Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 1154 What a lucky life!

Xia Qiu said, "It's because we have too much money. We don't even have enough to spend down here. We'll have to come up with a plan once we get over 200,000."

Xiao Hong said, "Take it slow. Everyone's like that at first, but you'll get used to it. However, Xiao Wei has never worked as a service provider before, so I don't know much about it and can't offer any advice."

Liu Xiaodong adjusted his glasses, shook his head, and straightened his expensive suit: "I'd like to be the client, but I don't have the ability."

Xiao Hong said, "This dress is quite nice. It's the first time I've noticed that a suit has slits on both sides. It looks quite pleasing to the eye."

Xiao Wei rarely wears suits, and consequently Chen Hui and Xia Maosheng also rarely wear them; the whole family knows very little about suits.

Xiao Wei said, "Old Xia looks alright in a suit, but I can't pull it off." He's never been particular about his clothes. To put it nicely, he doesn't care; to put it bluntly, he's just a country kid whose mindset hasn't changed, and he doesn't yet value the importance of dressing up.

He wears and uses clothes that Xiao Hong and the others bought when they went shopping. He'll wear whatever they give him. He's easy to please.

Liu Xiaodong's family lives in the building facing the street. This building was one of the buildings that Lao Xia developed himself. He said he gave half of it to his daughter, but it was actually just one building with only twelve households and three storefronts on the ground floor.

One of the three storefronts has been converted into a billiards room, another into a karaoke projection room where you can also watch movies, and the third is currently empty.

They lived upstairs in the storefront, having completely renovated and opened up the entire second floor. These days, rooms in ordinary residential buildings aren't very big; even with three households on one floor combined, it would only amount to about 200 square meters.

Everyone went upstairs to take a look. They found that three bedrooms, a large study, three bathrooms, and a huge living room connected to a spacious kitchen had been retained.

The room was fairly clean, but not tidy at all; things were scattered haphazardly.

Xiao Hong said, "If you two live here for a full year, you'll turn this place into a pigsty! My goodness, Xia Qiu, can't you tidy it up a bit?"

Xia Qiu didn't care at all, saying, "As long as it's comfortable, it's fine. It's not dirty. Look, where's it not clean?"

Liu Xiaodong said, "I didn't think too much about it at the time. I just wanted a bigger living room so that friends would have a place to come over. But it turned out to be too big, and it felt a bit empty. It was also a hassle to clean up. So, that's how it turned out."

Xiao Wei said, "It's definitely big enough; it could easily fit three or four tables."

Liu Xiaodong said, "Where can we set up three or four tables? Our classmates are scattered all over the place, and it's rare for us to get together. Besides, we're usually in the city from spring to autumn, and we don't have time to play because of all the big and small things happening on the construction site."

Xiao Hong said, "So you finished it but didn't get a chance to show it off?"

Xia Qiu laughed heartily, and Liu Xiaodong chuckled a few times, saying without blushing or turning pale, "We can't keep our wealth hidden, right? If we have it and don't enjoy it, what's the point?"

Actually, there are only a handful of people I'm really close with. Xia Qiu and I together have less than ten. Three of my buddies went to Nanfen. You're in Fengtian; there are only a few girls in the county, and they're all married, so they can't come out often. The rest are in the city. Everyone's busy these days.

Xia Qiu nodded: "When I was little, I looked forward to growing up. Now that I'm really grown up, it's not interesting at all. I'm busy all the time, and I don't know what I'm doing it for. My good friends are all over the country, and when we meet, we can't even exchange a few words."

Xiao Wei said, "It's almost the end of the year, we should have time to get together, right?"

Xiao Hong waved her hand and said, "It's only busy at the end of the year. Most of my classmates work in government agencies, and they're already going crazy with all the reports they have to give. They don't have time to hang out. If you're talking about an easy job, it's probably those who work in companies. They're all on the front lines now, getting paid for books and newspapers, so they really don't have much to do."

Liu Xiaodong said, "Chen Degang went to Nanfen, and it seems he's been planning to do business lately. Chen Liang was transferred from the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to the People's Bank of China, specifically the Beixi branch. Yu Hai became a policeman in Nanfen; his father works at the Nanfen Education Commission, right?"

Fatty Tang is in the city now, running a shell company and throwing money around. He basically never goes to his workplace; I still don't know what company he works for. His uncle gave him some money to practice with.

Xiao Hong asked, "What kind of business do you run?"

Xia Qiu said, "What kind of business is he? He just shows off everywhere. He doesn't even need to earn money. He's an only child, and his uncle treats him like his own son. He gave him 100 million to learn how to do business, saying he'd give him more if he could manage, and then he could run a proper company. Do you think he's cut out for it?"

Xiao Hong said, "With 100 million, what can't you do? You can succeed at anything. Why is he just messing around? Tsk, he's really lucky."

Xiao Hong and Xia Qiu exchanged a smile. Liu Xiaodong handed cigarettes to Xiao Wei and Wang Jiwei, saying, "He doesn't do anything. His uncle used to be the chief accountant of our Beigang Steel."

Xiao Wei nodded: "Awesome."

Xiao Hong said, "Oh dear, why are you talking about others? Do you have anything to drink at home? I'm thirsty."

Xia Qiu went to the balcony and brought in a few cans of Jianlibao, saying, "This is it. We haven't been back for quite a while."

Liu Xiaodong said to Xiaowei, "Want to play billiards? Let's play a few rounds."

So everyone went downstairs together. Xiaowei and Liu Xiaodong played billiards, while Xiaohong dragged a few girls to sing karaoke. They played noisily until after nine o'clock before dispersing. Xiaowei, Xiaohong, Qin Xuemei, Wang Guifang, and Wang Jiwei returned to the guesthouse.

Wang Guifang originally wanted to go home, but Xiao Hong dragged her back, saying that it wasn't easy for the three sisters to see each other, so they should talk for a while.

Back at the guesthouse, the group sat and chatted for a while, drinking water. It was 11:30 before they finally packed up and went to bed.

Lying on the bed, Xiaowei said to Xiaohong, "Stay away from that classmate of yours surnamed Tang in the future, try not to associate with him, especially with money. We're not on the same wavelength."

Xiao Hong was fixing her hair in front of the mirror when she said, "We didn't really have any contact to begin with. I wasn't even close to him. It was only after Xia Qiu and Liu Xiaodong got together that we became involved. Back in school, Liu Xiaodong and his friends got along really well; they fought and drank together every day. This group probably got into a fight."

Xiao Wei said, "High school students fighting?"

Xiao Hong climbed into bed and burrowed under the covers: "What did you think? They beat people up even more fiercely. They hit everyone, inside and outside the school. Once, when they got into a fight with someone from outside the school, Chen Degang was stabbed several times."

Among them, Yu Hai, the policeman, was the tallest but the most timid. Chen Liang was a fat guy, always smiling and wearing glasses, but he was incredibly brave. Liu Xiaodong was just a follower; he wasn't as fierce as Fatty Tang. Chen Degang was the thinnest and smallest of them all, but he was very popular with women.

Xiao Wei said, "You seem to know it quite well."

Xiao Hong leaned against Xiao Wei's chest and said, "I heard it from others, they're all popular figures at school."

Only two chapters today. I'll finish them tomorrow. I've been in a bad mood since the 1st to the 3rd, and my neck is also hurting terribly, so I need to take a break.

(End of this chapter)