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On the morning of July 10, 1956, before breakfast, Xi Chongyi received a call from her grandmother and learned that her grandfather had died in the magic capital on July 6.

Xi Chongyi hung up the phone and cried.

Li Hualong hurriedly put down his chopsticks, walked to Xi Chongyi's side, and asked softly, "Chongyi, why are you crying?" ”

"Aaron, my grandfather has passed away." Xi Chongyi lay in Li Hualong's arms and cried whining.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Li Hualong gently patted Xi Chongyi's back and comforted: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, this is the law of nature, don't be too sad......"

"Aaron, I'm going to accompany my grandmother."

"Yes, we'll go now."

"Let's go have breakfast first."

"I'm not hungry." Li Hualong told a white lie, but he knew that Xi Chongyi wanted to return to his grandmother at this moment, and he was willing to go hungry in order to take care of Xi Chongyi.

After greeting his family, Li Hualong accompanied Xi Chongyi back to his parents' home, which was the villa that Li Hualong gave to Xi Chongyi not long ago.

After Xi Chongyi accepted the villa, she let her grandmother live here, and her second brother Xi Chongqin's family and his third brother Xi Chongjian (that is, Lei Zhen) also lived in this villa.

On the way back to her parents' house by car, Xi Chongyi asked, "Ah Long, do you know who my grandfather is?" ”

"I don't know. We hadn't talked about this before, I only heard your grandmother say that he lives in the magic capital. ”

"My grandfather's name is Gu Zhuxuan, known as the 'Riverside Tycoon', and the 'Tianchan Stage' he runs is the first of the four stages in the magic capital."

"Oh!" Li Hualong nodded, "It turns out that my grandfather is a tycoon in Jiangbei, like thunder!" ”

In later generations, in "Mei Lanfang" directed by Chen Kaige, although Liming who played Mei Lanfang was the starring role, Sun Honglei played Mei Lanfang's friend and the boss of the Demon Capital Tianchan Stage Gu Zhuxuan Gu Siye in this movie, and the role is also very heavy, Gu Siye is a tycoon who straddles black and white, and plays a key role in the development of the clues of the whole play.

Xi Chongyi's grandmother is not Gu Zhuxuan's original partner, but the second wife and concubine.

At the beginning, shortly after the liberation of the magic capital, Xi Chongyi came to Hong Kong with her maternal grandparents, and later, her maternal grandfather returned to the magic capital.

Xi Chongyi's grandmother is old, and her body does not allow her to go to the magic capital to mourn, she and her granddaughter are at home in Hong Kong together, worship Gu Zhuxuan in the magic capital, and Li Hualong also participated in the memorial activities.

"Chongyi, I see that my grandmother is very sad, these days, you accompany her more, and I will live here with you."

After listening to Li Hualong's thoughtful words, Xi Chongyi was very moved, feeling that she had not picked the wrong person, she did not refuse, and thanked her: "Ah Long, thank you." ”

"Fool, we are husband and wife, why should we say thank each other."

In the next few days, Li Hualong rarely went out to work, and spent a lot of time chatting with Xi Chongyi's grandmother every day.

After this period of contact, Xi Chongyi's grandmother felt that Li Hualong was a good person and loved her granddaughter very much, and she naturally favored this grandson-in-law, and in front of Xi Chongyi, she did not hesitate to praise Li Hualong.

"Little Liu, you married the right person. Hua Long will be a good husband, and he will be a good father in the future. ”

"Grandma, do you really think so?"

"Yes. Before, although I agreed with you to marry Li Hualong, I was very worried, but now I am not worried, I am happy for you! Grandma smiled happily, since she learned the news of her husband's death, she has been very sad, it is difficult to see a smile on her face, even if there is a smile, it is forced to smile.

Xi Chongyi chatted with her grandmother for a while, and when lunch was ready, she went upstairs to ask Li Hualong for lunch.

When he came to the bedroom, Xi Chongyi saw Li Hualong drawing, and asked curiously, "What are you drawing?" ”

Li Hualong turned his head to look at Xi Chongyi and said with a smile: "Logo, I plan to run a chain convenience store chain with my eldest brother-in-law." ”

Xi Chongyi was puzzled: "What kind of store is a convenience store?" ”

Li Hualong explained: "It's a small shop that sells all kinds of daily necessities, and it's okay to say it's a grocery store. ”

Xi Chongyi thought for a while, and then asked, "How much money are you going to invest?" ”

"Invest 100,000 yuan first, the principal will be provided by me, and the eldest brother-in-law will account for 20% of the dry shares. If the business is good, I will increase my investment in the future. Li Hualong smiled, "Don't worry, I won't be partial, I will also support what business the three eldest brothers want to do in the future." Even if the third brother wants to open a film company, I will support it. ”

"When did I say you were biased?!" Xi Chongyi glanced at Li Hualong and asked with a smile, "My third brother runs a film company?" Let him compete with you? ”

"Peers are not necessarily competitive, they can also cooperate. At the beginning, the third brother wanted to make a movie, but there was not enough money, so Huayi Brothers could cooperate with him to make a joint venture to make a movie. Even if in the future, the third brother's film company has the strength to make movies as a sole proprietorship, the two sides can continue to cooperate and cooperate in making movies, which can reduce the risk. ”

"Thank you!" Xi Chongyi sincerely thanked him.

"Your family is my family." Li Hualong knew what Xi Chongyi was thanking, he stood up and kissed Xi Chongyi on the forehead gently, "Chongyi, are you asking me to go to lunch?" ”

"yes. Patronizing and talking, hurry up and go down, lunch is ready. ”

When she went downstairs, Xi Chongyi asked, "I see that the logo you just drew has the Arabic numeral 7 and the English number Eleven, and this convenience store is named after the number?" ”

"Yes, the English name is seveneleven, and the convenience store is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m."

"Seveneleven, the name is easy to remember. What do you call someone who doesn't know English? ”

“7-1-1。”

"That's a good name, hehe, Aaron, you're really capable!"

"It's necessary, I don't have any skills, how can I win your favor!" Li Hualong said smugly.

"Don't say you're fat, you're panting!" Xi Chongyi quipped.

A month later, on August 18, the first 7-Eleven convenience store opened in Central, Hong Kong Island.

The shop pù was rented, and the owner was Jiu'an Group, because it was rented by Li Hualong's company, and Li Huawen rented the store pù to 7-Eleven for free, but the brothers said that the rent-free lease period was only one year, and after one year, the rent was calculated according to the market price, and if the convenience store's business was not good enough, after paying the rent, there was no profit, then 7-Eleven would give up renewing the lease.

Li Hualong didn't know when the "7-eleven" brand was created, but he knew that the brand had not yet appeared in Hong Kong at this time, and even if others used the "7-eleven" brand in markets outside Hong Kong, he didn't mind too much, and he could solve it through a lawsuit.

Li Hualong plans to go to Japan and the United States and other countries to register the trademark "7-Eleven" in another year or two, if others register in advance, in the case of a price that is not too high, he is willing to spend money to buy it, so that he can complete the registration of this trademark in various countries and regions around the world.

On the day of the opening of the first 7-Eleven convenience store, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was specially held, and on such an important occasion, Li Hualong, the big boss of this company, naturally participated, and he also let people take pictures.

Prior to this, Li Hualong planned to develop "7-Eleven" into the world's most famous convenience store in the future.

After participating in the ribbon cutting, Li Hualong did not stay at the convenience store, but went to work at Hualong Real Estate Company, and there are several building design plans waiting for him to make a decision today.

Hualong Real Estate Company does not have its own construction company, and in the past year or so, the houses invested and built by this company have been built by Li Huawen's Jiuan Company.

Li Hualong owns one of Hong Kong's most powerful architectural design firms, Greenland Architectural Design, which not only provides architectural design for its brother company Hualong Real Estate, but also provides design for Evergrande and Jiu'an, and a number of Hong Kong real estate companies have also become Greenland's customers.

For the convenience of management, Greenland Architectural Design Company and Hualong Real Estate Company are located in an office building called Hualong Real Estate Building in Central, which is a property under the name of Hualong Real Estate.

Li Hualong is not a workaholic, he said Hualong Real Estate Building, and after deciding on several construction plans, he learned about the company's work in the future and made some instructions. At about half past three in the afternoon of this day, Li Hualong felt that what he needed to do was almost done, and his boss went home from work early.

Back home, Li Hualong accompanied his mother and two wives to chat.

Recently, Yang Meng and Xi Chongyi have basically stayed at home, and sometimes they will go back to their parents' house to see.

Li Hualong's mother has no job and no housework to take care of, she is not very sociable, usually stays at home to listen to opera recorded on vinyl records, and sometimes, she will invite friends to come to the house for tea and mahjong.

"I'm back." Li Hualong greeted with a smile, "Grandma, what are you talking about with your two daughters-in-law?" ”

"Small talk." Li Song smiled, "Why did you get off work so early today?" ”

"Haven't I been leaving work early a lot lately?" Li Hualong smiled, came to his mother and sat down, and asked, "Grandma, we haven't gone out to watch a movie together for a long time, when will you have time to enjoy the light and accompany me?" ”

"Literal crepe." Li Song smiled, "You have this time, spend more time with your two wives." During pregnancy, women need men to spend more time with them. ”

"Grandma, it seems that your two daughters-in-law have successfully bought you!" Li Hualong joked.

"I'm going to be a father soon, it's not serious." Li Song glared at Li Hualong a few times.

Li Hualong smiled, and then said to the two wives: "Mengmeng, Chongyi, the day after tomorrow, the premiere of "Freak Woman" will be held at the Lianhua Cinema in Causeway Bay, do you want to go and see it together?" ”

Yang Meng and Xi Chongyi smiled when they met, Yang Meng shook his head and said: "I don't like to be lively now, I won't go, let Chongyi accompany you." ”

"I, I don't want to go either." Xi Chongyi said.

"If you don't go, you won't go, it's not a big deal." Li Hualong smiled unhesitantly.

Xi Chongyi asked, "Have you seen the finished film?" ”

"I've seen it, it's a good shot!"

Xi Chongyi asked again: "How is Chen Sisi's cousin?" ”

"It's okay, I think it's a good performance...... If you act, it's definitely better than her. Li Hualong said with a smile, the first half of the sentence is true, the second half of the sentence is false, he feels that Chen Sisi's performance in "Freak Woman" can almost be described as perfect, he doesn't think Xi Chongyi can play better.

"Chen Sisi, is she in the 'Huayi Four Beauties'?" Li Song asked.

"Grandma, do you still know the four beauties of Huayi!" Li Hualong smiled.

"I heard from a friend, she said that your film company has four of the most beautiful actresses in Hong Kong, known as the four beauties of Huayi!" Li Song smiled, "I think the other two are definitely not as beautiful as Mengmeng and Chongyi." ”

"Grandma, I think they're prettier than me." Xi Chongyi said modestly.

"Each has its own beauty, and everyone's aesthetic is different." Yang Meng smiled generously.

That night, Li Hualong spent the night with Yang Meng.

After taking a bath and lying down on the bed, Li Hualong asked Yang Meng to serve him with his hands and mouth. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! ）