Chapter 55: Holding Fragrance Garden
That night, Chen Fang and Qin Mohan stayed in a small courtyard in Shen Qingyi's own courtyard in Yiyuan. There were three main rooms, bedrooms, living rooms and guest rooms. This was the first time Qin Mohan lived in Jiangnan Garden. Before resting, he pulled Chen Fang to play in the extremely quiet garden.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the rich fragrance of osmanthus, the chrysanthemums in Baoxiang Garden are also particularly gorgeous. In the entire Yiyuan garden, except for the plum forest at Mengxiang Pavilion, Baoxiang Garden covers the widest area. The ancestors of the Shen family prefer chrysanthemums, which are quite Tao Yuanming's hermit style. It was September, and the blooming chrysanthemums were colorful and had different postures, including yellow chrysanthemums, ink chrysanthemums, dragon claw chrysanthemums...
"The ancients said: chrysanthemums are the hidden ones of flowers." Chen Fang said to Qin Mohan: "According to my mother, my grandfather was a hermit gentleman, who was once the favorite student of Wu Han and Mr. Wu. He was proficient in Chinese studies and classics and history. If it weren't for that ten years of catastrophe, he would probably be a famous Chinese studies master in China."
Then he pointed to a bluestone next to Baoxiang Garden, and took advantage of the garden light to see a poem engraved on it: "This is his favorite poem: 'Flowers bloom but not with flowers, and they are independent of sparse fences and are fun and poor. I would rather hold the fragrance on the branches and die, so that I would never blow down the north wind.' The name of Baoxiang Garden comes from this."
Qin Mohan sighed: "Looking at my mother's demeanor, you should imagine his demeanor back then."
"According to my mother, my uncle has a more temper like a great-grandfather, and he is determined, while my mother's personality is like a grandfather."
"What about you, who do you think your personality looks like?" Qin Mohan asked in surprise.
"I, I don't look like anyone else." Chen Fang thought for a while, then shook his head: "I feel that I don't have the decisiveness of my uncle, I have a little less emotional than my mother, nor as thoughtful as my grandfather, nor as ruthless as that person."
Qin Mohan hugged him and said, "That's better, you are you. This is the man I like."
A night wind blew, and under the dark lights of the night, the chrysanthemums in the Huxiang Garden swayed with the night wind, and wisps of fragrant fragrance came out from time to time. The sky was already cold, and I looked at Qin Mohan, who was a little dressed in thin clothes, and hugged her tightly again.
With the announcement of the Forbes rankings on the 12th, Chen Fang's phone calls began to increase. Various economic forums, media interviews, and invitations from different chambers of commerce and entrepreneur alliances were sent. Most of the invitations were directly sent to the company, and the company's public relations department contacted them in an official tone. "You can leave your contact information, and when our Mr. Chen comes back, I will tell you your invitation." Some invitations that cannot be shirked must be answered in person.
"Hello, I am Chen Fang. Is Chairman Ji of the CPPCC here?..."
"Hello, I am Chen Fang. May I ask it is the China Federation of Industry and Commerce..."
"Hello, I am Chen Fang. May I ask if it is the Zhejiang Provincial Government..."
Put down the phone in his hand, Chen Fang looked at his uncle, wanting to listen to his opinions. This morning, Chen Fang replied to three calls, namely Ji Lin, a senior official in Yanjing City, who is preparing to nominate him as a member of the new Yanjing Municipal CPPCC at the end of the year and attend the Two Sessions in March next year; Wang Qingmin, chairman of the China Federation of Industry and Commerce, invited him to join the Federation of Industry and Commerce; and another was the invitation issued by the Zhejiang Provincial Government on the "First World Internet Conference".
Chen Haiyang looked at him with a sad face and smiled: "As your personal influence increases, your corresponding social status will definitely increase. What do you think personally?"
Chen Fang scratched his head and said, "If I could shirk it, I would really shirk it all. Among the messages sent by Yanjing Company, there are also invitations from speeches from eleven universities across the country and invitations from four chambers of commerce forums. I am almost driven crazy by these things now."
Seeing that my nephew really didn't like to deal with such things, Chen Haiyang said to him: "I'll help you turn it off the Federation of Industry and Commerce. I'm the vice chairman of the Federation of Industry and Commerce. Just have a person in our family. As for the Yanjing CPPCC, the CPPCC members are also an amulet to you no matter what. As for the invitation from the World Internet Conference, if you are really not interested, you can ask Xiao Cai from your investment company to go on behalf of you. If there are good projects, you can still participate. The invitation from schools and chambers of commerce can be ignored. What they want is mainly sponsorship, and just cooperate with them in the name of your fund."
"I guess I have to do this." Chen Fang nodded and expressed his gratitude to his uncle.
According to my uncle's suggestions, the company asked the company to send official replies to several units, and then he explained to Cai Ruiheng, who came back from Hangzhou, and the financing plan he discussed with Shen Yao. Chen Fang and Qin Mohan hurriedly returned to Yanjing from Shanghai. Qin Ruoxi attended classes at the Affiliated High School of Normal University for a week. Qin Mohan especially wanted to go back and ask how his sister felt, whether her grades could keep up, and whether she was excluded by her classmates.
The two got off the plane and didn't even go back to the courtyard. They took the bus to Yanying Factory.
"Sister, brother-in-law, you are here." Erya and Jin Yaran, who were doing homework in the room, heard the knock on the door, and both came out of the room. When they saw the two people at the door, they said in surprise.
"Grandpa, grandma, my brother and the others are back." Jin Yaran was also surprised to call her grandparents who were drinking tea in the yard.
"Grandpa, grandma, hello." After saying hello to the two elders, Qin Mohan gave the gift he bought from Hangzhou to the old lady: "This is the honey and sugar osmanthus I bought for you in Hangzhou."
"It's good that you're here. There's no shortage of things at home." The old lady asked the nanny Zhang to take the things over, and took Qin Mohan's hand and said, "You're having lunch here. Xiaocan's hairy crabs will be steamed at noon."
Chen Fang first said hello to the old man, and then said to the old lady: "Grandma, I will cook lunch. This time I ate the crabs they made in Hangzhou. They tasted good and were fried. I specially asked the chef and learned a lesson."
"Okay, let you do it." The old lady pulled Mo Han in and said to her: "Mo Han, you don't know. Ye Zi has liked to tinker with food since she was a child. I really don't know who he looks like, a standard foodie."
Qin Mohan chatted with the old lady in the living room for a while, and then came to Erya's room. This was the room that was previously sunny. Behind the door was a piano, covered with brown and black velvet cloth. Opposite the piano was a bookshelf, and there were several trophys and certificates that were sunny on the top of the bookshelf.
Qin Mohan reached out to finish them. First of all, the thick stack of piano level one to ten certificates, and his tender face also changed with the level of level. However, even the photos on the level ten certificate were very different from him now. His middle-parted hairstyle made Qin Mohan laugh out loud as he looked at it.
"Sister, I didn't expect that my ex-husband was so powerful." Qin Ruoxi reached out and took down the trophys and certificates in the innermost part of the certificate and said to Qin Mohan: "Look at this, the number one in the Yanjing Children's Piano Competition, the number one in the Huapu Cup National Children's Piano Competition, and this, the number one in the Sino-French International Piano Exchange Competition."
"Now you know your brother-in-law's strength. Don't think that you have passed the Nine-level piano exam during the summer vacation. You are complacent and forgetful. Look at your brother-in-law who got the Level 10 certificate was only 13 years old." Qin Mohan took the opportunity to say to his sister: "The road you are going to take is still long. From now on, you will go to the company with Yaran every week. She will practice vocal music and performance, and you will practice piano and dance. I have already agreed with the teacher in the company's training department that there is also a professional teacher from the Conservatory of Music to train you."
"I understand." Qin Ruoxi muttered, and then wanted to put the trophy back.
"I'll do your homework." Seeing the dust on these trophys, Qin Mohan went to the bathroom to get a dry rag and prepared to wipe it. After that, he would ask Chen Fang. If he had no objection, Qin Mohan would take them to the courtyard, after all, it was the home of the two of them.
"How are the teacher and classmates treating you? Can you keep up with your grades?" Qin Mohan asked her sister while wiping.
Qin Ruoxi said: "Teacher Tang is very good to me. And we conducted a survey exam on Wednesday, and I got the eleventh place in the class and almost got to the top ten."
"Where is the grade ranking?" Qin Mohan was not confused by her ranking. When asked Principal Zhang to arrange classes for her, he considered the issue of grades, so it was recommended to arrange them in a medium class.
"The 321st grade," Qin Ruoxi said embarrassedly, and then said unconvincedly: "We have a total of 21 classes and nearly a thousand students, so I'm still of the upper-class grades."
"Why didn't you think you've been in Xijiang for a month and learned a lot more than them." Yanjing's school is in the hinterland of China and strictly takes holidays in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Education. It is not like other provinces, and it starts school one month in advance for tutoring.
Qin Ruoxi said angrily: "Sister, it's a bit unfair to say this. Yanjing's textbooks are different from ours in Western Xinjiang. I haven't learned several ancient essays here, otherwise I can get a few more points."
"Okay, you're good enough." Qin Mohan was actually satisfied with his sister's overall grade and began to care about other topics: "How are the classmates treating you? Is anyone bullying you?"
"No. Sister, I didn't expect Yaran to be so famous in school. Not only the second grade students, but also many of us third grade students know her. She came to me after school on the first day and went home with me the next day, and my deskmate asked me what I had to do with her."
Jin Yaran used to be a famous celebrity in the Affiliated High School of Normal University, a storied figure in the Yan Film Factory and the children of faculty and staff of Yan Film Academy. Now she has become a celebrity in the entire Affiliated High School of Normal University.
At the end of last month, Jin Yaran's personal single "Yezi" was finally recorded with the permission of Teacher Ye and was put on the shelves on several music apps. Although the company did not promote it according to Chen Fang's opinion, the melody, rhythm and seemingly messy chanting were particularly sharp. Liang Hui also recommended this song on her Weibo. With the support of her fans, the popularity of this song has increased greatly. In addition, the name of the songwriter Chen Fang indicated in the song information was even pushed to the top ten of the Chinese music rankings by fans in early September. If Tang Yuan had not protected her well, she would have probably been dug out long ago.
When some students in the school learned about this song, they were already combining the singer Jin Yaran with the impression of Jin Yaran in the school and began to inquire about the news from the children living in Yanying Film Factory.
Qin Mohan asked Qin Ruoxi: "No one has discovered the relationship between Yaran and your brother-in-law."
"No, but yesterday I heard from my classmates that my brother-in-law is the richest man." Qin Ruoxi said: "I'm not stupid. What if someone knows about our relationship and asks the bad guy to target him."
Seeing that your sister was sensible, Qin Mohan nodded: "You two should be careful when going to and from school, don't run around casually. Your brother-in-law arranged a few people for you to protect you secretly, so you don't have to be too nervous."
Chapter completed!