Chapter 625: Relying on the old and betraying the old horse. Trouble comes to your door.
Zhou Chen has always believed in the saying, a friend's favor is better than a rival's favor.
Sometimes good intentions may not necessarily lead to sincerity, and may even cause more problems.
Just like he helped Sun catch up, if Xiao Guoqing lost his job just like Sun caught up, and he only helped Sun catch up, Xiao Guoqing would not say anything, but he must have something in mind.
The reason why he chose to help Yu Hong was that cooking on the construction site was not a very good job. Even if someone found out, it wouldn't cause much reaction. The other reason was that he saw that Yu Hong was a diligent and down-to-earth person.
people.
Although in the original plot of the TV series, in order to get a house, Yu Hong pretended to be pitiful, but to be honest, if Bo Tsing could get a house by pretending to be pitiful, I think most people wouldn't mind doing it.
Helping Yu Hong was for Sun Qianchao's sake, and also because Yu Hong was not as annoying as Wu Qian.
To Zhou Chen, this was just a trivial matter.
But for Sun and his wife, this is great news.
As for whether it's hard or not, whether it's tiring or not, these are all nonsense. Life is almost unbearable. What's the point of talking about being hard and tired? As long as you can have a job and make money.
"Kun'er, it's really no problem. Although Yu Hong's cooking is not as good as the chef in the hotel, there is absolutely no problem in cooking in a big pot. No matter how hard and tiring it is, can it still be harder than the pedicurist in the bathhouse?"
Sun Qianchao was a man after all, and he didn't understand the hard work of cooking. What's more, the construction site for building a factory and building this time was very large, and there must be a lot of people. The hard work must be hard, but Zhou Chen naturally couldn't find a cook.
mother.
What he wanted to say was that in order to do this job, you must be able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and say ugly things first, just in case Yu Hong stopped working after a few days and ended up complaining.
"Okay, since you think it's okay, then go back and tell Yu Hong the specific working hours. If you go to this place in three days, just say I asked you to go."
Sun Qianchao remembered what Zhou Chen said, nodded quickly and said: "Okay, I remember, I will go there with Yu Hong when the time comes."
After talking about the matter, Zhou Chen left Sun Qunchao to have dinner at home, but Sun Qunchao, who got the good news, was anxious to go back and tell his wife, and refused Zhou Chen's offer to stay.
When Sun rushed home and told Yu Hong the news, Yu Hong was dumbfounded and excited and incoherent.
This year is the beginning of the layoff boom. Too many people can't survive without jobs. If their family hadn't had Zhou Chen's help, their lives would have been very difficult in the past few months.
When Zhou Chen said before that he would help Sun Qianchao find a job, both of them believed it because Xiao Guoqing became prosperous because of Zhou Chen's help.
Now I heard that Zhou Chen not only helped Sun Qianchao solve his work problem, but also helped him find a job. Although he was a cook on the construction site, Zhou Chen said that the salary would not be low.
For someone like her who can't even find a cleaning job now, isn't this great news?
"To catch up, we must thank Bingkun. How about we treat him to a meal sometime?" Yu Hong suggested.
Sun Qianchao waved his hand and said, "Don't just join in the fun. Kun'er is so busy now. How can he have time to have dinner with us? Even if we invite you to dinner, I will be there when the time comes, so don't even think about it."
Yu Hong didn't object, and just said: "Bingkun asked you to study after his father. That's because he values you. To catch up, you have to study hard."
"Of course, Kun'er won't treat me badly. What's more, Uncle Zhou treats me like a nephew, so don't worry so much."
"We have been doing our best these past few days to buy two new clothes. We can't embarrass Kun'er."
After listening to her husband's words, Yu Hong said: "To catch up, I think we should keep a low profile. If others misunderstand that we rely on Bingkun's relationship, wouldn't that be bad for Bingkun?"
Sun Qianchao was startled and felt that what Yu Hong said made some sense.
"You are right. Kun'er is taking care of us and has arranged jobs for both of us. We should work hard and not cause Kun'er criticism."
He was just too happy just now, and he and Zhou Chen had known each other for so many years, so he didn't think of this. Only when Yu Hong reminded him did he realize that things are different now.
"Catch up, it's really great that the two of us can work together, but let your parents take care of your son, is that okay?"
"What's the problem? Although my parents are not in good health, they can still help us take care of our children."
"Then I'll rest assured. I'm going to do some research at home in the next few days on how to make the food taste good."
Yu Hong, who had not gone to work for a long time, was very excited and anxious at the moment. Although she cooked at home, she had never been to a construction site to cook, so she had no confidence at all.
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In the past few days, Zhou Zhigang has been staying at home, studying drawings at home every day. Work is about to start. He has a strong sense of responsibility and is unwilling to let go of work. Even Ma Shouchang came to see him.
He didn't even have time to talk about chess.
Zhou Zhigang ignored Ma Shouchang, and Ma Shouchang could only find Zhou Bingkun.
"Bingkun, what's going on with your dad lately? He doesn't even play chess when I tell him to. He's holding a blueprint and studying there every day."
Zhou Chen explained: "Uncle Ma, my dad is too busy at home, so I found something for him to do. Didn't our company buy a piece of land? Construction on this piece of land will start soon. The main purpose is to build the land."
My dad happened to be a construction worker, so I asked him to go over and keep an eye on factories and residential buildings."
"I originally wanted him to have something to do and pass the time, but who would have thought that he is more interested in it than me now."
Speaking of this, Zhou Chen really smiled bitterly. He didn't expect Zhou Zhigang to be such a workaholic, and he didn't know if this was shooting himself in the foot.
Zhou Zhigang is so old, but he is really afraid of hurting Zhou Zhigang.
But now he has no choice but to rely on his medical skills, keep an eye on Zhou Zhigang at all times, and give Zhou Zhigang more supplements.
In fact, in the TV series, Zhou Zhigang was in good health, but eventually fell ill because of playing chess with his grandson.
Zhou Chen didn't know the specific disease, but it was most likely an acute illness such as acute cerebral infarction and heart failure, so he died of the disease in a short period of time.
To be honest, it is really difficult to prevent an acute outbreak of a disease like this. You can only take care of it slowly in your daily life and maintain an optimistic attitude.
When Ma Shouchang heard that Zhou Zhigang was going to work at Zhou Chen Company, he became interested and his eyes widened.
"Bingkun, I finally found a chess friend of your dad's, and now he goes to work with you, what should I do? No, you have to find something for me to do. I'm bored to death at home every day.
Even if you quarrel with Lao Qu, you have to find a job for me."
Zhou Chen was stunned, and after a long while he smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Ma, why are you still making noise?"
Ma Shouchang said in a deep voice: "I'm not fooling around with you. I'm serious. I don't care anyway. You've lost my chess friend, so you have to find something for me to do to kill time. You
If you don't agree, I will come and block your door every day. If you don't agree, I will follow your father to the construction site every day."
"Uncle Ma, aren't you making things difficult for me? You said you finally retired and it would be great to rest at home. Why do you have to do this?"
Zhou Chen understands that people of the older generation like them all come from an era when labor was glorious, so even after retirement, they can't stay idle.
But Ma Shouchang is different from Zhou Zhigang. Zhou Zhigang is his father and he can take responsibility.
Ma Shouchang was a retired high-ranking official of the country, and he had no blood relationship with Ma Shouchang. If something went wrong in his place, he would not be able to bear the consequences.
Ma Shouchang acted shamelessly: "I don't care, that's what I am anyway, you can do whatever you want."
Facing the rogue Ma Shouchang, Zhou Chen had no choice but to go to Zhou Zhigang for discussion.
Zhou Zhigang had been getting along with Ma Shouchang for several months, and he had a certain understanding of this elderly friend. He also knew that Ma Shouchang had similar thoughts to him, but at the same time he also understood his younger son's concerns.
"I'll go tell him."
Zhou Chen originally thought that Zhou Zhigang could convince Ma Shouchang, but in the end, Zhou Zhigang was convinced by Ma Shouchang instead.
"Bingkun, Lao Ma and I have already discussed it. You let him go, but he won't work. You give him a management position and let him be responsible for managing people. He used to be the dean of the Military Academy.
There must be nothing wrong with people.”
Facing these two old men, what else could Zhou Chen do but compromise. Finally, Qian warned them and told them not to mess around. At the same time, he sent them a car to pick them up from get off work every day.
In the end, Zhou Zhigang and Ma Shouchang had to go to work at Zhou Chen's construction site, and Zhou Chen had no choice but to let them go.
With these two responsible old men taking care of things at the construction site, Zhou Chen saved a lot of work and was free to do other things.
More than two months have passed in a flash.
During this period, neither Zhou Zhigang nor Ma Shouchang had any problems, which made Zhou Chen feel relieved. But what surprised him was that in addition to the two old men, Qu Xiuzhen would occasionally go to the construction site with them.
However, Zhou Zhigang's salary was from the company's finance department, but Ma Shouchang did not receive a salary from the company. After all, he was a retired cadre and he also cherished feathers. Although he went to Zhou Chen's construction site to manage people, he did not receive a salary.
Although he doesn't get paid, Ma Shouchang still works hard. He wears this helmet every day and wanders around the construction site. When he gets tired, he goes to the office to blow on the air conditioner. There are people talking everywhere. His small life is much better than being bored in the province every day.
The hospital is much happier.
Because of this, Ma Shouchang was happy every day, which aroused Qu Xiuzhen's dissatisfaction, and later she would go to the construction site with him.
The behavior of these three elders made Zhou Chen really helpless. It seemed that his old lady was the most stable. She stayed at home every day, made meals, took care of the children, and cleaned.
In the past two months after returning to Jichun, Zhou Chen rarely went to the construction site to check on the progress, but he did not have time to rest because he wanted to rest, but some people did not want him to rest.
Ever since they found out that he was the chairman of Chenxing Group and that he had bought such a large piece of land in Jichun to build a factory and a building, the city and provincial officials couldn't sit still and contacted him through various connections every now and then.
Zhou Chen, I hope Zhou Chen can invest and so on.
In other people's territory, Zhou Chen must give face, so for these invitations, he declined those invitations that he could. If he couldn't, he had to go to the appointment.
However, whether you can get the investment from him is another matter if you keep the appointment.
After more than two months, Zhou Chen only made a few investments, most of which were for charity, such as building two primary schools, renovating middle school houses, donating money to poor areas, etc.
Not much money was spent, but the reputation of the philanthropist spread.
As time went by, those people saw that Zhou Chen had not invested in other industries, and more or less understood what he meant, and later stopped pestering him to invest.
Zhou Chen had just had dinner with the city leaders that day and negotiated an investment to acquire a garment factory. When he got home, he saw someone he didn't want to see.
"elder brother!"
The familiar voice suddenly made Zhou Chen wary, and he quickly glanced around.
I saw a lot of people sitting in the living room on the first floor. Li Suhua and Zheng Juan were sitting on the sofa. Qiao Chunyan, Chunyan's mother and Wu Qian were sitting next to them. Cao Debao was also there. Besides them, there were several other women and
Zhou Chen had the impression that young people should all be old neighbors of Guangzi Film.
Zhou Chen was so perceptive that he guessed the purpose of these people almost instantly.
"Hey, Mom, are you calling these aunts here to reminisce about old times? Hello, aunties."
As soon as Zhou Chen opened his mouth, it was as if a switch was turned on, and all these people stood up.
"Oh, the big boss Bingkun is back."
"Bingkun, do you still remember me? I am your Aunt Liu. When you were a child, you stole our chickens..."
"This kid Bingkun is really getting more and more handsome as he grows older. He is worthy of being a college student who came back from the capital. Look at his body, he is totally different from us."
"Mom Bingkun, you are so lucky to have such a good son."
"Yes, Suhua, you are so lucky. Your eldest son is a high-ranking official in the country, and your youngest son is a big boss. You are the only one in the whole photo album."
"..."
After a series of compliments, Li Suhua did not show joy, but her expression was very calm, as if these people were praising not her own son, but a stranger.
"Kun'er, these are our old neighbors in Guangzipian. Everyone is here to recognize them today."
Zhou Chen instantly understood what Li Suhua meant, explaining that these people came to the door by themselves and had nothing to do with her. They were just old neighbors, so he asked him to pay more attention.
Zhou Chen said with a smile: "This is a rare time for everyone, Juan'er, why don't you hurry up and cook."
Zheng Juan immediately stood up obediently and was about to go to the kitchen when she was grabbed by Chunyan's mother.
"Juan'er, no, we've already eaten, so there won't be any trouble."
Zheng Juan said: "No trouble, no trouble."
Chunyan's mother and others were a little embarrassed and looked at each other. Finally, everyone used their eyes to signal Chunyan's mother to speak first.
Chunyan's mother looked embarrassed. Obviously, she didn't want to stand out, so she looked at her daughter Qiao Chunyan again.
Qiao Chunyan is thick-skinned and relies on the fact that she is Li Suhua's 'goddaughter', so she feels that she is closer to the Zhou family than others.
"Brother, I heard that you are the big boss now. You arranged Qianchao and Yu Hong's work?"
Zhou Chen replied calmly: "I did help contact Qianchao and Yu Hong, but the big boss you mentioned, forget it, I'm just a part-timer."
Hearing Zhou Chen admit that he had helped find Sun Qunchao and Yu Hong's jobs, Qiao Chunyan and others were all happy. As for the second half of Zhou Chen's words, they were directly ignored by them.
"Bingkun, we are all old neighbors of Guangzhou. Our son has been laid off and has not found a job yet. Can you help Qianchao and his wife find a job? Can you help our Xiaoliu find a job too?
A job?"
"Our family Xiaofei doesn't have a job either, Bingkun, Xiaofei used to call you the eldest brother and the younger brother. Can you help Xiaofei and find a job for Xiaofei?"
"Our family..."
Several middle-aged women couldn't wait to shout to Zhou Chen, looking at Zhou Chen with longing faces.
Facing these looks, both Li Suhua and Zheng Juan had unattractive expressions, but Zhou Chen remained calm and calm.
"I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I am just a part-time worker. I will hire or not hire anyone. It doesn't matter if I say so. What's more, the construction site is already full and we are no longer hiring, so it's useless for you to look for me.
"
The faces of the hopeful women suddenly changed when they heard this.
One of them couldn't help shouting: "Bingkun, don't deceive us. We have heard that you are the only one who can catch up with their couple and surpass them with just one word. We have also heard that you are the big one."
Boss, all the big leaders in the city and province are lining up to find you."
"Yes, Bingkun, we have been neighbors for decades. Our family helped your parents before. You can't turn your back on me."
"Bingkun, you are a member of our Guangzi film industry. As a human being, you must not forget your roots."
"..."
The more these people talked, the more unpleasant they became. Zhou Chen was also very angry with them. Damn it, you are all following each other. Do I know you?
These people were so disrespectful that Zhou Chen was too lazy to save face for them.
"I'm sorry, aunts, I've been busy all day today and I'm very tired. I need to rest. If you have anything to say, I'll talk to you later. Aunts, please go back first."
But these women's plan failed, so how could they be willing to leave easily? Zhou Chen couldn't be persuaded, so they targeted Li Suhua again.
"Suhua, we have been neighbors for many years, and you have watched Xiao Liuzi grow up, so you can't ignore it."
"Yes, Suhua, we have known each other for so many years. Please help me."
"…………"
Li Suhua was obviously overwhelmed by the overwhelming requests from so many people.
When Zhou Chen saw these people trying to embarrass Li Suhua, he was about to get angry on the spot, but at this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the door.
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Before I even entered the yard, I heard you making a noise. What are you doing?"
I saw Zhou Zhigang and Ma Shouchang slowly walking in from the door. It was Zhou Zhigang who spoke, but his expression was very ugly at this time, as if he was suppressing anger.