It is precisely because of this that Ji Donglai had enough courage to be neither humble nor arrogant when facing Hu Lijuan.
"Done!"
Putting the dividends into their pockets, everyone felt relieved and looked at Ji Donglai raising his glass as well.
Some old people's eyes were moist at this time. Only this group of people can truly understand Ji Donglai's difficulties. He started from a boiler room and worked as a slave for others, and now he has made his company reach an international level.
One step at a time Why? Because it is too heavy to carry a large number of employees on its back, such a weight will leave marks on stones.
At present and even in the next few years, the bosses of China's private enterprises only give their employees a big pie in the air, and they are reluctant to let go of the noodles.
I am well clothed and well fed, and I call on my employees to work hard and work hard.
"Come!"
Ji Donglai drank his first glass of wine on the stage and turned around to greet Hu Lijuan. Hu Lijuan waved her hand and was pulled onto the stage by Ji Donglai a few steps away.
"Silence, this is my girlfriend and fiancée, and she will live with me in the future. Now, my fiancée proposes a toast to all the women in our factory, and to all the women in the men's families. If you have women at home, you will be safe. I am safe. There are gay men down there who don’t have women at home and work hard.”
"After working hard for a few years, I will go home and find a wife as beautiful as this..."
No one expected that Ji Donglai would suddenly bring his family here. Hu Lijuan's face turned red with embarrassment. She was used to seeing big scenes. It was the first time someone confessed her love to someone at the scene, and her heart was pounding.
"hiss……"
"Sister-in-law is so beautiful!"
"Here's to my sister-in-law!"
"Do it, sister-in-law..."
The old employees took the lead in making noises, and the scene immediately became enthusiastic. Ji Donglai poured a glass of beer for Hu Lijuan. Hu Lijuan pinched Ji Donglai, and then raised her wine glass downwards.
"Don Lai is talking nonsense, how can men and women be separated separately? What he means is that everything will be prosperous at home. I wish every colleague below to have a harmonious family, healthy children, and single men and women who have not yet started a family to find their favorite partner as soon as possible. I Here’s to everyone.”
"good!"
"Tsk, tsk, this is my level!"
"No wonder people are able to stand in that position."
"At this level, in our county, the minimum requirement is the county magistrate."
Hu Lijuan is worthy of being an elite within the system. After a simple panic, she spoke clearly and logically, which is not a little bit better than Ji Donglai's wild approach.
From Xin Li to the ordinary employees below, everyone gave a thumbs up.
Ji Donglai and Hu Lijuan exited, and the rest of the hosting work was handed over to a few people from Xin Li's general affairs. Ji Donglai took Hu Lijuan into the small canteen.
Xin Li and Zhao Shuying, senior managers from several companies, were there. Ji Donglai came in and everyone took their seats in turn.
Zhao Shuying and Hu Lijuan were next to each other. They couldn't finish talking, especially when Zhao Shuying saw the brooch under Hu Lijuan's neck.
"Good stuff, Xiao Hu, where did you get this? Why does it look familiar to me?"
After taking off her coat, Hu Lijuan's brooch was exposed. Zhao Shuying looked closer. A smile appeared on Hu Lijuan's face and she glanced at Ji Donglai.
"Heirloom."
Too lazy to explain these things, Ji Dong came to call the waiter to serve the food.
"Ancestral inheritance? Your family is a landowner? I came from the east and didn't realize it."
Seeing that Zhao Shuying liked it so much, Zhao Shuying simply took it off and showed it to Zhao Shuying. The other person took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"No way, our family has been a poor farmer for eight generations, but I have turned around in this life..."
Faced with Zhao Shuying's inquiry, Ji Donglai shrugged. Ji Dong came to look at the family tree, but he didn't see anything special in it. There was a lot of it, and the best thing was that the merchants were killed when they were doing business.
Merchants' land was restricted in ancient times, so most of the Ji family secretly became merchant families and bought land independently.
"Come on, don't come! Do you think I'm stupid? Although my eyesight is not good, I can still feel the small seal engraved on this brooch. In addition, this hairpin with embossed gold, gold and jade is definitely an old craft. , it must have been passed down for several generations.”
"In addition, the jade water is definitely not new. It is the kind that comes from old pits. There are very few of them now. Jade nourishes people, and it definitely matches Xiao Hu's temperament. I remembered that there are a few in the Forbidden City that are not on display. My friend took me to the hall, and there was this thing inside, it’s definitely an old thing.”
"Donglai, you are recruiting from the real world. Was your family a very big landowner before? I said why you are so honest in doing things. They say that poor people are not as hardworking as mutated ones. You must be from a big family, don't you think so?"
Zhao Shuying didn't care when he saw that there were people in front of him. Ji Donglai originally wanted to say haha and went there, but to Ji Donglai's surprise, the box door opened and Qian Xue and his assistant walked in.
"Hey, why are you so happy? Mr. Ji, I heard that you are having a dinner today, so I came to join you."
Ji Donglai turned around, and Qian Xue, Yu Dahe, and several Uzbek acquaintances came in. Ji Donglai stood up quickly.
"When will you return to China? Oh my God. Please inform me early. Mr. Zhao, please arrange a larger private room for us."
With so many friends coming at once, Ji Donglai hurriedly asked Zhao Shuying to rearrange the arrangements.
Everything was ready-made, and in Ji Donglai's breath, more than twenty people were already sitting together at the big round table. The big round plate is turned around on the table and various dishes are placed on it. There is no need to stretch one's neck to reach the food. This is what Ji Donglai enjoys the most.
"This brooch is not bad. Our Mr. Ji is really willing to spend money. This thing is worn by European nobles. Tsar Catherine II used to have one, and the others are in the hands of noble women from Tsarist Russia."
"Mr. Ji seems to be an antique lover as well. I collected this from the Uzbek second-hand market. It is far different from the one that Mr. Ji's lover has, you see."
A group of women passed around Hu Lijuan's brooch, which made Xiao Hu really uneasy.
It happened to be in Qian Xue's hand. Qian Xue took out a small brooch he was wearing while explaining.
Compared with the one Ji Donglai gave to Hu Lijuan, this one is more delicate, and the turquoise on it is not very beautiful.
"Isn't it written in seal script?"
Zhao Shuying put the two brooches together again, and Hu Lijuan's one was particularly obvious.
"Shit, that's in Russian, sister! Look carefully, I have a crystal magnifying glass used by the Russian court here, take a look. This was also bought and exchanged in Uzbekistan. The Tsarist family was executed, and this thing became popular among the people. .”
"After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, these people sold everything. The ring on Mr. Yu's hand also belongs to the Tsarist family. Take a look. But no matter which one is compared with the one Donglai gave to his lover, then But it’s good stuff.”
When Qian Xue spoke, she made no secret of her admiration for Hu Lijuan's brooch. Hu Lijuan also quickly approached the magnifying glass to look at it. Sure enough, there were Russian characters on the side of the brooch, but she didn't recognize the specific content.
(End of chapter)
