The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver
Chapter 343 If it doesn’t work openly, steal
Chapter 343 If it doesn’t work openly, steal
As the first wife, Zhou Lingying’s attitude is not popular in China. She would even be ridiculed for being unable to control a man.
But Hong Kong is a capital market, and this kind of thing is popular in the upper class society, so the concubine has to be respectful to the wife.
Before arriving at the villa, Jiang Cheng called Shen Li and naturally notified the children there as well.
After Zhou Lingying accompanied Jiang Cheng to the mountaintop villa in Kowloon, she finally understood what the life of rich people was like. It was much better than what was shown on TV. A set of tableware was really worth tens of thousands, and the wires in the entire villa were made of gold.
The electrical wires use gold core instead of copper core wire. In fact, the effect is the same. The only difference is that gold is anti-oxidation and reduces circuit aging and fire.
The rich people use gold to make wires, in fact, just for the sake of safety, spending a few million or even tens of millions is nothing. And this thing also maintains its value. Now gold in China is about 90 yuan per gram.
Jiang Cheng had people replace the wires with gold wires many years ago, when the price of gold was less than half of what it is today. In the future, the price will rise to 500 to 600 yuan per gram. This gold wire can be used for decades, and it may be possible to make a lot of money.
After Zhou Lingying entered the villa, she was always accompanied by a maid, but she kept a distance from her so that you wouldn’t feel disturbed. And when there was something to be told, she could always call someone.
In the villa, there are fresh fruits on standby every day. If they are not fresh, they will be divided by the servants. The same is true for some ingredients, so the living expenses of the rich are very high.
You have never seen a person worth billions go out to buy fruit just because there is no fruit at home. If someone suddenly wants to eat fruit, he will not be able to get it.
The same goes for ingredients. If you wait until you want to eat something before buying it and make a hassle at the last minute, you can’t be called a rich person.
For a truly wealthy family, unless they specifically tell their parents how long they will be away from home, fruit and ingredients that need to be kept fresh are a fixed expense, regardless of whether there is anyone else at home.
Even if no one eats them, the fruit alone costs tens of thousands a month. The waste of food is even greater. The Jiang family likes to eat seafood, and there is a special place in the kitchen to store seafood, but even so, there is no guarantee that they will not die.
In Hong Kong, Jiang Cheng and Shen Li are also slowly becoming more luxurious. At first they ate whatever was available, and now they have everything they want.
The number of luxury cars in the garage is gradually increasing. Unlike the nouveau riche coal mine owners in China, the Jiang family in Hong Kong has established a solid foundation after more than ten or twenty years of wealth.
There are more than a dozen cars in the garage, all with different uses, different cars for different occasions. Unlike him, who is considered a rich man even though he is worth millions, he only has one car for show.
But even so, the people who really spend money are Jiang Cheng’s descendants, Jiang Fei, Jiang Yue and Jiang An.
As the second generation of rich people, or the kind who have been rich since childhood, they really don’t have the life experience of the lower class. But they don’t have the temperament of a real century-old family inheritance family.
How should I put it? They have the background, but not enough. After all, there are no elders in the family to teach them some etiquette and family etiquette. Even if they learn it later, it is not like some people who have it integrated into their bones.
When Jiang Fei, Jiang Yue and Jiang An have the next generation, the way they educate them may be different.
Just like today’s servants and housekeepers, in the eyes of Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue’s generation, they are already a little looked down upon. Jiang Fei thinks that the Jiang family should have a royal housekeeper, who is knowledgeable and professional, and it doesn’t matter if he earns millions a year.
Servants must also have professional skills, be young and have good temperament, and be able to support the Jiang family by having them around.
Anyway, there is a certain generation gap between Jiang Cheng and Jiang Fei and the others in terms of consumption and life concepts. To put it bluntly, Jiang Fei dislikes her daddy for being a bit unsophisticated.
Before she got married, this person announced that if she had children in the future, she would raise them herself and would not let Jiang Cheng and Shen Li’s outdated ideas ruin the children.
When Jiang Fei learned that his father’s wife had arrived, he immediately put down his work, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a ladies’ Patek Philippe watch and returned to the villa.
Zhou Lingying also saw what a real rich girl looks like in real life. Her skin is much whiter and tenderer than her own daughter’s. She is in her twenties, but her face still has a lot of collagen, just like the beautiful female stars on TV.
When Jiang Fei saw Zhou Lingying, she called her “Auntie” and gave her gifts to please her. This did not make Zhou Lingying feel disgusted. Even though she knew that the child was Jiang Cheng’s with another woman, she could not show any displeasure.
Not long after, Shen Li and Zheng Ke also came back. They also learned that their “sister” had come to Hong Kong. It was her first time in Hong Kong, so they also had to prepare gifts.
After Zheng Ke disappeared from Jiang Cheng last year, she had no intention of returning to China to participate in charity and love activities. For more than half a year, she has been in Hong Kong to accompany her daughter Zheng Shuang.
Shen Li and Zheng Ke, because they had met Zhou Lingying in China, were better at choosing gifts than Jiang Fei. Shen Li bought a jewelry necklace, and Zheng Ke bought a jade bracelet. The prices were not cheap, but they were mainly a token of appreciation.
As for the others, Jiang Fei, Jiang An and Zheng Shuang were all in school, so they could just meet Zhou Lingying after school. There was no need to deliberately prepare any gifts.
In this way, after Zhou Lingying came to Hong Kong, she had seen Jiang Cheng’s women and all his children before the evening. Perhaps because this matter had been going on for more than half a year, Zhou Lingying had already prepared herself in her heart and was in a good mood.
That night, Zhou Lingying naturally kept Jiang Cheng by her side to prevent him from having the chance to fool around with Shen Li and Zheng Ke.
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“Sister Zheng, do you think Brother Cheng is doing that with Sister at this time?”
“The soundproofing in this room is so good that I can’t hear anything. How would I know?”
“We haven’t seen Brother Cheng for more than half a year, and we haven’t had sex with him. My sister has also come to Hong Kong. When will it be our turn?”
“Can my sister stay by Jiang Cheng’s side forever? Anyway, you and I don’t have anything important to do, so just spend some time with my sister these days.”
“Well, I’ll listen to you, Sister Zheng~.”
“Lily, what are you doing with your hands~?”
“Let me touch you. Do you think your sister will stay with us in the future?”
“You are so shameless. If you have the guts, go ask your sister.”
Zheng Ke turned over in bed and said that she couldn’t let Shen Li do anything to her when there was no man around.
And from Shen Li’s tone, she was obviously interested in Zhou Lingying. Zheng Ke didn’t understand Shen Li’s heart, but at this age, Zheng Ke also understood another layer of the meaning of “comrade”.
But in Zheng Ke’s opinion, Shen Li is not a lesbian, she also likes men.
The villa worth hundreds of millions of yuan is naturally very soundproof, not only the walls are soundproofed. The doors are all special soundproof doors, which prevents the servants from passing by the door of the room while cleaning and hearing some noises they shouldn’t hear.
In addition, Jiang Cheng was always having sex with Shen Li and Zheng Ke, and their children also lived here. This behavior alone was not good enough, and it would be even worse if the children heard it. In fact, Jiang Cheng being with Shen Li and Zheng Ke here had already had a bad influence. Jiang Fei started dating someone when she was in college. Although she broke up with her first boyfriend, she did not do what she warned Jiang Fei to do.
Jiang Yue has someone she is pursuing at school now. She doesn’t completely give up looking for a partner, she is just screening.
Parents’ behavior really has a great influence on their children, both through words and deeds. Even if you don’t teach them some things, their children will see it.
In China, the children born to Zhou Lingying are much more conservative. Jiang Zhaozhao has been with his partner for such a long time, and there are some intimate behaviors, but his partner is not brave enough to put his hand inside the other person’s pants like Jiang Cheng did when he first met her.
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The next morning, Jiang Cheng was lying on the bed in a daze. He didn’t sleep well last night. He didn’t have any trouble with Zhou Lingying. It was mainly because he was not honest in his mind that he didn’t sleep well.
Shen Li and Zheng Ke came to the room and knocked on the door to greet Zhou Lingying early in the morning. They planned to accompany Zhou Lingying well these days.
But Zhou Lingying’s main purpose of coming to Hong Kong was to stop Jiang Cheng from sleeping with them. In short, she accepted their flattery while preventing them from being overly intimate with Jiang Cheng.
Shen Li and Zheng Ke could bear it in the first few days, but after a week, they couldn’t stand it anymore. They hadn’t had sex with Jiang Cheng for half a year. Now that they were in Hong Kong, it was impossible for them to sleep with their sister every night.
On the seventh day, Shen Li first privately asked Zhou Lingying if she could sleep with her sister at night. But Zhou Lingying refused because she was not used to it. Zheng Ke didn’t need to intervene because Zhou Lingying had a better impression of Shen Li than Zheng Ke.
In the end, it really didn’t work. If you couldn’t get it openly, you could only do it secretly. Some things don’t have to be done at night. Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying are in Hong Kong, and it’s impossible for them to be together for 24 hours.
Therefore, Shen Li and Zheng Ke started stealing with Jiang Cheng, and Zhou Lingying couldn’t keep an eye on them.
But Zhou Lingying was not stupid. Sometimes Jiang Cheng would go out with someone and come back looking bad. But Zhou Lingying didn’t point it out. She had accompanied Jiang Cheng to Hong Kong and couldn’t stop anything.
The only person who changed was Zhou Lingying herself. Knowing that her man might have done that with someone during the day, she still let Jiang Cheng have her body at night.
In the past, I thought that men were dirty because they had touched other women. Now Zhou Lingying can only convince herself that it can be cleaned and still be used after washing.
After staying in Hong Kong for a month, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying flew back to Shanghai. The second child, Jiang Panpan, was in Shanghai. Summer vacation was coming soon, so Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying planned to take all their children to Hong Kong for a trip.
This trip to Hong Kong was not to let the children travel with Shen Li and Zheng Ke, but to let them experience the enjoyment of sailing on the sea on their own cruise ship.
Cruise ships can actually go to Shenzhen or Guangzhou ports, but the application and entry procedures are too complicated. You may also encounter various inspections when you travel, so it is better to go directly to Hong Kong and then take a cruise.
And if she took her children to Hong Kong, Zhou Lingying didn’t plan to live with Shen Li and the others anymore. She didn’t want her children to have too close contact with their children. Although in terms of relationship, they were actually half-siblings.
The heartless second daughter Jiang Panpan, upon learning that her father Jiang Cheng actually had several cruise ships in Hong Kong, did not care about how her mother was getting along with the people there. She only thought that she had one more travel option, that she could organize a luxury tour group, and that in addition to staying in a big hotel at a discount in Hong Kong, she could also take a one-day or three-day cruise.
Although China’s economy was backward in the 1990s, the tourism market is actually very good. There are many nouveau riche in China who don’t know how to spend their money, and some people even dare not spend their money in China.
Jiang Panpan’s Hong Kong tour in Shanghai has not officially started yet, but many people have come to inquire about it. If you travel in China, you have to spend money and be controlled, so not many people may be interested. But in Hong Kong, you can shop and travel, and you don’t have to worry about how much you spend, so there are really many inquiries.
As for how many cruise ships Jiang Cheng has, in fact, he only bought two brand new ones in Hong Kong. One is a small cruise ship worth several million, which Jiang Cheng used to go out to sea alone for fun when he was bored.
The other one is a cruise ship worth tens of millions that can hold simple parties. This is the one that the family usually uses for sea cruises.
The cruise ship behind was actually converted from a military ship purchased at a bargain price from the disintegrated big brother a few years ago. The weapons and defense equipment were removed, and then a lot of money was spent to convert it into a cruise ship according to one’s own ideas.
This large cruise ship is not usually used, but it can be rented out for filming. It can also be used to hold banquets at sea. Some wealthy people overseas like to have fun. When the cruise ship goes out to the high seas, many women become primitive~~.
Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying went to Shanghai, and stayed with Jiang Panpan for a few days before returning to Changcheng. Then in July, when the fourth, fifth, and sixth children were on vacation from school, they took the third child with them to Shenzhen to look for Jiang Zhaozhao.
Seeing that the whole family was together, Jiang Zhaozhao put down her work even though she was a little busy in Shenzhen, and followed her parents to Hong Kong. She then played in Hong Kong for half a month before returning home.
After this trip, Jiang Cheng’s life returned to normal, but he planned to change his address in Changcheng.
Living in the compound, there were too many outsiders coming in and out. Anyone could come to them. Jiang Zhaozhao became famous because of his soy sauce factory, and his bottled water business was also growing bigger and bigger.
The reform and development has been going on for fifteen or sixteen years, and now all parts of the country are trying to attract investment. In order to achieve political achievements, some local office staff, in addition to attracting investment from abroad, are also targeting wealthy bosses internally, hoping that these wealthy people will invest in this and that.
For example, the leaders of Jinhe Town have changed several times in recent years. I learned that the Jiang family left the town and came to Changcheng several times to solicit investment.
When Jiang Zhaozhao was still in Changcheng, people would go to the soy sauce factory. Now that Jiang Zhaozhao is gone, some people have set their sights on her parents.
Almost no one knows that Jiang Cheng is actually the big boss behind the scenes. Even Old Li, who contracted the soy sauce factory to Jiang Cheng, believed that the factory became so prosperous today after Jiang Cheng’s daughter, Jiang Zhaozhao, a top student at Tsinghua University, took over.
In Changcheng, Jiang Niannian is actually a wealthy woman, but no one pays attention to her. She sells “Yinian” VCDs and DVDs, which are Hong Kong brands, so many people think she is just one of the domestic sales agents.
If people knew that the ‘Yinian’ brand of VCDs and DVDs were owned by Jiang Niannian, there would definitely be a lot of people looking for her to attract investment.
Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying really couldn’t live in the courtyard anymore, even though they were reluctant to leave their old neighbors. In fact, those who came to solicit investment didn’t know what Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying looked like. But as long as they lived in the same place, they were often disturbed.
If they go to another place, even if they still live in Changcheng, no one will recognize Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying when they go out.
And they really need a bigger house, because there are not many children living with Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying now. The children are grown up and don’t have their own rooms, so they also need privacy.
There is no bigger house or room here, so it’s fine if we don’t live together on weekdays, but we can’t even live together during the Chinese New Year.
Especially the third child, Jiang Nian Nian, she was particularly concerned about independent space. After Jiang Cheng returned to Changcheng, sometimes he went to visit this good girl when he was bored, and he saw her in the office alone with the door locked.
Why does a nice girl always like to sleep in the office? The key is why she loves to sleep so much. If she likes to sleep, she can just sleep at home until noon and then go to the company. She is not very busy in the company.
(The book is almost finished, and I will explain more or less what happens to Jiang Donglai later on. Please don’t rush me, at least let me get through this month, there will be a reward for full attendance).
(End of this chapter)