When I got off the plane, it was the early morning of Xiangping.

The airport was literally empty, with the terminal building lit up and standing alone two miles away. Because it was too late, there was no shuttle bus, so everyone could only walk out of the airport with large bags of luggage under the guidance of the flight attendant.

Outside the airport is a desolate field, and if you want to go back to the city, you can only choose to sleep in the guest house next to the airport, or spend the night on a bench in the lobby.

But in this foggy winter, especially in the humid and cold environment of the south, it's not a good idea to sleep in a waiting hall that doesn't even have air conditioning.

Chen Xu didn't have to worry about sleeping, because when he walked out of the hall with two boxes of pastries and looked around, he had already seen his eldest brother's 212 jeep, the yellow mud on his car had never been cleaned, and anyone could recognize it at a glance.

The eldest brother and his clothes were lying in the driver's seat, with his feet diagonally inserted on the bridge placed in the co-pilot, and he snored with his mouth open. The loud roar of the plane as it landed didn't wake him up, and he was dreaming an unknown dream.

Chen Xu watched his eldest brother sleep soundly, smiled and took out a large piece of mung bean cake from the pastry box and stuffed it into that big mouth.

"When did you come, boy, don't wake me up...... Ah! Why did you lose weight like this, I don't know how sad it is to go back and let my mother see it. This stuff is so delicious, is there anything else? Maybe it was the sweetness in his mouth, the eldest brother opened his eyes suddenly, spit out the half-melted mung bean cake in his mouth to the palm of his hand, and saw clearly that it was a piece of cake through the faint yellow light on the roof of the car, and at the same time saw Chen Xu, who was smirking outside the car window, he reacted, and then stuffed the mung bean cake back into his mouth.

"Yes! I bought two big boxes for you. Chen Xu held two large boxes of pastries to his chest like a treasure, and said with a smile on his face.

"Get in the car, let's go home and talk about it, knowing that you are coming back, grandpa and dad are waiting for you at home!" The eldest brother took the pastry box in from the car window, and then motioned for Chen Xu to get in the car.

"How did you know I was back?" Chen Xu closed the co-pilot's door, he secretly returned to Xiangping, and it was strange that the eldest brother would wait for him outside the airport.

"It was Beijing who called and said that you ran away on a plane, didn't Mr. Deng invite you to dinner? What an honor, what are you doing when you come back in the middle of the night quietly? I was so anxious that I didn't even want my luggage. ”

"This kind of honor is too heavy for me, so I don't want it." Chen Xu closed the co-pilot's door and calmly replied.

"It's good to go home anyway, the outside world is so chaotic, and it's almost dead when you go out on an errand. I haven't even been out of Huxiang Province once in my life, don't you live well! "The eldest brother looked at his younger brother who was not thin, not to mention how distressed he was, when he went out, he was a chubby person, and when he came back, he became like this, and whoever saw it would be uncomfortable.

After speaking, Chen Weiguo didn't forget to blame: "I see that you used to study abroad and play wild, and you wanted to run out after staying at home for a few months." Let's learn a lesson this time! ”

"How's the house? My accident didn't affect my family! Chen Xu diverted the topic and asked.

"There's nothing going on at home, just when you disappeared, my mother couldn't sleep all day and all night, and then you were rescued, we hid your injuries, and said that you would recuperate in a Japanese hospital for a while, and your mother settled down." Chen Weiguo started the car and drove slowly in the direction of his home with the headlights on.

"Where's the factory?" Chen Xuyou continued to ask.

"The factory has changed greatly in the past few months, thanks to your big order, Mr. Deng allocated a CNC machining center, valve factory and bearing factory to our factory, and finally gave us a subsidy of 10 million yuan to build a factory." Chen Weiguo's eyebrows fluttered and said, this time he has introduced so much advanced equipment from abroad, and the factory has changed its guns since then, and he no longer has to worry about the factory going out of business.

In Chen Xu's contract, in addition to helping China establish a complete production line of high-end CNC cutting machine tools, Japan also needs to provide an additional 30 sets of finished CNC machine tools.

The production line is too important to the country, so the country will definitely build factories in economically developed areas such as Beijing or Shanghai, and Chen Xu doesn't want to.

As for the additional 30 sets of finished CNC machine tools, in order to prevent the Japanese from playing word games, Chen Xu deliberately emphasized the meaning of the word "set" in the contract: each set contains more than ten completely different CNC machine tools.

It is estimated that the boss saw Chen Xu's hard work, so he waved his hand to Jiangnan Machinery Factory as a reward. As for the valve factory and the ball bearing factory, it is estimated that there is little interest in this kind of basic industrial project in Beijing, so they will be sent over as a partner.

"I have negotiated an interest-free loan of one billion US dollars, and in exchange for nearly 80 billion yuan, we will build a factory for 10 million, and this subsidy is not even a fraction." Chen Xu flipped through the white smoke, he had a deep resentment against the boss, 10 million is tantamount to a long drought and a rainstorm for Jiangnan Machinery Factory, but it is really a drop in the bucket for Chen Xu's future career.

"You can't become a fat man by eating a bite, we have these are enough, and I will take you to see the construction site of the new factory tomorrow, I have seen the design drawings of the Japanese, and when the new factory is completed, it covers an area of almost ten football fields! The cost of those modern factories is really not cheap, just one building costs tens of millions, which is more expensive than the whole house of our factory combined, but fortunately, the money is paid by the Japanese, and we don't need to worry about it. These little Japanese people are really unambiguous, and in order to facilitate the construction of a cement factory with a daily output of 2,000 tons directly under the nearby stone mountain, there are few such large cement factories in the country! Even excavators, forklifts, and cement mixer trucks were brought in from Japan. According to the meaning of the Japanese, after the construction is completed, the cement plant and construction machinery will be sent to us! ”

The more Chen Weiguo drove the car, the more energetic he became, and the spittle splashed on the windshield. Chen Xu didn't think it was strange that the Japanese would send engineering equipment for free, and in the later generations, a small cement factory in any county town had a daily output of four or five thousand tons, which was not in the eyes of Japan, the strongest tyrant in the world at this stage.

It's just that for the big brother who is careful about budgeting, getting these construction machinery is a big bargain.

The car drove into the dormitory community, Chen Xu got out of the car and looked at the old and mottled buildings around, frowned and said: "These houses are dilapidated and old, and the spacing between the buildings is not scientific. ”

"Build a dormitory? They just built a factory for us, and building a dormitory building is a private matter in our factory, so they won't care! Chen Weiguo followed behind with two boxes of pastries, shook his head and said.

"Big brother, you know a yarn! The Japanese are responsible for the construction of the factory, including the highway connected to the railway station, the railway, and the supporting dormitories, you won't be stupid to push these things away! Chen Xu frowned, talking about business is really stuck everywhere, the country still knows nothing about foreign modern factories, they only think that the plant will be built, in their eyes, only the workshop that handles materials is the first line of production, and everything else is secondary. As everyone knows, roads and railways that can quickly enter and exit materials, and dormitory buildings that improve the lives of employees, these supporting facilities are also equally important.

"Click" two boxes of pastries fell to the ground, the eldest brother cried and said: "At the beginning, the Japanese took out the architectural design drawings of the dormitory building and asked me to set aside an area to build the dormitory building......

Chen Xu walked in front with his hands behind his back, shook his head and sighed: "We won't eat this loss, I will go to talk to the Japanese in person tomorrow, and they can't cut corners about the good things that are said in the contract." ”

It would cost at least 50,000 or 60,000 yuan to build a modern dormitory area where tens of thousands of people live, not to mention supporting roads and railways.

The eldest brother knew that he had made a big mistake, picked up the pastry and followed behind dejectedly, without the vigor just now.

Walking to the door of the house, Chen Xu felt a lot of emotion, compared to the complexity outside, only the home is the most reassuring place.

The eldest brother took out the key to open the door and entered the house, thinking that the family was asleep late at night so he didn't knock on the door, but after entering the house, the whole family was watching TV in the living room, waiting for Chen Xu to come home.

"Oh, my son! Who made you like this......" Seeing Chen Xu's skinny appearance when he came back in half a year, how could the women in the family stand it, and they swarmed around him to check up and down. Especially when the old mother saw Chen Xu enter the house, she didn't say a word and lifted his clothes, not to mention the zipper-type scars all over her body, not to mention how hideous they were, seeing her son's white and tender body like this, her eyes were red and she couldn't stop wiping tears.

The second sister gritted her teeth next to her and said: "Those Soviets, who have done such a poisonous thing to you, such a country that has sacrificed its livestock will die sooner or later." ”

"It's all a small injury, just looking at Yan zhòng, in fact, there is nothing at all." Chen Xu tried his best to comfort his mother, but the wounds on his body were really unconvincing, and anyone could see that this was his body after healing from a serious injury.

"Child, you sit here, there are a lot of dishes heated for you in the kitchen, and I will bring them out for you to eat." As the old mother spoke, she pressed Chen Xu on the sofa and went to the kitchen with her sister-in-law to serve food.

Chen Xu originally wanted to reach out to stop it, he ate some pastries on the plane, and now he is not hungry at all. Besides, his stomach and intestines have been washed by the medicinal juice for three months, and he already has stomach problems, and he can't eat too much every time.

But he didn't want to disappoint his mother, after all, in her eyes, her son was so thin, it was always good to eat more. In order to reassure my mother, I had to endure the stomach pain after eating, and I had to eat even if it was a hard stopper.

Dad knew about Chen Xu's injury, and Professor Kuriyama also told him that people would become thinner after recuperation, but when he saw his son's really skinny appearance, his face couldn't bear it.

"A manly man is a little injured, a man can only grow up when he encounters major events, and he will be reliable in the future!" Grandpa was still sitting in the old position on the sofa, holding a cane in his hand and not moving, he glanced at Chen Xu, and the corners of his eyes twitched twice unnaturally.

"Grandpa, in the future, I will rely on your old man to help me block in front." Chen Xu knew that he would still have to face the storm after returning to China, and only Chen Hu's status and power in this family could block these external interferences. It is also a loss that there is an old man, and all domestic forces dare not act rashly, otherwise it is a question of whether Chen Xu can move freely after getting off the plane.

"I'm old...... Now I can still block the wind for you, and when I die, who will prop up the façade for you? Iron striking also needs its own hardness, and there must be rules to do things! With this lesson, don't do this kind of thing beyond your ability in the future, hurt others and hurt yourself! ”

The old man could see it, although he was also curious about why his grandson had so much energy, but he was not ready to ask more, but only reminded him to be careful in the future.