Chapter 98: The Qin Mansion Family Banquet
Zhang Chuang's mood when facing Qin Zheng and Chu Zhen is very complicated now.
For Qin Zheng, Zhang Chuang still likes it very much, but he no longer has the original ambition to win, or that strong possessiveness has faded a lot.
There are two reasons, on the one hand, during the period since the beginning of school, Zhang Chuang has understood a truth, the more he revolves around Qin Zheng, the more disgusted the other party will be with him.
Another reason is that Zhang Chuang accidentally learned that there was another super family that also intended to marry the Qin family through Qin Zheng. Although the main force of this family is not in the military circles, its status in the entire Chinese political arena is only higher than that of the Qin family, and it is the real ruling faction. Not only that, the young man on the other side, who is a leader among the juniors, is now a sophomore at Tsinghua University.
For Chu Zhen, Zhang Chuang is no longer as hostile to him as he used to be because of Qin Zheng, on the contrary, after a basketball game and dealing with bastards together, Zhang Chuang gradually has some good feelings and appreciation for Chu Zhen.
The current Chu Zhen is more like an interesting opponent for Zhang Chuang, and what Zhang Chuang wants to do is to try to defeat this opponent rather than eliminate him.
After ten o'clock at five o'clock, Old Man Zhang and his entourage came to the villa where Old Man Qin lived, and they came with another family today.
The family's surname is Wang, and the status of the Zhang family is about the same, the old man of the Wang family died relatively early, but the second generation of the Wang family is very competitive, and there are already two major generals in the family.
The Wang family has also found another way to develop in the commercial field, and two of the Wang family are the leaders of the vice-ministerial-level central enterprises, one of which is the military-dependent Bray Group, which is the parent company of the Bray real estate.
It can be said that if it weren't for Old Man Zhang's still existence, the Wang family's strength in all aspects would have surpassed the Zhang family long ago. The Zhang and Wang families occasionally competed, but they both belonged to the Qin family's camp and could be regarded as allies.
Since today is the Zhang and Wang families who came to visit Old Man Qin and celebrate Qin Zheng's birthday by the way, in addition to Old Man Qin, Qin Zheng's family of three only came to the Qin family, and they all had a good relationship with Qin Zheng to join in the fun. Qin Weidong is among them, he will return to the frontier after a three-week vacation tomorrow, and today he will take this opportunity to say goodbye to his grandfather and Qin Zheng's family.
After the Zhang family arrived, after some greetings, Mr. Zhang took Zhang Chuang's parents, followed Mr. Qin, several main figures of the Wang family, and Qin Zheng's parents, to talk inside, leaving a group of grandchildren to chat in the outer hall.
Zhang Chuang didn't dare to make a mistake at this time, so he went to chat with his idol Qin Weidong first.
The grandchildren of the Qin family who came today, in addition to Qin Weidong, also have two cousins of Qin Zheng, who are the youngest sons of Qin Zheng's aunt and second aunt.
One of these two cousins has just graduated for a year, and the other is still in graduate school, and they have a good relationship with Qin Zheng on weekdays, so they came to join in the fun.
Just graduated for a year is the youngest son of Qin Zheng's eldest cousin Qin Qinglian, named Shangguan Jingying, although the name is a little feminine, but Shangguan Jingying is the most tossed among the grandchildren of Old Man Qin.
Shangguan Jingying's father is the son of an old comrade-in-arms of Old Man Qin, and it happened that Grandma Qin Zheng was pregnant with Aunt Qin Zheng, and Grandma Shangguan Jingying was pregnant with his father, and Old Man Qin and his old comrade-in-arms were "married".
The two children were born just a boy and a girl, and they got along very well later, so it was natural for them to get married.
Shangguan Jingying's grandfather was the founding general, and most of his father and several uncles also served in the military, but Shangguan Jingying, who was born in a military family, was an outlier.
In fact, Shangguan Jingying's business is really a bit of a promotion for him, he is actually a "fallen master", but because of his family background, he has a very wide range of inverted business, and he will do whatever he makes money.
A fallen master like Shangguan Jingying is nothing more than using various relationships in the family or using information asymmetry to make profits.
Therefore, in the Qin family, which has a strict family style, Shangguan Jingying is an outlier, and the old man Qin does not treat him very well, and every time he sees him, he has to warn and reprimand two sentences.
However, Shangguan Jingying really loves her only cousin, and today she braved the "cannon fire" of Old Man Qin to give her cousin a birthday gift.
"Xiao Zheng, hurry up!"
Shangguan Jingying and Wu Zhen, the youngest son of Qin Zheng's second aunt, sat in a corner of the outer hall, and hurriedly greeted Qin Zheng when they saw him coming.
"Hello two cousins! The eldest uncle and aunt, the second uncle and the second aunt are all right? ”
Qin Zheng walked over to greet the two cousins.
Wu Zhen, the youngest son of Qin Zheng's second aunt, is a graduate student at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, majoring in computer science, and is one of the few grandchildren of the Qin family who studies high-tech majors.
Wu Zhen belongs to a typical IT straight male personality, although he also likes Qin Zheng very much, but he doesn't talk much, just responds to Qin Zheng's greetings and gives him the opportunity to go to his school to play or something.
Shangguan Jingying is different, she is already a person who can speak well, and she has been "mixed" in society for another year, and her words are not much ordinary.
"I said Xiaozheng, you are really a big girl now! Just like you, you can make a movie anywhere! Let me tell you, near the Great Wall Hotel on the edge of the East Third Ring Road, a new Chang'an Club has opened. Their background is this! ”
After Shangguan Jingying finished speaking, she pointed her finger to the sky, meaning that the background of this Chang'an club was all over the sky. Then Shangguan Jingying said triumphantly:
"Your cousin, I am one of their first VIP members, I can bring two people in, and I will take you two to play inside that night!"
Qin Zheng and Wu Zhen actually didn't have much interest in this aspect, but it was not easy to sweep their cousin's interest and agreed.
The juniors chatted outside for more than half an hour, and when it was dinner time, the Qin family and the Zhang Wang family sat at two large tables.
The elders talked about things about the same time, and the next highlight was to celebrate the sixteenth birthday of Qin Zheng, the pearl of Old Man Qin's palm.
Everyone knows a fact, that is, Old Man Qin is indeed very partial to Qin Zheng, the only granddaughter!
For example, except for Qin Zheng, the other grandchildren of the Qin family have never come to Yuquan Mountain for their birthdays, and Qin Zheng has this treatment every year for his birthday!
For another example, Old Man Qin is strict in governing his family, and the value of gifts cannot exceed 100 yuan, but Qin Zheng's birthday gift does not have this limit!
Of course, those who can attend the party to give Qin Zheng's birthday gift are at least people who are close to the Zhang family and the Wang family.
Since the mid-80s, eating birthday cakes began to be popular in the capital, and the old man Qin, who has always insisted on hard work and simplicity, also asked people to prepare a birthday cake for Qin Zheng.
The Qin family's dinner is quite simple, there are seven or eight people at a table, and there are only six dishes in total, which is simply incomparable with the apprenticeship banquet in Xue's hometown.
Fortunately, the people who came didn't plan to eat enough here, and when they were almost finished, Old Man Qin asked the orderly to clean up the table, and then put the birthday cake on the table.
In the past few years, it has not been popular to sing birthday songs and make wishes, so everyone said "Happy Birthday!" together! Then Qin Zheng began to divide the cake for everyone to eat, and then it was time to give gifts.
Wu Zhen is a straight man, and he was the first to send a hairpin to Qin Zheng, but said that his girlfriend spent a lot of effort to help Qin Zheng choose.
Among the juniors of the Qin family, except for Qin Zheng, Wu Zhen has never talked about a girlfriend, which is a big news, and the juniors have asked one after another, wanting to pry Wu Zhen's mouth open to learn more gossip, even Qin Zheng's mother couldn't help but ask Wu Zhen how he met this girlfriend, which made Wu Zhen blushing and having a thick neck.
It was Old Man Qin who saved Wu Zhen, coughed and asked everyone to continue the birthday topic.
Next, the elders of the Wang family gave Qin Zheng the original imported Casio electronic watch, which is still a solar automatic charging.
Shangguan Jingying saw that the Wang family made an extraordinary move, and she couldn't help but take out her own gift, which turned out to be a Sony Walkman made in Japan, that is, Walkma
。
This thing is still a rare commodity in China, and it will occasionally appear on the shelves of the Friendship Store, and it will be sold out immediately if you need a foreign exchange coupon to buy it.
At this time, Zhang Chuang saw that his father gave him a look, and he knew that it was his turn.
Zhang Chuang pretended to be calm and took out the gift from his bag, and said to Qin Zheng:
"Qin Zheng, happy birthday!"
Qin Zheng took the gift, it was a basketball-sized box, and he only heard Zhang Chuang say:
"This is the latest Laika 135 camera from Germany, grandpa knows that you love photography, and specially asked someone to bring it back from Germany!"
Qin Zheng didn't expect to receive such a valuable gift, she had only seen this camera in the latest issue of the photography magazine, and the price was more than a thousand dollars!
"Grandpa Zhang, this gift is too valuable!"
Qin Zheng hurriedly excused himself from Old Man Zhang.
"Xiaozheng, the so-called work wants to do a good job, you must first have a sharp weapon, since you love photography, you naturally need a good camera, this is Zhang Chuang on behalf of your grandfather to give you!"
After speaking, Old Man Zhang said to Old Man Qin again:
"Old chief, look?"
Old Man Qin was in a good mood today, waved his hand and said:
"Xiao Zheng, Grandpa Zhang has a heart, you can accept it!"
Hearing that his grandfather said this, Qin Zheng unceremoniously excused himself, nodded and thanked Old Man Zhang!
Then Qin Weidong, Qin Huasheng, and the old man Qin all gave gifts to Qin Zheng, and they faced the table large and small.
At this time, Old Man Qin said something that Zhang Chuang had been looking forward to for a long time:
"Xiaozheng, you have received a lot of gifts this year, which one do you think is most suitable for you?"
(Qin Zheng has a voice sounding, no matter how precious the gift is, it can't compare to the reader's love!) If it's a big holiday, do you want to get a recommended ticket? )