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

Chapter 350 An Accidental Encounter with Xu Yunyun

Shi Guangrong readily agreed.

"Qingye, you're going back to Nanxin tomorrow? Let's have dinner together tonight," Shi Guangrong said again.

"Forget it, it's an hour's drive from where you live, it's too much trouble, and we don't need to be so polite," Fang Qingye politely declined Shi Guangrong's invitation.

Hearing Fang Qingye say this, Shi Guangrong didn't insist and said that they would get together again next time he came to Shanghai.

After making the call, Fang Qingye checked the time; it was 6:30 PM, and it was getting dark, time for dinner.

However, Fang Qingye wasn't hungry. She was already tired of the hotel food after eating it for two or three days, so she decided to go out and find some snacks.

Fang Qingye heard that there was a night market on Lujiazui Fucheng Road across the street, so she planned to go there and take a stroll. Since it was inconvenient to drive to the night market at night, Fang Qingye decided to take the ferry, which would only take about 20 minutes.

This is a street full of snacks, and it's really lively at night. There are tourists strolling around, as well as white-collar workers from nearby office buildings dressed in suits. I had to work overtime tonight, so I came here to grab some delicious snacks and take a walk to clear my head.

The variety of snacks here is extensive, including local delicacies like wontons and pan-fried buns, as well as snacks from other regions, such as Northeastern-style sweet and sour pork, Chongqing noodles, and Sichuan-style dan dan noodles. The vendors even loudly hawk their wares in Sichuan dialect.

"Dan Dan Noodles, authentic Dan Dan Noodles from Sichuan Province."

It sounded like a girl's voice.

Fang Qingye wasn't used to spicy food and naturally wasn't interested, but the tone of the girl calling out in Sichuan dialect sounded somewhat familiar.

As I walked over, I saw a petite girl with short hair, holding a spoon in her hand and wearing an apron around her waist, shouting loudly at passersby.

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Fang Qingye was stunned.

It was Xu Yunyun!

Xu Yunyun was once a princess of the Great World. Last autumn, she resigned and left Nanxin. Before leaving, she even had a chat with Fang Qingye.

Fang Qingye never heard from the girl again after that, only knowing that she said she came to Shanghai to find a new job, but he never expected to meet her here.

Xu Yunyun also noticed the young man staring at her in a daze not far ahead. She immediately recognized him as Fang Qingye and was both surprised and delighted. She quickly greeted him, "Mr. Fang, what brings you here?"

"I came to Shanghai to take care of some business, and I'm just grabbing a snack here tonight since I'm free," Fang Qingye replied, glancing at the stall.

A gas stove with a pot of boiling water on it, a tricycle supporting a cutting board with bottles and jars of oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and various seasonings, and a woman in her thirties busy cooking noodles.

There were three folding tables around the table, and diners were sitting there eating noodles.

"Xu Yunyun, is this your noodle stall?" Fang Qingye asked.

“It’s a business that Sister Wang and I run together,” Xu Yunyun said, pointing to the woman who was busy at work.

When Xu Yunyun introduced her, the woman gave Fang Qingye a simple, honest smile and continued with her work.

Xu Yunyun told Fang Qingye that Sister Wang and her husband came to Shanghai to work together. They were both from Aba in western Sichuan, and they happened to rent a room together.

Wang Jie's husband works as a security guard at a company, while Wang Jie herself worked as a waitress at a hotel. The job was hard and didn't pay well. After they got to know each other, they decided to set up a stall at the night market to sell their hometown's Dan Dan noodles.

"How's business?" Fang Qingye asked.

"It's alright, just a bit tiring, but it's good," Xu Yunyun said with a smile.

Fang Qingye looked at the girl carefully. Although she wasn't as fair-skinned as she was in the Great World, her complexion had improved a lot.

"Mr. Fang, let Sister Wang make you a bowl of Dan Dan noodles. Try my cooking." Xu Yunyun greeted him warmly.

"I can't stand spicy food," Fang Qingye said, looking at the noodles glistening with red oil in the customer's bowl.

"Then I'll make you a bowl of wontons? Without chili."

Fang Qingye nodded and sat down at an empty table.

The woman called Sister Wang immediately threw a few wontons into the pot. Xu Yunyun called out for a while and then started helping to wrap the wontons, her movements quite swift.

"Xu Yunyun, have you contacted your dad?" Fang Qingye asked again. "I called my dad, and even sent him a picture of me selling wontons at my stall. He was very happy to see it," the girl said.

Good.

Teacher Xu no longer has to worry about her daughter.

The wontons were served quickly, with only a little dried shrimp and chopped green onions on top.

Wonton and wontons look a little different, but they taste pretty much the same. They don't have any chili peppers, so they're light, refreshing, and quite good.

The amount wasn't much, but he wasn't hungry today, so one bowl was just right.

He was about to pay, but Xu Yunyun refused, saying that he had helped her a lot in Nanxin County, and a bowl of wontons was nothing.

It was very helpful?

Actually, I didn't really help the girl much. When we went to the World of Entertainment, I couldn't hold my liquor, so the girl's commission from selling alcohol was reduced significantly.

Of course, all of that is in the past.

Since Xu Yunyun refused to accept the money, Fang Qingye didn't press the matter further.

Before leaving, the two exchanged contact information. Fang Qingye smiled and said that if she ever came to Shanghai again, she would come back to eat the wontons made by him.

After Fang Qingye left, Sister Wang, who had been busy and hadn't spoken until now, asked Xu Yunyun, "Yunyun, who is he?"

"A famous big boss in Nanxincheng!"

Sister Wang knew that Xu Yunyun had worked as a waitress at a hotel in Nanxincheng. After looking at Fang Qingye's back, she said, "Doesn't seem like it. Is she very rich?"

"Hmm, I don't know how much money it is, but they donated 30 million yuan to our Aba Prefecture to improve the treatment of private school teachers!" Xu Yunyun said.

"Oh? The great philanthropist you were talking about is him?" Sister Wang exclaimed in shock. "How did you two meet? You seem to be quite familiar with each other?"

"I used to work as a waitress at a hotel, and Mr. Fang often ate at our hotel, so we got to know each other." Xu Yunyun said nonchalantly, and Sister Wang believed her.

"Hurry up and get busy, the customers are getting impatient," Xu Yunyun urged, and the two stopped chatting and continued working.

Back at the hotel, Fang Qingye chatted with Bai Ou on QQ, telling her about her chance encounter with Xu Yunyun at the Shanghai night market that evening.

Bai Ou was also very happy to hear that Xu Yunyun was selling wontons at her own stall, saying that she would like to come to Shanghai to eat her wontons when she has time.

Unfortunately, she was too busy and didn't have the time.

Fang Qingye returned to Nanxin the next day.

The Shanghai rubber futures warehouse has been set up, and Fang Qingye has nothing to worry about for the time being. Fang Qingye has been having a relatively comfortable time lately.

Aside from working at the nursery, he drives to the countryside to fish almost every day.

It's springtime now, the perfect time for fishing, just like the poem written by the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Zhihe:

Egrets fly in front of Xisai Mountain

Peach blossoms float on flowing water, and mandarin fish grow fat.

Green bamboo hat, green raincoat

There's no need to go home in the slanting wind and drizzling rain.

Of course, Fang Qing didn't forget to check the Shanghai rubber futures market when he got back in the evening. He had invested more than 200 million yuan in it. Although he knew the general trend during this period in history, he didn't know the specific details, not to mention that he himself was the biggest variable.
Sure enough, when he looked at the chart, he noticed some problems.

Historically, this rebound has been relatively weak, but looking at the market over the past few days, Fang Qingye noticed that contract trading is significantly more active than before, and the upward trend has become stronger, with a hint of large funds entering the market. What exactly is going on?

(End of this chapter)