Of course, Boss Nie would ask, "Where did I lose my things? Where did you find them, Aunt Chang?"
He felt uneasy, because everyone in the Nie family, from his relatives to the servants, seemed to prefer Nie Yao over him. In that instant, he suspected that a servant might be deliberately helping Nie Yao deliver things.
Sister Chang said, "Song found it. He said you put it next to the trash can. You know he has a habit of rummaging through the trash and always picks up all kinds of garbage thrown around at home. Otherwise, he might have really thrown it away."
While others might be said to have secretly communicated with Nie Yao and Nie Zhaoxin, Song Yuanchao is unlikely to have done so.
He took the gift bag and made a phone call to Uncle Ming: "I need all the surveillance footage of Song Zai appearing in the basement over the past three days, Uncle Ming. Send it to my study in half an hour."
He went upstairs with a gloomy expression. Song Yuanchao and Sam, who hadn't accompanied him on the business trip, were waiting to report on their work, but he ignored them and went into his study alone, opening the gifts that Nie Yao had given to Chen Rou one by one.
Upon seeing this, Boss Nie became even more displeased.
There were two custom-made perfumes, but not the orange scent that Nie Yao liked; instead, they were rose scents that Nie Zhao preferred. There was also a set of jewelry from their own brand, Asheng Jewelry, made with Burmese bloodstone and Ceylon blue diamonds. Nie Zhao didn't quite remember Chen Rou's original preferences, but he vaguely remembered that she had a blue diamond necklace that she used to wear often. So all of this was indeed something Chen Rou would like.
She would be very happy to receive it.
He has a lingering headache; getting angry causes him migraines. He pressed his temples and tapped the bell. Song Yuanchao and Sam came in. As usual, he asked in English, "Let's see how Chen Rou deals with the two big shots from Kowloon."
Song Yuanchao's view was more objective, but his English was not good, so Sam had to explain the process.
Boss Nie still looked gloomy, but his mood improved slightly when he heard that his wife had beaten up all the top henchmen of the two big bosses. He then asked Song Yuanchao in Cantonese, "Have you been inquiring about the situation in Kowloon these past two days?"
Song Yuanchao said, "I've inquired. Your father is preparing to contact our chairman and wants to give Mei Li Building to him. Mr. Dong occupies the largest river pond in the New Territories and is also preparing to contact you in the next few days, saying he wants to give the river pond to you."
The river and ponds are worthless; what's valuable is the river sand.
Building construction requires river sand, and imported sand is too expensive. Large real estate developers like Nie's choose to wash sea sand to reduce costs. However, some small real estate developers use sea sand directly to build buildings, often constructing 50 or 60-story high-rises. Those buildings will all collapse within 20 years. Just imagine how valuable a river sand mine must be.
Nie Zhao doesn't need to be tempted, because he has already built a complete sand washing production line.
But Nie Rong would definitely want Meililou.
When the government auctioned the Meili Building, it should have belonged to him. However, Mei Lu must have done something to obstruct things, causing the old man to fall ill and be unable to make the final decision, so the building was auctioned off to Master Er.
Mei Li Building is Han Yuzhu's favorite building and a symbol of old Hong Kong. Nie Rong would definitely be tempted by it.
Of course, neither Melley nor river sand mines are easy to obtain.
Neither Master Er nor Master Dong are stupid. If they really want to recognize relatives and add them to the family tree, they will definitely do a DNA test first.
Nie Zhao really didn't know how his wife was going to resolve the issue between the two old men, but of course, it certainly wouldn't be as he imagined—doing something like tampering with the samples and eliminating the weaker one, creating a survival-of-the-fittest scenario.
She was probably meant to resolve the conflict, something Nie Zhao wasn't really good at, so he could only leave it to her.
The two bodyguards left after reporting what had happened, and Uncle Ming came in carrying videotapes: "There are six tapes in total, and I've marked the times for you."
"Thank you, Uncle Ming, for opening it for me," Nie Zhao said.
Uncle Ming liked Song Yuanchao very much and said with a smile, "Song has a habit of collecting scraps and loves to sew things. He sews quite well. I had a few shirts that were torn and I threw them away. He picked them up, sewed them up, and gave them back to me."
Having grown up in a life of luxury, even Uncle Ming couldn't understand Song Yuanchao's abnormal frugality.
As Nie Zhao was watching, he heard a rolling sound and two barks. He quickly turned off the TV and was about to put the gift away when Chen Rou and Nie Han entered the room.
Nie Han looked at the table full of things and exclaimed, "Wow, Uncle is amazing! Are these gifts from Singapore?"
Then he asked, "Do you have any for me?"
Chen Rou opened the perfume and smelled it: "This should be for you. It smells nice, very fragrant."
"Thank you, Uncle. By the way, Uncle, Xi Niang is going back to the mainland the day after tomorrow. I bet you don't want to go, right? Let me go with Xi Niang. We don't need many bodyguards, just Brother Song is fine," Nie Han said.
Nie Zhao said with a serious face, "You need to go to Singapore tomorrow for some official business. Could you attend for me?"
Nie Han pouted: "Singapore is nowhere near as fun as the mainland. I don't want to go. Besides, I'm still young. I don't need to do things for you."
“It’s your own business. The Singapore company has a 2% stake in you, Miss Nie,” Nie Zhao said.
Nie Han grinned, but still picked up the perfume: "Thank you, Uncle. I really like the perfume."
Feeling embarrassed by her uncle's gaze, she went out and left.
As the saying goes, it's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature. If she hadn't grown up in an orphanage and had to fight to become a strong person, and hadn't been specially recruited because of her father, Chen Rou might have become a ballet dancer.
If she had heard that the gift was from Nie Yao, she would have been disgusted and thrown it away on the spot. But since she thought it was from Nie Zhao, she felt differently. Because she was a soldier and a police officer, she lived an upright life and would only accept gifts from her husband.
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