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Episode 173
Marriage in the 1980s 4
"You are here today. I'm afraid it's not just about ordering wine, right?" Old man Xiao said, looking at Mr. Cheng.
"I knew it, I couldn't hide it from you." Mr. Cheng said with a smile.
"You came here under the name of ordering wine, so I didn't want to hide it at all." Old man Xiao said, "I know you are just such a grandson, and you were raised up by your own surname as a grandson. .But you, a literati, have the literary character, and you disdain to participate in these business dealers. Although your grandson, your business has become bigger and bigger in recent years, but you can order wine for his newly opened restaurant. So there is no need for you to bring him to the door yourself."
"It's not disdain." Old man Cheng waved his hand. "There are many mysteries in the way of business. I still admire such a truly successful businessman like Old Xiao, but I look down on those little ones who are too short to have enough money. People. My grandson, as you said, was brought up by me. I originally wanted him to go to the official career. With the help of my students who were officials, he himself is a resourceful person and will be in officialdom. He can definitely do something. But he is born to like business. To be honest, I have also been disappointed in my heart. It is not that I am bragging. Among the students I have taught, there is no more flexible brain than his. But I I couldn't convince him, but let him convince me, so I just let him go."
After taking a sip of tea, Grandpa Cheng continued, "My grandson, my vision is really high. I don't know how many people I have shown him in these years, and none of them can satisfy him. I didn't know what happened that day, suddenly I ran to Zhao Haoyu’s wedding banquet. After I went back, I had to take him to visit your home. I thought that our two families had no intersection before, and this abruptly came to visit. There must be a reason. Just right. He opened a few new restaurants and wanted to purchase a lot of your wine, so I came with him for this reason. I also asked him, and he said that he saw your family’s Xiao Ling throwing wine From the moment the bottle was bottled, he felt that your Xiao Ling was the one he had to wait for all these years."
"Since something like that happened at the last wedding banquet, many people have come to the house, but during this period of time, I have repeatedly reflected on myself. My vision is really bad. At first, Zhao Haoyu thought it was good, but he almost didn't expect it. It hurt my Xiao Ling all his life, and I feel scared after thinking about it."
"Then you think, how do I look at people?"
"Your vision is naturally that I am better than me. People outside are saying that none of the students you have received in the past few decades have been unsightly. No matter how old you are, you have done something, and there is no such mess. It’s really not enough if you don’t admire it."
"My grandson is the one I saw when I was young. I won't talk about the others. There is only one thing that he inherited from his father, and that is his absolute devotion. There have been many people who have fallen in love with him over the years. , But he was unmoved, and he didn’t even want to look at people with his straight eyes. His mother advised him to be gentle with other girls, but he said that he was only gentle with the people he identified. If he didn’t meet the ones he liked People, he would rather never marry forever."
"Cheng Sheng is a rising star in the business community in Los Angeles. I have paid attention to him in the past few years. He is indeed young and promising. But I also thought that Zhao Haoyu was a good person. Nian was afraid of Jing Sheng, and I was really scared. Another point, although Cheng Sheng is your last name, he is after all Zhao Shude's grandson. I have already said that if I don't interact with the Zhao family, how can I slap myself? "
"You don't have to worry about this. I had such a big feast with Zhao Shude. I didn't marry my daughter to his son. It's no secret that my son-in-law is at odds with Zhao Shude and his son. I didn't ask him to be married, but Cheng Sheng After birth, he insisted that Cheng Sheng be surnamed Cheng, and said that if his mother were not there, he would not have been named Zhao himself. When I agreed to marry my daughter to him, many people said, I I will definitely regret it in the future, but in the past 20 or 30 years, my daughter and I have not regretted a day. Although my son-in-law is not as capable as my students, he really knows how to care for others and never treats my daughter. I said a word loudly. I dare to use my old face to assure you that Cheng Sheng definitely learned from his father."
Mr. Cheng tried his best to promote Cheng Sheng to Mr. Xiao. This was the first time he did such a thing for Cheng Sheng, because before, others had come to sell them to them.
Old man Xiao was gradually moved by the words, but with the lessons learned last time, he was still very afraid and didn't dare to accept it easily. He just said, "I am getting older now, and my mind is gradually not flexible enough, just such a grandson. I have to be cautious and cautious, cautious and cautious, look at it later, look at it again."
Those students of Mr. Cheng said privately that their teacher was an old fox who had practiced for thousands of years, so how could he not see Mr. Xiao's thoughts. He knew that Elder Xiao had already been touched by him, and he had achieved the effect he had expected. Whether he could marry him back, it was up to Cheng Sheng himself.
After Grandpa Cheng and Cheng Sheng left, Tao Yuan would like to discuss the wine tasting with Grandpa Xiao, because the best way to promote the new wine was to set up a wine tasting. Because the Xiao family has certain standards and strict requirements for wine, although the Xiao family has a wine tasting banquet every year, there have been no wine tasting banquets for new wines for ten years.
Mr. Xiao was quite satisfied with the new wine made by Tao Yuan this time. After calling the masters at home to taste the new wine, he also got unanimous approval. The masters were all cheerfully, the wine outside. The wine shop is opened one after the other, and new wines are released every year. These masters who have been in the Xiao family for decades cannot help but feel anxious. Now they finally have something that can be recognized by Mr. Xiao. After tasting the new wine, they felt that it would surely sell well, so they were naturally happy.
"What do you think of Xiao Sheng?" After seeing the masters leave to go to work, Old Man Xiao suddenly asked Tao Yuan without beginning and ending.
Tao Yuan thought for a while and said, "I gave him a drink of all the wines currently on sale in our house. He was able to name each wine accurately. It seems that he really likes our wine. When he was visiting the garden just now, he said that he had just bought a very nice villa, and he wanted to invite me to be a guest when it opened after a while."
"You agree?"
Tao Yuan nodded.
"His father and Zhao Haoyu's father are half-brothers. Although his surname is not Zhao, he and Zhao Haoyu are cousins."
"I know about this. I have also heard of some things about their family. Although he is the grandson of the Zhao family, and our family just had a grudge with the Zhao family, but his grandfather and his father had an enmity with the Zhao family, It’s much bigger than us. So I think that the Zhao family is the Zhao family and he is him. If he is judged because of the Zhao family’s behavior, then he would be too wronged."
"... If you speak for him like this, shouldn't it be him?" Old man Xiao asked Tao Yuan seriously and seriously.
"I'm just telling the facts objectively. As for the things that I don't like, let me talk to him after a while. I will be busy with wine tasting next."
"Xiaoling, grandpa knows that you have been a very careful person since you were a child, but we must admit that you and grandpa don’t seem to have very good visions. But be careful and careful, and be careful and careful."
"I see." Tao Yuan said with a smile.
In this era, good things can’t be sold without worries, but with the development of society and economy, more and more people are doing business. Don’t look at it now, it seems that all businesses are quite good, but the later, competition The stronger there will be, there will be competition, and there will be elimination.
In the previous life, the reason why the Ke family fell in the end was because it was eliminated in the increasingly turbulent business sea. But the Ke family is still very good now. The business is bigger than the Xiao family. On the surface, their family business is much larger than that of the Xiao family. Before, their family was mainly in the cloth and tea business. Now they are also in the wine business, and they are doing quite well. Although they are not as famous as the Xiaojia Winery, after all, Xiaojia Winery has gone through several generations of hard work.
The Xiao family only focused on the wine business. Before the feudal dynasty was destroyed, the wine of the Xiao family was a royal tribute, and was awarded the best wine in the world written by the emperor's imperial pen, which made it famous throughout the country.
Tao Yuan wants to brew more and better wines to further enhance the status of Xiaojia Winery. This wine tasting banquet is just the beginning.
Now there are the Calligraphy Association, the Chinese Painting Association, the Go Association, the Tea Association, the Wine Association, and the Fabric Association. Since it is a wine tasting banquet, it is natural to post to the veterans of the wine tasting association. Although these associations have many people, they need to have many years of qualifications and real skills to sit in the position of the veterans. The average winery I want to invite them, they don't even bother.
A few months ago, the Kejia also hosted a wine tasting banquet for new wines. After the event, the veterans of the wine tasting association gave a very good evaluation. Then the Kejia let people go everywhere to say something. Wine words from the winery. Now Tao Yuan is going to slap them in the face, so that the veterans of these wine associations can say in person that the Xiaojia Winery is ranked first in the world.
Because Tao Yuan is a brother in this world, many rules are the same as women. Women and brothers do not entertain foreign guests. Although in the current era, young people are more and more open-minded, the older generation still pays great attention to rules, so this kind of banquet does not require Tao Yuan to come forward to entertain guests.
Cheng Sheng and his grandfather also came, and his grandfather also brought some friends. They were people with status and status and respected people. The words of these people were much more useful than those of the first-line celebrities in the future. Old Cheng specially brought them to join him, and he did his best to win the favor of the Xiao family with Cheng Sheng's grandson.
Tao Yuan secretly brought Cheng Sheng to the wine tasting pavilion again, and prepared some snacks he made himself.