Chapter 036: The Great Fire Fifteen Years Ago
Fifteen years ago, Pan Lizhen's father's foreign trade company was small in T City, and there was a shoe factory under the company, which was also quite competitive. Huang Yiqing www.biquge.info uncle is in charge of foreign trade, and his brother-in-law Pan Yue is in charge of domestic trade, and the business of the whole company is booming.
However, the sudden fire became an eternal nightmare for the Pan family.
Pan Lizhen still clearly remembers that a batch of shoes that were about to be exported to Guinea that night had been neatly stacked in boxes and neatly piled up in the warehouse, waiting for dawn to be shipped to the customs for packing and shipping. This is a big business, from my father to the ordinary workers on the assembly line of the shoe factory, they have all been busy for more than two months.
That night happened to be Pan Jicheng's thirteenth birthday, and the family celebrated in the hotel.
After blowing out the candles and eating the cake, Pan Lizhen's father was not worried about the goods, so he pulled his son Pan Yue to turn around on the way home and go to the warehouse in the suburbs to inspect again. Huang Yiqing also wanted to go, but Pan Lizhen was coquettish and threw the six-year-old Anna, who had fallen asleep after having a good time, into his arms.
Perhaps this is the catastrophe of the Pan family, just as the Pan family father and son were about to leave the warehouse, suddenly sparks flew from the exposed wires, igniting the cardboard boxes stacked below. And the shoes are made of leather, and they are even more crackling, and with a few small bottles of fire extinguishers in the hands of the Pan family's father and son and the staff on duty, they can't be suppressed at all.
By the time the fire brigade's tanker truck had arrived across most of the city, the entire warehouse had already burned to the ground of steel frames and a few charred corpses, as well as the stench of enduring leather.
Pan Yue's wife couldn't accept the facts, so she committed suicide by jumping off the building that night.
Pan Jicheng had just celebrated his thirteenth birthday, and suddenly changed from a carefree rich young master to an orphan without a father and mother.
The entire warehouse burned to ashes, covering up all traces of that night. With the surviving watchman's work card, the police hastily closed the case, attributing the fire accident with three deaths and two injuries to the aging wiring of the warehouse.
The Pan family's company was in crisis like never before.
The shoes exported to Guinea could not be shipped on time, and the foreigners acted according to the contract and did not know how to work around, so the company paid a large amount of liquidated damages, plus repaired the warehouse, compensated the dead and injured employees, and experienced the pain of cutting meat and digging wounds.
All the burdens fell on the shoulders of his uncle Huang Yiqing, and when he dealt with this pile of messes, Pan Lizhen almost didn't recognize him - he lost a lot of weight, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his straight back was slightly stiff.
Pan Jicheng became a well-known rebellious teenager under the dual effects of family changes and adolescent hormones in this war and chaos.
Pan Lizhen, as his guardian, faced with such a rebellious teenager whose whole body was full of rebelliousness, he didn't dare to take care of it and was powerless to take care of it; On the contrary, he could listen to Huang Yiqing's words.
"Ji Cheng has been in the company for almost eight years." Huang Yiqing sighed with emotion, 20-year-old Pan Jicheng was tired of idle days, and wanted to enter the company to experience experience - of course, this company was not the Pan family's company back then, Huang Yiqing had no reason to say no, if it were not for the cornerstone of the Pan family, he Huang Yiqing would not have gone so far.
"It is said that after two years, Ji Cheng will get married and marry his daughter-in-law, and it is time to become calmer." Pan Lizhen smiled, trying to get the fire fifteen years ago out of her mind.
"Hmm." Huang Yiqing was silent, no matter how calm Pan Jicheng became, he was not qualified to inherit the world he had laid brick by brick, he could give him the director of the marketing department, and he might not be able to promote him as a manager in the future, but he didn't want to touch the power of the entire Huang Group.
"The rice is cold, I'll go change a bowl for you." Pan Lizhen saw the opportunity to divert the topic, she knew the regret in Huang Yiqing's heart, how could this not be her regret? If she and Yiqing have their own son, why should she worry about Shen Yunfang's son coveting her property, even if her own son is no longer successful, it will not be too outrageous to have Yiqing take the helm for him.
"No, you don't." Huang Yiqing suddenly lost his appetite, so he hurriedly swallowed a bowl of rice with a plate of cold fried vegetables.
Seeing this, Pan Lizhen also silently ate half a bowl of rice.
For a moment, there was silence at the dinner table.
Huang Yiqing was thinking about how to mention Huang Mingchuan to Pan Lizhen, he had ignored his son who suddenly appeared for the past 20 years, and Pan Lizhen should not be able to accept it; Pan Lizhen pondered that since Huang Yiqing's thoughts could not be reversed, how to help Anna increase her weight on the balance of his emotions.
"Yiqing ......"
"Lizhen ......"
The two were stunned and smiled.
"You speak first." Pan Lizhen had a hunch that Huang Yiqing was going to have a showdown with her, and it was not so easy to hide a son out of thin air.
Huang Yiqing's heart moved, even if Pan Lizhen had any careful thoughts, it was understandable. No woman would be so generous as to accept the children left over from her husband's previous marriage.
Pan Lizhen saw the embarrassment on Huang Yiqing's face, and said with a smile: "It's all old husbands and wives, what else can't be said, don't tell me that you are hiding Jiaojiao in the golden house outside?" ”
"I can't handle any of you with you." Huang Yiqing's heart was relieved, as if the woman in front of him was still the innocent and beautiful girl who could affect his emotions with a smile and a smile twenty years ago.
"That's hard to say!" The more generous he is, the more he can arouse the guilt in Huang Yiqing's heart.
"Lizhen, there is something I've been thinking about for a long time, and I want to discuss it with you."
"What could be hard for you?" Consult? Hmph, it can't be a notification, right? Huang Yiqing is no longer the poor boy who relied on the Yue family to make a fortune back then, Pan Lizhen knows that she can't afford to reject his decision, she just wants to know where his bottom line is. As long as his heart is still with their mother and daughter, there is nothing to fear about Huang Mingchuan - thinking that back then, Shen Yunfang was her defeated subordinate, and she believed that the children trained by Shen Yunfang also had the ability to coax them around.
"You should know what I'm struggling with."
Pan Lizhen was taken aback, Huang Yiqing didn't play cards according to the routine, it seems that none of her small actions escaped his eyes.
Huang Yiqing paid attention to Pan Lizhen's face, and said, "I also know what you're worried about." ”
After the initial panic, Pan Lizhen made up her mind, since Huang Yiqing had opened the skylight and said something bright, she didn't need to hide it anymore.
Pan Lizhen's eyes were red, and tears swirled in her eyes, wanting to fall. Rao is a, but that kind of pitiful look Pan Lizhen handles it very well.
Sure enough, Huang Yiqing's heart softened, and his tone was a little softer: "Lizhen ......"
Pan Lizhen raised her eyes and glanced at Huang Yiqing with a bright look: "Yiqing, I know you are embarrassed. If I had fought hard and given birth to the child, you wouldn't have ......."