Xie Jinghu had known for some time that Zou Weijun went to work at a publishing house.
I didn't take it too seriously at first, thinking that Zou Weijun would get bored after just a few days of work.
It’s not that Xie Jinghu deliberately looked down on Zou Weijun, but that Zou Weijun has never worked a single day since she married him.
When they met, Zou Weijun had not yet graduated. He went to ask Professor Zou for help in overcoming a technical difficulty in production and frequently visited Zou's house. After a few visits, he developed feelings for Zou Weijun.
After graduating from university, Zou Weijun had two options: pursue graduate studies or stay on campus to work. When Xie Jinghu proposed marriage, Zou Weijun chose neither path. She packed her bags and followed him—a move the Zou family strongly opposed. Professor Zou, a respectable figure, cursed Xie Jinghu, accusing him of abducting her.
Zou Weijun is quite romantic and she sees her family's opposition as a test of true love. She insists on being with Xie Jinghu despite her family's opposition. She does not choose to pursue a master's degree or stay in school, but marries Xie Jinghu and becomes the wife of a self-employed person.
The Xie family was not as prominent as it is now. Zou Weijun's family was a real scholarly family. If she had not been with Xie Jinghu, she would most likely have married a young man with a similar family background. The couple might not have become rich, but both of them were educated, and as long as they were not lazy, their lives would not be too bad.
After marrying Xie Jinghu, Zou Weijun could no longer pursue her passion for literature and write poetry.
Although Xie Jinghu had some assets at the time, the social status of self-employed individuals was not high in the late 1980s. Xie Jinghu himself had to act like a grandson when socializing outside. How could Zou Weijun have it easy?
Poor Zou Weijun, a daughter of a scholarly family, had to deal with the wives of some small businessmen. It was not that she was aloof and looked down on others, but in fact, they were not the same kind of people. Most of the wives of Xie Jinghu's business partners made their fortunes from the bottom. Some of them were still very frugal after getting rich, while others became arrogant after getting rich. Their wallets were enriched but their inner selves did not keep up. They wore gold and silver jewelry, carried brand-name bags, spitted everywhere when they talked, and could even spit on the ground at the dinner table... The Zou family was not rich, but they cared a lot about these hygiene details. Before Zou Weijun was with Xie Jinghu, she had never dealt with these scoundrels.
But she had no choice but to bite the bullet and interact with these people. If she didn't maintain the relationship, Xie Jinghu would have a harder time outside.
This went on for several years. Seeing that Zou Weijun was determined to marry Xie Jinghu and even had a child, the Zou family had no choice but to accept the marriage.
Professor Zou was afraid that his daughter and grandson would suffer, so he racked his brains to help Xie Jinghu's factory improve its competitiveness. In one or two years, he developed many technical patents. During the 1997 financial crisis, factories of the same type could not survive, but Xie Jinghu's factory remained standing. Xie Jinghu took advantage of the chaos to acquire small factories that could not survive. After the financial crisis, the economic situation improved, and Xie Jinghu began to split and sell the assets he had previously acquired, and even sold his own factory.
After that, Xie Jinghu used the cashed-out money to establish "Jinhu" and found another way to make money, and no longer got involved in industry.
Xie Jinghu didn't feel bad when he sold the factory, but Professor Zou was reluctant to do so.
The factory is the result of the hard work of Professor Zou and his team. For more than ten years, Professor Zou has led his team to overcome one technical difficulty after another.
What did Professor Zou get?
Got the title of chief technical consultant.
Now that the factory has been sold, Professor Zou, the chief technical consultant, naturally has no use anymore.
Xie Jinghu doesn't even run a business anymore, so he definitely doesn't need his father-in-law's help anymore.
Xie Jinghu had more and more money, and he was becoming more and more arrogant. He could no longer remember the Spring Festival of the year when he got married. The factory had a large backlog of goods and no working capital in the account. During the New Year, the workers blocked his door to demand their wages. Xie Jinghu was too embarrassed to go out, so Zou Weijun went to appease the workers.
To ensure the workers had enough money for the Lunar New Year, Zou Weijun sold her gold jewelry. Some of it was bought for her by Xie Jinghu, while others were secretly bought for her by her mother. Zou Weijun didn't like wearing jewelry, but she was reluctant to give it away.
Xie Jinghu could not even recall how many business crises Zou Weijun had accompanied him through. Even after the establishment of "Jinhu", Zou Weijun worked diligently and socialized as Xie Jinghu's wife, helping him maintain his social circle among the wives. Zou Weijun did everything that other bosses' wives would do... Until Xie Jinghu's extramarital affair was exposed, Zou Weijun was devastated by it, and suffered from depression in the long tug-of-war. Affected by the illness, Zou Weijun was unable to go out and socialize. Xie Jinghu's impression of Zou Weijun now is Zou Weijun after he became ill.
I don’t know whether Xie Jinghu can’t remember how “competent” Zou Weijun was before he fell ill, or he deliberately doesn’t want to recall it. He simply and crudely summarized Zou Weijun’s married life as “Zou Weijun has never had to work a single day after marriage” and “Except for the first two years of financial difficulties after marriage, Zou Weijun has never suffered any hardship.”
So Zou Weijun works in Chengdu?
Xie Jinghu didn't think Zou Weijun could find a good job.
She has no work experience and no solid technical skills. Even if she can find a job, she relies on the connections of her husband's family or her own family.
Using the connections between the Xie and Zou families, he got an easy and respectable job to fulfill Zou Weijun's independent personality.
Xie Jinghu estimated that Zou Weijun would resign before long.
But Zou Weijun has been working there from last year to April this year and has not resigned yet!
Xie Jinghu wanted to ask Zou Weijun what he could buy with his monthly salary.
I also want to ask Zou Weijun, how come his depression was cured without medication once he started working? Was he lying to him before?
But he couldn't get in touch with Zou Weijun.
Even after the New Year's Eve dinner, when Xie Jinghu got Zou Weijun's new phone number, thinking of the pile of printed and bound "share transfer documents" in Xie Yuping's study, just waiting for signatures and confirmation, Xie Jinghu didn't dare to call even after dialing the number.
He was afraid that Zou Weijun was faking his illness.
He was even more afraid that Zou Weijun would "fall ill" again after answering his call, angering his elder brother Xie Yuping, and he would be forced to transfer his shares to Xie Qian again.
He looked down on Zou Weijun's independent personality, but his elder brother and mother obviously looked up to him.
Xie Jinghu planned to test it out through Zhao Dong.
As soon as he had this thought, Zhao Dong, who was sitting opposite him, felt his hair stand on end.
Xie Jinghu was distracted just now. Is he planning something new?
Zhao Dong's mentality in front of Xie Jinghu is probably similar to Cai Youlun's attitude towards Zhao Dong. He wants to take advantage of the other party, but also thinks the other party is too stupid.
Zhao Dong was very concerned about this, but he was stunned when Xie Jinghu opened his mouth.
"You know Rongcheng Publishing Group, right?"
Of course Zhao Dong knows!
The general manager of Rongcheng Publishing Group is the company where Jiang Youjia's father is the general manager.
Thinking of Jiang Youjia, Zhao Dong's eyes darkened.
He was so busy building relationships before that he didn't have time to cause trouble for Jiang Youjia!
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