Chapter 551

Originally, Li Ye thought that the violent fluctuation of the yen exchange rate was only known to a handful of people, but during the fellow villager gathering on Sunday, he unexpectedly discovered that he was wrong.

Because Li Juan arrived in Beijing, the "eight-person small group" was rarely gathered together in Zaojunmiao this time.

Since after the Spring Festival this year, this was the first time everyone had gathered together.

Two large pots were set up, and the familiar potato stewed pork ribs and sauerkraut fish made everyone's appetite open.

Yan Yan Jinbu showed off two large bowls in one breath, then burped and said: "Gao Xiaoyan's craftsmanship is still the best! A restaurant opened at the entrance of our school recently, their sauerkraut fish is far from this; Gao Xiaoyan's cooking is still delicious."

"Can the taste of a restaurant be the same as what Gao Xiaoyan makes?"

Han Xia pouted and said: "This isn't a bowl of sauerkraut fish; this is our past memory, okay? Just like the boiled beans Lu Xun ate in the textbook..."

Han Xia's words made everyone seem to have returned to the days of the Second Grain Store, thinking of that one-mao-cent meal fee.

And after everyone graduated, even the Zaojunmiao gathering became a thing of the past. It is estimated that it will really be like what Lu Xun said, "I can never eat that taste again."

Fu Fu Yingjie sighed and said: "That's right! From the winter of '81, it's been nearly four years in a flash. This taste, it is estimated that I will remember it for a lifetime..."

"Hahaha, you will remember it for a lifetime; you wouldn't be thinking of marrying Gao Xiaoyan home, would you?"

"Go, go, don't mess around, don't mess around, you guys are talking nonsense..."

"Alright, alright, Fu Yingjie has a partner at school, don't mess around with the mandarin duck spectrum!"

"Is that so? Then why don't you bring her over for us to see? You, Fu Fu Yingjie, are still shy?"

Everyone was making a fuss, but Li Ye discovered that Jiang Gao Xiaoyan wasn't laughing, but was distracted.

Thinking carefully, when cooking just now, Jiang Gao Xiaoyan seemed to have something on her mind.

So Li Ye whispered a few words to Wen Wen Leyu, asking her to pull Jiang Gao Xiaoyan aside for a chat.

A moment later, Wen Wen Leyu pulled Li Ye over with a strange expression.

"We all guessed wrong; it's that Gao Xiaoyan's family encountered a little trouble."

"Family matter?"

Li Ye was stunned, and then he was puzzled. With Wen Wen Leyu's intelligence, she wouldn't get involved in other people's family matters, so why did she call him over too?

Wen Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye and then said: "In the summer, Gao Xiaoyan's parents met a group of people who said they could help people invest, and the return rate was very high."

"At first, because of Gao Xiaoyan's obstruction, her parents didn't believe it, but later, some people they knew started making money, so they invested money."

"Invest? Invest in what? It's a scam, right?"

Li Ye subconsciously thought it was a scam, because in the mainland in '85, where were there any investment channels, and even the concept of "investment" didn't exist.

"Those people said it was a Hong Kong investment company. A few days ago, they said they were speculating on Hong Kong stocks, and now they say they are speculating on the yen."

"Gao Xiaoyan went directly to their door to ask what kind of company it was. The other party was very mysterious, only saying that it had a relationship with a big shot in Hong Kong..."

"Because Gao Xiaoyan went to make a scene, they returned all the principal and interest of Gao Xiaoyan's family, and also returned the money of several merchants related to Gao Xiaoyan's family, so Gao Xiaoyan has suffered a lot of resentment these days..."

Wen Wen Leyu said, while glancing at Li Ye with her eyes.

Only then did Li Ye understand what was going on.

【Speculating on Hong Kong stocks? Speculating on the yen? Relationship with a big shot in Hong Kong... isn't this talking about me?】

Just kidding!

After the Zaojunmiao gathering dispersed, Li Ye and Wen Wen Leyu followed Jiang Gao Xiaoyan to the Chen Family Noodle Restaurant outside Xizhimen.

Although the Chen Family Noodle Restaurant had expanded to four branches, Chen Chen Jinhua had always managed this earliest noodle restaurant, and the other few branches were divided out for others to manage.

The storefront of this noodle restaurant outside Xizhimen wasn't big, and the business wasn't the best, but Chen Chen Jinhua said this was the treasure land where the family started, and she had to guard it for a lifetime.

Li Ye parked the Santana in front of the noodle restaurant. Jiang Gao Xiaoyan had just gotten out of the car and hadn't taken the bicycle out of the trunk yet when her mother, Chen Chen Jinhua, ran over in small steps.

Chen Chen Jinhua first greeted Li Ye with a smile, then turned to Jiang Gao Xiaoyan and said: "You go back to school first! Your Old Hu uncle and the others came again, chattering and annoying people; don't pay attention to them."

"I just want to pay attention to them. I told them properly, but they wouldn't listen. They come to the door endlessly."

"Those people don't take their money, what does it have to do with me? Still want me to go and apologize to them? It's not bad that I don't go to the police station to report them..."

Jiang Gao Xiaoyan moved the bicycle down with a cold face, then turned and walked into the noodle restaurant, her face full of frost and her expression unkind.

Ever since she went to their door to question that so-called investment company, the other party returned the money to everyone related to Chen Chen Jinhua.

And these people who had their money returned all thought that Jiang Gao Xiaoyan had blocked their path to wealth, and insisted that Jiang Gao Xiaoyan go and apologize to the people at the investment company, in order to let them continue to hitch a ride and make money.

But Jiang Gao Xiaoyan wouldn't do it, so these days they were making a fuss and annoying people.

"Why is this girl of yours so stubborn!"

Chen Chen Jinhua looked at her daughter, whose "wings had hardened," entering the noodle restaurant angrily, and could only stomp her feet in anger.

The current Jiang Gao Xiaoyan was no longer the Jiang Gao Xiaoyan who shed tears for that five-yuan repeat exam fee; she couldn't be beaten or scolded, and her temper was hard.

Li Ye behind her smiled and persuaded: "Auntie, I wanted to come over today. I heard from Gao Xiaoyan about that investment business, so I wanted to come over and learn about it. Don't blame Gao Xiaoyan anymore."

Chen Chen Jinhua sighed and said: "This is all my fault. If I hadn't been greedy for that little bit of extra wealth and invested money in that Hong Kong company, this wouldn't have happened."

Li Ye laughed: "Jiang Gao Xiaoyan told me, this matter isn't entirely your fault."

Chen Chen Jinhua didn't have much education, but she had quite a few tricks up her sleeve, so she didn't believe in the matter of pie falling from the sky at the beginning.

But her husband, Jiang Jiang Yougui, was a simple and honest man who couldn't resist the temptation of the people around him and invested the small treasury he had saved by scrimping and saving.

Then Jiang Jiang Yougui made money, earning 500 in two months.

You must know that Chen Chen Jinhua, who managed the family's financial power, only gave her husband 60 yuan a month, and he only saved 500 or 600 a year by scrimping and saving. This was only two months...

And they also told Jiang Jiang Yougui a math problem about a donkey rolling, which immediately gave Jiang Jiang Yougui the hope of turning over and becoming the master.

Jiang Jiang Yougui, who had been aggrieved for three years, forcibly took 10,000 yuan from Chen Chen Jinhua's hands, and in the blink of an eye, he earned another 2,000 yuan.

This time, even Chen Chen Jinhua was tempted, and she almost invested all her family property.

That was nearly 100,000 yuan!

This is like those gamblers; everyone knows that "windfall wealth" has risks, but when money is placed in front of you, can you not be tempted?

However, Chen Chen Jinhua was not an ordinary woman after all. Before moving this money, she asked Jiang Gao Xiaoyan at school.

Then, Jiang Gao Xiaoyan cut off Jiang Jiang Yougui's dream of getting rich, and incidentally implicated the people around her.

Jiang Gao Xiaoyan entered the noodle restaurant and was immediately surrounded by people.

"Gao Xiaoyan, you are finally back. It's been three days in a row, just go and apologize to them!"

"Why should I apologize?" Jiang Gao Xiaoyan drank decisively: "I warn you! Don't come to my house to make trouble again. If you make trouble again, I will report it to the police station..."

A middle-aged man said angrily: "What kind of talk is this? They are a regular business; it's useless even if you report it to the Heavenly Court. Your family also made money, don't tell me that money is also fake?"

Jiang Gao Xiaoyan said sharply: "Old Hu uncle, you are really blinded by a little bit of money. How can there be such a good thing in this world? According to what you said, banks would be squeezed to bankruptcy by them."

"You are a university student, yet you say this!"

Old Hu poked a newspaper in front of Jiang Gao Xiaoyan: "Look, look, this is a Hong Kong newspaper. The yen exchange rate has risen by another 1.5 percent. Do you know how much money you made us earn less!"

"That's right! Hong Kong newspapers can't be fake, right? If you don't go again, you have to compensate us for the money."

Several people surrounded Jiang Gao Xiaoyan, and the spit almost sprayed onto her face.

"What are you doing, what are you doing? Try moving my daughter!"

Chen Chen Jinhua happened to enter the noodle restaurant and immediately pushed the crowd away like an angry tiger, pulling her daughter out.

And Li Ye behind her reached out and took the newspaper over.

"Heh~, it really is a Hong Kong newspaper! Interesting, capable."

Li Ye looked at this newspaper with traditional Chinese characters, and then looked at the date; it was two days ago.

Express delivery wasn't that convenient now, and this financial newspaper wasn't any big newspaper. Being able to be sent from Hong Kong to Beijing within two days, the other party really had some means!

"Who are you? What are you doing with my newspaper?"

"Chen family sister, why did you call an outsider over? Haven't you harmed us enough?"

Old Hu was stunned for a moment, then immediately questioned Li Ye and Chen Chen Jinhua with a dark face.

Li Ye didn't wait for Chen Chen Jinhua to speak, but asked in return: "You think I am an outsider, then what are you to Chen family auntie? Are you relatives? Are you fellow villagers?"

When Li Ye heard Jiang Gao Xiaoyan say that the "people around" Jiang Jiang Yougui participated in the investment, Li Ye was very angry. He thought it was Jiang Hong, Ma Qianshan, and those people who got involved!

Only a fool would be deceived. He was a student of economics, yet a bunch of fools appeared under his hands; wouldn't that make people laugh?

Later, he found out that Old Hu and these people were just individual merchants who came to Beijing from other places to make a living, just like Chen Chen Jinhua. They usually belonged to the same department for management and got to know each other when studying documents.

They weren't even fellow villagers, yet they were clamoring for Chen Chen Jinhua to compensate for the money? Was the "Qingshui Gang" easy to bully?

Li Ye saw that everyone was silent, so he asked again: "Since you think this isn't a scam, then go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and ask! If their company is legal, then we will go and apologize. If it is illegal, you should thank Jiang Gao Xiaoyan!"

Li Ye followed Jiang Gao Xiaoyan over, also wanting to see if he could get some "performance" for a few senior brothers and sisters. After all, one was in a bank, one in tax, and one in a government agency; brushing this kind of illegal fundraising also increases experience.

"It's useless to ask at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau; they have a backer."

"Backer?"

Li Ye smiled and said: "Which backer? Let's hear it."

Old Hu looked at Li Ye and said with a straight face: "Dongcheng Duo-ye, have you heard of him?"

Holy crap, I might not have heard of others, but I have really heard of Duo-ye.