Chapter 810: The Boyfriend Arrives (Part 1)
"They're from the Song family," explained the uncle.
According to the uncle's introduction, the Song family was a powerful local clan in their area.
The Song family had significant influence locally and was involved in various businesses. Sand and gravel transport, bars, nightclubs, bathhouses... in short, all were projects that were more or less tied to illegal activities.
Moreover, the Song family wielded enormous influence in the uncle's town, which explained why the funeral home was unwilling to offend them.
"I've found out," said the uncle, returning from making a phone call outside. He explained to Su Ruochu's parents:
"That woman just now is the wife of the Song family's eldest son. The deceased is the Song family's father."
"The Song family has 3 sons in total, and they basically monopolize the local entertainment industry, sand business, and construction site transportation business."
"Among the 3 brothers, the eldest is the most ruthless. I heard he even went to prison a few years ago."
"These 3 brothers have been throwing their weight around in our area for years. Just take that Mercedes-Benz S-Class they drive, they've hit so many people while drunk driving over the years, yet no one dares to investigate."
The uncle glanced at Su Xuecheng and his wife, sighing.
"Forget it. It's not worth arguing with people like that."
"If we provoke their resentment and invite retaliation, our family can't bear the consequences."
Su Xuecheng sighed, understanding the logic in these words.
But Lin Wanxiu, who had been proud all her life, had never swallowed such a big grievance before. Not only did she lose face, but more importantly, this was her mother's funeral. While angry, she also felt incredibly frustrated, and went off to the side to sulk and wipe away tears.
Seeing this, the uncle quickly gave a look to the other women nearby, and they went over to comfort her.
The uncle then discussed with Su Xuecheng and the other men, "If it really doesn't work out, let's just change to another memorial hall. I just asked, the Guiyuan Hall next door is not bad either, just a bit smaller in size."
The younger uncle gritted his teeth and said: "Even if we change, the person in charge must apologize to us. And they need to provide appropriate compensation."
"They're afraid of offending people, so they handed over the hall we had already booked to others without our permission. This guy is really not a good person."
Su Xuecheng asked, "Are there any other funeral homes nearby? Can we change to a different one?"
The uncle looked troubled.
"There's only this one in town. If we want to change, we'd have to go to the city. Not only is it far, but we also don't have enough time."
Hearing this, Su Xuecheng nodded.
"Then let's change to the Guiyuan Hall."
"Alright. I'll go talk to the person in charge."
Su Ruochu was furious.
As a girl with a gentle and calm personality, Su Ruochu rarely got overly angry about anything from childhood to adulthood.
But this time was different.
She was truly very angry.
She had witnessed the entire process just now, seeing with her own eyes how that woman was so arrogant and overbearing.
Especially seeing her parents, uncles, aunts, and everyone arguing with those people for so long, only to have to frustratingly choose to compromise in the end, Su Ruochu felt even worse.
She had never pursued power or anything like that in her life.
But at this moment, she deeply experienced the principle of might makes right.
Just because the Song family had influence in the area and no one dared to offend them, their side had to choose to compromise.
Even the memorial hall they had booked in advance was snatched away.
This was a very unlucky signal.
Didn't her uncle and the others understand?
It was just that no one was willing to say it out loud.
They couldn't match up to the other side. They could only swallow their pride.
Even the memorial hall had to be snatched away by the other side, and they had to compromise by choosing a smaller one.
Thinking about how her grandmother had worked hard all her life, only to encounter such a thing on the first day after her passing.
Su Ruochu felt infinitely grieved, grieving on behalf of her grandmother.
Looking at her mother wiping tears and cursing the Song family at the door, and then at her younger uncle and two uncles-in-law sighing here, Su Ruochu's eyes turned red, feeling like she wanted to cry.
Just then, her phone rang.
She took it out of her pocket and looked at it. It was Chen Fan calling.
Su Ruochu hesitated for a moment, but still took the phone and walked out of the room, coming to the courtyard outside.
Taking a deep breath and adjusting her breathing, she then pressed the answer button.
"Hello..."
"I've gotten off the plane. Give me an address, I'll come find you."
Su Ruochu was clearly stunned.
"You... what did you say? You're coming to find me?"
"Yes. I'm at the airport now."
Su Ruochu's red-rimmed eyes suddenly could no longer control her emotions, and tears burst forth.
Although she tried hard to control it, Chen Fan immediately noticed something was wrong.
"What's the matter? Are you crying?"
"Wife, the dead cannot be brought back to life, you still need to restrain your grief in these matters."
Su Ruochu knew Chen Fan had misunderstood, but didn't explain. Instead, she choked up and said:
"Wait at the airport, I'll come pick you up."
"No need. Just tell me the address, I'll take a taxi over."
Su Ruochu thought for a moment and gave an address.
"Take a taxi to the town's passenger transport center, my dad and I will drive to pick you up."
This time Chen Fan didn't refuse.
After gently comforting Su Ruochu for a few words, they hung up the phone.
Su Ruochu held the phone, hesitated for two seconds, then raised her hand to wipe away her tears before turning around and walking back in.
"What? Xiao Chen is coming?"
When she told her parents about Chen Fan coming, Su Xuecheng was clearly stunned. Lin Wanxiu was also surprised.
"This... we weren't notified in advance."
"Old Su, you'd better drive there. Pick up the kid."
Su Xuecheng was about to nod when the younger uncle suddenly spoke up.
"Sister, let me go. Brother-in-law has been busy all morning and didn't rest last night. I'll drive there, and take the chance to see what kind of boyfriend my niece with such high standards has found."
"Then I'll go with uncle," Su Ruochu quickly said.
The younger uncle teased with a smile: "This child, so eager to see her boyfriend."
Everyone's faces showed a hint of a smile.
Mentioning Chen Fan, the atmosphere among everyone clearly changed.
The news that Chen Fan was coming diluted the impact of what had just happened.
Especially Su Ruochu's two aunts and aunt-in-law, who were very curious about Su Ruochu's fiance.
Although they had heard a lot about Chen Fan from Lin Wanxiu before.
But after all, they hadn't met him in person, so everyone was still very curious about Chen Fan.
"Is Ruochu's fiance really a big boss?"
Speaking of Chen Fan, Lin Wanxiu stopped crying and instead nodded with a hint of pride.
"Of course. He already owns his own company at such a young age."
"I heard from Ruochu that this kid started his own business when he was still in university."
"When his club opened at that time, Old Su and I went to visit. That venue was really luxurious and high-end."
To be honest, Lin Wanxiu's understanding of Chen Fan was still at the level of a year or two ago.
She didn't know how fast Chen Fan had developed in the past two years, nor did she know how many more companies Chen Fan had opened afterwards, naturally she also didn't know about the existence of Ruofan Group.
Of course, even without knowing these things, she only needed to say that Chen Fan was worth over 100 million yuan at such a young age.
This one piece of news was enough to shock the whole family.