Chapter 387 The Duan Family Invited Teacher Bai
Bai Pinheng, who was in the living room, hadn't seen his nephew for five years. He suddenly recognized that this was his nephew Lin'er. Without thinking too much, he stood up and greeted his former sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, has our Lin'er grown up so much?"
Five years ago, Yue Jingshu divorced Bai Linyan and insisted on taking her three-year-old son with her to marry into the Xu family.
In the past few years, the Bai family had no chance to see the eldest grandson of the Bai family at such a close distance as they did today, so Bai Pinheng completely forgot that he was still in the Han family. He recognized his own nephew and was excited.
The man also strode towards the door.
Han Suijing naturally knew that the military wife standing inside the door had another identity: Bai Linyan’s ex-wife Yue Jingshu.
"Sister-in-law, why don't you come in and sit for a while? We just got home this afternoon, and Baoer saw so many children coming over to play, so he asked them to come in and play with us."
Yue Jingshu stood stiffly at the door of Han's house. She opened her mouth with an extremely embarrassed look on her face. She didn't expect to meet Bai's brother-in-law at Han's house.
Outside the Han family's door, the military wives who came over to watch the excitement saw the Han family's guests come out to greet Yue Jingshu.
Even Han Bingtuan came out and invited her into the house to have some tea and chat, so she followed him into the house out of curiosity.
The wives of the soldiers usually have no chance to come into close contact with the Han troops, but they also know that the Han family now has a mistress, and that the new noble, who is respected by everyone in the army, is marrying a second wife.
Behind their backs, everyone would talk about and be curious about their relationship.
When they saw Han Suijing, the military wives all smiled and nodded embarrassedly.
The sound of the piano in the living room was still as pleasant as ever. The children gathered around the nine-foot-long piano, staring at Wang Ziru playing the piano.
Among them, there were several little girls from the families of the cadres who were also asked by their parents to practice the piano on a regular basis, but the pianos in their homes were not this big.
It was the first time for them to see the strings, soundboard, and hammers working together when playing the piano. They inexplicably felt that this piano was so high-end.
Yue Jingshu turned her head and glanced in the direction of the piano, her face stiff: "I'm also here to ask Xu Mucheng to go home and practice the piano..."
After she finished speaking, she didn't even bother to greet her brother-in-law. She took Xu Mucheng's hand, turned around and left the Han family.
The other military wives were very respectful to Han Suijing and followed him out with a smile.
Bai Pinheng chased out of the Han family's gate and watched his sister-in-law pulling his nephew, with a little carrot chasing behind them. The three of them, mother and son, walked towards the other direction of the family compound without looking back.
I haven't seen my nephew for five years. He has grown taller and is almost as tall as his mother. If my eldest brother saw his son grow so tall, I wonder how happy he would be.
After a long time, the military wives who were watching gradually dispersed.
Bai Pinheng, with a melancholy look on his face, turned and walked into the Han family's living room. While listening to the pleasant piano, he chatted with Han Suijing.
"I have told Comrade Ziru before that our Bai family has its own construction workers. I heard that your special forces are urgently building dormitories recently. The Bai family can assist the Han Corps and complete the construction of the troop dormitories in the shortest possible time."
Han Suijing held an enamelware cup in his hand and drank tea quietly.
Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment before looking up at the man opposite him, "How can you... help me build a dormitory?"
Bai Pinheng told him his thoughts.
"The Bai family will provide the bricklayers and other workers to build the houses. Your troops will provide some engineers to follow the command of our bricklayers and work together to complete the task of building the troops' dormitories. After all the beams of the houses are put up, my bricklayers will help apply a layer of lime powder..."
A hint of relief flashed across Han Suijing's face, but he didn't know what the Bai family wanted to get in return from the army.
"You bricklayers' wages must be very expensive, right?"
"The Han army doesn't have to worry too much. Since the Bai family is here to help, they will definitely do a great job! The troops only need to pay the bricklayers the minimum wage. In addition, they will contract the bricklayers' food and lodging during this period of time." Bai Pinheng said, turning his head to look at the woman who had finished playing a song and stood up from the piano stool.
The meaning was obvious. The Bai family wanted to reward Wang Ziru for treating Bai Linyan.
The children's faces were filled with joy, but they were afraid of the Korean troops, so they pushed and shoved their way out. Some of the older children hinted to Baoer to go outside and play with them.
Just at this time, Commander Duan's personal bodyguard Li Junfeng drove to the family compound.
Unexpectedly, a group of children rushed out of Han's house. After parking the car, they came over to greet Song Yan, "Old Song! Why are you back today?"
"The leader has brought his family back to pick up my sister-in-law. Didn't you hear that my sister-in-law went to Tencent yesterday?"
Song Jian put his hands on the front fender and did routine maintenance on the car. He turned around and saw Li Junfeng, "The commander has not been working recently, and you are also bored."
"Tsk! You don't know how busy I am. Look, the commander said he wanted to read a book and asked me to come and find it for him."
The two greeted each other outside Han's house and chatted for a while.
Li Junfeng also glanced at the Han family's living room for a few times, vaguely seeing a figure swaying in the living room. He paused, but decided not to go in and disturb Han Bingtuan and his wife.
He turned and walked to the door of Commander Duan's house, opened the door with the key, and walked straight into the small building.
Every time Li Junfeng came to Commander Duan's house to help find something, he would definitely go into the house to look for the drinks that the commander had hidden at home.
He went to the refrigerator and got a bottle of Arctic Ocean soda, opened the lid, drank the cold soda, and felt very happy. He went upstairs to the study and rummaged through the commander's collection of books in the bookcase according to the commander's request.
While I was looking for a book, the phone on the desk suddenly rang.
He quickly answered the phone: "Hello!"
"Have you arrived?" Commander Duan's distinctive rough voice came from the other end of the phone. Before Li Junfeng could say anything, he asked, "Has Han Suijing returned home?"
"Eh? Commander, how come you heard about it too?"
Li Junfeng was excited and was about to talk to the commander, but he heard him asking about the Han family and asked, "Does the Han family have any guests?"
"Guests?! I just took a look at the door and there seemed to be someone in the living room. I wonder if Han Bingtuan is entertaining guests at home. Commander, do you want me to go over and confirm it?"
"It should be someone from the Bai family!" With Commander Duan's extraordinary IQ, he immediately guessed that the Bai family's car sent Wang Ziru back to Kun City, and at this time, they should have just arrived at the family compound, so it was not surprising that she was invited to the Han family as a guest.
Li Junfeng was somewhat curious as to how Commander Duan could instantly guess who the guest of the Han family was.
Just as I was about to ask, Commander Duan had already hung up the phone.
At this moment, in the Duan family's study, Duan Yanzhi was sitting at the desk.
When he was making the call just now, he leaned his tall body against the edge of the table and kept trying to cross his legs, but he failed after several attempts.
He looked sideways at the man sitting behind the desk with calm eyes, and asked, "The fact that the Bai family was able to take the initiative to approach the Duan family this time is largely due to my wife. Tonight, why don't we call the Bai family over to discuss cooperation with the coal factory?"
Duan Suili frowned, staring at his nephew with a colder look, and his slightly magnetic voice slowly rang out: "I have never thought of cooperating with the Bai family to mine coal."
If this happened in the past, the Bai family secretly mining coal in Baiteng Town, which would really challenge his bottom line!
But when he learned that the Bai family's coal factory gave Wang Ziru a 30% stake, he immediately gave up some of his thoughts.
Duan Yanzhi narrowed his long, unruly eyes, "You are being ridiculous! Since you know that the Bai family's coal factory also has shares from the Han family, if you don't come forward to help them, how long can the Bai family dig with their little amateur skills?"
Coal mining is not just a matter of momentary enthusiasm, it also requires mining technology.
Among the three major families in western Yi, only the Duan family possesses this technology. In recent years, the Duan family has invested huge manpower and material resources in Baiteng Town to mine and has acquired relatively rich mining experience.
At this time, it is not impossible to help the Bai family dig coal and get some shares.
"Zi Ru may have heard from the Bai family that Bai Teng Town belongs to the Duan family's business scope! So she may have used the opportunity of treating Bai Linyan to negotiate with the Bai family. In order to appease the Duan family, the Bai family came forward and persuaded the Duan family to mine coal together."
Duan Yanzhi tapped the edge of the table with his fingertips and asked leisurely, "Do you still mind that Bao'er's mother intervened in the feud between the Duan family and the Bai family? She is helping the two families to mend their relationship!"
"I know that, but I don't want to do business with the Bai family."
Duan Yanzhi stood up with a displeased look on his face. "I asked my aunt to prepare dinner and invite the whole family to come over for dinner. I also asked the head of the Bai family to come over to meet you to break the deadlock. You're still taking advantage of me, aren't you?!"
"Hmph!" Duan Suili lazily leaned back in his chair, not interested in seeing his nephew's angry look. "Why are you angry? The Duan family is going to split up, and if you want to make money so much, why don't you invest in the Bai family's coal factory after the split?"
"..." For the first time, Duan Yanzhi felt that the old man was deliberately making things difficult for him. He glanced at him and gritted his teeth, "It's not what I want!"
Duan Suili saw that his nephew was in a bad mood, so he looked at the phone and dialed the Han family's number.
The person who answered the phone was not Han Suijing, but Wang Ziru.
Just then, Wang Ziru passed by the study room on her way upstairs and heard the phone ring. She hurried in and asked, "Uncle? Are you calling for Han Suijing?"
"Oh, it's Ziru? Suijing is back with the kids, right?"
"Yes! Uncle, if you are looking for him, wait a moment, I will go call him..."
Duan Suili's voice was warm and magnetic. "I'm telling you the same thing. Ran Suijing will bring you to my house for dinner later. Also, I heard that the head of the Bai family is also at the Han family, right? Ask him to come along and tell him that this is my invitation."