Chapter 177
Father Jiang and Mother Jiang are actually two people with completely opposite personalities. One is extremely impulsive and proactive. He only looks at success in everything and does not consider the consequences of failure. As a subordinate, he is very suitable for expanding territory, but not suitable for being a leader, that is, a decision-maker, because he tends to focus on the head and not the butt.
Jiang's mother is extremely conservative and seeks stability. No matter how great the benefits are to tempt her, she will only grasp the benefits that she can grasp at the moment, and will not do anything unknown or risky. Such a person is very suitable for logistics and finance.
In fact, there is no absolutely mediocre person. It just depends on whether the person uses the right position and stands in the right position.
If there is someone behind them whom they trust, who is the decision maker behind them, they don't need to use their brains, but only need their action, to rush forward and work hard as the hands and feet of the decision maker. Such a partnership can be called perfect, one is desperately extroverted, and the other is absolutely introverted.
However, Dad Jiang now wants to act from the perspective of a decision maker, but Mom Jiang has lost trust in him.
Between the two, it doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong.
After all, not everyone has a God's perspective. Just like when we look back now and recall our previous half of life, how many opportunities to make a fortune did we have, but were limited by our knowledge and experience at the time, and missed again and again? Just like buying Bitcoin, at that time, people on the Internet were laughing at a woman who spent more than one million to buy Bitcoin. Her husband divorced her because of this, and the whole network mocked her, saying that she should be locked up in a mental hospital. Who could have thought that the more than one million Bitcoins would increase hundreds of times in value?
Jiang's mother is like a rein tied to Jiang's father. While Jiang's mother is holding him back, Jiang's father is actually feeling a vague uncertainty in his heart. Although he understands rationally that this is a sure-win business, emotionally, he can't help but have self-doubt about the unknown. Just as Jiang's mother said, they can still make a steady $100,000 a year by selling lunch boxes. What if he can't sell the sand if he takes out a loan to contract the beach?
Between unknown adventure and known stability, he finally chose the known stability. He is no longer a young man in his twenties, full of energy, enthusiasm and confidence in the future. He is in his early forties, has a son and a daughter, and his youngest son needs to build a house. Soon, his two sons will get married and he needs to prepare dowries.
Father and Mother Jiang packed their luggage and took a tricycle from Tanshan to Shuibu Town, then changed buses from Shuibu Town to Jiang Guotai's home in the neighboring city.
He said: "We didn't plan to leave today, and we didn't ask Cathay Pacific to buy train tickets for us in advance. You wait at Cathay Pacific now, and I'll go buy the train tickets."
There were no more tickets for today, so he bought a ticket for the day after tomorrow morning.
Jiang Guotai has been greeting various leaders and partners these days, and by the way, he is trying to finalize the contract for the sand factory.
The issue of river sand contracting in Shahe is currently still in the blind spot of government leaders. No one has seen the value of this area, and many leaders don’t even know that there is such a golden beach here.
Jiang Guotai must contract this stretch of beach before the leaders realize its value.
According to Jiang Ning's suggestion, by signing a 30-year contract with the government and paying a contract fee of 10,000 yuan per year, which increases by 10% each year, these beaches can basically be taken over. One sand factory costs 300,000 yuan, and these beaches belong to three local governments in total, so the total cost is 900,000 yuan.
Even Jiang Guotai himself has run a brick factory over the years and has about this amount of cash in his home. That is, he contracted the construction of a highway, and his wealth only started to become really rich after it was completed.
Jiang Guotai thought of his niece. When she talked about 900,000 yuan, her tone was so calm, as if it was not 900,000 yuan, but just 90 yuan.
Even 90 yuan is not a small amount of money for today's farmers. For some workers, it is even one-third of a month's salary.
Seeing that Jiang Guoping had already bought the ticket, Jiang Guotai sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette for Jiang's father. After Jiang's father waved his hand and said he didn't want to smoke, he lit one for himself and asked Jiang Guoping: "Have you thought it through?"
Jiang Guoping smiled helplessly, "What do you mean by have you thought about it? The tickets have already been bought."
Jiang Guotai originally really wanted his childhood friend to work with him. Now all his energy is focused on the highway project. If Jiang Guoping could go and take care of the sand factory matters, it would naturally be better and he would not be so tired.
There are many people who can get things done, but few people he can trust completely. Jiang's father is exactly the person he can trust completely. As long as he wants, he knows very well how to control Jiang's father, but he just doesn't need to control him.
If possible, he could make Jiang's father obey him.
More importantly, Jiang Dad is still Jiang Ning's father. As long as Jiang Dad is pulled onto his warship, he can call his niece for advice if he has any problems in the future.
He discovered that his eldest niece was no ordinary person and had great ambitions.
For such a big sand factory, since she could bring this up, it must be worth how valuable this sand factory is. But when he wanted to give her shares, she directly rejected the proposal, saying that she and he were not on the same track.
What kind of track doesn’t require dry shares from the sand factory?
Jiang's father, who was present, didn't understand this sentence, but he understood it all at once. The two of them looked at each other and smiled knowingly.
Jiang Guotai immediately felt the great ambition hidden beneath his niece's young appearance.
Moreover, she is already preparing and paving the way for her future ambitions.
Jiang Ning knew very well that Uncle would never treat her unfairly. In her previous life, when she was of no help to him, he had always helped her behind the scenes, not to mention that in this life, she brought him great value.
Although Jiang Guotai had contracted two of the sand factories in his previous life, the price of contracting them now and two years later is very different. There are also many restrictions on the contract period and other aspects. In addition, a lot of money has to be invested to establish connections.
Jiang Guotai did not force it, and said: "Just think it over yourself, it's all fine, but the decision was made by you, so don't blame your brother for not taking you with him."
Father Jiang handed a small bag to Jiang Guotai. Jiang Guotai took it and looked at it. Inside was a pile of money wrapped in newspaper.
"Here is 100,000 yuan. If you need it, take it. If the sand factory makes money, just give me a small share. If it doesn't, don't even mention the share." Father Jiang rubbed his face.
He knew there was a huge opportunity right before his eyes, and he would not give up unless he seized it. But if he really put all his effort into it, he would be afraid.
This money is just kept in the bank and is not needed at the moment. Last year, I spent a total of 60,000 yuan on building a house, and I saved more than 30,000 yuan. Together with this year's earnings, I have saved a total of 120,000 yuan. Of the remaining 20,000 yuan, I have to keep part of it for my son and daughter's tuition and living expenses, and part of it for rent and groceries when they move to Shenzhen.
Twenty thousand yuan is just enough.
One hundred thousand yuan is already a huge sum of money in many families today. Jiang Guotai never expected that his childhood friend, after having such a huge debt, had not only built such a big house for his hometown in just two years, but also saved one hundred thousand yuan. He was indeed surprised, and after thinking about it, he accepted the money.
This amount of money may seem small to him, but it is actually quite a lot. All his money is now in the highway project, and he will not get the next 30% of the payment for this project until the middle of this year. One hundred thousand yuan will account for 10% of the contract fee calculated by Jiang Ning for him.
It can be said to be a timely help.
Of course, the account is not calculated in this way. The invisible investment he had to make in the middle must also be taken into account. Moreover, he did not plan to take the money himself, but to borrow from the bank. However, with this 100,000 yuan, he would have more room to use his connections, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take it. You should work hard outside. There are 360 professions and there are top talents in every profession. We are brothers. I will move faster and you will be more stable."
He patted Jiang's father on the shoulder, stood up and went to the wine cabinet to take out a bottle of ginseng wine he had made.
While pouring wine for Jiang's father, he boasted: "This is made from fine wine. I don't give it to ordinary people. Today, only you can drink my treasure!"
Jiang Guotai has a large wine cellar, which uses large glass bottles to brew various ginseng wines, deer antler wines, tiger penis wines, deer penis wines, etc.
The villagers describe him as a smart and shrewd person since he was a child. When others were still foolishly giving money, he knew to give these "good wines" that were hard to find on the market to the leaders. Even if others saw it, they knew it was just his own wine and not valuable. In fact, they were all made from precious rare and hard-to-buy good wines, and he never gave people any chance to talk about him.
Jiang Ning and his friends did not go to the neighboring city to take the train, but went directly to Wucheng.
At the end of last year, Aunt Jiang's family installed a telephone. When they arrived in Shuibu Town, Aunt Jiang gave her home phone number to Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai, asking them to call home if they had any problems.
In 1995, when you wanted to install a telephone, you had to queue up for more than a month to get the wires, and you might not even get approved. Now you don’t have to queue up anymore. As long as you apply, you can get the wires, and it will be ready in a week at most.
In order to show the importance of having a telephone at home, Aunt Jiang installed the telephone at the head of the bed in her room upstairs, and also installed an extension downstairs. In this way, when a call comes, both upstairs and downstairs can answer it. In the morning, when she is downstairs, she can also call upstairs to wake up the two children to go to school.
Jiang Ning was at Aunt Jiang's house. She called Manager Qian first and asked him if he could help her find a reliable part-time worker to help her clean the villa and turn on the heating.
In the past two years, Jiang Ning's houses in Shanghai were all entrusted to Manager Qian for decoration. Whether it was Jiang Ning's villa, duplex apartment, or large flat, he was the one who decorated them all. The money he earned from Jiang Ning alone was enough for him to pay the down payment for an apartment.
Of course, because he wanted to make a model room and give credit to his decoration team, he used every room he gave Jiang Ning very well, whether it was decoration or materials. He also set up his own decoration company with the two college students he hired at the beginning.
When Manager Qian heard that Jiang Ning wanted to spend 100 yuan to clean the house, he immediately asked Yang Meirong if she was willing to take the job. Now that Yang Meirong came out to work with Manager Qian, of course she was willing to earn the 100 yuan.
Shanghai is considered a big city, and the average monthly salary is only three to five hundred yuan. One hundred yuan is enough for her family's food for ten days.
After solving the problem in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Jiang Ning called Song Peifeng again.
Song Peifeng's family had installed a telephone a long time ago, and there was more than one. One was the work phone in his father's study, and the other was their own home phone.
The phone that rang at the Song family was the home phone. Song Peifeng, who had been reading a book by the light from the balcony, rushed over to answer the call as soon as it rang.
Even though he had received countless such New Year's greetings calls before, he still answered it as soon as possible.
Then he heard a familiar voice: "Hello?"
Jiang Ning's voice was different from anyone he had ever heard. It was very soft, like the sound of someone greeting you face to face, rather than the common 'Hello! Hello! ''s screams, as if he was afraid that the other party couldn't hear him, so he shouted at the top of his voice unconsciously.
But Jiang Ning is different. Her voice is always calm and peaceful, with a smile that makes people feel like spring breeze.
When Song Peifeng heard her voice, he became quiet. It wasn't just a superficial quietness, but a quietness from the soul to the body, just like a cat whose fur has been smoothed down and becomes soft. His voice became softer unconsciously, just like hers, as gentle as the breeze: "Hello, it's me."
Somehow, Jiang Ning's lips curled up unconsciously, and his tone became relaxed: "I'm going to Wucheng in a while, take a bus to Shanghai, and then take a flight from Shanghai to Beijing. I may have to stay in Shanghai for two days. Do you want to come with me?"
Song Peifeng waited for Jiang Ning for several days. Every time there was a call from home, no matter what he was doing at the time, he would put down what he was doing and come out to answer the phone as soon as possible. Even Song's father and mother could see his anxiety and anticipation. Even though he didn't show any abnormality at other times, his frequent glances at the phone still made them notice something was wrong.
They also didn't think that anything would happen if their son fell in love. Instead, they were encouraging. For this reason, Secretary Song even had a man-to-man conversation with him.
He felt that his son was an adult and that there were some things he needed to make clear to him.
He first asked him to think clearly about what path he wanted to take in his life. Did he want to emulate the famous officials in history, to benefit the world and leave his mark in this era, or to take the path of scientific research, or some other path? No matter what path he took, he had to think clearly about the direction he wanted to go in the future. Then, whether now or in the future, he had to learn to restrain himself.
It is not about suppressing your own desires, but learning to control them, facing your heart, and understanding what you really want. Only in this way can you be responsible for yourself and your partner, and have more enthusiasm for life, marriage, and partner. A good intimate relationship must be complementary and mutually fulfilling, rather than mutually consuming. He knows too well what it is like to be overwhelmed with passion in your youth. After all, he has also been through this age.
He is not afraid of him getting involved in feelings too early, but he is afraid that he will get involved too late and not understand, and then enter into a relationship of internal friction, which is scary.
It was also because of his parents' clear education and understanding since childhood that he was so surprised when he met Jiang Ning.
It was not a momentary impulse, nor was it love at first sight. He had met her countless times in competition classes and training teams over the past two years, traveled with her countless times, and spent countless times with her. From indifference at the beginning to admiration, and from admiration to liking, to surprise, he discovered a peerless jade, a dazzling treasure among the millions of people in this world.
He didn't know whether he would meet such a person again in his life. Maybe he would, and there might be many such people. But looking at the long history and the marriages and families of his parents and elders, he clearly understood how difficult it is for a person to meet such a person at the right time in his life. In the long history of five thousand years, there are thousands and thousands of people, and the probability of meeting such a person is one in a billion. How lucky he is to meet such a person.
Even if I meet many outstanding people in my future life, they will no longer be her.
Seeing the determined expression on his son's face, Father Song patted him on the shoulder and said, "Just think it through."
"I'll pick you up when you arrive." At this moment, his expression softened visibly, and he showed a smile unique to teenagers of his age. Unconsciously, his smile became brighter and brighter.
"I'm going to Shanghai first. I might stay for a day or two. Do you want to come with me?"
Song Peifeng's eyebrows were gentle, and there was a faint smile on the corners of his lips and eyebrows. "Yes."
"Just go directly to the West Station and wait for me there."
The station they arrived at from Shuibu Town was the South Station. The South Station was a short-distance station, and only the West Station was a long-distance station. Jiang Ning felt that there was no need for him to wait for her at the South Station.
But when he arrived in Wucheng, he still stood at the entrance of South Station, smiling as he watched her walk towards him.
It had been sunny for several days after the New Year, but on the sixth day of the New Year, a drizzle began to fall again. Song Peifeng, holding a big black umbrella, stood in the drizzle of this ancient town, like a watercolor painting.
When he saw her, he walked up to her, moved the umbrella over her head, opened a black umbrella and handed it to her, and naturally took the big backpack from her hand.
Jiang Ning handed him the bag, held Grandpa Jiang’s umbrella, and introduced him: “This is my grandpa, and this is my second brother Jiang Bai.” Then he said to Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai: “Song Peifeng, originally from Wuzhong, is the one who has always won first prizes in various competitions with me. His banner is still hung on the gate tower of Wuzhong. Now he is in Tsinghua University, just across from our school. This time I am going to Beijing with him.”
Grandpa Jiang looked at Song Peifeng without blinking, looked into Song Peifeng's clear and bright eyes, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay!"
He is good in every aspect. With this young man by his side, he no longer has to worry about his granddaughter traveling thousands of miles to Beijing to study alone. He always wanted to go with his granddaughter, for fear that she would meet some bad guys on the way.
There are too many kidnappers these days.
After a year of severe crackdown, more than 20,000 people were shot, and all kinds of evildoers went into hiding. After half a year, various criminals began to re-emerge.
Grandpa Jiang didn't understand what it meant to crack down severely or not. He just knew that it was very worrying for a girl of his granddaughter's age to go to a faraway place alone. Her parents didn't worry at all whether anything would happen to her while she was away from home.
Jiang Bai naturally thought of this, and was very happy that his sister had a companion on the road, which was much safer. He smiled and nodded to Song Peifeng and said, "Hello."
Jiang Bai graduated a year earlier than Song Peifeng and went to Shanghai. He had not witnessed the cool scene of Song Peifeng and Jiang Ning holding banners against each other, but when he heard that Song Peifeng was a legendary figure in Wuzhong who could compete with his sister and not lose, perhaps because of the filter of the academic god, his attitude immediately improved.
Jiang Ning looked at the tricycles near the station, waved his hand to hail two small tricycles, and said to Song Peifeng: "Let's go to the West Station." He smiled and said: "Actually, you can just wait for me at the West Station."
But someone answered the phone, and she was very happy.
She is not someone who is emotionally dependent on others, but being treated well by others makes her feel warm, as if a trickle of water is flowing into her heart.
If she had not been so lacking in love, she would not have been moved by her ex-husband's superficial pursuit before marriage in her previous life and would not have entered into marriage so quickly.
She thought she had a home from then on, but in fact she was just moving from one desert to another.
But she was too young at that time, had no emotional experience, and had not been taught by her elders. She naively and foolishly thought that others were as sincere as she was, kept their promises, and would do what they said.
There is no way to buy air tickets online now, you have to buy tickets on site. After Jiang Ning and his friends arrived in Shanghai, they did not go to the airport immediately, but went to Jiang Ning's villa first.
After three years of development, Hudong in 1998 had changed dramatically and had taken the initial shape of a financial and trade center in the future. The surrounding area was no longer deserted with wasteland and fertile fields as it was in 1996, but now it seemed that construction was actively underway everywhere.
The villa area where Jiang Ning lives has been completely built, and all kinds of green facilities have been completed. It is a complete and independent community. Most of the villas in it have been sold, and many of them have been occupied. Now there are people living in the villas, and it is no longer desolate and cold as before.
They stayed here for a while before the New Year. Jiang Ning typed every day and the internet was always on. It only needed a little cleaning to get rid of the dust from various construction sites around.
Before this, Song Peifeng only knew that she was a golden phoenix who was admitted from a rural area under Wucheng. She relied on her own abilities, studied, participated in competitions, and wrote books at the same time. With the help of writing books, she bought a large flat in Beijing. But he didn't know that she also had such a luxurious villa in Shanghai.
Song Peifeng's family has two courtyard houses in Beijing that were passed down from their ancestors. The courtyard houses are large, but the decoration style is completely different from the modern decoration of the villas. The courtyard houses are simple and elegant, while his house in the provincial capital is just an ordinary unit-allocated house.
Even he was shocked by the size of Jiang Ning's villa and its modern decoration.
Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang, on the other hand, had long been accustomed to the luxury of their sister's villa. They put down their luggage very casually. Jiang Bai opened the door of the villa, and a wave of hot air hit them in the face. The moisture on their bodies seemed to be dissipated a little by the heating in the villa.
At the door were the slippers that Manager Qian had prepared for her. Later, she and Jiang Bai also bought some daily necessities together.
After Jiang Ning put the luggage in the cabinet, he led Song Peifeng to the guest room.
The guest room has its own bathroom, which is separated into dry and wet areas. The cupboard is empty except for two new towels and a set of cotton pajamas.
Jiang Bai, like Jiang Ma, has always been a person who can't sit still. The first thing he wanted to do after putting down his luggage was to clean the house. As a result, he found that the villa seemed to have been cleaned from top to bottom.
He went to the kitchen to see what vegetables were missing from the refrigerator so he could buy them.
Yang Meirong, who has known Jiang Ning for several years, very carefully bought some common vegetables, some pork ribs and pork shanks and put them in the refrigerator in Jiang Ning's kitchen. She also carefully posted a note on the refrigerator, wishing her a happy new year, buying her some fresh vegetables, and asking her to visit her when she has time, followed by her home phone number.
In fact, Yang Meirong had a little idea in mind.
She now works with Manager Qian in a decoration company, but her husband was unemployed before, so she arranged for him to work as a salesperson in a real estate project. She thought that if Jiang Ning wanted to buy a house again, she could introduce her husband to her.
Seeing the note left by Yang Meirong, Jiang Ning smiled and said to Jiang Bai, who had tied an apron, rolled up his sleeves, and was preparing to make lunch, "Brother, if you want to buy a house or a shop, you can look for her. The apartment building we bought before was bought from her, remember? You can first ask her if she has a house with a blue-stamp household registration or a suitable shop. If not, forget it."
After putting down his luggage, Song Peifeng also walked out of the guest room. Seeing Jiang Bai rolling up his sleeves to prepare to cook, Song Peifeng, who had been working for Jiang Ning in Beijing for half a year, naturally rolled up his sleeves and came over to help wash and cut vegetables.
Grandpa Jiang sat on the sofa, watching the TV in the living room, occasionally turning back and smiling at the three young people busy in the kitchen.
After lunch, Grandpa Jiang went back to his room to take a nap, while Jiang Ning had his own things to do.
Of course, she didn't come to Shanghai to urge Jiang Bai to buy a house. Jiang Bai is an adult, not a child. She has already reminded him what she should have reminded him. She won't feed him food. Whether he wants to eat or not, he already has a large apartment in Shanghai. What else does he want? Care about his life?
Jiang Ning doesn't have the leisure time for that.
She went to the Shanghai Stock Exchange to open an account.
In early 1998, not long after the Asian financial crisis, she had not used the large sum of royalties she had received, nor did she buy a house. She was just waiting to take this express train to wealth, which would have an appreciation rate several times higher than that of buying a house.
It would be foolish not to take the ready-made shortcut here.
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