Chapter 1787 Xiaoting is engaged, Xiaozhuang is not changing, she is afraid
Zhou Chen hung up the phone and put away his phone.
He was on the phone with Huang Ling just now, and Huang Ling and the others had already discussed with Song Ying and Lin Wufeng, and were planning to engage Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting first. However, considering that the children were all in Shanghai, the two adults were preparing to go to Shanghai to hold the engagement ceremony.
That is, the two families were simply engaged, so neither of them was going to call others, so they just got together and celebrated briefly.
In addition, there is one more thing, that is, the cotton spinning factory house.
In 1993, Suzhou's real estate was reformed, and the houses of cotton mills could be purchased for money, but only the original cotton mill employees had this power. Huang Ling and Song Ying both happened to have this qualification, so the two families decided to buy several rooms they now live in without hesitation.
Each family spent several thousand yuan, and the property rights of the house became the two of them. For this matter, both families were very happy.
The house mentioned on the phone is another matter, about Huang Ling's opening of a small canteen.
Huang Ling, who couldn't stay idle last year, went to Xiang Pengfei's car to be a ticket seller after persuading Xiang Pengfei. After working for a few months, she had other ideas.
The ticket seller's job seems not to be tiring, but in fact it is quite a bit overwhelming. He has to be in the car all day long. Although Xiang Pengfei doesn't let her go to night shifts, it is really hard for a fifty-year-old to take the bus back and forth like this every day to collect money.
And many times she collected the wrong money and even received fake money. Although Xiang Pengfei didn't say anything and comforted her in turn, Huang Ling herself didn't want to do this.
So she stopped doing it 94 years ago.
As for Song Ying, she is also a person who can't live. During the period of her laid-off, she has worked as a temporary worker twice, but she has not worked for a long time. Now she only goes through Li Yiming to find some manual work to do at home, and she can barely earn money for ordering food every month.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhou Chen saw that Huang Ling was really inspiring, so he remembered that in the plot, Huang Ling opened a small canteen, and seemed to be very happy. Moreover, there was no need to get up early and go to bed late, which was much easier than being a ticket seller, so he suggested that she open a small canteen and take the children to dinner.
Sure enough, Huang Ling was very interested when she heard this, because she had raised three children since she was a child and had experience in this area. She felt that getting along with children is more interesting than getting along with adults. So after Zhou Chen carefully analyzed it, she found it very interesting, so she began to consider how to do it.
But the first problem is, the place.
The small canteen can be opened in the plot is because there are two rooms in Song Ying's family, but now that Song Ying's family has not moved away, the house will naturally not be empty.
Since there was no house at home, Zhou Chen suggested that Huang Ling go to find other people in the alley who were willing to sell the house.
In the past, houses belonged to the factory, but now people have spent money to buy houses from the factory. And now it is the 1990s, and the country no longer restricts the sale of houses. As long as someone is willing to sell them, they can buy them.
Huang Ling was doing this after the New Year. But after asking, no one in the neighbors in the alley sold houses.
Those who can live here are old workers in cotton mills, basically they have lived there for more than ten years. People who have come from that era value houses more than young people. After finally getting their own houses, how could they easily sell them?
So Zhou Chen asked her to buy a house with a high price. Huang Ling was a little unhappy, but after listening to Zhou Chen's advice, she went to find someone to buy a house again.
This time, Huang Ling told him that a neighbor was willing to sell the house, but the price was relatively high, and the price was doubled directly from the factory. Huang Ling felt that it was not worth it, but Zhou Chen agreed on the phone, saying that he would go to make money tomorrow and then set up this matter as soon as possible.
Although the environment in the Textile Alley is not very good, the location is good. Even if you buy it more expensively, it is definitely worth it. Besides, this more than 10,000 yuan is nothing in Zhou Chen's eyes. It is worth investing in being able to buy a house with a yard and open a small canteen for his mother.
When I got home, I saw Aunt Li taking Xiaojie to play in the yard.
"dad."
As soon as Xiaojie saw Zhou Chen, he immediately threw away the toy in his hand and rushed towards Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen picked him up and raised him high as soon as he copied his hand.
"Where is Mom?"
"Call up."
Aunt Li said, "Mrs. It seems that she has received a call from home."
Zhou Chen nodded and did not enter the house. He asked Aunt Li to do his job, but he took Xiaojie to play in the yard.
More than ten minutes later, Wu Shanshan walked out of the house.
"It's back."
"Are you asking for money again?"
Wu Shanshan looked helpless and said, "Xiaojun talked about a partner and told me about marriage. The other party asked for a lot of bride gifts. He was not satisfied with three turns and one sound. He also wanted a house because the woman was unwilling to squeeze into our house and wanted a new house. My father had no money, so he wanted to ask me for it. He really thought I made a lot of money in Shanghai."
Over the years, when my family called her, she basically asked for money. Even her younger brother Wu Jun would ask her for help when she had no money. No matter how deep the relationship was, she could not withstand such consumption, let alone the relationship that was not deep, so year after year, she had already become very annoyed.
Now she just wants to get her brother Wu Jun married as soon as possible and get married early, so she has reason to ignore it.
But it is obvious that their family didn't want to give up her free labor so easily, and wanted to kill him while getting married.
This behavior of calculating really disappointed and uncomfortable.
Zhou Chen hugged her with distress and comforted her: "Don't be angry, have you guessed this situation a long time ago? Take your time, don't worry."
Wu Shanshan remembered that she went home alone last year, and once a few years, but she didn't even have a place to live. She even had to go to Song Ying's house and Lin Dongzhe's room to spend some time. How could she not feel sad?
I have been giving money continuously for several years, and I don’t give a place to live when I go home. Who wouldn’t feel disheartened?
"Tuxi, I'm sorry, thank you for your hard work in the past few years."
In recent years, she just took care of her children at home and did not go out to work, so the money was given by Zhou Chen, but Zhou Chen never said a word. Instead, she gave her a lot of money and asked her to use it without asking.
For her now, Zhou Chen and her son are all hers. She just wants to deal with the trivial matters and annoying things in her family as soon as possible, and she doesn't want to be annoyed every day anymore.
Zhou Chen smiled slightly and said, "You are my wife. I won't feel hard to do anything for you, don't think so much."
He was not worried about Wu Shanshan, but he was really annoyed by their family, but he had never intervened. He believed that Wu Shanshan could handle it himself.
In May, Huang Ling and Song Ying and others came to Shanghai and held a simple engagement ceremony for Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting, in a hotel next to Zhou Chen and his residence.
Song Ying had already made preparations, and bought all the things like gold necklaces, gold rings, etc., and gave them to Zhuang Xiaoting.
Lin Wufeng and Song Ying have absolutely nothing to say. They have watched Zhuang Xiaoting grow up since childhood and know very well about Zhuang Xiaoting, so they are so satisfied with this daughter-in-law that they can’t be satisfied anymore. It’s not even exaggerating to say that they think that the most reliable thing Lin Dongzhe has done in his life is to get along with Zhuang Xiaoting.
It is precisely because they are so satisfied that they have made no reservations and want to give all the best to Zhuang Xiaoting.
At the dinner table, Wu Shanshan saw Zhuang Xiaoting so favored and showed an envious expression.
When she was with Zhou Chen, she hid it from everyone, so no one wished them, let alone the blessings of parents and relatives of both parties.
At this time, Zhuang Xiaoting received everyone's blessings and became the focus of everyone. She never regretted all her choices, but this situation made her feel something.
Feeling that Wu Shanshan was in a bad mood, Zhou Chen gently shook her hand.
Wu Shanshan turned her head and looked at Zhou Chen, then showed a bright smile.
Yes, why do you think about those things? She already has the best people in the world to her, and she doesn't need to envy others at all.
She held Zhou Chen's ten fingers and felt relieved.
After Zhuang Xiaoting and Lin Dongzhe got engaged, Huang Ling began to get busy with the small canteen.
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Zhou Chen had bought the house, right in their alley, their yard was No. 13 and the yard I bought was No. 6, not far apart.
After Huang Ling's invitation, Song Ying was preparing to work in a small canteen with Huang Ling, occupying 30% of the shares.
Because the dealer has three living signs, Zhou Chen and the others, their family is very famous around it. After the small canteen was opened, many parents were willing to send their children to Huang Ling and Song Ying and others to take.
Not only the children in kindergartens, but also the primary school students, there is a lot of people around them. Those who don’t have adults to cook at home also pay money to send them for lunch. Many children will send them on Saturdays and Sundays during holidays.
In a small yard, when there are the most crowds at noon, there are more than 30 people. Huang Ling and Song Ying are very busy now, but they are in great spirits.
Many women in this era can stand halfway through the sky. Huang Ling and Song Ying are such women. Apart from doing housework and other work at home, their work ability is no worse than that of men. In terms of raising children, they are not as good as men's performance.
The business of the small canteen is in full swing, and the two make even more money than Zhuang Chaoying and Lin Wufeng.
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During the Spring Festival in 1995, when Zhuang Chaoying went to her parents to pay New Year's greetings, she talked about Zhuang Xiaoting and Lin Dongzhe being engaged and preparing to get married this year, Zhuang's father and Zhuang's grandma were both very angry.
The two children were already engaged a few months ago, but they didn't know anything. For this reason, they scolded Zhuang Chaoying again. In the end, Zhuang Tunan and Xiang Pengfei returned home with the lost Zhuang Chaoying.
Zhuang Chaoying has changed a lot now than before, because he found that his three children, including Xiang Pengfei, have become more perfunctory to him and are closer to Huang Ling.
The sense of crisis in his heart is getting stronger and stronger, so now he is more enthusiastic about Huang Ling. He feels that if he doesn't have a good relationship with Huang Ling, he will really be alone when he gets old in the future.
It was precisely because of this that it touched his greatest interests in the future, so he became increasingly dissatisfied with his parents who didn't care about him. In the past, he would run there every few days and send money, food and drink, but now he only goes there once a month.
Every time Zhuang’s father and Zhuang’s grandma want him to help find Zhou Chen and the others, he will refuse for various reasons.
Zhuang Dad and his wife also discovered Zhuang Chaoying's changes. Every time they saw him, they would not give him a good look and would often scold him for being ungrateful.
Now the life of Zhuang’s father and Zhuang’s grandma is getting worse and worse. Due to the laid-off wave, Zhuang Ganmei’s wife has been laid off. Her eldest son Zhuang Zhendong was just a temporary worker in the factory before and the efficiency in the factory was not good, so he lost his job. Now he has no formal job and is lying around.
The youngest son Zhuang Zhenbei did not study or even pass the college entrance examination. After graduating from high school, he became idle at home. After a few years, he still was still lying around.
Zhuang Ganmei's family of four is now the only one left, and Zhuang Ganmei is still working in a machinery factory, but she can't even get her salary.
So now, the family can’t afford to rely on Zhuang Zhuang Mei’s salary to pay for each other. It’s all up to the retirement salary of the old couple, plus one-third of Zhuang Chaoying’s salary, so they can barely have enough food.
To be continued...