"The seaside is damp and easy to mold, I open the window to ventilate on a good day, but the paint still peels off a lot, last month I asked your second uncle to send someone to brush it, and I don't know if there is any smell. The sheets and bedding are all new, I heard you Aunt Gu say that the new ones are unhygienic, and I also washed them before making them......"

"Xia Yao, marrying a person is like this once in a lifetime, who doesn't want to have a beautiful and decent wedding? At that time, we were simple because there were no conditions, but now that we have this condition, why don't we do it for good? I've talked to your mom about it, and if you feel that it's not suitable for a new house here, you'll pick a suitable one.

There are many high-rise buildings in the Special Economic Zone, all with elevators, and your second uncle just bought a set for Xiaolian and Changhe, 26 floors, floor-to-ceiling glass, and you can see Hong Kong when you pull the curtains. Mom is useless, timid, dizzy when taking the elevator, was pulled by your aunt to the window and didn't dare to look down, if you two like it, let's buy a set of ......"

It feels good to be home, the beach house looks a little old, the surrounding environment is neither as peaceful as the villa on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, nor as beautiful as the lakeside wooden house at Leipzig International Airport, and the decoration is not as luxurious as a star hotel, but Xia Yao feels that this place is better than anywhere.

The old lady smiled from ear to ear, the mother-in-law kept nagging, and the mother chattered, this is the atmosphere of home.

Xia Yao finished sorting out the nutritional products he bought for his grandmother, turned around and smiled: "Mom, we won't go anywhere, just stay at home, and don't pick up upstairs, it's good." ”

The daughter-in-law did not dislike herself, Wu Xiulan's heart warmed, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "In the new house and new house, the furniture must be replaced with a new one, right?" Your second uncle just rented a front door. There are all kinds of furniture. Sitting on the plane for so long. Rest today, and your mother and I will accompany you to pick it up tomorrow. ”

"I really don't need mom."

Xia Yao didn't want to make so much trouble, and said in an almost pleading tone: "I haven't lived in a few rooms upstairs, it's no different from the new one, it's not only a waste to replace them all, but I don't feel as used to living as I am now, not only do I not want to change it, but I definitely don't want to change it." ”

Not seen for a year. Her daughter grew up all of a sudden, Tian Qiuju liked this change very much, and smiled sideways: "Xiulan, it's too troublesome to move around, listen to the children, right?" ”

In the past few years, she has participated in the weddings of several pairs of younger generations, and the family is more beautiful than the other, the Zhang family has not had a happy event for many years, and there is just such a son, how can Wu Xiulan agree: "If you don't change anything, is it still called a new house?" ”

"A new person is a new house."

Tian Qiuju is a teacher in the end. has a completely different view of the wedding of her son-in-law and youngest daughter, and she took Wu Xiulan's hand. "Xiulan, it's a good thing that children don't like to do a lot of things!" It is said that diligence and thrift are used to keep a family, and if you want your family to prosper, diligence and thrift are indispensable. Besides, the Zhang family is different from other families, and it can't be compared with those nouveau riche, especially the charter, which has been praised like flowers by Hong Kong TV and newspapers, and has almost become a model for young people.

You have worked in the power supply bureau, you must know that the typical is not so easy to be, like this kind of marriage event, I don't know how many people are staring at it! If it is too extravagant and wasteful, what will others think and say? After all, he represents not only himself, but also the group and the laboratory. ”

My son is famous, especially some time ago, and I can see it on Hong Kong TV almost every day.

It is related to his public image, the future of the group and the laboratory, Wu Xiulan did not dare to make the decision, and agreed with deep understanding: "Qiu Ju is right, I didn't think it through, I didn't buy a new house, I didn't change the furniture, what is now and what will be in the future, it depends on you." ”

As he was talking, Xia Ning and Su Xingyun, who came on temporary leave, walked in. Xia Yao hurriedly got up to greet him, while Wu Xiulan was busy asking them if they had eaten.

"Auntie, don't be busy, we've really eaten in the company."

"Really?"

"Really, why did I lie to you."

Xia Ning sat Wu Xiulan down, looking up and down at her sister who had reunited after a long absence, and asked curiously: "Xia Yao, what about the charter, why are you coming back alone?" ”

Xia Yao greeted his brother-in-law, and said with a smile: "He is in the laboratory, and he has to go to the headquarters in the afternoon, Mr. Wu, Mr. Xu, Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin are all waiting for him, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come back until the evening." ”

"So busy?"

"After all, I left for a year, and so many things happened during that time."

The investigation of the NB Electric Group and NB Laboratory by the United States has not been reported with much fanfare in China, and if it were not for the Hong Kong television signal received by the Special Administrative Region, the vast majority of the employees of the Chinese companies would certainly have been kept in the dark.

Xia Ning is a "relative of the emperor", but she is just an ordinary employee in NB Electronics Group, and the workshop supervisor is the biggest leader she can speak. And Hong Kong TV speaks Dongguang dialect, she and Su Xingyun only know that there is such a thing, but they don't know the ins and outs, and they don't even know the results of the investigation.

Seeing that she wanted to speak and stopped, Xia Yao reacted, and then said: "The matter of the US investigation has been resolved, and it is purely out of nothing, and colleagues in the US company are safeguarding our legitimate rights and interests through legal channels. Even the President of the United States apologized, not only invited him to the White House as a guest, but also awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom. ”

Xia Ningle couldn't help but laugh and said: "I still wonder why there are so many orders from the United States these days, it turns out that they admitted their mistake." ”

Xia Yao asked with interest: "Color TV or computer monitor?" ”

"Yes, the production task has been scheduled to the end of November, and there is still so much time before the New Year, and the workshop, the personnel department and the trade union have begun to mobilize, asking everyone to stagger the vacation to ensure that people and machines do not stop."

"What are you two going to do?"

Xia Ning took the drink handed by Wu Xiulan, and said with a smile: "I am your sister, I can only give you a long face, I can't hold you back, your brother-in-law and I are the first batch to sign up for the big year and the little year, if we are still in the cotton mill, they have to send a certificate of merit to the two of us." ”

"Who can you hide from your little care?"

Tian Qiuju poked her forehead and said without hesitation: "Xingyun's parents are gone, there is no one in my hometown, and we are all here." Is it necessary to go back to your hometown for the New Year? Besides, the company has regulations this year. Overtime work during the Spring Festival is triple the salary. If you stick to your post in both the big and small years, you can also travel abroad next year. ”

Wu Xiulan said with a smile while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks: "If you don't work, how can you get three times your salary, and if you don't work overtime, how can you have the opportunity to travel?" Qiu Ju, don't say that about Xia Ning and Xingyun. ”

Xia Yao seemed to remember something, and hurriedly got up and said, "Mom, there may be two guests in the evening, a man and a woman from Germany." The man's name is Jan Joseph, and the woman's name is Magdalena, and they will stay in our house, and they will not leave for a while. ”

Zhang Lin brought Natasha back to live for a while, Wu Xiulan didn't feel much surprised, and smiled casually: "It's not that there have been foreigners at home, there are many rooms, just live." ”

"But they're not like Natasha, they're going to get along with us day and night."

"What do you mean?"

"They're bodyguards, they're in charge of charter security. That is, they go wherever the charter goes. ”

Wu Xiulan was completely dumbfounded, and was stunned for a while before she asked again: "Is the SAR safe?" Is it necessary to find a bodyguard, or a foreign one? ”

"The security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region does not mean that Hong Kong is also safe."

Xia Yao took out a stack of newspapers from his bag and said with a serious face: "Mom, this is the 'World Chinese Billionaire List' just released last month, and the qualification for the list is based on 100 million US dollars, if you own shares in listed companies, then the closing price of the stock on June 31 this year is used as the basis for calculation." As for real estate, it is estimated with reference to the local market price in the last six months. If a company owned by a wealthy person is not listed, a comparison will be made with listed companies of the same type and size, or with reference to the shares of unlisted companies in the country.

Because the wealth of wealthy Chinese in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia is too hidden, unlike the rich in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which are quite transparent, nor as easy to calculate as the rich in real estate and other fields like Hong Kong's, the overall situation is low. But this list is still convincing on the whole, and the order of ranking and the assets counted are basically the same. ”

What is the "World Chinese Billionaires List", I have never heard of it. The newspaper was in English, so even if she couldn't read it, Wu Xiulan asked disapprehantly, "What does this have to do with San'er?" ”

"Your son is on the list."

Xia Yao sighed lightly, pointed to the newspaper and said with a wry smile: "No. 51, ranked after Wu Yuyin, a wealthy Thai billionaire from Shantou, if Hong Kong billionaires are singled out, then he is the 10th richest person in Hong Kong!" ”

"Hong Kong's 10th richest man, what's the joke?"

"Mom, I'm not joking with you, although it sounds a bit exaggerated, if you count those invisible rich, maybe you can only rank after the 20th, but no one can deny that your son is a billionaire, and he is a billionaire with great development potential."

Xia Ning was also stunned by this news, she didn't know English, but she knew the series of Arabic numerals on her sister's finger and the symbols behind the numbers, and counted them twice before she asked suspiciously: "Xia Yao, the charter really has 2.6 billion US dollars?" ”

"Of course not, people count it as fixed assets."

She knew that the charter had money, but she didn't know that there was so much money. Wu Xiulan didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, and after thinking about it, she asked, "What about your brother-in-law and your eldest sister?" ”

"My brother-in-law and eldest sister are also billionaires, but they have to be ranked after the top 150. In addition, the charter is different from that of my brother-in-law, one is young, the other is academically accomplished, and some time ago I made some names in the world, which is really a big deal. Moreover, it is impossible for him to stay in the SAR all the time, and at least half of the time in the future will be spent conducting research at the headquarters of the Clear Water Bay Laboratory, so some of his friends and even Mr. Wu believe that they should pay attention to safety and should not be taken lightly. ”

Looking at the way everyone looked at each other, Xia Yao continued: "Their worries are not unreasonable, Hong Kong tycoon Wang Huide I don't know if you have heard of it, in 1983, he and his wife were kidnapped by several bandits armed with knives and guns on the way to work from the independent garden house on Pak Lok Trail on the top of the mountain. The bandits put Mr. Wang in a large refrigerator and transported him to the bandits' den, released his wife, and asked her to go back to prepare a huge amount of money for ransom.

Mr. Wang was released only after his wife had remitted $11 million to a designated Taiwanese bank account. Due to the careful planning and intricacy of the kidnappers, this case caused a sensation throughout Southeast Asia at that time. made Mr. Wang and his wife famous overnight and became the focus of the public.

However, the catastrophe did not end there. In April of the previous year, the real tragedy unfolded. Two days later, his company received a ransom call from the kidnappers demanding US$60 million, and his wife deposited US$30 million into a bank account as instructed by the kidnappers, but this time Mr. Wang never returned. According to the confession of the kidnappers who were arrested by the police, Mr. Wang had already been thrown into the sea. ”

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, Wu Xiulan realized the seriousness of the problem, and Tian Qiuju was nervous, for fear that her son-in-law would have even the slightest accident.

Even Su Xingyun thought that his brother-in-law was in danger, so he got up and said, "Xia Yao, my brother-in-law has no ability, he just has brute strength, or let me drive for you." ”

"Brother-in-law, I don't want you to be in any danger anymore, it's enough to have Jan Joseph and Magdalena, they are professionals, they have previously protected the dignitaries of the former East Germany, and they are also protected in St. Petersburg."

The safety of her son is more important than anything else, Wu Xiulan didn't dare to put her pressure on the two foreigners, glanced at her mother-in-law Tian Qiuju, and said to herself: "You can't have the heart to harm people, and you can't have the heart to prevent people, Xia Yao, whether you agree or not, I have to talk to your Uncle Ding and Uncle Chen about this matter." (To be continued......)