Chapter 723 God-level prodigal son
After I went back, I searched on my phone and found that Li Wanli used to be a snack business. The spicy strips and chicken feet I ate when I was a child were produced by his small workshop. Although it didn't sound very high-end, it sold very well back then, and accumulated his first pot of gold!
Li Wanli is a very pragmatic businessman. Later, he made a fortune in silence and expanded his business to many fields such as toys, clothing, electronic products, etc. It can be said that he started from scratch and has now accumulated a net worth of hundreds of millions.
But in recent months, the father and son have suddenly started charity crazy, giving benefits to employees, and donating all the property they can donate. It is said that once Li Wanli saw an old man who collected rags on the street. He felt that the old man was very pitiful, so he forced his Ferrari to the other party and left casually.
The father and son were desperate and did not care about the company's business at all, which caused the company's stock price to bottom. Many competitors took this opportunity to crazily acquire the Li family's subsidiary. Some internal personnel also changed their minds and took the opportunity to poach and take the talents and customers out to start a new business. It has been rumored that the Li family's company is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Seeing this, I sighed. Starting a business is easy to maintain a business, but Li Wanli’s wealth that he has saved through his life has been ruined in less than half a year. Not only did the people around him not stop him, but he also took the opportunity to fill his pockets, which shows that the world is in a cold and cold way!
Based on my intuition, this should be someone who deliberately cheated them, and the viciousness of this behavior is no less than murdering money.
Then I felt worried. This time, it wasn't someone who invited me on his own initiative. What reason should I use to get close to the father and son? Of course, if they wait for them to go bankrupt and wander on the street, it would be okay to just pay some money to buy Ruan Nang from them, but I can't accept this bad idea conscientiously. If possible, I still hope to save the Li family and his son. First, to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and second, the snacks produced by Li Wanli brought a lot of joy to my childhood, and I don't want it to disappear like this.
While I was lying on the sofa to look at my phone, Yin Xinyue was sitting in front of the computer, with her slender hands typing on the keyboard, and there was soothing music in the speaker. Maybe because I was too tired during this period, I actually fell asleep with my phone in my mind.
After sleeping for a while, I was awakened by a stinging pain in my hand. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the sky was already bright. Wei Yu held my arm and was sucking blood. Seeing that I woke up, she said coquettishly: "Bad brother, I clearly said I wanted to reward someone last night, but I forgot, which made me hungry all night..."
"Where is the crescent moon?" I asked.
"Sister Xinyue saw you fall asleep last night and left. Before leaving, she told me that she had heard some news from her friend and would go and ask for details today and ask you to wait at home." Xiaowei said.
Only then did I notice that there was a blanket covered with my body. Yin Xinyue was so considerate to me, and her heart felt warm.
After getting up, I made some food and read a book. Yin Xinyue called excitedly: "Honey, there is good news. Will you burn mercury and make alchemy?"
"Burn mercury and refining elixirs?" I was confused. The play was a feudal dregs that I didn't believe it at all.
Yin Xinyue said that Li Wanli has been fascinated by burning mercury and refining alchemy recently and sought talented people everywhere, so he was cheated of millions of dollars. However, he doesn't care if he has money, but he just wants to refine immortal medicine. Yin Xinyue thinks that I can use this opportunity to get close to the father and son of the Li family.
It seems that Ruan Nang is madly affecting the father and son, causing them to lose their family to a new height and make new tricks!
The famous scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties were crazy about pursuing immortality and studying mercury-burning and elixirs. They were all unreliable things. Apart from the inventions of tofu and gunpowder, I think that elixirs have never produced good things. From ancient times to the present, I don’t know how many people ate the "Nine-Turning Golden Elixir" to death, because this thing is essentially sulfur and mercury, which is highly toxic to the body.
When I was in middle school, I read an article about the Wei and Jin Dynasties, saying that famous scholars at that time were popular with taking a drug called "Wushi San". The ingredients were stalactites, stalactites, white quartz, purple quartz, red quartz, and some herbs. This medicine was so expensive that only rich people could afford it.
After taking the "Wushisan", you have to run violently to make the medicine diverge, and your whole body will become hot, your skin will be particularly sensitive, and it will break with a gentle friction, so you cannot take a bath at all. Many famous scholars have a strange smell and have lice. When they sit together and chat, they often catch lice casually. There is an idiom called "Talking on lice"; and they cannot wear too tight clothes or shoes. Therefore, the famous scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in ancient paintings all wear wide robes and big sleeves and hang wooden clogs, which became a fashion at that time.
I said to Yin Xinyue, "I can't refine the alchemy, so I can't think of some other solutions?"
"No!" she said, "My friend said that the father and son are crazy now. Two days ago, they scolded a large Hong Kong customer in person as a hypocrite full of money, and lost hundreds of millions of orders at once. If you can't serve his favor, you may not be able to get close to them at all..."
I thought to myself, this is too tortuous. I just wanted to collect a dark object, which was like an infernal Affairs, and I had to invade the enemy with a special identity first.
Although I had a headache, I still agreed: "Okay, I'll make up for the lessons quickly and hug the Buddha's feet temporarily to see if I can fool Li Wanli."
"Okay, I'll ask my friends to help clear the situation these two days, and lift your identity in front of the Li family and son. Let's go to see them together in two days." Yin Xinyue replied.
"How should I thank you?" I asked.
"I also say such things. If you really want to thank me, you can take me out for fun when the matter is over." Yin Xinyue laughed.
After hanging up the phone, I went out to buy a few books on this topic, which made me feel a headache. Suddenly, I thought that Li Mazi was not more suitable for pretending to be a master to fool people, so I called him to come and have a meal and said that there was a surprise waiting for him.
Li Mazi rushed over excitedly and asked me what surprises they were. I said to have dinner first. We found a tin plate barbecue restaurant, ordered a few bottles of beer, and had enough to eat and drink, and returned to the store. I took the books of alchemy to him. Li Mazi widened his eyes and said, "Brother Zhang, this is what you call surprise. Have you not had too much business recently? Have you started studying these things?"
"Live until you are old and learn until you are old. You can read these books thoroughly. I promise there are great benefits waiting for you." I said.
Li Mazi immediately reacted: "Has you taken on another job?"
Since he guessed, I would not hide it. He told me the whole story. When he heard about the reward of 5 million, Li Mazi was extremely excited and a little worried: "Didn't you ask the Macau boss, is this five million RMB, Macau dollar or US dollar?"
"I'll go back and ask, I can't say whether I can get the reward. Our task is to successfully gain the trust of the Li family and son and get this evil object." I said.
Chapter completed!