Bragging
Less than half an hour after the phone call, my uncle, my second cousin, and two other people arrived.
Chen Jin just stood up and greeted everyone, and then Lawyer Mo arrived.
"Uncle, second brother, you are not here for the land, are you?" When Shen Baichuan said he wanted to come and get a piece of land to build a company building in the future, no one had heard of anyone else's idea of taking advantage of the land in Qiaoxi Village. Later, Shen Baichuan called some friends, and now it has become a plan to develop and build the land behind the village... Then the uncle also came.
There were quite a few outsiders here, so the uncle just said vaguely, "About the same."
"By the way, how did the talks go? Has it been signed?"
Chen Jin poked his head in again to look and shook his head.
But it didn't last very long. The argument had actually died down, with most people agreeing and only a small number still insisting. Those who disagreed were basically those who did not receive much compensation for the demolition in the village, and two of them were just here to cause trouble. Chen Jin suspected that these two people were taking the opportunity to cause trouble for Liu Mantang.
Some people even advised the two men that moving out after the demolition did not mean they would quit their jobs as village chiefs, as the village would still receive dividends every year. The two men were stunned for a moment, then continued to make noise with their necks stiffened, but their voices were much quieter.
He really is looking for trouble with Liu Mantang.
The second cousin patted her on the shoulder, motioning her to look at Liu Shisheng in the ancestral hall, and said, "What's wrong with that guy? He was staring at you just now. Could he be asking you for money?"
"I don't know. He came to ask me if I had opened a company. I don't know where he heard it from. He didn't ask for money directly... I guess he knew I wouldn't give him money, but seeing that I was doing well, he couldn't help but want to come to my place to pretend. They haven't figured out their own family affairs yet."
"It's ok if they don't come looking for you. Even if they do, don't be afraid. You don't owe them anything anyway."
Among the people in the Liu family, it is probably only Old Man Liu who can stand up and speak with confidence. He has so many houses, and it will be his turn to show off in three years. Now he doesn't even look down on what Chen Jin has.
The remaining people in Old Liu's family were probably holding their breath but were afraid to confront Old Man Liu directly.
Now that everyone was there, Chen Jin went to the car to take a nap with peace of mind. It was not until after five o'clock that Chen Jin got out of the car to sign.
I heard someone in the village complain: "After all the fuss, they still have to sign in the end. It's a waste of time to hold a meeting here. I have a lot of things to do at home..."
I also saw someone went to ask my second cousin about the situation of the Xicheng Home House. These people are really interesting. They couldn't stand her uncle, so they went to ask her second cousin. Aren’t all companies the same company?
Even Old Man Liu quietly walked over and listened.
Chen Jin waited until the people in front of her had almost finished signing before she walked over. Director Jiang saw her and smiled at her. Chen Jin said, "Hello, Director Jiang," signed and left.
This matter has come to an end again.
My uncle and his friends were discussing something with the village cadres. Chen Jin looked at the time and since he had no plans to go back to Hanlin Garden tonight, he signaled to his second cousin, "I'm running away." When his second cousin nodded, he picked up Daju and left the ancestral hall.
"Hey! Chen Jin! Tell me the truth, is Meiying hiding from you? Is she working in your new company?"
Chen Jin kept walking, regardless of how angry the person behind him was jogging.
"Chen Jin! You......"
Chen Jin turned around suddenly, and the third aunt who followed him almost couldn't stop, "Don't try these tricks on me. You know I opened a company and you want to take advantage of it? Other people have heads on their necks, but you have clubs on your necks?"
"Who wants to take advantage of you?! I just want to ask you if you know where our Meiying is? Did she go to your place?" The third aunt looked like she was about to explode with anger. If she couldn't find anyone anywhere, she wouldn't have come to Chen Jin.
"I'm not her mother, I don't care where she goes. Anyway, she's not at my place." Chen Jin said with a half-smile, "Don't think of finding an excuse to go to my company. If you want to force your way in, you can just tell someone to get ready to go to the police station to get her back."
The third aunt stomped her feet in anger as she watched Chen Jin's car drive away. She rushed back to her family, met her husband's inquiring eyes, and said, "Chen Jin said it's not with her."
"That damn girl! She's so outrageous. She disappeared without a word! I don't think she's in any trouble. She just wanted to avoid us. She was afraid that we would ask her for money. When she comes back..."
Liu Yibei on the side curled his lips in disdain and whispered to Liu Yinan: "If I were Lan Meiying, I wouldn't come back."
Liu Yinan glanced at Liu Yibei, pursed his lips, and said, "Our family is different from theirs."
Liu Yibei's expression froze and he lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
The people who followed the Liu family out only dared to mention the company started by Chen Jin after they returned home. Just now at the ancestral hall, even if Chen Jin was gone, Chen Jin's uncle was there... Chen Jin is so good at talking, didn't she learn it from her uncle? Her uncle might even hit her again. He had beaten her before when they met outside.
Liu Laoda said, "Fourth Brother, Chen Jin is your biological daughter after all. She has enough money to start a company, so it's not a problem for her to give you 200,000 yuan. Your family of four is not registered at home, so we can give you 200,000 yuan as a favor to you as your brother and sister-in-law. If you continue to make trouble at home, it will be unacceptable."
Liu Laoer also said, "That's right. There has to be a limit to helping others, right? How much have you helped? In the past, our family gave you a share of the rent we collected, and we didn't say anything. You didn't contribute anything, but you're thinking of giving us a share. How can such a good thing be possible?"
"I've said this to you so many times. Why are you still trying to reason with them? You are so shameless. You want this and that. If one of you is from the south and the other from the north, you want to go abroad. That's your family's business. Whoever gives birth to the child should take care of it. Do you think your brothers will raise your child? Since the teachers in your school can save up money to send their children abroad, why can't you do the same when it's your turn? Your family has helped so much!"
Third aunt was getting impatient, listening to the brothers talking about the same things over and over again every day. They kept talking without any conclusion and it took even longer than the village meetings to discuss things.
"Don't even think about staring at Chen Jin. If you want to make trouble with her, don't bring our family along. We won't go." In just these two years, can't you see through Chen Jin's deadly appearance? They won't be able to get what they want, and in the end, their faces will be torn off. In the past, I just wanted to take advantage of Chen Jin’s wealth because he had a lot of money. Now that our family is rich and they can't even take it away, why would they go and take money from other people's families?
The second aunt said, "If your family doesn't go, then our family won't go either."
The situation was at a stalemate, and Old Man Liu and Old Lady Liu sat on the sofa in silence.
Old Mrs. Liu wanted to say a few words to smooth things over, but Old Man Liu glared at her and she dared not say anything. She wanted her sons to live a good life, but she knew clearly whether it was better for the old man or the son to be in charge of the family.
Liu Yibei was breathing rapidly. He looked at his uncle, aunt, cousins who were standing aside and glaring at them. He then looked at his grandparents who were sitting steadily on the sofa without saying a word. He just felt angry and embarrassed. He couldn't hold back his temper and pulled his mother and brother to leave.
"We won't beg them. At worst, we won't go abroad to study. If they want to come to us and beg us in the future, don't even think about it! Mom, Dad, brother, let's go!"
When she said this, the people standing opposite her were happy, but Liu Shisheng, Jiang Zijun and Liu Yinan looked unhappy.
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Thinking about going to have dinner with Shen Baichuan at his grandfather's old house tomorrow, Chen Jin arranged to go to the store he had already decided on with Geng Xin in the morning and go to the beauty salon in the afternoon to enjoy himself.
Even if you are busy making money, you can't waste the monthly membership program.
The storefronts all have a unified decoration style, but the brand has not yet been promoted and franchising has not yet been initiated.
Geng Xin first went to see the storefronts in Dongcheng District. He pointed to the increasingly deserted old department store across the street and said, "The location of the old department store is still very good, but the interior is not well decorated, and many of the stores are outdated."
Seeing her praising it again and again, Chen Jin felt something was wrong and asked, "Are you thinking of asking me to buy it?!"
"...No, I was just saying it casually."
"You can think about it. When the company makes money, I'll have money to spend, so I can buy the old department store."
The two of them stood at the door of the unrenovated store, one with her hands in her pockets and the other with her hands around her chest. They both turned their heads to look at the old department store diagonally opposite and spoke in low voices. A passerby standing nearby looked them up and down, then walked away and said, "Why are you pretending?"
Do you still have “money but nowhere to spend” or “it’s ok to just buy the old department store”?
Chen Jin didn't care at all and used this to provoke Geng Xin, saying, "See, people say we are bragging. You should work hard and try to give me enough money to buy a house."
Geng Xin sighed. Her boss was always busy. He either wanted to build a building or buy a building. He also often said that he was a poor guy.
The storefronts in Xicheng District are not far from Wanmin Square, and the street where the storefronts are located is almost a must-go for young people when shopping. The rent for shops here is much more expensive, and I can’t find two shops that can be connected together, so I can only rent one. Unlike the store in Dongcheng District, the shop is large and divided into two floors.
After visiting the store with Geng Xin and having a meal in Xicheng District, Chen Jin drove to the beauty salon on Zhongshan Road in Dongcheng District by himself.
"Auntie Ke'an." It's rare that Auntie Ke'an, the big boss, has time to come to the store today. Chen Jin greeted them and asked, "When will the branch be opened near Nanda? I won't have to travel so far in the future."
Jiang Ke'an said, "It only takes about ten minutes to drive from Changhe Town to Zhongshan Road. You are coming to the company anyway, so why don't you stop by?"
As he said this, he pretended to be angry and said, "You didn't even send me an invitation for your opening. What's wrong? Don't you think highly of Aunt Ke'an?"
"How could that be? I'm just embarrassed to accept your gift money for no reason, and I'm embarrassed to send you an invitation." Chen Jin changed the subject and asked if Aunt Ke Xin and Chen Yue were not in Rong City again.
"He went to Beijing to look at the houses there."
Chen Jin smacked his lips, "Are you still buying it?"
"I didn't say I wanted to buy, I just said I wanted to go take a look and understand the situation." Jiang Ke'an didn't know what to say. In her family, her younger sister owned the most houses. With so many houses, my younger sister is still thinking of buying more, saying that houses in Beijing and Shanghai will not be unsellable after buying and falling in price. She also said that houses will not grow legs and run away on their own, so keeping them for Chen Yue in the future will be a guarantee.
"And Yueyue said that her teacher recommended her an internship, so she rushed back as soon as she came back."
Look, there are two busy people again.
Chen Jin was about to lie down for a beauty treatment, but Aunt An followed her in and chatted with her for quite a while, asking about her company. She also said that she would go over to support the business when the store officially opened.
It’s really close to the old department store on Zhongshan Road, just across the street.
Since everyone was out, Chen Jin went to Guxi Road and bought a lot of small cakes. He brought them back to the company and distributed them to everyone.
The company needs to save money for the time being, and she doesn't have much money to spend, but she can still treat everyone to cake.
It just so happened that cousin Meng Chong came to deliver some furniture, and Chen Jin also gave him some.
All the furniture collected from the rental houses in Qiaoxi Village were placed in another small workshop in the company.
These pieces of furniture are still relatively new; they won’t break down for no reason after being kept for three years. This saves you from having to spend money to buy a batch of furniture later.
"Boss, our factory wants to sell furniture?"
Chen Jin laughed, "No, these are all furniture from the rental house. I'm putting them here temporarily and will move them out later. Hey, Uncle Wang, why do you think I'm selling furniture?"
"Oh, no. I'm just guessing." Uncle Wang pointed to the big iron gate opposite his company and said, "Opposite used to be the Nan'an state-owned sofa factory. In the past, Baiyou Clothing Factory and Nan'an Furniture Factory were both top brands in the city. Clothes were from Baiyou and furniture was from Nan'an. However, the furniture factory was later changed to a sofa factory, and then it disappeared."
As he spoke, there was still some nostalgia in Uncle Wang's eyes.
At that time, both factories were good factories. They were not the largest factories in the city, but they were well-known and both were allocated new land to build new factories. Nan'an moved to the new factory first, and this place was gradually abandoned. Not long after Baiyou moved to the new factory, it could no longer operate...
Uncle Wang thought secretly: The feng shui of the new factories is not good, we have to close down one after another when we open one.
The sign of the factory opposite had been removed long ago, and Chen Jin really didn't know that was the Nan'an Furniture Factory. He even said, "The sofa in my home was bought from the Nan'an Sofa Factory. It turns out that it used to be the Nan'an Furniture Factory."
Shen Baichuan had also praised her sofa, but when she went to buy it, the Nan'an sofa factory was closing down and clearing out its warehouse, so she couldn't buy it even if she wanted to.
"Is there no one buying the factory across the street? It looks pretty good."
"Well, who would buy here now? In the past, everyone would rush to the suburbs of South City, which is closer to the train station and more convenient. If you want to move now, you'd better move to South City, where there is an industrial park. You see, there are several old factories in our area, but no one wants them. Only ours is relatively good, it looks relatively new, at least the factory buildings inside are ready-made. Otherwise, how could those who want to buy lower the price so much? They just use the other old factories in this area as an example to devalue them to nothing..."
"Oh, I see some people running towards this area these days. I guess some people are thinking of buying these factories." Uncle Wang never stopped talking. He then pointed to the factory behind her and told her what kind of factory it was and how it was in the past.
There is nothing in this area that Uncle Wang doesn't know.
Chen Jin had nothing to do, so he sat outside the guard room and listened to Uncle Wang talking about the large and small state-owned factories in Changhe Town. This was simply the development history of the state-owned factories in Rong City over the past 30 years.
Behind him, Daju and Dahuang started fighting again. The relationship between these two cats and dogs is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and no one knows why they will fight in the next second. For now, Big Orange can win by relying on weight, but it’s hard to say about the future. Big Yellow seems to be able to eat a lot too.
The next day, Chen Jin came to the company as usual and stayed until about five in the afternoon, when Wei Zhenhua drove over to find her.
When I walked into the office and saw the box of red speakers leaning against the wall, I couldn't help but twitch my lips. I wanted to laugh, but held it back. He looked around the office and said, "Your office is a bit like our director's office. Especially the words hanging on it, 'cultivate your character.'"
Chen Jin almost laughed to death. This was not the first time that people laughed at her office style. When my cousin Meng Chong came to see me yesterday, he also said that he felt the man looked very serious when he came in, just like when he entered the factory leader's office in the past, and his skin became tense.
She still said, "Just use it as it is. When I have more money, I will change it to something I like."
Wei Zhenhua was going to go together to attend Grandpa Shen Baichuan’s 70th birthday. It wasn't because of work, but because his family had some friendship with Mr. Cheng, and it was inconvenient for his family to go, so he went on behalf of his family.
Just then Chen Jin said she wanted to go too. He happened to be working at the office, so he saved the money for a taxi and just followed Chen Jin's car.
Chen Jin put the things into his bag and then picked up the gift he was going to give. After going out to take a look, he called Wei Zhenhua like a thief to get in the car quickly.
"Let's go quickly while Uncle Wang is taking my dog Daju away, or we won't be able to leave later." If it were a dinner party with friends, I could bring Daju along, but now I can't.
Wei Zhenhua didn't expect this to be the reason. However, thinking back to the few times I had dinner with Chen Jin, I suddenly realized that Chen Jin really did take her cat with her wherever she went.
“Shen Baichuan has something to do and he went there first, so you don’t have to wait for him.” Chen Jin said, “But I don’t know the way, so you can show me the way.”
Wei Zhenhua joked, "You called me and asked me to go with you. You didn't just want me to lead the way, did you?"
Chen Jin smiled and said, “It’s not entirely because of this reason. Apart from Shen Baichuan’s friends, I’m also more familiar with you.”
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