The two adults and two children talked back and forth, the two children put forward their own opinions, and Nan Yi was responsible for "translation" and supplementation. Soon the preliminary plan for the aircraft's interior was finalized.
The interior of the aircraft will be divided into two layers, with four sets of stabilizing instruments installed to minimize the aircraft's directional changes and fluctuations caused by airflow during flight.
The upper floor has two small private spaces, a large bedroom, a study, a game room, a nanny room, a small swimming pool, and a tossing room, which is actually a gym. It is impossible to expect them to exercise well, so it is just a tossing. There is also a small conference room and a satellite call system.
Nan Yi might occasionally ask his son to borrow some, and he would have to put in some of the decorations he needed.
The lower level has twelve bedrooms for bodyguards to rest, a large conference room that can be used as a dining room, a kitchen, a formal fitness center, a security cabin, and space for a car in the rear of the plane.
The safety cabin is used just in case. It is equipped with a parachute, two inflatable assault boats, a small seawater desalination system, a power generation system, a satellite communication system, three days of military rations for 20 people, and mineral water for three people to drink.
Once an accident occurs on an airplane, personnel can enter the safe room, and then the safety system on the airplane will send the safety capsule out of the cabin. The parachute will then open and the safety capsule will slowly descend. There will be enough time to make all preparations before it hits the ground.
In addition, the safety cabin is made of special materials. It can float on the water and has strong cushioning properties, but the material is also very strong and can withstand the attack of two or three rockets. When a choice is needed, three people can hide in the safety cabin, and the others are responsible for guarding the safety cabin until all of them are sacrificed.
It can be said that the construction of this safety cabin is very expensive. The total cost of the two aircraft will not be less than 360 million US dollars. Nan Yi has gone all out this time, but he doesn't know where to get the 180 million US dollars.
Nan Youqiong is not just Nan Yi's son now, he is also the second generation of the Nan family. Naturally, his expenses are borne by the Nan family. But the same cannot be said for Nan Wuwei. His expenses still have to be borne by Nan Yi.
After the communication, Hadid's face was filled with wrinkles from smiling, one layer upon another, which would make even a person with mild trypophobia stand up in fear.
The first Boeing 747-400 standard aircraft has not yet rolled off the production line, but the custom order has been automatically delivered to our door. Moreover, this new customer is a major customer of Gulfstream. After poaching a major customer of a competitor, we have received two major orders. It would be strange for us not to be happy.
"Mr. Adam, we at Boeing will definitely produce the renderings for you to review as soon as possible. At the same time, I sincerely invite you to visit Boeing's workshop, where a 747-400 is being manufactured."
"I have to go for the visit, but I'm very busy recently. I'll take a day off next month." Nan Yi said, and then suddenly said, "Hadid, I have two daughters."
After hearing Nan Yi's words, the wrinkles on Hadid's face became even more pronounced.
"There are still two daughters, which means there are still orders for two planes. This is a common trick of businessmen. They won't place their chips all at once. They will place two first and keep two to lure me to see what chips I can throw out. Go back to the company to fight for the biggest discount and the best service. All four planes must be won."
Nan Yi glanced at Hadid and thought silently, "Let's be fair. There is still $180 million waiting for me. Oh, I will mortgage the yen and throw all the money into Europe to see how much return I can get from short selling."
Being Nan Yi's wallet is a very painful thing. He is often in a state of hunger. Nan Yi really should burn three incense sticks for it.
At noon, Nan Yi invited Hadid to have a meal. Although he knew it was difficult to keep it secret, he still reminded Hadid that the matter of the plane ended with Scarlett and could not be further specified.
As for the deposit for the plane, Nan Yi certainly wouldn't pay it before seeing the renderings. What's more, for one of the planes, Nan Yi planned to pay in installments, and he would pay as late as possible.
After lunch, Nan Yi went to keep his appointment with Harley Davidson. The two grown men stayed in the mountains over there in Lengquan for a day and a night, experiencing the romance between men - fishing, wine, barbecue, guns, and light-hearted jokes.
As the saying goes, a duck knows first when the river water warms in spring. Most people who have been soaking in the water and have certain sources of information have already noticed that something is wrong with the stock market. The funds in stock markets across the country are decreasing every day, and big players are withdrawing one by one, and some are even shorting.
The people of the "August 7th Carnival Party Preparatory Committee" began to sell securities on major global stock markets except Japan in early September. It has been almost a month now, and they have only raised stocks worth just over US$30 billion, or US$31.6 billion to be exact.
Even if all stocks fall by more than 50%, after deducting various expenses, Nan's profit will not reach 15 billion US dollars. What's more, it is simply unrealistic for all stocks to fall by half. An average of 30% is already good. It is predicted that Nan's upper limit of profit will be around 9 billion US dollars.
As for gambling, it is really hard to find high-rollers who are willing to bet and have bank guarantees and are sure to get the money after the end. The "August 7 Carnival Party Preparatory Committee" signed hundreds of gambling agreements with others, but the total funds added up to only 13.2 billion US dollars, not a penny more.
Most of the main funds are bearish, and there seem to be quite a few who are bullish. There are not many reliable ones. Some are arrogant and willing to find others to sign a gambling agreement of hundreds of billions. If you win the bet, you are the winner in life. If you lose the bet, see you on the rooftop. If you want money, sorry, there is none.
If you only look at the book profits, even if you want to sign a trillion-dollar bet agreement, you can find someone to do it. Once a stock market crash occurs, trillions of dollars in profits will be immediately realized on the books, but how much of the money can actually be recovered?
5 billion or 2 billion?
On October 10, the people of the "August 7 Carnival Party Preparatory Committee" completed all the preparations. They left a few people to watch the stock market while the others took a day off. There was no need for them to stay in some secret room, looking at the computer screen and ready to trade at any time.
There is nothing you can do about the market. When the market comes, you don’t know how fast it is. You can make little money by quickly entering and exiting the market for short-term trading. But if something goes wrong, the computer may crash and you may lose some money.
All the swordplay, staring at each other from a distance, analyzing the opponent's psychology to engage in psychological warfare, taking the lead at every step, blood and flesh flying, tension and suffocation, and blood rushing, all of this will only happen to retail investors who are risking their lives. The rich investors have already been fully prepared, just waiting for the market to come.
This was a foreshadowing that had been planted decades ago, accumulating bit by bit, step by step until the current total outbreak. It was not a market created by a few rubbish market makers. The stock market crash can be said to be a self-cleansing of the stock market, draining out the bubbles and restoring the stock market to where it should be.
If you have tens of trillions of dollars and are willing to lose it all, maybe you can still turn the tide and support the downward trend of the global stock market. If you don't have money, just sit back and watch the show as the Japanese perform their "Tokyo Miracle".
Wall Street.
Big capital is lending securities, and small capital wants to take a chance. In a short street, many people who usually pass by each other on the street are sitting in a conference room, signing each other, shaking hands in a friendly manner, and by the way, saying warmly in their hearts, "I'm waiting downstairs to see you go to the rooftop."
"Going to the rooftop" is the most sincere blessing that Wall Street elites give to each other, and it is also the highest courtesy.
Buffett, who has not yet been crowned the God of Stocks, has just invested heavily in Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street company specializing in arbitrage founded by the three Salomon brothers.
In 1981, the U.S. Congress passed a bill, which gave great impetus and development space to asset securitization that appeared in the 1970s, especially real estate asset securities. The U.S. saw a climax of asset securitization, and the scale of the real estate securities market expanded rapidly, surpassing the U.S. stock market to become the world's largest securities market.
Most companies on Wall Street were not fully prepared for this sudden change, but Salomon Brothers, led by Gutfreund, had established a complete and standardized asset securitization department as early as 1978 with its sensitive market sense.
While other Wall Street firms were hesitating and wavering, Salomon had already earned hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and became a leader in the real estate securities market.
Lewis Lenery, general manager of the real estate securitization department, a bond trader who began his career by sending and receiving emails, became a legend at Salomon.
The arbitrage investment department led by John Meriwether demonstrated to the world the great appeal of derivatives and financial engineering.
The main investment strategy of Merriweather and others is that homogeneous products on the market will eventually converge in price. Due to market price fluctuations, homogeneous financial products may temporarily experience price divergence. At this time, as long as they short on overvalued products and long on undervalued products, they will always eventually make arbitrage profits.
Another major merger and acquisition event in the early 1980s also contributed to Salomon's rapid development.
In 1981, Gutfreund secretly reached a merger agreement with Phillips Brothers, in which Phillips Brothers acquired the shares of all partners of Salomon Brothers for US$554 million and transformed Salomon from a private partnership into a public listed company.
Phillips Brothers was the world's largest commodity futures trader at the time, trading more than 160 commodities in 45 countries.
Although the merger with Philips Brothers caused Salomon to abandon the partnership system that it had adhered to for 70 years, it enabled Salomon to obtain a large amount of financial support. According to Gutfreund, Salomon "leaped forward 20 years."
As a partner in Salomon, Gutfreund received $30 million in compensation and served as co-CEO of the new company.
In 1983, the commodity trading market was turbulent, and important products such as gold and oil fell sharply. Philips Brothers was hit hard, with only $307 million in revenue, while Salomon achieved $463 million in revenue. The original team of Salomon began to demand greater rights.
So a power struggle broke out between Gutfreund and Tandler, the former chairman of Phillips Brothers, on the board of directors of the new company. In the end, Gutfreund won a great victory, Tandler resigned, Gutfreund became the sole chief executive, and the company's name was changed from Phillips-Solomon to Solomon Company.
After this capital operation, regardless of its pros and cons, Solomon's strength has been greatly enhanced.
In 1985, Salomon's pre-tax profit reached US$760 million. This year, Salomon's capital has reached US$3.4 billion, with 6,000 employees and branches in major financial centers around the world.
Salomon is a giant and financial empire on Wall Street today, so it is understandable that Buffett is optimistic about this company.
This person is a long-term investor. It would be more accurate to calculate his assets every five years. It is pure nonsense to say that he has lost so much as soon as the stock market falls.
Soros, who is worshipped by Wall Street newcomers, published an article in the Financial Times intentionally or unintentionally, in which he predicted that the Japanese stock market is about to collapse. Nan Yi guessed that this grandson was not so kind as to remind others to withdraw their investments in Japan. He was probably looking for a force to deceive and coerce him.
The Quantum Fund is so dazzling that its actions can rarely be hidden from others.
It holds 5,000 S&P 500 futures contracts worth $1 billion. This is something that many people know, and someone will definitely take advantage of the situation to make a big move on it.
Bridgewater Hedge Fund, which is obviously strong but not so famous, its founder Ray Dalio is thinking about researching and upgrading a unique decision-making system.
When Dalio first started trading, he used to record the criteria he used to make decisions every time, so that he could review them after trading. After accumulating a lot of criteria, he thought that if he converted these criteria into formulas, he could use historical data to test the formulas and then improve the unreasonable parts.
In this way, he could obtain universal standards to guide his investment decisions, which is how Bridgewater's initial interest rate, stock, foreign exchange and precious metals systems came about.
Later, Dalio integrated these systems together to form a decision-making system.
As technology develops, Dalio constantly corrects the system through quantitative analysis and transaction backtesting. Dalio finds that decision-making is more useful than prediction.
This investment decision-making system was already working. Leo captured the signal that the stock market was about to collapse, and based on the decision-making system he decided to short the stock.
Dalio's investment decision-making system can be said to be the selling point of Bridgewater Fund and a magic weapon to attract customers. Therefore, it is no secret on Wall Street.
The decisions of major capitals on Wall Street are no secrets to each other. Whether it is short selling or betting, it is inevitable to contact the outside world. It is impossible to sneak into the village quietly.
Being low-key and confidential only applies to retail investors. When they reach a certain level, they all try to mix sand with each other. Even though the information leaks everywhere like a sieve, at least everyone knows which direction the other party is pointing.
As for confidentiality, a few years later, when computer remote ordering matures, there may be a certain degree of confidentiality. Nowadays, there is no secret between institutions at all. If there is a secret, the investor behind it is a secret, which is really hard to check.
For example, this time, the funds of the "August 7 Carnival Gala Preparatory Committee" were transferred out through the channels of Jardine Matheson Bank and Scarlett Fund. Jardine Matheson Bank has its own securities department and accepts clients' funds entrustment, and Scarlett Fund's main business is accepting clients' funds entrustment.
It seems that both are through Nan’s own channels, but both channels absorb funds from outside. If someone is really interested in the source of funds, they can just say "client privacy, no comment". Even if the CIA, FBI, and MI6 ask, they won't know the customer list.
Rachel has been very busy recently, frequently contacting some big capitals, cashing out part of the Walmart and Apple stocks held by Pan American Holdings, and recovering $500 million in funds.
During this period, Scarlett frequently attended banquets organized by shareholders of Citibank and Wells Fargo Bank [not the same as the Wells Fargo Bank in later generations], and tried to get close to each shareholder.
Nan Yi sat in front of the dock of Scarlett Manor, watching the two children fishing, flipping through the information of small banks in the South Country in his hand. In a while, the South Country Bank will definitely merge with several small banks and take this opportunity to grow stronger.
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Monday, October 19th.
The sky was blue and the sun was unusually bright. Seeing that the weather was good, Scarlett stayed home instead of going to work and prepared lunch in the kitchen early in the morning. Nan Yi was repairing a tandem two-seater tricycle in the garden.
The tricycle has two pairs of pedals at the front and back, so two people can use the pedals together. There is also a seat at the back similar to a rickshaw, so two children can sit there without feeling crowded.
At eight o'clock, under the warm sunshine, the fully armed Nan Yi and Scarlett got on the tricycle. They pedaled together and rode the tricycle out of Scarlett's manor.
This is a journey without a destination. It doesn’t matter where you are going, but the scenery along the way.
On the road, when seeing nice scenery, the tricycle will stop and linger for a moment, simply admiring it, or using soul-stealing to capture the portrait on film.
As they passed the Manhattan Bridge, the sound of bells reached the ears of several people, and the weather changed immediately.
The sun was still shining brightly wherever Nan Yi and his companions went, but other places were suddenly covered with dark clouds. The foreheads of the pedestrians on the road, which had just been reddened by the sun, had now become extremely dark.
Perhaps Nan Yi and his companions had forgotten the time, or perhaps they had been outside in the sun for a long time.
Scarlett felt thirsty as soon as she got off the Manhattan Bridge, so she asked Nan Yi to hold the handlebars and park the tricycle on the side of the road.
She took out three bottles of water from her backpack, handed two small ones to the two children, and kept the large one for herself. Scarlett took a sip and twisted the cap back on.
"Adam, at the rate we're going, we'll make it to Central Park just in time for lunch."
"No, I plan to ride along the seaside towards the East River Park. After I get there, I will continue along the seaside towards the Hudson River Park." Nan Yi shook his head and said.
"It's too far. Let's go towards the metropolis and ride slowly. I can also go shopping in the clothing stores on the way." Scarlett retorted.
"No, today is not your day. Youqiong and Wuwei don't like to go shopping in a clothing store with you."
While Nan Yi and the other were arguing about the route, at the beginning of the New York Stock Exchange trading, an ominous atmosphere permeated the bustling trading hall, looming over everyone's heart.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 67 points as soon as it opened. This was unprecedented. Many people began to panic, and soon, panicked people started selling, one, two, and within a few minutes, the selling orders turned from a trickle into a torrent.
Under the pressure of a surge of selling orders, a red stage was set up in the trading hall of the New York Stock Exchange. A singer walked onto the stage gracefully, twisting his waist and humming the ballad "Summer, summer passes quietly..."
As soon as I started talking, I was hit down with a leather shoe by someone in the trading hall. Talking about topics related to the color red in the trading hall is like looking for a lantern in the toilet, isn't it?
This is a green world, and everyone wants to wear a green hat. Unfortunately, people who like green have red eyes, and this red comes from the huge pink waves on the screen.
There was panic, chaos, everything was in disarray. The New York Stock Exchange was in chaos, and the futures market was not immune and was equally chaotic.
From 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average continued to fall. No one knew how to curb the worsening situation. The management of the New York Stock Exchange met for consultation. Although some people proposed to close the market, others did not dare to agree.
The New York Stock Exchange is concerned about Wall Street's role as a "barometer" in the global stock market and can only persevere and resist.
"Dad, the beef is cold and I can't chew it."
The lunch Scarlett prepared for everyone consisted of sandwiches with eggs, ham, and a large steak for each person.
"Chew slowly and in small bites."
Nan Yi opened his bloody mouth, replied, took out a tissue from his bag and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He shouldn't have expected anything from Scarlett. She cooked a steak from rare to well-done. He didn't know who she learned the skill of frying steak from. She could fry a steak with such distinct layers.
Nan Wuwei said with a bitter face: "Dad, I can't bite it either."
"Don't eat it if you can't bite it."
Scarlett put down the steak in her hand, took the steaks from Nan Youqiong and Nan Wuwei, and stuffed them into Nan Yi's hand. She took Nan Yi's sandwich and shared it with the two children, "Give PaPa the steak, and we'll eat the sandwiches."
A strange scene suddenly appeared on the lawn of Central Park - Count Dracula reappeared in the world. He liked to eat bloody beef. He liked to watch others eat sandwiches while enjoying the beef alone.
Due to the mutual drive between the stock market and the futures market, the stock index and futures index fell faster and faster, and the trading volume soared. From 11 o'clock to 11:50, the stock market traded 93 million shares. Several major institutions traded in large quantities in both markets, pushing the disaster to its peak.
The computer system of the New York Stock Exchange was almost paralyzed on that day. The New York Stock Exchange has a total of 200 microcomputers, and this system has never handled such a large number of transactions.
When stock trading data poured into the computer, it immediately caused a blockage. The fan in the chassis spun in circles rapidly. The CPU really hated its parents for giving it a few fewer legs. It didn't even have time to wipe the sweat off its face and could only run desperately.
When sell orders came in overwhelmingly, the information system's processing speed lagged far behind.
Less than an hour after the market opened, due to the large number of sell orders, the computer was 20 minutes slower than the actual trading speed. At noon, the designated instruction conversion system in the computer system was slow by about 75 minutes.
Due to insufficient system capacity, 120 million of the 396 million shares transmitted to the system were not executed.
The incompetence of the computers affected the entire army, and many people's escape routes were cut off. They either had to fight or commit suicide. The people of Jiangdong had already stepped on their feet again and had no time to care about Western Chu or Overlord. Yu Ji knew that Overlord was not working, and she had picked up the phone to call her lawyer, asking him to draft a divorce agreement as soon as possible.
In the afternoon, even more frightening news reached the stock market. David Ludd, the newly appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, gave a speech. When answering questions from reporters, he tactfully said: "We do not rule out the possibility of a short suspension of trading to deal with order imbalances."
He probably didn't expect that when these words were transmitted to space and then returned to the ground through Reuters' radio waves, their euphemisms would become a "blockbuster bomb," triggering a new round of selling spree in the stock market, which had just shown a glimmer of hope.
Panic, only panic. Once the exchange is closed, traders will not have time to sell their stocks. Their stocks will become waste paper, worthless, and thousands of dollars will turn to ashes.
As a result, they had to "dump stocks" quickly, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted like a demon, like a flood that was unstoppable.
After 1:30, institutional investors who bought stocks with pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance funds also joined the selling. Under the bombardment of such a huge number of heavy artillery, the originally precarious index fell to 1,900 points.
The last line of defense collapsed, and the crazy stock market exploded like a boiling oil pan into which cold water was dropped, and the whole thing exploded, with the shouting of sellers being deafening.
What is even more frightening is that the computer automatic quotation system is overwhelmed, and the quotation display is increasingly lagging behind the transaction time. No one knows whether the computer designed for a trading volume of 600 million shares can withstand this impact, and no one knows how low the stock price will fall.
In one day, $500 billion evaporated from the New York stock market, equivalent to a quarter of the U.S. GDP.
After the market closed, after several hours of statistics, the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from the opening point of 2247.06 points to 1738.74 points, a drop of 508.32 points, or 22.6%, becoming the largest drop in the U.S. stock market since World War I.
The decline far exceeded the 12.8% drop on October 28, 1929.
In this day alone, China lost 500 billion in stock market value, which is equivalent to 1/8 of China's annual GNP or France's annual GNP.
On this day, all historical records of the New York Stock Exchange were rewritten: 800 million shares were traded, more than three times the average daily trading volume in 1987; 470,000 orders were received, an average of 21 orders per second, while this year's daily average was 144,000 orders, an average of 7 orders per second.
After the market closed that day, Film held a press conference and announced that the market would remain open the next day. This stock market crash not only affected the US stock market, but also affected all major indices in the world.
When the two fell asleep, the two wanton people rolled across the floor, wrapped in a wool blanket, leaning against the fireplace, drinking cool red wine, and checking the stock market reports sent back from all over the world.
The Financial Times Index fell 183.70 points, or 10.1%, also its biggest one-day drop; the Credit Suisse Index fell 11.3%; Germany fell 3.7%; France fell 6.1%; the Netherlands fell 7.8%; and Belgium fell 10.5%.
In Asia, the Nikkei index fell 620 points, or 2.35%, on the 19th, and then fell another 3,800 points, or 14.6%, on the 20th; the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index fell 420.81 points, or 11.12%, on the 19th, and the Lisboa Straits Times Index fell 12.15% on the 19th; the Australian All Ordinaries Index fell 80.20 points, or 3.74%, on the 19th, and then fell another 24.9% on the 20th.
The stock markets of Sambadela and Mexico fell by more than 20% on the 19th.
On October 20, Hong Kong time, an article was published in the supplements of major newspapers in Hong Kong - "A Letter from Nan Guo Bank to All Customers".
"At this time when the stock market is turbulent and many citizens have suffered losses, the senior management of Southland Bank has decided after consultation that all our customers who have mortgage payments can go to our business hall within three days to apply for loan extension. Customers can choose to extend the loan by 1-3 months. This extension is a postponement of the contract period and will not incur any extra fees.
In addition, in the next month, our bank will launch the United As One Credit Card. Anyone with a stable job can apply for our United As One Credit Card. In the next six months, our United As One Credit Card will not charge any cash withdrawal fees.
The people of Southland Bank implore all customers and citizens not to give up hope and believe that there will always be sunshine after the storm. "
On the same day, Fang Group held a press conference.
Fang Mengyin announced passionately in front of many reporters: "The Fang Group has raised 6 billion Hong Kong dollars to rescue the market, and is ready to spend 30 million Hong Kong dollars to work with the Social Welfare Department to set up free vegetable collection points and free lunch collection points on the streets in the next three months."
At the end of the press conference, Fang Mengyin also said: "No matter how much wind and rain there is, it is not a big deal. Please believe that Xiangkeng will have a better tomorrow!"
October 20th, 8:08 am, New York time.
Beside the vegetable garden of Scarlett Manor, Nan Yi looked at his watch and shouted, "The auspicious time has arrived, let's erect a memorial archway."
As Nan Yi finished speaking, Nan Youqiong and Nan Wuwei worked hard to erect a memorial archway made of solid wood. On the archway were four unattractive calligraphy characters - Brothers Vegetable Garden.
Watching the two brothers erect the archway, Nan Yi took a hoe and went forward to help bury the pillars into the soil.
As soon as the memorial archway was erected, Nan Yi clapped his hands and said, "From today on, this vegetable garden will be handed over to you two brothers. Hurry up, hurry up, get moving. We have to hurry and harvest the spinach and cabbage. If we are late, it will be too late to sell them."
Nan Youqiong took root under his feet and asked unmoved, "Dad, are my brother and I working for you?"
"No, you are all major shareholders. I get 30% of the money from selling vegetables, and you each get 35%."
"Do nothing, let's go."
When Nan Youqiong heard Nan Yi's distribution plan, he smiled and called Nan Wuwei to go to the vegetable field.
For more than an hour, two specially made vegetable harvesters, one big and one small, shuttled back and forth in the vegetable garden. The big one worked desperately while the two small ones were just playing. About the amount of vegetables that filled two pickup truck trailers were harvested.
Nan Yi put the vegetables on the conveyor belt, and the vegetables were sent into the cleaning machine along the conveyor belt. After being cleaned for dozens of seconds, the vegetables were spit back into another conveyor belt that was moving diagonally upwards.
After putting the two small vegetables on the pickup truck's trailer, Nan Yi went to the utility room beside the vegetable garden and found six or seven large Coke bottles. He removed the trays at the bottom of the bottles and took the bottles to the sink to fill them with water.
After helping the two kids load the car, he asked two people to drive a pickup truck, and the convoy headed towards Flushing in a mighty manner.
In front of the second Chinese supermarket store run by Xian Weile, there is a relatively large open space, which is usually used as an open-air parking lot. On weekends, it becomes a hopping market, where all kinds of second-hand or unused items are sold, and Chinese farmers living in the suburbs also come here to sell vegetables.
As soon as the convoy arrived at the parking lot, the other cars dispersed, leaving only two pickup trucks parked in a conspicuous position. Nan Yi opened the pickup truck's cargo door, picked up a Coke bottle filled with water nearby, poked a few holes in the bottle cap with a nail, climbed onto the cargo bed, and sprayed the spinach.
After spraying one bottle, I changed to another one and didn't stop until the spinach on the top layer looked moist and tender.
"Wuwei, start shouting. Spinach, unfertilized and pesticide-free, 10 cents a bunch. Cabbage, unfertilized and pesticide-free, 20 cents a head. Youqiong, you collect the money. When the water dries up on the spinach, water it again."
"Uh-huh."
After Nan Yi assigned jobs to his two sons, he walked to a corner and stood there, quietly watching them practice as vegetable vendors.
Nan Wuwei stood on the truck, shouting at the top of his lungs. After a while, a middle-aged woman came to the pickup truck and asked, "Little kid, how much are the Feilong vegetables?"
"We don't have..."
Before Nan Youqiong could finish his words, he was interrupted by Nan Wuwei, "Aunt, Feilongcai is 10 cents a bunch."
Feilongcai is the name Chaoshan people call spinach. Nan Wuwei and Nan Yi have stayed in Nanchen Village for some time, so they naturally understand it.
"How much is in a handful?" the middle-aged woman said as she picked up a handful of spinach to pad the weight. "Not much. It's too expensive. Can you make it cheaper?"
" Auntie , we grew this ourselves. We never used any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. My brother and I caught the cabbage worms by hand." Nan Wuwei said, looking at the middle-aged woman pitifully.
"The little doll is so cute. Okay, okay, I'll buy two."
"Thank you, Auntie. I'll help you pick out two good ones."
When a wet nurse runs a business, she can always get some advantage, and most people are too embarrassed to haggle with them.
As one buyer left, another soon came, one after another. In an hour or so, the two had done five or six orders. It was Tuesday, not a good time to buy groceries, so this amount of orders was already quite good.
Nan Yi was observing from the side and found that when it came to selling vegetables, Nan Wuwei was better than Nan Youqiong.
This is as it should be. Nan Yi has taken Nan Wuwei to various wholesale markets for vegetables, aquatic products and poultry, and has also taken him to the vegetable market several times. He has learned a lot from his surroundings and will learn how to imitate them.
Nan Youqiong missed this lesson, and Nan Yi wanted to make it up to him as soon as possible.
Nan Yi didn't want to train his sons to be vegetable vendors, but considering that the Nan family would mainly deal with grains and vegetables in the future, the two children must be familiar with the operating modes and thinking patterns of the people working in all links, including the buyers, sellers, vendors, and middlemen.
Only in this way can we be more targeted when managing and making development plans in the future.
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Xiangkeng, an unknown alley.
Zhang Shihao leaned against the wall like a puddle of mud, with several wine bottles lying at his feet.
He regretted it, really regretted it.
He had finally saved up tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars by "investing" in real estate, and had planned to take advantage of the booming stock market to make a fortune. But who could have imagined that he would encounter a stock market crash.
"What should I do? How can I pay back the money I owe to the high-interest loan?"
Zhang Shihao was a heavy gambler. He could not do a long-term business and only thought about making a big profit in one go. So, not only did he invest all his money in stocks, he also borrowed 500,000 yuan from a loan shark.
"Damn it, where did my money go? Who got it? Why? Why?" Zhang Shihao looked up and questioned the heavens. "The robbers live halfway up the mountain, while the honest earners are penniless. Why? Why?
Rich people are not good people. If you rob them, I will rob them too. I will rob you rich people and make you give me your money obediently. "
The more Zhang Shihao thought about it, the more extreme he became, and the angrier he became. Thinking about his wife Afang who was still waiting for him at home, he didn't know how to explain to Afang.
"Grab, grab, I must grab!"
Zhang Shihao's eyeballs turned red, and a ball of flames shot out from his eyes and spread out in all directions.
A person who had already left the society and was thinking about living a good life, changed because of the failure of stock speculation. No one knows what he will become after this change.