The leisurely life of a reborn dad

"No matter how good it is outside, you have to go home eventually."

At Cao Shujie's home at the north end of Caojiazhuang, Cao Shujie said to the two siblings as they packed their luggage and prepared to leave.

Cao Yirui didn't take it to heart at all.

He had just gone out to college for half a year, and was out of his parents' control. It was the time to look around and feel that everything was new. The key was that no one cared about him. This was the life he wanted.

But Cao Xuemeng was different.

Although her experience was still short, she had a long talk with her father Cao Shujie this time, and her thoughts had changed unconsciously.

Inadvertently, Cao Xuemeng also realized that her father had not been easy over the years.

After graduating from college, she stayed in Beijing directly, and did not come back to work in Xuemeng Food Factory as her father thought. To some extent, Cao Xuemeng was also rebellious at that time, and did not want to follow her father's arrangement and take that path early.

Even now, Cao Xuemeng still has the idea of ​​letting herself go.

But Cao Shujie came over and said in a low voice but without any rebuttal: "Mengmeng, I allow you to start a business outside for another two years, no matter whether you make a profit or a loss, unless the scale of your company can catch up with Xuemeng Food Factory in the future, otherwise you will come back and work in the company according to my arrangement, get familiar with the work, and continue to develop Xuemeng Food Factory when it is suitable."

"Dad, you let me manage the factory, then what are you going to do?"

"Besides, didn't you say before that you would hand over the factory to my sister?" Cao Xuemeng reminded her father not to take his words as fart.

"Haha!"

Cao Shujie didn't care at all. He was thick-skinned enough: "I was just talking casually. Besides, your sister is only two years old now. When she reaches your age, I will be over 70 years old. By then, I will be in my 70s. What can she understand?"

Speaking of this, Cao Shujie suddenly said: "Mengmeng, if you don't want to come to Xuemeng Food Factory, then in another 10 years, when I retire, I will dissolve Xuemeng Food Factory, and your mother and I will find a quiet place to spend the rest of our lives."

Cao Xuemeng thought her father was joking, but seeing the serious expression on her father's face, Cao Xuemeng suddenly felt a little panicked: "Is my father serious? Or is he joking?"

If it's true, then it's over.

After years of indoctrination by Cao Shujie, Cao Xuemeng has had the idea of ​​inheriting Xuemeng Food Factory since she was a child. Besides, the factory is named after her.

What happens if it is disbanded?

"Don't I still have my brother?" Cao Xuemeng asked his father

Cao Shujie looked at his son, who looked like he had taken stimulants because he was going back to Beijing. His IQ was indeed not low, and he could see things accurately, but his character was not good enough, and he was often easily influenced at critical moments.

Being too smart and not being able to control this intelligence was a taboo. He shook his head: "His two tricks are useless."

"..."

Cao Xuemeng thought to herself: "I don't believe you."

Cao Xuemeng always felt that her father was coaxing her.

But it was late today, Cao Xuemeng said goodbye to her grandparents, and finally looked at her mother Cheng Xiaolin, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and said goodbye.

At this time, Cheng Xiaolin looked like her mother and mother-in-law when they saw them leaving home and preparing to go to Beijing. She looked at her daughter with blurred eyes, but at least she didn't cry.

It was just that Cheng Xiaolin's emotions were agitated and particularly complicated.

But Cheng Xiaolin didn't say anything to keep her, that was meaningless.

Wu Shangying drove and took Cao Xuemeng and Cao Yirui away with their siblings.

Guan Shuangxia was sitting in the passenger seat. She would exchange driving with Wu Shangying later. The journey was not short, and the two of them took turns driving, so they didn't feel tired.

This time they returned early. Cao Xuemeng went back to deal with the opening of the Three Musketeers Design Studio.

Cao Yirui couldn't stay at home. He always felt that his mother wanted to talk to him about finding a daughter-in-law during college.

Cao Yirui admitted that his mother was indeed very tolerant of him in this regard, and repeatedly said that she could help him take care of the children, but Cao Yirui felt that if he was young, less than 20 years old, and found a partner to marry, wouldn't he be bound by his family for the rest of his life?

"No, no, I still want to see the beauty of the world." Cao Yirui felt that it was too disadvantageous.

...

Without looking at the car that had gone far away, Cao Shujie took his daughter and his wife, parents, and parents-in-law home together, and told his parents-in-law to stay in Caojiazhuang for a few more days.

Cheng Rengui and Li Xiaojuan, the old couple, have nothing else to do now. In addition, the children's theme park and orchard in Caojiazhuang are closed, so there is no need to go out to set up a stall at this time.

Because of this, they are now very idle. Their son-in-law asked them to stay for a few days. After the two of them discussed it, they could also accompany their little granddaughter.

The older they are, the more they want to see their children.

On the way home, Cao Shujie passed by the doghouse and saw Xiao Hei lying motionless on the ground. Cao Shujie inexplicably thought of the deceased Daha, Erha and Dahei. He felt that Xiao Hei was locked in the doghouse and was quite lonely.

Since he brought them back in 2011, Erha, the shortest-lived of the four dogs, has been with him for 13 years. The longest is naturally Xiao Hei, who is still alive.

But Xiao Hei has now reached the end of his life. Every hair on his body seems to reveal the decay of life. In his eyes, there is only nostalgia for Cao Shujie, his master.

Cao Shujie also looked into its cloudy eyes, somewhat absentmindedly. When Cheng Xiaolin passed by, she called out to him, "Shujie, it's cold outside, hurry in."

"Or you can give Nuan Nuan to me, I'll take her to the house to warm up for a while." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cao Shujie subconsciously wanted to chat with Xiao Hei for a while. He handed his daughter over and watched his wife take Nuan Nuan into the house. Cao Shujie opened the door of the kennel and let Xiao Hei out.

He couldn't remember how long it had been since Xiao Hei followed him out for exercise like before.

It was difficult to let Xiao Hei go out for a few steps now. His weak steps could clearly feel Xiao Hei's unwillingness.

Xiao Hei's current age is almost equivalent to the time period when humans live over 100 years old, the twilight years.

This is because Cao Shujie has fed it a lot of good food over the years, and he used to take it out for exercise.

Cao Shujie really wants to take Xiao Hei for another run, but there is no way.

His trembling limbs could not support his weight of dozens of kilograms, and he slowly came out of the kennel. It was hard to see his former majestic appearance.

After finally getting out of the doghouse, Xiao Hei couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground after walking a few steps.

Cao Shujie couldn't help but feel a little sad. He took a stool and sat down next to Xiao Hei. He reached out and stroked Xiao Hei's back. Cao Shujie was like an old man, reciting every detail of the past years.

In Cao Shujie's eyes, this life started from returning to Caojiazhuang in March 2011. It was a new life for him, but Cao Shujie was very busy in the first 10 years and he didn't really take a rest.

On the contrary, in the following 10 years, Cao Shujie tried his best to let go of everything, delegated all the power of several companies, and let several generals under him take the helm.

After a long time, it is inevitable that there will be unhappy places, but in Cao Shujie's view, as long as they don't do too much, it's harmless.

But human nature is despicable. There are always people who test Cao Shujie's bottom line again and again. In this case, Cao Shujie will not be soft-hearted when he is ruthless.

A group of people were dealt with by thunderbolt means, killing the chicken to scare the monkey, and the others stopped.

Unlike other companies, Xuemeng Food Factory, Flour Mill, Steel Ball Factory, these are all Cao Shujie's personal industries, and Caojiazhuang Tourism Company has 70% of its shares owned by Cao Shujie, and the remaining 30% of the shares, of which 20% belong to the investment of Caojiazhuang Village Committee, and the last 10% is the shares of Caojiazhuang people in the name of the collective.

On the other hand, like Yaxu Electronics Factory, it was listed 8 years ago and received a considerable amount of financing on the same day.

In the past 8 years, Yaxu Electronics Factory has devoted itself to researching technology, enriching its foundation, and steadily developing its own industry.

It is this pragmatic attitude that has made Yaxu Electronics Factory earn a lot of money.

As for the stock of Yaxu Electronics Factory, it has been ups and downs with the market in recent years, but when the market index once again reached a high point and fell, the stock price of Yaxu shares has risen again and again, leading the industry as a pioneer, and its unparalleled attitude makes people look sideways.

In fact, the scale of Yaxu Electronics Factory has indeed been expanding in recent years.

They have opened many branches across the country, and also opened a branch in Xinjiang, specializing in wind power research.

Cao Shujie has been holding shares of Yaxu Electronics Factory for these years. Although the restricted sale period has long passed, he has not sold a single share.

Even when Yaxu shares fell sharply with the market, Cao Shujie once took out a large amount of cash to publicly increase his holdings of Yaxu shares.

It was also this incident that once made Cao Shujie nicknamed the "most reliable major shareholder" of the A-share market by stock friends, rather than the Panda Team.

It seems that it is also because Cao Shujie has not reduced his holdings of Yaxu shares in these years that Yaxu Electronics Factory has been able to rejuvenate when it truly completed the infrastructure construction of charging piles across the country in the later period and began to exert its operating efficiency. In the end, its stock price has repeatedly hit new highs.

Cao Shujie also relied on his possession of more than 40% of the shares of Yaxu Electronics Factory. The value of these shares alone exceeded 60 billion yuan, far exceeding the original investment by more than 100 times.

As for how much Cao Shujie is worth now, in fact, no one can tell clearly. The most important thing is that the Xuemeng Food Factory under his name is not a listed company.

Several other companies are also not listed companies.

The operating conditions and financial information of these companies are not disclosed to the public at all, especially since the outbreak of the epidemic, the outside world has never heard of how much profit Xuemeng Food Factory has made in a year.

Including the past 8 years, everyone is just guessing.

But everyone knows that the employee benefits and treatment of Xuemeng Food Factory have never been left behind.

Some people say that Cao Shujie's net worth has already reached more than 100 billion, even if they don't know what the previous number is?

Some people jokingly call him the most real 100 billionaire, but Cao Shujie himself has never admitted it directly.

"Xiaohei, for so many years, you have been with me in the end. Tell me, what do you want to eat? I'll get it for you right away." Cao Shujie said.

Xiaohei called out twice, as if he was shouting his own cry, and also as if he was telling Cao Shujie what he wanted to eat?

But in the end, he didn't make it clear.

Cao Shujie even pretended to ask him: "Xiaohei, what did you say just now? Say it again, your voice was too soft just now, I didn't hear it clearly."

"What? You want to drink, my God!" Cao Shujie was shocked, and Cheng Xiaolin, who was playing with her daughter in the room, was startled.

She quickly came out of the room and asked him what happened.

As a result, Cao Shujie seemed to be talking to himself: "Wife, Xiaohei said he wanted to drink, do you think I should give him a drink?"

"Just drink it, it's not a big deal." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cheng Xiaolin has an open attitude on this matter.

She thinks it's like some elderly people who want to eat and drink whatever they want at this age, as long as there is something, they should prepare it for them, and don't think that eating and drinking these things are not good for the body.

Cao Shujie got his wife's promise, and said to Xiao Hei happily: "Xiao Hei, wait for me, I'll go to the house to get you some good wine."

"I tell you, I still have a lot of wine here that has been stored for more than ten years." Cao Shujie said, he had money, he bought a lot at that time, and he did hoard a lot for a long time.

It may not be the most expensive, but it must taste delicious.

The key is that Cao Shujie would not think that a bottle of wine is so expensive that he would not be willing to give it to Xiao Hei.

"Oh!" Xiao Hei raised his dog head weakly and called out.

But the sound was too small and there was no strength at all.

The moment he lowered his head, the little black dog's head fell to the ground, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Cao Shujie was rummaging around in the wine room, trying to find the best wine to drink with Xiao Hei.

But when he came outside with a bottle of wine and two small bowls, he sat down on the stool, happily called Xiao Hei and prepared to pour wine for him.

But no matter how Cao Shujie called Xiao Hei, he didn't respond.

Cao Shujie paused in pouring the wine, and his hand shook, and the good wine in the bottle spilled all over the floor.

The wine splashed on Xiao Hei's hair and the ground next to Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei didn't call out again, nor did he shake his body hard to get rid of the water like he did before.

"Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei!"

Cao Shujie called out a few more times, but there was still no response.

He put the bowl aside, bent down and shook Xiao Hei's dog head.

In the past, Xiao Hei would raise his black and brown dog head to scare Cao Shujie and make fun of him, but this time he didn't.

There was not even a single call.

Cao Shujie was neither happy nor angry. He took the opened bottle and poured it directly next to the little black dog's head.

"Little Black, drink it, drink it well, drink one more glass..."

"Do you still want to eat meat? I'll get you some beef."

"Little Black, this time you four brothers are all together. Next time you four brothers will reincarnate together, but I won't raise them. If I raise them again, who knows who will send whom away?"

"If you really don't want to reincarnate, you can also play mahjong in the Hades Palace."

"Hey, do you want me to burn a set of mahjong for you? I don't know if you can catch up with Daha, Erha and Dahei after they have been gone for so many years?"

"Oh, Xiaohei, I'll open another bottle of wine for you, drink it well, and get on the road after you are full!"

Cao Shujie couldn't control his emotions when he said the last sentence.

He has been raising them for 20 years!

At this time, Cheng Xiaolin, who was playing with her son in the room, heard something wrong outside. She hurried out to see, and then she noticed that her husband Cao Shujie was talking to himself outside.

On this day, Xiao Hei passed away.

"Dad, Mom." Cheng Xiaolin called her parents and her father-in-law and mother-in-law over, handed her daughter to them, and came to the yard and stood beside her husband.

Seeing that her husband had been silent, Cheng Xiaolin knew in her heart that her husband must be very uncomfortable at this moment.

"Shujie, it's okay, it's really okay." Cheng Xiaolin coaxed her husband like coaxing a child.

But Cao Shujie was very sober: "Wife, don't worry, I'm fine, I just didn't expect Xiao Hei to pass away at this time.

"Is it really okay?" Cheng Xiaolin hugged her husband's head with both hands and held him in her arms.

"It's okay, I'm almost 50, what can happen." Cao Shujie slowly broke free.

Seeing Xiao Hei lying next to him, motionless, he said: "I have to bury them together! ”

……

On the way from Caojiazhuang to Beijing, Cao Xuemeng and her brother Cao Yirui sat in the back seat.

Cao Yirui looked at the scenery outside the window going backwards, and his heart was wild, thinking that he was free again.

No one cares about him, it’s better this way!

“Sister, when will the company distribute dividends again?” Cao Yirui asked excitedly.

Cao Xuemeng rolled his eyes at him: “It’s just the beginning of the year, and the company hasn’t started business yet, why are you in a hurry?”

“Hey, I’m not in a hurry, I just want to take some money out to go around.” Cao Yirui explained.

Cao Xuemeng said to him: “Won’t you ask our parents for it?”

“How dare I? 5 million made me spend less than 200 in half a year, and the rest was invested in your company. Sister, I count on you for the rest of my life.” Cao Yirui pretended to be pitiful.

But Cao Xuemeng didn’t buy it: “My dad said that he would let me work for two more years at most, and then go back to work in the factory. ”

Cao Yirui got angry when he heard it: "Sister, that won't work. I won't graduate yet. If you're not here, I'll stay here by myself?"

"Isn't it good? Don't you think it's great to be free and unfettered without anyone to bother you?" Cao Xuemeng said to him.

But Cao Yirui was a little panicked. This was not what he wanted.

"Sister, don't worry. I'm telling you, our dad is just teasing you. If you go back to work in the factory, you will be a real factory girl, and your life will be over." Cao Yirui said loudly.

It seemed that he wanted to wake up his sister in this way.

But he was wrong. Cao Xuemeng also looked at the gradually unfamiliar scenery outside the car window. She felt empty in her heart and didn't know what she was thinking.

Cao Yirui was unwilling to give up. He kept nagging beside him and kept talking.

But Cao Xuemeng suddenly said at the end: "Ruirui, have you noticed? Our dad has white hair now. "

"What's the big deal? Isn't it normal to have white hair? There are also people with less white hair. I will dye my hair silver after I go to school." Cao Yirui said.

Cao Xuemeng ignored him and continued, "My father will be over 50 in two years. He asked me to go to the factory to work. Do you understand what he meant?"

"Ruirui, you are not young anymore. You should be sensible." Cao Xuemeng said.

This sentence made Cao Yirui silent.

After all, the two siblings are not children from ordinary families. (End of this chapter)