The fourth brother moved to the apartment and was said to have a shared rent with one of his friends. Later, the fourth brother and Lu Yunhe opened a bookstore in Pingcheng with Lu Yunhe, specializing in selling advanced books. I heard that the literati in their circle would sell books in their bookstores, especially Lu Yunhe, who is already a famous poet, has many students and people who love to read poetry to buy books in their bookstores, and the business is pretty good.
Chen Yiyan opened the foreign-language bookstore on the fourth floor of Fansen Department Store. In comparison, the business is not as good as theirs. The books in her store are not very expensive, but in this era, there are not so many foreigners who can understand foreign languages, so there are often not many foreigners who come to her store to buy books.
But the business of Fansen Department Store downstairs is very good. Women's lipstick, glass stockings and other supplies are often sold out as soon as they are on the shelves. The sales volume is very good. Almost every week she sends telegrams to the young lady to add goods. The young lady is very troubled and said, "If this is a small matter in the future, don't tell me specifically, just let the butler know it."
Chen Yiyan laughed after reading the telegram, and then wrote a letter to the eldest lady. The eldest lady sent a photo of her engagement with her fiancé Earl Brann at her request. Chen Yiyan praised happily: "Mr. Big Bear looks much more handsome than when he was in school." Even Huang Weitian said: "It looks like a kind of honest gentleman who can resist the young lady's temper."
Chen Yiyan wrote a reply to her and Huang Weitian's comments on the photo, and the eldest lady replied with only one word: "Huh." It made Chen Yiyan and Huang Weitian laugh.
Chen Yiyan's store has developed very well. After Tang Wanzhao went to film the movie, she recruited a new secretary again. This secretary was recommended by her second brother, saying that she was his former subordinate. Later, she went home to give birth. When the child grew up, she came out to find a job again. When the second brother thought that she still lacked people, she recommended him to come to her.
The new secretary is Fang. She is in her early thirties, with neat hairstyle and a little fat, but she always looks like she smiles. Chen Yiyu takes a fancy to this Secretary Fang at a glance because she remembers that this secretary was the second brother's capable secretary in her previous life. When the second brother was unable to clone her, she could make many decisions for her, and they all suited her. Later, the second brother was forced to leave the central bank, and the secretary Fang also left the central bank not long after.
Although Chen Yiyan recognized Secretary Fang in her heart, the procedures that should be taken were not bad at all. She still interviewed her in a straightforward manner and talked to her about salary and probation period, etc. Because Chen Yiyan thought in her mind that Secretary Fang worked in the central bank in her previous life, she was a little bit in a small temple in this life, so her salary was a little thicker than that in the central bank.
Chen Yi-chan's original words to the secretary of the party were: "As long as you work hard, we are all women. I have not discriminated against women who come out to work here, and my salary will be worthy of your efforts."
Secretary Fang laughed at first and said, "When President Chen recommended me to come to you, he told me, 'My second sister is a complete female supremacist. You may be able to get better development and a broader perspective when you work there than when you are here'."
Chen Yiqi laughed and said, "Second brother is really..." Although there are the fourth brothers among her relatives who make her sad, there are also the second brothers and third brothers who make her feel warm. So, in addition to family affection, it is also about getting along.
Secretary Fang took up the job the next day. She was a serious person who went to the Western Women's School. She was more professional in writing and arithmetic than Tang Wanzhao. She had previous experience working under her second brother and arranged Chen Yiyan's work itinerary and affairs more professionally. She was a real professional secretary, so she really relieved Chen Yiyan's busy work without the help of Huang Weitian and arranged her work in an orderly manner.
Zhang Shaobai even joked to Chen Yiyu: "It's so difficult to meet you now, so you have to make an appointment with Secretary Fang in advance."
Chen Yiqiu said: "Not only do you have to make an appointment when you meet me, but I even have to check if I have time to go out for a meal. I also have to listen to Sister Fang. But at the root of this matter, I have to blame you. If you hadn't made a movie and pried away Xiao Tang, I would have two secretary now, so it would be easier at work!"
Zhang Shaobai bowed and said, "This is really wrong with me. Brother, you have to apologize to you. For the sake of Xiao Tang's popularity, you can forgive me."
Chen Yiyan said: "Xiao Tang is still a child. If you find that her path is wrong, please give her some advice."
Zhang Shaobai said: "This is naturally. Now I still expect her to give me money to make money, but I can't do anything to destroy the Great Wall. But it's her luck to meet you. She has been away for almost a year, and you can still talk to her. Jiahe, you are really useless."
Chen Yiqian said: "Who is not a good person? My face turned red. In my eyes, she is just a child. My third brother and she are boyfriend and girlfriend. They are entangled. Xiao Tang may be my future younger brother and sister."
Zhang Shaobai said: "This relationship is good, and it is her blessing to marry into your Chen family."
Chen Yiyan said: "She is now red, probably she will be more popular in Asia after being cultivated by Boss Zhang. If the third brother and she want to be together, it depends on the wishes of the two of them."
Zhang Shaobai said: "Xiao Tang is kind-hearted and has a shallow mind. This kind of girl is easy to coax, but I think she is quite safe, not the kind of person who makes trouble." When he talks about such things, he still speaks very directly.
Chen Yiyan said: "It depends on her fate with her third brother."
It was soon the New Year again. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Chen Yiyu and Wang Shouyun returned to the Chen family's old house again. This time, the Chen family members were all gathered in the true sense, and the third brother and the fourth brother were also there. The third brother also brought Tang Wanzhao back, which shocked everyone in the Chen family's old house, because Tang Wanzhao is so popular that she can see her in the newspaper every day!
Even people like Chen's mother who don't read newspapers know that a big star like Tang Wanzhao is full of advertisements from Tang Wanzhao on the street. Although there is still a certain difference between the advertisements of hand-painted paintings and me, it is agreed that Tang Wanzhao is very red and beautiful.
Unexpectedly, such a big star appeared in the old house of Chen as his third brother's girlfriend. Not only the Chen family in the old house were stunned, but even the servants were stunned. They were all crowded in the corridor of the reception hall, secretly watching Tang Wanzhao with the windows and doors.
Tang Wanzhao appeared today and only put on a little light makeup. She didn't want to attract too much attention. However, she was eighteen years old and was the most beautiful time. After a year of experience and the care of her third brother, she made her look even more beautiful. As soon as she appeared, she made her younger sister shout: "Oh my God, it's Tang Wanzhao! You are so beautiful, more beautiful than in the movie!"
The eldest brother also patted his third brother's shoulder and said, "Good boy, he's silent!"
The fourth brother was very jealous and kept saying, "The third brother wants to introduce my girlfriend!" Tang Wanzhao was embarrassed.
The fourth brother asked again: "Third brother, why did you know Xun Sanjie?"
The third brother said: "Wandao was the secretary of the second sister. At that time, she often went in and out of the second sister's house. We got along well with each other..."
The fourth brother glanced at Chen Yiyu. He rarely met Chen Yiyu since he moved out of Chen’s mansion last time. When he met during the Chinese New Year, he just greeted Chen Yiyu and Wang Shouyun. The fourth brother said, “Second sister is really biased!” He thought about his third brother’s ruthlessness in fighting with him before, and thought to himself that he would give it to the third brother for any good things. He heard that the third brother’s money for studying in Germany was still given to the second sister, but the second sister never gave him money!
Chen Yiqian said: "I don't know anything about the third brother and Wanzhao. They are all the things that the third brother strives for. There are so many female readers around me, so don't be dazzled."
The fourth brother said: "Those female readers, female poets, how could they be so beautiful as the third sister-in-law!"
Chen Yiyan said: "It all depends on fate."
Chen Yiyan knew his fourth brother. He had been playing games until he was in his thirties in his previous life and got married. He was still with him a female student. The female student was really beautiful. The two gave birth to a boy. Unfortunately, when the boy was three years old, they divorced. Later, the fourth brother found another woman who was also divorced. The woman was a famous socialite. At that time, the fourth brother forgot what Chen Yiyan said, but instead said that the woman divorced because she had the courage to break through feudal oppression. They were both brave people and should be combined together.
The fourth brother's life is quite similar to his close friend Lu Yunhe, so the saying "Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups" is really nothing wrong.
Tang Wanzhao's arrival caused a huge response in the old house of Chen family. Even Chen's father and mother changed their impression of the third brother for so many years, because the third brother has always remained silent in their impression and had a very low presence. Now because of Tang Wanzhao, everyone thinks that the third brother is extraordinary.
The younger sister was like a meeting with fans for Tang Wanzhao. She also said, "It's great. When I turned around, I told my classmate that Tang Wanzhao was my third sister-in-law. I wonder how many people would envy him!" Tang Wanzhao's face turned red.
The eldest brother-in-law did not come with the eldest sister, only the eldest sister came back with two children. The eldest sister has become more haggard this year, and the cotton jacket she wore was the same last year. When she saw Chen Yiyu and Wang Shouyun, her eyes were quite resentful. She knew that the acquaintance between the third brother and Tang Wanzhao was still entrusted with Chen Yiyu's blessing, so she said in a provocation:
"The second sister is very nice to the third brother. I thought you were only good to the brothers born in the mother. In this way, my sister, a concubine, was balanced. I didn't expect you to be so nice to the third brother who was also illegitimate. I have heard that the third brother lives in your place and eats yours, and you even bought him a car. The gap is too big. Today, we will spread out and talk clearly in front of my father and mother."
Chen Yiqiu said: "This has nothing to do with being a polite and legitimate child. I can naturally tell who is kind to me and who is sincere to me. How do I want to spend the money I earn? Can I report to whom I have to?"
Wang Shouyun didn't speak out about this kind of dispute between Chen Yiyan and her elder sister, and her relatives. Besides, there was no suspense about Chen Yiyan's encounter with her elder sister, and he sat next to her to support Chen Yiyan.
As the object of accusation, he spoke, and said, "I am eating and living with my second sister. I care about my childhood friendship and take care of me. However, I borrowed the car from my second sister in advance with a year's salary. By the Chinese New Year, I have paid back the money in advance. My second sister's money did not fall from the sky. She went out early and returned home late every day, making money is not easy. Why do I have to speak to my second sister with my hands and feet? Sister, you should not always stare at others. You are serious when you live a good life."
The third brother's words immediately made the eldest sister's face turn red. She pointed at the third brother and said, "Okay, you will be close to whoever gives you money, right?"
Chen's father immediately spoke: "Dayuan, you have been making trouble every year during the Chinese New Year in the past few years. If you always make trouble like this in the future, don't go back to this family! If you have lost all your relationship with your brothers and sisters, you will feel relieved? Your man is not doing his job and only knows how to bet and smoke a lot of money. Why don't you care about it? You always come to your parents' home to find trouble, and always keep an eye on the money of your brothers and sisters?"
The eldest sister immediately started crying and said, "Dad, you should be partial! The second sister is rich now and married to a high-ranking official, so you are biased towards her!"
I was so angry that I was so angry with Chen's father: "Jiahe married Lu Yunhe to you back then. How did she live in the Lu family? You don't know what kind of life she will live after the divorce. What kind of face do you have to say that I am partial? If you don't examine yourself carefully, you always rely on others. Are you the only promising prospects? You should not appear in front of me for a while. I still want to live a long life, but I don't want to always get angry with you!"
The eldest sister immediately threw away her chopsticks and left, and said while walking, "I won't come back to this family in the future!"
Chen Yiqi looked at the disappearing back of her elder sister, thinking of her elder sister who came back crying in her previous life, begging her father and mother to help her. Now she is talking so much, how will she end up in the future?
Wang Shouyun secretly held Chen Yiqian's hand on his legs under the table. His palms were warm and dry, and there was a layer of calluses on his fingertips and tiger's mouth, which made him feel a little hard. Chen Yiqi smiled at him and said that she was fine.
In fact, Chen Yiyan was also very fortunate. She thought that she had a little miserable life in her previous life, and even completely got rid of the Lu family and lived her own life until the second half of her life. However, she still never gave up on her own. Only by working hard can she improve her life. Like her elder sister, she obviously went to the shop and floor of her elder brother-in-law when she married her elder brother-in-law. As a result, her elder brother-in-law lost the family fortune. The elder sister thought that Chen's father was partial to her and did not consider her own reasons. Instead, she said that Chen Yiyan was married well back then, which was ridiculous.
The affairs of the eldest sister and brother-in-law soon passed, and this old house of the Chen family spent in a star-chasing atmosphere.
After the Chinese New Year, a new batch of fabrics was added to the "Dielianhua" and Chen Yiyan was busy. In this case, Huang Weitian's eldest son Xiao Fuxing was also one year old. An internal weekly event was held that day. Xiao Fuxing was one year old and his face was almost square, white and tender, and his eyes were shiny. Huang Weitian also said: "This is all because I ate well. He naturally became smart after eating my milk."
Li Shaoyong was helpless. He felt that his wife was really stupid for three years after pregnancy and was lying more and more lies, but his son was really too smart and cute. He felt that he couldn't even see it.
On the day of the arrest of Zhou, Xiao Fuxing caught a handful of Wang Shouyun that was temporarily placed on the table, which made Li Shaoyong angry, "Why did you put your □ on it? That thing is shiny, and children like shiny things the most!"
Wang Shouyun said: "Isn't it good to be a general?"
Li Shaoyong said: "When joining the army, you are putting your head on your waist. If it is a peaceful era, but if it is a chaotic era, then I will not worry about it to death?"
Wang Shouyun was also helpless. Not only Huang Weitian was talking lies in the Li family, but Li Shaoyong was no less.
Huang Weitian said instead: "It's great to be a general. It's good to be a general like Suiqing!" She hugged the chubby little Fuxing and kissed him, saying, "My son of the general!"
After arresting Zhou, Huang Weitian and Li Shaoyong went north to Wangjing. This time, Li Shaoyong was promoted to the foreign minister of the new government, and the word "sequence" was crossed out.
Not long after Huang Weitian arrived in Wangjing, she called Chen Yiyan and said, "I heard that Gu Sinong has remarried, but I heard that she married Liu Yuezhao."
Chen Yiqiu flipped through the memory and finally remembered Liu Yuezhao. When she divorced Lu Yunhe for two lifetimes, Liu Yuezhao was a witness. Liu Yuezhao deserved to be Lu Yunhe's best friend. Unexpectedly, he married his good brother's ex-wife. However, when Liu Yuezhao looked at Gu Sinong, he hoped that his love would make them live a long life.
Last year, when Chen Yiyan and Zhang Shaobai organized donations to the victims of Shaanxi and Henan, they temporarily formed a donation preparation and management office. Several of the people in it were her and Zhang Shaobai who were good at monitoring and implementing the preparations every day was not spent. The expenses and where the donations were also announced. This transparent operation was very favored by the people. In addition, Zhang Shaobai and Chen Yiyan had a very high reputation in Pingcheng, so people and wealthy businessmen kept donating money to them.
It was originally a temporary management organization, but because there were constant donations, she and Zhang Shaobai decided to open such a charity organization until they were old and peaceful, and there was no use here. Let's close the charity department.
While selling opium, Zhang Shaobai even expanded his opium business to Southeast Asia. Almost every person who smoked big cigarettes was giving him money, but it did not affect his patriotism. The war and natural disasters made the number of victims continue to increase. Zhang Shaobai has always been generous in donating money to victims. Later historians have always said that he was a "gray figure" in his conclusions to him.
The land that Chen Yiyu sold to Gu Fancheng in the white building garden was finally built in summer after more than a year of construction in Gu Fancheng. In order to rush for work as soon as possible, he also found many refugees in the suburbs to help him rush for work day and night, which allowed a large project like "Xianle Palace" to be completed early.
On the day of opening the ribbon-cutting, Gu Fancheng not only invited Zhang Shaobai, but also Chen Yiyan. Chen Yiyan refused a few words, Gu Fancheng said: "You must not go. Who doesn't know the reputation of Bailou Garden back then? Now that the Xianle Palace is built here, you should be here!"
Chen Yiyan thought that the purchase of a new garden around Xianle Palace was about to be completed. The money she gave was much higher than the market. With Zhang Shaobai's help, many poor families were still willing to sell houses. It would be better to use the money to buy a bigger house in another place.
However, there are also some stupid and bold people who don’t give Zhang Shaobai face and want to extort Chen Yiyan at a high price. There are too many people like Pingcheng. Zhang Shaobai’s way of dealing with such people is to send a few brothers to let him know his energy, but Chen Yiyan stopped him and said, “I originally wanted to build a park to benefit the people. If you hurt people for this, you will put the cart before the horse. Since you don’t want to move, just do it like that.”
The man saw that Chen Yiqian and Zhang Shaobai did not take action, so he was complacent. When Chen Yiqian's park began to get soil, the man muttered, but when spring came, the trees in the park were green, the flowers were blooming, and the scenery became more beautiful. The man thought that even if he could live in this park, it would be a good thing!
Chen Yiyan built a circle of high walls along the man's place in the park. Every day when the man went out, he saw the tall walls. He was so angry that he cursed. He even came to "Die Lianhua" to find trouble. He was erected by the security guard. Later, the man told the tabloid that Chen Yiyan was ill. Chen Yiyan's response was: The land in the park is mine, and he and I are neighbors. Since it is a neighbor, my walls are as high as him. What's wrong with him? He turned out that he saw the neighbor's high walls when he went out. I just restored his original environment.
Later, the man moved away, and Chen Yiyan still asked someone to give him the same fee as others. The man thought about it and did not cause trouble again.
On the day the Xianle Palace opened, Chen Yiyan did come to cut the ribbon. However, she seemed to see Zou Renmei who had not seen for more than a year in the crowd. Zou Renmei permed her current popular curly hair, wore a new style cheongsam, with lipstick on her mouth, and a reserved and indifferent expression on her face. She only stood in the crowd for a while and left. Chen Yiyan almost thought she was dazzled.
Later, Chen Yiyan saw in the newspaper that Zou Renmei had become a senior female Mr. Shuyu. She remembered that it was not that Zou Renmei was not published in the newspapers in her previous life, but that she didn't know her and didn't pay attention to her. Zou Renmei did not ask Chen Yiyan or Wang Shouyun for help, but she became Mr. Shuyu who opened the door to receive Enke. Because of her previous reputation in Pingcheng, she changed her career and many people went there specifically, which was very famous.
Wang Shouyun knew about this and asked Chen Yiyan to give her a thousand dollars of dollars to her. From then on, she had no contact with the Zou family.
Chapter completed!