“I forget ……” Liu Manqiong said awkwardly, “I’m actually not sensitive to this aspect, and I wasn’t that old at that time, I just thought I just wanted to keep that street, so I asked my dad to pay for it, exactly how much it cost, I really don’t know.”
Ye Chen asked again, “Then how do you know that there is still a deficit of two hundred thousand dollars every month?”
“The manager told me.” Liu Manqiong said, “Before I became an adult, my father had someone running this snack street, but after I became an adult, I was given the responsibility to manage it. asked the manager to arrange for special cleaning staff to help everyone clean up, clean up the rubbish and catch the rats and C*ckroaches every day so ……”
Said, Liu Manqiong added: “Oh yes, before every month do not need to lose so much, now the deficit is more and more because the labor has been increasing in price, cleaning staff are more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, so the deficit is also more and more, from the beginning of several tens of thousands, to now 200,000.”
As the words fell, Liu Manqiong’s expression could not help but say with some shame, “Isn’t it quite a failure to do business to the extent that I have?”
Ye Chen laughed: “I don’t think so, your snack street place is so prosperous and so well maintained, I believe the land price should have gone up a lot over the years, maybe it has doubled many times, as for this loss you are talking about, it is likely that it is not even a fraction of the profit.”
“Is that so ……” Liu Manqiong suddenly came back to her senses and said with some chagrin all of a sudden, “You’re right …… How come I never thought about this aspect for so many years …… All I’ve thought about for so many years is that, well, my dad’s business is getting bigger and bigger and doesn’t care that the snack street is losing so much money every month, but I’ve never thought about it, the whole snack street land value appreciation ……”
After saying that, she couldn’t help but smile and shake her head, “I really lack sensitivity to doing business, I belong to the talent-deficient one ……”
Ye Chen asked him, “What about your sister? Does she have a talent in this area?”
“Yes.” Liu Manqiong nodded and said with a smile, “My sister is very good, she is studying finance in the UK, her biggest dream is to take over her dad’s cla*s, so she works very hard in this area.”
Ye Chen smiled faintly and said seriously, “If you don’t like business, you can indeed choose a career that you like.”
Saying that, Ye Chen asked her, “What is the job you most want to do?”
Liu Manqiong said seriously, “The Chinese Department is actually rather narrow in terms of employment, if you are on Hong Kong Island, the most common employment direction is similar to that on the mainland, which is to take the civil service exam, other than that, the media and schools are also two more common employment directions, if you get a PhD, then going to a top university to become a teacher is actually a very good development direction, I myself am inclined towards that. ”
Ye Chen was surprised and asked, “You want to be a teacher?”
“Yeah.” Liu Manqiong nodded and said very solemnly, “Teaching and educating people is a very sacred thing in my mind, if I can become a university teacher in the future, I will be satisfied.”
Ye Chen smiled and asked her, “I heard that you are studying for a PhD at the University of Hong Kong, and you want to stay at the University to teach in the future?”
Liu Manqiong was silent for a moment, shook her head gently and spoke, “After all, Hong Kong Island is too small, and always staying here will make you feel a bit like sitting in a well and watching the sky.”
Saying that, she looked at Ye Chen and said in a ghostly manner, “Actually …… I have the desire to go over to the Mainland to have a look, I wonder if Mr. Ye would like to welcome me?”