Chapter 9: Annual Salary of Ten Million?

After finishing the meal, Zhang Dahai said:

"Since you are preparing to compete, you will definitely need to use a computer during this time. You can come to my dorm whenever you're free and use my laptop to practice."

Su Xin said gratefully:

"Then thank you, Teacher Zhang."

Zhang Dahai was a generous person; he gave Su Xin the spare key to his dorm directly and urged him to remember to lock the door every time he left.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Dahai, Su Xin returned to his rented room, ate another lunch with his mother, and then took a bus to the library to read.

In one afternoon, he read over two hundred more books, significantly expanding his knowledge base.

This feeling of constantly absorbing nutrients and growing at high speed made Su Xin feel incredibly fulfilled inside.

For the next few days, Su Xin maintained this rhythm of life: in the morning, he would develop the smartphone assistant at Teacher Zhang's place; after lunch, he would take the bus to the library to read, and he would return home on time in the evening.

In a few days, he had read nearly a thousand books, including those on materials science, biology, genetics, heredity, quantum mechanics, and so on.

At this moment, Su Xin could definitely be called the academic expert with the broadest range of fields in the entire world, and the key was that he had achieved considerable depth in every single field.

But on this day, Su Xin encountered a difficulty.

Maintaining double-speed learning for a long time caused his physical energy to be consumed faster than usual. Every day while studying at the library, he had to buy some food to replenish his nutrition, and combined with the daily bus fare, his wallet was already stretched thin.

He was running out of money.

The preliminary round of the 'Qianlong Cup' National High School Programming Competition was still half a month away, and the finals were about a month away; the million-dollar prize was still far out of reach.

Su Xin knew he had to find a way to earn some money.

The next day, he told Zhang Dahai about this idea, wanting to ask if there was any way to use programming skills to earn some quick money temporarily.

"Of course there is!"

Zhang Dahai said without hesitation:

"There are several code outsourcing platforms online. As long as you have the skills, you can earn money at any time."

As he spoke, Zhang Dahai opened the website of an open-source crowdsourcing platform, taught Su Xin how to register an account, and told him the corresponding procedures.

"With your skills, earning money is definitely no problem. The key is that your speed is very fast, which is a great advantage. As long as you take a few tasks a day, the commission might be more than my monthly salary."

Looking at the dense list of orders on the website, Su Xin couldn't help but rub his hands together, and finally, he selected a 200-yuan task to take on.

It wasn't that he didn't want to take on big tasks worth thousands or tens of thousands, but he had just registered and was still a junior member, so he could only take these small tasks with low unit prices.

After accepting the task.

Su Xin activated double-speed mode and, according to the task requirements, tapped away on the keyboard; in just five or six minutes, he had finished coding.

"Is it that simple?"

Su Xin stopped his hands and hesitated.

"Yes, it's just that simple. After finishing the code, you just follow the process to submit the task. After the review is completed, the money will be automatically deposited into the bank card you just filled in, arriving within 48 hours at the latest."

Zhang Dahai smiled.

With the temptation of money, Su Xin was full of motivation; he took on several more tasks in a row and completed them all within ten minutes.

At this moment, his phone suddenly rang with a text message notification.

Su Xin had just finished the previous task and took out his phone to look; it was exactly a text message reminder from the Agricultural Bank of China—

200 yuan received, balance 212.88 yuan.

"The little money crisis, solved just like that?"

Su Xin muttered to himself.

Although it was only a small two hundred, it made him incredibly excited because this was the first money he had earned by his own ability!

He would always remember in the future that it was his programming skills that allowed him to easily overcome his first small hurdle.

At this moment, he firmed up his belief even more—knowledge can truly change destiny!

With top-tier software programming skills, even if he only relied on taking odd jobs on code crowdsourcing platforms, his income would be quite considerable.

Once he developed more valuable software, it would make him an overnight success and lead him to the pinnacle of life.

Next, Su Xin kept taking orders on the website and was busy until noon, not even having time to attend to the development of the smartphone assistant.

As for the orders he completed, they added up to a total of 2,800 yuan in task commissions.

Although only 200 yuan had arrived so far, it was enough for his short-term living expenses, and as more money arrived, he would be able to buy a high-spec computer and a new phone.

He would also be able to have a showdown with his parents, letting them stop working hard and no longer have to live a bitter life.

Harboring such fantasies, Su Xin returned to his rented room to eat, and then went to the library to read.

Such days repeated for a few days.

On the morning of the fifth day, Su Xin received a call from his homeroom teacher, asking him to go to school tomorrow to take a test.

"Okay, I will go to school on time tomorrow morning."

Su Xin agreed.

After putting down the phone, he finished the tasks on hand, submitted them, and then continued to write the framework for the smartphone assistant.

It wasn't until the twelve o'clock alarm rang on time that Su Xin stopped his work and stretched.

A text message notification sounded.

Su Xin picked up his phone and looked at the text message indicating that 1,800 yuan had been received, and he couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

Over the past few days, he had spent two hours every morning taking orders and coding; his website membership level had been upgraded to senior, and the commissions for the orders he took were getting higher and higher.

World-class technology, combined with terrifyingly high efficiency, allowed him to earn a total of 18,000 yuan in these four days, an average of over 4,000 yuan per day.

This was still due to the first two days when his level was low and he could only take some small tasks with extremely low unit prices.

And he only spent two hours a day.

According to Su Xin's estimation, if he reached star-level membership and took all big orders, working eight hours a day, the task commission would be about 30,000 to 50,000.

Even calculating at 30,000 a day, that would be over ten million a year!

Of course, this was only the theoretical income; the actual situation was that there couldn't be that many major tasks, and sometimes there would be temporary changes in requirements, so Su Xin could not maintain the highest efficiency all the time.

In any case, the code crowdsourcing platform was enough for Su Xin to earn the startup capital for his venture.

As for the gains from these past few days, besides the extra balance of 18,000 in his bank card, the development of the smartphone assistant had also made significant progress, with the overall framework largely completed.

Next, he only needed to fill in the details, and it was expected that the development of the initial version would be completed in about half a month.

Everything was developing in an orderly manner.

Su Xin stood up and was just about to close his computer when his movements suddenly paused, and he thought to himself:

"The money is enough now, and it's about time to buy a computer of my own; otherwise, it's ultimately somewhat inconvenient here at Teacher Zhang's place."

"I might as well go back and come clean with my mother, then buy a computer and a mobile phone to work from home."

"Right, I'll buy a gift for Mom while I'm at it."

Su Xin smiled.

He sat back down, packaged the smartphone assistant files, applied multiple layers of encryption, disguised them through multiple methods, and finally uploaded them to his personal cloud drive.

After all this was done, Su Xin got up and left.