Chapter 21 Twins

It was March and Getali Jiabao was about to give birth. Zhang Feng had already arranged a hospital in advance and spent money to find the best obstetrician.

During this period, the company has been developing steadily. KFC continues to open branches; Shennong Pharmaceutical Company earns a large sum of money every month and has also recruited some researchers to start researching new drugs; Maple Leaf Investment Company continues to invest the revenue from pharmaceuticals and stockings into the stock market.

Everything is thriving. In the short term, Zhang Feng plans to develop step by step without any further trouble.

One day in February, in the delivery room of a Los Angeles City Hospital, the cry of a baby was heard first, and soon after, the cry of another baby was heard.

"Mr. Monk, congratulations, your wife has given birth to twins for you." Two nurses walked out of the delivery room holding the wrapped babies and congratulated Zhang Feng with a smile.

"They're twins! Sister Jiabao is so amazing. I hope I have two too." Qin Qingning said enviously.

"Thank you, thank you." Zhang Feng was so happy that he didn't know what to say. In his previous life, he was poor, so he had no girlfriend and no children. After coming here, all these have come true. He is a little excited now.

To express his gratitude, Zhang Feng took out the red envelopes he had prepared and gave them to several nurses and doctors. After being surprised, they happily accepted them.

After sending it out, Zhang Feng felt a little bad again. How could he have brought the bad habits from his previous life? He didn't react to it. After all, he had seen it on the news and TV before, so he learned it. He didn't consider other things. He just thought that he was so rich now, so a few red envelopes didn't matter.

It's a sin, it's a sin. If doctors and nurses in the past had asked for red envelopes like other ordinary people before doing their jobs, wouldn't that be my responsibility? But on second thought, I am a capitalist, so I feel relieved.

The hospital then transferred Getri Garbo to a luxury ward, and the two children were cleaned and placed next to her under Zhang Feng's supervision.

"My dear, you are so brave to give birth to two babies at once. Thank you." Zhang Feng sat in front of the hospital bed, holding Getafe's hand and said gently.

"Feng, this is what I should do. They are the fruit of our love. I feel very happy." Getellia Garbo looked at Zhang Feng affectionately, then stretched out her hands, hugged the two children one on each side, and turned around to kiss them.

After staying in the hospital for two days, Zhang Feng arranged a car to take the mother and her two children back to Monchi Manor. Originally, Zhang Feng planned to let them stay in the hospital for a few more days, but Gertrude firmly disagreed, so Zhang Feng had to give up. Besides, the hospital was indeed not as good as home. Anyway, he had money and could hire doctors and nurses to take care of them.

White women are indeed very strong. They don’t even need to observe confinement after childbirth and can get out of bed in a few days. However, Zhang Feng still insisted on inviting Getri Garbo to stay in the room and recuperate for more than half a month.

After half a month of hard thinking, the names of the two sons were finally chosen.

The eldest son’s Chinese name is Zhang Chengtian and his English name is William Zhang Monk.

The youngest son’s Chinese name is Zhang Chengyun and his English name is Arthur Zhang Monkey.

In the following months, Zhang Feng stayed at home with his wife and children every day, listened to the company's reports, and occasionally took time to stay in touch with Howard Hughes and play a supporting role in his new movie. He can be regarded as his current backer.

By August, Qin Qingning had entered the countdown to giving birth, and Zhang Feng quickly arranged for her to be admitted to the hospital. Half a month later, Qin Qingning gave birth to a pair of twin sons for Zhang Feng.

Monchi Manor.

Zhang Feng was lying on a specially made recliner, leisurely watching the koi in the pond in front of him fighting for food. Next to him was a half-person-high stool with a glass bowl on it, which was half filled with fish feed. He reached out and grabbed some, then swung his arm and threw it into the pond.

The pond is about ten meters long and five meters wide, with some water lilies planted in it. The scene of hundreds of koi competing for food is very beautiful. The pond is filled with running water, with inlets and outlets on both sides, flowing continuously.

Gertari Garbo and Qin Qingning were sitting in front of a bush of flowers, each holding a child in their arms, and the two maids beside them were holding one each. They were chatting and teasing the children.

Zhang Feng felt extremely satisfied and comfortable at this time. He saw Getafe whispering something to Qin Qingning, then took the child from the maid next to Qin Qingning and handed the child in her arms to the maid.

"Sir, Madam asked you to take care of the two children." Zhang Feng had just finished feeding the koi and was looking up at the white clouds in the sky in a daze when he heard a voice in his ears.

He turned around and saw two maids holding Zhang Chengtian and Zhang Chengyun. He thought that the two women must have seen that he was too idle. Without saying anything, he stretched out his hands to the children. The two children immediately smiled and stretched out their hands, grabbing Zhang Feng for a hug. Zhang Feng happily took the two sons, holding one in each arm and kissing each on the face, causing them to scream. The three of them interacted happily.

Zhang Chengyun on the right saw the fish feed on the bench next to him, and reached out to grab it, leaving Zhang Feng behind. Zhang Feng was teasing Zhang Chengtian and didn't notice. When he turned around, Zhang Chengyun had already grabbed a handful in his little hand. Then, he imitated Zhang Feng's usual behavior and threw it into the pond with all his strength. Children's ability to imitate is really strong.

The place where Zhang Feng was sitting was more than two meters away from the edge of the pond. Perhaps because he inherited Zhang Feng's strong physical genes, Zhang Chengyun threw the baby instead of it falling to the ground. He was only five months old now.

Zhang Chengtian on the left saw his brother feeding the fish and was not to be outdone. He yelled at him and crawled towards the fish feed. Zhang Feng restrained him with a little force and made him stay there obediently.

Seeing that Zhang Feng refused to give in, Zhang Chengtian turned around and yelled something at Zhang Feng, as if he was accusing his father of being partial and that his younger brother was all right. Seeing his son like this, he just found it funny and then slowly let go of his hand.

Zhang Chengyun also imitated Zhang Feng's usual actions, grabbed a handful, shook his hands, and threw them into the pond with force. Suddenly, the pond was boiling. Seeing the fish scrambling for food, the two boys kept clapping and applauding, and their laughter could be heard from far away.

By September 1927, Zhang Feng's career was developing in an orderly manner. Now his several wholly-owned companies and Langsha Company could bring him more than 9 million US dollars in profits every month. All of these profits were slowly invested by him in the stock market, and were also constantly increasing in value.

After graduation, Lin Huiyin still chose to come to Los Angeles. Zhang Feng's efforts were not in vain. Zhang Feng bought the apartment where she lived before and let her live there. She usually went to work in the Rice Building. Zhang Feng also set up a real estate company and arranged for her to work there. However, she was the only employee for the time being, and there was only one business in recent years, which was the company headquarters building that Zhang Feng mentioned before.

When Zhang Feng arrived at the company, he first went to see Lin Huiyin, and then called the company manager to a meeting in the conference room.

"Shalock, next you arrange people to go to China and collect their country's ancient Chinese medicine prescriptions. As far as I know, Chinese medicine is very magical and can treat many diseases, but they don't know the specific principles and there are no ready-made medicines. We can research and improve some prescriptions and make them into Chinese patent medicines for sale. This can greatly reduce our research time and expenses." Zhang Feng said immediately after everyone arrived.

In fact, Zhang Feng thought of traditional Chinese medicine when he started the pharmaceutical company. One reason was that he wanted to preserve the vitality of traditional Chinese medicine as much as possible before World War II broke out, so that a lot of useful knowledge would not be lost in the war.

Secondly, as I just said, having a formula before conducting research can help you avoid many detours, save a lot of research funds, and make more money quickly. After the war, you can also carry the banner of traditional Chinese medicine and avoid living a cheap life.

"Well, if there are real talents in traditional Chinese medicine willing to come to America, they can also bring their families with them. In addition to China, other countries and tribes in the world can also send people to investigate and collect medical knowledge and ancient mysterious formulas in order to quickly develop the company." Zhang Feng continued, and he suddenly realized that this was also a direction.

However, Zhang Feng did not expect that his unintentional move would make these investigators he sent out eventually become a powerful intelligence team in his hands.

"I understand, boss. I'll arrange it right away." Sharlock responded immediately. He thought the boss's idea was genius.

"James, KFC's development has reached a bottleneck. I plan to list the company, which will be beneficial to the company's expansion." Zhang Feng first said to James, then looked at Paulson and said, "Paulson, you know Wall Street better. Assist James in the listing. Arrange a round of financing first. Find some powerful financial groups. Morgan is a good example. Find an opportunity to talk to the Morgan family first. I believe there will be no problem."

"Okay, boss." They both responded at the same time.

Zhang Feng wanted to take advantage of the bull market before the economic crisis to list KFC. This would allow him to find a backer and develop the company better and faster, and he could also take the opportunity to make a huge sum of money so that he could show his talents in the next crisis.

After making enough money, he could also acquire some companies and plots of land that he was optimistic about during the Great Depression and lay the foundation for his family in America.

Then Zhang Feng followed Sharlock to the factory of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company. The research base of Shennong Company was built not far from the factory.

"Boss, there are 35 researchers in the institute now, and six of them came to our company with their projects for investment." Sharlock introduced Zhang Feng to the current personnel situation of the institute.

"Well, this kind of cooperation can be expanded. In addition to America, Europe can also send people to find suitable projects and talents. My goal is to develop Shennong Pharmaceutical Company into the world's largest pharmaceutical company. By then, you will be the general manager of the largest pharmaceutical company." Zhang Feng continued to paint a picture.

Although Zhang Feng does not really have the ambition to make his company the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, this development direction is always correct, and it is also necessary to recruit more talents.

Afterwards, Zhang Feng told Sharlock about the research directions of some future medicines that he remembered, asked him to arrange for researchers to develop finished products as soon as possible, and then left the company.

(End of this chapter)