Chapter 461 Sister-in-Law's Request and Heartbroken

As a reborn person, Li Xiaofan had witnessed with his own eyes the tragic plummet in housing prices after the Singapore government introduced policies to curb overheating of real estate in his previous life, as well as the impact of the Asian financial crisis on the Singapore real estate market the following year. In the following ten years, Inside, Singapore’s property market has never recovered much.

Li Xiaofan was very worried for Tang Jiaming. He was currently going to get a piece of land in Singapore to develop real estate. The pit was too big and too deep!

Tang Jiaming's "obsession" with the current pursuit of huge profits from real estate in the Lion City reminded Li Xiaofan of his previous life, when the Shanghai Composite Index exceeded 6,000 points in 2007, the madness of domestic people.

What impressed Li Xiaofan deeply was that in the fall of 2007, when the Shanghai Composite Index exceeded 6,000 points, he once went to a roadside fruit shop to buy fruit. He called the boss several times but got no response. He found the boss in the corner staring intently at an old handbag. With the stock quotes on the computer, he didn't pay attention to the customer Li Xiaofan at all, and almost forgot about the main business of the fruit shop.

It was a time when everyone was crazy...

Li Xiaofan feels that the current feverish HDB housing market in Singapore is very similar to the crazy scene of the mainland stock market in 2007. Some of them are comparable!

Li Xiaofan anxiously gave Tang Jiaming a few words of advice, but Brother Ming didn't seem to care much about Li Xiaofan's advice.

You, Li Xiaofan, are great at investing in emerging Internet industries, but when it comes to Singapore’s real estate market, my native Tang Jiaming is definitely more knowledgeable than you!

After smoking cigars, the two returned to the living room and drank tea with Mr. Tang, his wife, Irene and others.

After Mr. Tang filled the purple clay cup in front of Li Xiaofan with Kung Fu tea, he said:

"Afan, Irene said she was bored at home and wanted to go out to work to kill time. She didn't want to go to Amin's company. She wanted to work in your company. She said her cousin Lin Muchiu also switched jobs and went to your place..."

When Mr. Tang said this, Irene looked at Li Xiaofan with a smile, seemingly full of expectation.

After Mr. Tang finished speaking, Tang Jiaming also continued: "Yes, Afan, I forgot to tell you about this just now. Irene said that staying at home was boring and wanted to go to your place to help and be a companion with Mu Qiu. "

Li Xiaofan raised his head and looked at Fujiwara Kyoko's expression. She seemed to be indifferent. Because Irene has been unable to have children, she is not liked by Fujiwara Kyoko, and due to cultural differences, her relationship with her mother-in-law, Fujiwara Kyoko, has always been tense.

Aileen had mentioned to Li Xiaofan before that she was very depressed staying at home and staring at her mother-in-law, Fujiwara Kyoko, every day, and wanted to work in Li Xiaofan's company to relieve her boredom. The salary didn't matter. But Li Xiaofan declined. The seventh aunt and the eighth aunt were the most difficult to manage in his company, especially for a sensitive person like Eileen, who did not dare to accept them casually.

However, now that Mr. Tang is speaking, Li Xiaofan cannot refuse directly.

He had no choice but to continue: "Uncle Tang, working in our company may be difficult. You often have to work overtime, and the place of work is remote. People like Mu Qiu often have to go abroad for business. Her future work focus will be in the United States. Sister-in-law, You may not be able to bear this hardship..."

Eileen said eagerly: "Afan, I can do it. I used to work overtime before I got married. I have no problem working overtime, and it's even better if I go abroad for business! And Singapore is such a big place. If I go to work there, you can drive." Just step on the accelerator and you'll be there..."

Seeing that Aileen wanted to come to work in his company, Mr. Tang and Brother Ming seemed to agree, so Li Xiaofan could only say:

"Sister-in-law, I don't dare to let you go abroad and leave Brother Ming to guard the empty house! In this way, our Pacific Online Bookstore project now faces a relatively strong opponent, and a price competition is about to begin. Sister-in-law, you have seen a lot in the market. If you are free, either Come and help us in the marketing department of Pacific Online Bookstore. There are no fixed working hours. Just come to the company to have fun when you are free, and I will arrange a place for you..."

"No! Affan, if I agree to come to work at your place, I will work as seriously as Mu Qiu and the others. I will work overtime as normal. You must assign me work tasks and cannot make them special. Otherwise, if I make it special like this, it will be difficult for you to manage!”

From Irene's tone, Li Xiaofan seemed to be able to tell how much she didn't want to stay in this home.

Li Xiaofan looked at the expressions of Tang Jiaming, Mr. Tang, and Fujiwara Kyoko. As long as one of them disagrees, he will not accept Aileen to work in his company.

However, all three of them actually expressed their support.

Each of the three of them has "little ideas."

Father-in-law Tang saw that Irene was really bored at home and did not have a harmonious relationship with her mother-in-law. He respected Irene's ideas and just wanted to make her happy.

It would be best for her mother-in-law, Kyoko Fujiwara, to be peaceful and at ease without Irene around. And letting the daughter-in-law go to work in Li Xiaofan's company, because Tang Xinyi is not in Singapore, can also help them "monitor" the future son-in-law's activities...

Her husband, Tang Jiaming, had better not come to work at his Minghua Company, otherwise his freedom would be gone. If Li Xiaofan's company can accept Aileen, as long as Aileen doesn't bother him, it will be the best for him.

He even hoped that Li Xiaofan's company would arrange more overtime work for Aileen in the future, so that he would be more at ease...

Li Xiaofan originally wanted Aileen to come back to work at the company early next month, so he could take his time and not be in a hurry.

But Eileen, who was eager to go to work, asked to come to work tomorrow, and Li Xiaofan had no choice but to agree.

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At around nine o'clock in the evening, on the way back to the terraced house dormitory, Li Xiaofan received a call from Liu Yanping. According to Li Xiaofan's instructions, they worked overtime to create a brand new "Preferential Promotion Activities to Celebrate the Listing of Pacific Online Bookstore" plan, which has been sent to Li Xiaofan Email and ask him to review it.

After receiving Liu Yanping's call, Li Xiaofan did not dare to neglect and directly asked the driver to send him to the company to work overtime with Liu Yanping and the others.

After reading the plan and modifying some details, Li Xiaofan asked them to post the new discount plan directly to the homepage of Pacific Online Bookstore that night.

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The next morning, Li Xiaofan, Lin Muqiu and others went to visit EDBI, an investment company introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board introduced by Zheng Yingjie of GIC Special Investment Company.

EDBI managing partner Qiu Dong received Li Xiaofan and his party.

After hearing Li Xiaofan's intention, Director Qiu accompanied them to visit Xu Yanni, the vice president of the Singapore Economic Development Board who is responsible for the introduction of emerging industries such as electronics and semiconductors.

"Director Li, first of all, thank you for choosing Singapore as the location for your new wafer fab project. Currently, our Singapore Chartered Semiconductor CSM is the third largest wafer foundry in Asia after TSMC and UMC. However, currently Chartered Semiconductor It is still losing money. If we introduce a new wafer foundry in Singapore, it will definitely have an impact on the current Chartered Semiconductor Company..." Xu Yanni expressed her concerns.

After listening to the introduction by Xu Yanni, vice president of the Singapore Economic Development Board, Li Xiaofan's heart dropped.