Chapter 1600 New Year’s Eve, Lu Jie
The two fell into silence again. Before the divorce, they had no common language. After Xie Meilan's mother fell ill, their relationship reached a freezing point. They usually had nothing to say at home.
We are about to get divorced now, and when we sit together again, we still have nothing in common.
Or Shen Lei asked again: "How are you doing now?"
"Oh, I'm fine, very good."
Xie Meilan replied insincerely. With Lu Jie, her material life was satisfied, but her spiritual life was not so beautiful.
Although Xie Meilan wore bright clothes and drove a luxury car, Shen Lei knew that Xie Meilan was not as good as she showed after knowing that Xie Meilan was approached by Lu Jie's ex-wife. However, he did not reveal it and saved some face for each other. Pretty good too.
After the food was served, the two of them finished their meal in silence and walked out of the restaurant together.
Standing outside the restaurant, Xie Meilan said with a complicated expression: "Shen Lei, we have become like this..."
Before she finished speaking, Shen Lei interrupted her.
"You did nothing wrong, and neither did I. We haven't changed, we just have different pursuits. There is still a long way to go, so let's look forward."
Looking at the free and easy Shen Lei in front of her, Xie Meilan felt uncomfortable. Shen Lei seemed to have come out, but she was nostalgic for the past, but her pursuit of material transcended everything, so even though she was nostalgic, she still felt nostalgic. Won't regret it.
But Shen Lei fulfilled her wish, and she was still sincerely grateful: "Thank you, Shen Lei, and I wish you all the best in the future."
Shen Lei nodded: "After that month, I will continue to wait for your strategy."
"Okay, bye."
"goodbye."
In the end, the former lovers and husbands and wives said goodbye to each other and left.
As soon as Xie Meilan got in the car and was about to start the car and leave, she received another call from Lu Jie. She answered the call helplessly.
"Okay, I understand, go back now."
She took a day off specifically for today's work, but she didn't expect that Lu Jie would call her on the left, then on the right, and finally returned home at noon, urging her to go back quickly.
As soon as Xie Meilan opened the door and entered the house, she saw Lu Jie sitting on the sofa with a gloomy expression.
"Why didn't you go to work?"
"work?"
Lu Jie's tone was cold: "I'm going to work, and you're going to have lunch with your ex-husband, right?"
Xie Meilan's face suddenly changed: "What do you mean? Yes, I had lunch with Shen Lei, but this is the last meal with him. It's a good time to get together and relax. Is there any problem?"
"Just for lunch? Then why did you not answer any of the calls I made to you? If you didn't have a problem, why didn't you dare to answer the phone?" Lu Jie asked loudly.
Having been with Lu Jie for so long, Xie Meilan naturally knows what kind of person Lu Jie is.
"I don't want to explain anything more, I just had a simple lunch, believe it or not, it's up to you."
Lu Jie looked at her with a gloomy face. After a short while, he asked, "Have the procedures been completed?"
"It's done and I'll go back in a month."
Lu Jie breathed a sigh of relief, his face slowly returned to normal, and he smiled. He sat down next to Xie Meilan and wanted to hug her, but Xie Meilan shook her away.
"Meilan, I'm sorry, I shouldn't doubt you, but I care about you too much, that's why I'm like this, don't blame me."
"The Chinese New Year will be here soon. I'm not going anywhere today. I'm just going to celebrate the New Year with you. Let's go eat..."
Xie Meilan was also used to his method of using big sticks and sweet dates. Under his sweet words, she finally said nothing and reconciled as before.
The Spring Festival of the Lunar New Year is a traditional Chinese New Year celebration since ancient times.
This year's Spring Festival will be celebrated in the capital. Na Wei's family and Na's mother came to Zhou Chen's house at noon on New Year's Eve. This year they will celebrate the Spring Festival here in Ziyuhua Mansion.
Na Wei and Shen Lin had brought their accommodation supplies with them and were not planning to leave at night. The whole family was staying at Zhou Chen's place, and several rooms could accommodate them.
On New Year's Eve, the family packed up a large table of food together, including fish and meat, as well as dumplings and glutinous rice balls. Zhou Chen and Li Xiaoyue spent several days buying these things.
"Happy New Year!"
Everyone sat around a table and toasted together. Yue Yue was the most active one. He poured drinks into the cup, drinking with Zhou Chen and Li Xiaoyue, dancing like a little butterfly.
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Tonight, Na Wei was drunk with Ling Ding, Shen Lin also drank a lot, and even Na Mu drank two glasses of liquor. Yue Yue was running around the house with Na Zixuan, who was already able to walk.
It's big enough for them to have fun playing.
Na Wei and his family of four spent New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year here in Zhou Chen. However, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, their family of four embarked on the road back to their parents' home, going to Shen Lin's hometown of Shen.
The village was gone, and only the mother remained.
Li Xiaoyue was very lively, and she drove her mother out to go shopping without asking Zhou Chen. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got along very happily.
Zhou Chen, on the other hand, is happy and relaxed. He has experienced too many New Year celebrations, and now he really can no longer find the excitement of New Year celebrations that he had when he was a child.
For adults, the current Chinese New Year is equivalent to getting together with family and friends, and then burning money. During these days of the New Year holiday, money is really flowing at a rapid rate. If you meet some friends who like to play cards,
That money is really not enough to spend.
Maybe it was because there were more people playing in their hometown, so Na Wei and Shen Lin lived in Shenjiacun until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year before returning to Beijing to prepare for work.
Soon after the New Year, Zhou Chen also took action. He had agreed with Mr. Yao of Xinglian Investment Bank that he would start discussing cooperation after the New Year. He had already made plans in this regard and helped Mr. Yao get in touch.
The international market is not that difficult, and at most it only requires giving up some of his resources.
He is not short of money now, and the last thing he cares about is money, so even if he gives a little to Mr. Yao, it doesn't matter. What's more, their cooperation is not unilaterally paid by him. Mr. Yao will also help him open up the domestic market, although it doesn't matter whether he has it or not.
It doesn’t matter, but it’s definitely better than nothing. It’s a win-win cooperation.
Of course, his main goal is Lu Jie. In order to complete the mission, he must get rid of this guy and not let him ruin the boss circle again.
In the hotel private room, Mr. Yao clinked glasses with Zhou Chen with a red face.
"Well, sir, in this case, we have agreed that we will jointly invest and develop together."
Zhou Chen smiled slightly and said: "I always keep my word, so I will do it according to the plan we just agreed on."
It turns out that he opened up the Southeast Asian market in the past two years. Although he spent a lot of money in the early stage, he earned a lot back. Originally, the business there was not easy to do and the risk was relatively high. Since Mr. Yao is willing to get on board and share the risk,
, he followed the trend, agreed to him, and used his hand to deal with Lu Jie, killing two birds with one stone.
As for the market in Southeast Asia, he is not worried about whether he can handle it without Mr. Yao. The situation there is very complicated and cannot be solved with money. He also uses the connections in Xiangjiang and Ao Island to do it.
Entering the Southeast Asian market, if Mr. Yao leaves him, he will definitely not be able to survive there.
Because the direction of this cooperation is cross-border e-commerce and the tourism industry, the investment is still relatively large, but on the other hand, as long as it is done well, the returns will be very generous.
Mr. Yao also took a fancy to this, so after chatting with Zhou Chen several times, he couldn't wait to get money to work together. There was too much capital in the country and the competition was too fierce. He now wanted to expand overseas business.
, Zhou Chen is his best opportunity, and of course he will not let it go.
"For the specific cooperation plan, my head office in Xiangjiang will send people to the capital to establish a branch. Then it will be easier to negotiate."
Mr. Yao looked excited: "Okay, let's wait for the good news from the boss. I will also arrange for people to start making estimates. When the time comes, I will let Mr. Lu take charge of this matter."
"Mr. Lu, Lu Jie?" Zhou Chen pretended to be surprised.
"Yes, although Lu Jie is not very involved in his personal life, his ability is undoubted. Many of our company's profitable projects are in his hands."
"Let's find another one. I believe Mr. Yao must have better talents under his command."
Mr. Yao frowned. Although he was not very satisfied with some things about Lu Jie, Lu Jie was indeed capable and could make money for him. Under normal circumstances, he would definitely choose Lu Jie who had outstanding abilities.
But this time, the project we are cooperating with Zhou Chen is of great significance to the company, and Zhou Chen is the most critical person in whether this project can start. If Zhou Chen is not satisfied, the project may be in trouble. Although Lu Jie is very capable,
Compared with the future development of the company, he naturally made a judgment in his mind about which was more important.
"Okay, I will hold a meeting with the company's shareholders, select a suitable candidate, and hand over to the general manager."
Zhou Chen raised his wine glass and clinked it with Mr. Yao.
"Then I wish us a happy cooperation."
“A pleasure to work with.”
After Mr. Yao separated from Zhou Chen, he murmured to himself: "It seems that this and that person are also vindictive people, and we will have to follow him in the future."
Although Zhou Chen didn't say it explicitly, he knew that Zhou Chen said last time that he had nothing to do with Xie Meilan, but in fact he still cared about it. No, today he started to attack Lu Jie in front of him.
Now he was asking for something. Zhou Chen just asked for someone else. He knew that if he didn't agree, it would be difficult for the previously agreed cooperation to continue.
To be continued...