In the following period, he spoke with the remaining four companies separately.
The report from Xiao Rizi Company has been submitted, but we are still waiting for a response from headquarters.
These companies all coincidentally sent Li Chu a "small gift," and they were all cars.
Although he couldn't accept the gift, that didn't stop him from being angry. Five cars—how big of a backside could he possibly sit in them?
I knew that what was happening here would soon reach the ears of the higher-ups, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
He had just returned to the hospital from the base when the phone call came in.
After hanging up the phone, Li Chu glanced at the time; it was already past five o'clock.
Well, I don't even know when I'll be able to go home tonight. These leaders really don't have a concept of working hours.
I went downstairs to say hello to my wife, got in the car, and continued on my way.
Wenxuan didn't come with us today; he and Wang Yueyue went to help Li Qiaoyun clean her house.
"Xiaotian, drop me off here later, then drive back. After you finish get off work, take Ding Qiunan home, and then you don't need to come over. Just pick me up at home tomorrow morning."
"Sir, shall I come and wait for you after I take Director Ding back?"
"It's alright, you don't need to pick me up. You have a pregnant woman at home, so go back and take good care of her. She's quite far along in her pregnancy, so you need to be extra careful, okay?"
"Yes, sir. Thank you!"
Li Chu hitched a ride home with Uncle Wang that evening.
"Xiao Chu, do you feel like you've been taken advantage of?"
In the back seat of the car, Uncle Wang, looking tired and leaning against the seat with his eyes slightly closed, suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Li Chu, who was also feeling a bit tired, was taken aback by Uncle Wang's sudden question.
"What loss are you going to suffer, Uncle?"
Uncle Wang opened his eyes, turned his head to look at his nephew sitting next to him, and saw a look of confusion in his eyes. He realized that the nephew probably hadn't understood, so he started speaking again.
"I was referring to the skincare product I mentioned at the meeting earlier."
"Oh, you mean this?" Li Chu shook his head slightly. "What loss? On the contrary, I feel like they gave me too much; it's a bit too much for me to handle!"
Looking at his nephew's composed face, Uncle Wang slowly nodded and said, "Good, it's good that you have such an understanding. Since it's been given to you, just accept it without worry. Don't feel like it's burning your hands."
"But are you sure you want to split that one percent of shares in half and put 0.5 percent of it in Yueyue's name?"
"Uncle, don't you think it's not going to work?"
"Hahaha, you little rascal, alright, she'll be your daughter-in-law eventually, so I, as her grandfather, won't interfere anymore!"
"Uncle, Wenxuan is going to follow in my footsteps in the future, so it's best if he doesn't hold any shares in the company."
Consider those shares as our family's dowry for Yueyue.
Upon hearing Li Chu's words, Uncle Wang, who had already closed his eyes, opened them again and looked over with bright eyes.
He paused for a second or two before chuckling softly and patting his nephew's leg.
When the car reached the intersection, Li Chu stopped it and didn't let it drive any further. He got out of the car there, greeted the guard in the car behind him, and watched the two cars drive away.
The one percent stake that Uncle Wang mentioned in the car earlier was obtained by Li Chu in exchange for a few skincare product recipes.
As for whether these prescriptions were effective, none of the leaders present, including those from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Foreign Affairs Department, doubted it, after all, his face was right there.
This one percent share does not belong to the company that is about to be established, but to a company registered in Hong Kong Island called Lianhehang.
Of course, this company has long since changed its name; it was renamed back in 1948.
This company was established in 1938. During both the War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Liberation, it did everything possible to break through the blockade, procure and transport urgently needed supplies from Hong Kong Island to the mainland, and provided strong support to our army.
That's why Li Chu said earlier that the shares were a bit too hot to handle.
This company was restructured last year and became a group company. It was decided that his one percent would be shares in the group company.
These people may not yet know how much that one percent of shares will be worth in the future.
He was given this share not entirely because of the prescriptions he submitted, or the previous ones.
What were China's foreign exchange reserves in 1982? Seven billion US dollars.
From selling prescriptions to testing drugs, and then to investing in and building factories, Li Chu's contribution alone exceeded one percent of the foreign exchange reserves at the time.
So at that impromptu meeting just now, no one objected to giving his company one percent of the shares.
Of course, these shares only grant dividend rights and cannot be bought or sold.
But that's already pretty outrageous, okay?
Even if only one percent of a company's future market value is only one hundred billion, that's still billions.
Forget it, just take it. There will be a formal meeting in two days, and then the shares will be transferred to him, just like he said in the car earlier.
He won't take those shares; they'll be split in half, with Wang Yueyue and Li Wenhui each getting 0.5%.
One is for the bride price, and the other is for the dowry.
He strolled home leisurely, and it was already past one in the morning. Several dogs were still lying at the gate waiting for him.
No one knows what Ding Qiunan said, but they firmly believed that the male owner would definitely come back tonight.
Back in the courtyard, he sat in the yard and played with a few dogs for a while before going inside to take a shower.
In the bedroom, the ceiling fan was slowly turning. Ding Qiunan lay on the bed, hugging the pillow her husband used to sleep on, fast asleep. The bedside lamp was lit, emitting a soft glow.
Li Chu walked into the bedroom, looked at his wife's sleeping posture, and shook his head with a smile.
He carefully pulled the pillow out of Ding Qiunan's arms, but unexpectedly, he still woke her up.
"You're back! Have you eaten? I'll go get you something to eat." She said, trying to sit up.
"Go to sleep, honey, you've already eaten."
He put the pillow away and had just lay down on the bed when that familiar body snuggled into his arms again.
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The next morning at breakfast, Li Chu told the two children and Ding Qiunan what had happened the night before.
Upon hearing that it was a bride price, Wang Yueyue blushed deeply, too embarrassed to utter a single word, and kept her head down, focusing only on drinking her porridge.
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Ding Qiunan was indifferent; she generally wouldn't object to her husband's decisions.
"Yueyue, give me your ID card later. Qiunan, give me Wenhui's ID card later too."
"ID card?"
Wang Yueyue, who was engrossed in eating her porridge, looked up and stared blankly at her future father-in-law.
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