The good news brought by Li Dazhu was like a warm ray of sunshine, dispelling some of the gloom caused by Zhao Yuan's revenge on the Chen family.
The couple's combined monthly pensions exceeded ten thousand, a sum that offered them hope!
Jia Cui happily grabbed her grocery basket and headed straight to the shantytown market to buy ingredients to treat Li Dazhu.
Chen Nan followed her immediately.
Shopping at the market with his mother was his favorite childhood memory.
Because every time they went, Jia Cui would ask him what he wanted to eat, and no matter if it was fish or shrimp, if he asked for it, Jia Cui would satisfy him.
While they were shopping, Chen Nan received a call from Jiang Jiancheng: "Mr. Chen, the Zhao family has taken the bait, but I need your help."
Chen Nan said, "Go ahead."
"I want to invite you to be a quality inspector at the East City construction site a month from today..." Jiang Jiancheng briefly explained the trap he had set for the Zhao family: "As long as you declare the project quality substandard, I will have a reason to withhold the project funds. Once this happens, the Zhao family will be powerless to repay the twenty billion yuan, and bankruptcy will be a matter of moments!"
"In other words, my word can decide the fate of the Zhao family?" Chen Nan's eyes lit up.
He had to admit, the methods these capitalists used to manipulate people were indeed terrifying.
Even he felt inadequate.
Jiang Jiancheng: "Yes."
Chen Nan hesitated and said, "I don't deny that this would be satisfying and gratifying, but wouldn't this affect the Jiang family's reputation? Making it seem like the Jiang family is bullying others with their power?"
Jiang Jiancheng smiled: "Mr. Chen, you may not know, but I have already arranged for someone to secretly acquire the Jizhou Steel Plant. As long as we produce a batch of substandard steel and send it to the construction site, then we can control the Zhao family, won't we?"
"Alright, I will inspect the project in a month," Chen Nan agreed readily.
The Zhao family had gone too far!
Not only did they imprison him, but they also caused his father to lose his job.
They even had someone break his father's legs.
This debt had to be repaid!
Yes, one month from today would be the day the Zhao family would be ruined!
"Oh, by the way, Li Dazhu has a good relationship with my father," Chen Nan reminded him.
Li Dazhu was now the workshop director. If a batch of substandard steel were to be produced, an investigation would surely follow, and Li Dazhu could face imprisonment.
This was something Chen Nan did not want to see.
"I know what to do!"
Chen Nan didn't say much more. After hanging up, he followed his mother to buy a lot of fresh and inexpensive vegetables.
When they returned home, they found that Li Dazhu had already left.
"Where did Dazhu go?" Jia Cui asked with a frown.
Chen Shan smiled and said, "Dazhu just received a call saying he's about to be promoted to plant manager!"
"Ah?" Jia Cui was greatly surprised: "That guy can be a plant manager?"
Chen Nan's mouth twitched.
Did Jiang Jiancheng misunderstand his intentions?
Had he said anything about Li Dazhu becoming the plant manager?
Chen Shan said, "Although Dazhu doesn't have a high level of education, he is honest and simple, and has a strong work ethic. He is more suitable for the position of plant manager than Liu Feng." Saying this, Chen Shan sighed.
He knew that the Jizhou Steel Plant was at its end, and no one appointed as plant manager could possibly revive it.
Jia Cui was also very happy: "I never thought that fellow would become the plant manager. I'll make him treat us to a meal, yes, seafood and abalone!"
As she said this, she looked at the grocery basket in her hand, then at Chen Shan, and blamed him: "Why didn't Dazhu call me when he left? If I had known, I wouldn't have bought so many vegetables!"
Chen Shan gave a dry laugh: "Even if Dazhu left, don't we still have to eat? The weather forecast says it's going to rain, why don't we close the stall tonight and have a family reunion dinner when the second and third ones come back?"
Jia Cui's face glowed, and she smiled: "Okay, I'll cook a few of my signature dishes tonight, and we'll have a good meal as a family."
At ten twenty in the evening, Chen Xiazhi, who had finished her evening study, returned home wearing a raincoat.
Seeing the table full of delicious food, she didn't even have time to take off her raincoat. She smiled and said, "Wow, is it Chinese New Year?" Then she reached out to take the preserved sausage from a plate, but was met with a sharp look from her mother: "Are your hands clean?"
"Hehe, my brother is a doctor, he can cure any illness," Chen Xiazhi said, picking up a slice of preserved sausage and eating it.
At the same time.
Jia Cui also received a call from Chen Hanlu. She impatiently threw her phone on the dining table: "It looks like this reunion dinner won't happen. Xiao San said it's her best friend's birthday, and she's going to celebrate with her. She also said she won't be back tonight."
Chen Shan couldn't sit still and quickly said: "It's not safe for a young girl to be out alone so late at night. Even if she comes back a little late, she shouldn't stay out all night!"
A bitter feeling welled up in Chen Nan's heart.
Chen Hanlu not coming back meant she was probably deliberately avoiding him, right?
Perhaps due to watching many "Young and Dangerous" movies with Chen Nan since she was young and being influenced by the female characters, Chen Hanlu was somewhat precocious in matters of love.
After eating her birthday cake at home at the age of twelve, she called Chen Nan to the small grove in the south of the city and confessed her feelings, wanting to be his girlfriend! Chen Nan not only decisively refused Chen Hanlu but even got very angry with her.
After that.
The relationship between the siblings changed drastically.
Chen Hanlu would avoid Chen Nan as much as possible, and if she couldn't avoid him, she would give him no pleasantries.
Even when he was imprisoned for three years, Chen Hanlu never visited!
Snapping back to reality, Chen Nan said, "Mom, Dad, don't worry, I'll go find Hanlu now."
Jia Cui sighed: "Jizhou is so big, where would we find her?"
"I'll go with my brother, I can locate Hanlu's position," Chen Xiazhi and Chen Hanlu used the same model of phone and logged into the same ID, so she could completely locate Chen Hanlu's position.
"It's raining late at night, you shouldn't tag along and cause trouble," Chen Nan said as he put on his raincoat. "See where Hanlu is, and I'll bring her back."
Chen Xiazhi pouted. Although she wanted to go with Chen Nan, she didn't want to be a burden to him. She opened her phone to locate her and said, "She's at the Emperor's Nightclub right now."
Jia Cui was furious: "Nonsense! How can a girl go to a nightclub? Is that a place for respectable girls to go?"
"Son, you must bring Xiao San back," Chen Shan also said with a solemn expression.
Upon hearing "Emperor's Nightclub," a cold glint flashed in Chen Nan's eyes.
According to the information provided by Jiang Jiancheng, the group of people who broke his father's legs worked as thugs at the Emperor's Nightclub!
However, the Emperor's Nightclub had backing from the provincial capital.
Even Jiang Jiancheng, the richest man in Jizhou, dared not put on airs in front of the owner of the Emperor's Nightclub.
"I'll deal with you all today while I'm at it!"
Chen Nan's anger was burning.
No matter who they were.
No matter what background they had.
As long as they dared to harm his family, they would pay a heavy price!
Let alone the Emperor's Nightclub being the target this time, even if it were a dragon's lair or a tiger's den, he would still charge in!