Chapter 686: Interest
The strange woman in labor was suddenly mysterious. She intentionally leaned her body forward towards Sakai Rie and deliberately lowered her voice, “Do you know VIP?”
Rie Sakai pretended to be confused, “What VIP?”
“It’s the VIP room in this hospital, reserved for the upper class. I’ve heard about it, one of our top executives from the Hard Gold Group stayed in.” The strange matron explained.
Sakai Rie knew that the VIP the other party was talking about was herself. It was just that she hadn’t fully figured it out yet. This was on the side, this hospital’s secrecy was still fine, after all, completely impermeable walls did not exist in this world.
Ever since she had moved in, there had been a succession of people driving luxury cars and bringing expensive gifts to visit her in this hospital.
Some of them belonged to the members of the Rosebud Society, and those were people she knew perfectly well. Some people, she didn’t know at all, and it could be said that she had never met them before.
They were not people who had nothing to do with her family, they were all the wives and daughters of the bosses of pachinko parlors and the like. Not only that, there are many people inside the Tokyo high society circle also have come.
Financial circles, political circles …… those dignitaries, even if they themselves or their wives and daughters do not come, they will send special people to send gifts. The whole afternoon, she was busy having meetings with those people inside the living room.
“Are you interested in that one yet?” The strange woman in labor said with a strong hint.
As soon as Sakai Rie heard it, she realized that the so-called interest she was talking about was to visit and pull some strings. She wasn’t averse to such things, after all, that was the reality.
Sakai Rie continued to be the one to feign confusion, “What interest?”
“We’re all from the Hard Gold Group, so it’s only human nature to walk around each other a bit. Let’s take some fruits with us to visit that VIP who is staying with us in this hospital,” the strange matron explained.
“Personally, I feel that there is absolutely no need for this one as you said! Someone else is a VIP, and I’m afraid they don’t have the time to receive the families of ordinary members of the community like us.” Rie Sakai said calmly.
“How do we know it’s impossible unless we try? If we were able to meet the VIP, we’d be doing our respective husbands a favor.
Inside a normal day, it’s not easy to find an excuse. Nowadays, this is the best excuse, after all, we all live in the same hospital.” The strange woman in labor said seriously.
Rie Sakai had heard Masayoshi Kishimoto say a long time ago that not only the general management, but also among the ordinary members of the society, there were quite a few people who were digging in their heels to pull strings.
In the past, she was still a bit skeptical. Nowadays, she was completely convinced of what he had once told her.
“The money spent on the gifts will come from me alone. You only need to accompany me.” The strange woman in labor mistakenly thought that the other party couldn’t afford to spend money and said.
“Even though our respective husbands work for the Hard Gold Group, we shouldn’t know each other. Furthermore, this is the first time we’ve met and we don’t know each other well.” Sakai Rie politely declined.
The strange woman in labor was awakened by her, and it was only then that she realized that she had indeed overdone it aggressively. The reason why she was in this situation was because she wanted to take credit in front of her husband.
Although her husband was an official member of Hard Gold Construction, he had always complained in front of her that he was not taken seriously by his superiors.
Anyone knows the result of not being valued by one’s supervisor is that it is difficult to get promoted and get a raise. The interests of the two were again communal.
The only way for her husband to get ahead is for her as a wife to follow her husband’s honor and glory. Both of them are typical of the middle class in Tokyo, Japan.
Both of them have both a sad side and a vain side. This wanted to show off in front of family, friends and others, and was tinged with a sense of powerlessness.
So, not without that, she moved to go down the route of Mrs. Diplomacy. The reason she preferred to involve Rie Sakai, a stranger she had met for the first time, rather than a close friend, was because of personal pride.
If you went to meet a VIP with a gift and the person didn’t know you, it was only natural that they wouldn’t see you. Even if they do meet, it will be quite perfunctory.
In this way, and is not their own initiative in front of their good friends to lose face? Inside the weekdays, she had bragged about how capable her man was, and how highly regarded he was by his bosses at the company.
If she could go with Rie Sakai, even if she lost face, she would lose face together. Not to mention that it was still unknown whether or not we would be able to see each other again in the future.
Therefore, this one matter was treated as if it had never happened. If this matter came to pass, she would have really found a doorway and a backer for her husband.
If she went alone, her weight would be light, but if the two of them, who were also family members of the Hard Gold Group, went, it would be a plus.
They are also two pregnant women, thus can form a kind of forced VIP to think, completely disappeared a bit, seems not too close to the human feelings.
If this matter spreads out, especially into the ears of the hard gold group of people, also not good for his personal image.
There was no guarantee that there wouldn’t be a rumor that he was being treated arrogantly by someone’s family member who wanted to visit when they worked for the same company.
At the same time, of course, Sakai Rie saw clearly that the other party’s small-mindedness was to climb the ladder of relationships, not to pay a sincere visit. Even if she put in a good, flowery speech, it was still with an impure purpose and motive.
“In recent times, the prices of houses in Tokyo have risen so much, doesn’t your family worry about buying a house? If each of our husbands were able to get a promotion and a raise as soon as possible, then there wouldn’t be an excessive amount of financial pressure on buying a house.” The strange woman in labor wanted to use this to persuade the other party to say.
“Housing prices have been rising is not in line with the laws of the market economy. If there is a drop, then what can be done?” Sakai Rie calmly said.
“Do you see the possibility of a fall in this continuous rise?” The strange woman in labor didn’t think that house prices would fall, saying.
Once again, Rie Sakai understood something else that Masayoshi Kishimoto had once said to her. In the face of falling house prices, even if the rich were willing, they would suffer from the extreme opposition of the middle class.
Often times, houses were not only for people to live in, but they also represented a class symbol. One of the biggest differences between the middle class and the lower class is often a clear division between those who have a house and those who don’t, rather than per capita income. Annual per capita income varies greatly from city to city.
In Tokyo, a person’s annual income is 4 million yen, which is not very common. Such an income is often just the minimum income line for a woman in Tokyo to choose a spouse.
With such an income, not many people would consider themselves to be part of the middle class (the official standard for middle class income is a different matter), and after all, it is difficult to afford a house in Tokyo. However, if this kind of income goes to Okinawa Prefecture, which is the worst economy in Japan, it will be totally different.
Even if you can not cross into the local absolute high-income group, but also properly is the initial realization of the level of annual income of the rich, can still have a family house, after all, the price of land and so on is to know how many times cheaper than Tokyo more than.