The next day Jiang Chen was awakened by the movement outside.
Xue's house is just an ordinary commercial house. Naturally, no attention was paid to the sound insulation effect during the decoration. From the sound, it must be relatives coming.
Jiang Chen vaguely heard the voice of Li Shurui’s aunt Zou Luoxia.
He didn't panic, and just pushed Li Shurui, who was sleeping soundly next to him.
The quality of sleep seems to be better when people are at home, so Li Shurui instinctively took his hand away.
“Your aunt and the others are here.”
Jiang Chen could only remind him in a low voice.
Li Shurui then opened her eyes and suddenly sat up after Xumi passed by.
It's really lively outside, I guess there are a lot of people here.
Jiang Chen dressed as if nothing had happened.
"I'll go out first."
Immediately, as if nothing happened, he got dressed and walked out of the bedroom naturally.
"Xiao Jiang."
There were indeed many people in the living room. There must have been discussions. All the relatives of the Xue family seemed to be here.
Seeing Jiang Chen come out of the house, the elders of the Xue family were not surprised or surprised. Aunt Zou Luoxia even greeted Jiang Chen with an amiable smile.
When she first came to the door, she couldn't help but look down upon Jiang Chen, but today, her shortcoming of judging people by their appearance has long since changed.
Jiang Chen, as always gentle and courteous, greeted the elders of the Xue family in turn.
"Brother Jiang Chen, sister is still sleeping."
Xue Yali, who is studying in the United States, is also here, as is her Wall Street talented boyfriend, Liu Hongzhi.
The two young men who were considered peers nodded and smiled.
Afterwards, Li Shurui also walked out.
Logically speaking, it is just the second time to sleep in the same bed, which seems... inconsistent with etiquette. However, the elders of the Xue family were not surprised by this and were extremely tolerant. Xue Mingqin asked the two of them to wash up first.
“Are you guys celebrating the New Year so early?”
Jiang Chen picked up the new dental appliances he had prepared in advance and teased.
Li Shurui stepped on his foot and started brushing his teeth.
The so-called life is not just like this.
After washing up, a pair of young people walked into the living room.
A family is chatting.
“When did you come back?”
Li Shurui asked her cousin.
There was still no room to sit on the sofa, so Xue Mingqin prepared several plastic benches.
"Two days ago, he changed jobs and is not so busy."
"Hongzhi, I heard that you are now working at BlackRock?"
Li Shurui's Uncle Chai Rong asked.
Liu Hongzhi, who has advanced to a higher level, nodded and just said "hmm", as gentle as ever, but obviously more calm and low-key than before.
“It’s amazing. Even in the world, BlackRock is probably one of the top super companies.”
As a civil servant, Chai Rong praised that his position is not high, but at any rate He can be considered a member of the system, but in front of several juniors, he can't stand up at all.
“It’s not that exaggerated.”
Unlike his wife Zou Luoxia, Xue Gui doesn’t like to be exaggerated.
“Brother, it’s not an exaggeration at all. If you check it out, you will know how great this company is.”
Li Shurui's aunt Xue Shuzhi smiled and spoke.
"Shu Zhi, when you say this to him, you are playing the harp to a cow. All he knows in his mind is how much a pound of fish is in the vegetable market."
Zou Luoxia was sarcastic about her husband.
As soon as these words came out, everyone was amused.
Xue Gui shook his head, "Then you come to buy groceries."
"It is said that BlackRock's assets under management exceed one trillion, is it true?"
Chai Rong asked curiously.
Although he is a civil servant, with an iron rice bowl in his body, he is relatively glamorous on Qindao, but if the stage is enlarged, he is still an insignificant person.
“Trillion?”
Xue Gui almost choked while drinking water. Although from his daughter’s mouth, he knew that his prospective son-in-law had moved to a more powerful company, but he had no idea about this "Awesome", where is the specific concept?
How much is a trillion?
Xue Gui had no cognition in his mind.
Liu Hongzhi is not arrogant. Compared with the last time he came to Qindao, he has become much more mature to the naked eye.
"Brother, don't get excited yet. This trillion does not refer to RMB, but US dollars."
Xue Shuzhi said "make up for it".
Trillion dollars? !
Xue Gui's head was buzzing.
"...Is there such a wealthy company in the world?"
For him, being a billionaire is the limit of his imagination.
“You should ask Hongzhi, he knows better than us.”
Liu Hongzhi once again became the focus,
“My sister-in-law and uncle are right, the assets managed by BlackRock are indeed relatively large.”
His deliberately win-win summary.
Actually.
As one of the world's leading capital giants, BlackRock controls more than trillions of dollars in wealth.
But he didn't show it off.
After all, the person he was supposed to call "brother-in-law" didn't say anything, so how could he have any bragging rights?
Having been deeply involved in a place like Wall Street, Liu Hongzhi certainly does not lack self-confidence and will never deliberately hide his aura and achievements.
After all, in such a world financial center, if you want to stand out, you must dare to show yourself and let others see your excellence.
Available at the same time.
There is an even more important point.
That is to always understand and position yourself!
It is an honor to join BlackRock, but if you show it off in front of that person, it will make people laugh.
"In a trillion-dollar company, the benefits should be very good, right? Hongzhi, your income must have increased a lot now, right?"
Xue Mingqin was also a little shocked.
Although money becomes a string of numbers when it reaches a certain level, this number still challenges the cognitive limits of ordinary people like them.
“Sister.”
Zou Luoxia gave her aunt a look, signaling her not to pry into such personal matters.
Her aunt's personality seems to have changed a lot. Before, she wouldn't have stopped her. I'm afraid she would like her son-in-law-to-be to reveal how much money she can make in a year.
The same sentence.
The more people see, the more humble they become.
The last time I went to Donghai, I really saw my niece’s billionaire mansion in Spring and Autumn Washington, which had a huge impact on her state of mind.
"Hongzhi, if you have the opportunity, you should come back and invest more. The current domestic environment is very superior when looking at the world."
Chai Rong said, occupational diseases in the system Made a mistake, Xue Shuzhi immediately said: "It's the Spring Festival now, why are you talking so official?"
Chai Rong also realized that it was inappropriate and stopped the topic.
The Xue family gathered together for a reason.
After lunch, the whole family went out to pay homage to Li Shurui’s father.
In front of the tombstone.
Jiang Chen bent down and presented a bouquet of flowers.
The man in the photo witnessed the death of the other person with his own eyes. If it were placed today, he might have many ways to find a suitable heart.
But there are no ifs in this world.
"Heart disease is actually not difficult to treat abroad."
Liu Hongzhi came over.
At this time, the two "brother-in-laws" had the opportunity to get along alone.
Jiang Chen looked over.
Li Shurui stood quietly beside her mother, seeming to have overcome the heavy pain.
"How does it feel in your new job? The corporate culture of a company like BlackRock should be different from where you were before, right?" Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze and asked the Wall Street darling next to him.
“It’s different.”
Liu Hongzhi adjusted his glasses, “I used to feel that if I survived on Wall Street, I was already standing at a very high place. But now I realize that the long march has just begun.”
Jiang Chen smiled.
"If you need funds, you're welcome." Liu Hongzhi looked at Jiang Chen with a serious expression.
"A lot of performance pressure?"
Jiang Chen teased.
“A little bit.”
Liu Hongzhi nodded candidly, “If there are any good projects, I can apply for up to one billion US dollars.”
The assets he previously managed It seemed like it was only fifty million, and now it's a billion dollars.
It can be said that one step brings a thousand miles.
Of course Jiang Chen knew that the reason the other party was so generous was definitely not because of the relationship between the Xue family.
The same sentence.
Money always flows to those who are not short of money.
Jiang Chen looked at the scenery outside the mountainside, "What my uncle just said, you might want to consider it. Take a look at the country, this is always a suitable soil for investment."
Italy.
Sicily.
April 9th Square.
Fang Qing's family accidentally met compatriots who were also traveling here. They shared a seat and talked and laughed happily.
According to Grand Prize's itinerary, they can only stay in Sicily for three days, and today is the last day.
Fortunately, Fang Qing had prepared a strategy in advance and had almost finished visiting Sicily’s attractions in the past few days. April 9th Square was the last stop.
“That big fat boy is so cute.”
The compatriots sitting together just now are a family of three. After the child turned two, the family took advantage of the Spring Festival to travel.
Pan Hui was holding someone else's child in her arms just now and was reluctant to let go.
Same.
When people get older, they will yearn for family happiness,
“I like children so much, you want your daughter to give you one.”
What pot does Fang Weiguo not boil? Which pot to carry.
Pan Hui did not speak, but sighed faintly.
The couple bickered and bickered, but the tacit understanding they had cultivated for most of their lives was still there. They coincided with each other and worked together seamlessly.
"Mom and Dad, I am both a guide and a translator. There is no credit, but hard work, right? Can you let me go?"
Fang Qing smiled helplessly.
“The girl just now is only one year older than you, but her child is already two years old. Aren’t you envious when you see her?”
Pan Hui felt that her daughter should reflect on herself, but she never knew that she would get a decisive response: "There is nothing to envy. You only see the surface and don't see the hard work of raising children."
"What's wrong with the hard work?" ? It's hard to go out to play."
Fang Qing's smile grew stronger, "I don't even understand how to take care of children?"
"You still have to do it. Do you think you can’t understand it yourself?”
Fang Weiguo smiled teasingly.
Fang Qing gave her father a childish look.
"I have discussed it with your dad and I will not put too much pressure on you. During the Chinese New Year next year, I will give you another year. Then you can bring someone back to us. If you are still alone, then there is no need. Back."
Pan Hui pretended to be serious.
Fang Weiguo seemed to be caught off guard. It was obvious that there was no discussion and he was purely represented.
“You have completely feudal ideas!”
Fang Qing cried out.
"Don't be defensive. Your mother is doing this for your own good. She's not forcing you to get married right away. Finding a boyfriend shouldn't be that difficult, right?"
Fang Weiguo is very clever. He clearly wants his own request, but he lets his wife be the one to take advantage of him.
At the end, he added another sentence, as if to provide his daughter with a tip.
"If it really doesn't work, you can just bring that kid Jiang Chen back. He has a successful career now and he doesn't worry about you suffering."
Fang Qing was slightly stunned and looked at her father. , looked at mother again.
Why are you inexplicably starting to take advantage of that guy again?
"Then do you know..."
Fang Qing instinctively wanted to tell the story about the drunken incident to break the guy's deep-rooted and intact image in the minds of his parents, but the words On her lips, reason made her stop.
If parents really know that they have broken through the "boundaries" of growing up, it may be self-defeating and counterproductive.
"What do you know?"
Pan Hui looked puzzled.
"It's nothing, I'll go check out."
Fang Qing is not a person who repays kindness with kindness. She even sent someone to protect her all the way. How could she repay kindness with kindness?
After settling the bill, she came back.
In order to avoid her parents nagging her again, Fang Qing took the initiative and said, "Stop talking, just follow your terms. I will find a boyfriend before the Chinese New Year next year. Don't bring up this topic again." Deal? ”
“OK. ”
Fang Weiguo spoke in English fashionably and nodded quite simply.
"Okay, it's a deal."
Anyway, it can be delayed for a year. She still doesn't believe that her parents will really cruelly shut her out.
"Don't really bring Jiang Chen back to fool us when the time comes..." Pan Hui warned.
I just don’t know if this is a reminder or
——suggestion?
Fang Qing smiled bitterly to herself and shook her head, walking with her parents to the rental car parked by the square.
People come and go in the square.
A tanker truck drove smoothly out of the intersection in front of the square.
Fang Qing’s family got on the bus.
“Go back to the hotel.”
The car started and headed towards the tanker truck.
The two cars gradually approached.
"Crack..."
I don't know whether it was due to disrepair or something else, but a telephone pole on the side of the road suddenly cracked and began to tilt slowly.
Not to mention the three members of the Fang family in the car, not even pedestrians noticed.
“Creak, creak, creak…”
The telephone pole tilted more and more, and began to fall toward the ground, causing sparks to pop out of the wires.
The passers-by finally noticed something was wrong and raised their heads. Immediately, some people started pointing and some shouted loudly.
"Hi... bang!"
The rickety telephone pole was finally overwhelmed and collapsed completely, hitting the passing oil tanker. The tanker suddenly lost control.
When Fang Qing's family found out, they only saw the burning oil tanker rushing towards them.
The temporarily hired hotel driver’s mind was at a loss.
The same goes for Fang Qing's family.
Ordinary people have never experienced such a scene. Their brains went blank, and only the flames in their pupils became more and more raging.
Passers-by covered their mouths and exclaimed.
“Turn right!”
Fang Qing, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had excellent reflexes. Seeing the driver being frightened, she immediately went to control the steering wheel.
“Bang!”
The car body shook violently in vain, as if it was rear-ended, and was knocked forward for a long distance. It was a blessing in disguise, and it was a thrilling escape. It was like being wiped out. Disaster of oil tanker truck.
Fang Qing, who was covered in cold sweat unconsciously, suddenly turned around and saw the out-of-control oil tanker rolling over and flattening one of the vehicles.
"Boom!"
The fire became more and more raging. (End of chapter)