Break out of the courtyard

"Dad, the gold jewelry is so ugly!" Seventh daughter Zhang Nuo came to her father's desk with two handfuls of gold necklaces and bracelets, full of disgust. "Look, it doesn't match my skin tone at all!"

The fourth daughter, Zhang Feng, came over and placed her phone in front of her father. She asked, "Dad, look at the shape of this platinum bracelet. Can we hide the gold computer on the back of the petals?"

Zhang Heping glanced at his phone and saw that the bracelet had a petal and four-leaf clover design. He nodded slightly and said, "Okay! But the raised round center of the petals must also be made of gold. Otherwise, when you use it, not only will you have to turn it over, but it will also hinder your mental strength."

Zhang Feng put his phone away, took another look at the picture, and said, "Then I want this one. When the time comes, I can raise my hand and place the bracelet between my eyebrows to release my spiritual power."

Zhang Nuo took a look at the picture of the bracelet that was not inlaid with diamonds or decorated with gems, and looked away without liking it.

However, just as she was about to continue talking to her father about the gold jewelry, Zhang Feng pulled her aside and showed Zhang Nuo a few more pictures of jewelry.

Not long after, the two sisters left the study and went downstairs to discuss jewelry styles in a low voice.

In fact, there are many styles of jewelry to choose from. The eldest wife Tang Xin chose a gold-inlaid jade ring pendant, the younger wife chose a gold watch, Zhang Nan and Zhang Nian both chose gold-inlaid jade zodiac pendants, and Zhang Bei, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu chose the same gold-plated jade Guanyin pendant as their father.

Only Zhang Feng, who doesn't like going out, and Zhang Nuo, who is still studying, were a little picky.

Compared to the extremely miniaturized brain-computer interface, these are all trivial matters.

Just when some people were dissatisfied with Zhang Heping's unwillingness to return to the capital to discuss brain-computer issues, a marriage attracted the attention of many people.

Tan Ying, the second daughter of the second sister of the tobacco director's wife, is going to marry Chang Xing, the third son of Zhang Heping's eldest sister!

This relationship is a bit confusing to talk about, and the things involved are even more confusing.

Yan Wo Yi Community, The Peak, Hong Kong Island.

Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandidi went up the mountain together, not for any other reason but for Chang Xing's marriage.

"If this is really a setup by that tobacco bureau chief, this is a bit disgusting!" Tang Xin frowned slightly after listening to her second sister Zhang Pandi's story. "Are you sure she's really pregnant?"

Zhang Feng sat on the sofa next to him, her face full of gossip. After hearing how Chang Xing was forced to drink and how he got together with Tan Ying, her mind was ablaze with gossip. She couldn't help but interrupt, "After the child is born, do you want to do a paternity test?"

Zhang Zhaodi had always looked down upon this unexpected daughter-in-law with a bad reputation, and she felt even more uncomfortable when she heard the doubtful words of Tang Xin and Zhang Feng.

"What you hear isn't necessarily true!" Zhang Nian, who was sorting newspapers nearby, casually said, "This matter still depends on my uncle's investigation."

"Xiao Nian is right!" Zhang Pandi also advised: "Let's wait until my brother-in-law has someone to ask clearly before we talk about other things. At worst, we can get divorced after getting married, so as not to sue Xiao Xing for being a hooligan."

Zhang Nuo was not interested in this kind of topic. She was directing her younger brother Zhang Hao to do somersaults in the living room for her to see. Unexpectedly, their father came downstairs, grabbed the back of Zhang Hao's neck as he was flipping in the air, and lifted him up in his hand.

"There are too many clutter in the living room and it's easy to bump your head. If you want to do a somersault, go outside." Zhang Heping said to his youngest son in his arms. Seeing that the little guy was smiling and didn't care, he put Zhang Hao on the ground without much care.

No heavy hammer is needed to make a loud drum!

It would be best if the little one could listen, but it doesn’t matter if he can’t. If he hits his head in the future, he will remember it, and it will be a very deep memory.

……

Capital, north bank of Houhai Lake.

Changsheng drove his wife's electric car and parked it in the left yard that his mother-in-law Ma Xiuzhen bought at a high price. After plugging the car in to charge it, he went back to the next door with an unhappy look on his face.

Usually there are not many people eating at home at noon, only Aunt Chen and her husband, Ma Lili and others accompanying Ma Xiuzhen, Zhang Bing, and the little guy Zhang Bo.

But it's different these days. Ever since Chang Xing caused a murder and the girl's parents came to his house with cigarettes, alcohol and fruits to force him to get married, Chang Wen, Chang Qing, Zhou Xiaochun and others would try their best to come back to eat, so that Chang Xing wouldn't be beaten by his father again!

"Come here!" Seeing his troublesome third son Chang Xing trying to shrink to the table at the side, Chang Sheng was so angry that he wanted to take action.

Unfortunately, his father-in-law and mother-in-law were in the dining room on the first floor, and Aunt Chen, Uncle Zhou and their whole family were there too, so Changsheng couldn't beat his son like he did before.

"Stand aside!" Chang Sheng glared at Chang Xing unhappily, then, under the gaze of others, walked to the empty seat next to his father-in-law Zhang Bing and sat down.

"I've found out!" Chang Sheng said as he sat down, then picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank the white wine in one gulp!
It seems that only in this way can he dispel the boredom in his heart.

The family members around him kept silent, waiting for Changsheng's next words.

Chang Sheng was not deliberately keeping the secret. After this incident happened, he sent someone to investigate the woman's situation. After hearing the woman's gossip, Chang Sheng beat up his third son Chang Xing.

Afterwards, it was Zhang Pandi who called him and asked him to find someone to investigate again.

According to Zhang Pandi, since Director Li of the Tobacco Bureau wanted to become related to their Zhang family, he would not look for a woman with an immoral private life.

Otherwise, it would not be a marriage, but an enmity with the Zhang family!
"You should all have seen what that girl looks like." Chang Sheng said slowly.

Ma Xiuzhen, Chen Liqin, Chang Wen and others nodded, obviously they had all gone to the Capital Library where the girl worked to see her in person.

"She'd been introduced to five people before, but nothing worked out." Chang Sheng twirled an empty wine glass on the table. "I brought two colleagues, dressed in uniform, to the workplaces of these five people, threatened them with defamation, and finally got to know the whole story."

After Changsheng's narration, everyone finally understood where the rumors about the girl came from.

In addition to the parents of the five blind date men spreading rumors, the matchmaker for them was also spreading nonsense, and finally, the gossipy women in the library were also spreading it.

"I told you Tan Ying wasn't that kind of person, but you still didn't believe me!" Chang Xing stood outside the dining room, muttering in dissatisfaction, "We even saw blood the first time..."

boom!
"You immoral thing!" After Chang Sheng hit his third son's chest with a wine glass, he stood up and wanted to beat him up, but his father-in-law Zhang Bing grabbed his wrist.

Ma Xiuzhen advised, "Now that the truth has been revealed, schedule the wedding banquet as soon as possible and don't let outsiders laugh at our family."

Chang Wen, who was at the next table, reminded him, "Dad, have you told my mom about this?"

Chang Xing realized that he had escaped danger, so he quickly found a broom and a shovel and swept away the broken wine glass.

Under normal circumstances, he would not sweep the floor, but would usually ask his fourth brother Changqing to do it.

Everyone talked a lot, and finally Zhang Bing made the final decision, deciding that Chang Xing would invite the girl's parents to see if they could get together for dinner today or tomorrow to decide on the marriage.

As for Zhang Zhaodi, Changsheng would naturally be the one to communicate with her.

There is still a problem now. This mother doesn’t know when she will be able to return from Hong Kong Island.

Just as the Zhang family was worrying about this marriage that suddenly broke into their lives, Director Li, who planned the whole thing, was also at home comforting his wife's sister and her family.

"Don't worry!" Director Li of the Tobacco Bureau said seriously, "This is a good thing that Xiaoying and Changxing fell in love with each other, so we facilitated it."

"We just persuaded Chang Xing to drink a few more glasses of wine and let Xiaoying take care of him on the sofa all night. The key point is that they didn't do anything in the living room that night, right!"

Everyone at the dinner table looked at Tan Ying, whose face was blushing.

"Also, I received news that your deputy director's relative has been investigating the rumors about Xiaoying recently." Director Li said, picking up the wine bottle and filling his second brother-in-law's glass.

After the other party expressed their gratitude by holding their wine glasses with both hands, Director Li continued, "We watched Xiaoying grow up. I certainly don't believe those rumors, otherwise I wouldn't have let Xiaoying meet Changxing." "You don't understand!" Director Li put down the wine bottle, raised his glass, and invited his father, brother-in-law, son, and others to take a sip, then continued:

"This Chang Xing's third uncle is more than just the richest man in Hong Kong or a scientist as you know him!"

"You guys know about the commotion over Power Grid Shares that happened all day long, right?"

Tan Ying's father picked up the bottle and poured wine for the director's brother-in-law, nodding and saying, "Brother-in-law mentioned it to us before, but he didn't explain it clearly, so we had no way to ask!"

I don’t know whether this made Director Li satisfied, or whether the brother-in-law’s toast was too humble. Director Li took another sip of wine before explaining the reason.

"That's basically what happened. To compensate for the Heping Group's losses and mitigate the impact of external public opinion, the higher-ups transferred 10% of our tobacco company's dividend rights to the Shenzhen branch of Heping Investment, a subsidiary of the Heping Group."

"The most important thing is that none of those involved got away with it, including..."

Just when Director Li was about to talk about who would be in trouble, Tan Ying's cell phone rang. Her mother saw that the name displayed on the screen was Chang Xing, so she hurriedly asked Tan Ying to answer the call, and then put her ear close to it, almost touching the back of the phone to eavesdrop.

At the same time, Director Li's cell phone rang.

It was an unfamiliar 4-digit number, which made Director Li stunned for a moment.

他脑袋中的第一个想法，是110、119、120这些3位数号码，4位数号码是哪里？
The next second, he was shocked, as if he remembered something, hurriedly pressed the answer button, and quickly walked into the bedroom.

"Hello, I'm Li Guodong. May I ask who you are?"

There was silence on the other end of the line for a moment, and then an old man's voice rang out, "The number isn't encrypted. You should be able to find out who I am."

"I'm calling you because there's something I need you to do."

Li Guodong said humbly: "Please speak!"

"The wedding banquet of your niece Tan Ying and Chang Xing will be held this month at the Capital Hotel. Do you understand?" After hearing Li Guodong's affirmative answer, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.

Although Li Guodong didn't understand why the other party made such a request, he didn't think it was a bad thing, so he didn't dwell on it. Instead, he called a friend in the postal department to inquire about the origin of the four-digit number.

……

Zhang Heping is very open-minded about his nephew Chang Xing’s premarital behavior!

To be precise, he and his two wives hoped that their three grown-up boys would go out and get a few girls pregnant and bring them back so that they, as parents, would have less worries.

Zhang Heping shared the same opinion as his second sister Zhang Pandidi. They also believed that the tobacco director would not randomly look for someone to marry, otherwise he would suffer the consequences!

Fortunately, things came to a conclusion quickly.

After Chang Sheng told Zhang Zhaodi the results of the investigation and discussed the meeting with the girl's parents, Zhang Zhaodi was not sure when she could go back.

She brought her team here in June and has been staying at the Peace Hotel for more than two months.

Even if the Peace Hotel gave them a 30% discount, the total cost of food and accommodation for these people exceeded 100,000!
Fortunately, this expense is shared by each unit, otherwise it would be difficult for them in Hong Kong and Macao to stay in the unit.

Because if they reimbursed this huge amount of travel expenses, it would affect other departments and offices to report much less, thus offending people for no reason.

After setting the date for Chang Xing to get married on the 24th of this month, Chinese Valentine's Day, and hold the wedding banquet on Saturday, the 28th, Zhang Zhaodi began to think about urging the trust and securities companies to reach cooperation with the Heping Group as soon as possible.

However, before she could take action, Zhang Heping launched a long-planned event and uploaded a paper on the principle of stargate transmission to the World Internet Forum.

This paper is not like the previous seemingly empty analysis, but actually proposes a teleportation theory.

That is, the person at one end of the star gate is transformed into a quantum state, and the star gate at the other end uses quantum entanglement to reshape the human body.

Zhang Heping also raised a hypothesis in his paper: can this transmission be used to artificially intervene in the newly shaped body, thereby eliminating the disease in the previous body and achieving human immortality?

This paper quickly sparked heated discussions in the academic circles at home and abroad, and had many impacts, one of which was the recall of the expedition team led by Zhang Zhaodi.

On the surface it was a recall, but in fact it was to let Zhang Zhaodi handle the family's wedding so that Zhang Heping and his family could return to the capital to attend the wedding.

Then, we can catch Zhang Heping and hold a meeting to discuss some things!
After the paper was published, the Magnesium Embassy in Hong Kong sent a secretary to deliver technical information for exchange, but Zhang Heping did not like any of it.

As the parts he customized in the country were delivered to his home one after another, a small gold processing laboratory gradually took shape.

Before Chang Xing and his family got their marriage certificate, Zhang Heping finally equipped his entire family with a second-generation micro-brain-computer interface.

Of course, the little guy Zhang Hao is excluded here, as he is only qualified to carry a locator.

Afterwards, the family went to Shenzhen to replace the authorization key for the Shouyuan 120 pharmaceutical production line, and picked up their nephew Chang Le from Heping Aerospace, and flew to the capital with Director Wang.

Coincidentally, there was a large passenger plane manufactured by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation parked at Bao'an Airport, which must have been flying here for a test flight.

The model of this large passenger aircraft has been finalized [CH101]. C is the abbreviation of the country, H is the Peace Group, and 101 is to celebrate National Day. It is also the first day of this large passenger aircraft's official passenger flight.

In response to the above requirements, domestic airlines should give priority to the domestically produced large passenger aircraft CH101, also known as Zhonghe 101, in future passenger aircraft purchases.
As soon as the plane carrying Zhang Heping and his group landed, a number of black cars drove up to the side of the passenger plane.

Then, they saw familiar faces like Mr. Hua, Mr. Li, and Mrs. Zheng standing by the car, smiling as they picked up Zhang Heping's family and Director Wang.

However, Zhang Heping went to the venue, while Tang Xin, Chen Shuting and others returned to their hometown on the north bank of Houhai.

In the car, Mr. Hua and Mr. Li flanked Zhang Heping on either side in the middle of the back seat, while Mrs. Zheng sat in the front passenger seat.

Along the way, they were talking about the various changes brought about by the 100 and 120 lifespan potions, as well as future production and distribution plans.

But when their convoy of four cars left Xicheng and stopped in a secluded area, the drivers got out of their cars and stood in front of the vehicles, giving the interior space to Mr. Hua, Zhang Heping, and others.

"He Ping, you should have guessed the theme of this meeting. Let us ask you in advance: are you willing to hand over the mental power and brain-computer interface technology you possess?" Old Hua turned to the side, looked at Zhang Heping seriously, and said solemnly:

"Don't worry, the three of us are not forcing you. If you don't want to, we will help you refuse later."

"If you're willing, we'll help you negotiate terms. You should know that we definitely support you!"

Zhang Heping glanced at Mr. Li, who hadn't used the 120-year lifespan potion yet, and Mrs. Zheng, who was looking at him with a smile in the front row, and nodded. "You know me. I don't think much of those techniques."

“If I didn’t have the rights to the Sanxingdui underground base and the power grid shares, I wouldn’t have gone to Hong Kong Island to concentrate on researching this technology.”

Old Hua, Old Li, and Old Lady Zheng listened silently without interrupting Zhang Heping, because Zhang Heping had already expressed his intention to hand over the goods; all that remained was for him to decide on his terms.

"The three of you have painstakingly united many people over the years to help me gain access to the Sanxingdui underground base. However, we have not been successful so far. The resistance must be very great."

"So, I don't want their authority anymore. Let's exchange it on an equal footing!"

...(End of chapter)