Chapter 70

Zhou Dahai said that it would be two days, but the next day he couldn't wait to drive Zhou Bin and Zhao Yang to Shangdu first.

Zhou Bin is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Internet café and Wang Xiaojing to assist He Wan in the preparation of the supermarket; Xinchaorui Real Estate will increase the expansion of intermediary stores after the New Year, which is what Zhao Yang is responsible for, and they originally planned to return to the commercial capital on the second or third day of the Lunar New Year.

After clarifying the future development direction, Chen Li determined three departments on the basis of the two companies of Xinchaorui Real Estate and Xinchaorui Technology: one is the real estate marketing department, which is mainly composed of Liu Tongjiang and Miao Jing; the other is the investment promotion department, which is mainly composed of He Wan and Zhou Bin, and whether it is an Internet café or a supermarket, they are only specific projects under the investment promotion department; and the other is the real estate agency affairs department.

In the real estate agency affairs department, Chen Li prefers to be in charge of Li Junfeng, but he is embarrassed now, so he directly poached Li Junfeng, and let Zhao Yang and Feng Xin take the lead first.

The 30 new recruits will arrive one after another after the year.

Whether it is a new employee of the real estate marketing department or a new employee of the investment promotion department (Xinchaorui Technology), Chen Li plans to go to the store under the real estate agency department for an internship first, so that they can first familiarize themselves with some basic conditions of the real estate industry.

The real estate agency department, which only has two stores in Jinlan Garden and Lakeside Jiayuan before the year, will accelerate its expansion after the year. According to Chen Li's idea, it is best to add three to five new stores every month, and after about half a year, a real estate agency network can be initially formed in the commercial city.

It's just that at such an expansion speed, Zhao Yang and Feng Xin's workload will be very large, Chen Li hesitated whether to return to business in two days to find money and ask Li Junfeng directly.

Years ago, he didn't return to Qingquan until Chinese New Year's Eve, and he had already been trained by his mother, so Chen Li didn't dare to go back directly with Zhou Bin and them on the second day of the new year, and decided to take Shen Tong to play in Qingquan for two more days.

Actually, Qingquan is not much fun.

Shen Tong's temperament is also very quiet.

Her mother Shen Jianhong has always treated her as a lady, and she is never used to seeing Shen Tong running around the house with her hair at home, and she is not allowed to waste time in cooking TV dramas and playing games, always urging her to practice the piano and dance, Shen Tong is rare to be lazy in Qingquan, Chen Li has more time, which is to accompany Shen Tong to read, be in a daze or make up for sleep in a newly opened dictionary coffee in Qingquan City.

However, on such a day, Chen Li and Shen Tong both felt very good, and when they thought about returning to Shangdu, the two of them read books together in the library, but there was no difference.

Chen Bing was going to his girlfriend Zhao Lingshan's house on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to pay New Year's greetings, and his aunt Shen Jianhong also asked Shen Tong when he would go back with a phone call a day. Chen Li knew that his aunt Shen Jianhong was worried about going to Zhang Haoran's house, so he decided to take Shen Tong and Chen Bing back to Shangdu together.

Chen Li, Chen Bing, and Shen Tong had breakfast at the old man Shen Jingtang's house on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and then took the bus back to Shangdu.

Originally, Chen Tong and Shen Jianping planned to accompany their eldest son to their in-laws' house, but they couldn't leave the hospital after the year, so they let Chen Li, who was his younger brother, go to the door first as a family member.

Because Chen Bing went to his girlfriend's house to talk about marriage, and this matter was stuck in the marriage room and job transfer, the conversation may not be pleasant at that time, after arriving in the business capital, Chen Li asked Shen Tong to go back first, and he accompanied Chen Li to the International Trade Building to buy a New Year's gift to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Zhao Lingshan's family, in addition to her parents, also has a brother-in-law and nephew, a total of six people.

After all, Chen Bing is not married, so he can't be regarded as an official son-in-law, and it is not good to prepare gifts in the traditional way, in addition to taking two cigarettes, four bottles of wine, and choosing some regular drinks, food, and Zhao Lingshan's nephew, who has just entered junior high school, bought new clothes, and took a taxi to Zhao Lingshan's house.

Zhao Lingshan's family lives in Wudaokou Hutong, not far from Guomao.

The 32-storey International Trade Building is currently the landmark building of the commercial city, and the buildings along the street are also bright and beautiful, but around the back of the International Trade Building, the old city street that was built decades ago is quite dilapidated.

"Wudaokou Hutong" is just like its name, five extremely short alleys arranged from east to west, you can see the head at a glance, each alley mouth has two old trees, the branches are lush and green, the hutong is crowded and messy, all block it inside, the old asphalt road is also badly damaged, potholes.

Zhao Lingshan was waiting for Chen Li and Chen Bing brothers outside the courtyard early in the morning, she was wearing a milky white cotton sweatshirt, her medium-length hair was draped casually over her shoulders, her oblique bangs were just crossed from her eyelids, her slightly rounded face was blown by the cold wind, and two ruddy balls were frozen, although her facial features were not prominent, she was a gentle and lovely woman no matter how she looked at it.

Seeing Chen Li and Chen Bing, Zhao Lingshan hurriedly greeted him, smiled a little embarrassedly at Chen Bing, and quickly took the things that Chen Li was carrying, pushed open the courtyard door and walked inside.

"Lingshan, how do you know we're here now, and we won't be waiting at the door all the time. When Chen Bing saw his unmarried, his mood was obviously much better, and he spoke much more relaxed.

"You think it's beautiful, even if I wait, I'm waiting for Chen Li, who will wait for you? This small alley is full of anger and sound, and at night the street was knocked over by rats and the stove was knocked over, I can hear it at home, not to mention the two of you are big people, I have already heard you say" Although Zhao Lingshan was also worried about the marriage room and Chen Bing's work transfer, she was also very happy to see Chen Bing at this time, and smiled happily.

"Sister Lingshan, you are treating us as rats. Chen Li joked.

The three of them walked out into the courtyard as they spoke.

When Chen Li entered the door, he also deliberately looked at the small gatehouse outside the courtyard twice, the door of the cement mold carving in the middle of the porch, and the old lacquer with a red heart on a yellow background can be vaguely seen, and there is a shed on the top of the door of the courtyard, and the left and right sides are neatly stacked briquettes.

The yard is more than 50 square meters, which is not small, but there are five families living in this yard, and it is very uncomfortable to walk in.

Except for the osmanthus tree planted in a small flower bed in the middle, there was really no place to be merit, and there was no waste of the place where the shed could be erected, and the piles of debris squeezed the large yard into five small aisles.

"I said I smelled the fragrance in the morning, it turned out to be a guest from your house, it was your object who came to the door, right?" A fat aunt in her fifties who was coming out to pour coal ash greeted Zhao Lingshan, and looked at Chen Bing and Chen Li who were following behind.

"Aunt Hua, you will pour it later, let us go to the house first. Zhao Lingshan didn't care about responding, so she pulled Chen Bing first, and Chen Li walked quickly into the house.

Although a pool of coal ash had been stacked with bricks on the ground, a large patch of dust still shook up, blowing Chen Li's head and face, and he was directly blinded.

"Oops, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Aunt Hua apologized to Chen Li, who was walking last.

"Lingshan, you have garlic at home, borrow me one, and forgot to buy it in the morning. Aunt Hua shouted to herself.

Zhao Lingshan agreed, and took Chen Bing, Chen Li went to the house first, and when he walked through a small shed at the door, Zhao Lingshan shouted to the small shed that kept emitting oil smoke: "Mom, Aunt Hua has no garlic at home, come and get two heads in a while,"

There was a constant cough in the small shed, and someone who was sullen answered.

Chen Li smiled and nodded, and hurriedly followed to the house on the east side of the courtyard, which was the most common miscellaneous courtyard and the life in the miscellaneous courtyard in the old town of Shangdu around two thousand years ago.

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Chen Li followed into Zhao Lingshan's house, and the door was the so-called living room, which was also built later, only seven or eight square meters in size, and the two door openings inside were hung with cloth curtains, which should be two bedrooms, but they looked even smaller - Zhao Lingshan's family of six people has lived in such a small space for all these years.

Although the living room has been carefully cared for, there are too many sundries and cardboard boxes, and it is difficult to find a place to stand, a folding dining table can only be placed outside for the time being, and there is an old cloth sofa against the wall, and two men are talking.

The older man had a wooden face, a thin body, and his back was slightly hunched, and there was a trace of nervousness in his cloudy eyes when he saw the person coming, it was Zhao Lingshan's father, Zhao Laoguo.

The other is also full of vicissitudes, a person in his thirties looks like he is forty years old, especially the corners of his mouth that are unconsciously pursed downward, it seems that the whole person is stubborn with unwillingness, it is Zhao Lingshan's eldest brother Zhao Dacheng.

Zhao Lingshan has two brothers and sisters, the eldest brother Zhao Dacheng is ten years older than Zhao Lingshan, his father Zhao Laoguo used to be a worker in the Shangdu Paper Mill, and his mother did not work. Later, when Zhao Laoguo was old, he directly asked Zhao Dacheng to go to the factory to take over, and his sister-in-law Yang Mei was also a worker in the paper mill before, and she was laid off at home at this time.

Seeing Chen Li and Chen Bing walking in, Zhao Dacheng stood up with Zhao Laoguo, who was a little slower to react.

Although Chen Li and Chen Bing tried their best to push it, they were still forcibly pressed by Zhao Dacheng to the most comfortable sofa in the room and sat down.

The father and son took two stools to sit facing each other, such a contrast made Chen Li and Chen Bing a little uncomfortable, but the father and son of the Zhao family were very calm, especially Zhao Dacheng kept peeking at Chen Bing, very happy.

A woman in her thirties heard movement outside and walked out of the door of the room inside.

The woman's lower body is black embroidered wide-leg pants, and the upper body is also embroidered with a red woolen small cotton jacket, although it looks festive and neat, and the woman at this age also looks old-fashioned, with a thin face and a pair of eyes that keep looking around, but it looks very spiritual.

This woman is Zhao Lingshan's sister-in-law Yang Mei, and there is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy wearing a school uniform behind her, who is Zhao Lingshan's nephew.

After greeting each other, Chen Bing took out the clothes for the child first.

Such careful preparation obviously made her sister-in-law Yang Mei very happy, and drove the child to the back room to try on clothes, and easily brought all the other gifts into it, turned her back and inadvertently shook off the bag containing cigarettes and alcohol, and then looked back at Chen Bing and Chen Li's smiles, which added a little more enthusiasm.

After all, this is the first time Chen Bing has come to the door, and the father and son of the Zhao family are extremely happy.

The old father of the Zhao family can see that he is a little wooden, most of the time he only sits on the side and smokes, looking at Chen Bing silly, the eldest brother is very organized, and after chatting politely, he talked to the unit where he worked before, full of complaints, and kept complaining, Chen Li knew that this set of rhetoric must be on his lips all day long, and he talked to people a lot.

The efficiency of the paper mill in the commercial city was good in the early years, but the efficiency has declined sharply in recent years, and the city has carried out restructuring, and because of serious pollution, it has to be demolished and moved to the industrial park outside the city.

Although Zhao Dacheng is not yet laid-off, the factory has not paid wages for more than a year, and the workers have blocked the door to petition and resist the demolition of the factory from time to time.

Chen Li had already heard some of these things, and he couldn't help but think of the restructuring of the National Cotton Factory and Liu Tongjiang's lover Wang Yanhui, how similar the life trajectories of the two families were. If it weren't for Liu Tongjiang's income from working outside, I'm afraid that the family would not be as good as Zhao Dacheng's family in the future.

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