Chapter 385: Shanghainese People's Sense of Superiority and Encountering a Big Boss (Please Subscribe)

While the two were chatting, five or six young and fashionable men and women came in.

They saw Yang Feiyan and Li Xiaofan at a glance.

"Hi, Yan Zi!" The two leading girls greeted Yang Feiyan from a distance.

"Fei Er, Nana, hello, what a coincidence!"

After Yang Feiyan greeted them, Li Xiaofan asked softly: "Who are these people?"

"These two girls are my classmates in college, locals in Shanghai..." Yang Feiyan answered softly.

The guests at the big table next to Li Xiaofan and Yang Feiyan just left and the waiter was cleaning, so these young men and women sat next to Yang Feiyan and Li Xiaofan.

The two Shanghai local girls were quite gossipy. After greeting Yang Feiyan, they teased:

"Yanzi, is the handsome guy next to you your boyfriend?"

The tipsy Yang Feiyan wanted to say that he was her boss, but Li Xiaofan answered for her first, saying with a smile: "We were classmates in junior high school..."

The two Shanghai girls continued to tease: "Oh, so you are classmates from the countryside in Mingzhou!"

From the tone of the two Shanghai girls, Li Xiaofan felt the innate sense of superiority of Shanghai locals.

Yu Qiuyu, a fellow villager from Mingzhou, described Shanghai people very well in "Cultural Journey".

The book says: Since modern times, Shanghai people have always been a very special group in China... Almost all over the country, Shanghai people are not well regarded. Shrewd, proud, calculating, eloquent, free and easy, unkind, xenophobic, looking down on leaders, lacking political enthusiasm, no sense of collectivism, indifferent to others, stingy, selfish, fashionable, frivolous, unconventional, trivial, worldly... and so on, all together, this is what outsiders think of Shanghai people.

In his previous life, when Li Xiaofan was working in Shanghai, he often wondered why some ugly local Shanghai people showed an inexplicable sense of superiority. He couldn't understand why they lived in a small alley, wore branded clothes on an empty stomach, and were more friendly to foreigners than their own mothers when they saw them.

Li Xiaofan didn't like the local young men and women next door. After a few greetings, he didn't bother to pay attention to them.

The two female classmates next door named Fei'er and Nana were talking loudly with the boys who came with them, and their words always revealed a sense of superiority.

"Nana, my boss in Hong Kong has increased my salary this time. He will arrange for me to go to Hong Kong for training next time. Is that good?"

"Haotou" in Shanghai means "month".

"Oh, hey, Harling, how much is your salary now?"

"After adding the salary, it's 3,700 yuan per head. Is that okay? Fei'er, how much is your salary now?"

"My American boss is going to increase my salary in the second half of the year. It's 4,200 yuan per head now. I'm so poor. I can't afford to buy a few branded clothes and bags on Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road..."

This girl named Fei'er is also a "Versailles" spirit.

"Fei'er, your boss is so good! I usually go to Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road to look at the styles, and then go to Huating Road next door to buy the same clothes and bags, so I can save a lot of money..."

Listening to the conversation between the two girls next door named Fei'er and Nana, Li Xiaofan wanted to laugh.

The foreign-funded enterprise where Fei'er and Nana work belongs to the headquarters of a multinational company in China. Their income is much higher than the joint venture factory where Yang Feiyan worked before, so they feel very superior.

After the two girls finished their Versailles, they started chatting with Yang Feiyan:

"Yanzi, are you still working in the factory in Caohejing? Did your American boss give you a salary increase?"

"I have already left the original factory..." Yang Feiyan replied.

"Wow, you changed jobs so quickly, so which big company do you work for now?" Fei'er and Nana asked.

Li Xiaofan smiled and interrupted, "Yan Zi is my colleague now. We work in the same small company now."

Fei'er gossiped, "Which small company did Yan Zi go to work for? Why? Is it because of the high income or some good conditions that attracted you?"

Li Xiaofan answered for Yang Feiyan, "Yan Zi is now the investment assistant to the president of our small company. She earns 8,000 RMB a month and gets a bonus at the end of the year. By the way, the company arranged for her to go to the Singapore headquarters for training next month, and to Morgan Stanley in the United States for training at the end of the year..."

After Li Xiaofan finished speaking , Fei'er and Nana burst into laughter: "This handsome guy from the countryside of Minnesota, are you sure you are not talking about the one-man show in Shanghai? 8,000 yuan a month, this income is higher than the income of the department manager of our multinational company!"

"And Morgan Stanley, what is the name of your small company? You can actually get close to Morgan Stanley and go to Morgan Stanley in the United States for training. Are you sure you are not talking in your sleep?"

Their words also attracted several boys and girls who came with them to watch Li Xiaofan and Yang Feiyan and laugh.

They called Li Xiaofan the "boasting king who tells jokes"

Faced with the ignorant ridicule of these "little brats", Li Xiaofan had no intention of arguing with them and just laughed it off.

He raised his glass to Yang Feiyan and said, "Feiyan, let's finish this glass of wine and go back to rest early!"

But Fei'er, Nana and others next door were excited. They thought Li Xiaofan was guilty and wanted to slip away after bragging for Yang Feiyan. They joked:

"This handsome guy from the countryside of Mingzhou, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Let's have a few drinks together and talk about Yanzi's monthly salary of 8,000 yuan and American Morgan Stanley!"

While they were talking, several middle-aged men in formal clothes came down from the second floor. They came to Li Xiaofan and Yang Feiyan holding wine glasses.

"Director Li, what a coincidence, you are here tonight!"

Li Xiaofan looked up and saw that the person greeting him was actually Xu Jige, the VP in charge of investment business of Hong Leong Financial Group of Malaysia. He was the first partner to invest in the Pacific Online Bookstore Malaysia project on behalf of Hong Leong Financial Group of Malaysia.

Last year, Malaysia's Hong Leong Financial Group invested US$400,000 in exchange for a 3% stake in the Pacific Online Bookstore project. Currently, based on GIC's investment valuation of US$200 million, the 3% stake is already worth US$6 million, an increase of 15%. Times!

Once the Pacific Online Bookstore project is listed on Nasdaq in the third quarter of this year, the 3% stake will most likely exceed 10 million US dollars.

The investment led by Vice President Xu Jige last year greatly increased his prestige within the group!

Li Xiaofan said in surprise: "Mr. Xu, why are you here? Are you on a business trip to Shanghai?"

Xu Jige laughed heartily and said:

"I came to Shanghai this time to see a few projects. Come on, Director Li, let me introduce you to these friends around me. This is Chen Fengkun, chairman of Singapore International Yuanli Group, the big boss of the Shanghai Sun Island project... This Mr. Liao from CapitaLand Group in Singapore, they are developing and building a Raffles City Plaza in China at People’s Square!”