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....
A few more days passed.
Chen Lujin's internship at Tengfei AI caused a stir not only in the dormitory.
The same thing happened in class, with many people coming to him and asking, "Brother Lu, how did you get in? Can you teach me?"
"Dad!"
"Didn't you say your dad runs a barbecue restaurant?"
"He also works part-time as a driver."
Oh... I see, it suddenly dawned on me. It turns out your dad is still working as a driver for the big boss?
This is a backdoor route for the family.
There is nothing much to say. Young people in the new era are no longer surprised.
Who doesn’t want to work in a big company? But you have to be able to get in.
Fairness has been completely broken, and classes have become solidified. For those who have studied hard since childhood, the best path for them in the future is probably to work for a big factory.
June 8th.
Wuyou BBQ in the urban village officially opened, and Chen Pingsheng was promoted to a chef again. Although his restaurant was not big, he still hired quite a few employees.
There are people who are responsible for barbecue, and of course there are people who are responsible for cleaning.
The business hours are until 8pm every day and the door opens at 1pm.
Under normal circumstances, we have to start preparing at 12 o'clock in the morning, which is considered an eight-hour working day.
On the opening day, Chen Lu actually brought his classmates with him.
The four brothers in the dormitory plus two of them who have girlfriends squeezed into a small round table.
"Uncle...what do you want to eat?"
"Jiye, we can just order something casually."
"Good! Grandpa is still busy in the back."
Little Jiye was very happy. Now that his grandfather stopped working as a driver, he had more time to spend with him every day.
"Chen Lu, is that your nephew?"
"My eldest sister's youngest son."
"Very cute, white and chubby. Do you live nearby?"
"It's not far from here, that two-story building."
These students were all quite curious, after all, Chen Lu was well-known in the class for being helpful.
Anyone who has a good relationship with him can borrow money from him.
Now that he said this, everyone basically understood that he was really rich.
You can live in a two-story building in a place like Shenzhen. Although it is an urban village, it is still a big building.
Chen Lu himself doesn't mind these things, so not many people are willing to pay him back.
The ingredients at Wuyou BBQ are very fresh, and the chefs they hire are also very skilled.
Baked food is naturally delicious.
"Chen Lu, if you have any good connections, please introduce them to us."
He has this very well, but it’s just difficult to introduce.
As soon as his father came out, Chen Lu talked to Chen Pingsheng for a while.
He would go home on time before six o'clock every night, mainly to have dinner with Su Xiaoxi.
Chen Lu had guests at home today, so he didn't stay too long at his father's barbecue restaurant.
Su Xiaoxi's mother came over and brought Su Xiaoxi's cousin, who was her uncle's daughter.
The two of them came together this time, not for eating, but mainly to ask Su Xiaoxi for some small favors.
Su's mother was still a little humble in front of Chen Lu. Everyone in her family knew that their daughter had married well.
But even Su's mother couldn't see Chen Lu's parents, let alone their relatives who were closely related to her.
Fortunately, Su Xiaoxi also has power in her own hands. Not to mention the tens of billions that Su's mother had saved earlier, she can get 20 million in interest every year.
Even the Xiangjiang Tenghui Capital that she owns now is huge beyond imagination.
It's a pity that human desires are like this. After making tens of millions, people often want more.
Now this cousin from my uncle's family is here just to ask Su Xiaoxi to help her start a company, preferably one that can invest hundreds of millions in full.
"Chen Lu, you're back. Have you eaten?"
"I ate a little at my dad's place."
Ever since Chen Lu married Su Xiaoxi, he has always treated Su's mother well, but he never changed his words.
I would never call her mother.
"Your dad must be very busy right now, right?"
"Fortunately, he just opened a barbecue restaurant."
"Your dad is going to open a barbecue restaurant?"
Su's mother felt it was quite strange. Since she could not be accepted by Song Yanxi, she naturally could not receive any information from their family.
Chen Lu found a sofa to sit down and asked the nanny to pour him a glass of warm water. Su Xiaoxi's cousin sat opposite him. She was 24 years old, not very pretty, and a little fat.
It’s just that she likes to wear famous brands when she goes out, and she is particularly concerned about beauty, so the makeup on her face is thicker than that of other girls.
In Chen Lu's opinion, this seems a bit cheap.
"Cousin, is there anything you want to bring to our house?"
"I just have a great project that can make a fortune, and I want to talk to Xiaoxi about it."
"Then you guys chat, I'll go upstairs and rest for a while."
Chen Lu doesn't care about the group's affairs, so naturally he won't care about his wife. Everything is up to Su Xiaoxi to decide on her own.
After he left, my cousin immediately said, "Xiao Xi, this is a great opportunity to make a fortune. As long as you invest 200 million, I guarantee that you can triple your money in one year."
"What can you guarantee?"
"Of course it's your cousin's reputation. I had a lot of trouble getting this project from a friend. You must not miss it. I promised everyone."
"Cousin, when you raise your credit worth 200 million, then come and borrow money from me."
"Su Xiaoxi, what do you mean? Don't you trust me, your cousin?"
Su Xiaoxi touched her big belly and didn't want to argue with her, so she signaled the nanny and the security guard outside the door to come in and chase them away.
Her cousin is a person with no credibility at all. She borrows money everywhere and never intends to pay it back. How much credibility can she have?
After she was driven away cursing, Su Xiaoxi asked her mother, "Why did you bring her here?"
"It's your uncle and the others who keep talking about it."
"say what?"
Su Xiaoxi raised her eyes and said, "It's those same old clichés again. They're just brainwashing you about how wealthy the family is, how I'll get divorced sooner or later, and then they insist that I make plans for myself as soon as possible and transfer the Chen family's property.
"Mom, you're not young anymore. Are they afraid that I'll get nothing if I get divorced, or do they want me to put the Chen family's property into their own pockets? People are always greedy. I used the money to heal the elders and bought them a house in Shenzhen, but look at them now..."
Su's mother is not a very smart person. She herself is quite difficult to describe. The reason why she was shaken was mainly because the Chen family never accepted her from the bottom of their hearts.
This made her feel very anxious and she was always influenced by some relatives.
In fact, according to the behavior of the Chen family, especially that one person, if her daughter was really divorced.
With these compensations, you will definitely never have to worry about money again in your life.
In fact, there is no need for it now, but human desires are like this, they will only continue to expand.
"Okay, this time it's Mom's fault, isn't that enough? Speaking of which, you're in charge of such a huge company like Xiangjiang Capital, and Chen Lu won't express any opinions?"
"He doesn't care about such trivial matters."
Okay... the Chen family's wealth refreshed her imagination again.
Su's mother's only regret now is probably that Chen Lu never called her mother, let alone took her to meet her parents.
This is still very abnormal in an ordinary family. After all, as a mother, she has been diligently taking care of Su Xiaoxi for twenty years.
There was no trouble at all, so her daughter's man naturally had to call her mother.
Too bad, it's not realistic at all.
…
Su Xiaoxi went up to the study on the second floor with her bulging belly and found Chen Lu still looking at stocks on the computer.
She sat down next to Chen Lu and asked, "Which stock do you like? How much do you plan to invest?"
"I've seen some pretty good tech stocks lately and plan to invest around nine million."
"So little?"
"It's not a small amount, my monthly allowance is only 10 million."
"If you want to invest, I can give you all the money I have."
"Forget it then."
Chen Lu shook his head and said, "My dad used to give me billions to invest at every turn. To be honest, it was quite stressful. Every fluctuation in the stock market meant tens of millions of dollars. Whether I made a profit or a loss, it was just a short-lived thrill. I want to spend a few years to achieve financial freedom."
His standard of financial freedom is very clear, which is to make money with pocket money and earn 10 million every month in a few years.
Then he would no longer have to ask his family for living expenses.
"Chen Lu, isn't this too unfair to you?"
"Are you overthinking it? There's nothing to be upset about. Even if I were to invest 9 million every month and have 1 million for living expenses, a monthly salary of 1 million without having to work would already surpass so many people. Besides, I have my own goals now, so I'm more motivated to work every day."
Okay... Su Xiaoxi didn't quite understand his behavior. He didn't find his goal when he had money before. Now that he has less money and only has a fixed living expense of 10 million, he has his own goal instead.
Chen Lu planned his pocket money very clearly. At the end of the month, his classmates, including his college friends, would ask him to borrow some money.
It only added up to about 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. He included this money in his fixed expenses and had no intention of asking anyone to pay it back.
The rest is just buying some things, eating, drinking and having fun.
A million yuan in living expenses was totally insufficient for his two sisters, but it was already too much for him.
The family didn't have much expenses, and the next day, he would take Su Xiaoxi to the hospital for a physical examination.
I have never checked the gender of the baby in my belly. I will just wait until the birth date arrives and then I will know naturally.
There are very few pregnant women in the hospital now, mainly because young people in the new era are not very willing to have children.
The new era understanding that poverty cannot last for more than three generations means that even getting married is difficult, let alone having children.
It's just that the rich have more.
In the past ten years, real estate did not stabilize until 2028, which means it has been falling for seven or eight years.
A large number of middle-class people have fallen back into poverty because of this, but it is different for the rich class. As long as there is no one in the family who is obsessed with surpassing his father, they can be rich.
They can all enjoy a happy life for a hundred years, but if the second generation works particularly hard, there is a high probability that the third generation will fall back into poverty.
Chen Lu himself would never have the idea of working too hard. He just wanted to protect his own little family in peace and stability.
Every time she comes for a physical examination, Su Xiaoxi is in good health, and the baby in her belly is naturally the same.
The days passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye it was the end of my junior year.
Su Xiaoxi invited two college friends to her house for dinner, while Chen Lu was preparing to report to Tengfei AI and be his intern.
Before leaving, Yang Zi smiled and said that he was the prince going to work.
Chen Lu usually doesn't respond to such questions.
He has no privileges or power in the group, and once he enters, he will just be an honest worker.
Tengfei AI is already the technology group with the highest market value in China, and it has research centers all over the country and around the world.
Its industries are also numerous, including intelligent robots of the new era, brain-computer chips, GPU graphics processors, CPU central processing units, etc.
In addition, there are a variety of software and hardware products.
In the decade of AI's popularity, artificial intelligence in the new era has developed beyond imagination.
The underlying assembly line work in many basic industries will either be replaced by AI robots or covered by AI computing power.
In this day and age, if you want to start a business, you either have to do it on a small scale or your family has to provide you with countless resources.
The more technology develops, the more class structures become rigid.
The lives of ordinary people are definitely becoming more convenient, but good jobs are also becoming increasingly difficult to find.
Under such circumstances, he was able to easily enter such a large group. It would be a lie to say that his classmates were not envious.
Chen Lu's first day of registration was uneventful, just like his personality.
None of his colleagues knew that he was the son of the big boss.
As for the project team he participated in, it was just one of the thousands of AI projects.
In such a huge group, it would be difficult to reach the position of president without his father's connections.
Chen Lu only felt that he was a truly chosen worker, one in a billion, a true leader among the countless people.
Unfortunately, he himself definitely does not meet such a standard.
All he can do is work honestly and find ways to make money.
As long as he no longer has to ask his family for living expenses, he can probably truly do the things he likes.
As for what he likes, only he himself knows.
…
The three second generations in my family have all entered the workplace.
Only Chen Pingsheng and his little Jiye were left to run a barbecue restaurant in the urban village. Under the scorching sun, there were no customers at their restaurant.
Is it because the baked goods are not tasty, or is it because of his bad feng shui?
Neither.
It was simply because there were two door gods, one big and one small, sitting at the door, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon, so who would come to eat barbecue!
"Grandpa, if we keep going like this, are we going to lose everything?"
"Who told you that? It's simply slander."
"That's what everyone around here says."
Little Jiye blinked his big round eyes and said, "You open at this hour and close at eight, it doesn't look like a proper barbecue restaurant at all!"
"It's okay, Jiye. When you grow up, grandpa will definitely give you a big family inheritance."
Okay... Xiao Jiye thought, grandpa is still fantasizing that the old house can be demolished?
(End of this chapter)