booktalesy Chapter 33 This tiny, run-down provincial capital is really small.
Chapter 33 This tiny, run-down provincial capital is really small.
It is understandable that the province is now eager to reorganize the Jiangtai Group.
The entire Jiangtai Group is not only a leading real estate developer in the province, owning more than 20 commercial plazas, but also has businesses in cultural tourism hotels, inland waterway shipping, chemical pharmaceuticals, waste-to-energy, and more, involving three listed companies.
They are all quite large.
If the Jiangtai Group cannot continue to operate, then tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs, which will have a significant impact on the province.
Therefore, the support conditions offered by the province are very generous.
Mei Yanping was able to secure this opportunity only with the support of Fuxin Capital, Provincial Investment Group, Provincial Commercial Bank, and Han Huilan, among others.
She must have made a solemn pledge to the province, and the pressure is immense, but as long as she accomplishes this, the junk stocks she acquired at a low price could be worth tens of billions.
Under these circumstances, she had no time to worry about her son Cheng Yuhang's high school entrance exam.
next day!
To avoid affecting Cheng Yuhang's mood before the exam, Lu Ming talked to the boy alone for more than ten minutes on the way to the exam venue in the morning.
Life is rarely perfect.
Upon arriving at the school gate, Lu Ming said to Cheng Yuhang one last time, "Yuhang, one day you will become an adult, and you will also be subject to circumstances beyond your control. You must understand the difficulties adults face."
Cheng Yuhang nodded silently, then assured, "Uncle Daming, don't worry, I will definitely do my best in the exam and get the maximum reward of one million that my mom promised."
"...!"
Lu Ming remained silent.
As if he hadn't said anything!
What kind of parents can provide this kind of encouragement?
No wonder Rui Rui didn't react at all when he said he would give her several thousand yuan as a reward for her high school entrance exam; the difference is too great!
I bet Rui Rui just thinks her dad is so stingy!
For the next two days, Yao Yao will be taking care of Cheng Yuhang full-time.
After handing Cheng Yuhang over to her, Lu Ming drove to a hotel near Huarui Middle School to meet up with Pan Li, Rui Rui, and Yang Yunhao.
After his two children entered the examination hall, he went home to buy groceries and cook.
Before 10 o'clock, I delivered meals to Yao Yao and Cheng Yuhang, and then took several boxed lunches to Huarui Middle School.
Children should definitely not eat at restaurants during the high school entrance exam. If they experience gastrointestinal problems and don't perform well on the exam, the cost could be tens of thousands of yuan.
In the provincial capital, only Huarui International High School is a prestigious private high school that can continue to charge selection fees, but its admission scores are extremely high, with a difference of 5,000 yuan for every point below the cutoff.
The other school, Xinjiang High School, is a private key high school with slightly lower tuition fees, but its teaching quality and faculty are much worse than those of Huarui High School.
Lu Ming had been busy all morning, and when he arrived at the hotel, he was surprised to find that Pan Li was asleep in the guest room.
She opened the door looking sleepy and said apologetically, "I was so nervous last night that I couldn't sleep at all."
"It's okay, you can sleep for another half hour!"
Lu Ming carried several insulated lunch boxes into the room and sat on the single sofa in the guest room to rest for a while.
In mid-June, Jiangzhou was already very hot. His back-and-forth travel was not only tiring, but also made him sweat profusely.
"Why don't you take a shower? I'll go pick up the two kids later," Pan Li said, feeling quite embarrassed.
Among the several divorced middle-aged mothers with children, she was probably the most beautiful, mainly because she was the youngest, having given birth to Yang Yunhao at the age of twenty-one.
He's only thirty-six or thirty-seven years old this year.
She didn't have much contact with Lu Ming; they had only recently met. However, because she was a close friend of Mei Yanping and Xue Meiting, she often heard her friends mention Lu Ming.
Sometimes, they can even talk about men's topics for hours.
The depth of conversation among middle-aged women is quite impressive. They are all very lewd and dare to discuss anything in private, from long to short to deep, using all sorts of suggestive language.
Lu Ming had been busy in the kitchen for over an hour and had indeed worked up a sweat, feeling sticky all over. So he decided to take a shower in his hotel room.
Hua Rui Middle School is located on the east bank of Cuihu Reservoir, which is quite far from the city center. The nearby hotel mainly caters to tourists.
The hotel's standard rooms are not low-end, and some even have bathtubs. The only drawback is that there is only a layer of frosted glass between the bathroom and the room.
This frosted glass isn't a single layer; only the middle section is frosted, while the top and bottom are plain.
Fortunately, they were all middle-aged.
After a quick rinse, Lu Ming wrapped a towel around his waist and came out. Only when he saw Pan Li again did he realize that he had done something wrong.
He and Pan Li weren't that familiar with each other, and Pan Li probably wasn't the kind of open-minded woman like Miao Yuyan.
Fortunately, he was very handsome, and after his physique improved to eight points, his body also quickly became even better, to the point where he was comparable to Captain America.
Pan Li looked at him with surprise for a while, as if she had gotten a great deal, before giggling and saying, "No wonder Xue Meiting complains that the men she goes on blind dates with are far inferior to you."
Sure!
Since she was also a relaxed middle-aged woman, Lu Ming didn't need to be too reserved. He joked, "I think you should take Gao He's mother as a cautionary tale. She struggled for two years after her divorce and still couldn't find a better man than her ex-husband."
Pan Li could certainly tell he was trying to reconcile them. She smiled and said, "We women are all hypocritical. If Lao Yang were as handsome as you, I would never have gone to the point of divorce."
Having discussed this topic with Xue Meiting and Miao Yuyan before, Lu Ming wasn't surprised by this answer and asked, "So, have you reached an agreement with Lao Yang?"
"I don't want the money he secretly gave to his ex-wife and eldest son. The remaining money and property in the house are all mine. If Yunhao wants to attend a private high school, the tuition will be split between the two of us. Whatever I pay, he must pay the same amount."
Pan Li is no longer the young nurse who just married Lao Yang; she showed no mercy when it came to the divorce.
However, it's not exactly outrageous.
Since Lao Yang insisted on subsidizing his ex-wife and eldest son, she decided to stop interfering.
She paused, then chatted with Lu Ming again: "I feel like Old Yang is still stuck in the old mindset, still thinking of me as that pretty but unattractive nurse who only has a good figure, a mediocre student who graduated from a five-year vocational nursing school."
Actually, I've worked quite hard over the years. I tried everything to become best friends with Sister Mei, opened my own beauty salon, partnered with someone to open a yoga studio, and opened a gym. Although I don't earn as much as Lao Yang, I'm not doing badly either.
Women all want to marry men who have higher status, income, education, and ability.
When she married Lao Yang, she was a newly employed nurse, and he was the director of the bank's credit department; their statuses were indeed unequal.
Now that her income has been steadily increasing, she no longer looks up to Lao Yang and has seen more of his shortcomings.
That's just a woman's nature.
She has almost unlimited tolerance for the strong and handsome men, but she is almost unable to accept any mistakes from the weak and men of equal status.
To be precise, if a woman's man is not strong enough, she will subconsciously feel that she is being taken advantage of.
This feeling intensifies when they see similar women matched with more powerful husbands, and they feel like they could explode at any moment.
This is human nature!
Therefore, this is the case for most families.
Lu Ming didn't want to discuss such a serious topic, so he asked instead, "You invested a lot of money in that yoga studio at the west gate of the neighborhood, didn't you?"
He agreed to sign up for the membership because he saw that all the facilities were high-end and there was even a fairly large heated swimming pool.
In any case, you only need two days' worth of daily income to train for a whole year.
Pan Li chatted casually with a smile: "I invested with a friend introduced by Sister Mei. She is the mother of Yao Yao, Sister Mei's assistant. We invested a total of more than seven million yuan, and she contributed more than half of it. Luckily, she is rich and powerful. That yoga gym has never made much money. If it were any other investor, they would probably have turned their backs on us long ago."
It was precisely because she had close friends like Mei Yanping and Yao Yao's mother to support her that she was able to easily make the decision to divorce.
Being single is great; there are plenty of young trainers at the gym, and handsome male customers like Lu Ming.
"This tiny, run-down provincial capital is really small!"
Lu Ming suddenly realized that the provincial capital was full of friends of friends, and beautiful mature women who could trigger mission rewards everywhere!
I need to work hard!