After returning to Jiang City, Chen Xihua spent two days making numerous phone calls to ensure a smooth handover of all her work.
The foundation for the Yunhua Building in the provincial capital has been laid. The building's logo is a red and black '5+1' vertical oval and it is named 'Yunhua Building'.
We'll leave the matter of Fanghua Company aside for now.
Actually, starting this year, Fanghua no longer needs Chen Xihua's involvement.
Miao Huizhu is in charge of design, while the other departments, such as production and sales, are well-established.
In the last month or so, Chen Xihua truly began the intense review life of a college entrance examination candidate.
On the other hand, after returning to the University of Humanities, Chen Chunhua spent all her time practicing driving, in addition to studying.
Xiao Wu said that he'll buy a Santana sedan during summer vacation. Then, all five siblings will go to Yunshi, the provincial capital, for a trip.
Then we went to the Hunan Provincial Food Street, where Xiao Wu invested in a braised meat shop that has already opened its second store.
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After returning to Beijing, Lu Zhengjing was busy at the company for a while, and finally he had some free time.
And at the end of June, on this weekend.
Second sister Lu Zhengnan returned to the Lu family and told her eldest niece Yiyang that she had something to discuss.
The two were in the kitchen, seemingly plotting something, which he overheard.
"Yiyang, just help your second aunt this once. You don't have to say anything, I'll do all the talking, okay?"
Then, you should act poised and graceful, feigning gentleness and shyness.
Lu Zhengnan was getting anxious and irritable; bubbles were forming at the corners of his mouth. Changxing would soon be back in Beijing.
She didn't want to have a bad argument with her son, as that would create a rift between them.
She couldn't bring herself to act like those wicked mothers-in-law, directly scolding and driving the young woman away.
Lu Zhengnan had no choice but to be tactful and get the female student from the southern county to back down.
It's not that she looks down on other girls, but there's a hurdle in her heart that she just can't overcome.
She would never let her son marry a girl from a small county in another province.
At the beginning of the year, I was even scolded by my father.
But her niece, Yiyang, refused, fearing that her grandfather and father would scold her.
As a result, even after half a year, Lu Zhengnan still hasn't been able to get the role he wanted to play.
She considered asking someone else, but was afraid that the person she asked might not keep it a secret. It would be fine if her family found out, but what if outsiders found out too? Wouldn't she become a laughingstock?
"Second Aunt, this isn't a good idea." Lu Yiyang's eyes darted away. His father had said seriously that he couldn't agree to Second Aunt's request; his grandfather had also said that he shouldn't interfere with Second Aunt and shouldn't fool around with her.
"Second sister, why are you being so stubborn? Not everyone is like that." Lu Zhengjing said helplessly, raising his hand to signal his niece to leave so he could talk to his second sister.
"Hello, Uncle Qi, Aunt Er, I'm going back to school now." Lu Yiyang's eyes lit up as if he had seen a savior. He shuffled out of the kitchen and ran off quickly.
"Seventh...Seventh brother, you're home...I'm just stubborn, but I will never agree to Changxing dating that girl." Lu Zhengnan was initially a little guilty when he realized his younger brother had overheard him.
However, her eyes quickly hardened, and she said firmly, "Forget it, I'll just have someone investigate that female student."
"Second sister, what are you investigating?" Lu Zhengjing's eyelids twitched, and his tone became a little serious.
“Of course, it’s our ancestors for eighteen generations…” Lu Zhengnan blurted out naturally.
He noticed that the seventh brother was staring at him with disapproval, and his voice suddenly became softer, turning into a muttered monologue.
She didn't dare finish her sentence; if her father found out, she would be scolded again.
Lu Zhengjing frowned. His second sister was not usually like this. The only thing that could make her a little crazy was her eldest nephew's wedding.
A year ago, when Changxing returned home on vacation, his second sister found a letter in his luggage. She didn't say anything openly, but she secretly tried to stop him.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, Second Sister, I'll have someone investigate for you."
He was reluctant and didn't want to get involved, but given his second sister's temperament, who knew what kind of trouble it would cause if she asked someone to investigate another girl?
If my father really gets furious, he's not young anymore, and he might even get sick from the anger.
"No need, I'll find someone to investigate myself. Seventh Brother, your people will definitely listen to you. Don't try to fob me off." Lu Zhengnan stubbornly refused to compromise.
"Don't use anyone from my company, just find Wu Liang-sheng, okay? He's Beijing's 'know-it-all,' an entertainment reporter who specializes in secretly filming people's private lives." To reassure his second sister, Lu Zhengjing could only try to appease her like this for now.
Then he would tell Wu Liangsheng what to investigate.
If we can delay it, we'll talk about it when Changxing comes back.
"Really? You want to ask reporter Wu to investigate? Then Seventh Brother, you should go find him. Changxing is your eldest nephew, and you want the best for him, right?" Lu Zhengnan thought for a moment and nodded. Going to Wu Liangsheng is fine too.
After saying that, she rolled her eyes and thought to herself that she didn't actually need her niece's consent.
On Friday, she went directly to the entrance of the Humanities University to find Yiyang, hoping to run into the female student who was corresponding with her son.
Lu Zhengnan already knew the girl's name, and that she was in the same major as his niece.
During this period, I will also go to practice driving on weekends.
"Seventh Brother, I'm going back to work at the hospital now." Lu Zhengnan said with a satisfied expression, then strode away from the Lu family home.
Lu Zhengjing watched his second sister's hurried departure and began to feel a headache coming on.
But thinking about why his second sister was like this, he decided to do something foolish for her.
In fact, the Lu family had always advised Second Sister to let go of the past and not to make things difficult for Changxing, but she refused to listen.
Lu Zhengjing had heard his eldest brother say this once, and he could understand and sympathize with his second sister, but she was only making trouble for herself by doing this.
It was 1971. Sixteen-year-old Lu Zhengnan went to the countryside in place of his older brother Lu Zhengde. Actually, his childhood sweetheart Shen Jianping was also going to the countryside.
The Lu and Shen families tacitly accepted their relationship and let her go to the countryside with them.
The destination was a rural area in a small county in the southern province.
Lu Zhengnan is a hot-tempered person who speaks bluntly and directly, without beating around the bush.
In the village where the educated youth lived, there was a gentle and kind girl named Feng Lanjiao who fell in love with Shen Jianping.
This Miss Feng is a two-faced person. On the surface, she is gentle and generous, but behind the scenes, she deliberately ruins Lu Zhengnan's reputation.
Rumors spread in the village that she was rude, arrogant, and thought she was superior just because she came from Beijing, and that she often bullied other girls in the educated youth settlement.
In this way, Feng Lanjiao slowly created conflicts and disputes in the village, sowing discord and causing Lu Zhengnan and Shen Jianping to have frequent disagreements, with one incident escalating to an even more tense situation.
Fortunately, Shen Jianping genuinely liked Lu Zhengnan and later saw through Feng Lanjiao's true colors.
When Lu Zhengnan was twenty years old, the two got married.
Thinking this way, she could dispel the hopes that some other female villagers or educated youth still had for Shen Jianping, and more importantly, make Feng Lanjiao give up on him.
The situation has indeed improved. After Lu Zhengnan and Shen Jianping got married, very few unmarried girls approached them.
However, just as Lu Zhengnan was about to give birth, Feng Lanjiao came to her and said that Shen Jianping had been caught having an affair with a girl from the village, right there in the woods by the fields where they were working.
Lu Zhengnan didn't believe it at first; she trusted her husband. But Feng Lanjiao's story sounded very convincing.
Moreover, she suspected that her husband might have been set up, which would also mean he had betrayed her.
Lu Zhengnan was so angry that she almost suffered a difficult childbirth, resulting in the death of both herself and her unborn child.
Finally, the truth came out: Feng Lanjiao had deliberately lied to provoke her; there was no such thing at all.
Lu Zhengnan also suffered greatly, and he will never be able to have any more children.
Seeing that she had no chance, Feng Lanjiao somehow obtained a place at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University a year before the educated youth were allowed to return to the city.
She went to school and within half a year, she married Liu Hao, the son of the Liu family in Beijing.
Later, both Lu Zhengnan and Shen Jianping were admitted to junior colleges and returned to Beijing.
As for Feng Lanjiao, she had already been living in Beijing and had two sons and a daughter.
Even now, he still occasionally appears in front of Lu Zhengnan to berate him.
Because the three major families in Beijing are the Lu family, the Jiang family, and the Liu family.
Feng Lanjiao said that she married the only son of the Liu family, and from then on she would be the matriarch of the Liu family.
But once Lu Zhengnan, a daughter of the Lu family, gets married, she's nothing.
Although the Shen family is considered one of the top families in Beijing, Feng Lanjiao no longer looks down on them.
Therefore, even now, Lu Zhengnan doesn't think highly of girls from rural areas of the county, let alone girls from the southern province.
It also involves her son. She said that her daughter-in-law must be a local from Beijing, someone she knows well.
Lu Zhengjing pondered for a while and then started thinking about what to do better. It was not a pleasant thing to casually investigate a young woman's affairs.
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