Chapter 104: Shopping Together
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, a circle of people from the old Chen family rarely got together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, except for the uncle's son who could not return from his duties abroad, there were still many people present in the family this year.
This time, Su Jin did not make a small surname again, and behaved extremely decently, coupled with Chen Xiao's change of surname, the meal was still harmonious.
Especially looking at Su Jin's careful dishes for many elders at the table, and her words and deeds that are beneficial to them, it is enough to make Dai Minli, Chen Xiuting and others stare roundly.
Let's not talk about the changes in this son-in-law, these two people were still in trouble half a year ago, how can they be like glue in a blink of an eye, they have become a model couple!
Chen Yuanding and Yang Huazhi also have a lot of light on their faces, although they know some internal things, they are naturally happy to see it happen if they can raise their eyebrows in front of their family members.
It is the so-called tacit understanding of the heart and harmony with the outside world!
In the next few days, Chen Xiao and Su Jin began to visit relatives and friends, sometimes following their parents, sometimes the two of them together, and occasionally walking alone.
In a blink of an eye, it was the third year of junior high school, and in two days Chen Xiao and Su Jin would have to return to Yunjiang, and now they can spare so many vacations, thanks to Xu Fanglei's help.
After a big visit, Chen Xiao and Su Jin finally went to visit Mr. Su again, but because they had passed the New Year's Pass, they still didn't meet many relatives of the Su family on this trip, except for their mother-in-law Qiao Huixi, they saw Su Jin's little uncle Qi Yunshan.
Qi Yunshan is currently serving as a bureau-level cadre in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and he looks like a gentleman and is also very talkative, just after smoking two cigarettes with him, Chen Xiao has a good impression of this person.
After dinner in the evening and chatting for a while, Chen Xiao was given an "eviction order" by the old man!
"You don't need to run to me all day long, it's not that you won't see each other in the future, it's rare that you and Xiao Jin will go back on vacation, leave some personal time for yourself, you don't need to walk around like your parents, no one stops!"
Coupled with the persuasion of her mother-in-law and others, Chen Xiao had to agree, ready to go to Su Jin, and then leave together.
At this moment, Su Jin was in an elegant and chic room in the side courtyard, accompanying Qi Yunshan's daughter, that is, her little cousin, watching TV with relish, and the sound of joy wafted out from it from time to time, and Chen Xiao was quite surprised to hear it: I have been together for so long, and I have never seen this wife laugh so happily.
It wasn't until he walked into the house and saw the program being shown on the TV that even he couldn't help laughing.
After a long time, it turned out that these two people were watching the TV series they had invested in!
At the beginning, Chen Xiao just wanted to earn some pocket money on a whim, so he borrowed four million from Yang Huazhi's mother's family and entrusted it to Ge Xiaoxiao to negotiate the purchase of the copyright of "Wulin Gaiden", and the subsequent progress was smooth, through Ge Xiaoxiao's shrewd negotiation and background, and with Xu Fanglei's help to dredge up the relationship with CCTV, Chen Xiao obtained a total of 25% of the copyright share.
Originally, almost all industry experts were not optimistic about this "shoddy" indoor scene drama, even laymen like Ge Xiaoxiao felt that Chen Xiao was completely messing around, purely taking a lot of money to go to waste, but since logging into CCTV, this low-cost large-scale costume comedy has seized the film and television market in the New Year's period with unrivaled momentum, after the first few days of sluggishness, the miraculous began to show potential energy, and in a few days, the national ratings also soared from 1.9% to 4.2% at the beginning, It has aroused a strong response among the audience, and the dark horse is full of color!
As for the income brought to Chen Xiao, it is still zero!
No way, in order to be taken by CCTV, the media overlord, and put it in the Golden Theater at the end of the year, even if there is a relationship with Xu Fanglei, the risk that the CCTV program team has to take is really great, so that the producer opened the price extremely low, almost peddling it at cost price.
But it doesn't matter, after CCTV's super influence and ratings, as well as the strength of "Wulin Gaiden" itself, in the next second round of business negotiations with major provincial and municipal TV stations, it is basically foreseeable that it will make a lot of money!
Even Ge Xiaoxiao, who was stunned when he saw the ratings feedback report, gave him market analysis and predictions, if he can maintain the current upward trend, then in the next year or two, the private profit brought to Chen Xiao by this TV series will likely exceed 50 million!
From this, we can see that the degree of profiteering in the film and television market is no less than that of the stock market!
However, Chen Xiao didn't pay much attention to it, although he knew that the profits brought by this TV series in the future would be far more than that, but as long as he had enough money to spend, he didn't care how much he earned.
And he knows very well that this kind of lucrative project cannot be everywhere, and even a lot of films and television films that he knows will make a lot of money are not something he can touch, because often these large-scale production and large-investment films and television films have official forces and interest groups involved in it to a large extent, and there are too many aspects to be involved, so there is really no need to get into unnecessary trouble for a little money!
Seeing Su Jin holding her ten-year-old cousin Mianmian and watching TV warmly, Chen Xiao suddenly remembered Ning Wei's mother and daughter who were far away in Yunjiang, but fortunately, they would be able to see her in a few days, and they were not in a hurry.
"It's not too early, grandpa asked me to leave with you first, saying that I don't need to accompany you for the time being."
Chen Xiao said as she walked over and rubbed her little head.
However, the little girl was a little timid about this cousin-in-law, and her pink little face got into Su Jin's arms, which made Mr. Chen bored.
"What's wrong with Grandpa?"
Su Jinliu frowned slightly, worried that his grandfather was in a bad mood.
"He said that we have a rare free time, let me accompany you more."
Su Jin was suddenly stunned, and was about to speak, when Mianmian in his arms poked his head out and said softly: "Cousin, are you leaving?" ”
"Mianmian, as long as you are obedient, sensible and obedient, my sister will not only come to accompany you next time, but also bring you a lot of toys and snacks, okay?"
Chen Xiao was amused for a while, as if he used the same trick to deal with Mengmeng last time.
Immediately, after Su Jin's reassurance, and at the same time, Qi Yunshan's wife also came over, Mianmian reluctantly let go of her cousin's arm, but her pink mouth kept pouting, and she even glanced at Chen Xiao resentfully.
Because she knew that she would not see each other for another year, and the reason for tracing back was because this man married his cousin......
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went to say goodbye to the old man together, and the two drove away in the car, Chen Xiao recalled the look on her face just now, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Why do I look at it, your little cousin seems to have a lot of opinions about me, do you think I kidnapped you away, and I am unhappy?" ”
Su Jin burst out laughing, and said with a smile: "It should be about the same, and it is estimated that my little uncle and aunt told her bad things about you behind her back." ”
Chen Xiao pursed her lips, shook her head and sighed for a while, feeling that it was not easy to be the uncle of the Su family!
Su Jin glanced at him, and remembered that before he returned to the capital to get married, he was depressed and unhappy every time, so that these were all seen in Mianmian's eyes, even if he didn't know anything, but his pure mind naturally wouldn't have much affection for Chen Xiao.
Half a year has passed, but the current scene is far more different than he and others expected.
These days, seeing that he has changed his style of deference and politeness to his family and his elders, Su Jin's mood has become more and more improved, especially when she saw the faces of those people who were not used to the sudden change of this son-in-law, she felt a burst of amusement.
"Is it because I've been praised these days, but now my little cousin doesn't buy it, and I feel particularly frustrated?"
"Don't say it, I really feel this way, no wonder they all say that the child's surname is very good, it seems that my cousin-in-law has a lot of remedial work to do."
Chen Xiao joked, glanced at the time, thought for a moment, and hit the steering wheel at the intersection in front.
Su Jin found that it was not in the direction of the villa, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
"I've been busy walking around for the past few days, I'm tired enough, and I'll go back in two days, so it's better to go shopping tonight and buy something to take back to give away."
Chen Xiao said with a smile: "Especially for the sake of your hard work this time, you have successfully blinded those people in my family, and I will pay for your consumption tonight, as a reward for your great hero." ”
Su Jin listened to the first half of the sentence at first, and the corners of his lips flashed with joy, thinking that this guy finally had a little conscience, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, his face immediately sank, and he glared at him with disgust, and there was a burst of anger in his heart: After making trouble for a long time, I thought I was acting, and I was blind for so much hard work!
Chen Xiao was thinking about what gift to buy for Ning Wei and the others at the moment, but she didn't notice Su Jin's abnormality, and after more than 20 minutes of driving, the two finally arrived at the most densely populated commercial pedestrian street in the capital.
Because it was during the New Year's holiday, and it was still night, so at this time, the area was brightly lit and full of people, Chen Xiao parked his car in the nearby public parking lot, and strolled through the bustling streets with Su Jin.
Although there was no snow tonight, the cold wind was still quite biting, especially Chen Xiao was extremely unaccustomed to the cold climate in the north, and after walking around the outside twice, he proposed to go to the shopping mall for a walk, anyway, the goods inside were also readily available.
Walking into the crowded commercial building, the haze on Su Jin's face gradually faded, as if she was driven by the heat of the crowd around, it was Chen Xiao who led her to walk around at will, and in the end, Chen Dagongzi Suo took on the heavy responsibility of carrying the bag!
"Hey, do you have so many people who need to be delivered?"
"Of course, especially those colleagues who helped me work during the Chinese New Year, how could these gifts be missing."
"But you don't need to buy so much, there are still dozens of people in my column group waiting for me to buy it."
"That's not simple, I'll teach you a way to try everything, all men give ties, and women all send scarves, which is light and direct."
The reflection of the light, the flow of people, at this moment, Su Jin seems to have faded that layer of cold clothing, like an ordinary city girl, walking lightly and elegantly in the crowd, sometimes looking back at Chen Xiao's two hands full of bags, she couldn't help but secretly laugh, feeling quite relieved!
Immediately, Su Jin walked into a large women's clothing store, and began to concentrate on picking clothes again, her face was meticulous, and she was picking up a long windbreaker and looking at it, when a female voice came from next to her:
"Su Jin?"