Wei Nian thought, Oh, my girl, who taught you this? How can you be so honest? How can you say what your father is thinking? Then he was ecstatic and said to Chen Xuan, "Xuan'er, our little girl can say five words in a row!" This child used to say single words, double words or triple words, and never said five words in a row!
Wei Nian looked like a silly and happy father. Chen Xuan patted her daughter on the forehead and said, "Why are you so rude? You should call me Uncle Rong."
The little girl was quite obedient. After thinking about it, she changed her words nicely, "Uncle Rong, OK." and returned to her previous sentence punctuation pattern.
Wei Nian explained to Rong Yang seriously, "Maybe it's because of the story about the animal world that I told her a few days ago, and she remembered it. Hahaha, these days, everyone she meets is Aunt Squirrel or Uncle Rabbit." Oh, my daughter is always a warm and sweet girl to her father!
Chen Xuan looked at Brother Anian with a reproachful look, but there was nothing she could do about him. She thought that Brother Anian must have called Mr. Rong "Rong Fox" behind his back and the little girl heard it.
Rong Yang took the little girl and hugged her. The little girl was very affectionate. She rubbed her chubby little face against Uncle Rong's handsome face and called him softly, "Uncle Rong." Rong Yang held the little girl and sat down, smiling, "She is really lovable." He took out a piece of beautiful jade from a velvet box and hung it around the little girl's neck, saying to the couple, "This is for the little friend."
Wei Nian thought that he was quite familiar with Rong Yang, so he didn't hesitate to tell his daughter, "Say thank you, uncle."
The little girl got a new toy and put it in her mouth. Rong Yang thought the child was hungry and asked, "What do you like to eat? Can you eat cookies and cakes?"
Chen Xuan said, "She eats everything." She really eats everything. In addition to the steamed eggs she eats every morning and evening, as well as the milk powder she drinks, she also drinks rice porridge and corn porridge. Before she had teeth, she would eat steamed buns with the skin torn off and the bun core to dip in vegetable soup with relish. This girl is not picky about food, except for hard things that she can't chew, so she grew up strong.
Rong Yang asked the servant to bring up the baked biscuits and cakes. The little girl first took a biscuit with her chubby fingers and handed it to Rong Yang, smiling at him with her crescent eyes, "Uncle, here."
Rong Yang patted her head, took the biscuit and ate it. Then, the little girl gave one to her father and mother respectively, and she started to eat. Rong Yang smiled, "How polite."
"She especially likes to pass things to others when we eat at home. Our old lady says that she is a nosy person at first glance." Chen Xuan took out a small bag from her bag and put it on the little girl, and put the bottle of warm water next to her.
Because of the war in Shanghai, Chen Xuan was very worried about Shanghai and said, "I was very worried when there was a war in Shanghai before. It's been fine in the past few years, Mr. Rong. The Japanese devils will come here in a few years. What about business?" Thinking that she was also incompetent in her previous life, she only knew that the Japanese devils were coming, but Chen Xuan didn't know when they came, whether they came to Beijing, or whether they went to Shanghai.
Wei Nian took the coffee from the servant and handed the cup of milk tea to Chen Xuan, "Xuan'er, you are overthinking it. Shanghai is safe, which means the Nanjing government still has the strength to fight. Mr. Rong, is it so easy for the Japanese to come? If everything is peaceful, it will be no problem to expand the scale of the cosmetics factory. If the situation is unstable, we should not add more production lines."
Rong Yang thought about it and said, "It's fine in recent years."
Wei Nian said, "Okay, then we'll buy another set of machines. Cosmetic machines are not expensive and pay back quickly. Even if there's a war, we won't lose money if we throw away all the stuff."
Rong Yang nodded and asked, "How did Mrs. Wei do in the summer exam?"
When talking about the test results before the summer vacation, Chen Xuan just smiled and said modestly, "Not bad."
"You're going to take high school courses this year, right?"
"I'm already halfway through my first year of high school, and I'll be able to finish my first year of high school by the end of the year."
"He read it very quickly."
Chen Xuan said, "The school has to take Sundays off for winter and summer vacations, and I don't need to."
"What are your plans when you finish your high school courses?"
"Apply to a foreign university." Chen Xuan's ideal has never changed. She looked at Wei Nian and said, "Brother Anian and I have discussed this. We will take the exam together. Then I will take the little girl with me to study abroad. She will be only four or five years old by then. I have asked my wife if we can let her go to a foreign kindergarten. When the little girl is older, I will teach her some simple foreign languages. Otherwise, I am afraid she will not be able to adapt to the foreign countries."
Wei Nian had not been very keen on studying abroad before, but Chen Xuan had always wanted to go, and the level of the circles that Wei Nian was in contact with had been getting better and better. If Wei Nian had not been proficient in three or four foreign languages, and not been smart and good-looking, it would have been difficult. Wei Nian has been more and more aware of this recently, so he has been studying with Chen Xuan. He added, "I also want to go abroad. It depends on our college entrance examination results. I have thought about the cosmetics factory business. One of the four of them, Yan, Xiao Li, Miss Bai, and Qi San, should be appointed as a senior manager in Beijing. Specifically, Mr. Rong should also send someone over. Now the cosmetics factory produces more types and there are more things to do."
"There's no rush for this, we'll talk about it later." Rong Yang has always been confident in Wei Nian and Chen Xuan, and then he talked about another matter. "I came here this time, thinking that we could get together again in a few days, but something happened by chance. I have a friend who wants to study abroad. He doesn't have much cash on hand, so he wants to sell his two houses in Dongjiaomin Lane. The location of his houses is not particularly good, and they are not very big. They are two three-story villas that are closely connected. When I talked about this yesterday, I had enough houses in Beijing, and the houses in Dongjiaomin Lane will not drop in value in the next few years. At that time, I thought of you. If you are interested, you may as well go and take a look."
Wei Nian's eyes widened, "The house in Dongjiaomin Lane?"
"Yes, in fact, if he had just spread the word to the agent, the house would not have been available until today. But now, Peking is also a mixed bag, and too many people want the house in the embassy area. It would be better to find a buyer who is quiet and take the money and go abroad directly." Rong Yang said, "It seems that you are interested, An Nian."
"I couldn't ask for more!" Wei Nian did not hide his interest in the house at all. Wei Nian said, "At the beginning of the year, I found a small house for my eldest sister and talked to the agent about it. Now in Beijing, the most popular houses are those in Dongjiaominxiang and Xijiaominxiang. It's not that no one is selling houses, but once people get wind of the houses here, they can't even be sold to their agents, and someone will buy them. Oh, Mr. Rong, I have to thank you. You are giving me a ready-made opportunity to make a fortune."
"It's not for you." Rong Yang saw the little girl eat two cookies and then tilted her head to stare at the cake, so he pushed the cake in front of her and teased Wei Nian, "This is my first time meeting Ah Xin, so consider it a meeting gift from Uncle Fox to Ah Xin."
Wei Nian was slightly embarrassed. He touched the bridge of his nose and said to Rong Yang, "You fooled me first about the plane ticket."
Rong Yang understood the whole process after a brief thought. He did not show any embarrassment of being caught cheating. He was still as gentle and refined as ever. He shook his head and took a sip of tea. "It must be Qin Dazui who said that."
Qin Shu, who was studying at Peking University, might have been inspired by this and sneezed loudly!
Rong Yang invited the family of three to have lunch at home, and found that the little girl really ate everything, of course, as long as she could chew it. For example, she couldn't eat the meat in stir-fried dishes, but she liked the roasted fish and the fish meat without bones very much, and she would eat several pieces in a row, and she could even drink a small bowl of the thick rice porridge. Moreover, the little girl ate food in a very good way. Wei Nian put her on his knees and put a plate in front of her. She knew to lower her head and eat the rice porridge with a small spoon, and she would eat the vegetables on the plate with her washed chubby hands. Although some of it inevitably fell on her bib, and there was also some rice porridge on her mouth, the child was already very good at eating at such a young age.
After lunch, Chen Xuan took the little girl to the sun room to bask in the sun, while Wei Nian and Rong Yang continued to talk about some things in the study. When Wei Nian took his wife and daughter to say goodbye, the little girl was a little sleepy and kept rubbing her eyes. Chen Xuan took out the little cotton monkey from her bag. This is a cotton coat with a hood, which Beijingers call a cotton monkey. She wrapped the little girl tightly, put on the cotton hat, and wrapped the soft wool scarf knitted by her mother around her neck. The whole person was held in her father's arms like a little cotton ball. When she left, she knew to wave and said in a baby voice, "Uncle, goodbye."
Rong Yang smiled and waved to the kid, "Goodbye, Xin."
That evening, Wei Nian went out again and came back after dark. He told Chen Xuan about the house in Dongjiaomin Lane, "It has been negotiated. The owner is going to study in the United States and plans to sell the property."
Chen Xuan had just coaxed the little girl to sleep and poured a glass of water for Anian. Then Chen Xuan went outside to get some water for Wei Nian to wash up. She whispered to Anian, "I actually wanted to ask this when I was at Mr. Rong's place. Anian, does it cost a lot of money to study abroad? I read in the newspaper that the houses in Dongjiaomin Lane are extremely expensive. If you want to study abroad, you have to sell your house."
"Studying abroad is not as expensive as you think. The owner feels that the country is not peaceful now. The houses in Dongjiaomin Lane are expensive now. He wants to take advantage of the opportunity to sell them at a good price. On the one hand, he will have money to study abroad. On the other hand, he may be able to buy property abroad, so he doesn't have to spend money without earning anything." Wei Nian washed up and got on the kang. He said to Chen Xuan, "I have agreed to buy both houses. Half of them will be paid in gold and half in US dollars. How much money do we have now?"
Chen Xuan and Wei Nian discussed the number, and Wei Nian thought, "One set is enough, but I'm still short of tens of thousands of dollars to buy two sets together. How can I make ends meet?"
Chen Xuan suggested, "Why don't we tell Grandpa and borrow some from our family?"
"No. You must keep this a secret and don't tell your family. Even if we buy a house, it will only be in your name. We haven't divided the family yet, and according to the rules I can't buy property outside. This can only be considered your private property, and it's fine as long as we know about it, but don't tell my parents or anyone else." Wei Nian thought for a while, "I'll ask Ah Yin tomorrow. She has a lot of private money in recent years. Doesn't she also want to study in France? Her family can't pay for her tuition, so let her buy the house together and sell it when she goes abroad. The house in Dongjiaomin Lane can appreciate further." Otherwise, when Wei Yin has no money studying abroad, Wei Nian can't just sit back and do nothing, so he simply asks Wei Yin to invest together.
Chen Xuan thought this was a good idea. After discussing it with her husband and wife and deciding on it, they started reading books face to face. When they both went to bed, Chen Xuan heard some noises in the yard. She whispered, "Why does my brother always come back so late?" Ever since Wei came back from outside the Great Wall last year, he has liked to go out at night from time to time. Chen Xuan used to think that her uncle had just returned to Beijing to visit friends. But he has been back in Beijing for half a year and is still like this. Chen Xuan was a little curious.
Wei Nian said casually, "Brother, is there something going on? Okay, go to sleep."
The author has something to say: ps: The second update is here, good night everyone!