Chapter 568: Chapter 568: Do You Really Think We’re Stupid?
"We’re not asking for much," Ye Fei quickly said, "Even a simple apartment would do, just a better living environment."
"What do you mean? We’re not asking you for money, and you ask us for money instead?" Xu Huizhen stared at Ye Fei, incredulous.
What?
They came all this way and couldn’t get a penny, and now they have to give Ye Fei money?
How is that possible!
"Are you not doing well?" Ye Dezhang frowned, "Shi Jiumei said you’re earning a lot now."
"Exactly! Shi Jiumei said you’re earning a lot! Each advertisement is hundreds of thousands!" Xu Huizhen immediately said.
"Why do you believe what Shi Jiumei says?" Ye Fei plopped onto the sofa, looking pitiful, "She’s always been at odds with me, what truth can you hear from her?"
Thinking about it, Ye Dezhang took the opportunity to say, "I think Shi Jiumei is a decent kid. She’s polite and pleasant to talk to. Maybe there’s a misunderstanding between you two?"
Ye Fei lowered her head, suppressing the disgust, and then said, "Dad, what seats did you buy at the competition? How much were they?"
Ye Dezhang didn’t react immediately. Why did Ye Fei suddenly switch to this topic?
"We bought the cheapest bleacher tickets, the 199 yuan ones, but scalped tickets were 2000 yuan each," Ye Dezhang answered truthfully.
Ye Fei shook her head with a bitter smile, "For a 199 yuan bleacher ticket, even with a scalper, you could get it for about 299. Let’s just say 300 yuan each, she made 1700 yuan off you, that’s a total of 3400 yuan."
"Do you believe anything someone like that says?" Ye Fei asked, "Maybe you don’t believe the ticket price I mentioned, let me show you."
Ye Fei pulled up a friend’s social media post on her phone, scrolled down a bit, and showed it to him.
"Look, this is a scalper in my friends list. The time he posted this is just last week. The ticket prices for the game as it was approaching."
Ye Fei didn’t let Ye Dezhang hold the phone, but opened the pricing table from the scalper’s post, zoomed in for him to see clearly.
"Here’s the original price, 199, corresponding to the price if bought from him, 299," Ye Fei said.
"Even though the culinary competition’s tickets are in high demand right now because of certain things, the price hasn’t been hiked that much. The number of singers who can hold concerts in stadiums like this is very few."
"Among them, only two have tickets that sell out as soon as pre-sale opens. But even so, the scalper tickets at most go up by 5000. And the 5000 markup is for the front row where you can request songs."
"For the bleacher areas, the most the price increases is 200 to 300. That’s for the most popular singers. But the audience for a culinary competition isn’t as broad as a singer’s, so why should a 199 yuan bleacher ticket sell for 2000?"
Ye Fei laughed, "So, how can you trust Shi Jiumei’s words?"
"Besides, Shi Jiumei is a blogger at the same level as I am. If she were really making that much money, would she bother making a tiny profit on ticket price differences? Even if an ad paid tens of thousands, would she care about this small change? And this is character damaging behavior."
"If Shi Jiumei made money off this, it indicates that being a blogger isn’t actually that profitable. I’m about as famous as she is, why would you think I make tens of thousands?"
"If I were that rich, why would I work hard to get some attention by entering a culinary competition?"
Ye Dezhang said nothing again; Ye Fei made a lot of sense.
Shi Jiumei is also quite well-known.
Although they didn’t know Shi Jiumei before.
But later, after seeing Ye Fei in a livestream, they naturally got to know about Shi Jiumei.
Knowing that Shi Jiumei is also a famous food blogger.
But even with her fame, Shi Jiumei’s life was quite difficult.
It’s easy to imagine that Ye Fei’s life isn’t as glorious as Shi Jiumei claimed.
Although Ye Dezhang is not very assertive, he isn’t a fool either.
When Shi Jiumei first visited them in Ye City, her intention to stay for a meal was noticed by him.
Back then he didn’t think much of it.
Now with Ye Fei’s reminder, Ye Dezhang started questioning the authenticity of Shi Jiumei’s words.
"Don’t think about fooling us!" Xu Huizhen said loudly, "Do you think we haven’t watched your videos?"
Xu Huizhen silently cursed Ye Dezhang for being too foolish, then said to Ye Fei, "Your kitchen in the videos looks luxurious!"
"Do you really think we’re that stupid? Ye Fei, your lies are getting more blatant! I even start to doubt, how much of what you’ve told us until now is actually true?"
"The videos are there as evidence, do you still want to deceive us?" Xu Huizhen clung to Ye Dezhang’s arm, "Lao Ye, you’ve heard her!"
"The way she blatantly lies, who knows if what she said just now was true or false? Maybe she’s deceiving us too!" Xu Huizhen immediately cried in front of Ye Dezhang, "So it’s not my fault!"
"It’s all Ye Fei wrongfully accusing me, don’t believe her! She’s full of lies!" Xu Huizhen said.
"Enough!" Ye Dezhang shook off Xu Huizhen, "With such clear evidence, how is this wrongful accusation!"
But Ye Fei understood Ye Dezhang too well.
He’s speaking strongly now, but later, when he’s thinking on his own, he’ll likely start to have doubts again.
So Ye Fei was prepared for this.
"Dad, if you don’t believe me, I can take you to see it," Ye Fei said.
"I believe you, I never doubted you," Ye Dezhang quickly said.
Ye Fei gave Ye Dezhang a grateful smile, "I know, but I’ll still let you see it, so you can be at ease."
"Mom says I’m deceiving you, I need to clear my name," Ye Fei explained.
"Just like how when I was sold by her and Ye Ning, Mom also said I was making things up, lying. But I had hotel surveillance footage to prove I wasn’t lying," Ye Fei said.
"She probably didn’t expect that I would think to get the hotel surveillance footage, thinking five years had passed, and even if something had happened back then, it would be hard to find evidence now, hard to hold accountable," Ye Fei said with irony.
Xu Huizhen’s eyes were wide with anger.
This brat always brings up the fact that they sold her five years ago.
Originally, Ye Dezhang was about to let it go, but now, Ye Fei brought it up again.
With this reminder, Ye Dezhang’s recently calmed anger surged again.
"Yes, you’re right!" Ye Dezhang said.
"Dad trusts you, but with someone doubting you, this time we’ll let your mom see for herself. Let’s see what else she can say!" Ye Dezhang said angrily.
"You’re a good kid, you won’t lie," Ye Dezhang added.
