Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0658 The Wind Comes
"Nonsense, I'm a frequent visitor here." Ma Modu pulled a chair and sat down opposite Nan Yi. "How do you, a busy man, have time to be here?"
"I just went to apply for retirement yesterday. I can start receiving my pension next month. I'm going to quit my job and take a rest from now on."
"You retired at 25. It seems like your family owns the factory." Ma Modu started to argue, but then he felt something was wrong. "Eh, that's not right. It seems like your family really owns the factory."
"Don't talk nonsense about what's yours and what's mine. They all belong to the country and the people."
"Stop it. Stop talking nonsense. I've been hearing official rhetoric since I was a kid. My ears are all calloused." Ma Modu pointed at his earlobe. "See?"
"I see, your ears are quite fat, big enough to give you a drink." Nan Yi took a look and said, "You know what, your ears are comparable to Liu Bei's, not bad, not bad."
"Well, you should stop talking. According to your style, there won't be anything good to say next." Ma Modu stopped Nan Yi from continuing and changed the subject. "I plan to go to Tiangang Ghost Town tomorrow. Do you want a companion?"
“Where is the ghost town?”
"Shenyang Road, I have a friend there named Feng Jicai. You've seen The Magic Whip, right? It was written by him. Earlier this month, there was a second-hand goods stall there. There were many good items, including ancient vases, ancient coins, jade, porcelain vases, agate, snuff bottles, old pocket watches, camphorwood boxes, mahogany screens, eight-immortal tables, lacquer wardrobes, old books and magazines, electrical components, household tools..."
Ma Modu kept pointing out the same thing to Nan Yi, "Many people in the industry in Beijing have gone there to buy goods . They bring the goods over and sell them in Beijing. It's quite profitable."
"Oh, it's okay, right?"
"That's what they say. There are so many things, and you can set up a stall all day long. It's bright and not easy to attract attention."
Nan Yi waved his hand and said, "Then you can look around by yourself. I'm not interested in those junk. If you see a slingshot from the Qing Dynasty, pay attention and help me find a few."
"You still need a slingshot? Didn't I already buy one for you?"
"Everyone has a few friends. My son is now the deputy gang leader, so he has to seek some benefits for the gang members."
"Oh, you are really willing to do that. Even though it's a slingshot, it's still an object. Why are you giving it to a child to play with?" Ma Moduo took a breath and said.
"What else can a slingshot be used for if not for playing with it?" Nan Yi said disapprovingly.
"Okay, I'll keep an eye out for you and lend me your car."
"You can't drive, why would you lend me money?"
"Please give me a ride. I want to buy more things this time, but I don't feel comfortable taking the train."
"Okay, call me when the time comes and I'll have someone pick you up."
Nan Yi planned to smash the van. Because of the relationship between the Nan family, the Liu family, Nan Yi himself, and Liu Zhen, there were always a few people who would come to borrow the van throughout the year.
It would be unreasonable not to lend it. But if he lends it, what if some unscrupulous person uses the car to do something illegal, should Nan Yi say that he is an accomplice, or just say that the car was stolen?
It doesn't matter if the car is covered with oil, but Nan Yi will not be happy if he is implicated.
"I'm going to have mutton hotpot at my house tonight, do you want to join us?"
"Who are they?"
"No one, just the couple."
"Then I'll go too, free up four seats for my family of three, and I'll call the weight along."
Ma Modu left after sitting for a while. As more people came to eat, he had to go back early to prepare more ingredients.
Nan Yi didn't stay for long. Not long after Ma Modu left, his pager rang. Nan Yi took a look and hurried back to the old house.
At the door of the old villa, a Yan brand light truck was parked there, and a man was standing next to the front of the car.
"Master Xie?" Nan Yi asked as he walked to the car.
"I am, are you Comrade Nan Yinan?"
"right."
Nan Yi said as he took out a delivery note and handed it to the other party.
Master Xie looked at the list and gave it back to Nan Yi. He also took out a list and said, "There are three boxes of goods in total. Take a look. If there is no problem, please sign for me."
"good."
Nan Yi climbed onto the truck bed, took an inventory, and found nothing a problem, so he signed for Master Xie and sent him away.
After moving the boxes into the yard, Nan Yi found a hammer and opened all three boxes.
Two of the boxes contain toys, not ordinary toys, but remote-controlled agricultural machinery toys customized by Nan Yi, including harvesters, cotton pickers, seeders, etc. Although they are toys, their functions are exactly the same as real agricultural machinery.
According to Nan Yi's idea, he would let his two sons play with remote controls first. When they are a few years older, they can play with proportional ones that can be operated. After that, they can directly use real farm machinery.
The remaining box contains food, including vegetables, fruits, meat and fish. There are many varieties but small quantities, and there are also a few bottles of mineral water.
The items in the box were "relatively equal" supplies specially provided for Nan's senior management and scientific researchers. They were all common items on the market, and few of them could be considered rare. However, these foods were only enough for one person to eat for a week, but the cost exceeded one thousand US dollars.
In addition, there are two levels: absolute equality and equality for all. Absolute equality is only supplied to people with the prefix "Nan", while equality for all is supplied to SGF [Nan's Green Food].
SGF is a subsidiary of Shennong Nanliang that specializes in high-end luxury food ingredients. Its clients include high-end restaurants and independent customers who are particular about their diet.
SGF takes equality for all as its highest creed and does not discriminate among potential customers. SGF will sincerely welcome any customer who is willing to spend more than 100,000 US dollars on his or her food every year.
Nan Yi rummaged through the box and picked out a box. After opening it, he saw there was an inner box inside. There were a lot of white crystals on the surface of the box.
This is specially treated table salt, and its function is to slow down the melting rate of ice in the inner box.
Open the inner box and wipe away the half-melted ice. There is another box inside. After opening it, you can see a piece of pork lying in the middle, surrounded by silver-colored stainless steel ice.
Nan Yi took out the pork, squeezed it with his hands, and then smelled it.
The pork has not mutated, but it has been frozen for too long, so the taste is definitely not as good as fresh meat. This is the "Tianpeng No. 2", a pig breed developed by Shennong Nanliang. Apart from its excellent taste, it has no other advantages.
Tianpeng II has very strict requirements for the living environment. As for the place where they are raised, not to mention pigs, even people living there can live ten years longer. The requirements for food are also very high. It takes three years from a piglet to a 150-pound pig suitable for slaughter, and the special feed alone costs hundreds of dollars.
Moreover, Tianpeng No. 2 is very difficult to serve. If you serve your parents with the same attitude as you serve this pig, you will surely be a filial son who is well-known in the surrounding area.
So, the labor cost of Tianpeng II is also very high.
Above Tianpeng II is Tianpeng I, which has a higher breeding cost than No. 2. Not to mention popularizing it outside, it is unrealistic even within the Nan family.
Let me put it this way, the Tianpeng No. 1 breeding base is not only equipped with nutritionists and health Chinese medicine practitioners to provide supplements for the pigs, but also with one-on-one fitness trainers to help the pigs build muscle. Except for the final knife, this is all the parents can do for their children.
Looking at the pork in his hand, Nan Yi thought that he had to further increase his research and development efforts in preservation technology, otherwise the logistics costs would not be reduced and Nan's profits would not increase.
After putting away all the things, he went to a narrow open space to bring Nan Wuwei back and gave him a bath. Then he went to Ma Modu's house after Liu Zhen came back.
Ma Moduo's house was not small. The living room was long and narrow, and it looked to be more than 30 square meters. However, it seemed very cramped when seven adults and one child sat down around the dining table. There were too many miscellaneous junk in the living room, and one had to be very careful even when stretching one's legs under the dining table, as there were objects placed underneath, and one was afraid that they would be kicked if one exerted force with one's legs.
"Intellectual man, you are not short of money now, right? Why don't you build a few cabinets to put these things in order?" Wang Lu said after taking a sip of wine.
Ma Modu said, "These things keep coming in and out, and there's no way to put them in order. Normally, we don't have so many guests at home, so you just have to make do with them."
"You're a cultured person, have you ever thought about buying a new house? There are opportunities to buy buildings now, and there are also many courtyard houses. The cheapest ones are more than 10,000 yuan, and the average price is tens of thousands of yuan. I'm not saying that if you use the money you earned from opening the dance hall to buy houses, you can buy two or three houses."
Nan Yi picked up the mutton and dipped it in the sauce, then shook the chopsticks before stuffing it into Nan Wuwei's mouth.
"I don't dare to buy the ten-thousand-plus yuan compound you mentioned. It's too troublesome to deal with the property rights. If I buy the house, what will happen to the people living inside? With a rent of three or five yuan a month and a whole family living there, who would be willing to move out?"
Ma Modu said as he took a piece of winter melon from the copper pot and stuffed it into his mouth. He took a bite and his eyes lit up. "Hey, Nan Batian, this winter melon tastes really good. Where did you get it?"
"I bought a piece of land in Japan and hired someone to grow it for me. This winter melon was sent from Japan."
"You are so particular that you even hire someone to grow your vegetables. You're Japanese." Wang Lu said as he took a cigarette out of the box and put it into his mouth.
"My son is here." Nan Yi said lightly.
"have to."
Wang Li took the cigarette away and put it on the table.
"If you are a cultured person, you won't buy a house in a slum. You can look for one with the same ownership. It may be more expensive, but the yard is well maintained and it's more comfortable to live in. There's a buddy of mine at the Housing Management Office who knows the gangster. He's the one who hit you with a car chain last time. If you want to buy one, you can go find him and ask him to keep an eye out for you."
"The one who was short and skinny, and who I hit with a brick?" Wang Li asked.
"Yes, that's him."
At the beginning, Nan Yi and his gang went to the gate of Wang Lu's courtyard to investigate a fight. It was a fight between Wang Lu and Fang Chongfang. Wang Lu was good at talking but not very good at fighting. Nan Yi remembered that he was being beaten by Fang Chong and there was no hitting with a brick at all.
"There's no rush for a house. This place is not small and has plenty of space for living. I just want to buy some good stuff. The antique market is starting to heat up. In our area, Jinsong and Haiwang Village are setting up some kind of folk collectibles trading market, which is an antique stall. There will be more places to buy things in the future."
When it comes to antiques, Mamadu's face starts to light up, and he talks nonstop.
"Just two days ago, someone sold a Qing Dynasty Kangxi porcelain appreciation plate for 180,000 yuan. There was also a Song Dynasty white glaze bowl..."
Dabbo, dabbo, Ma Modu kept talking without stopping.
After listening for two minutes, Nan Yi lost the mood to listen and concentrated on serving his son. After Nan Wuwei finished eating, he talked to Ye Wei while eating himself.
"Are you happy staying at Qinghe International?"
"It's okay. There's nothing wrong with the work, but I have to hide from people every day. Those who come to wholesale want to drag me out for drinks. I didn't dare to go again after I went there once. Some asked for money, and some offered girls. Damn it, if I hadn't remembered that I was a shareholder, I would have swallowed this sugar-coated bullet." Ye Qi said angrily.
Nan Yi smiled and said, "Is that girl pretty?"
"Not bad, like a little Teresa Teng."
"Then you just need to peel off the sugar coating and shoot the shell back."
"Bullshit, if I'm going to find someone, I've got to find a close one." Ye Qian took a sip of wine and spat.
"Hahaha." Nan Yi laughed loudly, glanced at Nan Wuwei, and lowered his voice and asked, "How much money do you have?"
"About thirty."
"Fuck, you're pretty rich. Are you starting a new business out there?"
"I bought a share in a restaurant opened by a friend and received two dividends." Ye explained: "Is there any new business?"
"Yes, I am the director of the former Jiuyao Factory. I am planning to carry out shareholding reform. If you believe me, you can buy some shares. If you don't believe me, forget it. Just lend me the title."
"Believe me, of course I believe you. I'll offer thirty. You can buy as many as you can." Ye Qi said cheerfully, "What's the point of borrowing someone's name?"
"I want to buy shares too, put them in your name first."
"Tsk, look how cautious you are. Why don't you just let Liu Zhen quit her job?"
"Don't talk nonsense. This is not the reason. The matter of the Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory is quite complicated. I can't explain it clearly now. You will understand it when things become clear in the future." Nan Yi lowered his voice again. "5 cents per share, a total of 28 million shares. Just like last time, you help me sell 8 million shares. Diversify it a little and find more shareholders."
"Eight million shares only cost 400,000. It's not like three years ago. Everyone has money in their hands. With this little, anyone can eat it."
"That's why I asked you to spread out a little bit and find more people from the health system."
"This is a bit troublesome. I don't have any solution." Ye Qi frowned.
"First find a shareholder with a good background and ask them to introduce you. Beijing is so small, if you ask two more people, you will have a way."
"Okay, I'll try."
"What are you two whispering about? Can't you hear Teacher Ma teaching here? Pay attention." While Nan Yi and the other person were whispering, he was the only one left to be bombarded by Ma Modu. Wang Lu was very unhappy.
"Okay, okay, listen carefully. Which page is Teacher Ma talking about? Hey, where is my textbook?" Nan Yi responded with a joke and ended his whisper with Ye Qi.
The three women had finished their meal and sat aside to watch TV. Nan Yi and the other three chatted for a while and waited until about 9:30 before they said goodbye to each other and left.
"The Personnel Department wanted to talk to me." Liu Zhen suddenly said on the way back.
"Where are you going?"
"Coconut City."
"Coconut City..."
Qiong Province is about to be established, and Liu Zhen has a chance to be promoted half a level. It is a good place to go, but the real estate boom there will come soon, and there will be a lot of people applying for loans by then, and there will be countless ways to do it. Liu Zhen will be put on the spot, which is a trap.
If it’s mild, the future will be bleak, and if it’s serious, Nan Wuwei will be implicated.
“Is there any chance to change places?”
"Yes, you can go to Shanghai for activities, but you go to the district below, not the city."
"Which district?"
"Jingan."
"Then let's move around and go to Jing'an."
"But……"
"Don't say but, I'm not discussing this with you, I'm ordering you. If you insist on going to Coconut City, then we'll get divorced immediately and I'll send Wuwei to the Kingdom of Qin."
"Ah? It's so serious, do you know something?" Liu Zhen said suspiciously.
"Don't ask me, just figure it out yourself. Start from the rumors that Qiongdao is going to establish an independent province." Nan Yi said lightly, lifted Nan Wuwei up, and started playing cat's tuck with him.
Liu Zhen, who was sitting next to him, had already started thinking and was lost in thought.
