After everyone's persuasion, the 48-year-old who is not yet 50 finally agreed to retire early.
At this age, he still has a lot of time to enjoy and do things he wanted to do but couldn't do before.
For example...accompanying my wife Gao Min on a trip around the world to fulfill her dream that she has dreamed of since she was a young girl.
This dream is not big, but it is not small either.
A week-long trip around the world costs a lot of money just in terms of air tickets and various expenses, not counting the time cost.
When I was young, I didn’t have much money, so I wanted to wait until I had enough money to realize my dream.
Once you have earned enough money, you no longer have time. You have to be busy taking care of your children, busy with work, and busy with life.
Now that I have reached middle age, every time I think of my dreams that seem to be so close yet so far away, I inevitably feel a little regretful.
Although Gao Min never told anyone, as a son, Luo Yanning naturally knew about his mother's dream.
This time, asking Xu Maocheng to "resign himself to old age" is more appropriate than helping him, as it is more appropriate to help his mother.
Luo Yanning said with a smile: "This time, when Uncle Xu recovers, you two, Lao Gao, can go out and have fun.
It’s okay to play for three to five years. Come back and have a look when you miss us, and continue playing after watching it.”
"You kid, you wish we could stay far away from you! No one will nag you, no one will care about you, you can just do whatever you want, right?"
Gao Min smiled and stretched out his hand to tap Luo Yanning's forehead. Naturally, his little thoughts couldn't be hidden from her as a mother.
Luo Yanning said with a bitter face: "Lao Gao, you have wronged me. You have said that my filial piety is worthless."
"It's a pity that you don't want to be an actor. Aren't you just..."
Gao Min wanted to say, "Aren't you just afraid that I will force you to get married?" But he swallowed his words again.
In front of so many people, I must give my son enough face.
"Ahem, everyone hasn't eaten yet, right? Let's go eat first, let Lao Gao and Lao Xu wait for a while, and give the couple some time to be alone.
Jing comes back to replace Lao Gao."
Luo Yanning raised her hand and saw that it was already past twelve noon, so she asked everyone to go eat first.
Gao Min hurriedly said: "Xiao Jing doesn't need to come back to replace me. It's too troublesome. I'll just order some takeout later."
Xu Kejing said quickly: "Auntie, how can that be done? Eating too much takeaway is not good for your health."
"Yes, Auntie, why don't you and Yan Ning eat together? Fatty and uncle and I will rest here for a while."
Zhang Qian also said: "Anyway, I don't have much appetite right now. I will vomit whatever I eat, whether I eat or not."
"Yes, Auntie, you have been working so hard these days, so you should pay more attention to rest and supplement your nutrition. You and the master should go to eat first. Sister Qian and I will stay here with uncle for a while." Zhao Rui saw that Zhang Qian wanted to stay.
, and also strives to stay with high self-esteem.
Xu Kejing hurriedly waved her hands and said: "No, no, sister Qian, Xiaorui, you can go with me. I can just stay here and watch."
"If you ask me, it's better for you to go. Jiang Bo and I will stay here with my uncle for a while. We don't see each other a few times a year. Let's take this opportunity to rest for a while." Hao Xiaoxiao saw that everyone had expressed their opinions, but she did not.
It's not suitable either, and I have joined the ranks of those who want to stay.
Gao Jiangbo echoed: "Yes, I haven't had a good chat with my uncle for so many years. You can go ahead. I am losing weight recently and rarely eat lunch."
"You go, I stay."
"I'll stay, you go!"
"No, no..."
Everyone is arguing with each other, and everyone has a reason to stay.
Luo Yanning raised her hand and suggested weakly: "How about all the women stay and the men come with me..."
After Luo Yanning finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on his face.
"Let's just leave it like this! If we continue to fight, I don't know how long we will continue to fight."
Gao Min was the first to agree to his son's proposal.
"I'll go to the restaurant where I'm going to eat later, and ask them to bring you a table first."
After Luo Yanning finished speaking, she turned around and called her uncle, cousin, and Wu Mingshi to go out together.
After the four of them went out, they took the elevator downstairs together. Wu Mingshi continued to act as the driver and drove the few of them to the five-star hotel closest to Union Hospital.
After Wu Mingshi drove the car to the parking lot at the bottom, everyone took the elevator upstairs together.
"Welcome, how can I help you?"
As soon as a few people went upstairs, a girl wearing a lady's suit and a walkie-talkie on her waist came forward to greet everyone.
Luo Yanning asked: "Are there any private rooms? We want to find a quieter environment."
The girl looked confused: "I'm really sorry, sir, the single room has been booked now, and it won't be available until around 4 p.m."
"Is that so..." Luo Yanning frowned slightly and looked at the environment in the hall downstairs.
It was the peak time at noon, and the dozen or so tables in the hall were almost occupied.
There seemed to be a lot of people in the hall, but it wasn't very noisy.
The diners who were dining were chatting softly and quietly, which was a completely different scene from the bustling small restaurants on the roadside.
Gao Jun smiled at the side and said: "It's okay Ning Ning, I think the hall is quite quiet. If there are no private rooms, just stay in the hall."
"Yes, cousin, the hall is just fine, right here."
Gao Jiangbo is not exactly a close friend of Luo Yan.
He really thought the lobby of this hotel was quite nice.
After all, it is a five-star hotel. Whether it is the high-end and classy door outside or the interior decoration, there is a strong aura of wealthy people.
Ordinary people may not have the opportunity to eat here in their lifetime, and even if they have the opportunity, they may not be willing to spend the money.
"..." Luo Yinning was thinking about whether to call the owner of this store.
The name of this five-star hotel is Baodi Hotel, which is considered a time-honored five-star hotel in Beijing.
Luo Yanning forgot the name of the owner of Baodi Hotel, but he remembered that the two of them thought about each other's letters when they were on the island in the middle of the lake.
To be honest, the two of them are not really friends, they are just passers-by in each other's lives.
However, it shouldn't be a big problem to call the boss and ask him to arrange a room for you to eat.
Luo Yanning knew that in a big hotel like Baodi Hotel, there must be several rooms that are idle all year round in case of emergency.
If that big shot wants to come to your hotel for dinner that day, you can't afford not to have a room and let him wait for a table like everyone else!
Having a few idle rooms is nothing for a big hotel like Baodi Hotel. It doesn't matter how many rooms there are or not.
But if a big shot is neglected, the problem will be huge.
"Hey, isn't this Wu Mingshi, the truck driver who used to deliver goods to our company? Why are you here? Are you here to deliver goods?"
When Luo Yanning was hesitating whether to call the hotel owner, a very discordant voice suddenly sounded in her ears.
Turning around, I happened to see Wu Mingshi looking at the visitor with an angry face.
"Wu Mingkai! What nonsense are you talking about here!"
Wu Mingshi looked angrily at one of the people he least wanted to see in his life.
Wu Mingkai is Wu Mingshi's half-brother.
Although the two grew up in the same home, they didn't have the slightest bit of brotherhood. Instead, they were more like sworn enemies.
The reason for the current situation between the two of them sounds a bit silly, but it is very common in many reorganized families.
Wu Mingshi's stepmother Zhao Mingrong, who is also Wu Mingkai's biological mother, began to worry about Wu Mingshi's future competition with her son for family property from the day she married into the family.
Since then, she has never given Wu Mingshi a good look and has become a stepmother even more harsh than the legendary "stepmother".
In the first two years of marriage, Zhao Mingrong's status in the family was not stable, so she was fair to Wu Mingshi. It was not good, but it was not bad either.
When Wu Mingkai spoke out, Zhao Mingrong also gained a certain status in the family, and her attitude towards Wu Mingshi became increasingly cold.
Later, as Wu Mingkai got older, Zhao Mingrong's attitude towards Wu Mingshi became worse and worse.
After more than ten or twenty years, Wu Mingshi's status in that family was basically "in name only".
In Zhao Mingrong's eyes, he is even worse than an outsider, because outsiders will not compete with his son for family property, but his adopted son Wu Mingshi will!
Therefore, in Zhao Mingrong's eyes, Wu Mingshi was like a thorn in her side.
During the many years they lived together, the only thing that Zhao Mingrong did wholeheartedly for Wu Mingshi was to slander him, discredit him, and slander him in front of Wu Mingshi's father, using all possible means.
Thanks to Zhao Mingrong's unremitting efforts, Wu Mingshi became in his father's eyes the rebellious son who was lazy, unwilling to make progress, and was rebellious and wanted to take advantage of his stepmother.
Wu Mingshi's younger brother Wu Mingkai became a good boy who was aggressive, filial and polite.
Therefore, Wu Mingshi's father also has obvious preferences when it comes to dealing with his two sons.
Also working in his family's printing factory, Wu Mingshi was a delivery worker when he first joined, and became a veteran delivery worker many years later.
After graduating, Wu Mingkai went to his own factory and started as a deputy manager. After working for less than a year, he was promoted to manager.
The same father, but the treatment is completely different.
Unable to endure it, Wu Mingshi left his printing factory.
With the support of Luo Yanning, today's prosperous Qiming Printing Factory was established.
If there were no good buddies like Luo Yinning...
Wu Mingshi couldn't imagine such a scene. It would definitely be an extremely miserable scene.
My girlfriend is pregnant, I have lost my job, I have just graduated, and I don’t have much savings.
You already have children, do you want to get married? Do you want to have children?
What to get married with and what to raise children with? These are the questions Wu Mingshi will face.
With Luo Yanning's funding, these problems were solved and became no longer a problem.
Therefore, in Wu Mingshi's eyes, Luo Yanning is the closest person in the world, the best, the best, and the best buddy.
It is no exaggeration to say that in Wu Mingshi's heart, Luo Yanning is closer than his biological father.
He is a million times closer than his half-brother.
"Wu Mingshi, it's okay. Now that you dare to talk to me like this, your wings are strong, right? Don't think that opening a printing factory is so easy! I'm just telling you, with your little business level, it won't take three years to do it.
The factory must be shut down."
Wu Mingkai seemed to be talking to Wu Mingshi, but in fact he was talking to Luo Yanning. He also knew that it was Wu Mingshi who invested in Luo Yanning, or it was Qiming Printing Factory that he invested in.
Even though Wu Mingshi has become the general manager of the printing factory, Wu Mingkai still looks down on him. The reason is that he knows that Wu Mingshi only works for others, nothing more!
"Put it p! Our Qiming Printing Factory will definitely get better and better. Sooner or later, we will surpass you. Just wait and see with your eyes wide open!"
Wu Mingshi was inspired by his brother's words to succeed, and his breathing became much more disordered.
"Haha, if you want to run a printing factory well, you can't do it just by shouting slogans like you do. There are deep connections here!"
Wu Mingkai looked at his brother with disdain and sneered: "You, a delivery driver, also want to be a big boss? Go back and dream about your dreams!"
"You..." Wu Mingshi pointed at his brother with an angry look, but in the end he just swallowed and swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
Although the relationship between the two brothers has been extremely tense since Wu Mingkai made his remarks, and it is getting worse and worse.
But in Wu Mingshi's eyes, Wu Mingkai is still his younger brother, but this younger brother is a bit ignorant.
He, as an elder brother, really couldn't say some unpleasant words.
"Mr. Luo, I think it is really necessary for me to remind you that you have really chosen the wrong partner. Wu Mingshi is not the kind of person to be careful about. You must always pay attention to your partner.
It’s an investment, don’t…”
"Don't worry, please remind me. I'm just having fun. I don't care if I make more or less, or if I lose or gain. It's only 20 million. It doesn't matter even if I lose not a penny left."
Luo Yanning interrupted Wu Mingkai rudely before he could finish his sentence. With such an arrogant and difficult person, there was no need to be polite.
"Haha, Mr. Luo..." Wu Mingkai wanted to try to persuade him again.
Luo Yanning raised her right hand from the table and interrupted again:
"First of all, we don't know each other. Secondly, I have no interest in what you say or the project you want to start."
"Mr. Luo, do you want to think about it carefully? We..."
"No, let's go."
Luo Yanning waved her hand again, driving him away with an impatient look.
"Oh, since Mr. Luo doesn't have time today, let's see you another day. Sorry."
Wu Mingkai saw that Luo Yanning had no intention of talking to him at all, so he could only touch his nose angrily, turned around and walked towards the private room he had booked in advance.
"The troublesome guy is finally gone."
Wu Mingshi watched his brother's figure disappear into the crowd in the hall, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.