Chapter 511 I have to try harder to curry favor with my sister-in-law!
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Dayong and Pei Wenhui returned from Riben.
They brought back a lot of gifts for Li Ye, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiru, including the latest Sony Walkman and the world-famous Nintendo Famicom.
The Sony Walkman would have been fine, but the appearance of the Famicom immediately aroused the interest of several girls.
Facts have proved that girls' resistance to video games is not much stronger than that of boys. Unless something more attractive appears, they will be as fascinated by you as boys.
"Let me play for a while, you've already played several games."
"Whoever wins gets to play one more round. Let's start a round now."
"Have you ever been to Malaysia before? I can see you are more familiar with it than I am."
"I don't have one. I only heard about this game console last year, and my mom didn't buy it for me."
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Fu Yiru fully implemented Li Ye's idea of "treating Wen Leyu fairly" and had a lot of fun competing with her future sister-in-law.
Li Ye watched for a while, then lost interest, because the Famicom is all about nostalgia, but the games in 1985 were too simple, and the classic Contra hadn't even been released yet!
"Li Ye, don't you want to play for a while? It's fun."
After playing for a while, Wen Leyu suddenly asked Li Ye. Maybe it was because she didn't share the fun things with her boyfriend in time, and she felt a little embarrassed.
Li Ye smiled and said, "You can play! I have something to tell Dayong, but you can only play for another hour! Your eyesight has started to deteriorate recently. Your right eye is already 1.2. You must protect your eyes."
"I'm not 1.2, I'm just 1.5 and it looks a bit blurry"
Wen Leyu muttered something, but it was obvious that she had taken Li Ye's words to heart, otherwise she would not have explained at all and would not have bothered to pay attention to you.
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Li Ye and Li Dayong arrived at the east room and asked, "How was it, Dayong, after visiting Riben, what did you gain?"
"Brother, I didn't gain much, but I was really angry."
Li Dayong said in a chuckle: "You don't know the faces of those people. When we went to ask for the price, they saw that I was from the mainland and asked for an exorbitant price!
The same textile machine would cost 20,000 yuan if sold to the Nanyang people, 50,000 yuan if sold to us, and guess how much it would cost if sold to the Lighthouse people?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "I don't need to guess, I know that they are just bullying us because we are outdated. You can only hold your anger in."
"I won't hold it back," Li Dayong said, "Xiaohui and I bought a few samples in the name of Hong Kong Island Fenghua Company. In a few days, I will organize technicians from Changbei to dismantle them and figure out the solution sooner or later."
After two technical breakthroughs, Li Dayong gained confidence in Changbei's technical team. He felt that there was nothing special about overseas machinery and that everyone just needed to catch up.
"Okay, you can set up a special research bonus, and don't be stingy with the funds for technical research. Our mainland textile machinery market is huge, and you can make back any money you invest."
Li Ye was familiar with history and knew that since the late 1980s, large-scale textile enterprises in the mainland had sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the market demand was astonishingly large.
Just a few decades later, almost every prefecture-level city had a well-known large textile factory, and some of them were even ranked among the best in Asia!
When they first started to develop, textile machinery from Japan and South Korea occupied a large share in the mainland, but were later squeezed out by mainland machinery.
Because of Professor Zhao's relationship, Changbei's technical team has connections with several mechanical research institutes in Beijing. As long as they are willing to invest, they can initiate technical research and development with mainland characteristics at any time, which is no worse than overseas R&D teams.
"By the way, brother, what do you think we should do if Wang Qinshan bows to us?"
"Um?"
Li Ye asked in surprise: "Wang Qinshan is looking for you?"
Li Dayong shook his head and said, "He didn't contact me directly, but asked an old employee in the factory to pass on a message to me, saying that he wanted to be transferred."
In the 1980s and 1990s, many factory managers who had ruined their factories would find ways to transfer, move to a new location and start over. It was not shameful to get up again after falling down.
But Li Ye curled his lips and said, "Ignore him. He has to ask someone else to pass on his apology. He has no sincerity at all."
Li Dayong nodded and said, "Then let him continue to pay off the debt. When he gets back the deficit, then we'll be done."
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Around noon, sister Li Yue took the time to send her sister-in-law Yang Yujiao over, and asked Fu Yiru and Wen Leyu to take her to the street to "get some fresh air" later.
In Li Yue's words, Yang Yujiao was just a "free farmhand" who didn't have any of the energy of a young girl.
Yang Yujiao spent the entire winter vacation in her mother Yang Huaihua's fast food restaurant, busy delivering meals and washing dishes. She didn't go to play with her classmates or go to the movies. Li Yue felt that she was almost becoming a middle-aged woman at such a young age.
Li Ye understood Yang Yujiao's situation. The little girl had just arrived in Beijing from her hometown, and the school she attended was full of local children. She couldn't even speak Mandarin fluently, and she had no friends or playmates. So couldn't she just stay at home and work?
"Sister, you're not staying for dinner?"
"No, I have to go to Tianjin today! Send Yujiao home tonight! I may be back very late."
Li Yue drove away in a hurry. Yang Yujiao, who stayed behind, asked Li Ye shyly, "Brother Xiaoye, what are we having for lunch today? I'll go to the kitchen to prepare it."
"I'm going to cook today, and no one is allowed to snatch it from me. Go play with the sisters for a while. I'll definitely call you if I really need help."
Li Ye smiled and pushed Yang Yujiao to the main room, letting her play with Fu Yiru and others for a while.
Yang Yujiao was a little reserved at first, but after being forced by her sisters to play the Famicom for a few games, she soon forgot about cooking.
[For middle school students, this stuff really needs to be done in moderation. ]
Li Ye smiled and went into the kitchen.
After a while, Wen Leyu came in.
The girl was helping Li Ye wash the vegetables while she said, "Among the gifts Xiaohui brought back from Japan, there was one for Yujiao. Yujiao was embarrassed to accept it, so I persuaded her to accept it."
Li Ye, who was cutting meat slices, said indifferently: "Well, we are all family, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, your sister-in-law did the right thing."
Yang Yujiao calls Li Ye brother, so isn’t Wen Leyu the sister-in-law?
"If you keep talking nonsense, people will hear you."
Wen Leyu hit Li Ye coquettishly, then said: "I want to tell you that we have to settle accounts with our own people.
We can't always take Xiaohui's things. Yujiao's share should also be ours. We must give her some gifts in return.
Don't be so careless! Many relatives become enemies because they always take advantage of others without thinking about the consequences. "
Li Ye thought about it for a moment and it seemed that this was how women thought.
It's okay for brothers to eat and drink together for a few months, but between women, you can only do it three times at most. The fourth time will cause conflicts and get people to roll their eyes.
So Li Ye said to Wen Leyu, "Go to the second drawer of my desk and get a key with a yellow rope. Then go to the lower levels of the cabinet in the east side room and pick out a small item to give to Xiaohui."
Wen Leyu blinked and asked, "Little things? What are they? The return gift also needs to be of equal value. We can't give them a watermelon and then give them a sesame seed in return."
Li Ye smiled and said, "They are all jade pendants, small jewelry and the like. When I bought them, they were only a few dozen yuan each. They should have appreciated in value now. You can give them to me as you like!"
Li Ye thought about it, then smiled and said, "By the way, give one to Xiao Ruo and Yu Jiao. No one can refuse it. A sister-in-law is still a sister-in-law, and she must have the domineering power of a sister-in-law."
"If you say that again, I'll beat you up! I haven't even gotten married yet!"
Wen Leyu rolled his eyes at Li Ye and turned back into the house.
After a while, Li Ye heard the exclamations of Fu Yiru and Pei Wenhui.
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Wen Leyu opened the cabinets designated by Li Ye and found that they were full of jade trinkets, red, green, yellow and white, which were very beautiful.
"Here, one for each of you. It's your brother's New Year's gift to you."
Wen Leyu greeted them generously, took out three small items and handed them to Fu Yiruo, Pei Wenhui and Yang Yujiao.
Then she picked up a milky white pendant and looked at it.
This pendant should have been an ornament worn around the waist in the past. Not only does it look pleasing to the eye, but when you hold it in your hand, the natural and smooth feeling makes it hard to let go.
But Pei Wenhui beside her said, "Sister-in-law, I can't have this. It's jadeite! It's too expensive."
"Don't be polite to me!" Wen Leyu said casually, "Your brother said that they are just some small things, one for each person, you have to accept them."
"This is no trifle,"
Pei Wenhui looked at the pendant in her hand and obviously liked it very much, but she still told the truth: "Let me put it this way! During the Chinese New Year, a friend of my brother came to my house and gave him a jade ring. He said that the ring was very good, but the jade on the ring was not as good as this one!"
"It's great?" Wen Leyu blinked and asked, "How great is it?"
Pei Wenhui pondered for a moment and said, "I should be able to buy a house in Hong Kong Island! It must be tens of thousands of dollars, and this one will be much more expensive."
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Although Pei Wenhui also came from a poor family, she has been targeted as a "high-quality customer" by luxury goods merchants in Hong Kong Island in recent years as her brother Pei Wencong has become rich.
In a place like Hong Kong Island, no luxury manager would miss a capital upstart like Pei Wencong. All kinds of services are available. Pei Wenhui also worked hard to learn some things, and her knowledge naturally increased.
After hearing Pei Wenhui's words, Wen Leyu was stunned for a moment, as if thinking about something.
Thanks to Fu Yiru, Pei Wencong had some knowledge about precious woods, but as for jade, she only knew that it was valuable, but she did not have a deep understanding of how valuable it was.
Li Ye didn't really understand it, so he didn't discuss it with her.
After hearing what Pei Wenhui said, Yang Yujiao immediately put the mutton-fat jade in her hand back quietly, then took a few steps back, away from the pile of little gadgets.
Only her younger sister Fu Yiru behaved normally. She not only happily played with a pair of earrings in her hands, but also stretched her neck to look carefully into the cabinet.
"This one is good, this one is also good. Oh my, I have to try harder to curry favor with my sister-in-law in the future."
Fu Yiru is very smart. Although she is Li Ye's biological sister, Wen Leyu will definitely not stop her from spending Li Ye's money, but if she wants to touch these things, she needs her sister-in-law's approval.
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Ten minutes later, Wen Leyu returned to the kitchen and asked Li Ye in a low voice: "Xiao Ruo told me that each of those little gadgets in your cabinet can be sold for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in Hong Kong Island. Is that true?"
"Why, you don't want to return the gift?"
Li Ye smiled and whispered in Wen Leyu's ear: "I have saved the good things for you a long time ago. There is a big safe behind the painting in the northwest corner of my bedroom. The password is your birthday."
Wen Leyu suddenly became like the giant dragons in Western mythology who saw the glittering treasures, with sparkling golden light instantly appearing in his eyes.
Women like all the beautiful things in the world, even if they are actually worthless. This is purely their nature.
Wen Leyu has no interest in the millions or tens of millions of dollars in his bank account.
Even now, facing the profit report of "A Song of Ice and Fire", Wen Leyu did not have much emotional fluctuation.
But when it comes to those valuable and beautiful gadgets, she inevitably develops a money-grubbing mentality that is unable to give them up.
This is also the reason why so many women collect beautiful jewelry that cannot be eaten, drunk, or spent.
(End of this chapter)
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