Volume 1 Chapter 0094: Night Walk in Brocade Clothes
“Although Myanmar already has a public auction, the raw jade from each jade mine is ostensibly sent to the public auction for trading, but in reality, each mine owner is secretly selling the jade out.
When you go there, you should first form a team, then find out who their trading partners are in the eight major venues, and it would be best if you could find out their transaction prices.
For this matter, I don't need you to be quick, I just need you to be steady. You can spend a year to form a team and another year to conduct the investigation. You can hand over the investigation report to me by the end of 1982.
Two years should be fine, right?"
"There is plenty of time, I don't have any problems," said Le Van Thai.
"Okay, I can only give you money. You need to find out everything else you need. The jade business is a good business, and you will have a share of the future profits."
"No need. My wife helped me when I was in the most difficult time..."
"Let's put it this way. You are grateful and you just need to be loyal. Business is business. If you work hard, you will get a reward. As for how much you can get, we will talk about it after I read the investigation report and estimate the benefits."
"Thank you, Master."
"Hey, call me Nan Yi." Nan Yi said with a deliberately stern face.
"Yes, Nan Yi."
After Fang Mengyin signed the contract to purchase the office building, she left Beijing soon.
Although Nan Yi didn't ask why they walked so fast, he knew in his heart that Grandma Fang Mengyin was afraid of running into his mother Yi Jinru.
Perhaps, he was also afraid of meeting other acquaintances that Nan Yi didn't know.
Nan Yi really admired Grandma Fang Mengyin's style of wearing fancy clothes and traveling at night, but as I said before, he just wanted everyone to treat him like a piece of shit.
Early in the morning on the weekend, Nan Yi went to the Summer Palace for a walk and found that there were already quite a few well-mannered young people hanging around there. When they saw foreigners, they would run up to them and talk to them.
Nan Yi observed for a while and found that these young people should be college students. They were pretending to be free tour guides and translators for foreign guests, but secretly accepting tips from foreigners.
Well, these are a group of college students who are smart and understand that knowledge is wealth.
With their presence, it wouldn't seem so abrupt for Nan Yi to become a part-time translator at the Tu No Wei Company.
Moreover, I am doing this for free and serving foreign guests as a volunteer purely out of international friendship.
Nan Yi spent half a day in the Summer Palace carefully observing a female college student. In just half a day, she got three tips, one for 10 US dollars, one for 20 US dollars, and one time, which Nan Yi glanced at from a distance, should be two 1,000-dollar Korean won bills.
Well, this is an Ousiba, so it’s understandable that he’s a little stingy.
When Nan Yi first started his career, he had a lot of dealings with South Korean businessmen. Apart from the Taiwanese, they were the most stingy.
Nan Yi was a little jealous. This director Ye was making so much money. Should he try to get a piece of the action too?
Bah, he's just daydreaming. He doesn't have the time for that.
"If you can't get it, do you want to destroy it?"
Nan Yi thought mischievously, should he go to the schools of these illegal directors and report them?
And then, nothing happened. Nan Yi had already walked towards Jianguomen.
When Nan Yi arrived, Xu Qian was already waiting on the curb opposite the Friendship Store.
Nan Yi walked over and asked, "Why are you here so early?"
"I have nothing to do anyway, so I came early." Xu Qian said, taking a closer look at Nan Yi's clothes: "Crocodile polo shirt, FILA pants, and mediocre shoes, Huili. You look good today. The guard won't stop you from looking at your passport."
The Friendship Store currently only allows foreigners to enter. If the guard sees a yellow-skinned person dressed casually, he will ask for their passport to confirm their identity.
But if you dress stylishly and it is obvious at a glance that the clothes are not those that can be bought in China, then you can enter with confidence.
"If I wasn't going to enter this door, would I be dressed like this? This outfit makes me feel a little uncomfortable."
"Just bear with it even if you feel awkward. Come on, let's go in." Xu Qian naturally took Nan Yi's arm and half pulled and half dragged him towards the door.
The two men approached the gate, but the guard ignored them.
"I told you, the security guard definitely won't ask you to see your passport." Xu Qian said as they entered the store.
"Well, you are awesome. Let's go shopping. What do you want to buy today?"
Nan Yi glanced at the displays in the store. It was completely different from the last time he came here more than twenty years ago, forty years later. Except for the overall layout, the small details were completely unrecognizable.
"Apart from chocolate, there's nothing in particular I want to buy, so let's just walk around and see."
"oh."
Xu Qian led the way, and Nan Yi followed behind. They first came to a counter. Xu Qian waved her hand and bought two boxes of Hershey chocolate, twenty-four foreign exchange coupons per box. The boxes were not very big, but the price was really not cheap.
Nan Yi also noticed Xu Qian's wallet. There was a thick stack of foreign exchange coupons in her wallet, with at least dozens of them in denominations of one hundred.
"You are not white, so don't carry so many foreign exchange certificates next time."
There is no trivial matter in diplomacy. No one dares to take advantage of foreigners at this moment, including overseas Chinese like Xu Qian. But she has a yellow skin. If others misjudge her, it will be troublesome.
"Don't worry, I brought it with me because I'm coming here today. I don't usually carry a wallet." Xu Qian was very satisfied with Nan Yi's concern for her and nudged Nan Yi with her arm. "Do you want to buy anything? I can lend you some foreign exchange coupons."
"Why do you need to borrow it? You can just treat me. There is a 14-inch Panasonic color TV over there. Why don't you buy one for me?"
"You're dreaming. They cost hundreds of dollars each. Do you really think I'm being taken advantage of?"
"Well, our class friendship is not reliable." Nan Yi muttered, and stretched his hand under Xu Qian's eyes and nose, "Lend me 100, I'll go buy a pack of cigarettes."
"for you."
Nan Yi took the foreign exchange coupon, went to the cigarette counter, and spent sixty-five to buy a pack of Wrigley KENT cigarettes.
Now that you are here, you can't go back empty-handed.
At the Friendship Store, good cigarettes and good liquor are sold freely. As long as you can get in and have foreign exchange coupons on you, you can buy cigarettes and liquor in large quantities , and then take them outside to resell.
The Arrow brand in Nan Yi's hand is 65 yuan a piece. If he goes out, he can sell it for at least 80 yuan, or even 100 yuan.
"Don't you just draw one brand?"
"You've never smoked foreign cigarettes before, so try some meat ."
Nan Yi evaded the question and Xu Qian did not ask any more questions. The two of them continued to linger in front of each counter.
"Oh, that's troublesome. We can't speak foreign languages, so foreigners can't understand what we say."
"Gao Yi, you see, those two in front are overseas Chinese, right?"
Not far behind Nan Yi and Xu Qian, a man and a woman were talking. The man was called Gao Yi and the woman was called Yun Yun, Gao Yi's recent honey.
After listening to Yun Yun's words, Gao Yi glanced at Nan Yi and the others and said, "It's true. Let's go up. These two can't even talk human language."
"Dude, do you understand Mandarin?"
Gao Yi walked behind Nan Yi, leaned forward and spoke into Nan Yi's ear.
