Macau is a special administrative region of China and one of the four major gambling cities in the world. It is known as a paradise for men and a bank for women.
The gamblers who come here from all over the world every year can be said to be busy, whether they are in Hong Kong movies or in movies. This place is full of the smell of money and the bloody events of all kinds of rivers and lakes.
But in fact, this is a very developed tourist city, and the security of any developed tourist city cannot be too bad. Because law and order is the biggest nemesis of tourism.
It is difficult for a place with very poor public security to become an extremely developed tourist city except for adventurers and tourists who do not know the heights of the sky.
Macau is a world-famous tourist city. With the economic development of the mainland in recent years, the number of tourists from the mainland has increased sharply every year.
Therefore, various gangs fight for turf, fight on the street with watermelon knives, or either sink the sea or chop off the hands and feet.
It only exists in movies. In reality, Macau is harmonious, safe, and also very prosperous and lively. This is a true city that never sleeps, a city of desire and depravity.
It's hard for people who come here to control their desires. Even people who don't usually gamble can't help but try their luck.
At the same time, there is no scene in the imagination that the streets and alleys are full of gambling dens, and various mahjong parlors are opened next to each other.
Since gambling requires a license, deceptive small stalls in streets and alleys have been basically banned. There are various local food shops, coffee shops, and clothing stores opened along the street. A wide variety of jewelry stores and luxury goods stores.
When you come here, you can not only see various buildings where Chinese and Western cultures collide, but also appreciate the unique style of Macau. It's much more prosperous than you might imagine in big cities like New York.
It is a place where money is really spent. Of course, you can still see the occasional drama of some gamblers being thrown out of the casino. Because this is indeed a city where it is easy for people to fall.
Yang Dongxu has been to Macau twice in total in his life. Once when he was very young, he needed to shoot a music video, and the other time he passed by out of curiosity.
I have never really visited here once.
This time he wanted to play in Macau on a whim. One of the reasons was that he had previously won the Hedong Garden. As the original owner of the Hedong Garden of the He family, Ms. He made him quite the gambling king in Macau.
The other thing is...Li Fuzhen is pregnant.
Among the women who interacted with Yang Dongxu, apart from those who suddenly jumped out to have a one-night stand, Chen Xin was the only one who was not pregnant.
Chen Hong wanted to have a child before, but then she figured it out and stopped mentioning the child. Now she goes to Hollywood to run Haina's branch.
In the past two years, I have been taking care of less and less things, and more of them have been supervising, and then I have spent the rest of the time traveling. Like Ran Feifei, she runs around all over the world, and sometimes the two of them run around together.
I don’t know if Dink’s idea of not having children was infected by his aunt Ran Feifei.
Apart from her, among the remaining three women, Bai Qian, Li Fuzhen and Chen Xin, only Chen Xin is not pregnant, and Chen Xin is also the oldest of all Yang Dongxu's women.
Although it has been well maintained over the years, time is not forgiving. No matter what, the crow's feet can no longer be concealed, and Chen Xin is very repulsive to having surgery on her face and injecting some hyaluronic acid or something like that, and insists on the idea of natural aging areas.
So even though Chen Xin looks much younger than her real age overall, Yang Dongxu can feel the burden of age in her heart.
So now that he had some free time, he decided to take Chen Xin for a walk. It happened that he also wanted to visit Macau.
Compared to Xiangjiang, which is already a bustling city, Macau is an area he has never set foot in, or in other words, he has never thought of getting involved in the gaming industry.
Most of the gambling techniques I learned from Mr. Xuan were influenced by watching too many Hong Kong movies in my previous life. I think those gambling tricks like flying cards are really cool.
Now as we grow older and our personalities become more mature, the thoughts and experiences of this life gradually overwrite everything from the previous life. For such a child-like personality, I have restrained myself a lot.
So he knows how to make money in the gambling industry, but he doesn't have much interest in it. At the same time, this industry is much more complex and deeper than other industries.
Macau is indeed a tourist city now, but the gaming industry is the economic backbone of the entire city. On the surface, ordinary people can indeed live in harmony, but the secret conflicts of interest may be more exciting and cruel than in the movies.
He has already made enough money from other businesses, and he makes it so openly that he is not afraid of anyone playing tricks on him, so there is no need to wade into this muddy water and get his shoes wet.
Sunglasses, sun hat, colorful pants, and flip-flops, this is Yang Dongxu's current outfit.
Chen Xin took off her usual serious business attire, a floral dress, a small bag on her arm, a big sun hat and sunglasses.
The two of them were just like an ordinary couple, strolling on the bustling street.
Ice cream, cold drinks, and small boxes of fruit, the two of them didn't hear anything about it while shopping. I didn’t go to any brand jewelry store.
I was wandering around the small shops and stalls on the street. I bought a dozen or twenty items that I thought were very beautiful. The bits and pieces were not big, so even if I bought a lot, my handbag was only half full of quilts. Yang Dongxu held it in his hand.
"What do you think of this pendant?" Chen Xin inserted a piece of cantaloupe into Yang Dongxu's mouth with a toothpick, and used her fingers to pick up a heart-shaped pendant hanging on the shelf in front of her.
The pendant is tied with a red rope, and the heart shape also has a transparent corporate feel, but at first glance it doesn't look like jade, it's probably made of plastic.
However, the overall design is very grand, especially the heart shape is very three-dimensional and looks like a small peach. It is not very big and looks quite cute.
"Very good." Yang Dongxu took the fruit box from Chen Xin's hand. Chen Xin took out a tissue and wiped his hands, then picked up the pendant and shook it in front of him. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
"How much does this cost?" Yang Dongxu asked the boss as he popped a piece of cantaloupe into his mouth and gave one to Chen Xin.
The boss has a dark skin, and the stall is not fixed. He carries a pole and a wooden box. There is a wooden shelf on the wooden box, and there are various trinkets blowing on the shelf.
It feels a bit like the older generation of street vendors. Of course, the clothes must not be the style of the older generation. The stall owners are very well-dressed.
This street is a folk street, so the stores look relatively old, so most of the things sold here are handicrafts.
There are also tea houses and pawn shops, which are businesses that have gradually disappeared in the mainland. Of course, there are also some antique sellers, both street stalls and shops.
"35." The stall owner spoke Mandarin full of Austrian flavor.
"It's a bit expensive, can it be less?" Yang Dongxu asked.
"It can't be less. This is chicken blood stone. You know chicken blood stone. It is the best among jade stones and is rare." The stall owner shook his head and kept talking in his mouth.
He also kept looking at Chen Xin beside him. If Chen Xin wasn't beautiful, he would like to take another look.
This look is obviously implying that Yang Dongxu has such a beautiful girlfriend standing next to him. As a man, why are you so stingy? How can you pick up girls like this?
Yang Dongxu clearly understood the look in the stall owner's eyes, but he obviously didn't want to be taken advantage of.
Besides, he and Chen Xin are already an old couple, and he himself is not a fool. How could he be so excited to pay for it just by looking at him from the old man at the stall?
"For 10 yuan, if you want us, we will buy it. If you don't want to sell it, forget about it. The small things we bought earlier are all at this price." Before Yang Dongxu could speak, Chen Xin said directly.
This price is much better than half the price.
The stall owner glared for a moment. At this time, he also thought that the couple in front of him was obviously not a young couple in love, and it was probably not necessarily a husband and wife.
Naturally, I have to change my routine at this time, "No, no, this is bloodstone. Look at this heart shape, which symbolizes your love. My dear, your girlfriend is so beautiful. You must buy it to express your love to her, right?"
"That's 12, that's 2 yuan more than what we bought before. If it's more, we'll really leave. And I think yours is not the only one. There are also ones over there." Yang Dongxu looked at the stall not far away. .
They also sell such small accessories and pendants there.
"Okay, okay, I sold it to you. I really lost money." When the stall owner saw that Yang Dongxu was really going to go aside, Li Ma agreed.
Then Ran Feifei took out money from her small bag. It was obvious that they were a couple. Otherwise, how could it be possible for a man and a woman to pay for shopping when a couple goes shopping? It’s all paid by men.
The stall owner sighed that he had made less money, and he reached out to take the money very neatly. A plastic pendant costing 2 yuan sold for 12 yuan, and the profit was already very satisfying to him.
"Is the cost price of this thing five yuan?" Chen Xin curiously played with the heart-shaped pendant in his hand, and then tied it on his bag.
The bag is the kind that costs more than 200,000 yuan a piece, but the pendant attached to it looks harmonious.
"Five yuan? It's about fifty cents. This is still the ex-factory price, and the cost price is even lower. Then add the red rope, and transportation and customs clearance. The cost to the first-hand merchant here will not exceed 1 yuan."
When wholesaled to a vendor like this, the price is about one to five yuan or two, no more. Yang Dongxu said casually.
Now Hainan is also a distribution center for small commodities across the country, and Yu Feihong is the biggest boss there. He has a rough estimate of the prices of these small things.
"So cheap?" Chen Xin looked a little surprised.
"What do you think? Have you seen those silk scarves sold in the store over there? They are all from the assembly line. The wholesale price is one yuan at most. When you buy it, you can get 20, which means the boss is making small profits but quick turnover."
Chen Xin held Yang Dongxu's arm and smiled stupidly without saying anything, pouting for fruit.
It doesn't matter whether they are cheated or not, and it doesn't matter whether the price of the things they buy is high or low. What the two of them like is the atmosphere of shopping and the fun of bargaining.
