Chapter 535: Pickles and Coffee Cups
Birds are singing and insects are chirping in the early morning, and it is time to rest and relax on the weekend again.
Time seemed to slow down.
Hong Kong Economic Weekly newspaper unfolded.
Ding Qiming read the report carefully and did not seem surprised at all. After all, it was something he had known for a long time.
I flipped through a few more pages at random, but before I could pick out a page of interest to take a closer look, the newspaper in my hand was snatched away.
"Have breakfast first."
Huo Nina glanced at her husband, then glanced at her son who was also flipping through a newspaper, and she took away another newspaper.
"Eli, why do you always learn bad habits from your father?"
“…”
Ding Qiming did not refute. If his son doesn’t look like him, who does he look like?
Ding Li suddenly smiled, "We'll see later. Ms. Huo, don't look so gloomy. It's been like that for several days. Be careful not to age quickly."
"Oh, you are willing to care about me?" Huo Nina also smiled, her eyes fell on the handle of the spoon her son used to stir the coffee, and she pretended to be jealous.
"I was just being self-indulgent. I thought my son had grown up and was sensible. The custom-made tea set was for me, but it turned out to be for someone else."
"…" Which wall of cups and plates isn't enough?
Ding Qiming coughed dryly, "Isn't this the woman you asked someone to introduce to him? Why are you saying these things again?"
"It's none of your business."
Huo Nina was still angry about what her husband had done and she didn't have a nice attitude when she spoke to him.
She turned around and spoke gently to her son.
“Eli, how are you getting along with Miss Lu?
The bad habits you learned in the gang must be changed. Girls don’t like gangsters.”
"... not bad."
Ding Li couldn't remember at all whether Miss Lu was Fang or Yuan, and she almost became dependent on him after meeting him once.
"Ms. Huo, are you targeting me and mocking me?"
"Mr. Ding, don't take it personally and don't interrupt me when I'm talking to my son."
"Ho Nina, are you going too far? I don't eat the leaves that are used to feed chickens and ducks, but you deliberately prepared a Western breakfast.
You are not even allowed to read the newspaper, and now you are talking to me in a sarcastic tone!"
....
Breakfast becomes noisy early.
Ding Li was used to their way of getting along. He ate his sandwich slowly and took a sip of his hand-ground coffee.
His eyes fell on the shining handle of the small coffee spoon. I think the Bite Rabbit would like the birthday present he gave him, right?
The Zhong family residence is one kilometer away from the mountain, but is also located in the middle of Yingtou Mountain.
Zhong Jiasheng opened the morning newspaper and scanned the useful information he could extract from it.
Lin Yiyi didn't like him being distracted while eating breakfast, but she couldn't say anything to him at the dinner table because that's just how her father-in-law was.
I helped him stir the porridge in the bowl and deliberately fed him egg yolk.
Knowing that you will choke will free up your hands and attention.
Zhong Jiasheng opened his mouth and ate the egg yolk. His mouth felt a little dry, but his heart felt like it was in a honey pot.
After reading the important content, he reached his right hand under the table and gently poked her waist twice as a response to her inconvenience in speaking.
Seeing the effect, Lin Yiyi said to him with a smile, "Drink the porridge quickly, it's not hot anymore.
If you don’t eat the pickles now, they will be gone.”
Zhong Jiasheng looked at the few pickles left on the plate and his brows suddenly tightened. Was his father eating the pickles as a snack?
Only a few are left.
The pickled vegetables were made by her sister-in-law Ma Dongmei, and they were delicious. Lin Yiyi brought them from afar to the south to eat with steamed buns and porridge for him.
In the end, his father ate half of it.
The amount of antlers he was given was also reduced by half.
Feeling his son's slightly complaining look, Mr. Zhong put down the newspaper, pretended not to see it, and picked up the pickles from the small plate.
A plate the size of the palm of your hand will have even less pickles left.
In the contest between father and son, neither of the two hostesses of the Zhong family could help, after all, they ate Western breakfast.
…
A morning newspaper stirred up the excitement among people in the business community.
A large number of people signed up to bid for the auction.
Among them, people whether they had funds or not signed up to watch and join in the fun.
After all, being there in person allows you to understand the trends of business leaders the fastest.
However, when the property was actually put up for auction, everyone present was dumbfounded.
"Why are people from the Li Gang also participating? What bad luck."
"Who says it's not true? If we had known about them earlier, why would we have signed up?"
"It seems like today's trip was in vain. It's such a pity to waste that good piece of land. Who dares to compete with them?"
…
Whispering and sighing.
All the hard work of staying up late and working overtime to prepare the information and quotations was in vain.
The beginning is the end.
Today's news report may break the record for the fastest auction completion in Hong Kong.
With Ding Qiming in charge, no one dared to raise the price deliberately.
In the end, the 26-story Zhongnan Building was successfully auctioned by Ding Qiming for less than 30 million Hong Kong dollars.
To put it simply, it means a 40% discount and free land.
The auction was over and the news spread.
Everyone knows that Ding Qiming will definitely make a big move. Hong Kong has a small land area and a large population, and there are only a few bigwigs in the business district. All industries are already saturated.
Now here comes another person to share the pie.
Ordinary businessmen really can’t compete.
The Lin family was originally very interested in this piece of land, but unfortunately they spent 40 million Hong Kong dollars to marry Yang Wanwan in June.
The Yanshuiwan project in cooperation with the Yang family requires a large amount of funds, and with prices soaring now, banks are unwilling to lend.
Taking over Zhongnan Building reluctantly would be disadvantageous both internally and externally.
Lin Yan felt it was a pity, but his strength was definitely not as strong as 7x2k, as they made their fortunes in sacks.
Yang Wanwan also went to the Zhong family at her husband's repeated request.
Yang Ying is her aunt, so visiting her is a very common thing.
In the garden pavilion.
Lin Yiyi drank coffee and ate fruit by herself. She would not take the initiative to talk to Yang Wanwan.
The situation was a bit awkward, but fortunately the twins helped ease the situation.
Although Yang Wanwan didn't like children, she still liked her lively, active and clever nephew a little.
Youyou sat on the bicycle, opened his mouth to eat fruit, and occasionally licked the juice on his little mouth.
"Cousin, are you here to play with Mommy again?"
"Of course, my cousin loves to stick to mommy." Mozi stretched out his hands for mommy to hold him, crying with milk.
Lin Yiyi wanted to laugh, but she held it back. Children’s eyes are the sharpest.
She held Mozi on her lap and wiped his chubby hands with a towel. After they were clean, she gave him a fork and let him eat the fruit by himself.
Yang Wanwan was extremely embarrassed after being exposed by her nephew. She had come here to make friends with Lin Yiyi, but after seeing her, she started to feel awkward again.
"Cousin, if you want to be friends with Mommy, treat her to delicious food. She may..."
Lin Yiyi quickly reached out to cover Mozi's mouth, pretending to be angry, "You unlucky child! You say all kinds of nonsense."
Mozi struggled but couldn't get free. His eyes rolled around and he wanted to complain to his daddy!
Mommy bullied him again!
“…”
Yang Wanwan chuckled, she knew what was unfinished next, it must be the word "greedy".
"Don't talk nonsense. I won't cover your mouth. OK?" Lin Yiyi's face flushed lightly, feeling a little embarrassed.
It is one thing to ignore your love for meat, but it is embarrassing to be exposed by your son.
Mozi nodded obediently before he could continue talking, but when his mommy went to the bathroom, his obedience disappeared.
He spoke to his cousin like a little adult, the baby fat on his face was still there, and he deliberately pretended to be cold like his dad.
“It’s easy to be good friends with Mommy, just eat delicious food with her every day.
Next time you come, bring apple pie, cream cake, French fries, black soda, and a little deformed giant, and she will like you very much."
Youyou listened to his brother lying and looked at his cousin eagerly, expecting her to buy double.
“…”
Yang Wanwan really felt that she was stupid. She actually took what she heard at the beginning seriously. It was only until she heard the end that she realized that she had been fooled by her nephew.
"You little troublemaker, making fun of your cousin."
"No, no, it's all true. Mommy really loves to play with my toys."
"Look at Youyou's bicycle. The pedal is crooked. Mommy broke it."
Afraid that his cousin wouldn't believe his brother, Youyou nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it was Mommy who stepped on it."
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