BHBF Chapter 53.5

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 2) Chapter 53.5: The Bitter Heroine (55)

But the neighbors still gathered at his house.

 

Soon, Liu Cuifen came out and drove everyone out with a fierce face.

 

After returning to the house, Liu Cuifen rushed directly to Shao Yu and said, “Husband, can you see if I have any new way to make money?”

 

Shao Yu looked her up and down and asked, “You work so long now, and you have to spend all your extra time learning foreign languages. Do you have the energy to do anything else?”

 

Liu Cuifen paused after hearing this, and said with great regret: “Indeed, I really don’t have time.”

 

Shao Yu added: “However, there is indeed an opportunity to make money recently.”

 

Liu Cuifen’s eyes immediately lit up and she asked eagerly.

 

Shao Yu smiled and said, “Exchange the dollars for gold bars.”

 

“Can it still go up? Husband, just tell me, how much it can you go up, and I will invest all my belongings in it,” Liu Cuifen said.

 

“All your belongings are only enough to buy half a stick.” Shao Yu said unhappily.

 

She smiled awkwardly and said, “I’ll go borrow some money from my daughter.”

 

Shao Yu said immediately: “Your daughter won’t ask you to pay back the money. You have calculated it accurately. Are you even trying to make money from your daughter?”

 

Liu Cuifen touched her nose and said, “I will return it to her later.”

 

“Will the money back then be as valuable as it is now?” Shao Yu asked back.

 

Liu Cuifen didn’t know what inflation was, so she immediately said, “A dollar is a dollar, there’s no such thing as whether it’s valuable or not.

“Just calculate how much one dollar could buy a year ago and how much one dollar can buy now,” Shao Yu said.

 

Liu Cuifen thought about it and immediately asked him, “Husband, is the value of the dollar going to become less and less?”

 

Shao Yu sneered and whispered, “Relying on this Nationalist government that is losing ground and even lost Shanghai, what do you think will happen in the future?”

 

Liu Cuifen hurriedly covered his mouth.

 

Liu Cuifen was not a housewife who stayed at home all day long. She heard a lot of news from the guests in the restaurant. She naturally knew that talking about political affairs never ended well.

 

Shao Yu didn’t continue speaking, but Liu Cuifen already understood.

 

“Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times. If we can survive until the prosperous times, we can stock up on a batch of antiques,” said Shao Yu.

 

“Can we really wait for a prosperous era?” Liu Cuifen asked.

 

Shao Yu’s eyes were firm and he said, “It is definitely possible.”

 

Shao Yu did not plan to collect antiques, but he gave Liu Cuifen this advice. Although he has planned to do some practical things, he would not force the whole family to follow him.

 

Shao Yu still has a batch of gold in his hands, and he has been thinking about how to maximize the utilization of this batch of gold.

 

It’s not that he hasn’t thought about handing it over, but what they need most right now is not money, but medicine.

 

Western medicine is very expensive on the black market now, but the price increase of Chinese herbal medicine is not that exaggerated. There are many Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai now. If they can be made into pills that take effect quickly and sent out, it will be the greatest support.

 

Shao Yu had thought about setting up a factory, but pharmaceutical factories were different from garment factories. Shao Yu needed a group of trustworthy people to ensure that this matter went smoothly.

 

Although the neighbors all have their own shortcomings, Shao Yu actually has an idea of who can be trusted. It’s just that they are in the current state and still need to be tempered, otherwise it’s easy to make mistakes.

 

Liu Cuifen did not buy gold in the end, but went to the homes of those who had moved to look for bargains and bought some antiques at low prices. She could not tell the good from the bad, and it was all thanks to Shao Yu who helped her to have a good eye.

 

After keeping the neighbors waiting for five days, Shao Yu finally spoke reluctantly, “I do know a small pharmaceutical factory that seems to need help.”

 

Many neighbors who had no special skills were immediately excited when they heard the news.

 

Seeing that other neighbors were earning more and more every day, these people were already extremely anxious. At this point, they didn’t even have time to make a judgment and directly begged Shao Yu to help lead the way.

 

Shao Yu naturally couldn’t expose himself, so he asked Ah Huan to pretend that there was a big boss behind him.

 

Ah Huan trained everyone and taught them how to make pills.

 

Although these neighbors had no experience, Shao Yu had already simplified the process into an assembly line, so it was not too difficult for them.

 

Occasionally, someone would ask about the efficacy of this pill. Shao Yu would never say that it could stop bleeding. He would only say that it could strengthen the appetite and stimulate the spleen. When such a common efficacy was mentioned, not many people would doubt it.

 

In addition, the people who worked on the final pill-making stage were all trusted by Shao Yu, so there were no major problems. Shao Yu’s small pharmaceutical factory was thus run.

 

Even though Guan Yang went out early and came back late every day, he was aware of what was going on at the Shao family.

 

Guan Yang naturally agreed with Shao Yu’s decision to open a class, but when the alley was filled with the aroma of medicine, Guan Yang couldn’t help but come over to ask.