Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0542: Fire of Gossip
Nan Yi returned to the Great Wall Hotel and first called Chen Dan to say hello to her, and then called Nie Kai who worked at the Beijing Planning Commission.
From Nie Kai, Nan Yi found out the current proportion of domestic production materials that are within the plan and outside the plan.
The proportion of steel is 78/22, coal 92/8, oil 83/17, cement 64/36, food 59/41, clothing 59/41, and durable consumer goods 48/52.
After getting the data, Nan Yi went to the library again and read every issue of the "Mouthpiece Newspaper" this year. He was either reading carefully or looking for the information he needed. He read quickly and finished reading the newspaper before the library closed.
After reading it, Nan Yi pondered it and quickly came to a conclusion - at least in the next two years, the supply of cotton yarn to township enterprises will become even tighter. Now there is still a small gap to get cloth, but by next year, there will be no way to get a single cotton yarn or a foot of cloth through formal channels.
By next year, for some people, the era of being a millionaire with a monthly income of ten thousand yuan will be over, and a million yuan will be a piece of cake and not a dream at all.
"The era of big trader economy has begun."
After walking out of the library, Nan Yi sighed and got into a car on the side of the road.
"Tiger cub, have you bought it?"
"I bought it. It's in the trunk."
"How many?"
"Two pounds."
"Almost. There's not much oil left."
Back in the old house, Nan Yi boiled some oil, washed a baby cabbage, and made a dish of fried baby cabbage with oil residue.
There was no baby cabbage cultivation in the mainland before. It was only since last year that Shan Nowei accepted a custom order and planted a piece of it in the Gaoligong Mountains in Yunnan Province. It can be harvested every two months and five and a half crops can be grown a year.
After the dishes were cooked, Nan Yi directly took a pair of chopsticks, picked out 80% of the oil residue in the dish bowl and put it into the rice bowl, then filled it with rice to cover the oil residue, and then carried the dish bowl out of the kitchen.
"Hurry up, I'm hungry." Liu Zhen urged Nan Yi when she saw him coming out of the kitchen.
"What's the hurry? It's coming."
Nan Yi said this and placed the vegetable bowl next to Liu Zhen.
Liu Zhen glanced at the scattered oil residue on the surface of the vegetable bowl, and quickly picked up chopsticks to pick up the baby cabbage. As he did so, his face darkened, "Nan Yi, our family is so poor, can't we even afford a few pieces of oil residue?"
"It's enough to satisfy your craving. You can't eat too much. The oil residue is all in my bowl." Nan Yi said, picked up some dishes on the table, and walked to the yard with the bowl in hand.
"Why are you hiding? Are you afraid that I will snatch you away?"
"Yes, I'm just afraid you'll snatch it away."
“Boring.”
Nan Yi walked out of the yard with the bowl in his hand and squatted down against the wall.
Even if it weren't for the oil residue today, Nan Yi would have eaten outside the yard. The landlord of the house across the street had just rented it to a young couple who had just gotten married.
Yesterday, Nan Yi also came back at dinner time and happened to hear the couple arguing. He unconsciously listened to a few words.
The man said that the woman was pregnant, and the woman said that the man had a vixen outside. Just these few words ignited Nan Yi's gossip fire. He now came here to wait and see if there was any excitement.
But after he had finished half a bowl of rice, the couple opposite him were still eating on the open space, without any movement.
However, Nan Yi's surroundings were becoming more and more lively. Tan Xiang, Ge Pudao and others came out after dinner to watch the show.
"You have sharp eyes, can you see that man's mouth?" Seeing Hao Lu, Nan Yi looked up and said to her.
"Can."
"Read it. What did the man say?"
"Okay." Hao Lu agreed, narrowed his eyes, and looked across at the opposite side. "Xiao... There are two words I can't read, and the next one means eat well. I don't want to quarrel with you today."
"You should stop now. It's okay. Just continue. If you can't read it, just skip it."
"What did the woman say? The man got a little irritated and couldn't have a good meal. I've already said that I have nothing to do with X-woman. It's you X-woman, who planted the seeds in your stomach... Mr. Nan, we're fighting and we can't see your mouth anymore."
"Hey, I saw it. It's okay. Just watch the show yourself."
Nan Yi laughed, his eyes fixed on the male and female singles show on the opposite side.
"Damn, so tasteless, how can you hit a woman's stomach, what if she has a miscarriage." Nan Yi watched and commented, "Sigh, kicking the crotch, this woman is too cruel, how can you kick there, you don't plan to use it yourself."
"Nansheng, who do you support?" asked the tiger cub next to him.
"As for me, I bet on both sides... There's nothing to watch, the man was knocked out." Nan Yi looked at the man lying on the ground kicking his legs and the woman walking into the house, and said with lingering feelings: "Pay more attention, ignore the fight, and stop anyone who wants to kill."
"clear."
Nan Yi walked into the house holding the bowl, thinking that in a few days, Aunt Liang from the street would come to do work.
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The next day, there was still no news from Min Jinsheng, but Xian Yaohua called him.
"Uncle Yaohua, what's the matter?"
"The village committee just voted on Jijie's matter, 2 to 5, Cuizhu and I were the only ones against it, everyone else agreed. Xu Lianjie, the shareholder that Jijie wanted to absorb, also came to the village. He's not an ordinary person, and everyone else was convinced by him."
"Well, since there is a result, let's execute it. The minority obeys the majority. This is the principle we always adhere to. Let's not talk about this matter. Has Xiuyun's third investigation produced any results?"
"Not back yet."
"Okay, got it, Uncle Yaohua, please let me know when there is a result."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi went to the cafe downstairs and found the school beauty sitting in the cafe reading a magazine.
"Go call Huiwen and ask her to notify Lian Zhenke from the bad group. If he is not busy with something that requires him, ask him to come to Beijing to see me as soon as possible. If he is busy, ask him to come to see me after he is done."
"clear."
After the school beauty left, Nan Yi sat down in her booth, raised his hand to call the waiter and ordered a cup of coffee for forty-five dollars.
As the coffee was delivered, he looked around while holding it.
There were seventeen people sitting in the cafe. This was the consumption area and anyone who sat down had to make a purchase. The cheapest Coke was fifteen yuan a cup. Even if all these seventeen people ordered Coke, the restaurant would have already had sales of three hundred yuan.
Looking towards the front desk, there was one person checking in and three people waiting.
The rooms here are not cheap. They are priced in US dollars and follow their own exchange rate of 1:5 between US dollars and RMB. The cheapest special room starts at 600 RMB, the standard room is 800, and the real suites, if checked in on a daily basis, cost 1,860 RMB a day.
According to Nan Yi's memory, this price was almost the same as that of a four-star hotel 25 years later, and was much higher than the price during the period of fierce hotel competition 30 years later.
If we take inflation into account, well, let’s not even count it, because the annual income of 90% of the people in the country is not even enough to stay here for a day.
Nan Yi stared at one of the people waiting at the front desk for a while. He was sure that this person must be from the mainland, and most likely from Beijing.
No matter the way he dressed, the look on his face, the way he stood, or the way he now showed off by holding a wad of money in his left hand and slapping it against his right hand, Nan Yi narrowed down the scope again - profiteers, people who traded approval documents, and former gangsters.
Removing the concentration from his eyes, Nan Yi continued to look in the direction of the front desk for more than half an hour.
"It's not a peak period, but there were 8 check-ins and 1 check-out. It seems the hotel is doing good business."
Nan Yi muttered something and drank the coffee that had turned from cold to warm. Just as he was about to end his observation game, he saw a man and a woman standing in the hotel's revolving glass door.
So he dropped his raised buttocks back onto the chair and observed with his peripheral vision.
Nan Yi didn’t know the man, nor did he know the woman, but after seeing her photo, he knew she was Yang Shanqing’s fake foreign cousin Yang Kaiyan.
"Ponytail, such a long face, such a pointed chin, I don't know if it has been moved, but the eyes are very sharp, the ability should be not bad, but he thinks highly of himself and is too arrogant.
Knee-length skirt with riding boots, what kind of taste is that? Are you trying to imitate a cowgirl?
Poor girl, her breasts were stolen.
Except for the breasts, everything else is OK, with a full score of 100 , I would give it 84 points. "
Nan Yi glanced at Yang Kaiyan a few times, wrote down her physical characteristics, and made a simple, not necessarily accurate, analysis of her personality.
"The man next to him... Hey, his eyes are a little cautious, a little pretentious, his face is dark, his neck is white, and his hands..." Nan Yi looked at the man's hands. The backs of his hands were a little chapped and abnormally dark. "He doesn't look like he was born into a military family. He must be a farmer or someone who has been in contact with corrosive chemicals for a long time. He's actually a grassroots person?"
After looking at her a few more times, Nan Yi could tell that this man was somewhat interested in Yang Kaiyan.
"Interesting. With tens of thousands of dollars in your pocket, you dare to covet the daughter of a rich and powerful family?"
