Turning thirty is an awkward age. Some people shine brightly and achieve glory at this age, while others find their lives a messy struggle.
Undoubtedly, Chen Pingsheng belonged to the latter....
The days passed slowly until National Day.
Many young men and women in the community have already had their holidays. Chen Pingsheng got up early to buy buns and saw Mo Yao, a sporty beauty, jogging in tight yoga pants.
Next to her was a middle-aged man who was walking his dog on a leash and barking non-stop.
Chen Pingsheng also knew this woman. She lived downstairs from their house. She was good-looking and had a good figure. She worked as a senior white-collar worker in a company.
I rented a house here with two female colleagues.
"Pretty girl, how about we add each other on WeChat and have lunch together?"
If you want to have many girlfriends, the prerequisite is to be thick-skinned and ask for her WeChat immediately when you see a pretty girl.
Speaking up is half the battle; if you don’t speak up, you have no chance at all.
Generally speaking, people who do this kind of thing are not rich people.
For example, this middle-aged man has shoes and pants with obvious LV logos.
Everyone knows LV, but if you really think it is expensive, you are wrong. There are a lot of high-quality imitations online.
Originally, Chen Pingsheng was carrying the vegetables and was not going to ask anything, but the man ran up to him and said:
"Pretty girl, don't look at my age, a man only learns to take care of a woman when he's older. If you find someone who only knows how to buy groceries every day, how can there be any romance!"
The dog barked twice to show its agreement.
Mo Yao obviously knew Chen Pingsheng. She was often approached like this and was not surprised at all.
"Old Chen...why didn't I see you bring Xiaolu out with you?"
"He's still sleeping. I came out to buy something to make him breakfast. You have a lot of suitors. This guy's LV shoes are pretty nice. They cost hundreds of dollars a pair?"
When the man heard Chen Pingsheng say that LV shoes only cost a few hundred yuan a pair, he immediately got angry:
"You country bumpkin, how can LV be worth just a few hundred? I bought this for over 30,000!"
"Oh...it's over 30,000 and the paint is peeling. Your quality is not very good!"
"That's not normal. A Chinese idiot's luxury brand worth hundreds of thousands of dollars goes bad in just three days."
Chen Pingsheng: “…”
Ershazi luxury brand, isn’t it the trendy luxury brand that Erpi Ya made?
If you say it's bad, it's because you are not its target audience.
Anyway, that’s how Erpi Ya understands it.
"Alright, alright, you're just wearing these fake clothes and trying to trick some girls, but Mo Yao makes over 20,000 yuan a month, there's no way a homeless person like you can fool her."
"How do you know I'm unemployed?"
"If you're not unemployed, would you dress up in fancy clothes every day and go out to chat up pretty girls?"
He is not really unemployed, he just does some shady things and his income depends on his luck.
Most of my energy is actually focused on picking up girls.
Chen Pingsheng had seen him like this not once or twice, but many times.
Mo Yao smiled and said, "Brother Chen, you've really helped me a lot by exposing him directly this time."
"This guy cheated two out-of-town girls last time. They were both about 17 or 18 years old. You definitely won't fall for it. Even if I don't warn him, he can only act like a bitch in front of you a few more times."
"It's a bit troublesome after all. Speaking of which, I have to thank you. How about I treat you to a meal?"
"There's no need to eat. I have to take my son to the park later."
He always helps his neighbors when they need help, and Mr. Chen, as an enthusiastic citizen, has a very good reputation in this regard.
As for the guy who just left, he met a young girl from another place who came to look for her relatives when he went out, and immediately asked for her WeChat.
Girls nowadays are not like they used to be, they start dating at a very early age.
Whether there is any affection or not, or if it is just a one-time service, there will be no psychological burden.
This bastard always cheats seven or eight people in a month.
Of course...even if it's a scam, the consumption is still not low.
Nowadays, it is unrealistic to spend less than five or six hundred yuan on a single meal at a popular internet celebrity check-in restaurant.
When Chen Pingsheng returned home with breakfast, Chen Lu had already gotten up and washed up.
But he still looks sleepy. That’s the good thing about being young, you can sleep for more than ten hours a day.
The older you get, the shorter your sleep time tends to be.
"Your sisters will be here soon, why don't you hurry up and eat breakfast!"
"Sister, are you coming too? Which sister?"
"Your eldest sister, the second girl went to Chengdu to play by herself."
Well... Chen Lu was quite happy to hear that it was his elder sister who came to see him.
Compared to the unreliable second sister, the eldest sister is obviously much better.
This time, An An came here with her blind date.
Her blind date was introduced by Chen Pingsheng himself, and he has a very good family background.
The third generation is engaged in business, and many of the second generation are involved in politics.
By his generation, the family had already flourished.
After Chen Pingsheng selected a few, An An picked him out and found that he was not bad after getting to know him.
Both of them now have their own companies, both graduated from universities in the country, and have also traveled to most parts of the world.
The consumption is not low either, so there are a lot of common topics.
Rich people look for their other half because there are so many choices.
The most important thing is to find someone with similar spiritual values.
That is to say, you have to be able to chat with each other.
Undoubtedly... An An is quite satisfied with such a partner.
At least it’s not like in college. People even asked her, “Is this how you rich people spend money?”
The two are still in the initial stage of getting to know each other, and they will need to slowly deal with the rest of the situation on their own.
An An was generally satisfied with coming together this time, otherwise she would not have brought him to see her.
Chen Pingsheng took Chen Lu to the park to exercise. The father and son did morning exercises together, and waited for An An to introduce her boyfriend to her.
It also attracted a lot of attention. The two of them were driving an Aston Martin DBX convertible.
Chen Lu was very happy to see An An, "Big sister!"
"Uncle Chen."
An An's boyfriend is Sun Siming, 26 years old, and currently runs a pharmaceutical company.
His family is also very rich and powerful.
Chen Pingsheng just nodded slightly, pulled An An aside and asked, "Why, do you like him?"
"I wouldn't say I like you, I just think we could get in touch more."
"That's good. You don't need to rush. You can take a closer look."
An An nodded and exercised with them.
Chen Pingsheng was not very enthusiastic about Sun Siming, always feeling that he had poached his beloved eldest daughter.
There's nothing I can do. My daughter has to get married when she grows up.
Neither Chen Pingsheng nor Song Yanxi agrees with their daughter or son getting married and having children late.
Girls must get married before they are twenty-five years old.
If you miss this time, you will basically miss the golden period for getting married.
Since he was the one who introduced him, Chen Pingsheng felt relatively at ease.
The background check was also done in great detail.
The Sun family is also a typical example of a wealthy family with a lot of assets.
The debt is as high as 400 to 500 billion.
High debt is not scary; the scariest thing is insolvency.
Sun Jiaguang's pharmaceutical group alone has a market value of nearly 400 billion yuan, not to mention so many other core industries.
In general, their debt ratio is still very low compared to their total assets.
And this Sun Siming is also the core heir of their Sun family, and his status is equivalent to that of Chen Lu.
He has an older sister who married a young wife.
Among the elders of the Sun family, two of their marriage partners are at the ministerial level.
This status is definitely deeply rooted.
It would be beneficial for both families to marry.
At least the Sun family was very satisfied with An An, knowing that Chen Pingsheng would choose a suitable partner for An An.
The old man from the Sun family came to see him personally with Sun Siming.
The love stories of wealthy families are actually quite simple and unpretentious.
Look at family background first, then feelings.
An An felt that the company was pretty good, so we came to Shenzhen together.
Chen Pingsheng is now living as a semi-retired old man, and is in the stage of health care and raising children.
At noon, Chen Pingsheng invited them to a small Hunan restaurant downstairs for dinner.
The food here tastes pretty good, but the hygiene is a little lacking. This is actually normal, after all, the charges are low.
"Look at what you two like to eat. It's my treat, so order whatever you want!"
"Master Chen, give me some white sand."
The boss knew him, so Chen Pingsheng would bring Chen Lu here for a meal whenever he had nothing to do.
After a few visits, you will naturally become familiar with each other.
"Don't smoke in front of your daughter, but you can have a bottle of Shaoyang aged wine."
"This is your daughter. She is so beautiful."
"Of course. She inherited my genes, how could she not be beautiful?"
"Master Chen is so lucky! He has a son and a daughter, which makes him a perfect match."
"Haha, I have a second daughter. She's on vacation and she's out having fun. I'll bring her to your place for dinner someday."
"Okay... Master Chen, I won't bother you anymore. I'll go cook you some dishes first."
Nowadays, many of these small restaurants are run by husband and wife.
If you work hard all your life, you can buy a small home of fifty or sixty square meters in a place like Shenzhen.
At noon, this Hunan restaurant becomes lively.
Because they were sitting against the wall, the location was pretty good, and soon many people they knew came, including Mo Yao, who had helped them before.
She is already 27 or 28 years old, and she has rarely had a boyfriend, let alone getting married.
The two of them greeted each other briefly, and she came to have dinner with her colleagues.
"Dad...you're having an easy time here, aren't you?"
"Isn't simplicity good? Simplicity is the true meaning of life."
Chen Pingsheng said: "You don't understand it at your age now, but you will slowly understand it when you have children and have your own family. It's just that your mother is still busy with her own health business now, otherwise it would be nice to be ordinary."
Okay... An An just doesn't understand her father. She always thought that he moved to Shenzhen to live an ordinary life because he wanted to take care of Chen Lu.
I didn't expect that he still likes this kind of ordinary life now.
Maybe in a few years, Chen Pingsheng will want to find an ordinary job.
Isn’t the greatest happiness in life to study and make money in the first half of your life, and live the way you want in the second half?
Retiring at 40 may be a little early.
Retirement at the age of 46 is definitely the best choice for him.
If he doesn't retire soon, the entire group will soon become a cult of personality, with his will as the core.
This is actually a core negative factor that hinders the normal development of the group.
People... when they reach a certain age, they should retire. If they are reluctant to give up the little group power in their hands, they will only suffer the great backlash brought by their greed for power.
With his current mentality, he is unable to teach An An.
This is something that comes with age, and it is also the clear understanding accumulated from life experience.
It cannot be taught or imparted.
The wind starts from the tiny things, wanders in the prosperity, and finally returns to the ordinary without being stained by dust.
Feel the tranquility of time and the fireworks of life in the ordinary.
This is the true meaning of being in the world and leaving the world.
Chen Lu is still young, and An An is just beginning to experience love and family life.
They still have a long time to live.
As for his wife, that career-obsessed woman is still running around everywhere, which is really unique.
After the meal, Chen Pingsheng invited An An and the others to sit in his small house for a while.
An An probably knew that her father wanted to talk to Sun Siming alone about some things, probably wanting to see his specific outlook on life and values!
An An went to find her younger brother Chen Lu to see if he was still influenced by Su Xiaoxi.
In fact, she hadn't seen Su Xiaoxi for many years, and she didn't know how she was doing now.
An An thought about it and decided to take his younger brother Chen Lu to go next door to find Su Xiaoxi.
Su Xiaoxi's mother went to work, and she was alone at home. When she was at home, she had to do more than just study.
She also has to make money for herself, and her way of making money is simple, that is, copying texts on the main line. She has beautiful handwriting.
You can earn about 120 yuan a day doing this kind of work.
She has to use her vacation time to make money and cannot go around playing with her father like Chen Lu does.
Hearing the knock on the door, Su Xiaoxi quickly went to open it.
As a result, she saw Chen Lu and his sister, and An An looked around.
"Sister An An?"
"It's rare that you still know me."
"Sister An An was so amazing before, I will never forget it."
"Wouldn't you like us to come in and sit down for a while?"
"Uh-huh... come in, come in, my house is still a bit of a mess!"
Actually, it’s not messy, it’s just that the decoration is very simple. It’s an old house and it can’t be compared with my own house next door.
This is natural, otherwise Chen Pingsheng’s tens of millions of dollars spent on decoration would have been wasted.
"Xiaoxi, where's your mother?"
"She went to work."
"Oh!" An An just asked simply. Even if Su Xiaoxi brought her tea, she would definitely not drink it.
Because she never drinks from someone else's cup.
Su Xiaoxi was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Chen Lu came to her aid. He wanted his sister to help Xiaoxi's family buy this small house.
If Xiaoxi's family could save a few thousand yuan in rent each month, their life wouldn't be so difficult.
She no longer has to work so hard to make money by copying.
This amount of money is nothing to An An, but she has no idea what her father is planning.
For Chen Lu and Su Xiaoxi, their mother is the clear opponent at home.
Younger aunt Chen Qi did not express her opinion, and older aunt Chen Yao also opposed it.
Grandma Peng Ying has always been in the countryside and has no idea about this.
It is easy to help Su Xiaoxi's family buy a house, but the difficult part is how to make her mother not angry.
An An is kind after all, and perhaps she also wants to help her brother.
She bought the house quietly and found an excuse to reduce the rent by more than half.
In Guangdong, the easiest reason to find is undoubtedly feng shui.
For such a large three-bedroom apartment, the price dropped from 8,000 yuan per month to 2,000 yuan per month.
Su's mother was naturally happy, but Su Xiaoxi was very skeptical.
Why did their feng shui become problematic after Sister Chen Lu came to sit here?
Most of the rent has been paid off, so it seems that Sister Chen Lu bought this small house.
(End of this chapter)