Mixed in 1980

Chapter 489 Digging a hole
Chen Yanyin felt as disgusted as if she had swallowed a fly.

If it weren't for the fact that she was live-streaming with over 100,000 viewers, Chen Yanyin would have been swearing and saying, "What the hell is this? No, what kind of thought process is this?"

Many people in the live stream were disgusted.

"Are you crazy? We came to see Teacher Xu, where did this thing come from?"

"Isn't this just a disguised way of borrowing money?"

"Get lost and stop holding us back."

……

Seeing the comments on the screen, Chen Yanyin secretly breathed a sigh of relief and forced herself to ask the person, "Where do you work, and how much do you earn a month?"

"In Shenzhen, the monthly income is around 12,000 yuan."

"That's not low. How much money can you save in a month?"

Around two thousand.

"Then you have quite a lot of expenses. If you only have 2000 yuan left each month, that's 2.4 yuan a year. How much do you plan to spend on jadeite?"

"50."

"How many years do you plan to pay it off?" Chen Yanyin suddenly felt like she had run into a lunatic.

“After buying the jade, I will definitely save money. I will pay back 5000 yuan a month, 6 yuan a year, and I will also get a raise. I can pay it off in about eight years.”

"Are you serious?" Chen Yanyin frowned.

He took off the red agate from his wrist and played with it, saying, "Friend, if you're just joking or playing a prank to amuse me, it's no big deal, and I won't hold it against you."

Man: "I'm not kidding. Ever since your shop video was leaked, my girlfriend has been saying she wants one, and she's already thrown a tantrum several times."

Chen Yanyin laughed in exasperation: "Dude, if you really want to pay in installments, that's fine too, but there are a few things you need to think through."

"How do I save money after buying jade?"

"When it comes time to get married, if your girlfriend demands a house, a car, and a dowry, and you can't afford it, will she still marry you?"

"Don't let it all come to nothing."

Man: "No, we are truly in love. I just want to satisfy her. Really, I would even sell a kidney if she wanted to."

Damn it, you're such a simp!
Chen Yanyin felt disgusted to death. She had only one feeling: "If you really want to buy it, it's not impossible. Hang Seng Bank has a branch in Shenzhen."

"Give me your contact information later, and I'll have someone from the bank contact you and give you an interest-free loan to be paid off over eight years."

"Are you sure you want it?"

Man: "Can't I just give it back to you?"

"No, if you try to renege on your debt, who am I supposed to ask for the money? I only make a few thousand yuan a month, I don't have the time for that. Just tell me, do you want it or not?" Chen Yanyin said with a smirk.

Man: "Yes, definitely."

Chen Yanyin: "Send me your name and phone number via private message. Let me make it clear that this money is not without conditions. The bank will interview you once a month."

"It mainly records your true emotional state, which will be written into the loan agreement. If you can agree to this, the 50 yuan will be in your account tomorrow."

Man: "Sure, no problem."

Chen Yanyin smiled slightly: "If you're really sure, then consider this a bet between us: whether you'll find true love or end up with nothing after buying the jade."

"In addition, this money is earmarked for specific purposes."

"Aside from buying jadeite, you can't touch it. Let me reiterate, jadeite, Hetian jade, and any other jewelry do not hold their value."

"Anyone who claims their products can retain their value is just bluffing."

"If you're planning to buy jade and then resell it to make money, I can only say that you will not only lose a lot of money, but you will also become a defaulter."

"Go to the back office and send me a private message."

After saying that, Chen Yanyin ended the call and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Simps are really disgusting; talking to him felt like the air was filled with the smell of shit.

Since you're disgusted by him, just kill him.

Five hundred thousand is nothing to him, but for a simp, it is a heavy burden, especially when he loses what he calls love.

Chen Yanyin was certain that he would not have a good ending.

Earning 12,000 a month, but only able to save 2,000? Where does all the money go? Is it normal for my girlfriend to pester me to buy 500,000 yuan worth of jade when I earn 12,000 a month?

Without a doubt, he'd run into a gold digger.

It had nothing to do with her, but he insisted on coming out to disgust people, especially in front of so many people in the live stream. Chen Yanyin wouldn't tolerate it and dug a pit for him.

Composing herself, Chen Yanyin continued, "Don't think I'm a good person. I'm just too curious and want to know an answer."

"Can a relationship built on material foundations ultimately last, especially when the man loses the ability to provide material support?"

"We'll see how it goes then."

"I don't know whether he eventually met a good person and got what he wanted, or whether he met the wrong person and ended up losing both his money and his partner, leaving him empty-handed."

That concludes the digression.

"Next, I'm going to give the things that everyone sent to the staff of the Hsu Chin-Chiu Charity Foundation. They are actually the ones who work the hardest." A lot of movers came to the store and moved everything to the parking lot. There were more than a dozen small trucks that were not subject to traffic restrictions parked there, which could barely hold everything.

Chen Yanyin closed the shop and had Xie Yun follow her, driving all the way to Xinghuo Community and then directly to the small park within the community.

As they got off the car, the camera panned to a group of elderly people, the youngest being over fifty and the oldest over seventy.

"What trouble are you causing now, Fourth Sister?"

Guan Xiaoyu, Yan Danqing, and Liu Qing came up to greet them, and Chen Yanyin quickly went over to say hello, then pointed the camera at the three of them: "Friends, let me introduce them to you."

"This is Liu Qing, Aunt Liu. She is the second-in-command of the foundation and has been in charge of the operation of the Xu Jinqiu Charity Foundation since 1984."

"This is Yan Danqing, Aunt Yan. She also joined the foundation in 1984 and is in charge of external liaison matters. She is responsible for all matters, big and small, that the foundation encounters."

"The last one is Guan Xiaoyu, my aunt, Zhou Jingshu's mother, who is in charge of the foundation's projects, fund supervision and implementation."

"The foundation's operation depends entirely on them."

"And the uncles and aunts behind me, as well as the volunteers scattered all over the country, they did everything from finding out where schools needed to be built and how to build them, to supervising the process."

"There are also those applying for student grants."

“Every year, many people apply. They have to work with local volunteers to visit applicants’ homes and neighbors to ensure that the scholarships reach those who really need them.”

"And each of them is extraordinary."

"Let me take you to interview someone at random. Mr. Liu, you're the one. What year did you come to the foundation, and what did you do before?" Xu Jinqiu pulled a seventy-year-old man aside.

Grandpa Liu flicked her forehead lightly: "Fourth girl, others may not know, but you certainly do. I wasted my time playing with you when you were little."

Chen Yanyin covered her forehead: "Uncle Liu, we're doing a live stream, so please give me some face and tell us quickly. The netizens are all curious."

"You're just causing trouble."

Mr. Liu smiled and said, "I joined the foundation in 1983. Before that, I was the deputy director of Hongfeng Machinery Factory."

Chen Yanyin asked again, "Why are you, a deputy factory director, working at a foundation?"

Grandpa Liu rolled his eyes and said irritably, "Isn't this all because of your dad? I've never seen a dad as cunning as yours, always setting traps for people."

"How did your dad do it back then?"

“In 1983, the country was short of foreign exchange. Your father took 2000 million US dollars to the higher authorities and said he wanted to set up a charitable foundation, but he was short of people.”

"He also promised his superiors that the annual investment would not be less than $2000 million, on the condition that they would recruit a group of elites for him."

"With foreign exchange coming in, the higher-ups will definitely approve."

"We poached two groups of people, all of whom were second-in-commands from various units and departments. Even the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Construction Bureau was poached."

"It's not digging, it's a transfer order."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yanyin said awkwardly, "Aren't you dissatisfied? Back then, you were all officially employed, and transfer orders might not have been effective."

Grandpa Liu snorted, "Of course they're not convinced. Nobody is convinced. Back then, your dad promised that all employees' salaries would triple and that everyone would stay and work for a year."

"You can go back anytime after a year."

"Then why didn't you leave?" Chen Yanyin asked again.

Grandpa Liu said irritably, "At first, many people didn't leave because your dad gave them a lot. Back in 85, he announced that he would build a small community to provide housing."

"This is the current residential complex. They built 120-square-meter apartments right there. Back then, housing conditions were so difficult. Who would be willing to leave if they were allocated such a large apartment?"

"After the house was built, it was fully equipped with large appliances such as color TV, refrigerator, and washing machine, which was unique in Beijing at the time."

"Later, I didn't want to leave because I couldn't bear to part with it."

At this point, Grandpa Liu sighed: "Being able to help others and watching them get better little by little, everyone likes this feeling."

"Especially when you go to remote mountainous areas and see new schools being built and the children's smiling faces, that feeling is something that money can't buy."

At this point, Grandpa Liu said with disdain, "The most despicable one is your father. Just when everyone was getting used to this kind of life, he came over and poached people."

"Many of your family's businesses and many of your senior executives were poached from foundations."

“Especially in the first few years, your dad was really enthusiastic about wielding his hoe. At that time, everyone had just arrived and didn’t have much of an emotional attachment to the foundation, so it was easy to poach people.”

"By the late 1980s, your dad still wanted to poach people, haha... but he couldn't anymore."

Chen Yanyin touched her nose: "Have you ever dug at yourself?"

Grandpa Liu chuckled and said disdainfully, "Of course I did. Back in '89, they offered me a job in Hong Kong with an annual salary of HK$80, but I couldn't be bothered with them."

"Many people here have been dug up."

“Your dad is really shrewd. He set up the foundation, asked the government for help to poach people, and then he poached people from the foundation, turning this place into a talent pool.”

"Uncle Liu, you're live-streaming, at least give my dad some face," Chen Yanyin said with an awkward laugh.

Grandpa Liu rolled his eyes: "Your dad... hehe, ever since the foundation was established, he's only been coming to poach people, and you never see him. He has no face at all."

"Uncle Liu, you're retired, but your son and daughter are still working at the foundation. Be careful, my dad might give them a hard time," Chen Yanyin joked.

(End of this chapter)