Spring Thunder Chapter 0168 The Sun Also Rises
Pinching a corner, he dipped the boxers in the inkstone, then he made a sword-like gesture with his hands, stepped on the lotus, and swung the boxers up while chanting, "Ah Ma, cha cha cha... ah ah ah, hey ha!"
I saw streaks of ink being splashed onto the rice paper, turning into abstract intersecting lines.
The lines are thick and thin. At first glance, they look like palm lines, but at a closer look, they are like different life stories. Placing this picture in the vast universe, it seems to foreshadow the origin of life.
Looking at it from different angles will give people different feelings, and waves of sweetness, bitterness and spiciness will surge into their hearts.
Nan Yi's left eye was smiling, while his right eye was filled with tears; his left lip was curled up in a sneer, while his right lip was choked with sobs and sorrow; veins on his left hand were bulging, while his right hand was soft and weak.
With a click, his boxer shorts fell to the ground, and Nan Yi's legs softened, and he fell to his knees, covering his face with his hands. This time, Nan Yi had spent all his inspiration and energy, and he would never be able to create such a work again in his lifetime.
At this moment, nine coffin boards flew out from the soil in different directions of east, west, south and north. They met and merged in the sky like swords and fire, and a nine-headed bird was reborn.
The nine-headed bird said: "Wenchang Nanzi is an expert in both calligraphy and painting. I have appointed you as the pretentious official of the Eight Gods. You should follow the heavenly rules and investigate the pretentiousness of the people. You should strictly abide by the heavenly rules and not act recklessly. Therefore, I hereby order you to do so."
The next day, when it was still dawn, Nan Yi went to the ghost market in Panjiayuan and asked for an imperial seal from Baofuzhai, a Taoist monk with a Taoist appearance.
Nan Yi didn’t know whether it was true or not, but he only spent one dollar anyway.
He took the jade seal and found a seal engraver on the street. He spent fifty cents more to have the seal smoothed and re-engraved with the four seal characters "Wenchang Nanzi".
After the seal was carved and taken home, Nan Yi added a postscript to his work and stamped it with the seal.
He found the patched clothes he had worn before and wrapped up his paintings. Then, holding the imperial seal and carrying a sack, he went to the yard, sat on a low stool, and started to crack pecans...
As the sun sets and the sun rises, Nan Yi sits in his office, holding in his hand a book titled "Exposing the Secrets of Capitalist Exploitation" published by People's Education Press in 1975.
In the book, the author severely criticized the behavior of capitalists in the old society who exploited workers by increasing wages or overtime pay to induce workers to work overtime, and requiring employees to work hard by promising year-end dividends.
The book only has 87 pages in total, but Nan Yi spent an hour reading less than two pages. He has a lot of work to do and a lot of books to read, so he doesn't know how long it will take him to finish this book.
After putting a bookmark in the book, Nan Yi put it aside, picked up the member performance evaluation form prepared by Ueto Masami and started reading it.
While watching, each member was given a score.
The full score is 1 point. Employees who get 1 point can increase their monthly salary by 50,000 yen. If they do not get a full score, the salary increase is 50,000 times their score.
If the score is below 0.5 points, not only will there be no salary increase, but the member will also enter a two-month observation and assessment period. After communicating with the member, if the member's work situation does not improve within two months, the company will issue him or her a letter of termination.
Fortunately, after scoring, the lowest member scored 0.75 points, which shows that every member of the company is currently quite capable.
Holding a calculator, Nan Yi calculated the company's annual expenditure increase after the salary increase. After finishing the calculation, he shook his head, subtracted 0.05 from each member's score, recalculated it, then nodded, stood up, and went to Ueto Masami's office.
"Yami, this is the salary increase schedule I prepared. It will be implemented starting in October."
Ueto Masami took it, looked at it, and nodded.
"Also, I will be leaving soon, and the affairs of Yama no Mi will be handed over to you. I need to explain some things in advance."
"President, please speak."
“1. Year-end rewards.
Ordinary members receive between zero and eighteen months’ salary, and the director [old employee] receives a year-end bonus and an additional half month’s salary for every additional year of service;
The length of time for middle-level members ranges from negative twenty-four months to thirty-six months. For specific evaluation criteria, you can refer to the standards of other companies and develop a standard of your own.
2. Annual holiday.
Starting from next year, the company will hold a travel activity for all members every year. In principle, the travel time will not exceed 10 days and the average cost per person will not exceed one and a half months' salary.
As for the travel destination, it will be decided by voting of all members within the budget.
This benefit is available to all members who have been employed for more than three months.
3. Increase staff.
We are specifically recruiting members from South America, mainly from Chile, Argentina and Sambad, who have experience in the fruit and dried fruit industry.
In the second half of next year, Yama no Mi will expand into South America and establish a branch in Rio de Janeiro.
4. Expand business scope.
The business categories of Yama no Wei have been expanded to include art investment and collection.
5. This is about you personally. Before May next year at the latest, you must find a successor to take over your position in Yama no Mi and return to your original job.
Also, regarding your bonus, after discussing with the shareholders, we have decided to give you a reward of 2 million US dollars. I will personally allocate 1.5% of my shares to you.
This is a restricted share. You have the right to receive dividends and participate in decision-making, as well as the right to buy and sell. But when you want to cash out, you can only sell it to me, not to others. "
Seeing the joy on Ueto Masami's face, Nan Yi said again: "Don't be too happy too soon. Forget about this year's dividends. These shares will only take effect from next year."
"Hayi."
Masami Ueto had no illusions that the shares would take effect this year. You know, with 1.5% of the shares, she could get at least 3.3 million US dollars in dividends this year.
"Haha, as compensation, you can pick a house in Tokyo and I will give it to you personally."
"President, what is the upper limit?"
"One million two hundred thousand dollars."
"Thank you, President!"
Ueto Masami stood up from her seat and bowed deeply to Nan Yi.
"You're welcome. As long as you remain loyal, I can guarantee that you will have as much wealth as Di Yiming in the future."
"Seibu Group's Tsutsumi Akira?"
"Do you think I'm talking in my sleep?"
"No, I believe the president can do it."
"Very good, Yami, keep up the good work."
"Hai, your highness."
"Ha ha!"
Nan Yi laughed heartily and walked out of Ueto Masami's office feeling happy both physically and mentally.
After that, Nan Yi stayed in the capital for another two days. He took his calligraphy to Shencun, got the wooden box from Zuo Can, and went directly to Shencun without returning to Wenchangwei.
When they returned to Repulse Bay, Nan Ruoyin and Fan Hongdou were already at home after school. As soon as they saw Nan Yi, they came up to him.
"Dad, why did you bring this box here?" When Nan Ruoyin saw the red box in Nan Yi's hand, she subconsciously took a step back and covered her nose.
"What's wrong? You still despise it? This is a work we completed together. Dad brought it here this time with the intention of selling it."
Nan Ruoyin still covered her nose in disgust, but she said, "I want half."
"I already have half of yours."
As Nan Yi spoke, he handed the things in his hand to Ruan Zhiping beside him, picked up the two little girls, one in each hand, and walked towards the second floor.
After going up to the second floor, Nan Yi put them down again, "Ruoyin, go get some drawing paper that your father gave you; Hongdou, go get your red ink and bring it to my study."
"Dad, you want to draw?"
"No, it's you who want the painting. Go get it. Dad will wait for you in the study." Nan Yi stroked the two people's heads with one hand and walked towards his study.
Nan Yi took two bowls from the shelf. Just as he poured black fountain pen ink into one of the bowls, Nan Ruoyin and Fan Hongdou came over with things.
"Hongdou, pour the ink into the bowl." Nan Yi said, pointing to the empty bowl on the table.
"Um."
After Fan Hongdou poured the ink, Nan Yi grabbed the hands of the two little girls, looked at them carefully and compared them, and finally chose Fan Hongdou's left hand.
The Chengxintang paper was spread out on the table. Nan Yi pointed to the red ink bowl and said, "Hongdou, dip your left hand in the ink and make a palm print on the paper."
Fan Hongdou was confused but found it very interesting, so she dipped her hand in ink and pressed a red handprint on the Chengxintang paper .
Nan Yi picked up the drawing paper and looked at it for a while, then thought about it in his mind, and then he used a brush to write the word "赤诚" in the upper left corner, and wrote a poem in the lower right corner - A bamboo stick and straw sandals are lighter than a horse, who is afraid? A raincoat will protect me in my life.
Nan Ruoyin leaned over to Nan Yi and looked at the drawing paper, laughing, "Dad, I want to play too."
Fan Hongdou looked at her masterpiece and smiled secretly with a blushing face.
"Take off your socks."
"I use my feet?"
"Yeah, you have nice feet ."
Nan Ruoyin giggled and took off her socks. Without Nan Yi's instruction, she placed the bowl of black ink on the ground, dipped her feet in it, and pressed a footprint on another blank piece of Chengxintang paper.
Nan Yi followed the same method and wrote "行远" in the upper left corner and in the lower right corner - I asked if Lingnan was not good, but he said: This place where my heart is at peace is my hometown.
Two works were enough for Nan Yi, but the two little girls were very playful and "painted" several more works with their hands and feet, including Two Children, Innocent Lovers, Three People Walking Together, Inn and so on.
After the two children had played enough, Nan Yi kicked them out of the study, took out the original copy of Su Dongpo's "Cold Food Post" and compared it with his own handwriting.
"The shape is almost there, but the spirit is a world away. However, it's enough to fool people." Nan Yi muttered, waited for the drawing paper to dry, rolled it up and stuffed it into the painting tube.
"Zhiping, take these two paintings to Shanghai and give them to Mr. Ke Jianzhen, and tell him: These are authentic works of Su Dongpo, passed down from generation to generation." Nan Yi walked out of the study with the painting tube, found Ruan Zhiping and gave him instructions.
"immediately?"
"Yes, let's go right away. The sooner we go, the sooner we can come back."
"yes."
Ruan Zhiping took the painting tube, turned around and left.
Watching Ruan Zhiping go out, Nan Yi went to the kitchen.
"Young Master Nan."
Seeing Nan Yi enter the kitchen, Mrs. Chen, who was busy at work, greeted him.
"Aunt Chen, you take care of your own thing, I'll cut some pickled cucumbers." Nan Yi waved his hand and walked towards the jar of pickles in the corner of the kitchen.
Mrs. Chen, the cook introduced by Xianghe, had previously worked in the same employer's house as Xianghe. However, unlike Xianghe, she was not a self-combed woman, and found a man to marry when she was in her thirties.
Last year, her husband became rich and dumped her to find a young and beautiful woman. Apart from a 260-square-foot house and money, she didn't get a penny.
In order to make a living, she and her daughter set up a stall at the Temple Street Night Market. Just as Nan Yi was looking to hire a new cook, Xiang He introduced her to him. She has been working here for almost two months now.
Nan Yi opened a jar and grabbed a handful of pickled cucumbers from it, and took out a handful of pickled radishes from another jar, put them in a glass bowl, and blanched them in boiling water.
"Mr. Nan, do you like pickled vegetables?"
"That's good. From now on, you can help me prepare a pickled vegetable platter every three days, with more radishes and less of the others. Also, I don't drink sweet soup at night, so you can drink it once every three nights, and you can drink it as you like during the day."
"Okay, I'll remember that."
After Nan Yi prepared the pickled vegetables, he put them aside, and Mrs. Chen would take them out later.
After walking out of the kitchen, Yizi in Nan Ruoyin's arms broke free from her hands, jumped to the ground, walked towards Nan Yi with his little feet, climbed along Nan Yi's trouser legs and into her hands, meowing.
Nan Yi held it with his right hand and put his left hand on its head, stroking it gently.
"Dad, take me to the flower and bird market this weekend. I want to buy a new cat. This time I want a male one."
"Jealous?"
"Yes, Yizai and I are not close."
"It's strange that you can kiss me. I'm obviously a female cat, but you insist on calling me Yizai."
"Humph, the next one I'll call Yi Datou."
"It's up to you. If you get another one, your pet expenses will exceed the limit and it will be deducted from your food allowance."
Nan Ruoyin's eyes rolled, and she turned around and took Fan Hongdou's hand, "Sister Hongdou, can we buy a cat?"
"No, I want to have a dog."
"Dogs are not fun, and they poop everywhere. Dad will definitely let us clean up after ourselves. Let's just buy a cat, okay?"
"No, I want the dog." Fan Hongdou continued to refuse.
Nan Ruoyin is smart and Fan Hongdou is not stupid either. Nan Ruoyin's idea of using Fan Hongdou's budget to buy another cat soon fell through.
Nan Yi dotes on the two little girls, but not unlimitedly. Whether it's toys, snacks, or pets, he will give them a budget and will not allow them to exceed the budget.
You won’t be poor if you have enough food and clothes, but you will become poor if you don’t know how to plan.
Nan Yi wanted the two little girls to develop the habit of planning, and not to rush into this or that.
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After dinner, Nan Yi called Daiwen, who was responsible for picking up and dropping off the two little girls every day, into the study.
"Boss, both girls are doing well in school. However, whether it's Miss Ruoyin's piano training or Miss Hongdou's violin training, I suggest you hire a teacher to come to your home to teach."
"Why?"
“First, for security reasons, the geographical environment of the training class is too complex to effectively prevent sniping, and the retreat route is also easily blocked;
Second, for learning reasons, although the teachers in the two training classes are highly qualified, they have too many students to deal with and their energy is too dispersed to fully focus on tutoring the two young ladies. "
"Oh, I see. Do you know where there are some high-level teachers?"
Nan Yi himself doesn't know how to play any other musical instrument except the harmonica. Apart from being able to read staff and simplified musical notation, he has no knowledge of music.
At most, he knows that this song is good and that song is not; this song is good and that song is not good. He judges everything based on his own preferences. If you force him to give a precise answer, he can only make up nonsense.
If he were asked to compare who was better at playing the piano, if their levels were equal, he really wouldn't be able to tell who was better.
"Boss, the two young ladies are still beginners. They don't need to find a very good teacher. Just find someone with a few years of foundation. It won't be too late to find a better teacher after they advance."
"Look at me, I forgot that you were a trumpeter in the wind band when you were in school, right?"
"Yes."
"Can you play the trumpet?"
"certainly."
"Then take me to buy two trumpets someday and teach me how to play. Also, you will be responsible for finding a teacher. You will be in charge of whether the teacher is good or not. I am mainly concerned about the safety of the villa."
"Boss, don't worry, I will investigate thoroughly before anyone comes in."
"Okay, let's put it this way."
