Chapter 204: Two Choices
Hong Chen smiled: "I'm dead, who will accompany you to team up to brush the boss in the future." β
Xu Le bared his teeth: "Lao Tzu is alone!" β
Hong Chen smiled again and raised his hands: "Okay, okay, let's hurry up the purchase first, and then listen to you slowly explain when we eat." β
Then he pointed to the double-faΓ§ade store in front of him: "That's it, it's been a long time, and I haven't purchased anything, at this rate, when I finish buying, I won't have dinner but supper." β
Xu Le snorted sullenly.
Fugui shrimp, rubber sticks, Australian dragons, snails, abalone, oysters, and finally added a Dongpai spot, less than half an hour, Hong Chen and the two of them carried three bags and walked into a restaurant called Haibawang in the seafood market.
After the seafood raw materials bought were weighed and sent into the kitchen, Hong Chen and the two found a square table at the foot of the hall and sat down, and the waiter first sent a few stacks of cold dishes and opened a bottle of Wuliangye.
"Zhongma, I remember the last time I came, there were four seafood, the worst shells, the cheapest kind of shrimp crawlers, four broken scallops, a dead slate, and I drank two pot heads..."
Xu Le poured two taels for Hong Chen, and he was also two taels, raising his glass and signaling, his expression was a little emotional, now he, a senior executive of a large group, has an annual salary of one million, his home is demolished, and the compensation of four hundred square meters, even if it is a suburban house, it is worth millions, and he is already worth tens of millions, and the seafood he ordered is the most expensive and best in this market, and he drinks thousands of good wines, all of which feels like a dream.
You must know that the last time the two of them came here to eat seafood was only a few months ago, when Xu Le was dismissed by the company and took a compensation, and the raw material processing fee was less than two hundred in total, which was a rare luxury.
The circumstances of life are really unpredictable.
"You're bottoming out, and tomorrow will be better." Hong Chen smiled and took a sip with him.
Xu Le understood what he meant, he was laid off, his girlfriend who had been talking for seven years ran away with an old man, and the family movement was far away, which was the lowest point in his life at that time, and it was also a turning point in his life.
"I still have self-knowledge, I can turn over the salted fish, mainly because I have made friends with nobles, come, respect nobles." Xu Le stretched out the cup and touched Hong Chen's cup, he is not a hypocritical character, let alone say sensational words, especially between brothers, everything is in the wine.
Hong Chen smiled again, shook his head, and saw that Xu Le drank two taels in one gulp, and he was not ambiguous, and the wine glass came to the bottom.
After drinking two taels of white on an empty stomach, Xu Le's face reflected a layer of red light, ate two mouthfuls of food, and lit a cigarette: "There is a matter, you really give me a counselor." β
Hong Chen nodded as he lit a cigarette.
Xu Le spit out the cigarette, and his expression became a little melancholy: "I have been dating Zilin for three months, and it can be regarded as crossing the winter to the spring, she is beautiful, not squeamish, and she does not speak and act like my ex-girlfriend's childishness, frankly speaking, I like her a lot." β
Hong Chen was silent, waiting for the following, Xu Le paused, and suddenly sighed: "But she has a practical situation that gives me a headache, she has been going to the bar every weekend since her sophomore year to sing, and her monthly income of five or six thousand is not a problem, and it can reach nearly 10,000 when it is more, and she didn't spend or save all this money, and she gave it all to her family." β
"It's understandable if her money is to honor her parents, but the problem is that her money is used to pay off the mortgage for her eldest brother, and she not only has a married eldest brother, but also a second brother who is about to get married..."
Extinguishing the cigarette butt and lighting it again, Xu Le looked at Hong Chen and sneered: "Don't you want to throw that SUV of yours to me?" Last week, her second brother and her second brother's girlfriend came once, I drove the SUV to play with them for a day, her second brother is a forced goods, her second brother's girlfriend is a gold worshipper, finally sent away, the next day, she came to me to discuss, her mother called her, saying that her second brother married the woman's family to 500,000 gifts, and there is a shortage of more than 300,000, let her find a way. β
Hearing this, a flash of realization flashed in Hong Chen's eyes, and he interjected: "She is a college student, and the money she earns from singing every month is sent home, where did she get more than 300,000 yuan, it's not that you are full of wealth and are worried about her family." β
After that, he shook his head: "Then what do you say, more than 300,000, give it or not?" β
Xu Le nodded dryly: "Yes, she wanted to ask me to borrow 200,000 yuan and apply for a few credit cards, I took it as soon as I patted my chest, and the salary in the past few months happened to have 300,000 yuan in the card, and it was transferred to her on the spot." β
Hong Chen gave a thumbs up: "Heroic enough!" β
Xu Le was choked with a sharp cough, and finally eased up, gritted his teeth and said, "Arrogant your sister, I'm stupid!" β
Then his tone changed, and he faintly brought Mars: "Just three days later, her second brother came again, this time not only her second brother came, but her mother also came, I invited them to dinner, her mother said that all the money in the family paid the down payment for her second brother's marriage house, and asked me to buy her second brother a car of no less than 500,000 yuan." β
Hong Chen was amazed when he heard this, and said in a virtual voice: "You won't even agree to such a ridiculous request, right?" β
Xu Le smoked with his head bored, his face turned a little redder, Hong Chen saw this, and suddenly had an indescribable feeling in his heart, just at this time, two dishes of seafood were served.
Temporarily abandoning this topic, the two of them started to move, until the fifth seafood came up, Xu Le drank a four or five taels, and brought up the topic again: "I didn't agree on the spot, but I talked to her twice later, and finally agreed, I applied for a consumer loan from the bank, and I just came down this Monday." β
Xu Le unbuttoned the top two buttons of the white shirt in the suit, and the corners of his mouth overflowed with a touch of self-deprecation: "I thought there would be no third time, but I didn't want to be just two days later, her eldest brother called my mobile phone directly, and wanted to ask me to borrow 500,000 yuan, but I refused, as a result, that night, her mother called her, saying that her father had committed acute nephritis and was admitted to the hospital. β
After that, Xu Le shook his head: "Whether her father is sick or not, I don't maliciously guess, I checked on the Internet, and a regular kidney replacement is less than 100,000 or 200,000, even if you compensate the other party's family in private, a total of 300,000 is in the sky, but her family is 600,000." β
Xu Le didn't say more, Dongpai Ban happened to come up, he ate while it was hot, turning depression into appetite, Hong Chen also ate a few chopsticks, and then said leisurely: "I understand it thoroughly, that family wants to rely on you, the golden beetle son-in-law, to soar." β
didn't give Xu Le a chance to speak, and quickly said: "You will compromise again and again, which means that you don't like her very much, but you like her very much, but she is a brother demon." β
Xu Le shook his head: "She is not a brother demon, she also knows that her eldest brother, the second brother is very excessive, in the past two weeks, I heard her quarrel fiercely with the other side on the phone twice, and threatened to break off the relationship, once her second brother, once her mother, but after all, it is her own brother, her mother, how can it be so easy to cut off family affection." β
Hong Chen was noncommittal: "Fatty, you have seen the greedy face of her family, you can't be an ostrich anymore." β
Xu Le stopped his chopsticks and looked at Hong Chen: "I told you so much, didn't I just ask you to give me a counselor." β
Hong Chen said: "Let her choose between you and her family." β
Xu Le's face changed slightly, and Hong Chen stretched out two fingers: "It's not that you have to break off the relationship, but to make a choice, either to spit back the money from the previous two times to you, or to break up!" β
"Spit it out?" Xu Le looked confused, just her eldest brother and second brother's virtue, can she still spit out the fat that she eats in her mouth?
Hong Chen nodded: "You and her are just boyfriend and girlfriend now, if her second brother is married to more than ten or two hundred thousand, you can afford it, she can guarantee it, and lend it to her second brother, but there is no reason for you to bear it, even if in the future, you and her have become husband and wife, you can clearly give her a large bride price when you get married, but after marriage, when her eldest brother and second brother need money, they can only borrow, not give it in vain. β
Seeing Xu Le's eyes flashing and a little hesitant, Hong Chen thought for a while, and said: "Fatty, you should understand that you must be principled in life, and don't lose the bottom line under any circumstances, because of her family affection, she will make a compromise by herself, but if you have to drag you to compromise, it is no bottom line, even if you like her again, you should break it." β
Then the conversation changed again: "On the other hand, if she can choose to side with you and let her eldest brother and second brother spit out the money from the previous two times, wouldn't she be more worthy of your love and cherishment?" β
"Don't think it's cruel to let her make this choice, love is meant to be tested, and love that can't stand the test is just a beautiful picture, and the fingers will be broken with a bucket."
Xu Le's eyes flashed even more, obviously very entangled in his heart, after half a ring, he exhaled a breath, and his expression became resolute: "I am a fan of the authorities, I have fallen before, but I forgot the pain." β
Hong Chen smiled, raised the wine glass and signaled, Xu Le picked up the wine glass and touched him without hesitation, drank it dry, and then said: "I have made an appointment with her, I will go back to Luoshi on Saturday the day after tomorrow to see her father's condition, if I really want to replace my kidney, I can lend this money, but before her eldest brother, the second brother's, at least half of it was spit out, and the remaining half was marked with an IOU, and it must be returned to me on time, I don't force her to turn her face with her family, I will do the wicked, she just needs not to pull my hind legs." β
Hong Chen nodded in acquiescence, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes: "Her home is in Luo City?" Coincidentally, I'm going to Los Angeles this weekend. β
The preliminary competition of the medical saint race in Qingshi has come to an end, and the battle for the leader of the entertainment industry has also been clear, it is time to take Su Ling back to Qingshi, for the reunion of brothers and sisters who have been separated for nearly three years, Hong Chen is excited, expectant, and inexplicably apprehensive.
Xu Le laughed and said, "Then dare to be kind, let's go together." β
Hong Chen said, "Okay." β
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Coming out of the restaurant, walking out of the seafood market with a full burp all the way, Xu Le drank a lot, and he had to go to work tomorrow, Hong Chen called a substitute driver for him and drove him home in the SUV.
Hong Chen, on the other hand, contacted Jiang Tao and learned that the latter was at the West Wind Mountain Circuit, so he drove the GTR to the convergence.
Today is not the weekend, and the popularity of the scene is significantly weaker than the time when the car was burned and his hand was broken, and when Hong Chen arrived, there were only seven or eight sports cars parked in the open space where he parked.
After getting out of the car, Hong Chen sent a cloud letter, waiting for not Jiang Tao, but a dark tights, a little less coquettish than usual, and a little more sexy Jiang Ying.
"It's not nice to invite you to dinner, Mr. Hong's current shelf is really big." was glanced at by Jiang Ying's amorous manners, and Hong Chen's expression was a little sneering: "No matter how big the shelf is, I don't dare to put it in front of Miss Jiang." β
Then quickly changed the subject: "What about your brother?" β
"He's warming up." Jiang Ying responded, and then turned back to the original topic: "Don't put up a shelf in front of me, that means that if I have an invitation, you will definitely appreciate your face?" β
Hong Chen nodded without thinking about it: "That's it!" β
Jiang Ying smiled, her smile was charming, and there was a hint of cunning, Hong Chen suddenly had a bad premonition, and the next moment, Jiang Ying spoke, and Hong Chen's premonition came true: "I'm going to Qi City to attend a business party on the weekend, you go with me, be my male companion, you won't swallow back what you just said." β
Hong Chen was choked, and he was bitter in his heart, he was not tricked by this woman once or twice, why did he have a long memory?
Hong Chen said dryly: "It's not that I don't talk well, it's that I really have an arrangement, I'm going to go to Los Angeles City this weekend to do a very important thing." β
Jiang Ying blinked her eyes: "Business and private affairs? β
Hong Chen said: "Private matter. β
Jiang Ying looked up at the starry night sky, thought for a while, and said, "Just you?" β
"And one of my brothers, my girlfriend and my brother."
"People are in and out of pairs, are you suitable for light bulbs?"
"No way, my life is miserable."
Jiang Ying retracted her gaze, lowered her chin, looked at Hong Chen's eyes, and said sincerely: "How can you have a hard life, I won't let you live a hard life, I decided, if you don't go to Qi City, I will accompany you to Luo City." β
Hong Chen fell full of black lines, and before he could speak, Jiang Ying suddenly changed his aggrieved face: "Today, my brother is going to bet 500 million, of which 200 million is mine, and then you asked him to help you bet 500 million, but the upper limit is only more than 800 million, and in the end, I can only make a sacrifice and give you 200 million, so I will lose more than 500 million." β
This is clearly telling herself that her more than 500 million was snatched by herself.
Hong Chen was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, Jiang Ying glanced at him faintly: "Change someone else, dare to rob my aunt and grandmother of a dollar, and my aunt and grandmother will let him spit it out ten times, alas, who made me owe you a few lives, I can't change it in this life." β
After that, he waved his hand: "That's it, now I'll call to push the Qi City side, the time and place of the weekend's departure, you send me Yunxin." β
Without giving Hong Chen any chance to refuse, Jiang Ying took out her mobile phone and walked towards a secluded place.
Hong Chen looked at her silently, his eyes were very complicated, just like his mood, Jiang Ying's friendship with him is now becoming more and more undisguised, people are men pursuing women, bombing wildly, Jiang Ying did the opposite, he was really a little overwhelmed!