Chapter 79: Allegiance
The Central Inspection Group's work in Southwest China had entered its middle-to-late stage. Zhou Guotao invited Wang Bu to a restaurant in Rongcheng at his own expense and specifically asked that Su Licheng attend.
"Son, do you think this outfit is suitable? Should I change into that shirt and suit you bought me for over three thousand yuan? I look distinguished in that outfit, don't I?" Su Licheng spread his arms and smiled with relief.
Since becoming general manager of Big Banyan Construction, his father had grown thinner and more haggard, with a few more white hairs. Even the smiles that had been common before the family prospered had become rare. But today, Su Can felt as though he were seeing a return to his father's true self, a resurgence of Su Licheng's youthful side, with that smile so common before and so seldom seen now.
"Su, just change into the one your son bought you. He has very good taste. You're going to meet a central government leader, so you certainly can't look shabby," Zeng Ke said to Su Licheng in the living room as she emerged from the master bedroom with her chosen clothes. Always frugal, his parents felt that clothes costing three or four thousand yuan were already sufficiently upscale. More importantly, whenever Su Can took them shopping, neither wanted him to spend too much from the bank card in his pocket. As Zeng Ke put it, "You still need to get married. When you have money, you need to think of the times when you won't. Girls like ambitious boys. Besides, don't you shortchange Tang Xiaowu. Your father and I don't need anything from you. Just concentrate on building up your resources."
The restaurant where Zhou Guotao had invited Su Can's family was