When Liu Manqiong heard Ye Chen's words, the feeling of reluctance in her heart became even stronger.
She pretended to be relaxed and smiled and said: "Okay, then I will take you there tomorrow night."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly realized that she and Ye Chen seemed to have no topic.
She didn't dare to ask further about the previous topic, and now, she didn't know what to talk to Ye Chen.
In fact, there were many things she wanted to ask Ye Chen, such as where in the mainland he was from? Did he get married when he was twenty-eight? Or did he have a girlfriend he was dating?
Or, ask him if he would like to stay on Hong Kong Island for a longer time, because he still has many places that he has never shared with others, and he wants to take Ye Chen to walk around, see and taste them.
taste.
However, none of these questions she dared to ask.
First of all, she didn't dare to ask, and secondly, she didn't dare to hear Ye Chen's answer.
Then, the car suddenly fell into silence.
It was rainy on Hong Kong Island. When the car was driving halfway, raindrops began to fall in the sky. Liu Manqiong, who was still peeking at Ye Chen with his peripheral vision, was a little distracted looking at the raindrops on the car window.
Ye Chen looked at the car and glanced at her from the corner of his eye from time to time. Seeing her absent-minded look, he subconsciously asked: "What are you thinking about?"
"Ah?" Liu Manqiong suddenly came back to her senses, straightened her soft hair, smiled at Ye Chen, and whispered: "It's nothing, I'm watching the rain."
Ye Chen was very curious: "What's so good about rain? Do you like rainy days?"
Liu Manqiong shook her head: "I don't like it. I hate rainy days."
Ye Chen smiled and said: "It's rainy in Hong Kong Island. It doesn't seem to be very friendly to someone like you who hates rain."
"Yes." Liu Manqiong pursed her lips and said with a wry smile: "If many bad things happen on a rainy day, it will make people more depressed, and then they will feel disgusted with rain."
Ye Chen seemed to have guessed something, nodded slightly, and immediately changed the subject: "By the way, Miss Manqiong, you are about to graduate with your Ph.D., what are your plans after graduation?"
Liu Manqiong was flashed by Ye Chen's sudden topic. After being stunned for a moment, she realized that Ye Chen changed the topic because he definitely didn't want to remind herself of sad things, so she smiled and said: "I graduated this summer.
After graduation, I plan to go to Africa according to my original plan to further implement the charity I have been doing, and then come back to find a job related to my major. While working, I will continue to do some charity work within my ability.
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Marven asked curiously: "Why are you still looking for a job? Wouldn't it be better to go to your father's company? You are the eldest daughter in the family, and there is a high probability that you will inherit his company in the future."
Liu Manqiong shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm not very interested in what he did. Besides, I studied Chinese from college to master's and Ph.D., and I know nothing about finance and economics. I can't do this kind of work at all."
After saying that, Liu Manqiong joked a little self-deprecatingly: "Besides, you see how I am a person suitable for business. The snack street still has a deficit of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars every month that needs to be filled by my father. If he
If he really passes the business on to me, I'm afraid it won't take long for his family fortune to be ruined."
Marven asked curiously: "How long have you been shopping at the snack street?"
Liu Manqiong thought for a while and said, "It must have been there for more than ten years. My father bought it the year he got married."
Marven asked her: "Do you know how much you spent when you bought it?"
"Forgot..." Liu Manqiong said awkwardly: "Actually, I'm not sensitive to this aspect, and I wasn't too old at that time. I just felt that I just wanted to keep that street, so I asked my dad to pay for it.
I really don’t know how much it cost to buy it.”
Ye Chen asked again: "Then how do you know there is still a deficit of 200,000 yuan every month?"
"The manager told me." Liu Manqiong said: "Before I was an adult, my father was responsible for running this snack street. After I became an adult, it was handed over to me to manage, but I didn't know how to manage it. I thought
Yes, it’s just to ensure that everyone continues to operate as usual and not to increase their rent. In addition, the environment of the snack street is generally quite dirty, especially there are a lot of garbage and rats and cockroaches, so I asked the manager to arrange special cleaning staff to help every day.
Everyone clean up, clean up the garbage, catch mice and cockroaches..."
After saying that, Liu Manqiong added: "Oh, by the way, we didn't need to lose so much every month before. Now we are losing more because labor prices have been increasing. Cleaners cost more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, so the losses are getting bigger and bigger."
More and more, from tens of thousands at the beginning to two hundred thousand now."
As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Manqiong couldn't help but said with a somewhat ashamed expression: "Isn't it quite a failure to be like me in business?"
Ye Chen smiled and said: "I don't think so. Your snack street is so prosperous and the appearance is so well maintained. I believe the land price should have increased a lot over the years, maybe many times. As for what you said
This small loss is probably not even a fraction of the profit."
"Really..." Liu Manqiong suddenly came back to her senses and said with some annoyance: "You're right... Why haven't I thought about this in all these years... What I have been thinking about in all these years is that, fortunately, I
Dad’s business is getting bigger and bigger, and he doesn’t care that the snack street is losing so much every month, but he has never considered the increase in land value of the entire snack street..."
After saying that, she couldn't help but smile and shake her head: "I am really insensitive to business, and I fall into the category of lacking talent..."
Marven asked him: "Where is your sister? Is she talented in this area?"
"Yes." Liu Manqiong nodded and said with a smile: "My sister is very good. She studied finance in the UK. Her biggest dream is to take over her father's class, so she works very hard in this area."
Ye Chen smiled slightly and said seriously: "If you don't like doing business, you can indeed choose a career you like."
After saying that, Ye Chen asked her: "What is the job you most want to do?"
Liu Manqiong said seriously: "Chinese majors actually have relatively narrow employment opportunities. In Hong Kong Island, the most common employment direction is similar to that in the mainland, which is to take the civil service examination. In addition, media and schools are also two more common employment directions. If
After getting a Ph.D., working as a teacher in a first-class university is actually a good development direction, and I am also leaning towards this direction."
Ye Chen asked in surprise: "You want to be a teacher?"
"Yes." Liu Manqiong nodded and said very solemnly: "Teaching and educating people is a very sacred thing in my mind. If I can become a university teacher in the future, I will be satisfied."
Marven asked her with a smile: "I heard that you are studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong. Do you want to stay at the University of Hong Kong to teach in the future?"
Liu Manqiong was silent for a moment, shook her head slightly, and said: "After all, Hong Kong Island is too small. Staying here all the time will feel like sitting in a well and looking at the sky."
As she said that, she looked at Ye Chen and said in a strange way: "Actually... I want to go to the mainland to have a look. I wonder if Mr. Ye would like it?"
This chapter has been completed!