Chapter 630

Li Ye felt a bit tired, because there were far more guests today than he had anticipated.

The fellow villagers from Qingshui County were being looked after by his father and grandfather, while his classmates and friends were being received by his brother-in-law Yang Yumin and Jin Peng and the others; but since Wen Qingsheng kept calling him over, he had no choice but to muster up twelve times his energy to handle it himself.

Yet Li Ye could not complain at all, because this was all the painstaking effort of Teacher Zhang and Wen Qingsheng.

If it weren't for the wedding, how would Li Ye have had a suitable opportunity to strike up conversations with so many big shots? To get them familiar with his face?

He couldn't exactly take Li Ye to pay formal visits to every single family, could he?

And by taking advantage of today's opportunity, Teacher Zhang and Wen Qingsheng were letting Li Ye make his first official appearance before the Wen family's network of connections.

From now on, he would be tagged with the label of "Wen family son-in-law."

Of course, not a "matrilocal son-in-law" who moves into the wife's home, oh no!

Logically speaking, Wen Qingsheng could have arranged today's wedding at the Zhongliang Qiu Bin Ke House, but he didn't, which made some people feel strange.

Could this Li Ye have some special ability? Is that why he deliberately avoided wearing the hat of a "kept son-in-law"?

Lu Zhizhang was one of those "some people."

According to his past experience, today's wedding should definitely have been held according to the standard of "matching social status," but Lu Zhizhang had seen Li Ye's personnel file, and his grandfather was only a deputy division-level official, which was a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Wen Qingsheng!

However, as the other guests took their seats, the doubts in Lu Zhizhang's heart slowly dissipated.

Sitting at the same table as Lu Zhizhang and Old Ding were Yu Xiufen, Zou Mengcheng, and those other senior fellow students, as well as Watching Liu Muhan and Liu Muyang, those two "uncles and aunts," and Li Ye's own brother-in-law, Yang Yumin.

After everyone introduced themselves, Lu Zhizhang finally understood: Li Ye was actually a "group pet."

Not to mention Li Ye's teacher, Zhang Qiyan, that big shot in economics who had already caught the eye of the highest central authorities,

even those senior fellow students and the Liu siblings, although they were all very young, most of them had already reached the division level by now, and could absolutely be called young and promising.

Even that youngest one, the tomboyish Cai Minying, was already a Wu Kezhang at the State Planning Commission.

And Li Ye's own brother-in-law, Yang Yumin, was a Wu Kezhang at the Central Selection Department.

They were all Section Chiefs in their twenties, oh!

Lu Zhizhang couldn't help but sigh in his heart; ever since the formal advocacy of "cadre rejuvenation" in 1982, people like Yu Xiufen, Zou Mengcheng, Watching Liu Muhan, and Liu Muyang all had a chance to ride a rocket, being several times luckier than a lucky guy like himself.

So, Li Ye was not at all the "country bumpkin" that Wu Kezhang Wu thought he was, but a "young rising star" who was adept at handling all sides, had deep roots, and played the pig to eat the tiger.

"Sun Xianjin, you actually returned from Moscow? We thought you had been bewitched by Natasha?"

Just as Lu Zhizhang was pondering this, he heard a shout from the table next to him, and then he saw a family of three rushing over in a flurry, mingling and joking with Li Ye's other classmates.

Li Ye also rushed over from another corner.

He hadn't expected Sun Xianjin to actually rush over from Moscow, and he had even brought his father and fiancée Bian Jingjing along.

As soon as Sun Xianjin saw Li Ye, he started complaining: "Brother, I really didn't expect the transportation in the Soviet Union to be so rotten. I bought a plane ticket at a high price, but it made an emergency landing halfway through.

It was hard enough to find Brother Peng's friend to get on a train, and don't even get me started on the mess along the way; I almost didn't make it to your wedding!"

Li Ye was startled and hurriedly said: "Does our relationship really depend on such things? Your journey was so dangerous!"

The Tu-series passenger planes of the Great Bear, as well as their international long-distance trains, were synonymous with danger in later generations, so Li Ye felt there was really no need to take such risks for a wedding.

But Sun Xianjin shook his head firmly and said: "This is no small matter. If I didn't come to attend your wedding, I wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully at night. Fortunately, Brother Peng's friend helped, otherwise I really wouldn't have made it."

"You, you, you, safety first when traveling, and you're in a strange place... Don't say anything else. Rest well today, and I'll have a good chat with you tomorrow."

Li Ye was moved in his heart and hurriedly greeted Sun Xianjin, his father, and his wife to take their seats.

Sun Xianjin and Bian Jingjing naturally sat at the table with Chen Xiaoling and the others, while Sun Xianjin's father, Sun Maolin, was arranged to sit with Lu Zhizhang.

The arrangement of guests is also a science; you have to let everyone have common topics of conversation so that the wine can be enjoyed to the fullest. You can't put a rocket scientist and a crosstalk performer at the same table and let them discuss the problem of how great it would be if the rocket were powered by coal.

Sun Maolin was a factory director of a forestry farm and was about the same age as Lu Zhizhang, so it didn't take long for them to start chatting enthusiastically, and as they talked, they got onto the subject of their children.

"Director Sun, so your son is an overseas student! Doesn't that mean he has a bright future ahead of him when he returns?"

"Hey, if I were in front of others, I would definitely show off for a long time, but let's forget it here! My child's little bit of cleverness isn't worth showing off, it's not worth showing off..."

Sun Maolin was not a modest person, but he also knew how much his child was worth. Who among those present wasn't learned?

"You're being too modest, you're being too modest,"

Director Lu hurriedly said with a smile: "Director Sun, you are truly being too modest. Children who can be selected for government-sponsored study abroad are all one in a million, and their future is limitless, limitless."

In the mainland of 1986, it was a time when people were stunned by the advanced society overseas. In the minds of an entire generation, the trace that "the moon is rounder abroad" had been branded, and it hadn't been completely erased even decades later.

So Director Lu truly believed that Sun Xianjin's future was limitless.

Of course, it was indeed limitless, but it depends on who you compare him with.

"Sigh~"

Sun Maolin sighed and said truthfully: "To tell you the truth, this opportunity for my son to study abroad! It should have been Li Ye's, but Li Ye didn't go, and it finally fell on my son's head."

"What? Li Ye gave up the opportunity to study abroad?"

Lu Zhizhang looked at everyone in surprise, and then found that everyone's expressions were super calm.

He turned his head and looked at Old Ding, and Old Ding was also very surprised.

This was simply too unbelievable.

"Yes, my brother-in-law did indeed refuse the opportunity to study abroad, and not just once. He even gave up the opportunity to study at the Lighthouse University."

"..."

Yang Yumin's words could be considered the final word, making Lu Zhizhang and Old Ding have to believe it.

And just at this moment, that little junior sister who had been keeping a straight face threw out another sentence, making Director Lu and Old Ding feel extremely embarrassed.

"I really don't understand. It's one thing that Li Ye didn't go abroad to study, after all, he shouts every day about serving the motherland as soon as possible, but for the sake of an article, he was actually assigned to your small unit. It's really a waste of talent."

"..."

If someone else had said this, Old Ding would definitely have spat in their face, but the other person was a top student who had returned from studying in the Lighthouse, so Old Ding really didn't have the confidence to argue with her.

However, when Old Ding and Director Lu saw Pei Wencong, they realized that top students who returned from studying abroad also didn't understand the human relationships and worldly wisdom of the mainland.

Pei Wencong had appeared once at the foundation-laying ceremony when the Light Automobile Company was established. He had a very high-and-mighty attitude, had only eaten one meal with the people from above, and didn't pay any attention to the people from the Light Automobile Company at all.

But now, looking at the way he was chatting and laughing with Li Ye, could it be that he had recognized the wrong person?

So Lu Zhizhang asked Yang Yumin: "Wu Kezhang Yang, who is that boss?"

Yang Yumin took a look and said: "Oh, Pei Wencong! He has known Li Ye for a long time..."

Lu Zhizhang swallowed his saliva and asked: "Just known?"

"That's certainly not the case," Yang Yumin laughed: "Mr. Pei and my brother-in-law are friends in literature. My brother-in-law writes novels, and he writes them very well. Just his royalties alone earned him over six figures..."

"..."

Am I asking about royalties?

I'm asking about his relationship with Hong Kong capital, okay?

Zhongliang, the First Ministry of Machine Building, Hong Kong capital... Li Ye has established relationships with all three shareholders, and you say coming to our unit is a waste of talent?

Who are you trying to fool! A top student who returned from studying abroad doesn't understand? Do you think I don't understand either?