"Do whatever you want; if you have an idea, just go for it, I support you," Xia Xiao said, then added, "The county town is going to be designated a tourist area, so the land and housing prices will skyrocket. Feiteng, have you considered getting into real estate?"
Feiteng nodded, "I’ve thought about it. I think the housing market has a bright future. I’ve been planning on it, but I’m still too busy with the zoo to handle anything else."
Hearing that Feiteng was interested in real estate, Xia Xiao imdiately started discussing it with him.
Feiteng’s eyes lit up, "Mom, let’s start a property company then. We can be developers, build and sell properties; it would be perfect for us to establish the Gaoxia Group."
"Okay," said Xia Xiao as she watched Feiteng, whose eyes were sparkling, and a smile appeared on her face.
While the mother and son were talking, Gao Guoqing’s wife ca over. Mr. Gao and Li Shengi’s real mother had passed away, and now Gao Guoqing’s wife was in charge.
Gao Guoqing’s wife had no fondness for her sister-in-law Li Shengi, who was not related by blood. On hearing that Zheng Xianghong had co back, she ca over to visit and looked at Li Shengi with a hint of sarcasm.
Everyone in the production team knew how Li Shengi used to target Zheng Xianghong. Only because Zheng Xianghong was easygoing did she let Li Shengi co over, though it was shaless of Li Shengi.
As soon as Li Shengi saw her sister-in-law, her expression beca unnatural. When Gao Guoqing’s wife had just married into the family, Li Shengi had not yet married. Even though they were not related by blood, Mr. Gao, along with Gao Guoqing and Gao Guo Cheng, were all good to Li Shengi.
The relationship between Li Shengi and Gao Guoqing’s wife was not very harmonious, and since Li’s mother was the stepmother, Li Shengi always worried her mother might be bullied by Gao Guoqing’s wife, often secretly trying to trip her up.
Back when Gao Guoqing’s wife had just married into the family, she just put up with Li Shengi. Later, when Li Shengi fussily refused to marry Gao Guoqiang, then also refused to marry Gao Guo Cheng and ended up marrying into the He family, Gao Guoqing’s wife avoided her even more.
Previously, with He Hongjun to back her up, Li Shengi was unquestioned in the production team. Even Gao Guoqiang didn’t challenge her, and she held significant sway as the won’s director.
But now, Li Shengi’s status in the Guangming Team was no longer what it used to be, and He Xuebing also hadn’t taken his mother to live in the army, making others mock her for not having her son’s affection.
They even compared Zheng Xianghong and Li Shengi, which Li Shengi heard and felt angry about, but she was well aware that her distance from Zheng Xianghong had grown far and wide. Li Shengi was jealous, but despite feeling that way inside, she still liked talking to Zheng Xianghong.
Gao Guoqing was Gao Guoqiang’s cousin, and his wife was Zheng Xianghong’s cousin-in-law. Though the sisters-in-law didn’t talk much before, their relationship had been manageable.
When Gao Guoqing’s wife arrived, Li Shengi couldn’t sit still anymore and imdiately found an excuse to leave.
Since Gao Guoqing’s wife was there, naturally, she had sothing to discuss. She asked Zheng Xianghong about the zoo, "I heard that your family bought Nanhua Mountain to build a zoo."
"That’s true," Zheng Xianghong nodded and asked, "What about it?"
"It’s just Guangming, my husband; I hope he can change jobs," Gao Guoqing’s wife said.
"Isn’t Guangming doing well?" Zheng Xianghong asked.
"Guangming used to drive tractors, but now that doesn’t bring in much money. I was thinking, maybe your family’s zoo needs people? It’d be good for Guangming to work there."
As Gao Guoqing’s wife finished speaking, Zheng Xianghong hesitated a bit before responding, "I don’t really understand these things either. The zoo is now managed by Feiteng, you can ask Guangming to co over and take a look himself, but only if he’s willing. Otherwise, there’s no point in you worrying as a mother."
Gao Guoqing’s wife nodded in agreent, didn’t stay much longer, and indicated that she would go find Guangming.
After she left, Zheng Xianghong spoke with Xia Xiao and Feiteng. Xia Xiao still rembered Guangming and then looked at Gao Jiaxing, "Brother Gao, what do you think?"
"Guangming, let’s see what he can do," Gao Jiaxing said. "If it’s suitable, let him do it." Gao Jiaxing agreed with this because he had a good impression of Guangming, unlike so of the others whom Gao Jiaxing might consider a bit more.
Feiteng said, "No problem, we need more hands anyway, and we’ll recruit a batch soon."
After having dinner together, Guangming ca to the door, and Gao Jiaxing and Feiteng chatted with him and agreed quickly.
Moreover, Gao Jiaxing, Xia Xiao, and Feiteng planned to visit the zoo the next day and asked Guangming to prepare to co along.
Guangming nodded and then left the Gao family’s ho.
The zoo was still not completely finished. Although there were tall iron fences around the periter to prevent people from climbing in and causing accidents, the interior wasn’t ready yet.
Xia Xiao wanted to create a wildlife park, not a series of cages to keep animals for display, which ant that safety precautions had to be even stricter.
Feiteng was now too busy to do anything else, managing just the wildlife park kept him on his feet all the ti, not even leaving room for dating.
Feiteng had previously pursued a woman who was a lawyer, whom he t through a friend during the ti they were planning the zoo.
After Feiteng got to know her, he fell for her and, despite facing rejection several tis, his persistence finally paid off, and he won her over. But now he was too busy to even spend ti with his girlfriend.
"What are you thinking about? You’re totally zoning out," Xia Xiao gently scolded her son, while Gao Jiaxing and Guangming walked ahead, and Xia Xiao and Feiteng trailed behind. The young man was lost in thought and kept checking his phone, looking worried.
"Nothing much," Feiteng replied with a smile to Xia Xiao, looking radiant and handso. Being the youngest in the family ant he was less supervised and more pampered by Gao Jiaxing and Xia Xiao, whereas Feiyang and Feiyue, the elder brothers, took care of the younger siblings.
"Aren’t you telling your mom the truth?" Xia Xiao’s eyes conveyed an implicit threat. Her son was growing up and keeping things to himself, unlike when he was little and would stick by her side and share everything.
Xia Xiao felt a slight regret, but as a mother, she was traveling around the world and didn’t have ti to accompany her children much either.
"Mom, didn’t I tell you I have a girlfriend now?"
Xia Xiao humd in acknowledgnt and looked at Feiteng, "I know. How’s it going? When are you guys planning to get married?"
Feiteng was not very pleased and said, "Not even close. I’m busy, and she’s even busier. She agreed to date , but if I don’t go see her, she doesn’t even bother to find ." Even ssaging her doesn’t help — she neither replies to texts nor picks up calls.
"Where is she from? What do her parents do?" Xia Xiao couldn’t help but ask.
"She’s from City A; she has an elder brother. She told her parents are civil servants, but I don’t know more than that. I like her as a person; why should I dig so deep? Mom, you surely don’t care about her family background, do you?"
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