Before dinner in the evening, Sun Weiguo, Huang Lao, Zheng Peipei and the Gao sisters arrived home one after another. Li Cuifeng accompanied Sun Weihong and Cao Yue for a check-up today, so she did not go to the work.
Huang Feifei, a frequent visitor to the Sun family's New Year's Eve dinner, went back to Xiangjiang this year to celebrate the New Year. Wu Dawei was waiting for her there, and the two finally had time to spend time together.
Fang Datong also came after get off work today. Knowing that the Fang family was having a baby, Fang Datong was naturally overjoyed. Fang Ying did not come back from Xiangjiang, so Fang Datong, who was alone, was invited to the Sun family to have New Year's Eve dinner together.
Everyone is here, and it’s time to prepare the meal. Two pregnant women suddenly appeared in the house, and Sun Dahai spent a lot of brain cells designing the menu.
Stewed blood swallow with rock sugar, steamed rat spots, braised Tianjiu wings, Japanese abalone, sizzling beef with snowflakes, flame conch, etc., a total of four cold and twelve hot. These dishes have some common features, that is, the preparation is simple.
The raw materials are exquisite and the quantity is large enough.
The dishes were just brought over from Xiangjiang by Gabriel yesterday. Relevant leaders from the Ministry of Culture came forward to host a banquet for all the main cast and crew of "The Last Emperor" on New Year's Eve. It was also a way for this crew, which is mainly foreigners, to experience the Chinese New Year.
A sense of ritual.
As the co-producer of "The Last Emperor", Gabriel was invited to attend tonight's banquet. By the way, he brought these goodies from Xiangjiang that Sun Dahai entrusted Chef Cao to prepare for his family.
Most of these high-end ingredients can only be purchased in Xiangjiang and are not currently available in the domestic market. Moreover, these ingredients are not commercially available. Chef Cao found several companies that specialize in high-quality ingredients to cobble them together.
These companies have a common feature. Their business scope does not include ordinary restaurants or individuals, but only serves long-term customers in top restaurants.
Caoji Private Restaurant has become their high-quality customer in recent years. Otherwise, Sun Dahai would not have been able to obtain these top-quality ingredients easily.
Sun Dahai's family's New Year's Eve dinner has become regular, starting on time at 6:30 on New Year's Eve. This will not affect everyone's eating and chatting, and it will not affect everyone's viewing of "Xinwen Lianbo" and the Spring Festival Gala.
The toast before the New Year's Eve dinner has always been made by three people. In the past, it was Mr. Huang, Sun Weiguo and Huang Feifei. This year, Huang Feifei is not here, so Fang Datong happens to take over.
The central idea of the toasts given by the three people today was about the upcoming addition of a new child to the family. This is the most important thing in a big family, bar none.
The last time the family had children, Sun Yuanyuan and Sun Dahe were born in 1978, which is eight or nine years ago.
Although Cao Shanshan and Liu Ruoxuan were born in the middle, one was in Xiangjiang and the other was in Wanwan, and they were neither here. How could anyone have such a feeling watching two expectant mothers by their side?
So during the meal, most of the topics everyone talked about focused on this. As they talked, they talked about where Cao Yue gave birth to her child.
Sun Weihong has no choice. Although she is considered an advanced maternal age, she is a state cadre. While enjoying her rights, many things will be restricted and she cannot act on her own.
Sun Weihong can privately enjoy the close care of her nephew Sun Dahai's filial doula and confinement nanny, and can also use her previous savings to extend her maternity leave. These can be operated flexibly within a certain range.
But she could never, as Sun Dahai thought, take a year's rest after giving birth or go to Xiangjiang to give birth to the child. Although everyone knew that this was better for her and the child, she could not do this.
However, now it is Cao Yue's turn. She is a free person and does not need to be subject to such restrictions.
Sun Dahai told everyone directly that he suggested that Aunt Xiaoyue go to Xiangjiang Sanatorium and Hospital to give birth. The Sanatorium and Hospital can better serve Cao Yue (actually in Hong Kong dollars) from technology to service. Moreover, there are also
It is convenient for Chef Cao and his wife to take care of her.
Xin Dina was very familiar with cooperating with mothers waiting for delivery at Heung Kong Sanatorium. She agreed to Sun Dahai's request, and she would take over Cao Yue's affairs after Sun Weihong finished her confinement.
Cao Yue didn't care, but she raised a question: "The doctor told me that I need to have a prenatal check-up every month. If I give birth in Xiangjiang, do I have to go to Xiangjiang for check-ups every time? That would be too troublesome.
I still have a lot of work here, and I don’t want to stay at home early and wait to have a baby.”
Cao Yue is very strong-willed. She sees that Sun Weihong started to rest after 36 weeks, and she doesn't want to leave work too early.
She didn't care about the cost of traveling to Xiangjiang to give birth to her baby, or the various costs of flying back and forth for prenatal check-ups.
You know, Cao Yue is a little rich woman. Although her salary income is not enough to afford such expenses, she is a shareholder who makes her life peaceful and peaceful, and she gets a lot of dividends every year.
Especially for Zhuangdian Life, Cao Yue is actually the real boss, but she never asks about the operating conditions. In terms of shares, she alone holds 35% of the shares of Zhuangdian Life, and is the largest shareholder of the company.
The current operating conditions of Zhuangdian Life Company are on the right track, with no external debts and no plans to invest a large amount of fixed assets. Because the company itself is heavy on technology and light on assets, the annual dividend ratio is 40% of the net profit.
Although Cao Yue only enjoys 25% of the dividends, based on the annual net profit of Makeup Life, which exceeds tens of millions of yuan, the amount she gets is worth millions.
Among everyone present, except for Sun Dahai and Sun Weihong, who owns 55% of the shares of Suijinghao Investment Company, the income of everyone else cannot compare with Cao Yue.
Cao? The little rich woman? Yue raised the question, and only Xin Dina could answer it. In the final analysis, in his previous life, Sun Dahai heard that many rich people went to Xiangjiang Sanatorium and Hospital to give birth, but he had never experienced it personally and only heard about it through hearsay.
Cindy Feng, on the other hand, came from the obstetrics department of the Sanatorium & Hospital. After leaving her job to work alone, she assigned many clients to the Sanatorium & Hospital. From procedures to connections, she is the real authority.
"Mrs. Fang, you don't have to worry about running back and forth. You need to go to the Sanatorium and Hospital first, confirm your doctor in charge, and do a complete set of examinations.
After that, you can have normal prenatal check-ups in the capital, as long as you inform your doctor of the test results in time. If there are any problems, your doctor will assign you some check-up items.
You only need to go to Xiangjiang to make preparations when you are finally due to give birth. However, I suggest you not go there too late, because after 32 weeks of pregnancy, flying will increase the risk to you and the fetus."
"Yes, we originally wanted to take a flight back. When we had the last prenatal check-up in Shanghai, I specifically asked the doctor. The doctor also told us that flying is risky now, so we changed to taking a train back." Sun Weihong said.
"Sure, you can make arrangements for me when the time comes. I'm too lazy to remember now." Cao Yue, a female man, replied carelessly, making Jiang Xiuping want to kick her in anger.