Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0385 Proposal
Nan Yi did not go back to the old house directly, but went to Shan Nowei's office.
I walked into the office area and came to Nakataka Jiezhi's office, "Jiezhi-kun, are the roses I want ready?"
"President Nan, I'm ready." When Naka Xiaojie saw Nan Yi, he quickly stood up and bowed.
"Is it a white rose?"
"Yes."
"Give it to me."
"Hold on."
Atari Kousuke stood up and walked out of the office. After a while, he came back with a vase full of white roses.
Nan Yi leaned forward to take a look, and the flower was not wilted at all.
"The flowers are beautiful. Where did you find them?"
"I had someone send it over from Yunnan Province. Although it is grown in Beijing, it is not in bloom yet, and I haven't found a greenhouse to grow it."
"Thank you for your hard work. I neglected it." Nan Yi patted Zhong Xiaojiezhi's shoulder and said, "Jiezhi-kun, help me get some colored paper and scissors. I need to trim and wrap it."
"Hayi."
After Zhong Xiaojie brought the scissors, Nan Yi started trimming each one.
"President Nan, are you planning to give it to your girlfriend?"
"Yes." Nan Yi replied while pruning: "I don't understand roses. This one is different from the common white roses I see. What kind is it?"
"This is called a cut white rose, actually a white rose, and has a very meaningful name called 'Wedding Road'. It is no longer known whether the earliest place of origin was China or Japan, but this should have been introduced to Europe after hybrid breeding and then brought back. It is not a local variety."
"I see, Jie Zhi-kun is very knowledgeable about flowers."
Nan Yi nodded, very satisfied with the flower. The name "Wedding Road" had a good meaning, and he had originally planned to use this flower to propose to Liu Zhen.
After trimming the flowers neatly and wrapping them in colored paper, Nan Yi took the flowers and walked towards the old house. On the way, Nan Yi took out a piece of paper from his pocket and folded a paper ring.
Walking into the yard, Nan Yi first put the flowers in the yard.
"Nan Yi, you're back. How did things go?" Liu Zhen asked when she saw Nan Yi walk into the living room.
"Don't ask me yet, just pretend you didn't see me."
Nan Yi waved his hand, ignored her and went straight to the phonograph.
Seeing Nan Yi acting mysterious, Liu Zhen stopped talking and just waited to see what Nan Yi would do.
Nan Yi turned on the phonograph, found a record and put it on, then gently placed the magnetic head on the record. Amidst the rustling sound, Nan Yi flew back to the yard at a speed that would have made Bolt kneel, holding flowers and listening to "I'll Never Find Another You". In front of Liu Zhen's surprised gaze, he slowly walked in front of her and knelt on one knee.
"Zhen'er, marry me!"
Liu Zhen's eyes became moist, she covered her mouth and sobbed.
"Nan Yi, I once had a fantasy of this scene, but I never dared to hope that it would really come true. Thank you."
"Silly girl, you have to follow the script." Nan Yi said softly.
"Marry him."
Coming from the corner of the stairs on the second floor.
"Marry him."
Coming from the room on the first floor.
"Marry him."
Two overlapping sounds were heard in the yard.
Nan Yi nodded secretly, "The four of you are quite tactful and know how to flatter others. Give them more bonuses this month."
Liu Zhen smiled knowingly, "I would like to agree to your request, but I have the flowers, but where is the ring?"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Nan Yi took out the paper ring he had just folded from his pocket, held it between his index finger and thumb, and handed it under Liu Zhen's nose.
"Oh, it's made of paper. No, I want a diamond ring." Liu Zhen saw the paper ring and pouted, "It's made of paper. It doesn't have any sincerity at all."
"You women are just vulgar." Nan Yi said with contempt at first, then changed his tone and became tender, "However, if the diamond ring can represent my love for you, then I am willing to give you ten, a hundred... hundreds of thousands of more.
Wear it on. This is a certificate of ownership of 100% of the shares of an Andorran company. The company owns a piece of land in Canada, and there is a colored diamond mine under the land. If you want a few diamond rings, just go dig them yourself. "
"Diamond mine? Give it to me?" Liu Zhen said in disbelief, "When did you become so generous?"
"Don't you feel guilty for saying this? When have I ever been mean to you?"
"Okay, okay, it's my fault." Liu Zhen said happily, "Please put it on for me."
Nan Yi put the paper ring on Liu Zhen's left ring finger, then stood up from the ground and touched his knees, "The ground is really cold."
"Nan Yi, when are we going to register?"
"Is registration considered a marriage or an engagement?"
Liu Zhen thought for a moment and said, "It should be considered an engagement, right? The wedding banquet is considered a marriage, right?"
"Oh." Nan Yi responded, walked to the calendar on the wall and flipped through it. "March 8th is a good day for engagement, and it happens to be Women's Day. Your level is high enough to buy a plane ticket. Go to your company to get a letter of introduction. We will return to Wenchangwei on the 7th.
"By the way, have you submitted your love report?"
"Yes, I paid it after you moved your household registration back."
"Oh, then why don't you submit your marriage application tomorrow? It shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Don't underestimate me. I'm very popular in the company. Who would make things difficult for me? Besides, our bank is not a confidential unit. It won't be too strict. It's just a process."
"That's good. You can come home tomorrow to let me know. The day after tomorrow I'll ask a matchmaker to come to your house to discuss the betrothal gift. This time I'm going to go all out and be high-profile for a while, and I'm going to pick the best one for your family."
"Ten thousand dollars?"
"Ten thousand dollars a piece."
"Isn't that too high-profile? Nowadays, the more wealthy families only get about 2,000 yuan. Isn't that a lot?"
"How can it be the same? Your miscellaneous expenses add up to nearly 200 yuan a month. Ten thousand yuan is only five years' salary for you. I'm afraid your family will think it's too little.
Let me make it clear first, if your family wants more, I will give it to them, but I have to give it quietly. The ones on the table are one in a million, no more."
Liu Zhen said, "I have already told my family that the Pearl Banquet was actually funded by you. My brothers and their family members make a lot of money every year, so they shouldn't ask for too much."
Nan Yi didn't trust the character of the Liu family very much. He had already made up his mind that for the sake of Liu Zhen's face, he would agree to any price the Liu family offered.
With the Liu family's knowledge, it would be a great achievement to call out one hundred thousand. Even if they were extremely brave, the best they could do was to call out a million. Any more would be impossible.
After all, this is still an era where the goal is to become a 10,000 yuan household, and people brag about being a 100,000 yuan household. No matter how evil-minded one is, for ordinary people, a million is still like the stars in the sky, illusory.
Just like netizens in later generations saying that someone owed one trillion, few people can clearly explain what the number one trillion means. There is no clear concept at all. Those who can accurately say how many zeros there are in one trillion are rare.
"It's okay. You have a big treasure on you. I'll give you as much as you want."
"Hmph, Nan Yi, if I wasn't pregnant, you wouldn't be so easy to talk to, right?"
"Hey, all the fat on your body was raised by me. If you take away the fat I gave you, you'd only be worth... Hey, has the price of pork gone up again?"
"Why, am I worth the price of pork?"
"You're just dreaming. You're only worth the price of a spine. How much is it ? Is fifty cents enough?"
"It's not enough. Prices have also gone up. I just checked a few days ago. It's 56 cents. In the past few years, all prices have to go up. Railway and water transportation prices will soon increase by about 20%."
"Just freight?"
"They will all increase, just to different degrees."
“When will agricultural products rise again?”
"I don't know. Didn't the price just go up in 1979?"
"The purchase price of 18 kinds of agricultural products increased last time, but it was not very meaningful. The price of fertilizers and pesticides increased even more sharply. The cost of farming increased a lot, and farmers did not get any benefits."
"It's better to have something than nothing, which shows that the country has consciously begun to narrow the gap."
"Um."
Nan Yi responded, walked to the long table [the long table in the middle hall], pushed open the glass on it, took out the dried fruit plate from the storage, walked back to the sofa, and peeled various dried fruits for Liu Zhen to eat.
