Chapter 268 Everyone, Learn to Speak Mandarin
Li Ye took Wang Jianqiang and Li Dayong across the Luohu Port and was warmly welcomed by Pei Wencong.
"Mr. Li, I've been waiting for you to come. You must stay in Hong Kong Island for a few more days this time so that I can entertain you well."
Pei Wencong held Li Ye's hands with both hands and shook them hard, as if he had grabbed a money tree and wanted to shake down a rain of money.
In fact, this is true.
The reason why Pei Wencong even used the respectful title "you" to Li Ye was because the Hang Seng Index finally fell to around 700 points some time ago, and there were violent fluctuations.
Luo Runbo asked Li Ye for his opinion. Li Ye analyzed it and told Luo Runbo that he could gradually deliver the harvest. Pei Wencong, who followed behind and placed a heavy bet, firmly rubbed off on Li Ye's "luck."
Li Ye didn't know how much money Pei Wencong invested, but he himself made more than 70 million Hong Kong dollars. No matter how cautious Pei Wencong was, he must have made tens of millions.
Li Ye and Pei Wencong finally shook hands and said jokingly, "Why, you bought a big villa on the top of the mountain, so you want me to stay there for a few more days to show off?"
Hearing Li Ye's teasing, Pei Wencong was not angry at all, but laughed out loud.
"Oh my, how dare I show off in front of Mr. Li? I just want to fulfill my duty as a good host, a good host."
"Then let's go! Take me to see your mountaintop ocean view mansion."
"Please, please, please."
Pei Wencong quickly took Li Ye to the car, opened the door himself and let Li Ye and his two younger brothers get in.
Li Ye got in the car and said, "This Mercedes-Benz is a bit out of place for your status! Why haven't you applied for a Rolls-Royce yet?"
Pei Wencong, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and said with a smile: "Mr. Li knows Hong Kong Island. You can't buy a Rolls-Royce just because you have money. But when Mr. Li comes next time, I will definitely drive a Rolls-Royce to pick you up."
Before being taken over by BMW, Rolls-Royce was very "pretentious". Their requirement for their customers was "celebrities and gentlemen", and they took the control of their customers to the extreme.
Pei Wencong has his own publishing house, and later acquired shares in Hong Kong Island Fenghua Clothing, which is owned by Seris. He is also a graduate of the University of Hong Kong. Now that he has money, he should be qualified after some time to settle down.
However, Li Ye waved his hand and said, "I don't care about Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce, but I am interested in the mountaintop mansion and Ferrari.
Can you help me find one? I want to drive around and have a look next time I come here."
Pei Wancheng was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise: "Mr. Li, are you going to buy a property in Hong Kong Island? Do you plan to live in Hong Kong Island permanently in the future?"
Li Ye glanced at Pei Wencong, waved his hand without comment, and did not answer.
He certainly would not move his family to Hong Kong Island. After all, in the next forty years, the mainland would be the soaring dragon, and Hong Kong Island would at most be just a dragon scale attached to the dragon's tail.
However, when the housing prices in Hong Kong Island were at their lowest between 1983 and 1985, Mr. Louis Cha bought a luxury house at One Peak Road for only HK$12.5 million.
But after living there for eleven years, he sold it for HK$190 million, with an annual return rate of over 15%.
Although with Li Ye's cheating ability, the rate of return in these eleven years may be higher, but it is still necessary to buy a fixed asset like the mountaintop luxury house which has only a few hundred units.
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Amin drove his Mercedes up the mountain along a two-way, two-lane road.
There was no cable car in Taiping Mountain in 1983, so it was not convenient for ordinary people to go up the mountain. Therefore, the surrounding environment was very private and quiet, with almost no tourists or idle people.
Li Dayong and Wang Jianqiang sat in the back seat of a Mercedes-Benz, watching the residential villas passing by. They felt as if they had walked into a Hong Kong movie they had seen before, feeling both excited and fascinated.
Li Ye smiled and whispered in a clear voice: "What's wrong? Do you like it?"
Li Dayong and Wang Jianqiang immediately sat up straight and turned their eyes away from the window.
The sugar-coated bullets of the evil society cannot defeat these steadfast and unyielding successors.
Li Ye patted his brother's arm and said, "Don't worry. If you like, we can be neighbors here. It's nice to bring your family here to spend the winter."
Wang Jianqiang and Li Dayong immediately became interested.
Li Dayong asked quietly, "Brother, how much is a house here? Is it more expensive or cheaper than the courtyard in Beijing?"
“This is definitely more expensive now.”
Li Ye looked at the expectant eyes of the two brothers and ruthlessly quoted the price of the house: "Right now, it's about 10 million Hong Kong dollars! You don't have to be too anxious, you can wait a few years."
Li Dayong: “.”
Wang Jianqiang: “.”
The light in the two friends' eyes dimmed in an instant, and they looked at Li Ye with resentment on their face.
Brother, are you sure you are not just making empty promises?
A house costs 10 million Hong Kong dollars~
Are you sure the toilet inside isn't made of gold?
Li Dayong and Wang Jianqiang are now considered to have some wealth, and are definitely among the small group of wealthy people in the mainland. But with assets worth millions, they can't even sneeze in front of a place like The Peak, right?
Li Ye touched his nose, unable to comfort the two brothers' depressed mood.
He can't say that English was popular in this area before, but Cantonese will soon become popular.
But in a few decades, no matter whether your native language is Cantonese or English, you all should learn to speak Mandarin.
This is not because the mainland bosses entered Taiping Mountain, although there are indeed rumors that the boss of SF Express led his men to sweep Taiping Mountain.
But what this really represents is that the economic center of gravity has been shifting northwards, and if you want to keep up with the times, you have to move closer to the north.
Pei Wencong's new home is located on a very high ground, and the Mercedes-Benz had to almost climb to the top of the mountain before entering a villa.
This villa may not look big, but it has a great location.
Li Ye asked Pei Wencong: "Is your house above the fog line?"
Pei Wencong praised: "Mr. Li has good eyesight. If there is fog tomorrow morning, you will be able to see the scenery above the fog."
Li Ye laughed and said, "This is not eyesight, it's just common sense."
The luxury houses on Taipingshan are divided into upper and lower grades. The ones above the fog line where you can see the scenery above the fog in the morning are called "upper luxury houses".
And if it is foggy, and everything you see through the window is foggy, it means you are in a "mansion below".
After entering Pei Wencong's house, Li Ye saw Aqiang.
A Qiang was dressed as a painter and was concentrating on painting an old house in the yard.
"Hi, Qiangzi!"
A Qiang, who was on the stepladder, heard the sound, turned around and saw Li Ye, and almost fell off the ladder.
He threw away the paint, ran over in two or three steps, and asked nervously: "Mr. Li, why are you here in Hong Kong Island at this time?"
Li Ye asked curiously, "Why? Do I need to choose a time to come to Hong Kong Island?"
"No," Ah Qiang scratched his head and said, "We are currently in negotiations, and those reporters are always chasing after people like me who have been to the mainland to stir up trouble.
It just so happened that a few days ago, the reporters here learned about the short play "The Wanderer Returns Home" in the Great Hall and were trying to find out who Ah Qiang was in it.
I don't know why they suspected me, so I hid here with the boss. If you come here now, be careful of the reporters."
Li Ye was a little surprised and said, "Are you so well-informed? But so what? Can they still accuse you of something?"
"That's definitely impossible. Hong Kong Island is a place where the law is respected."
A Qiang kept shaking his head and said, "But I hate staying here more and more now. How about Mr. Li, when you go back this time, take me back to the capital with you!"
Li Ye looked at Aqiang for several seconds before he smiled and said, "You want to go back to Beijing, but you really want to go back to reporter Pan Xiaoqing, right?"
Aqiang's face turned red quickly and he laughed shyly a few times, feeling very embarrassed.
Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "You have been communicating with Pan Xiaoqing recently. Didn't she say whether she is willing to come to Hong Kong Island?"
Ah Qiang nodded and said, "She didn't say it directly, but I think she wants to come to Hong Kong Island to study. But you know the current situation. Even I am annoyed by reporters. I am afraid she will regret it after she comes."
[If you don't let her come, she might regret it! ]
Li Ye didn't want to comment on the love between Aqiang and Pan Xiaoqing. After thinking for a while, he said, "You don't have to worry. The environment in Hong Kong Island will stabilize soon. By then, reporters will not be interested in such trivial matters."
Li Ye knew that this month was the most tense time in the negotiations between the mainland and Britain. The two sides had great differences. Britain even played the "economic card", causing the stock and foreign exchange markets in Hong Kong Island to plummet, causing the Hang Seng Index to eventually fall to more than 600 points.
However, in the face of the mainland's tough stance, the once-strong empire on which the sun never sets only had this one big card left, which lasted only two months before it finally had to bow to the mainland's strength.
Ah Qiang sighed and said, "That's great. I've never been to the mainland before, and I thought the British Hong Kong government was very powerful. But now it seems that some people are just wishful thinking."
Li Ye was very surprised. He couldn't imagine that Aqiang would have such an idea.
You know, most people in Hong Kong are still extremely confident, thinking that the Iron Lady who just won the Falklands Campaign can create greater glory again!
“Ding ding ding~”
A car horn sounded outside the villa. Pei Wencong's maid opened the electric door and a red BMW drove in.
After the little BMW parked, two women, one old and one young, got out of the car carrying several bottles of wine.
She was at least fifty years old. Although her hair was jet-black, the deep marks of time on her face revealed the vicissitudes of her first half of life.
The girl driving the car was probably less than 20 years old, with a petite figure and lively eyes. As soon as she got out of the car, she kept looking at Li Ye, Li Dayong and Wang Jianqiang.
When she saw Li Ye, her eyes were full of light, and when she saw Li Dayong, her eyes were full of surprise.
Compared with the physique of people from Hong Kong Island, Li Dayong, who is nearly 1.9 meters tall and weighs 180 to 190 kilograms, is really too tall and too strong.
The girl did not come over to greet Li Ye and the others, but shouted to Pei Wencong in the villa: "Brother, did you bring a friend?"
Pei Wencong walked out in two or three steps, brought the girl and the woman over and introduced them, "Mr. Li, this is my mother, and this is my sister Pei Wenhui."
"Mom, this is the Mr. Li I told you about. This is Mr. Wang, and this is also Mr. Li."
Pei Wencong's mother immediately greeted Li Ye in Cantonese, very enthusiastically, and Li Ye even felt a little nervous.
But her younger sister Pei Wenhui was more generous. She bowed slightly to the three people and said, "Hello, welcome to my home."
Mother Pei slapped Pei Wenhui on the arm and said unhappily, "What do you mean by guest? This is Mr. Li's home, why don't you bring the guest in for tea?"
Pei Wenhui stuck out her tongue and hurriedly took Li Ye and others in to drink tea.
Pei's mother went into the kitchen and quickly prepared a large table of dinner. It was obviously prepared long ago, and the two of them had probably gone out to buy some wine.
Mother Pei poured wine for Li Ye and said, "These two bottles of wine are not good wine, but I buried them under my house in my hometown in my early years. It has been more than ten years.
At that time I said that I would wait until Ah Cong got married before drinking, but today I know that Mr. Li is coming to Hong Kong Island, I think this is a big happy event, I hope Mr. Li will not despise it. "
Li Ye quickly raised his glass in return, then drank it all in one gulp, which made the three members of the Pei family greatly admire him.
Then everyone started drinking, eating and chatting about family matters, and Pei's mother was in such high spirits that she almost completely overshadowed Pei Wencong.
It’s just that Pei’s mother can understand Mandarin but can only speak Cantonese.
Li Ye could understand it, but Wang Jianqiang, who had stayed in Yangcheng for a short time, had to guess, and Li Dayong was completely confused.
"My mother said that we were also from the mainland and came from Chaoshan when she was very young. We had a hard life for so many years.
But my mother never lost hope, because the master said that my brother would be very successful."
Pei Wenhui's Mandarin is better than Pei Wencong's, so she acted as a translator, but it seemed that this translation was only for Li Dayong.
The elderly at home was not feeling well today, so I was delayed going to the hospital. I’m sorry.
(End of this chapter)
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