After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is basically no sense of the New Year, and Kyoto returns to its former noisy and bustling state.
At this time, Bai Donglin asked Bai Ye to go to a party with him.
Boss Bai spent some time in Kyoto back then and was a soldier, so he had some friends. He originally wanted to have a small gathering in Kyoto this year, but they ended up avoiding each other, but now they are here again.
They are all in their 40s and 50s, and the party is basically a family affair. Hu Caiyun specially cleaned up before going out. Bai Ling and Bai Ye have their own halo buffs, and they are the center of attention wherever they go.
Of course, if you don't see that the car you drive is a taxi when you go out, others will definitely think that you are a famous aristocrat.
Each of the four people has a certain temperament, Bai Donglin's free and easy, Hu Caiyun's nobility, Bai Ling's aura, and Bai Ye's scholarly spirit. When they first got in the car, the driver was stunned for a moment.
Originally Bai Ye wanted his driver to come over, but Bai Donglin thought it was troublesome and took a taxi directly.
After all, it takes nearly an hour to get here from the company, and it only takes twenty minutes to take a taxi to the hotel. I didn’t want to bother with it. Besides, it was a gathering of old friends, so there wasn’t much fuss.
After arriving at the hotel, we were taken directly to the private room on the third floor. After the waiter pushed the door open, there was a banquet hall.
There are three banquet tables, a stage, and the room is very luxuriously decorated, somewhat like an ancient royal palace.
There is a theater shape on the side, where Peking Opera is being performed at the moment, and in front is a tea table.
The entire layout was of high standard, and when Bai Donglin's family of four came in, the scene became lively.
"Old Bai! You haven't come to many parties in the past, but you are here this year." A tall, muscular man came up to me with a smile.
Bai Donglin shook hands with the man: "Long time no see!"
The man nodded, pulled Bai Donglin over and gave him a hug. Then he looked at the family behind Bai Donglin and sighed with emotion: "The younger siblings haven't changed at all. They are still so beautiful. These two babies are already so big."
Hu Caiyun smiled slightly: "Yes, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye, Brother Liu, you haven't changed at all."
The people around him also stood up one after another and nodded to Bai Donglin. In fact, Bai Donglin did not know all the people in this circle, but he had probably interacted with most of them.
The most indispensable thing for doing business is business friends. Once you go back and forth, you will become familiar with each other. Everyone is also familiar with each other, so it is very happy.
After three cups and two cups, everyone stopped asking about other things. Instead, they chatted about family affairs.
This gathering was all Bai Donglin's business friends in Kyoto. It cannot be said that they are all from famous families, but they are all rich in wealth.
Our children were all grown up, and when it came time to talk about marriage, seeing the Bai brothers and sisters in such a state of affairs, they became a little more interested, and started asking about it one after another.
Lao Liu, who organized the party, looked at Bai Ye, and said to Bai Donglin with a smile: "Old Bai, you see your child is so old, does he have anyone?"
Bai Donglin laughed: "I can't even get involved in the child's affairs now, so I'm going to hand it over to the boss."
Old Liu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Hu Caiyun: "Brothers and sisters, my girl is pretty good too. Why don't you let the two girls meet? Maybe we can make a match."
Hu Caiyun covered her mouth and smiled slightly: "Now it's all about free marriage and love. You can just ask Xiaoye directly."
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None of the people really said that they wanted to introduce someone. Everyone just sat down at the small table in the cafe and started chatting.
Lao Liu and Bai Donglin ordered a pot of Longjing and watched the Peking Opera on the stage: "Lao Bai, do you remember Xu Baoming?"
Bai Donglin was stunned. This name was so familiar to him, how could he not remember it.
He nodded: "Well, remember, what's wrong?"
Old Liu said mysteriously: "He changed his job and was demobilized, and now he is engaged in real estate."
When Bai Donglin heard this, he frowned and asked: "Isn't his father-in-law very powerful? Why did he change his career and come back? He should be developing well in the army, right?"
Old Liu snorted coldly: "You know his character best. He is the best at being sneaky and clever. He is not a practical person at all. Even with the support of my father-in-law, he will not last long. No, I might as well just retire from the army."
"Now it seems that I have established a real estate company with a few bosses, and I am about to become a capitalist. Do you think you guys want to help you tinker with it?"
Bai Donglin picked up the tea cup and took a sip. This Xu Baoming was the main reason why Bai Donglin retired from the army.
When he was first promoted to company-level cadres, this guy was in trouble. He said that Bai Donglin didn't have good relations with the organization, his identity was unclear, and his family's ancestors had been landlords.
Although identity was not as sensitive as before in that era, it was still more deadly at critical moments, which directly ruined Bai Donglin's military career.
Bai Donglin and Xu Baoming came from the same class at the beginning. They joined the army at the same time, and Bai Donglin even saved him when fighting floods and disaster relief, so the relationship between the two was very good. Bai Donglin was just a kid from the village at that time, a simple boy.
It's so tight. With such a friend, you can talk about anything.
Old Liu is two generations older than Bai Donglin, and he changed his job and was demobilized earlier. However, Old Liu's family was well-off, and he started working in his old business directly after he came back. He is an open-minded person, and after so many years, he has made further progress.
It should be said that the friendship between the three of them was forged during the flood fight.
Xu Baoming and Bai Donglin were promoted to platoon leader at the same time, but later during the competition for deputy company, this guy suddenly got in the way.
Moreover, this Xu Baoming was born with a good skin, and after he became the deputy company, he fell in love with a girl who was a division-level cadre.
Bai Donglin was treated so badly by Xu Baoming at that time, which had a great influence. The atmosphere at that time was far from as enlightened as it is today, and he would definitely be affected by a series of influences.
So, Bai Donglin gritted his teeth, retired from the army, and came to Kyoto to work with Lao Liu for a year or two. After returning to his hometown, he discovered the opportunity of coal and borrowed the first start-up money from Lao Liu.
Later, Boss Bai's career as a coal boss started. After all these years, he actually looked away from it. After all, he didn't retire when he joined, so maybe it would be better to be free and easy today.
However, the anger in my heart was indeed a bit unpleasant. To be honest, if Bai Donglin's luck had not been strong later, it might have been completely over that time, and he might have returned home and become an old man in the village.
With your face facing the loess and your back turned to the sky, you will never be able to turn over.
Seeing Bai Donglin like this, Lao Liu said with a smile: "Two days ago, he came to me and wanted me to introduce him to some friends around him. In order to thank me, he let me buy a share of the latest real estate.
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Lao Liu is a capable person. He knows very clearly who he can be friends with and who he cannot be friends with, but he doesn't mess with people he can't be friends with. This is Lao Liu's attitude.
But to be able to talk to Bai Donglin so openly, he did not treat him as an outsider, and even regarded Bai Donglin as one of his own.
Otherwise, 3 million would not have been loaned to Bai Donglin in 2002.
At that time, workers' wages were only more than 500 and less than 1,000, and 3 million was not a small amount.
Bai Donglin smiled and asked casually: "Where is the real estate?"
Old Liu suddenly raised his eyelids and said with great interest: "It turns out that the former site of the 980 Hospital is said to be up for public auction soon."
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