After dinner.
Si Ze went to the room to accompany the old man, and Yan Mo stayed in the living room, sitting on the sofa with her mother-in-law to choose some things needed for the birthday party.
After all, the birthday party is not far away. Mr. Si’s 80th birthday party is very important to the Si family. Just the eight-day buffet banquet that she saw to entertain the whole of Mo City requires a lot of preparation, as well as the decoration of the hall and so on. It makes her feel overwhelmed.
It’s no wonder that Tang Ping started shopping so many days in advance.
Tang Ping looked up from a pile of things, found several stacks of blank invitations, handed them to Yan Mo, and found her the list of guests who needed to be invited to the banquet. She said, "Mo Mo, don't look at your list for now. Please help me write the invitations!" After that, she called the servants and brought the table.
"Okay." Yan Mo smiled and took the things handed to him by his mother-in-law. He sat down at the table next to him, opened the package, took out the blank invitation letter, placed it on the coffee table, picked up a pen, lay on the table, and began to write.
A smile flashed in Tang Ping's eyes, and she immersed herself in counting things again. At first, she sorted out most of the things, and after a while, she had almost finished counting.
She put away her things and looked up at Yan Mo. Yan Mo was still writing invitations. After thinking for a while, she found a stool and sat down next to Yan Mo.
"Qiong Hong, the Qiong family in the north of the city, is one of the top ten families in Mo City, and has a supply relationship with our Si family." Tang Ping lightly stated the identity of the inviter that Yan Mo was writing.
"Mom," Yan Mo stopped writing and looked at his mother-in-law sitting next to him in confusion, not understanding why she said this to him.
Tang Ping ordered: "It's okay, just write."
Yan Mo didn't think about it anymore and turned his attention back to the invitation. He finished the invitation for Qiong Hong in his hand and then wrote the next one.
"Zhao Yunsheng, president of Kewei Group, is involved in investing in projects in the old city."
"Hai Qizhao, the mayor of City A, was a soldier under your grandfather's command."
"Zhang Qinglian, your grandmother's sister."
"Ningxiatian, your aunt is getting married."
“…”
Yan Mo wrote one, and Tang Ping beside him would tell the relationship between that person and the Si family.
Finally, she stopped writing, looked at her mother-in-law, and asked the question in her heart:
"Mom, why are you telling me this?"
Tang Ping had no intention of hiding it from her. Her expression was full of seriousness as she said solemnly, "Momo, Mom, I'm getting older and have become less and less able to handle things these past two years. Now that you've officially become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Si family, I'll slowly let you know about some things. You have to pay attention, okay?"
Hearing this, Yan Mo was stunned and felt the pressure increase dozens of times. The hand holding the pen unconsciously exerted force and felt that the invitation card in his hand was burning.
Yan Mo panicked and said hurriedly: "Mom, you are still young..."
Tang Ping interrupted her and said earnestly:
"You are not young anymore, Mo Mo, so don't feel pressured. You still have time now. If you can't remember everything in one go, just remember it all. You have to face this step when you marry Ze'er. Let's start with this birthday banquet. When you finish running the store these few days, come and help me!" After a pause, Tang Ping didn't give her a chance to speak. She pointed to the name on the invitation list and said, "Write it!" Her tone was firm and unyielding.
No matter how humble and polite Tang Ping is, she is still a member of the Si family. When she really faces things, her momentum is like a rainbow, which is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
At this time, Yan Mo also felt it, and she didn't say anything more. Just as her mother-in-law said, being Si Ze's woman, you have to face these things, so it's better to get familiar with them earlier. What's more, this is Grandpa Si Ze's birthday party, which is different for Yan Mo. She has always remembered how good Grandpa Si Ze is to her. It is an honor for her to prepare the birthday party for the old man personally. How could she refuse?
She took out a new invitation and asked, "Mom, what is the relationship between Shu Debang and our family?"
"Shu Debang?" Tang Ping murmured, looking at the name Yan Mo pointed out. It took her a long time to remember who it was and explained, "The Shu family in the north of the city is one of the largest families in Mo City. However, our family has never had any contact with them."
Yan Mo continued:
"Then why is the Shu family on our invitation list?"
Tang Ping recalled that two days ago, her sister-in-law had approached her and asked her to add them to the list. She said, "They wanted to come on their own. Madam Shu is close to your aunt, so your aunt asked me to bring their family up."
Speaking of this, Yan Mo suddenly remembered the Madam Shu whom she met at the Zhou family banquet. Yan Mo had a good impression of Madam Shu, so she didn't ask any more questions. When Shu Debang wrote it down, what she didn't know was that because of this incident, her relationship with the Si family almost came to an end.
Afterwards, Yan Mo wrote many more copies, but the Si family's network of relationships was so vast, not limited to Mo City, but also in many other cities. It was impossible to finish writing it in one night.
At 9:15, Tang Ping spoke up: "Momo, if you haven't finished writing, you can write it later when you have time. You must be very tired from running your shop today. Go and rest now!"
"Okay, Mom, you should go to bed early too." Yan Mo really couldn't bear it anymore, so he didn't refuse. He put away the things on the table and handed them to Tang Ping. He got up and went upstairs to his room, fell asleep without even taking off his shoes.
Yan Mo knew that she hadn't showered or taken off her shoes, and she didn't want to, but she couldn't control it at all. It was as if someone had sealed her eyes, and no matter how hard she tried to open them, she couldn't.
It was already after ten o'clock when Si Ze came back. Seeing her like this, he picked her up and took her to the bathroom to take a shower. The whole process was a contradiction of two extremes: extremely painful and very enjoyable.
He carried her back to the bed. An hour later, he held her and lay down, thinking about the reports he had read over and over again, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Helplessly, he got up again, took out the plans she wrote in the car, and read them one by one. He admired his wife more and more. He thought, if he hadn't stopped her from going to the workplace, she would definitely be a very good workplace elite. He just asked her a question, and she could list out the geographical location of her store, the direction of development, and the advantages in this industry, and readjusted the staff arrangements in the store. From the report, it was not difficult to see that she was really a very meticulous person.
He was happy that he found such a wife. You know, to be his wife, it is not enough to be naive and innocent. He wanted to take on everything for him, but he knew that this was impossible. There are some things she can choose not to do, but she cannot not know how to do them.
It took Si Ze more than ten minutes to finish reading the report, put it back into her bag, and return it to its original place.
He returned to the bed, hugged her, buried his head in her neck, smelled her alluring body fragrance, and slowly fell asleep.
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