Chapter 182

"You can't do this, Alan," Sun Muyin looked at the little girl with a serious face. She was already tender-faced, but now she looked like a little adult, and said with a tiger face, "Then I will never do it again. I can't bring you here."

The little girl hugged her knees, blinked, and shrank even more.

Compared with before when she had no reaction to the outside world, now she can respond to some extent.

But she only does this to her mother and Sun Muyin.

After the Rubik's Cube Competition, the relationship between Sun Muyin and Zhao Zifei has never been broken.

Sun Muyin often runs to Kowloon, and the two play Rubik's Cube or draw together. Zhao Zifei is Sun Muyin's only opponent in the Hong Kong city.

My sister is right, there are people outside the world, and there is a world outside the world. She really saw a lot of geniuses when she went to MIT.

Although they couldn't solve the Rubik's Cube with her, their knowledge and thoughts were as broad as the ocean, especially her mentor. She was like a soaked sponge, absorbing it every day.

Sun Muyin looked at Alan who refused to cooperate, her face slowly fell, then she sighed and sat down next to Zhao Zifei.

She will also be scolded soon.

Sister A said they couldn't bring Alan to the shipyard because there were all men here. A little girl who couldn't take care of herself might get into trouble if she didn't see her. They couldn't bet on this probability.

But since she brought Alan to the shipyard several times, Alan began to sneak over.

This is a very shocking thing. Normally, she would not go out even if someone is not carrying her.

Sun Muyin was shocked beyond measure when she saw Alan holding on to the door wall for the first time outside the factory gate and looking at her timidly with his big eyes blinking.

Alan is actually very smart. He always calls Sun Muyin's office before coming. If she is the one who answers the phone, Alan will run over from home without saying a word. The purpose of calling is to ask Sun Muyin to pick her up.

Although he was silent, he was extremely confident.

It was okay for others, but Sun Muyin couldn't be cruel to Alan.

The two of them often spend the whole day doing model derivation in the design room. One of them is taciturn and the other is silent. They often use drawings to communicate. They have long been accustomed to this way of getting along.

Everyone has always turned a blind eye to them.

But this time, if I die, my sister will definitely be angry.

Thinking of this, Sun Muyin couldn't help puckering her lips and wanted to cry.

When someone came to find them, they saw two girls with dull eyes sitting side by side in the warehouse. It was hard to tell which one looked more autistic.

People outside don't know what happened inside.

Lin Wei finally saw the boatman giving her an OK sign and felt relieved.

If something goes wrong at this time, wouldn't it cost you your life?

The launching ceremony was successfully completed.

Eric Tsang bought a new boat and the corners of his mouth never dropped.

He didn't worry much about quality issues. Lin Wei said that there was a two-year warranty. During the previous acceptance, their own shipbuilders had already inspected it and found no problems. There were also many little surprises.

The day after the new ship was launched, the ship was on the cover of major media outlets in the port city.

No matter what the tonnage is, it looks really good, the angle is also good, and it looks very impressive.

Eric Tsang is very popular. Recently, he has been talking about his new boat BLU (Blue Star) in social circles. He keeps talking about how advanced and convenient the equipment on it is. He keeps lamenting that the new boat is still easy to use and he will buy more in the future. New ship, and said that he had just signed two more orders with Lin Wei.

His friends were all annoyed by him. Usually it was only the elderly who said such nonsense. They didn't know how much advertising money Lin Wei paid to make him work so hard.

There is no advertising fee. The main reason is that Mr. Zeng is happy to buy a new boat and likes to show it off everywhere, just like he is happy to get a new toy. He is also happy in his forties and fifties.

...

Men are all about the same age, and the same is true for this person in front of me.

"Sister, gold has soared!"

Su Tianrui excitedly pushed open Lin Wei's office, his face beaming with joy.

Lin Wei opened the refrigerator for a moment, then took out a bottle of soda and closed the door expressionlessly.

"Then what?" She sat back down slowly.

"Specialize in gold!"

Su Tianrui was filled with a strange excitement. He took the frosty soda bottle in front of Lin Wei: "I don't have much work here anymore. Just leave it to Wang Zhong. You See if I can fly to England tomorrow?"

Lin Wei looked at him and narrowed her eyes slightly: "Do you want to speculate in gold, or do you want to see your wife?"

Su Tianrui hesitated, and then put the soda in front of Lin Wei. , chuckled and said: "No conflict, I also want to help sister."

Lin Wei showed a very gentle smile: "You are really thoughtful, I really don't want you to work so hard, so... Just stay here for me!" She said the words behind her teeth.

Even Su Tianrui, the "great smart guy", started to play tricks on her.

The thought of the gold price increase made her angry. Su Tianrui didn't need to keep an eye on it, she had already seen it in the newspaper.

In August this year, the United States announced that it would abandon the fixed exchange rate system, close the official gold window, and gold officially entered free floating.

Gold has finally increased in price.

But...it's useless.

Gold has risen, but can it rise higher than Hong Kong stocks?

It is impossible for gold to double 10 times in one year, at most 2 times, and not more than 3 times.

Lin Wei never thought before that gold would collide with stocks.

Originally, she thought she would make money in the gold market before the stock price rose, but now...

After waiting for so long, she finally got together. What does this mean? Just plain annoying.

What if it's a little staggered? Lin Wei had been upset for several days because of this.

Some things are really better than not knowing, and it is really unpleasant to have failed expectations.

Su Tianrui was dumbfounded, thinking that he would finally have an excuse to fly to England to meet his wife, but Lin Wei actually refused.

So what to do?

He often flies to the UK on weekends, but the flight takes fourteen hours each time. A round trip and waiting time for transfers take a day and a half. Forget about the hard work, there is still no time to get along, just meet each other and have a meal. I have to come back, I can’t even make it through the night.

Which groom is as miserable as him?

Su Tianrui felt that his life was so miserable that he wanted to resign.

"It's not impossible to go to England..."

Lin Wei's voice suddenly came from the other side.

Su Tianrui's eyes lit up and he looked at Lin Wei hopefully.

Lin Wei put down the soda and said, "Go to England to deliver a letter for me."

Delivering a letter?

Su Tianrui asked doubtfully: "To whom? Don't you have an address?"

Can't you send it? Why do you need someone to deliver it in person?

Lin Wei directly took out a thick kraft paper envelope and gave it to him: "Send it to the head of Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Borders."

Su Tianrui took the envelope, then looked at Lin Wei: "Then what? ?"

Lin Wei said, "Just make sure he sees it, and then you can come back."

She paused and added, "I'll give you a week."

In fact, it's just a short vacation for them. Get together.

"What's in this?" Su Tianrui looked at the envelope with a curious look on his face, "Is it a confidential document? Do you want me to bring a few more bodyguards?"

Lin Wei glanced at the envelope with a complicated expression and said: "...No need."

Four days later, the letter appeared in Borders' hands.

What's this?

The assistant explained: "A gentleman sent it. He said it is a very important letter and needs you to open it in person."

Borders tore open the envelope in confusion.

XinBai?

He found the letter and the first sentence that caught his eye -

"Hello, Mr. Lance, if I may excuse you, we are interested in acquiring the Harland & Wolff shipyard."

Borders: "..."

Where did it come from? Neuropathy?

Driven by curiosity, he read the entire letter.

After reading it...

it turned out to be crazy!

What the hell is XinBai? Never heard of it.

When did Haaland become so depressed that he was about to be acquired?

"Well, sir, when will the government loan be disbursed?" the assistant's voice sounded, "George just came to ask."

Borders' face turned ugly.

After World War II, the government's military orders dropped significantly, and they turned to building modern shipyards, focusing mainly on the construction of large merchant ships.

At the beginning, it had some effect, but since the 1960s, Asian shipbuilding has risen rapidly, and infrastructure and industrial scale have greatly improved. Harland's advantages are no longer there, and the cost of employment has intensified the burden on shipyards.

As a century-old shipyard, they support nearly 20,000 workers. In order to ensure employment, the government has been providing loans and subsidies to Haaland since five or six years ago.

The letter in front of me seemed like a naked mockery.

Even if Harland's performance declines now, he will not be destined to be acquired.

They once occupied half of the world's shipping market.

Borders' eyes fell on the last sentence of the letter, "Work together to build the world's number one shipyard and restore its former glory." It looked particularly dazzling at the moment, and Borders was so angry that he threw the letter aside.

Dream on!

In fact, Lin Wei doesn't want to buy Harland Shipyard now. How can she have the money to buy it?

She mainly just gets to know people.

When Haaland really can't survive, he can think of Xinbai Shipyard.

The reason why Lin Wei wanted to acquire Harland was because of their giant cruise ship technology.

The three pearls in the shipbuilding industry are aircraft carriers, giant cruise ships, and natural gas carriers.

There are only four shipyards in Europe that can build large luxury cruise ships. Even Japan and South Korea in later generations can't do it. Japan's two attempts ended in failure and they finally gave up. You can imagine the technical difficulty of this technology.

As for China, her last memory was that construction started in 2019. Anyway, she did not receive any good news before her rebirth①.

The world's first large cruise ship was built by Harland. Construction started in 1908, launched in 1911, and sank in 1912...

No... I made a mistake. It was the Titanic that sank. The first giant cruise ship was the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic. At that time, the three cruise ships started construction together, and the Titanic came in second. Construction started in 1909.

1908 to 2019.

We are 100 years behind.

Lin Wei had a special understanding of Harland's history.

After World War II, the shipyard's operating conditions were actually not very good. In the mid-1960s, it began to receive government loans and subsidies. In the 1970s, the situation was worse year by year. Workers' wages could not be paid, and they all relied on government subsidies.

In 1975, it was really unbearable, and it was finally nationalized by the British government.

But the British government is even worse. After World War II, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, the entire Europe was developing, but the British economy continued to decline, and the unemployment rate was extremely high. It was not until Mrs. Thatcher came to power and governed with an iron fist that the economy began to improve.

Then Harland's fate can be imagined. Not long after, the British government sold the shipyard to Norway. After that, it was resold again and again, and finally it seemed to be sold to South Korea. However, by that time, there was nothing left in the shipyard.

After World War II, this century-old shipyard has been in decline...

The purpose of Lin Wei's letter was very simple, just to become familiar with it.

I will write one letter a year from now on, so that when they can no longer survive, they will naturally think of her.

This shipyard won't be able to survive for a few more years.

Lin Wei sat on the swing and looked at the fallen leaves in the garden.

Another year has passed.

The villa in Taipingshan was built, but Lin Wei never moved in.

Lin Wei still lives in Happy Valley. She wants to wait until she is reunited with her parents before moving here together.

There are traces of freshness in the air, the sunset in the distance is changing colors on the horizon, and the layers of mountains are covered by the faint glow.

The family will live here from now on.

She wanted to compensate them for all the suffering they had suffered over the years.

She felt uncomfortable when she thought of this, and she pursed her lips and couldn't help but want to cry.

She is the big boss now, and is no longer the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl she used to be. She cannot cry easily.

So she often comes here, the bodyguards are far away, and no one cares about her crying no matter what she wants.

She didn't want to be so sad, but when she thought that her parents couldn't even eat meat... let alone meat, they might not even be able to eat corn mush, she was as sad as if she was cutting out the flesh and gouging out the heart.

...

"I like to eat chicken wings, they are more tender." Fang Lianxin pushed the chicken legs back to his wife and reached out to grill the chicken wings.

Lin Hanzhi slapped his hand back, then stuffed the chicken legs back to him: "I'll give you any chicken wings, one for each of you."

The couple sat by the stove and shared a small pheasant, probably because they were not very good at cooking. , it was a bit black from the grill, but after peeling it open, the steaming chicken inside looked very tempting.

Fang Lianxin took it over with a smile, peeled off the burnt skin, took a piece of tender chicken inside and put it on the stove: "Give it to our great hero first." There

was a big raccoon flower sitting on the stove, covered in His fur was shiny and smooth, and he looked majestic and proud as he sat there.

Da Li Hua looked at the chicken, tentatively lowered her head and smelled it with her nose, then stepped away with her little feet in disgust.

Lin Hanzhi couldn't help but said: "Just say you didn't bake it well and didn't add salt. It's not surprising that Xiaofu disliked it."

Fang Lianxin picked up the chicken, "It's not that he dislikes it." The warm chicken entered the mouth, and his stomach that had been clamoring instantly felt Filled with a sense of satisfaction, "He wants to save it for his father and mother."

Lin Hanzhi looked at Big Lihua, Xiaofu had already begun to lick his paws on his own.

"Xiaofu... don't take things home during the day, others will see you."

"Meow..."

Big Lihua stopped at the right time and meowed.

"Don't just promise, do it. I've told you so many times."

"Meow..."

This time the voice was a little louder, a little bit unhappy, as if to say I understand, don't be so annoying.

Lin Hanzhi knew that it really understood. From time to time, this little thing would drag back some small prey. They used to be mice and birds, but now they are bigger, including pheasants, voles, rabbits, and even snakes. They are very capable.

The first thing she does when she gets up every day is to see if there is anything extra next to the stove.

Every time I cook it and feed it to Xiaofu, he just takes one bite and stops eating.

Lin Hanzhi never let her go home during the day. If someone saw her, she would be caught and eaten.

She couldn't imagine how heartbroken she would feel if the baby they had raised for so long was saved from her own mouth bit by bit to feed the grown child.

So during the day, if they were not at home, they would drive Xiaofu to the woods to play.

At night, they sleep in a cattle pen with drafts everywhere.

Bang...

was the sound of Xiaofu jumping up on the bed board. He came to the top of the two couples' heads with ease and meowed twice at them.

Lin Hanzhi opened a small gap in the quilt, and Xiaofu got in after a few movements. Then he chose a comfortable position and slept between the two of them. He usually only slept in the first half of the night and went out to hunt in the second half of the night.

The couple slept on a quilt with a small heater in the middle, snoring and looking very comfortable and contented.

Lin Hanzhi gently smoothed its hair, and silently muttered one sentence in her heart every day -

good health and peace.