Chapter 672 Paying Homage to Mother-in-Law
After the Spring Festival, the white snow was covered with red firecracker debris.
From the third to the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, people kept visiting relatives. Even the customer flow of Uncle Sanye's convenience store began to increase, and he immediately started a business war with the supermarket next door.
For example, all the milk, eight-treasure porridge, roast chicken, wine and other commodities that are often given away during the Chinese New Year are moved to the street, and five big words are written on the snow: Milky White Snow.
A passerby on the way to the supermarket glanced at it inadvertently and was shocked, thinking, what is so obscene? Let me take a good look at it.
Then he lowered his head and thought about it for a long time, and found that it was a misunderstanding. He also found that the goods in front of him were quite complete, so he bought some from the third uncle.
This is a despicable trick. No one would believe it even if you say it has nothing to do with dog teachings.
At this time, Jiang Qin and his family had already landed in Shanghai. They were picked up by a driver sent by Qin Real Estate and taken to his aunt's home in Chanti Villa.
Qin Jingqiu didn't go to the company directly. She and Feng Shihua and his wife waited at home and asked Wu Ma to prepare a table of local specialties to entertain their "relatives".
To be honest, considering the relationship between their two families, their meeting in Shanghai was actually just like a mutual visit between in-laws. Only Jiang Qin kept muttering something like "pure friends" which made Ms. Yuan so angry that she wanted to hit him.
But Feng Nanshu, the old slave, wanted to stop him, not wanting to let Yuan Youqin beat his big bear.
Good friends are also good. As long as Jiang Qin doesn’t want her, she will agree to anything.
To be honest, Jiang Qin's stubbornness was really irritating. No wonder Yuan Youqin wanted to beat him up, even Qin Jingqiu wanted to beat him up.
"Jiang Qin, if you don't want our Nan Shu, I will ask someone to find a better one for Nan Shu. Don't regret it."
"no."
Before Jiang Qin could answer, Feng Nanshu refused seriously: "There is nothing better."
Qin Jingqiu originally wanted to scare Jiang Qin, but her niece got anxious first, so she couldn't remain calm.
At this moment, Feng Shihua leaned close to Qin Jingqiu's ear and whispered something. Then Qin Jingqiu pursed her lips and pulled Jiang Qin, Yuan Youqin and Jiang Zhenghong to the corner of the living room.
"His uncle said that during the Chinese New Year, why don't we go visit Nan Shu's mother?"
"Her mother?"
"She's not a stepmother, she's Nanshu's biological mother."
"We should definitely go check it out. After all, Nan Shu calls me mom."
Yuan Youqin and Jiang Zhenghong looked at each other and had the same idea.
Feng Nanshu has been living in their home, the family bracelet has been passed down to her, and she has changed her ways. No matter how stubborn their son is, they, as parents, should burn some incense for him.
After the two sides reached an agreement, Yuan Youqin glared at Jiang Qin, thinking, "Friends, friends all day long, don't go to see your mother-in-law if you have the guts!" President Jiang was not annoyed by this, and turned around and walked out, full of vigor and momentum, with the momentum of a billionaire.
"What are you doing?"
"I ran away from home!"
Jiang Qin went out panting, hailed a taxi on the road and asked the driver where he could buy a suit that would make him look like Daniel Wu when he put it on. The driver was stumped and scratched his head while driving.
A suit, and one with a fucking human skin mask.
However, the driver still sincerely suggested that Jiang Qin go to an old shop in Shanghai to have a suit customized, after all, it would be more suitable if it was tailored to the body.
Jiang Qin shook his head, saying it was too late, and asked the driver to take him to the most expensive suit shop.
Although Mr. Jiang is still a little short of Daniel Wu's height, his figure is still very good, with standard curves, so it is not difficult for him to choose a suitable one.
So with the recommendation of the clerk, Jiang Qin quickly bought a suitable suit without even bargaining.
When he came, he actually brought a suit that he often wore. After all, he had several business banquets to attend during this trip to Shanghai. The suit was custom-made and fit him very well. But when he thought about meeting Feng Nanshu's mother, he still wanted to wear a new one.
The next morning, the sky was a little gloomy. The family drove two cars to Qiu Shui Cemetery.
Then the group of six walked up the stairs one by one, and finally arrived at No. 606 in Area B, where they laid out the tributes they brought.
Jiang Qin stood next to Feng Nanshu in a suit and tie, looking at the photo on the tombstone. The image of his rich mother gradually became clear in his mind.
Feng Nanshu looks very much like her mother and is also a peerless beauty. Her photo was taken when she was in her twenties and she looks almost the same as Feng Nanshu now.
Jiang Qin had asked his aunt before and learned that she died of cancer, there was no other reason, she was simply a woman with a bad fate.
"Every time Nanshu comes here, she cries for a long time. She can't remember Lin Xian clearly, but she misses her mother very much."
Qin Jingqiu looked at Yuan Youqin and said softly: "In fact, if Lin Xian had a better life, our Nan Shu would really be a rich lady."
Yuan Youqin patted Qin Jingqiu's hand: "She is also a rich lady now."
"Miss is actually not quite accurate. When my partners mention Nan Shu to me, they all call her Mrs. Jiang."
"That's what Jiang Qin said when he was on the news, right? This kid is pretty capable."
At this time, the rich young woman was kneeling in front of the tombstone, looking at the woman on the tombstone, and thought to herself, Mom, I brought my big teddy bear here to show you, isn’t he handsome?
Jiang Qin stood behind her, gently stroking her hair with his hand, his eyes rarely showing any sign of kindness.
After Feng Nanshu finished paying respects, Qin Jingqiu handed a stick of incense to Jiang Qin and said, "Let's go downstairs and burn some paper money. You stay here and talk to Nanshu's mother."
In fact, the biggest protagonist of this worship is Jiang Qin, because everyone knows that this is to let Nan Shu's mother see who will eventually marry her beloved daughter.
Yuan Youqin took Feng Nanshu's hand and warned her son before leaving: "If you dare to talk nonsense with Nanshu's mother and call her your best friend's mother, you will never be allowed to enter the house again."
"What's my name then?"
"Call me Auntie, but never say hello, my best friend's mother. I'm Feng Nanshu's good friend Jiang Qin."
Jiang Qin opened his mouth and thought to himself, you are really my mother, you know all my tricks?
Yuan Youqin left a word, walked down the stairs, took Feng Nanshu to meet Qin Jingqiu, and carried the gold and silver paper money to the incinerator.
At this time, there was a howling wind in the sky, the cold wind was blowing straight up into the sky, blowing on the body with a chill that penetrated the heart, and even the pine and cypress trees around were shaking.
Jiang Qin lit the incense in his hand, inserted it into the incense burner in front of the tombstone, knelt down and kowtowed six times, with the rhythm of dong dong dong dong, dong, dong.
"When we worship our elders, we usually kowtow four times."
"However, since you may not be able to attend the ceremony in person, I kowtowed six times. The remaining two were kowtowed in advance, one to pay respect to the parents, and one to change my words."
Jiang Qin straightened up and looked at the woman on the tombstone: "Mom, don't worry, I will take good care of her."
At this moment, the entire cemetery was silent, as if only Jiang Qin's words were lingering in the wind for a long time, as if they were filled with hostility.
Jiang Qin was silent for a while and then spoke again: "I am a very superstitious person. I swore not to fall in love, otherwise I would achieve nothing, but this does not bother me. I will not fall in love with a rich woman, but I did not swear that I would not do anything else."
"A good friend is... a girlfriend with one more child. Do you understand?"
"I know that science is all lies. People don't disappear after they die, so I don't dare to tell lies. After all, I've been through it, and I've encountered even more bizarre things."
"In fact, when my relationship with the little rich woman was getting deeper and deeper, I was always afraid that I would suddenly... go back, so I never dared to touch her."
"I always feel that I am borrowing this life, in order to clear up my previous regrets, not to create more regrets. But then I think, if I don't like her, I might regret more than in my previous life..."
Jiang Qin kept muttering to himself, but it was unclear whether he was reading to his mother-in-law, to himself, or to God.
But he still said slowly and carefully everything that should and should not be said.
Jiang Qin admitted that his psychology was somewhat abnormal, but after being reborn, who doesn’t have some illness?
His biggest regret in his previous life was that he was in love for many years but didn't make much money, so in this life he didn't believe in love and only cared about money.
Making a lot of money, buying a big house for parents, and being treated like a child of a different family in front of relatives, this obsession is very scary for someone with Jiang Qin's personality, and it's not surprising that it's a little pathological.
But who knew that he would meet a wealthy young lady, who was cool and silly, and flirted with him so much that it seemed as if she had cured something in him.
He had liked Feng Nanshu for a long time, otherwise how could a gentleman like him eat her little feet? He wasn't a foot fetishist.
After a long time, Jiang Qin stood up, finished saying everything he needed to say, and then slowly walked down the stairs.
At this time, Feng Nanshu was standing on the open space below wearing a black dress, with the hem of her skirt flying in the wind. Yuan Youqin, Jiang Zhenghong, Qin Jingqiu and Feng Shihua were standing behind him, looking up at him. The scene was somewhat solemn.
Yuan Youqin looked at him and asked, "Did you call me auntie?"
"No, it's too distant and not intimate at all. Who would call me auntie?"
"???????"
Feng Nanshu looked at him stupidly: "Brother, what did you shout?"
Jiang Qin put his hands in his pockets and looked at her: "Don't ever know. Every word that our mother and I say is a secret!"
The rich young woman was stunned for a moment, then seemed to grasp something, her eyes suddenly widened, and she chased Jiang Qin out the door.
This fool, she had pretended before! In the evening, the night slowly came, and there was no rain or snow in Shanghai after a whole day of wind. At this time, the sky was clear, and the stars could be vaguely seen in the distant sky.
The six people had dinner in the villa. Everyone had a gratified expression, as if they had accomplished something.
Maybe this is the tradition. After meeting Nanshu's mother, everything seemed to be settled.
Nan Shu’s mother should like Jiang Qin. Look at his nose... uh, his eyes... hey, at least he’s tall.
Qin Jingqiu thought for a moment and looked at Feng Nanshu: "Let's meet next time. I hope there will be one more person."
"?"
Jiang Qin narrowed his eyes, feeling his aunt's abacus beads flying past him. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, Jiang Ainan, Jiang Ainan, you little girl are quite popular!
Then he turned to look at Feng Nanshu. Thinking about asking his best friend to get pregnant for him, he felt an indescribable feeling. "I'm going to go next door and study the decoration later."
The main building of Pintuan has been completed, and the other buildings are also halfway through construction. Except for Jinsinan and Linchuan Business Group, the other business groups will be moved to Shanghai.
Therefore, Jiang Qin plans to renovate the house and may live here frequently in the future.
He used to stay in hotels when he came to Shanghai, but now he can't.
Lashou.com is gone.
Feng Nanshu also went with Jiang Qin. After arriving, he thought seriously about how to decorate the house. He pointed around the living room, but for some reason, Jiang Qin tricked him into the bedroom.
Because it was evening, the room was dark. The rich young woman screamed and was pushed onto the bed.
Just like when equipment exploded while playing a game, in the blink of an eye, boots, cotton socks, velvet black stockings and pure white little tigers were scattered all over the bedroom floor.
The rich young lady was stripped down to her bare skin, her face immediately blushed and she looked at him warily.
She was so smart that she knew what was going to happen in the blink of an eye.
My brother said that all the decoration reviews are fake.
But this time, she didn't cry...
However, as the little tiger drooled due to the teasing, the sweet and soft body of the rich woman soon stiffened, and it was more tense than ever before, and her eyes became misty with tears in an instant.
Jiang Qin always hid his ill intentions very well, but Feng Nanshu felt that it was particularly clear this time.
She was stupid to begin with, and now she was even more stupid. She hugged Jiang Qin's neck for a long time and was shaken around. Her little head was in a mess, and it was only after more than ten minutes that she realized what was missing.
"Brother, if you don't wear it, we're not good friends..."
"I don't have it with me, so it doesn't count this time, right?"
“…”
"good."
The white, rich and beautiful girl with long legs and a thin waist hugged him tightly and said something in a soft and trembling voice, and then she felt that what her brother said never counted.
He used to say that if you hold hands for more than ten minutes, you are no longer good friends. Later, we held hands all day long, but we were still good friends. If you ask, it means it has been upgraded.
Later, the two of them began to try kissing. Feng Nanshu wanted to kiss for a while longer every time, and he also said that if it lasted more than ten minutes, they would no longer be good friends. Later, they kissed for more than half an hour each time, but they were still good friends, and the reason was upgraded.
Also, I was not allowed to stick out my tongue, and later it was upgraded...
It's the same now. We are good friends even if I don't wear it. What I say doesn't count. It's bad enough that I lie, but it's even more fierce than any previous time.
Lies were like boomerangs, hitting the rich young woman, making her scream and cry, and then her brother and husband kept talking about her.
Friendship is really a magical thing. It can actually connect two unrelated people closely together. I think everyone who has had good friends knows this feeling.
After a long time, the timid and incompetent little rich woman lay down on the bed, like a cute puff.
After she rested for a while, she quietly pulled Jiang Qin's trousers, took out Jiang Qin's wallet from his pocket, and opened it to take a look with a cool, sassy, and pitiful expression.
In the left pocket, a shaman was placed neatly.
Earlier in the cafeteria, the rich lady found this in Jiang Qin’s wallet for the first time and asked Gao Wenhui what it was.
Gao Wenhui said that this thing would first hurt her and then protect her, but Jiang Qin said that putting this in the wallet is a way to keep treasure, so he snatched it away and put it back into the wallet.
The little rich woman always remembered that he had one in his wallet. Now she looked inside and saw that it was indeed there. Jiang Qin was a big liar...
As the sun set, Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu, who went to see the decoration, did not discuss anything about the decoration, but they talked about other things until they were about to overflow. Then they returned to their aunt's villa in the night.
On the way back, Feng Nanshu warned Jiang Qin not to tell anyone about her accidental bed-wetting, with a very cold expression.
"I went next door to check out the renovations. Who told you to follow me?"
"Jiang Qin, you are a big liar."
"If you don't want me to lie, can I lie to you?"
“…”
Life is easy with good friends who are shameless, but your uncle, aunt, dad and mom are all around, and you can’t go to your good friend’s room every day to “check out the decoration” and then come back feeling like you’ve been to a war.
Moreover, in addition to being a good friend, Jiang Qin also has a career brain.
So in the following days, Jiang Qin focused on entertaining the entrepreneurs who had invited him years ago.
For example, Mr. Ma of Shenzhen, Mr. Lei of Xiaomi, Mr. Liu of JD.com, Mr. Ding of NetEase, Mr. Shen of Hongsen Capital, and Mr. Zhu of GSR Ventures.
Jiang Qin had interacted with them at an Internet conference, so they were not strangers when they met again.
At that time, Mr. Ma from Shenzhen was sitting in the middle seat, with Mr. Liu from Jingdong on his right, and the empty seat on the left was reserved for Jiang Qin.
In the business world, identity hierarchies are clearly defined, just like in the workplace.
At present, in addition to the three top ceilings of BAT, among the second-tier Internet companies, the ones with the highest valuations are Pintuan, JD.com and Xiaomi.
If we break it down further, Pintuan is larger than Jingdong, and Jingdong is larger than Xiaomi, so this position is just right.
"Mr. Jiang, how was your New Year?"
"It's not bad, but I looked at the company's annual report and found that I didn't make any money. I felt bad for a while. 2012 was really an ordinary year."
"hehe."
The entrepreneurs present either turned sideways or chuckled, looking at each other.
In 2012, the group-buying supply chain flourished and took control of the food delivery industry, and the group-buying in-store business also successfully entered the tourism and film industries.
The most important thing is that their UnionPay QuickPass already shares the market with Alipay, and this is fucking mediocre.
You have to know that group buying has only been developed for four years, and the layout has been developed to this extent. The word "mediocre" should not appear in its dictionary.
Especially looking at his young face, everyone wanted to kill him.
Even if this person does nothing in the next few years by just watching the group buying, he can still outlast many people.
Afterwards, the food was served and everyone discussed their respective development directions and predictions on the current situation over a cup of wine. Most of them were still trying to explore the possibility of group buying.
The payment war was so fierce before the New Year that many people want to know whether group buying will enter the e-commerce industry in 2013.
This rumor has been around for a long time, but Jiang Qin has always denied it.
However, at that time, group buying had not yet implemented Cloud QuickPass, and it was indeed not easy to do e-commerce. After all, before Cloud QuickPass, Alipay occupied 80% of the online payment market. In this case, doing e-commerce would easily lead to sanctions.
But the situation is different now. Cloud QuickPass has already been established, so it is almost a natural thing for group buying to enter the e-commerce market.
Domestic Internet commerce is almost entirely dependent on one move. If group buying is really going to enter the e-commerce market in 2013, many companies need to prepare early.
"Pintuan had no e-commerce plan in 2013. I want to be stable when running a business. In the past four years, Pintuan has moved too fast. The industry chain has become more and more, but there are still some problems. I hope to slow down and take the time to stabilize the current industry and adjust the structure."
Many people were disappointed after hearing Jiang Qin's answer.
To be honest, Alibaba's dominance in the e-commerce field is a headache for many people. If Jiang Qin is willing to disrupt the situation, Alibaba will definitely be in a mess.
But judging from Jiang Qin's expression, his words did not seem false.
Of course, Mr. Jiang’s words cannot be fully trusted sometimes, as everyone at the banquet has their own sense of propriety.
But what is surprising is that after the Chinese New Year, Pintuan really has no intention of entering the e-commerce industry. Instead, it has slowed down and started to optimize its many apps, with the most frequent updates coming as many as four times a month.
But this does not reduce Ali's vigilance, because you cannot take chances in business.
So after the Lantern Festival, Alipay began to increase its promotion efforts, and the first batch of public transportation code scanning systems were officially put into trial operation in Shanghai.
They lost a lot of market share before the New Year, and even Taobao was affected. On the contrary, the number of transactions of Jingdong, which cooperated with UnionPay QuickPass, continued to rise.
Instead of following Jiang Qin's pace, the strategy was to bypass the areas controlled by group buying and add more usage scenarios for Alipay. This move really worked!
Since March, the usage of Alipay has gradually recovered.
Just when everyone was speculating on how group buying would respond, suddenly, the update of WeChat brought a greater shock to the entire business circle.
WeChat Pay is officially launched with this update.
WeChat has a huge user base. After WeChat Pay went online, it quickly attracted Alibaba's vigilance. The consumer subsidy activity that Alipay failed to carry out before the New Year was finally launched in a grand manner.
The beginning of 2013 was already full of tension.
On the other hand, HTC began selling its first 4G mobile phone, which also marked the official entry of mobile Internet into the 4G era. Many people felt that this year would be an important turning point for the entire business circle.
But at a time when the atmosphere was so tense, group buying, contrary to its usual practice, entered a low-key period.
This low-key period does not mean that Pintuan has done nothing. On the contrary, the industries under Pintuan are still getting better and better, but there are fewer big moves.
(End of this chapter)
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