Chapter 974
A Small Gathering
Pengcheng, Lu Family Manor.
A wonderful new day begins with a family barbecue in the small garden inside the manor.
Lu Yang did not go to the company.
I'm staying home with my family today.
Besides, feeling it wasn't lively enough, they specially called Dajun and his wife, and Gong Ping'an and his wife, and reminded them to remember to bring their wives and children.
So, early in the morning, the entire manor became lively and bustling.
The men were in charge of grilling the meat.
The children were in charge of eating, their mouths greasy with oil.
Women need to maintain their figures and dislike greasy food, so they are only responsible for looking after the children, for smiling, and when they've had their fill of smiling, they go and wipe the sweat off their husbands, and if they're thirsty, they hand them a glass of water...
Half a day passed quickly.
After noon, as the sun began to set and the temperature started to drop, several grown men, each with a fishing rod, began their free fishing time by the pond in the manor in a shady spot.
Women, look at this!
To avoid disturbing their children, they each coaxed their own children to take a nap.
It’s over.
They never come back!
They have no interest in fishing; it's not only boring, but it also makes them get a tan.
So we set up a mahjong table at home, enjoyed the air conditioning, ate fruit and snacks, and had a wonderful time honing our mahjong skills!
of course!
Winning or losing doesn't matter; none of the women present will be short of money.
It's mainly for killing time when you're bored.
By the way, let's chat about everyday things.
Oh, not entirely. At least Ye Qiuyu and Ma Xiulan, who are in-laws, still harbor some secret animosity towards each other.
What about Ye Qiuyu?
She was quite modest, smiling through both wins and losses. This time, her son stood by her side and didn't make her, as his own mother, feel wronged by trying to appease his mother-in-law.
My honest opinion: Let her win.
What about Ma Xiulan?
This time, he returned with a guilty conscience, and even when speaking to his daughter and son-in-law, he didn't speak as loudly as before. Facing his mother-in-law, Ye Qiuyu, he was inherently less confident.
But it's okay.
The disappointments in life.
Today, I'm going to win it all back at the card table!
Ma Xiulan was full of energy. When she picked up the mahjong tiles, she made a series of loud, staggering sounds as she said "slap," "five of a kind," and "I won!"
Skillful.
Aside from those two old rivals at the mahjong table.
Also present today are a younger couple who are at odds.
Wei Shu and Tang Xiaoxiao.
They were old classmates and both graduated from Guangzhou University with a major in fashion design.
However, after graduation, their life trajectories diverged dramatically.
Wei Shu had not yet graduated from university when she went back to visit her family during a winter vacation. By chance, she joined the clothing factory that Lu Yang had started. After graduation, she worked with Lu Yang to build the business. While Lu Yang achieved success, she also achieved success herself. Now she is an indispensable right-hand woman to Lu Yang.
Net worth over 100 million!
Iron Lady of the Business World!
The female version of "female Zhuge Liang" who is known as the "Emperor of Migrant Workers" is none other than Wei Shu.
And what about Xiaoxiao?
Although I joined Lu Yang's clothing factory right after graduation.
However, its later development was not as satisfactory as expected.
Tang Xiaoxiao married Lu Dajun, which is similar to Wei Shu marrying Gong Ping'an. In fact, the nature of their marriages was the same at the beginning.
Lu Yang would do it out of respect for his two good brothers, Da Jun and Ping An.
They were given different treatment than other female college students.
To put it simply, they are more likely to gain Lu Yang's trust, and Lu Yang is more willing to entrust them with the company's responsibilities.
Wei Shu made good use of this relationship, starting as a clothing designer in a garment factory, then taking charge of preparing for a new textile factory in the city, and finally being entrusted by Lu Yang to be stationed in Shanghai... When Lu Yang started to integrate his businesses and established the Century Group, he had no one to use, so he promoted her, and she became the female president of the current multi-billion dollar business empire.
Such a great opportunity and such good luck.
Xiaoxiao originally had one too.
But she didn't manage to catch any of them.
When Lu Yang acquired the city's cotton textile factory, he later handed it over to his team of college students to prepare for its restructuring. She and Wei Shu were both members of this team, but she gave up her good job to start a relationship with Da Jun, meet his parents, and after meeting both sets of parents, the factory's restructuring had nothing to do with her anymore.
After it's all over.
She married Dajun, and Wei Shu also married Gong Ping'an that same year.
Lu Yang gave them a second test.
Send them to Shanghai to do something for me!
Stock trading!
buy what?
They don't need to worry about it.
Lu Yang had devised a set of guidelines for them, which they only needed to follow completely according to his strategy.
All they need to do is follow the instructions.
As a result, Wei Shu and Gong Ping'an, this couple, did a very good job, doing everything Lu Yang asked them to do, without caring about anything else, and never overstepping their bounds.
And what about her?
Using Lu Yang's information channels, he started trading stock certificates himself.
Of course, Lu Yang didn't object to them doing so.
As long as they complete the tasks he assigns, that's fine.
However, the difference in their abilities was immediately apparent. It was clear who had left the deepest impression on Lu Yang and who deserved his more dedicated cultivation. This was also why, when Lu Yang established the Century Group in Pengcheng and had no one else to rely on, his first thought was Wei Shu. He transferred Wei Shu from Shencheng and immediately promoted him to the position of the group's first acting president.
As for Xiaoxiao, out of respect for Dajun, Lu Yang only gave her the position of cashier for a little prodigy.
Moreover, the child prodigy was still in the planning stages at the time.
This was originally an opportunity.
As Little Prodigy grows and expands, this cashier position will eventually become the finance manager, then the finance director, and if she performs well in the future, Lu Yang may even hand over the entire Little Prodigy listed company to her to manage.
However, at this time, Xiaoxiao did something she still regrets to this day.
She is pregnant.
She doesn't want to try anymore.
She wants to lie down and be a rich man's wife.
After all, in two years in Shanghai, she and her husband Dajun made millions from stock trading.
That's millions back in the 90s!
It's no longer a small amount of money.
To say that I'm financially free for life from now on wouldn't be an exaggeration.
In addition, she also has a husband, Dajun, who is one of Lu Yang's right-hand men in his security team.
Lu Yang is not a stingy person. He treats his friends, especially the brothers who are responsible for the safety of his whole family, such as Da Jun, Gong Ping An, Xiao Jiu, and Along, with the highest level of care!
My wife doesn't want to work hard anymore.
In addition, she was pregnant.
Dajun felt sorry for her, so he didn't force her too much. Since she didn't want to do it anymore, then she shouldn't do it.
Stay home and rest well during your pregnancy, give birth, and be a good wife and mother.
As a result, this delay led to the turn of the millennium!
Today, one of them is the female CEO of a business empire worth hundreds of billions, known as the Iron Lady of the business world and the female version of "Zhuge Liang among women," the queen of working people.
One is an ordinary rich wife from one of the many wealthy families, and the word "wealthy" should be put in quotation marks.
Although her husband, Dajun, was also wealthy, he was ultimately just a bodyguard leader with assets that were at most over ten million yuan. This was only under Lu Yang's special care, and he couldn't compare to those truly wealthy people.
Now, the two inevitably make comparisons about this.
Of course, Wei Shu wasn't without regrets either.
She was already four or five years older than Gong Ping'an. After the two got married, they were both busy with work and only had one child in ten years, which was a daughter.
Now, she is nearly forty years old. Looking back on these years, she always feels sorry for her young husband when she wakes up in the middle of the night.
In contrast, her situation was the opposite.
Although Tang Xiaoxiao did not achieve success in her career, she looked up to her old classmate.
But when it comes to having children, despite the pressure of her husband's low sperm count, she managed to get pregnant four times in ten years. The first three were all sons, and now she is pregnant again. Judging from her belly, she is probably six or seven months along.
It's said that it's a girl.
These days, pregnant women getting an ultrasound to determine the sex of their baby is not illegal.
When the doctor in charge of the examination said this, he expected to see regret and disappointment in the young couple's eyes. However, the couple was so happy that they almost jumped for joy.
Dajun was like a fool, muttering to himself, "I have a daughter, I'm going to have a daughter, that's great."
At that moment, I was as happy as a 200-pound baby.
Now, the two of them are sitting at a table playing mahjong.
The way they were secretly competing with each other.
Tut tut...
It's even more interesting than the in-laws, Ma Xiulan and Ye Qiuyu, who can't stand each other.
When playing a card, you should first observe your opponent and decide who should win the game. You should never let your opponent win the game.
Winning a hand, especially if you can catch the opponent's discard that allows them to win, is incredibly exciting.
He couldn't stop smiling.
Ma Xiulan and Ye Qiuyu, and Wei Shu and Tang Xiaoxiao, two pairs of bickering lovers, gathered at one table.
This amused Yin Mingyue and Meng Tiantian, the two sisters-in-law who were watching the game.
Eye-opener!
At the same time, outside the villa, by the pond, several men were fishing and chatting.
The conversation initially revolved around Dajun becoming a father again.
It all started when this guy shamelessly asked Lu Yang to arrange a marriage between their children.
Gong Ping'an said sarcastically, "Your child is still in your wife's belly, it hasn't even been born yet, and you're already trying to reserve a spot. What gives you the right?"
Speaking of daughters, he also has one; she was once adopted as a goddaughter by the couple Lu Yang and Yin Mingyue.
What about arranging marriages between children?
Then his daughter should be even more qualified.
"Old Gong, are you envious of me? You're jealous, aren't you? I have three sons, you don't. You have a daughter, and I'm about to have a daughter too. Your daughter has recognized your eldest son as her goddaughter, and now my daughter is about to give birth. It's perfectly normal for my eldest son and I to become in-laws."
That's why they're such good brothers!
Da Jun deliberately brought up the very thing that Gong Ping'an didn't want to talk about; every single one of his three sentences hit Gong Ping'an right in the heart.
"Call me 'Old Gong' again, and I'll rip your head off, you think?"
Gong Ping'an, who was usually taciturn and almost expressionless, rarely spoke so many words in one sentence.
Where is the army?
With a strong survival instinct, he quickly said it was a slip of the tongue and that he had misspoke.
Just kidding, just trying to lighten the mood.
Even so, he turned around and seriously suggested to Lu Yang that they arrange a marriage between their children.
Until Lu Yang suddenly said, "People with the same surname cannot marry. Besides, Junzi, have you forgotten that your grandfather is my second grandfather, and he is my grandfather's own brother? We are close relatives. Your daughter and my son are both relatives within five degrees of kinship. How can relatives arrange betrothal between their children?"
"that,"
Upon hearing this, Dajun scratched the back of his head. "Really? Is that true? Why didn't my wife tell me beforehand?"
It turns out this was Xiaoxiao's idea.
PS: Chapter 970 has been sent back for major revisions and is still blocked. Several revisions failed to pass, so the author had no choice but to drastically revise 70% of the content, almost rewriting the entire chapter. Since it's so late, the reviewers should have already left work. If it's released tomorrow morning, those who have already subscribed can go back and read Chapter 970 again for better overall plot coherence. (End of Chapter)