After seeing Li Chengru's harvest, Zhang Junping couldn't suppress his excitement.
The depression caused by not figuring out the meaning of the old lady's words for several days disappeared.
Open the sack and look at the exquisite shells inside. These shells are all somewhat jade-like and exude brilliant colors.
"Brother Li, I knew that I was right to leave the matter to you, and you are reliable in doing things!" Zhang Junping praised loudly.
"Brother Zhang, you entrusted me with such an important matter and directly gave me five hundred thousand. What is this?
This is trust!
If I can't handle this trust well, I'll be sorry for myself!" Li Chengru said impassionedly in his unique tone.
"Brother Li, don't say anything else. You take a rest first and I'll make a phone call.
After I take care of you today, we brothers will study how to do something together." Zhang Junping patted Li Chengru on the shoulder hard and turned around to make a phone call.
There is no telephone in the furniture factory, so you can only make calls at the public phone booth at the entrance of the alley.
"Brother Zhang, don't worry, there is one more thing that I haven't explained clearly." Li Chengru stopped Zhang Junping.
"What's up?"
"You gave me 500,000 yuan, and I spent 240,000 yuan on jadeite, 1,000 shells, and tortoiseshell..." Li Chengru took out a notebook and reported to Zhang Junping.
"Brother Li, let's talk about the accounts tomorrow. Just relax tonight." Zhang Junping interrupted Li Chengru's account report and turned to leave.
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If Lao Mo is a restaurant with petty bourgeois sentiments, then Beijing Hotel is definitely synonymous with luxury in this era and a symbol of status.
With a history of more than 80 years, the Beijing Hotel is definitely a witness to the changes of the times.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Beijing Hotel has always been one of the most important places for the country to receive foreign guests, engage in international activities, and hold meetings.
Before the 1980s, Beijing hotels were not places where people with money could go.
The signature dish of Beijing Hotel is Tan’s cuisine.
Of course, it's already the 1980s and the country has reformed and opened up, so if you have money, you can still go to Beijing restaurants to eat Tan's cuisine.
Zhang Junping, Huang Xue and today's protagonist Li Chengru stood at the entrance of the Beijing Hotel waiting for everyone.
"Okay! Ping'er, you are so rich that you are willing to treat your brothers to eat Tan's food!" Wang Shuo was the first to arrive and punched Zhang Junping when he came up.
"Brother Wang, I'm not treating everyone to Tan's food just because I'm rich.
Today, I’m here to take care of Brother Li, and you’re my guest.” Zhang Junping shook hands with Wang Shuo and said with a smile.
"It's okay. As long as we can eat Tan's food, I will accompany Lao Li to eat, drink and have fun!" Wang Shuo said and hugged Li Chengru again.
Not long after, Ye Jing, Ma Weidu, Feng Xiaogang and others also arrived one after another.
We all walked into the Beijing Hotel together, and Zhang Junping specially requested a private room.
The people who come and go at the Beijing Hotel are all senior government officials, executives of state-owned enterprises, or foreign friends.
When eating in the hall, if you are not careful, you may cause trouble, so it is safer to stay in a private room.
After sitting down in the private room, everyone began to reminisce about old times.
"By the way, Lao Li, aren't you on the set of "Journey to the West"? How did you come back when you had time?" Ma Weidu asked curiously.
"I left the crew of "Journey to the West" last month, and now I'm working with Brother Zhang to make a living." Li Chengru didn't feel that it was a loss of face or anything to follow Zhang Junping.
"Following Zhang'er?"
"What? Brother Ma, Brother Li is helping me now, do you have any objections?" Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"That's not true! I'm just curious. Do you still need someone else? Otherwise, I can follow you."
"Put it down, I can't afford to hire a great editor or writer like you.
Brother Li helped me go out to purchase a batch of raw materials. This trip can be said to be a life-and-death experience. I have to use my head to do things..." Zhang Junping briefly talked about what Li Chengru had done for him.
"No, Ping'er, what did you ask Lao Li to purchase? Why are you still doing it with your head up?" Zhang Junping's words attracted everyone's attention, and they all looked at Zhang Junping curiously.
"I went to Tengchong, Yunnan to purchase a batch of jadeite and marble. Do you think you are doing it with your head in the air?"
"It's true that at this time, Yunnan is really dangerous. I heard a friend say that it's very chaotic there. Fights and firefights often occur, and gun battles even break out from time to time..."
"Ahem, Brother Ye, let's not talk about the gun battle. I believe the country will get better and better...
Today is to cleanse Brother Li from the wind and dust. I don’t drink. You can drink more with Brother Li. Maotai Wuliangye Jiannanchun will take care of it.”
Zhang Junping hurriedly stopped Ye Jing. If he continued talking, he might be on the verge of getting into trouble. Walls have ears, and the 404 master is not around.
"Ping'er, this can't be done. You set up the bureau, and Lao Li is working for you with his head in the air. You can't do it without drinking." Wang Shuo protested.
"Brother Wang, I can't drink. It's not like you don't know that I'm allergic to drinking." Zhang Junping explained with a wry smile on his face.
It was like this at every party. Everyone was dissatisfied with his refusal to drink, and he could only explain it again and again.
Anyway, if you let me spend money to treat you, you can negotiate. If you let me do other things, you can discuss it, but drinking is not an option.
"Zhang'er, you are in the furniture business, why are you buying jade and marble?" Ma Weidu changed the subject and came to Zhang Junping's rescue.
"Repairing furniture! Didn't I collect a lot of ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
If you want to perfectly restore Qing Dynasty furniture, you need a lot of inlay materials. For example, the marble, jade, shells and other materials that Brother Li purchased this time are all used to repair furniture and make inlay materials."
"Are you still tinkering with those ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
I thought you put all your energy into making and selling furniture."
"Haha, the furniture business is just my side job, and my main job is ancient furniture research." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"By the way, the furniture you promised me before..."
"I can't forget it. One day Brother Ma will go to my place to choose, and if you get the right one, I'll fix it for you first.
Let's make an agreement, brothers will settle the accounts, I don't want the money, we can barter."
Everyone has their own career, Wang Shuo is busy writing in retreat, Ma Weidu is busy in the medicinal materials business after work, not to mention Ye Jing, he is busy with his Sichuan restaurant.
Feng Xiaogang is fine, but now he is just a follower, with no say and no way to organize the situation.
Today, it is rare for Zhang Junping to bring everyone together, so the atmosphere is very warm.
In the end, everyone except Zhang Junping and Huang Xue got under the table.
Zhang Junping opened a few rooms for them in the Beijing Hotel, asked the waiter to help bring them to the room, gave them a tip, and then rode back to Dongmi City Hutong with Huang Xue.