Chapter 680: She's more likely to deceive others

Li Ye led Sang Xiaomin home. Younger sister Li Juan asked in surprise: "Hey, Sang Xiaomin, why are you here?"

Sang Xiaomin said awkwardly: "I, I'm looking for Li Ying. Your brother led me in."

Li Ye asked Li Juan with a smile: "How come, do you two know each other?"

Li Juan nodded and said: "She's Xiaoying's classmate. Xiaoying used to often ask her to help sell clothes. I also criticized Xiaoying, saying she couldn't delay other people's studies."

Sang Xiaomin hurriedly said: "No, no, my brain is stupid, my grades have always been bad, and it's useless to go to school. It was Li Ying who helped me..."

Well! Listening to the conversation between the two sisters, Li Ye realized that this employee, Sang Xiaomin, had been cultivated by his younger sister Li Ying in advance.

"Juan, you help entertain her. I'll go make a call to Hong Kong. I don't know if the line is busy today..."

Li Ye arranged for Li Juan to entertain Sang Xiaomin, and he went to make the call.

Cross-border calls in '87 weren't easy to make, especially calling out from the mainland. It was normal for it not to get through for half an hour, and it wasn't surprising if it didn't get through for an hour.

And Sang Xiaomin, who was let to the sofa, was like sitting on pins and needles.

Although Grandma Wu Juying kindly persuaded her to eat fruit and drink beverages, she just quietly swallowed her saliva and didn't even touch the snacks in front of her.

However, Li Ye noticed that Sang Xiaomin always secretly looked at Jiang Xiaoyan, Hu Man, and the others. Clearly, this "academic failure" with a stupid brain was still full of envy for these college graduates.

After a long time, the phone call to Hong Kong finally got through, and his younger sister Li Ying's Cantonese-accented voice came from the other side.

"Hello? Lei hei bing wei?" (Hello? Who is this?)

"It's your brother!"

"..."

"Oh, oh, brother! Didn't you just call last night? Why did you call again?"

"Can't I check up on you?"

Li Ye laughed and scolded, then said: "You have a classmate named Sang Xiaomin who came to settle accounts with you. Do you want to give her a few instructions?"

Hearing that someone was sending her money, Li Ying immediately got into the spirit and asked happily: "Did Sang Xiaomin come to settle accounts? I was worried that she wouldn't be able to hold up after I left! How much money did she earn in these two months?"

"I brought her to our house. You can ask her yourself!"

Li Ye waved at Sang Xiaomin, and the little girl hurriedly walked over, nervous, and picked up the phone.

Seeing her holding the receiver tightly against her ear, Li Ye estimated that this was the little girl's first time making a phone call in her life.

"Hello, is this Xiaoying? I'm here to settle accounts... Earned a total of four hundred and sixteen... No stock, no stock, Boss Qiu gave us the best-selling styles, and I didn't have a single piece left..."

People who did e-commerce in later generations knew that the toy and clothing industries were the most deceptive. A stock problem could crush a person to death. Fifteen percent stock was bearable, but thirty percent was just waiting to die!

Thanks to the market demand in the mainland in '86 and the fashionable styles Little Qiu specially prepared for Sang Xiaomin, there was no stock situation in the business between Sang Xiaomin and Li Ying. Selling one piece was pure profit.

Li Ying was probably bored in Hong Kong. It wasn't easy to talk to a fellow villager, so she chatted with Sang Xiaomin in the Qingshui dialect until Sang Xiaomin weakly asked "the phone bill is very expensive, right," before she stopped the momentum of boiling phone porridge.

"I'm telling you, Xiaomin, you've only been doing it for two months and you've achieved such results. You're really a genius. I'll talk to Big Brother later and expand our business. You write down my number. You can call me every month in the future. We don't lack that bit of phone bill..."

Good guy, Li Ye was almost speechless.

His hearing was far beyond that of ordinary people, and he heard Li Ying's words clearly. If he didn't know that Li Ying was splitting four-six with Sang Xiaomin, he would have thought Li Ying had no conscience, acting just like the boss who drew big cakes for him in his previous life.

The Li family and Li Ye's classmates were also quietly listening to Sang Xiaomin.

Li Kaian poked Li Ye's arm and pulled Li Ye to the side, asking him what exactly was going on.

Li Ye didn't hide it completely, only saying that Li Ying had handed her little business to Sang Xiaomin. Li Ying provided the capital and purchase channels, taking a small share, and Sang Xiaomin earned the big share.

Li Kaian frowned and muttered with dissatisfaction: "Nonsense, I thought she went to Hong Kong to open her eyes and study hard! As a result, she's still so small-minded, falling into the eyes of money for a few cents all day long."

Li Ye glanced at his cheap father and teased: "I don't think Xiaoying is small-minded. Besides, how do you know this is a business of a few cents?"

"What? Could it be a business of ten thousand or eight thousand?"

"Isn't Han Chunlan doing a business of ten thousand or eight thousand now?"

Han Chunlan and her husband had been selling clothes for four years, and their net worth had long since broken six figures. Saying it was a business of ten thousand or eight thousand was already modest.

Li Kaian stared: "Can that be the same? Those two adults are so shrewd, Xiaoying and her classmate are just two children..."

"Heh~"

Li Ye smiled and didn't speak.

Sang Xiaomin dropped out of school at fifteen or sixteen, and she hadn't even grown to her full height. It wasn't strange for Li Kaian to look down on her as a "child."

But Sang Xiaomin was backed by this era where even pigs could fly, and she had the care of Little Qiu, a channel tycoon from Pengcheng's Seventh Factory. As long as there was correct guidance and the route didn't go wrong, her future would definitely not be low.

After all, many billionaires in later generations might not have had Sang Xiaomin's starting conditions!

"Brother, Xiaoying wants you to answer the phone?"

Li Juan suddenly poked her head over and called Li Ye to answer the phone.

Li Ye picked up the phone, and Li Ying on the other end said as if "reporting merit": "Brother, I ranked ninth in the class in the final exam this time!"

"That's quite good, not bad, not bad. You must continue to work hard! I said it, Xiaoying, you are very smart..."

Li Ye praised her with his mouth while pondering in his heart what kind of monster his younger sister was going to make.

They talked on the phone on New Year's Eve yesterday, and Li Ying didn't report good news to Li Ye.

Sure enough, after Li Ying received Li Ye's praise, she climbed up the pole and said: "Brother, you said before that as long as I could rank in the top ten in the grade, you would buy me a 130 and hire a helper to sell clothes at the big market..."

Li Ye smacked his lips and said amusingly: "There is such a thing, but I said top ten in the whole grade at that time, right?"

"..."

Li Ying was silent for a moment, then said pitifully: "Brother, I'm ten thousand miles away from home, and I have no money in my pocket, it's so hard to mix..."

Li Ye froze and asked in confusion: "You have no money in your pocket? Didn't I ask someone to send you money? Didn't Dad also give you money? How could you be short of money?"

"Mom covers the money and won't let me spend it! Brother, Mom only gives me ten yuan a week. The classmates here are all so snobbish. I can't even afford to buy a milk tea and am always laughed at..."

"..."

Li Ye finally understood. After Li Ying arrived in Hong Kong, her life was even more miserable than in Qingshui County.

In the mainland in '86, ten yuan of pocket money a week was a proper little tycoon, but in Hong Kong...

Especially since Li Ying was a child from the mainland, the poverty label on her couldn't be washed off, could it?

"Fine! I'll get you a 130, and then I'll assign you a driver. But how to handle the money after earning it? You're not even eighteen yet, and there's no way to remit it directly to your hands..."

"You don't need to worry about this, I've already thought about it," Li Ying said excitedly: "When the time comes, I'll ask Sang Xiaomin to remit the money to Jin Peng's sister-in-law. She has people and accounts in Pengcheng, and then I'll find someone to exchange it for Hong Kong dollars."

"..."

Li Ye sighed and said sincerely: "Xiaoying, you are really smart. If you put more effort into your studies, top ten in the grade would be easy..."

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, Brother, you help me handle this matter first. When the time comes, I'll show you a top ten in the grade."

Li Ying promised fully and hung up the phone.

Then Li Ye pulled Li Kaian to the side: "Dad, you should make a call to Hong Kong later. Xiaoying's pocket money is too little. Ten yuan a week, do you think it's our mainland? Whoever is poor is reasonable?"

"And I told you, this daughter should be raised richly. Otherwise, when she reaches the age of finding a husband, someone will trick her away with a few popsicles..."

"Forget it! Xiaoying is shrewd! She's more likely to deceive others. Didn't she just deceive you?"

Li Kaian said unhappily: "Besides, when did I let her suffer poverty? Xiaoying is now picked up and dropped off by a driver, and her clothes and study supplies are the best. Where is she poor?"

"Little Ye, do you know that Hong Kong is a world of flowers? If you have money in your pocket, you will be distracted. Her mother controls her pocket money to let her focus on her studies."

Li Ye said: "Xiaoying's studies have been okay these two years, right? She just told me that she ranked ninth in the class in the final exam this time!"

Li Kaian froze for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "Then did she tell you that there are only eleven people in her class? She is ninth, which is also third from the bottom."

【Damn, that was reckless!】