Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0501 Dung Beetle
After leaving our hospital, Nan Yi went to Xidan Telegraph Building for some lavish spending.
I occupied a telephone room, made calls for an hour or so, and when I came out, I paid a phone bill of nearly 800 yuan.
From Wenchangwei to Xiangkeng and then to Japan, the phone charges started from one or two yuan per minute and jumped to more than ten or twenty yuan. Nowadays, making long-distance calls is more luxurious than going to the hospital.
If you want to brag about your wealth, you can say: "I make calls abroad for an hour every day."
Tsk tsk, if your family doesn’t have thousands of yuan in wealth, you wouldn’t dare to do this.
After leaving the telegraph building, Nan Yi ran to the West City Industrial and Commercial Bureau.
As soon as we arrived at the door of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, we saw a dense crowd of people queuing there.
These are the people who are preparing to register a company.
"School Belle, how many people are there?"
"273."
"Quite a few." Nan Yi said thoughtfully.
State-owned enterprises are the big brothers, township enterprises are illegitimate children, and private enterprises are wild children. There will be more and more "wild children" in the mainland, and they have come to a good time.
After reading the rumor in the newspaper, Nan Yi had a premonition that the dual-track pricing system would soon affect industrial means of production. The timid illegitimate son was about to face hard times, while the bold and wild child would bloom alone in the warm spring.
The era has come where profiteers can make hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. The responsibility system for factory directors in state-owned enterprises is about to be implemented, and many people's iron rice bowls are about to be lost.
After sighing for a while at the gate of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau , Nan Yi ran to the cinema to watch "First Blood".
There haven't been any good movies recently, so the cinema brought out this Chinese film to show again. What's more, there are quite a lot of audiences in the cinema, both young and old.
After watching it, Nan Yi felt a little depressed. The film had been edited and many classic scenes that he remembered were missing. In addition, the film was re-dubbed in Chinese, which made it a bit awkward to watch.
At six o'clock, Nan Yi arrived at Mingzhu Banquet.
The store was busy at the time, with customers of all ages.
After Nan Yi and Liu Zhen got married, Mingzhu Banquet was clearly owned by the Liu family. Liu Qinglong and Hei Mu'er, who managed the restaurant, showed great passion and ran the restaurant well.
Although they did keep the restaurant's income in their own pockets in the past, it was not legitimate in any way. They were worried about gains and losses, and always felt that they would leave at any time. They were uneasy and could not focus 100% of their energy on managing the business.
It’s different now. Everything is laid out on the table, and the couple can do it with confidence and boldness.
It’s true that Hei Mu’er has a pretty good grasp of business. She runs Mingzhu Banquet very well, and its business is much better than Duanjinlou. Nan Tieli is really not cut out for business.
"Sister-in-law."
Nan Yi walked to the cashier counter and called out to Hei Mu'er who was calculating the bill.
Hei Mu Er looked up and saw that it was Nan Yi in front of him, so he greeted him politely: "Brother-in-law is here, go sit inside, I will greet you when I am free."
"It's okay, sister-in-law, you go do your thing, I'll just..."
Before Nan Yi could utter the word "too", he was interrupted by a deafening sound of slapping the table.
"Boss, boss, where are the people? They've all died!"
Following the sound, Nan Yi saw two men sitting at a table. The one who was shouting had pockmarks all over his face. Judging from the Beijing people's tendency to fight, his nickname was probably × pockmarked man.
It was obvious at first glance that the two were not on to a good start. Well, Nan Yi knew that these two gentlemen had either found a fly or a cockroach in their food.
"Sister-in-law, are there many of this size?"
"It's OK. I can meet him once or twice every two or three months." Hei Mu Er said calmly, "Brother-in-law, I'll go take care of it."
"good."
Nan Yi didn't think about helping. It was inevitable to encounter this kind of person when running a restaurant. If Hei Mu'er couldn't deal with it, Nan Yi wouldn't be able to help him the next time.
Nan Yi opened the glass jar on the cash register, grabbed a handful of melon seeds from it, leaned on the cash register, and watched the black fungus performance while eating melon seeds.
"I'm the boss here. Are the dishes at our Mingzhu Banquet not to your liking?" Hei Mu'er said with a smile as he walked to the table.
"Oh, it's the proprietress. Her surname isn't Sun, is it?" said a pockmarked man, whistling.
"My last name is not important. Anyway, we don't sell human meat buns here. Is there any dish that doesn't suit your taste? Tell us what's wrong and we will change it immediately."
Nan Yi put the melon seed shells on the cash register and smiled. The black fungus was really good and he handled it very well.
"Nan Yi, why are you here? Do you want to stay for dinner?"
Liu Qinglong, dressed in white, came to Nan Yi with a kitchen knife in his hand.
"I'm going to open a table here at seven o'clock. Brother, please help me with the budget."
"How many people?"
"I'm not sure yet. Please help prepare a few more dishes."
"Okay, I'll help you with it. I won't let you down." Liu Qinglong said, glancing at Hei Mu'er from time to time. "Opening a restaurant is the trouble of these pretentious people. I really want to chop them up."
Liu Qinglong said this but did nothing with his hands.
Nan Yi could see that he was waiting for Hei Mu'er's call. If Hei Mu'er couldn't continue playing the red face role, he would let Liu Qinglong play the black face role.
"Brother, please send someone to call the third brother over. I have something to say to him."
"Did mom tell you?"
"Um."
"Okay, I'll send a guy over later."
After the two finished talking, their eyes both looked towards Hei Mu'er, missing a moment. Now the situation over there seemed to be something wrong , and Hei Mu'er could hardly calm down.
"Don't talk nonsense to me. I found a stink bug in my food in your restaurant and you're trying to trick me by giving me a free meal?" A pockmarked man leaned back in his chair and said nonchalantly.
"Then you draw a path, and I'll take what I can." Hei Mu'er said without giving in.
"Okay, since the boss lady is happy, I'll tell you straight out. I, Zhang Mazi, am also a big shot in Houhai. From now on, you prepare 500 yuan for me every month, and I will guarantee that your store will be safe."
Well, this Zhang Mazi doesn’t just want to make a quick buck and leave, he wants to make money all year round.
"Brother, have you ever encountered something like this before?" Nan Yi asked Liu Qinglong with a frown.
"It's the first time. In the past, they came to extort money. The money was not much, and we always gave money to avoid trouble. We have never encountered such a thing. I have heard of Zhang Mazi's name. He is quite arrogant in Houhai. I can't deal with him. I have to let Lao San come. He knows a lot of troublemakers."
Liu Qinglong's hand holding the kitchen knife trembled. He looked around and walked towards a waiter.
When Nan Yi saw this situation, he had no choice but to step forward. The best solution to the current situation was to find a big troublemaker to subdue Zhang Mazi, but this was a method that Nan Yi himself was unwilling to use, and he did not want to see Hei Mu'er use.
While eating melon seeds, Nan Yi walked to Zhang Mazi's table and said to Hei Mu'er, "Sister-in-law, you go back and settle the accounts. I'll handle it."
"Brother-in-law, this..."
"It's okay, I'll do it." Nan Yi nodded to Hei Mu'er.
Pulling the empty chair outside, Nan Yi sat down and looked directly at the pits on Zhang Mazi's face.
"Comrade Zhang, do your parents know that you're fooling around like this? Or do they not know? Or did your parents die of anger because of you in the early years?"
Bang!
Hearing Nan Yi's words, Zhang Mazi slapped the table hard and stood up, "Whose crotch was not closed tightly, letting your little bitch leak out, and your mouth is full of shit."
"Yes, you speak very fluently. God has pity on you and gave you pockmarks on your face, but he didn't make you stutter. Come on, don't stare so wide, it's tiring. You can't scare me with your behavior.
You are so angry, which means your parents are still alive. That's easy to say. I assume that you are still a human being and have some filial piety. So listen carefully to what I am going to say. If you still dare to slam the table after listening, then go back and clean yourself up. Let's get started."
"Okay, Xiaobi is quite good at talking. Come on, talk. Let me see what you have to say." Zhang Mazi spat, sat back in his chair, and lit the cigarette that was resting on his ear.
"Comrade Zhang, I see you haven't read much, so I'll give you some small knowledge first." Nan Yi smiled, very brightly, "There is a kind of patient called a mental patient. During the period of illness, a mental patient has no ability to recognize and control. If such a person commits a crime during the period of illness, he generally does not have to bear criminal responsibility, but only civil liability.
Let me explain. What this means is that if a mentally ill person kills your parents during an attack, he won't have to go to jail. He will just have to pay you some money.
How about it? Does it open your eyes to a bright future after hearing this? Does it point you to a bright path to wealth? "
"If you keep spewing shit at me!" Zhang Mazi jumped up from his chair again, picked up a beer bottle on the table, pointed at Nan Yi and said, "If I don't punish you today, I'm not Zhang Mazi."
"Comrade Zhang, do you know how to be polite? I haven't finished talking yet. Don't hold the bottle. You can't return it if the bottle is broken. It's five cents. Sit down and listen to me calmly."
Before Nan Yi finished speaking, the tiger cub had already walked up to Zhang Mazi and was staring at him hungrily.
"What does this mean? Are you ready to start?"
Zhang Mazi glanced at the tiger cub, then turned to Nan Yi and said.
"It's nothing, I just want you to listen to me. We are all from the new generation of the 1980s. We should be civilized and polite."
Zhang Mazi looked at Nan Yi, then at the tiger cub, and weighed the fighting power between himself and the tiger cub. The result seemed not ideal, so he had no choice but to put down the bottle and sit back.
His companion has been stared at by the school belle. If he makes the slightest movement, the school belle will subdue him instantly and make him try the authentic Bin Dao.
"Okay, let me continue. Where was I... Oh, right, mentally ill. Comrade Zhang, I won't introduce myself. I'm afraid you'll know my name and come to my house to deal with me. I'll be so scared that I won't be able to sleep.
I'll just tell you one thing. I don't have a lot of money, but it's not too little either. It's not difficult to find where your house is. I will buy the houses on the left, right, front and back of your house if I can, and rent out the ones that are not for sale. Then I will set up a place there to provide free food and accommodation for the mentally ill.
Mental patients are pitiful, and we should definitely help them if we can.
Comrade Zhang, you don't know, but I have had this idea for a long time, and I'm just worried about one problem: I'm afraid that when they get sick, they might hurt or kill people. That would be bad. Wouldn't it be a bad thing instead of a good thing?
Well, when I first met you, I wasn't afraid anymore. Well, I arranged for you to stay near your house. I knew you were a kind person. If you and your family were hurt, you would definitely not cause trouble for me, right?"
"I……"
Zhang Mazi wanted to jump up again, but as soon as he raised his buttocks, the tiger cub pushed him back.
Nan Yi pointed his left index finger at Zhang Mazi's face and said, "If you think I'm telling a story, then use whatever means you have. I'm waiting. If you take it seriously, then listen carefully. From now on, if anything happens here, I'll blame you. Aren't you number one in Houhai? The safety of this place is in your hands."
Nan Yi said, pointing in the direction of the door, "Now, stand up and get out of here. This meal is a thank you for my help."
"Let's check where Comrade Zhang Mazi lives. It will be convenient for us to do things in the future."
"Understood." The tiger cub responded.
Nan Yi wiped the melon seed shells that he had cracked on the table, held them in his hand, stood up and walked back to the cashier.
"Brother-in-law, you are really awesome. Look how scared Zhang Mazi is." Hei Mu'er saw that Zhang Mazi and his companions had stood up and left, and said to Nan Yi with a smile.
"Sister-in-law, there is a vacant lot in front of the restaurant. It is convenient for the police station here to do legal education. So, donate a motorcycle to the police station, talk to them about the vacant lot in front of the restaurant, and try to get a sign for the joint construction of the police and the public."
In addition, we can build a cabinet at the door, install a large water tank on the cabinet, fill it with fresh boiled water every day, and put a few thermos bottles there. Patrol officers, cleaners, and cart drivers, whoever needs water, can come and fill it. We will provide it for free."
"Nan Yi, why are you doing this? Aren't you just asking for trouble?" Liu Qinglong said.
"What do you know? This is a great move, brother-in-law."
Liu Qinglong didn't understand Nan Yi's intention, but Hei Mu'er did. She could roughly understand the benefits of doing so.
"Brother-in-law, do you want to invite the people from the police station over for a meal?"
"Sister-in-law, please don't do that. It's very important to be fair to the public, not to yourself. Otherwise, you'll have trouble in the future."
Black Fungus said cheerfully: "Okay, I'll listen to my brother-in-law and find a carpenter to make a cabinet tomorrow."
"Sister-in-law, is the box inside empty?"
"It's empty. Brother-in-law, please go in and sit down first. I'll let my eldest brother prepare the dishes. He will definitely not let you lose face."
"Okay, thank you, sister-in-law."
Nan Yi glanced towards the gate and didn't see Liu Feibao coming, so he walked towards the box.
He didn't have to wait outside at all. Wang Lu's grandson had been here before and knew that Nan Yi had a reserved box here. When people arrived, he would go over by himself. Besides, he also knew Liu Qinglong.
"Look, their restaurant is open and doing so much business, and look at us, it's closed."
Nan Yi was eating melon seeds in the box for a while when he heard Wang Li's voice coming in. From the tone of the voice, he knew it was Ye Qi who was next to him.
As the door of the box was opened, the faces of Wang Lu and Ye Qi appeared, followed by Ma Modu, Zheng Xiaolong, Ying Rui, Ye Daying, Chen Huaige, Ge Liuyi and others who quickly entered the box.
It’s okay, Wang Li didn’t bring any unreliable people with him.
"Nan Batian, you're here early?"
"I've been here for a while, guys, come sit down, take a seat, make yourself at ease."
Nan Yi asked everyone to sit down, then exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then started chatting with Ye Qi next to him.
"I heard from the gangster that you are concentrating on selling clothes now?"
"There are many stalls in Xidan Stadium. I set up two stalls there and sell clothes brought back from the south. Business is pretty good. I can earn this much in a day."
Ye Qi made the number eight under the table.
"That's a lot. Is your business considered good in Xidan?"
"It's considered good. Thanks to the way you helped me, I got the latest and most fashionable clothes, a few days earlier than others. Don't underestimate it. Just a few days earlier can make me four or five thousand."
"Very good, or do you want to go to Yangcheng to pick up the goods yourself?"
"Yes, I always go by myself. I don't trust others to go. It costs me tens of thousands to pick up goods. If they are lost, I will be heartbroken."
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "How much can you take out now?"
"About ten."
"Do you want to change your approach and do wholesale instead of selling them one by one?"
"Of course that's good. After working for half a year, I've figured it out. If I set up a wholesale department in Beijing that sells clothes from the south, I can make at least enough to cover the travel expenses for the men in the south. That's a lot of money a year."
"Well, wholesale depends on quantity. As long as the quantity is large, you can make a lot of money by selling one or two yuan for a piece of clothing. Since you are interested, let's meet at the east gate of Xidan Stadium at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and go around all the stalls in Beijing to learn about the situation.
The day after tomorrow at 4pm, come to my place again, I will call someone from the south, and we will discuss how to deal with this matter. "
"That's great. I'll drink less so I don't fall asleep tomorrow." Ye Qi said with a smile.
"Hey, Nan Batian, Chengtuo, stop chatting with yourselves, there are still a group of people here."
