I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 285 Hello, my name is Wei Xinghua
Has she graduated with her doctorate?

"I've graduated and now I work in the Financial Market Research Division of the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China."

The Financial Research Institute? This is a bureau-level research institution directly under the headquarters of the People's Bank of China. It mainly engages in research on monetary policy theory, financial and economic development strategies, and financial science, providing theoretical basis for the head office to formulate monetary policy.

It is equivalent to the think tank of the People's Bank of China.

"A golden opportunity, why would someone want to work for my small company?" Fang Qingye couldn't help but type the question.

“She told me a while ago that she wasn’t interested in this kind of government job and wanted to switch jobs, so I asked her about it,” the Dongguan girl typed.

“OK, ask her. If she wants to come, the annual salary is one million, she'll get an apartment in Shanghai, and a car.” Fang Qingye typed immediately.

"Wow, husband, you're so generous! I'll ask her right now, bye-bye."

There has been no news of the girl from Dongguan.

Fang Qingye also went offline. The next morning, after getting up, washing up, and having breakfast, she was preparing to check out and return to Nanxin when her QQ suddenly started beeping. A QQ friend named "Listen to Men Talk Ghost Stories" was calling her temporarily.

"Are you there?"

"Yes," Fang Qingye replied immediately.

He remembered that it was the female PhD student in finance from Tsinghua University in the QQ group that the girl from Dongguan had mentioned yesterday.

"Last night, the pretty girl told me that you are planning to start a new company to engage in quantitative trading and are recruiting people."

"Yes, the pretty girl told you about the treatment and everything, right?"

"Yes, a million-dollar annual salary, a house and a car, it's very tempting, but there are some specific details I'd like to ask. Shall we talk about it over the phone?"

"OK."

Fang Qingye gave her her phone number, and soon a phone number from the Yanjing area called.

When Fang Qingye answered the phone, she heard a woman's voice coming from the receiver, speaking Mandarin with a strong Northeastern accent.

"Hello, I'm listening to men talk nonsense."

After being greeted, Fang Qingye was momentarily at a loss for words.

This online name doesn't seem like much in QQ chat, but it feels really awkward to say it in real life.

The other person seemed to realize something and laughed heartily: "I heard from the pretty girl that your name is Fang Qingye, and my name is Wei Xinghua."

Wei Xinghua?
Such a rustic name, but it's slightly better than Cuihua, right?

Fang Qingye is simply not someone you could associate with a female finance PhD from Tsinghua University.

But he still greeted her politely: "Hello, Dr. Wei."

"Hello, Mr. Fang, I would like to hear about your plans for the future of your company."

“Okay.” Fang Qingye explained his ideas and emphasized at the end: “At first, we will mainly focus on the domestic market, the A-share market and the futures market. Once the funds reach a certain scale, we will start to enter the international market, including US stocks, the three major European stock indices, and commodity futures products such as crude oil, copper, and rubber, to take advantage of foreigners.”

On the other end of the phone, Wei Xinghua laughed: "You have big ambitions, don't you? This beautiful girl insists on having me come over. Fine, I'll resign today."

“Wait, Dr. Wei, my company hasn’t been established yet. It’s expected to be officially prepared after New Year’s Day, and it won’t be open for business until the students we recruited start working. The earliest it will be is next July. Why did you come so early?” Fang Qingye reminded him.

"I'm coming right now, are you going to pay me my salary?" Wei Xinghua said half-jokingly and half-seriously on the phone.

"Once you sign the contract, you become a formal employee of the company, and naturally you have to keep your promises."

"Alright then, I'll go through the resignation process. Once things are settled here, I'll come to Shanghai and, while I'm at it, study the mathematical models in high-frequency quantitative trading."

"OK, give me a call before you come to Shanghai, and I'll pick you up. I'm usually not in Shanghai; I live in my hometown county."

"I know, Jinghai Nanxin, right?"

"Correct."

Fang Qingye guessed that she heard it from a girl from Dongguan.

After the phone call ended, Fang Qingye packed her bags, checked out of the hotel, and drove back to Nanxin. However, before leaving, she bought a villa in a residential complex called Siji Yayuan in Pudong New Area.

This is a high-end villa area developed by Hutchison Whampoa Properties (Shanghai) Limited, located in Zhangjiabang, near Century Park.

Some time ago, when Fang Qingye bought apartments for the company, he purchased more than 10 apartments in a development under Huangpu Real Estate. The company's boss specifically offered him a discount, up to 10%. Even with the 10% discount, the average price of these high-end villas was still 72,000 yuan per square meter.

Fang Qingye bought a villa with an area of ​​approximately 230 square meters across two floors, including a basement, garden, and garage, for a total of 1800 million yuan including taxes and fees.

Because Shanghai announced that it will implement purchase restrictions in October, each non-Shanghai resident can only buy one house.

Several days had passed since Fang Qingye returned to the county town, and she still hadn't heard from Wei Xinghua. She wondered if the female PhD had completed her resignation procedures. Fang Qingye didn't feel comfortable calling to inquire.

Let's just wait, there's no rush anyway.

That afternoon, Fang Qingye was busy at the nursery after lunch. Recently, the Nanxin area had not received any rain and the weather was extremely dry, so the seedlings and flowers in the nursery needed to be pumped for irrigation.

When the workers are busy, Fang Qingye also comes to help, taking it as a form of exercise. Today, he's wearing rain boots and a straw hat, holding a hose and watering the osmanthus and other saplings.

Just then, his niece Fang Fei ran over to him and said, "Uncle, someone is looking for you at the gate of the nursery."

"Who?"

"I've never seen her before, she's a stunning beauty."

Oh?
Fang Qingye handed the water pipe to the busy worker on the other side, asking him to continue watering, and then followed Fang Fei toward the gate.

Sure enough, a pretty girl was standing at the gate, with a suitcase next to her.

She was tall, probably over 1.7 meters, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, with a curvaceous figure. This reminded Fang Qingye of her senior classmate Cheng Zhenzhen, whom she had met at the Anhui Provincial Bank, but Fang Qingye was much prettier than Cheng Zhenzhen.

"May I ask who you are?" Fang Qingye asked.

"You must be Fang Qingye? Hello, I'm Wei Xinghua." The girl smiled and extended her right hand.

"So it's Dr. Wei, hello." Fang Qingye quickly waved, wanting to shake hands, but then remembered that her hands were a bit dirty, so she wiped them haphazardly on her clothes before finally taking the girl's hand.

"welcome."

The other party was amused by Fang Qingye's action. Wei Xinghua said, "I never thought that a tycoon worth billions would actually be a gardener. No wonder the beautiful girl is so interested in you."

This beautiful woman is actually a PhD?!

Who is this beautiful girl she's talking about?!
Fang Fei stood to the side, her eyes darting back and forth between the two of them, as if she had seen some juicy gossip.

Fang Qingye ignored her and led Wei Xinghua into the nursery. They went to her office on the second floor and Fang Fei poured tea for her.

The two sat on the sofa, and Fang Qingye said, "Dr. Wei, why didn't you call me in advance? I could have just gone to Shanghai, saving you the trouble of coming all the way to Nanxin."

“She’s a beautiful girl, you know her name, right?” Wei Xinghua asked.

"I know, yellow peach, peach."

“Yes, Taozi asked me to come and see where you live, and she also asked me to take some photos for her and send them to her, saying that you have never sent her any photos,” Wei Xinghua said.

Fang Qingye thought about it and realized that seemed to be the case.

But the other party never asked for it, right?

"The scenery here is nice, I'll take a couple of pictures." Wei Xinghua said, taking out her phone and leaving the office. She took pictures everywhere, not forgetting to tell Fang Qingye to continue working while she recorded a video.

After some fuss, the two finally got down to business: "Dr. Wei, I'll book you a hotel for one night, and I'll go to Shanghai with you tomorrow."

"Okay, it's up to you."

Fang Qingye naturally wanted to treat Wei Xinghua to dinner that evening. Originally, Fang Qingye suggested going out for hot pot or something, but Wei Xinghua said there was no need to trouble herself, as her grandmother would cook, and they could eat there.

However, Grandma's cooking was indeed delicious, and Wei Xinghua praised it repeatedly while eating, laughing with her grandparents as she ate.

"Xinghua, your family is also in the countryside?" Grandma asked.

“Yes, I’m from the Northeast. My family has more land than you do, several plots. We used to grow soybeans and sorghum, but now we grow rice.” Wei Xinghua said.

"You know how to farm?" Grandpa Fang Guisheng asked curiously.

"Of course, what kind of work haven't I done, like farming and feeding pigs? I have to work as soon as I get home from school." The three of them chatted enthusiastically, leaving Fang Qingye standing aside.

Look at Grandma's eyes, something's not right. She actually asked about Wei Xinghua's personal situation.

If there were no white lotus roots, would you like to find a granddaughter-in-law?
(End of this chapter)