silent farm

Chapter 167 Not-Successful Power Adjustment【Teaching】

In the rainy season in the Amazon, there are always more rainy days than sunny days in the first month.The rain stopped for a few hours before it started again.

Li Sheng sent a message in his office in the southern district: "It's raining, grass grows in my heart." But it's still late at night in Huaxia, and even Luo Zheng ignored him.

When he was bored, Fernando called him: "Li, are you free on Saturday?"

Today is already Thursday, Li Sheng thought for a while, even if the day after tomorrow is sunny, there is nothing special to do.

When Fernando heard that he was free, he smiled and said, "Come to Sao Paulo on Saturday. Raimundo Nonadon gets married on Sunday."

Li Sheng knew about Raimondo Nona and met him once.At that time, I saw it when dealing with the framed incident of Silent Farm.But after the investigation, the other party said that he was a friend of Fernando.

Li Sheng also talked to Fernando on the phone because of him.

From Fernando's description, he realized that this young man with a modest official position is a rising political star in the eyes of many people.There is a grandfather who is the chief judge of Brazil, an uncle who is the minister of commerce, and his family is a well-known wealthy family in Brazil.After dealing with the corruption case involved in the Silent Farm framing incident, after publicity, this young man became a responsible young official in the eyes of most people.

Li Sheng is no longer the person who didn't understand anything back then, and he knows that such a relationship needs to be maintained.But the other party didn't invite him personally, and it seemed a little inappropriate for him to go like this: "Will it be abrupt?"

"He asked me to invite you for him. You live in Silent Farm and it's hard to send an invitation."

Li Sheng was very suspicious of his words.If you are inviting people to a wedding, you will definitely not invite them just at the last minute.If you really want to invite, you can find a way to get in touch.But since Fernando said so, then Raymondo Nonaton should also know.Otherwise, if he went, Fernando's big face would be boring.

If it was before, he might have refused.Because I felt that since it wasn't the host who wanted to invite me, I felt a little embarrassed when I went.But now he doesn't think so.It is difficult to create opportunities to get close to people like Raimondo Nonadon. If others have already created opportunities for him and don't know how to seize them, his life is really in vain.

"No problem. But what gift should I give?" Raymondo Nonadon's family should be said to be an aristocratic family left over from the Portuguese Empire in the early years, and he didn't know much about it.

Fernando smiled and said, "Nothing special, just a watch or something."

Li Sheng heard him say: "A watch is indeed a good idea. But it has to be something special to make sense." He believed that unless Fernando wanted to harm him, a watch would be the best gift.It is likely that Raimondo Nonadon has a hobby of collecting watches.

Hearing what he said, Fernando couldn't help feeling that Li Sheng matured quite quickly.But he didn't stop talking, and said: "Patek Philippe just released a couple watch, commemorative edition. Only five pairs were made. I just bought a pair here."

When Li Sheng heard it, his heart couldn't help but move: "That's the gift you want to give."

"I gave him a lot of watches. This pair is not bad." What Fernando thought in his heart was that the relationship between him and Raymondo Nonadon didn't matter what he gave.

Li Sheng could only say thank you.Perhaps Fernando owed another favor this time.

Back at the villa area at night, Li Sheng found that Tia seemed very happy today, and was humming while watching the video.

"Are you happy about what happened?"

"My dad called to say that the pigs he raised had given birth."

Li Sheng was taken aback for a moment, and didn't think there was anything to be happy about.He smiled in response to the situation and asked, "The day after tomorrow, do you have anything to do?"

"The day after tomorrow?" Tia thought for a moment and shook her head. "Are you going out again?"

Li Sheng really wanted to take Tia to Sao Paulo.He felt that Tia had already left the life of the natives, and that one day she might leave the farm.It's time for her to see the world for what it really is.

Speaking of which, after the Jiluoluo people moved out of the forest, he still let Tia live in the villa, isn't it just to keep her from returning to the life of the indigenous people?But there is not much difference between being on the farm and in the forest. It is just that you know more things, but they are also closed.Now maybe it's time for her to see the outside world.

Li Sheng said with a smile, "A friend of Fernando's is getting married and wants me to attend. If you're fine, come with me. In the south, there's not so much rain."

Sao Paulo has a tropical grassland climate, and even in the rainy season, there is relatively little rain.It's a good time to go there, it's not too hot and it doesn't rain all the time.

For Tia, don't say that there is nothing to do, even if there is, she will say no at this time.

Li Sheng looked at her and nodded, and said, "Then we will leave the morning after tomorrow. I hope the weather will be better." He is going out now because he has to change planes.First do the farm plane to Manaus.If the weather is bad, it is always a little troublesome. "By the way, we need to bring some salutes. We may have to stay for two or three nights."

Tia jumped off the ground happily and said, "I'll clean it up now."

Li Sheng watched her trot upstairs, and said loudly, "It's not too late to clean up tomorrow."

"The clothes are hard to dry, they need to be dried." Tia also had a good reason.Clothes can be a little tricky to dry during the rainy season in the Amazon.

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God does not wish to be beautiful to man.The quasi-stationary front that has been stagnant nearby has not moved, or the front is too wide, and it is still raining.

But the rainy day did not affect Tia's good mood.This is her first real trip.The farthest place I have been to before is Manaus, and I came back that day.But this time, she needs to bring a salute and live in another city for a few days.

The city of Sao Paulo was very strange to her, but with Li Sheng around, she didn't have to worry at all.

Transferring in Manaus, it was the first time for Tia to take so many strangers on the same plane, and it was also the first time to take such a big plane.When I got off the plane in Sao Paulo, there was still an aftertaste of excitement on my face, and my face was flushed.

No one came to pick up Li Sheng this time, but he had already booked a hotel.

Brazil is also a country with a vast territory. Even if the Amazon rainforest, which accounts for half of the country's land area, is raining, there are always places where it does not rain.The skies in São Paulo are much brighter than those on the farm.In the car, Li Sheng could still see that the city still had a hint of Christmas aftertaste.But it's New Years Eve soon.

December is one of the hottest months in the southern hemisphere. Li Sheng felt a heat wave when he got out of the taxi. The weather this year seems to be a bit hot.But after only two steps, the cold air in the hotel lobby intertwined with the hot air outside the door, as if to remind the city of polarization.

The domestic journey is not very tiring.Tia seemed to be still in the excitement of going out for the first time. After she got settled in the hotel, Li Sheng took her around the main business district in the city.

The city of São Paulo started from the coffee planting industry at the end of the nineteenth century.Now it is the most populous city in Brazil, accounting for about 6% of the country's total population. It is the largest city in Brazil, an industrial center and a world-class metropolis.

Li Sheng asked a taxi to take the two of them to Direta Street.Although both Li Sheng and Tia felt the city's large population along the way - it was very congested.Yes, it also gave Tia enough opportunities to appreciate the real metropolis.

There are row upon row of high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, many of which are [-]-[-]-story skyscrapers.This is not comparable to any Amazonian city, including Manaus.

Then Li Sheng took her to a real big shopping mall and some famous brand stores, allowing her to experience a completely different life from before.

It was getting dark, and on their way back to the hotel, Tia was in a taxi, and her mood was no longer excited, but cramped.She didn't expect that with the "salary" she got for several months, she could only buy a few ordinary clothes or two ordinary jewelry.But she knows that her "salary" is actually higher than that of her colleagues outside the farm.

This completely overturned her imagination of the outside world: "Li, are things so expensive in big cities?" She bought a lot of clothes today. The price still frightened her a little.A dress costs [-] reais.In fact, she had seen similar dresses in Manaus for less than a thousand, which already made her think they were too expensive.

Li Sheng patted her on the head and said: "It doesn't mean that everything in the city is expensive. Just now we went to high-end commodity stores. It belongs to high-end consumption, or luxury consumption. This is rich people. Consumer life, buying such things will make them happy."

He took Tia shopping this time, just to let her understand that people's life is not just about eating.Not to freak her out.

Tia seems to understand, but she still doesn't agree with this consumption concept: "Actually, I think Manaus also has similar clothes, which are also very comfortable and beautiful to wear. But the price is only one-thirtieth of the price."

Li Sheng knew that she had only been in contact with currency for more than half a year, and her concept of consumption was still very primitive, so she could only patiently explain: "People always want to show their status. But everyone actually looks similar, so what should I do?" Can you make yourself stand out?"

"Just relying on these things? Let people know that he is rich?"

Although Li Sheng knew that this was not true, the reality was like this.Love vanity, this word should actually be a neutral word.Everyone loves vanity, the poor have it, and the rich have it too.It's just that the poor can't rely on vanity, and the vanity of the rich makes people feel like a waste.

Li Sheng always likes to think about some things that are available.And he had his own thoughts on Tia's question: "Actually, the origin of these things is not simple. You may think it is just a piece of clothing when you look at it, but it is actually a nameplate. They are all touted by countless people. In fact, other clothes are also nameplates, and wearing a piece of clothing is equivalent to wearing a nameplate on a person's body, representing an identity."

He pondered for a while, and he didn't know if his next words would affect Tia's world view: "For example, gems, many gems are actually useless things. But because of their high price, they represent wealth. Wealth represents power." And all symbols of power are shaped by humans themselves.

Tia didn't digest his words right away, but asked a question that he didn't know how to answer: "Is Li very powerful?"

(End of this chapter)