Volume 7 I've Been Here Chapter 0953: Promoting the Pure and Common
After talking about business, Nan Yi and Penny Streeter talked about the rise of local land finance and told her that someone would contact her and that in the future she would take some land in the name of Longmenzhen, and part of the profits generated by the land would remain in Longmenzhen.
At noon, Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin to Wang Runxing Restaurant for dinner. Coincidentally, this was also a time-honored restaurant related to Emperor Qianlong. It was said that it was funded by Emperor Qianlong to repay the kindness of Wang's ancestors for a meal.
It doesn’t matter whether the story is true or not. The fish head tofu in the store tastes really good and Nan Ruojin enjoyed it very much.
In the afternoon, Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin to the Caishiqiao area of Qingchun Road. He saw from the newspaper that the renovation project of Qingchun Road Old Street had just been completed. Nan Yi planned to take a look at the overall picture of real estate development in Hangzhou.
Standing on the overpass and looking around, there are no traces of construction. There is no picture of what the old street looked like before, so it is hard to judge without comparison. Nan Yi plans to ask Sheng Ziqian to ask the TV station if there is any previous video of the old street. In theory, there must be. Urban changes often leave records, especially footage that can be regarded as an achievement.
Just as Nan Yi was about to leave, a couple in love passing by said that they wanted to go to Haifeng on Yan'an Road to eat ice cream. Looking up at the sky and feeling the burning on their skin, Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin back to the West Lake.
I went to the Angel Ice King upstairs in the foreign language bookstore and had something cold first, then went into the foreign language bookstore to enjoy the cool breeze from the fan and read some English storybooks.
As the store is named Foreign Languages, there are naturally many foreign language books in it. It is said that the rise of English corner by the West Lake is not unrelated to this bookstore.
The store was very busy, with many children who looked like elementary school students. Nan Yi pricked up his ears and listened for a few words. From their chatter, he heard what he wanted to know - the weather was too hot, so the school had a few days off.
Yes, the summer solstice has not yet arrived, but the summer of 1994 has already told people that it is very hot. This summer will be a carnival of cold drinks and a golden expansion season for beverages.
After accompanying Nan Ruojin to read a storybook for a while, Nan Yi's phone started vibrating in his bag. He asked Nan Ruojin to watch the story by herself and walked outside the bookstore to answer the phone.
"Who?"
"I, your Master Chen, I say Lao Nan, please report your contact information to me at any time in the future. It's too troublesome to contact Liu Zhen first to find you."
"Who are you? Do I need to report to you? Are you calling me from Moscow or have you come back?" Nan Yi said with a faint smile.
"Mission completed, I'm back."
"Oh, are you on vacation or are you going to take up a new post?"
"I'm temporarily on vacation. I haven't decided on anything else yet. I'm bored in the capital. I'll go to Hangzhou to play with you."
"Bah, don't talk so close. I live by the West Lake. Just come and see me when you have some free time after work."
They are all adults with families, so it is unlikely that Chen Feng would travel all the way to Hangzhou to visit Nan Yi. Most likely, he just happened to have something to do in Hangzhou and wanted to meet Nan Yi by the way.
"Ha, Lao Nan, don't be so straightforward. I'll find you in a couple of days."
"Um."
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi returned to the bookstore to continue accompanying Nan Ruojin.
In the next few days, Nan Yi would take Nan Ruojin to the library in the morning to read through the county annals of Hangzhou and look through old local newspapers of Hangzhou; in the afternoon, avoiding the hottest time points, he would take Nan Ruojin to wander around the city.
We eat at a different restaurant for each meal, eating from whatever restaurant has a certain brand. In the morning, we have Hangzhou noodles, scallion-wrapped cypress, sweet wine, beef vermicelli soup, tofu soup, etc.
Sheng Ziqian copied several documentary videotapes from the TV station, giving Nan Yi the opportunity to compare and contrast the differences before and after the renovation of several old streets in Hangzhou.
On the 13th, Nan Yi drew a "king" character on Nan Ruojin's forehead, tied a hundred ropes around her neck, and came to Xixi Wetland early to seize the advantageous terrain.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the future landlords of Jiangcun will race dragon boats.
When they arrived at a bridge, Nan Yi saw a banner hanging on the bridge that read "Civilized Dragon Boat Race, Welcoming Guests from All Directions". He became excited. Since there was a civilized banner hung, it went without saying that there must have been frequent fights in the past.
Fortunately, he arrived early. After just a few minutes, Nan Yi saw a large number of people gathering towards him. Soon, all the good seats along the waterway were taken. Those who came later could only stand at the back where the visibility was poor.
Before the dragon boat appeared, a group of people in uniform appeared first. Nan Yi took a look and thought, this year's dragon boat race will definitely be civilized.
"Dad, when does the game start?" After waiting for a while, Nan Ruojin became a little anxious.
"Listen carefully. When you hear the sound of gongs and cymbals, the comparison will begin." Before Nan Yi finished speaking, the continuous clanging of gongs rang out, interspersed with the sound of cymbals hitting each other. "Here it comes, here it comes."
As the sound rang out, ripples appeared on the water surface, and the sound of the horn came from far away. Two dragon boats appeared in the field of vision one after another. On one of the dragon boats, the helmsman was seen squatting down, waving an oar left and right on the water. The movement was quite intense, but in his mouth, a cigarette was held, and faint white smoke curled up.
After the two bare, undecorated dragon boats passed by, several beautifully decorated dragon boats appeared behind them. Not only were they decorated with double-eaved roofs and glazed tiles, but they also had red umbrellas (the covers that the emperor used to shade his head from the sun when he traveled) and flags on the boats. What they were competing for was not speed, but the gorgeous decorations.
This is not surprising. In some places in the south, there is a custom of welcoming the God. The God here refers to the god, which is actually the statue of the god. When the God is placed out, every household will take out offerings to worship him. It does not need to be too expensive, but it must be novel and beautifully made. The cakes should be arranged in exquisite shapes, and the coins and banknotes should be arranged or folded into meaningful shapes.
Ugly offerings will be taken away quickly after worshiping the god, but exquisite offerings will be left on the altar for a long time. When other people come to worship the god, they will ask who this offering belongs to and who that one belongs to. It is a matter of face to have offerings left on the altar for people to appreciate, and it also has a religious aspect.
In addition, there is also a dragon dance where people compete to see whose lantern is more beautifully decorated. In the south, the competition for "beauty" has been integrated into folk activities. On a deeper level, people are more valued for being dexterous. People who can make a Taoist temple out of a snail shell will be looked up to by others.
"Dad, that one is the most beautiful." Nan Ruojin pointed at a dragon boat and said, "I want one too."
"Oh, Daddy will ask someone to make you one and put it in the castle moat, okay?"
"Yeah."
Nan Yi and Nan Ruojin were talking in private when a voice not far from them rang out in an interview-like tone, "My friend, do you think the dragon boats this year are pretty?"
Nan Yi turned his head and saw a person who looked like a female reporter putting a microphone to a person's mouth, and there was another person next to her holding a camera.
After taking a few more glances, Nan Yi recognized that the female reporter should be an acquaintance. He knew her, but she didn't know him. In the future, she would become famous for persuading people to be patriotic, and would probably become Ruan Mei's neighbor in Beverly Hills.
"The dragon boat is no longer visible. Shall we leave?"
"good."
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The Zigong Fund has invested continuously for ten years and only brought back these eighteen treasures. Yes, brought back, not just cultivated eighteen, not everyone has the spirit of contract.
San Francisco, Hillsborough Bay Area.
It was early in the morning when two masked men sneaked into a house and tiptoed into the bedroom. One of them took out a towel and sprinkled some unknown liquid on it. After everything was ready, he woke up an oriental man on the bed.
"The boss asked me to tell you a message. You can be unpatriotic, but you can be without a sense of contract, especially the contract you signed with him." After the masked man finished speaking, he immediately covered the oriental man's mouth and nose with the towel in his hand. Silently, the oriental man fell asleep.
Another masked man took out a syringe, lifted the blanket on the bed, pulled down the oriental man's trousers, inserted the syringe into the fold of one of the lychees, and slowly pushed the liquid medicine.
After the injection, the two masked men carefully cleaned up the traces left behind. After making sure everything was safe, they disappeared into the night.
In order to let Nan Ruojin deeply experience the Dragon Boat Festival flavor in the south, Nan Yi brought a box of beer and a box of drinks and knocked on the door of a house with a wall gate. With his sweet words and the presence of a little foreigner, the old lady happily agreed that the father and daughter could eat the five yellows together.
"How old is Nannan?"
"Five."
"What country is Mom from?"
"British."
The old lady was very talkative. After Nan Yi and Nan Ruojin sat down, she kept asking questions, and Nan Yi answered them very readily.
"Can't speak Chinese?"
"Grandma, she can speak Mandarin, but not very well, so she can't really understand what you're saying."
"I haven't spoken Mandarin for many years. I spoke Hangzhou dialect in Hangzhou, and when I went to the border to support the border, I spoke northern dialect." The old lady said with a smile.
Nan Yi asked with great interest: "Grandma, in which year did you go to support the border areas?"
"I went there the first year and stayed there for ten years. Then the elderly in my family were in poor health, so I applied to come back. Twenty years have passed in a flash, and I have grown old myself." The old lady was full of emotion.
Nan Yi looked around and saw that the family living behind the wall was a wealthy family with a large house and historical heritage. If this house was not acquired halfway, the old lady's ancestors must have been very important. The old lady's story of going to the border areas and applying to come back was a complicated one. Her simple words contained a complicated story.
Unfortunately, most of them are sad stories, so it’s better not to delve into them.
"Grandma, you look very . You will have no problem living another 40 or 50 years."
"Young man is really good at talking." The old lady was amused by Nan Yi. She smiled with her hands covering her mouth and looked at Nan Ruojin who had dropped the spoon on the table. "Nannan, ask your father to take it to clean it up."
[Put some water in a bowl and swirl it around to clean the edges of the bowl. This process is called swishing. Rinsing your mouth can also be called swishing your mouth.]
Nan Yi saw it, picked up the spoon, and washed it under the faucet.
After returning, they sat down and continued chatting and eating. After the meal, he accompanied the old lady to drink tea and chat for a while. When it was almost time, Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin to say goodbye and leave. Before leaving, the old lady did not let Nan Yi take away the things he brought, whether they were real or fake.
Every culture has its essence and dregs. In some places, a culture of "false politeness" is popular. For example, when pouring wine, someone may say "enough, enough", but their hand may seem to be loosely supporting the mouth of the bottle, but in fact it is pressing down. Therefore, you cannot listen to what the other person says, but you have to observe the movements of his hands. Some movements are more subtle and you have to try repeatedly.
For example, in interpersonal relationships, just now, the old lady might ask Nan Yi to take the drinks and beer away, or she might even try to stuff something into his hand (the gift is small). At this time, the other person may not really want to return the gift, but is just being polite. If you really want to take the gift back, the other person will be unhappy.
Of course, there are also situations where one really wants to return the money, so it is inevitable to go back and forth a few times before you can test the other party's true thoughts. In short, at such moments, what you say does not count.
Between giving gifts and making excuses, the scene was like a fight.
After leaving the old lady's house, Nan Yi told Nan Ruojin the story of false politeness. As he was talking, the school beauty came up to him and whispered in Nan Yi's ear: "Sudden death from heart failure."
"Um."
Nan Yi responded and continued to whisper to Nan Ruojin.
Walking through the alleys and exiting the willow lanes, they took a ride back to West Lake. Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin to Huagang Park to see the shell carving exhibition.
When Nan Yi and Nan Ruojin were standing in front of a hollow shell carving of phoenixes and flowers, admiring it, a very naughty voice sounded behind them, "Old Nan, you are quite good at pretending. This is art. Do you understand it?"
"My Nan family has produced many talented people, including the Emperor of Poetry, the Immortal of Painting, and..."
"Yes, yes, yes. Nan Bai, Nan Fu, and Nan Bohu are all from your Nan family. Several decades ago, there was also a Nan Lianying."
"Crazy, not bad. You are good at squeezing people out. You deserve to have trained in Moscow." Nan Yi turned around, patted Chen Feng on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Don't shoot blindly. Do you know how many stars are on my shoulders?"
"Oh, it has a star, then you have to help your nephew, it's a pity that he only has a plain red, no star, and no bar in the middle."
"Forget it, I won't talk nonsense with you. I'm here with my friends." Chen Feng slapped away Nan Yi's hand that was deliberately placed on his shoulder and pointed at a person next to him. "Ma Qingyang, he comes from a family of folk artists. His father has an old relationship with my old man."
Nan Yi looked at the person Chen Feng pointed at, and confirmed that the other person was the Ma Qingyang he knew, then he stretched out his hand to the other person, "Hello, I'm Nan Yi."
Ma Qingyang stretched out his hand and shook hands with Nan Yi, "Hello, I'm Ma Qingyang."
"You look familiar. I came to West Lake a few years ago and I seemed to see you with two foreigners."
"Which year?" Ma Qingyang asked in surprise.
"1983, I think."
"83, 83, I remember now." Ma Qingyang suddenly realized, "I was entertaining two guests from Australia that day. What a coincidence, it turns out we have met before."
"Yeah, what a coincidence." Nan Yi turned to look at Chen Feng, "What are the arrangements for next?"
"Let's have dinner together. I have to leave early after dinner. I have something else to do during the day tomorrow. I'll come see you in the evening."
"Okay, you decide."
The group left Huagang Park and, led by Chen Feng, turned left and right, walked out of the West Lake Scenic Area, searched for a while, and arrived at the door of a small restaurant.
"Laonan, that's it."
"Okay, that's good."
Chen Feng specially found a small restaurant, and it is conceivable that this meal should be treated by Ma Qingyang.
After entering the restaurant and finding a table, Chen Feng gave the right to order food to Ma Qingyang. Ma Qingyang ordered a few dishes and a few bottles of wine. When the dishes were served, they ate and chatted.
"Not long ago, a robbery and murder case happened in a tailor shop in Xiaoran City, which is under the city. The two people who were robbed were two helpers hired by the tailor shop. I heard that they usually spend money lavishly and their wages are not enough to spend. Seeing that the business in the shop is good, they have evil intentions.
The two men had knives in their hands. The owner of the tailor shop originally wanted to spend money to avoid disaster, but somehow, he was recognized by the two men. The owner of the tailor shop lost control of his emotions and cursed at the two men, asking why they treated him like this when he had never treated them badly.
Because their identities were exposed, the two men were furious and killed the tailor shop owner. They also killed the owner's wife who came over after hearing the noise. The noise was so loud that it woke up the owner's one-year-old child. The two men were really beasts. They were afraid that the crying would attract the attention of the neighbors, so they killed the child as well.
"Has the case been solved?" Nan Yi asked.
Ma Qingyang shook his head, "The murderer hasn't been caught yet."
Chen Feng: "Qingyang, the case hasn't been solved yet, how come you know the crime process so clearly?"
"I just heard it from others, maybe the process is different."
"The current trend is to focus on money. Some people can endure hardships and work hard bit by bit, but some people cannot endure hardships or they just don't have the patience to earn money bit by bit and just want to spend money quickly, which naturally leads them astray.
Last year, an acquaintance of mine was driving home from the airport around the same time. He was murdered on the way. A Crown car and a large amount of cash in the car disappeared, and the body was found in a ditch.
He was not the first to be murdered. In the same area, with a similar method, 16 or 17 people were killed, and the case has not been solved yet."
Some time after the death of Zhang Dongwei, the business manager of Erdong Electronics, as more information came in, Nan Yi was reminded of a movie from his previous life whose memory was a little vague.
It was a rather special "insert" movie, and when he entered the recording studio it was a little late, so he didn't see the beginning, didn't know the title, and most of his attention was on the actress.
I only vaguely remember that the plot should be about a large group of men and women. The women were responsible for stopping cars on the road, and after getting in the car, they seduced the drivers, letting them take the route they wanted, or luring them into a room, and then the men in the gang robbed and killed the drivers.
In the recording room at that time, Nan Yi seemed to have heard words like "witch" and "adapted from a case in Guangdong Province" amid the intensive sound of swallowing saliva. This was somewhat close to his inference when he first heard about Zhang Dongwei's incident.
Nan Yi recalled it later and thought that the reason for his inference might be related to the vague memory of the movie plot in his mind.
Just last month, Nan Yi contacted Chen Yuxiu, hoping to give the police some inspiration or clues. However, before he could open his mouth, Chen Yuxiu informed the police that they had made a major discovery and the case should be solved soon.
Chen Feng took a sip of wine and said indignantly: "Ten years have passed. I think we should launch another crackdown to deal with those unruly people."
"Whether the crackdown will be severe or not will be decided by our superiors, so let's not make any comments." Nan Yi replied, using chopsticks to scrape out a piece of fish from the vinegar fish, shaved off the bones, and put it into Nan Ruojin's bowl.
Ma Qingyang looked at Nan Ruojin's obviously mixed-race face and suddenly said, "Nan Yi, have you been abroad?"
"Lao Nan and I met in New York," said Chen Feng.
"There is a foreign teacher in our school who is from Seattle. He went back to the United States not long ago. After returning, he told me that the United States is building an information superhighway. He said that the Internet can connect the entire United States. Just by typing on the keyboard, you can find everything on the computer. I think this thing is very interesting and may change the world in the future."
"No need to wait for the future. It is changing the world now. In 1984, there was a BBS website called FidoNet abroad. In 1991, a Taiwanese introduced FidoNet to China and built the first station, the Great Wall Station, in Beijing. Now there are several more stations, such as Easy Express, West Point, and EasyBoy, which I built." Nan Yi looked at Ma Qingyang and asked, "Do you know what BBS means?"
Ma Qingyang: “I don’t know.”
"It is the abbreviation of 'Bulletin Board System', which can also be understood as an electronic bulletin board, a bulletin board displayed on a computer. In layman's terms, it puts the conversation on the Internet.
You asked me if I had eaten, I answered yes, then I asked you if you had eaten, and before you answered, a madman jumped out and said he hadn't eaten. In theory, a group of people thousands of miles apart can get together on a BBS to discuss whether they had eaten or not.
Nan Yi's somewhat boring explanation made Ma Qingyang's eyes light up, "So, we can also put the advertisement on the BBS so that people all over the world can see it?"
Nan Yi laughed and said, "In theory, it is possible, but in reality, it is not achievable yet."
"When can it be achieved?" Ma Qingyang asked anxiously.
"It's hard to say. It may take one or two years at the fastest, or three or four years at the slowest. The technology is already capable of doing it. It's just a matter of capital investment." Nan Yi then explained the concepts of servers and networking to Ma Qingyang.
After listening to this, Ma Qingyang asked Nan Yi a few more questions. Nan Yi answered them one by one, satisfying Ma Qingyang 's curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
After eating and drinking, the group separated. Nan Yi and Nan Ruojin returned to the State Guesthouse. Nan Yi played with Nan Ruojin for a while. Then Nan Yi took out a map of Hangzhou and, combining his memory with the field research of the past few days, began to draw circles and crosses on it.
Existing shopping malls such as Hangzhou Building, Jiebai, Baida, Tiangong Art Garden, Supply and Marketing Building, Guoda Department Store, Jingfu Department Store, Gonglian Department Store, Overseas Chinese Department Store, and Xintianlong Department Store are marked out. Intime, Impression City, Vientiane, Longfor, and other shopping malls that have not yet appeared are also marked out. Some office buildings that will appear in a few years are also marked out.
After marking, Nan Yi worked his way back from the results to the causes, pondering why each building appeared in "that location", and trying to figure out the context of Hangzhou's urban development plan.
No matter whether it was Tota Architecture, Chunshen Architecture or Nanchen Architecture, Nan Yi never thought of spreading any of them across the country when he first planned. He only wanted to develop them in a few of the best spots and was not interested in secondary and lower cities at all.
Hangzhou is the area that Chunshen Construction will enter next, and its tentacles will extend to the surrounding Ningbo and Shaoxing. Basically, Chunshen Construction will develop in this area and will not move beyond it.
After pondering for a while, Nan Yi opened his notebook and quickly wrote a proposal for a strategy for Hangzhou. Yes, it was just a suggestion. Although he had a map in his mind, Nan Yi admitted that he did not understand real estate. Compared with Huang Xie, who had been immersed in it for more than ten years, he thought it would be better for him to position himself as a staff member, offering suggestions instead of giving orders blindly.
There are local tyrants everywhere, and there is no need to coordinate and distribute interests. If you want to grab all the good land for yourself, you will only bring about your own destruction. If you don't go to the front line in person, you will never be able to truly experience the swordplay involved.
A tough tone of command like "I don't care what method you use, you must do it" may allow small goals to be achieved one by one, but it will also lay hidden dangers, which will accumulate over time and eventually explode.
Nan Yi's management of the three real estate companies has always been soft. He doesn't want them to rush around . From time to time, he would put himself in their shoes, examining the development of the three companies from the perspectives of superiors, powerful people, local governments, peers, and ordinary people, trying not to cross the line, trying to find a balance among the various interests, and trying to make every step in the right choice.
The next day.
After Nan Yi took Nan Ruojin for some exercise by the West Lake, he took her for a stroll around the Yuquan campus of Sandun Vocational School, the best university in Zhejiang Province. They took photos everywhere at a leisurely pace and had lunch in the international students' cafeteria on campus at noon.
In addition to serving teachers and students, the International Students Canteen also caters to outsiders. Because the dishes are affordable and delicious, it is affectionately called the "International Students Restaurant" and is the main place for people in the surrounding area to improve their meals.
Nan Yi closed his eyes and ordered seven or eight dishes. After eliminating two, his order was complete. It consisted of six dishes and a soup, including meat, vegetarian and semi-meat dishes, plus a large bottle of Sprite. The total cost was 19.5 yuan, which was more affordable than the fly restaurants outside.
Nan Yi sat down with the Sprite in his hand, and Nan Ruojin came over to tear off the plastic label on the bottle. Not satisfied with just tearing it off, she also thought about removing the hard bottom of the Sprite bottle.
Nan Ruojin tried twice to remove the hard bottom support but failed, so she asked Nan Yi for help, "Dad, help me."
Nan Yi took the Sprite bottle and put it aside. "Let's drink it all before we play. The bottle won't stand without a support. Daddy will help you weave it into a flower basket later."
