Qiaogu is a girl who grew up in the countryside. Just like her name, she is an authentic village girl.
If you ask her to do farm work in the village, carry water for cooking, wash clothes and wash pots, she will definitely have no problem and she will definitely do a very good job.
But if you ask her to go out to work, Qiaogu's first reaction is to be afraid, afraid that she won't do well, and she doesn't dare to agree.
Chen Jinshui, the head of the family, said directly: "Xiaochen, Qiaogu, what can she do? Don't delay your work. You are busy with your work, so don't worry about her."
Qiaogu, who was originally nervous and scared, but still somewhat hopeful, suddenly fell down when she heard her father say these words.
But she didn't dare to say anything. Chen Jinshui was the head of the family at home, and she and her mother had only to obey orders.
Zhou Chen said with a smile: "Uncle, Qiaogu can do a lot of things. Even those who can't do it, just because she has never been exposed to it doesn't mean she can't learn it. Qiaogu is my sister, I
If you don't take care of her, who else can you take care of? Don't worry, I will definitely not treat Qiao Gu badly when the time comes."
"this?"
Chen Jinshui stopped smoking and looked at his daughter who looked expectant and nervous. Thinking about it carefully, her daughter was indeed not young. If she stayed in the village, she would really have to be a village girl for the rest of her life.
Although he has always believed that it is the right thing for women to stay at home to cook and take care of children, if his daughter can have better choices, of course he also wants better things for her.
If it were someone else, he would definitely be worried, but if it were Zhou Chen, it would be different.
My nephew is a man of great ability. If his daughter can be cultivated by Zhou Chen, it will definitely be countless times better than staying in the village.
"Xiaochen, Qiaogu, can she really do it?"
"Of course, as long as I take care of her, there will be no problem."
Zhou Chen is very confident. Whether it is before or after construction, there are many places where people can be arranged. He can find a simple and safe job that does not require much professional work for Qiaogu to do.
Chen Jianghe was also advising from the side: "Yes, uncle, just let Qiaogu follow the second brother. Who is the second brother trying to trick? Who dares to trick you?"
"Hey, you brat."
Chen Jinshui hit Chen Jianghe on the head, causing several people to laugh.
It was finally decided, and after the construction site started, Qiaogu went over to help Zhou Chen.
In fact, there is no need to hire a designer to build the small commodity trade city. Zhou Chen can handle it by himself, let alone those simple buildings of several floors, which can be built by a more professional engineering team.
Although Zhou Chen was in charge, before the construction started, Zhou Chen still asked Xu Ruijie to arrange a team to come over and be responsible for communicating with the county. He didn't have that much free time to do those things every day.
After the work started, Qiaogu was assigned a job by Zhou Chen, that is, she was Zhou Chen's assistant. She said she was an assistant, but in fact she was here to learn. Zhou Chen didn't expect her to share anything with him.
But it cannot be said that Qiaogu is useless. At least in the office, she does a very good job of serving Zhou Chen water and tea.
In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival of 1983 came.
Zhou Chen naturally spent the Spring Festival with Chen Jinshui and the others, but after lunch, Zhou Chen and Chen Jianghe both left.
Zhou Chen no longer lived in Chenjiacun a few months ago. Instead, he rented a house near the construction site and usually lived there. Sometimes Qiaogu didn't want to run back and forth, so she would stay at Zhou Chen's place.
As for Chen Jianghe, he is even wilder. He is running here and there. He usually doesn't see anyone at all. He is looking for opportunities to make money everywhere. Naturally, he cannot live in Chenjiacun every day.
It has been half a year since Zhou Chen returned to Yiwu. Although there has been no substantial breakthrough in his relationship with Luo Yuzhu, they have already recognized each other. If nothing else, it is just a matter of letting nature take its course.
There is still a long time before the forty years of the main mission, so Zhou Chen is not in a hurry to get married first, but slowly develops a relationship with Luo Yuzhu.
Because it is a project that the county is focusing on, Zhou Chen and his team are naturally very fast in their construction. In just a few months, it has already taken shape.
On this day, Zhou Chen was at work. Qiaogu walked in and poured him a glass of water. Then she didn't leave. She just seemed to have something to say but didn't say anything.
Although Zhou Chen was at work, Qiao Gu's little moves could not escape his notice.
"Qiaogu, what's wrong? If you have anything to say, just tell me."
"elder brother."
Qiao Gu was upset by Zhou Chen and looked embarrassed, but she was still too embarrassed to say it.
"Tell me, I'm your brother, why are you embarrassed to tell me? Did you encounter any problems at work?"
Qiaogu waved her hand: "No, no, brother, yes, it's Daguang."
Zhou Chen raised his eyebrows: "Dagang, Chen Daguang? What's wrong with him?"
Qiaogu said: "Daguang has nothing to do now. He just wanders around the village every day. He also wants to work and make money, so he came to me and hoped that I could help him. But I don't have the ability, and my dad said
The people in the village came for help and tried to hide away, but Daguang always took good care of me. I..."
Zhou Chen understood the whole story, so he nodded and asked, "So, you want me to help Chen Daguang, right?"
"Yeah." Qiaogu nodded sheepishly.
Zhou Chen asked again: "Then have you ever thought about what other fellow villagers in Chen's village would think if I helped Chen Daguang? What if they all came to beg me?"
"Ah? I didn't expect that much." Qiaogu panicked.
Her thoughts are very simple. Chen Daguang grew up with them and often took her to play. Now that Chen Daguang has come to ask her for help, she must be helpful. As for other things, he really didn't think about it that much.
"I can ask my dad to stop them."
Zhou Chen chuckled and expected Qiaogu to think of a good solution, but that was really overthinking.
"Okay, I understand. I can help with this. You can let Chen Daguang come to work at our construction site, but you have to tell him that there will only be hard work to do at the construction site. If he wants to be lazy and slippery, then I will definitely take it seriously.
deal with."
Qiaogu suddenly smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Well, well, brother, don't worry, I will definitely make it clear to Daguang."
"Okay, then go and get busy."
Qiao Gu left happily.
In the office, Zhou Chen tapped his fingers lightly on the table.
He really wasn't optimistic about letting Chen Daguang come to work at the construction site. With Chen Daguang's ambitious character, it would definitely be unrealistic for him to work hard all the time.
But after all, this was the first time Qiao Gu asked him for help, so he decided to help.
In the past, he asked Qiaogu to work behind him. In addition to finding things for Qiaogu to do, part of the reason was to prevent Qiaogu from hanging around with Chen Daguang.
He knew very well what a pit Chen Daguang's future was. He certainly didn't want Qiaogu to fall into Chen Daguang's pit.
With Qiao Gu's weak character, she would definitely be deceived by Chen Daguang's sweet words if she didn't have help from others. Now that he has Qiao Gu with him, he just doesn't give Chen Daguang this chance.
Chen Daguang is also a smart man. If he knows to come to him or Chen Jinshui directly, he will probably refuse it like other people in the village.
So he took the path of Qiao Gu, who was quite smart but too easy to forget his own good.
Qiaogu told Chen Daguang the good news, and Chen Daguang was also very happy. Not only was he happy, but his whole family was also happy, and he followed Qiaogu's words and would not reveal it to other people in the village.
It was only after Chen Daguang went to the construction site and worked with his master that he realized that everything was not as beautiful as he thought.
The wages for work are indeed not low, and are relatively high in Yiwu, but the work is really tiring. Moving bricks and carrying cement is the basics. I work from morning to night every day, and the skin on my hands and shoulders is worn out.
Already.
For this matter, he went to Qiaogu again, hoping that Qiaogu would let Zhou Chen help him change his position.
Qiaogu felt soft and did go to Zhou Chen again, but this time Zhou Chen did not help her again, but directly said forcefully that if she didn't want to do it, she could leave, but changing positions was impossible.
To be honest, if Chen Daguang could work for a few months before mentioning this matter, Zhou Chen would still be able to look up to him. But now he can't stand it after only working for a few days. With such resilience, what can you expect from him?
…………
Time flies and we arrive at the end of 1983.
After a year of development, Yiwu's first-generation roadside small department store market has become larger and larger. Now, not only the county, but also surrounding cities and counties often come to check on the situation.
However, the past year or so has not always been calm. There have been some disturbances in the process. There are still some conservative people in the county who have raised objections and want to speak out on this matter.
Fortunately, this phenomenon has not had any impact. With Xie Shuji’s strong support, the small commodity market is still developing smoothly.
The small commodity trading city invested by Zhou Chen was also built very smoothly during this year. This was a big plan unanimously approved by the county leaders, and no one in the county dared not to cooperate.
According to Zhou Chen's estimation, the trade city will be put into use in less than a year at most, and by then the first generation of small commodity mall will be born from his hands.
This kind of thing does not bring much sense of achievement to Zhou Chen, but to many people in Yiwu, they have been waiting for this historic moment.
If they had had this condition, they would not have hurriedly turned into a small commodity department store on the roadside.
In the evening, Zhou Chen came to Luo Yuzhu's residence. More than four years later, Luo Yuzhu still had not moved anywhere else, and still lived in the yard that Zhou Chen rented for her.
Luo Yuzhu has a strong sense of belonging to this house. Part of the reason why she works so hard to make money is to buy this house.
Zhou Chen was sitting at the table, and Luo Yuzhu happily walked in holding a plate.
"Okay, the last dish is ready, it's time to eat."
Luo Yuzhu put the dishes on the table and invited Zhou Chen to eat together.
Since Zhou Chen returned to Yiwu, they had eaten together frequently, so this period of time was undoubtedly happy for Luo Yuzhu.
In the past, when she was eating by herself, she would just deal with one bite casually, but after eating together with Zhou Chen often, she found that Zhou Chen was sometimes picky, so she took cooking a lot more seriously. In the past year or so,
Her progress is extremely rapid.
Halfway through the meal, Zhou Chen suddenly said: "Yuzhu, let's get married."
With a 'ding' sound, the chopsticks in Luo Yuzhu's hand fell. She raised her head and looked at Zhou Chen in disbelief.
"You, what did you say?"
Facing Luo Yuzhu's shocked expression, Zhou Chen said again: "Yuzhu, let's get married."
Tears fell uncontrollably from Luo Yuzhu's eyes. After a while, she nodded vigorously.
"Um."
After agreeing, she thought of a serious problem.
"Zhou Chen, I am willing to marry you, but will your uncle allow you to marry me?"
Although she had not had a few contacts with Chen Jinshui for more than a year, she still remembered how disgusted Chen Jinshui was towards her.
Chen Jinshui has always believed that she is not worthy of Zhou Chen. If Chen Jinshui knew that they were going to get married, he would definitely object.
She is not afraid herself, she is afraid that Zhou Chen will not be able to convince Chen Jinshui and an accident will happen.
Zhou Chen said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this. Leave it to me. We will get married after the New Year."
"good."
The words "Leave it to me" made Luo Yuzhu feel completely at ease. Zhou Chen had never let her down before. She firmly believed that Zhou Chen could solve all problems.
"When the time comes, just be responsible for marrying me beautifully."
"good."
No matter what Zhou Chen said, Luo Yuzhu nodded in agreement.
Although she has a generous personality and doesn't care what the world thinks, she is a woman after all, and she also longs for her marriage to be respected by others and to become the envy of other women.
Now, after five years of guarding Zhou Chen, the day of harvest has finally come.
…………
The next night, Zhou Chen returned to Chenjiacun.
It was different from the previous scene where everyone welcomed him when he returned to Chenjiacun. Ever since Zhou Chen refused people from Chenjiacun to work on the construction site, his reputation in Chenjiacun had been greatly affected.
I don’t know how many people secretly said bad things about him, saying that he didn’t recognize his fellow countrymen when he became rich, was ruthless, and so on...
Zhou Chen naturally heard these words, but he didn't take them seriously at all. These people could only talk about it. If they really encountered a problem that couldn't be solved, when it was time to come to ask for help, they would make sure that each one was faster than the other.
Because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, Chen Jianghe stopped running around doing business and returned to Chenjiacun early.
At dinner time, the three old men gathered together to exchange glasses, and a bottle of white wine was quickly consumed.
Because Zhou Chen has been staying in Yiwu and is not far from Chenjia Town, Chen Jinshui generally knows about Zhou Chen's situation.
But Chen Jianghe kept running around all year round. Although he often returned to Chenjiacun, even Chen Jinshui didn't know what he was doing.
So when he had the opportunity to ask, he was not idle and asked about Chen Jianghe's situation, wanting to know how Chen Jianghe was doing recently.