Chapter 200
Three years later
Rainbow Island
Inside the brand new villa
Lu Yuanzheng was lying on the sofa in the living room, pursing his lips and sulking
The twins looked at Lu Yuanzheng, glanced at each other, and moved in Xu Man’s direction
Xu Wen, who was reading a book, was embraced by the brothers and her book was knocked off
She raised her eyes to look at the twins
Zuo Zuo and Youyou were both looking in the direction of Lu Yuanzheng with apprehensive faces
Xu Man followed and shifted her eyes over, and with just one glance, she snorted out a laugh
Lu Yuanzheng and Xiachu sniffed and looked at Xu Man
Xu Wen clenched her fist against her lips and coughed lightly, but it was hard to hide the laughter on her face
Not to blame her, really Lu Yuanzheng’s current look is too
Lu Yuanzheng is a flat head, it is reasonable to not be able to tie pigtails, Xia Chu is also a ruthless person, looking for a small hairpin with flowers to Lu Yuanzheng don’t in the top of the head, about it is not too much, and Xu Wang sent her a wear two married pigtails hairpin to Lu Yuanzheng put on
On the side of his eyes, he drew a pair of pink glasses
Her eyebrows were made thick and long with a black colored pencil by Xia Chu
At this moment the day is hot, Lu Yuanzheng did not wear a shirt, chest is also a piece of colorful pen paintings can not see what things, red and green
The visual impact is too large, really make people can not help but laugh
Partial Lu Yuanzheng has been in a high position for a long time, in the past two years the aura on the body is more and more powerful, coupled with the side of the face of that a horrifying scar, often just a glance at the people scared away
At the moment, a majestic face is full of anger, there is the next second will be angry posture
Usually, Dongsheng and the twins would be scared like a mouse seeing a cat as long as Lu Yuanzheng raised his face At this moment, seeing Lu Yuanzheng was even more frightening
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have seen Lu Yuanzheng’s bad face and hid beside Xu Wen
However, Xiachu is not afraid of him At the age of seven or eight, Xiachu is exactly the age when people hate dogs, and she specializes in pulling out the whiskers around the tiger’s mouth, and then gives the tiger a look after pulling them out
When Xiachu saw that Lu Yuanzheng was unhappy, she deflated her mouth in frustration, and squeezed a green color pencil in her hand
Lu Yuanzheng gritted his teeth and pointed at Xiachu, as if he was about to slap her
Xu Wen and the twins are curious, will Lu Yuanzheng really hit Xiachu?
It’s not that Xu is a stepmother, but she’s never seen it before
Lu Yuanzheng’s hand was raised high and was about to fall
Xia Chu’s eyes contained tears, “I’ll draw a flower for you”
Lu Yuanzheng’s hand fell violently, just palm into finger, index finger almost against Xia Chu’s nose tip: “I’m warning you! Only paint one last flower again!”
Xu Wen couldn’t hold back any longer and laughed out nonchalantly
The only thing left in his mind was a phrase he had often heard in his previous life: use the most ruthless air to say the most abject words
The twins didn’t laugh, they just looked at Xia Chu enviously
It was good to be a girl!
Xu Wen raised his eyes to look at the wall clock and opened his mouth to stop Xia Chu from wreaking havoc on Lu Yuanzheng again: ”Xia Chu, stop drawing! Your father should pack up and go out for a meeting”
Xia Chu wasn’t afraid of Lu Yuanzheng, but she was afraid of Xu Man, and she obediently put away her brush
After all, Xu Man is the only one in the family who won’t spoil her
It’s human nature to be afraid of bullies
Lu Yuanzheng also looked at the clock on the wall, raised his eyebrows, got up and went into the bathroom
Usually Lu Yuanzheng shower is generally ten to fifteen minutes today with a full half an hour
Xu Wen was a bit surprised, busy back to the bedroom to check
When she entered the bedroom, Lu Yuanzheng came out of the bathroom, his upper body and face were rubbed red, and when she looked closely, she could vaguely see the color residue of the color pencils
Xu Wen found Lu Yuanzheng’s regular clothes from the closet and put them on the bed, teaching him in passing: “Serves you right! You’ve spoiled your daughter to the point of lawlessness! Let’s see how your superiors and subordinates laugh at you in the meeting later!”
Lu Yuanzheng’s hand paused as he wiped his hair, and he spoke with a little bit of grievance, “The more she grows up, the more she looks like you! I can’t bear to make her cry”
Xu Wen’s heart softened as he heard this, but his mouth insisted, “Then you can’t keep spoiling her like this, you’ve spoiled her to the point of lawlessness! You still have such an important meeting today, and there are newspapers and TV stations to interview you, so you are not afraid of people seeing and laughing at you”
Lu Yuanzheng sighed softly, “My daughter is my own, what can I do?”
He also wants to save face!
Xu Man: “”
Xu Man shook his head and let him be
Lu Yuanzheng changed into his regular clothes and asked Xu Man, “Do you want to go with me?”
“How am I qualified to go to this kind of meeting? It’ll be in the papers tomorrow anyway”
“Actually, you’re more qualified than anyone to go to today’s meeting” Lu Yuanzheng finished arranging his grooming and looked out the window, “You’re the biggest contributor to Rainbow Island, no, the entire archipelago”
Xu Wen was not modest, straightening Lu Yuanzheng’s tie and winking, “Behind the scenes! Since you’re behind the scenes, how can you be in front of people? I’ll wait for you at home”
Lu Yuanzheng lowered his head and dropped a kiss on Xu Man’s forehead, “In a while, Chen Gong will come over and send the bears to school, so rest at home by yourself and don’t let them annoy you!”
Xu Man hmmmed
Chen Gong was Lu Yuanzheng’s orderly, to put it bluntly, he was a living assistant, responsible for taking care of Lu Yuanzheng’s daily life
However, neither Lu Yuanzheng nor Xu Wen were the type of people who liked to call on others, so apart from occasionally letting Chen Gong pick up and drop off the kids, they didn’t bother him too much with anything
If he could, Lu Yuanzheng would just cancel his own orderly setting
In his prime, he enlisted in the army in order to build a successful career, which would be willing to serve others as a nanny at the age of twenty or so?
Unfortunately, what Lu Yuanzheng said didn’t count
As soon as Lu Yuanzheng’s words fell, he heard Xia Chu shouting outside: “Mom and Dad, Brother Chen and Brother Wang are here!”
The brother Chen in her mouth was Chen Gong, and brother Wang was Lu Yuanzheng’s driver
Xu Man packed up the school bags for Xia Chu and the twins and sent the three of them out the door
Now moved into the villa, health has its own aunt cleaning, no matter Xu asked
Xu asked to hand-ground a cup of coffee for himself, this thing is still rare, the aunt will not get
Carrying the ground coffee, he returned to the second floor terrace
Looking around, the island has become a bit of post-modern prosperity
Rainbow Island’s real estate delivered the first batch of houses last year, including the villa she is now living in
The neighborhood is predominantly multi-story, and most of the owners are workers on the island
Dual-career workers on the island would be given a big discount if they bought a house, and with that little loan each month, there was still more than enough to pay off their salaries, so many of the workers chose to buy a house
There was also a portion sold to the
Millions of layoffs, layoffs are of course not just generals, the vast majority are soldiers
Lu Yuanzheng directly placed those “unemployed” fighters of their army into real estate
Although most of the soldiers can only work as construction laborers, but the wages and salaries are in accordance with the state-run construction companies
To be precise, the treatment is in accordance with the state-owned factories, such as vacations, such as holiday benefits, but wages are not, wages are more work more pay
There are also performance awards
In addition to this, because it is a new company in the process of development, the promotion space is very large
Haicheng fighters did not hesitate to join the ranks of construction workers, other remote less informed fighters see the situation are very puzzled, an inquiry, real estate companies, in addition to the force endorsement in addition to the participation of Xu Man, also have joined
Xu Man’s legend, few of their soldiers within the army do not know
Facts proved that one could always trust Xu Man
Most of the millions of laid off fighters had, of course, returned to their hometowns
Most of these people were ordinary folk again, and when they put down their weapons, they had to pick up a sickle and hoe
Life was tight
The soldiers who followed the real estate work, the salary is not at all less than when they were soldiers, on the contrary, there is more freedom
When you are a soldier, you have to be on call twenty-four hours a day and spend most of the day in training
As a worker, you only have to work eight hours a day, which is a little bit harder and more tiring, but it’s not even close to the training
As a result, more and more veterans are joining real estate construction teams
Those who are in a good position even buy their own houses
Employees buy houses with big discounts, and the quality of the houses they build is unquestionable
Not only that, Xu Man also asked Lu Yuanzheng to communicate with the higher units to which those offices belonged, so that the units would contribute a portion of the subsidy and individuals would contribute a portion of the money to participate in the purchase of the house
Although individuals pay money, but the house also has a house book, unlike the dormitory, sooner or later to hand the house back
The people in the Rainbow Island Office, who have been here for a long time, all like it here, and most of them expressed their willingness
The unit also saves trouble, always cheaper than building a building, also have agreed
In this way, a whole neighborhood of houses sold clean
In order to support Xu Man and the others, even Xu Wen and Xu Wang came to buy houses here
Xu Wen and Xu Wang’s business also grew
Xu Wen had opened six chain stores
Xu Wen has opened six chain stores, while Xu Wang has opened three
On top of that, the Xu family had a new addition
Sang Xiaoqing gave birth to her second child, a little boy
Of course, there was a fine for exceeding the birth limit
But to them, that amount of money was nothing
Xu Wang was jealous of Xu Man’s daughter and wanted another one, but nowadays, family planning is getting stricter and stricter, so it’s not so easy to have a baby
She’s too busy with her business to take care of it for a while, so she’s still hesitating
Xu Man took a sip of coffee
As Lu Yuanzheng said, she was the one behind Rainbow Island’s success
When the real estate company operated a little more steadily, Xu Man would be able to completely become a salted fish
Currently, the real estate company still had a particularly large shortcoming
There was a lack of middle management
The top management was naturally the troops and Xu Man, and most of the bottom staff were veterans
These veterans generally low culture, work okay, when the small foreman is no problem, really when the management is always a little bit worse
Only some of them are better at learning, fast promotion
Can be a large real estate company, need a lot of mainstay, this is not enough
In addition, she also invested in several other factories and companies, all need management personnel
Xu Wen recently is thinking about training their own talent, but also arranged for people to pay attention to those laid-off workers have no suitable
The first wave of layoffs had come
Many enterprises could not make ends meet and eventually chose to lay off employees
There were quite a few excellent workers or managers among those laid off, and Xu Wen planned to hire them
This would solve the problem of a lack of management at the middle level
Xu Wen would then be able to completely live the life of a salted fish and not worry about these matters anymore
If she could, she wanted to travel the world with Lu Yuanzheng
Unfortunately, Lu Yuanzheng can’t leave the country in his profession, unless he switches careers, and it’s not like he’s not allowed to leave the country for a certain number of years after he switches careers
Besides, is it possible to let Lu Yuanzheng change his career?
It’s possible
At night, Lu Yuanzheng came back a little late and drank some wine
After taking a shower and getting into bed, he wrapped his arms around Xu Man
Xu Wen smelled the shower gel mixed with the faint smell of alcohol, put the book in his hand on the nightstand, raised his hand in his still wet hair and jerked two, like coaxing a giant dog, gentle tone mixed with a touch of concern, “What’s wrong? Isn’t it a good thing? Didn’t we say good things at the meeting? Why so unhappy?”
Lu Yuanzheng rubbed his head toward her waist
His hair was short, and Xu Wen was wearing a silk nightgown, so the tips of his hair tickled her a bit through the nightgown
Xu Man was busy reaching out and pressing his head to keep him from moving around, “Speak!”
Lu Yuanzheng let out a long sigh and rolled over, lying horizontally, his head resting on Xu Man’s lap, his eyes looking at her, “Things are definitely good! The entire archipelago is an independent province from now on, with the center island being the provincial capital And the government is returned to the localities”
Xu Qi had heard about this long ago and wasn’t really surprised, “Then you’re still not happy?”
“After the meeting, I was left to talk”
Xu asked without saying anything, listening quietly
“The higher-ups gave me two options”
“One is to switch jobs, become a governor, and continue to govern this place”
Xu asked, “”
She was silent for an instant and asked Lu Yuanzheng, “What about two?”
“Two, I’ll continue to serve, but, it’s unlikely that I’ll stay in the Islands The higher-ups say that I’ve governed the Islands and excelled in all aspects of sea defense, military, and economy, so I may have to be promoted again!”
Xu asked, “”
If she didn’t know Lu Yuanzheng too well, she would think think think he was in Versailles
To the average person, these two choices were both brilliant in life when chosen with their eyes closed
But for Lu Yuanzheng, it was indeed a bit difficult
He was naturally reluctant to become a governor, he was a soldier not a politician, and he didn’t like being a local official But being a local official he would be able to stay in this land
Aside from his own feelings towards Rainbow Island towards the archipelago, his family and friends were all here as well
Mainly, Xu Man’s family was on Rainbow Island
Xu Man definitely didn’t want to leave
By the same token, he preferred this uniform on his body, but, with another promotion, he didn’t know where he would be transferred to Maybe it was Hai Cheng, maybe it was somewhere else
Wherever it was, they would have to leave Rainbow Island
Far from it, they are now living in this villa, last year after the delivery of the house was renovated, the end of the year before moving in, until now adults and children have just adapted to this place, and then to move away, I’m afraid that everyone is not adapted
Xu Wen also had a bit of a headache after hearing this
She thought for a moment and asked Lu Yuanzheng, “What would you choose if you don’t consider me and the children?”