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Chapter 551 I am a big enemy. Honest people team up to cheat my father
After just a short contact, Xu Ning has already figured out Chen Hedong's family and interpersonal relationships. From this brief conversation, it can be heard that Chen Hedong is not cut out for business at all. This is determined by his personality. He is honest, trustworthy, and thin-skinned. It is against the will of heaven for such a person to do business without losing money, but he has not lost money over the years, instead he has made a small profit.

As he said, he married a good wife, had a good father-in-law, and made good friends. Even if he didn't know how to do business, he would be influenced by it in such an environment.

Xu Ning had just met him, and even if he had something to ask of Xu Ning, he would tell him everything. His father-in-law was engaged in the business of porcelain, calligraphy and painting. This kind of thing could make money at any time. One only needed to buy it at a low price and sell it at a high price, or find a bargain with a keen eye. There is a saying that goes, either don't open a business, or you can make a living for three years if you open one! This is exactly what this business is about, and this year is a good opportunity.

When he first met Chen Hedong, he tried hard to hide his straightforwardness, but they were all introduced by acquaintances, and Liu Daiye introduced his great grandfather, so all the disguises were removed, so he showed such an excited face.

In their previous lives, when Xu Ning and Guan Lei were dealing in electrical appliances in the provincial capital, they did not come into contact with these people who collected ginseng. Even when they later began to deal in ginseng, they went to the countryside and even the villages to collect it...

In the car, Xu Ning looked at Chen Hedong's smiling face and felt that he was not good at hiding his shortcomings. Everything was shown on his face. He must be an honest person.

I was very puzzled. How could such a big Chen family produce such a straightforward person? No wonder he was not liked by his parents, because he spoke in a foul and choking manner, was not good at pleasing others, and had no big heart.

Chen Hedong leaned against the guardrail, grinning and said, "Erning, I really didn't bring enough money today, otherwise I would have bought the seedlings with six leaves. But I will buy any ginseng with less than five leaves! I will definitely give you a high price."

Xu Ning said, "Brother Chen, if you really want to buy six batches of leaves from these seedlings, you can pay me tomorrow."

Manager Li patted his briefcase and said, "I'll lend it to you first! Why are you so stubborn? My buddy is right in front of you, why don't you just ask?"

Chen Hedong blushed and rubbed his chin, saying, "I thought you didn't bring much..."

"Come on, you just can't save your face. What did you say to my uncle?"

Chen Hedong said: "He asked me if I had the money to buy them. I said I didn't have enough money. He said he had the money to buy them. He also said that even if I finished collecting six batches of leaves from these seedlings, I had to show them to my grandfather. If my grandfather nodded, my family would spend money to buy them and treat them as heirlooms."

Xu He clapped his hands suddenly and said, "Old Li! Hurry up and teach him what to do."

Manager Li said, "You can borrow money from me first, collect the six batches of leaves of these seedlings, and then add two thousand yuan to sell them to your family. Why are you so stupid?"

Chen Hedong clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Alright! This is a good opportunity to cheat my dad out of some money. How do we do it?"

Li Fuqiang interrupted appropriately: "If you want to cheat your father, you have to ask my brother. My brother is a professional cheater."

"Hahaha, big brother, stop praising me all the time. What do you mean by cheating your father? It's like transferring money from one hand to the other. Besides, I have to save the money I got from my biological father for his retirement."

Xu He smiled and said, "Look! This guy is so clear-headed."

Chen Hedong turned around and asked, "Erning, what should we do about this?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "First of all, you have to be thick-skinned. Didn't you just offer 7000? If you tell me 9000, your dad will definitely call you a fool! You said you have money but nowhere to spend it. It's not easy to find a good-looking mulberry seedling. You have to keep it for your children. At worst, after three to five years, you can sell it for !"

Chen Hedong nodded upon hearing this: "Erning, you don't know the rules of our family. Although my father has asked us to move out, and on the surface he has given money to divide the family property, in fact it has not been completely divided yet, so any good stuff we find has to be handed over to our family..."

Xu Ning frowned and said, "You have to pay for it. You collected it with your own money, so why shouldn't your father pay?"

Manager Li said anxiously, "Don't you understand? This is a play that we brothers are cooperating with you to put on! We are just trying to cheat your father. You bought it for 9000 yuan, and sold it to your father for 1 yuan. You only made 3000 yuan more, don't you understand this?"

"I understand! I understand! But I didn't make 3000. The cost of collecting these ginseng seedlings was 5500, leaving 1500. Erning gets 1000! You and Brother Xu each get 250!"

Manager Li waved his hand and said, "Go to hell, you're only 250."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed.

After laughing, Xu He said, "I don't want it. If you really want it, give it to Er Ning."

Manager Li nodded: "I can't possibly ask you for money. You should give kickbacks to the cargo owner. People have to help you act."

Chen Hedong said, "Okay! Erning, I'll give you all 1500, just don't argue with me."

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Brother Chen, you don't know me. If the money is handed to me, I will definitely take it, but I have to do what I have to do. I'm not being kind enough to take the extra 1000 yuan. One seedling with six leaves can be sold for 8000 yuan, which is completely beyond my price range."

Seeing that Chen Hedong was about to say something, Xu He patted his leg and said, "Erning has already said so, just take the 1000. Let's have a meal together tomorrow, and you can pay for it!"

Chen Hedong agreed immediately after hearing this: "Okay! Then I have to pay you in advance."

He raised his hand, unzipped his briefcase, counted out nine stacks of Great Unity, handed them over, and said, "Erning, take them first..."

Xu Ning took the money without any hesitation, and then handed him six batches of leaf bark buns. Chen Hedong carefully took them and held them in his arms, saying with a smile: "You will have to help me later. This is my first time to cheat my father, and I am a little unsure."

"Don't worry, I will only recognize you, not anyone else!" Xu Ning said bluntly.

Manager Li said with a smile: "If Er Ning were to do business, he would definitely be one of them."

"We just started a business, and we don't really understand the ins and outs of it, so we can only figure it out slowly."

"Hey, you don't even have to grope for it. Just the two sentences you said just now are more than I can catch up with in all my years of business."

"Hahaha, Brother Li, I'm flattered. I'm just smart and have good ideas!"

"Open-minded! This guy is so open-minded! It's okay to be a little cunning with others, but you must not be cunning with your friends. As the saying goes, rely on your parents at home and rely on your friends when you go out..."

Chen Hedong is an intellectual with a high school education. He said, "Brother Li, I don't agree with what you said. My father and eldest brother teamed up to cheat me at home, and my mother and the youngest brother teamed up to cheat me. How much money have they cheated from me in the two years since I got married? Not to mention the money, the last time I encountered five batches of leaves, my mother passed a message to the youngest brother, and the youngest brother snatched the five batches of leaves from me, which was 50 yuan more than what I gave to the owner, and then he made 300 yuan in return..."

"You deserve it. I told you to stay away from home, but you kept talking nonsense."

Xu Ning frowned when he heard this. It seemed that Chen Hedong's parents and two brothers were really screwed. They didn't rob the goods of their competitors, but robbed their own family members instead.

"Hey!" Chen Hedong sighed heavily: "Don't you think they are all my family members?"

Xu He said: "It's okay, just have less contact with him in the future. Be careful and ask Lao Li if you have any questions. He will give you some advice."

Manager Li said: "The main thing is that my moves are all standard. I think Erning's moves are pretty good. Let's leave contact information later. If you have any questions, ask Erning more. Although he is younger than the two of us, I think he has a lot of tricks..."

"Okay! Let's keep in touch later."

Manager Li's words touched Xu Ning's heart. He really wanted to keep in touch with Chen Hedong, so he agreed immediately and said, "Brother Chen, don't be afraid of being friends with me. I am a bit cunning, but I never hurt my friends."

Chen Hedong said with a smile: "Oh, what am I afraid of? I make friends sincerely. If my friends want to cheat me, they can only cheat me of some money, but they can't kill me."

Xu Ning shook his head: "That's hard to say. What did you tell us just now? You said that before you got married, your parents gave you 20,000 yuan, and your father-in-law gave you 20,000 yuan. Your family must have a lot of savings. If I have bad intentions and a gun in my hand, I will send you to the mountains and ask you for money from your family. If you don't give it, I will kill you. What will you do?"

Chen Hedong was stunned for a moment and muttered, "Is he such an animal?" Xu He smiled and said, "He killed two bandits in Sandaohe and captured twelve robbers today. Do you think he is an animal?"

"Animals..."

Xu Ning grinned: "In the future, don't be too open with your heart to someone you don't know well, because you don't know whether the person in front of you is a human or a ghost."

"Ah, I understand."

Guan Lei drove the car to the Railway Street bridgehead and saw two people standing on the bridgehead 30 meters ahead. However, Guan Lei did not drive the car onto the bridge, but turned right and stopped on the side of the road.

This street is very long. On both sides of the bridgehead facing the street are two-story buildings built by private families. Walking into the alley are the East and West villages of Qiaotou. So can we infer from this that Old Chen's family lives in the East Village of Qiaotou?

The car slowly stopped. Li Fuqiang lifted the tarpaulin and looked outside. He said casually, "Your village is similar to ours."

Chen Hedong stood up and shook his head: "I don't live here..."

Manager Li said: "My uncle Chen is also very thoughtful. He never takes the goods home when he receives them. He always randomly suggests a place to look at the goods."

"That's what people in this business look like. There's nothing wrong with being careful and cautious."

After Xu Ning finished speaking, he stood up and walked two steps to the rear of the car, and Guan Lei also came to the rear of the car and said, "Brother, come over here, two people."

Chen Hedong said: "It must be my father and my eldest brother, Erning..."

"Just do as I say. They are treating you as a victim, so treat you as a victim!"

"Yeah, I'm a big victim!" Chen Hedong nodded heavily.

Guan Lei lowered the rear guardrail, Xu He, Manager Li and Xu Ning jumped down one after another, and Chen Hedong handed six batches of leaf buns to Li Fuqiang, which confused Li Fuqiang.

The six batches of leaves that were sold were worth a lot of money, so how could he just let someone else take them?

Chen Hedong jumped out of the car, turned around and took it from Li Fuqiang, and said with a smile: "Thanks, brother."

"Ah, it's okay..." Li Fuqiang and Xu Ning looked at each other and smiled.

Chen Hedong, holding six bags of leaves, walked to the side of the car and saw his father and his older brother facing him.

His father looked to be in his fifties, not very tall, and walked with a hunched back. His eldest brother was about the same age as Li Fuqiang, but half a head shorter than Xu Ning. He wore glasses and looked quite gentle.

Chen Hedong waved and said, "Dad, this is my buddy..."

He introduced Manager Li and Xu He. When he was about to introduce Xu Ning and others, he heard his father wave his hand and said, "Let's take a look at the goods first. Are you sure it was carried out from Wanye?"

His elder brother said, "Could it be that it was carried out from some other place? Did you see it clearly?"

Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Guan Lei and Xu He all frowned when they heard this. It was really unpleasant to listen to this father and son chatting.

Chen Hedong was also a little annoyed when he heard the words. He had clearly explained it on the phone, so why was he still talking so much in front of others? It was really a bit disrespectful.

In fact, if you think about it calmly, there is nothing wrong with this father and son. The reason they were chatting like that was just to lower the price, because his father told Chen Hedong clearly on the phone that he could not tell anyone about his great-grandfather, but they did not expect that Chen Hedong would blow himself up when he came back.

Chen Hedong put six batches of leaf bark buns at the back of the car and said as he untied the red string, "I'm not blind. Why do you wear glasses when you have good eyesight?"

"How can you talk like that? I'm your elder brother!"

"If you were my brother, would you be able to discredit me in front of my friends? Dad, don't you think so?"

"Hey, your brother is just asking, worried that you might not have seen it right. Hurry up and open it, let me take a look..."

Chen Hedong didn't say anything. His father had always had this attitude since he was a child. On the surface, he didn't help either side, but in fact, he sided with the eldest brother.

He peeled off the bark to reveal moss, and then peeled off the moss layer by layer, revealing a large club with excellent bark and roots.

When his father and his elder brother saw this, they looked at each other silently, then unconsciously took out magnifying glasses from their pockets. They put their two heads together and stared at the roots and reed bowl of the club with their four eyes.

While they were watching the club, Xu Ning and the others didn't talk. Chen Hedong took out a cigarette from his pocket and passed it around. Seeing that Xu Ning didn't take it, he didn't insist on giving it to him. He knew at once that Xu Ning didn't smoke, because the cigarettes in his pocket were Daqianmen, which ordinary people couldn't afford to buy, so most people would not refuse this kind of cigarettes.

The two men stared at the club for five or six minutes before they slowly looked up and saw Li Fuqiang sitting not far away with a 56 rifle in his arms. Although the muzzle of the rifle was facing inside, there were two old rifles hanging in the car. Then they saw the four baskets and several exposed skins in the car with the help of the light, and the two men had an idea in their minds.

His father guessed that these people should be hunters in the mountains, who were lucky enough to find a bunch of hammers by chance, and those skins should be collected together by all the villagers, hoping to sell them at a high price.

Thinking of this, his father turned around confidently and asked, "How much do you want to sell this seedling ginseng for?"

Xu Ning smiled and waved his hands: "It's not my stuff."

His father looked at Guan Lei and asked, "Yours?"

"Not mine either."

His father turned around and asked Li Fuqiang: "Is that yours?"

Li Fuqiang smiled but said nothing. Chen Hedong grinned and said, "Dad, mine! We were having a good chat just now. I just paid for it!"

"What? You bought it?" his elder brother exclaimed.

His father frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you to wait until I come over to negotiate the price?"

Chen Hedong said nonchalantly: "Hey, we are all brothers! Besides, they are on the same page as me, and the price is not too high. I can make 2,000 yuan by selling them. Even if I can't sell them, I can use them to make wine for my father-in-law."

His elder brother got anxious when he heard that and said, "Soak it in wine? No, what about you? You should use this to soak wine? Why didn't you tell our dad to grind it into powder and drink it?"

Chen Hedong said: "We have a lot of ginseng at home, why do we need to take this ginseng?"

His eldest brother seemed to want to say something, but his father grabbed him, glanced at Xu Ning, Xu He and others, and said, "Don't quarrel outside, go home and talk about what you have to say. Dong, how much did you pay for it?"

Chen Hedong said with a smile: "9000 yuan! Isn't it cheap?"

(End of this chapter)