Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1248: Pick Up Girls
"Senior? What senior?" KiKi asked blankly.
"Sayuri Hagiwara, my former lover, my current friend."
In 1999, Nan Yi came to visit Sayuri Hagiwara and once again emphasized her free status. Because they had not met again for four years, Sayuri Hagiwara understood Nan Yi's feelings and no longer mentioned staying with him.
Later, Sayuri Hagiwara had a brief relationship with a man, but they broke up in less than three years. In the past few years, Nan Yi came to visit her three or four times, and their relationship returned to normal. They could sit together and drink tea and chat as if nothing had happened.
KiKi was stunned for a moment, then giggled and said, "Uncle, you are very fashionable. You actually brought your new lover to meet your old lover?"
"How does the song go? It's hard to find a friend, but with more friends, the road will be easier to walk. Be sincere to each other, and sincerity will work. Let us be friends from now on... Make new friends, don't forget the old friends, many new friends have become old friends."
Nan Yi hummed a song and said, "A new lover will one day become an old lover, and then become an old friend, or directly become an old friend from a new lover. It doesn't matter which way it is. If you don't like someone anymore, there is no need to stop talking to them forever. Becoming friends is also a good choice."
KiKi was stunned again, "It's so abnormal that people who love each other become friends after they stop loving each other."
"Love is important, but it is only a part of life. Let love embellish life, and don't let all of life become love. Being in love will often mess up your own and your partner's life." Nan Yi said, and then turned to Sayuri Hagiwara, "Lily, what have you prepared for dinner?"
"Aralia bud tempura, golden lacquer leaves, pod fern, knotweed, and natto."
[Aralia buds are prickly buds, golden lacquer leaves are Acanthopanax, pod fern is a type of fern, knotweed is a type of knotweed, and the Japanese knotweed looks more like Houttuynia cordata. In China, 1 is not eaten, but toon buds are eaten, 23 is regarded as a weed or fed to pigs, and 4 is used as medicine.]
"Thank you for your careful preparation. It's hard work. There's nothing I like to eat."
Sayuri Hagiwara smiled and said, "I have also prepared the white bamboo shoots that Nagao-kun likes. Please invite your lover into the house to taste them."
"Spring bamboo shoots are delicious. Eating them on a snowy day has a special flavor."
He hugged KiKi into the house, and the three of them had dinner together. KiKi continued to watch short videos, while Nan Yi and Sayuri Hagiwara drank rice wine and chatted about things in the fields. They talked about how the wholesale price of rice continued to rise this year, but due to the aging population and changes in dietary structure, domestic demand in Japan was declining, which was not good news for farmers. Sayuri Hagiwara hoped that there would be some new subsidies this year. At the same time, she also planned to adjust the planting structure, planting less rice and more wheat and soybeans.
Nan Yi told Sayuri Hagiwara that a currency crisis has broken out in emerging markets, geopolitical tensions have re-emerged, and trade frictions have further escalated, which will increase the downside risks of global economic growth in 2019. At present, some forward-looking indicators have shown signs of fatigue, and international food prices will fluctuate greatly.
The global climate is warming, and rising temperatures are approaching critical thresholds. Biodiversity is decreasing, natural ecosystems are being lost, a quarter of the world's ice-free land is facing degradation, extreme weather will occur more frequently in the coming years, and food shortages will soon occur.
Forests and wetlands are important carbon sinks, but their carbon sequestration capacity has been greatly reduced due to human activities, and their ability to capture carbon may continue to decline; the increasingly severe droughts, floods and wildfires may trigger the release of carbon in the soil.
Carbon emissions and carbon sinks will be the subject of future international dialogues. Entering the environmental protection field now would be a good choice. However, if the problem of carbon emissions is not handled properly and the climate continues to warm, a food crisis will soon break out, and Sayuri Hagiwara may be caught up. By then, it may not be a blessing for a little old lady to hold a large piece of land in her hands.
Five years later, he will decide whether to move her to another place depending on how the situation develops.
Sayuri Hagiwara said that he was worrying too much, and even if the bad situation he described would happen, it was unlikely to happen at her age.
He said no one knew how long Sayuri Hagiwara could live. Although she had lived long enough to face death calmly, it was too sad for her to bow down and scrape over her stuttering at such an old age.
After two days of rural life in Iwate Prefecture, Nan Yi returned to Tokyo with KiKi and moved into a large single-family house in Adachi Ward.
Adachi Ward is located in Tokyo, which is equivalent to the sixth and seventh ring roads of the capital. Basically, it is just called Tokyo, but it has little to do with Tokyo. The land price here is very low, and the cost of buying or renting a house is not too high, so a large number of low-income people live here, forming one of the three major slums in Japan, "The Valley".
The valley, a place that does not exist in official documents or maps, is home to a group of "evaporated people", who have given up their legal identities and live here under an assumed name. The majority of them are unemployed people who have lost the ability to support their families and escape from reality with shame. There are also people who choose self-exile to avoid debt or are trapped in love. To put it bluntly, they are a group of losers.
Since there are such a group of people living in the valley, the land and housing prices around it are naturally not very high. Because Nan Yi only comes occasionally, and because real estate in Tokyo has long lost the possibility of making huge profits, without considering selling, of course the lower the cost, the better. Therefore, Chen Wenqin, who was responsible for building the house, followed Nan Yi's "thrifty" requirements and built the house next to the valley.
The single-family building group is also known as "Cartoonist". There are a total of 8 single-family buildings, 7 of which are built according to the houses of main characters from "Crayon Shin-chan", "Doraemon", "Slam Dunk", "Detective Conan", "Naruto", "Spirited Away" and "Pokémon". The last one looks like "Ninja Rantaro" on the outside and "Iron Man" on the inside, and its security facilities are top-notch.
Cartoonist is a homestay. The first 7 buildings mainly receive tourists from China. It has a pretty good business and is rarely vacant all year round. It also has a very good reputation and guests who have stayed there are generally satisfied.
Needless to say, the last building is definitely reserved for self-residence. At this moment, Nan Yi and KiKi are sitting on the roof looking at the open space outside the "Mauri House" next door, where three girls are grilling beef skewers.
"Uncle, which one do you think is the most beautiful?"
“Neither of them quite suits my aesthetic.”
"I asked you to compare, but I didn't ask you to choose which one you like."
"That." Nan Yi pointed down.
"Which one?"
"The one who dresses like Mao Lilan."
"Uncle, have you ever watched Conan?"
"When you came over here just now, didn't you think the house next door looked familiar?"
KiKi thought about it and asked tentatively, "Mouri Kogoro's detective agency?"
"Well, this is my B&B, do you think I've seen it?"
"I used to think that you just kind of understood us young people, but now it seems that you don't just kind of understand us, you really do. No wonder I don't feel a generation gap between you and me."
"You never stop learning. Every time I sleep with a little girl, I can learn a little bit about the thinking of you young people. The more you sleep, the more you will understand."
"Uncle, do you think this is appropriate to say to a new lover who has not yet gotten started?"
"Haha, I'm such a charming person. I'm worried that if I don't let you know some things in advance, you'll fall in love with me to death, and you won't be able to get rid of me even if you want to."
KiKi leaned over Nan Yi, hooked her arms around his neck, and said with a smile, "Uncle, I discovered another good thing about you. Can you guess what it is?"
Nan Yi hooked KiKi's chin and said, "What you want to say is nothing new to me. Before you, there were 8765 women who said I was shameless. 5678 of them had sexual relations with me. 765 of them were like you, hanging around my neck and saying it. 567 of them were younger than you at the time."
"Hahaha, not only are you shameless, you also love to brag." KiKi laughed and collapsed into Nan Yi's arms, tilting his head back and rubbing his cheek against Nan Yi's beard. "Uncle, I think you'd look good with a beard and a buzz cut... Hey, uncle, what do you think of your nails?"
Nan Yi raised his fingers and pushed his wrists outward, imitating the woman's way of looking at his nails, "Look, my nails are so beautiful."
Stopping his movements, Nan Yi looked down at KiKi's face, "Is this what you want?"
“Hahaha…” KiKi laughed so hard that her body shook uncontrollably. After laughing for a long time, she panted and said, “Uncle, you really understand. It can’t be…you are the one, right?”
KiKi raised her hand to cover her mouth, pretending to be surprised, "Are you looking for me to hide the fact that you are my sister-in-law?"
"If you say so, then so be it."
Nan Yi responded and turned his gaze back to downstairs. There were two more men by the grill. They came from Akagi Haruko's house. One was wearing AJ. Nan Yi couldn't tell which generation it was, but he knew it was the same style as Sakuragi Hanamichi. The other one was also wearing AJ. Nan Yi happened to recognize it. It was the fifth generation. Jordan wore it that year to score his career highest.
I don’t know whether the two men are Aquaman or the three women are “high-quality women”, but the two groups were not awkward at all and quickly chatted with each other, and it seemed that they got along quite well.
Seeing that Nan Yi was not looking at her but was looking down instead, KiKi struggled to sit up and looked down as well. After a few glances, she said to Nan Yi, "Uncle, didn't you say that it didn't suit your aesthetic?"
"Don't look at the face, look at the relationship."
"I just said that there is no generation gap between us , but you gave it away so quickly, uncle. Those two men look like nightclub princes, and I can guess where the three women studied and what their jobs are." KiKi said with a bit of pride.
Nan Yi smiled faintly, "Tell me about it."
"Studying abroad is either in the United States or Australia. The major is either finance or MBA business administration. There are only three possible jobs: medical beauty shareholders, fashion designers, and self-media influencers. They call themselves socialites, and outsiders call them socialites and gold diggers.
I sleep until 2pm every day, have afternoon tea for breakfast, then go to the gym, and hang out at the bar at night. My Moments are filled with either gym videos or photos of my various outfits, or videos of airports, high-end hotels, and tourist attractions. My life looks very refined, but in fact..."
KiKi dragged out the words, deliberately keeping the audience in suspense.
Nan Yi did not respond, but just smiled knowingly and looked up towards Thailand in the southwest. If he remembered correctly, today should be the day when the Women's Liberation Front Alliance under the Xinsheng Plastic Surgery Hospital held its shareholders' meeting at the Lavender Hotel in Koh Samui .
The Women's Liberation Front Alliance is a non-profit informal organization established by Xinsheng Plastic Surgery Hospital and Pei Lan's Aipin Mingyuan Tao. The earliest shareholders were the medical beauty members of Aipin Mingyuan Tao, which are the ladies that KiKi mentioned.
Shareholders usually sleep until 2pm, have afternoon tea, use their mobile phones to browse socialite groups and sister groups, actively participate in some afternoon tea and bag and clothing competitions, and then accidentally expose the fact that they are actually very rich:
Socialites may not have a lot of money in their pockets, but they have a wide range of knowledge and are very familiar with famous brands and high-end cosmetics and perfumes. As long as the shareholders have these things on them, and they are of different styles or brands twice or more, the socialites will naturally be able to see some clues.
A socialite might ask about this proactively, so you can take advantage of the situation. Otherwise, if you give a socialite a ride home one day and inadvertently show off your car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the rest will be easy. The reason why socialites become socialites is nothing more than pursuing a rich and happy life. As long as you make them understand that if you want to be rich, you must first fix your face, and you can get a client.
This is a major way to develop customers. Another way is to go to bars, where you can meet gold diggers who are looking for rich men or rookies who yearn for the "domineering president to fall in love with me". It is not too difficult to develop young ladies into customers. Shareholders can easily achieve results and get considerable dividends by the end of the year.
The Women's Liberation Front Alliance has nearly 3,000 shareholders. The top ones can make 20 to 30 million a year, and the average ones can make 3 to 4 million. Last year alone, the alliance distributed dividends of 2.25 billion to shareholders, and the smallest shareholder could get more than 400,000. The alliance truly lives up to its slogan - to be an independent and confident woman from the heart.
Socialites are a customer group that can generate tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of revenue for the Nan family. It is a place where gods gather. In order to serve the gods well, the Information and Planning Committee even selected elites from various groups to establish a Socialite Research Institute, equipped with high-power optical microscopes, to carefully study all aspects of socialites.
Plastic surgeons practice basic skills for more than 18 hours every day, and are able to control the errors of bone cutting, nose augmentation, canthoplasty and other surgeries within the range of ±0.0068mm.
The Nan family attaches so much importance to socialites, so it is conceivable that Nan Yi’s understanding of socialites must be by no means superficial. If he opens a professional course on socialites, he can definitely become an academic leader in this field.
Seeing that Nan Yi didn't support her, KiKi pushed him with her hand, "Hey, uncle."
"Um?"
"Why don't you ask further questions? Why don't you ask me?" KiKi gave Nan Yi an expression that said I am a good teacher.
"Actually what?"
"Perfunctory!" KiKi muttered for a while, but still explained to Nan Yi: "In fact, most gold diggers hook up with men online, pretending to have a normal relationship. Once they are a little familiar with each other, they will say it's their birthday. As long as the man is interested, he will be very generous and will give them branded bags and large red envelopes.
As you men say, you can’t catch a wolf without sacrificing a child, and you can’t catch a beautiful bride without sacrificing a bag.
The prostitute invites the man to a bar with which she has a cooperation, drinks some cheap drinks first, and when the man is in high spirits, she hugs the man's waist and acts coquettishly, asking for a bottle of extremely expensive wine..."
KiKi threw a coquettish glance at Nan Yi, "Uncle, if it were you, would you be willing to open a bottle of red wine worth more than 8,000 yuan at this time?"
"This is not a socialite you're talking about, isn't she a wine-selling hostess?"
"Alas, wine and dinner touts are the second-level sub-categories of gold diggers, and they are of the lower level. Don't ask back, answer my question first."
Nan Yi pretended to think about it for a while and said, "I think I should be willing to give it up."
KiKi gave Nan Yi a look of contempt, "That's it, you men are so easy to cheat, the wine that comes in at no more than 15 yuan is poured into a bottle of Lafeng 1995 and sold for 8,800 yuan, and the gold digger can get at least 5,000 yuan.
If the man is stupid, the gold digger will make up all kinds of reasons to give the man the opportunity to show off his demeanor, such as his parents are sick, his grandparents have passed away, his younger brother has been admitted to a prestigious university. As long as the man is not straight and is interested in the gold digger, he will show some respect to her.
As she spoke, KiKi suddenly hugged Nan Yi's hand and said coquettishly, "Uncle, I've seen a highway that I like. It's not expensive. It only costs 7.2 billion. Can you buy it for me?"
"Okay, I'll go to the funeral shop and ask someone to make one out of paper and burn it for you during the Qingming Festival."
KiKi pinched Nan Yi's arm and said, "How annoying! Can't you just tell me a lie to comfort me?"
Nan Yi sneered, "You asked for 7.2 billion right away. I dare not fool you. If you dare to ask for a highway today, a city tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow you will ask for the position of Empress Dowager to rule the country from behind the curtain."
"Uncle, stop kidding me. I want it, but can you afford it?"
Nan Yi shook his head and said, "I can't afford it."
KiKi gave him a look that said "you've been honest", and then explained to Nanyi other ways of making money by picking up girls. The more advanced ones include integrating resources, connecting men with money with those with skills, charging a brokerage fee, or pulling themselves into the project and taking a stake.
Gold diggers will also integrate resources with each other, for example, everyone will pool their strength to open their own "man-killing" bar, or open a plastic surgery hospital, following a similar path to the Women's Liberation Front Alliance.
The alliance has merged several fake plastic surgery hospitals that were funded by several to dozens of gold diggers. They didn't want fixed assets, doctors or nurses, but only wanted the shareholders to move to another place and become shareholders.
A lower-level way of playing is also a fairer way of playing for perverts. After spending a lot of money, they can get some benefits, which makes them feel a little comforted.
Nan Yi and KiKi discussed gold diggers for a while, and then continued to watch the ultimate showdown between the gold digger who had been identified by KiKi and the little prince of the nightclub. Both of them were very excited and wanted to wait to see the final winner.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the chance to see the whole thing. The five of them ate some beef skewers and got into the cartoonist's business car, which was responsible for picking up guests.
With two regretful sighs, KiKi said, "Uncle, where do you think they are going?"
"At this time, most people go to nightclubs."
"Should we go and take a look?" KiKi was eager to try.
"No, they are my gods. It's okay to peek at them in public, but stalking them is a bit too much."
"It's so boring." KiKi pouted and touched her belly again, "I'm hungry, uncle, take me out for something delicious."
"I'm not going out. I'm eating my work meal at the restaurant. You know so much about gold diggers. I highly suspect you are one too. I need to cut my losses."
