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At some point, Cai Jinman came out of the kitchen holding a tray. When he saw Narcissus, she was slightly dazed, but then she returned to normal and walked up to Xian Yaowen.

"Master, I'm back."

"Yeah, I'm back." Xian Yaowen looked up and replied.

Cai Jinman placed the tray on the coffee table and sat down next to Xian Yaowen. "Master, have a piece of the freshly steamed pineapple tarts and coconut egg steamed cake. Dad, have some steamed cake. Sister, try my cooking."

Cai Jinman is generous and takes care of everyone.

After saying that, he took a pineapple tart from the plate and put it into Xian Yaowen's hand, "Master, take a bite of the pineapple tart, and the Year of the Rabbit will be prosperous."

"Thank you."

Xian Yaowen took the small pineapple tart into his mouth, closed his mouth and gently chewed the pineapple, which sounds like "wanglai" in Fujian dialect, for fear of losing any bit of "wang".

Just as it is said that shaking your legs will shake away your good fortune, when eating pineapple tarts, a pastry that is only made during the Chinese New Year, the Baba Nyonya believe that it is unlucky if crumbs fall off. Therefore, when making them, the size of the pineapple tarts is controlled so that one can only eat one at a time, so that your cheeks will not be filled up and your mouth will not be empty.

After Xian Yaowen finished eating the pineapple tart, Cai Jinman broke off a piece of coconut-flavored egg steamed cake and handed it to him, "Take a bite of steamed cake, and you will naturally be prosperous in the Year of the Rabbit."

"Thank you."

When eating steamed cake, Xian Yaowen was like having no basket in his hands. From the time he received it to the time he put it into his mouth, crumbs kept falling off.

When money is made, it will naturally overflow, until it can no longer be contained and it will fall out.

After swallowing the soup and washing the hair, the next step was to have the reunion dinner. Cai Jinman's Nyonya dishes were the main dishes, Wen Banxia's Baoan dishes were the secondary dishes, and Li Yueru, as a guest, also contributed two Cantonese dishes that saved effort, white-cut chicken and lettuce with oyster sauce.

There are four staple dishes: Nyonya Peace Porridge, Nyonya Colorful Glutinous Rice Balls, Ginger Glutinous Rice Balls, and Salty Glutinous Rice Balls.

The atmosphere while eating was very good and everyone was having fun.

Cai Jinman did not lose his temper because of Narcissus's presence, and Wen Banxia did not say much either.

In a society where polygamy has no legal or moral burden and can prove a man's ability, why should she say anything if her son has more women? Although she had a preconceived notion and was more accepting of Cai Jinman as her daughter-in-law, she still had too many daughters-in-law. Not too many.

Everyone had their dinner in the dining room, then went to the garden to drink tea and admire the moon. Xian Yaowen and Li Yueru sat for a while, then left the table and strolled to the back garden.

Sitting on a stone bench, Li Yueru said: "Everything is going well at the hotel construction site. Seven construction teams and thousands of workers are working simultaneously. The framework will be ready in early May. I plan to start the renovation before the framework is ready. I will start work as soon as the renovation materials arrive in the middle of next month."

"Do you still remember the key points of decoration?"

"remember."

"I would like to emphasize a few important points. First, oxygen enrichment equipment. When people are in a low-oxygen environment, they will be very energetic and less likely to fall asleep. They can gamble for two days and two nights in a row without any problems.

Second, the air conditioning system. You can’t save money on air conditioners. Invite air conditioner manufacturers to come for on-site inspections and make the best cooling solutions. If you sit in the casino and do nothing, you will feel a little chilly. This temperature is the best.

3. Fragrance. Lighting sandalwood will make people feel calm, while lighting pine and camphor wood will make people feel uncomfortable. Tuberose is night-blooming jasmine, and its smell is similar to the body odor emitted by you women when you are most excited during sex. It was often used in ancient Europe to make aphrodisiacs.

The only customers who walk into a casino are gamblers and potential gamblers. Those who enter a casino but never gamble in their entire life are rare and can be ignored. There are a few smells that can amplify people's emotions, gambling nature and greed.

Hire the best perfumer to create the fragrance we need.

Fourth, Feng Shui. I won’t go into detail about this. The Li Chi Garden has a Feng Shui layout. I heard that it was your idea. "

Li Yueru smiled.

"Different environments will have different psychological effects on people. Feng Shui is very useful. Don't be afraid to spend money. Invite a master with real skills to come and decorate. If possible, please offer sacrifices."

"Ah."

“That’s all about the decoration. There are three other important things that need to be done as soon as possible. The first is to assemble a team of mathematicians who are proficient in probability. I will take care of this.

The second is to set up a factory to print playing cards, which not only requires hiring printing talents, but also finding a few talents to make counterfeit banknotes.

It is not difficult to find such people. One of the reasons why the gold yuan collapsed quickly was that counterfeit banknotes were everywhere in the market. Such talents can be found in Hong Kong.

When the welfare hotel opens, it is inevitable that there will be cheaters patronizing it. The poker cards need to be carefully worked on to increase the difficulty for cheaters to cheat. I have some ideas on how to do it. I will organize them into text for you later. You can use it as a reference. "

Li Yueru nodded.

"If you catch a cheater, don't scold him or beat him, and don't chop off his hands and feet. It's better to run a business in a friendly way. Let the cheater return the money he won, and leave him some money for his trip."

Xian Yaowen paused and continued, "This is for the guests to see. We must make the guests feel that the Welfare Hotel is humane.

The third thing was to open a He San Qian brick factory in a remote place. When the con man was sent out of Yilai Island, he would be secretly captured and sent to He San Qian. All sorts of means would be used to get the information of his family and fellow disciples. Then the whole family would be wiped out and the bodies would be destroyed on the spot in the brick kiln.

After coming here two or three times, the scammers will realize that the Welfare Hotel is not the place they should come to, and they will avoid the Welfare Hotel in the future. Without these plague gods, business will be much better. "

"Why not solve it in the hotel?" Li Yueru frowned and said, "The more people involved, the easier it is for the news to leak out."

Xian Yaowen said seriously: "The Welfare Hotel is a legitimate hotel. Apart from gambling, other aspects must be impeccable, without any points that people can criticize. It must be operated legally and with human touch."

Patting Li Yueru on the shoulder, Xian Yaowen smiled broadly, "Ms. Li, you have lived in Singapore for some time. Have you ever heard of the name Li Chendeniang?"

"Li Junyuan's wife, the one who is the president of the Chinese Women's Association?"

Xian Yaowen nodded, "Singapore has two extraordinary women, one is Lee Chen De Niang, and the other is the Jewish Moser Nissim. Both of them are role models for Singaporean women.

However, they are all old, and Singapore needs a new female leader. Ms. Lee, I think you are quite suitable. In addition to running the hotel, you should spend more energy to care about the rights of Singaporean women and guide women to contribute their own strength to the development of Singapore.

When the newspaper mentions you as Mr. Li, it means you have accomplished your mission."

Li Yueru smiled faintly and said, "Is it redundant to be a whore and still want to be a saint?"

"No, no, no." Xian Yaowen waved his hands and said, "Bao Zheng wrongly killed loyal officials. If it weren't for the relatives of the loyal officials, no one would say that Bao Zheng was wrong. Heshen was an expert in disaster relief during the Qianlong period. If it weren't for him, the number of victims would have been several times or even dozens of times higher. But how many of the victims who survived because of him would remember his kindness?
There is an essential difference between a good person doing a bad thing and a bad person doing a good thing. Ms. Li, there is also an essential difference between a bad person opening a casino and a good person opening a casino.

Ms. Li, be a good person and let others do the bad things. Birds of a feather flock together. Sometimes this saying can make it unreasonable. The person who sleeps with a villain can also be a saint. There is often no difference between sacrificing the car to save the driver and sacrificing relatives for the sake of justice. "

Li Yueru savored the three meanings in Xian Yaowen's words, and tasted the humanity and also the relief, which made it easier for her to become a pawn or a discarded piece if she was a good person.

"Mr. Xian, I know what to do."

"If I were faced with the plan of killing three men with two peaches, I would kill Yan Zi and make his wife and children into meat jerky. I would divide the peaches and meat jerky together, and I would always be able to tell them apart."

Xian Yaowen patted Li Yueru on the shoulder and said, "The world is big, my heart is big, and the Welfare Hotel is just a small thing to me. What's yours is always yours. You can put some worries aside."

Li Yueru smiled and said, "I believe I will not become a donkey."

Xian Yaowen chuckled, "Ye Han hasn't contacted me. Do you know what's going on?"

"I'm not sure. After I asked someone to pass on the message last time, I didn't pay attention to him anymore."

"Try to find out the situation. Whether it works or not, we need to get a result as soon as possible. Ye Han is not the only candidate. If he is not suitable, we can find someone else as soon as possible."

"it is good."

"Would you like to go to the singing stage?"

"Don't disturb Mr. Xian and the two ladies." Li Yueru said with a smile.

"Ok."

……

Time quickly came to the next evening. After dinner at his mother-in-law's house, Xian Yaowen was invited into the study by Cai Guangyao.

Sitting opposite each other, Cai Guangyao lit a cigarette and said, "Yaowen, what do I want to do?"

Xian Yaowen took a puff of his cigar and said slowly, "Politics?"

“In the last Legislative Assembly election, there were 20 eligible voters, but only 23000 went to vote, and nearly half of them were Indians, who make up only 6% of Singapore’s total population.

There are 25 eligible voters this time, but I don’t think the turnout will be much higher than last time.”

Xian Yaowen asked: "The other half is a Peranakan?"

"Native Chinese who can speak English fluently," Cai Guangyao emphasized.

"The same kind of person as you?"

"Yes."

"What do you want to do?"

"Last November, John Iba, a former key leader of the Malayan Democratic Union, came here unannounced to see me and we talked for half an hour in the corridor.

I asked him, what can we do about Singapore's constitutional politics that cannot achieve anything? Why not form a political party, do something practical, and challenge the power of the colonial authorities?

He remained noncommittal, saying: You know, the emergency decree is in place and we have to be very careful.

Last month, newspapers reported the detention of a group of English-educated Malay Communist Party members, including John Ipal, Teachers' Union secretary Devan Najib and Utusan Malay newspaper editor-in-chief Samad Ismail.

This was the first time that the detention power under the Emergency Ordinance was used against an English-educated group. It was clear that the Malayan Communist Party had gained new members among the English-educated intellectuals.

Although those who received English education had always been treated well by the colonial authorities and monopolized government departments and professional jobs, some idealistic people could not resist the temptation of the Malayan Communist Party to be anti-colonialist.

The English-educated group is a very powerful force, and an elite one at that.”

Xian Yaowen flicked the ash off his cigarette and said softly, "You don't agree with the Progressive Party's philosophy?"

Cai Guangyao took a deep puff of smoke and said as he exhaled, "The Progressive Party recognizes the rule of the colonial authorities and is not anti-colonial."

"You want to form a political party, don't you?"

"Yes," Cai Guangyao said firmly, "I want to organize a political party."

"If you can speak English, Japanese, Latin, Hokkien (Southeast Asian Taiwanese dialect), and Malay, it is relatively easy to win the support of the Peranakans. If you cannot speak Cantonese, Hakka, or Mandarin, it is not easy to win over the immigrants. Among the 25 voters, how many are immigrants?"

"The overseas visitors are for the future. Right now, I want to win over the group of people who have received English education. Only after the first step is completed can I take the second step."

Xian Yaowen nodded noncommittally, "You want to do something, and your goal is clear, but you don't know how to take each step on the road to achieving your goal. You are only thinking about the first step. Can I think so?"

Cai Guangyao pondered for a moment and said, "You can almost say that, but I think the road is made by breaking through, not calculated. We don't know what will happen tomorrow, so we can only deal with it step by step."

"That's the truth, but I don't agree with it." Xian Yaowen put his cigar on the ashtray, took out a Malaysian ringgit from his pocket and put it on the table. "You came to talk to me because you need me to provide this, right?"

Cai Guangyao glanced at the banknotes and nodded, "Yes."

"What identity are you talking to me about? Big brother? Trainee lawyer? Or an idealist who wants to form a political party? Apart from the relationship of brother-in-law, I have money and good relations with the British colonial authorities. Do you know anything else about me?"

Xian Yaowen waved his hand and tapped his temple again. "Brother, you came to talk to me today with passion but without wisdom and reason. I think it's not appropriate for us to continue this conversation. It's not too late to talk to me again when your thoughts mature."

Cai Guangyao's face turned slightly ugly, and his passion was poured with a bucket of cold water.

In Xian Yaowen's opinion, the only thing that makes Tsai Kuan-yao qualified as a politician is that he has grasped the key word "I" in the sentence "I want to do something".

Others are like the ideals we talked about when we were children, “I want to be a scientist when I grow up”, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up”.

Or it's like a passionate entrepreneur who says, "I want to surpass Tesla," but doesn't know how, has no plan, and no feasibility report. As time goes by, he finally comes up with a rational and determined goal - he uses a variety of crooked tricks to run away to the United States with a fortune, and lives in a house that surpasses Musk's.

This is called overtaking on a curve, grasping the essence and achieving the goal in a roundabout way.

Cai Guangyao is most likely the former. He has the ideal but not the wisdom. There is no need to start a conversation before Xian Yaowen is correctly placed in the position of an investor.

The two of them were silent for a long time. One of them lit up his cigarette while the other continued smoking his cigar. The conversation ended in silence. (End of this chapter)