Fifty thousand cash was placed on the table, but silence suddenly fell between the two.
Liu Chen was waiting for Ren Yu's reply, while Ren Yu was appraising the little girl in front of him. He had probably heard his family mention taking in a goddaughter. In his opinion, this was just to repay her for saving his troublesome younger brother.
But now, with fifty thousand in cash on the table, Ren Yu suddenly realized that he might have had a preconceived notion about this little girl, and she might not need his so-called repayment at all.
The software she had just proposed, with a brief listen, one would understand how broad the market was. But she took the initiative to ask for a forty percent share of this software and directly produced this sum of money, which proved that she was someone who was good at seizing opportunities.
Thank you for what, thank you why, Ren Yu didn't say, and Liu Chen didn't ask. As long as the money was given, it was fine.
Just as she came out of the office, there was a knock on the company door.
The person sitting closest to the door could only resign themselves to taking off their headphones, getting up, and opening the door.
"Hello, the meal you ordered has arrived, please accept it."
After the arrival finished speaking, he put down the eight dishes, two soups, and three large buckets of rice on the small cart behind him.
Shen Hong sniffed the aroma of the food that wafted out even through the plastic wrap and took a deep breath.
"Ah~ so fragrant, who ordered the meal?"
Liu Chen walked out of the office and smiled, "I ordered it. I'm disturbing everyone's work today, so please bear with a simple meal as an apology."
"What do you mean disturbing, with you sister here, I feel like the air in the company isn't so murky anymore!" Shen Hong quipped a few words, then quickly arranged the food and sat down.
After eating, Ren Yu gave Liu Chen a laptop to play with. Enjoying the air conditioning, sitting at the desk in the living room, Liu Chen plugged in the data cable and uploaded the photos from the past few days to her QQ space.
Shen Hong, who was arguing with the QQ contact person, looked up and saw the girl's face against the light. Her eyes were focused, the fine hairs on her nose added a touch of cuteness, and her pink lips were pursed, as if she were in a dilemma.
"Damn it, do good-looking people also hang out in packs? Screw it! Fortunately, I've seen that guy Ren Yu so much during college that I'm immune."
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C City,
Hu Qian stood in the mobile phone store, looking at the new mobile phones on display. She reached into her pocket and pinched her broken Nokia music phone.
She turned to her mother, Zhang Lili, who was pushing the elderly woman behind her, and said,
"Mom, I want this one."
Hu Qian pointed to a newly launched Samsung G608 slider phone. Compared to the Nokia next to it, it was thinner and looked more stylish.
Zhang Lili, wearing a long dress, glanced at the phone's price tag, which was 2980.
If it were before, she would have bought a three-thousand-yuan phone without hesitation. But after the incident of the fake jade bracelet being discovered by the old woman, Hu Xingfa had warned her. It was only recently, with her acting exhausted from taking care of the elderly woman but also understanding and not complaining, that she had dispelled Hu Xingfa's suspicions.
However, if she were to buy such an expensive phone for Qianqian again, Hu Xingfa would definitely start suspecting again. For the sake of her plan, she absolutely could not let Hu Xingfa suspect her.
"This one is too expensive, Mom doesn't have that much money. Qianqian, choose another one."
As Zhang Lili spoke, Hu Qian's eyes widened.
It was only three thousand yuan! Her mother actually said it was too expensive! The phone she had broken was worth more than three thousand!
Tears immediately streamed down Hu Qian's face, and she looked at Zhang Lili with a wronged expression.
After all, she was a child who had been doted on since childhood. Seeing Qianqian like this, Zhang Lili felt uncomfortable.
It was Luo Meihong, who had been pretending to be asleep, with her eyes half-closed in her wheelchair, who spoke.
"Qianqian, buy it, Grandma has money."
"Ooh, Grandma, you're so good!"
Hu Qian was completely immersed in the joy of being able to buy a new phone, completely unaware that this scene was being observed by a female classmate of the same grade.
"What the hell, isn't that Hu Qian from Class Four? Why is she like this? Her mom already said it was expensive, and she's asking her paralyzed grandma to buy her a new phone. Speechless..."
As she spoke, the female classmate took out her phone, opened QQ, and started chatting with her girlfriends.
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Five days passed quickly. Liu Chen completed her goal and bought a house in Beijing. After paying the final installment, the property was officially transferred to her name.
In the following days, Liu Chen went sightseeing and bought some souvenirs. Of course, she also visited Beijing's frozen food wholesale market and took a tour. As expected of the capital, the variety of food here was much greater than in C City.
It seemed that her family's "Sister Liu's Frozen Food" still had a long way to go.
When Hu Min and Wang Dong arrived, there was a gap of two fists between them. When they returned, they were already holding hands.
This time, relying on his newly acquired status as a boyfriend, Wang Dong directly bought first-class tickets for the two of them, while he himself still sat in economy class.
Hu Min felt both heartache for the money and sweet at the same time.
After the plane took off, Hu Min suddenly grabbed Liu Chen's hand and exclaimed,
"Oh my, that fool, the upgrade last time, was it him who paid for it? It must have been, otherwise, why would he upgrade after boarding? Oh, this fool, he must have spent tens of thousands of yuan coming to Beijing this time?"
Liu Chen glanced at her aunt's pained expression and had to pat her aunt's hand with her other hand, which was not being held.
"Don't worry, Auntie. Although I don't know how much Brother Wang earns in a year, he should be richer than you think." With his shrewd business acumen, Auntie, please don't worry too much about him!
Hu Min, however, didn't seem to care.
"After all, business means money is tied up in inventory, so he probably doesn't have much cash on hand. I wonder if he'll have no money for food when he gets back?"
Seeing her aunt's exaggerated worries, Liu Chen realized that her aunt wasn't discussing with her, but simply talking for her to hear.
As she listened, Liu Chen's eyes closed. The last words she heard before falling completely unconscious were her aunt mumbling,
"Forget it, forget it, how would a seventeen-year-old like you understand these adult matters? Sleep, sleep."
After getting out of the car, Ren Mo was picked up by her family's driver, while Liu Chen went home in the car of her newly appointed uncle.
Although she had only been on a plane and hadn't actually done anything, her body felt very tired. She forced herself to take a shower, blew her hair vaguely, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
She dreamed of her previous life, dreamed of Liu Fang crying secretly, dreamed of Liu Fang with white hair and looking much older than her peers, and dreamed of herself, who never married and never dated in her lifetime.
When she woke up again, she heard a faint sound of a hairdryer. She opened her eyes, and there were still a few traces of wetness at the corners of her eyes.
"Awake? You went to sleep without even drying your hair. You're young now, so it's fine, but when you're older, you'll get headaches. Okay, it's dry now, you can go back to sleep."
Seeing Liu Fang, Liu Chen instinctively looked up at her hair. It was a wine-red curly hairstyle. Hmm, no white hair.
Blinking her eyes, Liu Chen rolled over and sat up in bed. Then, she bent down and hugged the waist of her mother, who was sitting on the bedside. Liu Chen said in a muffled voice,
"Mom, I had a nightmare. I dreamed you were so tired, and I couldn't help you."
Liu Fang smiled and gently patted Liu Chen's back.
"Silly child, as long as you're here, Mom is never tired."