NovelEnglishCharlie was a little puzzled, and he asked, "Why do you feel that it is particularly meaningless and of no significance for you to help companies make more profits? Now that you are teaching, aren't you also helping the university cultivate more talents, then? I think that there is truly not much difference between the two." Yolden smiled slightly before he said earnestly, "To be honest, I am not the kind of materialistic person who loves money very much." As he spoke, Yolden said emotionally, "Truthfully, money no longer carries any significance or meaning toafter reaching a certain level. My standard of living and my living conditions have been fixed ever since I began earning an incof five hundred thousand US dollars a year. Moreover, when I subsequently began earning ten million US dollars a year, my standard of living and my living conditions were stil the sas when I was simply earning five hundred thousand US dollars a year." "Although I am not a rich or wealthy person, I have already been working for so many years, and I have tens of millions of US dollars' worth of savings. Also, I have made sstock investments, and I have sApple and Tesla shares. If I were to withdraw all of this, I might be able to obtain two to three hundred million dollars in cash. Although this small sum of money could never be comparable to Mr. Wade's Emgrand Group, I do not know where I would spend all this money at all." "The house that I am living in now is not expensive. Even if I were to add up all of my investments and convert them into US dollars, it would be worth about one million US dollars at most. It is not that I cannot afford to buy an expensive house. However, I simply find that it is too troublesforto live in, and it is also completely unnecessary." "I am driving a Tesla, and it is the most common model. It is very economical, and it is also very environmentally friendly. When all of the investment is added up, it is worth less than sixty thousand US dollars." 2 "Furthermore, I only need a few thousand US dollars to cover all of my monthly expenses. My current salary alone is already more than enough forto cover all of these expenses. As for the remaining money that I have, I can only store it in my bank account, and it has completely lost its liquidity. No matter how much money I am going to earn, I will eventually be donating all of my money to charity in the future. So, in my opinion, I might as well continue teaching the students here diligently instead." 3 Charlie asked in surprise, "Don't you intend to leave a generous sum of money behind for your children at all?" Yolden laughed as he said, "I did not think about this yet. My daughter is about the sage as you, and her standard of living and living conditions are about the sas mine. She can earn money, but she does not really spend much money, nor does she have any motivation to spend money at all." Charlie could not help but feel as though it would be a little difficult to convince Yolden when he heard this. 4 Yolden was obviously not interested in money at all, and he only wanted to teach and educate people. Under this kind of circumstance, what could he possibly do to impress him or make him willingly agree to collaborate and work together with him? Even after thinking about it, Charlie could not cup with any good ideas or solutions whatsoever.
However, a black and white sketch on Yolden's office wall attracted his attention at this time.
The simple black and white sketch only contained a few simple strokes which made out the shape of a tree. It did not look particularly unique or peculiar, and most people would hardly be able to tell the species of this tree by its shape.
However, Charlie looked at the painting as he said with interest, "Professor Hart, did you draw this sketch on your own?" Yolden asked curiously, "How did you know that? I did not sign my non the picture." Charlie smiled as he said, "It is because I know this tree."
"Oh?" Yolden hurriedly asked him, "You know this tree? So can you givea brief explanation about this tree, then?"
Charlie nodded before he smiled and said, "Professor Hart, the tree that you, drew is actually à redwood tree E from California in the United States."
Yolden was slightly taken aback for a moment. At this time, Charlie continued, "In fact, I think that your act think t simple sketch is based on the Stanford University's emblem. If I remember correctly, the pattern in the center of the Stanford University emblem looks just like this. It is a redwood tree just like this." 5 Yolden asked in surprise, "Mr. Wade, did you graduate from Stanford University too?" 6 X
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