Chapter 213 identification of relatives
While everyone else was talking in the living room, Jiang Chuheng picked up the phone next to him and dialed, but no one answered.
He couldn't help but worry. It was already six o' clock. Even if he was busy outside, he should be back.
"Brother Four, who are you calling?" Chu Xiaoman sat diagonally across the room, a little further apart, and the whole living room heard her.
"I called haitang. I called many times, but no one answered." Jiang Chuheng didn't avoid his family. He wanted to let everyone know what he was thinking.
Chu Xiaoman put down his teacup and told him, "Brother Four, haitang has been very busy recently. You'd better call her after 9 pm."
"Nine o' clock? What is she doing?" He called her before he came back and didn't hear her say that he was busy recently.
"Master qi, the vice president of the Writers' association, appreciated her very much and asked her to translate ancient historical books. It seemed that this book was going to be translated into a first draft before the end of the year. She didn't take a day off and spent all day working with a group of old scholars." Chu Xiaoman went to meet her friends there a few days ago and happened to meet her.
Jiang chuheng was slightly shocked, "Is her translation level so high?"
"Yeah. When I went to an exchange meeting in october, I heard director wu say that haitang was helping to translate some foreign abstracts and poems. So not only has she been studying for the past six months, but she's basically working there on weekends. Master qi really likes her."
Master qi was a famous scholar in the capital city, and he was also the head of the ministry of culture. Li Haitang was so favored by him that his future was boundless.
Jiang Chuheng had naturally heard of old qi's name and chuckled, "She kept such big news a secret, but she didn't tell me a word."
"That's nothing. There's more news. Haitang's language talent was very high, and now she was taking french as an elective course. Master qi recommended a teacher to her, which was Elder Mo, the old professor who was proficient in english, german, french and western languages who translated" faust." Elder Mo and his wife both lost their son and daughter-in-law. They had a grandson who was studying in m country and his wife and children were taken there. The old couple were now in their seventies. They heard that they wanted to take haitang as their goddaughter. But I also heard it from the Writers' association. I'm not sure if it's true or not." Chu Xiaoman threw another heavy bomb.
This time, not only Jiang Chuheng was surprised, but all the jiang family's eyes widened. At this level, they naturally knew the name and status of Master qi and professor Elder Mo. Both of them recognized Li Haitang. It seemed that this little girl really caught their eye.
"When did you hear?" Jiang Chuheng pressed.
"Half a month ago. If the news is true, it probably won't be done yet. Haitang has been busy with the final exams and buying furniture in her new house for the past half month. She said that she won't go back to Hunan province this year and took her foster father's family to beijing for the new year." Since Li Haitang came to the capital to study, Chu Xiaoman had met her more times, so he knew more about her than jiang chuheng.
Jiang chuheng's teeth were ground. He really didn't know about these things. It seems that he didn't call her often. He should call her more and learn more about her in the future.
"Dudu, dudu!" Suddenly, the phone rang.
The nearest jiang chuheng picked up the microphone, "Hello, who is it?"
"Chu heng, you're back?" Li Haitang's cheerful voice came from the opposite side.
Jiang chu smiled warmly, "Haitang, I was just talking to xiao man about you. Where are you now? Are you home?"
"No, I'm still working. I won't be able to go back tonight, so I guess I'll have to stay up all night. I thought you should be back, so I called you when I came out for dinner." Li Haitang was on the phone in the small store opposite the Writers' association, completely wrapped up, only showing two eyes.
"All night?" Jiang Chuheng frowned. "I heard you were translating historical books. You were so busy that you had to work all night?"
"Yes, it was supposed to be finished by the year before, but today Master qi suddenly told me that the first draft must be translated in seven days, and it's pressing." Li Haitang had to stay in a hotel across from the Writers' association office building for the time being to ensure her mission was completed, so she didn't go home at night.
"Work is important, but health is also important. Pay more attention to yourself." Jiang Chuheng couldn't say anything else, so he had to tell her.
Li Haitang smiled and replied, "Yes, I know. Chu heng, I'm busy here. Can I trouble you to do me a favor?" She wanted to look for Zhou Yunyang, but after thinking about it, Jiang Chuheng came back from vacation, so she should look for him.
"Well, say it."
"I ordered a set of furniture in my new house more than half a month ago. There was nothing in the shop at that time. I had to inform the factory to make it temporarily. I had an appointment to deliver it to me the morning after tomorrow. I don't have time to come back. Can you help me with this?" Li Haitang rarely asked for help, but now that the Xia family siblings were not around, she had to ask jiang chuheng.
"It's a piece of cake. I'll get the key from you tomorrow."
Jiang chuheng responded to this and saw that chu xiaoman had already come over, squatting in front of him and winking. How could he not know that she wanted to confirm the news, so he had to cough up and ask, "Haitang, let me ask you something. I heard from xiao man that professor Elder Mo wanted to recognize you as his goddaughter. Is this news true?"
"It's true. Grandma wen mentioned this, grandpa mo's lover. When Master qi took me to his house as a guest, grandma wen said that I looked like her granddaughter, but her granddaughter died of illness when she was a teenager. Many people didn't know about it, so she wanted to take me as her goddaughter." Li Haitang only told the Xia family brothers and sisters and Li Jianguo about it. She guessed that Chu Xiaoman heard it at the Xia family.
"Have you agreed?" Jiang Chuheng was concerned about this.
Li Haitang smiled softly, "Yes, and we have already made a toast in front of Master qi and several elders. Grandpa mo and grandma wen are both low-key and low-profile old scholars, and I don't like to talk about it, so I didn't reveal it to anyone about the friends and family of their elders."
Jiang chuheng pressed the corner of his mouth, his voice a little deep, "You didn't tell me such a big thing?"
Li Haitang didn't know anything was wrong with him. After all, the cold wind was howling loudly outside. She stamped her feet and moved her body before replying, "That's what happened three days ago. I've been so busy these days that I haven't had time to visit the two old people, so I didn't tell you."
Hearing what she said, Jiang Chuheng's face softened a little. "Okay, we'll talk about the rest tomorrow. It's getting late. You should go eat first."
"Okay, bye." Li Haitang froze, hung up the phone, gave the money, and immediately went to the restaurant next door to eat.
They didn't use speakerphone, so they didn't hear what they were talking about, so they could only guess from jiang chuheng's words. Chu Xiaoman stared at him with sparkling eyes, waiting for him to provide the latest news.
Jiang Chuheng did not hide anything and told them the general situation.
"She really is. It's such a big thing that there's no news coming out. I really admire her." Chu Xiaoman really admired Li Haitang. If ordinary people encountered such a good thing, they might want to announce it to the whole world.
Jiang Chuheng leaned back on the sofa and said in a deep and pleasant voice, "That's her nature. Her skills and talents, as well as Ji Dongming's admirable investment vision and drive, were well known by the people she worked with, but she did not show off at all. In terms of wealth and wealth, not to mention the dividends in Qiongzhou island and the factory, she earned at least tens of millions on her own pen and stock, but she never bought famous brands, never spent money recklessly, dressed and eaten more ordinary, and no one who didn't know could tell that she was so rich."
"She... She actually made so much money?" Chu Xiaoman always thought she only made two or three million.
"Well, I told you that she has a very good eye for investment. Ji Dongming is a capable person in the business field, but the investment field is even worse than her and not as bold as her. He admitted it himself."
Chu Xiaoman was in a daze, his eyes turned, and suddenly he said, "Brother Four, she doesn't invest in your hotel, doesn't she look down on you?"
Jiang chuheng choked and glared at her, "Chu Xiaoman, can you speak? Haitang didn't invest in hengtian because she knew it was our jiang family's business, so she didn't invest in it."
"Oh, oh, I see." Chu Xiaoman smiled awkwardly. Brother Four hadn't called her by her first name for a long time. It seemed that her distrust of him just now had provoked him.
Jiang Chuqi and the others smiled softly. The hotel industry was very profitable and everyone knew about it, and Li Haitang, an investment expert, certainly knew that there was only one reason why Jiang Chuheng didn't invest.
Speaking of this, Jiang Chuheng took this time to tell his brothers and sisters about the profits and expenses of hengtian this year, and then asked them, "Is this year's profit and dividends still the same as last year?"
Big brother Jiang Chuyan said, "We'll leave the family to you." The couple had already discussed it at home.
Second brother Jiang Chuke had the same attitude, "Ours too."
"Chu heng, I'll lend a friend 200,000 yuan to start a business in the sea." The other party was a mutual friend of the two of them, and they were very close, so they naturally had to help each other out.
"Okay, I'll transfer it to you tomorrow afternoon." Jiang Chuheng readily agreed.
After the conversation, dinner began. Chu Hongmei came out with the dishes and shouted, "Dinner is ready."
A room full of tall people stood up and went to the dining room. Gao Xuan first took Jiang Chuqi's chicken soup bowl to the kitchen and silently helped bring the dishes out.
"Gao Xuan, go sit down. We'll take it." Xie Fangfei smiled. The other men in the family were a little macho and didn't like to go into the kitchen. Only Gao Xuan often went in and out of the kitchen and cooked for everyone when he was free.
"Sister-in-law, you're welcome. We're all family." Gao Xuan's own parents were not in the capital, so he was close to his in-laws. Now, because of the birth of the child, the whole family simply moved in, so naturally, they could not treat themselves as guests.
Jiang Chuqi put her little daughter in a small cradle beside her and played a small music box for her to listen to before walking to the table to eat.
Gao Xuan gave her a bowl of rice and a small bowl of light dishes. "Chu Qi, Auntie wu said this dish only contains a little oil and salt. You eat this. Don't eat too much other salty and spicy dishes for the time being."
"Okay." Although she was already in labor, her family still asked her to sit longer and cook a lighter meal for her alone.
Chu Xiaoman looked at elder sister third's brother-in-law and felt a little envious. If only she could meet a considerate man in the future. Ah, thinking about what her aunt is doing now, she is troubled. If she could, she would like to live alone and rent a house, but the family would definitely not agree.
All of a sudden, she thought of Li Haitang, and at this point, she was a little envious.
Jiang chuheng saw that she was in a daze and pushed her down with his elbow. When he saw her looking over, he winked at her.
After dinner, Jiang Baichuan called his three sons and son-in-law into the study to talk. The other women were in charge of cleaning up the kitchen and the children were watching tv in the living room.