The voluptuous and beautiful nanny, Technician Shen fell for her.

Su Nianhe was stunned.

"But you're so busy with work and drawing blueprints," Su Nianhe said softly, not wanting to trouble him. "Besides, I'm working at your house, how would I have time to learn to read?"

"Time can be made." Shen Huai didn't give her a chance to refuse. "Every night after you finish cleaning the kitchen, come to my room and wait for me. My room has been renovated and is well soundproofed. I'll bring you elementary school textbooks and start teaching you from pinyin and basic Chinese characters."

He even arranged the teaching materials and the time.

Su Nianhe bit her lower lip, feeling a mix of confusion and indescribable warmth in her heart.

Instead of laughing at her for her unrealistic idea of ​​starting a business, he seriously planned out how to lay the foundation for her business.

"Then... how much is the tuition?" Su Nianhe blurted out a very simple question.

Shen Huai was amused by her question.

He turned his head and leaned close to her face; their noses almost touched.

"Tuition fees?" Shen Huai's voice was low, with a hint of blatant extortion. "I'm very expensive when it comes to tuition fees. But since we're in a relationship, I can offer a family discount."

Su Nianhe's face flushed, and she quickly reached out to push his shoulder away, creating some distance between them.

"Be serious!" she protested in a low voice.

"I'm very serious." Shen Huai took her hand in one go. "I'll teach you to read, I'll teach you accounting, I'll teach you how to do business. As long as you want to learn, I'll teach you everything."

Su Nianhe remained silent, letting him hold her hand.

Shen Huai pulled her to sit side by side on the shirt spread out on the floor.

A breeze blowing from halfway up the mountain carries the fragrance of fruit trees.

From this vantage point, you can see the entire orchard, as well as the winding river in the distance and the faint outline of the city.

"Look over there." Shen Huai pointed to the Jiang City area in the distance.

Su Nianhe looked in the direction he was pointing.

"In the past, everyone thought that having a secure job in a state-owned factory was the right path," Shen Huai's voice was clear in the wind. "Doing small business would get you arrested."

Su Nianhe nodded; she knew about it.

In the past, some villagers would secretly take eggs to the city to exchange for food coupons, and they would be caught and paraded through the streets wearing dunce caps.

"But things are different now," Shen Huai continued. "It's 1985 now. The country is developing rapidly, policies have been relaxed, and the pace of reform and opening up has been very fast. In the special economic zones in the south, many people have already made their fortunes by running their own businesses. In the future, this trend will spread to all parts of the country, including Jiang City."

Su Nianhe was illiterate and didn't understand big policies or the overall situation, but she could understand the general meaning of what Shen Huai said.

It means that in the future, you can make money by doing business, not only without breaking the law, but also by living a good life.

"He Jianjun saw this trend, so he quit his job at the street office early on and went south to trade things." Shen Huai looked at the river in the distance. "He leased this orchard because he was sure that Jiang City would expand outwards in the future, and this land would be worth a lot of money sooner or later."

Su Nianhe turned her head and looked at Shen Huai's profile.

The man had a sharp jawline and a deep, unfathomable look in his eyes.

"And what about you?" Su Nianhe couldn't help but ask, "You're also a cadre in the textile factory, with a secure job. Do you also think doing business is a good idea?"

Shen Huai looked away and turned to meet her eyes.

"As long as I can take control of my life, I'll choose whatever way is best." Shen Huai squeezed her palm. "I used to think that working in a factory as a technician was the best because I didn't have to deal with people. But now, I feel that there are too many rules and regulations associated with a secure job."

A secure job requires a certain background, work ethic, and social standing.

These rules were the weapon that Shen Wanshan and Liu Huizhen used to suppress him, and also a huge obstacle between him and Su Nianhe.

If he wants to protect Su Nianhe, to spare her the daily anxiety of being a nanny, and to allow her to eat her fill without restraint, he must have a stronger trump card.

Su Nianhe couldn't understand the deeper meaning in his words; she only felt that the way he looked at her was frighteningly hot.

"If you teach me to read, I'll definitely study hard," Su Nianhe quickly said, trying to change the subject. "Once I've saved enough money, I'll go to Brother He's place and get some small items to set up a stall."

As soon as Su Nianhe uttered the words "set up a stall," she lost her confidence.

She couldn't even tell which way was north, south, east, or west in Lianjiang City, and all she had was the meager salary Liu Huizhen wouldn't receive until next month. Talking about doing business in front of Shen Huai sounded like child's play.

Shen Huai didn't laugh at her.

He bent his long legs, his posture very relaxed.

"How much will you get paid next month?" Shen Huai asked.

Su Nianhe answered honestly, "Twenty-five yuan. Aunt Liu said I took good care of Ping An, so she gave me a five-yuan raise."

"Twenty-five yuan," Shen Huai read the number aloud. "You plan to use it all as capital?"

Su Nianhe nodded vigorously, "We still need to save up. Lianhua said it should be enough in a few months."

This was all her possessions, the foundation upon which she had the confidence to establish herself in the city.

Shen Huai turned to face her.

"In a few months, we'll figure out how to spend this twenty-five yuan."

Su Nianhe immediately sat up straight, placing her hands neatly on her knees, looking like a well-behaved student listening attentively.

Seeing her serious expression, Shen Huai reached out and pulled her hand, which was resting on her knee, out in front of her.

The man's fingers, warm and calloused, traced a line across her fair palm.

"The first step to setting up a stall is that you need a space." Shen Huai drew a square in her palm with his fingertip. "But you don't have the money to rent a storefront. Go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy a thick, waterproof plastic sheet to put on the ground. One and a half meters long and wide is enough, and it will cost about two cents."

Su Nianhe's palms felt a little itchy from his touch, so she tried to pull them back but couldn't, and could only let him hold them.

"Two cents." She repeated, memorizing the expense.

"There's still twenty-four yuan and eighty cents left." Shen Huai tapped the box next to his finger. "We can't throw all the money into the inventory; we need to keep some as a reserve, just in case something goes wrong or the plastic sheeting tears. Keep four yuan and eighty cents, and take out twenty yuan to buy more goods."

Su Nianhe listened intently; the calculations were crystal clear, even including contingency funds.

"What kind of goods can you buy with twenty yuan?" she asked.

Shen Huai's fingers traced the lines on her palm upwards, slowly stopping at her fingertips.

"Go get your goods from He Jianjun; it'll save you the travel expenses and time of going south. They're hair accessories, hair ties, and red cords with plastic beads from the south. He'll give you a base price of two cents each. Twenty yuan, how many can you get?"

Su Nianhe counted the fingers on her other hand, muttering to herself.

Two cents each, five for one dollar, fifty for ten dollars, twenty dollars...

"One hundred!" Her eyes lit up as she gave the answer.

Shen Huai was fairly satisfied with her arithmetic speed and pinched her fingertips as a reward.

"How much do you plan to sell each of these 100 hair accessories for?" he continued to guide the conversation.

Su Nianhe hesitated for a moment.

In Liuhe Village, two cents could buy several boxes of matches, so who would be willing to spend money on hair accessories?

"Sell it for three cents? Make a penny." She tentatively offered a price.

Shen Huai shook his head.

"That's too low. That's called disrupting the market." Shen Huai's tone was calm, as if he were teaching her a technician at the factory. "These are novelties from the South that the Jiang City Supply and Marketing Cooperative doesn't have. City factory girls earn over thirty yuan a month, and they'll spend five cents on a hair accessory without batting an eye just to look pretty. You're selling it for five cents."

"Five cents!" Su Nianhe exclaimed in surprise. "That would earn you three cents per person."

"Yes." Shen Huai's fingers returned to her palm, and he wrote a "three".

"You don't need to sell many a day. If you can sell ten, that's five yuan in profit. After deducting the two yuan cost, you'll make a net profit of three yuan a day."

Su Nianhe almost stopped breathing.

She earns three yuan a day, which is thirty yuan in ten days. That's more than she earned working as a nanny in the Shen family for a month.

She used to think that making money was an incredibly difficult task, requiring hard labor and enduring scorn.

But after Shen Huai calculated it this way, it turned out that the initial investment of twenty-five yuan had actually generated such a great reputation.

The way she looked at Shen Huai was different now; it was full of admiration.

"Then...where can I set up a stall to sell ten of them?" Su Nianhe asked humbly.

Seeing that she had completely fallen for his trap, Shen Huai simply pulled his large hand in and enveloped her hand completely in his palm.

"This involves site selection and customer analysis," Shen Huai said calmly.

Su Nianhe waited for him to continue.

Shen Huai stopped and didn't speak again.

……

The book needs revising, I don't know if it's even possible. The male lead can't even stand the thought of the female lead's scent. I'm exhausted...