"What else?"
Lu Qingxuan shook her head vigorously. "That's not true. Before Uncle Yuanlong was arrested, although Aihua Company was an important industry in the family, it wasn't the family's financial source. The family's daily expenses all came from the accounts of Grandpa and Grandma."
Chen Ya asked, "Then where does their money come from?"
Lu Qingxuan smiled: "There are mainly two parts. Of course, one of them can be ignored. It's just one part."
After a pause, she continued, "Part of it is the old man's pension, and the other part is the dividends from the shares of several domestic companies that my eldest uncle, second uncle, and my father, the three brothers, pooled their money to purchase."
Chen Ya became interested: "There's such a thing? Which companies are involved?"
"I don't know much. Only my dad and his family know the details," Lu Qingxuan said. "I only know that our Lu family is a major shareholder of Taimei Group and Fulong Group."
"Taimei Group."
Chen Ya's mind moved.
Not long ago, they went to visit the courtyard house of Qi Yunche's sister. Qi Yunche was kidnapped. Chen Ya suspected at the time that it was Zuo Wenzon, the president of Taimei Group, who was responsible.
Although the situation of Taimei Group is grim, it is not a small group. At least the "Meitai app" that Lu Qingxuan is using on her mobile phone is the core product of Taimei Group.
In addition to food group buying, online ride-hailing, air tickets, hotels, tour groups... and so on, Taimei Group's business covers a large part of life.
It can be said that Taimei Group is already showing signs of becoming one of the domestic giants.
As for the Fulong Group, it is also an old acquaintance——
Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruying, their Liu family, are the controllers of the Fulun Group.
Considering that Old Master Lu personally arranged a marriage between the Liu family and the Lu Ruixiang family, it can be judged that the reason why Old Master was able to become a shareholder of the Fulon Group was that he must have known someone in the Liu family and had a good relationship with them.
But they are still shareholders of Taimei Group, which is interesting.
Because Zuo Wenzong also had some relationship with the Liu family - his wife's surname was Liu.
In this complicated relationship, Chen Ya smelled a hint of gossip.
"I heard that Taimei Group has been having a bit of a hard time lately," Chen Ya said. "They have a huge funding gap, and there's a high probability of severe internal turmoil."
Lu Qingxuan knew what he was talking about, and she became worried when she thought about it.
Taimei Group has millions or even tens of millions of delivery riders under its umbrella. Due to policy changes, these riders must be recognized as having labor relations, which means that Taimei Group must pay social security for them.
If social security were to be paid for them, there would be a funding gap of more than 450 billion yuan, which Taimei Group simply cannot afford.
In other words, Taimei Group must successfully raise funds before its capital chain breaks, or give up its core industries.
If they fail, the group is likely to collapse.
"Recently, the family's dividend income has indeed been affected," Lu Qingxuan said. "I overheard my great-grandmother and the others saying that the dividends from Taimei Group's shares have been decreasing, and they can't even sell them anymore... They're very worried."
"Taimei should have been listed on NASDAQ a few years ago, right?" Chen Ya asked.
"Then I'm not sure."
"Um."
Chen Ya thought of something.
Zuo Wenzong, it seems like he's playing a bit too much.
Lu Qingxuan took Chen Ya to a restaurant where the average cost per person was 3,000 yuan. While waiting for the meal, Chen Ya calmly took out his phone and typed a message to a contact he hadn't used in a while:
"Taimei Group, how much money does it owe? Can we find out?"
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The days passed quickly, like a clever cat that ran away and all you could see was its tail wagging in front of your eyes.
Soon, the day of Old Master Lu’s birthday finally arrived.
Lu Qingxuan has been preparing for her birthday these days, and she receives praise from her great-grandmother and others every day. Even she herself feels that her status in the family has risen.
Liu Ruying unexpectedly received a task assigned by her stepfather and stepmother to attend Old Master Lu's birthday banquet on behalf of the Liu family. This made her nervous. She was afraid of meeting Chen Ya at the birthday banquet, but also a little looking forward to it.
Because, if Old Master Lu had not forgotten his previous promise, he would most likely formally decide on the marriage between Chen Ya and Liu Ruying at the birthday banquet.
Chen Sheng and Lu Ruixiang devoted themselves to assisting their son Chen Hai in running the OEM factory, and were immersed in financial reports and daily management all day long.
Since that "special day," Chen Hai had changed a lot. He wanted to do his best to become a better person before meeting Qin Yunchu for the first time.
But time is still too short for him - because Qin Yunchu has confirmed that he will attend on the day of Old Master Lu’s birthday, and at that time the real Qin Yunchu will really appear in front of Chen Hai.
Xia You had been in a bad mood these past few days, like a bad-tempered cat who wanted to scratch everyone she saw - because her mother had taken her to all sorts of high-end custom clothing stores in order to dress her up for her birthday party so she could appear in front of the guests.
Lu Qianzi still lived a relaxed life every day. For her, the only good news was that her home had collected a few more records of JX in the past few days, and her collection of JX's complete records took another step forward.
After being autistic for a long time, Miao Aoxue finally came out of her depression and reached a reconciliation with herself - although she did not hold on to Chen Ya at the beginning, Li Jiayi was not bad either.
She and Li Jiayi will attend Old Master Lu’s birthday banquet as representatives of the Xuanyuan Chamber of Commerce.
The one who is most looking forward to this day, but is also the most marginalized, is Chen Ya's aunt Chen Chi.
The day of Old Master Lu’s birthday banquet was also the day of her wedding with Wei Mingzhe.
However, in that corner of the world, the wedding of an ordinary working woman like her always lingered on the edge of the celebrity class. People only paid attention to the Lu family and Old Master Lu, and no one cared about her wedding.
Grandma and Commissioner Gao were both conflicted and confident - they were conflicted because many things would be revealed on the day of the birthday banquet, and they were confident because at least people could see that Gu Yuqing was still polite to Old Master Lu.
The Lu family's appeal will be fully demonstrated on this day among the upper class circles of the capital - there is no doubt about it.
Old Master Lu, who was at the center of all the vortexes, remained calm and continued to go fishing every day.
Even for his great-grandmother, it was difficult to understand the inner world of this octogenarian and to know what was brewing in his heart.
Amidst everyone's different mentalities, different wishes, and different tensions, the crucial day of Old Master Lu's birthday finally arrived.
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