Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 185 Song Yuhua's Gentleness
Cao Yukun never chases girls. No matter how much he likes a girl, if she wants to leave, she will leave and he will never try to keep her.

He firmly believed that only the leftovers were worth putting into the bowl.

But the taste is still worth lingering on... She has a faint smell of vanishing cream on her body, not strong, but a light fragrance. Her skin is better than it looks, very delicate. What is particularly surprising is that when I held her in my arms, I felt that her breasts were a little bigger than they looked. Her waist was also very thin. Although her butt was not perky enough, she still had a good hip. As long as she wore slightly tighter clothes, her figure was still quite good.

Much better than I expected.

However, let her be.

Although they had only known each other for two or three hours, and had hardly had time to chat and get to know each other, Cao Yukun, with his ability to judge people, could already clearly sense that this girl was quite literary at heart, a very pretentious and arrogant girl.

This is good.

It's much better than pure materialism.

I just have my own pursuits - and I happen to like my own pursuits.

Wait a minute and she'll tell you.

Seeing the door close, he took out a cigarette and lit it, savoring it for half a minute, then turned around and walked to the large French window, sat down on the obviously luxurious sofa, smoked, and began to recall the conversation he had had with Su Jianshan at the dinner table at noon...

It seems that there will be major changes in foreign trade policies!
Although Su Jianshan didn't say what happened, the concerns he expressed from time to time about the foreign trade industry were by no means false. In other words, he might have smelled something in the wind!

This is undoubtedly a good thing, even if it is just a slight relaxation, even if it is just a simple cancellation of the monopoly, even if you want to import or export anything, you still need approval, compared to now, it is still a huge improvement!
Well, actually, that's right.

In fact, over the next twenty years, policies have been opened up little by little.

Of course, once the policy changes, many people and companies who rely on policy for their livelihood will soon have a hard time - well, this is the reason behind Su Jianshan's attitude today.

Ah……

However, just because he can no longer make a living from foreign trade business, it doesn’t mean that people like him have no value!

Well, it seems that I need to come to the capital again some other day to reconnect with Su Jianshan!
…………

I met with Xu Delu in the evening.

At around five o'clock, Cao Yukun took a taxi to the Capital Film Academy, where Xu Delu was already waiting.

After having a big meal at noon, Cao Yukun simply took Xu Delu to find a roadside restaurant in the evening, and they had a mutton hotpot. They ate and chatted while drinking some wine, and it felt like a reunion of old friends.

Xu Delu became rich.

He himself said that if he counted the accounts now and sold all the money, he would probably be able to get more than two million - this was in 1992. To be honest, the two fortunes made by Cao Yukun were a bit abnormal. On the contrary, the fortune made by Xu Delu was normal yet enviable.

Two million is really a lot of money in this era.

Of course, the fact is that in the Shanghai stock market in recent months, there are not just one or two people who have made a fortune. Basically, those who stayed in the market at the beginning and have strong financial strength have all made a fortune.

The stock market has been booming. Every new stock issued has become a hit. As long as you hold the subscription certificate in your hand, you will get rich.

But there is no doubt that although Cao Yukun's memory does not have any information related to the future trend of the stock market, based on his current intuition about economics and finance, he can judge that the stock market cannot continue like this - when he left, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Index was just over 300 points, and now it is 1500 points. Will it continue to rise in the future? I don't know. But will it fall in the future? It will definitely!

The economic fundamentals are here, and the size of the Shanghai stock market is not large enough to support its own independent market conditions. Stimulated by a series of policy relaxations, it will only rise for a period of time and that’s it.

Of course, Cao Yukun knew this himself. He could talk more than half of the conversation with a wise and high-level person like Su Jianshan, but with Xu Delu, he had to be more restrained and just let out a few words.

Let him figure it out on his own.

Cao Yukun quite likes Old Xu. Although he is a bit slick in character, he is not annoying. In fact, he is quite upright and likes to show off, but everyone likes to show off and it is not wrong.

We started chatting at around six o'clock and ended at around eight o'clock, and that was about it.

Just mention what needs to be said, and don’t say more.

The friendship we built up over the past two months in Shanghai has completely faded.

Before they parted, Cao Yukun had intended to invite Xu Delu to come to Hongkong for a visit whenever he was free, and he would receive him. But before he could say anything, Xu Delu took the initiative to say that if he sold all his stocks, he would like to make another appointment with Cao Yukun. As for the time and place, it was all fine, and he could follow Cao Yukun's arrangements.

This sentence, combined with the previous conversation between the two, almost clearly shows his intention to surrender.

This is somewhat surprising.

Finally, Cao Yukun shook his hand and said, "Then contact me later!"

So Xu Delu was very happy, and agreed excitedly and shook hands with Cao Yukun vigorously.

He finally got a van with great difficulty and rushed back to the Jianguo Hotel. Once he entered the lobby, he just kept walking inside without looking around. He was totally unlike the people of that era who came to the capital from other places and could not help but stare at the tables of foreigners sitting on the sofas in the lounge area.

As it turned out, by coincidence, when he passed the hotel front desk and was heading to the elevator, he vaguely heard someone mention his name - he subconsciously turned his head to take a look.

This time I really heard it clearly. "He is a Hong Kong businessman, but I am his friend. We know each other very well. Please help me check it out. It is really urgent and I must contact him as soon as possible."

I didn't hear my name, but the voice and the back looked familiar.

Cao Yukun walked over as the front desk clerk politely declined.

"We really can't disclose customers' check-in information. This is stipulated by the state."

The waiter said so, of course it was impeccable.

But when Song Yuhua had no choice but to give up, she turned around and was startled. Then a look of surprise suddenly appeared on her face, "Cao Yukun...you really live here?"

Cao Yukun was the only one confused!

Can you find this?
But he had no choice but to go over to her, "Why are you here? And why did you come here?"

Song Yuhua looked relieved, and even seemed to have survived a disaster. Moreover, she smiled particularly brightly. "I called home at noon, and my brother told me that you came to the capital. As a result, I waited until three o'clock, but you didn't call me. The front desk couldn't find anyone who had called my room before, so I came out to look for you! I asked in any hotel near the entrance of the Post and Telecommunications College, but I couldn't find it. I just found this place!"

Cao Yukun... was a little confused.

The Post and Telecommunications College is near the North Third Ring Road, which is already Jianguomenwai Street. Even in this era, there are not many hotels and inns, including private ones. But after asking along the way, let alone other things, this section of the road alone is more than ten kilometers - what's more, it is very likely that she didn't go straight south to look for it right away!
Look north, walk west, walk east... there is so much wasted time.

What should I do? Should I blame others?
Why are you looking for me when you have nothing to do? If I don't call you, it means I don't want to see you, at least in this capital, I don't want to see you!
But she was so stupid that she kept looking and asking...

"So...have you had dinner yet?"

She was stunned for a moment, then smiled embarrassedly, and she was somewhat gentle and kind, similar to Song Yuqian. God had mercy on him, Cao Yukun himself suspected that he was sick, so sick that he could see gentleness in the always arrogant and cold eldest aunt. She said, "I haven't eaten yet! I'm not hungry!"

"Bullshit! It's already nine o'clock! Are you a god?"

After I scolded her, she didn't refute or get angry. She just smiled and tried to explain, "I was a little anxious... I heard from my brother that you heard that Yuqian was in military training and seemed very disappointed. It's possible that you wouldn't contact me and just left. I felt... I felt..."

As she spoke, her face inexplicably turned red.

Looking very embarrassed.

Cao Yukun pursed his lips and thought for a moment. It was already this late, and he was not familiar with the area, so there was no need to go out and look for a restaurant. He said, "Let's go to the restaurant here, even if it's just a bowl of noodles. At least we can have a bite first, don't get hungry and get sick!"

She nodded obediently, "Yeah, that's fine."

So Cao Yukun took her into the elevator, went to the restaurant inside the Jianguo Hotel, and ordered a bowl of noodles for her.

It's damn expensive - a bowl of noodles costs six dollars, or thirty yuan.

While waiting, I chatted with her for a while and she said that this was a good friend from college. She had very few friends, but this one could barely be considered half a friend because he was a bit like a teacher and a friend. She happened to come to the capital to send Song Yuqian to school, and she thought she hadn't seen him for more than a year, so she went to see him. It turned out that he was getting married, and he insisted on inviting her to attend, so she finally agreed.

Of course, according to herself, she actually missed her college days and the capital a little bit, so she took the opportunity to wander around the capital and treat it as a vacation for herself.

"Her wedding is the day after tomorrow. Do you want to go and have a drink?"

"Why should I go? I don't know him well, and I have to give a gift if I go!" She laughed in silence - it was strange, but in fact, since the blind date that day, she knew that the other party would have this speaking style, direct and sharp, without those false courtesies and euphemisms, but at that time, when she heard him speak like that, she felt annoyed and disgusted, but now when she listened to him again, she felt that there seemed to be an indescribable humor in his speaking style.

There is always something about him that makes people laugh.

So she also joked, "What's wrong with giving someone a gift? You're a big boss, and you still feel sorry for the thirty or fifty?"

He looked disdainful, "What's wrong with thirty or fifty? It's not a small amount of money! No matter how big a boss is, he can't look down on thirty or fifty! Cooked mutton is only nine yuan a pound!"

She laughed again, but at the same time she was surprised. She couldn't help but ask, "You still care about the price of mutton per pound? Do you still need to buy the meat yourself?"

He tapped the table with his fingers. "People's livelihood! The prices of pork, mutton and chicken, as long as you are doing business, you must pay attention to it! When ordinary people don't think twice about buying two pounds of mutton, my drinks will sell very well!"

She was surprised and stopped smiling.

But I couldn't help but stare at him, watching him smoking there.

But suddenly, he said, "You are tired of working in the car factory. Why don't you go home? Go back to your family's winery, or go to our newly built instant noodle factory. Otherwise, if you don't want to do anything, just do nothing. Don't make yourself unhappy by working. Your family doesn't need the money to support you. Live a relaxed life."

Song Yuhua was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth, but no words came out.

He is... so careful.

Actually, I had no intention of complaining to him. Not at all. And although working in a car factory was a bit boring, firstly, it was my choice, so I had nothing to complain about. Secondly, it was definitely not tiring.

It just feels boring.

But I just said that I wanted to take this opportunity to travel around the capital and relax, but he seemed to see through my worries at a glance - yes, working in a car factory is indeed not happy.

The bureaucracy in that place is so strong that it's speechless!
The factory obviously sells tens of thousands of vehicles a year, and its affiliated motorcycle factory can also sell 10,000 to 20,000 units a year. There is also a repair shop that does good business. Even the trailer factory that was merged in a few years ago is not completely unprofitable, but as long as the accounts are checked, it is losing money.

Lose money, lose money, lose money, take out loans, take out loans.

Eat, drink, eat, drink, eat, drink, eat, drink - a section chief wanted to hold a wedding for his sister-in-law, and he actually held the wedding in the factory-run restaurant, eating and drinking to his heart's content, and in the end it was just a matter of signing a bill!
Entertainment expenses, just a bill.

She had only been in the factory for a little over a year, and had taken frequent leave. In fact, she had only been in the factory for about ten months. However, Song Yuhua sincerely felt that there was no point in taking that shift anymore.

As he said, he is not really short of money.

At this moment, her secrets were suddenly exposed, and she couldn't help but lower her head, looking a little gloomy.

After a while, she said, "But... I can't just sit there doing nothing, can I? I'm a girl and I don't know what to do. I'm not like you, who understands economics, finance, and foreign trade, and is good at doing business. I don't know much. Besides, if I don't go to work and stay at home, my dad will definitely urge me to go on blind dates, which is boring..."

Cao Yukun pursed his lips again.

But this time, the noodles were served before he could even open his mouth.

It was obviously hand-rolled noodles, and there was a poached egg on it.

I feel that at thirty yuan a bowl, it’s not completely worth it.

"Eat first, fill your stomach first!"

She hummed, then suddenly looked up, gave Cao Yukun a gentle smile, then picked up the chopsticks, started eating the noodles in small bites.

She must have been extremely hungry, but like Song Yuqian, she would chew her food slowly even when she was extremely hungry - this was a matter of family upbringing. The Cao family, for example, did not have this habit. Comrade Cao had been a soldier, and his children were used to eating in a hurry, each one rougher and faster than the other.

She was wearing a white dress today, with a little bit of green lock edge lotus leaf pattern at the neckline, which was pretty nice. Her clothing style and aesthetics were always very reliable. Even more reliable than Song Yuqian.

During the meal, perhaps because she noticed that Cao Yukun was staring at her, she occasionally put down her chopsticks, looked up and glanced at him. When their eyes met, she pursed her lips and smiled.

It's actually kind of sweet.

However, Cao Yukun eventually turned his eyes away.

When she finished her noodles and was sipping the soup, Cao Yukun asked her, "Is one bowl of noodles enough? Do you want something else?"

She looked up, smiled and shook her head, "I'm full."

She is so gentle and well-behaved, even more like Song Yuqian than Song Yuqian.

In fact, Song Yuqian was not as well-behaved as she was when Cao Yukun first met her - this girl seemed to be a good girl and very virtuous on the surface, but in private she was actually playful and mischievous. Once she confirmed that she liked Cao Yukun, she was quite open-minded. At most, she was just guarding the last line of defense.

On the contrary, it was Song Yuhua, Cao Yukun's aunt whom he met during these two meetings, who seemed more well-behaved.

however……

In fact, Cao Yukun was still a little uncomfortable with her gentle and well-behaved appearance - at this time, he was no longer the self-abased and sensitive person he was when he went on a blind date. The confusion and uneasiness in his heart when he first traveled through time had also long since disappeared. So, he actually missed the cold and arrogant Song Yuhua.

Gone forever.

"That's fine, let's go!"

Cao Yukun took out his small wallet from his pocket, took out thirty yuan and put it on the table.

She didn't argue, she just sat there and watched Cao Yukun pay the bill, then stood up with him, but the next moment, she heard him say, "I'll probably leave tomorrow morning, so I didn't contact you. Come on, I'll take you downstairs and watch you get in the car! Go back and rest early, you must be tired after running around all afternoon."

"Oh……"

She was silent for a moment and said, "Okay!"

She had been running around for a whole afternoon, at least five or six hours non-stop, and she was indeed very tired. But all that seemed to be washed away by the joy that gushed out from the bottom of her heart the moment she saw him.

She thought she could sit with him for a while longer.

Even if we just sit in the cafe inside the Jianguo Hotel, or even walk on the street together to digest the food and chat, it will be good.

However, he had already ordered them to leave.

He led the way directly in front and went to the elevator.

But, in fact, since a long time ago, Song Yuhua no longer had that cold aura in front of him. Even though she was his eldest aunt, she could not even display any of her majesty in front of him.

Just listen to him.

Soft like noodles.

It was not until she got out of the elevator that she could not help but say, "Actually, after September, the capital is not so hot anymore. It is very suitable for traveling around. There are many fun places..."

Cao Yukun turned around and looked at her in surprise.

She was flustered for a moment, almost daring not to look up, but when Cao Yukun stopped, she stopped too. After hesitating for a moment, she insisted on finishing her words, "I mainly think... you must have never been to the capital before. Now that you have finally come here, it would be a pity if you don't go around, take a look, and have fun! What's more, I am here and I am relatively familiar with the capital..."

Cao Yukun remained silent.

Finally, she had to raise her head.

Once again, their eyes met.

There was suddenly a bit of stubborn persistence in her eyes.

Cao Yukun thought for a moment and asked her, "Don't you need to help your friend prepare for the wedding?"

She shook her head and a smile began to form on her face, "You don't need me. She and I... can't be that close."

Cao Yukun nodded and said, "Okay."

Then she suddenly showed a particularly bright smile.

(End of this chapter)