582: Chapter 582 Little Kitten! Phone calls from my aunt and cousin! A million in savings!

In the blink of an eye, it was another Saturday, and the sunshine was just right.

Su Yang was sitting in the villa garden, basking in the sun.

It was nearing November, and the weather was gradually starting to cool down.

Just as he was drifting in and out of consciousness, something seemed to jump into his lap.

Then, he heard a pitiful meow.

Su Yang opened his eyes and saw a little kitten standing on his lap, looking at him curiously with its round, bronze-colored eyes!

"Meow~"

Its voice was soft and gentle as it climbed up along Su Yang's shoulder.

It nudged his face with its slightly damp nose.

Su Yang felt his heart melt; he smiled, scooped it into his arms, and gently scratched its chin.

The kitten lay obediently in Su Yang's arms, enjoying his petting.

After the meeting last week, Su Yang was chatting with Li Yuping and mentioned in passing that he wanted to raise a pet cat.

Li Yuping immediately took it to heart and asked what breed Su Yang liked.

Su Yang thought about it and felt he still preferred a Li Hua cat.

Most of the ones he encountered when he was a child were of this breed!

So, not long after, Li Yuping brought Su Yang a Li Hua cat that had just been weaned.

This little Li Hua was a kitten born to a pet hospital client's cat, so it was given for free!

Li Hua cats are not like common pet breeds; many of them are quite wild and have an independent nature.

Some even like to wander off, but Su Yang liked their personalities!

They are also relatively easy to raise, have strong immune systems, and don't shed much, though they are prone to causing trouble.

Su Yang often petted cats at other people's houses, and by extension, he also petted the cats themselves.

After petting to his heart's content and returning to his villa, he felt the villa lacked a bit of life.

He wasn't really good at taking care of pets, but didn't he have nannies?

They would surely be able to take good care of this little kitten!

Just as Su Yang was petting the cat, his phone rang again.

He unlocked his phone and was slightly surprised to see the caller ID: "Aunt?"

"Su Yang, are you busy right now?"

"Not busy, I'm not working today!"

"I thought you were busy with business every day!"

"I'm just not busy today!"

After some small talk, Su Yang's aunt said to him, "The main thing is, your cousin wants to ask you some questions..."

"What questions?"

"Isn't your cousin taking the college entrance exam next year?"

"Yeah!"

"You know, we only know how to grow fruit and raise pigs, so we don't have much experience or understanding of those majors... You're doing business out there, so you must know more than us. You should know which majors are better for employment or for getting into the civil service system."

"Oh!" Su Yang roughly understood what his aunt meant. "Is she there?"

"Brother, I'm here!"

Soon, he heard his cousin Xiong Ting's crisp voice.

"Aunt, should I talk to her?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I don't understand these things as well as your cousin does. You talk to her!"

"Okay!"

"Brother, I heard you bought a house in Rongcheng?"

Hearing his cousin's voice, Su Yang couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile.

Xiong Ting's voice was warm and crisp, giving the impression that she was smiling, and she sounded a bit curious!

Strictly speaking, among the siblings on both his parents' sides, his cousin was likely the one he had the best relationship with, followed by his cousin He Zhiheng. His mother also liked his cousin very much!

"Yeah!"

"Did you make money from business?"

"Made a little!"

"Just a little, you're so humble. They all say your net worth is over a hundred million!"

"It's alright!"

"Alright, I won't ask anymore... It's like this, I don't know what major I should study!"

"How are your grades?"

"The teacher said that a 211 university might be difficult and depends on luck, but if the review in the third year of high school goes well, there's still a pretty good chance!"

Su Yang smiled and said, "That's pretty good!"

Don't look at others talking about Qingbei, 985s, or 211s all the time.

But for ordinary rural families in the province outside of Rongcheng or Miancheng, it's already quite good if a child can get into an undergraduate program... If they can get into a first-tier university or a 211, that's excellent!

"I'm very anxious right now!"

"What are you anxious about?"

"I heard it's hard to find a job after graduating from college!"

"Don't watch too many short videos!"

"Do you think I should go for a postgraduate degree?"

"From an employment perspective, a postgraduate degree isn't as good as bridging from a junior college to a bachelor's degree!"

Xiong Ting asked in confusion, "Huh? Brother, what do you mean?"

"Bridging from a junior college to a bachelor's degree gives you two graduation certificates: one for the bachelor's and one for the junior college!" Su Yang said, petting the cat with a smile, "If you want to enter a factory, take out your junior college certificate, and the factory management will definitely think you'll become a diligent worker... If you want to enter a company, take out your bachelor's certificate, and the boss will see you bridged up and think you must be steady and diligent. You can freely switch identities, advance or retreat, and take off your 'long gown' whenever you want without any pressure!"

"Ah~"

Hearing Xiong Ting's slightly frantic voice, Su Yang felt even better!

He could roughly imagine her expression at this moment... it must be very interesting!

"Brother, I'm talking to you about serious matters, forget about the junior college! What undergraduate major do you think is good for employment?"

"Do you have any majors you like?"

"No!"

"Then do you have any thoughts? Just say whatever!"

"How about studying medicine?"

"Emmmm... not great. It's too hard, and if you want to do well, you definitely have to go to graduate school, which takes several years!" Su Yang explained slowly, "Many residents have heavy workloads, low pay, and high work intensity, often having to work night shifts. I heard some residents can work for over thirty hours straight, and don't even think about resting on holidays!"

"Hiss~ More terrifying than high school? Then how about studying agriculture?"

"That should be okay!"

"What about finance and accounting?"

"Not bad!"

"What about computer science?"

"That's also okay!"

"...Brother, it seems like everything is okay. Is computer science easy to find a job in now?"

"After graduation, where do you plan to develop? In the local county, or Rongcheng, or go to other cities?"

"Maybe I'll go to Rongcheng!"

"Then that's right. If you come to my company, it actually doesn't matter what major you study. Anyway, many university graduates nowadays find jobs that don't match their majors!"

"Go to your company?"

"Yeah!"

If his cousin wanted to come to Rongcheng to develop, he would definitely help.

After all, this cousin, just like his cousin He Zhiheng, had a pretty good character.

Or rather, his aunt's whole family was quite good!

His aunt's family contracted mountain land and grew a lot of fruit.

Every year, his father and his father's other brothers could go to his aunt's place to get some goods.

The kind without pesticides, specifically reserved for them.

Xiong Ting asked with a chuckle, "Brother, what kind of treatment can you give me then?"

"You know cousin He Zhiheng, right?"

"I do, I've seen him at your place!"

"He graduated from junior college and has a monthly salary of over ten thousand here!"

The "over ten thousand a month" was what He Zhiheng said; when he talked about his salary to relatives, he was a bit vague.

Su Yang naturally wouldn't tell others in detail either!

"Huh? That's amazing!"

Su Yang asked in a low voice, "Do you understand?"

Xiong Ting immediately understood and chuckled, "Understood... Brother, you have to cover for me!"

"If you want to come to Rongcheng to develop... also, the premise of getting a salary is that you have to work hard, right?"

"If I work there, I definitely won't be lazy... I definitely won't hold you back!"

"Alright then!" Su Yang nodded. "Then just choose whatever major you want! You can find something you like to study!"

"Then I'll apply for accounting. I'm very good at math, and sometimes when my parents do business, they need me to help them balance the accounts!"

In the end, she still didn't know what she liked.

"That's fine too!" Su Yang chuckled in a low voice. "Anyway, don't worry about employment, don't have any pressure. You can just do whatever on the college entrance exam. Even if you score 150, I can still arrange a job for you!"

"It won't be that bad, it won't be. A 211 might be a bit difficult, but a first-tier university is no problem!"

"Yeah!" Su Yang asked again, "Do you have any other questions?"

"Doesn't seem like it!"

"So that's it?"

"Wait, cousin, do you have a girlfriend?"

Su Yang said helplessly, "Why are you asking that?"

"Cousin, you're so handsome, and now you're a boss, there must be many girls who like you, right?" Xiong Ting lowered her voice and gossiped, "Do I have a sister-in-law?"

"Your brother has a girlfriend!"

At this moment, Su Yang's aunt said from the side.

The cousin asked curiously again, "Is my sister-in-law pretty? Is she a great beauty?"

Just at this moment, Su Yang's aunt suddenly spoke up, "Give me the phone, I still have things to ask your brother!"

"We haven't finished talking yet!"

"You go do your homework first, I'll give the phone back to you later!"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Su Yang heard his aunt's voice again.

"Su Yang, there's something I want to ask you!"

"What else is there, Aunt?"

"It's like this, I want to buy an apartment in the county for Tingting!"

Su Yang asked in confusion, "Why would you think of buying a house? Isn't the housing price falling?"

"It only dropped by a thousand or so, I don't think it will drop much further!" Aunt whispered, "The main thing is that the deposit is about to mature, and bank interest rates are low now, so I want to buy an apartment for Tingting."

"She might not necessarily develop in the county in the future!"

"Just consider it a backup plan!" Su Yang's aunt said. "If it really doesn't work out, we can sell it then!"

"It's easy to say. Once you buy the house, it will be hard to sell when you want to get rid of it... You might even lose so much money you'll vomit blood!" Su Yang explained. "Don't look at county houses as if they haven't dropped much; the actual situation is that there are few industries, few buyers, and poor liquidity."

"Then what should I do?"

"How much money do you have?"

Su Yang's aunt hesitated on the phone and said, "I can tell you, but don't tell anyone else!"

"Yeah, yeah! I know!" Su Yang said with a smile. "You have to trust me, I definitely won't blab!"

"If others ask me, I'll definitely say I don't have much money... but you're different!"

"Yeah!"

Su Yang's aunt lowered her voice and said, "The one million we have in the bank will mature in a few months. Most of it was earned from selling pigs after the swine fever; Tingting doesn't even know."

She wasn't afraid that Su Yang would target her million-plus.

She was very confident in her nephew's character!

Moreover, her family was receiving several thousand to ten thousand in dividends from Su Yang's hotpot restaurants every month!

She had calculated it; over the past year or so, the dividends that their group of relatives had received from Su Yang's three hotpot restaurants had long exceeded one million... Her family had also received over one hundred thousand.

Every time she mentioned her nephew to her husband's relatives, she felt very proud!

"Then do you have any thoughts about buying wealth management products? I happen to have a channel in six months!"

Su Yang was mentally prepared for his aunt's family having a million in savings.

Since his aunt and uncle got married, he would go to his aunt's house to play every year.

The couple was truly capable, the kind who worked from dawn until dusk every day!

After they got married, they contracted mountain land to grow pears, tangerines, pomelos, and grapes. They also sold watermelons, grew kiwifruit, raised pigs, and finally built a pig farm themselves.

Because of strict management, the swine fever back then didn't cause any losses for his aunt's family!

After the swine fever, when his aunt's family was selling pigs, his aunt even invited Su Yang's dad and two other brothers to help...

Of course, his aunt didn't say how much money that batch of pigs sold for, and her brothers didn't ask.

Su Yang's mom admired his aunt and uncle very much, saying she couldn't live such a hard life herself!

The feeling his aunt gave him was that the one million in her pocket seemed to be burning a hole, and she disliked the low interest in the bank, so she wanted to buy some assets!

He was a bit worried that his aunt would really go buy a house, or invest in other messy things.

And now, telecom fraud was indeed quite rampant!

Like his aunt's family, it had taken them half a lifetime of hard work, plus some luck, to save this money!

"Bank wealth management? Will it lose money?"

"It's a private equity fund, similar to bank wealth management, but the returns are higher... If it loses 20%, the fund company will warn you, and at most it will liquidate at 30%, but it's possible to earn 50%, or 100%, or even more!"

Aunt asked in surprise, "Can it lose 30%?"

"Yeah!" Su Yang smiled and said, "This private equity company is one I opened myself. Because there is a limit on quotas, the requirements for buyer qualifications are very high. Most of the buyers are executives and employees of my company, as well as business partners with whom I have good relationships, and my own money... I've refused many people who wanted to buy. You can consider it yourself!"

"Your company?"

"Yes!"

"Let me consider it?"

"Of course, you can consider it for five or six months. If it really doesn't work out, you can continue to keep it in a fixed deposit. When your cousin graduates and needs money, it might be better to hand the money directly to her to handle... But if you decide to buy, remember to remind me!" Su Yang instructed, "I have a lot of things on my hands, I'm worried I'll forget!"

"Okay!"