Chapter 574

"Only they can wear the wedding dress? Why can't we wear it?"

Fu Yiruo, who was driving, didn't understand at all; she had grown up in a merchant family since she was a child and had her own understanding of making money, so she didn't understand Li Ye's line of thinking about "making wedding clothes for others."

Wen Leyu also tilted her head to look at Li Ye; although she trusted Li Ye completely, she ultimately had her own confusion in her heart.

Why should the fat water flow into outsiders' fields? Wouldn't it be better to gather it all into one's own land?

Li Ye sighed softly and asked: "Then tell me, besides the Lighthouse, where else can computers form economies of scale, and where else can attract enough capital to foster soil suitable for the rapid development of computers?"

"..."

Fu Yiruo was stunned and muttered: "Japan... should be able to, right?"

Li Ye shook his head: "According to the momentum of the previous twenty years, Japan might be able to try, but it's impossible now; their path has been led astray by others, and next, they will think about developing the financial industry and real estate."

Fu Yiruo thought for a moment and said again: "Then Europe should be able to... right?"

Li Ye shook his head again: "A place the size of a fart, with over a dozen strong nations, none of them speak the same language, and the historical conflicts can't be resolved; do you think they can compete with the Lighthouse?"

"Then..."

Fu Yiruo couldn't think of anything else.

And it was only at this moment that she suddenly realized that there might be other places in the world suitable for the rapid development of the computer industry, but it definitely did not include the mainland of the Central Kingdom.

With computers costing over ten thousand yuan each, how many people in the mainland can afford them now?

Even if they could afford them, where would the development funds come from? Could it be that they rely entirely on my brother to take money and fill it in?

If the fat water doesn't flow into outsiders' fields, but there aren't even seeds in your own field, what's the use of filling it in if it doesn't produce grain?

Seeing that both girls were silent, Li Ye smiled to liven up the atmosphere: "You both have heard the story of the Western dragon, right? Inside the dragon's lair, there are countless gold and silver treasures."

"And we are the warriors who have quietly sneaked into the dragon's lair, first quietly watching the dragon accumulate treasures, then waiting for the opportunity to move the treasures home, distribute them to our parents and brothers, and let them live a wealthy life."

"So we must first help the dragon accumulate wealth, understand?"

Fu Yiruo and Wen Leyu nodded repeatedly, but Fu Yiruo thought about it and asked casually: "Brother, then if the dragon sees us moving the treasures, will it bite people?"

"Heh~"

Li Ye chuckled and said: "We're only carrying a few bags of gold coins; the dragon will definitely be too lazy to bother with us because it thinks we're disturbing its sleep; it might even let us take the treasures out and let us promote its wealth for it..."

"But if we use trucks to move them on a large scale... how could the dragon not bite people!"

"..."

Fu Yiruo and Wen Leyu were both stunned, as if they felt Li Ye had something more to say.

Fu Yiruo hurriedly asked: "Brother, then are we planning to carry a few sacks and leave? Or move them by truck?"

"..."

Li Ye was silent.

A moment later, Li Ye said in a deep voice: "Since you know the story of the Western dragon, then why do you think there is always a princess in the story of the prince fighting the evil dragon?"

Wen Leyu and Fu Yiruo both shook their heads, indicating they didn't understand and hoped their big brother would explain it to them.

"Because the prince isn't short of money at home; he drinks wine, holds girls, and listens to opera every day; he doesn't need to fight the evil dragon to the death for a few trucks of gold coins."

"So the reason he fights the dragon can only be because of the princess, because love is priceless."

Li Ye pursed his lips and smiled bitterly: "And only we, the proletariat, only we, the latecomers who are striving to catch up, can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, risk our lives, and fight the dragon to the death for the sake of shiny metal objects."

"Because the houses at home are old, the furniture is worn, and although our brothers and sisters work desperately, they always get half the result with twice the effort because they lack suitable tools; they can't eat their fill, they can't dress warmly..."

"We have already fallen behind for many years; if we want to catch up a little faster, then fighting the evil dragon... is also unavoidable."

"Risking our lives?"

Fu Yiruo turned her head in surprise to look at Li Ye.

Li Ye hurriedly shouted: "Look ahead, drive properly."

"..."

Fu Yiruo turned her head back; the car drove steadily on the road, but the air inside the car gradually became oppressive.

Both girls were silent.

Fu Yiruo bit her lip; she had already made up her mind to call her mother tonight and ask her to help choose more and stronger bodyguards for her brother; the big tycoons here in the Lighthouse are very fierce!

And Wen Leyu, sitting in the back row, had long since tightly held her little hand together with Li Ye's palm.

With the personal teaching she had received beside Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng, how could she not understand Li Ye's meaning?

Li Ye didn't come to the Lighthouse this time to earn a few bucks and drift around; he came to negotiate with the dragon.

【He clearly already had the strength of a prince, yet he still swung his long sword at the dragon.】

Li Ye had long since moved past the level of "not eating his fill, not dressing warmly"; Wen Leyu held tens of millions of dollars in her hands; having tens of millions of dollars in the mainland in the eighties, doesn't that count as a prince?

What wine can't he afford to drink? What play can't he see? What girl can he hold... that won't do, he can only hold me, Wen Leyu.

But Li Ye was always doing things that seemed like jokes at first glance, but were actually profound.

The manufacturing industry in the mainland doesn't need a few bags of gold coins; a few trucks might not even be enough!

"Woo-woo-woo~ woo-woo-woo"

Just as the two girls were each lost in their own thoughts, the sound of a police siren suddenly rang out behind the car.

Li Ye and Wen Leyu looked back and found a black and white police car following closely behind.

"Oh no, I didn't see the police car's flashing lights just now."

Fu Yiruo was startled and hurriedly pulled over to the side of the road.

Speaking of the patrol police in the Lighthouse, it's different from the situation in the mainland; when they want to check you, they will first follow behind your car, then turn on the police lights.

The car in front sees the police lights flashing and should pull over to the side; if you don't stop, only then will they press the siren.

Li Ye didn't know if Fu Yiruo was used to it, but anyway, he wasn't very used to it.

After all, Li Ye's driving habit is—"As long as I don't change lanes, I don't need to look at the rearview mirror," who knows when you followed behind me?

Fu Yiruo parked the car on the side of the road, prepared her documents properly, opened the car window, and placed both hands on the steering wheel.

And a Lighthouse patrol officer walked over slowly, scanned the inside of the car, and then stared at Fu Yiruo for a few seconds.

"Hi, do you have a driver's license?"

"..."

Fu Yiruo was stunned for a moment, then asked: "I have a driver's license; do I need to hand it to you now?"

The patrol officer nodded: "Of course, I need to check your documents."

Fu Yiruo handed the documents to the patrol officer.

After the patrol officer looked at them for a few moments, he said very suspiciously: "Are you eighteen years old this year?"

Fu Yiruo nodded and said very obediently: "Yes, I will be nineteen in September this year."

The patrol officer's brows slowly furrowed, and he held the driver's license to compare it carefully with Fu Yiruo, as if looking for some clues.

However, Li Ye felt relieved, knowing this was a misunderstanding caused by the "youthful face" of East Asians.

Cars in the Lighthouse are not allowed to have privacy film, so this patrol officer had seen Fu Yiruo driving just now and thought it was an underage child driving.

Let alone Fu Yiruo being only eighteen and a half this year, even many twenty-eight-and-a-half-year-olds go to stores to buy alcohol and the owners won't sell it to them, feeling they used fake documents.

Lighthouse law stipulates that you can only buy alcohol at twenty-one, but many Lighthouse people look "mature" by the time they are twenty-one, while East Asian girls still have baby fat at twenty-one!

"Two gentlemen, lady, do you mind if I take a look at your documents?"

The patrol officer looked for a long time, as if he thought of some way, and asked Wen Leyu and Li Ye for their documents again.

Then he compared them carefully for a long time again before confirming that these three children just had "youthful faces."

However, just as he returned the documents to Li Ye and the others and was preparing to let them leave, he saw a car parked in the distance ahead.

That was the car of Li Ye's bodyguards.

Bodyguards generally try to keep the protected target within visual range, but since Li Ye stopped just now, they could only stop far away; after all, they were all on temporary visas, and it would be troublesome if people misunderstood them as a gang.

The patrol officer's right hand touched his waist: "Sorry, may I ask if the car in front is with you?"

Li Ye said helplessly: "Yes, that is our companion."

The patrol officer narrowed his eyes and said seriously: "Please get out of the car; I need to check the vehicle."

Li Ye knew it was a bit troublesome; after all, San Francisco has a Chinatown, and there are gangs in Chinatown, and there must be a lot of messy people and things; they all have Chinese faces, so the probability of being suspected is even higher.

However, at this moment, Jeff and Gary's car circled around and happened to stop ten meters in front of Li Ye's car...

The patrol officer was stunned for a moment, then waved to the police car behind, letting his companion left in the police car watch for him, and then walked slowly toward the car in front.

Two minutes later, the patrol officer returned to his car and drove away.

Fu Yiruo immediately said indignantly: "The Lighthouse really has racial discrimination; why are there two attitudes toward us and Jeff?"

Li Ye smiled and said: "The Lighthouse has racial discrimination, and it also has wealth discrimination; when we change to another car, we can avoid ninety percent of the trouble."

"Change cars? Change to what car?"

"Only choose the expensive ones, don't choose the right ones; expensive to the point that they know at a glance that you're not short of a few lawyer fees."

"..."

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye, as if she understood why he would "waste" money.