"Who are you looking for?"
You can tell from the name of Chujiaao that here, the surname Chu is the common surname, and there are only a few people with foreign surnames living in this area. They are all relatives, and if a stranger appears in the village, it is easy to attract vigilant eyes.
No, before the two people dressed as donkey friends entered the village, they were stopped by people from Chu Village who were working in the fields.
"Uncle, we are here to travel. I think the environment in your village is really good. I don't know if there are any houses for accommodation and meals. We want to stay here for a few days."
The location of Chujia'ao is not good. It is two or three hours' drive from the nearest county town. There are not many buses here, only five every day. It is really not easy to go to the county town.
However, such a remote mountain village also has its own advantages, that is, there are no factories, the environment is good, the sky is blue and the water is clear, and now people in the city like to return to nature. During the peak tourist season, the farmhouse business in the village is still very good, but come to play They are all from the surrounding cities. After all, this place is not a place of historical interest, and there is nothing interesting except for the scenery.
So listening to what the two donkey friends said, the vigilant eyes of the villagers eased, and there was a smile on the corner of their mouths.
"You're here to play, right? That's really the right thing to do. It's good that we are here with good people."
The middle-aged man smiled. His son was quick-witted, and he was the first one in the village to open a homestay. Business was good during the peak season, but he couldn’t handle it during the off-season. Two guests came today. One hundred and two for the food, two hundred and four for two people, this is a big deal for the income of the villagers.
He called the woman who was working in another field and told her to take the two guests home quickly to see if they liked their house.
"Ma'am, which house is that? It's really grand."
Chujiaao is not considered wealthy. Many families still live in bungalows. Occasionally, I see a few small two-story buildings. Most of them are donkey dung balls. None of the furniture.
Of course, it's not that there are no wealthy families. For example, the small western-style building they are pointing to now has three floors and covers an area of three to four hundred square meters. It has a small garden and looks like a small palace. The house stood out from the crowd.
"That family you said is amazing."
The woman saw that the two guests casually pointed to the house built by Chu Xianzong, the number one rich man in their village, for his parents, her face immediately showed color and a little bit of jealousy.
"The son of that family is very promising. He was the only few college students in our village. After graduation, he married his parents a daughter-in-law from the city. Later, he opened a factory by himself, and the business grew bigger and bigger. They say that their family is now Old noses have money."
It's no secret that the Chu family is rich in ten miles and eight towns. Moreover, Chu Xianzong built roads for the village and opened a primary school. He still has a good reputation in the village. I always feel that it is the pride of the whole village to have such a promising person. , I am happy to mention it to people who come to the village to play.
"It's just a coincidence that you came here. The old couple of the Chu family were taken to the city by their filial son to enjoy the blessings. Otherwise, if they were at home, I could still show you around the Chu family's house. Tsk tsk, even in the city, you can't find it." Come out with a second set of such a beautiful house."
In the eyes of the villagers, this house is the best, not to mention the nearby villages and towns, even the city can not see such a beautiful small western style building.
"Don't tell me, ma'am, I'm from Haishi. Such a small bungalow is rare even in Haishi." The younger of the two tourists boasted.
"You guys are from Haishi? What a coincidence, the owner of that bungalow opened a factory in Haishi. His parents often said that their son's factory is very grand and has thousands of workers. State cadres are respectful when they see their sons."
Hearing that these two people came from Haishi, the middle-aged woman immediately regained her spirits.
Everyone in the village knows that the Chu family is rich, but they don't know how to be rich. After all, they have never been to Haishi, especially even though their surname is Chu, they are far away from the Chu Xianzong family. Not close.
The woman's son opened the first farmhouse in the village. The conditions of the family are among the best in Chujiaao, but compared with Chu Xianzong, it is definitely far behind. Hearing that the villagers are so fond of Chu Xianzong, although the woman also thinks that He is amazing, but I still feel a little unmotivated. I always feel that Chu Xianzong may be amazing, but he is not as good as his parents boasted.
"Auntie, tell me the name of the company. A few thousand employees is not a small scale. If it is really in Haishi, maybe I have heard of it."
Just like a normal chat, the two tourists said with a smile.
"What's the name of the company? I really can't remember it. Anyway, it bears the word Chu. The boss is called Chu Xianzong. He is a talented person from our village. It's really the same as the name. It's a face to their ancestors."
The woman looked at the two of them, and she didn't have much hope in her heart. Haishi is so big, if everyone here knows Chu Xianzong, how powerful he is.
"Chu Xianzong, are you sure it's the name?"
The two froze for a moment, looked at each other, and asked in surprise.
"What's the matter, you guys really know each other?" The woman was startled, she didn't brag with the Chu family woman, her son is really that good
"Yes, the boss of our company, do you know how much our company's market value is? It's several billion, so much money can't be spent in a few lifetimes, let alone such a small western-style building, it doesn't take much effort to build more than a dozen more .”
The man swallowed, and seemed to be wondering why it was such a coincidence that he just swam to the boss's house just for traveling.
Similarly, the middle-aged woman also thought it was a bit of a coincidence. After the surprise, her eyes became suspicious, and she looked the two young men up and down, wondering if this was a liar.
"Don't believe me, ma'am, I'll show you the photos I took during our company's annual meeting, and they are still stored in my mobile phone." One of them saw the suspicion on the woman's face, and remembered taking out his mobile phone and looking through the photo album I quickly found one of the albums named annual meeting, opened it and handed it to the woman.
"Chu Xianzong you are talking about is this, he is really my boss, and this, our boss's daughter-in-law Gu Anna, the one on the far side is our boss' daughter, standing between our boss and the boss's wife is the boss's wife and ex-husband A pair of sons and daughters."
He zoomed in on the photo and clearly displayed the faces of the five people in the picture on the phone screen.
This photo was taken at last year's annual meeting. At that time, Chu Tianyin hadn't moved out of the house. Although there were frequent conflicts with Chu Zhixin, peace was still maintained externally.
"He's really the son of the Chu family."
Seeing the photo, the doubts in the woman's heart disappeared. Since Chu Xianzong went to the city to go to university, he has not been back much. Every year, he usually takes the old couple to Haishi. The roads built in the village, the cuts of the school, and the rebuilding of the Chu Clan's Ancestral Hall came back, but the woman clearly remembered this face.
"and many more."
The woman looked at this photo, and frowned: "You said this is your proprietress, what is her name, Gu Anna?" The girl from college.
The Gu family is the village's foreign surname, and Gu Meifang's father married a girl from the Chu family, so she established her foothold in the village.
Their family has a lot of children, besides Gu Meifang, there are two daughters and three sons. Life is hard. At the beginning, because Gu Meifang could read, the whole family tightened their belts so that she could go to school alone. The other brothers and sisters finished primary school. I don’t want to read it anymore, and I will all come back to farm, or I will go out to work to support my little sister.
However, ever since she went to college, Gu Meifang seemed to have disappeared from the world. If she hadn't paid back on time every year, the whole family would have thought she had disappeared.
These years, relying on the money from Gu Meifang, the life of the Gu family is pretty good. The brothers have all built new houses and married wives. There are enough vegetables for the family to eat. The husband and wife play a small game of mahjong, and the other visits the house, which makes a group of old people in the village envious.
But Gu Meifang and Chu Xianzong are married? This has never been mentioned by the old couple of the Chu family and the Gu family, especially when they were in the village, the two families didn't have much contact with each other, it didn't look like they were in-laws.
"Ma'am, you've admitted your mistake, our lady boss's name is not Gu Meifang."
The two exchanged glances. No wonder they couldn't investigate Gu Anna. It turned out that the other party changed her name. From the tone of this aunt, the other party hadn't contacted her family for many years. I'm afraid the ID card they found was fake.
In the early decades, household registration information was not rigorous. With some money, it was not difficult to find some connections and get a new ID card. At first, they thought it was their own lack of ability, but they were negligent.
"Impossible, I won't admit her wrong to anyone."
The woman was unhappy. The face in the photo was no different from when she left the village, except that she was dressed more fashionable, more mature and graceful, and she was completely alone.
Back then, Gu Meifang was envied by the girls in the village. She looked good, and her parents and brothers supported her to study alone. The most important thing was that she was close to Chu Xianzong, who was the most popular girl in their village. When I went to college, no one could tell that the Chu family and the Gu family were destined to be relatives. Later, Chu Xianzong married a girl from the city, and Gu Meifang stopped contacting her family again. People in the village wondered if it was because of the former. , I can't think of doing something stupid.
If Gu Meifang hadn't sent money to the family in time to prove that she was living a good life, the Gu family would almost have called when the daughter-in-law from the city of the Chu family came to the door.
If so, now when people in the village mention Chu Xianzong, they still mention Gu Meifang's name, how can women forget the appearance of the other party.
"I didn't expect these two people to come together again after going round and round."
The woman looked at the photo and muttered, and then looked at the young man holding the phone embarrassedly: "Can you send me this photo, my son has such a WeChat, you add one, I have to save this photo , show it to the old Gu's family."
"Ma'am." The young man was a little embarrassed: "Our boss's name is really not Gu Meifang, but if you really want a photo, I will send you a photo, but please don't let others know that I gave it to you. At that time, our lady boss is not happy, and I will lose my job."
After thinking for a while, he added another sentence: "You don't know how much our boss cares about this new wife, even the two children she brought with her ex-husband are more important to him than our boss's own daughter." In the middle, give whatever you want, her eldest daughter, her monthly pocket money is hundreds of thousands, the last time I came to our company, carrying a brand-name bag, our female colleague in the office checked, good guy, how many With a million-dollar bag in my hand, it’s enough to buy a flat. One can imagine how much our boss cares about this new daughter-in-law. If she is determined to deal with me, I will have a hard time.”
"Don't worry, I promise not to say."
Seeing his frowning look, the woman repeatedly assured him, and at the same time took a few breaths of cold air in her heart.
Everyone in their family is down-to-earth and willing to work. She and her man farm the land, and her son runs a farmhouse. In the off-season, he even goes to the town to find some odd jobs to do. Over the years, the money he has saved is only hundreds of thousands. But listening to the person in front of him, Chu Xianzong gave his stepdaughter hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it was worth millions to buy a bag. What kind of concept is that, a bag made of gold is not that expensive.
The woman had a clear idea about Chu Xianzong's wealth, and at the same time, she also had a new idea about Gu Anna.
The other party had already been married once, and had two children with her former husband. These Gu family members were still kept in the dark, especially about the remarriage between the other party and Chu Xianzong. I don't know if the Gu family knew about it. .
No, no, this is a lot of fun. After the two guests are settled, she has to talk to the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family.
In the end, the two young men took a look at the farmhouse of the woman's house. Because they were not very satisfied with the accommodation conditions of the farmhouse, they left after only having lunch. The photo was passed on to the woman's son, who did not leave the village until this was done.
That night, the village immediately became lively, and everyone knew that the daughter of the Gu family who hadn't come back for more than 20 years gave birth to a pair of children, and remarried with Chu Xianzong, the dead wife of the Chu family.
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At this time, the Chu family who were far away in Haishi didn't know the news. They were busy buying goods for the supermarket, and at the same time secretly inquiring about which channels could get weapons.
Now that the two families don’t have much working capital, it’s not easy to build a batch of hot weapons in Huaguo. If you’re not careful, the whole family will have to be imprisoned. Therefore, the Chu and Huo families are in contact with foreign forces. It cost hundreds of millions to buy dozens of guns and dozens of boxes of ammunition.
It's not that they don't want to buy more, but that buying more will easily attract the attention of foreign forces, and they don't have that much money on hand.
As for the guns and ammunition, Huo Lin accompanied Chu Zhixin out of the country to bring them back, and put them in Chu Zhixin's portable space, otherwise those things would not be able to pass through the customs.
Because after the end of the world, the original social system will collapse, and banks and the like will no longer exist. Therefore, the two families also relied on Runtian to borrow a sum of money from the bank, and urgently reinforced several large warehouses in Runtian. Chu Zhixin's portable space had already been filled with supplies from Runtian's warehouse.
Now all the spare money in their hands is used to buy goods, and transfer the goods from the Runtian warehouse around Haishi to the large warehouse in Haishi. Others only think that they have made some big moves, and don't think about other places.
They have already thought about it. Before the end of the world, they must abandon some of their cargo reserves. After all, the military government can still operate normally at the beginning of the end of the world. They can generously donate the warehouses they cannot protect to the government in exchange for Their political status at the beginning of the apocalypse, as for the goods stored in Chu Zhixin's space and in several reinforced warehouses in Hehai City, is the capital for them to settle down in the future.
In a few days, the two families spent money like water. Except for the house under their respective names, everything that could be sold was sold.
"Let's do it tomorrow."
Chu Xianzong said into the phone, after finishing speaking, there was a knock on the door of the study.
"Come in." He hung up the conversation, collected his expression, and said in a deep voice.
"Xianzong, I have already prepared the banquet tomorrow."
Gu Anna pretended to be puzzled and asked: "It's not a big day, it's quite sudden to have a banquet suddenly."
"Why isn't it a big day, tomorrow is our wedding anniversary."
Chu Xianzong smiled, that was the alibi he prepared for himself, how could it be unimportant.
"Xianzong, I am so happy."
Gu Anna smiled sweetly, and a woman in her forties smiled brightly and sweetly like a 28-year-old girl.
In a place where they could not see, the eyes of the two of them dimmed for a moment, and they probably already knew what happened tomorrow.