Xu Qingfan arrived at Lin Wanning’s front door, where the once-small Little White had grown into an imposing large white dog.
Round eyes, a round nose, a delicate vixen face—the purebred Chinese Garden Earth Dog was just as marketable as any foreign breed.
"Chu chu chu~ Co here, Big White!" Excited upon seeing Xu Qingfan, the big white dog pushed off its hind legs and stood up, lunging toward him.
"Eh, good dog!" Xu Qingfan patted its head, then sensing an odd sll, he brought his hand to his nose to sniff. It was probably the rain from yesterday, a strong dog sll, "Damn stinky dog, get lost, don’t touch !"
The dog: ???
Pushed away, a look of confusion erged in Big White’s eyes, but a few seconds later, it bounded back even more excitedly than before.
"Brother Fan!"
Turning around, Xu Qingfan saw the little owner had co out.
"Wanning, how many days has it been since your dog had a bath? It slls so strong." Xu Qingfan asked after washing his hands clean at the sink.
"Not at all, Little White broke free from its leash and ran out yesterday, and didn’t co back until it started raining, then dad punished it by making it stand in the rain!" Lin Wanning also slled the dog odor and stepped back with distaste, staying away from the largest radius of Big White’s activity.
"That deserves a punishnt, to let it know about society’s perils, lest it be caught and end up in a dog at restaurant!" In their area, dog at was quite popular, selling for over thirty yuan per half kilogram, pricier than beef—catching a four or fifty-kilogram dog like Little White would an a thousand yuan’s profit.
"Mm, let’s go inside and talk, Brother Qing Fan!" Lin Wanning took Xu Qingfan’s damp palm without disgust and pulled him into the house.
"Wow~ Ningning is doing howork, huh!" Xu Qingfan noted the open books and exercise booklets on the dining table with a smile.
"Hehe, the graduation exams are coming up, duck, I can’t score much lower than Brother Fan!" Lin Wanning linked her arm with his, her eyes curved into crescent moons as she tilted her head to look at him.
Xu Qingfan patted the girl’s head, praising her, "Ningning is great, the graduation exam is just a district-wide standard test, without those tough, hair-pulling questions added by schools, our scores shouldn’t be much different."
"As long as I’m within twenty points of Brother Fan, I’ll be satisfied!"
The elentary to middle school graduation exam covered four subjects: language, mathematics, English, and natural science, with a total perfect score of 350. Lin Wanning’s scores hovered around 320 in the previous tests.
"Then I’ll just score a few points less next ti, and Ningning can achieve her goal."
"No need, I want to rely on my own efforts!" Lin Wanning pouted, giving him a reproachful look.
"Alright, alright, I’m just joking. Let’s hurry up and get changed. Aren’t your uncle and aunt ho?" Xu Qingfan crouched to check the girl’s howork and, finding it all correct, nodded in satisfaction.
"Mom and dad went back to the factory. Just wait for , Brother Qing Fan, I’ll go change!"
"Okay, I’ll wait for you downstairs." He sat in the spot where Lin Wanning had been working on howork, helping to tidy up the books and stationery on the table.
Xu Qingfan suddenly recalled that Lin Qiaoshan’s garnt factory would implode this year due to the financial crisis. On one side was the devaluation of foreign exchange, turning previously profitable orders into losses after converting to Huaxia currency; on the other, many buyers extended their paynt cycles, eventually dragging the garnt factory into quicksand.
That was what Xu Qingfan had been busy with recently, finding a suitable reason to persuade Zhang Chunxue to sell her foreign stocks.
He certainly didn’t have the expertise to write an academic paper predicting the outbreak of the subpri mortgage crisis.
However, knowing that the 2008 financial crisis would explode due to real estate, he was able to find the evidence to prove the risks.
After dealing with January’s cold snap, Xu Qingfan had been self-studying and gathering relevant financial information from various channels. He managed to persuade Zhang Chunxue to sell the stocks at a high price just before the Lehman Brothers Building was about to collapse in April.
After all this, Xu Qingfan also managed to participate in the last midterm exam of the sester, achieving a perfect score.
He felt like he was just as described in Li Bai’s "Knight-Errant," disappearing into anonymity after handling affairs.
As for the Lin Wanning family’s garnt factory, the long string of zeros in the girl’s bank account was more than enough to buy seven or eight garnt factories of the sa scale, ready to give Lin Qiaoshan and Wen Wanqing a huge surprise when the mont ca!
"Brother Fan, does it look good on ?" After changing into a blue and white striped dress, Lin Wanning stood at the top of the stairs, holding up her skirt and asking him.
"It looks good, our Wanning looks good in anything."
"Heehee~ Then I’ll wear this, just wait a mont longer, Brother Fan, I’ll change my hair clip!" The girl ran upstairs giggling again.
"Okay!" Lin Wanning hurried back down to his side, with a yellow hair tie making a cute little bump on her head, knowing Xu Qingfan liked it.
Six years had passed, and the girl still had the sa hairstyle she wore back in kindergarten.
Xu Qingfan’s eyes lit up; he couldn’t help but admit Lin Wanning was growing up to resemble the character Xiao Liuhua more and more—if she ever put on the high school uniform and a red plaid skirt, it would be like a real-life carbon copy.
[Chuunibyou seems to have co out in either 2012 or 2013, just when everyone was in high school too!] He recalled, thinking the girl would still be as silly and cute as she was now after high school, Xu Qingfan couldn’t help but smile faintly.
"What are you smiling at, Brother Fan?" Lin Wanning brought her face close, trying to observe carefully.
"Laughing because you asked why my QQ level hasn’t changed even after I’ve shared so many posts!"
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