Looking at Qiao Gu who was about to lose her mind, Zhou Chen not only did not comfort her, but instead showed a gloating smile.
"Who can you blame? Who made you not get married at such an old age? Your uncle is your only daughter. He can't control Jianghe. If he doesn't force you, who else can he force?"
Qiao Gu collapsed and said: "That can't be like this. In less than half a month, I have found more than thirty blind dates for me. The most exaggerated thing is that there are actually two people who are dating at the same time. It's terrible; the second brother
, you don’t know, I don’t dare to go home after work now, and now I tremble all over when I see my dad.”
Zhou Chen couldn't help but laugh. He had also experienced being forced to go on a blind date by his parents.
However, the blind dates he experienced were not as terrifying as Qiaogu's. In order to get his daughter married early, Chen Jinshui was really "crazy".
He had a blind date with two men at the same time. He really didn't know what his uncle was thinking. It was probably that Qiaogu was so embarrassed that he could leave the three bedrooms and one living room.
"Didn't I leave you a house in the community? If you don't want to go back, you don't have to go back."
Unexpectedly, Qiaogu shuddered and said with a bitter look on her face: "If I don't go back, my dad will probably bring someone over here, but I can't bear it."
Let alone a weak-tempered woman like Qiao Gu, even a woman with a strong personality may not have a good way to face her parents' forced marriage except to hide.
"There are so many men, but you can't look down on any of them?"
It cannot be said that all the people Chen Jinshui found are successful, but they are not bad either.
Qiaogu shook her head: "It's either that I don't like them, or that I feel something is wrong and I don't want to get along with them anymore. I don't even want to fall in love now."
Zhou Chen also had a headache. He could tell that Qiaogu was a little afraid of marriage.
On the one hand, she is constantly forced by Chen Jinshui, and on the other hand, she has changed in Chen Daguang, which has led to her not wanting to get married, let alone fall in love.
"If you don't want to fall in love, is it possible that you want to be alone all your life?"
"I, I don't know."
Qiaogu hesitated and said that she didn't know what she was thinking. In short, she didn't want to go on a blind date or fall in love or get married.
Zhou Chen saw the fear in Qiaogu's heart: "Forget it if you don't know. Maybe it's because your destiny has not come yet. If you don't want to marry, just don't want to marry. It may not be bad for you to live alone."
"ah?"
Qiaogu looked at Zhou Chen in shock, was she trying to comfort her?
The comfort is indeed comfort, but it is more because Zhou Chen has rich experience and has met many people who have been single until old age.
Being alone all your life sounds scary, but if you get used to it, it's not a big deal, and there are many people who like to be alone.
The subjective thinking in China is still to raise children to prevent old age, but this kind of thing is also probabilistic. Who knows whether raising children is to prevent old age or to anger old age. If the children raised are not filial, it is better not to raise them.
The same is true for marriage. If you find an unsuitable person, argue and make trouble every day, and never have peace for a moment, then you might as well live alone.
But in this case, Zhou Chen did not tell Qiaogu that if Qiaogu was really misled, his uncle would be able to fight with him.
After little Zhou Hong went to kindergarten, Luo Yuzhu came out again and asked Zhou Chen to find her a shop in the Trade City and start a business.
Luo Yuzhu's original plan was to sell socks, but unfortunately, because Chen Jianghe became the director of the sock factory, many people in Chenjia Village purchased goods from the sock factory and started selling socks in commercial trucks or roadside stalls.
So Luo Yuzhu had no choice but to give up the idea of selling socks. Zhou Chen wanted to help, but Luo Yuzhu had a stubborn personality and refused to let Zhou Chen help, insisting on doing it himself.
In the end, Luo Yuzhu chose to buy jewelry, which was cheap jewelry. Moreover, she did not ask Zhou Chen for money, and just used the money she saved in daily life as the principal to purchase the goods.
Zhou Chen saw that Luo Yuzhu didn't want him to help, so he didn't help. Since Luo Yuzhu was so confident, he also wanted to see how far Luo Yuzhu could do it.
Facts have proved that Luo Yuzhu is indeed good at small commodity business. In less than a year, the business is very prosperous.
Although Zhou Chen helped her choose a good position, she also needs to be talented and capable to make the business prosperous.
Zhou Chen actually wanted to have a third child with Luo Yuzhu. After all, his side mission had not been completed yet, but he saw Luo Yuzhu was so happy doing business, and he didn't want to displease her for a while, so he just let her do business.
, let it go as it happens regarding the children.
Time has come to the 1990s, Zhou Chen is also over 30 years old, his eldest son is about to enter first grade, and his younger son is about to enter kindergarten.
The socks factory that Chen Jianghe is responsible for is now getting better and better. The Jianghe brand socks have begun to sell well all over the country and are slowly gaining domestic share.
The profit from the sock factory also brought income to Zhou Chen. Although Zhou Chen didn't like the income, he was still very satisfied with Chen Jianghe.
In 1991, Chen Jianghe brought news to Zhou Chen, saying that someone from the Yang Group wanted to negotiate with him to buy a stake in the sock factory.
Zhou Chen's eyes suddenly lit up after hearing this. Since the Yang Group was mentioned, it means that Chen Jianghe still met Yang Xue.
So Zhou Chen went to the sock factory and then met Yang Xue.
"Second brother, this is Yang Xue, the representative of the Yang Group." Chen Jianghe took the initiative to introduce Yang Xue to Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen just took a cursory look at Yang Xue. Yang Xue was indeed pretty and had a good figure. She was in her twenties and exuded confidence. He shook hands with Yang Xue.
"Hello, Miss Yang, nice to meet you."
Yang Xue also said openly: "Hello, Mr. Zhou, I have heard Jiang He mention you a long time ago. He said that you are the person he admires and admires the most."
"Jianghe?"
Zhou Chen smiled narrowly at Chen Jianghe, who suddenly looked embarrassed and didn't know how to release his hands.
"We can't talk about it. I heard from Jiang He that you represent the Yang Group and want to discuss cooperation with me?"
Yang Xuedao: "Our Yang Group does have this intention, but I am not the person responsible for talking to Mr. Zhou."
Although she is the eldest lady of the Yang Group, she has not officially taken over the Yang Group's business yet, and negotiation is not something she is good at, so naturally her father will not let her negotiate with Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "That's okay. It's a joy to meet Miss Yang. I wonder when the Yang Group is going to start talking?"
"anytime."
"It's almost noon, how about we talk after lunch?"
"Okay, then just listen to Mr. Zhou."
Zhou Chen nodded, and then told Chen Jianghe: "Jiang He, go book a hotel and arrange the people from the Yang Group."
Chen Jianghe immediately said: "Second brother, don't worry, I have already made arrangements."
In the afternoon, Zhou Chen and Chen Jianghe negotiated with representatives of the Yang Group.
In fact, the reason why Zhou Chen acquired the sock factory was because of Luo Yuzhu, so it was naturally impossible for him to hand over the controlling rights of the sock factory to the Yang Group.
As the top group company in China, Yang Group is very strong when discussing cooperation. It must have absolute power, that is, absolute control.
As a result, the talks between the two parties did not go smoothly. They went back and forth for several hours, and neither party was willing to back down. In the end, it can be said that they broke up on bad terms.
Zhou Chen stayed at the sock factory for a few days and negotiated with people from the Yang Group several times, but he never reached an agreement.
In the end, Zhou Chen was too lazy to argue with the people of the Yang Group, so he handed over the power to Chen Jianghe and let Chen Jianghe talk, but his bottom line was still the same, and then he returned to Yiwu.
Zhou Chen drank with Chen Jinshui and said to Chen Jinshui with a smile: "Uncle, I just met Jiang He. There is a woman beside him. I guess I will hear the good news about him soon."
Chen Jinshui sighed heavily. Over the past many years, he had long since stopped thinking about bringing Chen Jianghe and Qiaogu together. Now he only wants these two children to get married as soon as possible, and he is satisfied.
It's a pity that both Chen Jianghe and Qiao Gu seem to be against him and don't want to get married. Especially Qiao Gu, who doesn't even want to talk about their partner. He was so angry that he went to the hospital once because of this matter.
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"It's a good thing, it's really a good thing. Jiang He is going to be saved, but Qiao Gu, alas."
"Uncle, don't be like this, Qiaogu just hasn't met the right one."
"Suitable? What do you mean by suitable? How many introductions have my mother and I introduced to her? She doesn't even look at them now. I think she has to make us angry to death."
The more he talked, the angrier Chen Jinshui became, and he had already resigned from the position of mayor of Chenjia Town.
He used to be a mayor and was very busy. Although he was also anxious about his daughter's marriage, he still had something to do;
But now, he has retired and is free every day. His daughter's life-long event has become the top priority of their couple.
"Uncle, relax, people are rebellious. The more you force Qiaogu like this, the more disobedient she becomes. Qiaogu is not a child anymore, she has her own ideas."
"Huh, I think her idea is to go against me."
Zhou Chen smiled. Qiaogu had now been entrusted with important tasks by him and began to take charge of the management of the trade city. She grew up very quickly and was no longer the village girl she was before.
Zhou Chen left Chenjiacun only after Chen Jinshui became drunk.
Chen Jinshui also had a stubborn temper. After he retired, he returned to his hometown in Chenjiacun. Zhou Chen left him a house in the community, but he never stayed there even once.
Zhou Chen didn't force it, he just kept the house until Chen Jinshui and his wife figured it out, and they could live there at any time.
In the past few years, Zhou Chen has seldom been involved in the affairs of the Trade City. Now the management of the Trade City is mainly handled by Luo Yuzhu and Chen Qiaogu.
That's right, after Luo Yuzhu sold small commodities in the store for more than a year, she stopped doing it. Instead, she took over Zhou Chen's job and became the person in charge of the trade city. After Zhou Chen took her for a few months,
Just let it go.
The reason for this is that everyone in the trade city knows that Luo Yuzhu is Zhou Chen's wife, and she will always be criticized.
At the beginning, Luo Yuzhu didn't care much, but as time went by, she felt it was boring, so she took the initiative to tell Zhou Chen that she wanted to do something else.
When Zhou Chen heard this, he immediately became happy, and then after some deception, Luo Yuzhu took over his job in a daze.
So now that Luo Yuzhu is busy, he is free. Apart from traveling to Hong Kong and abroad a few times a year, he spends the rest of the time at home taking care of his children. If he has time, he also goes shopping and playing around.
In the 1990s, there were not as many tourist attractions in China as there were in later generations, but many places are still purely natural, so Zhou Chen is still very interested.
On weekends, Zhou Chen and his eldest son Zhou Tao played chess at home, while his younger son watched cartoons.
The eldest son is already in the first grade, and Zhou Chen plays backgammon with him. Although Zhou Tao is young, he is not bad at backgammon. With Zhou Chen's intentional concession, he plays back and forth.
Just then, the phone at home rang, and the nanny Aunt Huang answered the phone.
"Sir, this is Deputy Qiu's phone number."
Zhou Chen waited, put down the chess pieces, and touched his eldest son's head: "Dad, go answer the phone. You go watch TV with your brother."
"Okay, dad." Zhou Tao put down the chess pieces and ran to sit next to Zhou Hong.
Zhou Chen picked up the microphone: "Yingjie."
"Brother Zhou, I have to leave the county tomorrow to..."
After listening to Qiu Yingjie's words, Zhou Chen nodded without hesitation: "No problem, then should I drive to pick up Yanyan, or should you send him over?"
"Let me send it over. I'm going out for a few days this time. I just want to pack some things and send them over together."
"Okay, I'll wait for you to come over for dinner that night."
"Thank you, Brother Zhou."
"Why are you so polite to me?"
Qiu Yingjie has been promoted now. Thirty-year-old county deputy positions are definitely rare. He can be promoted so quickly. In addition to his outstanding ability, Zhou Chen also helped him a little.
Also, Yiwu has developed very fast in recent years. He has entered the attention of many people in the city and province. As an outstanding young cadre and a college graduate, he was promoted so quickly.
He called Zhou Chen because he was leaving Yiwu for an inspection in the next period of time, so he wanted to ask Zhou Chen to help take care of his daughter.
Speaking of Qiu Yingjie, he is considered proud in officialdom but frustrated in love.
After his wife married him and gave birth to Qiu Yan, she didn't care much at all. She only focused on studying. She passed the exam a few years ago and successfully went abroad.
Once he went abroad, he never came back and had very little contact with Qiu Yingjie. Qiu Yan was raised by Qiu Yingjie.
Qiu Yingjie's parents are gone. He can still take care of the child if he is at home. However, when something happens, he doesn't feel comfortable leaving the child to others. He always sends the child to Zhou Chen's house and asks Zhou Chen to help take care of it.
Therefore, although Qiu Yan is still young, he has stayed with Zhou Chen many times and is very familiar with Zhou Tao and Zhou Hong.
Qiu Yingjie brought Qiu Yan to Zhou Chen's house in the evening, dragging a large suitcase with everything Qiu Yan would use.