Chapter 74
"mother."
Meng Hua saw Zhen Zhen from a distance, ran over and hugged Zhen Zhen.
Zhen Zhen stumbled and looked at his third son carefully. After not seeing him for a long time, Meng Hua had changed a lot. He had lost his youthful look, had grown taller and thinner, and his body had become stronger and his back had become wider. He looked more like a mature man.
"What have you been busy with these past few years? You don't even bother to go home."
Mother's familiar words brought them closer together, and the strangeness after not seeing each other for several years disappeared in an instant.
Meng Hua did not intend not to come back. During those ten years, his mother secretly made money and was always one step ahead of others. This also gave Meng Hua some inspiration.
In the past few years, he has been doing some small business besides studying, from selling the inside of thermos bottles to course test papers, and then to the tutoring industry. Later, he found that he could only make a little money by tutoring alone, and the key was to seize the opportunity.
He accidentally heard from his roommate in the construction group that there was a rich production of jade in his area, so Meng Hua began to think about selling jade.
The Construction Corps is vast and rich in resources, but transportation is inconvenient, so the good goods in it cannot be transported to the mainland market. In some mountain gullies, you can pick up a few good things at any time, but no one takes jade seriously.
He mainly uses Hetian jade. Domestic Hetian jade, like other materials, is allocated by the state. If domestic factories want the material, they have to apply to the state for unified marketing.
But this is just the public statement. There are many businessmen who secretly mine minerals.
Meng Hua took advantage of the information gap and purchased large quantities of jade, transported it to Beijing, processed it and sold it. Beijing had a large number of employees, a high standard of living for its citizens and many people who enjoyed playing with jade.
This thing is very complicated. The jade bought with the price of a sheep can make nearly ten thousand yuan by reselling it.
No one would believe it if I told them.
Meng Hua used the money he saved from small business and tutoring to develop the jade business. He also asked his friends to find connections to apply for a bank loan. Once the leverage was established, the profits were huge.
After a few years, Meng Hua paid off his loan and had hundreds of thousands of yuan in savings and valuable inventory.
The construction corps was far away, and Meng Hua had to go to the construction corps during both winter and summer vacations. It took one or two weeks to go back and forth, so how could he have time to go home? Going to college abroad was a way to bring honor to the family, but in the end, college was just an empty title. If you didn't make it in society, you could only go home to visit your relatives, not to return home with wealth.
Meng Hua also knew that he had let his mother down. Whenever he wrote letters or sent faxes home over the past few years, he would always ask his eldest brother if his mother was angry.
Meng Daguo told the truth, saying that his mother had no business and was a bitch. Meng Hua hoped that his mother would not be angry, but when his mother was no longer angry, he felt that his mother did not value him.
Zhen Zhen heard that he had collected a lot of good materials from the Construction Corps and exclaimed:
"Mom misses you, too, but I understand you. You've always been homesick. If you weren't stuck for something, you'd want to go home every day. I know you're doing great things, and I don't want to delay your earning money. Fortunately, I'm not too old, my legs and feet are very agile, and I'm not sick. And your elder and second brothers are taking care of me, so you don't have to worry too much."
Meng Hua felt relieved after hearing this. It wasn't that his mother didn't care about him, but she was afraid that he would worry, so she didn't dare to hold him back.
"Mom, I brought you a piece of material." Meng Hua took out a piece of red-skinned seed material. This was a piece of mutton-fat grade seed material with a warm yellow outer skin, and only the top looked like red date skin.
This piece of material is quite large. There is a scale at home, so Zhen Zhen put it on the scale and found that it weighs more than ten kilograms!
This is the most common Hetian jade material. A dozen kilograms of it should be worth some money, right?
Meng Hua moved thousands of miles back home, so it couldn't be ordinary material, right?
"Mom, guess how much I paid for this?" Meng Hua was mysterious and asked Zhen Zhen to guess.
Zhen Zhen didn't know much about jade, but she understood Meng Hua's filial piety. After a mysterious smile, she said, "It has to be at least five thousand."
Meng Hua was really surprised.
Meng Daguo and Meng Eryong standing by also found it strange. In their opinion, the material was really worthless. If it wasn't for the fact that it was mutton-fat jade seed material, they might not even pick it up if it was thrown on the street.
"The layman sees the excitement, the expert sees the details."
Meng Hua took a flashlight and shone it on the seed material, allowing them to see what the inside of the stone looked like. The two of them only knew that the stone was clean and had no impurities. It looked warm and fleshy, but they could not see anything else.
Meng Hua rarely went home, and like a child, he taught his elder and second brothers a lot of professional knowledge. After a while, he smiled and asked Zhen Zhen:
"Mom, how did you guess the price?"
"You are a filial child. You are always willing to spend money on me. The things I gave you before were good things. This piece of material must be good too. This material weighs more than ten kilograms. Something this heavy must not be cheap. I am just making a random guess. Tell me, how much did you spend on this material?"
Meng Hua was like a child asking for credit and reward, "My son spent nearly ten thousand!"
"Ten thousand?" Meng Daguo was stunned and hugged Meng Hua's shoulders. "Third brother, is this material really worth that much?"
Meng Hua nodded. He hadn't been home for several years and was afraid that his mother would be angry, so he bought some good material to make her happy.
However, this piece of material is large and requires high craftsmanship. Meng Hua does not have a suitable master who can polish it, so he simply gives the raw stone to his mother.
Zhen Zhen's eyes were full of joy. He bought it for 10,000 yuan! After a few decades, it should be worth at least tens of millions, right? If he ran out of money to support himself when he got old, he could just sell the jade that Meng Hua gave him.
This sale is for one house, one house at a time.
Zhen Zhen couldn't help but feel happy, and her love for her son deepened.
Zhen Zhen was watching the store at the front, Jiao Huilan went home early to cook, and Meng Daguo took Meng Hua to see the food factory, saying that he wanted Meng Hua to give some advice.
Tao Aihong pulled Meng Eryong aside, her eyes almost popping out, "Why did your brother come back? Could it be that he heard that our family was going to open a food factory and was afraid that we would squeeze him out, so he wanted to come home to share the family property?"
You can't blame her for being petty, any normal person would think so, although she didn't build the family business, she did contribute to it. It's not appropriate for Meng Hua to go home and share the profits without doing anything.
Meng Eryong glared at her, "Do you really think Meng Hua is interested in this small food factory?"
"This food factory is still small? Ours is the largest in the county and can earn thousands of dollars a day. Who wouldn't envy our scale?"
"You, you really have never seen the world! Do you think everyone is like you, who only cares about the small piece of land in the countryside? Meng Hua has seen the world and doesn't take your small business seriously. To tell you the truth, Meng Hua has made a fortune! He spent nearly ten thousand to buy a broken stone for mother."
"What?" Tao Aihong was stunned. What kind of broken stone is worth 10,000 yuan? "What did he do to make so much money?"
"I heard that he was trading jade and became a jade wholesaler."
At dinner time, Jiao Huilan cooked beef noodles as usual. There were many people at home, and the children gathered around Meng Hua and talked a lot. Zhen Zhen simply ate at two tables, one for adults and one for children, and the food was the same.
Meng Hua hadn't eaten home-cooked meals for several years, so he wolfed down the food at the wedding banquet. He ate a large plate of braised pork alone, and he also praised the fried yellow eel.
"The eel cooked by my sister-in-law is very delicious. You can't eat anything like it outside."
Jiao Huilan smiled. When she got married, Meng Hua was not very old yet. As an elder sister-in-law, she was like a mother, and she watched Meng Hua grow up.
Now that Meng Hua has grown into a capable man, Jiao Huilan is happy for him from the bottom of her heart. She is afraid that he does not eat enough outside, so she specially prepares his favorite eels and braised pork.
Meng Hua was so full that he shared the gifts he brought with the children.
Each child has a pendant, the boy wears Guanyin and the girl wears Buddha. The boy is Guanyin and the girl is the Buddha statue. You can tell at a glance that they are good things.
He also brought some imported chocolates and toys and distributed them one by one.
Jiao Huilan and Tao Aihong were each given a pendant and gold earrings. The pendant was common, after all, Meng Hua sold this, and it was not rare no matter how good the quality was. But the sale of gold jewellery was not yet liberalised in those days, and the gold jewellery Meng Hua brought home was of a style not available on the market.
Zhen Zhen had a plan in mind, this man might also be involved in the gold business.
After eating and drinking, Meng Hua brought a message:
"Mom, I'm getting married."
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