It is a cold winter, but for Li Muye, in the weather of minus 25 degrees, as long as Zhang Na is around, everything is full of sunshine and warmth.
The memories of nineteen years of growing up together, and the former family affection, once transformed into love, the surging passion shocked the two young people and made them dizzy. Although I didn't break through the last line of defense, I still enjoyed it like a fish in water. Compared with the matchless affair with Meng Fanbing, this is the real love life.
Good feelings are always short-lived but lasting. Zhang Na's winter vacation ended soon and she boarded the train going south. When Yiyi said goodbye, his godfather Zhang Li patted Li Muye on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "Cherish your youthful time. No matter where your destiny takes you in the future, it will always be a precious memory worth cherishing."
Li Muye didn't understand what he meant, but his godfather's words meant he recognized the relationship between him and Nana. This made him so happy that he intentionally or unintentionally ignored another layer of meaning in Zhang Li's words.
After the New Year, Li Muye turned 20, guarding the small Internet cafe with infinite melancholy and longing, and looking forward to the summer vacation as the middle of the year passed.
"Have you heard? Our factory is going to cooperate with Hong Kong businessmen to establish a joint-stock system." A young worker in the Internet cafe said to his companions during a game break.
Another person said: "I've heard about it a long time ago. In a public-private partnership, all registered employees must buy shares. One dollar per share, at least 5,000 per person. Otherwise, they will be bought out and laid off. There are only 10,000 people in the whole factory. According to this calculation, The maximum we can raise is more than 50 million yuan, which is enough to renovate the No. 2 furnace workshop. I think it’s unreasonable for Zhang Da to lie about wanting to fight a turnaround.”
Zhang Da was fooling Zhang Li. Li Muye had already heard about the establishment of a joint-stock system in the factory. As a unit directly under the government, the cafeteria even held a mobilization meeting. The 5,000 yuan for raising funds to buy shares has been prepared for a long time. As Nana's boyfriend, he naturally has to unswervingly support this matter.
Nowadays, attracting investment is a big deal across the country. The special steel factory is a key enterprise formed after the merger of three factories in the city. Such a joint venture project has naturally become a key project in the city. It was spread all over the place. As Zhang Li's godson, Li Muye had no intention of paying attention to this at all. Apart from going to work irregularly, he spends the rest of his time in the Internet cafe watching the coming days of summer.
The operating performance of the Internet cafe has exceeded expectations. In this old industrial city where entertainment life is relatively lacking, the charm of this thing is simply irresistible. The Internet fee of four yuan an hour is complained by people every day, but the fifty machines in the Internet cafe are full every day. There are players waiting in line at any time shouting to the boss to leave me a machine.
After the first month, Li Muye calculated the cost of selling fifty computers, which cost four hundred yuan per day for a full night. The average during the day was around two thousand two thousand yuan, and the total cost was more than two thousand five thousand yuan.
Not only does the machine make money, but the sales of cigarettes, drinks, instant noodles, and ham sausages are also very impressive. The average daily sales volume exceeds 800 yuan, and the profit is more than 100 yuan after excluding costs.
I hired a network administrator with a monthly salary of 600, including food and accommodation. Naturally, the meals Li Muye brought home from the canteen were free. The fiber optic fee is 800 a month, the phone fee is 200, the industrial and commercial license fee is 100, and the food hygiene fee is 50. The biggest expense is water and electricity. Li Muye runs an Internet cafe at home and directly connects to the high-power industrial lines in the factory cafeteria. He saves 60 cents per kilowatt hour compared to operating in an outside shop. Nearly two thousand a month.
In addition, I spent 400 yuan to buy fire-fighting equipment from a designated unit and obtained a safe fire-fighting license. I also purchased an air conditioner and a freezer from a company affiliated to the Health Bureau. It cost a total of 2,600 yuan to obtain a health certificate. However, these two expenses are basically once and for all, and at most they are paid once a year.
Finally, get rid of the miscellaneous replacement parts, purchase of game hard drives, etc. Calculated in detail, the monthly operating cost is about 5,000 yuan. The net profit was a figure that surprised Li Muye very much.
From the cold spring in February to the booming locust flowers in May, in four months, Li Muye has recovered all the initial investment, making a net profit from an Internet cafe and still has a little savings.
It's June, and with summer approaching, Li Muye is taking the driver's license exam recently. I plan to buy a second-hand car and drive to pick up Nana myself when the summer comes. At this time, a piece of unharmonious news suddenly spread in the factory's family area.
Zhang Li disappeared, and at the same time, more than 50 million raised by more than 10,000 people in the factory were also missing.
The first time he heard about this incident was in late May, and Li Muye didn't take it seriously at all. But soon the news spread, and Li Muye remembered that he hadn't visited his godparents for nearly a month, so he bought some food and went to visit them that day.
There is only one godmother in the family, Shi Zhenzhen. According to her, Zhang Li has been missing for half a month with no news. Li Muye had already seen some clues from his godmother's evasive eyes. Three days later, when I came to visit again, only General Tie was left guarding the Zhang family. I called Nana, but there was no signal on my phone. Busy, he called the school dormitory again, but was told by the girl in the same dormitory that Nana was selected to be sent to the University of Pennsylvania as an exchange student.
Li Muye understood everything in an instant, as if he had been struck by lightning. He held up the phone and stood in front of the bank. He suddenly remembered a joke Li Qizhi said. If life deceives you, don't be sad or complain. It's just because you are too easy to be deceived.
Never expect a little white sheep standing in the wilderness to be treated kindly.
In the next few days, Li Muye frantically tried to contact Nana, and even began to learn English and become familiar with the laws and regulations related to going abroad. Until one day, he received a phone call from across the ocean.
On the other end of the phone, Nana's first words were: "Brother, I'm sorry, he is my father. Mom told me that we are a family and cannot be separated."
"So..." Li Muye was silent for a while, and finally said through gritted teeth, "You want to break up with me?"
Nana said: "No matter how much you blame me, it's okay, but please don't misunderstand my feelings for you. My dad doesn't allow me to make this call, but he can't stand my endless trouble, so he allows me to use a public phone to make the call." Here you go, he told me that he was set up by Vice Mayor Hong Wenwen and lost the money in Macau. The accounts of the joint venture factory did not match up. The Hong Kong businessmen were held responsible. Dad didn't want to be a scapegoat, so he secretly contacted the man living in the United States. My aunt of many years, my aunt, then took my mother and me here."
"Didn't the godfather get that money?" Li Muye asked.
Zhang Na said: "Definitely not. Our family's life is good enough. He doesn't need to risk his reputation for that money. My dad was framed by someone. Someone in the city planned to share the money. But I want to pour dirty water on him."
"How did you go to the United States? What I mean is that in such a short period of time, even your exchange student affairs have been arranged. Those who can do this must be rich or noble." Li Muye said: "If my godfather didn't get that money, he shouldn't have such ability."
Zhang Na said: "It was all started with the help of my aunt. She is in the precious metal business and is also one of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Because of my aunt, my grandfather's family suffered a lot during the Ming Dynasty. My aunt has always been supportive. She felt guilty because her husband died here and she had no children. She had been planning to bring our family here many years ago. A few years ago, my grandfather was too ill to leave. In the next few years, my grandfather passed away. Now, my dad is reluctant to part with his career in China..."
"Understood!" Li Muye recalled what Zhang Li said when he said goodbye at the train station at the beginning of the year, and asked, "Did you already know about this a long time ago?"
Zhang Na said: "Brother, I don't want to lie to you. The exchange student matter was decided at the end of the winter vacation. My father told me his decision two days before I got on the train."
"So, it's unlikely that you will come back?" Li Muye's voice was cold and hard. Although this was not the first time he had been abandoned, the injury this time seemed to be heavier than any other time. When he said this, he was choked and had difficulty breathing.
There was a long silence on the other side of the phone. After a long time, she said: "Brother, whether you believe it or not, I really like you. Do you still remember the time I went to find you the night before the winter vacation? What if..." She paused. After a while, he continued: "I actually made the plan to give myself completely to you. If you wanted me at that time, maybe now, there will be less regrets between us."
"I promised my godmother, and I will do it no matter what." Li Muye took a deep breath, suppressed the surge in his heart, and said: "If, what I mean is that I will start looking for channels now, go through the formalities and go to the United States to find you. , is there still a possibility between us?"
"Brother, our family of three came here out of necessity. My aunt paid a lot for this, so she naturally put forward some conditions. One of them was to ask my father to divorce my mother, and then marry and have children to provide for us. The family continues the incense.”
Li Muye felt a hint of something bad in her tone and said, "The relationship between godfather and godmother has been tempered through the most difficult years. He will definitely not agree."
"So, my aunt made another request." Zhang Na said: "She hopes that I can marry her stepson's son, so that we can balance the conflicts within the board of directors of Leidia Jewelry Group."
"What did you say?" Li Muye sighed. He had seen too many dramas about the marriage of wealthy families in TV dramas. He never expected that this bad luck would appear in life and that it would be his girlfriend's turn.
Zhang Na was silent for a while and said: "I can't refuse, otherwise, our family will not be able to gain a foothold here. I can't watch my parents get divorced."
Li Muye said: "So, you called me to tell me that it's over for us?"
"Ten years, brother, we still have ten years." Zhang Na said: "Although I agreed to the engagement request, the premise is that I must complete my studies. Just this morning, I have re-applied for medical school, which means that from now on By the time I finish all my degrees from bachelor's degree to Ph.D., I don't have to actually marry that person."
"If within ten years, you can..." She hesitated to speak. Apparently because of the difficulty of the request she was about to make.
"Can you tell me more about my competitor?" Li Muye tightened his grip on the phone, still unable to calm down his excitement. From despair to hope, what is ten years of struggle compared to not being completely abandoned again
The man's name is Liu Qi, 24 years old, graduated from Harvard Business School, deputy director of marketing department of Leidia Jewelry Group, assistant to the CEO of the group's Greater China region, member of the board of directors, owns 15% of the group's shares, and has a conservative personal net worth. It is estimated to be more than one billion US dollars. If he can get the approval of Aunt Zhang Na, he has a good chance of becoming the chairman of the group's board of directors one day in the future.
What is even more tragic than pig-like teammates is having a god-like opponent, but he is not even as good as his pig teammates.
After Li Muye hung up the phone, he went directly to Wang Hongjun's father.
This uncle, who had accumulated some wealth by running a welfare and labor insurance factory, had been coveting Li Muye's Internet cafe for more than a day.
"Three hundred thousand, take it from the Internet cafe." Li Muye said straight to the point.
"It's too expensive, I can't afford it." The uncle looked at Li Muye with a smile, looking cunning and cunning.
Without saying anything else, Li Muye directly slapped an accounting slip on the table and said, "In doing business, whether it's expensive or not is secondary, and whether it's worth it is the most important. This is the Internet cafe's accounting list this month. You Make a decision after reading it. If you still think it’s expensive, then I’ll go talk to the owner of Yishu Net Garden and ask for a flat price of 500,000 yuan. I’m giving you this price solely for the sake of talking to your Red Army brother. Years of friendship.”
"Why don't you continue with such a good deal?" Wang Hongjun's father asked after picking up the order and reading it for a long time.
"It's too slow to make money!" Li Muye replied simply.
This sentence shocked the uncle, "You are too slow. Do you want to rob a bank?"
Li Muye grinned bitterly: "I need to make a lot of money urgently, so I might not even rush to rob a bank."
For his sister, Li Muye dared to kill someone. For Zhang Na, Li Muye didn't care about the rare and stable life in the future.
"Three hundred thousand is not expensive, but I really don't know how to spend it. My eldest nephew, do you think it can be lower?"
"I heard from Lao Zheng from the Industrial and Commercial Office that there is a document from above. In order to rectify the chaos in Internet operations, after October this year, the threshold for Internet cafe operating licenses will be raised a lot, and a ticket will cost 120,000. Black Internet cafes that fail all relevant procedures will no longer be allowed to operate. By then, my license will be worth 200,000 yuan, plus the machinery and equipment, and the licensing procedures of other departments. If you take 300,000 yuan, If it’s too expensive, then don’t blame my eldest nephew for not thinking of you first when he has something good to do.”
"Yes!" Dad Wang Hongjun gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, saying: "At the price you said, three hundred thousand, I will take over this Internet cafe!"
Li Muye said: "The Internet cafe has been sold to you, but I don't plan to sell the house. If you don't plan to change the place, you still have to pay a rent."
"Why don't you even sell that house to me?" Wang Hongjun's father took out a piece of nephrite and handed it over, saying: "Uncle will give you a big price!"
"I won't sell it. The rent is fine, but the house won't be sold no matter how much you pay." Li Muye said, "I'll keep this house. Our siblings only have a home in this city. What if one day I Sister is back so she can find me."
"Eldest nephew, I have to ask one more question." Wang Hongjun's father lit Li Muye's cigarette and asked: "Where do you plan to make a fortune after selling the Internet cafe?" (End of Chapter)