Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0630: Don’t go through the back door, go through the front door
"Boss Li, she wants to buy almond cookies and ask you the price."
"Twelve dollars, the same as Hong Kong dollars and Portuguese paper."
"Ms. Li, what currency do you use?" Nan Yi turned and said to Li Fuzhen.
Li Fuzhen said: "I have Hong Kong dollars."
"Twelve Hong Kong dollars a box."
Li Fuzhen took out his wallet, pulled out a 100-dollar bill and handed it to Nan Yi, "Please, I need five boxes."
"Boss Li, five boxes." Nan Yi handed the money to Li Jinhao and said.
"Okay, I'll pack it for her."
Li Jinhao packed up five boxes of almond cookies and took out another 40 yuan in change.
Li Fuzhen took it and bowed to Nan Yi again, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Welcome to Macau." Nan Yi said with a smile.
"Thank you. I'll take my leave then."
"goodbye."
Nan Yi stood there, watching Li Fuzhen and the two people beside him walk out of the store. He didn't look away until their backs disappeared.
After Li Jinhao packed up the snacks, Nan Yi paid and left.
"Nansheng, that girl just now is a bit like you, I mean her temperament." After walking out of Li's Bakery, the school beauty came up to Nan Yi and said.
"Yeah, I know." Nan Yi responded calmly, and then said, "Go back to the dock and have dinner with grandma. We will be back to Beijing soon, so spend more time with her."
The intimacy between people will always deepen a little bit as time goes by. If Nan Yi used to be full of tricks towards Fang Mengyin, now he has a hint of sincerity.
On the way to the dock, Nan Yi wondered why Li Fujin appeared in Macau.
Before 1974, the main businesses of the Xingxing Group were concentrated in insurance, commodities (chemicals, steel, trade, seafood, real estate), sugar, department stores, newspapers, and culture; although Xingxing Electronics was established early, it had no outstanding technology and could only produce integrated circuits for televisions and radios.
In 1974, Li Jianxi, who was in charge of managing a TV station under the Mixing Group, overcame all objections and acquired South Korea Semiconductor, which was invested by American capital in South Korea. After absorbing the technical reserves of South Korea Semiconductor, Mixing Electronics began to transform and had its own real research institute.
In the late 1970s, Li Jianxi, who had been waiting for his opponents to be killed, finally outlasted his eldest and second brothers, took over most of the power of the Mixing Group from his father, whose health was deteriorating, and became the vice chairman of the Mixing Group.
The first thing a new official does when he takes office is to acquire the Seoul State Guest House and reorganize it into the Shilla Hotel. The second and third were both done on Maxing Electronics, which now has some signs of being a high-tech enterprise.
"Lee Fu-jin is still a little girl. From the news I read in the Dong- , it seems that her mother Hong Luoxi is in charge of the Shilla Hotel. Lee Fu-jin's visit to Macau is probably to accompany her mother to investigate the hotel industry."
South Korea is one of the Nan family's established expansion areas. The Intelligence Committee and Nan Yi have always been paying attention to several major groups in South Korea. Nan Yi knows a little about the situation of the Li family in Xing.
After thinking for a while, Nan Yi put the problem aside for the time being. The South Korea strategy was still scheduled for the future and did not need to be given much attention for the time being.
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The next day, August 9th.
Nan Yi asked someone to give Ruan Mei a test on her academic performance, but the result was not ideal. It would be very difficult for her to get into university based on her academic performance.
Knowing what was going on, Nan Yi made a triple jump. The first jump brought him to the New Territories, the second jump brought him to Shencun, and the third jump brought him into the air. After a short flight, he landed in Guangzhou.
As soon as Nan Yi arrived in Guangzhou, Lin Guangwei took him to an old tea restaurant "Chengzhulou" for dinner and tea.
Chengzhulou is very famous in Guangzhou. It was founded in 1746, the 11th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, and was run by one of the five major families in Guangzhou at that time.
At first, Chengzhulou was just a small pub. It was run continuously for more than two hundred years. It got bigger and bigger and became a very famous restaurant. Many local wedding banquets and parties in Guangzhou like to be held in Chengzhulou because of its fame and status.
After the public-private partnership in 1956, Chengzhulou's operating area expanded to 1,400 square meters and the number of seats increased to 700. It can be said that business was getting better and better.
The almanac says today is a good day for getting married. Coincidentally, a couple is planning to have their wedding banquet on the third floor of Chengzhu Tower. Although the banquet hasn't started yet, the waiters are already busy preparing.
Sitting on the second floor, Nan Yi and the other person could only hear the creaking sounds of the stairs and floor from time to time.
"How's the situation at the factory?"
Nan Yi was eating the famous Xiao Feng Bing of Cheng Zhu Lou while asking Lin Guangwei.
"Everything is normal, except that power outages are becoming more frequent this year."
"Does Yangcheng often have power outages?"
"Boss, everyone in Guangzhou knows this. Industrial areas are not so bad, but it's not uncommon for residential areas to have more than a dozen shutdowns a month."
"Power outage?"
Nan Yi took a look at the wooden floor, wooden stairs, and wooden window frames, then at the wiring on the ceiling that was already a bit old, and he felt a chill in his heart.
"If there's a power outage, what will restaurants and hotels do? Light candles?"
"Don't you know there's something called a generator? My factory has several diesel generators, so we can't stop working when there's a power outage."
"Oh." Nan Yi nodded unconsciously, and then said to Lin Guangwei: "If I want to buy a house in Yangcheng, where should I buy it?"
"You want to settle in Yangcheng?"
“I come here to stay for a while occasionally, and store things to see if they will appreciate in value.”
"Buy a house..." Lin Guangwei thought for a moment and said, "There are new residential buildings on Huanshi Road. I don't know if they are all sold out. There are also several buildings along the Pearl River. After the expansion of Dongfeng Road, several residential buildings were also built. There are also residential buildings on Jiefang North Road."
Nan Yi looked at Lin Guangwei without saying anything.
"Don't want this? Why didn't you say so earlier? Then come and be my neighbor in Huaqiao New Village. Xinhepu is also fine. There are old villas and houses from the Republic of China. Most of them are private property, so it's easy to buy."
“How many villas are there?”
"470? 480? I forgot, but it was less than 500 anyway." Lin Guangwei said after recalling.
"Come with me and take a look later. You can leave when it's done."
"No way, boss, I took time out today to accompany you, and you let me go?" Lin Guangwei said with his eyes wide open: "You don't have a lover here, do you?"
"Nonsense, I'm planning to invite Zhao Hongzhuang to dinner, do you want to join us?"
"Why are you asking her out? She's just a document counterfeiter." Lin Guangwei said disdainfully.
Lin Guangwei still feels resentful about the feud between him and Zhao Hongzhuang.
"I want to send someone to study at the Xian's Conservatory of Music. She's from Hong Kong, so I'll ask her to pave the way for him."
"Isn't it Hanju?"
"Do you believe that I can stuff this bowl into your mouth?" Nan Yi said as he glanced at the empty bowl of lettuce on the table with only soup left.
Lin Guangwei curled his lips and said, "That's easy. You don't need to look for that guy named Zhao. I can do it for you."
"That would be great if you could do it. How much does it cost?"
" It smells so good, didn't you just swim over there?" Lin Guangwei confirmed.
“I swam there more than a hundred years ago.”
"That's really easy. Forget about the event funding. There's no need to go through the back door. We can get it done directly through the front door. The most we have to do is set up tables and wine."
Nan Yi waved his hand and asked the school beauty to come over to him. He took an envelope from her and threw it to Lin Guangwei. "Then I'll leave this matter to you. There is 10,000 US dollars in it. No matter what method you choose, just don't have any sequelae."
"You bastard, why do I owe you this little money?" Lin Guangwei said, "You don't consider me a brother."
"US dollars, are you sure you don't want it?"
"Of course I want US dollars. There is a severe shortage of US dollars in Yangcheng recently. Let me tell you, the highest is 13. If you want more US dollars, get some and you can make a lot of money."
"13? Are you crazy? It would be strange if this price is used to exchange for US dollars." Nan Yi stood up and snatched the envelope back from Lin Guangwei. "Give it to me, you."
Nan Yi handed the US dollars back to the school beauty, then turned to Lin Guangwei and said, "I'm telling you, run your factory well and don't try to do anything crooked. I won't give you the money, but I'll introduce someone to you some other day."
"Ha, this is what brothers do." Lin Guangwei said with a smile: "Since the matter has been handed over to me, what about dinner?"
"You arrange it."
"Hey, I'll take you to a fun place." Lin Guangwei laughed slyly and put a piece of barbecued pork on Nan Yi's plate. "Eat some barbecued pork to replenish your energy. The activities tonight are very exhausting."
"Stupid twins, why didn't your aunt give birth to a barbecued pork?"
"Haha, your explanation of colloquial swear words in northern dialect is very interesting."
"My dear mother, if you don't know how to use the erhua sound, don't use it randomly. I'm going to poke your lungs with chopsticks, okay?"
"Haha, fuck you."
