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Xian Yaowen's words made Aria emotional. She stroked Xian Yaowen's chest with her rough palms, and pecked his face again and again with her mouth like a bird's beak.

Aliya's hands are a pair of working hands. The calluses scratched Xian Yaowen a little uncomfortable, but her breath was very fresh. This was thanks to the popular practice of brushing teeth with "Miswak" in the Arab region. Aliya had a mouthful of white teeth, which were neatly and closely arranged with almost no gaps between teeth.

This was not what Xian Yaowen saw, but what he felt, just two or three minutes later.

The scorching sun can melt everything, even time is no exception. The sun takes away a corner of time. With numb cheeks, Aria went to the bathroom to get a basin of water to wipe Xian Yaowen's body.

After finishing the cleaning, Xian Yaowen took a book from his luggage and lay down on the cool sofa in the room. Aria put the basin away and nestled into his arms again.

Aria regards Xian Yaowen's arms as a safe haven, and she feels secure nestling there.

At that time, people in Dubai were generally poor, with only a few rich. Alia's husband was a poor man, and the secret of his success in marrying three wives was to marry three wives.

The camel he married to his first wife was made by his family, the camel he married to his second wife was made by the first wife who worked hard to make it, and the camel he married to Aliya was made by both the first and second wives who worked hard to make it.

Just when he was happily thinking about his three wives working together to save camels for him to marry a fourth wife, he found that he had miscalculated. Although Aliya was beautiful, she was not good at working. She only provided him with good emotional value but not much production value.

Moreover, what is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality of distribution. The third wife has affected the first and second wives, and they are unwilling to continue to be blind donkeys. How can this be acceptable? What about his fourth wife? How will she eat, drink, defecate and urinate?
The donkey won't work because it's not whipped enough. If you whip it a few times a day it will work.

Alia's days at home were spent working hard and enduring beatings. Besides working, she not only had to serve her husband, but also the two main laborers.

When Kothari's men found her husband and proposed a deal, her husband quickly agreed. With six camels, his fourth wife was secure. She was also willing in her heart, thinking that no matter how hard it was, it would not be worse than at home.

In fact, Allah treated her well and she waited for a good master.

Thinking about this in her mind and feeling sweet in her heart, her subconscious mind prompted her to carefully change the position of the nest to make Xian Yaowen more comfortable.

Xian Yaowen noticed Alia's behavior, but continued reading without saying a word. In his previous life, he had a lot of contact with Arabs. These guys with a piece of cloth on their heads were normal in other aspects, but when it came to women, they were either perverts or tending to be perverts.

Although it is a perversion, we cannot blame the individual too much. Several generations have worked hard to create a society that treats women as playthings and pigs and dogs. Growing up in such an environment, he has the confidence to blame the society for his own perversion.

Even seventy years later, Arab women still have no status, not to mention the era when slavery still exists. He gave Aliyah three choices. In fact, the first two only served as a prelude to highlight the beauty of the third one.

It goes without saying that she would go back to her husband, but if she had the chance to escape, Alia would definitely not choose this path. Going anywhere you want is just empty talk. Without money, you can't go anywhere. Besides, if you can't get out of the Middle East, it's futile to go anywhere. A beautiful woman wandering outside without anyone to protect her is the worst.

Women are easily moved and can change their hearts easily. Regardless of whether Alia is Kothari's troll or not, her background is most likely true. Kothari is not stupid enough to make it up. This stuff will not stand up to scrutiny.

It was Rashid who asked Kothari to invite him to Dubai for investment inspection. His goal was to get him to invest money in Dubai, which meant that he had to put down one foot in Dubai. Kothari would not have failed to expect that he would conduct an in-depth investigation and understanding of Dubai.

Even if Rashid had eaten too much Houttuynia cordata and smelled of Guizhou, and wanted him to come to invest happily, but he returned home crying, Kothari would probably remind Rashid, "Adam and I met on a dark and windy night on the Gold Coast, with bullets flying and grenades roaring", Adam would kill people, and Adam had connections with senior British officials.

In Sharjah, not far from Dubai, the British have just formed a Trucial Omani Supervisory Force, which will be the only regular armed force in the future UAE. It has only 200 soldiers, but can easily wipe out Dubai.

The British are a deterrent to Rashid, and the same is true for him. If there were no British troublemaker, he would mobilize armed forces from all over the country to launch a raid here, directly destroy the Al Maktoum family, and support a puppet again.

If it is fake, it doesn't mean much. He still focuses on reality. No matter what Aria's previous identity was, if her weakness is removed, she will have the opportunity to choose her life again. It goes without saying how to choose.

……

Shanghai.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and Su Lizhen was still busy in the room.

Three days ago, she had finished her official business on this trip to Shanghai, but she was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, she took time to take care of some personal matters.

Isn't this the whole nation supporting the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea? Naturally, the awareness of the literary and art circles was not lagging behind. Those who could sing and dance took part in charity performances, and those who could write and paint participated in charity sales. The energetic old man Qi Baishi was not willing to lag behind, and his works were exhibited and sold at the "Charity Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea" held in various cities.

Su Lizhen wanted to attend the exhibition, but unfortunately she didn't have the time. However, time could not stop her patriotic enthusiasm. If she didn't have time to attend, she could entrust someone who had time to buy it on her behalf. So she entrusted Shen Xianqi to buy paintings by Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong and others.

She has been wandering around Chenghuang Temple and other places these past two days, picking and choosing and collecting quite a few paintings.

Don't think too highly of these painting sellers. Nine out of ten of them have set a price somewhere, that is, they will paint for people at a fixed price. They will paint for money and it depends on the person. If he is just a rich country bumpkin, he will spend seven or eight days and just doodle a few seconds to get rid of him. If he is a mountain thief with a gun, hehe, he will work hard and treat people with sincerity.

In 1946, not long after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, perhaps because Mr. Qi was still coquettish at his old age, he had the idea of ​​taking a concubine in her twenties. He stayed up for several nights and painted more than 200 paintings in one breath. He then went to Shanghai and Nanjing to hold exhibitions and started to sell his paintings abroad.

These paintings have suffered a lot and witnessed the downfall of many families. Many of them have returned to the market and their prices have plummeted.

Su Lizhen found two appraisers and started buying paintings. She was not knowledgeable in the business and was not very good at bargaining. When the seller offered 20,000 or 30,000 yuan and the appraiser nodded his approval, she would basically buy the painting directly. If the price was tens or millions, she would ask the appraiser for advice.

Look, please take a look. We have two banquets every day, and we eat leisurely. Each meal costs at least eight or nine hundred thousand.

In three days, Su Lizhen spent a total of RMB 1.3 million in banknotes to buy several large boxes of paintings, which almost covered all the works of famous painters in recent years, mostly older ones like Qi Baishi and fewer younger ones.

In addition to paintings, she also collected some seals and some jadeite earrings and bracelets. All of them were new items from the past two or three decades, with clear provenances, and there was no possibility that they were funerary objects.

After all, she planned to give the seal to her husband and keep the jewelry for herself. If it were a funeral object, it would be very disgusting.

In order to store things, Su Lizhen also bought several large wooden boxes made of small-leaf red sandalwood and official leather boxes inlaid with various treasures and gilded. The former were used to hold paintings, and the latter were used to hold seals and jewelry.

One of the appraisers helped her pack the paintings in her room. Although this appraiser felt that it was a waste of treasures if the paintings fell into Su Lizhen's hands, Su Lizhen paid him generously and had the face of a middleman, the appraiser worked very carefully. Not only did he pack the boxes carefully, he also explained clearly how the paintings should be preserved for a long time.

Su Lizhen did not hide from the consultant that her motivation for buying the paintings was to wait for them to appreciate in value, perhaps for decades, and the consultant naturally acted according to her needs.

While the connoisseur was arranging the paintings, Su Lizhen had already arranged the jewelry and was now playing with the Yuan Datou coins.

There is a tradition of "dowry money" in her hometown. When she married Chu Tianlan, she had twenty dollars in the dowry. Unfortunately, she didn't keep it and spent it when she was short of money. Now that she is getting married for the second time, she should also make up for the dowry.

She was picking and choosing some with unique styles to take back to Hong Kong, and planned to give the rest to Wu Hongan to sell at the bank.

It must be said that she hit the jackpot by accident. She picked out some coins with smaller circulation and good quality, such as the signed version of Yuan Shikai in the third year of the Republic of China, the Gansu version with added characters of Yuan Shikai's portrait in the third year of the Republic of China, the Hongxian Era Flying Dragon Commemorative Silver Coin, the one-yuan and seven-point face version of Yuan Shikai's portrait in the third year of the Republic of China, etc. If they are properly preserved, they may be sold for millions in a few decades.

There is just one bad thing. She paid for the Yuan Datou coins, and the asking price was 1.5 yuan per coin, which is yuan more expensive than the bank's recycling price. The money from two Yuan Datou coins is enough to buy a painting. It is hard to say what the gain or loss is. I can only say that she is happy.

Xian Yaowen himself had no interest in speculation in antiques or paintings, and naturally would not instill such concepts into his women. Su Lizhen's purchase of the painting was her own idea.

She had heard the saying “Antiques are valuable in prosperous times, gold is valuable in troubled times”. If you hoard the right things, you will make a lot of money.

Hong Kong.

Yunjiao, a temporary pier opposite the Three Cups of Wine Island.

Lu Yansu stood on a dirt ridge, a cigarette in his mouth and a late-ripening navel orange in his hand.

The Guangdong East Society's sabotage operation on the fruit market in Yau Ma Tei has ended. According to the time calculation, the ethylene and rotten fruits mixed in the stock of the fruit market in recent days will play a big role, and the fruits will rot on a large scale. Moreover, as time goes by, the quantity will change into quality, and the speed of fruit rotting will become faster and faster.

If nothing unexpected happens, by mid-March, many fruit stalls will be faced with a situation where they have no fruit to sell. This will be an opportunity for Gantian Fruit Shop to make quick money and accelerate its expansion.

At the same time, they also have to face the crazy counterattack from the Dongguan people.

Lu Yansu has already made up her mind. In a few days, she will go on vacation on the Tanka fishing boat in Lamma Island and look for a group of younger fruit ladies. It is time to open retail stores of Gan Tian Fruit Shop in North Point, Central and Causeway Bay.

Lu Yansu had a gloomy face, smoking one cigarette after another, thinking about something.

The first is the details of opening a Gantian Fruit Store, and the second is how to establish a Gantian Liangguozi Company.

According to Mr. Xian's request, Gantian Cold Fruit Company will be established under Gantian Fruit Shop. In the initial stage, it will mainly serve Gantian Fruit Shop, processing the fruit shop's unsaleable fresh fruits into cold fruits for sale, so as to reduce the fruit shop's consumption. In the later stage, Gantian Cold Fruit will become a completely independent company and deeply cultivate the cold fruit field.

This arrangement was great and she approved of it very much, but she was not satisfied.

The share distribution of Gan Tian Fruit Store is Xian Yaowen 56%, Long Zhenbang holds 2.5% on behalf of Long Xuemei, Liu Rongju 40%, and she 1.5%.

Naturally, she had no objection to Xian Yaowen's share of the shares. It was obvious that Long Xuemei's shares were a reward from Xian Yaowen, so she had no objection to that either. But she had a lot of objections to Liu Rongju's shares.

Ever since she took over the management of Sweet Fruit Shop, she only knew that Liu Rongju had a share in the company's capital, but it was only 80,000 Hong Kong dollars. Apart from that, she didn't see Liu Rongju play any role.

The development plan and technical aspects were given by Xian Yaowen, and she was in charge of the specific implementation. She was convinced by Xian Yaowen. Whether it was the control of the world market, the prediction of future development, or the formulation of detailed plans, all aspects were enough for him to be her mentor.

She devoted herself to Zhongfeng Company, not because of the 1.5% management shares of Gantian Fruit Store, but out of the mentality of following a strong person and the satisfaction of being trusted.

Who is Liu Rongju?
If Gantian Liangguo is established as a subsidiary of Gantian Fruit Bank, Liu Rongjiu will be unwilling to accept the fact that 40% of the shares will be given to her for nothing. This is a company that aims to become a world giant in fruit snacks. Liangguo is just an entry point. In the future, it will also enter the field of dried fruits and dried fruits. Xian Sheng's plan already has a detailed plan for the early development. She believes that the feasibility is very high, especially if she is the one to execute it. Realizing the goal is not an unattainable dream.

How could Mr. Xian, who is so calculating, not understand that sweet and cold fruits could be directly placed under Zhongfeng Company, and for Liu Rongju, a shareholder of Gantian Fruit Shop, this would not constitute deception or betrayal.

"Are you going to follow the instructions obediently, or are you pretending to obey but secretly disobeying them?"

Lu Yansu was hesitating. She was unwilling but also ambitious. She was a latecomer in the sweet fruit business, but sweet fruit was built from scratch in her hands. Why couldn't Liu Rongju's share belong to her? It would be easy for her to take out the investment money.

Behind the ridge of earth where she was standing, there was another higher ridge of earth. At this moment, Zhou Ruoyun was standing on it and could see her who was lower down.

Zhou Maochen's condition has worsened in the past few days, and Zhou Ruoyun has been accompanying him in the hospital from morning to night. Tonight, her sister-in-law Liao Kexin took over shifts with her, so she had time to visit Yunjiao.

This is her private world, where there will be Ruo Garden and Yun Garden. She looks forward to the early completion of the two gardens. It happened that the design company has completed the preliminary draft of the plan in the past two days. As for the design of the lighting part, it will be easier to outline the effect in her mind only when she comes here at night to check the drawings on site.

Looking out from a high place under the starlight, it was easy to spot Lu Yansu. She had a very bad impression of this person, but since the master wanted to use her, she didn't say much. She just didn't expect that the master asked her to borrow space to build a temporary dock for this woman.

"I should have known not to lend it to you."

Zhou Ruoyun muttered, stopped looking at Lu Yansu, and continued to study the drawings.

Youth Association.

Friendship Company Office.

Liu Wanqing was flipping through a document in her hand. There was a cup of strong tea on the table, and she would take a sip from time to time.

She didn't stay in the office after get off work and work overtime, but attended a dinner party and then returned to the office to finish the unfinished work.

Regarding the affairs of Friendship Real Estate, she has recently been busy with the investment promotion of Shanghai Building. In order to complete the task as soon as possible, she did not stick to "Shanghai" to look for investors, but instead weaved a bigger net and caught a wider range of fish, even the former senior military officers of the National Government were included in her fishing range.

The guests of honor at tonight's dinner are He Shaozhou and his old subordinates.

He Shaozhou, with the military rank of lieutenant general, was the former deputy director of the Guizhou Pacification Office and commander of the 19th Corps. He had a third uncle whose surname was also He and whose name was Yingqin.

On the eve of the liberation of Guizhou, he knew that the situation was hopeless, so he asked his confidants to pick a group of reliable people, and took the gold and silver coins of the Corps and hurriedly fled to the mountain city.

He Shaozhou did not take away all the military funds. He generously left three hundred taels of gold as "office expenses" to the deputy commander of the Corps, Wang Boxun, and asked him to command the 19th Corps on his behalf.

When he arrived in the mountain city, He Shaozhou did not stop at all and spent a lot of money to buy tickets for him and his family to fly to Hong Kong.

Before leaving, his old colleagues who had fled to the mountain city together found He Shaozhou and persuaded him to go to Taiwan, where there were many acquaintances. However, He Shaozhou believed that when disaster strikes, everyone will flee, and no acquaintances will help him, so it is better for him to fend for himself.

After arriving in Hong Kong, He Shaozhou knew that his glory in the military and political circles was gone, so he thought about making a name for himself in the business world. He and others partnered to open a pawnshop, invest in real estate, and buy shares in private banks, and he was very busy.

He had heard about the Shanghai Shopping Mall project and knew it was a good project. It would be a pity if he didn't have the opportunity to invest in it. Later, he heard about the Shanghai Tower project and he didn't want to miss it, so he made an appointment with Liu Wanqing to have a chat.

At the dinner, He Shaozhou proposed to invest a huge amount, but he was vague about the exact amount. However, he proposed to have a deeper understanding of the Shanghai Tower project. Liu Wanqing neither agreed nor refused. After the dinner, she immediately returned to the office to study He Shaozhou's information.

The information in the materials is all about He Shaozhou's business after he arrived in Hong Kong. I don't know whether He Shaozhou has no talent for business or he was set up by someone. He lost money on everything he invested in. He has wasted a lot of money in more than a year. If it weren't for his wealthy family background, he might have been seriously damaged.

Liu Wanqing hoped that He Shaozhou was set up by someone, so as to avoid the suspicion that He Shaozhou was an unlucky person. If He Shaozhou was really an unlucky person, she would not dare to recruit him as an investor, because who knows if bad luck is contagious.

She couldn't see any problems with other things, but she felt that there was something wrong with this Fuxing Bank. The rate of return it promised was too high, and it seemed that the bank was trying to scam people out of money and run away with it.

Looking at the list of investors, He Shaozhou, Pan Yukun, Ma Buqing, and a long list of names, all of them were former high-ranking generals of the National Government. These people have the same characteristics, they are well-known, but they are no longer useful, and they are not as useful as Xiang Qian, who was given the title of major general by someone, at least he has real people in his hands.

Liu Wanqing read the information forward and backward, and the more she read, the more she felt that there was something wrong with Fuxing Bank. In the end, she was subjectively certain that the bank would run away with the money.

Well, actually, her hope of running away with the money has come true. The Fuxing Bank has already raised more than 400 million Hong Kong dollars and is still absorbing funds. Together with the depositors' deposits, there must be several million. The person in charge will be caught on the way...

The more Liu Wanqing thought about it, the more excited she became. She picked up the phone and called Wang Xiamin. (End of this chapter)