Mixed in 1980

Chapter 169: Bonus of the Times
"The Awakening" was completed last year, and the third part of "The Matrix" was also completed in April. It was then handed over to Zheng Yana to translate into English.

October is coming soon. Chen Fan makes a living from writing, so he will naturally not stop. He has already finished writing "Chen Fan Sees the World" during this period, and the manuscripts for the last three issues have been submitted. Once all of them are published, the column will officially end.

The food in my stomach has been emptied, and there is nothing new to write.

When I talked about this with Wang Wei before, he expressed some regret. The column "Chen Fan Sees the World" has too many regular readers and is the magazine's flagship column.

Wang Wei was really reluctant to finish it, but he also expressed his understanding. After all, Chen Fan is only one person and it is impossible for him to produce new content endlessly. The column is not a novel and can be fictionalized.

Moreover, the last three issues are the highlight, which can be regarded as an explanation to the readers.

These three episodes are all about the United States, which can be regarded as a response to the American dream. Having heard too much praise about the United States in his previous life, Chen Fan still feels uncomfortable in this life.

Just right for a close-up!

Otherwise, a few years later, someone will still be talking to you about the same thing from your previous life, and keep bragging about it in your ears. What the hell?

As for the new book, it has also been completed. Asking Qiu Wenxin to wait for a moment, Chen Fan went back to the room and took out a file bag: "There is only a simplified version. Take it back and find a translator."

There were four words written on the file bag: The Hunger Games, and below the Chinese characters there was a line of English letters: The Hunger Games!

Qiu Wenxin took the book and took a look at it. She was stunned for a moment. It was hard to imagine the content of the book from the title. A game about hunger?
Qiu Wenxin didn't dare to ask and planned to read it carefully after returning. In order to keep up with her new boss's thinking, she even learned simplified Chinese and Beijing dialect, but her accent was strange.

Chen Fan only said one sentence: "There is no need to rush to release The Hunger Games. Wait until the American publisher completes the acquisition before releasing it ourselves."

Qiu Wenxin quickly agreed. This was how it should be.

We don’t have our own distribution channels overseas, we just sell copyrights, and the bulk of the profits are taken by others.

Now that "The Matrix" trilogy has been released and is selling well in the European and American markets, the pen name "chen-fan" is extremely famous in Europe and the United States. He can publish the new book by himself and make the lion's share of the profits himself.

"Anything else?"

Qiu Wenxin shook her head, and Chen Fan said, "It's okay. Let's go eat first. Give me the car keys and I'll drive."

Qiu Wenxin quickly handed over the car keys, but she didn't dare to drive herself. People in the mainland drive on the right, but in Hong Kong she was used to driving on the left.

That is to say, there are not many cars on the roads in the mainland, otherwise she would doubt whether she could drive the car here safely.

Is it Mr. Chen who drives?

Qiu Wenxin was very skeptical. Since private purchase of cars was not allowed in the mainland, Chen Fan should not have the opportunity to come into contact with cars, right?

Thinking of this, Qiu Wenxin felt a little weak in the knees.

The boss and his wife were already in the car, so how could I not get in? Qiu Wenxin gritted her teeth and had no choice but to risk her life to accompany the boss, opened the car door and got in quickly.

Only when the car was running normally did Qiu Wenxin secretly breathe a sigh of relief. The boss's skills were still very good and there were no problems along the way.

After having a meal of roast duck at Quanjude, Chen Fan first sent Qiu Wenxin back to the Friendship Hotel, and then drove back home. When he told Guan Yuemei about it when he got home, she rolled her eyes and said nothing.

Just buy a car.

If she could spend 250 million to buy a pile of rocks, she wouldn't find it strange even if she bought a boat, let alone a car.

If young people can make money, let them do it.

Chen Min, on the other hand, was very interested in the car: "Give me the keys, I'll go for a spin."

Chen Fan was surprised: "Can you drive?"

Chen Min said disdainfully: "When your sister was in the Production and Construction Corps, she was awarded the title of Production Model Worker. She even drove a tractor in the Corps, but she couldn't even drive a car."

Chen Fan said unhappily, "You'd better take a rest. How can a tractor be the same as a car? Aren't you afraid of running over someone? Will you pay them money or their life?"

"They all have four wheels, but they are all different."

"Don't be so clever. A tractor is as fast as a turtle. How can it be as fast as a car? I'll teach you later and buy you a car to drive at home."

"Okay then!" Chen Min nodded.

Guan Yuemei listened on the side, the corners of her mouth twitching. She really wanted to scold her son and daughter one by one, but she held back. The children were all grown up, so she should just let them be.

Don't restrict children with your own ideas.

Everything is fine at home now. Maybe I should say the same thing to my son: "You have suffered enough since you were a child. Now you should relax, take good care of your health, and live a few more years of good life.

Just as I was thinking this, I heard Chen Fan asking, "Where's Xiao Yi'er? She's been in the room for a while, why can't I see her?"

"He's standing in the room as punishment." Guan Yuemei gritted her teeth.

Just when I was thinking about relaxing my mind, something bad happened: "I shouldn't have let this girl go to school. She's acting like a crazy person and has become a bully in the kindergarten."

"Did someone hit someone?" Chen Fan asked cautiously.

"Your sister is very capable. She beat two boys at the kindergarten by herself. She scratched one of them so hard that his face bled, and pulled out a bunch of the other's hair." Guan Yuemei said angrily.

"Is Xiaoyi okay?"

As he spoke, Chen Fan had already run to his sister's room. Guan Yuemei was so angry that she laughed out loud. This brother is too protective of his sister. It's your sister who is beating others, not being beaten.

This is good. As the only male in the family, you need to be strong and protective so that when something happens to your sisters in the future, there will be someone to stand up for them.

When Chen Fan entered the room, the little girl was facing the wall, standing straight, pouting her lips, with a look that said "I don't accept it".

When the little girl saw Chen Fan coming in, her eyes turned red and her mouth drooped. Chen Fan smiled. This girl was a master of face changing and her expression could be changed instantly.

But she still picked up the little girl with heartache: "Little rascal, I heard from mom that you beat someone up at school? Are you hurt?"

Chen Yi pouted: "I didn't even lose the fight, but when I got home I was beaten by my mom. Brother, can you give me more money? I will buy a new wife for my dad."

puff...

Chen Fan couldn't help laughing: "You are just being stubborn in front of me. If you have the guts, go talk to our mom."

"Telling mom, wouldn't that be asking for trouble?" Chen Yi rolled his eyes.

Buy the person first, and the matter will be settled. My brother can marry two sisters-in-law, so why can't my father marry two mothers? When my biological mother is not good, I will find a stepmother.

"You also know that you will be beaten?"

Chen Fan rubbed the little girl's head lovingly and carried her out of the house: "Take Xiaoxi out to play, and keep an eye on her."

After looking at his mother cautiously and seeing that she had no objection, Chen Yi smiled and took his little niece to play in the yard.

Guan Yuemei smiled and shook her head, then asked her son, "During the National Day holiday, why don't you go to Hong Kong to visit Ali and Yuanyuan?"

Chen Fan said with a smile: "They have only been in Hong Kong for a few days, and you miss your daughter already? How about I take you to Hong Kong for a tour sometime?"

"How can I not miss you? You threw two little girls out here. I don't know what you were thinking. The house has become a lot quieter."

"..." Chen Fan was disappointed and did not dare to refute.

Regarding this matter, Chen Fan could only make more trips to Hong Kong. Zeng Ali and Zhao Yuanyuan would also come back once every half a month, so they would have a lot of time together.

By the end of the year, Zeng Ali had completely established his foothold in Feixing Clothing, and with the authorization of Li Hongying, he truly began to perform the duties of assistant to the chairman.

Assistant to the chairman is at the vice president level.

At times, they even represent the chairman of the board, and their authority is even higher than that of the general manager, making them true executives of a company.

Zhao Yuanyuan came in with a pile of documents, closed the door, and playfully walked up to Zeng Ali, pinching her face: "Sister, smile." "We are at work, pay attention."

"You don't have to have a sullen face at work all day. You don't know that people in the company have given you a nickname, Iceberg Beauty." Zhao Yuanyuan complained.

Zeng Ali: Haha, he didn’t care at all.

Zhao Yuanyuan shook her head and made her a cup of tea: "You are just too tense. It's really unnecessary. We are making rapid progress. We just need to follow the routine."

Zeng Ali also agrees with this.

From the Kyoto University club to the restructuring of the publishing house, the two have already acquired certain management capabilities.

After entering Feixing Clothing, Li Hongying gave the two a lot of authority. No matter what they wanted to learn, there was always someone to teach them, so they naturally made rapid progress.

If they started from the grassroots level, it might take several years for them to grow to the current stage. It can only be said that their starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people.

But it will take more time to fully understand the entire industry.

"I don't have the time to follow the routine. The business plan that Chen Fan sent me a few days ago will be launched in a few months. If I don't learn more now, how can I make the project a success in the future?"

"Don't you think that plan is very fanciful?" Zhao Yuanyuan couldn't help but curl her lips when she thought of the contents of the plan.

Saying that your imagination is unrestrained is just a compliment to you.

If Chen Fan wasn't her brother and brother-in-law, she would have said it directly. It was a scam, a bad idea that only an old lady could come up with.

The whole plan reveals just one word: pit!

Chen Fan was very confident when he caught the rich and cheated them to death: "To create a luxury brand with conscience, we must remember that we don't cheat the poor."

God damn, don’t cheat the poor. Zhao Yuanyuan laughed for several days after hearing this statement, but when she thought about it carefully, it was true.

Zeng Ali just smiled at this and said, "Just let your imagination run wild. Have you ever seen Chen Fan do something honestly? Being able to make things come to life is a real talent."

Zhao Yuanyuan laughed and said unconvincedly: "You are a lover who sees beauty in everything. Even if he took off all his clothes and walked around the street, you would think it was performance art."

"Fuck you, get to work!"

Zeng Ali rolled his eyes and drove everyone out before starting to work. He was busy for several days in a row. It was almost the Spring Festival, so he called Zhao Yuanyuan to pack their luggage and go home for the New Year.

Zhao Yuanyuan is still the lazy Zhao Yuanyuan.

When she was called for help, she would just give orders from the side, which made Zeng Ali so angry that she slapped her several times: "Can't you use your hands? I really spoil you."

Zhao Yuanyuan nodded: "I am a little waste!"

Zeng Ali was so angry that she laughed, but there was nothing she could do. She just thought about the two years when the little girl went to the countryside, and how much Qiu'er must have worried about her.

"I'll have to prepare more dowry for you in the future. Otherwise, no mother-in-law can stand your condition and you'll have to get divorced in three days."

“……” Zhao Yuanyuan gritted her teeth.

It's not that discouraging. I am now "Zhao Xiaofupo Yuanyuan". The salary I earn in one month is equivalent to several years' income of an ordinary person when I return to the mainland.

At worst, I can just hire a few babysitters later.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yuanyuan had an idea: "Sister, after we go back, how about we hire a few nannies for our family?"

"I'll discuss it with my family later. We'll be moving into the new yard soon. It's over 2,000 square meters, so we'll need to hire someone to help pack." Zeng Ali agreed and continued packing.

This time I go back, I have a lot of luggage.

The two of them didn't have much stuff, so they went back every half a month. Chen Fan also came often, and had already sent back the things that needed to be taken home.

The New Year is coming, and the Li family sent a lot of things.

They are all luxury items of extremely high value.

Zeng Ali was too embarrassed to accept it, but Li Hongying smiled and said, "Take the gifts back. They are gifts from your family. Xiaofan knows what they mean."

"Sister Ying, this..."

Zeng Ali was still embarrassed, but Li Hongying said the same thing: "Give the things to Xiaofan later. Don't worry, he won't say anything."

Having said that, Zeng Ali was still confused.

I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence until I boarded the plane and landed in Beijing.

Chen Fan and Xu Jinqiu came to meet them at the airport. Zeng Ali handed the luggage to Chen Fan and said, "The Li family sent a lot of precious gifts. You can take a look at them later."

"Li family?" Chen Fan was slightly stunned.

There is a big difference between the Li family and Sister Ying's family. There has always been a lot of personal interaction between the two sides, but they were all between Li Hongying and Li Hongbing.

Although Chen Fan had met other members of the Li family, they didn't have much interaction.

"It's the Li family. The gifts they sent are all very valuable. Sister Ying said, do you understand what this means? What's going on?" Zeng Ali asked curiously.

Chen Fan pinched the tip of the girl's nose and said lovingly, "It seems that you have been in Hong Kong for so long that your mind has been on the clothing industry and you are not sensitive to other things."

In public, Zeng Ali was not used to such intimacy. She slapped Chen Fan's hand away and said unhappily, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't attack me."

Chen Fan laughed and said, "The Hong Kong property market has collapsed, right?"

Zeng Ali suddenly realized that when Chen Fan was promoting "Awakening Age" before, he predicted that the Hong Kong property market would collapse. Li Hongying stopped the promotion and urgently sold off the property at home.

Now that the property market has really collapsed, it means that Chen Fan has saved most of the Li family's lives: "No wonder the gifts are getting more and more expensive, so should we accept them?"

"Just accept it. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Sister Ying is Sister Ying, and the Li family is the Li family. There is still a difference here."

Chen Fan smiled, picked up his luggage and walked out: "What's the current situation of the Hong Kong real estate market? To what extent has it collapsed?"

Zeng Ali frowned slightly: "I have been busy with work recently and haven't paid much attention, but there are often news reports of people jumping from high-rise buildings, and the number is quite large."

Xu Jinqiu was surprised: "Is it so serious?"

Zhao Yuanyuan took over the conversation and sighed: "It may be more serious than you think. The real estate market collapsed all of a sudden, and the price drop was particularly large. Many people couldn't afford it."

Xu Jinqiu asked: "Can you tell me more about it?"

Zhao Yuanyuan said with lingering fear: "Last year when housing prices were high, it cost 1500 Hong Kong dollars per square foot in Xiangjiang, which is equivalent to 16500 Hong Kong dollars per square meter."

Xu Jinqiu took a deep breath and said, "If we convert it to our money, it would be 3300 yuan per square meter, and a main room in a courtyard house would only cost 2000 yuan."

"That's right. Calculate how much a house costs. It's been less than a month since New Year's Day, and the housing price has dropped by 30%. How much will you lose if you buy a house?"

"This is just the beginning of the decline, and it is estimated that it will continue to fall a lot. Some people take out loans to buy houses, and buy several houses at a time. If they can't repay the loans, they can only jump off the building."

At this point, Zhao Yuanyuan couldn't help but look at Chen Fan: "Do you think there is still hope for the Hong Kong property market?"

Chen Fan was stunned. Save?
"Ups and downs are just a cycle. If you can survive it, you can make a comeback. If you can't survive it, it will just vanish into thin air. For our family, the collapse of the real estate market is a good thing."

"Whether our family can quickly gain a foothold in Hong Kong and gain a foothold depends on whether we can eat enough cakes in this cycle."

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