Chapter 104: Contentment and Discontentment
On the evening of the end of July, Li Hualong spent the night with Yang Meng, who was more than a month pregnant.
Before falling asleep, the two lay on the bed and chatted for a while.
"Tomorrow, Cui Ping may have a baby. Are you going to visit her and the child in the hospital? ”
"After work, I'll go there." Li Hualong smiled, "When are you going to go?" ”
"Go in the morning."
"You three sisters have made an appointment to go together?"
"yes." Yang Meng smiled, "In more than half a month, Lin Xin's first birthday, how are you going to spend it?" ”
"Set up a few tables in the hotel, invite relatives and friends to have a meal, and everyone gathers." Li Hualong smiled, "Besides, how else can you live?" ”
"It's not creative at all." Yang Meng said angrily.
"Creativity? Hehe, don't you have any ideas? ”
"No, I'm just saying it casually."
"Let's go!" Li Hualong smiled and kissed Yang Meng on the cheek, stared at his wife for a moment, and then combed her bangs with his fingers, "Wife, am I taking many things for granted?" ”
"What do you mean?" Yang Meng knew what Li Hualong was referring to, but she also asked.
Li Hualong sighed lightly, did not answer directly, was silent for a long time, and then asked: "If you go back to girlhood now, how do you plan to live your life?" ”
"What do you mean?" Yang Meng looked at Li Hualong with a puzzled expression.
"Huh!" Li Hualong smiled, "It's not 1963 now, you went back to 1947 with your current memories, your appearance has become younger, but you have more memories of the next fifteen years." ”
Yang Meng was stunned for a long time and muttered, "How is this possible?!" ”
"Hundreds of years ago, few people were convinced that the earth was round, and at that time, the vast majority of people believed that the earth was the center of the universe. And now, as long as you have a little common sense, you know that the earth is round, and the earth is not the center of the universe. A lot of incredible things now may become true in the future. ”
"yes. What you just said is amazing...... I think it can be written into a movie script, and maybe it can set a box office record. ”
"Uh......"
"Don't uh, in the next few days, you'll just find time to write the script." Yang Meng smiled.
“ok! Listen to your wife, it's definitely right! ”
"Then you listen to me now, turn off the lights and go to sleep."
"Good!" Li Hualong turned off the lights and said with a smile, "Mengmeng, I can find time to write movie scripts, but the story I just said about going back to the past with memories will have the opportunity to write in the future." ”
"Whatever you want. I'm really sleepy, husband, good night! ”
"Good night!"
After arriving at the good night, the two slept peacefully and did not say anything all night.
The next day, August 1, at noon, Li Huahu's wife Wen Cuiping gave birth to her second son in the hospital.
Li Hualong had lunch, returned to the office, and received a call from Yang Meng.
"Aaron, I have good news for you, Cui Ping gave birth to a son."
"Good news!" Li Hualong smiled and said, "Ah Hu must be very happy." ”
"I was very happy and smiled like a child."
"Have you decided what to name your child?"
"Li Shengjiang."
"The river is full of water, and water is money!" Li Hualong joked, "Ah Hu must think that Sheng Jiang will make a lot of money when he grows up." ”
"There is more water in the sea than in the river. Listen to what you mean, Sheng Hai will be richer than Sheng Jiang in the future. ”
"It's very likely."
"You're talking nonsense." Yang Meng smiled, "Are you busy with work today?" ”
"It's busy, I've been in meetings all morning."
"Do you have time to come to the hospital that afternoon?"
"Yes. There wasn't much to do in the afternoon, so I could get off work early and go home for dinner today. ”
"Oh, wait a minute, I'm going home, so I'm not waiting for you in the hospital."
"It's better. It's boring to stay in the hospital. ”
"It's okay, I'm hanging."
"Bye-bye, dear!"
In the evening of that day, when Li Hualong came to the ward where Fang Cuiping lived, he saw Li Huahu and Fang Cuiping.
After saying hello, Li Hualong asked, "What about the child?" ”
"Put it in the nursery." Li Huahu took Li Hualong's hand, "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look." ”
"Okay!"
Outside the nursery, Li Hualong met his nephew Li Shengjiang, who had just been born for a few hours.
"Look, my son is cute!"
"Lovely. Hehe, our Li family's genes are good. ”
After chatting a few words, Li Hualong said, "Wait a while, let's go to my house for dinner." ”
"No, my mother-in-law said okay, I'll bring food later."
"I remember you said that the Lisboa Hotel opened in September, will it be able to open as scheduled?"
"If there are no accidents, it will open on September 1st."
Li Hualong smiled: "Hurry up, open a day earlier, and you can make more money." ”
"Third brother, Galaxy Entertainment's first gambling = the game is open for business, you don't need to be there, so forget it. But this time the Lisboa Hotel opened, you must go. Besides, you designed the Lisboa Hotel, so you don't want to see what the hotel will look like when it's built? ”
"Let's talk about it then, I have time, Ken can be there."
Li Huahu pretended to be displeased and said, "Are you so busy?" ”
"Okay, okay, if nothing happens, I'm definitely going to ...... That's okay, right? ”
"Okay!" Li Huahu laughed, "Third brother, you are too face-giving. ”
"Can I not give you face?!" Li Hualong smiled bitterly.
It is true that the Lisboa Hotel was designed by Li Hualong, but the appearance of the hotel is borrowed from the hotel of the same name in later generations, and he spent a lot of thought and time designing this hotel, and he is personally quite satisfied with this work.
"Thank you!" Li Huahu said with a smile, "Third brother, the Excelsior Hotel in Central opened last Sunday, does it have a big impact on the business of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Holiday Inn?" ”
"The impact is not small. With the opening of the Excelsior Hotel, Holiday Inn and Mandarin Oriental have added another competitor. Fortunately, the Mandarin Oriental has established a good reputation for its level of Excelsior hotels, and the Hilton Hotel and the newly opened Excelsior Hotel have worse business than the Mandarin Oriental. ”
The Excelsior Hotel, a 30-storey building less than 200 metres from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, is part of Hongkong Land, bringing the number of hotels (500 rooms) in this small area of Hong Kong's Central to four, the first three being Holiday Inn and Mandarin Oriental under the umbrella of Lee Wah Lung, and the US-owned Hilton.
"Mandarin Oriental and Excelsior are of the same class? What are the same rates for the two hotels? ”
"The Excelsior is a little cheaper."
"Have you ever been to the Excelsior Hotel?" Li Huahu asked.
"Nope. Executives from my hotels have been. ”
"This is spying on the enemy."
"Sort of. Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles! Li Hualong smiled faintly.
"Since the opening of the Mandarin Oriental, you haven't been to the Holiday Inn very often, have you?"
"When I paid for a treat, I really hadn't been there." Li Hualong smiled.
"Just because the eldest brother has 20% of the shares of Holiday Inn?"
"It's not. The Mandarin Oriental is more luxurious than the Holiday Inn, and since I'm having a dinner treat, I can't afford to be stingy. ”
Li Hualong raised his fist, punched Li Huahu's chest, and said with a smile: "In your eyes, am I a stingy person?" ”
"Of course not, you have always been a generous person in my heart." Li Huahu smiled and said, "This afternoon, the eldest brother came over, I chatted with him for a while, and he said that he was short of money now. If you want to buy 20% of Holiday Inn from your eldest brother, he shouldn't refuse. ”
"There is no need for this, 20% of the shares of Holiday Inn are nothing in the eyes of the eldest brother." Li Hualong smiled, "You shouldn't be short of money, right?" “
"Who says I'm not short of money?" Li Huahu countered, "There are few people in the world who are not short of money. If the bank is willing to lend me 100 million, I will definitely not refuse. ”
"Most of the people who feel that they are short of money are not satisfied." Li Hualong joked.
"Third brother, do you feel content?"
"Quite content."
"Not like that!" Li Huahu shook his head and looked at Li Hualong with a teasing smile, "If you are really content, I think you should be able to consider retiring." You're rich enough, there's no need to fight to make money. ”
"It's not as simple as making money, but watching the company I created grows and gives me a sense of accomplishment...... In a sense, I'm not satisfied. ”