1927: Relentless Artillery Bombardment (2 More)

Xu Zhongyi glanced at Xu Changle, and both father and son felt that the budget of 10 million Chinese dollars was affordable.

"No problem, you can come with this budget."

Xia Xiaolan immediately rejoiced:

"Then I will plan and design according to this budget, and I will show you the first draft within half a month."

"Okay, do you want to sign a contract with your firm? I'll let Changle do it."

Xia Xiaolan's office has so far completed a large order for "Luohu Tiancheng", and the remaining small pieces of business are pulled over by the two existing architects of the office, Kong Yongquan and Hou Qi, through their own relationships.

It also barely maintains part of the daily expenses of the office. Now the office is still supported by Xia Xiaolan and has not entered a profit model.

The large order "Luohu Tiancheng" is also an internal business, the fees are not high, and it is all Xia Xiaolan's own money, from the left pocket to the right pocket, it is boring to toss.

Of course, Xia Xiaolan had expected such a situation, and she didn't care about spending money to keep Qihang Office for a few years.

It's not a matter of money, but there has been no big business. Both Kong Yongquan and Hou Qi are senior architects of Huaguo. Kong Yongquan is Xia Xiaolan's brother. .

Hou Qi, who met Xia Xiaolan at the Jiangcheng Architecture Seminar, also resigned from her previous job.

Yes, even if the two do not have much business, the salary is much higher than in the original unit.

But killing chickens with a bull's knife all the time is a waste of the professional skills of the two and the precious time of the two senior architects!

No money, no business.

This is the current state of Qihang Architects.

To compete with architectural design institutes, Qihang Firm must have its own reputation.

How did you get the fame?

Design more famous projects!

Xia Xiaolan is just happy about this. To be honest, Xu Zhongyi handed over the museum project to the firm, which made her even happier than giving Xia Xiaolan $1.5 million directly.

Xu Zhongyi said that if he wants to sign a contract, he also wants to make things formal.

Humanity is humane, and things have to be done well.

If Xu Zhongyi is not satisfied with the design drawing of the museum, he will still ask the office to rework it.

Xia Xiaolan also likes to be businesslike. If she fools Xu Zhongyi, can she fool others?

It's not that he smashed the signboard of Qihang Office by himself.

Originally, it was more difficult to set up an office model in China. Every step must be on the right path and make fewer mistakes, because the market does not allow Qihang Office to make mistakes!

At 7 o'clock, Xia Xiaolan and Ji Jiangyuan were quite reluctant to leave for the airport.

Tina was reluctant to eat this breakfast, and everyone's attention was still on Xia Xiaolan, talking about land, commissions, and breakfast time without the word "money", she couldn't help whispering, " It's like I've never seen money-"

Grandma Yu turned her head to look at her, and Tina suddenly became nervous.

This old lady must scold her!

It's over, why can't she hold back.

Tina was nervous, she could probably think of what Grandma Yu wanted to spray her - nothing more than being uneducated, or not knowing how hard it was to make money, so she would definitely praise Xia Xiaolan again and compare the two together.

But why is she in such a hurry to make money?

It was not her fault that Xia Xiaolan was born in China and her family was poor.

Xia Xiaolan looked at her and smiled.

Little girl, you have a lot of forgetfulness, and you have to learn a lesson.

I ignored Tina, got into the car with Ji Jiangyuan, and heard Grandma Yu ask Tina:

"When do you go back to school?"

Xia Xiaolan saw in the rearview mirror of the car, Tina's expression became dazed, as if Grandma Yu did not scold her, but asked an irrelevant question, which made Tina very strange.

Xia Xiaolan looked back.

Zheng Feng has already started the car steadily.

Ji Jiangyuan smiled and said:

"You're not angry at all?"

"Would you be angry with a person whose mental age is only 9 years old? If you are angry with her, you can't create a dime of value, and it will waste my time!"

Xia Xiaolan's righteousness is awe-inspiring, if it weren't for the sly eyes, Ji Jiangyuan would have believed it.

Xia Xiaolan's words are half true.

It is indeed a waste of time to be angry with Tina. Whether Tina likes her or not, it does not delay her communication with the Xu family, nor does it delay her career development.

Also, Grandma Yu was worried that she couldn't make rules for Tina, and Tina couldn't be nice to her.

...

Xia Xiaolan and Ji Jiangyuan left.

Tina was indeed under fire from her grandmother.

Being watched by the old lady, Tina was weak:

"I applied for a suspension from the school, and I will go to class after I adjust my state."

"Grandma, Tina has promised me that she will go back to school in the summer semester."

Xu Changle explained for Tina.

Most universities in the United States have a short-term system. This is already March, and the summer semester will come soon... Xu Changle originally disapproved, but after thinking about it, Tina stayed in China during her break from school, just in time with her family. close, so I agreed.

Grandma Yu sneered:

"Smart people are working hard. She wants to waste the best years of her memory on vacations, because she is afraid that the gap between herself and smart people will not be wide enough, right?"

"You, are you saying that Xia Xiaolan is smart and I'm an idiot?"

Tina is angry

red.

Grandma Yu nodded of course: "Aren't you?"

Tina turned away angrily.

Grandma Yu did not allow Xu Changle to coax her, and every word she said was merciless fire:

"Changle, you have to remember that anyone, no matter what reason he uses to persuade you to indulge, is a person with a vicious heart! Don't listen to the loser's life experience. The definition of success and failure is not by how much money he has, but by how much he puts himself into. What kind of children are taught ... their own children are just idle people waiting to die, such people know shit!"

Vicious heart!

Know the shit!

Tina always felt that the old lady was insinuating Mrs. Wilson.

The old lady scolded her last night, but she was not so harsh.

Tina wanted to argue with Grandma Yu, but thinking of George, she felt a little bad.

What does she have to argue against?

George wasn't really a successful person.

Success depends not only on how much money you have, but also on the starting point of the parties. George has a very high starting point. The third generation of the Wilson family has resources and platforms that are a hundred times better than ordinary people. Others are self-made. In middle age, he didn't make a big splash in his career.

George is undoubtedly a good man.

Don't care about money.

It can be good for Ji Ya who is divorced.

But the title of good man does not hide the shortcomings of George's lack of ability in his career.

Tina's head was about to explode, and she hurried back to the room.

Her room was door to door with the Wilsons.

Tina went back and the Wilsons got up just in time. Mrs. Wilson smiled lovingly: "Where did you get up so early, why don't you rest for a while? It doesn't matter how young you are now, when you are a few years older, if you don't get enough sleep, your skin will deteriorate, but No amount of maintenance can make up for ageing skin.”

Tina didn't know what to say.

What happened last night and this morning made her not in the mood to care about her skin care!