Chapter 11: You Treat Me as a Friend
Ma Jingdong took out the key to open the door, flew back to the house with Yang Yifei, and called out habitually, but the sentence "I'm back" became "We're back".
Ma Danna was cooking as usual, and at this time there were already five dishes on the table, and when she heard the sound of the horse clanging, she subconsciously came out to take a look, and when she saw Yang Yifei coming back with her, a smile immediately appeared on her face.
"Ah Fei will sit down for a while, and the food will be ready immediately."
"Hey, thank you, Auntie, it's too troublesome for you to prepare so many dishes." Yang Yifei is as polite as ever.
"No trouble, no trouble, this kid, hehe."
Ma Danna returned to the kitchen, and Ma Jingdong ran to Ma Dalong's room to take a look, but saw him lying on the bed in a daze with a decadent face.
Ma Jingdang's shoulders collapsed, shook his head helplessly, walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Ma Dalong, and said, "Failed again?" ”
The word "again" exhausts Ma Dalong's sadness and Ma Jingdong's helplessness.
Ma Dalong looked at his sister aggrievedly and said, "I just played a few notes, and they rang the bell to let me go, and they didn't listen to me sing at all." ”
Ma Jingdong scratched his head and said cautiously: "Big brother, have you ever thought about whether you may be suitable for this profession, should you consider doing something else?" ”
Ma Dalong stared at the ceiling blankly, but his voice was inexplicably firm, "But music is my dream, I believe that I will succeed, I will succeed if I believe it, I will succeed if I don't believe it, I will succeed if I believe it......"
Ma Jingdong put his hand on his forehead, silently got up and walked out of the room, this guy is hopeless.
Yang Yifei looked at Ma Dingdong who came out with a collapsed expression on his face, and almost couldn't hold back his laughter, he heard the conversation just now clearly, Ma Dalong's brainwashing sentence was really joyful.
Ma Jingdang sat down next to Yang Yifei, the whole person collapsed on the sofa, he pretended not to know why, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Ma Jingdong said weakly: "My eldest brother went to participate in the audition of the singing competition today, and he was brushed off as soon as he went up, and he has been brushed off more than once, but he has never recognized the reality." ”
Yang Yifei pursed his lips and sighed: "Yes! It's an era of face-seeking, and talent is becoming less and less valuable. ”
Ma Jingdang shook his head with a wry smile, Yang Yifei rolled his eyes, and said: "Otherwise, I will pay for him to release the record at his own expense, and then spend money to invite major radio stations to broadcast it." ”
"The audience can't see his face, they can only listen to his songs, so maybe when his songs become popular, his situation will change?"
In this era, the families who can own TVs and VCRs already belong to well-off families, and more are low-level citizens who cannot afford to buy TVs.
It would be nice to have a radio at home that could play cassette tapes, and most of them only have a semiconductor, which can only listen to radio stations.
Therefore, the radio station in this era is still very popular, as long as it can be played on the radio station, with the level of Ma Dalong, plus the classic songs written by Yang Yifei for him, it will definitely be popular.
Ma Jingdong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "It sounds good, but it will cost a lot of money!" ”
Yang Yifei said with a smile: "Don't talk to me about money, talk about interest, it's not a matter if money can solve anything, as long as you are interested, everyone is happy." ”
"Actually, I'm also an investment, anyway, I want to open an entertainment company in the future, if Brother Long becomes popular, he will sign in with my company in the future, and the money spent now will be earned back sooner or later."
Ma Jingdong listened to him, pecked him in the face happily, got up again and ran to Ma Dalong's room.
After a while, Ma Dalong rushed out in a hurry and shouted excitedly: "Ah Fei, what you said is true? Are you really willing to pay me to put out a record? ”
Yang Yifei looked at him and smiled: "As long as you want, we will find a professional recording studio and band tomorrow, and I will personally write and arrange songs for you." ”
Ma Dalong excitedly held Yang Yifei's hand and said, "Ah Fei, thank you, you are so good to me, I ......"
Ma Dalong choked up for a while, and couldn't speak, but grabbed Yang Yifei's hand with both hands, and couldn't stop shaking it up and down, and then Ma Jingdang, who came out, looked at Yang Yifei and smiled sweetly.
Yang Yifei couldn't laugh or cry, he patted the back of Ma Dalong's hand and said, "Everyone is your own people, don't see the outside like this!" A successful singer must be able to control his emotions and calm down. ”
"Uh-huh, I'm calm, calm."
The sound of stir-frying in the kitchen stopped, and Madonna walked out with the last dish, "Everyone wash your hands and start eating, huh?" What are you doing? ”
"I'm fine, calm, hehe."
"Huh?"
From this moment on, in addition to "if you believe it, if you don't believe it, you can't do it", Ma Dalong has another mantra "calm".
……
At the dinner table, Ma Jingdang told Ma Danna that Yang Yifei was going to pay for Ma Dalong to release a record, but found that Ma Danna was not as happy as she imagined.
She frowned slightly and looked at Ma Dalong, who was full of honesty, and then looked at Yang Yifei and said, "Ah Fei, it takes a lot of money to release a record, right?" Dalong, he is not sensible, you don't want to mess around. ”
Ma Dalong was immediately unhappy when he heard it, and was about to open his mouth to refute, but when he saw Ma Danna's fierce gaze, he wilted again, and muttered: "Calm, calm." ”
said that he took care of himself and took a big bite to eat, and he didn't look at his aunt anymore.
Yang Yifei comforted: "Auntie, don't worry, I've calculated, if you release a record for Brother Long, 500,000 should be able to get it all, it's nothing." ”
Madonna's eyes widened, and her voice was slightly raised: "How much do you say?" Is that nothing? ”
In Hong Kong at this time, the average monthly income of the working class was about 3,000 yuan, and the basic living expenses were nearly 2,000 yuan, and they could save about 1,000 yuan a month.
This is also the reason why many Hong Kong people cannot afford to buy a house for the rest of their lives, and most Hong Kong people live in rented houses until they die.
Including the current Ma Danna and Ma Xiaoling twenty years later, before taking over Ma Dingdong's bar, Ma Xiaoling has also been renting a house.
500,000 yuan is already an astronomical amount for most Hong Kong ordinary people, and it is a huge amount of money that cannot be saved in a lifetime.
Ma Dingdang only charges a few hundred to a few thousand yuan when he goes out on weekdays to help people catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, and the last time the office building only charged 6,500 yuan.
Moreover, such a "big business" is not encountered once in a few months, most of it is one or two thousand jobs, and occasionally people are surprised, and if they add yang fire or something, they only charge a few hundred yuan.
It's not always a business, five or six businesses a month is considered good, and their average monthly income is only 10,000 yuan.
So when she heard Yang Yifei say that it would cost 500,000 yuan to release a record for Ma Dalong, Ma Danna was shocked, because in her opinion, 500,000 deposits are the guarantee of life, and she can live without worrying about food and clothing in the next 20 years.
Yang Yifei reassured: "Auntie, don't worry, I am also an investment, Brother Long's song will definitely be popular, as long as he is famous, it will be easy to make money, just 500,000, he will be able to earn it back soon." ”
Ma Danna looked Ma Dalong up and down with suspicious eyes, she didn't see where her humble nephew looked like he could be hot.
Ma Danna pondered for a while, and said hesitantly: "Ah Fei, it's not that Auntie is troublesome!" Can you tell Auntie how much money you have? ”
Yang Yifei scratched his head and said uncertainly: "There are probably still ...... More than 200 million points! ”
"Poof"
Ma Jingdong and Ma Dalong suddenly squirted out a mouthful of rice when they heard this, but fortunately, they saw the opportunity quickly, turned their heads in time, and did not spray on the dinner table.
Ma Danna looked at Yang Yifei sluggishly, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, and when Ma Danna stared at him stunned, Yang Yifei felt uncomfortable, and even the action of eating was a lot slower.
muttered secretly in her heart, she would not tell the truth if she knew it, saying that she only had a few million, maybe she would be more acceptable!
Madana asked cautiously, "Ah Fei, why do you have so much money?" ”
Yang Yifei said: "Speculating in stocks, buying futures, doing foreign exchange or something, you can make money!" At first, I only had a few dozen catties of gold left by my master, and after selling the gold for money, I started to do this. ”
"All the projects I do can calculate the probability through statistics, and I can get a lot of useful information by paying more attention to international current affairs."
"Five years ago, when the fourth Middle East war broke out, and the economic crisis caused by oil prices, most people, including many countries, were severely affected, but I made more than 100 million."
Yang Yifei didn't understand what Yang Yifei said about Ma Danna, and Ma Jingdang asked curiously, "How did you earn it?" ”
Yang Yifei roughly explained: "It's very simple! Through some phenomena, even field investigations, I foresaw this Middle East war, and I also found some top-secret information that ordinary people would never know. ”
"I knew that the Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries were ready to withdraw the right to price oil and raise prices sharply, so I took the lead in investing 60 million to buy crude oil."
"Sure enough, within a few months, the price of crude oil increased from $3.011 per barrel to $10.651, more than tripled, and my 60 million became 180 million."
Yang Yifei didn't talk about anything professional, the theory he said was simple and simple, Ma Danna and the others understood it as soon as they heard it, but it was just buying low and selling high!
Ma Dalong looked at Ma Danna with resentment, and said: "It is also an ancient family that has been inherited for thousands of years, why don't our Ma family ancestors leave us dozens of catties of gold?" ”
Madonna glared at him and scolded, "You are cabbage when you are gold?" ”
After finishing speaking, her face also showed a little resentment, Ma Jingdong looked funny, she took a broom to sweep away the rice sprayed on the ground, and asked Yang Yifei curiously: "How can your master be so rich?" ”
Yang Yifei said: "It's all accumulated from generation to generation, our Qingyunmen is good at refining weapons and refining medicines, many cultivators have come to us to help refine magic weapons or elixirs, if you don't have that friendship, of course you can't help in vain, so ......"
Yang Yifei spread his hands, Ma Jingdong understood, and Ma Danna also sighed: "So, no matter what, you have to have a craft to make a fortune!" ”
Yang Yifei grinned, I don't know why, hearing Ma Danna say this, he inexplicably felt a sense of joy.
In fact, the Ma family is not unable to make a fortune, but they have always adhered to the duty of guarding the right and warding off evil.
It wasn't until Ma Dingdong's generation that the thinking finally opened up a little bit, otherwise not to mention a well-off family, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain even food and clothing, after all, it is an economic era, not the old society in the past, as long as you can eat enough.
Therefore, thinking determines destiny.
Yang Yifei made up the origin of his family wealth, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he can't say that his money is won by gambling by unconventional means, so that nine times out of ten it will cause Ma Danna's old-fashioned disgust.
Speaking of which, knowing that Yang Yifei is very rich and has a clean background, Ma Danna no longer cares about Ma Dalong's affairs, no matter how they toss.
Yang Yifei's heart moved, since he had said this, it was better to make a footnote to some things first, so he spoke: "By the way, the political situation on the Iranian side has begun to turmoil recently, and if nothing else, it is likely that there will be a war in the near future." ”
"Iran is also a big oil exporter, and it is not surprising that oil prices will have an explosive surge, so I plan to go to Iran in a while, the time is uncertain, and it is not too strange that you can't find me at that time."
He really didn't say anything, but it was true, and at the end of 1978, the political situation in Iran, the world's second-largest oil exporter, changed dramatically.
The fall of Iran's moderate pro-American Shah Pahlavi and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war have greatly affected global oil production, plummeting from 5.8 million barrels per day to less than 1 million barrels per day.
Oil prices began to soar in 1979, from $13 per barrel to $34 in 1980, as production plummeted, triggering the second oil crisis.
Although those were made up before, this time he really planned to go to Iran to buy crude oil and make him a lot of money.
Now there are more than two months before the end of the year, and it is completely too late, no one can predict the sudden outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, and there is no reason for the other party to refuse to send money to Iran.
Convert all the remaining more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars into US dollars to buy oil, and wait until two years later, 200 million Hong Kong dollars can be at least doubled and a half, and others sell 34 US dollars a barrel, and he sells 30 US dollars a barrel, are you still afraid of sales?
After listening to Yang Yifei's words, Ma Jingdang asked excitedly, "How much can I earn this time?" ”
Yang Yifei said: "Earning is certain, how much you earn is uncertain, but I think you can earn more than double, and it's no problem to earn 300 million in a year and a half." ”
Hehe......
Madonna doesn't know what expression to give anymore, it's no problem to earn 300 million a year and a half, okay! They are not at the same level, so don't worry about it, eat my food!
Just after a chopstick dish, Ma Danna was suddenly stunned, and then her eyes began to shine, looking at Yang Yifei and said: "Ah Fei, our family has a deposit of 100,000 yuan, I will hand over the money to you, and you will also help me use it for investment, okay?" ”
Yang Yifei and Ma Jingdong suddenly looked at her with tears and laughter, "Auntie, you gave me all the money, how do you live?" ”
Madonna said: "It's okay, I still have some left, enough for living expenses." ”
Yang Yifei shook his head with a smile, reached into his arms, took out his stack of checkbooks, tore off half of them directly, put them in front of Ma Dingdong, and said: "Don't be so troublesome, I have already stamped these checks, I will leave 20 million in the account, you can fill in the numbers yourself." ”
Ma Danna looked at Yang Yifei in amazement, "What does this mean?" How can I use your money? ”
"Ahem...... This ......" Yang Yifei said embarrassedly: "Auntie is not using my money, it is Dingdong's money." ”
"Huh?" Madonna looked at Tinkerbell in confusion, but saw her hanging her head to eat, and she didn't make a sound.
Yang Yifei looked at Ma Danna and said sincerely: "Dingdong has promised to be my girlfriend, and I will also help her complete the mission of the Ma family, so in the future, mine will be Dingdong's, and you don't have to be so clear." ”
A flash of realization flashed in Ma Danna's eyes, but she was secretly happy in her heart, she couldn't imagine that this dead girl was moving so fast, and she had won this rare match for a thousand years in just one day, and now the Ma family has hope.
She suppressed the joy in her heart, and said: "Ding Dong is an adult, many things can be decided by yourself, since you have determined the relationship, then I won't say much, I hope you can treat her well, a woman decides to follow you, but she is gambling with a lifetime." ”
Yang Yifei nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "Auntie, rest assured, I swear to the Ma family's guardian dragon and the ancestors and ancestors that in this world, I will only be with Ding Dong for a lifetime. ”
He still brought the phrase "in this world" into it, after all, he is also a cultivator now, and he pays more attention to the issue of cause and effect.
He really likes Tinkle Bell, and his oath is extremely sincere, and if he makes this vow, he will never provoke other women in this world.
But his situation is special after all, he is destined to have only one woman, but in every world, every vow he makes, he will keep it without discount.
His women don't know the existence of other people, and they will never have the possibility of meeting, so for them, he and each of them are a couple for life.
Yang Yifei's words moved Ma Danna, and when his words fell, there seemed to be a dragon groan in the dark, and everyone present heard this dragon groan.
It was the guardian dragon of the Ma family, and he was saying: Boy, I heard this oath.
And with this dragon roar, Ma Danna was completely relieved, and her gaze at Yang Yifei was suddenly extremely kind, as if looking at her own child.
Ma Jingdong was even more moved to the red, her eyes were misty, Ma Danna shouted when she saw this, and was about to speak, but saw Yang Yifei laughing and said, "Don't be too moved!" You treat me as a friend, but I want to sleep with you, isn't that a depressing thing? ”
"Poof"
Ma Dalong on the side sprayed rice again, and the ground that had just been cleaned was in a mess again, he looked at Yang Yifei with a stunned face, and he didn't know what to say.
Ma Jingdong's pretty face suddenly turned red, and the mist in her eyes disappeared in an instant, she slapped Yang Yifei angrily, and said angrily: "In front of my aunt and eldest brother, what nonsense are you talking about?" ”
However, Yang Yifei's face softened, and he said smugly: "How is it?" You can't cry! I just said that there is always a way to make you cry, do you believe it? ”
Ma Jingdong suddenly, he glanced at him with a smile, but the corners of his mouth hooked up a sweet smile, picked up the rice bowl again, and said gently: "Big brother, sweep the floor by yourself, next time you spray rice, I will beat you." ”
"Oh!" Ma Dalong replied sullenly, got up and swept the floor.
It's over, this sister is terrible, with her brother-in-law, she has more confidence, she can't be provoked in the first place, and now she can't be provoked.
Ma Danna finally understood that most of the time Ding Dong had already told him that the women of the Ma family could not cry, and with his character, Ding Dong's tears because of sadness are unlikely to happen, so he can only cry because he is moved.
But the way he can't make people cry is really ...... Hehe.
Madonna couldn't help but smile, this guy's way of talking is really special, it must be interesting to live with him, it's a pity that he wasn't born thirty years early, otherwise...... Alas.
She picked up the checkbook on the table, put it back in front of Yang Yifei, and said, "Ah Fei, since I don't have to worry about Dingdong in the future, then it's useless for me to ask for so much money, it's enough to have these savings, you can take back the checkbook!" ”
Yang Yifei didn't say anything, and put the checkbook in front of Ma Dingdang, and Ma Dingdong didn't talk nonsense, and directly picked it up and put it in his pocket.
Madonna smiled at this, and resumed her bowl to eat as if nothing had happened.