The car almost drove into the wrong lane. After a false alarm, Li Xueying took a breath and said: "Xiaoyong, drive carefully. I remember that you have had a driver's license for several years, and you also drove a taxi for a while?"
Hou Xiaoyong hurriedly said that he hadn't paid attention just now, with an embarrassed look on his face, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He really had something to say. It wasn't that his driving skills were too advanced just now, but that he was scared. He glanced at the scene secretly from the corner of his eye.
Xue Chen in the driver's seat.
At first he thought that the boy driving the front car was a member of the wedding company's team, but now it seemed that it was far different from what he thought. He even wondered if he was hearing hallucinations in his ears. The man sitting next to him
Donated 10 million?
If this is the case, then this car... seems unlikely to belong to the wedding company.
After thinking about this, Hou Xiaoyong suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He thought the car belonged to a wedding company, so he was itchy and wanted to drive away. Now that he knew that the person sitting next to him was the car owner, he felt a little uncomfortable and felt a little embarrassed.
After almost three hours, at about ten o'clock in the morning, I saw Liushu Village from a distance, and the relatives of the bride's family sitting in the convoy behind saw that they were almost at their destination, and everyone in the same car started talking to each other.
Complain.
"Hey, this car seat is too hard, and domestic cars just can't do it."
"It's true, this is the first time I've been in such a bad wedding car."
"If Xiaoying gets married, she will have a hard life."
The drivers of the convoy were not happy when they heard the complaints from their relatives, but they tolerated it. After all, it was a happy day and they were paid to drive.
But naturally I couldn't help but curse a few words in my heart. Although the price of their cars is not high, only between 100,000 and 200,000. It is not as good as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but it is not low-end, and the comfort is not as good.
Poor, the car seat is not even hard to say the least. Those ugly words are completely nonsense and just nitpicking.
When the convoy arrived at the entrance of the village, Hou Xiaoyong, who was driving the car, glanced at the main road of the village and said in surprise: "Is there anyone else getting married?"
On the relatively spacious main road in the village, there are forty or fifty cars driving in a row, just like a convoy. However, there are all types of cars, but they can't stand up to the high quality.
When the car drove past, Hou Xiaoyong turned around and looked at them one by one. He saw that more than 90% of them were luxury cars worth more than one million yuan, mainly top-notch Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Lexus, with occasional Lamborghinis, Ferraris, etc.
There are higher-end ones like Bentley.
He also understood that this was definitely not a motorcade, but rather looked like guests attending a wedding.
Xue Chen also took a look. Some of the cars knew their owners, but many others were not too impressed.
"Xiaochen, are these the friends you invited?" Xue Chao glanced at the row of luxury cars. He didn't have so many rich friends.
"I didn't invite so many people." Xue Chen scratched his head. He didn't specifically invite anyone to the wedding. After all, his friend might not know his cousin Xue Chao, and he wasn't getting married, so he just put Xue Chao on WeChat.
I forwarded the wedding invitation I made, thinking that if someone I knew saw it, they would come over and join in the fun. I didn’t send messages or call anyone in particular.
The bride's family members who were sitting in the motorcade at the back naturally saw the vehicles driven by the guests. For a while, they swallowed back all the complaints that had been in their mouths just now, and did not say another word.
When the motorcade arrived at the door of uncle Xue Hongxi's home, firecrackers went off and the fireworks were lit.
After Xue Chen got out of the car, he watched the groom carrying the bride into the new house. He walked around and finally saw the owners of those cars. They were quite mixed. Friends like Qi Hu and Xiao Kun who were close to each other naturally They are all here, including Uncle Shen, Yan Ruxing, Cai Yuanming, and Hao Jun.
In addition, there are a lot of people in the antique circle who are not close friends, but we can talk with each other on weekdays.
What surprised him was that some members of the Provincial Antiques Collection Association and vice president Gan Zeping came in person and brought congratulations from the president Jiang Lifu.
Even Geng Qiufeng came and presented a wedding gift on behalf of Haicheng University, a four-character calligraphy work written by the president of the school and written by the president of the school.
There were also some familiar or unfamiliar people from the Ning Group, some came in person, and some sent a driver to send congratulations.
Ning Xuanxuan also took a quick look, said hello to him, said to come and have a look, and drove away without wasting his time.
Even Andrew and Amanda appeared in front of him.
The number of "uninvited" guests far exceeded his expectation. Many of them just said hello and left after meeting him once, not wanting to cause any trouble to him.
Although he was not the one getting married, Xue Chen was also very busy. It took more than two hours to meet each of these guests and talk casually for three to five minutes, which made him feel a little dizzy.
In addition to being busy, the village chief Qi Changhe is also very busy!
According to the custom of Liushu Village, a table will be set up in front of the groom's house, which is the place where the gift account is kept and the money is paid. The people who are responsible for keeping the gift account and keeping the money are the virtuous and knowledgeable people in the village. elder.
Qi Changhe was responsible for this task. He was usually invited to any happy events in the village.
He was really busy. The most important thing was that he suddenly received a lot of large gifts.
He has to keep accounts of gifts for the villagers eight times if not ten times a year. The amount of gifts exchanged between villagers is usually one or two hundred yuan, and those of the same race and surname are basically in the range of five hundred to one thousand yuan. And only very close relatives have more than a thousand.
But just now, many faces he had never seen suddenly appeared, and at first glance, they were not from the nearby villages. They looked like big bosses in their clothes and demeanor, and each one received a bigger share, with the minimum being two to three thousand. , there was also a pretty girl who asked if he could swipe a credit card without bringing much cash, which really embarrassed him. In the end, the girl rummaged through the money in her bag, collected 8,000, and left.
Just now, a black young man suddenly appeared. This is really rare. This is the first time he has seen a black man come to the village to attend a happy event. Just when he glanced curiously, the black young man He took out a bunch of money and put it on the table.
It looks like the money has just been taken out of the bank? It is also tied with paper tape, no more, no less, exactly ten wads, which is one hundred thousand yuan.
"Andrew Smith."
The black boy said his name twice, and then Qi Changhe wrote it down in the red ledger, saying that the gift was 100,000 yuan.
When some of the surrounding villagers saw this scene, they all pointed and started talking. Such a large gift had never appeared in Liushu Village. Many families received gifts for marrying their daughters and wives, but the total gift may not be 100,000 yuan. piece.
When the new daughter-in-law's family got out of the car and entered the door, they also saw the stack of gifts that had been piled up, and they did not say anything disparaging to the man.
A lively wedding came to an end after the celebration.
Xue Chen did indeed give his cousin a big red envelope, transferring 20% of the 40% shares in the Yang'an branch to Brother Chao's name. In this way, Xue Chao was no longer a simple person.
When he works part-time, he works for himself, and he also gets a profit dividend of about one million yuan every year.
When Xue Chao and Li Xueying heard Xue Chen say this, they both refused to accept it. This red envelope was not only big, but too big. It was so big that they were embarrassed to accept it.
One party wanted to give it away, but the other party refused to accept it. In the end, they both took a step back. Xue Chao accepted 10% of the shares as a gift. Haicheng's Zhuoyue store had a profit of over 10 million last year, but the Yang'an store could not reach this level.
It's only about five to six million, and 10% of the shares can be divided into hundreds of thousands every year.
The wedding was over, but Xue Chen still decided to stay at home for a few more days to spend time with his parents.
"Xiaochen, aren't you in a hurry to go back to Haicheng to work?" asked her mother Luo Huijuan.
Xue Chen said: "Don't worry, I will stay with you and my dad at home for a few days."
But what he didn't expect was that the second elder didn't appreciate it at all: "We don't need you to accompany us. Let's go back to Haicheng to work. If you are afraid that we will be lonely, then hurry up and bring a grandson back and let us take care of him."
"No, Xiaochen, you have to hurry up. While your dad and I can still move, we can help you take care of the child."
Yes, when Xue Chen heard this, he returned to Haicheng in embarrassment the next day.
After returning to Haicheng, Xue Chen called Andrew. Although 100,000 yuan was nothing to the two of them, after all, etiquette was less important than affection.
"Oh, Xue Chen, you were too busy that day, so I didn't bother you too much. Otherwise, I would have had a good chat with you and had a glass of wine. We haven't played together for a while," Andrew said in a tone of voice.
Very enthusiastically, "Of course, not only me, but our Miss Amanda also misses you very much. Your name is always mentioned inadvertently when working."
"Ahem." Xue Chen felt a little embarrassed by Andrew's words and rubbed his nose.
"My friend, let's talk about something serious now. Maybe you can help me and my family's company."
Andrew said his family group, Eka Group, accepted a very messy debt and a mineral company went bankrupt due to mismanagement.
This bankrupt company still owes the Eka Group more than eight million US dollars in shipping fees, which is not a small sum. After several months of liquidation, their group will also receive part of the fixed assets of this bankrupt company.
, used to offset this debt of eight million US dollars.
"Then what help do you need from me?" Xue Chen touched his chin and asked thoughtfully.
"It's like this. This bankrupt mining company has three small gold mines in Africa. They have been sealed by the government and will be divided among the three creditor companies. You understand, of course we want to get the best of them.
A gold mine.”
Xue Chen understood a little bit. (To be continued)