Standing at the gate of the Plum Garden, Dean Gu really looked like he had seen a ghost, his fingers trembling as he pointed.
"Chen Xia, this, this is the new house you bought? Holy shit, I only heard it was a big house, but I didn't expect it to be this big. Where did you get the money for it?"
Chen Xia had to half-truthfully confess his "speculation and profiteering" activities, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the source of so much money. It would be troublesome if the dean thought that his father had embezzled the hospital's money.
"Hey, well, I did some grain business and got some dividends..."
Dean Gu glared at Chen Xia when he heard this: "You may be young, but you are very brave."
Chen Xia continued to smile apologetically, "When you're poor, you think of change and follow the trend."
Anyway, Dean Gu and Ren Yuanfei were both my cheap dad's comrades-in-arms when he was alive. They would never betray him, and he was not afraid of them leaking the secrets if he revealed some of his ways to make money.
Dean Gu was touring the house and marveled at it. "Wow, a house this big, even the landlords in my hometown couldn't afford to live in it back then."
Suddenly he turned around again and said with a wicked smile:
"You can ask me to keep it a secret, but you'll treat me at noon, and I want meat. I'm an old man and I've been starving lately."
Chen Xia was completely speechless. Why did this scoundrel look a bit like Gu Lin?
He rolled his eyes silently in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Inviting Uncle Gu to eat meat is a piece of cake. There will be plenty of wine and meat."
Still in the restaurant of Ke Town Guesthouse, Chen Qiu ordered five more meat dishes in one breath under the speechless gaze of the waiter.
Dean Gu was not polite either. He touched Chen Dong's head and ate the meat with relish.
Chen Xia had to pour wine and serve beside him, and even when Chen Qiu wanted to take over, he was dissuaded by Dean Gu.
"Xiao Qiu, it's okay. Just take care of your own food. Your brother is not short of money anyway. There will be plenty of opportunities to eat meat in the future. We won't bother with him."
The old man was a little dissatisfied with Chen Xia's speculation, but he did not deliberately criticize him. In Chen Xia's words:
I am so poor that I only have 28 yuan left. If I don’t change my mind, will my whole family starve?
However, although the old man was dissatisfied, he still did his job very efficiently.
The dean of the Fourth College personally stepped in, and the school also took it very seriously. Coincidentally, Chen Qiu and Chen Dong's student records were both within the Kezhen District, so the transfer procedures were completed immediately.
From then on, the three siblings of the Chen family will start their new life in Ke Town.
After Chen Qiu and Chen Dong's admission problems were resolved, Chen Xia had no choice but to skip work again in the afternoon.
Fortunately, Chen Xia treated him to a meal and gave him watermelon popsicles during this period, so the other colleagues in the department were very tolerant and went along with him.
This afternoon, the three Chen siblings were like three hardworking little bees, doing a lot of shopping in preparation for moving into their new home.
Since he was going to live in a new house, Chen Xia didn't plan to keep the things in the old house in Qingfeng Village.
Except for some spare clothes, all other furniture, dishes and tableware were planned to be left in the hometown for use when returning to the hometown occasionally in the future.
As for those old cotton mattresses that had been used for many years, the cotton was hard and black, and they did not provide much warmth when used in winter. Chen Xia decided to throw them all away.
It is still summer now, and he plans to buy three towel blankets, one for each person, which will be light and warm.
In addition, the three of them bought whatever they thought of, such as pots, pans, kettles, washbasins, and foot basins. The advantage of having plenty of money is that you don't even look at the price tags when buying things.
This extravagant shopping style made several unmarried girls in the supply and marketing cooperative glare at Chen Xia desperately. Chen Xia occasionally glanced at them out of pure admiration, but unfortunately, they were all ugly girls, not the long-legged ones he liked.
These days, working in a supply and marketing cooperative is a very popular job, and its popularity is no less than that of taking the civil service exam a few decades later, so all kinds of people show their talents, and those who can get in are probably people with connections.
If Chen Xia were to become the head of the supply and marketing department, he would definitely select people based on their beauty. If all of them had devilish figures and angelic faces, willow-leaf thin eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, the performance of the supply and marketing cooperative would definitely be taken to a higher level.
The director of the supply and marketing cooperative was easy to talk to. Hearing that he was a doctor at the Fourth Hospital, he asked a few workers to help deliver the purchased items to his door. After all, it was only a five-minute walk, so the director was happy to do him a favor.
When Li Changming left, he left all the furniture behind as agreed, and Chen Xia only had to rearrange it.
The furniture in the master bedroom does not need to be moved. Since Chen Dong is still young, the two of them can only share one bedroom. They can just put a bed next to it. The room is big enough anyway.
The study room will be converted into Chen Qiu's bedroom. It will be safer for everyone to live in the same house.
Yu Deshui brought a group of waiters from the guesthouse to help. They first moved the furniture in the study to the east wing. These were all treasures that needed to be well preserved. They also moved the bed and cabinets in the east wing to the study.
In addition, the dining tables and chairs were also entrusted to Yu Deshui, the manager of the hotel, so these were just small matters.
Chen Xia didn't hesitate to greet them and gave each of them a pack of Daqianmen to thank the masters who came to help.
It is said that Chen Xia is now a celebrity in the guesthouse. People in the world call him "Five Bowls of Meat", which means that whenever Chen Xia goes to a restaurant, he must order five meat dishes. In fact, everyone is laughing at this prodigal son behind his back.
After finishing everything, Chen Xia was already covered in sweat, and even Chen Qiu and Chen Dong were sweating as well.
But the three siblings did not feel it was hard. Instead, they felt very happy. They would soon be able to live in a beautiful new home, wear the new clothes and schoolbags they bought in the provincial capital and go to the new school. Their life would be like that of city people. How wonderful!
The three of them, each enjoying a popsicle, sat on chairs in the center of the main hall, chatting and laughing as they looked at their new home...
In the evening, Chen Xia brought his younger brother and sister back to Qingfeng Village. After returning home, the three of them went directly to their fourth grandfather's house.
"What? You have already bought a house in Ke Town and are planning to move your whole family there?" Fourth Grandpa asked anxiously.
"Yeah, you see, I have to commute two hours every day like this, which is really a waste of time. Besides, Chen Qiu and Chen Dong are going to the school in town. The teachers there are much better. They can also produce two more college graduates for our village in the future, right?"
Fourth Grandpa sighed, then smiled at him.
"Actually, from the day you officially started working at the Fourth Hospital, I knew you would definitely leave this small village. Yes, people always strive for higher places. Fourth Grandpa understands. Just come visit us more often in the future."
"Don't worry, we are the Chen family. Our roots are in Qingfeng Village and we will never really leave."
After saying that, Chen Xia leaned closer and asked in a low voice:
"Fourth Grandfather, I asked you to help collect some more food. How's that going?"
"We collected them, but they weren't kept in Qingfeng Village. We piled them up in the empty rooms at the village fishery. We still paid 9 cents per pound, and we made them keep their mouths shut before we bought them."
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