Chapter 168 I Can’t Bear to See Your Mother Sad…
After dinner, Liu Qing took Chen Shuhui to the morning market to buy vegetables.
This is one of her few hobbies.
Cooking has become a habit. Their family still cooks by themselves now, and they don’t hire any nanny or anything like that.
Except for cleaning, when Chen Shaohua hired a housekeeping company to clean every three days, all other housework was done by Liu Qing.
After seeing the mother and daughter leave, Chen Shaohua got up and made himself a cup of tea.
"Why do you suddenly want to go abroad?" he asked.
Chen Pingan shook his head, "It's not that I suddenly want to go abroad, but I suddenly thought of this possible option in my mind at that time and said it casually.
In fact, I haven't thought about studying abroad..."
Chen Shaohua nodded to indicate that it didn't matter, "It's not impossible to go abroad, but your mother's words make sense, so I didn't say anything.
The Chen family is not a real wealthy family. Do you know why I said that?"
Chen Pingan shook his head.
He thought that in Beijing, as far as wealthy families are concerned, the Chen family is second only to the Huo family, and should be a place that many people respect.
But when he heard Chen Shaohua say this, he was also confused.
Chen Shaohua sighed and continued: "The real wealthy family is the one that has been passed down for thousands of years, such as the Cui family or the Wang family mentioned in history books.
In the past 100 years, none of the families that can be called aristocratic families in the country have been passed down for more than 200 years.
Even the largest Huo family in Beijing now has only been around for more than 140 years.
The Chen family... is not worth mentioning."
Chen Pingan looked at his adoptive father and said nothing. He knew that when it comes to this kind of conversation, he just needs to listen.
Chen Shaohua continued, "The Chen family is only the fifth generation to my generation.
In terms of wealth accumulation, it is not as good as the Huo family, or even the Ma family in the northeast, or the Yang family or Chen family in Tianjiang.
From the perspective of the family tree relationship, the Chen family is even worse in comparison.
The key lies in the relationship between the main family and the side branches.
In this regard, the Huo family is better than us.
In addition to their family's background in politics and the military, the Chen family is indeed a little worse than them.
What's worse is that the next generation of the head of the family has not found a suitable candidate yet.
I once discussed with your third uncle and your grandfather that we wanted to train Chen Xiaolong to be the head of the family in the future, and you were one of the candidates.
But the last time you two met, the process should not be interesting, right?"
He tilted his head to look at Chen Pingan, sizing up his expression.
Chen Pingan narrowed his eyes slightly, and the guy who looked indifferent to him but liked Huihui suddenly appeared in his mind.
"He is in Europe?" He raised his voice slightly.
Chen Shaohua nodded.
"I don't know much about him, only the information before he went abroad.
After he went out, there was not much information about him at home.
In addition, he has a younger sister, Chen Yangyang, who is 15 years old this year, a little younger than Huihui, but a genius, and is also in Europe.
You need to ask your third aunt for the specific situation."
Chen Shaohua took out a cigarette and gestured to him. Chen Pingan quickly shook his head to indicate that he didn't want it.
After lighting a cigarette, Chen Shaohua pointed to the balcony, and the two walked out and stood on the balcony together.
"Before Huihui, we had a son..." Chen Shaohua's voice was a little hoarse, "but he died less than a week after he was born.
We adopted you because Liu Qing couldn't stand the blow at the time and had some mental problems."
He pointed to the position of the head, "After I brought you back, Liu Qing almost immediately regarded you as our first son.
She protected you very well.
Everything outside, she thought would hurt you, and even I couldn't get close to you and your son for two years.
Pingan... do you know what kind of feeling that is?"
Chen Pingan was shocked.
He was stunned and didn't know what to say.
He had no memory of this at all.
Chen Shaohua continued: "After she slowly recovered, we had Huihui.
You two are everything in her life.
When have you ever lost your temper with you two?
When have you ever hit you?
I haven't even touched you, let alone Huihui.
Liu Qing couldn't bear me to hit you. Even when you were a kid and were a mess, I never slapped you."
He took a deep breath and said: "I can't bear your mother to be sad..."
Chen Pingan felt a sour taste in his heart.
My father pierced my eardrum, my mother raised me as a waste, and my sister treated me as a thief...
"Dad..." He wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.
Chen Shaohua waved his hand, "It's okay. I just want to tell you that Liu Qing and I have never regarded you as an adopted son.
From the beginning, Liu Qing regarded you as our son.
So I want you to work hard, work hard, and work hard again.
Just like I have been working hard in Yuncheng for more than 20 years.
You have to work hard to be the future head of the Chen family.
You have to make the Chen family capable of becoming a real wealthy family, but not the kind of wealthy family in history.
You have to support this family, but you can't harm the interests of the country.
You have to love your country and your family.
Without the foundation of patriotism, a family will soon be disintegrated. This is a cruel thing, but it is also the reality.
This is what a qualified head of a noble family should do...
I left the capital for your mother. On the one hand, I didn't want to marry into the Huo family, and on the other hand, I looked down on the style of the noble family.
There is no bottom line for the sake of profit.
But now looking back at what happened back then, my father did nothing wrong, and I did nothing wrong.
Your mother did nothing wrong!
So when we returned to the capital, the old man apologized to your mother, and she could only accept it, but she couldn't say that my father did something wrong.
Can you understand the truth here? "
Chen Ping'an nodded slightly.
The truth is not complicated, it can even be said to be very simple.
Any family cannot live without the soil for survival.
The quality of the soil determines whether the family can grow smoothly.
Chen Shaohua continued: "You should adapt to the identity of the future head of the Chen family as soon as possible. Even if you don't need to be high-profile, all your efforts should be in this direction.
Even if you have other ideas, when you become the head of the family, you have the final say?
Your third uncle looks like a successful entrepreneur, but he has done so many bad things.
Does anyone know? "
Chen Pingan couldn't help but complain: "Dad, I'm not that bad, and I didn't study family management, I majored in finance.
I don't like dealing with people, you know that. "
Chen Shaohua laughed and said: "Then you need to exercise your ability to deal with people.
Otherwise, you may not be able to do a normal job in the future.
I won't talk about the big principles, just hone your skills in Beijing University.
You should also start to accumulate connections.
Even if you don't need to look at anyone's face, but for your own future, you should know what to do. "
He turned around and went back.
Chen Pingan stood on the balcony and looked at the scenery and sky outside.
What is this?
Isn't this forcing me to be the head of the family?
Since you think highly of Chen Xiaolong, then train him!
Why drag me along?
I just want to read more books and live alone in the future!
I can't handle the complicated relationships of such a wealthy family.
Just when he was worried, his cell phone rang.
He took a look and saw that it was Ding Junzhe calling.
"Brother Zhe, didn't you sleep in on the weekend?" He asked with a smile.