Break out of the courtyard

When tourism became a means of earning foreign exchange, foreign exchange coupons became hard currency in the country. When using foreign exchange coupons for consumption, you don't need food coupons, meat coupons, etc., and they are easier to use than RMB.

However, when using foreign exchange coupons, the store will generally confirm the identity of the user; for foreigners, they will look at the passport, and for Chinese, they will look at the letter of introduction.

If neither of these two conditions is met, then one has to consider whether the foreign exchange certificates in the user's hands were stolen, which would be a foreign-related incident.

Because Zhang Heping had previously shown his Hong Kong passport when ordering food and paying foreign exchange coupons at the front desk, a supervisor was arranged to watch over him to avoid any foreign affairs disputes.

So, when Chen Shuting asked people to leave and the foreman also walked into the private room to chase people away, Lou Xiaoe and the others felt embarrassed.

"Well, we..." Lou Xiao'e retreated to Zhang Cuishan awkwardly. Her right hand seemed to be pulling Zhang Cuishan's left arm, but in fact she was pinching the soft flesh on the inside of Zhang Cuishan's arm. The threat was obvious.

"Third Uncle!" Zhang Cuishan turned to Zhang Bing for help as they had discussed on the way.

However, when Lao Zhang was about to speak up to join in, he was met with a half-smile from Zhang Heping.

"Dad!" Zhang Pandi shook her head at Lao Zhang, signaling him not to interrupt.

But Zhang Cuishan had just taken the initiative to apologize, and Zhang Bing felt that this was the best time to reconcile the family, so how could he be stopped by the second brother?

"Heping, your cousin has apologized to you, do you think you can ask them to sit down and talk?" Zhang Bing looked at Zhang Heping hopefully.

"Sure!" Zhang Heping stood up expressionlessly, "I'll give them a seat!"

As Zhang Heping stood up, his wives beside him also stood up.

"No!" Even if Ma Xiuzhen was slow to react, she could see that Zhang Heping didn't like Zhang Cuishan.

Just as Ma Xiuzhen stood up anxiously and pulled Zhang Heping, Zhang Pandi frowned and looked at Lou Xiaoe, "You four, get out immediately! Don't disturb us while we eat!"

Zhang Yong was glanced at by his wife Zhang Pandi, and he immediately stood up and looked at Zhang Cuishan and the others with a serious face, "Get out!"

"Hello!" The foreman walked to the middle of the field, turned his back to the Zhang family, and said to Lou Xiao'e and the others in a serious tone, "There are foreign guests here, please don't make trouble here! Otherwise, I will ask someone to take you to the police station!"

After being held by Ma Xiuzhen, Zhang Heping said indifferently: "Mom, you can continue to stay here for dinner, or you can go to Hong Kong Island with me. I respect your choice. But please let go of your hand now!"

"Mom, come back to the hotel with us first!" The first wife Tang Xin noticed that Zhang Heping's face was not looking good, so she hurried forward and pulled away Ma Xiuzhen's hand.

"Get out!" Zhang Pandi was still chasing people away, "Brother Yong, chase them out!"

The foreman knew that the young man who stood up and left was from Hong Kong Island. Seeing that the conflict between the family was about to get out of hand, the foreman hurriedly said to the waiter who was watching the excitement: "Go call someone, there is someone making trouble here, affecting the foreign guests' meal!"

"Brother!" The eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi stood up and blocked Zhang Heping's way, saying with an embarrassed look on her face: "It's been so many years, what's wrong with you? Can't you let it go?"

"Get out of the way!" Zhang Heping didn't stop and used his right hand to push away Zhang Zhaodi who was blocking his way.

Then, Zhang Heping said coldly without even looking at Zhang Zhaodi who staggered into Chang Sheng's arms: "Twenty years ago, I used hundreds of kilograms of food and a job to see through these ungrateful people!"

"Now, I, Zhang Heping, have a big family and a great business. How can I let these ungrateful wolves lie on me and suck my blood!"

"It's not pleasant, hum..."

Chen Shuting picked up her little daughter Zhang Nuo, who didn't want to leave, and called Xiaobei, Xiaonan and the others to chase after her.

The incident happened so suddenly that not only the children at the other table were confused, but even Zhang Bing stared blankly at Ma Xiuzhen and Zhang Pandi who ran out, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.

"What are you pushing for!" Zhang Xin, the son of Zhang Cuishan and Lou Xiao'e, shouted at Zhang Yong who was chasing people away, "My third grandfather hasn't spoken yet, who do you think you are!"

Lou Xiao'e quickly reviewed what had just happened in her mind and immediately found something wrong, "A mistake!"

When Lou Xiao'e went to see Zhang Heping before, he would at least say a few words to her. But after bringing Zhang Cuishan over today, Zhang Heping didn't even say a word to her!

"Son, let's go!" Lou Xiao'e called out to her second son He Xiao, and hurriedly chased after him.

"Hey, Mom!" Zhang Xin, Lou Xiao'e's eldest son, stared at the sumptuous dishes on the table and said without turning his head, "Mom, let's eat first before we leave. There are so many empty seats here for Third Grandpa!"

After listening to this, Zhang Cuishan wanted to take his son to sit next to Zhang Bing. However, when he just reached out to pull his son Zhang Xin, someone suddenly grabbed his arm from behind and twisted it behind his back.

"Take these two people out!" The female supervisor frowned and glanced into the private room. Judging from their clothes, all the people sitting here were Chinese. She felt that something serious had happened.

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Zhang Heping didn't care about other people's feelings. He left his mother and second sister who didn't come with him, and walked east with his family. Not long after, he returned to the Capital Hotel and ordered another table of food.

"Dad, why are you so angry?" The eldest son Zhang Bei sat at the table and asked puzzledly: "If you are unhappy with those four people, just beat them up. Why get angry with yourself?"

"What the hell!" Zhang Heping said unhappily, "I'm telling them I don't want any of these shitty relatives to be brought into our home!"

"A poor person living in a busy city has no one to care for him, but a rich person living in a remote mountain area has distant relatives! What do you think those four people came here for?"

Chen Shuting could tell that Zhang Heping's tone was not right. She was worried that he might hurt the children if he talked too much, so she interrupted and said, "Xiaobei, Xiaonan, think back to what happened just now. Those four people obviously knew your grandpa, grandma, and aunt."

"But, did you greet them after they came into the house?"

"Did you come here to see your dad as soon as you came in? Can you think about why?"

"Why else?" Zhang Nan said disdainfully, "Because our family is rich!"

Zhang Nian, who will be 15 this year, snorted coldly: "Sister, did you see that boy who was grinning at us just now? I suspect he and his mother are targeting us sisters."

Because at the beginning of every month, the wealthy wives who bought properties in Heping would come to Renheyi Community to play mahjong together. Those who were more thoughtful would bring their children over, hoping to establish friendships, or even go beyond friendship, with Zhang Bei, Zhang Nan and others.

Therefore, Zhang Nan, Zhang Nian and others were very wary of strange looks, and then guessed that Lou Xiao'e was a playboy.

"Honey, what happened to the hundreds of kilograms of grain twenty years ago?" Tang Xin knew how scarce food was twenty years ago, so she wanted to find out.

Before, when Tang Xin and Chen Shuting were chatting with Ma Xiuzhen's mother-in-law, they mentioned that Zhang Cuishan's family was ungrateful and took so many things from their family, but finally fell out with them. In all these years, they hadn't even come to their house.

Every time Ma Xiuzhen mentioned what Zhang Cuishan and others had taken, she would vaguely mention it so that Tang Xin and the others had no idea about it. So they didn't take it seriously and just listened to it as gossip. The main point was to understand their husbands' pasts.

But today, Zhang Heping brought up what happened twenty years ago in front of so many people, especially the large amount of food, which made Tang Xin suddenly cautious.

As for the job, Tang Xin didn't take it seriously. He never thought about the importance of a job to a young man from the countryside.

If Zhang Heping had not given the job to Zhang Cuishan in order to repay the favor of his family for helping to take care of Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi, Zhang Cuishan would probably still be digging soil and repairing the earth in his hometown.

"I don't want to talk about the past. Just treat them as strangers!" Zhang Heping didn't want to gossip about the past. He picked up the tea handed to him by his concubine Chen Shuting and blew away the hot air from it.

At this moment, the waiter's voice came from the restaurant door, "Madam, this is the restaurant. You need to register at the front desk before you can enter!"

Zhang Heping was sitting facing the door. When he looked up, he saw Lou Xiao'e and her second son He Xiao being stopped outside the restaurant.

Lou Xiao'e saw Zhang Heping in the restaurant and tried to force her way in despite the waiter's attempts to stop her. However, she was caught by two security guards who appeared out of nowhere.

Seeing that Zhang Heping ignored her, Lou Xiaoe hurriedly shouted, "Heping, it's me! Only my son and I are coming this time!"

However, Zhang Heping ignored her and the security guards did not give her the chance to continue making trouble.

I only heard one of the security guards say viciously: "If you make trouble again, I'll send you to the police station for a week!"

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After a short silence outside the restaurant, Ma Xiuzhen, who had gone home to get her household registration booklet and passport, was brought to the Capital Hotel by her second daughter, Zhang Pandidi, on a bicycle.

Because Ma Xiuzhen had a lot of clothes, shoes and socks in Hong Kong Island, she didn't even bring any luggage with her when she went to Hong Kong Island this time.

"Aunt Ma!" When Lou Xiao'e saw Ma Xiuzhen and Zhang Pandyi walk into the restaurant, she hurried over with her son.

"Don't bother us!" Zhang Pandi said angrily, "What did you say before? If you can't do it, just leave immediately! Why didn't you leave just now? Your words are like farts!"

"Comrades, who are you looking for?" The lobby manager came over with two security guards.

"Looking for my brother Zhang Heping, he asked us to come for dinner!" Zhang Pandi replied and walked straight to the restaurant.

Lou Xiao'e behind her was stopped by the security guard again. The lobby manager frowned and said, "Madam, am I not clear enough? If you want to dine in the restaurant, please go to the front desk to check in or register your identity information."

Lou Xiao'e pointed at the backs of Ma Xiuzhen and Zhang Pandi indignantly and asked, "Why don't they need to register their identities?"

"Mr. Zhang's family has already registered. I was just making routine inquiries." The lobby manager frowned and explained. He looked at Lou Xiao'e's moon-white silk embroidered cheongsam again, then stepped aside with the security guard.

"Mom, aren't you going back to look after the restaurant? It's already noon!" He Xiao reminded her in a roundabout way, indicating that it was time to go back and eat.

"Ah Xiao!" Lou Xiao'e stood in the lobby of the Capital Hotel, staring at the direction of the restaurant, and said to her second son: "In one's life, one will encounter many opportunities!"

“Some opportunities may appear, but you may not be aware of them at all, and then miss them!”

“Some opportunities are right in front of you. If you don’t work hard to grab them, you will regret it later, and you may even be depressed!”

"The Zhang family, the richest family on Hong Kong Island's Victoria Peak, is our chance to turn things around!" Lou Xiao'e looked away, looked at her second son whom she had raised, and said seriously:

"As long as we can get close to the Zhang family, there's no need to get up early and go to bed late to run that small restaurant!"

"Not to mention watching idiot Zhu steal food from the kitchen without being able to stop him!"

After they finished speaking, the mother and son stayed in the hall.

However, when Zhang Heping finished his lunch and habitually left a small tip on the table, the waiter smiled and took the money, and whispered to Zhang Heping and his group who were about to leave:

"Mr. Zhang, if you don't want to see the two people in the hall, you can go through our employee passage to the accommodation building in the back."

Zhang Heping smiled calmly and nodded, "Please take us there!"

So Zhang Heping and his family went through the restaurant's kitchen and returned to their suite to pack their luggage.

When the car to pick them up arrived, Zhang Heping and his group went out from the back door of the hotel, got in the car and went to the airport, giving no chance to the nosy Lou Xiao'e at all.

If Lou Xiao'e had not been so clever and thought of starting with Zhang Cuishan and then establishing a relationship with Zhang Heping.

Based on her friendship with Zhang Heping in her early years, not to mention a simple conversation, even if the mother and son sat down to eat together shamelessly, Zhang Heping would not say much.

Because Zhang Heping didn't lack that little bit of money, he could only sigh at the changes in Lou Xiao'e over the years.

……

Three Hongqi cars and two 212 jeeps were parked outside the Capital Airport. The ones who opened the car door for Zhang Heping were Director Wang who had arrived earlier, and Liu Yuan behind her!

"Auntie Wang opened the car door for me. I have to think about how arrogant I should be in the future to be worthy of Auntie Wang's status." Zhang Heping joked after getting out of the car.

"You little brat, still putting on airs!" Wang Sumei said, handing over a list.

Zhang Heping only took a quick glance and recognized most of the names. He asked in confusion, "Why? Did the shareholders of these Chinese-funded banks go to China Resources to ask for mercy?"

Director Wang Sumei smiled and said, "Not only them, but the person in charge of the Bank of China in Hong Kong Island also came back to ask for instructions, wanting to build a bank electronic transaction system there to avoid being eliminated by the market!"

"Let them wait. I'm still waiting for the reaction from the Magnesium Country!" Zhang Heping handed the list back and said with a smile, "No matter how good the security measures are, they can't stop collusion between the inside and the outside!"

"So, I won't build secure servers for them one by one. I can't afford the compensation!"

Director Wang put away the list and said with a smile, "You make your own decision. I just informed you in advance so that you wouldn't be embarrassed to refuse."

Zhang Heping responded, then looked at Liu Yuan, who was wearing a white flowered dress, and said with a smile, "You look good today!"

Liu Yuan, who was secretly observing Tang Xin, Chen Shuting and the others, became a little nervous after hearing what Zhang Heping said, as if her little thoughts had been discovered.

Director Wang saw that Liu Yuan was silent, so he smiled and explained, "I gave a set of the Dior cosmetics you gave me to Liu Yuan."

"It's not because of the cosmetics!" Zhang Heping stared at the thin Liu Yuan and said with a smile: "You are in better spirits today than last night!"

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping glanced at his watch and said, "I still have to go get my plane ticket. Let's go in and talk!"

"Heping, I heard that you are going to build a hospital over at Central Plaza, and you want to poach doctors from Harmony Hospital and Xuanwu Hospital?" Director Wang walked beside Zhang Heping and talked about interesting things about the hospital. "You have never thought about how much impact this will have on them!"

"Sister, your name is Liu Yuan, right? Yuan as in circle, or..." Tang Xin was possessed by the gossip spirit and wanted to find out the relationship between this woman and Zhang Heping.

Liu Yuan was called "sister" by Tang Xin, who was a few years older than her. She doubted her life for a moment and asked herself, "Am I that old?"

Not to mention Liu Yuan's surprise, even Zhang Heping, who was walking in front, couldn't help but look back to compare Liu Yuan and Tang Xin's appearance and clothing.

From this perspective, Tang Xin, who usually pays attention to maintenance, does look younger.

Ma Xiuzhen, who was following behind, took two quick steps forward, stared at Liu Yuan for a while, and asked uncertainly: "You seem to be Heping's classmate. You came to our house for dinner before. Your name is..."

"Mom, she is Uncle Liu's granddaughter." In order to prevent Tang Xin from calling her sister, Zhang Heping turned around and reminded her.

"Classmate?" Tang Xin was stunned for a moment, her face flushed as she said, "Sorry, I called you the wrong name!"

Chen Shuting, holding the two children, asked from behind: "Do you know Huang Wenli?"

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