"Okay," Qi Hua replied. "I'll call first thing in the morning."
Li He nodded and did not speak anymore. He came out of the sauna and returned to the hotel bedroom. Through the glass, he could still hear the hustle and bustle outside. When he opened the window, he found that there were restaurants, foot baths, and karaoke bars everywhere. Parallel to this hotel was a clubhouse.
The decade after the 1990s was full of these things.
When he came out to socialize, there were no two beauties sitting at the table. It was like a luxurious room inlaid with gold and silver. The seafood dishes, and the extravagance of spending money, were all wasted.
To Li He, this seemed absurd, but to many people, it was normal. Sensual pleasures, dogs, and horses were the norm in society!
Everyone worked hard to earn money and was busy with business. Was life going to be settled just like that?
Of course not!
Mature, seductive, or innocent and cute could completely stimulate the bear nature in their bodies!
It would be abnormal if rich people and socialites did not have some flowers and plants outside!
The poor at the bottom of society might scold them, but their hearts were completely out of balance!
It was all because they had no money!
When the poor's conditions became better and they had money, they began to learn from the group of people who got rich first. However, these people who got rich first had already learned to keep a low profile. They took off their gold chains, took off their martens, and raised dogs, read books, and drank tea.
There were even more who did not have time to change their lifestyle. They read books and walked their dogs while taking blood pressure medicine and diabetes medicine.
Li He was too lazy to care about these and slept until dawn.
After breakfast, he continued south. From Xiamen, to Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, Shantou, he went in to see all the big and small factories to get first-hand information.
He shut down all the factories that could be shut down. He resolutely divested those that could be divested. He was merciless. He even removed the leaders of a few joint-venture factories on the spot.
In Chaozhou, Zhang Xianwen personally received Li He and pulled many local private entrepreneurs to accompany him.
These local entrepreneurs were in the same circle as Zhang Xianwen and Xu Guohua. They were no strangers to Li He's deeds. Whether it was out of respect for Zhang Xianwen and the others, or out of admiration for Li He, they treated him to meals every day.
The meal that left the deepest impression on Li He was the night before he left. The person who treated him was a man in his fifties who was dressed very plainly. He was riding a broken motorcycle, wearing a safety helmet, liberation shoes, and a yellowish short-sleeved shirt. His only bright beige pants were his pants, but the knees were still torn.
Everyone sat down, and he took out a wrinkled pack of Double Happiness cigarettes from his shirt pocket. He used his hand, which was filled with black mud, to hand it out. The people who received the cigarettes all stood up one by one, received it with both hands, and solemnly expressed their thanks.
Zhang Xianwen told Li He in private, "His name is Liu Huayu, and he's in the construction industry. Don't judge him by his looks and he doesn't seem to know how to read or write, but he's very capable and rich. He doesn't lack money. His net worth shouldn't be less than 500 million yuan, much more than us. "
"How is he going to order if he doesn't know how to read?" Li He looked at Liu Huayu, who was holding the menu, puzzled.
This was not the Four Seas Restaurant, and there were no pictures on the menu.
"Let's wait and see." Zhang Xianwen did not reveal anything.
Liu Huayu held the menu, called the waiter over, and flipped through the menu non-stop, saying, "This page, this page, and this page, I want them all!"
Li He was stunned!
He could do this?
When the dishes were served like flowing water, Li He deeply felt that he was a fake nouveau riche!
Just based on the imposing manner of these dishes, he could not compare. He had no choice but to accept it!
After a few stops, it was already April when they entered Shenzhen.
Fu Biao welcomed him personally.
"Mr. Li, you've worked hard."
He also changed the way he addressed Li He.
"That's the truth. Halfway through the journey, I even thought of abandoning the car and taking a plane."
The road conditions were not good. The Yongtai-Wenzhou Expressway, Shenhai Expressway, Shanfen Expressway, Xiazhang Expressway, and Hangpu Expressway were nowhere to be seen. Driving on the bumpy secondary roads made people dizzy, and the car had to be repaired several times.
This strengthened Li He's determination to become a first-class heavy truck in China. He did not care about the cost!
When they passed by the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, there was a sea of people, and the road was blocked.
"The Canton Trade Fair just ended a few days ago, and the China Electronic Equipment Corporation took advantage of the flow of people to organize an international electronics exhibition here," Fu Biao explained to Li He.
Li He smiled and said, "Old Yu succeeded."
The Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center was jointly invested by the Golden Deer Group and the Shenzhen Municipal Committee.
The exhibition business of the Golden Deer Group was also separated and established as the Golden Deer Exhibition Company.
Fu Biao had already settled down in Shenzhen, and built a two-story detached bungalow.
"Old Dong, Mr. Qi, don't stand on ceremony. Just treat it as your own home."
"You're alone?" Li He realized something was different. How could a single man keep his house so tidy?
Fu Biao smiled and said, "My wife went to buy groceries."
"When did you get married? Why didn't you inform anyone? "Li He was surprised.
Fu Biao poured a cup of tea and said, "Brother, I'm busy, and you're all so busy. How could I delay you? I didn't inform anyone. I just came back to Beijing to treat my relatives and friends to a meal. It's not a big deal."
"Brother Li, you're here." A short-haired girl came into the living room carrying bags of groceries.
"Where have I seen her before?" Li He felt that he must have seen her somewhere before.
Dong Hao reminded him, "The one who used to cook for Su Ming and Fu Biao."
He was very observant.
"Oh, it's true." Li He teased Fu Biao. "You're the closest to her, aren't you?"
Li He hadn't seen this girl many times. He only knew that she had come to Guangzhou from Foshan to look for relatives. She encountered human traffickers and was rescued by Su Ming and the others. After that, she had been working as a nanny for Su Ming and the others.
He still remembered how she looked the first time he saw her. She was thin and weak, as if a gust of wind could blow her away. She was very shy, unlike now, when she was slim and graceful and knew how to greet people.
"Fate can't stop it. Besides, we've lived under the same roof for ten years. It would be a lie to say that we don't have feelings for each other. Moreover, we know each other very well. It's easy to be together." Fu Biao was not embarrassed at all.
"Not bad. I remember her name is Zeng … something?" Li He still couldn't remember.
"Ceng Ali," Fu Biao added with a smile.
"Good name," Li He praised.
Fu Biao suddenly said sneakily, "Brother, guess who I saw in Shenzhen?"
"Who?" Li He was curious.
"Zhao Mingxia."
"Who's Zhao Mingxia?" Li He felt that he had never heard of this person.
"Don't you have a classmate named Zhou Qing? It's his wife. "
"It's her?" Li He asked again, "Are you sure?"
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