Zhu Daolin, who was sitting cross-legged, was immersed in the silent and ethereal world for a long time, and a faint lilac halo that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye surrounded Zhu Daolin, who looked serene and had five hearts facing the top, making him intoxicated, like drinking elixir.

From time to time, the fresh cold wind swept into the window on the second floor of the villa, which was not completely closed, and blew the elegant white gauze curtains.

When Zhu Daolin slowly opened his eyes, he found that he had returned to a familiar place, he turned his gaze to the large and small wooden boxes and two gold and bronze Buddha statues scattered on the carpet in front of him, and then looked at the empty bookshelf that occupied most of the wall, and finally lowered his head and caressed the warm jade-like diamond ring on his left wrist, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned with a grateful smile.

After quietly experiencing it for a long time, Zhu Daolin slowly stood up and put the wooden boxes of different lengths and sizes on the carpet one by one on the sturdy and beautiful bookshelves, and finally the two gold and bronze Buddha statues about one meter high were placed in the wide lattice under the bookshelf by him.

"It's scared to death! Why don't you say hello when you come back? ”

Chu Mei, who was wearing a violet nightgown, stood outside the open study door, her left hand clenched into a fist, her right hand grasping a shiny fruit knife, and the corners of her beautiful mouth and lower lip were full of toothpaste bubbles that she had not had time to wipe off.

Zhu Daolin turned around with a smile: "Why are you so nervous?" I came back in the middle of the night, so I came up quietly for fear of disturbing your rest. ”

Chu Mei finally relaxed, leaned against the door frame weakly, and looked Zhu Daolin in a Taoist robe up and down: "The outfit on your body is very good-looking, people who don't know you probably really think that you are a Taoist priest, but the beard on your face affects your image, it's time to shave." ”

Zhu Daolin subconsciously touched the chin with a thick beard, smiled and pointed at the white bubbles on Chu Mei's mouth: "Remember to wipe the bubbles off your mouth after brushing your teeth, and ah, your hair is messy like a chicken nest, it's time to comb it." ”

Chu Mei was so frightened that she turned around and fled back to the guest room opposite the small living room, complaining that Zhu Daolin obviously saw it but didn't say that she wanted to make her ugly, so happy that Zhu Daolin just wanted to laugh out loud.

Zhu Daolin happily took a shower, changed into a comfortable autumn and winter underwear and stone-ground blue jeans, and then took out the coffee-colored casual blazer that he had not worn once from the large closet on the floor, walked to the Bogu shelf between the bedroom and the study and picked up the car keys, and finally picked up the mobile phone that he hadn't used for half a month, pondered for a moment and turned on the power switch of the mobile phone, and found that the power was still sufficient, it was estimated that Chu Mei charged it on his behalf, and the clear screen quickly showed twelve missed call prompts.

Zhu Daolin went downstairs while looking at his mobile phone, suddenly smelled the aroma of fried sausages and toasted bread, put away his mobile phone and strode to the spacious and bright kitchen, and unceremoniously sat on the edge of the dining table and picked up a cup of hot soy milk: "It's so fragrant, I didn't expect you to have such good skills." ”

Chu Mei quickly took off her apron and came to Zhu Daolin's side with a plate of fragrant poached eggs and sat down: "I have eaten boxed lunches at noon for half a month, I am tired of dying, and I am not appetizing to eat outside and I am worried about hygiene, so I have to buy back the materials and make it myself, anyway, you have everything in this spacious and atmospheric kitchen, so you don't have to waste it too much." ”

Zhu Daolin put down the cup without soy milk, and picked up a piece of fried grilled sausage with chopsticks: "No one in the company bullies you, right?" ”

"Who dares to bully me? I'm now the vice president of a hundred people under one person, even if the fox is fake and the tiger is a kind of majesty, isn't it? But you have to reward me and the whole company's employees, these half a month, the company everyone has been working overtime every day, and to print comic books for you, and to install and debug new equipment, several new people in the business department are also very capable, and have won back more than 400,000 orders, but it is really tiring, even Mrs. Liang throws down the nursing child every day to come back to help. "The full life and work have made Chu Mei more cheerful and confident than before.

Zhu Daolin smiled apologetically: "I didn't expect the progress to be so fast, I really have to thank Liang Cheng and you for being a great hero." ”

Chu Mei swallowed half of the poached egg in her mouth, drank a mouthful of soy milk and wiped her mouth: "You didn't mention it, I almost forgot, Mr. Liang was reluctant to buy a car according to your suggestion, or rode that bicycle, all day long either soaked in the workshop, or inspected the quality of infrastructure with the engineers of the construction company, people have lost weight, his wife came to help every day is walking back and forth, and from time to time to send supper to Mr. Liang, who works overtime, I was moved." ”

Zhu Daolin nodded silently: "After breakfast, I will go to the company together, pull Liang Cheng to buy a car together, you can also pick one, anyway, our garage is big enough." ”

Chu Mei was overjoyed: "But I'm ...... I don't have a driver's license yet. ”

"Then go and learn." After Zhu Daolin finished speaking, he began to speed up his eating.

Half an hour later, Zhu Daolin and Chu Mei returned to the company, pulled Liang Cheng, who had finally announced a day off but continued to work overtime, into the car, and drove directly to Liang Cheng's mother-in-law's house to pick up his wife, and went to the automobile city on the outskirts of the city together.

When passing through the mini car monopoly area, Liang Cheng shouted to stop or walked by, Zhu Daolin didn't seem to hear it, and drove the car directly to the Audi store half a kilometer away.

After driving into the parking lot of the Audi 4S store and turning off the engine, Zhu Daolin turned to the Liang Cheng couple in the back seat and said solemnly: "If you want to buy it, buy it better, I know that you two are real people who do not pursue luxury enjoyment, and I also know that you like moderate and safe Audi cars, but isn't there a condition now?" Listen to me, stop arguing. ”

"Wait a minute, you listen to me, the company has just replaced two sets of new equipment, everything is just starting to get on track, four months later the three-storey workshop building and two warehouses will be completed, and the acceptance will pay the balance of more than three million, and then the equipment relocation installation and commissioning costs money, office decoration costs money, factory and office greening costs money, every move is money, you can save a little bit, there is a car to use, there is no need to buy such an expensive one."

Liang Cheng, who is accustomed to careful budgeting, just finished speaking, and his wife, who was more slamming the door than him, immediately echoed it, and finally the two agreed that it was enough to buy a mini car for both passengers and goods.

Zhu Daolin was very moved in his heart, but he didn't give up: "When you got married, I was very poor, I didn't give you any decent gifts, and you didn't say a word about my niece's full moon, now that I have money, I want to make up for it, but you two don't give me a chance, what do I think in my heart?" ”

"Don't say anything, listen to me, Audi A6 is suitable for you, the two ladies choose what car they like, I pay for it, they are all company executives, how can you do it without a good car? Tomorrow I will transfer 10 million to the company's account, it will be regarded as a bank loan, if you want to gain a foothold in the fierce competition, you must continue to invest in and strengthen yourself! ”

"After you go back, you two bosses should buy two top-of-the-line seven-seater Iveco as the company's delivery vehicles as soon as possible, this car can enter the main road in the city, and the performance is also good, okay, get off...... How? Do you want me to keep pleading? ”

"Daolin, I know you have money, but you can't squander it like this!"

Liang Cheng persuaded him again, and his old wife and husband sang with him, and the two of them looked heartbroken, and Chu Mei in the passenger seat was dumbfounded.

Zhu Daolin was annoyed: "Stop! What's wrong with splurging? Why don't you keep it if you don't spend it? Besides, squandering is also a science, and knowing how to squander is the highest level of making money! Forget it, you can't experience such advanced knowledge at your current level, and when you have money, you will understand my current mood, and time will prove that I am right. ”

"Zhu Daolin, the dog's day, deliberately changed his way to harm me, didn't he? Lao Tzu is no longer level, and he is also a mechanical undergraduate graduate, much better than your grandson, who has no high Chinese skills! The sensitive Liang Cheng immediately shouted.

Zhu Daolin laughed, opened the door and went out to pull the red-faced Liang Cheng out of the car, and strode into the specialty store with his arms around his neck.

Liang Cheng, who had strong self-esteem, still wanted to vent, but the two beautiful shopping guides who showed off their branches had already surrounded them, bowing and greeting extremely enthusiastically, forcing Liang Cheng's resentment back into his stomach.

In less than half an hour, Zhu Daolin bought a top-of-the-line black Audi A6, a black and a white hatchback Audi A4, forcibly asked for the ID cards of Liang Cheng and Chu Mei, pulled the smiling female shopping guide to the settlement office to swipe the card, and entrusted the store to complete all the formalities, and immediately got the solemn promise of the store manager: Please come and pick up the car at three o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow!

Zhu Daolin sent the emotionally charged Liang Cheng couple to the company, and began to talk on the phone with Song Shaojun in the capital, and a few minutes later, Chu Mei, who was so excited that she blushed, brought the proofreading sample of the comic book "Golden Vase Plum": "All of them are copied from the Taiwan version, and many of the pages in it are very excessive, but the gangsters in the technical department are just unwilling to delete and modify them." ”

Zhu Daolin put away his mobile phone, picked up one of the volumes and flipped through it: "Yes, I didn't expect it to be so exquisite, it seems that Taiwan's book industry is much stronger than ours, look at this page...... The painting is very delicate, the text is clear and concise, and even the artistic conception is there, tsk ......"

"You're not a good thing either!" Chu Mei was so ashamed that she turned around and left.

Zhu Daolin laughed: "I have to go to Longquan tomorrow, do you have anything I need me to help you bring back?" ”

Chu Mei immediately turned back: "Didn't you just go half a month ago?" What are you going to do? ”

"Shall I splurge it?" Zhu Daolin joked.

Chu Mei pursed her mouth: "Do you know that you are so annoying?" Don't say I'm gone? ”

Zhu Daolin explained: "There is a friend from other places who runs a handicraft shop, and he asked me to help contact the long-term distribution business of Longquan Sword, and it is estimated that he will buy about 200 swords of various kinds from Longquan Sword Factory every month. ”

Chu Mei hesitated for a long time: "I also want to go with you." ”

"Okay, anyway, the company is almost busy, leave early tomorrow morning, and come back the day after tomorrow, I can't miss it." Zhu Daolin found that he liked this traditional girl more and more, and was very willing to spend a pleasant time with her, even if it was just talking, it made him feel comfortable.

Chu Mei happily took the sample book back to the technical department, and Zhu Daolin saw Liang Cheng and his wife sitting at their respective desks and writing with their heads down, so he walked to Liang Cheng and pulled a chair and sat down: "I'm afraid I have to trouble you with something." ”

"Let's get straight to the point."

Liang Cheng, who entered the working state, was very efficient, but after listening to Zhu Daolin's series of requirements for hand-cranked printing presses, he was embarrassed: "It's difficult to find such antiques now, who still uses this ancient machinery?" Casting various types of traditional Chinese characters is more troublesome, no one has done it for a long time, if you look for it slowly, it is estimated that you can find some of the eliminated traditional lead characters left in the treasury of the provincial and municipal printing plants, word plates or something, but I am not sure, no one can say. ”

"Is it okay to ask someone to imitate it?" How could Zhu Daolin give up so easily.

"Imitation? Let me think about it, it seems that I remember someone mentioning it...... That's right! ”

Liang Cheng finally remembered: "I have a college classmate in the Beijing National Industrial Machinery Museum, last autumn he and his newlywed wife came to Jinling for their honeymoon, my wife and I invited him to dinner, at the wine table to listen to him complain, he has not done anything for half a year, just busy with one thing, leading a group of retired old men to consult a large amount of information, and a German two-hundred-year-old printing equipment company repeatedly contacted, busy for four months to draw accurate drawings on the old drawings provided by the Germans, for the printing machinery museum and Fengtian, Shanghai, Yangcheng and other five museums, imitated six sets of hand-cranked printing presses produced by China's imitation of German imported machinery during the Republic of China, and the National Industrial Machinery Museum left a set of displays, according to him, the inspection and exhibition demonstration was quite easy to use, and the printed newspaper was very clear. ”

Zhu Daolin was overjoyed: "Can you contact him as soon as possible?" Ask him to help me make ten sets of imitations, made from the best materials, and preferably give me a copy of the design drawings. ”

"Do you really want to?"

"I really want to! I want as much as I want! ”

"If you don't do business, you like to splurge indiscriminately...... Well, I'll call him in the evening and say okay, don't blame me if they don't agree. ”