Chapter 1,437: Long-Cherished Wish

In 1988, the new year has arrived.

However, for the Chinese mainland people, their feelings in the first month of this year were not so good.

Because this year, the domestic people first felt the news shock wave of the new situation from the TV news.

Train and plane accidents occurred frequently in various places, and some sad major news began to be spread through television, which made the audience in the mainland who were accustomed to only hearing good news feel extremely shocked in spirit.

According to the private words of the people, perhaps it was because this year was the Year of the Dragon that these disasters of "planes kissing, trains rolling, and ships sinking" occurred frequently in various places.

So although television made these catastrophic events known to the Chinese people at the first time, this was actually an improvement in the way of communication.

Although in response to these accidents, units at all levels in various parts of the country took timely measures and handled them properly.

But those numerous opinions similar to metaphysics that were flooded among the people still cast a shadow on the upcoming Spring Festival, making people feel uneasy.

And this is not all the disasters. At the beginning of the year, there was an epidemic.

Especially since it happened in the most populous city in the Republic, it almost brought the entire city to a standstill, which dealt a heavy blow to the Republic.

In January this year, hepatitis A broke out in Shanghai, and it was fierce.

In just two months, 300,000 people in the city were infected, with losses of at least 400 million yuan.

Even in Zhejiang, 70,000 people were infected, which can be said to have caused social panic in East China and the whole country.

After investigation, it was confirmed that the cause of the hepatitis A outbreak was that Shanghai citizens ate clams contaminated by sewage from the coastal area of ​​Qidong.

Another major cause of the outbreak was that Shanghai's urban population density was too high, urban construction was aging, and the underground sewage system was backward, which led to the rapid flow of infectious diseases after the outbreak.

In addition, since the overall policy of the Republic in 1987 was austerity, the funds from the outside world were desperately rushing to places where huge asset bubbles were generated.

So for a whole year, the domestic economic development momentum was not good.

In 1987, the amount of external investment attracted was far less than we expected, and state-owned enterprises went bankrupt frequently in various places.

In fact, too many factories are on the verge of bankruptcy because of outdated products, lack of innovation, and increasing backlog of products.

Although the workers in these factories are heartless and play cards all day long, they are not worried at all. They are sure that they have a stable job and the country will definitely not let them go hungry.

But it is an indisputable fact that their income is low.

Since they have tightened their belts and can only live on porridge, they will naturally be in a bad mood.

Even if they don’t have to do much work, the money is basically taken for nothing, and they can’t be happy.

Especially when the New Year is coming soon, the pockets are cleaner than the face, how can they spend the New Year?

Even the most optimistic people can hardly smile in the face of such days.

It is normal to curse the director and the factory director behind their backs.

Anyway, it is precisely because these bad natural and man-made disasters have gathered in January and the economic contradictions are prominent in this month that the people across the country have determined that this month is a "disaster month".

Everyone secretly prayed that this year would not be a "disaster year".

This obscure mood was probably just like Mi Xiaoran who had just cruelly left her own flesh and blood in Beijing.

This time she returned home with her child, but she didn't live in Beijing for too long. However, after just one week, she boarded the plane back to the United States with guilt for her parents, infinite confusion about the future and huge economic pressure.

She didn't want to leave. She couldn't bear to leave her baby who was still breastfeeding, and she was ashamed of her parents and relatives, but she couldn't leave.

She wanted to go to the United States to make money, to give her child the best life, and to let the Zhao family see that she, a mainland girl, was not a beggar.

She wanted to prove that she could cultivate her children without selling her personality.

However, all this could only be realized if she returned to the United States. If she stayed, she could only give her children a poor life.

So she had no choice but to temporarily separate from her children. Otherwise, what else could she do?

As for everything she took away, except for the longing for her own flesh and blood.

In addition to the 3,000 US dollars that her parents and relatives raised for her with the money she had sent back.

That is, Zhao Hanyu's uncle Wang Dadong promised to mediate the conflict between her and the Zhao family.

And a letter of recommendation written by Wang Dadong himself, which facilitated her to work in KFC in the United States.

With this letter, at least she would not be without food.

It should be said that this matter made her a little relieved.

After all, Zhao Hanyu still has an uncle who cares about family affection and is willing to do his best to help instead of colluding with the Zhao family to cheat her.

It seems that not all Americans are as inhuman as the Zhao family.

And she will definitely keep this kindness and help in mind and wait for a chance to repay it in the future.

However, this is a matter for the future.

Now she doesn't want to think about anything, but only one thing, what should she do after getting off the plane?

She is helpless and has no husband who loves her to rely on in the future.

Facing the cruel world, she can only rely on herself to fight in the United States.

And she must live well and earn a certain amount of money before her child is four years old.

This is all she will live for in the next few years, and it is the goal she will work hard to achieve.

She actually doesn't know whether she can do it, and she doesn't have much confidence.

But she must try.

For her child, for the reunion of mother and child, she has no choice...

Of course, when someone leaves, someone else comes, and when someone has a bleak future, someone else is full of vigor and vitality.

It must be said that the same year of 1988 is not all bad.

At least the homophonic auspiciousness of this year is good, if it is read according to the way people in Huacheng read it, it is "Fa Fa".

For some people who are in good luck and getting more and more prosperous, this is an excellent year.

For example, Ning Weimin, who returned to Beijing with his wife to prepare for the Spring Festival, got off the plane and got a good news from Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao who came to pick him up.

The stamp market in Beijing is really as he expected, and it is going to be hot again.

And the zodiac ticket is quietly rising in the front.

In the current market, the price of a single golden monkey has returned to 300 yuan, a single chicken 120 yuan, a single dog 75 yuan, and a whole set of pigs 30 yuan.

Then there are the rats and cows, which have become 8.5 yuan and 8 yuan per set.

The tiger and rabbit have also recovered their face value.

Even the "panda" that everyone dislikes has begun to be in demand, and the price is about to rise. It is estimated that it will not take long to recover 40% to 50% of the face value.

For them, it is also 40% to 50% profit.

The most amazing thing is that the Japanese zodiac stamps that Ning Weimin brought back to China through international parcels are also selling very well.

I don’t know if it’s because of the curiosity or someone is eyeing it and wants to collect chips to be the banker.

Anyway, almost all of the 1,000 sets of Japanese tigers and Japanese rabbits that Ning Weimin bought from Japan at a fair price have been sold, and they have also made at least double the profit from them.

This undoubtedly proves an obvious truth.

Sometimes if you want to make money from stamps, you really don’t have to care too much about how much these stamps rise above their face value.

Because as long as the cost of the chips is low enough, they can be bought at a low enough price, and they can still make a lot of money.

Ning Weimin is as happy as Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao.

Although his current net worth is already calculated in billions, it stands to reason that he can earn hundreds of thousands every minute, and he shouldn't take this little money seriously.

But the problem is that most of his wealth is overseas, and that money is used by him to cut leeks all over the world.

If he really wants to bring it into the country, it is neither cost-effective nor convenient, and it may cause him extra trouble.

After all, in terms of domestic ideology, it is still difficult to accept the emergence of a native billionaire.

So he should hide it.

He mainly relies on three ways to ensure his safety in the country.

On the one hand, he hides his domestic wealth in artworks as much as possible to make it less conspicuous.

On the one hand, he used his status as a comprador of Pierre Cardin to cover up the extra income he earned in the clothing and arts and crafts industry, which allowed people to regard his private property as that of Pierre Cardin.

The last one was that thanks to his Japanese wife, Keiko Matsumoto, he could more easily avoid a lot of troubles by using the excuse of being a gigolo and making movies.

But then again, even if he did this, no one could blame him for anything.

Because in addition to making money quietly, he did a lot of public welfare things in Beijing, and they were continuous.

Like donating returned cultural relics, investing in Chen Peisi's movies, paying for a chain of reading clubs for young people, hiring experts to compile cultural materials on court food, making documentaries for old craftsmen to support the development of the arts and crafts industry, trying to save some folk industries and traditional skills that were about to be lost, and cooperating with agricultural universities to develop local crops and livestock varieties with economic value.

All of this also requires a lot of money to support it. How can he not think of ways to make money?

Even if he participates in speculation in the stamp market, he takes from the people and uses it for the people.

Those who speculate on stamps are worth a lot of money. It is a waste not to make money.

It is not a shame to invest the money in these public welfare undertakings.

You should know that the kind-hearted Ma who can give out more than 30 kilograms of mooncakes with ten different fillings in Ma Sanli's crosstalk is a fiction.

But the kind-hearted Ning who can spend millions of real money on "empty things" that do not make money every year is real.

If he did not rely on this, how could he support so many industries that cannot see actual benefits immediately just for his feelings?

So the stamps are going to rise, and some are speculated again, which means that the source of funds for supporting these public welfare undertakings this year has been settled, and there are more channels for fundraising.

He is naturally very happy and cannot be indifferent.

As for Teresa Teng, what makes her happy is very different from Ning Weimin.

The source of her happiness is that she accidentally learned that her long-cherished wish of singing in Tiananmen Square in her dream could come true as soon as she came to Beijing this time.

It turns out that when she was in Japan, Ning Weimin told her that Tiananmen Square was special and not open to the public, and ordinary people had no chance to go up there.

It was not impossible for her to go up there, but she would probably have to apply for it, which would be a bit troublesome.

She was skeptical about this, and as soon as she got on the car today, she took the initiative to ask Luo Guangliang about Tiananmen Square, wanting to know if it was as Ning Weimin told her.

As it turned out, Luo Guangliang actually told her with a smile that what Ning Weimin said was outdated.

He said that starting from the New Year's Day this year, the country announced that Tiananmen Square was open to the public and allowed people to visit.

The price was about 10 yuan for mainland tourists and 30 yuan for foreigners and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. As long as they paid for the ticket, anyone could go up once.

Once you get up there, you can sing, and even imitate the great man on the tower, wave your hands, and shout slogans like "Long Live the People".

So how could Teresa Teng not be excited.

She was like an excited child on a whim, and she had to go to Tiananmen Square right away. She wanted to buy tickets with Mai Lingzhi to experience it first.

However, Ning Weimin was very hesitant about this. He was afraid that taking Teresa Teng to act without authorization, and going to such a sensitive place, would make the relevant departments dissatisfied. For the sake of safety, he still hoped that Teresa Teng would go to Yunyuan to rest as originally planned, and he would make arrangements for her in this regard after consulting the relevant departments.

But Teresa Teng is not someone who is so easy to manipulate.

As the queen of Taurus, she will never back down once she gets serious, even if Ning Weimin is her boss.

After her soft and hard persuasion, she even successfully pulled Matsumoto Keiko to be a lobbyist. In the end, Ning Weimin was extremely helpless and had to let her do what she wanted.

However, when they arrived at the place, Ning Weimin had a new excuse.

Because Teresa Teng and Mai Lingzhi were not wearing much, just coats outside and sweaters inside, not to mention that the wind on the city wall was stronger than below, and now even at noon, it was freezing.

Sitting in the car and outside the car are two different things. He didn't want these two girls who had never seen the northern winter to freeze on the city wall.

But would his words work for Deng Mihu, who was already determined?

She didn't take the winter in Beijing seriously at all, and she was still talking and laughing with Mai Lingzhi.

In response to Ning Weimin's objection and friendly suggestions, Teresa Teng phrased it in the Japanese way of "confident".

"Don't worry, we have brought enough clothes, just put them on later. Well, I did some research before coming here. The temperature changes in Beijing over the past ten years are all in my mind. The average minimum temperature at this time should be minus three to four degrees Celsius. Osaka is even colder than here at its coldest. We should be fine."

Ning Weimin was slightly relieved after hearing the first half, but the next part made him feel that there was a potential problem here, although he didn't catch the problem.

It was only later that I realized that this confused Deng was really confused and had made a complete empiricist mistake.

She was not lucky enough to be born under the red flag, and she still doesn't understand what "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" means.

As a result, she and Mai Lingzhi each put on an extra layer of clothing and got off the bus. Then they bought tickets and stood on the Tiananmen Gate Tower where the northwest wind was howling for less than ten minutes. The lively couple just now became shivering leaves.

The two of them stomped their feet on the floor tiles, as if searching for any passages and fortifications below, and asked Ning Weimin, who accompanied them up and wanted to take pictures for them, for help with helpless eyes.

"Oh, how come the temperature below zero in Beijing is different from that in Osaka?"

That can't be the same. Ning Weimin, who was wearing Luo Guangliang's military coat, suddenly found the loophole in Teresa Teng's theory. The concept of winter in Osaka and Beijing is completely different.

In Osaka, in winter, you throw a ball on the ground and it bounces up when it hits the ground.

Beijing? That's a junk stock diving, okay? Once you hit it, it won't move...

Also, is there a northwest wind from Siberia in Osaka?

No matter how cold-resistant a person is, she can't be invulnerable to swords and guns.

Didn't you see that our majestic sentinels are all wrapped up tightly in cotton coats and hats?

How dare you two run to this place with ordinary coats to keep warm? Aren't you asking for trouble?

If you say that his wife is smart, Matsumoto Keiko didn't get out of the car at all, and stayed in the car with Luo Guangliang to enjoy the warm air.

So Ning Weimin had no other tricks, and quickly asked the two live treasures to go down.

What song is she singing? She can't sing here. Even though she is the Asian queen of singing, there is only the sound of teeth chattering.

Fortunately, there are no reporters around, and fortunately they are wearing hats and sunglasses, otherwise, with Teresa Teng's expression of pain and thin clothes, the rate of turning heads might be recognized by people on the city wall.

Nothing else, Ning Weimin's military coat also contributed.

The two of them were wearing the same clothes, almost running down the tower with snot and tears on their faces. They got into the car and stopped talking like ostriches.

They were really excited when climbing the tower, but when they came down, they were pissed.

Fortunately, the two of them woke up in time and did not continue their performance art. They warmed up after a while and did not have a fever when they returned.

Otherwise, Ning Weimin would have a hard time explaining to his superiors.