Family (small supplement)
Chen Jin was still laughing after she finished the call. This was not a case of acting without first consulting her third cousin, as she had indeed told him in advance. Two days should be enough for him to prepare himself mentally.
The phone rang again. Chen Jin leaned over to look at the number, then decisively picked up the phone and hung up. She knew that her third cousin must be so angry that he would come to question her: Didn’t you say it wouldn’t be that fast? What's wrong with you?
Let him calm down first.
Go upstairs and go to bed!
"Let's go, Daju, let's go upstairs and sleep." Chen Jin hummed a little "tick-tick" tune, looking happy.
But the third cousin didn't call again, and the phone in her office kept ringing the next day.
As soon as the second cousin picked up the phone, he said with a loud "Yo", "Are you and Shen Baichuan confirmed? I saw it a long time ago. Why were you so stubborn before? You insisted that we were just friends, but now you still want to bring him home for dinner? Third sister, you can. We'll have dinner tomorrow, but you just said it last night. Why don't you have dinner today and give everyone a surprise?"
Chen Jin grinned and said, "Didn't I say before that you are not allowed to announce important things during dinner? I told you in advance so that you don't have to announce it during dinner. Oh, I was planning to notify everyone, but it's too late and I'm afraid to disturb you. By the way, is my second sister-in-law in good health now? She has had a hard pregnancy, second brother, you can spend more time with my second sister-in-law when you are free..."
Uncle: "I heard from your second brother that you are going to bring Shen Baichuan to dinner tomorrow. Are you only bringing Shen Baichuan? Don't bring several friends back later."
"Just one. Uncle, don't scare me. How can I dare to bring several at once?"
Hey! Once the news spread from her second brother to her eldest uncle, it will soon spread from her eldest uncle to her second uncle, third uncle, and aunt, without her having to make a special phone call to tell them in advance.
She was sure that after she finished talking to her uncle, he would immediately call other people.
So, early in the morning, everyone came to confirm with her, and the whole family knew about it. Taking advantage of the fact that he was the most free and closest, Chen Jia came to her directly to ask her face to face: "Third sister, is this true? Ah ah ah, I know it! Then it doesn't count as my loss. I also treated Chen Yongan to a meal, and I must ask him to treat me back in the future."
"..." She was so bored that she made a special trip just to make a bet.
"Have you prepared everything you need to go abroad?" Chen Jin hadn't seen her much this month. She said she was busy revising her graduation thesis and making plans to meet up with friends to go out and play.
Chen Jia wanted to come over and play, but Chen Jin was very busy and sometimes not in the company, so she felt embarrassed to come. "Everything is ready, just waiting to go."
Chen Jia was chatting with her here and the topic of Chen Ting came up. "If we hold the wedding on the date we have arranged, I won't be able to make it. I have prepared a gift, so I will keep it for a while."
"Gift?"
"Yes, it's a gift for Sister Ting. I can't afford a big gold bracelet, but I can save up my New Year's money to buy a gold necklace... Third sister, what's wrong?"
Chen Jin slapped his head and said, "I haven't picked up my big gold bracelet yet."
In July, the owner of the gold shop called her and asked her to pick it up. She was busy at the time, so she said she would go another day. At the beginning of August, the gold shop owner called again and said she would go there in a few days. So it has been delayed until now!
She actually forgot such an important thing as taking the big gold bracelet!
I forgot it. Let’s go in the afternoon.
Chen Jin thought about it and realized that almost all the family members had come to ask, and those who didn't call would definitely know about it, so no one was left out. I got up and went to the auditorium next door to see the decoration situation.
It used to be an auditorium, but it was empty, so they just repainted it and put some tables and chairs in it. Except for the opening day, it was never used again. Their company only has so many people now, so there is no need to use a large auditorium for meetings, it would be a waste.
Therefore, we have now renovated the auditorium and are going to use it as a showroom for the company's clothing. In the future, there will be people coming to the company to discuss things, so it is just right to vacate the auditorium that is close to the office building. A small half of the space is used as a meeting office, and the remaining majority of the space is used as an exhibition hall to facilitate visitors.
The decoration style inside the auditorium is consistent with the other two facades. Geng Xin also said that this is the company's largest facade.
In fact, these are just fancy things that are of no use for the time being. If the Baiyou brand doesn't take off, it will be useless no matter how well we do here.
At noon, I took Chen Jia to have lunch nearby, and then we went to the jewelry store to pick up the things she ordered.
After Daju came in, he started turning his head around, looking here and there, and even poked his head behind the counter. Chen Jin remembered that the last time he came, Daju beat up someone else's fat orange, so he didn't feel comfortable letting Daju walk around.
The shop owner raised his eyes and glanced at her, saying, "If you don't come again, I'll think you're going to run away and not pay the balance."
Chen Jin felt guilty, it was indeed her fault. This is like delaying the payment of the final payment to others.
"Take a look." The shop owner took out the things and pointed to the new brochure on the counter, saying, "We have several new models." After that, he did not try to sell any products. Anyway, he was very casual in doing business. If you want to buy, buy it. If you don't want to buy, forget it.
Chen Jin thought about her current savings and decided not to open the new booklet for the time being, so as to avoid being upset when she returned.
I received the big gold bracelet and gold chain that I ordered and checked them thoroughly to make sure they were fine. After thinking about it, he asked Chen Jia to choose something ready-made in the store.
"Third sister, it's not necessary. Even if I bought one, I wouldn't dare wear it outside." After hearing so many stories about people being robbed for wearing gold and silver, Chen Jiaping usually wears just a watch.
But Chen Jin insisted on letting her choose one, and Chen Jia finally chose a gold chain.
"Da Ju, Da Ju, let's go." After paying the money, Chen Jin looked back and sighed. Big Orange and Fat Orange hid behind the counter. The two cats stared at each other. She was afraid that her Big Orange would raise his paw to hit Fat Orange in the next second. This is someone else's territory!
Look, the shop owner appears to be reading a newspaper, but actually his eyes are on Daju. Chen Jin hurriedly picked up Daju and left.
It’s too heavy. It’s not like before, when I could pick it up and carry it with one hand. Now if you want to carry it away, you have to put in a lot of effort.
On the way back, Chen Jia kept looking at the gold chain he received, "Third sister, this is the first time I've received a gold chain!"
"Gold is a good way to preserve its value and is much more practical than buying other things." She was too lazy to think of any extra gifts, and she didn't know what would be a good gift for Chen Jia.
If it was Chen Yongan, needless to say, giving him a game console would make him happiest. If it was his third cousin, giving him a luxury car would also make him happiest. But... Third Aunt doesn't allow Chen Yongan to play games too much, and she can't afford to give him a luxury car.
On the morning of the 15th, Geng Xin, who had just finished talking about something and walked out, turned around and knocked on her office door to remind her that her friend was coming.
Chen Jin stood up and went to the door to take a look. Wow, it was Shen Baichuan wearing a white shirt, suit pants, tie, and leather shoes.
Chen Jin looked down at what he was wearing. They were new clothes that the company was about to put on sale in the store. She wore loose jeans that were just above her knees, a sleeveless white top, and sandals on her feet that she wore as slippers...
"No, why are you dressed so formally?"
Shen Baichuan replied: "This is the first time you formally meet your family, so you'd better dress formally." Then he nodded to Geng Xin beside him.
Oh, the first time you officially meet your family? Geng Xin smiled, glanced between the two of them, and then said, "Boss, you guys chat, I'll get busy first."
It’s better not to delay your boss’s relationship. Hey, they're quite a match. It would be even more of a match if Boss Shen also wore their Baiyou clothes.
Shen Baichuan followed him into the office, and Chen Jin brought him a bottle of mineral water. She looked up at the painting "Cultivate Your Body and Mind" hanging behind the desk, then looked at Shen Baichuan standing in front of the desk, and suddenly smiled: "You wear this, it matches my office very well."
“Yeah, and the boss of the office too.” Shen Baichuan muttered quietly and sat down on the sofa.
"What did you just say? I didn't hear you clearly."
Shen Baichuan shifted his position uncomfortably, “Nothing was said.”
Chen Jin said "Oh". Seeing how he was dressed, he felt that his forehead was sweating. So he fixed the fan and blew it towards him. He said, "You don't have to dress so formally next time. It's too hot. We are having a meal together, so we can do whatever is comfortable for our family. Why don't you take off your tie?"
She felt warm for him.
Shen Baichuan hesitated for a moment, but decided to listen to her and untied his tie, unbuttoning the top button at the same time.
"Oh my god..." Nie Rong felt that he really couldn't carry out any more surprise attacks in the future. He should have called Chen Jin to tell him before coming here. Now in the office, Chen Jin looked down at Shen Baichuan as he unbuttoned his tie? ah! This didn't seem right no matter how he looked at it, and he was thinking about just coming back to see Chen Jin another day.
But Chen Jin had already seen him, and didn't think there was anything wrong between him and Shen Baichuan, so he called him in and said, "Didn't you say you'd come over at ten? It's only half past nine now, so early."
Nie Rong greeted Shen Baichuan with an awkward smile, went to sit down at the desk in front, with his back to Shen Baichuan, and felt a little better. He felt that the look Shen Baichuan gave him just now was full of murderous intent, as if he was dissatisfied with him coming over to ruin the atmosphere.
"A case was handled ahead of time, so I just happened to stop by."
After that, Nie Rong placed the file bag he brought with him on Chen Jin's desk and said, "This is the information you requested." He then took out a contract and said, "This is a preliminary draft of the contract. Please refer to the contract you signed with Director Geng."
Chen Jin put away all the things and locked them in the drawer, saying, "Don't worry about this. I'll think about it."
"Yes, I know. We have to make a profit after Baiyou's brand is established. You might as well slow down your pace for now. If you need anything, please contact me. Once the goods are delivered, I won't bother you anymore."
Shen Baichuan was different today, but whenever he went out to eat with friends, he would not be so reserved.
I originally wanted to stay here with Chen Jin and chat with him, but now it seems that’s not possible. I’d better leave early.
Shen Baichuan was still polite to him and said, "No, you can talk if you have something to say. I don't have anything to do, I just came here to wait for Chen Jin to have dinner together. Otherwise, I'll go to the auditorium next door to take a look?"
Although he was polite, he didn't even move. He sat steadily on the sofa, looking up at Chen Jin, waiting for her to speak.
Chen Jin scratched his face and said, "Let's talk about this another day. Ling Yun will be back in a few days, so let's have dinner together then."
"That's fine. Brother Qian and his friends said that there are only a few of us in the compound, and if we invite you, we can just make up a table." Seeing that Chen Jin was almost confused, Nie Rong asked, "Are you busy?"
"Uh, not really. If you're free, do you mind if I bring another friend?" Chen Jin pointed at Shen Baichuan next to him.
"Sure, we've already had dinner together." Nie Rong thought to himself: I always ask Teacher Shen to go wherever I go, but we still haven't become a couple. It seems that Sister Jin knows how to have fun, hehe.
"Jin Jie, Mr. Shen, I'm leaving first. You guys continue, ah no, you guys chat slowly."
Chen Jin stood in front of the office window with her hands on her hips, and then she saw Nie Rong looking back furtively, and when he saw her, he smiled at her slyly.
No, his brain must have been dried out by the sun, right? Laughing like this foolishly.
"Chen Jin, can internal staff of your company purchase clothes in advance? I remember there are men's clothes."
"Yes," Chen Jin said, "Employees get a 30% discount on the internal price. On the opening day, we'll have a minimum 15% discount. Well, the boss gets a 30% discount too, but you can't buy more. There's no employee discount for the amount above that. But you don't have to buy any, I've got everything ready. I was going to send some clothes to my family today, so I've put them in the trunk of the car."
Shen Baichuan paused as he stretched out his hand towards the mineral water on the table. Chen Jin was standing in front of the window, facing sideways to him, so he couldn't see Chen Jin's expression clearly. It was a good thing that she didn't look back, because his fingers just trembled uncontrollably.
Not quite sure, I asked, "I have one too?"
"Yeah, I've prepared everything. I treat my family members equally when sending gifts, so I'm pretty fair."
Seeing Nie Rong's car finally drive out of the company gate, Chen Jin left the window and said, "I think Nie Rong might be going out to gossip about me to other people. I seemed to see him making a phone call in the car just now."
Her intuition in this regard is quite accurate.
However, "Let him say whatever he wants. Anyway, we'll go out to dinner together in a few days, and they'll know about it. Oh, let me tell you, I told my third brother before that if I bring someone home for dinner, I should let him know in advance. I forgot about it, and if he hadn't called me the night before, I wouldn't have remembered it. So don't be nervous later, my family knows that we're dating."
Chen Jin glanced at the time and said, "It's still early. Let's go pick up my second uncle and his family at eleven o'clock. I'll show you some clothes since I'm free. You told me your size a few days ago, but sometimes, the size isn't necessarily the right size..." He went right away.
Geng Xin passed by her office quietly and saw the two people discussing clothes, sitting quite close to each other.
I thought: Fortunately, there are not many people in the company now. Everyone is either outside or in the design department in the back. Otherwise, they would have to "keep passing by" the boss's office to watch the fun.
As soon as the time came, Chen Jin called Shen Baichuan to go out, "Today is the second uncle's family's dinner, they will go there early. Do you want to drive or take my car? There are three people in the second uncle's family, and they can sit."
Shen Baichuan decisively got on the passenger seat of Chen Jin's car and picked up Daju by the way. Free up space in the back seat.
Her car had just stopped at the gate of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau's staff quarters. Her second uncle talked to the neighbors in the quarters for a while, then came over to open the passenger door and unexpectedly ran into Shen Baichuan and Daju.
Shen Baichuan greeted them one by one: “Second uncle, second aunt, Jiajia.”
A very polite young man.
Second uncle didn't know what to say for a moment, only to see Third sister reach out and push down Daju's head, revealing her own face, and said to him: "Second uncle, get in the car quickly. Let's go."
“Oh, here I come.” The second uncle waited until his wife and daughter got in the car before he got in the car, sitting in the back and staring at the back of Shen Baichuan’s head.
Although I already knew the news that my third sister and Shen Baichuan were dating yesterday, knowing is one thing and seeing it now is another. Sanmei and Jiajia are not much different, they can just date each other. Before, everyone was guessing that she and Shen Baichuan might be starting to date, but didn't it happen? They thought that, based on Third Sister's personality, it might take a year or two to settle down, but who knows...
Chen Jia accepted it the fastest and already started calling him "brother-in-law". Although my parents soon asked me to change my name to "Brother Shen".
All the way there, my second uncle and Shen Baichuan were chatting. As they chatted, my second uncle changed his mind again. He felt that if the person is good, it would be good to start dating early.
Chen Jin was like a driver of a sports car, driving quietly the whole time.
Not long after they arrived at Fushun Hotel, my third uncle and his family also arrived. Chen Yongan was still noisy, and rushed to find Chen Jin, "Third sister, I want to tell you... Hey, Teacher Shen, you are coming to eat too? Third sister, will your friends come over later? In addition to our family, have you invited anyone else for lunch today?"
Well, there is also an “outsider” in this family who works odd jobs outside every day and has no idea what’s going on at home. In the past, Chen Yongan was the person who knew the most gossip in the family, and might even be the second person who knew the most gossip in Rose Garden. Now, he doesn’t even know the biggest “news” in the family!
Chen Yongan's expression gradually turned into shock. "Such a big news, am I the only one who didn't know? Why didn't anyone tell me? Third brother, you are the first one to know, and you don't tell me when you go home every day?!"
The third cousin thought he was too noisy and told him to shut up, saying, "As soon as you came back, you ran to your room to play games. I couldn't find you when I wanted to talk to you."
After Chen Yongan's yelling, he became the one who talked the most to Shen Baichuan, calling him "Brother Chuan" all the time. Chen Jin knew that he was thinking about the game console in Shen Baichuan's house. I was too embarrassed to ask someone before, but now that we have the relationship of “future family members”, I can ask with confidence.
Shen Baichuan heaved a sigh of relief while replying to Chen Yongan's words. This scene was much better than he had imagined. At least it wasn’t Chen Jin’s elders coming to “interrogate” him.
Except for Chen Yongan and his second uncle who were not used to seeing each other for the first time, Chen Jin's other elders, brothers and sisters-in-law came over and greeted him, "You are here."
He and Chen Jin's second and third cousins are acquaintances. They have talked about many things and are now even more familiar with each other.
"Who else hasn't arrived yet? Oh, Auntie and Sister Ting will be late, right?"
Before the food started to come up, Chen Jin remembered what he had brought, and called Shen Baichuan, “Shen Baichuan, I’ll go down and get the gifts up, come and help me.”
The uncle stopped him and said, "Let Yongan accompany you to get it. I have something to talk to Baichuan about."
Shen Baichuan's posture became more and more upright.
"What is it that I can't listen to?" Chen Jin raised his eyebrows.
The third brother had already stood up, put his arm around her shoulders, and walked her out, saying, "Don't worry about it, I'll go down with you to get the gifts. No, you two are still buying gifts separately? Shen Baichuan has brought so many here..."
Chen Jin looked up at him and said with a smile, "Third brother, are you looking for an excuse to come out? Are you afraid that Third Aunt will scold you later?"
"That's good to know!" He got angry when he said this, "You said you would find a partner so soon? And you said you would notify me in advance? A day and a half in advance, you are really good! If you want to do this, I will go on a blind date and get married tomorrow, and have a baby this year, and you can just wait to be asked when you will get married!"
"Haha!" Chen Jin was really amused by his third cousin. Just one baby this year? He really dares to think!
"Chen Jin?"
Chen Jin and his third cousin turned around at the same time and saw a man with slicked-back hair and a suit who looked very rich.
The third cousin patted her shoulder and said, "Your friend?"
"I don't know him. Hurry up and get your things and leave."
"What's the hurry? Uncle and the others can still eat Shen Baichuan?" Slowly, anyway, he was not in a hurry.
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