Chapter 195: Can You Even Afford New Clothes?
Lu Qiaoge lent Lu Qiaoling one hundred yuan.
Qiao Ling happily promised Lu Qiaoge to repay her ten yuan every month.
Su Hui said her belly would soon get big, so she wouldn’t buy clothes.
Moreover, raising a child also required money.
Lu Zhiguo whispered to his wife: “Qiao Ge and Qiao Ling will definitely buy new clothes, so I should buy one for you too.”
Su Hui shook her head: “Our family has today thanks to Qiao Ge, and I’m planning to buy clothes for Qiao Ge.”
Lu Zhiguo scratched his head and still said to her: “If you buy for Qiao Ge, won’t you buy for Qiao Ling? Besides, there’s our grandmother and our mom too.”
Su Hui was also troubled: “If only the exhibition fair would be held in two months, then we two could save a bit more.”
In the end, it was still a matter of no money.
During dinner, Meng Xia deliberately told the Lu Family members.
“I and your dad and your grandmother don’t need you to take care of us, and I also want to say a few words: except for Qiao Ge, how much money each of you has is clearer to me than to yourselves. Act within your means, don’t compare with others, and besides, Qiao Ge said the exhibition fair won’t be held this time, there will be one next year.”
At this time, Lu Qiaoge was still working overtime.
The exhibition fair was starting tomorrow.
These team members and those who came to help had to do a final inspection of the venue.
Zhen Xi’s secretary came over and said to Team Leader Xu: “Our General Manager Zhen has prepared a batch of cost price clothes for you team members. We know you value not taking a single needle or thread from the masses, but this is our General Manager Zhen’s kind intention, and we hope you all can accept it.”
Team Leader Xu smiled and said: “General Manager Zhen’s good intentions are appreciated, but this event isn’t just our team members; countless comrades up and down are busy with it, so we really can’t take the low-price clothing.”
Lu Qiaoge added from the side: “The personnel coming to participate in the exhibition fair this time exceed expectations, so you all will be busy tomorrow.”
Secretary You also smiled humbly: “Being busy is good, being busy is good.”
Actually, he had no confidence in his heart. Coming here for the first time, he felt their mental state was good, each one walking with vigor.
But their clothes were really too ordinary.
People wearing patched clothes actually made up the majority.
With this, could they afford new clothes?
He was skeptical about this.
However, he could only keep these words in his heart. Anyway, the contract also specified that if nothing sold, the organizer would be fully responsible.
Glancing at these bustling people, he thought, with each one dressed so ordinarily, how much money could they have in their pockets? If nothing sold, what would they use to take responsibility?
At this time in Hong Kong.
A villa located mid-mountain, though not brilliantly lit, nestled among green trees and forests, with dotted lights making it look like a pavilion in the sky.
This was Chairman Zhen Zihao’s manor in Hong Kong.
The manor was very large, but currently had no female owner.
However, Secretary Xue lived here.
At this time, Secretary Xue gave a deep look at Zhen Mingze following the chairman toward the study, her lips curved slightly, and she said leisurely to the steward beside her: “The old man and the young master have important matters to discuss. After sending pastries and tea, do not disturb them anymore.”
The steward respectfully agreed and then went to arrange it.
Secretary Xue walked toward her own room.
She was thinking in her heart, what was Zhen Mingze coming to discuss with the chairman at this time?
In her view, it should be that ridiculous exhibition fair.
She wasn’t someone who hadn’t been to the mainland.
Last month, she had followed the chairman and toured around extensively.
It was even not as good as the countryside in Hong Kong.
Especially this time they were selling clothing.
It was really too ridiculous.
Those gray and dusty people wore clothes full of patches; where would they get money to buy new clothes?
Moreover, this time’s clothing was specially designed and rushed into production.
It wasn’t the styles sold to Europe and America.
This also meant that if not a single piece sold, all the losses would have to be borne by the mainland people.
Although Zhen Xi seemed to have no losses, he would become a joke.
Fetching water with a bamboo basket—all for nothing, a month wasted in vain.
And he had sworn confidently to the chairman how much money he could earn.
Just going to the mainland once, and he dared to do business with them again and again.
What an idiot!
How could someone as smart as Lin Manyun give birth to such a stupid son?
Then, Secretary Xue sighed lightly again.
Was Lin Manyun smart?
Perhaps.
But these had nothing to do with her.
Just wait to watch the joke.
At this time, in the study, the father and son were talking.
The two of them were also talking about this exhibition fair, but it was different content.
“Dad, do you think someone has contacted Zhen Xi?”
Chairman Zhen Zihao sat deeply gazing on the chair, recalling the last futile trip: “I just came back from the mainland, and you still don’t understand their management system there. They control contact with the outside very strictly. To contact Zhen Xi, without approval from the authorities above, you can’t even make a phone call to him, let alone other ways.”
“Then why hold the exhibition fair out of the blue?”
At this point, Zhen Mingze’s expression shifted: “Father, last time you took third brother to the military factory, did third brother know a food factory’s little factory director named Lu Qiaoge? I heard this time it was led by her.”
“What do you mean?”
“Could this Lu Qiaoge be the contact person?”
Chairman Zhen Zihao had a good memory. Although he hadn’t directly contacted Lu Qiaoge, he still had some impression of her.
“Working at the military factory, backgrounds are all very clean.”
“But I think this Lu Qiaoge is very suspicious. According to what you said, people over there are all very reserved, but this Lu Qiaoge’s style is completely different from theirs. Father, my intuition tells me Lu Qiaoge may be related to that batch of heavy artifacts.”
Chairman Zhen Zihao was stunned for a moment, then sighed wistfully: “Among them, that Yuan blue-and-white porcelain is invaluable, not overstated as priceless.”
A glint flashed in Zhen Mingze’s eyes.
Everyone knew this was a treasure!
“Your third brother’s maternal grandfather is a curator. It was chaotic then, with several factions coveting the museum’s collection. But before the change, most had already been transported there. Unexpectedly, the museum burned down that night. Fortunately, third brother’s maternal grandfather had transferred the treasures early and assigned loyal subordinates to guard them. Sadly, he was harmed by someone and met such a miserable end—it’s lamentable.”
Chairman Zhen Zihao gave a meaningful look at his eldest son Zhen Mingze.
“I made your third brother the heir, but I gave the real estate and mines to you. Your third brother does nothing, just guards this industry; with the heir title, he can live his life safely.”
Zhen Mingze said on his lips: “Yes, Father has racked his brains for third brother; I just don’t know if third brother can understand you.”
But in Zhen Mingze’s heart, he sneered.
Nice words, but actually the old man missed third brother’s maternal grandfather’s batch of hidden treasures, that’s why he made him heir and took him to the mainland to fish. Unfortunately, no one came to contact him…
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