"Elder brother Yan, you've had a sweet and bitter life."
In the yard of the Yan family, a group of villagers surrounded Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong, with envy in their eyes and a faint trace of jealousy.
At this time, the Yan Family's old house has long changed its shape. Most of the original flat house has been demolished. A pile of construction workers carry waste wood and stone bricks to the truck, and then transport an endless stream of construction materials. You can see from the appearance that it is going to rebuild a big house.
What is the earning power of the Yan family? The village doesn't know yet? I'm afraid, as the old couple said, their son has made a lot of money.
Of course, the rich people in the village will not be jealous of the Yan Family's current days, but those days are similar to or better than the Yan family. It's good to watch the people who originally fell behind them catch up with them at a rocket speed.
"Where, where, our family ah Chu has always been promising. He stayed at home these years. It's really not like you said he didn't do anything. He's writing. Do you see that the writers written on TV can publish their works every year? Of course, he needs to devote himself to research and fly into the sky."
Before Yan Yuanjiang spoke, a middle-aged woman nearby spoke for him. This woman was Yan Yuanjiang's niece. When Yan Yuanjiang was not born, the couple wanted to adopt each other's brother, but later they were born. It's natural to do it.
Over the years, the relationship between the two families has not been good. Now the other side can use such a friendly tone to extricate the old couple. Obviously, it also sees Yan Chu's potential and wants to take a share of it.
Even with the development of the times, the clan consciousness of such a small village is still very strong. Those self-employed bosses who go out of the village are more willing to find villagers with relatives for help because they feel that blood relationship is more reliable.
Now the woman who opened her mouth thought so. Seeing that the uncle's family paid money to repair the ancestral grave and rebuild the house, it was obvious that her cousin earned a lot of money. Even if the money would not be cheap to her, it would be better to have a good relationship. In the future, when it was time to spend money, there was another object to open her mouth.
Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong are very complicated about their niece's sudden closeness, but I have to say that it is precisely because of the people's admiration in the village these days that the old couple, who already love their son, feel that their son can't be loved too much.
"I think the foundation is not small. Brother Yan, how many floors are you going to build?"
The Yan Family's homestead was left by the old man in front of them. Together with the homestead originally belonging to Yan Yuanjiang and his wife, it covers an area of more than 400 square meters, which is not included in the private plot. The villagers estimate with their naked eyes that the foundation planning of the new house is not small. After the construction, the first floor must be at least two or three hundred square meters. That's so imposing, They are almost catching up with those children who have become big bosses.
"On the third floor, the old woman and I have discussed with our son. On the first floor, we will build a living room, kitchen, bathroom and our old couple's bedroom. On the second floor, we will live in ah Chu, and prepare a guest room and a children's room. If there is enough space, we can also get a study. As for the third floor, young people are not popular for fitness, so we can get a place to exercise and row A balcony that looks as like as two peas in the city.
Yan Yuanjiang is a good man, but that doesn't mean he has no vanity.
After his son's success, the old man who has been depressed over the years wants to announce to the whole world how capable his son is.
"That will cost a lot of money?"
The villagers are surprised to hear that for such a large area, it will cost $5.6 million to build a second floor, not to mention decoration. If you want to build a third floor, you can't get it without $1.8 million.
"It's all right. Ah Chu of our family is promising. The book he wrote was read by the big director. Maybe one day you will see a TV play, which was made by my son."
Yan Yuanjiang smiled and said that he had experienced great storms in his life.
When he took part in the Vietnam War, he injured the soles of his feet and returned. At that time, everyone admired the military hero. Even if he became disabled, no one looked down on him. This can be seen from the fact that he could marry Gu Aihong after he retired with a disability.
But soon, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew through every inch of the earth, and people began to float with money. Knowing that you are a veteran can't make people look up to you. Most people can only see your disabled body and your empty wallet.
In the years before his son was born, Yan Yuanjiang not only endured more and more strange and disdainful eyes, but also endured the humiliation of being ridiculed and incompetent because he had no son.
It was not until the original body was born that he helped him wash away the grievances behind. After the original body showed his extraordinary talent for studying, Yan Yuanjiang gradually regained the envy and respect of others.
So he didn't love the child who brought him too much hope. For him, this son is almost all he has.
Looking at the envy, jealousy or congratulations of the villagers, Yan Yuanjiang suddenly felt calm.
However, he has not forgotten his most important purpose.
"Ah Chu and I are old, how many years can we enjoy his blessing? We don't ask for anything now, so we hope he can find a daughter-in-law quickly, not how beautiful and smart the girl is. As long as we are good, know the cold and hot, and can support each other with ah Chu in our family."
The top priority of the Yan family now is to find a daughter-in-law for his son. Yan Yuanjiang is not young. He wants to have grandchildren in his lifetime.
"The couple can still work. In the future, our daughter-in-law is willing to live in the countryside and happens to live in the big house we are building now. If her daughter-in-law wants to live in the city, it's OK. Ah Chu has some money and can buy a bigger house in the city and pay a down payment. When the mortgage comes, let the husband and wife return it slowly and write her name to reassure her."
Before, Yan Chu gave Yan Yuanjiang 3.5 million yuan. Yan Yuanjiang first spent 50000 yuan to repair his ancestral grave. This is the most important thing for the villagers, just like going back to his hometown to build a house. It is a way to prove his financial resources. As for the decoration of this small rural villa, compared with the money spent by those villagers before, Yan Yuanjiang has increased some budgets, which can be maintained within one million. The remaining money and what they have saved in recent years are completely enough to buy more than 100 square meters of commercial housing in the urban area.
However, the older generation pays attention to keeping their money hidden. This time, they spend a lot of money to rebuild their ancestral tombs and rebuild their houses. First, they want to make the family more comfortable. Second, they also want to re wash the bad reputation of their son spread in the village over the years. Otherwise, according to the old couple's meaning, the money must be saved in case of need.
So now they just conservatively tell everyone that the money in their hands is enough for the down payment of the house in the city. They don't say much, but such a hand is enough to attract many families with daughters.
Sure enough, when Yan Yuanjiang said that they could collect the down payment for a city house after building the luxurious three-story villa in their hometown, they immediately took Yan Chu, who they were least optimistic about, as the candidate for the best son-in-law.
First of all, he looks good.
Secondly, he is smart, otherwise he won't be admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University with the second grade in the city. With such a father, the child can't go anywhere.
Finally, he was rich. Although he didn't make money in the first four years, once he made it, he made up the gap in those four years. More than a million people may not make so much money in 20 or 30 years. He was still young and could never write books in the future?
The more the villagers thought about it, the more they thought about it. Soon, Gu Aihong was surrounded by a group of people and implicitly asked her about the type of girl Yan Chu liked. If it was appropriate, it might really make a couple.
In such a big play, Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong really only focus on this. The old couple pricked up their ears and wanted to write down the names of all the girls suitable for their sons. Maybe there will be one of them who will be their future daughter-in-law in the future.
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"Inspection? What's that money for?"
Because the old house was demolished and rebuilt, now Yan Aotian, a dog in addition to the three Yan families, temporarily rents in an idle building of the owner's house in the village, and then moves when his new house is completed.
Gu Aihong, as usual, ate and fed Yan Aotian, who was lazy as a Hasi pig. She refused his son's proposal without thinking about it.
She and the old man are in good health. What to check if they have nothing to do.
Now hospitals burn more money. If you go in, you'll lose one or two hundred. If you have an examination all over your body, you don't have to spend thousands of yuan.
In Gu Aihong's opinion, with this money, it's better to save milk powder for her future grandchildren.
Yan Yuanjiang also thinks so. He thinks he is still strong. If his son is not promising now and refuses to let him contract the land, he can work for another ten years.
"Dad, mom, the physical examination doesn't cost much money. Besides, I earn money for you." Yan Chu knew that the old couple's reaction was that of many ordinary old people. First, they really felt that the inspection cost money, and second, they were worried that if something went wrong, it would drag down their children.
In fact, if you can check the problem and treat it early, it will cost less money and have a greater chance of cure. Even if there is no problem, you can spend money to buy a reassurance.
In particular, the original world Yan Fu died because of lung cancer. Although it is still a long time before Yan Fu checked out lung cancer, Yan Chu is not sure whether the other party has cancer now.
Therefore, this physical examination is imperative. Yan Chu has thought about it. In the future, he has to take the old couple to have a physical examination every six months, and his father's smoking addiction has to help quit.
Before, the Yan family had no money. In order to save money, Yan Yuanjiang smoked all his own local cigarettes, which were spicy and choking, and did great harm to his lungs. It was difficult for an old man who had smoked dry cigarettes all his life to quit smoking, but no matter how difficult it was, Yan Chu had to find a way to make the other party gradually change his bad living habits.
"Besides, I'm not young. Maybe I'll have to marry a daughter-in-law in a few years. If you have children at that time, what's your pain? We two older children who have no experience in raising children can take care of them?"
Grandchildren are the assassin's mace of the two old people. They all say that they are separated from each other. They can indulge and indulge their original son, not to mention the countless grandchildren who have appeared in the dreams of the two old people although they have not yet been born.
After working hard for most of his life, saying that he has no pain is just fooling people. Not to mention the pain caused by overwork in recent years and all kinds of problems that people will have when they reach a certain age, Yan Yuanjiang's injured and disabled leg in his early years is a big problem, which makes him unable to move. In his later years, because most of the soles of his left foot are missing, His long-term walking inclination caused pain in the position of pelvis and lumbar spine. This pain almost tortured him for more than ten years. With the age, the pain became more and more serious.
But in recent years, the situation at home was there. No matter how much pain the two old people endured, neither husband nor wife told them. For fear that the other party was worried, sometimes they couldn't get through it. They went to the small township hospital with some cheap medicine to fool the past, unwilling to give up the money to go to the big hospital.
At this time, the couple hesitated when their son said so.
Money is important. It's also important to see grandchildren.
How developed the medical level is now. In the past, a person lived to 60 or 70, that is, a long life. Now many people live to □□ 10. Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong also have a wild hope, that is, to see their grandchildren born and protect them to grow up.
According to their son's age, at least they have to endure until ordinary people become great grandfather and great grandmother.
"OK, then listen to you."
While feeling distressed about the money to spend, the old couple gritted their teeth and agreed.
Everything is worth it for your grandchildren.
Although even their daughter-in-law has no shadow, the old couple have plans to protect their bodies for their grandchildren.
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"Nothing particularly serious."
After the physical examination, fortunately, Yan Fu has not been infected with lung cancer. It is still time to prevent it from now on.
The doctor said a bunch of common diseases among the elderly, asked the two elderly to pay attention, and told Yan Chu some precautions.
Yan Chu listened carefully from beginning to end. The doctor seemed to see more scenes of examination alone or accompanied by an old couple, and highly praised Yan Chu's behavior.
"You grandson are really filial."
"Doctor, this is not our grandson. This is our son. He was born in his forties. At the beginning, we thought we had no children in our life. Who knows that God saved us blessings and finally gave us this filial and sensible good child."
Yan Yuanjiang smiled. At this time, he had long forgotten his son's decadence in the previous four years, and he was worried about his son's future day and night.
The doctor was also well-informed. He looked at Yan Chu in surprise and smiled without saying anything.
There are more couples in the world who have difficulties in childbearing. At present, the old couple can get an old son in their forties and a filial child, which is also a blessing they saved in their last life.
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"Ah Chu, do you remember Lan Duo who played with you when you were a child? She was the little girl who lived across the door from our house. Didn't she follow her parents to study in the city later. I heard that she came back from college the year before last and is now a teacher in a primary school in the city."
In the eyes of the older generation, civil servants, teachers, doctors and nurses have weaving work, which is called a serious career. If a girl has a career establishment, she is definitely a hot commodity in the blind date market.
Similarly, a man with a house and a car is also a bonus when dating. Although Yan Chu now has a house and no car, others know that the money in the Yan family is definitely enough to buy a car.
Therefore, since the Shan family started to build this house in the countryside, he has become a high-quality son-in-law in the eyes of the villagers. There are a steady stream of matchmakers helping Yan Chu and other little girls to connect. If they can make a pair, there will be no shortage of matchmakers' red envelopes.
These days, Gu Aihong has collected a lot of information about unmarried girls with her son at the right age. One of them, Lin Lando, is her favorite.
"How long ago was that? What impression do I have?"
Yan Chu gently kicked the stupid dog lying at the table waiting for grandma to feed him. He told him to eat on his own. Otherwise, when he finished eating, he would take it to the country road for a "walk" to feel the natural scenery of the countryside.
Yan Aotian received his father's threatening eyes, sobbed a few times, and honestly ate by himself.
If only it could earn money, then it would ask a nanny to feed itself, a nanny to groom itself, a nanny to tickle it, and a nanny to help it cope with its daily walking activities.
Such a dog is really desirable.
Yan Aotian was confused. Thinking about the happy life to heaven, he couldn't help but overjoyed for a moment and rolled on the ground. Then he accidentally overturned the prepared dog rice and sprinkled the meat sauce of bibimbap on the ground.
"Ouch --"
Yan Aotian picked up his tail vigilantly and hid behind his grandparents for the first time.
With this fork, Gu Aihong was busy cleaning up the mess and left the topic just half said behind.
"By the way, parents, I have to attend a classmate meeting in a few days."
Yan Chu knows that in this world, he still has to honestly find a partner to have children for life, but now he is not ready for intensive blind dates.
"Homecoming? That's important."
Yan Yuanjiang nodded again and again. Qiu wok, who had come home before, was a very good young man. If his son could have more such friends and go out more, he would be relieved when they were gone in the future.
At his son's age, most of them are only children. The situation of his family is special. Those of his son's generation can be his son's father according to their age. In addition to those things before, the Yan family doesn't have much contact with those relatives. Now because of money, those relatives continue to come to visit relatives. Yan Yuanjiang is really worried that his son will associate with such relatives for the rest of his life.
He would rather his son make a few more trusted friends. If he really wants to get along well, there is no doubt about his relatives.
"Do you have enough money in your hand? You can't wear casual clothes to attend the classmate meeting. Your mother and I don't have good eyes. We don't know what kind of clothes are popular among your young people. We'll give you money and you can buy it yourself."
Now that he has money, Yan Yuanjiang's life has begun to enrich. He has nothing to do to watch TV, or go out to play mahjong and chess with his peers to kill time, increasing new knowledge he didn't have time to understand before.
He also learned a few buzzwords, such as the generation gap. It is said that there is a gap every three years. He and his son have been separated by nine twists and turns. In the past, he always wanted to arrange everything for his son with his wife. Now it seems that his son has grown up and has his own ideas. He should let go of some things and let him do it himself.
"That's right. Don't go to the street shop in our town. Just go to the city. There are many foreign clothes in the big shopping mall."
Gu Aihong swept the dog rice scattered on the ground with a big broom tied with thin dead branches, then mixed a new rice for the dog grandson, put the previous one in an old basin and prepared to feed the chicken at that time.
At this time, Gu Aihong and her husband had similar ideas. In the past, the two old people patronized to make money. They really didn't think so much. Now they are idle and have more contact with the people in the village. Looking at the boxes of young clothes in the village about the same age as their son, the dress may not be the type they can appreciate, but it is fashionable among their peers.
As a result, Gu Aihong felt that she had treated her son badly by choosing clothes for her son according to her own eyes over the years.
"By the way, do you remember Xiang Ling, who studied with you in a small school in the town when she was a child? She was two years younger than you. When you were in grade three, she was just in grade one. Now she works as a small leader in a shopping mall in the city. She can earn more than 8000 yuan a month at a young age. Most importantly, this girl is filial to her parents, as long as she is a filial child If you were a child, you wouldn't be a bad child. "
Gu Aihong clapped her hand in praise, and then looked at her son with hope: "aren't you going to buy clothes? Or take the opportunity to meet the little girl of others? You are about the same age, maybe others can give you advice on buying clothes."
Yan Chu:
Mom, do you remember the little Lando girl you just had childhood with me?
Yan Chu wondered if his mother would change him into a girl who worked in a 4S store, especially suitable for him, and had a little "origin" with him when he was a child. Even those origins had long gone to the horizon.