Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

Seeing that Lou Xiao'e really didn't know, Li Muhua said affirmatively, "Aunt Lou, honesty is the most important thing in doing business. I can't just accept the reward as if it were not given to me. These things are too valuable to me now, and I really shouldn't accept them."

"Imported electrical appliances are very popular in China. You won't lose money if you find an opportunity to sell them. It's just that you've worked in vain."

Li Muhua smiled and said, "But I received your kindness."

"It was not in vain that I took the risk to go to your house to report the news. Your father is an excellent businessman, and so are you, Aunt Lou. When I graduate, we will meet in the business world in the future."

Seeing that Li Muhua asked her to resell the electrical appliances, Lou Xiao'e knew that he really didn't want to buy them, so she stopped persuading him.

But he frowned again and asked in confusion: "You went to a very good university. With your and your family's political capital, won't you become a cadre in the future?"

She knew the hardships of doing business and couldn't help but ask this question.

Li Muhua shook her head and smiled.

"Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans are all indispensable. I said this to Mr. Lou at the beginning. At that time, I was sure that there would be today's reform and opening up."

"The domestic economy is in such bad shape right now, and many places are lagging far behind the rest of the world. As an official, I can't solve these problems, so I can only try my luck by doing business."

Lou Xiao'e has been in Hong Kong for more than ten years, so she can naturally see more clearly the differences and development speeds of the two places.

"You're right. Hong Kong is really different from the mainland. When I first went there, it was more unusual for me than for people from the remotest villages to come to the inner city."

"In the past ten years, Hong Kong has been developing rapidly, while in China——"

Lou Xiao'e shook her head. She hoped that the country could develop, but to be fair, she felt that the gap between the two sides would only get bigger and bigger.

Li Muhua smiled and said, "I know what Hong Kong is like now, but when the domestic development starts, you will know more about what is changing with each passing day."

"I hope so." Lou Xiao'e said with a smile: "But even the investment environment in China is still unclear, so I am still waiting and watching."

She was still hesitant, so she wanted to hear Li Muhua's opinion.

Li Muhua frowned and thought for a while before saying, "You have to wait a few more years. Instead of investing in building a factory now, you might as well go into foreign trade. The investment is small, the risk is small, and the income is high."

Lou Xiao'e nodded in agreement, but she really didn't dare to take real money back to China to build a factory.

After all, the steel mill belonged to her family before, and she escaped, and only came back after being persuaded by Lou's father.

Li Muhua turned her head to look at Yang Liu and said, "Aunt Lou, when I first came to your house, I was almost dazzled by the complicated decorations, especially the crystal chandelier in the living room that is as big as a table. I want to take a look at it again today. Is it convenient?"

Lou Xiao'e nodded in agreement and made way to welcome the two people.

"I wanted to invite you to come in and have a seat, but my house has never been maintained for more than ten years, and a bunch of rough people live in my house, so the things have long been worn out and damaged. You can only stay temporarily after cleaning up, and it's inappropriate to treat guests."

The three of them walked into the yard. Li Muhua pointed to the empty ground in front of the building and said, "Many flowers were planted here in the past, and..."

Yang Liu listened to the introduction. Although she came from a good family, she grew up in a slum when she was young, and then lived in a military camp for several years, and in school dormitories and unit dormitories for several years.

Such hedonistic housing has never been seen before.

The building was indeed as Lou Xiao'e had described. Although she had someone clean it up after she came back and restored it to a somewhat similar state, it was still like a gem covered in dust, with an old luster everywhere.

There were damages here and there, stains of writing and drawing everywhere, and even the huge crystal chandelier was smashed beyond recognition, with only a lonely light bulb hanging on the ceiling.

About half an hour later, Lou Xiao'e sent the two of them out.

On the way back, Yang Liu couldn't help but sigh and said, "Big capitalists are big capitalists. Their houses are so big that you can get lost. It's really like what you said, like a palace."

Seeing that Yang Liu still had prejudices against capitalists, Li Muhua explained: "Don't always think that it is a sin to enjoy life with money. I hope everyone can live this kind of life and should work hard for it."

"Instead of living in a small compound, where many people don't even have a job and can't eat or wear warm clothes, they should work hard and make contributions. The little production value they contribute is meaningless."

Yang Liu stopped and looked at Li Muhua and said, "Comrade Li Muhua, your thoughts are very dangerous!"

"Don't you want everyone to live the life of a big capitalist?" Li Muhua asked back.

Yang Liu remained silent.

Li Muhua smiled and said, "It's not just me who thinks so. Mr. Deng also thinks so, which is why we have reform and opening up. You will understand it slowly in the future."

Yang Liu put her hands behind her back, lowered her head and walked with big strides, saying: "You give me a very strange feeling. I feel that you are different from everyone else. Everything about you is different."

"You are obviously talking nonsense, unorthodox, and even have serious ideological errors, but if you think about it carefully, you feel that you are right."

"Everything in the past has proven that you are right. According to dialectics, are we all wrong?"

After spending a long time with Li Muhua, Yang Liu always felt like his own faith was collapsing.

Seeing that Yang Liu finally said that she was right and could correct her thoughts, Li Muhua couldn't help but say happily: "It's not that you are wrong, it's that I can see the future. The future is different from the present, and it's normal that our perspectives and thoughts are different."

Li Muhua is telling the truth.

Yang Liu stopped, looked at Li Muhua and asked again: "We have different ideas, can we be together in the future?"

"Of course."

Li Muhua said with certainty: "I have signed a military order with your father. If I do anything wrong to you, you will be beheaded in front of my father-in-law. How dare I not be with you?"

"Tell me the truth, you didn't tell me about your father before. Were you afraid that you would scare me away?" Li Muhua joked.

"You didn't see it - that day, 18 cannons were firing at me at the same time. They didn't hit the target, but me. It was so loud that it blew my body into pieces."

"Bah!" Yang Liu spat in anger, "If you dare to run, you'll be a target that day, and it'll be my turn to stand aside and watch!"

"Hehe~~"

Li Muhua smiled innocently and said, "I'm not stupid. With a good daughter-in-law like you, I won't run away even if my father-in-law leads me to the target."

Seeing that he was starting to act inappropriately again, Yang Liu took a step forward, but then said, "We have different ideas. I can accommodate you, but can you accommodate me?"

"Yes, of course. I can help you improve!" Li Muhua answered simply.

Yang Liu will be his bedmate in the future, so he naturally wants Yang Liu to have modern thinking like him.

"Progress, I feel like I'm falling with you." Yang Liu asked worriedly, "How are you going to explain to your parents if you don't join the Construction Committee after graduation or find a job in a unit? Why don't you go out and do business?"

"There's nothing to explain. It doesn't matter whether my parents agree or not." Li Muhua said calmly, "It's enough if you can understand me."

Yang Liu turned her head to look at Li Muhua, then turned back and sighed, "So be it, it's you who's to blame!"

"Where are you going to go after you graduate?" Li Muhua asked, "Find a job as a technician in a research institute in Beijing?"

Yang Liu held Li Muhua's shoulders and said with a smile: "No more looking for you. I will watch you all the time in the future. Don't you want to open a factory and do business?"

"I will work as the head of the technical department in your factory!"

"Okay!" Li Muhua agreed, "I'll give you a first-class chief engineer salary, 364 yuan per month."

Seeing that Li Muhua not only wanted to make her the head of the technical department, but also offered her a first-class engineer salary, Yang Liu joked, "A landlord with more than a dozen courtyards is really rich, and he can call himself a first-class chief engineer."

"Of course I am rich. I put the money from my left pocket into my right pocket."

Yang Liu didn't care about this, but asked: "So what kind of factory are you planning to open?"

"I can also make some preparations first."

What kind of factory to open?

Li Muhua has thought about this problem for a long time. Now he has no money, no technology, and no venue. He is a complete entrepreneur with nothing. So the technical content of his first product must be low.

People are poor now, so this thing has to be sold cheaply so that everyone will want to buy it. It will allow him to make a lot of money and quickly expand the scale of the factory, and he cannot fail.

This kind of magical project would be a fantasy in the future, but now——

Li Muhua actually thought of one.