Yan Jiecheng glanced at him impatiently. "What's missing? Don't you know what's missing?"

However, he was a very shrewd person. Even though he hated Liu Guangfu to the extreme, he would not show it on his face. He would just calmly drink and eat meat.

After a few rounds of drinks, Liu Guangfu finally couldn't help but reveal his true colors: "Well, Brother Jiecheng, I've had enough of this kind of life."

Yan Jiecheng gave him a disdainful look, thinking to himself, "You've had enough, but I've had enough too, but what can I do?" No, there was nothing he could do!

Liu Guangfu poured himself another glass of wine and downed it in one gulp: "To be honest, I have a way now, to make imported color televisions. This time I'm not going to do it on a small scale, I'm going to do something big!"

Yan Jiecheng remained nonchalant: "How old?"

Liu Guangfu glanced around warily before leaning close to Yan Jiecheng's ear and whispering, "130 units."

"How many?!"

Liu Guangfu quickly covered his mouth: "Don't tell anyone! My brother and I have already convinced my parents, but our family can't afford to eat this much on our own. So I was thinking of getting you involved, Jiecheng, and then having you try to persuade my third uncle."

Yan Jiecheng put down his wine glass and asked him suspiciously, "Good heavens, do you know what you're talking about? One color TV costs 1,400 yuan, 100 TVs would cost 140,000 yuan, and 130 TVs would cost 183,400 yuan. Are you sure our two families can afford that?"

Liu Guangfu looked confident: "Brother Jiecheng, don't panic, we still have Xu Damao!"

Xu Damao? Yan Jiecheng was not calm about this. He wasn't happy, but he felt that something was amiss.

"Wait a minute, do you think Xu Damao would even care about such a small profit?"

Liu Guangfu said to him mysteriously, "He may be rich, but he can't disrespect someone."

Yan Jiecheng retorted, "Who is it that has such a big face?"

Liu Guangfu, with a smug look on his face, said, "Li Huaide, have you heard of Director Li? He's the chairman of our Crystal Trading Company now!"

Although Yan Jiecheng wasn't from the steel mill, he had heard of Li Huaide's reputation. His two younger brothers had been soldiers under Li Huaide back in the day.

Is this crystal trading company his?

Liu Guangfu was quite eloquent. Seeing Yan Jiecheng hesitate, he simply stopped pretending and laid his cards on the table: "Brother Jiecheng, to be honest, my brother and I have been doing small-scale business for so many years. Back then, we were just picking up scraps from other people's fingers when we were dealing in rebar, and now we're dealing in color TVs in the same way!"

Yan Jiecheng was taken aback when he heard this. 130 imported television sets? This is just a small-scale operation?

Liu Guangfu picked up the bottle of baijiu in front of him and downed it in one gulp. He said dejectedly, "Mr. Li doesn't even care about a mere 130 units. He didn't even show up in person. One of his men negotiated with us."

Yan Jiecheng, also a businessman, was somewhat skeptical upon hearing this: "Are you kidding me? Such a big deal, you'd send a subordinate to negotiate with you?"

Liu Guangfu became anxious: "Don't you believe me! My brother and I went together, and we didn't expect that Boss You was actually a woman. We had just sat down when Xu Damao arrived!"

Xu Damao actually showed up? Yan Jiecheng urged Liu Guangfu: "What happened next? Tell me quickly."

Liu Guangfu refilled their glasses and sighed, "Hey, Brother Jiecheng, you didn't see the pomp and circumstance those two had."

"Show-off?" Yan Jiecheng asked, puzzled. "We all have two shoulders and one head, what's the point of showing off?"

"Boss You's clothes and style are so fashionable! She's just as good-looking as Yu Li in our compound!"

If he were to criticize someone else, Yan Jiecheng might not take it seriously.

But Liu Guangfu happened to mention Yu Li, and Yan Jiecheng felt an intense itch in his heart, like being scratched by a cat.

For some reason, ever since he first saw Yu Li, he felt as if he had lost something...

Moreover, this feeling did not fade or disappear with the passage of time; instead, it remained like a thorn stuck in his heart.

Especially as he watched Yu Li and Fatty's lives get better and better, and she became more and more beautiful, Yan Jiecheng's resentment grew day by day.

The reason he got involved with Yu Haitang was because she was Yu Li's sister, and he saw Yu Li's shadow in her...

Yan Jiecheng even had the despicable thought that if Yu Li had married him back then, he would definitely have lived a good life with her.

Instead of what he's doing now, being arranged by his third uncle to marry a woman he doesn't like and with whom he has absolutely nothing in common.

In Yan Jiecheng's eyes, looking at Yu Li is the same as Fatty looking at Liu Yifei—it's all thanks to a built-in filter.

When he heard Liu Guangfu say that Boss You's attire was no less impressive than Yu Li's, he actually believed it.

As for Xu Damao, there's no question about him. He was originally quite handsome, and with his large business, he naturally developed an air of nobility over time. Especially noble.

Yan Jiecheng kept urging Liu Guangfu to continue, and seeing that he had taken the bait, Liu Guangfu naturally began to ramble on: "You didn't see that Xu Damao! He's so overbearing, acting like he's no one else at all. He came right up to Boss You, hugging and embracing him like crazy. It was unbearable to watch, oh dear..."

After complaining about Xu Damao, Liu Guangfu started complaining about Liu Guangtian: "And my stupid brother, he came up to people and asked if they heard that you have some connections and can get smuggled imported TVs from customs. Listen to that, listen to that, is that human language? He's just like my dad!"

At this point, Liu Guangfu sighed deeply: "As soon as Boss You saw the two of us, he was unwilling. He said we didn't look like business people, that we didn't have the strength, and that he didn't want to cooperate with us. If it weren't for Xu Damao's sake, he wouldn't even have given us a little bit left."

Yan Jiecheng asked him, "So, did it work out in the end?"

"It worked! Why would I have called you here if it hadn't worked?"

"..."

At Uncle San's house, Yan Jiecheng, Liu Haizhong, Liu Guangtian, Liu Guangfu, and several others were working on his mindset.

Yan Jiecheng was anxious: "Dad, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Boss You's uncle is a section chief at customs, so his information is absolutely reliable. Let me do the math for you: a container of color TVs will yield a net profit of 210,000!"

Liu Guangfu chimed in, acting as a straight man, "Third Uncle, did you hear that? That's 210,000!"

Liu Haizhong also chimed in, "Old Yan, if this deal goes through, we'll be rolling in money. You should really think it over."

After pondering for a long time, Yan Bugui finally spoke: "There's something I don't understand."

Yan Jiecheng asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Why isn't Xu Damao involved?"