Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

The fourth edition of RMB will not be issued until after 1987, and only then will the hundred-yuan banknote appear in the country.

Before this, the largest denomination of RMB was only ten yuan, commonly known as the Great Unity.

Three thousand RMB is equivalent to three hundred Big Unity notes, which, when stacked together, would be two or three centimeters thick.

In the west wing of the front yard, such a pile of money was placed on the table in front of Yan Fugui.

Yan Fugui's face was full of anticipation, as if he had already seen the scene of the three thousand yuan on the table turning into five thousand yuan, and finally into ten thousand yuan, or even twenty thousand yuan. As he thought about it, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up. Obviously, he had been convinced by the pie painted by Xu Damao.

The daughter-in-law was sitting on a chair nearby. Looking at the great unity on the table, she was not excited at all. Instead, her face was full of worry.

In her memory, Xu Damao's character and interpersonal relationships in Siheyuan have always been poor, which led to her not having a very good impression of Xu Damao.

Just like that, the wife gave Xu Damao 3,000 yuan to do the so-called foreign trade business. She always felt like she was throwing meat buns at a dog and there would be no return.

Seeing that Yan Fugui was not worried at all about what might happen if the money fell into Xu Damao's hands, his wife decided to remind her husband again.

"Old man...are you sure Xu Damao is really reliable?"

"This is a full three thousand dollars, not three hundred dollars, not thirty dollars."

"Aren't you worried that Xu Damao will run away with the money and never come back?"

Yan Fugui answered directly with a confident expression: "What are you afraid of?"

"Even if Xu Damao is gone, his house is still in the courtyard... If he really runs away with the donation, his house in the courtyard will belong to me, Yan Fugui..."

"Xu Damao's house is not worth three thousand yuan..." the daughter-in-law muttered softly.

Yan Fugui heard his wife's reminder and continued, "Xu Damao's house in the backyard is indeed not worth three thousand yuan, but if you add the house where his parents live now, it is worth three thousand yuan."

"Besides, his father is still working at a movie theater, so he must have saved a lot of money."

"If Xu Damao really ran away with the money, I will go find his father."

"Xu Fugui only has Xu Damao as his son. As his father, he must pay back the money Xu Damao owes me."

"Moreover……"

"Our third son is not a fool. He will also follow Xu Damao to do foreign trade business."

"With the third brother following Xu Damao and keeping an eye on him, the three thousand yuan won't get away."

"Maybe after one foreign trade business, these three thousand yuan can turn into four thousand yuan."

"Let the third child follow Xu Damao to do more foreign trade business. These three thousand yuan will most likely become ten thousand yuan."

"If we really have 10,000 yuan for retirement, even if the eldest and second sons no longer care about us in the future, we can still live a worry-free retirement life."

"Unlike Old Yi in the middle courtyard, who is so old and still has to scrimp and save for one or two dollars of pension every day."

"Today I persuaded him to join me in finding Xu Damao to invest, so that Xu Damao can help us make a lot of money."

"In the end, not only did the old fellow Yi Zhonghai not appreciate it, he also said that I was crazy about money and that Xu Damao was unreliable and that investing in Xu Damao was tantamount to throwing money away..." "This old Yi, ever since he was fired from the steel mill and lost his status as an eighth-level fitter, he has become a different person, even more timid."

"It's no longer the time when he was the boss of the courtyard. If he is not bold, how can he make a lot of money?"

"Look at Wang Dong in the front yard..."

"If you don't have the guts, is it possible to open so many big hotels in this city?"

"Now the country has abolished the crime of speculation, and buying and selling things to earn the difference is a completely legal business. In addition, Damao is engaged in foreign trade business. The radios and televisions we buy and sell are all imported foreign goods. There is no worry about sales. The 3,000 yuan we invested will not be wasted."

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The Jia family in the middle courtyard.

After tonight, Banggeng will follow Xu Damao to do the so-called foreign trade business tomorrow.

Originally, the Jia family had no money to invest, but after hearing that Yan Fugui from the front yard had invested 3,000 yuan in Xu Damao, and Liu Haizhong from the back yard also went to Xu Damao to invest 2,000 yuan, the Jia family decided to invest in the company.

Banggeng and Qin Huairu couldn't sit still anymore.

He simply took out all the money that Kuihua had returned to him during this period, and borrowed another fifty yuan from Kuihua, making a total of one hundred and fifty yuan.

Together with the seventy or eighty yuan that Banggeng had saved and the seventy or eighty yuan that he asked Jia Zhang for, a total of three hundred yuan was given to Xu Damao as a shareholder.

Although the money was not much, but because the Jia family had a person named Bang Geng, the 300 yuan investment was directly calculated as 1,000 yuan.

Looking at Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu, they were all full of expectations for Banggeng and Xu Damao doing "foreign trade business" and looking forward to the Jia family making a fortune because of this. Yi Zhonghai really wanted to pour a bucket of cold water on them and tell them that this matter was not as simple as they saw.

But when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back.

Qin Huairu and Banggeng seem to have become obsessed with "getting rich". Their eyes light up whenever they see Xu Damao these days, and he definitely won't listen to their warnings.

In addition, he now depends on them for his retirement. In order to avoid the deterioration of the relationship between the two parties and affect his retirement life, Yi Zhonghai finally decided to let them suffer a loss.

The last time they bought the east wing where the Jia family lives now, they almost emptied out all the assets of Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi.

In order to eat better, she took a little more money out of her own pocket. Both Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu were very kind to her, and she lived a very comfortable life.

As Banggeng's work outside became more and more stable, Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu had money again, and their attitude towards him was obviously not as good as it was in the first few months.

If Banggeng followed Xu Damao to do foreign trade business and suffered a big loss, and the little fortune that Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu had worked so hard to save was lost again, then Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang would serve him like they were their ancestors.

Therefore, for the sake of his own good life in the future, Yi Zhonghai was actually looking forward to the Jia family suffering a big loss at the hands of Xu Damao.

Qin Huairu seemed to notice Yi Zhonghai's changing expression. Thinking that Yi Zhonghai was once a prominent figure in the yard, a senior fitter in the steel rolling mill, and was knowledgeable and experienced, he decided to ask his opinion one last time to ensure that Banggeng's trip was truly foolproof.

"Old Yi...what do you think?"

Yi Zhonghai directly pretended to be encouraging and replied: "Since you are all optimistic about Xu Damao's foreign trade business, then follow Xu Damao and work hard... Try to make a name for yourself as soon as possible and make the Jia family live a better life." (End of this chapter)