Volume 1: Once in a Lifetime Chapter 17: Opening up a New Battlefield in the South Seas
On the other hand, Da Lin spent the night in the Manti Villa, and in the morning his head was dizzy and could not get up, he felt that he was about to be sucked dry by the female eel, and he was too lazy to move in bed.
Manti got up early, dressed alone, had breakfast, came to the bedroom to dress up, and saw Dalin lying on the bed like a dead pig, and secretly scolded him for being an old man. When he put on his earrings, he sat on the edge of the bed, patted him on the back and told him to get up quickly and go to the company.
"Manti, you let me sleep a little longer, I'm too tired, I won't run if I go to the company a little late."
"If you don't go, be careful that the company is abducted!"
"What's the matter, the company is ours, are you afraid of who will snatch it?"
Da Lin and Manti said a few words, slowly stretched out, stretched a lazy waist, and raised their heads:
"Up!"
Manti helped him get dressed, Dalin pouted to kiss her, a hangover of alcohol, a man's breath came to his face, Manti frowned in disgust, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked him to brush his teeth quickly. Dalin still kissed Manti, and squirmed like a young man to brush his teeth and wash his face.
When Dalin was gobbling up fried bacon and drinking milk at the dining table, a phone call came, and when Manti heard that it was the secretary Sally calling, he turned his head and smiled at Dalin. Dalin chewed the last bite of the egg and wiped his mouth. Manti put a hat on him, crouched down and wiped his shoes with a silk scarf a few times.
The two went out together, and the driver was waiting outside the door early, and when he saw Dalin coming out, he respectfully opened the car door and let Dalin sit in.
Manti leaned against the door and beckoned to him, wearing a newly cut cheongsam with autumn leaves on a blue background and the red maple autumn color leaking from the door, it was really a unique autumn charm. Dalin followed the example of a young man and sent a flying kiss to Manti, who picked it up with a "star catcher", and Dalin let the driver drive.
Recently, the company plans to expand its business in Southeast Asia. The situation in China is unstable, and more and more Chinese are immigrating to Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, etc., and they bring with them the specialties, photos, and relatives of their hometowns, but they cannot take away the customs of their hometowns.
For them, every stone and grass in their homeland is a priceless treasure.
The beautiful singing in the "Fanghua Ballroom" was transmitted to a foreign country through the disc machine, and the crisp and fluttering singing soothed people's every pore and ironed, Dalin sniffed out the business opportunities and discussed with the directors to open "Fanghua" branch halls in Southeast Asian countries.
"Let's tell me what you mean."
The directors exchanged heads and whispered about Dalin's decision. One of the directors said:
"Mr. Lin, this is a very good idea, the influence of 'Fanghua' among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia is very great, I think we will open branch halls in these countries, send Miss China over, and don't worry about no business."
Dalin listened to him with a smile, took a puff of his pipe, and asked others if they had any opinions, and put them forward for everyone to share.
At the conference table, there was another exchange of ears, and Dalin's brother Lin Maoshan raised one hand, blocking his mouth, secretly thinking about something, his eyes sometimes drifted to the eldest brother, and sometimes glanced at the directors present. He is forty-six or seventeen years old, and he has not yet made a fortune in middle age, "If a person does not become blessed in middle age, he will be treacherous and deceitful." "Let's look at Xiao Lin's pair of eagle eyes, a hooked nose, and an eagle's beak, which can't hide his treacherous appearance.
The brothers were born on a small island off the eastern coast and grew up in a modest family of fishermen.
At the age of fourteen, Dalin left his hometown alone and went to Shanghai to fight the world with a "bare ass". Starting from the wharf cargo worker, a little bit of savings, began to do his own business, single-handedly founded the "Lin family", the initial only involved entertainment, brutal growth for more than ten years, branches and leaves gradually spread to the shipbuilding, banks, commercial buildings, schools and so on. It can be said that the life of Shanghainese people is dealing with "Lin's" every day.
A few years after Dalin "went to sea", Xiaolin also "swam out" of the small island, wanting to see how the eldest brother did it and get some benefits for himself.
Less than three years after he arrived in Shanghai, he deceived a rich daughter with a smooth mouth and the ability to do things, and coaxed his father-in-law to come up with funds to support him to invest in his eldest brother's property "Lin's", and he was not satisfied. Now he looked coldly at the "old antiques" in the conference room.
"Mr. Lin, Southeast Asia is so small and far away, and it is someone else's territory, I'm afraid that business will not be good, and it is enough for us to guard the gold land of Shanghai."
The person who spoke was Xiao Lin's person, he didn't inject much money, but he was pulled together by Xiao Lin, and his body bones were a few or two. Xiao Lin heard him pour cold water on Da Lin like this, a trace of an imperceptible evil smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he rubbed his nose with his thumb quietly, seeing what Da Lin said.
"Mr. Zhang, this is something to consider. As the old saying goes, 'everything is difficult at the beginning', think about the 'Lin family' is also such a poor and white fight. In this regard, I know better than you that I am not afraid of any fever miasma in Southeast Asia, which cannot defeat people who do great things, and if I am afraid, I am afraid that I am small and timid, and when the tide rises, it will be a tsunami! β
"Hahahaha-"
Dalin's words were full of humor in his domineering, and the directors present laughed, and even Sally, the little secretary who was standing against the wall and was in charge of serving tea and water, also laughed back and forth. Mr. Zhang, who had just spoken, blushed, took a sip of tea in embarrassment, and raised the lid of the teacup to block everyone's smiling faces.
"Xiaolin, what do you think?"
As soon as Dalin spoke, the laughter was like a fire being poured with water, and it was all extinguished, and the conference room was silent. Xiao Lin said respectfully to his eldest brother:
"Mr. Lin, expanding business is of course a good thing for the 'Lin family', the directors are looking at Mr. Lin, and the whole of Shanghai is also looking at Mr. Lin." Lin's 'how to turn, Shanghai will turn. But it's Southeast Asiaβ
We don't know how it turns, their clocks are a few hours slower than ours, and many things are different. β
The directors felt that what Xiao Lin said was reasonable, and they all nodded in agreement, and Da Lin puffed out a puff of smoke rings, leaned back, sank into the chair, crossed Erlang's legs, and thought, when he saw the little secretary in the corner, he suddenly remembered something, and asked:
"Sally, didn't you buy Ao Dai from Vietnam yesterday, you can tell me your views on Southeast Asian countries, you little girls see things new, let's listen to your opinions."
The little secretary Sally was told the secret of the two of them in front of so many directors by Dalin, and two blush immediately flew up her cheeks, and the freckles on her cheeks bulged out one by one.
Just yesterday, she received a traditional Vietnamese costume Ao Dai from relatives far away in Vietnam, and she couldn't wait to go to the small room to change it, she thought that everyone had rested at noon, so she took off her clothes unguardedly and changed into this silk yellow Ao Dai. The soft and smooth light yarn tightly wrapped around her slender waist, and the trouser legs were spread out underneath.
Sally was looking at this beautiful Ao Dai in fascination, imagining plantains, blue seas, and blue skies...... I don't want a figure to flash, it's Dalin! How did the chairman get in? She was suddenly frightened, bowed her head and became shy, and stood there cramped and uneasy listening to Dalin's orders. Dalin looked at this strange dress full of the gentle and beautiful temperament of a little woman, and asked her:
"What kind of weird clothes is this? It's not from Shanghai, is it? β
"It was Ao Dai, my aunt from Vietnam gave it to me."
"Oh! - Pretty, pretty. β
Dalin said, smiling in a daze, his eyes wandering dishonestly on Sally's body, and his hands followed dishonestly, pretending not to pay attention to touch the pattern on Ao Dai, and praised this handiwork is really good. Sally shivered, squirming to avoid Da Lin's hand, Da Lin looked at her nervous appearance, smiled, spread out her big palm all the way from the neck to the shoulder, to the chest, to the waist, and finally squatted down, grabbed the hem of the clothes and was about to lift it up.
"Ah, Mr. Lin!"
Sally tugged at her skirt tightly, tears streaming down her face. Dalin suddenly lost interest, he didn't like to see women crying, that would upset him, he would rather Sally slap him to provoke his desire.
That's how men make a mistake!
Sally's thoughts wandered away and returned to where they were. She glanced at Da Lin unhappily, walked to the conference table, and said to Da Lin first:
"Thank you, Mr. Lin, for giving me the opportunity to share my views with the directors."
Then he turned to the directors and said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Sally will give her a superficial opinion. I went to Vietnam last year, stayed for about ten days, and saw that there are many overseas Chinese, many shops and medical centers are opened by overseas Chinese, they run well, and they get along well with the locals. However, my aunt said that the situation over there is now starting to be chaotic, people from different camps are fighting, foreign devils are also going to enter, some people in Vietnam have also begun to exclude Chinese, and the life of overseas Chinese is not as good as before. β
Dalin listened carefully to every word Sally said, and his expression became more and more serious, it seems that Vietnam is "internal and external troubles", this right and wrong ....... One of the directors seemed to be listening, smoking a cigar and flicking the ashes a few times, interrupting Sally:
"Miss Sally, you're talking about North Vietnam, a country as long as Vietnam's belt, and there is a big difference between his north, central and southern sides. Vietnam is engaged in civil strife, but entertainment is still doing well, and it is getting better and better. β
Speaking of excitement, the man sat down again, with a cigar in his hand, and lit a few directors and said:
"You don't know, there's a python queen there, she can understand snake language, she can dance with snakes, some people say - she also sleeps with snakes in a glass box!"
A few of the directors laughed when they heard it, and they didn't think that there really was a "femme fatale", and a few of them turned pale, imagining the big black snake spitting bright red letters, roaming around the beauty, licking every inch of her skin, and the veins under the skin trembled.
Xiao Lin seemed to see the beauty lying in the glass box, posing in a seductive posture, hooking her slender jade fingers at him, and her tongue involuntarily licked her lips, grinning. Dalin laughed and asked the director:
"Mr. Li, is there really such a strange woman in the world?"
Director Li patted the table and said with a smile:
"Mr. Lin, I'll pay for the snake beauty to accompany everyone, this woman is very capable!"
All the directors present burst into laughter, and Dalin nodded at Mr. Li, laughing so hard that he couldn't speak. Sally looked at Director Li with disdain, and looked down on these stinky men condescendingly: even if they put on a solemn suit, they couldn't hide the filth in their hearts, even if they put on a tie, they couldn't tie their foul words, it was really a pack of stinky meat in silk bags, full of wine-colored wealth, and the smell was unstoppable.
Sally pursed her lips contemptuously, waited for the laughter to slow down, and said lightly:
"Mr. Li is talking about the new horse snake demon."
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