Chapter Eighty-Five: Identifying the Granddaughter-in-law's Temperance
Grandma's act of giving away family heirlooms in the hall surprised the three aunts who were standing next to her. The old lady treasured the Myanmar Laokeng jade jade bracelet, their sister-in-law Chen Huifen has one, and now the old lady actually gave another one, this is the festival of the granddaughter-in-law! .
When they came to the house, Su Min was busy cooking seafood in the kitchen, and before they had time to meet, they couldn't help but pay attention to Su Min, who met for the first time.
Especially Qi Cuiping, staring at the jade bracelet given by her grandmother with burning eyes, she has realized that the jade bracelet on her hand represents a special meaning, and she is looking at Su Min with affection for Qi Jingtao.
Qi Cuiping had never heard her nephew mention that she had a girlfriend, and she was busy helping him introduce the female teacher she liked, her former student. Where did you think that the nephew was silent, why did he suddenly bring back a girlfriend and get the approval of the old lady? This little woman is so good? I couldn't help but look at my nephew.
Qi Jingtao saw the third aunt looking at him with a smile, smiled at Su Min, pulled her in front of the three aunts, and solemnly introduced Su Min to the three aunts: "Su Min, these three are my eldest son, second son, and third aunt." ”
The eldest aunt and the second aunt smiled and greeted Su Min in a friendly manner. The third aunt Qi Cuiping didn't speak, and continued to stare at Su Min, until Su Min pulled Qi Jingtao for help, and then said with a smile: "I'm strange, how can I introduce this kid to this kid crookedly and unpleasantly, it turns out that he has such a good girlfriend." Su Min, be stricter in the future, this kid has not been a worry-free master since he was a child. ”
Su Min couldn't help but feel relieved when she saw Qi Cuiping smiling, and looked at Qi Cuiping with a smile and said, "Hehehe, the third child really deserves to be a famous teacher, the aura just now is so strong, I was almost scared by you." My parents are also teachers, and I have been afraid of teachers since I was a child. ”
"Oh, what school are your parents in? Maybe we still know each other?"
"My father Su Xuefeng is in the Chinese Department of the Teachers College, and my mother Li Qiuping is in the third middle school. ”
"You're the eldest girl in Teacher Su's family, right? I've seen you since I was in the teacher's college, and you're still a hairy girl in kindergarten......
Looking at Su Min, who quickly got closer to the third aunt and had a good conversation, Qi Jingtao knew that he didn't need to accompany him, so he returned to greet the guests with confidence.
The banquet has been set up, and relatives and friends who have not seen each other for many days are sitting at the wine table, smoking happily and bragging. In the face of the table full of wine and food, no one moved chopsticks, just waiting for the grandmother to pay birthday greetings in batches, and happily received their respective red envelopes, cousins and birthday stars were seated.
Qi Jingtao poured cigarettes and wine for relatives and friends one by one, and after a circle, grandma and grandchildren also came out to enter the table, and when they saw the birthday star entering the table, everyone also moved their chopsticks to start the banquet.
As soon as Qi Jingtao sat down among the brothers of the same generation, he was called by the third uncle to their table to accompany the wine. Looking at Su Min, who was sitting next to her grandmother in a well-behaved manner, helping her grandmother peel shrimp, Qi Jingtao sat on the seat reserved next to her eldest uncle.
Today's dishes are unprecedentedly rich, and after the cooperation of Chef Shi Cousin and Su Min, it can really be described as a combination of delicacies from the mountains and the sea, which is a rare feast in the countryside. The wine is also Wuliangye, Yunnan red wine, Dali beer, and complete beverages that rural people dare not ask for. While relatives and friends were slightly surprised, they also had a great appetite and happily drank and ate.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the atmosphere at the banquet was more enthusiastic. Qi Zhengming and Qi Jingtao father and son respectively came back from a round of wine on behalf of their own family, Qi Jingtao sat down to peel a shrimp, and looked at the eldest uncle who was talking to his father.
His eldest uncle, Wang Wenxin, has always been engaged in the infrastructure industry, originally as a small head of the commune's infrastructure team, and later as an infrastructure contractor, and a few years ago set up a private construction company on his own.
Recalling Lao Qi's message last night, he thought about it slightly in his heart, and asked, "Auntie, have you got the project over there?"
Wang Wenxin took a sip of wine, turned his head and said happily: "I'm still running the relationship, it's almost there." That's a big project, and if you get it, you can do it for a year or two next year. ”
It's good that it's not done yet, Qi Jingtao was slightly relieved, looked at Wang Wenxin and asked slowly, "Auntie, is your family from the military?"
"yes, they're engineers in the army. They have a hard relationship and are second-tier contractors. This time, a friend introduced me to them, and I can subcontract a section of the project from them. ”
After Wang Wenxin finished speaking, he looked at Qi Jingtao with some suspicion and asked, "Xiao Tao, how do you know that my project this time is going to be subcontracted from the army?"
Qi Jingtao ate the peeled shrimp, looked at his aunt with a smile and said, "Hehehe, auntie, you said that you forgot about the New Year's drink?"
"Did I say that? hey, hey, I can't remember, old man, my memory is not as good as you young people. Xiao Tao, why did you think to ask about this?" Wang Wenxin patted his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Qi Jingtao stared at Wang Wenxin and said: "Auntie, I heard a situation, in the future, the army~team~not~have~business~." ”
Wang Wen was startled, glared at Qi Jingtao and asked softly, "Where did you hear about it? Why is there no rumor outside such a big thing?"
Qi Jingtao still revealed what Lao Qi told him. Although he still did not understand why Lao Qi sent him a note, telling him that in July 1998, the central government issued a document that the Chinese army would no longer do business. What is the reason for him to stop Wang Wenxin from going to Malone to do highway engineering. But the absolute trust in Lao Qi formed by stock speculation, he knew that since the matter specially notified by Lao Qi was an absolute matter, if the eldest aunt won the project, there would definitely be no good results.
Qi Jingtao took a sip of wine, looked at the nervous Wang Wenxin with a calm demeanor and said, "There must be no rumors outside, even if there is, it is not something that you outsiders can know." Like you're going to subcontract this project now, how many people know?"
"Hehehe, that's what happened. Xiao Tao, what do you mean by this?" Wang Wenxin was relieved.
He is running this road construction project that is ready to be done, not the kind of tender project, and other people have given him the news. He has been operating for a while, and so far, he and those people in the army have only eaten a few times, given some gifts, and are familiar with each other, and have not yet reached the stage of substantive negotiations.
He is a small rural private construction company, to put it mildly, but he is just a large-scale contractor, so how can he know any news from within the army? If the army is unable to do business, the project will be suspended, and who will ask for the project money when the time comes?
And this nephew is not the simple Nanyan engineer now, I heard my little sister say that he used the 10,000 yuan he had accumulated to speculate on any stocks, and he would make more than one million dollars in two months. It's almost as good as the assets he has worked hard to accumulate in infrastructure construction for more than ten years, and he doesn't have hundreds of thousands of liquidity to use at will. According to his sister-in-law, he made money by trading stocks, just because he had some inside information. Well, this kid is terrible now, and his opinion is worth listening to.