The next morning, Li Jia woke up from the kitchen table. After washing up, hesitated for a while, and changed into the orange cotton jacket he bought during the Chinese New Year.

Just as Li Jia was combing her hair in front of the mirror, a weird sound came from behind her.

"Sister, are you going to date the brother yesterday?"

Li Jia was startled and blushed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, what kind of dates are we going to do the serious business."

"Oh, that is, I really want to meet the brother yesterday."

Only then did Li Jia realize that she had been cheated, and she was so angry that she was trying to beat her. The little girl ran away with a smile and left a sentence.

"Sister, you are so beautiful today, you will definitely be fascinated by that brother."

After her cousin left, Li Jia muttered: "Who is going to show him?"

The girl in the mirror, wearing an orange jacket, had a flushed cheek and she was unconscious.

Strolling in the alleys of the alley, neighbors greeted Li Jia one after another.

"Oh, Jia Jia looks so beautiful today, are you going to the street?"

"Jia Jia's cotton jacket looks so good. Where did you buy it? I'll buy one for our Wenwen afterwards."

Li Jia responded with a smile, and before he knew it, he had arrived outside the alley, but did not find Qin Hao.

"This guy is actually late."

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Qin Hao came late. What made Li Jia even more angry was that Qin Hao just threw down a sentence after he came.

"Let's go, go to the Bund."

There was no word of praise, and a feeling of loss surged into Li Jia's heart. Fortunately, she got up early in the morning to dress up and put on a new cotton jacket that she was willing to wear during the Chinese New Year.

"Blind, wood, bastard!"

Just as Li Jia stomped her feet angrily, Qin Hao was still urging: "Hurry up, I won't be able to squeeze on the bus in a while."

Li Jia was so angry that she almost turned around and went back, but Qin Hao said, "Do you still want to make money?"

"Hmph, for the sake of making money."

Li Jia waved his fist behind Qin Hao: "If you dare to lie to me, I will ignore you in the future!"

Along the way, Li Jia didn't say a word to Qin Hao, and Qin Hao also changed his past jokes and his expression was a bit serious.

Only then did Li Jia realize that Qin Hao was dressed very maturely today, and a gray suit completely covered up his immature age, making it hard to believe that he was less than eighteen years old this year.

"The Bund, the Bund is here, and I've gotten off from the foreign trade company."

As the bus stopped slowly, Qin Hao directly pulled Li Jia's hand. At first, Li Jia wanted to shake off Qin Hao's palm, but after working several times but not making it out, he could only get off the car after following Qin Hao.

Fortunately, after getting off the car, Qin Hao let go, and Li Jia finally couldn't help asking: "You said that the place where you make money is here?"

According to Li Jia's idea, there are only two types of money: either you can earn a salary at work or buy and sell goods. There are department stores on the Bund, and there are no stalls outside.

"Yes, it's here." Qin Hao said with a serious look on his face: "From now on, you will be my secretary. Remember not to act on your own. Just follow my words."

This was the first time Li Jia saw Qin Hao with such a solemn expression and nodded blankly.

When he arrived at the door of the foreign trade company, Qin Hao did not go in, but stood at the door and looked around. Li Jia frowned and she really didn't understand how to make money at the door of the foreign trade company, and there was not even a small vendor nearby.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Li Jia became a little impatient. When she was about to ask Qin Hao what was going on, she saw Qin Hao walking towards a middle-aged man with an ugly face.

The middle-aged man looked in a dismayed look and almost hit Qin Hao: "Sorry..."

"Brother, are you sick if you look bad? Do you want to take you to the hospital?"

Faced with the kindness from strangers, the middle-aged man forced a smile: "It's okay, I'm just a little tired, just wait."

"Oh, that's good."

Just when the middle-aged man was about to bypass Qin Hao and leave, Qin Hao said, "Brother, you just came out of a foreign trade company. Are you doing foreign trade?"

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "Foreign trade is not something that ordinary people can do..."

"Is there any trick here for brother? To be honest, I am planning to do foreign trade."

After hearing what Qin Hao said, the middle-aged man looked at him again and looked surprised: "Do you also want to do foreign trade? Are you a state-owned enterprise or a collective enterprise?"

"Self-employed."

"Self-employed, then you should die as soon as possible."

“How to say it?”

"Foreign trade companies will give priority to state-owned enterprises, followed by collective enterprises and individual businesses? Foreign trade companies will not handle foreign exchange settlement for you at all."

Qin Hao pretended to be absent-minded: "So that's it. Brother, are you a state-owned enterprise or a collective enterprise?"

"We are collectively working in townships. Our factory is making hardware parts and has been losing money for many years. Last year, the factory carried out contract reform, so I contracted the factory, but the planned orders are given priority to state-owned large factories. The orders in townships like us are not saturated at all. Basically, the work is suspended for half a month after starting work. I was thinking about coming to Shanghai to try my luck, can I get some foreign trade orders?"

The middle-aged man vented his heart: "In the past few months, I basically came to the foreign trade company to spend as long as the factory stopped working. Finally, I encountered a foreign trade order that suited our factory. However, after a foreign businessman conducted a field visit, he said that our factory's equipment was backward and he had to hand over the order to the state-owned factory for work."

"The equipment is backward, so do the products you produce meet their requirements?" Qin Hao asked after thinking for a moment.

"It must be in line with it. Although the equipment in our factory is a bit old, the technical skills of our factory workers can completely make up for the equipment error."

After saying that, the middle-aged man sighed: "It's too late to say anything now. I'm sorry for the more than 200 employees in the factory."

"Brother, haven't you fought for another fight with foreign businessmen?"

"I came here just to fight for it. I also brought a lot of samples, but I don't know how to speak foreign language. People from foreign trade companies also ignore me. They are determined to hand over the orders to state-owned factories. Our township collective enterprises are raised by stepmothers."

Li Jia, who was standing beside him, was confused and didn't understand what Qin Hao was going to do. Just when she was confused, she heard Qin Hao ask in a serious tone.

"Brother, do you still want to get this foreign trade order?"

"I think about it, why don't I think about it, I dream of it."

"Are your sample still there?"

“It’s in the bag.”

"Do you know where foreign businessmen live?"

“Peace Hotel.”

Qin Hao pulled the middle-aged man up and said, "Let's go."

"Where do you go?" the middle-aged man looked confused.

"Peace Hotel."

"It's useless. I can't speak foreign language. I can't communicate with chickens and ducks." The middle-aged man shook his head dejectedly.

"You don't know, I do."

"Ah? Little brother, do you really know foreign language?"

The middle-aged man was ecstatic and held Qin Hao's hand tightly: "Little brother, if you can really take this order for me, you will be the benefactor of our factory."

However, Qin Hao just smiled but said nothing. The middle-aged man suddenly realized and slapped his thigh: "Little brother, don't worry, you won't let you work in vain."

After saying that, he raised five fingers: "The hard work of this number after the matter is done."

"I am Zhao Hongbo, what do you call me a little brother?"

"Qin Hao, this is my secretary Li Jia."

Only then did Li Jia realize that Qin Hao was going to earn money from the translator, but what puzzled her was why Qin Hao didn't show his identity from the beginning and even pretended to be a secretary.

However, when he thought of Qin Hao’s previous explanation, Li Jia had to bury all her questions in her heart first, and then followed Qin Hao and the others to the Peace Hotel.

After waiting in the hall for almost an hour, Zhao Hongbo suddenly said to Qin Hao: "Little brother is that foreigner."

Qin Hao looked at Zhao Hongbo's finger and was a white man in his thirties.

"Let's go."

Zhao Hongbo's heart trembled: "Can it really work?"

Qin Hao did not answer, but walked towards the white man with great strides. Zhao Hongbo quickly followed when he saw this.

Just as he was about to pass by the white man, Qin Hao called him in French.

The white man looked at Qin Hao in surprise: "You can speak French?"

"I was fortunate to live in France for a few years. It was a poetic country." Qin Hao said against his will.

The white man smiled and started chatting with Qin Hao in French again, as if he was having a stir. He even invited Qin Hao to sit down on the sofa in the hall.

Seeing that Qin Hao was having a hot chat with foreigners, Zhao Hongbo fully believed that he could speak foreign language and became more and more excited.

Li Jia looked incredible. At first, she heard that the white man was not speaking English, and she had only one thought in an instant: it was bad, but what she never expected was that Qin Hao could chat with this foreigner in French for so long. And judging from the pronunciations of the two, Qin Hao's French was quite standard.

After ten minutes of chatting, the white man finally asked why Qin Hao stopped him.

Qin Hao told Zhao Hongbo about it again, and the white man realized that he had met Zhao Hongbo before.

"Well, Mr. Qin, I really want to help you, but this gentleman's factory equipment is too old, and our company has high requirements for products..."

Qin Hao whispered to Zhao Hongbo: "Give all your samples."

Zhao Hongbo didn't have time to ask, so he placed all the dozen samples in his bag on the coffee table. Qin Hao picked up one of the forks and said to the white man.
To be continued...