After Cao Zhiqiang walked in with a plate, Cao Jiajia and Zhao Meifen immediately stopped talking.
Cao Zhiqiang, with a smile on his face, walked straight over and put the plate on the coffee table.
As soon as the plate came up, Cao Jiajia's eyes widened immediately. She stared at the shining silver plate and cutlery and said, "Zhiqiang, this, isn't this made of real silver?"
"Ah?" Cao Zhiqiang was stunned and didn't understand for a moment, "What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about this plate and the guy on it!" Cao Jiajia pointed to the shining silver plate, "Is this sterling silver?"
"Yes, sterling silver." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled.
"Oh, it's true!" Cao Jiajia touched the plate happily, "Silver plate, silver cup, silver bowl, silver spoon, how much does this set cost?"
"I don't know about that." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head.
Indeed, this was Cao Zhiqiang's previous sign-in reward. I only know that it is exquisitely made, made of thousands of pure silver, and made in Italy, but I really don't know the specific price.
Not only are there silver plates and bowls, but there are also various silver knives and forks, which is a complete set of tableware, including utensils for drinking afternoon tea and coffee.
Cao Zhiqiang has always been lazy.
Now that he has this kind of sign-in tableware, he won't buy anything else. Besides, the silverware is really fun to use.
So the bowls and plates he usually uses at home, except for the chopsticks, are all made of silver and European style.
The plates, coffee pots, coffee cups, etc. he brought this time were all made of sterling silver and exquisitely made. They looked like high-end goods at first glance.
"I don't know? How come you don't know the price of such a good thing?" Cao Jiajia didn't believe it.
Cao Zhiqiang laughed: "I don't know. This is a gift from a foreign friend of mine, so I don't know the specific price."
Well, Cao Zhiqiang has made up his mind to let Masashi Sada, who has temporarily returned to Japan, take the blame.
After all, the set of things used by Cao Zhiqiang is really hard to find in China, and it’s really hard to tell if they can truly trace their origins.
"A foreign friend gave it to you?" Cao Jiajia was stunned, "How is that possible? What foreign friend would give you such an expensive gift?"
"It's a Japanese friend of mine." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "He is the second generation of rich people, he is not short of money, and I have a good relationship with him, so he gave me this. By the way, Qinghong also knows him, he Came here for dinner.”
When she heard that Qinghong also recognized it, Cao Jiajia didn't ask any more questions. She just touched the plate and said in wonder: "Oh, this thing is very valuable. You should put it up. It's such a waste to use it as tableware." "
Cao Zhiqiang laughed again: "This is originally tableware. No matter how precious the material is, even if it is gold, it is still tableware! If I put this up as an offering, wouldn't I be putting the cart before the horse?"
At this point, Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to continue talking about this topic and said directly: "Okay sister, don't mention the tableware or not. If you keep talking to me, this coffee will get cold and it won't taste good. "
Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang pointed to three cups of steaming coffee and said to Zhao Meifen: "Auntie, this is the coffee you asked for.
However, because I don’t know how much milk or sugar you want to add, the coffee in this cup is all original coffee, that is, only pure coffee, nothing else is added. "
Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang pointed to an exquisite silver pot with a sharp mouth on the tray and white sugar in a small silver bowl next to it: "This pot is filled with pure milk, and the plate is filled with granulated sugar. How much do you want to add? You can add it yourself.”
After smiling, Cao Zhiqiang pointed to the plates of pastries prepared in advance on the coffee table: "In addition, there are snacks here. If you feel that drinking coffee is a bit heartburn, you can eat snacks to relieve your pain."
After the introduction, Cao Zhiqiang smiled and waved his hand again: "Please, you're welcome."
"Oh, coffee." Cao Jiajia was the first to reply with a smile, "This is a foreign thing, so I won't be polite."
Speaking of this, Cao Jiajia picked up a cup of coffee and took a sip.
But soon, Cao Jiajia frowned and quickly put down the coffee cup: "Bah! What does it taste like? It's bitter, sour, and awful!"
After saying that, Cao Jiajia quickly picked up the half bottle of Arctic Ocean soda next to her, pointed directly at the bottle, and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking all the soda, Cao Jiajia shook her head: "It's much better now."
Zhao Meifen smiled beside her: "Pure coffee is inherently bitter with a bit of sourness.
However, didn't your brother say that there is milk and sugar on the side? If you can't stand the bitterness of the original taste, you can add sugar and milk. "
Cao Jiajia was stunned, looked at Zhao Meifen and said, "Yes, I forgot you are from Shanghai. You must have drank coffee before, right?"
Zhao Meifen nodded: "I did drink it before going to Guizhou, but that was a long time ago."
"Then you are a lady." Cao Jiajia smiled and shook her head, "I come from a poor background, and since I was a child, this is my first time drinking coffee.
By the way, since you understand this, why don't you give me a show? "
Zhao Meifen smiled and took the initiative to take Cao Jiajia's cup of coffee, then added half a cup of milk and two spoons of sugar.
After stirring for a while, Zhao Meifen said to Cao Jiajia: "Now try it again. It shouldn't be bitter anymore."
Cao Jiajia then put down the glass, picked up the cup of coffee again, and took a careful sip.
After clicking her lips, Cao Jiajia nodded: "It's interesting now, but the taste is still a bit weird."
Zhao Meifen said with a smile: "It's your first time drinking. It's inevitable. Just get used to it."
Speaking of this, Zhao Meifen also picked up her cup of coffee, but didn't add anything. Instead, she looked at the coffee cup.
"This workmanship, this carving..." Zhao Meifen frowned, "Is this the craftsmanship from Europe?"
"Auntie, you have good taste." Cao Zhiqiang immediately praised with a smile, "I heard from my friend that this is a purely handmade product made in Florence, Italy."
"That's really good." Zhao Meifen nodded, "Your friend spent a lot of money."
Speaking of this, Zhao Meifen said nothing else, picked it up and smelled it first, and then took a slow sip.
After a long while, Zhao Meifen nodded: "This coffee is not bad, with moderate bitterness and a mellow and sweet aftertaste. It is of the highest quality. Xiao Cao, you have worked hard."
"Where is it?" Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "This is just instant coffee. It was also given by a friend. I don't know the details. Just like it."
"Then your friend is really nice to you." Zhao Meifen smiled slightly, "It's not easy to afford coffee at this time, let alone such high-quality coffee. It's even more difficult."
Cao Zhiqiang chuckled and stopped talking. He added milk and sugar to his cup of coffee, then picked it up and took a slow sip.
What can he say? Could it be that the coffee you drink is real Geisha coffee?
Just kidding, I dare not say that in China at this time, but in the capital, I am afraid that there is no authentic Geisha coffee at this time.
Not to mention, the water used for making coffee is not ordinary. It is authentic Fiji water, which is also rare in China.
It's a pity. The stuff is good, but you can only know it yourself, and you have to pretend not to know about it to others. Otherwise, it's hard to tell the origin.
But that’s okay, the country of origin filter has been removed, which returns the basic functions of these gadgets.
It's just coffee, as long as it tastes good, it doesn't matter where it was produced.
Well, in fact, Cao Zhiqiang had already prepared these things and brought them over a long time ago.
After all, no matter how good the coffee is, it is still instant coffee. You just need to brew it with the hot water prepared in advance, and it is very fast.
As for milk and sugar, they are also readily available.
So, what he calls making coffee, he just needs to go to the kitchen and pretend, then use hot water to make the coffee, then put the milk and sugar into the tray and bring it over, and it's OK.
The reason why it took so long to come was because Cao Zhiqiang had been listening to Qiang Gen outside the door for a while.
Of course, Cao Zhiqiang didn't mean to hear it. He actually moved too fast, and Cao Jiajia didn't lower his voice when talking to Zhao Meifen before, so he heard it on the way over.
Now that he heard it, out of politeness, he couldn't just go in when people said he was having fun, right?
He could only stand quietly outside, wait until they had finished talking and it was over for the time being, and then he walked in deliberately with a heavier pace.
However, it was precisely because of this that he understood the reason why Zhao Meifen kept a straight face and said little after seeing him.
It turns out that it was not because she abducted Qinghong without saying goodbye, or in other words, this was not the main reason.
The main reason is that she found that Cao Zhiqiang was too rich, so she was worried that his money came from improper sources. She was also worried that Qinghong would suffer losses.
But so is it.
Since Qinghong's mother and Cao Jiajia are colleagues and they came here together, it is estimated that Qinghong's mother had inquired about the situation of the Cao family a long time ago.
After knowing that the Cao family came from a poor family, not a rich family, nor a high-ranking family, it was impossible not to murmur.
After all, this was only 1983, and the reform had just begun. Most people may have different statuses, but when it comes to the wealth gap, it's really not that big.
In particular, when Cao Zhiqiang went to Qinghong's home before, he went as an employee of a state-owned enterprise, which further locked up his income.
Since the Cao family comes from a poor background and Cao Zhiqiang’s education is not high and he is still a worker, where does his current wealth come from?
However, when Cao Zhiqiang went there, he never mentioned how he made money.
Therefore, not to mention Zhao Meifen's murmuring, even Cao Jiajia, the elder sister, was murmuring in her heart.
It was precisely because of this that Cao Jiajia came first with Zhao Meifen, but Xia Siming did not come with her, just in case.
Otherwise, if Xia Siming really believes in Cao Zhiqiang's ability and is really determined to drop everything and go to Peking, why not leave separately? How safe is it?
After all, as Cao Zhiqiang said before, mobilizing relationships is really difficult for ordinary people.
But for leaders in the capital who have high status, it only takes a few words to mobilize a relationship.
Even if Xia Siming's former unit really refuses to release his files, as long as there is an unit here in the capital that is willing to accept them, he can still re-establish the files here, and that won't be a problem.
Seven or eight years later, many of the children of high-ranking cadres who had gone to the mountains and countryside and then secretly returned to the city on their own had actually re-established their jobs in the city.
So many people have done it, including Xia Siming.
Of course, it is not easy to re-establish a file. You must have a serious unit to accept you.
Cao Zhiqiang happens to have this ability now.
If nothing else, Cao Zhiqiang's Hongguang Publishing House can seriously accept Xia Siming.
As a state-owned unit, Hongguang Publishing House can not only accept Xia Siming, but also apply for re-establishing Xia Siming's personal file in the name of Hongguang Publishing House.
There is no direct relationship between re-registration and household registration, but if you want to apply for a Beijing household registration, you must first have your file here. This is a sequential relationship.
But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, you must have a big relationship, a very strong relationship, otherwise you can't do this.
In the final analysis, Xia Siming and Cao Jiajia, the couple, had doubts about Cao Zhiqiang's situation and suspected that he was talking big words and could not really do what he said at the beginning, so they used this cautious approach.
Let Cao Jiajia find out first, at least there won't be no way out from the beginning.
And bringing the child... most likely to dispel one's own doubts.
So to put it bluntly, my sister and brother-in-law don't trust me very much and are afraid that I will brag.
But this is normal behavior.
If the brother-in-law and his family really abandon everything in the local area regardless of a few words from his so-called biological brother who suddenly came to the door, then they have a problem with their IQ.
At that time, he acted very confident in himself and did not raise too many questions. Maybe he was just giving himself face.
After understanding this, Cao Zhiqiang felt a sigh of relief in his heart.
Sure enough, the married woman threw water out.
Even though Cao Jiajia and he are biologically related siblings, they have been separated for more than ten years, and their relationship has long since faded.
You see, his mother is gone. After Cao Jiajia came back, instead of rushing back to worship her mother, she first came to test herself.
This is very telling.
It can be seen from this that once something happens, Cao Jiajia will still turn to her husband and children more than his biological brother Cao Zhiqiang.
In comparison, once he really marries Qinghong, Qinghong's mother may have a closer relationship with him than he does with his sister.
Because by then, he will be her son-in-law, and she will be his mother-in-law.
A son-in-law and half a son.
Therefore, in most cases, the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law is much closer than that between biological sisters and biological brothers.
This is human nature!
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