous, but the person being questioned did not show any offended or embarrassed look, but replied very naturally and with a smile, "Chinese." After a pause, he added , "I don't know if you have heard of Shanxi, China. By the way, our noodles there are delicious."

For some reason, Andre always felt that this roommate named "Hale" had an inexplicable sense of confidence and superiority when talking about the noodles in his hometown.

But, when it comes to eating, especially noodles.

Andre, who is an Italian, immediately felt a rush of blood rushing to his head.

Andre never imagined that the first step in establishing a deep friendship with a Chinese man was to start from discussing which one is better, spaghetti or Shanxi noodles, and then to Italian food or Chinese food, which is better. This kind of proposition developed in the debate.

Speaking of this Chinese named Xu Hao, Andre's first impression was that the conversation was smooth and interesting.

First of all, although this classmate grew up in China, he speaks English very fluently. Not only does he not have an Asian accent, but he also has a faint British flavor. Andre was puzzled.

Secondly, he himself is not the restrained and introverted personality that is often seen in oriental nations. This Chinese student is very familiar with western social culture and copes with it naturally.He is optimistic, extroverted, good at making friends, excellent in academics, has centripetal force and leadership ability in group activities, and even has a trait in him that can easily win the favor of others when talking, making others believe what he said easily, and at the same time , without offending others.With this negotiating advantage, Hale broke into the white circle of the school during his school days with little effort.

As for the wealthy family background, Andre didn't pay much attention to it. The students who can come to Penn Wharton School of Business are all from wealthy families, so their outstanding personal abilities will become very eye-catching.

Just as Andre was thinking about the past, his partner suddenly said, "By the way, there is something I haven't told you yet. I'm going back to China soon."

Andre was taken aback, and asked him, "When?"

Xu Hao took a sip of the bottom of the glass and said, "The master will take it and leave."

Andre frowned and thought, "Next month? But didn't you just come back from New York, why don't you continue?"

Xu Hao knew what Andre was referring to, but he didn't reply directly. Instead, he knocked on the table with a smile and said, "Internet, friends, Internet. It's the 21st century now, and I don't need to stay in one place every day. But to be honest, Matthew is coming back from England next week, and I'm going to Las Vegas with him, and I'm crazy, and I'm going to split the spoils. You have to find time to come with me anyway."

Hearing what Xu Hao said, Andre knew that it was meaningless to continue, so he shrugged.After several years of friendship, Andre knew that Xu Hao had plans to return to China after graduation, long before he planned to speculate in futures together.

However, when it comes to dividing the spoils now, it sounds like everyone is breaking up and going their separate ways, and Andre inevitably feels a little sad.

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Xu Hao felt that the development of his friendship with Andre had always been interesting. .

From the first meeting, this Italian guy named Andrea looked a little silly.I don’t know if it’s because Italians have a natural obsession with their own country’s food or what. On the night of the first meeting, Andrea went out to knock on other dormitories in the middle of the night in order to prove to Xu Hao the influence of pasta in the world. The door, looking for freshmen to give him solidarity.

In the end, Andre was too far back. Of the dozen or so freshmen who came that night, everyone raised their hands to vote, and it turned out that the majority of them liked Chinese food. This perception hit Andre hard.

Afterwards, it had to be Xu Hao who comforted him in turn, so that this buddy finally stopped frowning.

But the fresh graduates who can be admitted to the Penn Business School based on their strength are not really stupid.

Andre's skills in picking up girls are top-notch, comparable to his acumen in the industry.

Sometimes thinking about it, Xu Hao really felt that Andre was born again.Andre is a natural trader. His prediction of the price trend of certain stocks, futures, and certain industries is like cheating. In his own words, he is born with a "beast-like sense of smell" for speculative trading. ".

So when Andre suggested to Xu Hao for the first time to do something together, Xu Hao was quite surprised.

With 50 US dollars each, Xu Hao and Andre established the "Green Fund" in a small apartment of less than 90 square meters in Philadelphia, with an initial capital of 100 million US dollars.

As for Matthew, it will be a year after La Matthew joins the team.

Matthew is a genius.

Matthew and Andre met in a small bar in New York not far from Columbia University.

When Andre entered, the bar where the college students gathered was about to hold a high-difficulty one-piece Sudoku competition. Registration required a payment of 20 US dollars. A total of 9 people participated in the competition. The atmosphere was very active, and the surrounding visitors temporarily set up a gambling pool. , the award amount is as high as more than 800 US dollars.

Because there were many people in the store, Andre chose a seat by the bar.Next to him sat a rather young-looking boy, short and thin, with a pair of blue eyes that were very energetic, but mixed with a look of disdain and mockery.Andre even wondered if he was old enough to drink.

Noticing Andre's gaze, it was the young man who spoke first, with a rather bad tone, "Hey, buddy, what are you looking at!"

Andre spread out his big hand, expressing that he had no other intentions, "I'm asking you, where are you betting?"

The young man squinted his eyes at Andre for a while, took another sip of wine, raised his chin in one direction of the corner, and then gave a disdainful cut.

Andre felt strange seeing his attitude, and at the same time was very interested in his disdainful expression on his face, so he asked, "I just came here, and I don't know the way, who do you think will win?"

The young man blinked his drunken eyes, hiccupped, and said, "If you ask me, these idiots are wasting their lives!"

Andre laughed happily and said, "No matter what you say, I can't do this Sudoku anyway, but I have a Chinese friend who can do it."

As soon as the young man heard this, his gaze wandered over again, with a provocative and mocking look on his face, "Why, isn't that Chinese friend of yours good at numbers?"

Andre didn't pay attention to the other person's expression. He only put on a very confident expression and said, "Of course! If he is here, I will definitely bet on him to win! He has always been good at this, it's a pity he didn't come with me."

The young man muttered a few words, "Chinese, what's the matter." Then he said, "If your Chinese friend is here, how long will it take to get it done?"

Andrei thought for a moment, and said very honestly, "I don't know."

The young man drank what was in his glass and suddenly said to Andre, "Give me $20."

The game has started for nearly 5 minutes now, and Andre didn't understand what this young man was going to do for a while.

Andre gave him $20.

The young man stood up, swayed, and then drunkenly and arrogantly slapped Andre on the table and shouted, "Now, take out all the damn cash you have on you, go to that bullshit gambling pool in the corner, and buy it all for one person Win, Matthew Davis, remember, Matthew—Davis! Although I don't deny that there are indeed most of the idiots present, but if your Chinese friend comes, hey, see me, he will definitely be scared One jump!"

Andre watched as Matthew Davis staggered to sign up, and then completed the Sudoku in less than 7 minutes on the premise that he was 2 minutes later than others.

The above is the rough scene reproduced in Xu Hao's mind by the dictation of both Andre and Matthew.

Thinking that Andre used Xu Hao to brag about a world-class math genius at that time, Xu Hao felt that there was nowhere to put his old face.

Unlike Xu Hao and Andre, who are obviously well-to-do, Matthew is poor.He grew up in the most chaotic slums in New York, his mother was an alcoholic and his father was an addict.He smoked marijuana at the age of 13, and began to try cocaine at the age of 15. At the age of 16, he scored perfect on the SAT in the National Entrance Examination. Several colleges and universities offered him scholarships, and even offered to cover all his school expenses.But Matthew gave up his studies and began to wander aimlessly in the society, working at the lowest level of work, earning the hardest salary, and spending the little money he had on drugs and whoring.In the past few years, Matthew would rather work as a coolie than use his brain to make money.In Matthew's own description, during that time he lived like a puddle of mud.

The sentence that Matthew dislikes hearing the most is that once God closes a door for you, he will always open another window for you.Some people regard his super talent as a gift from God, a compensation for his miserable family and cruel parents, but Matthew does not want this compensation.He would rather God blocked the doors and windows when he created him, and let him think that life is not much better than being in hell, so that he would at most accept his fate.

For Matthew's cynical views, considering Matthew's growth environment, Xu Hao felt quite understandable, so he did not comment.

As for how to let Matthew join Xu Hao's small group, Xu Hao couldn't explain the process clearly.

This is thanks to Andre.Andre has a knack for making Matthew anxious for no apparent reason. Once irritated, Matthew starts to speak unrestrainedly, causing trouble without restraint. The two of them made a lot of trouble during that time, only Xu Hao I went four or five times to the police station to pay the bail.

Later, I don’t know how Andre got along with Matthew, they squatted together and squatted out of revolutionary feelings. Matthew finally became the official partner of Xu Hao and Andre after the establishment of the "Green Fund" for a year people.

As for Matthew's unfinished studies, after deciding to join the "Green Fund", Matthew asked Andre and Xu Hao to leave it alone.

In the same year, Matthew simultaneously received two offers from the Department of Mathematics of Cambridge University and Oxford University, full scholarships, and provided them with quite generous admission conditions.And one of them, an old professor of Mathematics Department, which is very prestigious in the academic circle of Cambridge, wrote a five-page letter, hoping that Matthew could come to Cambridge for further study.

Later Andre asked Matthew why he chose Cambridge instead of Oxford, but Matthew gave a very indifferent answer, "I don't know, maybe the letters Cambridge are pleasing to the eye, as long as I can leave the current damn I don’t care where I go.”

This kind of tone like picking up a wild vegetable on the side of the road almost made Xu Hao, who worked hard every day and climbed up to the current level of knowledge step by step, vomit blood.