Chapter 52: Talking and laughing
Gu Cheng sat with his "cheap cousin" in the study for a while and drank some frozen oolong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info was going to wait for the guests inside to say goodbye before he went in to meet him.
The people from other provinces in Wanwan especially like to flaunt the Chinese Taoism, and the red tape makes Gu Chengting uncomfortable.
During the chat, he also got to know the family's situation in general.
At that time, his grandmother's father was Long Xiaosheng, the commander of the 204th Division of the 37th Army, with the rank of major general, and led the student army of "100,000 young people and 100,000 soldiers". Later, the troops were destroyed at the Hujiang River, and only a few of their henchmen were forced to retreat from civilian ships, and they came to Wanwan with great hardship; it is said that they should be treated with the same idle meals as generals such as Hu Zongnan who lost their troops.
However, after all, the treatment of the Huangpu descendants was different from that of the old warlords; not to mention that the 204th Division was ordered to retreat, and the reason why it did not withdraw was because Liu Anqi's troops on Qingdao were slow to withdraw and dominated the ship at sea. In addition, Principal Jiang has always trusted Wu Yue's fellow villagers, so he is still tolerant of the remnants of the soldiers who have only withdrawn.
When Gu Cheng's uncle and grandfather withdrew with his father 50 years ago, he was only a seven or eight-year-old child. Later, in the Yangmingshan car accident in 69, Principal Jiang was seriously injured, and the high-level attendant officers in the Shilin Mansion were cleaned out of eighty percent because of this accident, but many positions were vacated.
Gu Cheng's uncle and grandfather were transferred to drive for Mr. Xiao, and then worked for 20 years, gradually becoming an aide-de-camp until Mr. Xiao passed away. After the 90s, he retired and stayed at home.
After talking about this, Gu Cheng had to talk about his relatives on the maternal side and what they had suffered in the mainland in the past few decades. But while chatting, the door of the main living room upstairs opened, and an old man in his fifties personally sent a young man of twenty-four or five years old and very handsome to go downstairs. Gu Cheng hurriedly got up, and the topic was naturally stopped.
That old man was naturally Gu Cheng's uncle and grandfather, and the young man was a regular visitor who came to Longfu to visit friends today.
"Hello uncle and grandfather, hello Mr. Jiang. Gu Cheng politely took the initiative to reach out and shake hands, and handed the business card to the guest. As for the other party's name, he naturally heard it when he was chatting with his cheap cousin just now.
The old man's eyes lit up, and he actually showed a few traces of vicissitudes, and after a pause, he sighed: "Are you Xiao Gu? Okay, good, I didn't expect that there would be a day to contact relatives on the mainland." I didn't expect that my sister would have descendants. ”
The visitors next to him stopped without embarrassment, and they did not leave or stay. Fortunately, Gu Cheng's cousin quickly went up to relieve the siege and helped him introduce: "This is my aunt's grandson, who stayed in the mainland." When my father heard that his aunt's family had died in the cowshed in the 70s, he didn't want to visit. In the last two years, it was found that there were still relatives. Father is so excited, don't mind being snubbed. ”
The handsome young man suddenly waved his hand modestly to show that he was not in the way: "What kind of friendship do we have, don't talk about these false courtesies." You guys get busy first, and if you don't think I'm an eyesore, you can sit down for a while. ”
"Why, Uncle You, sit. ”
Jiang Youbo sat next to him peacefully, looking very casual, and joined the family's small talk.
After the initial excitement and emotion, my uncle and grandfather actually asked Gu Cheng a question crampedly, like a young man: "My sister is in the mainland, did you resent my father and I ...... later?"
Gu Cheng spread his hands helplessly: "Grandma passed away 10 years before I was born......"
Uncle and grandfather were right when he thought about it, and smiled bitterly at himself: "It's not that I'm old and confused, I actually asked you this kind of thing." Alas. ”
Gu Cheng couldn't bear to let the old man blame himself, so he pondered and added: "However, I heard my mother mention it when I was a child, and it seems that my grandmother didn't say much about that matter before she died. She feels that it is quite stable to live on the mainland, and the last thing can only be said to be a natural and man-made disaster. ”
Uncle and grandfather seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good, my father was also forced to do it at the beginning." Two months before the retreat, the tragedy of the Taiping Wheel had just occurred. The boat we retreated from was also overloaded several times, and no one knew if they would make it to Wanwan alive. The father also thought that the sin would not be as good as his wife and daughter, and if his wife and daughter stayed on the mainland, they would not be killed, and it would be good if the sea sank......"
"I understand, in fact, grandma didn't blame you. Gu Cheng was relieved and wanted to expose these boring topics.
There are some sad things, who can tell right and wrong, the past is over.
The family chattered until noon, and the ins and outs of the decades were almost clear. The Long family naturally stayed with Gu Cheng and Jiang Youbo for dinner, but Jiang Youbo didn't shirk it, it seemed that they were world friends.
"Mr. Gu came to Wanwan this time, is it to visit relatives?" At the dinner table, Jiang Youbo was a little curious, and asked without seeing it.
Gu Cheng smiled modestly: "Yes, by the way, do some business." ”
The cousin nodded to Gu Cheng on the side: "You want to call Uncle Jiang! ”
"Eh, everyone is less than 10 years old, so don't call me old when you call my uncle. Jiang Youbo stopped the red tape in time.
He always felt that Gu Cheng was very handsome, and he was not ordinary handsome. It was an inexplicably cordial handsome, handsome of the same kind. So he couldn't help but ask, "Are you a half-breed?"
As soon as this question was asked, Jiang Youbo knew that it was a bit rude, but he was just curious.
"Uh...... My grandmother is from Dongyi, is that okay?" Gu Cheng replied a little embarrassed.
"No wonder, they all say that half-breeds are particularly handsome. Jiang Youbo smiled indifferently, and then couldn't help but say, "You know, my grandmother is Lucia, and I'm also a quarter half-blood. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed, after all, everyone in Wanwan knew that the wife of the former president was Mao Ziniu.
Gu Cheng took advantage of other people's inquiries to roughly explain the purpose of his trip to open an entertainment economic company, and also made it clear that he needed to find someone to help him hold a few points of equity on his behalf in order to bypass supervision, and he also bluntly said that this company is an empty shell that crosses the bridge, and there will be no profits in the future.
When Gu Cheng first proposed this idea, everyone at the table was shocked.
After all, it was a young man who turned 17 in two months.
However, after hearing that Gu Cheng had started an online game company in the mainland from scratch, all doubts were dissipated. Gu Cheng was too lazy to pretend to be forced in front of these distant relatives, so he pulled the topic over with an understatement.
These are the little things. After figuring out the ins and outs and being surprised, the Long family naturally agreed to hold it on behalf of them. Although they are not a wealthy family, at least they are richer than the ordinary middle class, and they will not be so shallow as to damage their family and reputation for hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Moreover, when a group of Wanwan people heard that Gu Cheng was so optimistic about several Wanwan musicians who had just debuted or were about to debut, they were also proud in their hearts - sure enough, the mainland still felt that Wanwan's cultural industry was relatively developed.
This is the most talked about topic by Wanwan people.
After eating, Gu Cheng and Jiang Youbo were a little familiar, he learned that the other party grew up in Canada, and he wanted to study in Canada at the beginning of his undergraduate, and then he went to New York for a whole year, and he wasted a few majors, and finally decided to study design.
Maybe rich sons are so casual, they only know where their real interests are in their lives after studying for a year or two, and they change careers if they are not interesting.
Chatting and chatting, Gu Cheng casually inquired about the other party's current livelihood.
Jiang Youbo said casually: "I just opened a design company to play, but it is still very unreliable, I am studying at Parsons College, and I will return to New York after a while." ”
Gu Cheng invited playfully: "Then my newly opened company will rent office space tomorrow, but I have to ask Brother Jiang to help me design it." ”
Jiang Youbo's face sank, as if he was disgusted. After hesitating, he said in a calm tone as calmly as possible: "Asking me to design an office for you will not help you in any way." I won't use my surname Jiang to take over the business, and I won't push the business out because my surname is Jiang. ”
Gu Cheng was stunned for a moment, only to know that the other party wanted to be crooked, so he laughed self-deprecatingly: "I invite you, what does it matter if your surname is Jiang or not?" I invited you because you are my uncle's friend, and I think you have a reliable character and dry goods. ”
Jiang Youbo was arrogant for a moment, sat upright and clarified: "That's the best, I'm afraid that you are from the mainland, I don't know the situation, and I thought that Wanwan is also a business path for officials and businessmen, so I reminded you...... And you don't know my design talent, so it's really inappropriate to make such a hasty decision. ”
"Talent is all about details, I look at designers, just look at people. Gu Cheng said confidently.
"Hey, you kid is really ......" Jiang Youbo still wanted to say something to teach him, thinking that he didn't seem to be qualified, he swallowed again. Reluctantly began to state his own design philosophy.
He is more temperamental and likes to work with people who appreciate his ideas. Otherwise, even if the money is smashed in front of him, he will not bother to take the order. After all, every room of the Jiang family is still thin and has assets, and there are thousands of incomes every year just by relying on real estate leasing. The rich man does business just to play a hobby.
Businesses that don't agree with each other are then annoyed.
"I think the essence of design lies in inheriting and reinterpreting traditional culture. At least I can only do this, the accumulation left by traditional culture is enough for us to digest it for several lifetimes. As a Chinese person, it's boring to be greedy and chew more. The best design is to be able to interpret an existing culture into a new structure. ”
Jiang Youbo pondered for a long time before throwing out such a paragraph.
If Gu Cheng couldn't understand it, he planned not to take the business.
However, Gu Cheng didn't hesitate at all, and easily picked up the topic: "Interpretivist art, I know." I also appreciate this kind of thinking, and it was stupid to blindly say that I was innovating without looking at what my predecessors had already done. ”
"yes? I don't like to talk to people who drop their book bags. You are engaged in the Internet, how can you have this kind of understanding. ”
"Of course, I learned this through my own business. Gu Cheng replied lightly, without showing a hint of pretense.
Jiang Youbo found himself more and more interested in this new friend.