I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 986 A Fool Not to Take the Money

Chapter 986: Chapter 986 A Fool Not to Take the Money

After Xiao Pang won the game, the popularity of Go suddenly soared.

All the major newspapers reported on the event on their front pages.

The hype wasn’t that intense during the competition; it only rose after the victory made it a hot topic.

Various media outlets were contacting Xiao Pang, hoping he would accept interviews. For a time, he was showered in glory and overwhelmed with attention.

Some manufacturers even approached him, hoping Xiao Pang could do an advertisement for them, and the offer they made for the advertising fee was quite generous.

Xiao Pang’s normally peaceful life was disrupted, but his father wasn’t swept away by the frenzy.

Although at first he couldn’t wait to tell the whole world how successful and glorious his son was...

He only got overly excited for half a day. After humbly sitting down for tea with Suizi and her husband, he had an epiphany during their conversation.

He went back and declined all the interviews, only accepting one from a mainstream media outlet.

Those advertising offers with endorsement fees in the tens of thousands looked substantial to others, but Xiao Pang’s dad didn’t hesitate to turn them down.

According to Suizi, Xiao Pang was still young, and consuming his popularity too early would not be beneficial for his studies.

Of course, there was another important reason.

Suizi gave Xiao Pang a cut of the profits.

We may not accept those flashy external endorsements, but when it comes to a little covert advertising fee from within the family, cough cough, that we can have.

Xiao Pang’s dad didn’t take Suizi’s words to heart for a while because he didn’t think Suizi would give Xiao Pang much money.

Xiao Pang just wore the clothes Suizi prepared for the semifinal and final, showing his face for that short time. If those clothes sold three or five dozen sets, Xiao Pang’s dad thought it was already quite impressive.

He figured it was just a hundred and eighty bucks in profit sharing.

He even worried on Suizi’s behalf, thinking about all the fabric she had invested in. She wouldn’t lose money, would she?

After sending Xiao Pang’s dad away, Suizi called the Cloth Factory. After hanging up, she began to sit cross-legged on the bed, calculating her profits.

In her mind, Suizi imagined herself at that moment as a career-focused woman, efficient yet not losing the elegance of femininity, because while she calculated, she also applied a homemade facial mask.

However, in Yu Jingting’s eyes, Suizi looked like this:

Her face smeared with some red substance, sitting cross-legged on the bed like a money-grubbing fiend, a woman with eyes only for money... occasionally letting out bursts of laughter she couldn’t suppress.

"Sixteen yuan for a top, fourteen for pants, and a sash included in a set... the first batch of three thousand sets, my profit is... oh hahaha~"

Suizi laughed so hard that the facial mask almost cracked, and Yu Jingting just shook his head on the side.

"This money-eyed little wench, keep it down— are you the same person who was all about national pride during the day?"

Putting on a mask, she transformed from a hero among women to a money fiend in seconds.

"How am I not the same person? People are multifaceted! Jingting, listen to me calculating the figures, we’ll sell out the first batch, then observe the Market’s response, and then roll it out to the surrounding cities!"

Talking about making money, her eyes gleamed with greed.

"Isn’t the price a bit high? The fabric is so thin, and it’s clothes for kids, they don’t use much material at all. How much does an adult’s cotton-padded jacket even cost?"

Wang Cuihua came in to bring some fruit and stood at the doorway, hearing her daughter-in-law’s money-obsessed laughter.

"Isn’t this walking right into the line of fire?" Yu Jingting picked up a radish to chew on, confident that Suizi was just waiting for someone to ask that question.

He and Suizi were highly aligned in their business thinking; he understood all her strategies, so there was no need to ask.

Right now, that little wench was possessed by her avarice and simply wanted to share with someone. His mother just happily walked right in.

Indeed, Suizi reached out her hand to shake her mother-in-law’s, her eyes shining with the light of "money."

"Mom, if we price it according to the commodity value, wouldn’t that be unfair to Xiaopang’s efforts these past days?"

"...Can you say something I can understand?"

"What she means is, if you can make money and don’t, you’re a fool," Yu Jingting explained succinctly.

Wang Cuihua understood.

"Mom, imagine, if our Jiaojiao sees her classmates wearing fashionable clothes and she asks you for some, what would you do? Would you have the patience to go to the market to find fabric and spend days figuring out the pattern to have them made?"

"I couldn’t, I can’t stand Jiaojiao clinging onto me," Wang Cuihua immediately felt the relevance. Of course, the confidence supporting her position ultimately came from the fact that the Yu Family wasn’t short on money.

The old Yu Family was now among the first to become wealthy; it was just that they lived modestly on a day-to-day basis and didn’t flaunt their wealth.

"We can’t do it, and neither can other parents. The price is high but with a bit of grit, it’s still affordable. Let’s take advantage of Xiaopang’s popularity while it’s still fresh and make a good sale."

"But what if other places copy us—why are you laughing?"

Yu Jingting shook his head; his mother still didn’t understand his wife. If Xiaopang was the type to think ten steps ahead in a game of chess, Suizi was the type to plan ten steps ahead in life.

"Your daughter-in-law already saw this coming. She bought up all of that kind of fabric. Any factory in the area that wants to copy us has to wholesale the fabric from her, and her prices are even cheaper than a legitimate cloth factory."

"Why?" Wang Cuihua asked, not quite getting it.

"Because she bought up all the clearance stock at low prices. She doesn’t design the style and then find the fabric; she bases her designs on whatever fabric is cheap," Jingting elaborated.

If there were more black and white fabrics left in stock, she came up with a checkerboard pattern. If red and yellow were plentiful, Yu Jingting seriously suspected his wife would come up with a tomato and scrambled egg design.

Wang Cuihua was dumbfounded after hearing this. If it were anybody else, she would definitely spit on the ground; isn’t this sharp practice?

But it was her own daughter-in-law...

Wang Cuihua looked at her son with a meaningful expression.

"You lucky bugger, how fortunate must you be to have married Suizi? People say a man is the rake that gathers money and a woman is the box that holds it. In my opinion, that’s too one-sided. You two are both rakes, and the kind that only rake in without shelling out..."

Suizi’s need to talk was satisfied. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, hands clasped, and laughed with similar joy.

Yu Jingting raised an eyebrow. Oh? A passion for wealth, passed from one generation to the next?

"Hurry back to the room, your old man is calling for you." Yu Jingting pulled up his mother.

Wang Cuihua still wanted to chat more with Suizi, but Yu Jingting opened the door, shoved his mother out, and the action was swift and resolute—undertaking.

"You little rascal, you’re always trying to snatch Suizi from me." Wang Cuihua kicked the door and cursed as she went back to her own room.

"Once the first batch is sold, we’ll add more. If the popularity lasts until winter, I even want to make a batch of wool overcoats—hey, what are you doing?" As Suizi was getting excited with the calculations, Jingting took away her abacus.

Suizi tried to grab it back, and he lifted the abacus high out of reach.

Not only did he take her abacus away, but he also had a serious expression on his face, almost as if a few words were written there: "Daddy’s not happy."

"Did I upset you?" Suizi asked.

"Yes, you did."

"Oh... here, have some pocket money." Suizi took out a stack of money from her pocket, picked out a ten-yuan note, and handed it to him.

Yu Jingting snatched the money away and with great righteousness stowed it in his pocket.

"Don’t change the subject. I’m not easily bought-off with money. Tell me, during the competition, what was the deal with that man dressed like a garish toad?"

"If you’re not bought-off, then give it back—huh? Toad man?" Suizi didn’t catch on all at once.

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