Reborn in the red age

"Weimin, how much cash do you have available?"

"We can probably come up with 80 or 90 million if we squeeze together."

"You collect 100 million and transfer it to the account of Defa's trading company."

"Okay, I'll try my best."

After hanging up the phone with Wang Weimin, Li Qingfeng rubbed his brows with a headache, thinking in his mind how to get the remaining few hundred million yuan.

Although Lemon Company has invested a lot in the mainland in the past two years, the investments are all in slow-growing heavy asset industries, and there has been no return so far. The only investment that has generated returns is the rent of Pengcheng Electronics Building.

That place doesn't make much money in a year, so it's better than nothing.

The company headquarters did not conduct any business in the mainland. The only business it conducted was selling decoding chips to the state-owned DVD player factory in the Special Administrative Region. However, the DVD player factory there was engaged in exports and the financial settlement with Lemon Company was also in foreign currency.

The RMB reserves in the Lemon Company's account are very limited. After all the RMB reserves in the company's account were withdrawn, there were only a few tens of millions of yuan left. This amount of money may seem like a lot, but compared to the billions of materials, it is better than nothing.

If he exchanged US dollars for RMB, he could indeed easily get enough RMB to purchase this batch of materials, but Li Qingfeng didn't want to do that, as he always felt that he would lose money by doing so.

Although this money comes easily, you can't lose it easily.

Before 94, the exchange rate was controlled and not the real market exchange rate. After the floating exchange rate was adopted in 94, the exchange rate fell sharply that year, directly falling from 93 in 5.7 to 8.6.

Now, if you directly exchange US dollars for RMB, you will suffer a loss.
"What are you thinking about? Why are you so serious? I called you when Fifteen called me, but you ignored me."

Just when Qingfeng Li was thinking about how to make money, Hu Jiabao pushed open the door of the study and walked in, looking at Qingfeng Li with dissatisfaction.

Li Qingfeng, whose thoughts were interrupted, came back to his senses and looked at Hu Jiabao standing at the door in confusion: "Ah? When did Fifteen call me?"

"Just now, the wheel of his toy car fell off, and he wanted you to fix it for him. I called you several times outside, but you didn't even reply. I'm going out now, please come out and fix it for Fifteen."

Li Qingfeng stood up from the stool awkwardly and said, "Oh, I was so absorbed in my thoughts just now that I didn't hear you. I'll be out right away."

Walking out of the study, Shiwu saw Qingfeng Li coming out of the room. He trotted towards Qingfeng Li, took Qingfeng Li's arm and came to the empty space in front of the sofa. He pointed at the old toy car with a wheel missing on the ground and said anxiously:
"Dad, the wheel on my car fell off. I only have this one car. You must help me fix it."

I picked up the battle-damaged toy car on the ground and saw that the plastic axle of the car was broken.

After a closer inspection, it seems that this thing was damaged by human factors. Otherwise, how could this thing under the car break?
Li Qingfeng didn't care, thinking that the child broke it accidentally, and got up to get glue from the cupboard to apply it on him.

When Qingfeng Li put down his toy car and tried to get some glue, Shiwu pulled Qingfeng's clothes and asked expectantly, "Dad, can my car still be fixed?"

"Of course, just glue it on and you can continue playing."

"Ah?" Fifteen exclaimed, and then said with a little disappointment: "Well, I thought it couldn't be repaired."

Looking at Fifteen's poor acting skills, Qingfeng Li seemed to realize something. Was his son playing tricks on him?
I secretly kept a note of caution. The broken plastic shaft was not glued very firmly. It is fine for normal use, but it will definitely not withstand violent use.

After handing the repaired toy to Fifteen, Qingfeng Li returned to the study and quietly observed Fifteen's behavior through the crack in the door.

Sure enough, Fifteen was indeed playing tricks on Qingfeng Li. Not long after Qingfeng Li left, Fifteen began to violently destroy the wheel that had just broken.

The wheel that had just been repaired naturally could not withstand the destruction, and it broke again after just two pulls.

Seeing this, Qingfeng Li understood that this unfortunate child must want a new toy.
When Fifteen came to him again with the toy car, Li Qingfeng pretended not to notice his little trick and used glue to fix the broken plastic shaft for him.

In order to prevent Fifteen from breaking easily again, Li Qingfeng reinforced it with wire this time.

With the reinforcement of wire, Fifteen used all his strength to break the tire this time.

Fifteen, who successfully broke the tire, ran to the study room with the broken toy car and said happily: "Dad, my car tire fell off again."

Looking at Fifteen, who was too excited and had no intention of hiding his face, Qingfeng Li curled his lips speechlessly: "Son, your car's tire fell off, why are you so happy?"

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Fifteen realized that he was exposed, and immediately changed his expression. He looked sad and repeated what he had just said in a wronged tone.

The speed of his face-changing and his superb acting skills opened Li Qingfeng's eyes. This kid has some talent. If there wasn't a family fortune waiting for him to inherit, Li Qingfeng would have wanted to send him to learn acting.

Li Qingfeng pretended not to understand what Shiwu meant, shrugged and said: "It's broken, so what? A car with three wheels can still be played with."

"No, how can I operate it with three wheels? I can't even stand steadily." Fifteen, who had been hoping that Li Qingfeng would buy him a new car, immediately became anxious upon hearing these words.

"Just hold on with your hands, and you will be able to stand firmly."

"No, I don't want to play with a three-wheeled car, I want to buy a new car"

As he said that, Fifteen put the car on the table, lay on the ground and started rolling around.

This situation was just a minor incident for Li Qingfeng. Li Qingfeng did not tolerate it at all. Let them make a fuss as long as they did not mind the dirt on the ground and could roll around as much as they wanted.

The noise in the study disturbed Chuyi, who was doing his homework in the living room. Chuyi stood up from the stool, rushed into the study angrily, and kicked Shiwu on the butt.

When Fifteen, who was beaten, saw that it was his elder sister who often bullied him, he stopped crying immediately, stood up from the ground, touched his buttocks, and looked at Chuyi with grievance.

"I'm telling you, I'm doing my homework now. If you dare to disturb me again, I'll beat your ass into pieces. Do you hear me?"

"understood"

After Chuyi snorted coldly and left, the father and son were left staring at each other in the study.

Fifteen, who had just been punished, planned to use a different method to achieve his goal.

The expression on his face changed again, and he took a step forward to please, pinching his shoulders and pounding his legs.

Li Qingfeng did not expose his little thoughts. He drank his tea slowly and enjoyed the filial piety of his eldest son.

"Dad, my car breaks down. Can you buy me a new one?" Fifteen, who was exhausted and out of breath after a busy day, said expectantly.

Putting down the teacup, Qingfeng Li looked at Fifteen with a smile: "Tell me first, did you knock off the wheel of the toy car yourself? Tell the truth, Dad likes honest children."

"Um. Dad, I was wrong. I won't do it again next time."

After hesitating for a long time, Fifteen finally nodded in agreement.

"Well, you are a good kid if you know your mistakes and correct them. If you want to buy new toys in the future, just tell dad. Dad will buy them for you."

"Dad, are you going to buy me a new toy car?"

"Of course, I'll buy it for you tomorrow. This is a reward for you admitting your mistake."

"Thank you." "Don't thank me yet. I haven't told you the punishment for destroying the toys yet." Before Fifteen could finish his words, Qingfeng Li interrupted him and proposed a punishment for him.

The happy expression just appeared on Fifteen's face, but after hearing these words, it immediately fell again. He had a gloomy face and waited dejectedly to hear the second half of the speech.

Li Qingfeng took a sip of tea from the cup and said calmly, "Since you destroyed the toys and tried to deceive Dad in an improper way, I decided to punish you by making you pay for the new toy car yourself."

"Ah?" Fifteen widened his eyes and looked at Qingfeng Li in disbelief.

"Ah what?"

Fifteen immediately shrank his neck after being glared at by Qingfeng Li, and asked weakly, "How much should it be?"

"About 20 or 30"

Fifteen tried to recall and said hesitantly: "I only have eighteen yuan."

"Okay, go back to the house and get the money," Li Qingfeng said and asked Fifteen to go back and get the money.

However, Fifteen did not leave. Instead, he stood there and looked at Qingfeng Li motionlessly.

Just when Li Qingfeng was puzzled, Fifteen said weakly: "I gave all my money to Dad."

Hearing Fifteen say this, Li Qingfeng remembered how he had tricked Fifteen into giving him his New Year's money some time ago.

He pretended to be embarrassed and said, "That's not enough. A toy car costs twenty or thirty yuan, and eighteen yuan can't buy it."

“You said you would pay me back double.”

Li Qingfeng rolled his eyes and lied to the child: "Double is not enough. Two times eighteen is only twenty yuan. There is still a few yuan short."

"Huh? Twice eighteen is twenty?"

"Yes, twice eighteen is eighteen plus two, which is twenty, right?"

He had just graduated from the first grade of kindergarten and couldn’t even recognize all the numbers, let alone addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of two-digit numbers, which was a second-grade elementary school course.

With his current math level of fifteen or twenty, Qingfeng Li can fool people however he wants, and there is nothing wrong with it.

“Wow wow wow”

Seeing that his new toy was about to disappear, Fifteen felt aggrieved and burst into tears.

Seeing the child really crying, Li Qingfeng also panicked, and hurriedly hugged Fifteen to comfort him: "Okay, don't cry, don't cry. Let's do this, Dad will make up the extra money."

After a lot of consolation and the promise to buy him a small gun in addition to the toy car, Fifteen finally stopped crying and turned into sobbing.

After sending Fifteen away, Li Qingfeng was just thinking about where to get some money when Chuyi, a girl, pushed the door open and walked in: "Dad, give me fifty cents, I'm going out to buy a bottle of Coke."

"Huh? Didn't you just extort fifty dollars from me some time ago? Where's the money? Have you spent it all?" Li Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and said dissatisfiedly.

Chuyi said confidently: "I didn't spend a penny, I saved it all."

“Hey, you have money but you don’t spend it, so you come to me for money?”

"Who told you to cheat me out of my money? When will you return the money to me? That's when I will start spending my own money."

Li Qingfeng slammed the table and pretended to be angry and said, "Nonsense, when did I cheat you of your money? You clearly gave it to me yourself."

"Aunt Wenhui told me everything. She said you..."

Without waiting for Chuyi to finish, Li Qingfeng took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it over: "Don't buy the domestic Coke for 35 cents, go downstairs and buy five bottles of Coca-Cola for 1.5 yuan."

"okay"

After Chuyi left, Li Qingfeng immediately called Ma Wenhui and reprimanded her for her immoral behavior of sabotaging him.

Ma Wenhui on the other side didn't react at all to Li Qingfeng's sermon.

Just as Li Qingfeng was ranting passionately, Ma Wenhui's intermittent voice came from the microphone: "Hello, hello, hello, I'm outside. The signal on this broken mobile phone is not good. I didn't hear you clearly just now. I only heard you buzzing. What's the matter with you calling me?"

Since the first generation of mobile communication network was launched in the big cities in 1988, mobile phones have been sold on the market.

It’s just that there are too few communication base stations now, and they can only cover a small area. If you are out and about and far away from a communication base station, the signal will be very poor and intermittent, and you won’t be able to hear clearly what is being said in the microphone.

"Forehead"

I had already expressed all my passion in the previous outburst. Now, if I let Li Qingfeng do it again, it would just feel boring.

He wanted to hang up the phone, but in the spirit of the call, Li Qingfeng changed the subject and started talking about borrowing money: "Borrow money, give me 100 million from your side."

"What the hell? Do you think I'm your bank? I'm just a clothes seller, where do I get so much money? How much did you drink at noon? And one hundred million, how much can I sell it for per pound? Find someone to sell it to me."

Ma Wenhui on the opposite side was immediately overwhelmed when she heard the amount of money Li Qingfeng wanted to borrow, and she started to attack Li Qingfeng.

Listening to Ma Wenhui's shouting, an idea suddenly occurred to Qingfeng Li. Yes, if you need money, just go to the bank.

Regardless of the non-stop chattering on the other end of the phone, Li Qingfeng hung up the phone, changed his clothes, went downstairs, and drove straight to the Huaguo Bank's Sijiucheng Branch.

Coming to the president's office with a familiar manner, Li Qingfeng pushed the door open, sat down on the sofa, and directly stated his purpose: "President Wu, I want to borrow 800 million yuan, can you arrange it?"

"Pfft."

President Wu spat out the tea he had just drunk. He quickly picked up the documents on the table and wiped the water stains with his hands.

Looking at President Wu's actions, Qingfeng Li said doubtfully, "This shouldn't be the case. As the president of the Sijiu City branch, you must have handled a lot of big money. How could you be so scared by just 800 million?"

"That's not the case. I just didn't expect that Teacher Li would come to the bank to borrow money," said President Wu with a smile.

"I'm short of money. Life is hard and the landlord doesn't have any surplus food. Can your bank lend me some?"

"Of course, 800 million is no problem. Mr. Li, what will you use as collateral?"

When Qingfeng Li heard that President Wu wanted collateral, he couldn't think of any suitable collateral for a moment.

After thinking for a while, Qingfeng Li pointed to his face and asked tentatively: "Can you lend me 800 million yuan with me as collateral?"

After carefully looking Li Qingfeng up and down, President Wu nodded slowly. (End of this chapter)