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"For the jianzai noodles, a spoonful of oily shallots will be sprinkled on them when the noodles are served in the bowl." The old man said with a sniff.

"Uncle, what does '涼仔' mean?"

Uncle paused and made a gesture of scooping noodles with his hands. "The thing you use to scoop noodles out of the pot is made of bamboo strips."

Xian Yaowen suddenly realized, "A strainer."

"Yes, yes, yes, Ladle. I heard it from a person from another province."

"Does the flour next door also come from the countryside?"

"No one grows wheat in the countryside. American flour is cheap, so we all use American flour." The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, I can see that you are knowledgeable. Do you know why American flour is so cheap?"

"Uncle." Xian Yaowen pointed at the sweet potato porridge on the table, "You opened a store and have to rely on it to support seven people. That means your daily income cannot be less than the food rations for seven people, right?"

Abe nodded.

“For example, I sell sweet potato porridge just like you, but I have 1 stores like yours, and I have 30 people to feed at home. That is to say, my minimum goal is to make enough food for 1 people in 30 stores every day.

With this calculation, I only make a few cents from a bowl of porridge. Uncle, do you think your business can surpass mine?"

The old man shook his head again and again, "I can't do it, I can't do it."

"Uncle, the fields in the United States are plentiful and flat, and the farming is mechanized, that is, both planting and harvesting are done with machines. One person can plant hundreds of acres of land. Do you think American flour can be cheap?"

The old man was stunned. "One person can grow hundreds of armor?"

Xian Yaowen nodded in confirmation.

The old man said bleakly: "No wonder Americans are so tall and strong, it turns out they have no shortage of food."

Let the old man take a break, Xian Yaowen continued the conversation and learned from the old man about the current situation in rural Taiwan and the market situation in Taipei.

Finished eating.

After sending Fei Baoshu to meet Fei Baoqi, he strolled alone on the street, observing the living conditions of all classes.

The Fei sisters were also strolling, without taking a rickshaw. Now there were only the two of them, plus Zhang Qiao who could be regarded as an invisible person. The two of them became bolder and talked without any scruples.

Fei Baoqi touched Fei Baoshu's tender face and said enviously, "Your little husband is really strong. Did he have sex all night last night?"

"It's the middle of the night. I'm going to be sleepy."

"It's good to be young. How many women does Yao Wen have?"

Fei Baoshu shook his head slightly. "It's hard to tell. The master is very playboy. He never has time to spare. My neighbor in Paris is already having an affair with him."

"A fleeting love affair?"

"should be."

"That's a bit too much. It doesn't take you into consideration at all."

Fei Baoshu knew that Alice had something to hide, so she said, "Sister, things are a little complicated. The master is not disregarding my face."

"Hard to say?"

"Ah."

"Then I won't ask. Not counting the casual relationships, how many women does Yao Wen have?"

"Master said eight, and we are going to make nine."

"Have you seen them all?"

"I've seen six. One is not in Hong Kong, and the master told me not to ask about it."

"So mysterious." Fei Baoqi didn't ask curiously. Even his own sister didn't want to ask, so it was even harder for him to ask. "Are you the oldest?"

"Ah."

"Is he nice to everyone, or just you?"

"All good. The master has a very good temper, never gets angry, never speaks loudly, but he does hit people. My butt still hurts now."

Fei Baoqi pinched the soft flesh on Fei Baoshu's waist, "Are you trying to tempt me on purpose?"

Fei Baoshu chuckled, "Isn't your brother-in-law very good to you?"

"What's the point of being nice? You're old now. You can't come once a year." Fei Baoqi lowered her voice even more. "Every time I get horny, I want to hook up with someone outside. But when the excitement wears off, I don't want to think about it anymore. Your brother-in-law is very good. I can't be disloyal."

"Loyalty?"

"When two people are together, they first become friends and then husband and wife. It's easy for feelings to deteriorate, but as long as they are still friends, they must be loyal and not do things that let each other down. Yaowen didn't do very well in this regard."

Fei Baoshu was stunned for a moment, then he understood Fei Baoqi's sense of righteousness and shook his head. "The master told me at the beginning that I would remain the same person as I was when you first met me. The master keeps his word."

Fei Baoqi was stunned, "Yao Wen has never changed?"

"The master hasn't changed, I have changed. My demands have become higher and more numerous. What the master said was right."

Fei Baoqi smiled faintly and said, "Yao Wen is so young, yet he has such wisdom in marriage. Bao Shu, your sacrifice allowed us to go to school and also gave us luck. We are where we are today because of you, so we must not forget our roots."

Fei Baoshu sighed, "I have only been thinking about my own affairs for more than ten years and never thought about visiting my elder sister. I really shouldn't have done that. Fortunately, the master was thinking about me and did it for my elder sister last time."

"Did you also open an account for your eldest sister?"

"Well, if the person who came to do the work brings it back, my eldest sister is doing well now, but the family business is getting worse and worse, and it won't be good in the future."

"Deteriorating business is not necessarily a bad thing. I think that neither the mainland nor Taiwan is suitable for doing business now. You should persuade Yaowen to play in Taiwan for a few days and then go back, instead of doing business here."

"Sister, since the master has come, he has already made up his mind to do business here. No one can persuade him."

Fei Baoqi frowned, "Being stubborn and self-righteous is not a good thing."

"The master is not stubborn, he is well-prepared. He has been preparing for the trip to Taiwan for a long time."

"Yao Wen knows about the situation in Taiwan?"

"Don't worry, sister. The master understands. Sister, when we were still in Paris, the master gave me an idea to do antique business. He said that many rich people from the mainland have already spent all their money. When it comes to selling their belongings, they have to consider their face and will not sell them in a big way..."

Fei Baoqi interrupted, "No need to continue, I understand this business, do you want to do it?"

Fei Baoshu nodded, "I have already done it in Hong Kong and collected some good things from North Point."

"You told me, are you planning to expand your business to Taipei?"

"My boss originally wanted me to start this business in Taipei, but I made the decision to start it in Hong Kong first."

"Collecting antiques is very costly, and it's hard to say how much you can earn. Why would Yao Wen be interested in this business...your own business?"

"It's not my business, it's my business with my sister."

Fei Baoqi smiled faintly and said, "Thank you for remembering my sister. I can't compare with you. I don't have much money."

"The master will provide the capital. The master said that he will not participate in the business. When the money is made, the capital will be returned to him and he will be helped to do something else."

Hearing this, Fei Baoqi instantly became alert, "What does Yao Wen want Chang Tong to do?"

Fei Baoshu held Fei Baoqi's arm and said, "Sister, you think too much. The master wants us to help him collect the stocks. The stocks were issued by the American company in Shanghai."

Fei Baoqi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the water of the Huangpu River in her eyes was stirred, sparkling, and blooming with a cluster of precious jade light, "Yao Wen is really amazing. He discovered such a big treasury. Even now, not many people realize that the US stocks were very valuable back then. Even if they realized it, it would be difficult to sell them. Martial law was in place, and it was difficult to leave Taiwan unless it was a business trip."

"Sister, don't you know?"

"Do I know it's strange?" Fei Baoqi said as a matter of course: "Don't you see what your brother-in-law does?"

Fei Baoshu smiled.

After quick thinking, Fei Baoqi said, "Baoshu, both businesses are in good times. I heard from Changtong that foreign exchange is going to depreciate in one direction."

“What does one-way depreciation mean?”

"The government plans to monopolize export trade in the form of commercial operations, intending to lower the dollar exchange rate and drive some exporters to death."

Fei Baoshu shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

"You." Fei Baoqi poked Fei Baoshu's temple, "You don't know anything, but you still do business. Yaowen is not afraid that his capital will go down the drain."

"It is because I don't understand that you have to do business with me, sister."

"I really can't do anything about you." Fei Baoqi smiled and shook his head slightly, "In Taiwan, only the Bank of Taiwan can handle foreign exchange business. When exporters find overseas customers, the customers will open a letter of credit to the Bank of Taiwan through the bank in their country.

With the letter of credit, Taiwan Bank will approve a loan to the exporter for the production of export goods. When the order is completed, the letter of credit becomes real foreign exchange. Taiwan Bank will issue a certificate of exchange settlement to the exporter. The exporter can use the certificate to withdraw foreign exchange and Taiwan dollars in a specified proportion from Taiwan Bank, or take the certificate of exchange settlement to the silver shop on Hengyang Road to exchange for Taiwan dollars.

This is the normal situation, but as long as the government issues an order, the amount of Taiwan dollars that can be exchanged for one US dollar will be reduced, and exporters will not only lose money, but may even not be able to repay Taiwan bank loans with the money from the certificates of exchange, and many exporters will go bankrupt. "

"Ah? Isn't it too ugly to eat like this?"

"You don't understand. Exporters are almost all Taiwanese, and behind them stand the big landlords of the province. If we don't crack down on these big landlords, Taiwan's land reform won't be able to proceed smoothly. This is politics."

the other side.

Xian Yaowen, who was shopping, happened to come across a group of people fighting. Each of them was very aggressive, hitting each other on the head with sticks and bricks.

After watching for a while and listening to a few sentences, I understood the conflict between the two sides because I didn't understand half of it - people from the same province VS people from other provinces.

The fight was nothing interesting to watch. After watching for half a minute, Xian Yaowen walked around the fighting crowd and continued forward. This caused him to not hear a sentence “Sun Depei, the police are coming, run!” and he missed the opportunity to watch a future Taiwanese underworld figure before his hair fully grew back.

Otherwise, he would probably say, "Ko Chih-hua of the Taiwan Sanlian Gang."

After walking around for another hour and feeling tired, they happened to pass by Shuzhen's grandpa's shop, and Xian Yaowen went into a teahouse opposite.

As soon as I stepped through the door, a person who looked like a mommy came up to me and said in broken Mandarin: "Sir, I am a rare guest. It has been a long time since you have been here."

"Sorry, I just wanted to have some tea, and I went to the wrong place." After saying this, Xian Yaowen turned and left.

His trick of pretending that the customer was a regular was not very clever, and the business in the store was unlikely to be very good. He wanted to find a tea girl who had experienced many men to chat with, or he might as well change stores.

A few meters away, there is another tea house. As soon as I walked in, my mother came to greet me. "Sir, you are so handsome. Is this your first time in our store?"

"Yes." Xian Yaowen hugged his mother's arm, "I'm late. I should have come a few years earlier. Look at you, you've got wrinkles."

Mommy chuckled and said, "It doesn't matter if I have wrinkles, my daughters are all beautiful."

"You're right. If it doesn't look good, I will curse your mother." As he said that, Xian Yaowen glanced at his mother's breasts.

Mommy laughed so hard that her body shook. "Okay, okay, please stay here for a few more hours. I'll go with you in the evening."

"Why are you following me?"

"I'll do it for you."

"Okay."

The two of them played around for a while, and then Mommy took Xian Yaowen deeper into the room, to a secluded and elegant seat in a corner, and pulled a chair for Xian Yaowen to sit down. "Guest, do you want my daughter to come out and meet you?"

Xian Yaowen waved his hand, "Don't bother if it's your first time here, go see the most popular one first."

"Okay."

Mommy left and Dr. Tea came over. Xian Yaowen ordered some Pengfeng tea and dried fruit snacks. Soon, Mommy came back with a girl who looked like a female college student.

How should I put it? The feeling she gives people is in line with the imagination of a perfect female college student in the Republic of China. Whether it is her appearance, her youthful and inquisitive eyes, or her dress, she is always labeled as a female college student.

It looks too much like her, so she is definitely not a female college student. There is no doubt that she is a budding actress.

"Guest, this is my daughter Youyun."

Xian Yaowen looked at his mother in surprise, "Your last name is Yan?"

Mommy covered her mouth and laughed, "It's good for the guests to know who it is, don't tell anyone, Gu Weijun is still an ambassador in the United States."

Xian Yaowen waved his hand and said, "You can go now. I'll find you in the evening."

Mommy chuckled and turned away.

Xian Yaowen waved to Youyun, "Come and sit down."

Youyun took small steps to the seat next to Xian Yaowen and sat down, lowering her voice and saying, "Hello, sir, I'm Youyun."

Xian Yaowen smiled faintly and said, "Don't act like a college student. It's tiring. Please order at your leisure."

"Is it really possible?" Youyun blinked her eyelashes.

"Okay." Xian Yaowen nodded, "You can smoke if you want."

"I don't smoke." Youyun no longer spoke in a low voice, and her voice became crisp, but not as pleasant as before.

Xian Yaowen pointed at the cheongsam that Youyun was wearing and said, "It has not been long since I quit smoking cigars. My nose is very sensitive to the smell of cigarettes."

Youyun looked down and smiled shyly, "I didn't take the cigarette."

Xian Yaowen asked Qi Longque for a pack of Lucky Coins and placed them on the table along with a lighter.

Youyun picked it up, unsealed it skillfully, took out a cigarette and lit it, "Sir, the customer who ordered me is after the female students, do you want to change someone?"

"No need to bother." Xian Yaowen waved his hand. "I haven't seen a photo of Yan Yuyun when she was young, but I guess you look a bit like her when she was young."

"Why do you say that?" Youyun was interested.

"I work with Yan Yuyun's daughter. You look a bit like her."

In fact, they are not very similar. Xian Yaowen noticed the similarities because of his preconceived notions. The reason why Youyun is called Youyun is probably because it is a nickname for Yan Youyun, who is known as "school beauty" and "flower of love".

There have been thousands of beauties in the past few decades, but only Yan Youyun's fame is associated with college students. She was the first person to be known as the campus belle, and so far there has been no one to surpass her.

"Is Yan Yuyun's daughter in Taiwan?"

“In the United States.”

"Sir, are you working in the United States?" There was suddenly a hint of joy in Youyun's tone.

"I have business in Hong Kong and the United States, so I travel back and forth between the two places. Now I come to Taiwan to do business, and in the future I will rotate between the three places."

Youyun tilted her head and whispered to Xian Yaowen, "Sir, do you have US dollars?"

"You want it?" Xian Yaowen reached into his suit pocket, pulled out a U.S. dollar bill from his wallet and handed it to Youyun, "I'll give you one."

Youyun took it, looked at it for a moment, and then put it on the table. "I know the owner of the silver shop. He needs a large amount of US dollars. He can give a very high exchange rate."

"Underground exchange?"

Youyun nodded slightly.

"The owner of the silver shop is your lover?"

"Regular customer."

"Can you get benefits by introducing business?"

“There is a commission.”

"Is there a phone in the store?"

"some."

"It's not convenient today. I'll call you the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. You can arrange for the person to come out and discuss in detail. If the business is good, I'll give you a commission."

"Thank you, sir." A bright smile broke out on Youyun's face.

"Let me put it this way first." Xian Yaowen put his arm around Youyun's waist and rubbed it twice, "This is my first time in Taipei. Where can I find fun things to do?"

"There are many fun places in Ximending, such as tea houses, bars, music cafes, barber shops, and even prostitutes."

"I'm a man, I can find these places by smelling them. I'm asking you where you should go with your wife."

"It's the Seventh Heaven. They sell everything there. Women like to go there."

"where?"

"Juyuan Department Store. Oh, it changed its name. It's now called Xintai Department Store."

"Where do you like going?"

"I go there every few days." Youyun pointed at the corsage, "I bought it from Qichongtian. Does it look good?"

"It looks good." Xian Yaowen took a look and asked, "Besides the department store, are there any other fun places?"

"Let's go to Yangmingshan to soak in the hot springs."

"Of course you go to the East to soak in hot springs. Is there no place with Taiwanese characteristics?"

"Have you been to the East?"

"I've been there."

"Is it fun over there?"

"It's no fun. It's easy money. You haven't answered my question yet."

"A unique place... let me think about it." Yuyun pondered for a while, "It seems that there is none. The unique places are not in Taipei."

"Oh, what about food? Where can I eat Taiwanese specialties?"

Little by little, Xian Yaowen led the topic in the direction he wanted to find out. After sitting for more than two hours, he dug out a lot of good things from Youyun's stomach. (End of this chapter)