Shu Qi was left by a group of old editors from the magazine to invite her to dinner. Yan Hao wanted to go back to the Jiahe set near Diamond Mountain. The two joined forces to Wanchai Pier and prepared to take a ferry to Kowloon.

Wan Chai Pier, as the name suggests, is a ferry terminal near Wan Chai. The famous Star Ferry in Hong Kong starts from here and travels between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

Although Hong Kong opened an undersea tunnel in 1972, the Star Small Ferry is cheap and can also visit the scenery of Victoria Harbor, so the piers are crowded and lively.

Chinese people are the most adaptable to local conditions and take advantage of the situation. As long as there are many people in the area, there will always be no shortage of stalls selling snacks.

When a person is busy, he consumes a lot of energy. He becomes hungry every four or five o'clock in the afternoon. Therefore, when he arrives at the dock, he smells all kinds of food scents floating in the air and can't help but saliva flows.

"Yan Hao, let's have something to eat first?"

"Okay." Yan Hao nodded, he was a little hungry, "There are a lot of delicious food nearby, let's try it together."

After walking around several stalls, Chen Chong saw a sign, his eyes lit up and walked over.

There are actually dumplings selling...

He has eaten too many southern snacks such as fish balls and bowls of wings recently, and misses the northern foods in his previous life. At this time, he saw the dumplings selling, and his index fingers were thrilled.

The stall was set up by a middle-aged woman, two little loli, one big and one small, ran around to help. The older one was seven or eight years old, and the younger one was only four or five years old. It was probably her daughter.

The dumplings are now sold, and the business is OK, but the popularity is a little worse than the surrounding stalls.

After ordering two bowls of dumplings, waiting for a while, the older loli came here.

As soon as the dumplings were in the mouth, they knew that they were authentic northern dumplings. The skin was thick, the taste was strong, the filling was salty and fat. It was very rare to eat such dumplings in Hong Kong. I couldn't help but have a big appetite and I ate them all in just a few strokes.

After eating, Chen Chong found that Yan Hao had only eaten a few and asked, "Isn't it delicious?"

"The taste is quite special." Yan Hao threw down his chopsticks and said, "It's just that the dumpling skin is too thick, a little bit greasy, and I can't get used to it."

"Where is your hometown?"

"From Jiangsu."

"No wonder." Chen Chong looked clear and said, "This is an authentic northern dumpling, it is normal for you to be accustomed to it."

"The boss really knows the goods." The middle-aged woman who came to collect the dishes and chopsticks praised him when she heard this, "You are the first to eat it. I am the authentic northern dumpling."

"I not only know that you are dumplings from the north." Chen Chong said while paying for it: "I also know that you are dumplings from Shandong."

"How did you know?" the middle-aged woman was surprised and asked enthusiastically: "You are from Shandong too?"

"No." Chen Chong shook his head. The woman was half-baked in Cantonese, mixed with the Shandong accent, which was easy to hear. He smiled and said, "I guessed it when you listen to your tone. Where are the people from Shandong?"

“From Qingdao.”

"Qingdao is a good place, good mountains, rivers and good families." Chen Chong praised him. He had been in Qingdao for more than half a year in his previous life and liked that place very much.

"Okay, Achong, don't show off, you haven't been to Qingdao again." Yan Hao stood up and said, "The ferry is coming, let's go."

Chen Chong stood up and walked past the dumpling stall. When he saw the four or five-year-old little loli, who was working hard to wash dishes. She used a very tall wooden barrel to wash dishes. Her whole body was stuck in. After washing a few times, she had to stand up and rest. Her arms, like lotus nodes, were soaked red in water. (Note 1)

Chen Chong felt his nose sore and tears almost poured out.

He rubbed his nose hard, turned around and shouted, "Auntie, pack all the dumplings you didn't cook here."

"I want it all?" the middle-aged aunt was surprised and said, "There are nearly 100 of them here."

"It's all." Chen Chong replied in a muffled voice.

"Okay, I'll wrap it for you." The middle-aged aunt picked up a new plastic film glove and stuffed the dumplings one by one.

Chen Chong was surprised. Not to mention the small vendors today, even the regular restaurants in later generations, they did not have such a good sense of hygiene. He pointed to his gloves and asked, "Auntie, are you?"

"I used to be a nurse." The aunt explained with a smile while filling dumplings: "It's better to have a clean food when you eat."

Chen Chong nodded, stopped talking, and silently watched her pretend to be dumplings.

"Auntie, your dumplings are authentic, but most of Hong Kong are from southerners and they are not used to eating them." Before leaving, Chen Chong said to the middle-aged woman: "Put the fatty meat in the meat filling and roll the dumpling skin a little thinner, and the business will probably be better."

"Thank you." The middle-aged woman said gratefully: "I'm thinking about this, I'll try it tomorrow."

Yan Hao walked from the front of the stall and didn't watch the little girl washing dishes. He waited for a while and saw Chen Chong coming over with a bag of dumplings, he joked: "A Chong, if you drink better, it's just a perfect idiom."

"What idiom?" Chen Chong knew what Yan Hao wanted to say, so he deliberately supported the actor, intending to use this to change his depressed mood.

"A wine bag."

"I'm a wine bag, aren't you a meat friend?" Chen Chong laughed loudly, but there was no smile. He walked onto the ferry with the crowds while talking nonsense: "Yan Hao, do you know what my life ideal is?"

"What ideal?" Yan Hao was also tactful and said with a word.

"Eat well and sleep well."

Yan Hao was stunned. What kind of ideal is this?

"The Master said: Food and sex are all about nature." Chen Chong shook his head and explained: "My ideal is to eat the best food in the world and sleep with the best beauty in the world."

This time, not only Yan Hao laughed, but also the passers-by around him who heard Chen Chong's words...

...

The one who wanted to acquire the invention patent of the Rubik's Cube was the bald foreigner Chen Chong saw last time in the office of a young man. Li Kaiyuan introduced that his name was Larry Nichols. (Note 2)

Chen Chong refused to sell the Rubik's Cube patent, but proposed a compromise plan - a joint venture with Nicholas in the name of the company to set up a Rubik's Cube manufacturer locally in the United States.

Chen Chong did this with no choice.

After the release of "Scientific American", which published the Rubik's Cube article, Nicholas was the first person to order. Now he offered a $3 million patent acquisition, which shows that the Rubik's Cube's sales in the North American market are extremely popular, otherwise he would not have offered such generous conditions.

Chen Chong knew that in the history of his previous life, the Rubik's Cube sold more than 2 million in North America in just over a year without advertising. This is just the authentic Rubik's Cube sales data when toy factories are insufficient in production capacity and market out of stock.

Now, the two toy factories in Hong Kong are operating at full capacity, with a monthly output of only more than 200,000. They also have to take into account the markets in Japan, Southeast Asia and Europe, which obviously cannot meet the needs of the North American market.

Shenzhen has just been renamed and established a city. It will not be established in August next year. The "Sino-Foreign Joint Venture Enterprise Law of the People's Republic of China" will be promulgated for several months. It is not realistic to build a factory in the mainland at this time, and it is not realistic to quench near-term thirst.

Therefore, even if the production cost in North America is higher, and you still have to share profits with others, Chen Chong still decided to open a factory in North America, produce and sell locally, and respond to the market faster. He did not want the "Rude Cube Famine" phenomenon in history to repeat due to insufficient production capacity - because the market is out of stock, various pirated Rubik's Cubes flooded North America, making the genuine Rubik's Cube unable to sell after the production capacity is restored...

After hearing Chen Chong's proposal, Nicholas said that he needed to consider it. Chen Chong was in no way possible. After all, it was a big business worth millions of dollars. Being cautious is necessary. Make a decision with a wave of his hand, which is only suitable for a time travel party like him.

After talking about the matter, it was already past seven o'clock at night. Chen Chong ate dumplings at the dock. He felt fine. Li Kaiyuan was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy.

So instead of walking home as usual, the two of them took a taxi back.

"Sister Yuanyuan, go and learn a driver's license." Chen Chong said in the taxi: "I'm too busy recently and don't have time to go. It's more convenient for you to learn it."

"I'll go in a few days." Li Kaiyuan agreed, hugged Chen Chong's arm, and after a while, he said, "A Chong, I'm going to buy a house outside."

"Oh?" This is good news. You don't have to always run away from the hotel in the future. Although the hotel is luxurious, it is prepared for passers-by. It lacks a warm and stable taste. Chen Chong doesn't like it very much. "Where are you going to buy it?"

"It's not decided yet. I have been running several properties with Xinxin these days." Li Kaiyuan said: "Tianbao is not small anymore. He has to have some space for himself and can't always squeeze together with me to sleep."

"Or why you go to the middle of the mountain to buy it." Chen Chong suggested: "It just happened to change the school for Tianbao. Her academic performance is quite good. If she gets admitted to the University of Hong Kong in the future, it will be convenient for her to go home to school."

Mid-mountain refers to an area between the top of Taiping Mountain and the Central Ring Road, from Wan Chai to the east, Pok Fulin to the west, and Suburban Park to the north to Sheung Wan. The Mid-mountain area is high and has rich vegetation and fresh air. It is also close to Sheung Wan, Central Ring Road and Admiralty, which not only has the purity and distantness between the mountains and forests, but also can see the spectacular sea view of Victoria Harbor and the dazzling night view of Hong Kong on the window. It is one of the most highly regarded residences in Hong Kong.

Chen Chong remembers that in the 1990s, a love novel by a Hong Kong female writer was very popular in the mainland. The standard of a rich man in the book was to own a mansion of a thousand feet and a half mountain - a mansion of a thousand feet is equivalent to the mainland standard, which is less than 100 square meters!

"Middle of the mountain is too expensive." Lee Kaiyuan was obviously very moved, but hesitated. "The big ones couldn't afford it, and the small ones were too crowded to live there. I couldn't run to live in the mountain alone and leave my mother and the others in Kwun Tong."

"How about you go to Hewentian to buy a bigger one." After getting off the taxi, Shen Chong carried the bag of dumplings and suggested: "I've been there a few days ago, and the environment is pretty good."

"Okay, I'll find some time to go and have a look."

After the Spring Festival, the Rubik's Cube began to make money steadily, and Li Kaiyuan refused to let Aunt Liu sell fruits again. It was too hard and he got up early and went to bed late. Although this girl often quarreled with Aunt Liu, she was extremely filial.

Aunt Liu had no work to do, so she cooked and cooked every day, delivered it at noon and waited at night, making Li Kaiyuan's face a little round.

Chen Chong also gained some money and often went to have free meals at night, almost treating the Li family as his own.

"Aunt Liu, where is Uncle Li?" As soon as he entered the door, Chen Chong raised the bag in his hand and said, "Today I met an authentic stall making northern dumplings. The boss and Uncle Li are fellow villagers and from Shandong, so I bought some back."

"Your Uncle Li has gone to work." Aunt Liu took the bag and said, "A family wants to make a few wardrobes and ask him to see the wood tonight."

When the Great Wall was in chaos, Li Tang relied on carpenters to support his family. The furniture in Chen Chong's family with good shapes was all his hands. Li Tang's craftsmanship is very famous around him. Now that he has returned to the Great Wall, he still takes on jobs in private.

"Then put it in the refrigerator first. When Uncle Li comes back, cook it for him to taste it."

After dinner, Li Kaiyuan took a few plates and followed Aunt Liu into the kitchen.

Chen Chong sat on the sofa and watched TV with Tianbao.

"Tianbao, how are you playing with your Rubik's Cube?"

"I'm very awesome now." Tianbao jumped off the sofa, stood in front of Shen Chong, and said proudly: "No one recovers faster than me, and even the teacher can't compare to me!"

"real?"

"Of course it's true." Tianbao took out a slightly worn Rubik's cube from the corner of the sofa, handed it to Chen Chong, and said, "You disrupt it and watch me perform for you."

Chen Chong took the Rubik's Cube, twisted it a few times, and handed it back to her.

Then I saw Tianbao's two green hands dancing like a butterfly, and almost in the blink of an eye, the Rubik's Cube was restored.

"See it!" Tianbao raised his chin with a proud look, looking proud and full of praise.

Chen Chong was shocked. With his visual time just now, the time for Tianbao to restore the Rubik's Cube should be about ten seconds, which is a very amazing speed. In his previous life, the fastest world record for restoring the Rubik's Cube was 7.53 seconds. Tianbao has only been playing for more than a month and has an amazing talent.

Just as I was about to say a few sincere words of praise, I heard a "pop" sound in the kitchen, as if something had been broken.

"What's wrong?" Chen Chong walked over and saw that Aunt Liu accidentally broke a bowl.

"A Chong, is Yuanyuan's words true?" Aunt Liu looked in disbelief and asked, "She said you made more than two million a month?"

Chen Chong looked at Li Kaiyuan sticking his tongue behind Aunt Liu, then smiled and nodded, admitting: "It's true."

"Is it because you and Yuanyuan each have more than two million, or are there a total of more than two million?"

"Of course, it's more than 2 million for everyone." Chen Chong ignored Li Kaiyuan's random gestures and said, "Sister Yuanyuan was discussing with me just now and said that she wanted to buy a big house for Aunt Liu to support her elderly care."

"Sister wants to buy a new house?" Tianbao heard this and came over and asked happily: "Where are you buying it? Is there a room for me?"

...

When he walked out of the Li family, Chen Chong vaguely heard the cheerful discussion. When he thought of the little girl with red arms on the Wanchai Pier, he couldn't help but think of a word.

The moon shines on the nine provinces, and some families are happy and some are sad.

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Note 1: The story of the female boss of Wanchai Pier, TVB was adapted into the TV series "Dumpling Queen" based on this
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