Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0634 1987, the Era of Entrepreneurs
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When the helicopter propeller stopped turning, Nan Yi walked out of the helicopter.
Standing on the ground, Nan Yi looked towards the dock, but not seeing his two sons, so he walked towards the vegetable garden.
After walking for nearly twenty minutes, Nan Yi finally arrived at the vegetable garden.
After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the tomato ridge. Looking at the tomatoes hanging on the vines with only a layer of skin left, Nan Yi smiled and shook his head.
Walking to a tomato vine with only one whole tomato hanging on it, Nan Yi was about to reach out to pick it when he saw that the tomato wall was wet.
I bent down, got closer and sniffed it, and immediately smelled a faint smell of urine.
"You two little bastards, you're plotting against me."
Nan Yi cursed with a smile and asked the school beauty to hand him the bottle of mineral water. He poured the mineral water on the tomatoes, picked them up and rubbed them on his clothes. After wiping off the water, he put them in his mouth and took a bite.
While chewing a tomato, Nan Yi inspected the entire vegetable garden, and then slowly walked towards the "railway" of the manor.
There is a game called Monopoly, also known as Railroad Tycoon, which is very popular among children in the United States.
In fact, a long time ago, as early as the beginning of the 20th century, someone invented a "Landlord Game" whose rules were very similar to Monopoly.
Nan Yi improved the rules of the Landlord Game and moved the game to the manor.
Arriving at the Vegetable Garden Platform next to the railway, Nan Yi pressed a red button on the station sign pole, and then waited quietly.
Woo woo woo...Besides, what’s more, what’s more.
A few minutes later, a mini train drove towards the platform.
"Hello, sir, which station are you going to?" Nan Youqiong stood up from the front of the train and said.
“Terminal.”
"Sir, not long ago, the great Italian scientist De Broglie passed away. In order to express our condolences to him, our train company decided to raise the ticket price by 75 cents. Thank you."
"Excuse me, can I get a white bill?"
"Sir, our company does not have this business, thank you."
"Can I use my face?"
"Sorry, I need to discuss this with the shareholders." Nan Youqiong took out his intercom and pretended to have a conversation. "Sorry, sir, the shareholders don't agree."
"Okay, here you go."
Nan Yi took out a $100 bill and handed it to Nan Youqiong.
Nan Youqiong took the money with a smile and put it in his pocket. "Sir, our company is launching a year-round unlimited ride service for $100. Congratulations, you are our first VIP customer."
"Haha, I'm leaving New York soon."
"Hehehe, Dad, I launched this business because I knew you were leaving."
"Little bastard." Nan Yi touched Nan Youqiong's head and said, "Tell me, whose urine is that?"
"Dad, even if you beat me to death, I will never betray Wuwei."
"Little rascal, drive."
After saying that, Nan Yi stood on the train platform.
Nan Youqiong put the intercom to his lips and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard the K001 train. This train is bound for Scarlett Queen Station... The next stop is the shooting range. Passengers who need to get off please jump off the train by yourself. This train does not stop along the way.
Passengers who have not paid the station construction fee, please go to the locomotive to pay. This year, the international coal price has risen, and the train company needs to charge an additional coal fee of 45 cents. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. There is no need to complain if you have any opinions. We will not accept them and we reserve all rights of interpretation..."
"Don't add too much drama, just drive."
"Dad, don't worry, it will be here soon." Nan Youqiong stepped on the ground with his left foot, and the train started moving.
Along the way, we stopped and started many times, had to pay railway maintenance fees, tolls and bridge tolls, and when we reached the "commercial area" halfway, we were forced to buy drinks.
In the second half of the journey, I paid the consumption tax on beverages and tickets;
As we approached the terminal, we also had to pay the Nan's education surcharge, the Nan's environmental protection surcharge, the Nan's verbal surcharge, the Nan's sponsorship fee for the fund to protect my son's healthy growth, and so on.
For one train ride, Nan Yi spent a total of US$117.75.
As soon as the train stopped, the train driver Nan Youqiong jumped off the train and walked to the eagerly awaited shareholder Nan Wuwei, and the two of them divided the money 50-50.
After the dividends were distributed, the two brats walked up to Nan Yi again, each holding one of his hands, and dragged Nan Yi towards the study.
Today is the end of the month, the day for the two little dishwashers to collect expenses.
After a battle of wits and courage, the two children received their wages from Nan Yi and went to the front door again. Their other big client would be back soon.
Nan Yi sat in the study for a while, then got up, walked through the side door of the villa, and came to a small forest a few hundred meters away.
There is an animal family in the grove, where live Lao Wu, Wu Er, Wu San, and Yi Zai's seventh or eighth generation family.
Due to the phenomenon of inbreeding, Nan Yi has no idea how many generations Yi Zai has been passed down. He only knows that Yi Zai's family expenses increase by a considerable amount every six months.
When Nan Yi walked into the woods, Yizi was lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, looking hopeless. Little kittens were lying on him and sucking on him.
There were several female cats that gave birth to their kittens at about the same time as Yizai. The kittens would feed on whoever they caught. They were all family, so there was no need for too much politeness.
Nan Yi poured a large bag of nearly 70 kilograms of dried fish into the circular cat food bowl. Immediately, cats from the trees, bushes, and cat houses came over after smelling the scent and gathered around the cat food bowl to devour the food.
Nan Yi circled around the cat food bowl, occasionally taking out kittens of several months old. Kittens have no sense of fullness, and if they are not controlled in eating, they will eat until they are full and die.
After fifteen minutes, Nan Yi drove away all the cats around the cat food bowl and put away the remaining dried fish in the cat food bowl.
Nan Yi will feed less, not more. If a cat is not full, he can find a way to catch a bird himself.
There lived a pair of caracals in the woods, and they never bothered to eat Nan Yi's food.
After several expansions, the entire Scarlett Manor now covers an area of 272 acres, with a forest coverage rate of 65%. Even if Nan Yi does not feed them, the Yizai family should be able to fill their own stomachs as long as they have not lost their cat nature.
When I went back to the entrance of the villa, the two kids were no longer there. I guess they had finished their last order of business and went home.
Walking into the dining room, Scarlett was leaning on the open kitchen counter eating a sandwich. The two children were sharing milkshakes by the refrigerator. Each of them took a box in their hands and walked towards their game room.
"Come over for dinner in an hour."
"Got it, Dad."
"Dad, I want to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes."
"Got it. No fighting in the game room. Go to the gym if you want to fight."
"Instead of fighting, we'll play Double Dragon, right, Wu Wei?"
"Dad, Adler is right."
As soon as the two children left, Scarlett walked over to Nan Yi and kissed him, "I'm flying to Vancouver tomorrow."
"Oh, maybe you should change the plane. I think the performance of the Gulfstream IV is guaranteed."
"Will you change?"
"I don't fly much, and the performance of the plane is very good. Let's talk about it later." Nan Yi reached behind his back, took a glass of water and took a sip.
"Hmm, are we going to have another baby?"
"It's worth considering, but two years later. I hope the next child will be born in the 1990s, preferably a daughter."
"Sure." Scarlett responded and said, "Where's Renault?"
"I gave him the day off this morning. I'll make dinner tonight."
"I'll help you."
The two worked together to prepare a table of food that combined Chinese and Western flavors.
Fillet steak is served with spicy and sour potato shreds, topped with a little tomato scrambled egg, and a small bowl of sweet rice balls for dessert, which is also a unique flavor.
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Decree date.
Scarlett flew to Vancouver. She had been a stay-at-home dad for nearly two years. Nan Yi, who lived a reclusive life, flew to Xiangkeng. He was accompanied by two cotton-padded jackets made of black cotton.
"Hey, hey, hey, speak louder, I can't hear you."
"How much? Eighty thousand tons?"
After storing the cotton-padded jacket in Deep Water Bay, Nan Yi went to Guangzhou alone.
After getting off the bus at the busy intersection of Zhongshan 4th Road, Nan Yi took out a mobile phone from his backpack, unscrewed the antenna, put the phone to his mouth, and gulped down a few gulps of water.
In 1986, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications decided that Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou would be the first three cities to introduce wireless mobile phone systems. Guangzhou was the fastest and had already sold a lot of mobile phones. Shanghai was also not slow and was about to start selling them.
Beijing is the slowest, and I heard it is still in the debugging stage. It is estimated that it will not be released until next year.
On the day when Yangcheng's mobile phone was released, Wenchang Weiwan Small Group's mobile phone kettle was launched simultaneously. The one in Nan Yi's hand is the high-end version, and its appearance is exactly the same as the mobile phone sold in Yangcheng.
After rotating the antenna back and putting the mobile phone back into his military bag, Nan Yi looked at a dozen people on the street talking on mobile phones, and felt secretly happy in his heart.
"What are you laughing at?"
Suddenly, a girl wearing sunglasses came to Nan Yi, hugged Nan Yi's arm and asked.
"Don't push it . You're a celebrity now. Be careful about rumors."
"What star? I just played two minor supporting roles. Who would know me?" Ruan Mei pouted and said, "You said you would come back last month. Why are you a month late?"
"I want to watch American TV series. Growing Pains and Second Chance are both good, especially Second Chance. The protagonist of the show is Shaz Russell. After Russell died in 2011, he found that he was not qualified to go to heaven or hell, so he could only return to his youth and live again.
While Russell was waiting for St. Peter to judge his life's achievements and decide whether he would go to hell or heaven, Gaddafi was ahead of Russell in line.
The show says Gaddafi died on July 29, 2011.
"Hmm? Who is Gaddafi?"
"Haha, no one." Nan Yi smiled and said, "Accompany me to the newsstand to buy some newspapers first. Do you have classes in the afternoon?"
"It's okay. The teacher knows I'm going abroad soon and won't be too strict with me."
"Naughty."
"You're still blaming me. You came back a month late just to watch a TV show. I'm going to punish you."
"How is the punishment?"
"Well... I haven't thought about it yet. Let's talk about it later . You owe me one."
"Okay, I owe you one."
Nan Yi smiled and stretched out his arm to make it easier for Ruan Mei to hold his arm.
Ruan Mei smiled, took Nan Yi's arm and walked forward with him. The two of them shuttled into the crowd. Nan Yi's eyes kept drifting from passers-by to their hair, then their clothes, and then back to their shoes.
It is the beginning of summer, and the clothes are not much different from the previous two years. However, the shoes have changed a lot. More and more people are wearing leather shoes, and there are many styles. However, some of the leather shoes look very new, but the wrinkles on the surface are already very obvious.
Most of the young people were wearing a pair of white sneakers, some of which were styles that Nan Yi had seen in the past two years, while others were styles he had never seen before.
He even saw authentic Shaolin shoes, but unfortunately, although the Shaolin shoes were authentic, they were not the "Shaolin shoes" in his memory. The Shaolin shoes in Nan Yi's memory should have the toe tip tilted up like a pig's nose, and the style was more like the sports shoes of later generations.
After finding a newsstand, Nan Yi bought all the newspapers and magazines and gave them to Huzai. He and Ruan Mei continued walking forward and unknowingly turned into Wende Road and then walked into Wenming Road.
Ruan Mei, who was holding Nan Yi's arm, was full of interest, as if everything she saw was new. Nan Yi was a little surprised and asked, "You've been in Guangzhou for two years, aren't you tired of it yet?"
"I usually stay at school. I go back to Donghu New Village on weekends, or I go back to Xiangkeng. I rarely go out to hang out. Am I being good?"
Nan Yi pinched Ruan Mei's nose and praised: "So good!"
"Hey, don't pinch my nose." Ruan Mei slapped Nan Yi's hand away, sniffed twice and said, "I smell the smell of roast chicken."
"You don't need to smell it, just look at it."
Nan Yi pointed to a roadside stall in front of the two people that looked similar to a newsstand. There was a sign on it with golden words - "Seventy Years of History, Famous in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau" in two lines on the left, and "Chow Sang Kee Chicken" on the right.
"Oh, it's Taiye Chicken. It used to be very famous."
"You know?" Nan Yi asked in surprise.
"Of course I know. My mom told me that my dad used to be a waiter at the Liuguo Hotel. Taiye Chicken is the signature dish of the Liuguo Hotel." Ruan Mei said, and suddenly asked cunningly, "Do you know why it is called Taiye Chicken?"
Nan Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Because the person who invented this chicken recipe was a county magistrate, whose last name was Zhou like mine, Zhou Guisheng."
"Is he related to your family?"
"No way, Zhou Guisheng is not from Guangdong Province."
"Oh, do you want to buy one and try it?"
"No, let's go shopping today." Ruan Mei shook her head.
"Towards the river?"
"Um."
After turning a corner, the two walked towards the river.
Passing by a convenience store, Nan Yi bought two Cokes, and the two of them sipped them all the way, slowly walking to Tianzi Wharf on Yanjiang Road. They walked to the guardrail and leaned over to look into the distance.
Nan Yi pointed to the cruise ship moored in the river and said, "Sixty years ago, Mr. Zhou Shuren set foot on the land of Guangzhou here and left a short poem at this location:
'I think it will be about sixty years later, when the first cicadas start to sing in the trees, and a handsome young man stands here with a pretty girl leaning on him. He will probably use my name to talk nonsense. As no one is perfect, I will probably forgive him.'"
"From a distance it looked like a dog, but when I got closer I saw it was Nan Yi, hehehe."
After Ruan Mei finished speaking, she laughed so hard that she shook with laughter.
"Don't use this sentence carelessly. I'm still a long way from being a man of steel."
As the two were talking, two "cement ships" docked at the pier. Several people carried planks to the ships and walked onto the ships one by one through the planks. They lifted the tarpaulin covering the towering piles of cargo on the ship, revealing the neatly stacked color TV boxes underneath.
"Hey, the cardboard box is so big?"
Looking at the cardboard box that was definitely over 21 inches in size, Nan Yi exclaimed in surprise.
"Tiger cub, look, how many inches is it?"
"Panasonic, 33 inches."
"They're moving very quickly. It's only been on the market in Japan for a short time." Nan Yi muttered.
"What did you say, boy?"
"Nothing, what about the color TV downstairs? How big is the TV in your room?"
"21 inches."
"Would you like to get a bigger one?"
"No need, I rarely watch it, ah..." Ruan Mei suddenly exclaimed.
Nan Yi turned his head and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
"There's sand in my left eye. Please help me blow it out. I have contact lenses and can't rub them."
Nan Yi placed his finger on Ruan Mei's left eye, pried it open, and immediately saw a grain of brown sand. He tried to blow on it, but the sand did not move at all.
"The sand is stained with tears, so it can't be blown away. Please don't move."
Nan Yi said something to Ruan Mei, stood on tiptoe slightly, put his mouth close to Ruan Mei's eyes, stuck out his tongue and licked the sand out.
"Puff." After spitting out the sand, Nan Yi patted Ruan Mei's shoulder, "Okay, it's okay."
Ruan Mei blinked and rubbed her eye sockets gently with her fingers. "Well, it feels better now. My eyes have been a little sore these past two days. I always wear glasses and only changed to contact lenses before going out."
"It's better to wear glasses in the future. Contact lenses are not as comfortable as glasses."
"No, I look ugly in glasses."
"No, I think you look very intellectual with glasses, and your IQ seems higher."
"Oh, you think I'm stupid?"
"Haha, you're stupid."
"I'll bite you to death if you dare to call me stupid."
Ruan Mei jumped on the spot, pounced on Nan Yi, held Nan Yi's shoulders with her hands, and opened her mouth to bite Nan Yi's ears.
"Oh, be gentle, you are a boxing champion, and you can bite ears."
Ruan Mei let go of Nan Yi's ear and threatened: "If you dare to call me stupid again, I will bite your ear off."
"Okay, okay, I won't say any more."
Nan Yi helped Ruan Mei down to the ground, turned around and continued to look at the two cement boats.
There were two young men standing by the boat, directing the thugs who had just boarded the boat to move quickly. The thugs worked in groups of two to carry the color TV from the boat to the dock.
There were a few thugs on the dock who took the TVs from them and moved them to the back of the dock waiting area. Nan Yi followed the thugs and saw a large Jiefang truck parked on the other side of Yanjiang Road.
Generally speaking, color TVs are shipped from Hong Kong to Shenzhen by plane. In order to prevent them from being seized by customs, the goods are distributed to each household as soon as they land. The owners then collect the goods and transport them by land to Yifa Shopping Mall in Shenyu.
This is a stable color TV transportation channel that has just been established in the last two or three years. Each link has a clear division of labor and each link has a person in charge. There are many people who make a living from this channel, and there are also many people who entrenched on it to suck blood. The forces are intertwined and involve interests from all aspects.
It is against the rules to dare to transport the goods directly here by water. Nan Yi estimates that the two young men below will suffer.
"Tiger cub, remember what those two people look like."
"yes."
"Young man, what are you doing?" Ruan Mei asked.
"Nothing, what do you want to eat tonight?"
"It's still early for dinner."
Nan Yi's perfunctory attitude made Ruan Mei a little unhappy. Her mouth was so crooked that you could hang a soy sauce bottle on it.
"Okay, little sister, stop being so mad. I'll take you to the children's park to play with the electric car."
"Humph, you treat me like a child."
"No, the electric car is fun, I want to play it myself."
"real?"
"Um."
"Then let's go now."
Taking the bus, Nan Yi and the other person returned to Zhongshan 4th Road, bought tickets, and entered the Children's Park.
As soon as she entered, Ruan Mei's eyes were attracted by a five-meter-high slide in a corner of the park. "Hey, let's go play on the slide."
"That's not a good idea. With so many children, is it appropriate for two adults like us to sneak in?" Nan Yi felt a little hesitant as he looked at the many children standing on the slide waiting to slide down.
"Come on, now that we're all in, let's have some fun."
"Okay, let's go."
