Chapter 469

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Around eight o'clock in the morning, Wang Changgen, Li Xiulan, and Zhang Zhongtian arrived at the county town.

Li Xiulan called Wang Xiaohua; originally she had thought to go to Wang Xiaohua's rental house first, and then visit Niu Chunsheng's home.

Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaohua said he was already at Niu Chunsheng's home.

Li Xiulan discussed with Wang Changgen and Zhang Zhongtian, and finally decided to go to Niu Chunsheng's home first; after finishing the visit to Niu Chunsheng, they would then go check out Wang Xiaohua's rental house.

Zhang Zhongtian had no objection to this; in fact, he also very much wanted to visit Niu Chunsheng, and for this reason he even got out of the car halfway there on purpose to buy two bottles of good wine and two cartons of good cigarettes.

He had no local specialties to give Niu Chunsheng, so he could only give cigarettes and alcohol.

When visiting someone's home, a gift is definitely indispensable; Zhang Zhongtian still understands this bit of etiquette very well.

Wang Changgen was actually quite unwilling in his heart to go to Niu Chunsheng's home; he felt there was nothing worthwhile about going to Niu Chunsheng's place — Niu Chunsheng just has a bit more money, right? He's not some leader, so why go to his house?

Before, when his own family was poor, perhaps he still had to watch Niu Chunsheng's face; now his family isn't poor anymore, and they've even produced a university student like Xiaohua, so there's fundamentally no need to give him face anymore.

However, in the end Wang Changgen still went together to Niu Chunsheng's home for a trip, not for anything else, just to see his son — doing tutoring at Niu Chunsheng's home, whether he was being bullied by Niu Chunsheng.

Before long, the small sedan arrived at the residential complex where Niu Chunsheng's home is.

Niu Chunsheng knew the three of them were coming to his home, and even specially called Zhang Zhongtian to tell him that he would come out to the complex's main gate to welcome them.

"Chunsheng, you're being too polite; we don't lack legs, we can walk to your front door ourselves, no need to run all the way out to welcome us!"

Zhang Zhongtian said with a hearty laugh.

Niu Chunsheng, however, said:

"Yes yes, I'm already at the complex main gate now; in a moment I'll give you directions, you just drive straight into the underground garage, the underground garage's elevator can go directly up to my front door."

When Niu Chunsheng said these words, he had actually only just stepped out the door; he merely wanted Zhang Zhongtian not to refuse him, so he told this well-intentioned lie.

"Good good, alright then, see you in a bit!"

Zhang Zhongtian hung up the phone and immediately sang Niu Chunsheng's praises nonstop:

"Niu Chunsheng just called over, saying he wants to personally come to the complex main gate to welcome us; he's a big boss now, yet can still treat us rural people like this, no wonder he can do business so well!"

Li Xiulan said with a smile:

"That's Niu Chunsheng's own ability; he handles interpersonal relations and affairs really very well."

Wang Changgen, however, said in cold, sarcastic words:

"No matter how well his business does, ultimately he's still just a merchant; my Xiaohua, after graduating from university, that's going to be a big official!"

Zhang Zhongtian laughed "hehe" and echoed:

"That's true too; Xiaohua will definitely have prospects in the future."

Zhang Zhongtian echoed with his mouth, but in his heart he thought: if later Wang Xiaohua becomes a big official, while his dad still has this current ugly mug, wouldn't he be dragged down to death by his dad?

But what words should be said and what words shouldn't be said, Zhang Zhongtian is very clear in his heart.

He naturally cannot say Wang Changgen's faults to his face.

After receiving Zhang Zhongtian's polite echoing, Wang Changgen became even more smug and proud.

"In my opinion, the main reason Niu Chunsheng is willing to spend so much money to hire Xiaohua as a tutor this time isn't to make his daughter's studies improve, but to build a good relationship with my Xiaohua — he's currying favor with my Xiaohua!"

One must admit, although Wang Changgen's EQ is very low, he still has a bit of insight; Niu Chunsheng's actions indeed have a bit of a currying-favor meaning, but it's not entirely currying favor either — rather than saying it's currying favor, it's better to say it's an investment, a mutual exchange of interests.

"Maybe; after all, Xiaohua is our county town's first Tsinghua/Peking University student, who wouldn't want to curry favor!"

Zhang Zhongtian still echoed with a "hehe" smile; anyway, echoing Wang Changgen a few sentences won't make a piece of flesh fall off his body, who cares if he's right or wrong, just echo him.

Li Xiulan, however, found it a bit hard to stomach:

"Niu Chunsheng is doing perfectly fine in the county town now, why would he need to curry favor with Xiaohua? Besides, after Xiaohua graduates from university, he's not necessarily going to become an official either; a matter that hasn't even taken shape yet — is it worth Niu Chunsheng doing this? I think he just purely wants his own daughter's grades to improve!"

Wang Changgen rolled his eyes in return:

"They all say you women have long hair and short insight; you still won't accept it. If it was purely to make his daughter's studies improve, wouldn't hiring a professional tutor be better? Why insist on hiring Xiaohua? Xiaohua's studies are good, but good studies don't mean he can be a good tutor. Last time County Magistrate Xiao came to visit our home, Niu Chunsheng also came along, didn't he? I see he just wants to build a good relationship with our Xiaohua!"

Li Xiulan also rolled her eyes:

"Right right right, everything you say is right; you're so capable, how come we didn't see you make a name for yourself in the city when you were young?"

Wang Changgen was choked by these words and couldn't speak for a while.

Especially with Zhang Zhongtian listening right beside him, this made him feel very much without face.

After a good long while, he finally said with a black face, scolding:

"What does a woman like you understand? Doing business doesn't just need ability, it also needs luck; when I was young I just lacked a bit of luck — if I had Niu Chunsheng's luck, I would've bought a house in the city long ago!"

After saying this, Wang Changgen asked Zhang Zhongtian:

"Secretary Zhang, you say — am I right or not?"

Zhang Zhongtian hurriedly laughed "hehe" and echoed:

"Right right right, doing business indeed needs luck; without luck it's indeed very hard to get started, but with luck, when fortune comes you can't block it even if you want to! Take me taking over the town's New Era Restaurant for example — that was all luck, like a pie falling from the sky; I still don't know how it happened, but Chunsheng took the initiative to call me, saying he wanted to transfer the restaurant to me! 200,000 transfer fee, not low, but I thought it over — this is a good thing! So I immediately took it over, and you guess what happened? Now the restaurant's business is unbelievably good; I dream about this and can't help laughing out loud in my sleep."

Zhang Zhongtian didn't know that Niu Chunsheng had originally planned to transfer the New Era Restaurant to Li Xiulan and Wang Changgen at the super low price of 50,000; it was only because Li Xiulan and Wang Changgen didn't want it later that this good fortune fell to him.

As a result, he just blurted this out so matter-of-factly.

This directly made Wang Changgen feel very uncomfortable inside.

Like he'd eaten a stinky sock Zhang Zhongtian stuffed into his mouth, yet couldn't say anything.

After all, back then it was he himself who, after careful consideration, had refused Niu Chunsheng's kindness.

Li Xiulan was actually quite depressed about this matter too.

If they had taken over the New Era Restaurant back then, maybe by now they would've already gotten rich.

"That's Party Secretary Zhang's fortune; one can only say Party Secretary Zhang's fate is a bit better than ours."

Li Xiulan said this one sentence.

Wang Zhanggen then said:

"How does that saying go? What's destined will come in time; what's not destined, don't force it. My family's feng shui is just like that — prospers offspring but not wealth. But I'm not envious of you either; what's the use of earning so much money? You can't bring it at birth, can't take it at death; enough is just fine!"

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