Hearing this, Bai Ziyu was relieved and readily agreed.
"Okay, Weiguo, you are much better than me in this area. I will work for you from now on."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Weiguo reached out his hand across the table.
"Old Bai, it's a pleasure doing business with you."
"It's a pleasure to work with you."
A new industrial chain that is about to emerge was initially agreed upon in this small restaurant.
Xiao Weiguo took out 30,000 yuan from his bag and pushed it in front of Bai Ziyu.
"Old Bai, this is your initial operating fund. Please submit a supplementary application to me later, along with the project report."
The initial period of running around required a large sum of money, and Bai Ziyu had no other income, so Xiao Weiguo thoughtfully considered this for him.
Bai Ziyu didn't stand on ceremony and packed up the stacks of banknotes. He was still thinking about going south to see Dr. Zhang tomorrow, and he hadn't yet figured out how to pay for the plane ticket.
The matter was settled, and the two parties said goodbye outside the small restaurant.
After thinking it over, Xiao Weiguo, having nothing planned for the afternoon, decided to rest at the hotel and calmly sort out the recent events.
He had been running around for several days in a row, and he was quite exhausted.
In the compound of Xiao Weiguo's country in Shang County.
With Xiao Weiguo away from home these past few days, and with Hu Zi's arrival, Xiao Jian has become noticeably more cheerful.
However, after staying at home with Hu Zi for two days, he got a little tired of it.
The rest of the family is either in school or busy with work, leaving the two of them with nothing to do all day.
The nanny, Jiang Mei, has officially started working for them. She and the grandmother keep the house spotless. The two young boys can't help at all.
The two were unfamiliar with the county town and rarely went out to play. They were practically like a pair of small animals trapped in a cage. Although they had food and drink, they didn't have much to worry about in their lives.
But after several days of this, they started to feel uncomfortable.
After school, Liu Qing would play with them for a while before doing his homework. He and Xiao Jian had been close friends since childhood, and now that the good brothers were finally reunited, they always had so much to talk about.
From him, Xiao Jian gradually learned more and more about what his elder brother had been doing over the past six months.
He had witnessed Xiao Weiguo's behavior at home, and now he basically believed it to be true: his older brother had indeed changed.
But his inability to swallow his pride and communicate with his older brother was the last act of defiance from a rebellious teenager.
What Xiao Jian urgently needs to do now is to change his current living conditions.
I can't just stay idle like this forever. What's the difference between me and my old boss? Wouldn't I just become a good-for-nothing?
But what can we do with our current abilities?
Should I continue working?
My older brother and sister definitely wouldn't allow it.
Going to work at my older brother's factory? Putting aside whether he could bring himself to do it, they wouldn't even be qualified in terms of age.
Xiao Weiguo's company has clear rules: no one is allowed to work under the age of 18, not in any position, and no one has any special privileges.
Xiao Weiguo would not make an exception for them.
Continue attending school?
That's even more impossible. He's been out of school for five years since his parents passed away. Going back to school and having to sit and study with kids five years younger than him, who are only eleven or twelve years old, would be quite ridiculous.
Besides, there's Gao Hu, who has never been to school. He grew up begging with his grandmother and has never been to school. Are we going to make him start from first grade? How old will he be by the time he graduates?
That's absolutely outrageous.
But what other options do they have besides these?
Xiao Jian was particularly confused. Hu Zi was just as melancholy.
He is different from Xiao Jian.
Xiao Jian can stay idle forever; no one will say anything if his older brother supports him for life.
As for himself, although he wasn't very educated, he still had a strong sense of self-respect.
As Xiao Jian's friend, Xiao Weiguo had no reason or responsibility to support him for life.
Although Xiao Shanshan was attentive, Xiao Jian rarely discussed these issues with her, leading her to believe that his depression stemmed from unfamiliarity with the new environment. She thought he would get used to it.
Grandma is over sixty years old, and she's happy to see all the children every day, including the well-behaved Gao Hu. The old lady doesn't have any grandchildren of her own, so in her eyes, all the children in this yard are almost like her own grandchildren. Taking care of these children's food, drink, and toilet needs every day, the old lady feels like she has inexhaustible energy.
Xiao Jiang and Xiao Yue would also play with their second brother and Gao Hu in their spare time. The two little ones are now very sweet-talking, calling each other "Second Brother" and "Brother Gao Hu" which makes the two of them much happier.
The only one who truly understood them was Liu Qing.
As peers and childhood friends of Xiao Jian, they talked about almost everything.
But while he understood, Liu Qing was just a student himself and couldn't offer much help. He could only try his best to find something to distract them and prevent them from getting too caught up in the matter.
On Sunday morning, the three teenagers, having nothing to do, discussed something.
How about we go back to our hometown, Xiaotun, for a visit?
Having been away from home for over a year, how could Xiao Jian not miss the place he had lived since childhood? He readily agreed.
Liu Qing hasn't been back there for a while.
Every blade of grass and every wisp of smoke from a farmhouse in Xiaotun is something they yearn for day and night.
So, Liu Qing rode her bicycle, the same one her father had bought with the money Xiao Weiguo had earned for their family back in Xiaotun.
Xiao Jian borrowed Liu Ye's bicycle, asked his older sister Xiao Shanshan for the key to their old home, and with Gao Hu on the back, the three of them rode along the road towards Xiao Village.
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