Gao Jianxiong paid in advance and booked a table at Jinjiang Hotel. He himself went to the hotel box early to wait, picking up and putting down his cell phone from time to time.
"Sir, when will the food be served?" the waitress came over to inquire softly.
The waitress smiled politely: "It's okay, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm just asking. If you need food served, just let me know at any time."
As soon as Gao Jianxiong finished explaining, his cell phone rang. He picked it up and it was Tang Jia calling.
Tang Jia originally did not have a mobile phone, but since the two established their relationship, Gao Jianxiong has always felt guilty and felt that he was in debt for not spending money on girls, so he insisted on giving one to the other party. After all, he felt that he was nine years older than the other party.
A bit like an old cow eating young grass, and always want to make some material compensation.
Tang Jia couldn't refuse, and Gao Jianxiong repeatedly said it was for convenience of contact, so she temporarily accepted it.
"What's going on?" Gao Jianxiong asked nervously.
Tang Jia said apologetically on the phone: "It's all my fault that my mother didn't keep it a secret. I talked about my boyfriend and many relatives found out. People from my aunt's family are also coming to check today."
Gao Jianxiong thought for a while: "That's okay. I can't finish the food on the table. I can just invite a few more people."
Tang Jia sighed: "They also want to save face. It's not good to accept your invitation directly if you don't know each other. So now you are playing in Jinjiang Paradise next door. They also want me to take you out, create a chance encounter, and then have a meal together.
The meal was quick, the performance was over in half an hour."
It's important to be careful and save face. But this also shows that people pay attention to etiquette details. After thinking about it, Gao Jianxiong thought it was nothing.
"I understand, just tell me something and I'll go right away." After hanging up the phone, Gao Jianxiong smiled and said to the hotel waitress, "Sorry, we may have to wait half an hour before the food is served."
"It doesn't matter, you can do it yourself." Of course the hotel wouldn't stop him because he paid for it in advance.
So Gao Jianxiong hurriedly rushed to the nearby Jinjiang Amusement Park, pretending to play on the Ferris wheel, and then met him by chance in the queue next to the Ferris wheel.
Needless to say, it is a face-saving project that is vain and self-indulgent.
Anyway, I just socialized for more than ten minutes, and then drove a car full of people in Santana back to the private room of Jinjiang Hotel. These days, the traffic police don't check for overloading on such short distances.
In addition to Tang Jia's parents, the guests he received also included Tang Jia's aunt.
Along the way, Gao Jianxiong listened to the Tang family chatting there vaguely, and vaguely learned that Tang Jia's aunt's daughter, who was Tang Jia's cousin, seemed to have married well——
Her aunt's house had just been demolished last year, and she could receive compensation for housing or cash resettlement. However, because her aunt only had one daughter and no son, her immediate need for a house was not strong.
In addition, Tang Jia's cousin had the opportunity to go abroad and met some foreign friends at that time. Therefore, for the sake of their daughter's future, they chose to make a desperate move with money. After asking for money, they packaged their daughter up and successfully married a foreigner.
Although the family's house in Hujiang is gone, now my daughter sends foreign exchange back every quarter, and the family is living well in renting a house. I heard that my daughter will take her two elders abroad to enjoy their happiness in a few years.
From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a considerable number of women in Hujiang, a frontier city open to the outside world, married foreigners and sought opportunities to settle abroad. However, at that time, there were not so many whites and blacks marrying foreigners.
Most of them will marry an overseas Chinese, otherwise they will not be able to pass the language barrier.
Although this proportion is not high among the crowd, because it is very conspicuous, you can always find an example like this among the relatives of middle-class families. And families whose daughters successfully marry foreigners feel that they are proud of their reputation and are particularly fond of them.
When looking for a son-in-law at a relative's house, go out and help them with a well-informed attitude.
This is the survivor effect.
Just as a plane that is shot in vital parts cannot fly back, only a plane that is shot in non-vital parts will fly back. Therefore, analyzing the bullet holes of living planes cannot truly reflect the proportion of the degree of critical parts of the aircraft.
In the same way, families whose daughters marry in a shameful manner will not give advice on the daughters of relatives and friends to find boyfriends. They just stay at home and live in silence. Only families with the most successful marriages like to give advice on marriage and love affairs.
Staff officer.
Tang Jia's aunt's family is obviously the most successful among the relatives Tang Jia knows.
"It seems that the uncle and aunt can be dealt with easily, but I am afraid that they will lose their reputation in front of her aunt." After all, Gao Jianxiong has grown a lot older, and his worldliness is still much better than that of college students, so he quickly analyzed the crux of the problem.
After arriving at the hotel and sitting down, Gao Jianxiong ordered the food to be served and the drinks were quite decent. After a few polite words, Gao Jianxiong diligently poured the wine for the other party and advised him to eat: "Come on, come on, everyone has been playing in Jinjiang Paradise for so long, so it should be...
If you're tired, you're welcome to eat more."
Tang Jia's mother politely took a bite of fried eel silk and asked, "Xiao Gao, where are you from and what do you do?"
"I'm from Jiangnan Province. I've been working in the south of Guangdong for the past few years. Last year, I worked with an overseas Chinese boss from Nanyang. I'm currently the general manager of a small company." Gao Jianxiong didn't lie, but clarified it realistically.
When he first joined the army, it was still in the mid-1980s, and Hailan Province had not yet been established at that time, so he was definitely not lying when he said he was working in Eastern Guangdong Province.
As for whether Guangdong will give people the impression of being rich, that is up to the other party to speculate and not care about him.
"Jiangnan and eastern Guangdong are also good places. There are more foreign bosses in the south. Xiao Gao has encountered a good opportunity. He must work hard and be worthy of the boss's kindness." Tang Jia's father helped.
Yuanchang, he wears glasses and looks like a reasonable intellectual, polite and polite.
"I will. We don't say that we take care of the boss's treatment of others. I will definitely work harder." Gao Jianxiong agreed.
The atmosphere was originally good, but at this time, the middle-aged and elderly woman in sunglasses and fashionable clothes next to her, who was Tang Jia's aunt, suddenly asked: "It's really good to work with overseas Chinese from Nanyang. My son-in-law is an overseas Chinese from Nanyang. But Xiao Gao, who are you specifically?"
Where are you from? Not everyone is from Jiangnan Province. You look so upright, are you from Suzhou?"
When Aunt Tang opened her mouth, she had a strong sense of superiority: No matter how well your Jiajia married, she was just marrying a high-end wage earner working for an overseas Chinese from Nanyang, while my daughter was directly married to an overseas Chinese from Nanyang.
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Of course, she selectively ignored the fact that among overseas Chinese in Nanyang, there are also three, six, and nine grades. Her son-in-law is not a big boss, at best he is just a small shop owner in Kuala Lumpur/Johor.
Gao Jianxiong gritted his teeth: "Ashamed, I'm from Tongzhou."
"Nong Jiang (gang) North (bo) people (ning)." Aunt Tang sympathized in a low and novel voice, "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't mean anything else. He is also an outstanding person."
"Auntie!" Tang Jia immediately got angry. She knew that her aunt always liked to show off that her cousin was married well, and there was no need to always find opportunities to compare.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's eat some vegetables." Tang's mother quickly intervened to persuade her.
Tang's mother has been very satisfied since she just heard that Gao Jianxiong is the general manager of a foreign-funded company. So at this moment, she and her sister are obviously not on the same front. She also knows that her sister is here to check and find superiors.
She had a sense of superiority, so she had to subconsciously find faults if she couldn't find a sense of superiority, but she felt that her son-in-law was good, and she didn't bother to argue with her sister.
Because she was afraid that Aunt Tang would continue to find trouble, Tang's mother took the initiative to find Gao Jianxiong's advantages and asked: "Xiao Gao, you just said that you are from a foreign company, why don't you tell me what industry your company is in?"
This was originally intended to give Gao Jianxiong a chance to step down. In Tang's mother's opinion, the foreign-funded company was either engaged in financial services or foreign trade, which must be a high-level profession. Her original intention in asking this question was to give Gao Jianxiong an opportunity to show off his strengths.
Unfortunately she guessed wrong.
Gao Jianxiong answered truthfully: "It's a security company."
"Security company?" This thing was relatively rare in China in the 1990s.
"It just provides bodyguard services to rich people." Gao Jianxiong explained.
"Then... what did you do originally? Why did the bodyguard company hire you? You used to be... a senior civil servant in the police department?"
"I was originally a soldier." Gao Jianxiong didn't want to sugarcoat it. Besides, he was still proud of his status as a former soldier. He couldn't care less whether society would respect him or not.
Speaking of this, he simply handed over his business card, "This is my business card."
"A soldier can become a senior executive for a foreign boss? Jiajia, have you met Xiaogao's leader?" Aunt Tang looked suspicious.
She was just about to tell the ancient adage that "a good man should not be a soldier, and a good man should not be a soldier". She felt deeply unwilling that such a vulgar person could be reused by a foreigner.
Tang Jia knew what her aunt was suspecting, and of course she had to testify for her boyfriend: "I have seen that Boss Gu treats people very well. He is young and promising. During the winter vacation and winter camp, I went to sea with Brother Gao on Boss Gu's boat.
Woolen cloth.
Boss Gu is an international student from our Jiaotong University and runs a shipping company and foreign trade company. This security company was also newly established by him for his own business security services."
Tang Jia said this in detail because he wanted to prove that the details of Gao Jianxiong's company were absolutely reliable.
However, the audience's attention was clearly distracted.
"International student? Your classmate? He is very young. His surname is Gu? He should be Han Chinese?" Aunt Tang reacted quickly. With her keen sense of money and power, she quickly caught a few key points.
After thinking about these two points, Aunt Tang almost blurted out: You are so blind. There is a big boss among your classmates. If you don't quickly throw yourself into his arms, why waste your youth with a former soldier?
Fortunately, she held back her internal injuries.
The atmosphere at the wine table was a little tense and awkward for a while.
Tang Jia wanted to find a way to escape the siege.
At this moment, Gao Jianxiong's eldest brother made a loud noise.
"Brother Gao, where are you? Have you finished the things I asked you to do? I just received a fax from Miss Sophia. In three days, we will attend the arbitration tribunal in The Hague. You can immediately help me with all the work of going abroad and security.
Check again!"
"I...I'm at Jinjiang Hotel. I'll be back soon."
"Forget it, no need. I haven't eaten yet. I'll come over and interview you."