It's hard to be a stepmother

There are only [-] episodes of this TV series, and it took less than a month to finish broadcasting, but the broadcasting effect was very good, so after the broadcasting of CCTV, other stations are also broadcasting one after another, and the traffic has not decreased, earning enough attention during this summer vacation .

After I came back from vacation with the two of them, I could still see this TV series on the list of the most played.

[Qingshan Inn] The decoration style of the newly opened physical store in City B is martial arts style. In order to win the favor of young people, the gimmick of giving a free cup of classic drink to anyone who wears ancient costumes has also attracted a lot of attention.

Nowadays, there are more and more young people wearing ancient costumes. They have promoted [Qingshan Inn] in exchange for a lot of natural traffic.

This summer vacation is also bustling with drinks, sour and sweet.

[Qingshan Inn] has achieved good results, and Qingshan tea is also good. It won three awards: the Best Clear Tea Award, the National Drink Cup Gold Award, and the Best Technological Innovation Award.

In addition to these three awards, Huo Hanchuan and I also won a special award, the Green Mountains and Green Waters Creation Award.

Because of the light of the tea garden, the award presenter shook hands with the two of us, saying thank you for the Wanli tea garden created by the two of us, and thank you for the green mountains and green waters that have arisen from this tea garden.He pointed out to us the theme of the conference: green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains.

I don't know if it is because of this reason that Qingshan tea was selected as the state banquet tea.

The National Day comes with the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This festival is a reunion festival second only to the New Year, and it is also a promotion festival for the gift industry. [Qingshan Tea] is also on the list of gifts, so it is very busy before the festival. Jing's headquarters is in an industrial park, so the two of us are almost in sync, and he is also working overtime.

Huojia Yunjing Hotel is the reception point for banquets, so Huo Hanchuan is also relatively busy.His hotel was busy, and the Qingshan tea customized by Yunjing Hotel was upgraded to state banquet tea, which was officially purchased by them.

The first thing Chen Yunpeng congratulated me was that he came to the company in person and said, "This time it's really tribute tea. Nephew Xiao Xian, you and Nephew Huo Xian have the foresight! Nephew Huo Xian told me last time: As long as If you follow the policy, you will definitely get support, and now it really is, which is great!"

What he was talking about was what Huo Hanchuan said during the last shareholder meeting. It seemed that he had already communicated with Chen Yunpeng.

I smiled at him: "Last time, thanks to Uncle Chen's strong support."

Chen Yunpeng took a sip of tea and smiled: "We are connected in the same vein. If I don't support you, who else can I support? Don't say these kind words in the future. By the way, I also introduced some customers. They also need to order tea for the holidays." , when I heard that it was tribute tea, I was overwhelmed. Let’s supply it.”

I smiled at him: "Thank you Uncle Chen, don't worry, we have already stocked up for this festival in advance, except for the tea needed for the banquet, we have also prepared goods from other platforms. August is the season of Pu'er tea, and the Pu'er tea from Lingshan The yield is very good, and there are some niche teas. The lotus leaf tea from Nanhu and the chrysanthemum tea from Qishan are all good. They are especially suitable for this season. I have already asked Secretary Zhou to prepare them. Uncle Chen, you can bring them to Aunt Chen for a taste. .”

Chen Yunpeng looked at me meaningfully and smiled. I thought I said something wrong, and coughed lightly: "What's wrong, Uncle Chen?"

He said: "I am very pleased that our chairman has grown to be able to take charge of his own business! Nephew Huo Xian has become a teacher."

He's saying that I'm as old and cunning as Huo Hanchuan, and I've become slick.He doesn't know that I am actually like this, and I am also very sophisticated in people's ways. I just didn't want to show it before.

So I laughed at him: "I'll take it as Uncle Chen, you're praising me for doing things."

Chen Yunpeng laughed: "How can this be called being a fool! It's just a compliment. To be a successful high-ranking person is to have a city, Mount Tai collapses in front of you without changing your face, and you have to be smooth and smooth. In this way, I can rest assured that you will see me another day." leader."

It seems that I let them, the shareholders, worry about it before?I worry about it all day, I can't do it well, right?

I smiled at him: "Thank you, Uncle Chen, for your guidance. There will be a meeting in a while. Since you are here, let's listen to it together?"

Chen Yunpeng put it down: "No, I won't participate in the internal meeting. I believe you can do it well. Let go and do it. Mr. Huo and I will support you behind!"

"Okay, Uncle Chen, do you have any instructions here?"

Chen Yunpeng thought for a while: "Is there any instructions, but I will tell you based on my experience that this celebration is very important. It is a good thing that Qingshan Tea is positioned as a state banquet tea, but the more it is so, the more attention should be paid, let alone the use of tea. On special occasions, it has to be very rigorous."

I understand what he said, and I thanked him: "Okay, Uncle Chen."

After seeing off Chen Yunpeng, I received a call from Xiao Nanshan, who asked me to go home when I had time. I haven't been back for two years, so I listened to this sentence suddenly, but didn't react. I told him Say I'm not free, I'm really busy.

Xiao Nanshan said angrily on the phone: "Your wings are stiff, aren't you? Do you still want me to invite President Xiao home?"

He called me President Xiao?That's something else, I've never let him see it before.I put down the pen in my hand, sat up straight and asked him, "What's the matter with you?"

I think it's better for the two of us to meet on the phone, at least we won't fight.

I think Xiao Nanshan must understand this too, so I heard Xiao Nanshan gasp a few times on the other end of the phone, he probably didn't know how to say it, and said after a while: "You are busy at Qingshan Tea Company recently, aren't you?"

He called in person, not specifically to express his condolences to my company, so I simply said: "It's okay."

Sure enough, he made the start, and then said his request.

He wanted me to help him set up a line. He saw that [Green Mountain Tea] became a state banquet tea, and saw that I had met many important people, and thought I was useful.

I was silent for a while, I knew something about the recent situation of the Xiao family, because the trouble was quite big, and it was caused by Xiao Junzhuo. For starters, my second sister-in-law found a very good person.

That person's family is powerful, pinching the lifeblood of the economy, how can he let it go, so the Xiao family's catering industry is affected by it, the chain store founded by the Xiao family is closing down for rectification due to food hygiene problems, at the juncture of the Mid-Autumn Festival, turnover and reputation loss together.

Coupled with the propaganda that fueled the flames from the back, the matter became more and more troublesome, and the reputation of Xiao's catering was about to implicate the hotel industry of the family.

The catering industry is not the main business of the Xiao family. The main business of the Xiao family is the same as that of the Huo family. It started as a hotel at first, but the Xiao family has also vigorously developed the catering industry in the past two years. Cheng Mingxi's most investment industry is catering. The catering industry is violent industry.

So Xiao Nanshan didn't want to give up this piece of fat, otherwise he wouldn't be able to find me, after all, it would be a matter of losing face.

But I can't help, I told Xiao Nanshan that I don't have that much ability, I'm just a tea supplier, I'm telling the truth, my abilities are these, besides this identity, I'm an actor, I don't have any connections, and Qingshan tea has only been improved in the past two years, and this time it was designated as a state banquet tea because Qingshan tea happened to be a point supported by the state, and it was its true quality, not me.

Xiao Nanshan also sneered: "I didn't ask you to find someone, but you told Han Chuan to ask him to make an appointment with me."

It turns out that he also knows that I have no skills, so why should he ask me?

I wanted to laugh: "Then you can find him yourself."

Xiao Nanshan snorted through his nose: "Hasn't he been by your side all these years? Don't you even have the weight to say a word?"

I said softly to him, "I'm just a pawn, not that heavy."

Xiao Nanshan hung up the phone.I think he was angry with me, and I didn't care.

I also think that this Mid-Autumn Festival may not need to go back.

In the evening, Huo Hanchuan told me about Xiao Nanshan looking for him, and I let him handle it at his own discretion without thinking about me.

To put it bluntly, as long as the Xiao family apologizes, it can be settled without losing face. After all, the Xiao family is also a century-old family, and its roots are there. It's slowed down, not to mention that Xiao Nanshan's original partner, the Ke family, is also quite powerful, the leader in the catering industry, the Xiao family is no longer good, they can take the top, anyway, they are all a family.

I think Huo Hanchuan must know it too, so he nodded and said: "Okay, then I'll see and talk about it."

I think if I were Huo Hanchuan, I would just stand by and watch. The Huo family and the Xiao family are in the same industry, so they are rivals. The Xiao family is no longer good, isn't it just right?

But I just said in my heart, Huo Hanchuan knows this business better than me, and now the Xiao family is still married to the Huo family, so Huo Hanchuan won't make trouble, I don't express any opinions, he decides for himself .

I'm so busy with my own affairs that I can't take care of them, so I don't care about the follow-up matters.

The busy work was finally finished on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival. When we returned home, the sun had not yet set. Yu Bo and the others started to decorate the house. Sister Chen said that she would make moon cakes for us. Her western food skills are very good. It is said to be better than the dim sum at Cloud View Hotel.

The dim sum in Yunjing Hotel is already hard to come by. It is only for people staying in the hotel, no takeaway, and the catering chefs inside are all top-notch.

But I know that Sister Chen is not exaggerating, she was originally from Michelin, and was hired by the Huo family because of her good cooking skills.

Huo Baize was very happy, not because he wanted to eat mooncakes, but because he could do it himself. I helped Yu Bo decorate the house, and went to the third floor to take care of the garden. I was busy these days, so I didn't come to see it, but Yu Bo took care of it. Well, the orchids are as elegant as ever, and the lilies are in bloom too, not to mention the easy-living roses I planted.

Roses bloom in all seasons, and this season is in full swing. I can't put my feet in the densely packed roses. I planted them. I prefer them in pieces. They don't seek shape or restrict their growth, so they are The long branches and leaves are complicated and intertwined, and you can't find which branch it is from for some flower buds.

I couldn't get my feet in, so Huo Hanchuan was even more timid. I didn't want him to step on my flowers, so he took the scissors and didn't know where to start cutting, and suggested to me: "I'll trim the shape for you, Like the rose arch bridge over there, how about we make a pillar and let them grow up in a group? It saves space and looks good.”

I shook my head and said to him: "I just want them to grow freely." I thought for a while and added: "When I was young when I read the book "Secret Garden", I liked an adjective for flowers in it, growing wildly. I have always Thinking about what it was like."

I like the description at the beginning of the book. In spring, unknown flower teeth emerge from the intertwined dead branches, as dense as stars, as if seeing lush hope.

"Oh, that should be the way you planted it!" Huo Hanchuan thought about it for a while, then pointed to my flowers and told me.

What he said is right, I think so too, the fiery red flowers are like a warm hope, they are close together, making people feel warm.

"I'm here to trim, don't move, just hold it for me." I saw him squatting down, and hurriedly told him that he couldn't cut flowers. Squeeze, it's not easy to slow down on that side now.

"I won't cut it. I'll support the flower branch for you. The root on the sunny side is about to be broken." He told me, I went to look, and it was true that the flower grows in the sun. I put on gloves and went with him. Tie, during those days in Qingshan Village, I learned a lot about how to care for tea gardens. Just like gardens, tea gardens need to be pruned and maintained regularly. Huo Hanchuan knows these things himself. Since he built the bamboo house, he has become a very powerful man. carpenter.

He propped up the branches on the ground, and carefully propped up the thick roots lying on the ground that were about to be crushed. The flower Yu Bo planted for me back then was a good branch at the beginning. After three years of growth, there are The branches are as thick as an arm, and the grain of the tree is cracked, and the intertwined roots are a little scary. I said to Huo Hanchuan, "Does it look like a snake?"

Huo Hanchuan looked at me speechlessly, and I changed the words: "Does it look like a loach?"

Huo Hanchuan shook his head with a broken smile: "I can't see that both you and Ozawa are courageous enough."

That's right, the two of us are about to dig up the loach on the mountain.

Huo Hanchuan didn't let me make any comments that were completely different from flowers, and said to me: "Go and cut the flowers, I can do this myself."

Then I went to cut the flowers, and while he was planting the flowers, he chatted with me: "I told you that Yu Bo is a bit blind now, if you told him the adjective just now, he wouldn't dare to come and trim the flowers for you. "

Yu Bo is also getting older. You can't see it from the outside. His body is still very strong, but this year he wears reading glasses. I nodded: "I won't say it. Yu Bo only has one word in my eyes now." .”

Huo Hanchuan laughed: "Fire love?"

I nodded and asked him, "Will Uncle Yu stay with us forever?" Many housekeepers go home to take care of themselves when they reach their age, and I just feel a little bit reluctant.

Huo Hanchuan hummed: "Uncle Yu is 71 years old this year, and his wife has passed away for almost ten years. Now that there is no one else in the family, he will always stay in our house."

Then I don't worry, Yu Bo is training a new butler now, but I hope he will always be there.

After cutting the flowers and carrying them downstairs, Huo Baize and I started arranging flowers, and Yu Bo was wearing reading glasses, holding one from a distance to look at it, and I said to him: "Yu Bo, just leave this job to me from now on. "

I like this job, Yu Bo said with a smile: "I also like this job. Giving roses to others will leave a lingering fragrance in your hands."

Huber was right.

The Mid-Autumn Festival came as scheduled. On the first day of the National Day, the capital was bustling inside and out, and the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival were celebrated together.

At the teacher's request, Huo Baize watched the national flag being raised, and Huo Hanchuan and I took him there. When the national anthem was played, I felt tears welling up in my eyes for some reason.Just like I went to send Huo Baize to elementary school and watched him raise the national flag. This is really strange. He told Huo Hanchuan a moment ago that Huo Baize was still tall in the team and could see his head, but the next moment, the music As soon as it rang, I was speechless, and my chest was overflowing with unspeakable emotions.

I think it is probably because the national anthem is a song that is rooted in our hearts, and we have heard it since we were young.

After watching the national flag raising, we went directly to Huo's old house.

The Huo family pays attention to reunion festivals, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has no fewer purchases than the New Year, but Huo Yunlan has not been able to come back from abroad, so I think the Mid-Autumn Festival is a bit deserted.

Although the Huo family is still very warm in entertaining us, Huo Hanchuan spent most of the past two years with me outside, so it is rare to go home once, and the enthusiasm is a bit overdone.

Even Mrs. Huo was very polite, and kept getting someone to bring me some food: "Brother Chen, try this, I heard from Han Chuan that you like to eat this...Xiao Ze, you can eat it too..."

This is what she said throughout the whole process. I saw Huo Hanchuan stop talking several times, but Mrs. Huo didn't dare to look at him, and she looked a little dodgy when she looked at me. I don't know what she wants to say to me. Look at her now It looks like it should have something to do with the previous incident, probably because Huo Hanchuan told me that she wanted to apologize to me, but she couldn't say it in front of me, I can understand, because at that time we both said absolutely It was too difficult to get her to speak again.

I don’t know if it’s because of this, we didn’t stay overnight, Huo Hanchuan said sorry to me on the road, he meant that his mother didn’t tell me anything else, he didn’t need it, and I didn’t tell him that I had refused Mrs. Huo.

Because we didn't stay overnight, we went home and had another visit with Yu Bo and the others.

I clinked glasses with Yu Bo, Wang Ma, Zhou Rui and the others: "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I wish you all younger and younger, and wish you the present every year and the present every year." Because they wish me more and more handsome and successful in my career , everything goes well.

I also clinked glasses with Huo Hanchuan and Huo Baize: "I hope we can be reunited every day."

On August [-]th, I was going to Xiao's house. Xiao Nanshan personally invited Huo Hanchuan to go. When it was about to arrive, Huo Hanchuan told me: "Your family may not be peaceful recently."

He said it very euphemistically, Xiao Junzhuo is hotter than me recently, and it was revealed that he was keeping all kinds of pornographic people, some of them were married women.I knew these things a long time ago, but Xiao Junzhuo was very strict before. At that time, no one opposed the Xiao family and the Ke family, but this time they offended people and kicked the iron plate.

So according to this development situation, the marriage between the Xiao family and the Chen family will end, and the family will indeed be uneasy.

I hummed: "Let's just sit down and leave after eating."

Although I really want to see Xiao Junzhuo's misfortune and the scene where he is scolded by thousands of people, but thinking about his face, I still forget it.

Huo Hanchuan was telling Huo Baize again: "You and Xiao Yulin have fun this time, don't quarrel, don't run around, keep quiet."

He said something so solemn, Huo Baize said in a daze: "Okay." After a while, he asked again: "Are they going to fight?"

Huo Hanchuan coughed softly: "No, just don't talk nonsense." He gave me a general overview of the progress of the Xiao family incident.

He helped, but the result of his help was that the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family divorced Xiao Junzhuo.He said that behind the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family is the real estate of the Qin family, and the background is not bad. The most important thing is that the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family is currently in a relatively high reputation.The divorce between the Xiao family and the Chen family was a certainty, so Xiao Nanshan also agreed.

I nodded my head to express my understanding.Although the two divorced, the Xiao family still lost some, but it is impossible to solve this kind of matter perfectly, and something has to be paid. It seems that Xiao Nanshan chose his own interests.After all, face is not as good as benefits. I think this person pointed at my nose and said that I had humiliated his Xiao family. In fact, he didn't care about face that much, right?

Knowing that the in-laws of the Chen family were unreliable, Xiao Nanshan simply chose to dissolve the engagement?

It's half a catty, I have his blood in my body, I am selfish, and he is not much better.The corner of my mouth twitched, and I looked out the car window. I was already at Xiao's house. Is Xiao's house in smoke now?It's more lively than I was back then.

When I was about to get to the front of the villa, I saw Cheng Mingxi standing at the door, and it was Cheng Mingxi who greeted us.

Cheng Mingxi smiled when he saw us: "Mom asked me to pick you up." The housekeeper next to us led us to the house, and when we entered the door, he heard Xiao Junzhuo's voice: "Chen Meilin, if you dare to step out of this house today, you Just try it!"

Chen Meilin is the name of the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family. Today is August [-]th, the day to return home. Xiao Junzhuo has broken up with his wife, and it seems that he knows that he is going to divorce.

Cheng Mingxi glanced at us, and said with some embarrassment: "Second sister-in-law and second brother are getting divorced."

Sure enough, it's no wonder Cheng Mingxi came out to pick us up, and he didn't seem to want to interfere with the Xiao family's affairs. After all, he is a son-in-law, and strictly speaking he is an outsider.

We had already reached the end of the conversation, and Ms. Su probably heard our voices, and said, "Nanshan, it's Hanchuan and Ozawa who are here!"

I heard Xiao Nanshan's voice, and he scolded in a low voice: "Stop making trouble, and you don't even know what day it is today! What's the matter, let's talk about it in the past today!"

Xiao Junzhuo probably wanted to scold something, but he swallowed the words abruptly the moment he saw me, I was a thorn in his side, he was above me for so many years, so he didn't want to lose points in front of me, so he just ruthlessly Swallowing a sigh of relief, she glared at the second sister-in-law of Xiao's family: "There are guests here today, I will accompany you back later!"

The second sister-in-law of the Xiao family raised her eyebrows slightly and made a surprised expression. She probably didn't expect Xiao Junzhuo to be able to act, and her expression angered Xiao Junzhuo. Say it again."

He roared, his body smelled very heavy of alcohol, he didn't know how much he drank, his face was flushed, his eyes were red, he didn't know if he was drunk or angry.

The second sister-in-law of the Xiao family didn't seem to see it at all, she laughed haha, she looked around the whole Xiao family and said with a smile: "No, I don't want to stay in your Xiao family any longer, I just want to pick today to end my life. This unbearable marriage. Now that everyone is here, I would like to ask everyone here to be a witness. I have been in the Xiao family for these years, and this place is a place that eats people without spit out bones." She glanced at me, The voice was deep, as if squeezed out from between the teeth: "Don't come back after you go out."

Huo Hanchuan held my hand slightly tighter, and I patted him reassuringly. I am a man and I am not so easy to be bullied. I know everyone's hatred.

It has only been five years since she married into Xiao's family. When she first married in, she still had the joy of being newlywed, but within half a year, Xiao Junzhuo returned to her original nature and started messing around again. She would quarrel with him at first, but then she stopped. It was so noisy that I didn't even bother to look at him.

She is the third lady of the Chen family, and she was considered a wealthy family back then. Her personality is different from that of ordinary women. I wonder how long she can tolerate for her Chen family.

Xiao Junzhuo threw a teacup angrily: "Chen Meilin, tell me the fuck, have I treated you badly these years! Aren't you the young mistress of our Xiao family! And the development of your Chen family these years has not been borrowed from our Xiao family?" Is it the light! You have brought me this embarrassing thing now, have I ever hit you with a finger! Now you are the one who is sorry for me!"

Chen Meilin just looked at him and smiled: "Xiao Junzhuo, touch your own conscience and say it again, am I sorry for you? Oh," she paused slightly: "I forgot, you don't have a conscience, your conscience is covered The dog ate it."

Xiao Junzhuo wanted to catch her, but the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family folded her arms and looked at him. Xiao Junzhuo was held back by his elder brother Xiao Junan: "Say less!"

Xiao Junzhuo said angrily: "Brother! Is it my fault now! This woman is too shameless!"

The second sister-in-law of the Xiao family's expression brightened. She looked at Xiao Junzhuo and smiled: "Yes, I have no shame. I learned from you. I don't think I have learned the essence yet. You have Sangong Sixth Hospital, so I just found one. , It’s just too bad.”

Xiao Junzhuo's face flushed red, and he forced an arm from Xiao Junan's, pointed at her and cursed: "Fuck you, Chen Meilin, you bitch! You still have the guts to say it!"

Xiao Junzhuo is a paper tiger, tough on the inside and soft on the inside, strong on the outside but hard on the inside, and machismo. All the little lovers he finds are low-key and small, and there are hundreds of them that are not as strong as his wife.So he was mad.

Chen Meilin, the second sister-in-law of the Xiao family, just shook her head with a smile, and took out a document from her small bag and put it on the table in front of her.

She smiled and said: "I should have thought that we would not be able to continue talking with you. You don't listen to people, and dogs can't spit out ivory. If this is the case, you should sign the divorce agreement."

Xiao Junzhuo was furious: "I won't sign it, Chen Meilin, don't even think about messing with that dog man, even if I die, I won't let you succeed!"

Chen Meilin smiled: "Okay, I put the divorce agreement here, you can sign it now and we can still be strangers, so we can get together and break up; if you don't sign it, if you insist on going to court, I will tear it up with you Shameless, see if I have no face, or you don't, I also want to see who the dog is, and I also want the public to comment on what is the standard of a dog man, so that all women can rub off before they get married Keep your eyes open, don't marry a man who is worse than a dog, haha, Xiao Junzhuo insulted a dog by saying you are a dog! I have a dog better than you!"

Xiao Junzhuo went mad with anger, his Adam's apple rolled, his face turned livid, and he didn't speak for a while.