Volume 6: The Great Change Chapter 0799 A pair of drama queens
"Let's skip the part about Grandma Xue and start from when you were drunk."
"You bad guy." Ruan Mei spat and retracted her head. Then a sentence floated out of the window, "Wait five minutes before coming up."
Nan Yi was completely immersed in the role, transforming himself into Chen Shang, pacing in the yard, scratching his ears and feeling anxious. After finally enduring five minutes, Chen Shang rushed upstairs in one leap.
When she pushed open the door, she saw Wang, who had transformed into Ruan Mei, lying on the bed. The buttons of her turquoise costume were undone, revealing the red bellyband underneath.
"Belly|belly..."
There is indeed a description of a red bellyband in "Yu Shi Ming Yan", but Nan Yi did not think of ordering one because the bellyband is a close-fitting garment. Unexpectedly, Ruan Mei is so thoughtful!
Seeing Nan Yi appear in the room, Ruan Mei squinted her eyes and instantly immersed herself in the play. Her expression changed to a drunken one. In her mind, she imagined her husband and the fleeting love affair outside making love, and muttered, "You unfaithful man, you heartless man...well...you are...ah...you, unfaithful man...you heartless man...ah, you...you are so happy...husband...ah...husband..."
"Sir, Sir, I'm here." Wang muttered in her sleep, unconsciously stretching out her hand and unconsciously probing forward, "Sir, I'm here... Come quickly!"
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After a long time, Ruan Mei, who had transformed back from Wang, turned over, laid on Nan Yi's chest and said, "Do you want to go through the play between Jiang Xingge and Ping today?"
"No, my acting skills are not up to par yet, and I still haven't gotten over Chen Shang's role. Alas, acting is not easy. No wonder actors are prone to depression. It looks like I have to see a psychologist in a couple of days."
"Hehe, I think you don't need to go to the psychology department, you should go to the urology department."
Nan Yi pushed Ruan Mei away from him and said, "It doesn't matter what department you go to. Please leave now. My wife will be back from get off work soon."
Ruan Mei's mind turned slightly, and she easily followed Nan Yi's play, "No, I deliberately parked the car in your wife's parking space and left my number. Your wife will definitely call me when she comes back."
"You are so stupid! Didn't you know that my wife is the daughter of a gang leader in Tuen Mun? She knows how to chop people."
"Don't be surprised, my father is the Chief Inspector of Organized Crime and Triads."
Nan Yi gave a thumbs up and said, "Shut up, little girl. I'm hungry. Go cook."
"I don't want to do it, let's go out to eat."
"Okay, you go wash first, I'll wait." Nan Yi moved up a bit, stood the pillow upright, and leaned on it.
"No, let's go together to save water costs."
Ruan Mei reached out and pulled Nan Yi up, and dragged the reluctant Nan Yi to the bathroom.
Due to a minor friction in the bathroom, Nan Yi and Ruan Mei did not appear in a tea restaurant in Lai Chi Kok until more than two hours later.
The two of them ate a simple roast pork rice with frozen mandarin duck and chatted while eating.
"Before the Artist Care Fund, you and Ruoyin were just playing around. The reason I didn't say anything was, firstly, because it's not time to start, and secondly, I wanted you to get used to it first. But in April, it won't work anymore. You have to take on the responsibility of vice president. At the end of the year, I will ask you for your performance."
Ruan Mei picked up the bottle of ketchup and sprinkled a little on the roast meat, testing the sweetness. After nodding to show her satisfaction, she ate and said, "Do you want performance? How much is considered to be up to standard?"
"You are still a newbie, so we can't ask too much of you. Let's raise 10 million. Once you complete it, you can get a year-end bonus of 2 million."
"You can get 2 million from 10 million. Is the profit so high?" Ruan Mei asked in surprise.
"Of course not. The fund may not be able to earn that much, not to mention your dividends. This is an excess reward I personally subsidize to you. I have to give you some motivation."
Ruan Mei grinned sweetly at Nan Yi, "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"Actually, I still don't quite understand how the fund can make a profit after raising money."
Nan Yi put down the spoon and took a sip of the frozen mandarin duck. "To put it simply, we use other people's money for investment and earn the difference. To put it more complicatedly, the current situation in Hong Kong is very good. Both the stock market and the housing market are rising. In the past few years, no matter what you invest in, you can get a good return.
Of course, investing requires skills. You can't get returns by investing blindly. Coincidentally, we have this skill and we can promise our customers a return rate of 5% to 20%, which is a relatively normal rate of return and is more attractive to customers.
However, in the next few years, investing in Hong Kong's real estate and stock markets should yield a return rate of more than 35%, which means we have at least a 15% difference. I mean at least;
In fact, we don’t have to give our clients a 20% return every year. Sometimes it can be a little lower. As long as we can achieve a positive return every year, our clients will be satisfied.”
"Not necessarily. What I mean is that 20% may not satisfy the client. I know several actors who are speculating in real estate, with 10% mortgages and monthly mortgage payments. From last year to this year, their houses have appreciated by at least 35%, and some have appreciated by 40% or 50%. If you count the increase in their net worth, it's even more."
"That's right." Nan Yi nodded and said, "Sister, I have a serious question for you."
"You ask."
"In order to make money for yourself, would you hurt someone who has no grudge against you? Suppose this person is not a good person. If you hurt him, you can comfort yourself that you are doing justice for others."
Ruan Mei was stunned for a moment and asked, "The person you are assuming is not an unforgivable evil person, right?"
"Yes."
"How much damage?"
“You just said that there are several actors whose assets appreciate very quickly through real estate speculation. In fact, I have the ability to pick out a typical example, for example, the one who earns the most, and prevent him from getting any acting jobs, cut off his income, and make him unable to continue paying his mortgage.
It would be even better if we could find someone who borrowed high-interest loans to speculate in real estate. His ending would be more tragic, and it would also make others more vigilant, which would naturally be of greater help to us.”
As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, Ruan Mei shook her head firmly, "No, I would rather not make money by trying to harm others."
"Okay, let's just ignore what I said before and try a new marketing method. There is a substance called Hyaluronic acid, which was discovered in the 1930s. It was only in the last decade that it began to be widely used in orthopedics, dermatology, surgery, cosmetics and other fields.
I learned about this thing a few years ago and felt that it would have great potential in the beauty field, so I invested some money to conduct targeted research. Sure enough, three years ago, hyaluronic acid began to be mass-produced, but it was still limited to being added to cosmetics and applied to the skin surface, where it had a certain effect on skin firming.
The research I did was different. It was not for application, but for injection. Injecting hyaluronic acid can improve facial aging, facial shaping, and achieve the effect of facial lifting.
Injections into the bridge of the nose, chin, forehead, and temples have a shaping effect, making the nose bridge higher and the chin more tilted; they can also fill in nasolabial folds, marionette lines, Indian lines, and frown lines, fight aging, and achieve a facial rejuvenation effect.
At the same time, hyaluronic acid has a certain degree of hydrophilicity and can also moisturize the skin. Simply put, hyaluronic acid can change local minor flaws, making the face more and younger looking. "
[Explanation: Hyaluronic acid is hyaluronic acid. In fact, hyaluronic acid is a wrong translation, but no one corrected this mistake, and it became a convention. Nan Yi can determine that hyaluronic acid is hyaluronic acid, but he can't tell others about it because this wrong name has not appeared yet. Well, I am entangled in meaningless things again. ]
"Is there such a magical thing?" Ruan Mei asked, her eyes lighting up.
"Don't be bright-eyed. You won't need this thing within 20 years. After 20 years, I won't allow you to use it. It's good to age gracefully and naturally. If you want to stay younger longer, you can do some exercise and keep a good mood all the time."
"I'm just curious." Ruan Mei pouted and said, "You haven't told me the marketing method yet. Does it mean that whoever invests will get the injection?"
"Well, because injectable hyaluronic acid is a brand new field, it takes a long application process to be listed in a country like the United States, which may take several years or even more than ten years. I will first apply for listing in Southeast Asian countries, with Thailand as the first target, so that it can be bundled with other things invisibly."
Nan Yi lowered his voice and whispered into Ruan Mei's ear: "Have you heard of the White-Eyed Dragon King? Have you heard of the Kumantong?"
After listening to what Nan Yi said, Ruan Mei playfully touched Nan Yi's earlobe with her lips and said in a very low voice: "I've heard of it. I also know a few people who have little ghosts."
"That's great. We shouldn't promote superstitious things. People who want something will naturally try it. We just need to add the injection to their trip to Thailand. One injection only costs 88,888, and they will be as beautiful as a flower for a year or so."
"Eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight? So expensive?"
Ruan Mei continued to express the state of exclaiming loudly through humming.
"This is still a bargain price. Normally, the lowest price is 188,888. One injection will last from the beginning of the year to the end of the year." Nan Yi said, tilting his head and licking Ruan Mei's cheek. "You are still young, and it's cute to have a little baby fat on your face, but it's not the case for older women. There is also something called botulinum toxin, which can block the nutritional effect of nerves on muscles, causing the muscles to gradually atrophy, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing muscle volume.
Injecting botulinum toxin into the corresponding muscles will cause them to lose nerve nutrition and gradually shrink. This can be used to slim the face, shoulders, legs, and any area you want. Botulinum toxin also has a certain wrinkle removal effect on dynamic facial wrinkles. For example, wrinkles are caused by the movement of facial expression muscles. Injecting botulinum toxin into the expression muscles will cause the muscles to gradually shrink and lose nerve nutrition. They will not move too much, and the wrinkles will disappear. "
Nan Yi keenly observed that Ruan Mei's eyes were getting brighter again, and quickly said, "I told you, don't let your eyes get brighter. Everything has its pros and cons. The atrophy of the facial muscles means that many expressions can no longer be made."
Ruan Mei tilted her head and pressed against Nan Yi's earlobe again, "Can't cry or laugh anymore? Hey, there's earwax."
"New, who doesn't have earwax in their ears?" Nan Yi deliberately opened Ruan Mei's head and looked at her ears. "You really don't have any, I only see cerumen ."
"Haha, let's go take a sauna later?" Ruan Mei turned her head back and rubbed her earlobe with her hand.
"Okay, let's go to Fei'e Mountain."
“Is there a sauna in Fei’e Mountain?”
"You'll find out when you get there."
After eating the roast pork rice, Nan Yi and the others went to Fei'e Mountain.
On the sea-facing side of Fei'e Mountain, the Information and Planning Committee has three connected holiday homes at the foot of the mountain. Usually, members of the Information and Planning Committee can have dinner and relax here, or take turns to have some quiet time here. It can accommodate three groups of people at a time without disturbing each other.
There are holiday homes belonging to the SSC in nearby Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Hong Kong Island, Repulse Bay, Clear Water Bay and Chai Wan, and the leisure activities offered by each place are slightly different.
At present, the number of vacation homes is still increasing. This is not because the people of the Information Policy Committee are extravagant and wasteful. It is just that they have found that building more vacation homes will not only not be a waste, but will bring asset appreciation.
For example, the holiday home on Fei'e Mountain cost HK$42 million to build the land, house and renovate it in 1986. Today, the estimated value of the building alone is over HK$70 million, not including the considerable land surrounding it.
Initially, it was a staff welfare project to allow the staff of the Information and Strategy Committee to relax, but now its nature has changed. The vacation homes have been included in the Information and Strategy Committee’s slush fund, and it has transformed into a speculative behavior of hoarding houses and land.
The ever-soaring housing prices can not only make up for the vacation expenses of the Information and Strategy Committee, but also bring rich returns in a few years. It is equivalent to enjoying luxury for a few years without spending a penny and making a lot of money.
After Nan Yi and his group had their identities verified by the gatekeeper, they entered the large yard of the holiday home. The school beauty continued to follow closely, while Tiger Cub took people to increase the defense of the holiday home.
Before coming, Nan Yi had already inquired. Today, the Information and Strategy Committee did not have any activities here. Only one person stayed here to enjoy the quietness. The villa on the far right was already occupied, so Nan Yi and his companion occupied the one on the left.
They went up to the second floor and turned on the TV in the living room. Nan Yi and Ruan Mei watched TV first while waiting for the staff to get ready.
After all, it's not a sauna open to the public. The hot tub and sauna room in the holiday home can't be always ready. Generally, vacationers will notify in advance before they come, so that the staff here have enough time to prepare in advance. Nan Yi and the others came here at the last minute, so they could only wait slowly.
Ruan Mei had been looking around since she entered the yard, and now she looked around the entire living room again, "Is this your house too?"
"No, it's the company's holiday home."
"Oh, no wonder the decoration style is not homely." Ruan Mei nodded, and then asked worriedly, "Will Madam Fang know that you brought me here?"
"Not only will my grandmother know, my wife will know too. Everyone here was arranged by my wife. She will probably drown you in the pool or throw you off the roof."
"You're talking big." Ruan Mei spat.
"Who lied to you? Did you see the flower bed in the yard just now?"
Ruan Mei nodded.
“Have you noticed that the flowers in the flowerbed are particularly bright and colorful?”
"Oh, you didn't tell me that there were several bodies buried under the flower bed, did you?"
"No, my wife loves fried fried pork the most. She has to eat it every day. Something like you is enough for her to eat for two meals at most. Tell me if you have any last wishes, so we can set off." Nan Yi frowned and said grimly.
"Hehe, I'm not afraid. Don't forget that I used to live on High Street, and I've even been to a haunted house." Ruan Mei said with a laugh.
"It's just a big talk. I'll take you to the high street later. You go in and I'll wait for you outside."
"You are so mean. Why did you expose me? It's not fun." Ruan Mei pouted and said dissatisfiedly.
The two of them kept arguing like this until the staff came to notify them that they were ready. Then they went up to the roof, rinsed in the shower, and went to the hot tub wrapped in bath towels.
Before entering the water, Ruan Mei looked around. The side facing Fei'e Mountain had a clear view and the bright light on the top of the mountain could be seen. She subconsciously clenched the corner of her bath towel and said, "Young man, can you see this place from the mountain?"
"Don't worry, it's equipped with one-way glass. You can see the mountain, but the mountain can't see here."
After hearing what Nan Yi said, Ruan Mei untied the towel with peace of mind, walked into the hot tub, and then let out a pleasant moan, "So comfortable."
"Aren't you exaggerating a bit?"
"This is my first time soaking in such a large hot spring pool." Ruan Mei stretched out her limbs and said happily.
"Then you just mentioned going to the sauna. I thought you were a regular at the sauna."
“You want to go because you haven’t been there.”
"Oh, then enjoy yourself."
As he spoke, Nan Yi took a towel from the side and covered his face with it, then changed into a comfortable position and lay quietly on his back.
Ruan Mei took a look and followed suit.
After taking a comfortable sauna in the holiday home and returning to Yangwu Village, Nan Yi and his friend were in high spirits again and reenacted the scene of Jiang Xingge and Pingshi's wedding night and drinking the wedding wine.
It is said that Chen Shang and Wang had been reconciled for a while. One day, Jiang Xingge sent a letter back and was about to go home. Wang was afraid that the matter would be exposed. Coincidentally, Chen Shang's travel expenses were about to run out, so Wang gave Chen Shang some travel expenses and also gave him the Jiang family's ancestral treasure, the pearl shirt.
As luck would have it, Jiang Xingge and Chen Shang met on the way. They were both traveling merchants and got along very well. During the conversation, Chen Shang showed off his pearl shirt. Jiang Xingge asked about the origin of the pearl shirt without showing any expression. Chen Shang then confessed his affair with Wang and entrusted Jiang Xingge to take a letter to Xue Po and ask her to pass it on to Wang.
Being cuckolded and asked by her lover to take a letter, it was such a great humiliation. After returning home, Jiang Xingge saw his beloved Wang, but he couldn't bear to hurt her. He just took Wang back to his mother-in-law's house and gave the divorce letter to his father-in-law. When his father-in-law asked the reason, Xingge just told his daughter the reason and asked where the ancestral pearl shirt was.
After hearing this, Wang just kept crying and even went on a hunger strike and tried to hang herself. Fortunately, she was discovered in time.
Later, Wang married a passing county magistrate as a concubine. When Jiang Xingge learned about this, he returned all of Wang's dowry to save Wang's face.
Then, Jiang Xingge brought people to smash Xue Po's shop and home to pieces. Xue Po knew she was in the wrong and never showed up, and disappeared from then on.
But when Chen Shang returned to his hometown, he missed Wang very much and sighed every day looking at his pearl shirt.
Chen Shang's wife Ping thought the pearl shirt was very strange. She lost more than a thousand taels of silver during her business trip. When she came back, she sighed at the pearl shirt without saying much. She hid the pearl shirt when Chen Shang was not paying attention.
After Chen Shangfa had a big quarrel with Ping, he took the silver and went straight to Jiang Xingge's hometown. Because he was in a hurry, he accidentally ran into thieves and was robbed of all the silver on his body. Fortunately, he saved his life. When he arrived at Jiang Xingge's hometown, he found out that his affair was exposed, Xue Po was missing, and Wang was divorced and married to a passing county magistrate.
Depressed and penniless, he fell ill and wrote a letter to Taira on his deathbed.
Ping arrived with her servants and maids, but they were too late. Chen Shang was already dead. Ping wanted to take the coffin back to her hometown for burial, but the servants and maids robbed Ping of all her money and fled away.
A beautiful woman, carrying a coffin, was penniless in a foreign land and had no choice but to sell herself to bury her husband. Coincidentally, Jiang Xingge also wanted to remarry. With the help of someone, Ping and Jiang Xingge became husband and wife by accident.
On the wedding night, Jiang Xingge saw the pearl shirt again, and Ping said that it was this pearl shirt that killed her husband. Jiang Xingge had never thought that the woman he married again was the wife of the adulterer Chen Shang, so he told the adultery between Chen Shang and Wang with anger.
Nan Yi, no, Jiang Xingge slammed the wedding cup on the table, "You are the wife of my enemy, I will never marry you, tomorrow morning, go back to where you came from."
"Wuwuwu..." Ping wiped her tears with a silk scarf, "My money and property were robbed by the evil servants. I am penniless. Where can I go? Besides, it was Chen Shang who was wrong, not me. If I marry again and get kicked out on my wedding night, how can I live?"
"If you can't live, go die. I can give you three feet of white silk."
"Kakakaka, boy, you did it on purpose, right? Can you still act properly?" Ruan Mei said with a tight face.
"Okay, okay, I'll act well and do it again."
"Three Words and Two Beats: Pearl Shirt, Scene 9, Paragraph 1071, Action."
"I, Jiang Xing, am not someone who cannot tell right from wrong. Tomorrow, I will give you enough money for your journey. You can take the money and go back home."
"Although I am a woman, I also know the principle of tit-for-tat. Chen Shang slept with your wife, so you slept with his wife." As she said that, Ruan Mei threw herself into Nan Yi's arms and tore off his costume with her hands.
"Ka, ka, ka, my dear sister, why don't you follow the script?" Nan Yi swayed left and right, trying to avoid Ruan Mei's troublesome hands.
"The play has come to this point. It's okay not to follow the script. Who wouldn't press the fast-forward button after seeing this? Sir, hurry up. Come on, drink the wedding wine and hurry up to the bridal chamber."
Ruan Mei untied Nan Yi's costume and grabbed the wedding cup from the table...
