Rebirth: My dad is too obedient

Chapter 91 Ice and Fire

Fourth Aunt had already washed a basin of grapes and brought it to the table:
"You guys are eating fruit here, the banquet will start at four o'clock!"

The local custom of having a banquet is to have a meal of noodles with toppings to fill the stomach at noon, and the banquet will officially start at four or five o'clock in the afternoon and can continue until the evening.

"Where is my dad?" Xu Chen asked.

Fourth Aunt: "He said he wanted to set off firecrackers and fireworks, and he insisted on buying them himself!"

Xu Chen laughed out loud.

It seems that father Xu Zhiquan is really happy.

……

After a while, there was a commotion coming from the yard outside.

Then came the "crackling" sound of firecrackers.

When Xu Chen and Zhang Yongqing walked out of the house, they saw their father Xu Zhiquan coming back.

Several long strings of firecrackers were hung at the gate. Xu Zhiquan, holding a cigarette in his hand, had already lit two strings.

A group of people gathered around and cheered.

Xu Zhiquan laughed heartily, looking extremely happy.

Xu Chen stood at the back of the yard, looking at his father Xu Zhiquan from afar.

It has been a long time since I saw my father so happy.

Xu Zhiquan also saw Xu Chen from afar, handed the colored paper salute in his hand to Li Rui, and walked over with a smile.

"Dad!" Xu Chen shouted.

Xu Zhiquan laughed and stretched out his big hand to rub Xu Chen's head.

The "chef" next to them had already started cooking, and the aroma of meat and vegetables wafted over.

Xu Zhiquan pulled Xu Chen over, "stole" a piece of freshly fried meatball from the basin and stuffed it into Xu Chen's pocket, then he ate one himself with a smile.

Fourth uncle Xu Zhilin walked over with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Second brother..."

Xu Zhiquan noticed that he looked a little strange:
"What's wrong?"

Fourth Uncle took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Let's go inside and talk!"

As he said that, he pushed the door open and entered the office.

Xu Zhiquan still held Xu Chen's arm and followed him in.

The door was closed to block out the noise outside, and then Fourth Uncle spoke:
"A group of debt collectors came to the factory next door and splashed red paint on the gate and walls..."

The factory next door is the one that was sold to my third uncle Xu Zhihai.

The debt collector is naturally here to collect the debt from Uncle San.

Xu Zhiquan said:

"The machinery factory collapsed. I didn't expect it would affect the third brother so soon."

The door creaked open and Fourth Aunt walked in.

Fourth Aunt looked a little strange, and it was obvious that she also knew about what happened in the factory next door.

Fourth uncle Xu Zhilin exhaled a stream of white smoke and said in a deep voice:

"Brother, luckily we withdrew from the bidding for the machinery factory.

Otherwise, we will suffer as well!"

Fourth Aunt also showed emotion and said:

“Yes… We cleared out the foundry and started growing seedlings, so we really escaped a disaster.

If we were still messing around with the spare parts from the machinery factory, we would be the ones being splashed with paint and demanded to pay our debts!"

Fourth Uncle: "Second brother! You have good vision! Fortunately, I believed in you at the beginning."

Xu Zhiquan took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and his fourth uncle took out a lighter and lit it for him.

"Xu Chen has good vision..." Xu Zhiquan smiled and looked up at Xu Chen.

Xu Chen didn't say anything, but just smiled.

Xu Zhiquan took a deep puff of cigarette:

"What's the situation in the factory next door now?"

Fourth Uncle: "What else could it be? Two cars of people have arrived, all of them are here to collect debts.

He splashed red and white paint everywhere and wrote a bunch of dirty words.

Those people are still cursing in the street now..."

He sighed and continued:
"After getting the order from the machinery factory, my third brother got carried away and borrowed money from everywhere to expand production.

Now that the machinery factory has gone bankrupt, all his creditors know about it.

I'm really worried that he can't pay back the money, so he's rushing over to collect the debt..."

Xu Zhiquan: "Is there no one in the factory?"

Fourth uncle: "The big iron door is locked, there should be no one there. Third brother must have gone out to avoid his creditors."

Fourth Aunt said:

"Last month, the third brother got an order from the machinery factory and he has become so arrogant.

They still look down on us for growing seedlings, and make sarcastic remarks...

Now we are holding a celebration party, but he is being visited by debt collectors. It is really like heaven and hell.

I guess he didn’t expect it to end up like this…” Fourth Uncle took a puff of his cigarette:

"It's all his own fault. When the family split up, my second brother got screwed so badly!"

Xu Zhiquan waved his hand:
"Never mind, we can't control it...

Let’s go! Let’s have our celebration party!”

Having said that, he took Xu Chen's arm again, laughed and walked out of the door.

Uncle and Aunt smiled, the gloomy look on their faces disappeared, and they followed him out the door.

……

The celebration banquet begins.

The table was filled with plates of meat dishes.

Laughter and noise.

Xu Zhiquan sat at the main table and a bunch of people came over to toast him.

He accepted all the drinks and drank one cup after another.

After a while, his face was flushed.

Xu Chen sat next to his father and ate quietly.

Xu Zhiquan was obviously a little drunk. He looked up at Li Rui:

"Li Rui, you don't have to drive today, drink!"

Li Rui was holding a glass of orange juice and scratched his head nervously.

Xu Zhiquan laughed, took a clean cup from the table, filled it with white wine and handed it to Li Rui.

Li Rui was so scared that he quickly stood up and took the glass of wine with both hands.

"Mr. Xu, I toast to you!"

Xu Zhiquan smiled heartily, picked up the cup and clinked it with Li Rui's, then drank it down.

Fourth uncle Xu Zhilin was already a little drunk, and at this moment he was holding a cigarette and smiling in a daze.

He looked up at the dozen or so tables of people and said with a smile:

"Brother, we are running out of manpower for the projects we are working on right now."

Xu Zhiquan laughed and said:
"This is a good thing! Then recruit more people!

I have already negotiated the two projects in the south of the city. The leaders trust us and will directly pay half of the project fee first. It will be credited to the account in two days. "

Fourth uncle: "Can you do this? You are really capable, second brother!"

……

More than three rounds of drinking had passed, but Xu Zhiquan seemed to have just gotten into the mood.

He held the glass in his right hand and a half-full bottle of wine in his left hand, and walked towards the next table.

When the people at that table saw the "boss" coming over, they all stood up quickly with their cups in hand...

My father, Xu Zhiquan, has always been a lively person.

Xu Chen remembers when he first opened a foundry as a child, it was just a small factory in the field, and the furnace was opened about once a month.

"Opening the furnace" means setting up a tall furnace, lighting coke underneath, and putting in various pig iron materials to melt them into boiling molten iron.

Then the workers pour the molten iron into the sand mold made in advance.

After cooling, it will become the embryo of various parts...

When the furnace is turned on, it is really "in full swing" and it is completely impossible to work during the day.

So everything was arranged in the evening.

As it gets dark, the temperature drops.

Xu Zhiquan turned on several headlights in the factory area, knocked on a large rusty iron plate with a hammer, and then shouted:

"Open the furnace!"

The workers then took off their outer clothes, revealing their strong and dark upper bodies, and sang "chantments" as they set up the blast furnace.

The furnace has to be operated all night long.

At around five or six in the morning, the sky began to brighten and a furnace of molten iron was poured into the sand mold.

At that time, Third Aunt was still working in the factory and Fourth Aunt had just married. They and two other female workers had already set up a large table of food and wine, waiting for the men who had been busy all night to come and sit down.

Xu Zhiquan would always be like he is now, holding a bottle of white wine, talking about this and that, and staggering.

The noise of the finger-guessing game pierces through the dawn until the sun rises.

……

"Boss Xu, we're already having a celebration banquet, why don't you say a few words to everyone?"

Fourth Aunt said this jokingly, which drew a round of cheers.

Xu Zhiquan laughed, poured himself half a glass of white wine, and said:

“I may not be well educated, but it is my blessing to be able to work with you all!

This glass of wine, Lao Xu toasts to everyone! "

　I won't whitewash any of my relatives, don't worry. It's just a transition in the plot.

　　If you really want to whitewash yourself, Young Master Xu Chen won't agree...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)