That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1430 I'm just making a prediction (Sorry for the late update)
With the intervention of the three members of the Li family and Jin Peng, the originally noisy and chaotic Song family became much quieter. Even after the banquet started, those drunkards who liked to play drinking games restrained themselves and quietly drank their wine in silence.

Although Jin Peng and his associates have started to "win people over with virtue" in recent years, and no longer resort to violence like they used to, they no longer fight from one end of the street to the other.
But everyone here is from the same hometown, and everyone knows what the Song family was like before. Now, so many relatives have suddenly appeared, which is as clear as day.

As soon as Li Kaijian walked in, he said, "So many relatives, how come I've never seen them before?" If he were to continue showing off and boasting at this moment, and Jin Peng and the others caught him and made a few sarcastic remarks, he would really lose face!

But when Lao Song's granddaughter-in-law, Che Nana, brought out her big, fat son to show everyone her family's achievements, the people still got restless.

Because the drunken Old Song took out a thick wad of banknotes from his bag and stuffed them into his granddaughter-in-law's hand.

"Xiao Na! You are a hero to our family. Years ago, Changchun and I lived in that dilapidated house, sometimes we didn't know where our next meal would come from, and we might starve to death any day now. You say we'd starve to death, but every night I dreamt that our ancestors were scolding me."
"Our Qingshui Song family has a lineage of six hundred years, and it's about to die out. We would have no face to meet our ancestors after we die!"

"Grandpa, please don't say that. I... I should do this. I can't accept this money."

Che Nana instinctively hesitated to accept the stack of money. Although she liked money, she felt it was a bit inappropriate to exchange so much money for having a child in front of so many people.

But Old Song insisted, "Granddaughter-in-law! Ever since I couldn't come back after your wedding to Changchun, I've been saving this money. Giving it to you today fulfills my wish. As long as you and Changchun live a good life, I can die in peace."

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Old Song rambled on and on about "drunken ramblings," and when he got emotional, tears and snot streamed down his face. Li Ye was completely awestruck and full of admiration.

[This old guy should really be in a movie, his acting is amazing!]

Because Lao Song had just told Li Ye the truth, Li Ye knew that the stack of banknotes Lao Song was taking out now was a touchstone for testing human nature.

But no one knows that Lao Song is an actor!

And at this moment, few people were looking at Lao Song's expression; their eyes were all fixed on the large stack of colorful banknotes.

"My goodness, it's true what they say, comparisons are the thief of joy! The Che family's daughter got so much money just for having a baby, while I've had three kids and haven't seen a single penny!"

"Get lost, what does this have to do with having children? It's all because they have a good grandfather; otherwise, even if they had eight children, they wouldn't get a single penny."

"Yes, yes, your grandfather died young, otherwise I would have gone back and fought him to the death."

"Alright, alright, look at the color of that money. Something feels off about it. I've heard that some foreign currencies, like the old gold yuan notes, only cost about two eggs a bundle of them."

"Impossible. Old Song has been sending money to his grandson all these years. How could he possibly give him gold yuan notes in front of so many people?"

"That's clearly not RMB! If it were RMB, that stack would be 50,000. Goodness, 50,000 for having a child, wouldn't that be 500,000 for having ten?"

"Now that you can only have one child, that's why it's valuable."

"Bullshit, they give 50,000 for each child, I'd have more than one child every day!"

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The group argued more and more outrageously, and finally persuaded Song Changchun's father-in-law to go and inquire.

"Grandpa, what kind of money is this? It doesn't look like RMB."

Old Song wiped away his tears and casually said, "Oh, this is US dollars, also called US dollars, or 'dollars,' basically like national food coupons, it's accepted all over the world."

According to current exchange rates, one US dollar can be exchanged for five or six RMB. However, it's generally difficult to obtain such a deal; the normal exchange rate on the black market is eight to ten RMB per US dollar.

"hiss"

Old Man Che couldn't help but take a breath, and then his eyes lit up as he looked at the stack of money.

But at that moment, Che Nana quickly grabbed the stack of money and stuffed it into her husband's arms.

"Changchun, this is money that Grandpa worked so hard to save for our child. You'd better keep it safe."

Caught off guard, Song Changchun stammered, "You should keep it."

Che Nana glanced around and said decisively, "You can keep it!"

"." After this little incident, the banquet at Old Song's house could no longer be quiet. Everyone kept talking about the same topic—how to spend this huge stack of US dollars.

Old Song, holding a wine glass, went to Li Ye's table and toasted Li Zhongfa: "Director Li, I have to thank you for finding me such a wonderful granddaughter-in-law."

Li Zhongfa smiled and said, "Old Song, that was a really ruthless move of yours!"

Hehehehe~ Hehehehe~

Judging from the looks in the eyes of those around him, the shrewd and experienced Li Zhongfa could already imagine that Che Nana was about to have a conflict with her family.

With Lao Song away from home for years, Song Changchun has been without a leader, and Che Nana's "relatives" have become a bit arrogant. It can be said that Lao Song throwing out this stack of US dollars is primarily a test of Che Nana's loyalty as his granddaughter-in-law.

This kind of test is truly cruel.

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After finishing his drinks at Lao Song's house, Li Ye didn't go home immediately. Instead, he strolled around the streets of Qingshui County with Jin Peng, Wang Jianqiang, and Li Dayong.

Ten years ago, they often strolled around like this, and if they saw a pretty girl, they would even dare to take a second look. As long as they didn't whistle, they weren't considered hooligans.

After walking around for a while, Wang Jianqiang kicked the potholes in the street and said, "We've been walking around for so many years, and this county town hasn't changed much! Wasn't it said that our county's tax revenue is among the highest in the city?"

Jin Peng snorted and said, "It will be different when I come back next year. The county has contracted this street to me and told me to make sure it becomes a 'Teachers' College Road'."

Wang Jianqiang glanced at Jin Peng but didn't reply.

Actually, if you think about it, you'll know that Jin Peng's wife's family previously owned a garment factory and a textile factory, and now they're about to open a metal smelting plant. Such a large private enterprise must do something good for everyone in addition to paying normal taxes!

Li Dayong pursed his lips and muttered, "It's all because of money. When we didn't have money, none of this happened. But now that we have money, all sorts of problems have arisen."

Look at those relatives of Old Song's just now. They looked like they wanted to devour Song Changchun. Isn't Old Song afraid of attracting wolves and harming his own grandson?

"Old Song is much smarter than you."

Li Ye said calmly, "Old Song said that those hundreds of thousands of yuan were for his grandson to temper his character. When he squanders it all, he will know the wickedness of people's hearts."

After Li Ye said that, everyone understood.

"Wow, this old man is really strange. Just you wait! It won't be long before someone comes to Song Changchun to exchange for US dollars."

"Exchanging for US dollars is fine, but I'm worried about borrowing directly from him, the kind of loan that he'll never repay."

Li Ye smiled and didn't say anything more. Although Old Song's method was too strange, he was never home and didn't have time to personally teach his grandson, so this method was the only option he had.

However, when Li Ye heard the words "exchange for US dollars," he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, the RMB has been depreciating in recent years. This year, the exchange rate against the US dollar is almost six, so please pay attention. I'm worried that there might be an accelerated depreciation process later on."

In 1993, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the RMB was around 5.7, but by 1994 it had reached 8.6. So Li Ye informed Jin Peng and Li Dayong in advance so they could be prepared.

Jin Peng, who had business dealings in Suzhou, was very sensitive to exchange rates, and immediately asked, "Xiao Ye, do you have any news?"

Li Ye's teacher, Zhang Qiyan, is now in a key position, so Jin Peng immediately thought of that.

Li Ye said calmly, "I haven't received any information. I'm just making predictions based on economic principles; they can't be accurate."

Jin Peng glanced at Li Ye with disdain and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, you're an economics expert. Your predictions are amazing, even better than Old Huai's!"

Wang Jianqiang chuckled and said, "We only come back a few times a year, so why don't we go and pay our respects to the Old Locust Tree?"

"Let's go, let's go pay our respects to Old Man Huai."

The brothers laughed and walked toward the old locust tree, just like many years ago, to pray to the old locust tree to bless them with good jobs and good wives.

　Chapter Two has been approved and the application is currently being revised.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)