After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 556 More Sisters, Easier Roads

noon.

Zhou Haoran went to eat Japanese food with Aunt Wan and Sister Yangyang.

This stuff tastes so-so.

It's just that women like it.

Eating is all about the feeling.

"I heard..." Ji Yingyang said with a half-smile, "that you have a new love interest?"

"what?"

Zhou Haoran was stunned for a moment.

Ji Yingyang snorted lightly, "Stop pretending."

Zhou Haoran said: "No."

"Xiao Chen told me everything."

Ji Yingyang glanced at him.

Seeing that her husband had been exposed, Sheng Wenwan didn't want to hurt his pride, so she smiled and said, "Men are all the same, it's normal for them to seek pleasure. Anyway, we have a man in our family, so he won't lose out in this kind of thing."

"Hu Xiaochen said that?" Zhou Haoran knew who she was talking about. He said "Oh" and said, "You mean my colleague at work? That's no new love interest, just someone to play around with."

Sheng Wenwan chuckled and said, "If he doesn't bring it home, then it doesn't count. Men, you know, it's understandable for them to have a little fun outside and relax."

Ji Yingyang said helplessly, "Sister Wan, you spoil him too much."

"He's the head of the family."

Sheng Wenwan pursed her lips, looking completely at ease.

Zhou Haoran said, "Sister Yangyang, you should learn more from Aunt Wan. If you're still so petty after you've moved in, that won't do. You'll have to be punished by the family rules every day. In this respect, you're really not as good as Sister Xiaochen."

"I'm not going to accept your house."

Ji Yingyang's expression darkened slightly.

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "That's not up to you to decide."

Sheng Wenwan also advised, "Yangyang, we should just stay by Master's side and listen to him. Whatever he says, we should do. In the end, a woman still needs to find a reliable man, don't you think?"

Ji Yingyang remained silent.

Zhou Haoran said casually, "Aunt Wan, you don't need to persuade her. When the time is right, she won't have a choice."

Sheng Wenwan smiled slightly, not wanting to embarrass Ji Yingyang too much, so she changed the subject and said with a light laugh, "Master, is Dongfang Lang really that capable now? He can even control such a big company as Lenovo Group?"

"He does have some skill."

Zhou Haoran was genuinely surprised and couldn't figure out how the kid had managed to do it.

"It seems like Lenovo has been threatened."

Ji Yingyang added a sentence.

"A threat?" Zhou Haoran was even more surprised. "What could he possibly threaten?"

Ji Yingyang said, "I'm not too sure about that. You can ask him when you have time. From what I see, he can continue to act as Lenovo's agent for the next year or two, operating in a gray area."

Zhou Haoran analyzed, "Normally, companies would shut down these parallel import agents, as it would damage the distributor system. The fact that Lenovo tolerates this kid's reckless behavior means they must be able to find greater benefits from him."

"It should be." Ji Yingyang nodded slightly, then raised another concern, "I remember you told me before that distributing Lenovo computers was Dongfang Lang's business, just affiliated with a trading company. Now that this business has made so much money, whose money is it?"

Zhou Haoran waved his hand dismissively, "That's all easy to discuss!"

Ji Yingyang said, "This is a large sum of money, more than 7000 million! We still need to handle it carefully! Many business partners who are as close as brothers have fallen out over the distribution of profits after doing business together."

"You're overthinking it!" Zhou Haoran didn't care at all. "He's still in college. What's the point of giving him so much money? If he has money, he'll go astray and ruin countless young girls. Last time he was bragging to me that he'd been with more than thirty girls who were already famous."

"Shameless!"

Ji Yingyang's face turned pale.

Sheng Wenwan responded calmly and asked gently, "Master, what about you?"

“Me?” Zhou Haoran said with a serious face, “I’m different. I’m upright and I don’t easily ruin a young girl’s body. I haven’t even touched that girl Qiao Nuo yet.”

Sheng Wenwan asked curiously, "So, what kind of people do you seek pleasure with outside?"

Zhou Haoran thought for a moment and said, "It's not that serious. There are only two of them, one named He Jin and the other Dong Lan. They are both colleagues at Hongxing TV. One is divorced and the other is in an unhappy marriage."

“A young married woman, of course.” Sheng Wenwan covered her mouth and chuckled. “I knew it.”

Zhou Haoran said sternly, "Don't make wild guesses!"

Seeing that Sheng Wenwan could still flirt with him even in this situation, Ji Yingyang was filled with admiration.

A woman like that deserves to be happy.

We've had lunch.

Ji Yingyang was about to leave to return to the company, but before leaving he said, "I've thought about it a lot, but it's still not a good idea. That money belongs to Dongfang Lang. How about this, give him the company shares. Haoqi Sunshine Trading Company, you and Dongfang Lang will each own half."

Zhou Haoran asked, "And what about you?"

Ji Yingyang tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "I'll work for you!"

“That won’t do. Even between master and apprentice, accounts must be settled clearly. You founded this trading company from scratch.” Zhou Haoran wouldn’t fuss over such a small matter. Whether someone got a little more or a little less, they were all family. “Let’s split it evenly among the three of us!”

"I'll pass..." Ji Yingyang was a little embarrassed. She knew her position as the professional manager of this cheap master. "How about giving me 5% of the shares, just a symbolic amount is enough."

“Even you are mine, so aren’t your shares mine too?” Zhou Haoran waved his hand, disliking this kind of arguing. “Alright, it’s settled then! Tell Dongfang to get the formalities done.”

Hearing his domineering words, Ji Yingyang chose to acquiesce.

on the way back.

I secretly blamed myself!

I feel like I'm greedy for money.

When Zhou Haoran said he wanted to take her in, she was very reluctant. She had accepted the offer to become his apprentice, not to be offered herself up as a concubine. But when he offered her shares and said she was his, she acquiesced. Clearly, she was seduced by the enormous profits.

"Ugh!"

Ji Yingyang sighed softly, feeling as if his life was truly going to be tied to Zhou Haoran's.

On the other side, Zhou Haoran escorted Aunt Wan home.

She recently got her period and wasn't feeling well.

"Master, do you want to take Yangyang?"

Sitting in the passenger seat, Sheng Wenwan asked curiously.

Zhou Haoran nodded. "I'll take it."

Sheng Wenwan said softly, "This girl is quite smart, she'll figure it out."

Zhou Haoran said with an imposing and domineering air, "It's not up to her anymore."

“It’s really nice to have more sisters in the family.” Sheng Wenwan was as gentle as ever, always looking at things from a man’s perspective. “There’s too much utilitarianism in society these days, it’s hard to make a good friend. My best friends now are still my classmates from school.”

"Me too."

Zhou Haoran felt this most deeply.

The people around him now, those with the closest relationships, are mostly those he made before he became successful and was still an ordinary person. Once he becomes wealthy, has status, connections, and power, more and more people will actively seek him out, including He Jin and Dong Lan. These people are less likely to get close to his inner circle.

Sheng Wenwan smiled and said, "That's right. If we have more sisters in our family, then we're all one family, and the most trustworthy friends. This is much better than meeting unreliable new friends in society. Master, I really like it this way. You should bring more sisters back. Having more sisters makes the road easier."

"Sisters..."

Zhou Haoran gave her a meaningful look.

But I was too embarrassed to mention it.

Her older sister, also known as Aunt Nuan, Sheng Wenwen.

Like her, it seems she was also cursed with bad luck in marriage; her husband died less than two years after they got married. For the past six or seven years, she has been living alone, struggling financially.

Fortunately, things have improved recently.

I was transferred to Zhongbo Bookstore.

Housing has also been resolved.

They moved into Zhou Haoran's house.

I just don't know which house I live in...

Zhou Haoran was too embarrassed to be too proactive or have too obvious a purpose, lest Aunt Wan find out.

We need to find a way to move this forward.

……

Ji Yingyang has secured the start-up capital to take over the unfinished building project.

To raise this money, they practically scrambled everything they could.

Then a new problem arises.

The business of unfinished buildings is more efficient and has a shorter cycle than normal real estate projects. Once it gets going, you can usually see a return within six months. Most unfinished buildings are those that are more than halfway done, almost to the top, but run out of money and can't continue.

Those housing developments that were abandoned shortly after they started...

This isn't a "bad ending," it's a "bad beginning."

This is not within the scope of Zhou Haoran's market rescue efforts this time.

The problem is, Zhou Haoran now has to save two markets.

One is the real estate market in the harbor.

One is the Hong Kong government's financial market.

Now that he has scoured the area and used all the money to save the harbor property market, what will the Hong Kong government do?
He organized a grand cultural performance.

The slogans have already been shouted out!
The leaders found out too.

Colleagues in the business community have also heard about it and are hesitating whether to follow Mr. Big and go south to the Hong Kong government to represent justice and take action against international capital!

There's no going back now.

We need to raise more money quickly!

Zhou Haoran had considered whether to sell his Yahoo stock holdings, as it would net him $4200 million, a considerable sum!
Unexpectedly, Qiao Hai came knocking on their door in a hurry.

"Brother, you're here?"

Qiao Nuo opened the door and saw her brother.

Zhou Haoran wanted to stay overnight at his two beautiful female apprentices' place. Unless it was an emergency, he wouldn't have called Qiao Hai, an outsider, over.

"What's the matter? Why are you in such a hurry?"

"A huge business, a super huge business!"

"Oh?" Zhou Haoran, who was short of money, had his eyes light up. "What kind of business?"

Qiao Hai said excitedly, "Our plan was a success!"

Zhou Haoran said, "Explain yourself clearly!"

Qiao Hai laughed and said, "Six months ago, you provided technical support to ICQ. They couldn't afford to pay for it, so they gave you shares instead. Weren't you just waiting for a big American IT company to step in, acquire ICQ, and then cash out those shares?"

"Any news now?"

Zhou Haoran understood and became interested.

Qiao Hai took a deep breath. "It's the tech giant AOL. They want to acquire ICQ! Their first offer is $3 million! Your 7.5% stake is worth $2200 million!"

(End of this chapter)