Volume II, Chapter XII
At more than six o'clock in the evening, Wang Yunqing got off work, he just walked to the door of the house with his leather bag, and saw a person wearing a cotton coat standing in the dim light at the door of the house. Lao Zhao also saw Wang Yunqing, and after the two said hello, Wang Yunqing invited Lao Zhao into his courtyard.
Entering the courtyard, Wang Yunqing called Gui Fang, and led Lao Zhao into the main room in the front yard to sit down, and after a while, Gui Fang walked in. Gui Fang was very happy to see her father coming, and hurriedly served a pot of tea. Wang Yunqing waved his hand at Gui Fang and said, "Go and tell your mother-in-law that your in-laws are here." Gui Fang agreed, and walked out quickly.
Wang Yunqing and Lao Zhao just chatted a few words, and Mrs. Wang, Gui Fang, and Hongxing all walked into the house. At this time, Lao Zhao suddenly made an astonishing move, he stood up and walked to Wang Yunqing and his wife, threw off the cotton coat he was wearing and knelt on the ground, only to see him naked, with several circles of straw rope wrapped around his body, and on his front chest and back he wrote four big characters with an ink pen "Negative salary and please sin", he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Wang Yunqing and his wife three times. His actions were really unexpected, Wang Yunqing hurriedly stepped forward to pull him up, Lao Zhao insisted on kneeling on the ground, he said that this was Xuelian quite to Lin Xiangru to ask for the guilt, when the lord and wife forgave him before he could stand up. Wang Yunqing smiled and quipped: "Lao Zhao, you are just shirtless and not paid!" That Lian Po you don't learn much like that, so hurry up! ”
Lao Zhao said seriously: "Master, don't I have no firewood at home!" ”
Mrs. Wang said: "Lao Zhao, haven't we already forgiven you, get up quickly, you make the children feel bad like this." Mrs. Wang said to Gui Fang again, "Gui Fang, hurry up and help your father up." ”
When Gui Fang heard her mother-in-law say this, instead of pulling Lao Zhao up, she walked to Lao Zhao's side and knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Yunqing and his wife a few times. With tears in her eyes, she said: "Mother-in-law, we used to do badly, and today my daughter-in-law is here with my father to apologize to you!" ”
Lao Zhao continued Gui Fang's words: "Since my Lao Zhao entered the Wang family to do things, the old lady has always been good to me, never treated me as an outsider, it was because I was not right-hearted, I just wanted to calculate the owner, and I lived up to the trust of the old lady in me, I am an ungrateful villain!" This time, the old lady is an adult who is not as knowledgeable as my villain, and she helps me regardless of her previous suspicions and pulls me out of the sea of suffering! Otherwise, I really don't have a way to live! I will repay the grace of saving my life in my lifetime! ”
"Don't mention Lao Zhao's past, it's a new society now, and our relationship has to start anew, hurry up!"
Wang Yunqing gave Wang Hongxing a look when he spoke, Wang Hongxing understood what his father meant, he walked to Lao Zhao and pulled him up hard; "If you tie your hands behind your back and stick a few branches, it will really look like Lianpo." As he spoke, he untied the rope on Lao Zhao's body with his own hands. At this time, Gui Fang also stood up.
"Gui Fang, go and get a piece of Hongxing's clothes for your dad to wear, how cold it is to wear a coat in the hollow on a cold day!" Shuzhen heard what her mother-in-law said and hurried to get the clothes. Shuzhen brought the clothes in a while, and she helped her father put them on, and then brought him a cup of hot tea and told him to drink it while it was hot.
After Lao Zhao sat down, Wang Yunqing said: "In-laws, I am also selfish to help you, so don't be too careful." Listen to me, there is a lot of money in the burned down factory, Hongxing and Guifang are also shareholders, they are my children, they are in trouble, they can't be ignored as a father, I will help you and help them. ”
"yes, yes!" Lao Zhao couldn't stop nodding.
"I can pay for you to repair the yard that was burned by the fire, but I don't pay you back the money you borrowed from the government, I heard that your loan period is two years, which depends on your factory to make money to repay the loan in the future, and my family's west courtyard is not for you to use forever, and when you develop in the future, you will move the factory away and return me to a quiet, temporary period of three years, do you say this is good?"
"Okay, that's pretty good! I thank you for your great kindness! Lao Zhao kept pretending, and the rest of the family was also very happy.
Wang Hongxing said to Lao Zhao: "Dad, this time is good, our printing house will definitely be able to make a comeback!" ”
"Huh? This is the first time you have called me dad today! Lao Zhao looked at his son-in-law quite strangely.
"Really! You and my dad have met and laughed at each other, and the little estrangement between the two of us is still a thing! ”
Lao Zhao smiled: "Hongxing, I found that you have been good at your mouth these days!" ”
"Hey! I didn't learn this from your daughter and my daughter-in-law! ”
Gui Fang said to Wang Hongxing: "You are not poor, my father just praised you for your good skills, and you sold it on the spot!" Hearing Gui Fang say this, the people in the room were happy.
A fire burned down the Lihua Printing House and the estrangement between the Wang and Zhao families for many years, which was something they had never imagined before.
When Lihua Printing Factory reopened, Lao Zhao specially set up a table in the restaurant and invited his family to dinner to express his gratitude. At the banquet, Wang Yunqing introduced Lao Zhao to a friend surnamed Zhang, who was the owner of a large printing factory that was quite famous in the capital, and Boss Zhang told Lao Zhao that he had taken on too much work and wanted to subcontract part of the business to other printing houses. Under the mediation of Wang Yunqing, after a few glasses of wine, Lihua Printing Factory reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Boss Zhang. Boss Zhang told Lao Zhao: "I only cooperated with you because of Mr. Wang's friendship for many years, and he called me several times for the sake of your factory, and I agreed." ”
Lao Zhao raised his glass happily and said: "I am really grateful to my in-laws and you from the bottom of my heart, and I will ask you to take care of me in the future!" Come! Cheers to celebrate our happy cooperation! ”
Wang Yunqing raised his wine glass and said to Lao Zhao: "Lao Zhao, I want to ask you a question before toasting, why do I want to help you, and there is one more thing I didn't say, guess what?" ”
"Can't guess." Lao Zhao shook his head.
"I'm optimistic that you can make money in this business, and you can make a lot of money! I can't afford to lose money on your money. When the time comes, you will make a lot of money, but you will have to pay me back with interest! Wang Yunqing laughed happily after speaking.
"Cheers!" Everyone in the room drank the wine with joy.
As Wang Yunqing expected, with the support of Boss Zhang, Lihua Printing Factory was almost too busy after only three months of operation, and some of his old customers were also recovered. Lao Zhao roughly calculated, if this momentum continues, Wang Yunqing's entire investment will be recovered in about a year, and the government loan will be repaid in two years.