Chapter 180 Brother Li, Help! (1/2)

Chapter 180: Brother Li, Help!

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”Seems like business is good,” Li Du said.

”Of course. Hoffman owns Flagstaff’s only large-scale old goods market. Its well-known all over Arizona.”

Li Du pointed to the Bridal Boutique and said, ”I’m referring to that—there’s a lot of people buying second-hand wedding dresses.”

”Of course, why not? Wedding dresses are so expensive, and these things aren’t necessities, so why not just get a second-hand one? It's still beautiful, and cheap to boot.”

Li Du explained, ”What I mean is, they can just rent wedding dresses—wouldn’t that be cheaper?”

Hans shook his head and said, ”Not really. Also, if they can buy it, why rent it? Isn’t it much better to buy one for themselves?”

”You already said that wedding dresses aren’t necessities. Besides on wedding days, these things are useless.”

Hans scoffed. ”You amateur, how would it be useless after? Don’t you know how sexy a woman is in a wedding dress? Think about it: a woman wearing a white wedding dress lying on the bed, pure and—”

”Sh*t!” Mr. Li interrupted him. This man’s thoughts were only filled with lust.

After some window shopping, Hans ran off to some unknown place. Li Du continued casually looking, and then he saw a stall selling electronic products. There were many things such as cameras and speakers.

Seeing these electronic products, Li Du suddenly had an idea. He went over to ask, ”Do you have any wireless monitoring devices?”

The owner was a young black man; he pointed to a stack of items and said, ”Of course, they’re all there.”

After chatting with the owner for a while, he picked out a few things, and then Hans appeared again with ice-cream in his hands.

Li Du said with a laugh, ”Are these second-hand?”

Hans said guiltily, ”How could there be second-hand ice-cream? Don’t tell me you saw me licking it?”

”*sshole!”

”It’s just a joke. Don’t worry and eat it—ha!.”

Li Du gave him the finger. He held the ice-cream in front of Ah Meow, and seeing the ocelot stick out its tongue to take a lick, he could then finally relax and eat.

Ah Meow was a very picky and prideful cat, and, besides food that Mr. Li had eaten, wouldn’t even look at leftovers from other people.

There were three more days until the weekend, which meant three more days until the auction for their motorcycle. With that, they went back home. Hans continued snooping for information on storage auctions so that they could prepare for another fight.

For a week or so, they didn’t have much profit. Hans was a heavy spender, and he also had the welfare home to take care of, so he was starting to find himself in a financial crunch again.

Li Du wasn’t bothered that Hans was in some financial trouble, since he had plenty of his own funds in the bank, and wasn’t that urgently in need of work.

He sent some money back home during this period, saying that it was some extra money he made from interning with a professor.

His parents didn’t ask much; they knew from watching television that students had some opportunities to make money when learning from professors. Also, Li Du only sent 7,500 dollars back, so it wasn’t a lot.

However, his father told him that there was no need to send money home again, and advised that he kept it at home for emergencies. Or, he could try to curry more favor with the professor and ride his coattail.

Li Du said ”okay” to everything, but his parents didn’t know that he didn’t have a teacher anymore.

Before hanging up the phone, Li Du’s father secretly advised him, ”If you find the right girl, don’t be stingy, and remember to spend a lot of time with her. Buy her snacks or jewelery or whatever.”

His mother added, ”If you don’t have enough money, then tell us the truth. We only have one son, and all our money we earned for you.”

Li Du continued agreeing to everything, and then said, ”You two need to change your mindset; if there’s anything you like to eat, then just buy it. Same goes for anything else that you want to get. Don’t just save up money for my sake. With a master’s, don’t you think I can provide for myself?”