Chapter 381 Sister, are you here to cause trouble again?
"Let's go, Xiao Ruo, let's go over there first and let him talk to his fellow villagers."
Seeing that Li Ye and Tan Min had something to say, Wen Leyu took Fu Yiru, who was interested in listening to gossip, away first.
This is the thoughtfulness of the little girl. She never asks questions about Li Ye. If there is something that Li Ye really needs her to know, Li Ye will naturally tell her.
After the two girls left, Li Ye asked Tan Min: "Old Song and your brother-in-law are going abroad? How come I didn't know? Did you misunderstand something?"
When Tan Min said that Lao Song and Wei Jiaxian were going abroad, Li Ye instinctively didn't believe it.
After all, even if an employee resigns, he or she has to tell the boss in advance, unless the boss is the kind of rich and unkind person, in which case the employee will be tempted to give the boss a surprise before quitting!
Boss Li treated Old Song and Wei Jiaxian like a tyrant, but he was definitely not mean to them either. How could he not know anything?
But after hearing Li Ye's doubts, the dull Tan Min became extremely angry.
"How could it be a misunderstanding? One of them is holding a tape recorder and listening to ghosts chanting all day, while the other is a pervert who is always thinking about how to get a visa."
I grabbed their collars and questioned them, but they fooled me by saying they wanted to learn from international advanced experience. Bah, they don’t even look at what they are.”
Li Ye: “.”
Li Ye knew that Tan Min, who came from a good family, had always looked down on Old Song and his brother-in-law, who came from the black class, but there was something really wrong with what he said.
Wei Jiaxian is already in his thirties, and Old Song is even older, so why are they as obsessed with learning English as the young people? Isn't that strange?
At this moment, a person who was browsing the stalls came over, picked up a bronze mirror from Tan Min’s stall and asked the price.
"How much is this mirror?"
"Forty-five, no bargaining."
The people browsing the stalls curled their lips and said, "Who doesn't bargain in this market? Are you practicing setting up a stall the day before?"
But Tan Min replied bluntly: "It's not the day before. Today is the seventh day. If you want to bargain, go to another store. I won't sell it for less."
“.”
"Okay, I'll give you forty-five. I wish you a prosperous business."
The customer was stunned for a long time, took out forty-five yuan, handed it to Tan Min, picked up the mirror and left.
After Tan Min took the money, he first put it into the cash box, and then took out two account books.
He first took the first account book and started flipping through it. After turning to a certain page, he put an X after a line of words and wrote down the number forty-five.
Then Tan Min wrote down the income of forty-five in the second account book.
Li Ye had super vision and saw the words "Republic of China bronze mirror, 18.5 yuan" on the first account book.
This is really interesting. Rats have their own ways and cats have their own ways. Tan Min’s main selling point is “reality”. The purchase price is 18.5 yuan and the selling price is 45 yuan without bargaining. If you want to buy, don’t buy. If you don’t want to buy, get out.
Seeing Li Ye staring at him doing the accounts, Tan Min said sullenly: "I don't know how to do business, but don't worry, I won't embezzle other people's money.
This stall was originally run by Duoxing, but now he has been bewitched by the devil and is always giving gifts to that idiot teacher."
"I won't be watching over the stall now. What if they learn from the experience and go into the crotch of the foreigners? What will happen to my two nephews? Don't I have to leave some fruit for them? My sister is still taking care of the two children in Dongshan."
"This~"
Li Ye took a deep breath, feeling somewhat confused and doubtful.
Li Ye didn't believe that Lao Song would go abroad and never come back, but look at who Wei Jiaxian, Duo Ye, and Lao Song are.
A defective product of compulsory education, a dull person who can't even speak fluently, a product of a private school who doesn't even know "ah, oh, eh", are all obsessed with learning English? Can they learn it?
Let’s not talk about what they are going to do. Is it possible that the collective will of this small group is so concentrated?
This matter can be big or small.
Lao Song's current compensation model is salary plus commission, which is a level lower than Jin Peng and others. Now that he has become more powerful and unwilling to give up, will he remove the table and start a new one?
In his previous life, Li Ye had watched a very popular TV show in which there was a character named Zhu Suosuo. Then he followed his boss and switched jobs to work on his own.
That boss is a bit like Lao Song, both of them are cunning and clever.
So Li Ye asked Tan Min: "I can't see Lao Song these days, how can I find him more conveniently?"
Li Ye decided to talk to Lao Song and ask him why he didn't inform his big boss about such a big thing.
Although I thought that Lao Song was a man of both good and evil, judging from his attitude towards Wei Jiaxian, he should be a man who values friendship.
But Li Ye believed that he had never been as cruel as a traitor in his two lifetimes. What if he made a mistake?
Li Ye is determined to be a worry-free CEO who lets go of power, but if he wants to win without any worries, his subordinates must be reliable.
If you are unreliable, we won't stop you. Just take the three oceans as travel expenses and go away without any grudges. Otherwise, if you shoot me from behind, I will have to dodge and move away, right?
Tan Min said, "Old Song is not seen during the day, but he has been hanging out with the second devil near the zoo these nights. It's not far from Chen Jinhua's noodle shop. If you go there at night, you will definitely see him."
“.”
. . . . . . .
Li Ye first accompanied his sister and young wife to shoot a few rolls of film at Longtan Lake, and then went to Chen Jinhua's noodle restaurant near the zoo in the afternoon.
Only then did he understand what Tan Min meant by "fooling around".
Chen Jinhua first served three bowls of cold noodles to Li Ye, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiru, and then started talking with a smile.
"Brother Song teamed up with someone to open an English training class, and he made money there like collecting leaves. It's said that people who came back from overseas have good brains and can see the way to make money at a glance."
"I've asked Xiaoyan to study whenever she's free these days. If there's a chance, I'll also ask her to take the TOEFL. Even though we come from a small place, we still have to have big ambitions. How do we know if we're not destined to have that kind of luck if we don't try?"
Li Ye was very surprised, because he remembered that when Yu Minhong started English training classes, it was the late 1980s. Opening an English training class in 1984 was definitely a forward-looking vision.
Of course, you also have to be bold, otherwise you might fail.
Presumably, the partner who returned from overseas was the "traitor" that Tan Min mentioned.
If this is the case, I really don’t know if Tan Pin misunderstood Lao Song.
But isn’t Old Song a person who disdains foreigners?
【interesting.】
Li Ye did not ask in depth about Lao Song's affairs, but asked about Jiang Xiaoyan.
"Aunt, Xiaoyan told you that she also needs to take the TOEFL?"
"She didn't want to take the exam, but she insisted on arguing with me, saying that she would help me make the noodle shop bigger and stronger. Wouldn't it be OK for me to run a few noodle shops? Why would I need her help?"
Chen Jinhua said angrily, "Besides, what's the point of opening a noodle shop? How can you compare with overseas students?
When my family was poor, I supported her to go to college. Now that our family is better off, why shouldn’t I support her to get a master’s or doctorate? That’s why I forced her to go over just now.”
“.”
Li Ye thought about it for a while, then smiled and said, "Aunt, what you said is both right and wrong. You are right to support Xiaoyan's education.
But if Xiaoyan is interested in studying for a master's or doctorate, you don't need to support her. It won't cost much, and opening a noodle shop may not be a bad idea. "
"They are not as good as overseas students," Chen Jinhua said persistently, "Xiao Ye, you have never seen people who have returned from overseas. They are so stylish and knowledgeable!"
Li Ye found it interesting and nodded, "Well, I'll go see it tonight."
. . . . . . .
The study class that Lao Song runs is located two streets away from Chen Jinhua's noodle shop, in an unused classroom of an elementary school. I don't know how he used his connections to get permission to use the classroom.
Because Jiang Xiaoyan was involved, Wen Leyu did not avoid it this time, but came along.
The three of them first went outside the classroom and looked inside through the window, looking for Lao Song and Jiang Xiaoyan.
But what first attracted Li Ye was a middle-aged man in a shirt and trousers on the podium.
He was lecturing with saliva flying all over the place, sometimes in English and sometimes in Chinese. It was so chaotic and jumpy that Li Ye had difficulty listening.
[Can Lao Song understand this course? ]
Apart from the teacher who wore trousers and tie on a hot day, the most eye-catching person in the classroom was Lao Song.
He was really conspicuous, because among the thirty or forty "students" in the classroom, most of them were young people in their twenties, and there was no one like Lao Song who was eye-catching.
Moreover, Lao Song sat in the most conspicuous seat in the first row, not caring at all about the looks of the young people around him, showing his nature as a super social hero.
The second oldest person is Duoxing.
But Li Ye felt something strange when he saw Duoxing sitting in the last row.
After Duoxing helped to deal with his old employer, Boss Hou, he expressed his desire to become Jin Peng's disciple. Li Ye thought about it and let him follow Lao Song.
Because Duoxing is a "cunning and changeable" person, it is more appropriate to let an old fox like Lao Song manage him.
After Duoxing followed Lao Song, Jin Peng paid attention to him for a while. It was said that he performed well. Because Duoxing was a local and his ancestors were the kind of people who carried bird cages and walked their birds, he was able to make full use of his antiques.
But Duoxing and Lao Song clearly know each other, so why are they sitting far apart from each other?
Is there a contradiction?
Li Ye was just thinking about it! The middle-aged man on the podium in the classroom suddenly looked over.
"Do those students outside want to attend the class? If so, just come in. Don't just stand outside and wait for the class."
"What do you mean by freeloading?"
Li Ye felt uncomfortable listening to this, but he still entered the classroom, wanting to see whether this training class was of high quality or just a shoddy one.
But when Li Ye, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiru entered and were about to sit down, they saw the middle-aged man on the podium pointing to the price list on the wall of the classroom.
"Students, please pay the training fee first. We don't allow free classes here."
Li Ye couldn't help but laugh. He had no idea how many training classes he had attended in his previous life, but he had never seen one that was so eager to pay!
But after looking at the price list on the wall, Li Ye stopped smiling.
One week training fee: 100 yuan/person.
One month training fee: 350/person.
In an era when the average salary of ordinary workers was 40 yuan and senior workers only made 100 to 180 yuan, a week of training costs 100 yuan? Isn't it equivalent to 10,000 yuan a week in later generations?
Is this a one-on-one private lesson?
Even the best training courses don’t have this price, right? This is a scam! How could Old Song be interested in this kind of business?
Li Ye's face turned cold and he said indifferently: "Since the teacher wants to charge, he should at least let us try it out to see if it's worth it, right? It's against the rules for us to pay without even attending this class."
"Try it? Is it worth it?"
Just as Lao Song was about to stand up and speak, the teacher on the podium pulled his tie and blurted out a long stream of English words like a machine gun.
He spoke very fast and his pronunciation was unclear. Li Ye tried his best to understand, but he only understood a few proverbs such as "Every quid deserves a quo," and "No pains, no gains". The rest of what he said was even more confusing than people from Beijing listening to the dialects of Guangdong and Guangxi.
The teacher spoke for two minutes, then smiled mysteriously and said, "You see, whether it's worth it depends on your level. If you can't understand these, then you don't need to come to our training class. You should go to middle school English tutoring first!"
All the students around looked at Li Ye, their eyes were so complicated that they could make people feel ashamed.
But Li Ye was sure that few of these people could understand what was just said. People with that level would never spend money to attend training courses.
For example, Wen Leyu.
When Old Song tried to smooth things over again, Wen Leyu said sternly, "You reversed the word order three times, used two very different accents, and said at least four unique British and Lighthouse proverbs."
"Of course, you can say that these are a test for the trainees, but..."
Wen Leyu pointed at the teacher on the podium and shouted with a frosty face: "Who did you just say was a country bumpkin and uneducated? Do you dare to say it again?"
“.”
The teacher at the podium was stunned for a long time, then looked at Wen Leyu and smiled with twinkling eyes.
"Hey, little sister, are you here to mess things up? This is against the rules!"
(End of this chapter)
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