Manhattan Reborn 1978

On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.

Evening~

398 Corudilla Avenue, Honolulu Island.

Giles, Bloomer, Leslie, Livlin, Lilith and Tilda, who had been out at sea all day, all gathered around a table and looked at Cui Yingying with a kitchen knife in her hand. Perform "sword skills". .

Zhang Maochang and his son Zhang Jia'an stood opposite Cui Yingying, also staring intently at Cui Yingying's right hand, flying up and down quickly, making a piece of water tofu accidentally found from an island country restaurant into the famous Sichuan dish "Chrysanthemum Tofu" 》The rough blank.

David watched Cui Yingying put the cut tofu into the water, shook it gently for a dozen times, and a tofu "chrysanthemum" that resembled a sea anemone was displayed in front of everyone.

Tilda Swinton couldn't believe her eyes and came forward, took a closer look for a moment, raised her head to look at Cui Yingying, and asked in amazement.

"It's so soft and tender..."

"How did you practice it?"

Cui Yingying wiped the kitchen knife in her hand clean with a rag, raised her hands and said with a smile: "If you contact me hundreds of times a day, you can be like me!"

"..." Tilda was speechless~

"Hahaha~" Everyone laughed.

Zhang Maochang also smiled and nodded slightly, smiling at David: "I'll go to the kitchen to see how Lao Tang is doing."

"Okay." David nodded and looked at the butler Acklade.

Today, Aklade was obviously a little tanned again. As he led Zhang Maochang and his son into the holiday home, he did not forget to turn back to the maid Chaxida and whisper a few instructions.

David, who silently watched all this, gave up his "position" to the curious Tilda, pulled Leslie to the side and asked.

"Did you receive any latest news when you came back just now?"

"Yeah~" Leslie tilted her head with a strange expression and asked.

"Is there something written on my face?"

"How did you tell?

David pretended to smile mysteriously, tapped Leslie's shoulder with his finger, and whispered: "It's Livlin!"

"Only when you are thinking about something in your mind will you keep your hand on her waist without knowing it."

"Don't you feel it?"

"Forehead.."

Leslie blinked his big eyes, looked at Livlin, and said with an embarrassed smile: "I really didn't notice..."

"Hehe~"

"Now...it's not too late to find out! Right?"

"Tell me~ when can I be your best man?"

"..." Leslie rubbed her nose with her hands and thought about it again and again, but she didn't have a concrete answer in her heart.

"..you?!"

"You've never thought about marrying Livlin, have you?" David slowly showed a "horrified" expression and asked in a very low voice.

"That's not true." Leslie surprised David this time and simply gave the answer.

"Oh~ That's good!"

"call.."

David quietly looked back at Livlin who was chatting and laughing with Lilith, pulled Leslie a little further away, and whispered.

"It's not advisable to run away from what's going on between you two!"

"If you really want to marry Livlin, you'd better tell her these words directly... and let her help you make the choice!"

"This is called turning passivity into initiative!"

"Understand?"

Leslie scratched his head with his hands, looked at the "experienced" David with an even weirder expression, and asked again.

"You bastard... If Livlin knew that you were giving me advice, I would definitely not be able to forgive you!"

"Hehe~"

"What's this?!"

"At most... the two of you break up and she comes back to haunt me~"

David raised his eyebrows "proudly", winked at Leslie and said, "I wouldn't mind having such a super rich girlfriend like her~"

"What am I afraid of?"

Leslie gritted her teeth and whispered when she saw David acting like a "badass" again.

"Don't worry!"

"You will get it!"

"Hahahaha~"

. . .

After the two "sneakly" joked for a while.

Leslie pulled David to sit down, pondered for a few seconds, and said, "Someone contacted me and wanted to buy some of my stocks at a premium."

"Stocks? From which company?"

"Chrysler."

"Oh?"

David looked at Leslie up and down feeling a little surprised and asked.

"When did you buy Clysco stock?"

"A few days before I met you..."

"Um...did you buy it after receiving some news?"

"Ok!"

Leslie shrugged and spread his hands: "In July last year, the original CEO of Ford Motor Company, Lee Iacocca, left Ford due to conflicts with Henry Ford, the chairman of the board of directors."

"Lee Iacocca, who is only 54 years old this year, did not choose to retire~ but joined Chrysler Corporation as CEO."

"Just over three months after he joined Chrysler, he was elected to the board of directors as the new chairman of the board of directors because of his outstanding work ability."

"That is, when the board of directors publicly announced the appointment, Chrysler's stock price rose by 40% within a few days!"

"Oh~"

"So, when you were on the Chrysler board of directors and wanted to nominate Lee Iacocca as the newest chairman of the board, you bought their company's stock."

"No!"

"I bought stock in Lee Iacocca when he first joined Chrysler."

"Wow~"

"Then you have really good taste!"

"and then?"

"Someone wants to buy your stock at a premium, why don't you sell it?"

Leslie glanced at the fruit plate at hand, picked up a piece of apple, put it into his mouth, and said with a smile: "Because the person who wants to buy the stock in my hand... is from the island country!"

"...Those people in New York?"

"Ok!"

"..." David frowned, looked at Lilith beside Livlin, and let out a sigh of relief.

"Island people, contact you..."

"wrong!"

"Except for dealing with the emotional issues with Livlin, you don't seem to be as decisive as a man should be~"

"You've always done things straightforwardly, and you won't appear indecisive just because of this little thing."

"Could it be that it's not just people from the island country who contacted you?"

"Is it right?"

"Ok!"

Leslie looked at David with an "alien" look and nodded: "Have you never considered becoming a woman?"

"If you were a woman, I would definitely marry you!"

"Fuck off!!"

"Hahaha~" Leslie laughed cheerfully, causing several people not far away to look back.

David glared at Leslie angrily for a few times, thought quickly in his mind for a moment, grabbed his arm directly, and asked.

"I remember~ During the engagement ceremony, you had a long chat with several Saudi guests wearing white robes?!·"

"They must also have ideas about Chrysler, the third largest automobile company in the United States, right?"

"Yes~"

Leslie slowly stopped laughing, took a long breath, also looked at Lilith not far away, and whispered.

"In recent years, due to the sharp rise in oil prices, they have accumulated tens of billions of dollars in cash."

"The situation of the people on the island is similar to them~"

"That's why they hope to use your and Lilith's wedding to find some low-risk, high-return investment opportunities for themselves."

"Chrysley's stock price has entered the largest rebound phase in the past five years since mid-November last year."

"As of today's market close, its stock price has returned to its historical high in early 74~"

"But the factors behind the rise in Chrysler's stock price are very complicated~"

"It's not just that Lee Iacocca, this ambitious reformer, was successfully elected as chairman of the company's board of directors~"

"In addition, in recent years, the cost of various raw materials in the automobile manufacturing industry has continued to rise + the government announced a minimum price order for imported steel from island countries + domestic steel companies have a serious shortage of production capacity + the automobile union once again demanded an increase in workers' wages, etc."

"This has led to an increase in the total production costs of the three major domestic automobile companies, as well as an increase in the retail prices of domestic automobiles!"

"For example: During Easter, the blind box company you created and the latest sedan sponsored by Cadillac just increased the retail price by more than 700 yuan."

"Various brands under Ford and Chrysler also increased the retail prices of family cars in those days."

"so.."

David interrupted Leslie with a wave of his hand and continued: "So~ we can put the next plan on the agenda!"

"Next step?"

Leslie didn't quite understand what David meant: "What's the next step?"

"Hehe~"

David smiled confidently: "Didn't you just say it? Both the islanders and the Saudi royal family have large sums of cash in their hands, but they have no suitable investment direction."