A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1245 You let her come to beg me! (Please subscribe!)
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it was graduation season in 82. Hua Shier, Zheng Juan, Zhou Bingyi, and Cai Xiaoguang all finished their studies at different universities in Beijing.

One person worth mentioning is Zhou Bingyi. This guy took a two-month leave of absence from school to work as a factory director for half a year, but he ended up getting so frustrated that he had to go back to school in disgrace.

In this era, universities have greater autonomy in management. Jin Yueji negotiated with old comrades to arrange for Zhou Bingyi to take leave, so it was naturally not a problem for him to return to school.

After taking a graduation photo, Zhou Bingyi found Hua Shier:
"Bingkun'er, Cai Xiaoguang will treat us at 5pm tonight. You and Zheng Juan will go to Donglaishun to eat hot pot hot pot meat!"

Hua Twelve refused without hesitation:
"Forget it. Cai Xiaoguang and I are not familiar with each other, so I won't get together with him!"

Zhou Bingyi said quickly:

"Come on, who said you two weren't familiar with each other? I don't even know who was following him in the beginning!"

"You were talking about when they were little. I beat him up twice afterwards, so we no longer have any affection for each other. So we are not close anymore!"

Hua Shier's reasons made Zhou Bingyi very upset. This guy is unfamiliar but this guy is so powerful.

Zhou Bingyi continued to persuade:
"We all came to Beijing to study together. We are either friends or fellow villagers. Now that we have graduated, we are all in different places. It will be difficult to get together again."

At this point, he smiled and said:
"Besides, Xiaoguang specifically asked me to invite you two, which proves that he didn't take the incident to heart!"

Hua Twelve immediately changed his mind after hearing this: "Go, you must go!"

When Zhou Bingyi heard this, he immediately laughed and said:

"That's right, people have to look forward and not dwell on the past, right?"

Hua Twelve nodded in agreement:

"You're right. I beat him up before, but he didn't take it to heart. So I beat him up for nothing. I'll beat him up again tonight to make a deeper impression on him!"

Zhou Bingyi couldn't do anything about it, is that what I mean?
Hua Twelve said and left: "Okay, I'm going to pick up Zheng Juan, you guys wait for me at Donglaishun!"

"Bingkun!" Zhou Bingyi stamped his feet anxiously: "Don't mess around!"

Hua Twelve laughed loudly:
"You are still a college student, and you can't even tell that I'm joking. How can I, an excellent college student, do something illegal like beating someone up?"

In the evening, in the private room of Donglaishun, the hot soup in the copper pot was boiling, making the room steamy.

Cai Xiaoguang raised his glass with some emotion on his face:

"Bingyi, Bingkun, Zheng Juan, the four of us walked from Jichun to Beijing and became the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. Today we finally graduated together."

He looked around at the crowd and felt a lot:

"For the past four years, we have studied hard in our respective universities. This first glass of wine today is to toast to the years of study we have gone through together."

Zhou Bingyi followed suit and cheered, and Hua Shier and Zheng Juan also raised their glasses.

Cai Xiaoguang waved his hand: "Wait a minute, I haven't finished yet!"

His gaze lingered on Hua Twelve's face for a moment:
"The bumps and bruises of the past are like the book of wrong answers we have written, and now we have turned the page. In the future, I hope we can all shine in our new positions and live up to the four years of hard study."

These words were meaningful, and it was obvious that they were trying to ease relations with Hua Twelve.

Hua Twelve raised his eyebrows, raised his glass and clinked it with his, then said with a smile:

"Mr. Cai's words now sound quite reasonable, but I think that for some wrong questions, you can't just turn the page and ignore them. You need to review them several times so that you can remember them firmly."

Zhou Bingyi's hands trembled and the wine glass almost dropped from his hands. He thought Hua Shier was really going to do something, so he quickly changed the subject:

"Come on, come on, cheers!"

Cai Xiaoguang was also a little scared, because he knew that Zhou Bingkun's grandson was very ruthless, so he quickly clinked glasses with him and drank first as a show of respect.

Zheng Juan lowered her head and chuckled, took a sip of wine and didn't drink any more, picked up the chopsticks and put a piece of tender lamb into her husband's bowl. In the hot steam from the copper pot, the faces of the four young people were glowing red, just like the new life they were about to embark on.

Cai Xiaoguang was somewhat surprised:
"Bingyi, you see, we have both matured a bit, but Bingkun and Zheng Juan don't seem to have aged at all, they are still so young!"

Zhou Bingyi smiled and agreed:

"I've noticed it too. I won't mention my sister-in-law. She's naturally beautiful. My Bingkun looks like a young man in his early twenties!"

Hua Twelve smiled faintly:
"I don't have much to worry about all day. You all worry too much. If you take things easy, you will naturally become younger!"

Zhou Bingyi thought about the bad things that had happened in recent years, and Cai Xiaoguang thought about his own family affairs, and they both nodded in agreement.

A glass of wine and a few words shortened the distance created by time, and the atmosphere suddenly became much warmer.

Cai Xiaoguang asked everyone about their work distribution.

Zhou Bingyi sighed. When he was in college, Hao's father had arranged a place for him. He would be assigned to work in the Jilin S Policy Research Office or the Ministry of Culture as soon as he graduated. This should be a very high starting point.

Even though his father-in-law is now retired due to illness, it shouldn't be a problem thanks to his mother-in-law's relationship.

But the worst thing is "but".

However, his work experience at the Red Star Group became an indelible stain on his resume. Although the root cause was not him, it would be difficult for him to work in the customs department after graduation.

He put down his glass and said, "My mother-in-law wants me to go to the grassroots level and train myself in an enterprise, so I have already decided where I will go. I will go to our Jichun military factory and start as a middle-level cadre!"

Hua Twelve curled his lips:
"Look, this is what it means to lean on a big tree for shade. Once you enter the factory, you will find yourself a middle-level manager! Power is a really good thing!"

Cai Xiaoguang smiled and said, "You can't say that. Right now, the Guo family is short of talent. We college students are precious treasures. Once we go to the grassroots, we will definitely be reused. This is what we should do!"

Hua Shier was right in thinking that now was not like the later times, when there were so many bachelor's degrees and masters and it was difficult for college graduates to find jobs. College graduates of this era were all top students. With Zhou Bingyi's talents, it was not really an extraordinary thing for him to work as a middle-level manager in a company.

Cai Xiaoguang looked at Hua Shier and Zheng Juan:
"Bingkun, I won't ask you anymore. You are already a big businessman. Zheng Juan, which hospital have you been assigned to? I am waiting to go to you, my acquaintance, to use your connections when I need medical treatment in the future!"

Zheng Juan chuckled:

"I'm back to work at the Red Star Health Center. Oh, by the way, it's now called the Red Star Hospital. Besides, my job is to help people stay healthy. It doesn't matter if I'm poor. I hope you won't come to me for help!"

Zhou Bingyi praised: "That's right, a doctor's heart is full of compassion. My sister-in-law has such awareness right after graduation. She is worthy of being a good girl from our Jichun and a good daughter-in-law of our Zhou family!"

He raised his glass and said, "Come on, I propose that we drink a toast to Dr. Zheng's words, 'May you always be healthy!'"

Hua Shier also admired Zheng Juan's mentality. If it were the case for doctors in later generations, they would be speechless if they heard that some hospitals even put up slogans saying "Warmly celebrating the patient's breakthrough in achievement".

Zheng Juan smiled and said, "Brother, you should go back and appease your sister-in-law with these words!"

Cai Xiaoguang laughed: "Yes, Dongmei also studied medicine!"

Zhou Bingyi waved his hand: "By the way, Xiaoguang, you haven't told me where you were assigned yet!"

Cai Xiaoguang smiled faintly: "As for me, I was assigned to the Beijing People's Art Theater, but I don't want to go. I want to go back to work in our Jichun Drama Troupe!"

When he said this, even Hua Shier was surprised. He didn't want to go to such a good unit as the National Theatre of China and wanted to go back to Jichun. Isn't this crazy?

Zheng Juan asked curiously, "Are you worried about your parents?"

A trace of sadness flashed in Cai Xiaoguang's eyes:
"After my father was rehabilitated, he fell seriously ill and passed away two years ago. My mother passed away last year. I am now a lonely person!"

Zhou Bingyi asked quickly:
"How come you didn't tell me when this happened?"

Cai Xiaoguang waved his hand and did not respond. Instead, he suddenly turned to Hua Twelve:
"Bingkun, the only thing I'm worried about now is your sister Zhou Rong. I went back to Jichun just to wait for her. I heard that she's divorced, and I want to take care of her and the child. Can you tell me where she is?"

Hua Shier understood a little bit. He thought this might be the real reason why Cai Xiaoguang invited him to dinner.

He couldn't help but be speechless. Hasn't Cai Xiaoguang's dog-licking disease been cured yet? When he heard that Zhou Rong was getting divorced, he even thought about taking care of other people's children. Love is really a light!
Zhou Bingyi was a little confused:
"Xiaoguang, didn't I tell you that Zhou Rong is in Australia?"

Who would have thought that Cai Xiaoguang suddenly became a little excited:
"I know Zhou Rong. She has a problem with Bingkun, so it's impossible for her to just contact him. If she wants to send a letter back, the most likely person is me, or Bingyi, and the least likely person is Bingkun. I think there must be something going on here!"

Hua Shier smiled, he really wanted to say that you were very accurate in your judgment, but you had wasted your time in college and had never even heard of the term 'murder to silence a witness'!

At this moment, he was already considering whether to bury Cai Xiaoguang in Africa or to take him to North America to keep him company with Luo Shibin and Shui Ziliu.

But on second thought, although Cai Xiaoguang's dog-licking nature is annoying, his crime does not deserve the death penalty. It would be too easy to make him shut up, and it is not worth using his precious shovel.

Cai Xiaoguang didn't feel at all that he had walked around the gates of hell. He just kept talking to himself:
"Bingkun, I heard you have a photo of Zhou Rong, can you let me see her?"

This time, Hua Shier was going back to Jichun for graduation. He had just prepared some family letters and recent photos that Zhou Rong had "voluntarily" written, so he took the photos out of his bag and handed them to Cai Xiaoguang:

"Look, don't talk nonsense after you've read it, or I'll slap you in the face!"

Looking at the photo of Zhou Rong, who was dark, strong, and had rough skin and looked like she was a dozen years older than normal, Cai Xiaoguang's eyes instantly became moist:
"Zhou Rong is still so beautiful!"

This time Zhou Bingyi couldn't bear it anymore. He wanted to ask Cai Xiaoguang when he became blind?

Zhou Bingyi asked Hua Twelve: "Isn't Zhou Rong a clerk? How come she has become so much stronger? Look at her arms, they are all muscles."

Hua Twelve said nonsense and perfunctorily: "Fitness is popular in foreign countries, maybe Zhou Rong also does that!"

Zhou Rong: The pickaxe is swung high!
Cai Xiaoguang suddenly looked up and asked Hua Twelve:

"I'm studying directing. Why does your sister's smile look so fake? It's like she's forcing herself to smile!" Zhou Rong: 555, someone finally noticed it, Xiaoguang, you're really right!
Zhou Bingyi was startled: "Is there? Bring it here for me to see. Oh, there really is a little bit. I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't told me!"

Hua Twelve said calmly:
"Being a stranger in a foreign land, imagine that when she was alone in Australia, wasn't she the one who missed home the most when she was writing letters? At this time, she missed her parents and Yueyue. It was good that she could laugh, and it was good enough that she didn't cry!"

Cai Xiaoguang pondered: "That makes sense, but why didn't she come back? Yes, I know Zhou Rong's personality. She is very strong-willed. She must want to make a name for herself, so she came back. What a silly girl."

When he said the first half of the sentence, Hua Shier was just thinking about how to make up another lie, but Cai Xiaoguang started to make it up in his own imagination.

Cai Xiaoguang looked at Zhou Rong's photo and his eyes gradually became firm.

He said to Hua Twelve: "Bingkun, I want to write a letter to your sister. Can you copy your sister's address for me?"

Hua Twelve made an OK gesture:
"No problem, but the address on this envelope is Chunyan's home in Hong Kong Island. Because Zhou Rong is afraid that her going abroad will be bad for the family, so every time she writes a letter, she writes it to Chunyan and then asks Chunyan to send it home!"

He took out a pen and paper and wrote down an Australian address, which was one of Lao De's mines. If he wrote the letter there, Lao De would naturally help him deal with the matter and asked Zhou Rong to reply carefully.

Cai Xiaoguang thanked him.

Everyone left after having a great time.

Zhou Bingyi had to stay in school and wait for the assignment to be confirmed, while Hua Shier and Zheng Juan, who did not need an assignment, bought tickets back to Jichun the next day.

Li Suhua was so happy to know that her son and daughter-in-law had graduated. She took Zheng Juan's hand and asked:

"Juan, didn't you say you would have a baby after graduation? Hurry up, your dad will retire this year, and next year we will be the perfect time to take care of your baby!"

Zheng Juan blushed a little after hearing this, but still nodded and agreed. She also felt that it was time to have a child!

The next day, Hua Shier officially started working at Red Star Group, and Zheng Juan also went to the group's newly built 12-story Red Star Hospital building to serve as the director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department.

Zheng Juan's appointment is just a transitional period. When she becomes familiar with the hospital's affairs, she will serve as the dean concurrently.

Half a month later, Zhou Bingyi returned from the capital and reported to the military factory, where he served as deputy director of logistics.

Hao Dongmei was assigned to Jichun First Hospital as an intern.

Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and Hua Shier was holding a meeting with the group's top management, preparing for his first major move since graduating and working full-time.

"Master Zhou instant noodles?"

Qu Xiuzhen frowned and said:

"Does this instant noodle have a market prospect? I have tried it twice, and the taste is just so-so."

Other senior executives also started discussing the situation, and none of them seemed optimistic.

Hua Twelve sat in the middle of the long conference table and said with a smile:
"It is precisely because instant noodles are so-so right now that this is our best opportunity to enter this market!"

"I made a document, everyone take a look!"

He waved his hand and the secretary distributed the printed report to everyone. Qu Xiuzhen put on her reading glasses and started reading it.

As they watched, Hua Twelve said:

"The instant noodles on the market now are basically priced at around 50 cents. They are of poor quality and have a single flavor. There is only one ingredient packet in them and they are not nutritious at all!"

"The instant noodles I'm going to launch will have sauce packets and vegetable packets added to them. They will not only focus on taste, but also nutrition. When the time comes, our advertisement will be, 'You can see the nutrition!'"

Qu Xiuzhen looked at the information about the flavor and became interested: "Braised beef noodles?"

"Not bad!"

Hua Shier smiled and said, "This is the first flavor of instant noodles launched by our Red Star Group!"

He clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention, and said with a smile:
"Words are not enough, I have already made some finished products, let everyone taste them together!"

Soon, a bowl of instant noodles was placed in front of each senior executive attending the meeting.

They were all made with boiling water. When the hot water was poured on, the ingredients spread out. Everyone raised their noses and said:

"This smells so good, it makes me hungry!"

Hua Shier looked amused. The sample he took out was actually the 'Chef So-and-so's Braised Beef Noodles' in his storage space.

This is the smell, which is not available these days. It smells fresh, but people in later generations would not eat it on the high-speed train because of the strong smell. But now it has become a good thing.

When the time was up, Hua Twelve asked everyone to start eating, and everyone drank up all the noodle soup.

Hua Twelve smiled and asked, "Everyone, how is it?"

Everyone nodded: "It's delicious. The noodles taste good, the soup is good, and you can see vegetables, meat and eggs!"

Qu Xiuzhen was a little worried about the price: "Bingkun, if the price is too high, I'm afraid ordinary people won't be able to afford it!"

"Eighty cents, I've calculated it. If the production volume reaches a certain scale, the cost of a bag of noodles can be controlled at around thirty cents. Eighty cents is affordable for the masses and is the most suitable price!"

Hua Twelve asked everyone, "If you want to eat instant noodles, would you buy the noodles that are currently sold at 50 cents on the market, or spend an extra 30 cents to buy the noodles you just ate?"

Xiao Guoqing smiled and said, "Of course it's the 80-cent one. It has vegetables, meat and eggs. How perfect!"

Everyone nodded.

Hua Twelve was about to make the decision when he suddenly had an idea:
"Sister Qu, please lead them to discuss it again. If there are no other opinions, the establishment of the instant noodle factory will be decided. I have something to deal with first!"

As he spoke, he quickly left the meeting room and returned to his office. He told his secretary to take a rest and not to be disturbed. Then he locked the door, took out the Anywhere Door, opened it and walked in.

In an office at a mine in Australia, Hua Twelve walked in through the void, and Lao De bowed quickly:

"Master, there is something I need to ask for your opinion on. I dare not handle it privately!"

Hua Twelve sat directly on the boss chair that belonged to Lao De: "Speak!"

Dracula had a strange expression on his face: "There's a man named Cai Xiaoguang who came here and said he wanted to find Zhou Rong."

Hua Shier was speechless. This dog actually followed the address he gave and ran to Australia. Do you think you are a police dog? Can you track someone thousands of miles away?
He hesitated for a moment and said, "Ask him how he got here!"

It is not easy to come to Australia these days. The only official channel is studying abroad, so Hua Twelve still needs to ask clearly before making a decision.

Dracula nodded: "I asked him, he went to Hong Kong Island first, and then paid to sneak into Australia from Hong Kong Island!"

"Smuggling? That's easy!"

Hua Twelve gave an intriguing smile.

A few days later, Zhou Bingyi went home to see Li Suhua, and Hua Shier handed him a photo:
"Look who this is!"

When Zhou Bingyi took a look at the photo, it was a photo of Cai Xiaoguang and Zhou Rong.

Hua Twelve smiled and said, "I didn't expect this kid to actually find his way to Australia!"

Zhou Bingyi also felt a little emotional. It seemed that Cai Xiaoguang was really infatuated with his sister. However, he found something unusual:

"Why does Cai Xiaoguang have this expression when taking photos?"

Cai Xiaoguang: I didn’t know it before, but now I know and understand it. I have to go mining soon!
At the end of the year, Master Zhou's Instant Noodle Factory of Red Star Group was officially completed. Well, the machines were made by Hua Twelve using a magic machine, and their production capacity is several times that of ordinary machines.

The first batch of products was sold well in the three northeastern provinces. Qu Xiuzhen, an old lady still full of energy, has set a goal for the instant noodle factory to sell this product all over the country next year.

In order to support her work, Hua Shier also gave her an idea: to shoot a commercial!
The old lady was unhappy when she heard this. How much would that cost?

Hua Shier shook his head. He couldn't keep up with the vision. He simply said the details: "Let's invite Zhu Shimao, who became very popular in 1982, to shoot an instant noodle advertisement, and then broadcast it on CCTV."

Before he finished speaking, the old lady had already made the decision. Zhu Shimao and others were secondary. The main thing was that she wanted to shoot a commercial!

At the end of the year, Zheng Juan reported the good news that she was pregnant. Hua Shier had no choice but to take Zheng Juan to Hong Kong Island in the name of a business trip, and confessed the matter to Qiao Chunyan, intending to resolve the internal conflict before the child was born.

Zheng Juan was a little shocked at first, but on the one hand, she loved her lover deeply, and secondly, Qiao Chunyan was good at coaxing people and called her sister all the time. In the end, she made Hua Twelve promise that there would only be such one person outside, and only then did she untie the knot in her heart.

When Zhou Zhigang retired and returned home for the Chinese New Year, he heard that his second daughter-in-law was pregnant and his face was full of wrinkles from smiling. During the New Year's Eve dinner, he looked at his eldest daughter-in-law Hao Dongmei with envy and wanted to say something to Hua Shier, but the latter casually interrupted him.

Finally, the old man couldn't bear to destroy the harmonious family atmosphere, and finally didn't say anything, because he knew that if he did, that brat would probably do something stupid again!

A year later, Chef Zhou's instant noodles were popular all over the country and entered the Southeast Asian market through Hong Kong Island. Hua Twelve's business was in full swing.

Zheng Juan was also doing well. After giving birth to her son Zhou Cong, she started to make efforts in her business. With her mysterious acupuncture skills, she cured many difficult and complicated diseases, including several vegetative patients!

After Jin Yueji heard the news, she asked Zhou Bingyi to find Zheng Juan and asked her to help save her old man. However, Hua Twelve stopped her:

"Although our families are relatives, our relationship is not that good, so when you ask for help, you should have a begging attitude. Let your mother-in-law come to beg me and apologize to the old man sincerely, then I will consider letting Zheng Juan take action. Otherwise, forget it!"

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