207: Lunar New Year's eve

Afternoon.

Uncle's family arrived.

They had agreed to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner together at Chen Qiu's house this year.

"Brother, Happy New Year!"

Luo Yu was wearing a brown scarf, her cheeks rosy.

After saying that, she cutely held out both hands.

"Red envelope!"

Chen Qiu smiled and took out the prepared red envelope.

"Heehee, thanks, Brother!"

Luo Yu took the red envelope; though it was thin, she wasn't disappointed.

However, the light texture inside the red envelope made her blink.

It felt like there was only a piece of paper inside?

"What's inside?"

"A paper deposit certificate."

Chen Qiu took a sip of tea and said calmly.

Luo Yu's beautiful eyes widened instantly, and she hurriedly opened the red envelope to look.

Sure enough, there was a paper deposit certificate inside.

Pulling it out, she saw it was even in her name, and the amount was 150,000!

Beside her, Luo Xu's eyes instantly rounded when he saw the number.

Luo Yu looked at the certificate in her hand; it was clearly just a piece of paper, yet it felt heavy... She just wanted to ask for a bit of good luck, and would have been happy with ten or twenty yuan.

She didn't expect it to be six figures.

The biggest red envelope she had ever received in her life was only a few hundred yuan... "Brother~ This, this is too much money, I can't take it..."

"Just take it. I sold a company a few days ago and made some money."

"I've set this certificate for a five-year term. If you can't find a job after graduation, you can live off the interest inside to support yourself."

Chen Qiu said nonchalantly.

This 150,000 was actually the money left over from selling the Xiaomi SU7, so he just saved it for Luo Yu.

Hearing this, Luo Yu raised her eyebrows and put her hands on her hips.

"Hmph, don't underestimate me, okay!"

"I'll definitely find a job after graduation!"

"When the time comes, maybe I'll even give you a big red envelope!"

Chen Qiu chuckled and looked at her.

"A big red envelope?"

"I'll hold you to that then..."

"Brother, I was joking!"

Luo Yu immediately shook her head in defeat.

Chen Qiu gave 150,000 just for a red envelope; what kind of red envelope would count as 'big' in front of him... Luo Yu simply couldn't imagine!

At this moment, Luo Xu rubbed his hands together and looked at Chen Qiu expectantly.

"Brother, Happy New Year."

"Mhm, this is yours."

Chen Qiu also gave Luo Xu a red envelope.

The latter gave it an excited squeeze, but the hard texture made him pause.

Opening it, Luo Xu's breath hitched.

"A bank card?"

How much money must be in here?

Just as he looked at Chen Qiu with high expectations, the latter spoke calmly.

"This is a payroll card for Jijing Media... and there's a hundred yuan in it."

Luo Xu's mouth fell open.

He looked at Luo Yu's certificate, then at the bank card in his hand, feeling like he wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Brother..."

Chen Qiu glanced at him and said with a half-smile.

"What, do you think a job at Jijing Media isn't worth 150,000?"

Luo Yu snorted from the side.

"Exactly! The money Brother gave me is unemployment security, but what he gave you is a job with a bright future!"

"Brother, I get what you mean!"

Luo Xu nodded hurriedly.

As Chen Qiu's cousin, he was part of the core circle at Jijing Media; Director Tan and the others were teaching him everything they knew!

With Jijing Media's current growth rate, let alone 150,000, it was worth 1.5 million!

...In the evening, after the family finished their New Year's Eve dinner, they sat in the living room with the Spring Festival Gala playing as background noise while the four elders chatted.

Chen Qiu and the other young people were on their phones.

On this New Year's Eve, Chen Qiu's phone never stopped, with various blessings pouring in endlessly.

At first, Chen Qiu replied to everything, but later he just picked the important ones.

It practically cured Chen Qiu's OCD regarding red notification dots.

Just then, Chen Qiu suddenly heard a familiar song from the TV.

Before he could even look up, he heard Luo Yu exclaim beside him.

"Wow, it's AN Girl Group!"

"I didn't expect them to be on the Spring Festival Gala again after all this time!"

Chen Qiu looked up at the TV; five familiar faces were singing and dancing on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Chen Qiu wasn't very surprised that they could make it onto the Spring Festival Gala.

These five girls had no scandals, their popularity had been good since their comeback last year, and as a Girl Group that had been famous for so many years, they had national recognition.

Besides, since the Spring Festival Gala's influence had been declining, it wasn't as difficult to get on as it used to be.

"I wonder if they're singing live or lip-syncing..."

Chen Qiu thought to himself as he watched the five women singing and dancing on TV.

After the song ended and a few minutes into the next skit—which Luo Yu commented was boring—Chen Qiu suddenly received a message from the Captain of AN Girl Group.

It was even a short video!

The Captain of AN Girl Group was holding her phone for a selfie, with the four other members behind her.

Five faces, some pure and others glamorous, looked at the camera and said with beaming smiles.

"AN Girl Group wishes President Chen a Happy New Year!"

The sound coming from the phone immediately drew the attention of Luo Yu and Luo Xu.

The siblings' eyes went blank, followed by an outburst of exclamations that startled the four elders sitting opposite them.

"Holy crap!"

"Brother, you know the Captain of AN Girl Group?"

Luo Yu leaned in close to Chen Qiu, her eyes wide with shock as she looked at the Captain of AN Girl Group and the other members on the screen.

The outfits they were wearing were the same ones she had just seen on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

In other words, AN Girl Group had recorded this video backstage right after their performance?

"I acquired Qingmang Entertainment; I'm their boss now."

Chen Qiu explained.

Luo Yu's mouth dropped open upon hearing this.

She had grown up listening to AN Girl Group's songs, and now her own brother was their boss?

A flash of realization also hit Luo Xu.

He wondered why Zhang Mantong could film videos with so many celebrities before; it turned out his brother was the one behind it!

From self-media to the entertainment industry, his brother was simply getting stronger and stronger!

"Brother, can you get me some autographed photos from AN Girl Group?"

"Next time they come to Gannan, I'll have them sign them for you in person."

"Wow, thanks, Brother! I'm so happy!"

Luo Yu hugged Chen Qiu's arm and cheered.

The two families chatted until after 11 PM before Luo Yu's family went home.

Then, Chen Qiu gave each of his parents a deposit certificate.

"Dad, Mom, keep these."

Luo Jinglan's eyes were blurry; she counted several times but couldn't quite clear the zeros.

Not until she looked at the written-out numbers did she understand.

"A fifty-million-yuan deposit certificate?"

"And there are two of them?"

Both elders looked shocked.

This was a hundred million yuan!

Luo Jinglan hurriedly stuffed the certificates back to Chen Qiu.

"Giving us so much money... you need money for your business, keep it for emergencies yourself!"

"I sold a company a while ago and made two hundred million."

"Mom, just take it!"

"My cash flow is very sufficient!"

Chen Qiu smiled wryly.

His cash flow was more than just sufficient; it was like a surging river, endless and steady!

"With so much money here, I won't even dare to close my eyes when I sleep!"

"Didn't you save a million for us last time? That money is enough!"

Luo Jinglan still tried to push the money back.

Chen Qiu had no choice but to say.

"Mom, in business, we believe in not putting all our eggs in one basket. In case I go bankrupt..."

Before he could finish, Luo Jinglan quickly covered his mouth.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! Why talk about that during the New Year!"

However, she also understood Chen Qiu's point and reluctantly accepted the large-sum deposit certificates of fifty million each.

Seeing this, Chen Qiu spoke up again.

"Mom, just withdraw that million from last time and spend it. For earning interest, this hundred million is enough!"

"When we move to the city later, there will be plenty of things to spend money on."

Luo Jinglan nodded noncommittally.

"We'll see about that later!"

After returning to her room, Luo Jinglan was extremely conflicted, not knowing where to put the hundred-million-yuan certificates.

It felt unsafe no matter where she hid them.

"Just hide them anywhere. Didn't our son say if they're lost, we can get replacements at the bank? They recognize the person, so what's there to fear?"

Hearing Chen Zhide's words, Luo Jinglan gave him a sharp glare.

"You're so carefree!"

"This is a hundred million!"

"The interest alone is several million a year!"

Thinking about how the interest on these certificates was several million a year, Luo Jinglan suddenly felt that there really was no need to keep the million Chen Qiu gave her before saved.

"But a million... we aren't lacking houses or cars now, so I don't even know how to spend it!"

"Our son is really making more and more money..."

Luo Jinglan finally experienced what it meant to have happy troubles!