Spring Thunder Chapter 0202: Meeting Gao Yi Again
I don’t know whether to call it fate or bad fate. As soon as Nan Yi walked into the hotel lobby, he saw Gao Yi and another person carrying a color TV and walking in, with another person following them.
Nan Yi also had an impression of the other two people. He should have seen them when they were fighting.
Most likely he is from the same hospital as Gao Yi.
One of them was wearing a military green shirt, military trousers, and standard leather shoes. He might be in active service or had just retired.
This is normal. During the period of going to the countryside to receive re-education through labor, at least 90% of the children from the military compound joined the army.
The last time I met Gao Yi, he had just retired not long ago. The timing was wrong, and he might have retired due to illness.
There was no way to avoid it, so Nan Yi could only walk up to him with a smile on his face, "Gao Yi, you're rich now, you've even bought 21 lottery tickets, it must be worth several thousand, right?"
"Nan Yi, what a coincidence, you live here too?" Gao Yi took off his glasses and glanced at Nan Yi.
"Yes, I am accompanying guests. If they stay here, I will benefit from it."
"I haven't asked you yet, where are you making your fortune now?"
"What kind of fortune? I'm at work. I was banished to the small island of Xiangkeng. I have nothing to eat in the morning. I only have two steamed buns for lunch. I think the tap water has no taste. At night, I boil some hot water to soak my feet, and then drink the water in the basin. It tastes really good."
"Oh, it feels like you have to go to Xiangkeng. You know what, Nan Yi, you've made a lot of sacrifices to stay in Xiangkeng. What do you think? When you give the signal, I'll lead the army to flatten Xiangkeng."
“Destroy fascism.”
"Freedom belongs to the people!"
As soon as Nan Yi shouted the slogan, not only Gao Yi, but also the two people beside him responded.
"You just arrived?"
"I just sent the guest to the room and was thinking of going out for some fresh air."
"That's great. Come sit in my room for a while. We'll go eat together later. I'll treat you to some seafood." Gao Yi was very familiar with the people around him. He put his hand on Nan Yi's shoulder and pointed at the other two people. "Gao Lian, my younger brother; Xia Ying, a buddy from the same courtyard. You should have an impression of him."
"Hello, Nan Yi, I'm sorry for what I did to you earlier." Nan Yi stretched out his hand and said to Xia Ying.
"You were so cruel back then. I spent a whole night in the sewer." Xia Ying stretched out his hand and shook hands with Nan Yi. "I can still smell the stench on your body."
"Hahaha, I was young and ignorant at the time, please bear with me, Brother Xia."
After the fight with Gao Yi and his gang, Xia Ying and a girl were left alone and were met by Nan Yi and his gang. They were both stuffed into the sewer by Nan Yi and his gang.
Of course, it was Nan Yi who did this back then.
"Forget it. It's been so many years. We can say that we didn't know each other until we fought."
"Hello."
Nan Yi then exchanged pleasantries with Gao Lian and said, "You guys keep busy. I'm going to go out and get some fresh air."
"Don't worry. Didn't I tell you to treat you to some seafood? There's a restaurant here that serves really good shrimps." Gao Yi kept Nan Yi in suspense and wouldn't let him leave.
Well, based on Gao Yi's enthusiasm and looking at the color TVs they were holding in their hands, Nan Yi could roughly guess what Gao Yi was planning.
"I may not be able to go. It depends on what arrangements the guests have. Tell me your room number first. If I can go, I will call your room."
"That's fine. I had a late lunch and I'm not too hungry. I can wait for you a little longer. My room number is 1206."
"Okay, let's do this for now, you guys get busy."
I walked along the side of the hotel lobby, passed a winding corridor, came to a pavilion, found an empty seat and sat down.
"What can I do for you, sir?"
"Italian coffee, matcha cheese Madeleines, and get me a copy of today's Evening News."
"Yes, sir, wait a moment."
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On Gao Yi's side, three people carried the color TV into their room.
"Brother, do you want to borrow money from Nan Yi?"
"What can we do if we don't borrow money? We are out of money."
"Does that guy have money? I can see through him, but he's still so strong. It's uncomfortable to look at."
"Xia Ying, you are still jealous of him for helping you plug the sewer. I tell you, don't underestimate him. The last time I met him was at the Friendship Store in Beijing. There was a woman standing next to him. She looked like an overseas Chinese.
She studied at the University of Peking, so where are graduates assigned to? Also, didn’t you hear that she was assigned to Xiangkeng?”
"Even if he has money, why should he lend it to us? Just because he had several fights with us in the past?" Xia Ying put a cigarette in his mouth and lay down on the bed.
"Let him urinate or defecate. We have to try it. Otherwise, the three of us will starve to death."
"Gao Lian won't starve to death. He can go to the military district cafeteria to eat."
"Oh, don't mention it. If I keep hanging around with you guys, I'll be forced to retire."
Gao Yi walked into the bathroom and took a towel to wipe his face and neck. "If you force me, then force me. You will be gone in April. I wish you could get out sooner. Your reward money can feed us for two days."
"Come on, my retirement pay is only enough to pay for one day's rent here. Brother, did those pirates steal our money?"
"It's a bad omen. We are still too naive. As soon as they asked us to pay a deposit, we gave them all the money. If we can't see the color TV, we can't get the money back. We can forget about returning to Beijing.
The money he got from Lao Cao was public funds. If he didn't return it, he would definitely ask Lei Zi to arrest him.
Why am I so small? "
Gao Yi threw the towel on the bed and sighed.
Nan Yi read in the newspaper that there are 8 million scientific and technological personnel in the country, one-third of whom are idle, and the emerging township enterprises are short of talent and urgently need scientific and technological personnel;
As a result, many engineers from state-owned enterprises were picked up by township business owners on weekends and secretly went to these factories to help with scientific research.
There is a special name for this group of people - Sunday Engineers.
That is, they worked for state-owned enterprises from Monday to Saturday, and on Sundays they were taken to township enterprises outside the city to provide technical assistance to the factories there.
The one who was sentenced is the unlucky one. There are at least tens of thousands of people who are doing this secretly.
Yes, if you entered the factory early, the salary level would be high and life would be a little better. If you entered the factory late and were assigned in the past two years, the salary level would not be that high and you would not get much money a month.
On the one hand, they receive a fixed salary of a few dozen yuan a month, while on the other hand, they get paid dozens or even hundreds of yuan for a day's work. They use their rest time to work, and it does not harm the interests of the unit. For these scientific and technological personnel, this does not seem to be something shameful.
There was constant discussion in the newspapers about that "unlucky guy", and it seemed that the unlucky guy's family was preparing to go to Beijing to file a complaint.
Nan Yi estimates that whether scientific and technological personnel can work part-time will remain ambiguous in the next few years. The conclusion will be decided by the local governments themselves. Some places will tacitly approve it, while others will make the judgment.
Guangdong Province will most likely agree and recruit part-time technical personnel from state-owned enterprises next year to upgrade Wenchangwei's industries.
"What are you looking at?"
Chen Weizong sat down next to Nan Yi and stuffed a piece of Madeleine into his mouth.
"Can't read?"
"Nonsense, I know you read the newspaper, so I want to ask you what news is in the newspaper."
"If you want to know, just read it yourself. If you want to do business these days, you have to learn to read newspapers. If you can't make tens of millions a year with just a newspaper, I'll let you take my last name."
"You just want to take advantage of me verbally. Is that fun?"
"Yes, when I see you, I get all excited. I can slap others twice, but I can slap you even if my hands are chopped off."
"You are a militiaman, and you dare to show your teeth to my regular army? Be careful or I can catch you in one move."
"Tsk, I'm just a sentry. I've even played with mortars before. Have you ever played with them?"
"You are awesome. You called me to Yangcheng with just one phone call. You must treat me to a good meal, right?"
"Okay, I'll treat you to seafood."
"I don't want to eat seafood. I grew up eating seafood. My urine smells like clams. Let's eat wild game. There's a dog meat restaurant over here. The taste is amazing."
"It's just some wild game . How can you eat such a cute dog?"
"Pigs aren't cute? Cows aren't cute? Which one did you eat less of?"
"Yes, pigs and cows are also lives. It's too cruel. Wait till you have the final say. Why don't you issue a law that anyone who eats pork will be shot?"
"Nonsense, seriously, where can we eat?"
"I just ran into an old acquaintance from Beijing. He seemed to be collecting deposits. Why is there no color TV in Guangzhou now?"
"In the past two months, the inspection at sea was strict, and there were not many color TVs arriving at the shore. All the regular customers were booked, so there were no color TVs to be distributed outside. This time, if my father spreads the word that there will be no more water transportation in our village, the price of color TVs will go up."
"Why, you can't bear to part with it?"
"I have nothing to be reluctant about. Although I can make money by robbing people, it is also dangerous. I have only been back for a short time, and I have already had more than a dozen fights, big and small. There must be a few injured every time."
“Someone wants to control the market?”
"Several villages have joined forces to control the grey market. Once the goods are landed, they are sold at double the price. Not to mention, Nanchen Village has also benefited from this."
"You guys have swallowed up all the profits. Who will come to you in the long run?"
"Who cares? We're not going to do it anyway. You can pay whatever price you want. In addition to Yifa Market, the electronics factory, and Nanyi, do you have any other plans?"
"You're still not satisfied? There are only 500 of them. The electronics factory will basically spend all this money. What else can they do?"
"The public account is five million, but as long as my father gives the order, each household can always chip in another ten million. To be honest, our village has been flooded since the early 1970s, and we have saved up a lot of money over the years."
"I'm not blind." Nan Yi spat, then said seriously: "We can build another winery, and produce both white wine and beer. We can control the scale of white wine and make beer as big as we can."
"You've got it reversed. Nowadays, most people drink white wine, not many people drink beer."
"It's simple. Beer is low-cost and low-proof, so you can drink a lot of it. Of course, a very important point is that it doesn't take much grain to brew beer.
Our food supply will become more and more scarce every year. Liquor consumes too much food, so sooner or later it will be controlled for a period of time and will only be released after the food problem is solved.
Besides, we should either not make liquor or if we do, we should follow the example of Moutai. We cannot sell it openly, so we have to hide it. We don’t have to beg others to buy it, but others have to beg us to sell it.”
"Moutai has been around for so many years and is the national liquor. How can we compare with it?"
"Nonsense, the national liquor is Fenjiu, Red Star Erguotou, and Red Star Wine. At that time, no one knew where Moutai was. Reputation is something that depends on how it is operated. We should find a way to send our liquor to Crimson Palace, the White House, Buckingham Palace, and the Palace of Versailles.
If we can get one in, our wine will become famous, and we can tell others that this is the designated wine for country ××’s state banquets.
If we organize a Panama World Expo abroad and give our wine a gold medal, our value will go up even more.”
"Panama?"
"Who cares what it is, as long as it can fool people. I tell you, the president of the country is nothing after his term ends. We can spend some money to hire someone to endorse us."
"Really?"
"Okay, of course. Tell your dad that I don't want any dividends from the winery. I want to invest half the money and get half the shares."
"Wow, it seems that you are really optimistic about the winery and you are not even willing to give up the shares."
"What the hell is this about being humble? It will take at least 10 or 20 years for a winery to reach the level of Moutai, and there's a lot of money to be invested. Tell your dad about this first, so that you don't end up saying I'm cheating you if you don't see any return on investment in a year or two."
"Bullshit, my dad is not so short-sighted. Let's go and have dinner."
"The acquaintance I just met wants to treat me to a meal. You can come with me later."
"Your acquaintance is not my acquaintance, so I won't go."
"You have to go. You probably want to borrow money from me. Please block them for me for a while."
"Who is it?"
"We met in a fight."
"Then why don't we just go and eat by ourselves."
"You have to go. I want to see what they are up to. They are probably making color TVs. If they are, you will be the boss of the color TV business."
"Go! Go! Go."
