A life of financial freedom

The journey back home was quick.

Chu Jin saw Zhong Rou watering the plants and trees around the yard with a hose.

She spread her arms wide and ran over quickly, "Auntie~"

Zhong Rou sidestepped, avoiding her niece's embrace, and Chu Jin ended up hugging a tree trunk.

Chu Jin pouted, "Auntie, I'm so enthusiastic, but you're so cold. I don't like you anymore."

Zhong Rou replied, "You're not little anymore. Running into me so fiercely, what if you hurt me?"

Just then, she saw her nephew tiptoeing into the house and called out, "Chu Zhiye."

Chu Zhiye looked as if he had been caught stealing, his raised foot hovering in the air, not daring to come down.

"Chu Zhiye, who am I?"

"Auntie."

"Wrong!" Zhong Rou corrected sternly, "I'm your dad!"

Chu Fang, who had just parked the car and walked over, was speechless.

Chu Zhiye slowly lowered his foot, a flattering smile appearing on his face, "Auntie, you're here! You should have told me, and I would have picked you up. I really neglected you today, and I deeply apologize."

"I have something urgent. My phone is out of service. I won't entertain you. Make yourself at home."

With that, Chu Zhiye ran into the villa.

Zhong Rou watched her nephew's fleeing back and clicked her tongue, "Tch, what a wimp!"

Seeing that his aunt didn't come after him, Chu Zhiye slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Of everyone in the family, he wasn't afraid of anyone, not even Zhong Tingyue, who had the highest family status. He mostly just respected his mother.

But he was afraid of one person, and that was Zhong Rou.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhong Rou really beat him, and she didn't act like a normal person.

Once, Zhong Rou drove without a license and was caught by the traffic police. Zhong Rou put Chu Zhiye in the driver's seat and insisted that he was the one driving.

At that time, Chu Zhiye was only one year old, holding a bottle and sucking on the nipple, looking at the traffic police with clear eyes.

The traffic police were so confused that they lost their confidence.

Zhong Rou slowly withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and saw her niece hugging her leg.

"Chu Jin, let's play a game."

"What game?" Chu Jin looked up.

"A fun game." Zhong Rou took out a disc and threw it forward. She said to Chu Jin, "Go, fetch it for me."

Chu Jin instantly ran towards the disc.

And also instantly, Gao Ruoyun ran out of the kitchen with a stick, gritting her teeth, "You good-for-nothing! What do you take Chu Jin for? If I don't beat you to death today, I'm not your mother."

Then, a scene of mother and son fighting played out in the yard, mainly Gao Ruoyun chasing Zhong Rou to beat her.

Chu Fang shook his head and asked Zhong Ping, who was entering the door, "Dad, didn't you go to play chess?"

"That group of old men's chess skills are too poor, not on my level. Your dad's level is high, his chess skills are evenly matched with mine. It's a pity your dad is only staying in Shanghai for two days, what a pity." Zhong Ping shook his head. "When will your dad retire?"

"Should be more than ten years." Chu Fang thought for a moment and replied.

After getting married, Gao Ruoyun and Zhong Ping moved to Shanghai to settle down, while Chu's father had a job and hoped to work hard in his career until retirement, so he didn't move to Shanghai. Chu's mother naturally lived with Chu's father.

Only during holidays would Chu's father and Chu's mother come to Shanghai to see their grandchildren.

"Your dad is too, why is he so diligent?" Zhong Ping sighed.

Chu Fang smiled.

Chu's father had his own ideas and concepts. He wouldn't forcibly change his father's way of life. Chu's father could do whatever he wanted.

The sun gradually set, dyeing half the sky red.

The Chu Fang family sat together for dinner.

Zhong Rou poked her niece, "Let's have a competition to see who can eat more. If you lose, all your lucky money is mine. If I lose, all my lucky money is yours. How about it?"

Chu Jin nodded, "Deal."

After speaking, she buried her head in eating. Zhong Tingyue slapped the back of her daughter's head, "You idiot, your aunt doesn't have any lucky money. Why are you competing with her?"

Chu Jin pouted.

She was tricked again.

Zhong Tingyue peeled shrimp for the two children while saying, "Zhong Rou, you're a senior this year and starting to work gradually. What do you want to do?"

"Be the boss." Zhong Rou replied without hesitation.

Zhong Tingyue ignored her sister's reply and said to herself, "You're majoring in financial engineering, which is a good fit for your brother-in-law's company. Go work there."

Zhong Rou's college entrance examination results were very good. She entered Fudan University with high scores and chose her fashionable and lucrative financial major.

Now, three years have passed, and she's entering the internship phase.

"I'm not going." Zhong Rou refused, "I've already submitted my resume. I have an interview tomorrow. It's a real large investment company, not like brother-in-law's small workshop."

Zhong Tingyue said, "Your brother-in-law's company is not small either."

Money makes money, which is fully reflected in wealthy people.

Chu Fang initially invested in the company as an explanation for the 'cheat,' but as the years passed, Fangzheng Investment Company grew bigger and bigger, gradually expanding its scale.

The money seemed to grow faster and faster.

"Still not going." Zhong Rou still refused, "I'm going to start my own company in the future, so I need to understand the rights and wrongs of this industry. If I go to brother-in-law's company, everyone will treat me like an ancestor, and I won't learn anything."

Zhong Tingyue nodded, "Whatever you want."

The family ate dinner, night fell, and Zhong Rou flicked Chu Zhiye's forehead, "I'm going to see Wen Qing, I'm leaving."

With that, she left in a carefree manner.