Volume 1 Chapter 111

  "What? You're going to a bar again!" Little Auntie stood up and shrieked, pointing at her. "Don't you know what kind of place that is?"

  "Auntie! Don't be so surprised. I was just drinking juice at the bar, and I had someone with me." Mo Bei said calmly.

  "It's not dangerous if someone is with you, but they can't keep an eye on you all the time. You don't know how many dangers there are in a bar, all sorts of people from all walks of life. Some old lechers like to take advantage, and with your looks, you're so young and beautiful... those perverted men..." Auntie was chattering away like an old mother hen.

  Qiu Shi heard his wife's words and was afraid of what might come next, "Xiao Yan, there are guests here!"

  Xiao Yi suddenly stopped and stared at Ye Laosi, her eyes wide with surprise. "Sorry, I wasn't talking about you."

  Ye Lao Si smiled awkwardly, this was a bad time to interrupt, if he said anything now, wouldn't he really become a perverted old man?

  "Auntie, don't worry, I can even beat an adult now." Fang Mo Bei made a kung fu pose. "I practice every day, my fists are always ready and my songs are always on my lips!"

  "Be careful!" her aunt said helplessly, looking at her. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, your parents are not around, and you're separated by vast oceans. Safety comes first, after all, this isn't our home turf."

  "I know, I've endured all that I can." Fang Mo Bei didn't want to continue this topic. "Eating... eating, it's been a long time since I've had such delicious food. You don't know how tired I am of eating bread and potatoes." She quickened her pace of picking up dishes and ate with relish.

  After dinner, Mo Bei clears the table and Jenny is no longer around. They usually wash dishes and pots by themselves when they have nothing to do.

  It's too cold outside in winter, so my aunt and uncle can only play with the little guy in the living room. Incidentally, they listened to other songs by youandme on TV, and the more they listened, the more flavorful it became. Maybe knowing that the songs were sung by their own two nieces made them even more enjoyable, and they felt honored.

  Fang Mo Nan and Ye Lao Si went to the study room.

  "Fourth brother, how did you think of coming over?" Fang Mo Nan sipped his Kung Fu tea, occasionally raising his eyes to glance at him.

  Ye Lao Si focused on watching her make tea, this family really is able to produce talented people one after another! He took a sip of the tea she handed over.

  "It's so comfortable... being home is the best! I didn't expect Moscow to be that cold, almost froze to death... No idea how those Russians live." Ye Laosi's body shuddered slightly, seemingly still recovering from the biting chill of the Arctic Circle.

  "If you don't like the cold, then don't go," said Fang Mo'nan.

  "Heh heh. It's easy to make money over there, one trip can bring in tens of millions in profit, it's worth going even if it's cold!" Ye Laosi said with a chuckle.

  Two years ago, Ye Lao Si had already infiltrated the Soviet Union and watched it weaken step by step. "Ah! If you don't see it with your own eyes, you won't believe it. The Soviet big brother, claiming to be the world's second-strongest country, is on par with the US as one of the two superpowers of the world. But in reality, it has long been rotten to the core. Officials at all levels are corrupt and degenerate. Especially after World War II, the Soviet Communist Party became highly centralized, and officials in leadership positions colluded with each other, gradually forming a huge privileged class. By the time of Brezhnev, this 'bureaucratic clan group' had basically taken shape. At this point, all sorts of bureaucratic groups were already fully formed, corrupt, and abusing their power to embezzle large amounts of national wealth for themselves." He sighed with regret.

  "Alright, stop being so sentimental. If it doesn't get messy, what's the fun in that?" Fang Mo Nan sneered.

  Ye Lao Si thought to himself, "That's right, now it's just a sigh of relief, nothing more." To be honest, he didn't have much deep feelings for the Soviet Union either. "The old Russians are the most greedy, they've taken advantage of us too many times in history... Their money, if we don't make it, it'll go to waste..."

  "Look! Now you're not even sentimental, and when it comes to making money, there's no guilt at all. You've changed so quickly!" Fang Mo Nan joked. "In the future, we'll make even more, with profits increasing a hundredfold. At that time, we'll really live up to the saying 'counting money until our hands cramp'!"

  "Haha…… That's really great, those greedy Arctic bears have taken advantage of us for so long. Now that we've finally caught the opportunity, we'll take as much as we can and won't show any mercy, this is just a little interest." Ye Laosi laughed. "The border trade was booming, and it was extremely hot at the time. The people from the north all went to run the border trade, it was truly exceptionally prosperous."

  "Everyone in the country is crazily worshipping opportunistic successes." Fang Mennan muttered to himself, holding his tea cup and falling into deep thought.

  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, numerous wealthy individuals who made their fortunes through smuggling or other illicit means, as well as Mou Qizhong, the chairman of the Nande Group, who was then considered the richest man in China, brought back four Russian civilian aircraft in exchange for 500 trucks of light industrial products in 1989. These examples make people feel that the phrase "the bolder one is, the more wealth one has" from the Cultural Revolution era indeed has some truth to it, and as a result, countless speculators emerged.

  It turns out that Fang Mo Nan is also a member of the opportunists, and it's an extreme degree. However, she has grasped many opportunities over the past 30 years, summarized the experiences of these opportunistic successes, analyzed the accidental and inevitable aspects of their successes, and found that many people succeeded because they conformed to the irresistible factors of the times, while she relied on this success to move forward.

  People lack a sense of security, everything is snatched away - first it was home appliances, houses, educational resources, later on everything was snatched away. If there's an opportunity and you don't seize it, you're a fool. All this has been passed down to the present day. Success or failure depends on oneself, as the saying goes: with one skill in hand, you can travel the world without worry! The ancients were not deceiving me. She would only be so desperate because indeed relying on nothing is better than relying on others.

  "Ringing... " The phone rang, breaking Fang Mo Nan's meditation. She picked it up: "Hello! I'm Fang Mo Nan."

  "Boss, I'm Allen. I'm just downstairs. The revised 3D rendering of the casino hotel is out." Allen exclaimed over the phone. "Come down now! I won't come up!"

  "Oh! So that's it! Alright!" Fang Mo Nan looked up and down at Ye Lao Si, "You've come just in time, follow me to a place. Maybe there's somewhere we can use you."

  Ye Lao Si was stared at by her, "What's going on! I have to go too!"

  "Come on! Fourth brother! You'll know when you get there." Fang Mo Nan pulled his arm and said mysteriously, "Maybe it's a good thing for you!"

  "Oh!" Ye Laosi raised an eyebrow, his curiosity also piqued.

  Fang Mo Nan and Xiao Yi said hello, then went downstairs. A blue Lamborghini was parked downstairs. Allen got out of the driver's seat.

  Allen saw a stranger and opened the car door. "I didn't know there was someone else, how can this be seated?" It's just a double row seat, which is now in trouble.

  "It's not that simple. I'm small and it's spacious inside, so squeezing between you two is fine, anyway we're close." Fang Mo Nan said.

  "Then I'll have to trouble you," said Ye Laosi.

  "Alright!" Allen opened the car door and let Ye Lao Si sit in the passenger seat, while Fang Mo Nan crouched between them. With a "whoosh", the car shot out like an arrow off the string.

  "Where are we going?" Fang Mo Nan asked with his hands on the two seats.

  "Oh! We'll be in downtown soon." Allen said while steering the wheel.

  "What's the rendering like?" Fang Mo Nan asked curiously, wondering what the improved hotel would look like.

  "Great, I'm a little impatient for it to be built as soon as possible." Allen exclaimed.

  They soon arrived at their destination. After Allen got out of the car, Fang Mo Nan came down from the driver's seat, and Ye Lao Si also got out. With a "bang", they closed the car door, and the parking attendant took the key to drive to the underground parking lot.

  Fang Mo Nan and Ai Lun, Ye Lao Si walked together into the building, entered the elevator, they took the elevator to the eleventh floor, outside the door Liang Zi saw them coming, extinguished his cigarette butt, quickly walked over.

  "Ah! Liangzi is also here." Ye Laosi stretched out his hand, "Fourth Master, what brings you here?" Liangzi also stretched out his hand and shook it twice.

  "Come and see your sister!" Ye Laosi said with a smile.

  "Come on in, everything is ready." Liang pushed open the door, and inside was a small conference room.

  "This is our old acquaintance, the famous architect Kane Jonason." Liangzi introduced to everyone, Kane got up and shook hands with everyone, Liangzi continued: "This is a high school student from Peking University School of Architecture, Luo Bingwen, who is now studying at Princeton University, School of Architecture. The renderings this time are the result of the two architects' sincere cooperation."

  "Alright, let's not say more than we need to, let's take a look at the effect diagram first," said Liang Zi.

  Allen pulled up the curtains, dimmed the lights and began to explain in English, fortunately everyone understood English. "This time's effect diagram is thanks to Dell and Microsoft's help, so the effect diagram is made very well, this is a city that never sleeps." On the large curtain in front of them, a vast blue ocean appeared, shocking everyone.

  At this moment, everyone's attention was drawn over there, as if watching a movie, the visual impact was not small.

  The screen is a group of seagulls flying low towards the land, and then you see a blue that makes people's hearts drunk, a city, and then you see a blue palace imitating the royal family of the Ming and Qing dynasties, like the East Sea Dragon Palace, golden glazed tiles, shining brightly under the sunlight. Immediately afterwards, the camera is directed at other places in the city, each time the camera zooms in, various facilities such as hotels, casinos, entertainment venues, playgrounds, swimming pools, garden banquet halls, etc., all the planning and layout of the hotel casino are presented before everyone's eyes. This is really shocking.

  The demonstration is over, Allen pulled open the curtains, but the conference room was still very quiet, and everyone was still indulging in the scene just now.

  Allen and Liangzi were so shocked and excited every time they saw the design, they couldn't wait to start working on it.

  Every time they look at the renderings, the two master architects are also thrilled.