As soon as he entered the courtyard, Lin Mai saw a black Santana parked in the courtyard.
Lin Mai was very surprised and said to his father: "Dad, you also bought a car. How much does it cost?"
Bai Xia interrupted: "How can dad have the money to buy a Sankana? It costs hundreds of thousands!"
Lin Mai asked in surprise: "Whose car does this belong to? Why is it parked in our yard?"
Bai Lu came over and told her: "Dad has been promoted to the president of their bank. This is the bus assigned to dad by the superiors.
That’s why Dad invited you to my house, just to show off his new car.”
Father Bai laughed sheepishly a few times.
Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai who were sitting in the living room heard the voices of Lin Mai and his family coming from outside the house, and they all came out.
Lin and Mai hurriedly paid New Year's greetings to their elders.
Even Doudou bowed to Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai in a decent manner, wishing them a happy New Year.
Made everyone laugh.
When paying New Year greetings, the younger generation gives gifts and the elders give their children lucky money.
After the New Year's greeting ceremony, everyone gathered around Bai's father's Santana to comment on it for a long time.
Lin Mai asked Bai's father if he wanted to have a banquet to celebrate his promotion.
Bai's father flatly refused: "I'm divorced, and my influence in the workplace is inherently bad.
I don’t know how many people are not convinced that I was promoted this time.
Wouldn't it make people jealous if we hold a promotion banquet again?
So we won’t have this promotion banquet, let’s just have a meal with our family to celebrate.”
In this era, the assessment of cadres includes personal style.
If there is a problem with the work style, no matter how outstanding the ability is, it will be difficult to pass the review.
Divorce falls into the category of problematic styles.
Therefore, Father Bai's promotion this time is really jealous, and it is necessary to keep a low profile.
Father Bai was promoted, so he was not asked to do anything about the family dinner. Bai Yan and her brother completed it together.
When Bai Yan was cutting vegetables, she revealed a gold bracelet on her wrist, and Lin Mai saw it.
She asked: "Is the eldest sister wearing a gold bracelet?"
"I hid myself so secretly, but you still saw me."
Bai Yan rolled up the sleeves of the woolen coat she was wearing, pulled out the gold bracelet from the sleeve of the sweater and showed it to Lin Mai: "Does it look good?"
That gold bracelet is quite thick, weighing at least seven or eight grams, but the style is really not pretty.
Lin Mai nodded and said against his will: "It looks good."
Seeing Bai Yan's happy face, she asked, "Is it a gift from your brother-in-law?"
Bai Yan smiled particularly sweetly: "Who else could it be if it wasn't him?
Your brother-in-law opened a snack bar and bought me this gold bracelet as soon as he earned money.
He said that when he makes more money in the future, he will buy me a gold bracelet."
Lin Mai said sincerely: "Brother-in-law is so kind to you."
She asked in confusion: "Why did you hide that gold bracelet so deeply? Isn't it good to expose it?"
These days, no woman wears gold jewelry and doesn't want to be seen. She is also worried that others won't see it, but Bai Yan has to hide it.
Bai Yan sighed and said, "Aren't I afraid that my grandma will snatch the child if she sees it?
When I got to work, I pulled out the gold bracelet."
Don’t talk about people during the day, and don’t talk about ghosts at night.
Bai Yan just mentioned her mother-in-law, and her mother-in-law came. It was Bai Xia who opened the courtyard door when she heard the knock on the door.
When he opened the courtyard door and saw Yang's father and Yang's mother standing at the door, his face immediately turned foul.
He blocked Father Yang and Mother Yang with his body, turned around and shouted toward the living room: "Dad, sweet grandparents are here!"
Yang's mother said angrily: "How can you call someone like this? Shouldn't you call me aunt?"
Bai Xia rolled her eyes and thought to herself, you deserve it too!
Father Bai walked over and said coldly to Father Yang and Mother Yang: "My two daughters are going back to their parents' house today. I don't want to receive guests, so you can go back."
Father Yang's face turned red. He was kicked out by the owner before he even entered the door. It was really embarrassing.
Father Yang complained to Mother Yang: "I asked you not to come, but you come anyway. Let's leave quickly."
After that, he pulled her sleeves and wanted to take her away.
But Yang's mother refused to leave, and shook off Father Yang's hand. Father Bai said with a sinister tone: "Hey! You have been promoted to president, and your arrogance is getting bigger and bigger. You can even see your in-laws coming to the door with gifts to congratulate you.
Not available?"
She deliberately spoke very loudly, almost using a loudspeaker.
Suddenly, heads from the neighbors poked their heads out and looked towards Father Bai and the others curiously.
Father Bai's face turned black with anger, and he raised his voice and said: "You guys bringing gifts to the door to congratulate me have no purpose.
Don't you just want me to use my authority to get all your youngest sons and daughters-in-law to work in the bank?
I will not agree to your unreasonable demands!"
Yang's mother was uneasy and wanted to make the neighbors think that he was a snobbery.
Then he would let the neighbors know that the purpose of Yang's father and mother's trip was to let him go through the back door.
It's understandable that he wouldn't let Yang's father and Yang's mother in. Let's see who ruins the other's reputation!
Yang's mother did not expect that Father Bai would make such a move. It was impossible to force her way in, so she had no choice but to leave with Father Yang, cursing.
Not far away, Bai Xia caught up with him and said to him and his wife:
"My dad wants me to tell you, don't find fault with my family, let alone my eldest sister.
Otherwise, my father will ask your youngest son and his wife to be streamlined from the factory!"
Yang's mother was so angry that she trembled: "If your father dares to do this, our whole family will go to your sister's house and eat her food and live in hers!"
Bai Xia smiled disdainfully: "As long as you dare to go, my sister will divorce your son!"
Yang Ma said confidently: "Just leave!"
If Bai Xia said this in the past, Yang's mother would still give in.
Bai Yan's salary is so high, how could she be willing to divorce her eldest son.
Although I wish my eldest son could divorce his eldest daughter-in-law, I only think about it when I feel resentful.
But today is different from the past. The snack bar opened by her eldest son is so profitable.
She and her eldest daughter-in-law were divorced, and coincidentally, all the money earned by her eldest son belonged to her Yang family.
Bai Xia was so angry that she turned around and left.
When I got home, I told everyone what Yang's mother said.
Bai Yan said confidently: "You all put your hearts in your stomach, A Jin will not divorce me."
With this annoying episode, everyone had a dull meal at the beginning of the luncheon.
After a while, the atmosphere gradually became lively.
Dad Bai mentioned that their bank system was going to build a community for family members.
After the construction is completed, according to his level, he can be assigned to a large apartment with three bedrooms and one living room.
When he gets a new house, the courtyard can be returned to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai said: "This is not urgent."
She is somewhat interested in taking on the bank system family community project.
The banking system and the railway system are the richest units with the best welfare.
Building a community for family members of other state-owned units does not bring much profit. Building a community for family members of these two units is no less than building commercial housing for yourself.
Lin Mai has long wanted to test the real estate market in Beijing.
But she has never found a good opportunity to test the waters. Now there is a good opportunity in front of her, and she doesn't want to miss it.
I just don’t know the scale of this bank family community.
If only a few buildings were built, she wouldn't want to take it on because the scale would be too small and she wouldn't be able to make much money.
Lin Mai then asked Bai's father how big the family community was.
Dad Bai said that at least thirty buildings must be built, and all of them will be five stories.
This scale is not small.
Lin Mai really wanted Dad Bai to help her get this project.
But he is also afraid that Father Bai will be criticized by others for taking advantage of his position to get projects for his daughter.
It was not easy for Father Bai to reach the position of branch president, and Lin Mai did not want to implicate him because of himself.
So when the words came to my lips, I swallowed them hard and prepared to go back and figure out a solution.
After having lunch at Bai's father's house, Bai Yan took her daughter to Yang Jin's snack bar.
He complained when he entered the house, saying that his biological mother wanted him to divorce her, and asked him what he thought.
Yang Jin was selling sesame cakes with meat and said: "What else can I think? I will definitely not divorce you!
If I divorce you, I will become a money-making tool for our Yang family.
The key is that my mother will not give any of the money she earns to you mother and daughter.
Even if she gives Tiantian living expenses, she won't agree.
I will only give all the money to the second family.
When I was sick, she wouldn't even give me a cent, so I had to suffer so much."
Yang Jin is not an alarmist.
In the first year of his marriage to Bai Yan, he contracted appendicitis.
Although the unit reimburses medical expenses, it requires employees to advance money first.
At that time, because the whole family lived together, all of his and his wife's wages were given to his biological mother.
But his mother refused to spend a penny for his surgery.
Instead, he asked him to ask his father-in-law for it.
They say that his father-in-law is rich, but what does a few dollars to treat appendicitis mean to them?
How could a grown man like him do this?
In the end, Bai Yan went back to her parents' home to get the money, let him have the surgery, and took care of him in the hospital with no clothes on.
At that time, those nutritious meals were also cooked by the nanny at my mother-in-law’s house.
That was all. Later, his employer reimbursed his medical expenses, but his mother took away the medical expenses.
So Yang Jin knew very well that if he really divorced Bai Yan, he would be eaten up to the bone by his Yang family members.
Bai Yan was very happy after hearing Yang Jin's answer and said, "You have to tell your mother these things, otherwise your mother will always find trouble with me and my father."
Yang Jin said: "My parents came here just now and asked me to divorce you. I told them everything I told you.
What do you think my mother said?"
Bai Yan asked curiously: "What did your mother say?"
"My mother said that if you treat my brother and his family well now, when his son grows up, he will throw a basin for me in a hundred years to observe his filial piety.
I retorted on the spot. Who would have thought that my younger brother's son would break a basin for me to observe his filial piety.
I have a daughter. When she grows up, can’t she break a pot for me to keep her mourning?
Nowadays, family planning is implemented. In the future, many families will not have sons. Aren’t they going to rely on their daughters to do all these things?
Is it possible that for families with daughters, no one takes care of them in their old age, no one collects their corpses, no one holds funerals, and no one visits their graves during the Qingming Festival?"
Bai Yan burst into laughter: "You said that, isn't your mother mad to death?"
Yang Jin didn't take it seriously and said: "Let her go, as long as the pension money I should pay will not be less than her and dad's.
During the holidays, I also buy them some delicious food and clothes. It’s her business to do what she likes.”