The morning after the tour ended, the four of them took the subway and rushed to the Capital Airport after learning from Lin Yi's lesson when he was almost late last time.
More than two hours later, they landed in Lin'an, where Ms. Gu Changge was waiting in her red Porsche.
She said hello to her daughter and three classmates in turn, and exchanged a covert look with Zhang Jiaqi. The latter nodded to her imperceptibly, and no one else noticed this small gesture.
Among them, only Lao Xiong was a little cautious because it was his first time meeting her. He refused her offer to take her home "on the way" and took a taxi to leave.
Ms. Gu Changge was always polite, but it was a bit reluctant to have four passengers in the car, so in the end only Gu Caiwei, Zhang Jiaqi and Lin Yi got into her car.
She sent Zhang Jiaqi off first, and said "thank you" very sincerely when she got off the car. This matter will become a little secret between the two of them.
Then I went to see Lin Yi off. On the way, Gu Caiwei was mainly chatting with her about what she had seen in the capital these days. Then Ms. Gu Changge occasionally asked Lin Yi a few questions about his entrepreneurial situation, and he told the truth.
When Lin Yi got home, he still shouted: "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"
Ms. Yu Xiujuan came out of the kitchen with a kitchen knife in her hand and asked: "Why did you come back so late? Didn't you say you were just going to play for two days?"
The reason Lin Yi reported to them for coming home late was to receive Gu Caiwei for a visit to the capital. In fact, he had already agreed to come back today. Lin's mother just disliked it out of habit, but there was no need to defend now.
"She has been training very hard in Chengdu this semester. It's hard to get a chance to go out and play during this holiday, so I just spent two more days with her. Her mother sent it downstairs for me just now."
Yu Xiujuan stopped talking. It stands to reason that Lin Yi and Gu Caiwei are just boyfriend and girlfriend, and they are not old enough to talk about marriage. In fact, their parents should not have any intersection.
However, last winter, Ms. Gu Changge went to her home to investigate. Although the misunderstanding was finally resolved through Lin Yiyi, the first impression was still not very good.
It's not that Yu Xiujuan is a grudge-bearing person, but she just feels a little awkward.
However, his son was in a relationship with his daughter, and it was very polite of him to help bring her back, so Yu Xiujuan would not say anything bad about her.
Lin Yi went to the living room and greeted Lin Guoqing again, then went back to the room and dropped off his luggage, changed into a pair of casual home clothes, then lay down on the bed and let out a comfortable sigh.
It's better to be at home.
He squinted on the bed for a while and almost fell asleep, until Ms. Yu Xiujuan came over and patted his door and asked him if he wanted to eat fruit.
Lin Yi came out of the room and took out two thick cashmere scarves from the suitcase and handed them to his parents:
"I brought you a gift, one for each of you."
"Oh, you, you actually brought us a gift. Hey Lin Guoqing, your son has really grown up."
Ms. Yu Xiujuan's reaction was exaggerated, as if she was very flattered. She took it and looked at it carefully, touched it with her hands, and put it around her neck to try it out.
It turned out that her son's intention was very good, and the things he bought seemed to be not bad at all. She felt very satisfied.
Well, actually Gu Caiwei helped pick it out.
Lin Guoqing was also very pleased, but after taking it and taking a look at it, he asked: "This thing seems not cheap. Do you have enough money to spend it? Originally, you said you would spend a few more days with that little Gu in the capital, so I said I would give you some money.
You don’t want it either.”
That's a good question.
Lin Yi just planned to talk to them about his own business first. He couldn't explain the things about Bitcoin before, and after all, it hadn't been realized yet, so he didn't say anything about it.
But you can talk about starting a business. You can't really wait until you are popular and drink spicy food outside, and then suddenly come back to surprise your parents, right?
Then their first reaction is probably not to be surprised, but to wonder if they are involved in some illegal activities that make huge profits!
"It's not a big brand, and the items are not expensive. As for money, I actually started a business with two classmates in school this semester. Although the scale is not very big yet, I still made a little money."
Yu Xiujuan was surprised: "Entrepreneurship, what kind of business did you start?"
"What we are building is an online ordering website, which puts all the surrounding restaurants on our website. Then others can place orders for them on our website, and then we will be responsible for the delivery of the takeout."
Yu Xiujuan didn't quite understand: "You mean you're delivering food?"
She was probably thinking of a work-study program. Lin Yi simply explained: "I don't deliver the food myself. We are mainly responsible for the operation of the website. The delivery people are part-time college students hired."
Yu Xiujuan nodded as if she understood something, then thought about it and asked the most understandable question: "How much money can you make by building a website?"
This question is a bit complicated. Lin Yi answered: "Our website now covers almost all universities in the capital. The highest single-day order volume before the holiday was over 10,000. In terms of transaction volume, it is estimated to be more than ten or two hundred thousand..."
"Two hundred thousand! One day!"
Yu Xiujuan extracted the two key words she heard and repeated them in great surprise.
Lin Yi knew that her understanding was wrong and continued: "This is just the transaction volume of the website. Our income comes from charging fixed stall fees from merchants and delivery fees from buyers. However, delivery fees are basically only used to cover costs.
That is to say, it will be sent to the delivery person."
His revelation made Yu Xiujuan even more confused. She asked the core question directly: "Just tell me how much money you made?"
Lin Yi and his senior sister did not calculate this account because the website was still investing continuously and had not reached the stage of profitability at all. However, in order for his parents to understand better, he casually reported a number:
"At least one hundred thousand."
The casual takeout website has been expanding until the past month. The previous scale was far from the level just mentioned, and it still owed MBB 300,000, so the profit was not that exaggerated.
But it was scary enough for Father and Mother Lin. Yu Xiujuan was surprised and said: "You went to school in September, so it only lasted five months. In other words, it's at least 20,000 yuan a month!"
This is more than the combined income of the couple.
Lin Guoqing thought more than she thought: "Aren't you a three-person partnership? It should be divided into three parts, right?"
Divided by three is six or seven thousand per month, which seems to be about the same.
"It's divided between three people, but because I am mainly responsible for the technology, the other two people's share combined is actually not as good as mine." Lin Yi did not go into too much detail here.
That's at least 10,000.
Yu Xiujuan no longer wants to settle this small score, she has accepted the idea of her son starting a business.
Then she thought about it and said excitedly: "Oh, it's great that my son went to college and earned more than us. No wonder there is an old saying that there is a golden house in the book!"