On the way out, Mr. Gu struck up a conversation with a few friends and suddenly felt that the matter didn’t seem as simple as he thought.
Back at ho, Mr. Gu pondered back and forth, pacing around the living room.
Mrs. Gu went shopping with her daughter and son-in-law, leaving only Zhang Sanfeng at ho.
As Zhang Sanfeng sat in the living room and saw that Mr. Gu didn’t sit down, she asked, "Uncle, is there sothing on your mind?"
What Mr. Gu had actually been thinking about was Zhang Sanfeng’s intention to invest fifty million with Xiaozang, which worried him a bit. On one hand, he feared that Zhang Sanfeng would miss out on the opportunity, and on the other, Mr. Gu didn’t believe in such things as pies falling from the sky.
Pulling up a stool, Mr. Gu sat next to Zhang Sanfeng and asked softly, "About that sales pitch last ti for the financial product—"
Quickly understanding Mr. Gu’s concern, Zhang Sanfeng’s lips curled slightly with indifference, "Nothing. He called afterwards."
"Did you invest?"
"Uncle, do you think I should have invested?"
As Mr. Gu looked into Zhang Sanfeng’s beautiful but piercing eyes glancing over, he inexplicably felt panicked and said, "I think, it seems like a good idea to invest, but then again, it seems not. No, you don’t understand, outside, many people are talking about this. A lot of them have received money."
"Of the dividends, the interest, compared to their principal investnt, which is larger and which is smaller?"
Mr. Gu was taken aback, as he’d never considered such a question before. He felt there was a deeper aning to Zhang Sanfeng’s words. After a mont of serious thought, Mr. Gu said, "Of course, the principal is larger, but the principal—is always retrievable—"
As the saying goes, "Money not in hand cannot be called money."
At that, Mr. Gu’s eyes widened, "You, you’re not wrong in saying that. So—"
"Con artists often capitalize on this very notion."
"You’re saying they’re con artists?!" Startled, Mr. Gu jumped up, incredulous just like most people would be, "But they are a legitimate company!"
Indeed, when Mr. Gu ca ho, he had been quite tempted by what people were saying outside, but it was unfortunate that there was no money at ho and he would never ask his son-in-law and daughter to invest for him.
Zhang Sanfeng had noticed the hesitation on Mr. Gu’s face, which was why she had taken the initiative to explain, "That day, I asked him what kind of financial institution it belonged to."
Mr. Gu recalled that Xiaozang had only shown a photocopy of the business registration certificate that day.
"Is there a difference?" Mr. Gu couldn’t grasp the intricacies of what seed like a normal conversation that day.
Regarding these intricacies, how could ordinary people who had no involvent in finance, who didn’t work in financial institutions comprehend such complexities? Zhang Sanfeng explained, "Opening a financial institution requires a financial license, not just a business registration. Either he didn’t understand, or he was pretending not to know. Later on, I confird that he really didn’t understand; he was just a salesperson, who in truth, had never truly studied finance. He only knew how to sell products to people, without concern for the consequences of the investnts."
Mr. Gu gasped for air, "Are you saying, they’re really swindlers? Did they scam you?"
Certainly not. Since Zhang Sanfeng had seen through them from the beginning, how could she have been deceived? That left Mr. Gu confused; if that was the case, why did Zhang Sanfeng have such a lengthy conversation with Xiaozang that day? It seed as if she really wanted to invest fifty million.
The explanation for this was even simpler. Everyone is greedy; if Zhang Sanfeng hadn’t thrown around a big number to entice him, how could she have drawn out the clues behind their sche? After all, it’s easy to bait soone as young as Xiaozang.
To go a step further, Xiao Yebai’s decision to approach the Gu Family was, of course, not made on a whim. When you consider that Changda and the Xiao Family were both in dire straits, how could they possibly just drop everything and not care?
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