The Stepmother’s Counterattack: Raising a Child in a Bygone Era
Chapter 581 - 580: Investment

Chapter 581: Chapter 580: Investment

"Sister-in-law, to tell you the truth," Pei Wenping said, "After you and my brother divorced, that Zhan Xiaomeng went to Shanghai City to look for my brother."

Zhan Xiaomeng, Chen Yi’s extramarital partner.

"But you can rest assured, sister-in-law, my brother rejected her and even told her not to look for him again. However, I think as long as you and my brother don’t reconcile, the one surnamed Zhan won’t give up."

"With my brother’s career success and him being in his prime, even without that Zhan Xiaomeng, there’ll be other women chasing after him. We can all see that you and my brother still have feelings for each other..."

Pei Wenping slammed down the iron spoon and interrupted Yi Ling’s words.

"Don’t talk to me about these things in the future; his affairs have nothing to do with me."

After saying that, Pei Wenping picked up her bowl of porridge and left.

Yi Ling watched her back, feeling somewhat that Pei Wenping didn’t appreciate what was good for her.

A prodigal returning is more precious than gold, missing out on a man as excellent as Chen Yi, she will regret it sooner or later.

...

After everyone had eaten their fill and helped clean up, they each went back to their homes.

Shen Mingzhu had eaten quite a lot that evening, and not wanting her daughter to keep watching TV for fear of developing shortsightedness, she suggested playing hide-and-seek.

Rock, paper, scissors - Shen Mingzhu lost.

While she covered her eyes and counted, the father and son each hid in their own spots.

After counting the last number, Shen Mingzhu looked around and then got up to head for the bathroom.

There was a bathtub in the bathroom where her daughter always liked to hide.

Just as she stepped into the bathroom, the door behind her "clicked" shut.

Turning around, her nose bumped into the solid wall of a man’s body.

"What are you doing?"

Pei Yang wrapped his long arm around her waist, looking down at her with a smile, "Let them play upstairs for a while, we need to talk about something."

Shen Mingzhu glanced at him, "Are you crazy? Whatever you have to say, does it have to be in the bathroom?"

"Otherwise, shall we move to the bed?"

The moment he spoke, Shen Mingzhu kicked him.

"... I think this Chinese Character Paging System has great potential. Look, although pagers currently have short message codes, it’s nearly impossible to memorize hundreds of them. Flipping through the codebook each time is a hassle, but if the pager screen could directly display Chinese characters, that would be so much more convenient."

While Shen Mingzhu was massaging cleansing cream over her face, she asked him, "Did Chen Yi say how the investment would work? Keep it simple, if I invest a hundred thousand, how much profit can I get?"

"The intellectual property and patents go to Lihua Company, with a total of five million in financing and 50% profit-sharing rights. By that calculation, a hundred thousand would be 1%."

"Chen Yi said that once this Chinese Character Paging System is launched, the conservative annual profit would be more than ten million."

Shen Mingzhu thought to herself, much more than ten million.

If she remembered correctly, when the Han display system was first introduced, the annual service fee was six hundred, and it didn’t start decreasing until the paging stations were fully opened up a few years later, eventually leading to the cancellation of the fee.

At present, the number of pager users had already broken through the one million mark.

And this number, in the next year, the year after, and in the following years, would grow exponentially, reaching a peak of 65 million!

"Alright, let’s invest," she said.

Upon hearing her agreement, Pei Yang lit up with happiness.

He was like a big boy who had gotten the toy he wanted, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"You also think this project has a future?"

"Yeah, it has a lucrative future."

"So we’ll invest a hundred thousand?"

Shen Mingzhu bent down to wash her face clean and dried it with a towel. She looked at the man with her damp eyelashes fluttering, "Five hundred thousand."

Pei Yang was stunned, "Isn’t that too big a gamble?"

The issue was they didn’t have half a million on hand at the moment. They surely couldn’t go borrowing money for investment; that would be too risky.

Shen Mingzhu calmed down and also felt that she might have gotten a little too greedy.

Even though the Han display for pagers was an inevitable trend, it wasn’t guaranteed that Lihua Company would be the one to reap the benefits.

"Let’s make it two hundred thousand," she suggested.

Pei Yang still thought it was too much, two hundred thousand was all of their family’s current savings.

He didn’t approve of investing all their money.

But looking at Shen Mingzhu’s apricot eyes misty with moisture, like gorgeous gemstones washed by water, the objections he had on the tip of his tongue turned into "okay."

If a hundred thousand could make his wife happy, then it was worth it.

"Mommy, where are you?"

Hearing her daughter’s voice from the living room, Shen Mingzhu hurriedly responded, "I’m in the bathroom, I’ve hidden, I’ll come out to find you in a bit."

"Don’t come out yet, I haven’t hidden properly."

"Then I’ll count to ten before coming out."

"Okay——"

Hearing her daughter’s footsteps going upstairs, Shen Mingzhu quickly tidied up the sink and said to Pei Yang, "You go out first, find a place to hide, I’ll go look for you with Guoguo later, so she won’t say we are cheating her."

"Kiss me first."

Shen Mingzhu was somewhat disgusted, but she still cooperated by tiptoeing and pecking a kiss on the man’s lips.

...

After thinking it over, Shen Mingzhu still felt that she shouldn’t miss the investment opportunity in the Chinese Character Paging System.

After finishing her work, she drove to the Zhong Family.

She wasn’t there to borrow money from Zhong Qing, but to persuade Zhong Qing to invest together.

Zhong Qing wasn’t averse to investing, she was just curious why Shen Mingzhu was optimistic about this project.

"Personally, I think the domestic electronics and technology industries urgently need development, we can’t always rely on imports, otherwise, we’re too easily strangled. If the investment is successful, that’s great, even if it isn’t, consider it a contribution to national construction," Shen Mingzhu said.

Even Shen Mingzhu herself thought her speech was quite grandiose.

But there was no choice, she certainly couldn’t say she was from the future and knew what was going to happen.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Qing was moved by her "patriotic sentiment" and decisively decided to invest five hundred thousand.

Shen Mingzhu then went to find Yan Su.

Yan Su was also greatly moved by her speech and invested a hundred thousand.

As the Yan Family’s second daughter and the younger sister-in-law of Fengcheng’s richest man, Yan Su naturally wasn’t short of money, but she spent all her money on building schools and doing charity work. Her purse was empty, and even the hundred thousand she invested was borrowed from Yan Yi.

When Yan Yi learned she was borrowing money to invest in the Chinese Character Paging System, and that Shen Mingzhu was particularly optimistic about this project, he gave Yan Su one million and one hundred thousand.

"This one million, you invest it in the project for me."

Yan Su looked at him, "Aren’t you always not involved in business?"

With Yan Yi’s family background and intelligence, if he wanted to do business, he would surely have a place on the Forbes list.

As a nobleman’s son, he had a pride, aloofness, and set of principles that were beyond ordinary people.

"Using your name, I wouldn’t be breaking my principles," Yan Yi said casually, but Yan Su felt somewhat upset.

If losing a loved one is pain etched deep in the bones, then unreciprocated longing is the bitterest thing in the world.

...

Two days later, Shen Mingzhu took two million with her, as well as a lawyer, and drove to Quancheng to sign the investment agreement with Lihua.

The full name of Lihua is Lihua Electronics Information Industry Group Company, a state-controlled corporation.

Shen Mingzhu’s claim that investing in this project was contributing to the country wasn’t an empty boast.

Knowing Shen Mingzhu had raised two million for the investment in just one day, Chen Yi couldn’t help but lament to Pei Yang about Shen Mingzhu’s capabilities and audacity.

Chen Yi reminisced, "Back in the day, when Mingzhu borrowed five thousand from the bank to start her factory, your sister was so worried she couldn’t eat or sleep well, fearing Mingzhu would lose or owe money. I too was worried along with her, but we underestimated her."

Pei Yang didn’t say anything, but thought to himself that his wife had great abilities.

"Take good care of Wenping," Pei Yang grunted, "She’s my own sister, of course, I’ll take care of her, you don’t need to worry as an outsider."

Chen Yi didn’t bicker with him and simply hoped, "I still wish Wenping would go to Shanghai City, Xiaolu and Xiaochao miss her very much."

Thinking of his two nephews, Pei Yang remained silent.

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