Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

"Uncle Wang, aunt."

"Xiao Kun is here, come in and sit down."

"okay."

"Since you're here, what else do you want to take?"

"I brought you two jars of wine."

"Xiao Kun, you eat fruit."

"Thank you, Auntie. I'll go see if Lao Wang has prepared dinner."

Yang Yukun picked up an apple and took a bite, then walked to the kitchen, where he saw Wang Aiguo wearing an apron and waving a spatula to cook.

"Old Wang."

"I'm here. You're the only one here. Where are Xiao Zongzi and the others?"

"My eldest sister and her husband called for dinner. Jingping took the children to my eldest sister and her husband's house."

"We'll have two more dishes before we can start eating. Wait a minute."

"Where's that kid Youzhi?"

"His mother took him to his grandparents' house to celebrate the New Year."

"Braised pork, sure, Lao Wang, it looks pretty good."

"It tastes even better. I learned how to make Cantonese-style braised pork in Guangzhou. I'm not bragging. With my skills now, I can open a restaurant without any problems. The business will definitely be booming."

"What's cooking in that pot?"

"Pig's feet."

"Prepare less food. If you make too much, you won't be able to finish it."

"We haven't prepared many dishes. Go to the living room and watch TV for a while. We can have dinner in half an hour at most."

"Row."

Yang Yukun went to chat with Wang's father and mother for a while, and half an hour later Wang Aiguo prepared dinner.

"We haven't seen each other for a few months. We two brothers must have a few drinks and not leave until we are drunk."

Wang Aiguo opened the glass and filled Yang Yukun's cup.

"Uncle Wang, Auntie, let me offer a toast to you two first. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I wish you a happy new year, good health, and all the best in advance."

"Xiao Kun, I wish you a happy New Year too."

"cheers."

"Come on, Xiaokun, let's have a drink together."

"Walk."

"Eat some food, try the Cantonese braised pork my buddy made."

"good."

"It's a pity that it's just the two of us today. It would be much better if Lao Ding, Lao He, Lao Peng, and Xiao Peng were here."

"Old Ding is in the Central Plains Shangdu, Old He is in Chuzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Old Peng and Teacher Peng are in Shicheng, Sichuan and Shu. They are hundreds or thousands of kilometers away. You can't ask them to fly over now."

"Yeah, we're too far away. Since we graduated from college, it's been a luxury for us to get together again."

"They're not here, let's drink together, just pour some wine."

"Okay, buddy, I'll fill it up for you."

After Wang's father and mother had eaten, they left the table. Yang Yukun and Wang Aiguo continued to drink and chatted about everything from east to west, ancient to modern, China and abroad.

By the end of the drinking, Wang Aiguo was drunk and pulled Yang Yukun to chatter with him.

They said they were sorry to Su Xiaoli and the children, sorry to their elderly parents, etc., and also said that there were so many plots of land and buildings on Qiongzhou Island, and that the real estate market on Qiongzhou Island would inevitably rise to the sky, etc.

"Lao Wang, let's stop drinking here today. You're drunk. Let's drink together next time when we have time."

"I seem to be a little drunk, but my mind is very clear."

"Come on, buddy, help you back to your room."

Yang Yukun remembered that Wang Aiguo was not so talkative when he drank too much before, but now he starts to talk nonstop after a few more drinks.

"Okay, have a good sleep. If you have anything to say, we can talk about it when you sober up." After helping Wang Aiguo back to his room, Yang Yukun said goodbye to Wang's father and mother: "Uncle, aunt, I'm going back first. I'll come to see you next time when I'm free."

"it is good."

"Xiaokun, please walk slowly and be careful."

"Okay, it's very cold today, you should go to bed early."

"Slow down, Xiaokun."

"okay."

After returning home from Wang Aiguo's home, Yang Yukun found that Xu Jingping and the children had not returned yet, so he went to Cheng Xueru's home again.

"It's so lively."

"Xiao Kun is here."

"Brother, come in and sit down. Lanlan, get a chair for your uncle."

"Dad." "Uncle."

"Third uncle."

"Uncle Kun."

"Brother Kun."

"Master, Uncle Guan, Uncle Niu, Uncle Pian, you are here too."

The Broken Marquis smiled and said, "Monkey and Jingli insisted that we come over for a drink."

Han Chunming said, "We were waiting for you to have a drink, but you didn't come over after waiting for a long time."

"Old Wang asked me to go to his place for dinner. I already told him yesterday. I can't stand him up."

Hou Kui said, "When I came back yesterday, I called Lao Wang and asked him to come over for a drink, but he said he was busy today."

"Speaking of Lao Wang, what the hell is going on? The client I introduced to him called me two days ago and said that there were a lot of defective small electronic products in the batch delivered to Lao Wang's factory. Lao Wang didn't even show up, and the general manager of his company always tried to smooth things over and didn't come up with a practical solution.

The guy was very angry and decided not to continue cooperating with Lao Wang.

They had a good cooperation before. This guy never owed Lao Wang a penny of payment for goods, nor did he delay payment.

There aren't many high-quality customers like this. How did Lao Wang do business when he lost such a good customer? "

Speaking of Wang Aiguo, Han Chunming remembered something.

Didn’t he introduce a client to Wang Aiguo before? This client is quite powerful and is a good person in both his work and his conduct.

They were cooperating well, but a few days ago this guy suddenly called him to complain, saying that Wang Aiguo was not a good person.

Han Chunming was completely confused at the time and had no idea what was going on.

After this buddy explained it to him, he finally understood what was going on. It turned out that there were too many defective products he had purchased from Wang Aiguo in recent times.

Especially for the most recent batch of goods, the defective rate exceeded 16 or 17 percent.

The buddy called Wang Aiguo, but Wang Aiguo said he was busy and asked him to ask his subordinates to handle it.

The manager of Wang Aiguo's company keeps saying more beautiful things each time, but he never solves the actual problems.

The guy was very angry and said that he would never cooperate with Wang Aiguo again.

He introduced clients to Wang Aiguo only because of Yang Yukun's face.

Damn it, if he wasn’t Yang Yukun’s friend, he wouldn’t have paid any attention to this guy.

How can you do business like this? You will ruin your reputation and fail sooner or later.

Hou Kui said, "This guy Lao Wang has been quite mysterious recently. Every time I ask him to drink, he says he is busy and not in Yangcheng. When I ask him what he is busy with, he won't tell me."

"He's probably doing some big business and doesn't want us to know." Yang Yukun said with a smile.

Wang Aiguo was speculating in real estate on Qiongzhou Island. He advised him to withdraw his funds as soon as possible, but he didn't listen and believed that the real estate market on Qiongzhou Island would never collapse.

He has already said everything he needs to say, and there is nothing he can do if Wang Aiguo refuses to listen.

As for the defective rate in Wang Aiguo's electronics factory, it is obvious that this guy has no intention of managing the company and his subordinates are doing whatever they want.

If this continues, when the real estate market in Qiongzhou Island collapses, not only will Wang Aiguo lose all his money, but the electronics factory will probably also collapse, and he will end up with nothing.

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After returning from Wang Aiguo's home, Yang Yukun went to Cheng Xueru's home to find Xu Jingping and the children, and stayed there for more than an hour.

Xu Jingping brought back some local specialties from southern Yunnan. After leaving Cheng Xueru's house, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping asked the master and his party to go home first and take back some of the local specialties brought back from southern Yunnan.

the next day.

January 22, 1993, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Monkey, New Year’s Eve.

After breakfast, the family began to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Yang Yukun is the chef, his father-in-law is helping, Xu Jingping and his mother-in-law are making dumplings, and Xiao Zongzi, Pingping and Xiao Yumi also come to help.

“Ding ding ding ding ding….”

"Grandma, Dad, Mom, someone's calling."

Xu Jingping said: "It might be Jingtian calling."

"I'll pick it up!"

Hearing that the call might be from Aunt Five, Xiao Zongzi ran to the living room of the main house to answer the phone.

"Grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, it's my fifth aunt calling."

"Tell your fifth aunt."

"Fifth Aunt, when will you come back? I miss you so much."

"We are making New Year's Eve dinner. Pingping, Xiao Yumi and I are helping grandma and mom make dumplings. We made dumplings with many different fillings."

"Sister, I want to talk to Aunt Five."

"Aunt Wu, Xiao Yumi wants to talk to you, please talk to her."

After chatting with Aunt Five for a while, Xiao Zongzi handed the phone to Xiao Yumi.

After chatting with Aunt Five for more than ten minutes, Xiao Yumi handed the phone to Pingping.

Then the phone was handed over to Cai Quanwu and Xu Huizhen. Xu Jingping chatted with her sister Xu Jingtian for more than half an hour. Finally, Yang Yukun chatted with Xu Jingtian for more than ten minutes. The call lasted nearly three hours. (End of this chapter)