Chapter 456: Li Ye Actually Got Serious

"Mr. Li, this house is a bit bigger than mine and in a higher position.

After buying it, because you hadn't come to live here, I only sent people to clean it every week. I didn't make any changes to the rest. If you feel anything is inappropriate later, I'll find someone to renovate it."

"In addition, Hong Kong's housing prices have risen again in the past two years. This house of yours has risen by at least 10 percent."

Pei Pei Wencong introduced the specific situation of the house to Li Ye while driving into the mansion's gate.

Li Ye nodded slowly and then said to Pei Pei Wencong, "Did you ask Xiao Hui to call Mom over for dinner?"

Pei Pei Wencong's eyes moved, and he nodded with a smile.

"Beep beep~"

Pei Pei Wencong honked the horn, rolled down the window, and said to Pei Pei Wenhui, who was in the Ferrari behind, "Xiao Hui, go tell Mom at home to come over for dinner later. Tell her to cook a few good dishes and bring a few bottles of good wine."

Pei Pei Wenhui nodded, turned the car around, and stepped on the gas to drive down the mountain. Her home wasn't far from here; she could be considered a true neighbor to Li Ye.

Although Li Ye's home was cleaned by people from time to time, because no one lived there long-term, the daily necessities were definitely not sufficient.

Li Xia Yue agreed repeatedly, and only then did she realize there were guests, so she let go of Fu Fu Guiru's arm in embarrassment.

More than a decade of separation had caused Li Xia Yue to miss out on the most important maternal love during her growth. It was her mother's fault, and she didn't know if it could be made up for in the future.

Fu Fu Yiruo walked over with a giggle, grabbed Li Xia Yue, and walked inside, "Sister, I'll take you to see your and Brother Li Dayong's room. Mom personally tidied up your room for a long time yesterday! She didn't even let me or the servants help."

In addition, Li Ye wanted to give his sister Li Xia Yue and his mother a chance to be intimate.

"Xiao Xia Yue, are you doing well after getting married? Did he bully you? Does your mother-in-law have a lot of issues?"

Fu Fu Guiru touched Li Xia Yue's head and said softly, "I missed you too. Sleep with me tonight, and let's have a good talk."

Li Xia Yue had sharp eyes. After seeing her mother, she quickly opened the door and got out of the car. She ran to Fu Fu Guiru in two or three steps, hugged Fu Fu Guiru's arm, and giggled foolishly. Then, the mother and daughter had endless things to talk about.

Sure enough, just as Pei Pei Wenhui and Li Li Dayong's Ferrari left, Fu Fu Guiru walked out of the main villa and came over with a smile to welcome them.

When she was in the capital, Li Xia Yue, who missed her mother, would cry and shed tears at every turn, but at this moment, her heart was filled with nothing but family affection and joy. Her chattering words were all about "reporting good news but not the bad."

"Mm-hmm-hmm!"

Fu Fu Yiruo whispered, "It's not Mom's, it's my brother's."

Although Li Li Dayong would know about Fu Fu Guiru sooner or later because of his relationship with Pei Pei Wenhui, now was not the time.

"I'm doing great! Yang Yang Yumin treats me very well, and my mother-in-law treats me very well too. Besides, many people from our hometown are in the capital, and with Xiao Ye and Li Dayong there, I'm practically at my maiden home. If I want to go back to Qingshui, it's easy; just step on the gas and I'm home. I don't take anyone's crap."

On the contrary, Fu Fu Guiru looked at her daughter, who was already a wife, sticking to her like a little girl, and her nose felt sour and her eyes turned red.

Li Xia Yue was also very interested in this big villa. She immediately followed Fu Fu Yiruo upstairs, asking while walking, "When did Mom buy this house? It looks really big."

"Mom, are you bored by yourself in Pengcheng? If you miss me in the future, just tell me, and I'll fly over to see you. Li Ye and I left the capital at noon today and arrived here in the afternoon. It's so convenient."

"Is it Xiao Ye's again? How much of a secret stash does he have?"

"Great, great!"

Li Xia Yue turned her head in shock, just in time to see Li Ye and the others walking toward the reception room on the first floor, and Pei Pei Wencong and Luo Luo Runbo were clearly following behind Li Ye.

【Is Xiao Ye being impolite? Or does he not understand the rules of the occasion?】

At this time, Fu Fu Yiruo giggled beside her, "Mom doesn't ask this question, so let's not ask either. Anyway, we just need to know that my brother is very formidable."

"Your brother is indeed formidable. We won't ask about things we shouldn't."

Li Xia Yue subconsciously agreed with Fu Fu Yiruo's words, then looked at Li Ye's back and suddenly laughed happily.

She recalled many past events of Li Ye, having a feeling that it was like a dream.

When Li Ye was very young, he was a little brother who was afraid of water and needed her to carry him on her back before he dared to cross the small river in the countryside.

As a teenager, Li Ye was simple and dull. Even though his fists were hard enough, he would be squeezed into silence by a few words from others, or he would fight at the wrong time, always suffering some frustrating losses.

At that time, Li Xia Yue was very worried about how her brother would live in the future, but in the blink of an eye, the current Li Ye already had the temperament of a pillar of the family, and even had an overwhelming aura in front of foreign businessmen like Pei Pei Wencong who had been to the Great Hall of the People.

After Li Ye, Pei Pei Wencong, Luo Luo Runbo, and Fu Fu Guiru entered the reception room, there was no small talk. He spoke very seriously as soon as he opened his mouth: "Old Pei, Old Luo, we have cooperated very happily over the past few years and made a lot of money.

First of all, I thank you both for your trust in me, and I also hope that you can continue to trust me in the next few years.

Because our next plan may be the largest investment plan in recent years. If it can be completed smoothly, our returns may be ten or even dozens of times all our previous gains. Of course, the risks are also ten or dozens of times higher."

Pei Pei Wencong and Luo Luo Runbo were both stunned, and then they looked at Li Ye in shock.

They had been following Li Ye for several years, and Li Ye had never spoken to them in such an incredibly serious tone.

In the past, when Li Ye led them to make money, he was incredibly calm and casual, as if he had played a game of turning stones into gold inadvertently.

But this time, Li Ye actually "got serious."

After the shock, Pei Pei Wencong felt an uncontrollable ecstasy, the kind of ecstasy of "I surrounded a company of enemies all by myself."

He didn't think this was absurd, because in the past few years, Li Ye had seized one opportunity after another that others thought were absurd, successfully allowing Pei Pei Wencong to possess huge wealth.

Three years ago, Pei Pei Wencong was so poor that he had to sell his broken second-hand car to pay his employees' wages. How much did that car sell for?

Only a few tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

But now, Pei Pei Wencong already had a net worth of hundreds of millions of US dollars, which converted to Hong Kong dollars was billions.

In a place like Hong Kong, which mass-produces tycoons, there are countless examples of overnight riches, but no one could be like Pei Pei Wencong, whose assets increased ten thousand times in a few years.

And if it expanded ten or dozens of times on this basis... then would he still need to look at others' faces in Hong Kong in the future?

Although money can't represent everything, the significance of a billionaire and a multi-billionaire is worlds apart. In the 1980s, how many multi-billionaires were there in Hong Kong?

And that forty-year great fortune seemed to be truly real.

However, Pei Pei Wencong was filled with uncontrollable ecstasy, while Luo Luo Runbo frowned. Although he now trusted Li Ye completely, he couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Because in this market of capital speculation, as the principal increases, the percentage of returns must inevitably decline or even plummet.

Opportunities to earn ten times the principal with ten thousand dollars are not rare, but opportunities to earn ten times with one hundred million are very rare.

Otherwise, so many tycoons wouldn't be so sensitive to bank interest rates.

A two-point increase in bank interest rates doesn't matter to someone with only a few tens of thousands in their pocket; they can use that principal to gamble on bigger opportunities.

But tycoons holding tens of millions or hundreds of millions are indeed looking at the difference of those two points.

The reason is that there aren't that many suitable investment options.

Now that the principal of Li Ye and Pei Pei Wencong adds up to over a billion US dollars, where can they find an opportunity to earn ten or dozens of times more? Where can they find such a large market?

And such a large opportunity must be an international financial turmoil, either a financial crisis or... a state-level action?

But I haven't heard of any signs of a financial crisis on this planet recently... Wait... a state-level action?

Luo Luo Runbo's eyes lit up, and he suddenly asked Li Ye, "Mr. Li, is your next plan targeting the Japanese market?"

"Eh?"

Now it was Li Ye's turn to be surprised.

He hadn't mentioned going to Japan to make a fortune to Pei Pei Wencong before.

Anyone familiar with history knows that although there were many world-class investment opportunities in the 1980s and 1990s, the Plaza Accord on September 22, 1985, was a hunting feast that absolutely could not be missed.

The Plaza Accord was the first time that major Western powers jointly intervened in market exchange rates on a large scale, and it was also the last time, because each country had response policies later, so once missed, it would take many years to have an opportunity of this level again.

But how did Luo Luo Runbo guess it?

So Li Ye asked Luo Luo Runbo with a smile, "Why do you think it's the Japanese market?"

Luo Luo Runbo swallowed his saliva and blurted out, "Because the Japanese have been too arrogant these past few years, so arrogant that they forgot they are a country with an incomplete sovereignty, so arrogant that they forgot there is still a boss above their heads."

"If a hunting dog forgets that its master holds a hunting rifle and only feels that its fangs are sharp enough, then its teeth will soon be pulled out."

Pei Pei Wencong and Fu Fu Guiru were both skeptical after hearing the dialogue between Li Ye and Luo Luo Runbo.

Because Luo Luo Runbo's words were easy to understand: Japan was about to be cleaned up by its boss. But Japan in 1985 was at its peak; where were there any signs of impending doom?

However, Li Ye nodded and asked seriously, "Old Luo, how did you realize this?"

【I guessed it! I guessed it based on your "dozens of times"! Only a market as big as Japan could provide such a big opportunity for small and medium-sized speculators like us.】

Luo Luo Runbo was of course guessing, but Li Ye's eyes and tone gave him confidence.

"It's like this, Mr. Li. Previously, based on your suggestion, we invested in the Lighthouse Country and earned about 30 percent."

"Later, because we wanted to lay out in Hong Kong, I withdrew the funds from the Lighthouse. At that time, our partners in the Lighthouse asked me if I wanted to invest the funds in the Japanese market."

"Then I spent an information fee to investigate and found that some large companies in the Lighthouse had quietly entered the Japanese market since last year."

"At the time, I thought it was just because the return rate of the Japanese market was high, but after hearing your reminder just now, I felt that there might be a huge opportunity."

"After all, the bilateral trade friction between the Lighthouse and Japan has been intensifying these years, and the Lighthouse people are not kind-hearted people..." ===== CHAPTER 457 =====