“I have money, I really don’t need it!” Zhang Fengxia repeatedly refused.
Lu Feng neither agreed nor refused, just gave a couple of perfunctory replies, and hung up the phone. Lu Feng then called Manager Li directly, gave him the account number, and asked him to transfer two million US dollars to that account.
It was almost midnight when Lu Feng returned home. Duo Duo clung to Jiang Xiaoyan, saying, "Grandpa and Grandma are coming for the New Year! We can't go back to the village."
Jiang Xiaoyan looked at Lu Feng as he walked in and asked, "You invited them to come for the New Year?"
“Yes, it’s been almost three years since I’ve been back, hasn’t it? I don’t want to be bothered when I go back, so let’s just bring them here. Besides, they’ve never been to Shenzhen before,” Lu Feng said as he sat down.
Jiang Xiaoyan sat there without saying a word. Duoduo fussed in her arms, wanting to go back to the village. After a while, she finally spoke, "Then I'll go back for the New Year."
Lu Feng wanted to say something after hearing this, but he didn't know what to say. They were already divorced, and now his parents were here; how was he supposed to get along with them?
Duoduo was excitedly spinning around, wanting to go back to the village for winter vacation.
After midnight, Lu Feng stood up and said, "Let's go to sleep!"
Days passed by, and various New Year's greeting advertisements began to appear on TV again. The familiar New Year's atmosphere arrived right on time, but Lu Feng no longer had the heart to experience it.
Sometimes he wondered why, in his first year back, he felt that celebrating the New Year in this era was better than in his previous life, but now it felt utterly bland.
Perhaps it's because I've experienced too much, it's the same things every year, day after day, year after year. Whenever the season arrives, that atmosphere will arrive as promised, sometimes making people feel dazed, as if they've lived through one year after another, and then their whole life has passed by.
During this period, Lu Feng would call Zhang Fengxia every few days. Jiang Xiaoyan was still busy with the factory. On January 23, a few days after Duoduo started her winter vacation, she took Duoduo and left.
She went to Tianjin; the equipment from the new factory there has arrived, and she needs to oversee it. She'll then head straight back to her hometown from Tianjin.
On January 30th, the privatization agreement between Jiafeng Group and the R&D company was officially finalized. Both parties signed the agreement, and John flew over to sign it. During this meeting, the two did not exchange a single word.
From initially being all smiles and close companionship to now remaining completely silent, this transnational collaboration has officially broken down in just a few short years.
Lu Feng booked plane tickets for his parents for the 31st, and now all that's left is to wait for their arrival.
Lu Feng was the only one left in the empty villa. His aunt hadn't been back for almost a year, so Lu Feng gave her some money and took the train back two days ago.
Bored, Lu Feng called Jiang Xiaoyan and chatted with Duoduo for more than half an hour. Just as he hung up, another call came in.
"Hello? Who is this?" Lu Feng asked.
"Me! Your mother!" Su Yourong said in a displeased voice, "If I don't contact you, won't you contact me? It's almost Chinese New Year, and after the New Year I'll be your financial backer."
"With our relationship, we don't need all this pretense, do we?"
"I've been waiting for your call for days. Did you sell your Thai baht? The baht has plummeted in the market and broken 30," Su Yourong asked.
“I sold before the 20th. The plunge isn’t a big deal. The short-selling power is insufficient. They should be able to hold the price at 35 yuan. They can accept this result,” Lu Feng said.
"How do you spend the New Year? With your wife, kids, and a warm bed?" Su Yourong sighed and said, "It's true what they say, 'Being a stranger in a strange land makes one miss their family even more during festivals.' I can manage on ordinary days, but when the New Year comes around and everyone is reunited, my loneliness becomes apparent."
"Going home, didn't you go back the year before last?" Lu Feng asked, puzzled.
"Don't even mention it. Once you have money, your family changes too. I left a lot of money when I went back last time. You know I have a lot of brothers and sisters. They almost beat me to a pulp because of that money." Su Yourong sighed, looking somewhat helpless.
“It’s all pretty much the same, so I brought my parents here for the New Year, and she took the kids back to her hometown. That’s fine too.” Lu Feng comforted her, “Well, we’re all not ordinary people, and our family situations are pretty much the same…”
Su Yourong seemed to have caught something in these words and asked, "Your wife from the village went back?"
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, hehehe!"
A laugh came from the other end of the phone, and Lu Feng had a feeling that something was wrong!
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