In the living room of nearly 200 square meters, the entrance enshrines a statue of a god nearly one meter high and carved from a whole piece of Huanghuali log. The idol wears a crown, holds a lantern, wears a yellow robe, and has a solemn and compassionate face.

Directly above the statue is the twenty-four character road number made of pure gold, which reads: Fudou Zhaoxiao Pure Ling Ying Fu Ji Protecting the Country and Protecting the People Miao Ling Zhao Ying Hongren Puji Heavenly Concubine.

Chen Zhen lit a stick of incense, held it high above his head, and recited it with great devotion, "Disciple Chen Zhen, thank you for your kindness, thank you Mazu Niangniang for the blessing of these years, the disciple will remember it in my heart, please Tianfei Niangniang continue to protect my Chen family, protect the foundation left by the old man, my Chen family will be for generations, every morning and evening sincerely worship you."

Chen Zhen put on the incense, knelt on the futon, and kowtowed three times with great reverence.

In the center of the hall, on a three-meter-long white jade table, a model of a multi-masted flat-bottomed pointed sailing ship of the same length as the white jade table is particularly dazzling.

The Chen family is a native of the East China Sea, and like most of the natives of the East China Sea, their ancestors were fishermen. For generations, they have relied on the sea to eat the sea, and the plot of the sea is deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

In Chen Zhen's father's generation, he began to transport by sea, and at that time, private people were not allowed to set foot in marine transportation, and Chen Zhen's father secretly transported it at the risk of losing his head, which was smuggling to put it bluntly.

At that time, there was a shortage of domestic goods, and the supply was always less than demand, that is, at that time, the Chen family accumulated the first pot of gold. Marx said that if there is 100% profit, the capitalists will take risks, if there is 200% profit, the capitalists will defy the law, and if there is 300% profit, then the capitalists will trample everything in the world!

The development of the Chen family perfectly interprets the nature of capitalists, of course, at that time, the Chen family was not the only one who did this brainless work, but everyone else did lose their heads, only a few people laughed and said In the end, the Chen family is one of these few people.

With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, the old man of the Chen family keenly smelled the smell of money, and the first pot of gold earned by smuggling came in handy.

With the wisdom of the old man of the Chen family who can still seek a lifetime after nine deaths, he has been out of control since then, and after more than 20 years of business and merger, he has successfully become the king of ships in the East China Sea.

Until he died, the position of the ship king was still passed on to his son Chen Zhen.

It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to keep a business, after Chen Zhen took over Sino-Ocean, he sat on pins and needles every day, the times are different, and every era has his mission. The economic development in recent years has been dazzling, not only him, but also many bigwigs in traditional industries who can't understand it. I don't know what's going to happen in the next moment.

For example, the Hai family, the Zeng family, the Meng family, and the Hao family, none of these families had to bow their heads in front of the Chen family before, especially the Hai family, when Haizhongtian started, he was just an obscure poor sour boy, and he had gone to the Chen family more than once to ask the old man for advice. But now, in the past five years, these families have been able to sit on an equal footing with the Chen family, and even have the momentum of faintly surpassing, how can this make him not in a hurry.

"It's hard to go home early, don't think about it, and have a cup of tea in peace." Chen Zhen's wife, Fang Yun, put the tea on the coffee table.

Chen Zhen rubbed his forehead, smiled, patted his big belly like he was ten months pregnant, and sat on the sofa.

"Good, good".

Chen Zhen took a sip of tea, "Yoko hasn't come back yet"?

At the mention of his son, Fang Yun frowned slightly, "Will he come back before one or two o'clock in the morning?"

Chen Zhen smiled apologetically and grabbed Fang Yun's hand, "Yunyun, it's hard for you to run this family."

Fang Yun pursed his mouth, "What hard work do I have, luxury houses, luxury cars, gold and silver jewelry, and even a nanny for cooking, I just lack a husband and son."

"Hehehe," Chen Zhen stroked his wife's hand, still so white and silky, "I'm waiting for a few years, when Yoko can be on his own, I'll accompany you every day."

Fang Yun rolled his eyes, "Then you better work for a few more years, I don't want Yoko to be the next you."

"Hehe, that's Yoko's responsibility, he can't push it off, and he can't push it."

Fang Yun's eyes were slightly red, over the years, she had seen with her own eyes how heavy the word "Boat King" was, which deeply pressed her husband's gray hair and hunched back.

"Ah Zhen, we don't have to worry about food or drink now, we can't use up the money for a few lifetimes, I don't want to see Yoko live so hard."

Chen Zhen smiled, "I don't want to, but you also know the temper of the old man, if I lose the word "ship king" in my hand, we will see the old man in a hundred years, what do you say he will do."

Fang Yun sneered, "The old man will definitely rip off your pants and slap your bare ass in front of Lord Yama."

The door opened, and Chen Yang's huge body appeared in the living room.

"Yo, you old couple are not ashamed, they are both in their fifties, and you still have bare butts."

Fang Yun pulled his hand out of Chen Zhen's hand and snorted, "You kid is tired of life, dare to make fun of the old lady."

"Hehe", Chen Yang sat next to Fang Yun with a smile, "The old lady is not old, just like an eighteen-year-old lady."

Fang Yun raised his hand and slapped Chen Yang's chubby face, his movements were very slow, and his hand was lighter, but in fact, when he touched it, it had already turned into a stroke.

Fang Yun knows her husband and son very well, and both of them came back so early today, they must have made an appointment to talk about something.

got up and said lightly: "You guys talk slowly, I'm going to sleep."

Chen Yang smiled and took Fang Yun's hand, "Comrade Fang Yun, you will leave as soon as I come back, it's not authentic."

Fang Yun slapped Chen Yang's chubby hand away, "Little slippery head, the old lady made an appointment with mahjong early tomorrow morning, so she didn't bother to pay attention to you two big fat men."

After Fang Yun left, Chen Zhen turned the teacup in his hand and glanced at Chen Yang.

"Yoko, it's time for you to lose weight, too."

Chen Yang handed Chen Zhen a cigarette, lit it for him, and then lit one himself. The father and son sat on the sofa and swallowed the clouds.

"Ah Zhen, don't just talk about me, look at your big belly, it's about to give birth."

Chen Zhen looked at his stomach and laughed, "No one believes that you were not born by me."

Chen Yang sighed, "Hey, my mother is so slender and looks like a flower, why am I just like you, it is very difficult for me to pick up girls now."

Chen Zhen smiled and hugged Chen Yang's shoulder, "Don't worry, you see I'm so fat, it's not like I've soaked your mother."

The two big fat men sat on the sofa and swallowed the clouds, enjoying the rare father-son relationship.

"Let's get down to business," Chen Zhen said first. "I'm still used to internships at the shipyard."

"Isn't it just to build a boat, but it can also stump me, a high-achieving student in Qinghua."

Chen Zhen nodded with satisfaction, he is still very confident in his son, except for being a little fatter, whether it is IQ or EQ, he is a leader among his peers.

"Last week, Hao Youqian invited me to a meal, hehe, this usually arrogant and chic rich man, that day his sad face was more sad than his dead father, and he pulled my nose and tears when we met, not to mention how awkward it was."

"Hehe, so you should be glad to have given birth to a good son like me, otherwise you will be more sad than your father and mother died."

"Hahaha," Chen Zhen laughed proudly, "It's good to have a good son, even if you are tired and tired, you still have a head, Hao Youqian now estimates that he wants to die."

Chen Yang squinted his eyes and smiled: "Hao Youqian asked you to persuade Hao Wei to work in his jewelry company?"

Chen Zhen nodded, "That's right, your good friend is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, he doesn't sit on the throne of the East China Sea 'Jewelry King', he has to be a lawyer, Hao Youqian finally built the jewelry kingdom with nine deaths, this kid is unwilling to take over, do you think he can not be sad?"

Chen Yang and Hao Wei were classmates from elementary school to university, and they had a small reputation during Qinghua University, but they were not a good reputation, known as "Qinghua Shuangqi", one could scold the professor in philosophy class, and the other could scold the rival in love to vomit blood. And the mentality of the two is surprisingly good, the old professor was so angry on the stage that his face was flushed, his pupils were dilated, and Chen Yang could still ask with a smile: "Professor, why are you blushing." Then he asked himself, "Oh, I see." Pointing to the girl in the front row, he said, "Professor, did you see that female classmate's shyness towards the choppy mountain peaks?"

Compared with Chen Yang, Hao Wei was not far behind, and scolded his rival for two hours, creating a record for the longest time in Qinghua's history.

At first, the kid scolded very vigorously, Hao Wei said: "You wait for me here for a while, don't leave." That kid thought that Hao Wei was going to the guy, and his momentum was a little timid. I wanted to run away, but the girl I liked was next to me, and I didn't want to lose my manhood. Stand there and wait.

Five minutes later, I saw Hao Wei bring a stool and hold a teacup in his hand. After Hao Wei sat down, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It seems that we talked about your mother just now, continue." "The kid was so angry that there was green smoke from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. In the end, he vomited blood and was sent to the hospital.

But don't think that Chen Yang and Hao Wei are two scoundrels, in the junior year, at the National College Student Debate, the two represented Qinghua, and they were dumbfounded in the finals. That year, Qinghua students finally abandoned their previous suspicions and changed "Qinghua Shuangjiao" to "Qinghua Shuangjian".

After graduating from college, Chen Yang chose to enter his own company, while Hao Wei devoted himself to becoming a lawyer, allowing his father Hao Youqian to coerce and lure, and he has not compromised at all.

"Ah Zhen, don't worry about it, it's useless, Hao Wei's kid's urine nature, it's useless to persuade anyone, that kid's eloquence is no worse than mine, if I try to persuade him, maybe I will be reversed, and I will abandon my family business with him and go out to wander around, you can't cry."

Chen Zhen frowned, "Ahem, forget it, don't persuade it."

Chen Yang extinguished the cigarette butt and said seriously: "Dad, have you ever thought about the expansion of 'Ocean Going Forward'."

Chen Zhen frowned, "Do you think I don't want to, as a private enterprise, ocean transportation is already the culmination of our family."

Chen Yang continued: "That's why we need to transform."

Chen Zhen stared at his son, "Do you think I haven't thought about it? Our family has been begging for a living at sea for generations, and everything on the sea is very familiar. If you suddenly invest in an unfamiliar industry, the risk is unpredictable."

Chen Zhen sighed and said: "It's not that I'm timid, it's that the times have changed now, in the past twenty or thirty years, in those years, all the order was the shackles of progress, and everyone was full of optimism and confidence in the betrayal of the status quo, even the loser was still so charming, but now, in the past few years, I vaguely feel that that era no longer exists, and the risks of blind expansion are far greater than the benefits." ①

Chen Yang nodded, "Indeed, the Greek mythical 'birth of the gods' no longer appears, heroes everywhere are mortals, business returns to the original meaning of the world, the dramatic decline of institutional breakthroughs, model innovation, capital drive and rule of law norms will gradually become the main axis of business operations, in a sense, the 'art era' of perceptual mutation is over, Ragnarok, and the rational 'scientific era' is coming." ②

"However, it is precisely because of this that we are asking for change, and in this change, we have a huge advantage, because compared to ordinary people, we have capital, connections, experience, mortals have the possibility of becoming gods, and those who are already at the top are more likely to become masters, I have this confidence."

Chen Zhen looked at his son's firm eyes, and a trace of relief flashed in his heart, this little fat man has grown up.

"Where do you want to expand"?

Chen Yang said firmly: "Of course, we are taking advantage of our advantages, we have capital and connections, and of course we want to enter the capital market."

Chen Zhen frowned, "Do you want to enter the investment field?"

Chen Yang nodded, "It seems that the risk is very high, that is because many investment companies do not have this strength, we are different, we have enough capital and resources, as long as we are not blind, we can salvage it, no matter what heroes everywhere are mortals, as long as we hold on to the capital, the rice is not harvested by investors when it is ripe."

Chen Zhen thought for a moment, what Chen Yang said, he didn't think about it, and even thought about it more deeply, but in the past few years, Sino-Ocean Group itself has encountered a lot of trouble, and he has never had the heart to start it.

Chen Zhen said solemnly: "Yoko, your idea is very good, and I support it, but there is one thing I want you to remember, no matter what you do, don't forget this, Sino-Ocean Group is the country that your grandfather has worked hard to build, and it must not be folded in the hands of my father and son."

Seeing Chen Zhen's support, Chen Yang showed an excited smile on his face, "Dad, don't worry, grandpa loved me the most when he was alive, and I won't let him down."

Chen Zhen smiled and nodded, "I only came back in the middle of the night recently, what else do I gain?"

Chen Yang said with a smile: "Of course there is, I have really encountered a few strange things recently."

Chen Zhen lit another cigarette, and lit one for Chen Yang, "Say slowly."

"Liu Kai came out of their company and said that he was going to study in the United States."

Chen Zhen smiled, "It seems to be true, recently it has been secretly rumored in the circle that the 'sewing machine king' in the East China Sea is about to fall, send his son to the United States, and secretly transfer the assets, this is making the final arrangement."

"This is nothing, Zeng Yaqian, who hasn't come out to meet us for a long time, went to the Golden Emperor Bar last time."

"Oh"?Chen Zhen frowned, "This daughter of the Zeng family is amazing, when I first met her, she was still in high school, her conversational temperament and eyes, it is not an exaggeration to say, she is stronger than you, a few years ago, I heard that because of Zeng Qingwen's derailment, the father and daughter were like enemies, and they never came out to contact friends in the circle again." That girl has a stronger temper than a man, how could she suddenly appear again".

Chen Yang smiled, "Yes, I have never underestimated her, although she is a few years younger than me, her aura can overpower everyone."

Chen Yang continued: "She returned to our circle this time for one person."

Chen Zhen was very curious, "Who will this girl with eyes above the top for?"

Chen Yang smiled, "Ah Zhen, even if you have been in the East China Sea for so many years, you would never have imagined that you are a mountain villager."

"Mountain and wild villagers"? Chen Zhen was a little incredulous.

"Yes, a mountain villager who graduated from elementary school and has only been in the East China Sea for less than a year."

Chen Zhen lowered his head and pondered, "Are you sure that some people are deliberately pretending to approach Zeng Yaqian"?

Chen Yang nodded, "I'm sure, I've personally contacted this person twice, and I've personally investigated people who know him, and I also sent people to Minsheng West Road to carefully investigate his affairs, he is just an ordinary mountain villager."

"Ordinary"?

"Ordinary refers to his background, but what he does is not ordinary, this kid has gone from an ignorant mountain villager to the leader of Minsheng West Road in less than a year."

Chen Zhen didn't care whether a mountain villager became the leader of Minsheng West Road in a year, this is a deed against the sky in the eyes of ordinary people, and in his eyes, it is just a little ant playing house, he cares about why Zeng Yaqian would bring such a person into the Golden Emperor Bar.

"Tell me what you think."

Chen Yang nodded, "According to my observation and analysis, it is very likely that the treasure daughter of the Zeng family has taken a fancy to this kid."

"Ahem", Chen Zhen choked on the cigarette, "What? Your kid's head is not broken, you usually watch too many soap operas, this is reality, how can there be any dick silk counterattack rich daughter, the two have different growth backgrounds, different outlooks on life, values, and worldviews, and completely different visions, Zeng Yaqian is not the kind of hot-headed stupid girl, that is the granddaughter that the old man of the Zeng family values the most, smarter than your kid, she will be carried away by the so-called love"?

(1) Wu Xiaobo, "Ten Years of Turbulence - Big Water and Big Fish"

(2) Wu Xiaobo, "Ten Years of Turbulence - Big Water and Big Fish"