After resting for a night in the small town, they ate delicious fire-baked bread the next morning.
"There's an old saying: 'Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground.' Isn't it fragrant and fresh?"
Huang Shao looked at the children with a smile. They ate without even looking up, only nodding their heads. He then packed up a few more roast chickens before continuing on his journey to the capital.
It was not until noon that the car arrived at Jingshan Front Street.
After getting out of the car, Huang Shao took Wenxia's hand and walked inside, while Xiaomei held Xu Mengyao's sleeve tightly, her eyes revealing a bit of curiosity and nervousness, and she looked around the unfamiliar environment carefully.
"Oh, Fourth Brother, where did you kidnap this little girl from?" Third Aunt's voice came with a bit of exaggerated surprise.
"They were kidnapped from our Huang family. There were four of them in total." Huang Shao responded with a smile, and at the same time pushed the three girls behind him into everyone's sight.
"Second Grandpa, Second Grandma, Third Aunt, we are here again!" Xu Mengyao greeted everyone enthusiastically.
"Oh, isn't this Wenrong Wenjuan? I was wondering why this little girl is so pretty. It turns out she is also the little beauty of our Huang family." Aunt San praised with a loving face.
"This is our little sister, named Wenxia, and this is our good friend Xiaomei. She came here specially to accompany me in filming the commercial." Huang Wenrong introduced carefully.
"Hello, Grandpa and Grandma, Hello, Third Aunt." Wenxia and Xiaomei greeted politely in clear and pleasant voices.
"Come on, come on, children. You must not have had lunch yet. Sit down and let's eat together." Second Grandma greeted everyone kindly.
"Xiao He, please add a few sets of bowls and chopsticks and make a few more dishes." Second Grandpa ordered towards the kitchen.
"Sister He, I brought some roast chicken here, which is perfect for adding to the dish. Thank you for your hard work."
The nanny smiled and waved her hand, took the roast chicken and went into the kitchen.
Wenxia sat down at the dinner table next to Jianming and Jianwen. The two boys excitedly looked at their new friend and peppered her with questions. Wenxia, always the most popular of the kids, answered their questions without hesitation.
In the days that followed, Wenxia's cuteness and sweet talk quickly won the affection of the entire family, and she quickly integrated into the life of the Huang family in Beijing. Aunt San even treated Wenxia as her own daughter, taking her with her wherever she went. Jianming and Jianwen also followed the new mother-daughter duo like two attentive bodyguards wherever they went.
At the same time, Huang Wenrong is about to start shooting commercials for shampoo and lipstick, and Xiaomei, as her new assistant, is almost inseparable from her.
Xu Mengyao couldn't wait to follow Huang Shao to see her house. Near the Lama Temple and Shichahai Lake, Sanyanjing Hutong, and Nanluoguxiang—these would become the most prosperous areas where every inch of land was worth a fortune—she now had six three-story courtyard houses and three two-story courtyard houses!
"I told them not to take those old, dilapidated little houses. They've already moved out of everything they could from their homes, so it's not easy for them to ask for other people's ancestral homes. There are siheyuans everywhere in the capital, but there aren't many that have been preserved intact. They're usually just a dozen or twenty families crammed together.
"In the past few years, a large number of Hong Kong businessmen have flocked to buy, and the remaining ones that are worth their attention are even fewer. "The three-courtyard apartment in Sanyanjing Hutong was vacated by Old Hu himself just for you. The white Cadillac at the door is a gift from him. You can use it once you learn to drive." Huang Shao explained apologetically.
After viewing the house, Xu Mengyao was so excited that her steps were light and fluttery. She hadn't expected her fourth uncle's friends to be so powerful. If she had known this, she would have sold all the subscription certificates to them.
Hold it in, hold it in, don't show too much excitement. She was silently doing self-consolation in her heart.
"It's already very good, Fourth Uncle, thank your friends for me. With these houses, our family can live here directly when we come to Beijing next time." Xu Mengyao said with a perfect smile.
"As long as you are satisfied, I'm afraid you will feel that you have suffered a loss. There are three plots of land in the suburbs of Beijing, which add up to about eight or nine acres. Do you want to go and have a look?" Huang Shao was relieved when he heard her say that.
"No, no, let's go home first." Xu Mengyao quickly shook her head. She had to go home and relax, and think about how to lie down more comfortably in the future!
After Huang Wenrong finished shooting the advertisement, Xu Mengyao privately brought Xiaomei and Huang Wenrong to Sanyanjing Hutong again. Looking at the quaint courtyard in front of them, Xiaomei and Huang Wenrong hugged each other and screamed when they knew that this huge courtyard belonged to Xu Mengyao.
"This house is so nice! It's even bigger than my second grandfather's house. We will have a home in Beijing from now on!" Wen Rong said excitedly, his cheeks flushed with excitement.
"Sister, you can also ask your fourth uncle to help you look for a house. It doesn't matter if it's a little smaller or older. You won't live in it anyway. Just buy it and wait for it to appreciate in value in the future." Xu Mengyao suggested.
"I'll listen to you! I'll tell my fourth uncle about it later. Director Zhang just suggested that I apply to the Film Academy in Beijing next year." Wen Rong nodded in agreement with anticipation.
"Wenjuan, you have a house in Beijing now. Do you want to come here to go to school too?" Xiaomei asked quickly.
"No, I also bought a house in Hai City. I will take you to see it when I have the chance. In comparison, I still want to go to Hai City to study." Xu Mengyao said frankly.
"That's great. Although Beijing is really beautiful and good, I still want to study in Hai City. Maybe it's because it was the first city I visited, and I always think it is the best." Xiaomei said with a nostalgic expression on her face.
"Okay, then you can come with me to Hai City to study, and then we can come to Beijing to visit Big Sister during the holidays. I haven't told you yet, the car at the door is also mine."
"Ahhhhhh!" Xiaomei and Wenrong screamed again and rushed to the door excitedly.
After returning from Beijing, Xu Mengyao was tutored by Huang Wenrong and Xiaomei to catch up on the lessons she had missed. The three of them agreed to work hard for next year's college entrance examination goal.
During the first test of the new semester, Teacher Zhou was relieved to see that Xu Mengyao's grades had not been affected by her previous sick leave. She nodded with satisfaction and said softly to her:
"Not bad, it seems you haven't been idle at home. Keep working hard, the college entrance examination is only a few months away."
At the end of October, the two sides held routine negotiations in Hong Kong, and finally reached the 1992 Consensus, the core of which is that both sides of the Taiwan Strait adhere to the principle of one country and strive for national reunification.
As soon as the news came out, it spread all over the country. In class, Teacher Zhou stood on the podium, his face excited, and his voice loud as he told the students this important news:
"Students, do you know what this means? This means our country has become stronger and has achieved new political breakthroughs! This means that the unity of our country cannot be questioned or trampled upon by anyone or any force! Sooner or later, the Straits region will return to the embrace of the motherland!"
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