Chapter 551: Is This Meow Meow Talking About Me?

Originally, Li Ye thought that only a small group of people knew about the drastic change in the yen exchange rate, but during the fellow villager gathering on Sunday, he unexpectedly found that he was wrong.

Because Li Juan came to Beijing, the "eight-person small group" gathered together at Zaojunmiao for the first 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 wide open.

Yan Jinbu showed off two large bowls in one breath, then burped and said, "Xiao Yan's craftsmanship is still the best! A restaurant opened at the entrance of our school recently, their sauerkraut fish is far worse than this, Xiao Yan's is still better."

"Can the taste of a restaurant be the same as what Xiao Yan 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 return to the days of the Second Grain Store, thinking of that one-mao meal fee.

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

Fu Yingjie sighed and said, "That's true! From the winter of '81, it's been almost four years in a flash. This taste, I guess I'll remember it for a lifetime..."

"Hahaha, you'll remember it for a lifetime, you don't want to marry Xiao Yan home, do you?"

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

"Alright, alright, Yingjie has a partner at school, don't randomly point out mandarin ducks!"

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

Everyone made a fuss, but Li Ye found that Jiang Xiaoyan wasn't laughing, but was distracted.

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

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

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

"We all guessed wrong, it's Xiao Yan's family who encountered a little thing."

"Family matter?"

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

Watching Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye and said, "In the summer, Xiao Yan'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 Xiao Yan's obstruction, her parents didn't believe it, but later some people they knew started making money, so they invested money..."

"Investment? What investment, it's a scam, right?"

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

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

"Because Xiao Yan went to make trouble, she asked them what kind of company it was, and the other party was very mysterious, only saying it had a relationship with big figures in Hong Kong..."

"Because Xiao Yan went to make trouble, they returned the principal and interest of Xiao Yan's family, and also returned the money of several merchants related to Xiao Yan's family, so Xiao Yan has suffered a lot of complaints these days..."

Watching Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye while speaking.

Li Ye then understood what was going on.

"Speculating on Hong Kong stocks? Speculating on the yen? Relationship with big figures in Hong Kong... isn't this meow meow talking about me?"

Just kidding!

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

Although the Chen Family Noodle Restaurant had expanded to four branches, Chen Jinhua had always managed the earliest one, and the others were distributed to others to manage.

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

Li Ye parked the Santana in front of the noodle restaurant. Just as Jiang Xiaoyan got out of the car and hadn't taken the bicycle out of the trunk, her mother, Chen Jinhua, ran over.

Chen Jinhua first greeted Li Ye with a smile, then turned to Jiang Xiaoyan and said, "You go back to school first! Your Old Hu uncle and the others are here again, chattering and annoying, 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 all day long and it's endless."

"Those people don't take their money, what does it have to do with me? They 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 Xiaoyan moved the bicycle down with a cold face, then walked into the noodle restaurant, full of frost and bad intentions.

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

and these people who had their money returned all thought that Jiang Xiaoyan had blocked their path to wealth, and insisted that Jiang Xiaoyan go to apologize to the investment company to ask them to continue to let them ride the car and make money.

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

"Why are you so stubborn, girl!"

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

The current Jiang Xiaoyan was no longer the Jiang Xiaoyan who cried for that five-yuan retake 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 Xiao Yan about that investment business, so I wanted to come over and learn, don't blame Xiao Yan anymore."

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

Li Ye smiled, "Jiang Xiaoyan told me, this time, it's not all your fault."

Chen Jinhua didn't have much culture, but she had a lot of heart, so at first, she didn't believe in the pie falling from the sky.

But her husband, Jiang Yougui, was an honest man who couldn't resist the bewitchment of the people around him and invested the small treasury he had saved by eating and drinking sparingly.

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

You must know that Chen Jinhua, who held the financial power in the family, only gave her husband 60 yuan a month! Saving sparingly, he only saved 500 or 600 a year, and this was only two months...

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

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

Now even Chen Jinhua was moved, almost investing all her family property.

That was nearly 100,000 yuan!

This was like those gamblers, who all knew that "windfall" had risks, but when money was placed in front of you, could you not be moved?

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

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

Jiang Xiaoyan entered the noodle restaurant and was immediately surrounded.

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

"Why should I apologize?" Jiang Xiaoyan shouted 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 words are you saying? They are doing a regular business, reporting to the Heavenly Court won't work. Your family also made money, are those money fake?"

Jiang Xiaoyan said sharply, "Old Hu uncle, you are truly blinded by a little money. Where is there such a good thing in this world? If you say so, the bank will be squeezed to bankruptcy by them..."

"You are a university student!"

Old Hu poked a newspaper in front of Jiang Xiaoyan: "Look, look, this is a Hong Kong newspaper, the yen exchange rate has risen by another 1.5%. How much money have you made us lose!"

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

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

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

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 that newspaper.

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

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

Express delivery wasn't that convenient these days, and this financial newspaper wasn't a big newspaper. Being able to send it 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 froze for a moment, then immediately questioned Li Ye and Chen Jinhua with a dark face.

Li Ye didn't wait for Chen Jinhua to answer, but asked back, "You think I'm an outsider, then what are you to Chen family auntie? Are you relatives? Are you fellow villagers?"

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

Only a fool would be cheated. He was a student of economics, and a group of fools came out from under his hands. Wouldn't that make people laugh?

Later, he found out that Old Hu and these people were just small merchants who came to Beijing from other places to make a living like Chen Jinhua. They were managed by the same department and knew each other when studying documents.

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

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

Li Ye followed Jiang Xiaoyan over, also wanting to see if he could get some "performance" for several senior brothers and sisters. After all, one was in the bank, one was in taxation, and one was in the government. Brushing this kind of illegal fundraising also gained experience.

"Asking the Industrial and Commercial Bureau is useless, they have a background."

"Backing?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "Which background? Tell me and let me hear."

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

Damn, I might not have heard of others, but I have really heard of Duo Ye. ===== CHAPTER 552 =====