Volume 7 I've Been Here Chapter 0958 Tenderness and Revenge
The beautiful scene did not last long. The snow in the sky turned into goose feathers. Within two minutes, the umbrella in Nan Yi's hand was deformed by pressure, and the snow on his shoulders was enough to make a snowball.
Behind them, two yellow military cotton jackets were delivered, and Nan Yi and the other man put them on, and the scene instantly transitioned to "Annual Rings". The Lei Feng hats were put on, the earmuffs on both sides were broken off, and the two clumsy blind bears continued to walk forward side by side.
Lifting and putting down, sliding and bumping, just walking like this, laughing heartily.
The next day, Liu Zhen, who had not slept much the night before, put her arm around Nan Yi's hand in high spirits. The two of them shuttled between the shops in Wangfujing, stopping at each counter for a while. They would take out clothes, shoes, watches, jewelry, and try on everything, but they would not buy anything. They became the most annoying customers in the eyes of the tellers.
After spending a whole morning in Wangfujing, Liu Zhen was still not tired of shopping and filled her stomach at a restaurant that fooled out-of-town tourists. Liu Zhen then suggested going to Xidan. She originally wanted to walk there, but Nan Yi persuaded her to change to the bus.
He knew clearly how strong Liu Zhen was. He walked almost ten kilometers in the morning, but that was just for shopping. He had a lot of energy in his body and was in a hurry. Liu Zhen probably couldn't hold on. If he really couldn't, he would be the one to suffer.
The bus was quite empty, with most of the seats still unoccupied. The two walked to a double seat, and Nan Yi asked, "Do you want to sit inside or outside?"
"Sit outside and block the wind for me."
Upon hearing this, Nan Yi took a seat inside first, and then helped Liu Zhen sit down.
As soon as Liu Zhen sat down, she said, "I haven't taken the bus for a long time. I feel a little uncomfortable with the shaking."
"In the future, you should be more down-to-earth and let your happiness be on the same channel as the happiness of ordinary people like us. One is FM and the other is AM. This is not good."
"I'm talking about the city gate tower, and you're talking about the hip axis. Is there still room for conversation?" Liu Zhen said angrily.
"Chat, chat. We have to buy something this afternoon, otherwise we'll have walked dozens of miles in vain."
Liu Zhen said as a matter of course: "You don't have to buy things when you go shopping, just enjoy the sights. No, you haven't prepared clothes for the New Year yet, how about I buy you some?"
"Look, if there's a jacket you like, buy one. If not, forget it. I still have two jackets I haven't worn yet, so they can be used as new clothes for the New Year."
"The two in the closet?"
"Um."
“Too old-fashioned.”
"Do you know how to appreciate it? It cost more than two thousand dollars. It looks quite affordable on me. If you look closely, you can see that I am a clean-handed person."
"Why are you pretending to be a cadre? You are just a parent at most." Liu Zhen spat.
"Parents are also responsible for taking care of their children, right, Deputy Parent Liu?" As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, he saw a naughty kid kicking Liu Zhen in the knee.
Liu Zhen, who was kicked, didn't care. He glanced at the naughty kid and turned to Nan Yi and said, "I am the head of the Liu family, and you are the deputy head of the Nan family."
"Jia Zuo, don't you think it's a bit awkward?"
As Nan Yi spoke, he looked at the naughty kid again. He was a show-off, and when he saw that Liu Zhen didn't say anything, he kicked Liu Zhen again, which was a bit too much.
Liu Zhen dusted off the dust again and still ignored the naughty kid, "Don't complain about the awkwardness... Ouch."
"Whose child is it? Take care of him."
Liu Zhen was kicked for the third time. Nan Yi couldn't help but speak up, and his eyes looked directly at a man in his thirties sitting opposite him. This man was the child's parent.
When the man heard what Nan Yi said, he immediately yelled, "What's wrong? What's wrong? How much strength can a child have? You're still arguing with a child after getting kicked?"
Nan Yi said calmly: "Children are ignorant, I can understand that, but you are an adult, and you don't understand either?"
"You are so petty. Your wife is so precious, why take the bus? Take a taxi. There are taxis everywhere on the street. Just wave your hand and they will stop." The man scolded Nan Yi without hesitation, and then said to his son, "Son, be careful, don't fall."
Nan Yi patted Liu Zhen's hand, stopped entangled with the man, turned his head to look out the window, and put his hand into his trouser pocket.
Liu Zhen held Nan Yi's hand tightly without saying anything.
After getting off the bus at Xidan, the two put aside what had just happened and continued to shop wholeheartedly.
At the same time, in Feilong Internet Cafe, Liu Daqiang and two others were discussing the issue of shares.
After Liu Daqiang went back yesterday, he thought about it almost all night and finally decided to split it in half, taking 12,500 in cash and the rest converted into 7.5% of the shares.
He evaluated the time spent by Wu Xiaoxiong and Tang Laidie. They both had to look after the store. Even if they could sit at the computer and work for a while in their free time, their efficiency would probably not be high.
But he is different. His job is to be responsible for computer maintenance. When the computer is not broken, except for eating and sleeping, he can use all his time to develop software and calculate contribution value. It is not excessive for him to take half of the remuneration.
Because Liu Daqiang had such an idea, the discussion among the three did not go smoothly, and they could not reach a consensus on how to divide the profits and how to divide the cash and shares.
While Tang Lai Di was going back to the store to settle the bill, Liu Daqiang said to Wu Xiaoxiong, "Xiaoxiong, we are all men, we should not be too short-sighted. There is not much difference between having 6,250 and 12,500 in your family. It is worth taking out 6,250 to make a bet."
"Da Qiang, I don't have as much time as you do, but my efficiency is not lower than yours, and my contribution is definitely not lower than yours."
"We'll talk about the size of the contribution later. I just think I can get half according to the evaluation. The exact amount can only be calculated after the software is completed. Let's discuss the issue of shares first. If you think you should get more, then you can send more money home. We are all from the countryside. You understand, and I understand too. There is really no difference between a few thousand yuan and more than ten thousand yuan. What can be done with more than ten thousand yuan, can also be done with a few thousand yuan."
After thinking about what Liu Daqiang said, Wu Xiaoxiong felt that it made some sense. As long as he had seven or eight thousand, his family could not only pay off their debts, but also build three rammed earth houses. No matter how much money his parents had, they would not be willing to spend it, so he might as well take a gamble.
"I agree to half in cash and half in shares."
"Okay, let's convince Tang Lai Di together." Liu Daqiang said happily.
In front of a public toilet converted from a bus, Nan Yi was waiting for Liu Zhen who was going to relieve herself, and the tiger cub who had just left came back.
"I've got it."
"Tell Huang San'er tonight to find a few good cars, preferably Benz, and park them outside his house. That naughty kid is a playboy. He can do such things as scratching the car and breaking the logo. His father is awesome. Pay tens of thousands of dollars and see if his family will go back to the days before liberation."
"Nansheng, this is too costly. You can actually have someone follow the kid and give him a little reward whenever he does something bad. Snacks, drinks, or cash will do. After a few times, the kid will learn that there are rewards for doing bad things. When the time is right, the people can be removed."
Nan Yi smiled faintly, "Tiger cub, I've thought of your idea. According to what you said, the naughty child will become a time bomb, which may not only blow up his parents, but also easily hurt innocent people. I don't have an antisocial personality, so this method that is too cruel and uncontrollable is not advisable.
A naughty child is also a child. I, as an adult, cannot argue with a child. If a child is not well educated, it is the fault of the father. If a child makes a mistake, of course he should be asked to look for his guardian. My wife is precious. I would rather owe her a favor and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just to see others pay tens of thousands of dollars. "
"What if the other party is a rogue and refuses to pay?"
"A slum or a building?"
"A big compound."
"The slum is easy to deal with. Spend a few hundred thousand more and buy three houses in the slum. One room will be for an elderly person with tuberculosis to live in. It would be best if the patient is terminally ill. He can eat and drink well in the slum and wait for death. I will take care of his food, drink, defecation, urination and burial.
One room is for a pair of star-crossed lovers with AIDS to live in. They can make love to each other every day as if every day were their last. This is very suitable for them. The remaining room is named the Self-Rehabilitation House, which is a temporary place for human traffickers and rapists who have been released from prison.
If you play Sanqing with me, I am the founder of Sanqing. If you make me angry, I will make the slums hold funerals every day, and no one can find fault with it. "
Nan Yi said something hateful, then waved his hand, "Forget it, these are all unpresentable means, just to satisfy your desire for words. In a society ruled by law, if someone is a rogue, you should resort to the law. If he refuses to pay, let the lawyer go to the court a few more times and ask the court to enforce the debt. Damn it, if my wife is not precious, who is?"
Hearing the sound of the bus door, Nan Yi smoothed out the distortion on his face, scooped up a handful of spring breeze and blew it on his face. He picked up the bag in his hand, made a small circle, and greeted Liu Zhen, "Why did you take so long?"
"You're wearing too many clothes. You can't squat down until you take them off." Liu Zhen shook her hands, reached into Nan Yi's clothes, and placed them on her stomach, "Let me warm you up."
"Where are we going?"
"Let's go to Quanyechang. Aren't the clothes there considered trendy? Let's see what's popular."
"You can tell what's popular by looking at what people are wearing on the street." Nan Yi pointed to two women with dyed blonde hair walking together not far away and said, "Look, the Golden Lion King, wearing a leather jacket with a fur collar, tight leather pants with the trouser legs rolled up five centimeters, and high-top leather boots with soles six or seven centimeters high. At first glance, she is dressed like a big city girl."
"Does it look good wearing this?" Liu Zhen asked suspiciously.
"I think it's quite rustic, but many people think it's beautiful."
In 1995, it was already popular to roll up trouser legs, and to wear cropped or cropped trousers with mid-cut leather boots. More and more women were dyeing their hair, but not many men did so, mainly because people with dyed hair were easily classified as bald and became the focus of police inspections, and their identity cards were used very frequently.
"I don't think it looks good, and the leggings are ugly too. What were you thinking back then when you introduced it in?" Liu Zhen pouted.
"You have a problem with your taste. Legwears are so pretty."
"What's so good about it? It's too picky about body shape. It won't look good on ordinary people."
"Look at what you said. Clothes are of course for 'hangers' to look good on. If you don't have a good figure, just try to cover your body. Forget about looking good. If you keep getting more belly fat, clothes will only cover your body."
"Okay, Mr. Nan, you dislike me, don't you?"
"Let go, don't be unreasonable."
Nan Yi and the other man made a fuss for a while, then went to the Quanyechang.
Pudong.
The office of Hongdou Retail Strategy is very busy. After more than a year of development, Nanguo Retail, Yizhandeng Convenience Store and Yun Supermarket have all grown to a certain scale. At the same time, the US$10 million injected by Nan's headquarters has also been used up.
Today is the day when three companies are transformed into joint-stock companies. Representatives of various shareholders came to Pudong to attend the first enlarged shareholders' meeting. The participating shareholder representatives came from Nan Guo Bank, Yi Retail, Shennong Nanliang, Fang Group, Creativity Real Estate, Sophie Investment Holdings, Milu, Jingxi E-Commerce, Akesa Vegetable Company, domestic Master Fan, Complete Primary School Group, Kenzhi Cold Chain, Driver Back to Back, Nanchen Construction, and Russia's Kuafu Express.
The main issue discussed at the enlarged shareholders' meeting was not the shareholding issue. How much capital the shareholders would contribute and how many shares they would hold had already been determined. A total of US$200 million was raised this time. Bank of Nan Guo and First Retail each accounted for US$35 million, Shennong Nanliang US$30 million, Fang's Group and Creativity Real Estate each US$20 million. This is already US$140 million. The remaining companies only need to raise US$60 million.
In terms of share distribution, Nan Guo Retail and Yizhandeng Convenience Store are foreign-funded enterprises, while Yun Supermarket is a domestically controlled joint venture. 60% of the shares belong to domestic enterprises, of which 30% were given to Master Fan and 10% to Wanxiao Group. The remaining shares are equally divided among domestic shareholders.
This is on the surface. In fact, the shares between each shareholder will be adjusted. All shareholders are shareholders of three companies at the same time. Except for domestic shareholders, the shares of other shareholders are held by offshore companies affiliated with the shareholders, and cross-holdings are made between the offshore companies to ensure that the shareholding of each shareholder reaches the correct number.
Simply put, dividends are not distributed based on the apparent shareholdings of shareholders, but rather based on the "real shares" in private, leaving a foreshadowing for future changes in corporate attributes.
Master Fan and Akesa are both shareholders, and Fan Hongdou is the provisional supervisor of Nan’s Chinese assets, so naturally she has to come in person.
After attending the enlarged shareholders' meeting, Fan Hongdou immediately flew to Shencun. She had only taken a week's leave from school, so she had to hurry back home and inspect the property.
In order to welcome Fan Hongdou, Xu Xiaofang did not go to the restaurant today. She started preparing delicious food early in the morning. Since her eldest daughter had no holiday for the New Year, she simply celebrated a small New Year in advance and had a reunion dinner with her eldest daughter.
According to the rules in Xu Xiaofang's hometown, there is no such thing as a New Year's Eve dinner. Dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve, and a sumptuous meal at noon is considered good. But Fan Hongdou was late, so she had no choice but to change lunch into dinner.
In the kitchen, Xu Xiaofang was mixing jellyfish with shredded cabbage, her eyes moist. Although Fan Hongdou followed Nan Yi when she was a child, she had been with him for several years, and they could see each other every year, so she didn't miss him that much.
On the contrary, her son Fan Qianye has not been home for many years. She can only contact him by phone or letter. She can neither call him back nor write him letters. No matter how bad her son is, he is still a piece of her flesh and blood. How could Xu Xiaofang not miss him?
Missing her son, the moisture in Xu Xiaofang's eyes condensed into tears and rolled down.
Wiping away her tears, Xu Xiaofang took out a rolling pin from the shelf, picked up a piece of dough on the chopping board, and rolled the dough into a thin round shape with a crunching sound.
Fan Hongdou opened the door of her house and walked into the house dragging her suitcase. The first thing she saw was Zuo Can sitting on the sofa smoking, Zuo Lan sitting in front of the piano playing "Red Dust", and Zuo Mei dancing beside them.
Zuo Mei, who was spinning around, saw Fan Hongdou first. She said something to Zuo Lan, and the two sisters rushed towards Fan Hongdou.
"Big sister."
"Are you guys good at home?"
The three sisters soon became close to each other. The twin sisters asked all kinds of questions, and Fan Hongdou answered them patiently.
Zuo Can put out his cigarette in the ashtray and looked at the three girls tenderly; Xu Xiaofang came out of the kitchen after hearing the noise, wiping her hands on her apron repeatedly, her eyes following Fan Hongdou's face closely.
After the three sisters had been intimate enough, Fan Hongdou took time off to greet her mother and Uncle Zuo.
Having expressed her longing for Xu Xiaofang enough, Fan Hongdou went into the kitchen to help her. The mother and daughter's hands kept moving and their lips moved up and down.
"Are you used to being in America?"
Xu Xiaofang asked a question that she had asked countless times.
"Mom, in the United States, just like at home, I can eat soy milk, fried dough sticks, and pancakes. There is a restaurant in Flushing that makes delicious nine-turn large intestines. I go there two or three times a month.
My godfather and I also have a vegetable business, and we have a large vegetable patch in the countryside of New York. Every week I pick some vegetables and keep them at home. Sometimes when I’m not busy, I cook for myself and make whatever I want.
There are people from all over the world in the school, and most of the classmates are very nice..."
Xu Xiaofang listened kindly as her eldest daughter talked about her life in the United States, which she had mentioned more than once.
After Fan Hongdou finished talking about herself, she spoke of Fan Qianye in a telepathic way, "Mom, my brother lives very well in Melbourne. Godfather bought him a big house in the city center and he has a nanny to take care of his daily life. Since the year before last, I have transferred 50,000 US dollars to my brother every month, so he will not lack money to spend."
"50,000 dollars?" Xu Xiaofang was surprised and asked, "Why didn't you tell mom? You little brat, you felt so comfortable using your sister's money without even telling me."
In fact, Xu Xiaofang knew that Nan Yi didn't like Fan Qianye, but she didn't treat him badly. Moreover, she also gave money to Fan Qianye, from one or two thousand in the beginning to four or five thousand later, and she never stopped. She never worried that Fan Qianye would be short of money.
But now that she heard that Fan Hongdou had also transferred money, and it was a huge amount of $50,000, she began to worry. Fan Qianye did not tell her about this, and the amount of money was too much. She was very worried that her son would learn bad things.
"Mom, it's okay. I've already started making money..."
"Mom never worries about you lacking money. Even if you have money, you shouldn't give your brother so much." Xu Xiaofang complained.
"Mom, my brother won't spend the money recklessly. He will save it for future business." Fan Hongdou said against her will.
In fact, Fan Hongdou knew very well what Fan Qianye's current situation was. She once sent people to Melbourne to investigate. Fan Qianye studied in the best school in Melbourne, but he hung out with a group of typical second-generation rich people all day long. He drove a sports car and spent all day drinking and partying outside. He changed girlfriends as fast as he changed clothes, and spent money like water, spending more than $100,000 a month.
Putting herself in his shoes, Fan Hongdou felt that her godfather was very good to her brother. She hated her brother for not living up to his expectations. He had a good educational environment but did not study hard and just messed around.
Fan Hongdou's words did not comfort Xu Xiaofang. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. "No, tell mom how to go about the procedures for going abroad. I want to go see your brother after the New Year."
"Mom, you can't speak foreign languages, so it's inconvenient for you to go abroad. You should call your brother back."
Xu Xiaofang said as a matter of course: "Mom can't speak foreign languages, can't you arrange someone for Mom to go with me?"
Seeing Xu Xiaofang was so determined, Fan Hongdou could not persuade her and could only agree: "I'll ask someone to help mom with the formalities."
"Hurry up, I'll go after the first month of the lunar year."
"I know."
Fan Hongdou agreed verbally, but in her heart she had already thought about notifying Fan Qianye in advance and asking him to act like a good boy for a few days. At the same time, she was also thinking about sending someone to Melbourne to protect Xu Xiaofang's safety.
After the reunion dinner, Fan Hongdou made an excuse to go out for a walk and called Nan Yi again.
Nan Yi and Liu Zhen were tired from shopping, so they found a newly opened Yunnan restaurant in Fuxue Hutong. They ordered the restaurant's signature dish, sour bamboo shoots and chicken with a serving of white rice noodles, as well as a small pot of rice noodles, roasted cucumber, and stir-fried meat with pickled vegetables. They were eating with gusto when Fan Hongdou called.
"Anko, what's going on?"
"Godfather, my mother is going to Melbourne to see my brother."
"Oh, this is just a small matter. I believe you are capable of handling it. There is no need to transfer people from outside. There are people in Australia. You can contact Johnny and he will help you arrange it."
"Well, thank you, godfather."
"You're welcome. When do you plan to leave?"
"I only took a week off and will be flying the night after tomorrow."
"Oh, you two little girls, prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner for yourselves, don't deal with it."
"I know. Ruoyin and I will definitely have a good New Year."
"Okay, I'm hanging up."
As soon as Nan Yi hung up the phone, Liu Zhen asked, "What happened to Hongdou?"
"It's not her, it's Fan Qianye's business."
"He, I haven't heard you talk about him for many years. How is he now?"
"It's better than I expected. He's become a playboy. He doesn't take drugs and hasn't gotten into any serious trouble. It doesn't matter if I spend a little more money. For Hongdou, it's worth it."
Liu Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Fan Qianye is already 20 years old, right? Do you still want to keep him?"
"That's about it. Let Hongdou take over from now on. Wanku is also good. If Fan Qianye becomes more ambitious and ambitious in the future, it's hard to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. But spending some money is the easiest way."
"Are you afraid that he might plot against Hongdou?"
Nan Yi smiled contemptuously, "It would be better if Fan Qianye really wanted to be a villain. He is definitely not a match for Hongdou. I am afraid that he is too ambitious and wants to start a business on his own. That would be a bottomless pit, and Hongdou may not be able to fill it even if she sacrifices herself."
"Tsk, boy-girl twins, how can Fan Qianye be any worse than Hongdou? It's just that you prefer girls and are prejudiced against him."
"It's not that I have any prejudice, but the risk of training Fan Qianye was too great. He's not my son, so there's no need for me to take that risk. You know me, I don't have a tendency to be masochistic. I will never make it more difficult for myself if I can get something easily. I don't think the snow water on Mount Everest is sweeter than the snow water halfway up the mountain."
"I don't care about the sense of accomplishment."
"No, no, no, I should say that my perception of a sense of achievement has not been distorted. As a farmer, I have never been proud of the agricultural taxes and miscellaneous levies I paid. I only calculated the remaining grain and whether I could spare some to sell outside the plan, in exchange for something other than IOUs, but something to pay my children's tuition and buy some cloth to make new clothes for them at the end of the year.
If I can not only make enough money, but also have some extra to feed my children meat three or five times a month, so that they don’t have to eat three or four bowls of rice because of lack of oil and water, then I will have a full sense of accomplishment and be able to tell myself that I am a good father. "
"Nan Yi, this is not good. Your awareness is too low. Don't just care about your own pots and pans. You need to have a bigger picture. Not only should you take care of your own little piece of land and not cause trouble for the country, but you should also look at the world and help our class brothers."
"Yes, yes, yes. I've been with you for a long time. I've been influenced by you and my perspective has improved a lot. Now I look at problems from the perspective of the Milky Way. I view conflicts between small galaxies as conflicts within the Milky Way. The conflicts between small units on a small Earth in the solar system are even more so. In my eyes, they are not as important as two ants fighting over a fly corpse. They are not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
Nan Yi looked at Liu Zhen and said with a smile: "Deputy Manager Liu, please continue to push me in the future. I will strive to raise my starting point of looking at problems to the universe within ten years. Before, for the sake of the Milky Way, I was willing to self-destruct on behalf of the Earth. In the future, for the sake of the universe, I will ignite the Milky Way, burn myself to illuminate other systems, and sacrifice small systems for the greater universe."
"Nan Yi, you must be doing this on purpose. You either sink to the bottom or rise to nothingness. Your perspective on things is not realistic at all. Sometimes, I feel that you have a naive side, which is completely different from your usual shrewdness."
"Haha, I like the word naive you mentioned. Whenever I am naive, I look at the world from outside the Three Realms. Whenever I am smart, I live in this dirty world of interests, using the simplest ideas of pros and cons to consider how to meet the interests of the vested interests, so that I can share a little of the benefits that belong to me and squeeze into the ranks of the vested interests myself."
Liu Zhen put a piece of chicken on Nan Yi's plate and interrupted him to continue, "Stop being crazy and eat your food."
"You eat too."
Nan Yi also put some dishes on Liu Zhen's plate, and the two ended their not-so-pleasant topic.
On that day, Nan Yi called Feilong Internet Cafe. Tang Laidie answered the phone and asked them whether the three of them had already discussed it. After getting a positive reply, he informed the other party that someone would come to them to sign a contract tomorrow and they would start working after signing the contract. He would go to the store again in a few days.
The next day, Nan Yi flew to Xiangkeng again, not only to accompany his daughter, but also to represent grandmother Fang Mengyin and visit several Xiangkeng families with whom he was on good terms. The older generation was old and the new generation was in power. Fang Mengyin's generation was too high and it was not convenient for her to show up, so it would be more appropriate for Nan Yi to show up.
On the day of the year-end party, Nan Yi took the souvenirs and drove to the Wu family with Nan Ruoyin who had rushed over .
