The call was temporarily hung up, probably because Liang Sanbo went to pay homage to his little brother who had fallen into disrepair.
Half a minute later, the guy called back and said in a depressed tone: "Brother Nan, even if I beg you, I will help you with one last idea. Don't talk to me about this topic again..."
"Okay, it's my fault this time. I'll treat you to dinner when I get back and apologize in person." Li Mengnan promised. He also knew that Liang Sanbo had reached his limit and he couldn't get any good ideas out of him no matter how hard he squeezed him.
"Actually, your question is easy to answer but not easy to solve. There are only three ways to raise a large amount of money in a short time - robbing, earning and borrowing. Which one do you think is suitable for you? Just do it."
Liang Sanbo's words were concise and concise this time. He had already explained similar answers many times, and there was no need to repeat them cumbersomely.
The so-called robbery does not specifically refer to robbery, but generally refers to the use of illegal means to obtain money.
Although this method is the fastest way to make money and is the most feasible, it is inconsistent with Li Mengnan's principles of life and has been rejected by him immediately.
And making money, of course, means making money through legitimate means.
But after all, Li Mengnan is not a popular celebrity idol. He can easily earn millions from one endorsement, so this method can be completely ignored.
So the last option left now is to borrow.
"Sanbo, thank you, I understand."
Li Mengnan hung up the phone, leaned on the tree trunk and sat on the ground with exposed roots, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.
Xiao Baoer's operation fee will cost at least 600,000 yuan. If he goes to a large hospital with better medical conditions, plus the complicated and miscellaneous expenses for follow-up treatment, the total cost may be 80, or even 1 million.
Among the people Li Mengnan knew, the only one who could easily come up with such an astronomical sum of money seemed to be his biological father, Li Hongming.
No, to be precise, it should be his cheap stepmother Ding Linglong. After all, this woman is the real head of the Ding family.
This amount of money is absolutely nothing to the Ding family, which has a big business. Li Mengnan noticed the last time he entered the room of the Ding family's two twin girls Ding Xiang Wanwan and Ding Xiang Nuannuan.
The few bags in Loli's wardrobe probably total more than this number.
However, there was a little dust on those bags, which had obviously been discarded for a long time.
In other words, the Ding family doesn't care about this money at all.
But Li Mengnan also knows very well that the richer the people, they may not care about money, but the more they care about their own face.
Looking at all their consumption, almost all of them revolve around how to maintain their own face.
What’s the difference between a farmer’s mountain spring that costs one yuan a bottle and an Evian mineral spring that costs ten yuan a bottle?
The slight differences in purity and minerals are completely negligible in the face of the powerful detoxification and detoxification capabilities of the human body.
But for rich people, one yuan is the money they pay for this bottle of water, and the remaining nine yuan is the money they pay for their own face.
Even a bottle of water must be so particular, which shows how much real wealthy people value their own face.
It would be an understatement to call it pathological.
Borrowing money is not a big deal, but it also depends on who you are lending it to.
After all, Xiao Hui is the ex-wife of Li Mengnan's father, Li Hongming. This relationship alone is intolerable from Ding Linglong's point of view. Once word gets out, how will people outside see her, Ding Linglong? They have been married for more than ten years.
Does the husband still miss his ex-wife?
Once the money was lent out, those who knew the inside story would be kind enough to help Li Hongming's ex-wife's child pay for the surgery. Those who didn't know the inside story would definitely think that she, Ding Linglong, could not win back her man's heart, so she would simply spend money to get Xiao Hui to give up on Li Hongming.
This kind of drama is quite common among rich people, and with their thinking mode, it is definitely easier for them to believe than the former.
Moreover, from another perspective, borrowing money from Li Hongming to treat Xiao Baoer's illness would not be the result Xiao Hui wanted to see.
After Li Mengnan was abducted by human traffickers, it was Xiao Hui who couldn't bear to see things at home and miss her, and insisted on getting a divorce despite Li Hongming's efforts to persuade him to stay.
Therefore, Xiao Hui always felt guilty and indebted to Li Hongming.
Xiao Baoer is not Li Mengnan. After all, she is the child of Xiao Hui and Mi Tong. She does not have Li Hongming's blood flowing in her body. To ask a man to risk a dispute with his current wife and spend a sum of money to treat his ex-wife's child.
No matter how you think about it, it's a bit too selfish.
What's more, Li Mengnan doesn't know what Li Hongming thinks about what happened back then, and whether he still resents his mother Xiao Hui's ruthlessness and determination.
If Li Hongming never forgave Xiao Hui, then if Li Mengnan asked Li Hongming to borrow money for Xiao Baoer, wouldn't it lead to an unhappy breakup?
But can we just do nothing and watch a lively and lovely girl like Xiao Baoer die?
Wait... maybe there is a way.
Li Mengnan suddenly remembered that Liang Sanbo once mentioned that if there was anyone around him who could come up with such a large sum of money at once, then that person would be Le Youyou.
Although Liang Sanbo is often unreliable, he looks at girls with extremely vicious eyes. Since the two met at the beginning of school, his comments about the girls he has met are almost all accurate, and they are comparable to legends.
The great prophecy in
Therefore, Li Mengnan never doubted this guy's evaluation of Le Youyou from beginning to end.
And the box of "Yellow Crane Tower 1916" at the beginning of school can also indirectly prove this point.
But when he picked up the phone, Li Mengnan inevitably hesitated.
Although the two have always had a good relationship, they are just ordinary friends. But after all, this is not a small sum of three hundred and five hundred, but a huge sum of hundreds of thousands. What reason does Le Youyou have to agree to lend it to him?
What's more, even if Le Youyou agrees, will her family just sit back and watch her lend such a large amount of money to a stranger she barely knows?
To be honest, if you think about it from Le Youyou's perspective, even Li Mengnan himself feels like a liar.
But after all, Li Mengnan is not his mother Xiao Hui. For him, his face is for blocking and his integrity is for throwing away. In the face of Xiao Baoer's life, he cannot tolerate having too many scruples.
And he also made up his mind that if Le Youyou refused this time, he would go to his father Li Hongming to lend him the life-saving money, even if he was blamed by his mother Xiao Hui.
"Hey, isn't this our great magician? I heard that you became very popular after the preliminaries of the orientation party. Many beauties in the school were asking who the magical handsome guy in the video on the campus forum was... What? No?
Seize the time and hurry up to find these nymphomaniac girls who come to your door. Oh, no, it should be a galloping horse. You actually thought of calling me, an ugly girl? This seems unscientific, right? "
As soon as the call was connected, before Li Mengnan could say anything, a round of taunts came from the other side with guns and sticks in hand. The tone was quite sour. If the voice and phone number were not correct, Li Mengnan would definitely think that he had dialed the wrong number.
.
Is this still the cheerful and generous Le Youyou like a boy? Why does she look like a resentful little woman who has been abandoned by others?
"Antarctic penguins?"
"Peking duck!"
"I'm going to kill you! Are you really Le Youyou? I thought I dialed the wrong number..." Li Mengnan now fully believed that the other person was not a fake, because only he and Le Youyou knew the password.
By the way, this secret code has some origins.
I remember that one night during military training, the temperature was very low, and the two of them met outside by chance. At that time, Li Mengnan was wearing an orange PU leather jacket, while Le Youyou was wearing a white woolen tube skirt.
He was wearing a black windbreaker and a red scarf around his neck.
When he saw her dressed like this, Li Mengnan laughed and said, "What kind of cosplay are you doing? You can go and endorse Tencent." Le Youyou was not to be outdone, and retorted, "You still have the nerve to laugh at me? Look?"
You're so crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, you can make rolls with a layer of sweet sauce.
As a result, the two of them each had a nickname that night, Le Youyou was the Antarctic Penguin, and Li Mengnan was the Peking Duck.
"Who else could you say this if not me? This is my personal phone number and is never lent to others." Le Youyou was very dissatisfied with Li Mengnan's suspicion of her identity.
"Hey, you also have a private phone. It seems like you have so many phones... I remember your phone is the legendary 'Kidney 5S', right? When will you be able to have dual SIM cards and dual standby?"
Although there are always people complaining that the IPHONE has become an arcade machine, that usually refers to office workers with a fixed source of income. However, among students, the legendary IPHONE series worth a kidney is still not common. Therefore,
Li Mengnan has always been deeply impressed by the IPHONE 5S in Le Youyou's hands.
However, Le Youyou's model is not the most popular "local gold" model. Instead, it is just a very ordinary pure white color with a colorful rhinestone shell. If it weren't for the length and depth of a TV remote control,
Giving it away so deeply, few will notice the pricey notched Apple logo on the back.
"I have always had two mobile phones. One contains the phone numbers of my family and good friends, and the other one is specially reserved for those who are busy waiting... By the way, my dad recently ordered one for me.
I got a movie called 'Kidney 6', and the original one, 'Kidney 5S', was left to me to pretend to be idle."
Le Youyou said disapprovingly, she really didn't hide this matter on purpose, she just felt there was no need to tell Li Mengnan.
"Sister Tuhao! Please accept my knees! Please hug your thighs! Lead me to show off and lead me to fly..."
Li Mengnan now admires Liang Sanbo's ruthless vision even more - what is a local tycoon? This is a local tycoon! Even the mobile phone put in the bag to show off is enough to sell a kidney.
Le Youyou on the other side of the phone seemed to be eating something. Li Mengnan laughed out loud when he said this. He choked and coughed repeatedly. It took him a long time to catch his breath and said with a smile: "Forget it, my thighs are thick, hug me."
It doesn’t feel like anything…”
There was a slight rubbing sound from the phone, and it seemed that Le Youyou was wiping the screen with a tissue. After a while, the call continued again, and his tone was much better. He asked curiously: "Seriously, Li Mengnan, why did you suddenly think of calling me?
Are you here? According to my call history, it seems that the last time you called me was three weeks ago...if you don’t count the meeting during the preliminaries of the welcome party."
"So you're angry because of this?"
Hearing what Le Youyou said, Li Mengnan felt a little embarrassed no matter how thick-skinned he was.
Think about it carefully, isn't it? I've just been busy flirting with Minnie these days, but I've left Le Youyou aside who used to call him all night long to chat with him to relieve his boredom. Now I only think of hitting him when I have to ask someone for something.
A phone call, no matter how you think about it, it is too unreasonable.
"I can't talk about being angry. You guys are not like us girls. The only group activity you usually do is go shopping on your days off. If you have friends, you have to eat together, sing K, play games together, and take a sauna together... Oh, the last thing
It's not you, it's my dad. I made a mistake.
I’m really not angry, I just feel that I suddenly don’t have your phone call every night, which is a bit unaccustomed.”
Although Le Youyou's words may sound a bit ambiguous, Li Mengnan knows very well that her meaning is actually as simple as the letter.
"Beauty, does that feeling feel empty, lonely, and cold?"
"Roughly the same."
Le Youyou also didn't think much and said bluntly.
Li Mengnan paused deliberately and said with a smile: "Beauty, this can only mean one thing - it's time for you to fall in love."
"What! You... don't talk nonsense to me!" Le Youyou was caught off guard by Li Mengnan, and she lost her composure a little, but she soon calmed down and said, "I'm just bored, and you know that I'm
I'm not a pretty girl, and there aren't many boys in the class who are willing to talk to me... I'm not afraid of making fun of you. Since I came to Tunghai University, all the boys I've come into contact with have said to me, and none of them have talked to me for a whole night.
Talk a lot."
"Isn't it? So pitiful?"
Just from Le Youyou's appearance, Li Mengnan could guess that her usual popularity with men was not very good, but she didn't expect it to be so bad.
But if you think about it, you can understand that students are no better than people who have entered the society. Even if they don’t want to be in contact, they will still maintain a good-looking appearance. Adolescent boys are typical visual and lower-body animals. There is not enough time to chase the beauties in the college.
Why would you waste your time on a fat girl like Le Youyou?
"What about girls? You should have a lot of female friends, right?"
"So what? This group of unloyal little goblins, when they first started school, swore with all their conscience that they would be good sisters who would advance and retreat together... But now, they are either on the way to accompany their boyfriends or on the way to chase them.
, their consciences were touched by their boyfriends back then." Le Youyou said angrily.
"Uh... are you sure you are talking about conscience?" Li Mengnan subconsciously touched his chest, and Le Youyou's words suddenly gave him a strong sense of déjà vu.
"Whether it's conscience or something else, it's the same thing as dogs eating it in the end." Le Youyou said disapprovingly.
"Hey, classmate Youyou, this is a big blow..." Li Mengnan broke out in sweat.
"Forget it, let's not mention those heartless little goblins." Le Youyou sighed boredly and said: "I'm so sorry that I just complain to you... Now tell me, what do you want to do with me?
?”
"Uh... how can you be sure that I'm looking for you to do something with you instead of just chatting with you?" After hearing Le Youyou's complaint, Li Mengnan suddenly found that it was really hard for him to speak.
Le Youyou smiled and said in a teasing tone: "Come on, stop pretending, it's not the first day we've met. If you have nothing to do, how can you beg me to speak in this tone? Hurry up, be open, if you have anything to do, just ask
Just say it directly..."
"I want to borrow some money from you."
Li Mengnan hesitated for a moment, then spoke truthfully.
"That's it? It scared me to death. I was hesitant. I thought you were going to confess to me... Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't think you are a bad person, but it's just a bit unreliable no matter how you think about it." Le
Youyou laughed a few times in a very characteristic way to relieve the tension just now, "Okay, let's get down to business...how much do you want to borrow?"
"a lot of."
"A lot...how much is it?"
Le Youyou also felt that something was wrong at this moment. In her impression, Li Mengnan had never spoken like this before, always hesitating and hesitating.
"About 800,000. If it's not that much, 600,000 is fine."
Anyway, Li Mengnan had already spoken, and Li Mengnan stopped thinking so much and just gritted his teeth and said it directly.
What Li Mengnan didn't expect was that after he finished talking about the loan amount, Le Youyou on the other side of the phone didn't show any excitement such as shock or anger. He was just stunned for a moment and asked tentatively: "You...
…Seriously?”
"I'm not joking." Li Mengnan's tone was extremely solemn.
"Is it urgent?"
"It should be considered very urgent."
The longer Xiao Baoer's illness drags on, the more detrimental it will be to her future recovery, not to mention the almost money-burning cost of hemodialysis every month. If circumstances permit, Li Mengnan naturally hopes that the surgery will be done as early as possible.
Le Youyou just said softly and then stopped, but she did not hang up the phone. About ten seconds later, her voice came from the phone again.
"Well, let's meet in half an hour at the dessert shop on the east side of the pedestrian street and discuss it in detail."
After saying that, Le Youyou hung up the phone.
Listening to the busy tone coming from the phone, Li Mengnan couldn't help but be stunned.
What is this answer? Agree or disagree?
However, this idea only flashed in his mind for a moment, and Li Mengnan was relieved. After all, a loan of hundreds of thousands is not a small amount. How could it be casually finalized with just one phone call? It must be formal in person.
However, since Le Youyou did not refuse directly, it means that there is still some hope for borrowing money this time.
…
The shanty town of Xiangjun Road itself is not far from the city center. When Li Mengnan took a taxi and arrived at the dessert shop, it was still fifteen minutes before the time they agreed on.