Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 275 Just Consider the Unfilial Son Dead 42

When her son was about to get a job and get married, she sold all five apartments she had been allocated in the second round of housing allocation and bought a large single-level apartment in the same neighborhood.

Her son and daughter-in-law are just ordinary office workers. Although the current large apartment is under her son's name, she still has seven other houses under her name, including the first one allocated to her and the ones she bought later.

Putting aside the family's previous savings, the rent from these seven houses alone brings in a considerable amount every month, and she also pays the housekeeper's salary. This has led to her always having the final say at home.

She went through menopause a few years ago, and retired these past two years. She was already quite assertive at home, but she's become even more so. She knows she sometimes goes too far, but she just can't control herself.

No, she herself is also trying to change herself. She spends her days at the activity center and doesn't go home until mealtime, thus avoiding the nanny's working hours. In the evening, she goes home to have dinner with her son and daughter-in-law, and then goes back to her room to watch TV.

But living together as a family involves so many trivial matters, and even the smallest thing can easily lead to arguments, which is unavoidable. It just goes to show that the family atmosphere still needs some work to develop.

Liu Jing, a woman with short hair, is a retired street office worker. Her husband owns a company, and the family is well-off. Her son is busy working at the company at home, and the elderly couple find their own enjoyment every day.

Her husband is a fisherman, but now that he's older, he leaves early and comes home late every day. When he was younger, he was often nowhere to be seen, day or night.

Because of her work, she was used to these kinds of family squabbles, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts, and marital problems. So whenever she encountered Wang Shufen's issues, she couldn't help but give her a lecture, which was very eloquent and well-organized.

But anyone would get angry if they encountered someone who would admit their mistake as soon as you pointed it out, but then repeat the same mistake next time. This led to a situation where she would tease Wang Shufen every time they met. Of course, the two were close and had probably gotten used to this way of getting along.

Li Ruolan, nicknamed "Wool Roll Sister," is a retired accountant whose husband is also a businessman. Sister Li is a bit slow at playing mahjong, but everyone still likes to play with her because she is quick at calculating. Every time she pushes the tiles, she knows how much to pay.

For accountants of their age, mental arithmetic, abacus calculation, and other arithmetic skills are just basic. They can easily handle a 5-yuan mahjong game and do the accounting.

Don't think it's an exaggeration to say that others are willing to hang out with her because of this. Let alone these 60- or 70-year-old ladies, even some of Liu Yuxi's female friends in their 30s and 40s really can't do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 30.

Liu Yuxi didn't understand either. They were all people who had gone to high school and college. If you said that they had been in school for a long time and couldn't solve complex equations well, that would be understandable. But how could they forget the content up to the third grade of elementary school? Maybe they were just not good with numbers.

If a group of elderly women who can't do math were at a table, they would spend ages arguing over the accounts for every hand they won, sometimes even arguing when they got impatient, and asking someone else to help them calculate. Compared to that, Li Ruolan's slow playing speed was negligible.

Liu Yuxi now enjoys playing mahjong with these three people. Li Ruolan handles the accounts, and while waiting for others to play their cards, Liu Jing and Wang Shufen can be heard bickering. When they're not arguing, Liu Jing often talks about the strange things she encountered when she used to work.

It's a game where you don't need to think at all; it's purely for fun. As for winning or losing, that's a minor matter. None of the people present cared about that.

Just as Liu Yuxi was enjoying herself to the fullest, Director Sun called her:

"Sister Liu, are you free today? The company has made a decision regarding that music variety show. Would you like to come to the company to discuss it in person?"

"Goodness, there's finally a result. What are the company's plans?" Liu Yuxi asked.

"The company is currently preparing to provide personnel and equipment, arrange broadcasting channels, handle advertising and sales matters, plus an investment of 1000 million yuan, but we will take half of the profits," Director Sun said. This is not something that needs to be kept secret.

"Okay, I'll go to the company this afternoon. Let's talk when we meet!" Liu Yuxi agreed, then told her three old friends that she had something to do in the afternoon and asked them to find someone else to join the gathering. She said they should let them know in advance, otherwise they would be nagged.

I arrived at the company in the afternoon, met with the project manager, discussed some details, and then signed the contract.

The copyright is in Liu Yuxi's hands, so it doesn't matter if the first season suffers a loss. As long as the company wants to produce a second season, they will have to make it up to her.

The people in the company's project department weren't like Liu Yuxi, who were certain the show would be a hit, so it's normal for them to take some risk-avoidance measures.

After transferring 7000 million yuan to the project account, Liu Yuxi once again became a hands-off manager.

She plans to check the program from time to time during the recording process, as long as she makes sure the program stays on track. After all, her proposal is very detailed, and many important points are highlighted.

Back home, Liu Yuxi hung out with her old friends again. The others asked about her family situation, but Liu Yuxi didn't go into details, only saying that her husband was doing business abroad and her son stayed there to work after graduating with his master's degree.

She usually lives alone here and goes to check on things from time to time. Although Liu Yuxi is very powerful, there's no need to test people's hearts, is there? Elderly people living alone, especially wealthy elderly people living alone, can attract a lot of people.

In April, Zhao Lei released two songs, which propelled him into the mid-tier of the second-tier artists, while Liu Hanyu and Wang Zihan also rose to the tail end of the second tier.

In April and May, Liu Yuxi did not write any new songs. In addition to helping Zhang Qianqian improve her album, the audition for the "Spinning Chairs" program had passed and the official recording had begun.

She checked the contestants who passed the audition and confirmed that it was indeed strictly in accordance with the plan, without considering appearance or age, but solely based on their voices.

Of course, as a variety show, there must be some highlights. Since appearance is not taken into account, there must be some people among those who passed the audition who were kept because of their huge contrast.

Liu Yuxi asked the director for the audition videos of the remaining contestants and watched them all. After all, she didn't need to wait for the show's results to find someone; the audition videos were enough to give her a general idea.

And wouldn't you know it, Liu Yuxi actually discovered a promising talent for opera singing among them. This contestant is Deng Jiafeng from southern Anhui. He is 28 years old, tall and fat, standing at 1.9 meters tall and weighing 230 kilograms. He has a full beard and usually works as a resident singer in a performance bar. Sometimes he also cross-dresses and performs comedic acts.

In his audition video, he sang an extremely difficult duet, performing it all by himself. While it wasn't exactly effortless, it certainly felt very easy, which shocked the judges and staff.