Volume 6: The Great Change Chapter 0816: The Nan Family's Homeland
Nan Yi looked at the woman and asked uncertainly, "Do we know each other?"
The woman looked at the surprised Nan Yi, stood up and walked to his side, "Okay, brother, you must have saved a lot of people, so it's normal that you don't remember me. The one who fell into the water in the Summer Palace, do you still remember me?"
As soon as the woman opened her mouth, her strong local accent could not be hidden at all, and one could tell at the first sound that she was from Tian'an.
"You are the one from the Summer Palace named..."
Nan Yi dragged out the word, he didn't know what the woman's name was at all. The woman did leave a name for Tiger Cub, but Nan Yi never cared about it and never asked Tiger Cub.
The tiger cub listened to Nan Yi's long tone, reached into his pocket, touched a button, and pressed it rhythmically.
Feeling the vibration frequency coming from the outside of his thigh, Nan Yi quickly converted it into letters in his mind, "W, E, N, W, A, N."
After thinking it over in his mind and guessing which two words it was, Nan Yi dropped the long tone and said apologetically, "Comrade Wen Wan, I'm sorry, it's been too long and my memory is a little fuzzy."
"Nan Yi, what a coincidence, it turns out that you were the one who saved Wen Wan from drowning?" Lai Biao, who was sitting on the sofa, said in surprise.
"Yes, it was this brother who saved me." Wen Wan responded to Lai Biao, and then said to Nan Yi: "Formally introduce, Wen Wan, from Tiangang."
"Nan Yi, from the capital."
After the introduction, Nan Yi sat down in the empty seat next to Chen Feng, grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the coffee table, picked one up and threw it into his mouth, "Biaozi, what are we having for dinner?"
Lai Biao didn't reply, Wen Wan took over the conversation, "Eight-treasure tofu, fried three, jar meat, fried fish slices, and stir-fried cabbage with soy sauce."
"You do?"
"I'll do it, you wait." Wen Wan said, and walked towards the kitchen.
As soon as Wen Wan's figure disappeared, Nan Yi looked at Lai Biao and asked, "Biaozi, what's going on?"
"You're so smart, can't you see it?" Lai Biao asked back.
"Did your family arrange this?"
"Yes." Lai Biao nodded, with a slightly dejected look on his face.
"When will it be done?"
"It hasn't been decided yet. We'll get engaged this year and then choose a date for the official wedding next year."
"oh."
Nan Yi saw that Lai Biao did not look reluctant or excited, so he did not rashly say congratulations.
Chen Feng grabbed two melon seeds from Nan Yi's hand, pressed his finger, threw the shells onto the coffee table, and threw the kernels into his mouth. "Nan Yi, we were just discussing a Drive Travel to Tubo. Do you want to join us?"
"Take the Sichuan-Tibet line?"
"Where else can we go if not this road?" Chen Feng spat.
Nan Yi said sarcastically, "Then you are really the real warriors described by Lu Xun. Since the Sichuan-Tibet Highway was completed, how many motorists have died in transportation every year? What? Do you think your driving skills can be compared with theirs?"
"Don't give me that. They are driving a fully loaded car. It's much safer for us to drive a small car."
"Even if driving safety is not a problem, how can you guarantee safety on the road? I know this road very well. The reclamation group originally wanted to bring Tibetan sheep and Tibetan goats out to sell. They went out twice to test the waters. A total of six vehicles went out, but only four returned intact. One fell off a cliff, but the driver jumped out of the car in time. Another encountered robbers. Seeing that there was no goods on the car, the robbers stole the car.
This was explained before we set off. If you encounter a robbery, don't resist, just run away. You don't know that when the two drivers who ran into the ravine were found, they were almost unrecognizable due to hunger and were not very clear-headed.
According to them, they found several skeletons in the ravine, and there were also pieces of cloth and paper next to them, with the date 1987 on them.
Chen Feng was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "Is it so exaggerated?"
"Most of the areas along the route are deserted and the roads are dangerous. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is a prime route for robbery. Even if we ambush the robbers, it is very difficult to trap them. Once they escape, even if we send out two divisions, we won't be able to find them."
Lai Biao asked: "Nan Yi, is it really that dangerous?"
"It's so dangerous. If you really want to go, you have to find a retired soldier who has taken this route to be your driver, and you have to find a squad of soldiers to escort you. But do you have the energy to do that? It's better to fly directly to Gonggar Airport. It's much easier that way."
After hearing what Nan Yi said, Lai Biao and Chen Feng looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Nan Yi really doesn't support their self-driving tour along the Sichuan-Tibet line. The road is really dangerous nowadays. It is not a challenge for an inexperienced driver who would get panicked if he encountered a stone while driving on a flat road in the city.
"Biaozi, what do you say?"
After looking at each other for a while, Chen Feng broke the silence first.
"I'd better give it a try." Lai Biao responded to Chen Feng, then looked at Nan Yi and said with a firm gaze: "Old Nan, I want to go."
"If you want to go, just go ahead. Don't worry. With our relationship, I will definitely find your body."
"Don't pretend, you know what I mean, help me get some equipment."
Nan Yi certainly understood what Lai Biao meant. Lai Biao had a bright future and was rather cautious in doing things. He would not do anything that was not in line with his status, or he would cover it up very cleverly.
The money that Lai Biao used to buy the house in Langfang Headlines was his legal income, which is also his salary that can be publicly announced. Even if someone troubles him in the future when the house is worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions, he does not have to worry, because after all, he can trace the source clearly.
Since Lai Biao insisted on taking a self-driving tour along the Sichuan-Tibet line, he had to have the necessary equipment. Many things could not be bought in China and had to be purchased from abroad. What Lai Biao wanted was to borrow Nan Yi's name and channels.
"Don't think about it again?"
Lai Biao shook his head and said, "Don't think about it. No matter how dangerous it is, I will go. I want to let my heart wander."
"Okay, I'll buy you the equipment you need. It'll be your wedding gift."
Nan Yi thought that Lai Biao was still not ready to accept the reality of being married, so he took a trip to relax himself, or maybe he was secretly looking forward to encountering some danger.
"Thank you."
"Thanks for nothing, we're on our own."
"If you get into trouble, I will definitely give you a kick." Chen Feng said jokingly.
"Get lost. The Manhattan police officer you teased has had a relapse of his mental illness and has been sent to New York Second People's Hospital for treatment. The deputy chief of the Fifth Avenue Police Station is my best friend. He told me that they are about to summon you and asked you to hide in the countryside first."
"I'm not afraid. My second uncle is in the Manhattan Police Department. I know everyone there. I just need to say hello."
"Oh, I didn't realize you guys are so close."
"Haha, Lao Nan, you are so poor." Chen Feng laughed.
"Birds of a feather, you are a katydid and I am a cricket."
Chen Feng and Nan Yi looked at each other and burst into laughter at the same time. Lai Biao also joined in halfway. The three of them just grinned foolishly for half a minute, melting their joy and sorrow in their laughter.
After they finished laughing, the three of them took out their cards and started playing while chatting.
"Lao Nan, have you heard about Mou Nande changing the plane?" Chen Feng threw out a straight of three, four, five, and drew three cards from the deck.
Nan Yi used the five, six, and seven pipes and also drew three cards from the deck.
A game played by three people is called Draw Five. Each person holds five cards in his hand. He or she must keep five cards in his or her hand at all times until all the cards in the deck are drawn. Whoever finishes playing first wins. The way of playing cards is similar to running fast, that is, you start with a straight of three cards, and if you have a card that can suppress others, you must play it and cannot pass it.
Looking at the cards in his hand, four tens and a big cat, Nan Yi Yile felt a little depressed again. If he got this card in the last hand, he would basically win.
"I heard that there is already a plane here, right?"
"Ka, K, X." Lai Biao pressed Nan Yi's cards and also drew three cards. "This is a big deal. Everyone in my unit is talking about it."
"Four 8s." Chen Feng threw out the cards and said, "I heard there are three more behind. Lao Nan, do you know how much each of his planes costs?"
Nan Yi threw out four tens and said, "I don't know. Who knows what Mou Nan De is doing with the Russians in private? It's impossible not to give the Russians some benefits. It's very likely that they will divide the profits in reverse. The Russian military is having a hard time now. They will light up when they see money. It's best to be US dollars. They won't mind RMB either."
Lai Biao was stunned for a moment, "Could it be that some Russian guy was the one in charge of changing the plane?"
"It doesn't matter who takes the lead, as long as they can get a cheap plane. It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, a cheap plane is a good plane."
"That's right." Lai Biao nodded and threw out four Js. "I'm blown up. Lao Nan, tell me the specific situation over there. The information in the internal reference is rather vague."
"What else can we do? Everything is difficult. Looking back, the Soviet revisionists abolished the coupon supply system in 1947, but by the end of the 1970s, they had partially restored the supply coupons for meat, butter and sugar; in 1983, they started a more comprehensive coupon supply system again 'at the request of the working people'.
It started in the more marginal regions and member states, and by 1989 various types of tickets were widely used in most cities and villages.
Food products include: vodka, wine, tea, sugar, flour, meat products, mayonnaise, and candy; industrial consumer goods include soap, washing powder, matches, tobacco, Tashkent overshoes, women's underwear, etc.
The names of the tickets are varied, from the more straightforward bread tickets and potato tickets in the past to the more oblique names of shopping invitations, wedding books, customer business cards, purchase limit cards, etc. Some time ago, there was also a "Alcohol is the enemy of your health."
"Haha, Lao Nan, this last one is the vodka ticket, right?" Chen Feng said with a smile.
"right."
Chen Feng: "Is it difficult to supply materials?"
"It's not difficult, not at all. Let me read you a selection of documentary literature that was circulated underground in the Soviet revisionists in the 1930s." Nan Yi chuckled and read aloud: "Compared to the potato pancakes mixed with sawdust that people received with their vouchers, the adults' dining standards are much better.
In Moscow, there were 74,300 senior cadres eating in the canteen and 45,000 eating special supplies. In Leningrad, the numbers were 12,370 and 10,500 respectively.
When senior officials travel by train on business, food and drinks in the official carriages are free; when there is a general meeting, attendees are allowed to eat and drink as much as they want.
In 1932, one of my neighbors went to Moscow to attend the September Plenary Session of the Union of Bolsheviks. The variety and value of food consumed by cadres at all levels was truly astonishing.
During the 18 days of the conference, the 500 participants can enjoy 93 kinds of food, 4 tons of meat, 6.9 tons of sausages, roosters, hazel grouse, turkeys, geese and various hams, 4 tons of fish, 300 kilograms of black caviar, 600 kilograms of Swiss cheese, 1.5 tons of butter, anhydrous butter and salted butter, 15,000 eggs, as well as cereals, fruits, vegetables, berries, mushrooms, dairy products, tea, coffee, cocoa drinks, chocolate candies, cigarettes, pipes, etc.
At that time, I was eating sawdust potatoes and thinking about a question under the dim oil lamp: Why would anyone not like to eat my favorite sawdust potatoes?
A few years later, I got a job at the Pravda newspaper I had always dreamed of working for. It was 1941, when the war had just broken out. In order to ensure the nutritional supply of the soldiers, I devoted myself to researching a highly nutritious bread by mixing sawdust and wood shavings into the black bread.
And I spread a piece of knowledge to everyone in Pravda - bread mixed with sawdust and shavings is the most nutritious and delicious. My article is called "We Just Want to Eat Wood Bread"..."
"Lao Nan, stop talking nonsense. Which Soviet revisionist in that era would dare to write such an article?" Chen Feng said in disbelief.
"Yes, but he was secretly executed by the GPU, the predecessor of the KGB."
Nan Yi smacked his lips, thinking that it was better to say less about some things, so he changed the subject, "I'm not sure about other cities, but in Moscow, ordinary people can only eat enough, forget about eating well. Vodka is no longer in supply, so all kinds of strange ways of brewing have been invented.
Some people who are addicted to alcohol but don't know how to make alcohol go to hospitals and pharmacies to steal medical alcohol. Unscrupulous businessmen even mix industrial alcohol with water and sell it. Many people have died from drinking this kind of alcohol.
The general living standard is comparable to that of our country 12 or 13 years ago, and in some aspects it is slightly worse.”
Chen Feng smiled and said, "Hearing what you said, Su Xiu's life is not easy. This is good news for us. We will have a good drink later."
Nan Yi: "Be careful with your words."
"Crazy, you can drink more wine, but don't talk nonsense." Lai Biao said, "It's just right, open a bottle of the original juice that Wei Zong sent last time."
Chen Feng pursed his lips and said, "You haven't finished drinking yet?"
Lai Biao: "No, I don't drink as fast as you."
Chen Feng: "I didn't drink much myself. My old man drank all of it. He said our wine is good, not worse than Moutai. Lao Nan, a few days ago, Wei Zong called and said you were going to make a new move. What move?"
"It's hard to say now. We are still in the public relations process and there is a possibility of failure. When things are clear, I will inform you two shareholders."
"Your Excellency." Chen Feng spat.
After three rounds of cards, Wen Wan came out of the kitchen and called them to eat. The three of them went to wash their hands, and then sat down at the table to eat and chat, with Wen Wan occasionally interjecting a word.
After dinner, Nan Yi and Chen Feng left together. Chen Feng got into Nan Yi's car, and Hu Zi drove Chen Feng's car.
"Lao Nan, I haven't asked you just now, what happened between you and Wen Wan in the Summer Palace?" Chen Feng asked after the car started.
"When we were boating in the Summer Palace, Wen Wan accidentally fell into the water, and I rescued her to shore. It's that simple."
No matter what story there was between Wen Wan and the man who fell into the water with her , Wen Wan is now Lai Biao's fiancée, and Nan Yi is not in a position to talk about the past, let alone mention it to Chen Feng, a third party who has nothing to do with the incident.
“Are there no ups and downs?”
"You're listening to a historical story, with all its ups and downs. Do you want me to break it down next time?"
"Stop it. I won't tell you anymore. My old man asked me to thank you for what happened last time."
"It's just a small thing. I can't bear the old man's thanks."
Nan Yi said it was a small matter, but he knew very well in his heart that the matter of Shengmin Petroleum Futures was not a small matter. It might very well change the way he would handle things in the country in the future, and it was hard to predict whether it would be good or bad for the time being.
However, as long as Fang Mengyin is still around, Nan Yi doesn't need to face some people and things in person, especially if the top leaders want to talk, it would be polite to face the "widow of Nan's revolution" instead of finding Nan Yi directly. The banner of the Nan family in the country is actually carried on Fang Mengyin's shoulders.
"Don't be so modest. You are not a simple person, and your subordinates are not simple either. Last time, you intimidated those people from Shengmin Petroleum. You can make things happen with just a wave of your hand."
"That's just luck. Don't think that the money in the futures market is just lying there waiting to be picked up. You can make money quickly but lose it even faster. If I jump off a building one day, you have to accompany me."
"Forget it. You can't pretend anymore. Your name has already been registered with those old men."
"Haha, just register. I'm a law-abiding person, so there's nothing to worry about."
"Haha, my old man said that you are a slippery person who doesn't hold back. He wants to meet you personally someday, little slipper."
"Sure! As long as he calls me, I will come back to visit him no matter where I am."
