stonecrandall Chapter 323 Bargaining
Chapter 323 Bargaining
Qin Huairu always says "You will spoil her".
This is true.
Cao Wei rarely loses his temper with Qin Jingru.
"Oh, I want to go. I'll go after dinner."
"No, can you just go to the black market whenever you want?!" Qin Jingru widened her eyes. What about her psychological shadow?
"The black market here is different from the one in Beijing." Lou Xiao'e picked up a piece of pork ribs. "It's tacitly approved by the higher-ups."
"Acquiesced?!"
"We'll find out if we go take a look at it tonight."
"Then let's go!" Qin Jingru quickly took a bite of the food and was about to walk out excitedly.
Before she took two steps, Cao Leyao grabbed her, picked her up, put her back, and said expressionlessly, "Mom, we haven't finished eating yet."
"What does it matter?" Qin Jingru muttered.
Both women in the house stared at her.
She shrank her neck, and then felt something was wrong; "Cao Leyao! You are my daughter! You should help me deal with that bad woman Lou Xiao'e!"
"Yes, yes, eat a few more bites. Don't get hungry again at night and get up to find something to eat. There's no midnight snack made by your dad for you here."
"I do not!"
"Then could you wait for your dear daughter for a while?"
"OK then……"
Since she had been asked like this, Qin Jingru thought, just go with it.
Lou Xiao'e:......
This strange mother-daughter relationship is always fun to watch.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly and he finished dinner in a happy mood.
After eating, he took Qin Jingru and Cao Leyao out.
The town is even more lively at night than during the day, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is brightly lit.
In the morning, the stalls selling vegetables and second-hand TVs were all closed.
They turned around and started selling Hong Kong specialties.
In this era, many things can be said to be specialties of Hong Kong, such as a small watch, clothes brought from Hong Kong, or smuggled TVs. On this street, you can find everything.
Cao Leyao is not new to these things, as she just returned from studying abroad in Hong Kong.
But here...
"Buy some?"
"Okay, okay!" Qin Jingru immediately picked up the machete and started bargaining.
"Beautiful girl, this is 15 yuan, very cheap. Would you like to buy one?" The auntie selling electronic watches held a plastic watch and tried to promote it to Qin Jingru with a satisfied smile.
"Two pieces." Qin Jingru stretched out two fingers and said, doubling them back and forth.
The old lady was startled by the machete for a moment, then her expression became serious, as if she was an expert. "Girl, two dollars is too much. I don't make any money. It's not easy for you, so I'll give you a discount, fourteen dollars and fifty cents. What do you think?"
"Two dollars and one!"
"Pretty girl, your words are meaningless. I lowered my price by 14 cents, and you only raised it by cents. So, if we each take a step back, it will be yuan!"
"Two dollars and two cents!"
"How about it? Do you understand?" Lou Xiao'e asked.
"Can't you bargain too much at one time?" Cao Leyao asked tentatively.
"Don't look at your mother, she's leading you astray!" Lou Xiao'e stretched out her hand and pulled Cao Leyao's head back.
At this time, the fight between Qin Jingru and the aunt had become intense, and a circle of people gathered around them unknowingly.
Lou Xiao'e:......
No, Qin Jingru! Could you please stop making trouble when I'm planning to do something big?
He took Cao Leyao's hand and walked out.
"Hey, hey, Sister E..."
"Sister E, what do you want to say?"
"Look here, what do you think?"
"What's the idea?" Cao Leyao frowned, and came back to her senses from the duel between Qin Jingru and the aunt. She pondered for a moment: "Why would the higher-ups allow this place to exist? These things are not legal, right?"
"It's neither legal nor illegal. Most of these things are shipped from Hong Kong. Some are simply made in the mainland and claimed to be from Hong Kong. In fact, most of those sold here are small-time sellers. Moreover, most of them are people who don't want to leave the mainland. In recent years, many people have gone abroad."
"Run outside?"
"Go, work there for a year, you can earn more money than you can earn here in your lifetime, why not go?"
"I see. You want me to take responsibility."
"No."
"Ah?" Cao Leyao was stunned. In fact, she probably knew what Lou Xiao'e wanted to say to her, something like having great ambitions. She thought, maybe she could hold on? Maybe?
"Most people have a goal in their lives. Few people have a lifelong goal. When I was young, I thought it would be great if I could go out and use my talents. Do you know how I felt after I went out?"
"How do you feel? Very happy?" Cao Leyao knew what happened during that period. Moreover, she also knew that Lou Xiao'e was probably feeling depressed and frustrated during that period.
"I was happy, but as time went by, I found that I began to feel tired. If it weren't for Nian Nian and your father, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on." Lou Xiao'e never talked about the hardships she experienced in Hong Kong. Even though she had considerable power behind her, no one knew how much she had to pay to convert this power into money.
"Your father's favorite saying is that there is no such thing as empathy in this world. Only a person knows how he feels. What I want to say is that this era is like waves coming at you. At most, you can only be regarded as a small boat sailing in this era. It doesn't matter if this boat flutters in the waves on weekdays. The key is to have an anchor point. In the future, you can think about what you want to do slowly and see how it goes, but you have to settle on this anchor point."
"No, Sister E, are you here to urge me to get married?"
"No." Lou Xiao'e shook her head. "Anchor point is not as simple as love. Your father is a very strange and narcissistic person. Although he doesn't say it, there is always an inexplicable inclusion in the eyes of others. It is an inclusion from big to small. I just can't stand this point of him, so the reason why I have persisted all this time is, on the one hand, because I love him, and on the other hand, because I want to see if showing him a society that is decades ahead of China can shock him."
"What's the result?" Cao Leyao's curiosity was aroused.
Lou Xiaoe smiled bitterly: "He shamelessly used my money to do his own thing. But I couldn't refuse him."
"what?"
“Actually, I have budgeted for this.”