Chapter 549 You Must Keep Your Distance
Feng Chenggang was too embarrassed to ask Cheng Xuyuan, and Feng Xiaoxia was a little unsure whether she should bother Cheng Xuyuan.
At this time, Feng Xiaoxia's mother, who was sitting between the two of them, said, "Xuyuan, Xiaoxia will have to trouble you from now on."
"This girl really likes life in Yanjing."
Feng Xiaoxia blushed a little when her mother said this.
Just when she didn't know what to say, Cheng Xuyuan smiled and said, "Auntie, you are too polite. Xiaoxia and I are friends, and she has helped me a lot. It's my duty to help her a little."
Just at this moment, light began to appear in the sky outside the car, and pedestrians appeared on the streets of the county town.
A collective restaurant famous for its mutton soup was already starting to steam.
Feng Chenggang pointed to the small shop and said, "Xuyuan, Xiaoxia, you guys have been on the bus all night, you must be hungry."
"Since the place is open, let's go eat something."
If Feng Chenggang hadn't said it, Cheng Xuyuan wouldn't have felt anything.
When he heard Feng Chenggang's words, he felt his stomach growling.
Feng Xiaoxia asked, "Dad, it's so early, are they selling food?"
"Your father is here, so why are you worried?" Feng Chenggang said with a smile.
No one objected, and the car slowly stopped in front of the hotel.
When the hotel waiter noticed that it was a jeep, he was very friendly and quickly brought four large bowls of mutton soup and sesame cakes to Cheng Xuyuan and his friends.
A bowl of mutton soup costs fifty cents, and that requires two taels of meat. The sesame seed bun is even cheaper, only five cents, but a five-cent sesame seed bun requires two taels of food coupons.
Cheng Xuyuan wanted to pay but was stopped by Feng Chenggang.
He smiled and said, "Xuyuan, since you are back home, I will prepare the meal."
"I know you are rich, but your uncle Feng can still afford this meal."
Feng Chenggang had said so much, so Cheng Xuyuan naturally couldn't argue about the meal money anymore.
The boiling hot mutton soup, coupled with the spicy chili peppers, made Cheng Xuyuan very satisfied.
Although it was summer, the early morning was not too hot. Cheng Xuyuan ate the food in front of him like a whirlwind.
Feng Xiaoxia only ate half of it.
In this situation, Cheng Xuyuan was naturally unable to help!
After dinner, Cheng Xuyuan was sent to the gate of Cheng Jiadong's house. After waving goodbye to the Feng family, Cheng Xuyuan walked towards the staff quarters with his bag.
Feng Xiaoxia turned to her mother and said, "Mom, don't worry about my graduation."
Her mother said, "Xiaoxia, I recently heard that it is very difficult to stay in Yanjing."
"Now that the educated youth have all returned to the city, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a job."
"Although you are a college student and don't have to worry about arranging a job, it is not easy to arrange a job in Yanjing."
"I thought, instead of letting you go to the provincial capital, it would be better for you to stay in Yanjing."
“There is more potential for development there.”
At this point, she said with a hint of doubt: "Can Cheng Xuyuan really help you with this matter?"
In response to her mother's concerns, Feng Xiaoxia gave a positive answer this time: "His current status is not ordinary, and he can have a say in many things."
"That's fine." Feng Xiaoxia's mother said to Feng Chenggang, "Old Feng, you should contact Cheng Jiadong more often in the future and ask him to help talk about this matter."
"After all, we have no say in Yanjing's affairs."
Feng Chenggang seems to be a man of his word in many matters.
But at this moment, facing his wife's words, he could only nod helplessly.
Feng Xiaoxia looked at her mother's serious expression and shook her head helplessly.
She knew that at this moment, no matter what she said, it would be useless and might even have a counterproductive effect, so it was better to keep silent.
Cheng Xuyuan dragged his luggage and did not go to Cheng Jiadong's house immediately. After all, it was not good to wake someone up so early in the morning.
He sat on a stone in the yard for a while, and waited until Cheng Jiadong went out to buy breakfast before he went to meet him.
Seeing Cheng Xuyuan, Cheng Jiadong asked in surprise: "Xuyuan, when did you come back?"
"Uncle, my train is at four in the morning." Cheng Xuyuan and Cheng Jiadong are very familiar with each other, so there is no need to be polite and he speaks directly.
Looking at Cheng Xuyuan who looked calm, Cheng Jiadong blamed him, "Why didn't you tell me in advance so I could pick you up."
"How long have you been waiting?"
Cheng Xuyuan said: "Uncle, I didn't have to wait long. I happened to meet Feng Xiaoxia's father picking up Feng Xiaoxia at the train station, so I came here in his car."
"Her father just treated me to breakfast."
"Stay here for a while, it's a good time to digest the food."
When Cheng Jiadong heard that it was Feng Xiaoxia's father who invited him to dinner, he was surprised.
Ever since Cheng Xuyuan got engaged, he and Feng Chenggang haven't had much contact.
After all, Cheng Xuyuan and Feng Xiaoxia couldn't be together, and it wouldn't be good for him to get close to Feng Chenggang.
I didn't expect that Cheng Xuyuan could even let Feng Chenggang treat him. This is really...
In his heart, he was a little impressed by Cheng Xuyuan's eating this meal, but as Cheng Xuyuan's uncle, he still said to Cheng Xuyuan solemnly: "Xuyuan, you and Yuqing are engaged now, so you have to be careful about some things."
Although Cheng Jiadong did not explain what he said, Cheng Xuyuan naturally understood the meaning.
He smiled at Cheng Jiadong and said, "Uncle, I know this."
"But it's still okay for Feng Xiaoxia and I to be friends."
"I know how to control the degree here!"
Hearing Cheng Xuyuan say this, Cheng Jiadong nodded slightly.
Although he was afraid that his nephew might lose control, now that things had come to this, he had said everything he needed to say.
Although he is your uncle, there are some things that he is not suitable to explain too clearly.
Cheng Xuyuan stayed at Cheng Jiadong's house for a while. After having lunch, he rode Cheng Jiadong's bicycle back home.
The scenery at home remains the same, but there are more neighbors to chat with in the newly built house.
Many people came to greet Cheng Xuyuan when he returned home.
According to Cheng Xuyuan's plan, he planned to stay at home for more than a week and then return to Donghai.
But on the third day after he returned home, he received a call from Fang Yuqing's brother-in-law Qin Wenhui.
In order to get through the call, Qin Wenhui thought of many ways, and finally asked Cheng Xuyuan to run to the commune and get through the call.
On the other end of the phone, the moment Qin Wenhui heard Cheng Xuyuan's voice, he complained: "Xuyuan, it's really hard to contact your home."
"If I hadn't found an old friend of my dad, there would be no way to contact you."
"You have money, why don't you install a telephone at home?"
Hearing Qin Wenhui's complaint, Cheng Xuyuan smiled and said, "Brother Wenhui, I would like to install a telephone, but they said our village is too far away and they won't give us a line."
"How about you help me install it?"
Qin Wenhui smiled and said, "Okay, I'll ask for you and see if it's easy to do."
"By the way, pack up immediately and take the train to Yanjing today."
Qin Wenhui was in such a hurry to make himself come to Yanjing by train. What did he want to do?
Suspicious, Cheng Xuyuan asked directly: "I just came back from Donghai not long ago. Why are you in such a hurry to let me go to Yanjing?"
Qin Wenhui said: "Xuyuan, do you still remember that you authorized one of your novels to be filmed by a director in the United States?"
Cheng Xuyuan naturally remembered this matter.
He said in a deep voice: "Why, is the movie released?"
"It's not that it's been released, it's that it's been taken off the screen."
"That movie did very well at the box office in the US. I heard that when it was released, the box office reached more than 50 million US dollars."
More than 50 million US dollars. Cheng Xuyuan thought about his contract at that time and felt that based on the box office, he didn't seem to earn much money.
But the box office performance was much better than when it was released more than ten years later.
Of course, we made changes to some of the areas that were criticized, but there is also the fact that we did it more than ten years earlier.
"That's not bad." Cheng Xuyuan said casually.
Then Qin Wenhui continued, "What's good? You've made a fortune, okay?"
"I remember that you signed a contract to split profits with them. If you were given 2%, you would get one million US dollars!"
Listening to Qin Wenhui's calculation, Cheng Xuyuan smiled and said, "Brother Wenhui, not that many."
"The share we were talking about at that time was the share of profits."
"I don't know how much it costs them to shoot, and I don't know how much they have to share the box office revenue with the theaters."
"So I think the most I can get is 200,000 or 300,000 US dollars."
Two or three hundred thousand US dollars!
Hearing Cheng Xuyuan's indifferent and disdainful look, Qin Wenhui couldn't help but ask, "Xuyuan, do you know how much two or three hundred thousand US dollars is?"
"Here, it's almost a million."
"And it's in US dollars."
"If you want, I can exchange it for foreign exchange coupons now, which will make you another fortune."
Cheng Xuyuan did not doubt Qin Wenhui's words. He smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, even if you have money, it's not worth it for you to rush me to Yanjing."
“The money won’t go away.”
Qin Wenhui felt a surge of emotion when he heard Cheng Xuyuan's words that he didn't care about the one million yuan at all.
I am really in a situation where the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is. The money is not mine, but I am still anxious.
As the owner of this money, it is as if the money does not belong to him.
"Xuyuan, it's not just about money." Qin Wenhui could only patiently say, "Two American directors came to our place and said they wanted to see you."
"I want to discuss the adaptation of your novel, so I asked you to come over."
Hearing Qin Wenhui's words, Cheng Xuyuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't worry about this. I'll be there in two days."
"Xuyuan, I know you're not in a hurry, but you still have to come. It's up to you to decide whether the cooperation is successful or not, but you must come on time."
"Okay, let's not waste time. Go home and pack your things. I'll ask someone to help take you to the train station."
As he spoke, Qin Wenhui hung up the phone without waiting for Cheng Xuyuan to speak.
(End of this chapter)
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