Chapter 745

Days with Mom at home are happy. After Li Ye habitually got up the next day, he found that Mom had almost finished making breakfast.

Hearing Fu Guiru served breakfast to Li Ye and asked in a low voice, "Is Xiao Yu still sleeping?"

Li Ye nodded, and while drinking porridge, said, "She has been heavy for the past two months, and she doesn't sleep well at night, so she inevitably can't get up in the morning. She used to be the one who got up to cook for me."

Hearing Fu Guiru nodded and smiled with satisfaction, "Xiao Yu is a good child; your judgment is good."

"That goes without saying," Li Ye said proudly, "When she transferred to our class, we both fell for each other in an instant. She chose me to be her desk mate, and I chose her to be my wife."

Hearing Fu Guiru looked at Li Ye playfully and asked, "But how come I heard that you were once infatuated with a girl surnamed Lu?"

"Cough~ cough~, gulp!"

Li Ye forcibly swallowed the nutritional porridge in his mouth; it was only because his muscle control was very strong, otherwise he would have definitely sprayed it out.

"Mom, who have you been listening to blabbering again?"

"I heard it from your sister."

【Sure enough, the person who exposes your shortcomings must be the person around you.】

Hearing Fu Guiru narrowed her eyes and said coldly, "I'm warning you, Xiao Yu is sincere to you. If you dare to have any wandering thoughts, I'll deal with you without needing your mother-in-law to do it."

Li Ye finished the nutritional porridge in one gulp and said firmly, "You can rest assured about that, Mom. I only have Xiao Yu in this life."

Hearing Fu Guiru stuffed two potstickers into Li Ye's hand, "Consider yourself sensible. Eat your fill and hurry to work! When you come back in the afternoon, buy a few fresh pig trotters; get the hind ones, I'll use them for soup."

Li Ye was about to agree, but suddenly said, "Mom, I might not be back for dinner tonight; I need to go to my teacher's house."

"Then wait a while before you go; I'll pick out a few gifts for you to take."

Hearing Fu Guiru knew that Li Ye had studied under a powerful "economic master," so she believed that the keen investment intuition Li Ye now possessed was thanks to this master's cultivation, and it must be respected and thanked.

After getting off work in the afternoon, Li Ye drove to the faculty dormitory of Peking University and parked the Santana under Professor Zhang Qiyan's building.

Since graduation, Li Ye had come less often, especially after getting married; he had only come twice in total, one of which was for a Spring Festival visit.

So when Li Ye knocked on the door carrying gifts, Professor Zhang's wife smiled and said, "Oh, what kind of wind blew today to bring Section Chief Li here?"

Li Ye entered the door while laughing, "Teacher's wife, what you said is wrong; I am now Vice Factory Director Li!"

"Stop showing off!"

Professor Zhang, who was sitting on the sofa in the room, scolded with a smile, then asked, "Tell me! Did you come here today because you have something on your mind?"

Li Ye said strangely, "Teacher, isn't today the day for the senior fellow apprentices to come over for a gathering? What's wrong? Am I about to be expelled from the sect?"

Li Ye's several senior fellow apprentices would come to Professor Zhang's place every so often for a meal to exchange experiences and insights on economics, but Li Ye had come less often recently, so his sudden visit today seemed abrupt.

Zhang Qiyan glanced at Li Ye, "Hmph~, then don't talk about business today; even if you have business, keep it to yourself."

"Mm, I can keep it in."

Li Ye agreed with a smile, then went to the kitchen to help Teacher Lu cook.

But Li Ye was muttering in his heart: "Even if I say it out, you'll think I didn't say anything."

Li Ye came today because of the "National Team" going long on the Japanese stock market that Hearing Fu Guiru mentioned.

Although that junior sister Cai Minying didn't respect Li Ye, her senior fellow apprentice, very much, she was now serving the country. Seeing that a crash was imminent, Li Ye didn't want them to lose everything, so he was willing to reveal a bit of divine prophecy through side remarks.

After Li Ye entered the kitchen, he heard his teacher, Zhang Qiyan, making a phone call to someone.

"Hey, why haven't you come yet? Li Ye is already here..."

"Hey, Li Ye is here; what are you still dawdling for?"

Not long after, several senior fellow apprentices, as well as that arrogant junior sister, all arrived.

Yu Xiufen entered the door and shouted, "Where is my landlord? It's been half a year since we last met; do you still want the rent?"

Li Ye was just carrying dishes out and said seriously, "Shouldn't you be secretly happy that the landlord isn't urging for rent? Where is there a tenant who rushes to send money to someone?"

Yu Xiufen and Zou Mengcheng's families had rented a courtyard from Li Ye when they got married, paying Li Ye rent symbolically according to the "market price," but Li Ye had never urged them; it was only when they met occasionally that the two families would force the money on Li Ye.

Senior fellow apprentice Zou Mengcheng said with a smile, "Because Deputy Division Chief Yu is moving to a new building and is afraid that she will feel uneasy if she owes you rent."

Only then did Li Ye say in surprise, "Senior fellow apprentice, your unit allocated you a house? You can't keep quiet about such a joyous occasion of moving! If you keep quiet, I'll fall out with you."

"Don't listen to your senior fellow apprentice Zou blabbering; it's not even a sure thing yet!"

Yu Xiufen explained while distributing bowls and chopsticks to everyone, "Our unit did build staff buildings. By rights, I am qualified to be allocated a two-bedroom apartment,

but there are too many people queuing up now. This one has seniority, that one has a large family; on the contrary, I am living in the most spacious place now, so the leaders wanted me to live in a house replaced by someone else. When I saw it, I lost interest..."

Yu Xiufen was promoted to deputy division chief this year, which by rights absolutely belonged to "young and promising," but there were too many people with the rank in the capital's government agencies, and not everyone could get a two-bedroom apartment.

If they allocated Yu Xiufen a one-and-a-half-room apartment, how could she, who was used to living in half a courtyard, stand it?

Zhang Qiyan looked at Yu Xiufen and suddenly said, "Xiufen! Why don't you and Zhiyuan scrape together some money and buy a small courtyard yourself? Look at the houses Li Ye bought; they have all doubled in value in a few years."

"It's more than doubled; it's increased several times over."

Yu Xiufen said with both envy and regret, "When Peng Rui got married, Li Ye mobilized us to take out a loan to buy a house. Now that I think about it, I really regret it."

Zhang Qiyan glanced at Yu Xiufen and said pointedly, "If you don't buy it now, you'll regret it even more later."

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Yu Xiufen was stunned for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Teacher, do you mean that inflation will become more and more severe?"

Zhang Qiyan nodded slowly, tacitly agreeing with Yu Xiufen's guess.

In the eighties, ordinary people couldn't access many economic figures. In fact, Yu Xiufen, Zou Mengcheng, and others all knew the trend of inflation, but Zhang Qiyan knew more "inside information" about exactly how much it would inflate.

Inflation in 1987 was already very severe, and it surged even more in 1988, so Zhang Qiyan was certain that real estate prices would see another major surge.

But even if she knew that house prices would rise, what could she do? Yu Xiufen was promoted by one level, and her salary was only over two hundred yuan; she still didn't dare to think about a small courtyard costing tens of thousands.

Moreover, now that she had a courtyard to live in for a few yuan in rent per month, the motivation to buy a house was simply not strong.

After the several senior fellow apprentices were full of food and drink, they started a conversation like a fireside chat, which was also the original intention of everyone insisting on coming over for a meal.

Everyone could obtain multi-faceted information from each other and could also express their own ideas for everyone to exchange and discuss, which had quite a sense of "high-minded discussion."

"In fact, our mainland's inflation situation is not unsolvable. If we fully lift price restrictions on commodities, we can gradually solve the chronic problems of the planned economy from the root..."

"We cannot be so arbitrary. Our situation is different from the US and Japan. If we change too quickly, the fragile market supply system might not be able to withstand it..."

"Copying Japan's economic model is definitely not going to work. I heard that a lot of hot money has recently flowed into Japan's financial market. This hot money will drastically prosper Japan's economy in the short term, but when it ebbs, there is no telling how many people will die..."

Li Ye found an opportunity and finally steered the topic to Japan's financial market.

And Cai Minying was indeed knowledgeable, and soon she was on the same topic as Li Ye.

By this time, Yu Xiufen and the others were all at a loss, because in an era without the internet, the overseas economic information they could obtain was really limited; even if they knew a little bit, they couldn't see through the essence inside.

Twenty minutes later, Cai Minying stared at Li Ye for a full ten seconds, then suddenly blurted out, "Why does a person like you want to mess around in an automobile factory? Is it just because the promotion is faster?"

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Li Ye's several senior fellow apprentices were all speechless, among whom Yu Xiufen kept winking at Cai Minying.

Everyone had attended Li Ye's wedding and knew Li Ye's background, so of course, they didn't think Li Ye had been suppressed into the Light Automobile Company; there must be his own development path.

But how could such things be said openly?

Compositions like "My Mayor Father" wouldn't win first prize, because the kid who wrote the composition would have his legs broken by his father.

However, Li Ye didn't get angry, but smiled faintly, "A great man once said that one must go among the people to understand everyone's needs and hardships in order to achieve greater things. People who have never gone hungry cannot solve the problem of food and clothing well."

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"Old-fashioned!"