He loved and admired his mother.
"Auntie is a strong woman." Li Yi took a sip of wine and asked, "Isn't she in America?"
"My mother runs a furniture business in Malaysia. She occasionally visits clients or attends exhibitions here. That's why she comes to America." Fu Yao asked, "What about your family? Are they all in China?"
"Most of them are in China. They only came to see me a while ago. My mother went back first. Only my father is still here. Maybe something happened here." Li Yi couldn't figure out why her father was here. She sighed and said, "My father used to be very powerful. You studied business. Are you familiar with China's economic situation?"
"Thanks to the reform and opening up, China's economy has exploded. I've seen a set of data. After the reform and opening up, China's economy continued to grow steadily, with an average annual growth of 9.8%.
At the same time, China's economy contributed more than 10% to the world's economic growth and more to international trade growth. The average disposable income of the country's residents was only 171 yuan. In 2009, it broke the 10,000 yuan mark. China's economy went from being on the brink of collapse to becoming the world's fourth largest economy. " Fu Yao didn't seem shy when it came to what he was good at. "Many of the cases we're teaching now revolve around the emerging economy, China."
"Then you know quite a lot." Li Yi didn't expect him to say so much. "My father went to university in 1979. At that time, my grandmother was very poor. I didn't really experience it. They were really poor. You probably don't understand how poor it was. When I can remember, the countryside was still full of mud houses."
"I heard from my mother that she went to the countryside after she graduated from high school. It was around the seventies," he interrupted when he saw her looking at him.
"Then, my father was a very smart man. He was a professor of physics. He started his business when he was a freshman. It was the beginning of the reform and many people looked down on self-employed people. Moreover, the policies were not clear. Doing business required risks. But he was brave and wasn't afraid of anything.
He repaired electronic products, sold clothes and electronic watches, and made his first fortune. After that, his business grew bigger and bigger. " Li Yi raised her cup and finished it in one gulp. Then, she said slowly, "In the early nineties, my father was already very, very rich. When I was young, we already lived in a villa, and there were seven or eight luxury cars parked outside."
There was one thing she didn't mention. Her father was already the richest man in China and Asia at that time.
She had read all of this from the reports about China Re Corporation on the internet.
"Your father was the first to eat crabs."
"The first one might become a martyr. Maybe he doesn't want to improve." Li Yi let out a long sigh. "After that, it slowly declined. China's society is developing very quickly. Even though it looks like it's booming now, if it can't keep up with the changes in society, it could experience a huge upheaval and fall. It could even collapse at any time. The lifespan of a business is very short."
Otherwise, she would have been the daughter of the richest man in China, a proper second-generation heir!
She often sighed with emotion. This life!
Fu Yao said, "The legal system is not perfect. Due to lax enforcement and the low cost of breaking the law, the market is not regulated, and the fierce and disorderly competition entices companies to seek victory through unfair means instead of focusing on management improvement and innovation. A small number of companies achieve rapid development through unfair means, but most new companies fail in this unfair environment."
"Huh?" Li Yi was surprised.
"What's wrong?" Fu Yao was puzzled.
Li Yi smiled and said, "You're the only foreigner who didn't talk to me about China's system. In the eyes of many foreigners, Chinese people are in dire straits. They don't have cars, electricity, and they don't even have enough to eat. Did you know that when I first came to study, the girls in my dormitory even donated their old clothes to me …"
As he spoke, he laughed to himself.
She was laughing because of their ignorance and arrogance.
"I think they're the victims of the media." Fu Yao shrugged. "The media often criticize Singapore too. Just ignore them. Who knows who's the real washed one?"
brain。
In America, many things are funny. For example, you can't make jokes about blacks and Mexicans. But there's one thing that's very free. You can scold Asians and talk about women's rights. But in at least 20 states, child marriage is legal. Teenagers are not allowed to smoke, but marijuana is … "
Probably because he was too excited from drinking, he couldn't hold it in and started rambling.
"If you see my dad, you two will definitely be able to chat." Among all the people she had met, her dad was the only one who showed disdain for America. "Actually, I quite like New York. It's diverse and free, but my dad doesn't like it."
The two of them chatted enthusiastically, but they didn't realize that there were two people sitting at a table not far away who were also whispering to each other.
"Old Gu, should we report this to Mr. Li?" A middle-aged man with a large body and a thick beard looked in Li Yi's direction from time to time.
"What do you mean?"
Second Brother Li!
Your own daughter is on a date!
The middle-aged man with sunglasses was called Gu Quangui. He shrunk his neck, afraid that Second Brother Li would kill him!
They all knew how much Old Li's Second Brother loved this girl!
If Li Yi was taken advantage of under their noses, even if they managed to keep their lives, they would probably only be left with half their lives.
"Why don't we beat this kid up and forbid him from eating with Miss Li?" The bearded man was Lu Zheng. He was a bodyguard that Li He had arranged to be here, and he was also the owner of the restaurant.
He and Gu Quangui had been with Li He for at least ten years. Although they had always been company security and not personal bodyguards, they had interacted with Li He quite a bit. Otherwise, they wouldn't know Second Brother Li so well. Second Brother Li wouldn't have sent them all the way to America because they knew each other and trusted each other.
Gu Quangui sneered. "Grow some brains. It's not good to offend Mr. Li, and I'm afraid it's not good to offend that kid either."
"What do you mean?" Lu Zheng snapped. "Who do we need to be afraid of?"
Their confidence mainly came from Li He.
There was no one that Second Brother Li was afraid of!
"Sigh, Old Lu, you've regressed." Gu Quangui pouted at the two Southeast Asians sitting at the third table on their right. "You still have the cheek to say that you're an old detective."
"I wasn't paying attention." Lu Zheng blushed and glanced at the table. The other person was also staring in Li Yi's direction. "This is a Muay Thai practitioner. Usually, people who practice Muay Thai will first train their abdominal muscles to resist attacks."
Gu Quangui rolled his eyes at him. "Nonsense. Their abdominal muscles are so thick that even their clothes are bulging."
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