Chapter 116: Son-in-law
After the turmoil on the Internet subsided, Duan Jincheng also fulfilled his promise, and after finishing his previous work, he began to stop to accompany Chen Qingwu.
The two went to visit their mother Molly's house together.
After her mother Molly learned about their relationship from the Internet, she urged Chen Qingwu to bring her boyfriend home every day to show her, and her sister Hannah even yelled to see her celebrity brother-in-law. After all, she is Duan Jincheng's loyal fan sister, and she can't help but take a group photo when she sees photos in the mall, of course, she will not easily give up the opportunity to see a real person.
After discussing with Duan Jincheng, Chen Qingwu chose a Saturday to visit.
Duan Jincheng was very attentive, and deliberately did his homework in advance, understood the preferences of their family of three, and prepared their own suitable gifts for them.
Mother Molly and stepfather Illia also warmly welcomed Duan Jincheng, and Hannah was like a little bee collecting nectar around Duan Jincheng for an afternoon.
"Brother-in-law, can you help me sign a few special signatures, I have a few good friends who like you very much, and they have repeatedly asked me to ask you for special signatures."
"Yes." Duan Jin Cheng readily agreed.
Hannah handed over a marker pen and a few photos of Duan Jincheng: "Brother-in-law's pen is for you, I am ready."
"What's your best friend's name?"
"Du Cancan, Brilliant Can, she failed the college entrance examination and is about to prepare to repeat, so you will write 'I wish you all the best.'"
Duan Jin Cheng smiled: "Are you sure your friend wants such a special signature?"
"It's okay, as long as the meaning is there, as long as it's written by you, they'll like it if it's a little dirty."
Duan Jincheng thought about it, but the pen was: "The tide is flat and the banks are wide, and the wind is hanging."
His handwriting is vigorous and free, and it is printed on the photo through a golden marker, which has a different kind of beauty.
Hannah was stunned for a moment, and then reacted for a while: "Brother-in-law, my sister said that you are a scholar, you really deserve to be a scholar."
He changed his words, the same blessing, but a completely different artistic conception.
Chen Qingwu took advantage of Duan Jincheng's entanglement with Hannah, and went into the kitchen to help his mother Molly wash the fruit after the meal.
"This Xiao Duan himself is even more handsome than he looks on TV, and he has a quiet and polite personality, and he can be seen to be a man with high emotional intelligence in the details of his gestures." Mother Molly has automatically generated a mother-in-law filter for Duan Jincheng, how do you look at it and like it, "I saw the article he wrote to you on the Internet that day, I cried for a day, and I was thinking in my heart, how can there be such a good young man."
Chen Qingwu was laughing on the side, who doesn't love their boyfriend being praised.
"Qingwu, my mother always felt indebted to you in the past, and after your accident, I was even more sad and guilty, my mother has always hoped that you will be happy, and it is great to have a little love for you." Molly lowered her head and quietly reddened her eyes, "God has arranged an ordeal for you, and now it has also made up for a huge gift from you, Mom can really rest assured."
Chen Qingwu nodded, perhaps, this is the "looking back, the light boat has crossed the ten thousand mountains" in her life.
"By the way, your grandfather's side, have you taken Xiaoduan back?"
"Not yet, grandpa has always refused to see me."
Some time ago, Chen Qingwu went to her sister-in-law's house a few times, but her grandfather just refused to see her.
The little uncle Chu Yikun directly persuaded Chen Qingwu not to go too often, he said that Chen Qingwu would be sad once the old man went, so why make everyone unhappy.
Chen Qingwu didn't think that her appearance would rise to the point where everyone was unhappy like a butterfly effect, she was a little sad, and she hadn't been there since that day.
"It's all my fault." Molly sighed softly, "Actually, your grandfather is not angry with you, he is angry with me."
Molly and Chen Qingwu's father Chen Zhilin were in free love, the two fell in love, and got married in less than half a year.
Grandpa Chen Changsheng didn't like Molly very much, thinking that she was too willful and didn't do anything every day, only calling his son. But the old man doesn't like it, and his son and daughter-in-law are young
In between, he never said anything, nor did he interfere in it.
Chen Zhilin's accident happened when Chen Qingwu was five years old, that day was the fourth anniversary of Molly and Chen Zhilin's marriage, the day before the anniversary, Chen Zhilin worked overtime until late to rest, but the next day Molly woke him up early, and had to go to the beach to celebrate the anniversary, Chen Zhilin has always listened to his wife, and on a day like the wedding anniversary, he will not go against his wife's wishes to make her unhappy.
So the husband and wife entrusted their daughter Chen Qingwu to Chen Changsheng and his wife, and drove to the beach to play.
I didn't expect that meeting would be goodbye.
After the two arrived at the beach, Molly, who couldn't swim, accidentally fell into the water while taking pictures, Chen Zhilin jumped into the sea desperately to save his wife, and in the end, he saved his wife, but he drowned in the icy sea water from exhaustion......
Since then, Chen Changsheng has regarded Molly as the murderer of his son, he thinks that it was Molly's willfulness and ignorance that killed his son, his son is obviously so tired from working overtime, but Molly has to drag him to the beach! Also, if she hadn't gone to a dangerous area to take pictures, the accident wouldn't have happened...... In short, a thousand mistakes are all Molly's fault.
The old man's dislike for his daughter-in-law turned into outright disgust and hatred.
"Actually, your grandfather didn't know, after your father left, my sky also fell. How good your dad was to me before, how much I hated myself after that. More than anyone else, I wish I was the one who died that day, not him." Molly choked.
After so many years, although she has formed a new family, her deceased husband Chen Zhilin has always been uneasy in her heart.
"Qingwu, my mother didn't want to leave back then, I really didn't want to leave you, but I had no way to stay."
At that time, Chen Changsheng and Molly had reached the point where water and fire were incompatible, and when the old man saw her, he would think of his son's tragic death, and he would be crazy and couldn't help but want to vent the pain of losing his son.
Molly also thought about taking Chen Qingwu away, but after Chen Zhilin's death, her granddaughter was already the only sustenance of the old couple, Chen Changsheng desperately wanted to keep her granddaughter, and she was also afraid that if she really took the child away, it would make the two elders who had just lost their son completely collapse, and after weighing it again, she could only leave by herself.
"You are a piece of meat that fell from my mother's body, a little baby that I have held in the palm of my hand for five years, after my mother left, I really missed you every minute, several times I couldn't help but sneak back to see you, and was found by your grandfather, which made him angry. I remember the last time I went to see you, I bought you a little cake, and your grandfather came back and saw it, thinking that I had come to trick you with food, and wanted to snatch you away, and he fainted in a rage, and almost had an accident."
From then on, Molly never dared to see her daughter again, she was really afraid that she would kill Chen Zhilin and his parents.
She can only continue to comfort herself, no matter what, the Chen family will pamper her daughter on the tip of their hearts, and her daughter will definitely not suffer a little grievance if she follows them.
"I thought that time would dilute everything, but I didn't expect that after so many years, your grandfather still can't let go, he still hates me so much, and even this hatred will implicate you."
After Chen Qingwu's car accident, Molly, who was far away, heard the news and immediately returned to China with her husband and youngest daughter.
During that time, she, like Chen Changsheng, kept running to the hospital, just so that Chen Qingwu could get better treatment.
It's just that both grandparents and grandchildren ignore her, Chen Changsheng still avoids her like a snake and scorpion, and Chen Qingwu is also estranged from her because of so many years of not seeing each other. Molly understands their feelings, so even after eating countless closed doors, she has the cheekiness to insist on staying in the hospital to take care of Chen Qingwu.
Finally, Chen Qingwu was moved by Molly's companionship and hard-working care day after day, and the relationship with her gradually broke the ice, but the old man Chen Changsheng was like a rock and was always unmoved, and even, after Chen Qingwu and Molly's mother and daughter re-recognized, he had a big quarrel with Chen Qingwu, saying that she was a white-eyed wolf who couldn't be raised, and asked her not to see him again since she chose her mother.
The old man was so stubborn that if he said he wouldn't see him, he would really never see him again.
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After leaving her mother Molly's house, Chen Qingwu has not been in high spirits.
Duan Jincheng could see at a glance that something was wrong with her.
"Teacher Chen, what's wrong?" Duan Jincheng took her hand and asked softly, "Is it my performance that makes my aunt and uncle dissatisfied?"
"Of course not, they're very happy with you."
"Then why aren't you happy?"
Chen Qingwu and Duan Jincheng talked about the entanglement between themselves, their mother and their grandfather.
"Grandpa has spoiled me since I was a child, and it can be said that I am obedient, the year of the college entrance examination, I casually said that I am about to graduate, and I don't know what graduation gifts to prepare for the classmates, he even added several nights of class, and each of the more than 30 students in our class carved a 'small nuclear carving of the word Fu, let me take it to them.'"
Grandpa's love for her is as deep as father's love, and it goes beyond father's love.
Chen Qingwu will never forget that after his car accident, his grandfather aged several years overnight, during that time, he not only had to worry about her treatment, but also had to prevent the world-weary her from thinking about it, and he didn't dare to go anywhere every day, and stayed by her side every inch.
After a long period of rehabilitation, Chen Qingwu's left leg was still lame, which also completely destroyed her self-confidence, for a while, she was reluctant to go out of the door, it was her grandfather who was always by her side to encourage her, and it was also her grandfather who took her to tap her nuclear carving talent.
Chen Qingwu's first real nuclear carving work is called "Phoenix Nirvana", after she finished the creation, her grandfather was happier than anyone else, he took her not mature works, and ran around to recommend them.
Later, she created "Nuwa Show Off Skills", and she was also a grandfather, holding her work and signing up for the competition for her, and on the day Chen Qingwu won the award, her grandfather burst into tears.
Several other seniors in the nuclear carving circle laughed at grandpa, a generation of nuclear carving masters, I haven't seen any big scenes, is this little award crying like this?
Grandpa shook his head: "You don't understand, this award can save my granddaughter, it is too important for my granddaughter!" It's so important!"
Only Grandpa understands that this award is a milestone in the process of rebuilding Chen Qingwu's confidence.
Finally, Chen Qingwu in the company of her grandfather, the craft gradually improved, and the great sense of accomplishment after the completion of a nuclear carving work also made her regain her self-confidence little by little, she felt that a certain part of her body was filled with nuclear carving, she felt her value again, she fell in love with nuclear carving, and took this as her ambition, determined to be the same as her grandfather, to develop and promote nuclear carving culture as her lifelong career.
Chen Qingwu, who found his goal in life, finally stopped bent on death, and his grandfather's battle to protect his granddaughter's life was a complete victory.
"Grandpa loves me very much, but he really hates my mother, and he broke with me completely on the day he saw me and my mother get back together, and he stubbornly felt that his granddaughter, who had done his best to raise him for many years, was finally snatched away by my mother." Chen Qingwu thought of the scene of that day, and tears flowed silently, "Grandpa doesn't know, I don't love him and love my mother, both of them are the most important people in my life."
Over the years, Chen Qingwu has tried to eliminate the gap between himself and his grandfather many times, but the old man has always had only one sentence: "With her without me."
Later, he simply refused to see Chen Qingwu again.
"You know, there was a long time when I didn't feel worthy of a lot of love, and I couldn't figure out why my mother finally came back to me, and my grandfather was leaving me again."
Duan Jin Cheng leaned over and hugged Chen Qingwu distressedly: "Don't be sad, wait for two days, I'll accompany you to visit grandpa, okay?"
Chen Qingwu nodded: "But there is a high probability that it will be closed."
"No, grandpa would have been happy to see us if he knew that the boy who gave you roses had really become his grandson-in-law."
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Before Chen Qingwu took Duan Jin Cheng to see his grandfather, he first went back to Qinghe.
Since the nuclear carving embarked on the road of e-commerce, so far, it has been three months, Chen Qingwu and Zheng Sizhe, no one expected that in just one quarter, the total sales of nuclear carving online exceeded 30 million.
After the end of the first quarter, Zheng Sizhe convened everyone to gather at the nuclear carving base in Qinghe for a meeting, and the content of the meeting was mainly to summarize the previous one
quarterly results, setting the next sales and development goals.
"Qinghe's current sales model is still the front store and back factory, mainly offline sales and wholesale, three months ago we began to try live streaming to sell nuclear carvings online through e-commerce. In the early stage, it was me and Mr. Chen Qingwu and Mr. Chen who tried live broadcast to bring goods first, because we accumulated a certain fan base through shooting videos and live broadcasts in the early stage of our account, so we achieved very good sales from the beginning. Then, we immediately set up a sales team, and now there are a total of 13 contracted anchors in our nuclear carving base every day live broadcast goods, through the cooperation of anchors and nuclear carving merchants, we can sell about 100,000 orders on average every month, with sales exceeding 10 million, and the total sales in the first quarter exceeded 30 million." Zheng Sizhe said and glanced at Chen Qingwu who was sitting on the side, "We gave a round of applause to Teacher Chen, it was her foresight and courage to be the first that brought us on the bright road of e-commerce."
A round of applause rang out in the conference room.
Everyone's eyes fell on Chen Qingwu, who nodded and smiled at everyone, humble and calm: "This is the result of the joint efforts of the sales team and nuclear carving practitioners, not my own credit."
"Next, we will take live streaming and online sales as our main development direction, we will recruit more anchors, conduct systematic and professional training, expand our sales team, increase the sales of our nuclear carving products, and help more nuclear carving merchants and practitioners to expand their sales channels and increase sales."
"Good!"
Everyone is full of confidence!
After Zheng Sizhe presided over the meeting, he turned his head again to cue Chen Qingwu: "Is there anything else Mr. Chen would like to add or want to tell you?"
Chen Qingwu took the microphone handed over by Zheng Sizhe.
"Si Zhe has said it very comprehensively, I don't have anything special to add, I just want to share a good news with you, everyone knows that my grandfather opened the nuclear carving school in Qinghe before, and now I am taking over the nuclear carving school. In the past few years, there were very few young people who took the initiative to sign up to learn nuclear carving, and during this time, after the good news of the continuous increase in online sales of nuclear carving, the recruitment rate of the nuclear carving school has also been rising."
Everyone listened shallowly, but there was no response, and then there was a sudden applause in the corner of the conference room.
Everyone turned around and saw a familiar face.
Isn't this actor Duan Jin Cheng?
There was a commotion in the conference room, although everyone had heard about the scandal between Chen Qingwu and Duan Jincheng earlier, no one expected to see the star himself here.
And Duan Jin Cheng actually sat there from the beginning of the meeting, but that position was inconspicuous with a light on his back, and he was very low-key in black clothes, and everyone's attention was attracted by Zheng Sizhe after entering the door, so no one noticed him.
He suddenly applauded Chen Qingwu, causing everyone to laugh.
Chen Qingwu glanced at Duan Jin Cheng, his eyes signaling him to be quiet and not to make trouble, Duan Jin Cheng shrugged his shoulders a little innocently.
"The increasing enrollment rate of the Nuclear Sculpture Academy is indeed something to be applauded!" Zheng Sizhe said, applauding with Duan Jincheng, and the other people in the conference room reacted instantly, and everyone applauded.
Chen Qingwu blushed a little embarrassed, and she continued: "Many people may think that nuclear carving is an art, and it seems very market-like to constantly mention sales and constantly link it to market money, but I want to say that any art, including nuclear carving, if it is separated from the market, its vitality will be very weak, just like water without a source, which will dry up sooner or later. Any art, including nuclear carving, can only be obtained through market recognition if it wants to have long-term vitality and not be eliminated. The nuclear carving market is now alive through live broadcast on the Internet, and we must grasp the opportunities given by the times. Only by making young people feel that the future of this industry is promising, can we attract more young forces to join the team of nuclear carving inheritance and development, and can we better promote the high-quality development of our Qinghe nuclear carving."
Chen Qingwu's speech was sincere and reasonable, and this time, without being reminded by Duan Jincheng, everyone spontaneously applauded.
Duan Jincheng looked at Chen Qingwu in front of the conference table from a distance, she was wearing a casual suit today, her makeup was elegant, and the light of the incandescent lamp sprinkled on her body, which showed her eyes even more
Firm, full of aura.
A woman who is serious about her career is really beautiful!
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After the meeting, several young anchors ran over to ask Duan Jin Cheng for autographs and group photos.
Duan Jincheng cooperated patiently one by one.
"Mr. Chen's row is getting bigger and bigger, and now he travels with a big star bag at the actor level." Zheng Sizhe walked up to Chen Qingwu and joked.
As soon as Zheng Sizhe reminded her, Chen Qingwu remembered that when she walked into the conference room, she handed her bag to Duan Jincheng casually.
She immediately turned her eyes to look at him, and when Duan Jincheng took a photo with the anchors, she was carrying her bag in an orderly manner, and she was a little more well-behaved in addition to being handsome.
"I now fully suspect that he has the element of showing off, as if I am afraid that others will not know that he has a girlfriend." Zheng Sizhe said.
"He has a girlfriend, doesn't he rely on you?" Chen Qingwu glanced at Zheng Sizhe, "We have been friendly for so many years, but we can't afford to know him for a few days, so you can tell me everything."
Zheng Sizhe knew that Chen Qingwu was talking about roses.
"You think I'm happy to say it, but I don't want you to be happy."
Chen Qingwu nodded, of course she knew that everything Zheng Sizhe did was for her good: "Thank you."
"Be polite to me, just be happy."
Zheng Sizhe could see that after Chen Qingwu and Duan Jincheng were together, the spirit of the whole person was different.
Not to mention anything else, just from her outfit today, it can be seen that Chen Qingwu is more confident and calm.
This is the first time Zheng Sizhe has seen Chen Qingwu wearing pants since he has known her for so long, which shows that she has accepted her lameness and doesn't care about the eyes of others.
Only those who are surrounded by abundant love will be fearless of everything.
And now, she is not afraid of anything.
After Duan Jincheng took a group photo with everyone, he walked over to Chen Qingwu and Zheng Sizhe.
"Teacher Zheng, let's have a meal together." He said to Zheng Sizhe.
Since Zheng Sizhe revealed a secret to Duan Jincheng, Duan Jincheng has a benefactor filter for Zheng Sizhe.
"Okay."
The three of them walked out of the conference room together.
"What do you want to eat?" Duan Jincheng asked the two.
"I can do it, you can do it." Chen Qingwu said.
"Do you have to pick a place with more privacy?" Zheng Sizhe looked at Duan Jincheng, he was a big star after all.
"It's okay, anywhere."
Since Duan Jincheng and Chen Qingwu made their relationship public, they have completely let go of themselves, and they no longer hide where they go, and let them shoot generously when someone shoots.
The more they do this, the fewer people pay attention to them.
"Then I know there's a place that tastes good, so I'll take you to try it."
"Okay."
Zheng Sizhe took them to a small down-to-earth restaurant, there was no private room, and all the diners sat around the tables of eight immortals, full of homely fireworks.
After they walked into the hall, they found a table against the wall, and let Duan Jincheng sit facing the wall, and the store was full of people, and no one really noticed that the man wearing a peaked cap and a black baseball uniform was a star.
The dish was served a bit slowly, but the taste of the dish was really good, and it was totally worth the wait.
Every time Duan Jin Cheng served a dish, he had to put it in Chen Qingwu's bowl first.
"Okay, you two, trick the dog in and kill it." Zheng Sizhe said angrily.
Duan Jincheng and Chen Qingwu looked at each other and smiled, they really didn't show off, this was their daily life.
Halfway through the meal, Zheng Sizhe suddenly put down his chopsticks.
"By the way, Qingwu, when you mentioned the Nuclear Sculpture Academy today, I suddenly remembered something, I had been trying to tell you two days ago, but I didn't have time to say it."
"What's the matter?"
"Do you remember that there was a student named Zhong Wenyu in the Nuclear Sculpture Academy before?"
Chen Qingwu thought for a while: "It's a bit of an impression, it's small, with long hair, very
Introverted, but you're the one who says he's got a lot of talent for nuclear carving, right?"
"Yes, that's him."
"What's wrong with him? I remember that he disappeared after studying in the nuclear carving school for about a year, as if he had changed careers."
"I didn't change careers, I met him a few days ago when I was invited to a nuclear carving newcomer contest to be a judge, and he brought his work and said that he was here to sign up for the competition. I saw that work, it's called "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly", it's very aura."
"And then?" Chen Qingwu asked, and Lian Duan Jin Chengdu was quietly waiting for the next step.
"But in later competitions, I didn't see his work in the competition."
"Why?"
"I don't know why he gave up on the registration when he had his work in his hands and was already there. What's even more strange is that this work, called "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly", appeared on the Internet within two days and was sold in the name of the master."
Chen Qingwu was stunned and didn't react at once.
"You mean my grandfather, who is sold in my grandfather's name?"
"Yes."