Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 345, (Happy New Year)
February 10, 1975, today is New Year's Eve.

Zhao’s family is located on Zhongguancun South Street in Beijing. This year, Zhao Mancang and his family all returned here to celebrate the New Year.

I celebrated the New Year in Hong Kong Island last year, and this year I came back here to celebrate the New Year.

Liu Baochan and her mother and son also returned. She bought a house on West Street, which was just across the street from South Street.

Zhao Mancang was very clear about Liu Baochan's little thoughts, so he scolded her several times.

However, Liu Baochan still went her own way, and she seemed to insist that she was right.

To be honest, Zhao Mancang didn't really want to bother with Liu Baochan.

But he had to face this problem, and children like Zhao Zhicheng had grown up and knew a lot of things.

Even so, Zhao Mancang still did not confess this to Lin Wan.

Last year, Liu Baochan finally became pregnant, and she was pregnant with twins again.

Zhao Mancang took her pulse and confirmed that they were twins, a boy and a girl, which made Liu Baochan so happy that she was at a loss as to what to do. So even though he scolded her, she was very happy.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Zhao Mancang took some time out to come to Liu Baochan's place, had something to eat with Zhao Zhicheng and the other little kids, played with firecrackers with them, and then coaxed them to sleep.

When he returned home, Lin Wan was waiting in the house with Xiao Yuechan in her arms. As for the older children like Xiao Baozi, they didn't know where they were playing.

"Do you have someone outside?"

Lin Wan asked with a dark face. Zhao Mancang was surprised, but still denied it.

"Huh, when I was out strolling yesterday, I saw Liu Baochan. Our child is also called Zhao Yuechan. What do you think?"

what?
Is this also possible?

Zhao Mancang wanted to explain, but Lin Wan started crying and the little one started crying too.

Got it!
This is really something wrong.

Just at this moment, a person appeared at the door. It was none other than Liu Baochan.

When Zhao Mancang saw her appear at the door, he almost lost his soul. Why did she come to make trouble?
"Big sister is angry, right? You are such a blockhead. Hurry up and take Xiao Yuechan out. I want to talk to big sister."

When Zhao Mancang heard Liu Baochan's words, he opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a long time.

By the time he came to his senses, Liu Baochan had already stuffed the child into his arms and pushed him out of the house.

Good guy, what's going on?
Zhao Mancang didn’t know that Lin Wan and Liu Baochan knew each other?

But with a quick glance, he still saw that Liu Baochan and Lin Wan seemed to have a good relationship.

So, for the past year, he was kept in the dark by the two women and had no idea that they already knew each other and knew a lot about him.

"Wocao!"

There was almost a fire in the backyard!
Zhao Mancang walked out of the living room holding the little one in his arms, coaxing Xiao Yuechan while thinking about this incident with some fear.

Although children like Xiao Taozi and Zhao Zhicheng have grown up, it is certainly unlikely that Lin Wan and Liu Baochan will divorce him, Zhao Mancang, but who knows?

Anyway, judging from the current situation, he has no idea about this matter, which is really weird.

It was unknown how much time had passed, but Xiao Taozi and the other children had not returned, and the one-year-old Zhao Yuechan had fallen asleep in his arms, but Liu Baochan and Lin Wan were still chatting in the room.

It was not until a long time later that Liu Baochan came out with her big belly and waved for him to come in.

In the living room, Lin Wan's face was still dark, and she was obviously very angry.

After Liu Baochan's explanation, Zhao Mancang realized that the two of them had known each other for several years.

Hong Kong Island is big, but also small, and the circle of wealthy people is even smaller.

Although Liu Baochan lived in the Peak and Lin Wan lived in Deep Water Bay, and Lin Wan did not live in Hong Kong Island all year round, but only lived there for a period of time during the winter and summer vacations.

But just by chance, a few years ago, while shopping, Liu Baochan met Lin Wan and others.

After a few visits, they became familiar with each other. Lin Wan also met Zhao Zhicheng and his children. With a deeper understanding, she knew that Zhao Mancang already had someone else outside.

Originally, they planned to let Zhao Mancang speak out on his own initiative, but after waiting for such a long time, they still didn't see him say anything about it, so they took the initiative to bring up the matter.

At this time, Zhao Mancang's scalp was tingling and he didn't know what to say.

Lin Wan was furious: "Do you still have someone supporting you at Sam's place?"

"No, absolutely not!"

When Zhao Mancang heard this, he hurriedly explained.

He has encountered everything from Mars hitting the Earth. I don’t know if it’s because everything went too smoothly before and all his luck has been used up, so now he has bad luck.

Every minute of the following time was torture.

It was not until more than half an hour later that Zhao Mancang explained everything to Lin Wan and the others.

He certainly cannot talk about confidential matters, but he can talk about Hollywood movies in general.

He only said that the reason why Hollywood movies were so prosperous was because of his support behind the scenes, but he could not disclose the specific circumstances.

As for the matter of keeping outsiders at Sam's place, Zhao Mancang swore that it was indeed not the case.

Lin Wan and Liu Baochan were both skeptical because he had a criminal record and they were unwilling to believe what he said.

It can be seen that what he said seemed to be true, and because of the task above, it did not seem to be false.

"Aren't there a lot of female stars in Hollywood? They're so beautiful, wouldn't you be attracted to them?"

"Wan'er, you don't understand Hollywood. Those female stars are all very promiscuous. Just like the bus, I'm afraid of getting stained with plums."

After Zhao Mancang gave his assurances again and again, Lin Wan and Liu Baochan finally believed his "nonsense".

The circle of Hollywood movie stars is indeed a very messy one, but there are also clean circles.

What's more, with Zhao Mancang's status, how could the woman he liked be an ordinary person?

However, the last time Maggie did make Zhao Mancang completely disappointed with the women on Sam's side.

It is said that environment shapes people, and this is indeed true.

If it were an ordinary woman, she would probably be content with being ordinary, but the women on Sam's side are indeed very different.

Because Sam's side is full of material desires, basic living security is relatively no longer a problem, especially for a woman like Maggie. She has no worries about food and drink, so she must be worried about the emptiness of her spiritual world.

After all, Zhao Mancang couldn't be with her every day, so it was very normal for such a woman to get into trouble.

Lin Wan and Liu Baochan let him go temporarily, but they also asked him to promise not to do it again in the future.

Zhao Mancang naturally agreed without hesitation.

The two women began to discuss one thing, that is, no matter where Zhao Mancang went to work in the future, they would keep an eye on him.
Zhao Mancang had no choice but to agree to such an unequal treaty.

He spent this Spring Festival in fear, fearing that something might go wrong and a fire would break out in the backyard.

It can only be said that Lin Wan and Liu Baochan did give him face by not making a big fuss or letting everyone know about it.

Your life is your own, just close the door and live your own little life.

After the Spring Festival, Zhao Mancang still stayed in the capital, and Liu Baochan also stayed in the capital.

Zhao Zhicheng and his classmates have returned to Hong Kong Island to study, while Lin Wan has returned to Hong Kong Island to keep an eye on these children.

Liu Baochan gave birth at the end of February, her son was born first, followed by her daughter.

Both children were very healthy. After they were born, Zhao Mancang named them Zhao Leyong and Zhao Linlin.

At the end of March, after Liu Baochan finished her confinement, Zhao Mancang brought the three of them, mother and child, back to Hong Kong Island. Then he came to Beijiang City and kept an eye on the project there.

In Beijiang City, Lin Wan came over to stare at him, bringing the little girl Zhao Yuechan with her.

In April, the city of Beijiang has actually passed the season when flowers bloom.

But Zhao Mancang has already started studying various flowers, so you can still see a variety of beautiful flowers at the Limidong Villa.

For example, crushed ice blue roses, champagne roses, etc. These flowers are truly beautiful when they bloom.

Roses are relatively easy to grow and can be propagated by cuttings, and they propagate very well.

Zhao Mancang "bred" roses of various colors and planted them in the garden in front of the villa, attracting nearby villagers to come and watch.

The villagers didn't dare to steal the flowers because there were soldiers patrolling the door.

In May, Zhao Mancang had to go abroad on a mission, and Lin Wan could no longer follow him.

Because this time, Zhao Mancang was going to bring back the national treasures, so it was not appropriate to bring Lin Wan with him.

Lin Wan was very angry, but there was nothing she could do.

At this time in 1975, the security measures of many museums around the world were very average, so Zhao Mancang was naturally not worried that he would not be able to get these national treasures back.

First, it was Kimura's side. Zhao Mancang went straight to their place and looted them because there were many national treasures of our country here.

For example, the mother-of-pearl sandalwood five-string pipa, the Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl, the gold seal of the King of Wa in the Han Dynasty, the tiger-eating-man jar, the "Xiaoxiang Sleeping Tour" and so on.

Take the Tiger Eating Man Jar for example. It is a bronze ware from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, famous for its unique shape and carving techniques.

Therefore, after Zhao Mancang arrived at the Izumiya Museum in Kyoto, he took this national treasure away as soon as possible.

After taking away these national treasures, Zhao Mancang also looted many antique treasures in the museum, and then burned down the entire museum.

Then there are the Tokyo National Museum, the Imperial Household Agency's Sannomaru Shozokan, Kyoto's Daitoku-ji Temple, the Fukuoka City Museum, the Seikado Bunko Library in Tokyo, etc.

In short, Zhao Mancang visited all the museums that housed our country's national treasures. After clearing out all the treasures, he either burned them down or set them off with explosives.

The man-made disaster scene makes it difficult to tell whether it is an ordinary robbery or a vendetta.

In any case, almost all the museums in Kimura were looted.

He only stayed with Kimura for less than a week before going straight to Sam.

Museums around the world are probably on high alert now, so Zhao Mancang didn't continue working.

After arriving at Sam, he spent half a month inspecting his company.

The four giants in Hollywood are still Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and MGM. Warner Bros., Sony Columbia, United Artists and Disney are still hovering on the edge of pain.

The movie box office couldn't take off and was suppressed by the four giants including Paramount.

By 1975, the global supply of US dollars continued to rise, and the inflation rate also continued to soar, with no sign of stopping.

Zhao Mancang didn't care much about these things, but he really needed to know the news.

Super US dollars are still being printed, from the initial 3 billion US dollars a year to now increasing to 5 billion US dollars a year.

And it continues to increase.

After these super dollars began to be used in the market, they accelerated the pace of global inflation.

It’s just that the global market is very large. Not only is the total volume of legitimate economic trade large, but the total volume of underground dark trade is also considerable.

So even though inflation is rising rapidly, no one will notice the super dollar.

Unless the Federal Reserve turns off the tap and does not release such a large amount of US dollar base currency into the market, it may be possible to discover the existence of super dollars.

After all, super US dollars are real "US dollars". If you don't check carefully, you won't be able to find them.

The rise in inflation is reflected in the box office of Hollywood movies.

Since 1989, the box office of Hollywood movies has increased year by year and has become more and more exaggerated.

There are already speculations from the outside world, is this the work of the Federal Reserve?
But this "false" prosperity has not been exposed.

Even when the economic crisis came, it failed to cause the Hollywood film market to become depressed.

On the contrary, the hegemonic status of the US dollar allows SAM to siphon global wealth to support the entire SAM, so they can have such cheap gasoline and other supplies.

Of course, ordinary daily necessities are indeed very cheap, but related spiritual enjoyment such as electronic games are very expensive.

For example, the Robot Block game developed and produced by Robot Computer Company became popular all over the world as soon as it was launched.

There is also the game Super Mario, whose appearance made the game console a hot seller.

Games like Super Mario and RoboCube are all very classic games. In this era of extreme lack of entertainment, people are of course very obsessed with such classic games.

Seeing that the Robot Computer Company had made so much money, Zhao Mancang naturally needed to take away some of the money, then exchange it for various supplies, and ask the Nolinashun Ocean Shipping Company to help transport it back to Beijiang City.

Zhao Mancang stayed at Sam's for more than half a month and left only after making sure there were no problems.

When Zhao Mancang returned to Beijiang City, it was already late June.

Lin Wan was very angry because he had been away for such a long time. When she saw him come back, she rolled her eyes at him angrily.

Anyway, it's very difficult to coax her.

At this time, in the Beijiang River, a large number of ships went upstream along the Pearl River estuary, entered the Beijiang River, and then arrived at the Beijiang Wharf.

Mountains of goods, including coal, oil, etc., were all shipped back here.

What will follow is the rhythm of large-scale development.

PS: Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I wish you all a happy new year!

(End of this chapter)