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Chapter 307: Going up and down, unexpected situation (please subscribe!)

After passing through the crowded crowd, Xia Yu squeezed back from the yard into the house that was still in a rough state.

Strictly speaking, his new house should have two and a half floors above ground, plus a basement.

There is no need to dig deep bunkers under houses in China, and the groundwater level in Jiangsu Province is too high, so it is quite troublesome to do waterproofing.

Then there are the ugly anti-theft windows. The surveillance system is equipped with infrared security and a biometric smart alarm trinity is enough.

Apart from some jewelry given to my mother, the only items in the house that are valuable are the hard and soft furnishings, furniture and appliances. As for cash, it seems that cash is gradually no longer used in China.

This is very different from abroad, especially since Afika only accepts cash and very few cards are used.

Xia Yu likes this change, because the new banknotes have a strong smell of ink, and the old banknotes are full of viruses and bacteria. In terms of physical wealth, gold is relatively clean and easy to cash out.

But just send money home and that's it. The gold he brought back was not much, just a few hundred grams. He went to a goldsmith to beat it into the shape of steamed buns and rice cakes.

50 grams each, one for each kid among Xia Yu's relatives. It is considered a New Year's gift for him as an elder. After all, he doesn't come back often.

The extra two were used as lucky gifts, and were wrapped in steamed buns and rice cakes respectively, steamed, mixed into two baskets, and carried to the roof.

This is part of the beam-laying ceremony. The master of ceremonies calls him to start the ceremony.

The elevator in the elevator shaft had not yet been installed, so Xia Yu climbed up to the attic in three steps and came to Liv's side.

It’s funny to say that a Chinese married a German, but the new house was built as a French villa. The elevator in the house was from Krupp, and the Chinese-style kitchen on the first floor had an earthen stove and a bathtub.

This pot has been passed down from my grandfather's family for several generations. They were demolishing the place two years ago, and Xia Yu specially asked his mother to keep it so that it could be used when building a new house.

When I was a child, the big earthen jar was covered with plastic film in the summer and used to heat the well water for bathing. In the winter, I relied on this big pot.

The firewood heats up a large pot of hot water, and you can take a pleasant bath by stepping on the wooden board. The person lighting the fire must control the heat and never let the water boil.

The quality of the pot from his grandfather's house was not very good, and it was damaged in the war before his grandson could build a new house. Fortunately, there was still one from his grandfather's house.

The two uncles lived in separate buildings and had showers and bathtubs. It could be said that they were happy to get rid of these things, but Xia Yu was a nostalgic person.

Earlier, he had thought about setting up such a big pot in Bogo Village, and the pillars could be used to light the fire. However, the company's business is getting busier and busier, and half of the year is deployed outside. It is more practical to use an electric water heater and a shower. .

This must be arranged at home, otherwise when the child is born in the future, he will not even know about this ancestral thing.

Liv was shocked by this.

The most outrageous thing she has ever seen is a kitchen sink for bathing a baby, but this pot is set on fire and the person is bathing in the pot, except that the onions and carrots are not cut. Isn't this the plot of "Tom and Jerry" .

As we all know, "Tom and Jerry" is a documentary with a very realistic plot.

And no matter what, this is their new home in China.

You don’t need too many houses, but you must have one. With this house, it forms the root system of the rural sentiment, not to mention that it is the homestead passed down from generation to generation of the Xia family.

Because there is no genealogy, the ancestors of the grandfather upwards cannot be verified, but it is passed down by word of mouth that this is their home.

Here we have escaped the wars in the late Ming Dynasty, the massacres in the early Qing Dynasty, the ruined city of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (because it was outside the city), and even the persecution of the Japanese invaders, until today we are peaceful and stable.

Therefore, it is impossible for Xiayu to immigrate, but because of Liv, he can get a Schengen visa.

In the past, when he went to Europe, he always used special channels. After all, getting a visa would be very troublesome, but now that he has slowly come to the forefront, he can't continue to use a fake identity!

At the national level, a lot of his information is transparent. Fortunately, Xiayu has also passed the development period and completed the initial accumulation.

Now it’s time to take a step further and make the company bigger and stronger.

"Top the beam~~"

Following the shout of the master of ceremonies, the workers returned the central beam that had been erected, and Lao Xia lit two strings of 100,000 firecrackers hanging on the beam downstairs.

"Crack~Pah~Crack~Pah~~"

Amidst the crackling of firecrackers, Xia Yu and Liv simultaneously threw steamed buns and rice cakes to the crowd below.

A piece of steamed bun and a piece of cake, which is a normal saying when marrying a chicken, follow the chicken, and when marrying a dog, follow the dog. Putting it in the beam-laying ceremony also has a different flavor.

And the villagers and relatives who knew that there were big prizes in the rice cakes and steamed buns were all fighting for it, hoping to be the two lucky ones.

Even though the price of gold right now is only over 200 yuan per gram, 50 grams is directly over 1 yuan. Who wouldn’t be tempted?

After throwing away two baskets of steamed buns and rice cakes, the firecrackers had not yet been set off. After completing the simplified Chinese beam-laying ceremony, Liv prepared a German one.

When it comes to house construction, many countries have prayer ceremonies, and Germany is no exception. They will invite the craftsmen to drink a glass of wine and place a small decorated tree on the beam.

It was like the smallest Christmas tree, but it was just an expectation, so the two of them replaced it with potted plants bought from the flower and bird market.

"This feels more exciting than on the battlefield."

The firecrackers were finally set off, and Liv said with emotion as she smelled the smoke in the air.

"Where are you now? In another week, you will know what a 'real battlefield' is."

Xia Yu said that Liv was unusual and strange, and he would get used to it after a few more New Years in China.

They went downstairs, and two lucky boys had just been born. They were all in the same group, but they came from two villages. The villagers who knew each other shouted to treat them.

Gold fell from the sky. It was so white that it was worth more than 10,000 yuan. They both said they would buy groceries when they got back and prepare a table tomorrow. They also said a lot of auspicious words to Xia Yu and Liv who had just come down.

Of course, Liv couldn't understand the idea of ​​having a baby early, so she could only smile politely.

After the ceremony, it was time for dinner. The crowd slowly dispersed. Relatives helped sweep away the firecracker skins all over the floor and set up three tables in the yard.

Relatives on both sides of the parents' table were at one table, and workers who had not yet left were sitting at another table, preparing for the Shang Liang Banquet.

There are not many opportunities to eat at one's own banquet. Cold dishes were served first. Lao Xia borrowed the neighbor's yard to prepare hot dishes for the banquet chef. Soon the first hot dish was served.

Xia Yu really wanted to eat food, but his relatives didn't let him go, as a big boss, and came over one by one to toast him.

Then he had no choice but to cheat like Duan Yu and directly separate ethanol and water.

"Xiaoyu, your cousin will graduate next year. How about letting him go to Afika to help you?"

Seeing that Xia Yu had had several drinks, his brother-in-law seized the opportunity and said.

Xia Yu expected this situation to occur. Blood relations and marriage relations are an important part of Chinese social relations. They have been the most reliable and trustworthy relations from ancient times to the present.

It's just that this major is not relevant. Going to Afika to help him means going to the battlefield, or like Dong Ge next door, who arranged for more than 20 relatives to work as security guards in the company.

This is just a salary, and it is impossible to touch the core business.

If Xia Yu wants to arrange for relatives, he will only add a place in the museum or in a project cooperating with Lao Anka.

"Yes, you just have to learn the language. It's not enough to speak only English. You must also speak French proficiently."

This is the minimum requirement. If you can't even pass the language barrier, you won't be able to do many simple tasks, and your life will be very difficult. Others are not always in charge. For example, the engineering teams that go out from China only have dozens or hundreds of people equipped with translators. Recently, there are only two projects in Xiayu that use Chinese artificial intelligence extensively.

One is the recently recruited employees of Jihuo Defense, who are also working overtime to learn the language, and the other is the uranium mining project that he plans to start after returning.

The technical staff are all recruited domestically and have signed confidentiality agreements, prohibiting them from disclosing matters at the mine to the outside world.

Xia Yu assigned them a translator. If his cousin was willing to go to the mine, it would definitely be worth a monthly salary of 5000 US dollars. Staying in Kongluga would only earn 3500 or 4000 dollars at most.

"Mom, I don't want to go to Afika."

Said the young man and Xia Yu's sister-in-law who were immersed in cooking.

Come on, the person involved doesn’t want to go at all.

Not everyone is willing to go abroad, let alone Afika. As long as he didn't owe a lot of debt, Xia Yu was not willing to go abroad, even if he could really make money there.

It's hard to find a local job worth RMB 10,000 to RMB 20,000, but as long as you have a serious diploma, jobs worth RMB 5,000 to RMB 6,000 are available everywhere.

Not to mention that it is difficult to find a wife after being away for many years, and it is easy to run away once you find one.

My sister-in-law also considers this aspect more than money.

"If you don't go, you won't go, Xiaoyu, your uncle is drunk, just ignore him."

After pushing her husband, my sister-in-law greeted Xia Yu with a smile.

She envied her nephew's success, but she was reluctant to let her son go to Afika, so she had to do this.

Other relatives had similar thoughts. Rather than letting Xia Yu arrange Afika's work, they were more willing to borrow money from him to buy a house.

As for whether you will repay the borrowed money, this mainly depends on your character.

Anyway, Xia Yu couldn't borrow it here. As for the money he gave to Lao Xia and Lin Shuqin, if someone borrowed it, they would discuss it and give it to them, but there wouldn't be much.

In this way, the Xia family finished the banquet in a joyful atmosphere, with relatives and friends having different thoughts, and the workers continued construction until New Year's Eve.

The local workers were able to work till the end, while the people from Jinling came from all over the country and bought their tickets to go home two days in advance.

They old non-commissioned officers have holidays every year, but they may not be able to go home during the Chinese New Year. After leaving the army, they can stay at home for seven days.

Even after the time has passed, I will not leave immediately, but will come back to study until the day of official departure.

As for going abroad to work, apart from Lao Wu, I didn't tell anyone at home.

The reason for signing the confidentiality agreement is on the one hand, and on the other hand, the work is going smoothly, and the clothes that have been taken off can be put back on again, and the original trajectory of life has not changed.

In this way, even if you can talk about it, it will make your family worry blindly, so it is better not to talk about it.

Serve the ancestors at noon and make wontons at night. This is the Xia family's New Year's Eve.

Compared with the past, when there were only two people, husband and wife, this year the number has increased to four people, and there will be a trend of more people in the future. Such days will become more and more prosperous.

However, Xia Yu, who had no talent for cooking, was kicked out of the kitchen by Lin Shuqin and Liv.

Not working was actually quite good, but he suddenly received a phone call.

"Boss, we have something wrong here."

Kuhn's voice came from the receiver.

"what is the problem?"

Xia Yu asked calmly.

If there is a problem, then solve it. He, Huang Weasel, cannot solve all problems, but there are really not many problems that can be difficult for him.

"This matter... let 01 tell you!"

Kuhn felt that it was difficult to organize the language, so it was better to let the person involved describe it.

"Boss, the situation is like this. Thanks to your generosity, we have bought real estate and cars in our hometown. However, we have saved a lot of income recently and have no good place to go for the time being, so we discussed starting a small business together. .”

Sergey told the story over the phone.

The small business he mentioned was actually an investment project. After all, they didn't have the time or ability to open a small store or develop any side business.

Investing money and waiting for profits is the most feasible solution. The specific operations are handled by 03 and 04. Others can just pay after they agree at a meeting.

The tragic result was that they encountered telecommunications fraud.

"They lied to us about investing in cryptocurrency. We saw that this industry was very popular, so we thought about investing with our spare money, but the other party took away our principal."

"We were okay, we only invested 03 to 04 US dollars, but 03 and 35 were responsible for contacting each other. They must have been more brainwashed. 04 invested 40 US dollars, and invested US dollars without getting married."

Sergey told the whole story.

Xia Yu was a little confused after hearing this. His employees were defrauded by electronic mail? Or a trendy cryptocurrency?

The bit of Bitcoin in his wallet was only used to pay for things on the arms black market, not for investment profits.

Sergey and the others are really big-hearted. They took so much money (compared to their net worth, Xia Yu’s millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency is just a drop in the bucket, and his six-figure employees are big) to play with cryptocurrency, and they were deceived into letting others "Fire on behalf of others".

If this doesn’t defraud them of their money, who else can the scammer defraud of their money?

However, this incident also reminded Xia Yu that formal employees of the company are good at fighting, but they can be easily deceived in life.

Not to mention that each of them is relatively wealthy. In the absence of means to increase property value, the probability of falling into the trap carefully crafted by fraudsters is not high.

As a responsible boss, he needs to provide some reliable investment channels for his employees.

Regardless of how much you earn, you still need to make a small profit to ensure that you can outperform inflation. Only in this way can you stabilize the "military morale" and ensure the normal operation of the company.

"How are they 03 and 04?"

Xia Yu asked.

As one of the original combat employees, he has the most affection for the members of the Number 1 group, which is why they are so honest with him.

If you order something from a chicken thief, even if it affects your mentality, you will hide it.

In such an important deployment, some members could not devote themselves to the battle, which was quite fatal. Fortunately, they contacted themselves as soon as possible.

"I'm a little bit shocked. I just communicated with Mole to stop the patrol schedule of our group 1 first."

　Some people want to see Tutu, but how about the hometown map? After thinking about it, there is a curve method, which is particularly suitable for the protagonist's arrangement at this time.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)