Zhou Chen advised: "Don't think too much. You also said that he is already in his thirties. He is a grown man, not a child. He can take care of himself. You should also let the old lady relax. Since you can't control him, just let him go."
It is true that Han Chunming is filial, but sometimes he really ignores his family.
Han Chunyan sighed, "Luckily, my mom still has Xiao Xing to keep her company, so she's not too lonely. I wanted her to come live with us before, but she just wouldn't agree. Sigh."
"That's normal. The old lady is used to being the boss. She has lived in that courtyard for so many years. If you ask her to leave suddenly and come to our place, she will definitely not be willing."
Zhou Chen himself has been old, so he can empathize and knows that most elderly people are not willing to live with children.
If it's a son, it's okay, the elders will think it's natural, but if it's a daughter, it's different. I guess not many parents can live with their daughter and son-in-law for their whole lives.
"Zhou Chen, Xiao Wu is your best friend. If you have time, try to persuade him. Our mother is so old now, he should understand things better."
"Okay, I'll tell Chunming next time I see him."
…………
It is only 85, and although pagers are already available, the communication method of pagers is far inferior to that of mobile phones. It will take several years for the current mobile phones to enter the country.
So it is not so easy to find someone now, not to mention that Han Chunming is a rich guy but he doesn’t even have a pager.
Several days passed and Han Chunming still did not show up.
Zhou Chen came to Grandpa Guan's house carrying two bottles of wine. Before he went in, he saw a person sitting on the stone pier at the door.
The person sitting on the stone pier also saw Zhou Chen and suddenly stood up.
"Hello, you must be Han Chunming's brother-in-law, my name is Li Chengtao, do you remember me?"
"Remember, Taozi from Chabalou? I went there when it opened, but I heard Chunming has been kicked out of Chabalou?"
When Li Chengtao heard Zhou Chen's words, he was immediately embarrassed. In order to please Cai Xiaoli, he had indeed gone too far in this matter.
Fortunately, Han Chunming didn't mind. After Cai Xiaoli left, he still helped him with advice and got him a better Guan Xiaoguan.
"That's not the case. Chunming is still one of the owners of Chabalou, and we have reconciled."
Zhou Chen said: "What happened between you and him has nothing to do with me, but why are you sitting at the door of Grandpa Guan's house?"
Li Chengtao in the TV series is indeed a loyal brother, but that is relative to Han Chunming.
However, when facing women, whether it was Cai Xiaoli or Guan Xiaoguan, he always stood by the woman he loved.
Zhou Chen had no ill feelings towards him, but he didn't have much good feeling towards him either. He was a typical idiot, which was very similar to Han Chunming.
Li Chengtao smiled awkwardly, but his good point was that he was not afraid of being criticized.
"Mr. Guan's granddaughter is my manager. I made her angry today, so I came here to ask for her forgiveness, but Mr. Guan wouldn't let me in, so I had to wait outside."
"Guan Xiaoguan?"
"Yes, it's Guan Xiaoguan. You should be very familiar with Guan Xiaoguan and Old Man Guan. Can you plead for me?" Li Chengtao looked at Zhou Chen hopefully.
Zhou Chen said: "I don't have much friendship with Guan Xiaoguan, so she may not be able to help you. As for Grandpa Guan, I'll go in and take a look at the situation first."
"Thank you very much." Li Chengtao bowed and looked grateful.
Zhou Chen didn't say anything else and walked straight into the courtyard. As soon as he reached the door, he heard angry scolding coming from inside.
"Who let you in? Get out."
Zhou Chen chuckled and walked into the house. He saw Old Man Guan sitting there angrily, not saying a word. Guan Xiaoguan was sitting next to him trying to please him. When he saw Zhou Chen come in, he immediately regained his calm and indifferent expression.
"Hey, old man, who made you angry? You are so angry."
Only then did Mr. Guan realize that the person who came in was Zhou Chen. He thought it was Li Chengtao.
When he saw Zhou Chen, his stern expression finally eased a little.
"Why are you here, kid?"
Zhou Chen walked over, but before he could say anything, Grandpa Guan suddenly shouted at Guan Xiaoguan, "Why don't you get up and give up your seat?"
Guan Xiaoguan was about to retort, but when he saw his grandfather's expression, he took a breath and stood up obediently.
Zhou Chen didn't hesitate to sit down and put the two bottles of wine in his hand on the table.
"I heard that Han Chunming disappeared for more than ten days without a trace. I was worried that you had no wine to drink, so I sent you two bottles."
Old Master Guan smiled and said, "You are much more reliable than your brother-in-law. That brat keeps running around, and I don't know where he is."
"He ran away to engage in smuggling." Guan Xiaoguan suddenly interrupted.
"Going smuggling?"
Zhou Chen was a little surprised, because he really didn't know about this matter, and Han Chunming had never mentioned it to him.
Guan Xiaoguan was also feeling angry, and now was a good chance to vent.
"Yes, he was smuggling, which is a crooked way of doing things. He also took out two hundred thousand from Chabalou. I didn't want him to waste Chabalou's money, so I quarreled with Taozi."
After listening to what Guan Xiaoguan said, Zhou Chen finally understood the whole story. During this period of time, Han Chunming should have gone into the car business and got money from Chabalou, which angered Guan Xiaoguan and led to a quarrel between Guan Xiaoguan and Li Chengtao.
It seemed that there was indeed such a plot in the TV series, but he couldn't remember the details clearly.
"No wonder I just ran into Li Chengtao outside and he asked me to plead for him."
Guan Xiaoguan said coldly: "He deserves it. It's useless for anyone to plead for him."
Zhou Chen ignored the domineering Guan Xiaoguan and looked at Old Man Guan.
Grandpa Guan didn't see his granddaughter either. Instead, he asked Zhou Chen, "Zhou Chen, what do you think about this?"
Zhou Chen said: "Although Han Chunming is sometimes careless and unfocused, he is still relatively steady in doing business. Although his approach is not fair, he will not do anything he is not sure of. I don't think this is a big problem."
Guan Xiaoguan rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "Han Chunming is your brother-in-law, so of course you are speaking in his favor."
Grandpa Guan said angrily: "You don't understand anything at all. You are far behind Chunming in realm. Zhou Chen is right. Chunming is more stable than you. Even if Chunming loses all the money, you shouldn't stop him."
Guan Xiaoguan was not convinced: "Why? Grandpa, we earn the money from Chabalou, why should we let Han Chunming waste it?"
Grandpa Guan looked disappointed and pointed at the cabinet: "Go, open the top drawer on the right."
Guan Xiaoguan said defiantly: "I don't want to do it."
Old Master Guan also said: "I don't want to do it either. Zhou Chen, don't do it either. Let's just waste time like this."
Zhou Chen showed a wry smile. These two men were quite interesting. He had not thought of fighting at first. They thought, “You two men fight over your things and I will just watch mine.”
Finally, Guan Xiaoguan couldn't bear it anymore, sighed, and took something out of the drawer.
"open to take a look."
Guan Xiaoguan reluctantly opened the file bag, and immediately saw a share transfer agreement inside. It was an agreement that Han Chunming transferred the shares of Chabalou to her, which made her expression change suddenly.
At this time, Mr. Guan spoke: "Are you wrong?"
Guan Xiaoguan's expression kept changing, but he finally apologized: "I was wrong."
"What if I'm wrong?"
"Then I won't go back either." Guan Xiaoguan threw the agreement on the table.
Grandpa Guan said, "You are too embarrassed to go back, right? Look at what Chunming did. In order to help you build your career and fulfill my wish, he didn't want any shares in Chabalou and gave them all to you. What kind of realm is this? Look at you again."
Guan Xiaoguan still refused to accept the decision: "I didn't ask for any shares. Even if this is the case, I won't go back."
Grandpa Guan turned to look at Zhou Chen: "Boy, what do you think?"
Zhou Chen shrugged and said, "This is your business. I am an outsider, so I won't interfere."
"Just say what I want you to say. Why so much nonsense?"
Seeing that Mr. Guan would not let him go, Zhou Chen could only express his thoughts.
"In my opinion, they all have problems."
"How to say?"
Both Mr. Guan and Guan Xiaoguan showed surprised expressions. They thought Zhou Chen would speak for Han Chunming, but they didn't expect Zhou Chen to say that.
"Grandpa, you are speaking for Chunming out of friendship. Chunming is a man of friendship. If it weren't for him, Chabalou wouldn't be able to open. From this point of view, it is reasonable for him to take some money from Chabalou."
"But Xiaoguan's idea is not wrong. When doing business, it is not only about human relations and morality, but also about rules. If everyone does things without rules, today you take 200,000 from the store, and tomorrow I take 200,000 from the store, this restaurant will go bankrupt sooner or later."
"Yes, that's right, that's the truth, Grandpa, you heard it too, it's not my fault."
Before Zhou Chen finished speaking, Guan Xiaoguan looked at her grandfather arrogantly. Although she was very surprised that Zhou Chen spoke for her, she couldn't care less now.
Grandpa Guan glared at Zhou Chen in dissatisfaction: "Rules are dead, people are alive, and rules are made by people."
"Without rules, there will be no order." Zhou Chen replied indifferently.
This really pissed off Grandpa Guan. He pointed at Zhou Chen and asked, "Whose side are you on, kid?"
Zhou Chen said: "You two didn't even wait for me to finish my words before you started arguing with me."
"You say it, you go on."
Zhou Chen continued, "In my opinion, you should have taken out the share transfer agreement earlier, so that things wouldn't have gotten to this point. I think Chunming's habit of speaking half-heartedly must have been inherited from you. He doesn't speak openly when encountering problems. Isn't this looking for misunderstandings?"
"Hey, you dare to teach me a lesson?"
Old Master Guan became anxious and pointed at Zhou Chen, scolding him in dissatisfaction.
Zhou Chen didn't care: "This is not a lesson, just telling the truth. I think you should quickly resolve the matter with your granddaughter and send them away so that we can have a good drink together."
Old Master Guan was still somewhat dissatisfied, but he did not argue with Zhou Chen anymore. Instead, he went to resolve the issues between Guan Xiaoguan and Li Chengtao.
After a long while, Mr. Guan sent Guan Xiaoguan and Li Chengtao away, and then sat next to Zhou Chen again.
"You kid dare to laugh at your grandfather, the Nine Gates Admiral. Are you so bold?"
"No, I just found it interesting to see you two arguing."
"When your son grows up, you will understand this feeling."
Zhou Chen smiled but didn't answer. He had been a grandfather many times and had much more experience than Grandpa Guan.
"Come, pour some wine for your Grandad, your good mood has been ruined."
"It's okay, just have a couple of drinks."
Zhou Chen opened the bottle cap, poured a glass for Grandpa Guan, and then poured another glass for himself.
"Grandpa, I see there is something going on between your granddaughter and that Li Chengtao. Don't you have any thoughts on this?"
Grandpa Guan picked up the wine glass and sniffed it happily: "My children and grandchildren have their own blessings. I am old and can't care so much."
"hehe."
Zhou Chen sneered. It’s only because Li Chengtao is easy to bully that you don’t have any objection. If it were a strong man, you would probably have been anxious a long time ago.
"Come on, old man, have a drink."
"Dry."
Mr. Guan finished it in one gulp, then closed his eyes to savor the taste, and only opened his eyes after a while.
"I have to say, you know a lot more about wine than that brat Chunming. The wine you bring is always good. Unlike that brat, he always buys two bottles of wine for one or two yuan at the canteen to fool me."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 663 Han Chunming's Stupidity, the Showdown Is About to Begin
"Old man, I see that you are still in good health despite living such an old age. Do you have any secret?"
Zhou Chen was not asking casually. He knew that Grandpa Guan could live to be nearly a hundred years old, so he wanted to ask Grandpa Guan for some scriptures.
Old Master Guan took a sip of wine and said, "From what you said, it seems that you think I've lived too long?"
"How is that possible? I am just asking you for advice. To be honest, I am afraid of death. I think it would be enough if I lived to be a hundred years old, so I came to you for advice."
"Hey, you are more ambitious than me. You even want to live to be a hundred years old. Do you really want to be immortal?"
Old Master Guan was amused by Zhou Chen's words. If Zhou Chen was about the same age as him and said such things, he would not find it strange.
But the problem is that Zhou Chen is only in his thirties and still very young. Anyone would be surprised if he started thinking about this at this age.
Zhou Chen smiled and said, "This is called preparing for a rainy day. How about it, old man? Can you pass on some of your experience to me?"
When Mr. Guan saw that Zhou Chen did not seem to be faking it, he was surprised but also amused.
He had met many young people, but Zhou Chen was the only one who gave him an impression different from other young people.
Although he is not very old, his eyes are full of vicissitudes. If he didn't look at his appearance, he would really think that Zhou Chen is about the same age as him.
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