While Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were strolling on the Peking University campus, Xiang Jin's cell phone rang in her bag. She took it out and saw that it was Lin Zi's call. She immediately picked up the call.
"Hello, Lin Zi?"
"Xiang Jin, have you been at home these two days? I'm going to see you?" Lin Zi asked directly.
Xiang Jin said, "Yes, yes, I'm always at home. Have you come to BJ?"
Lin Zi said, "I'm here in Hebei, collecting medicinal materials with my father. After I'm done, I'll go see you."
"Oh, okay, then why don't you come with uncle then?" Xiang Jin responded.
Lin Zi apologized, "My dad may not be able to go then. He has to escort the medicinal materials back, and my grandparents have also returned to their hometown. My mom is guarding the shop alone in Shanghai. My dad is a little worried, so he finished his work.
Just go back from here."
Xiang Jin understood, "Okay, you can come when the time comes. How busy are you now?"
Lin Zi said, "It's almost over. We can come as soon as the goods are shipped."
"Okay, then will you catch the train or take the bus? I will arrange for someone to pick you up then?"
Lin Zi said, "I'll catch the train then. The express only takes more than two hours, but you don't have to arrange for someone to pick me up. You just need to tell me the address and I'll go there by myself. In the past few years, I've often been alone.
You're running outside, don't worry about me."
Xiang Jin said, "You are new to BJ and you are not familiar with many road conditions. It is better to arrange for someone to pick you up. If I pick you up this time, I will not pick you up in the future."
Lin Zi hesitated for a moment and then agreed, "That's okay."
Xiang Jin asked, "Have you bought your train ticket?"
Lin Zi said, "Not yet, because I don't know when I will be busy, so I haven't bought it yet, but the Spring Festival Transport has been over for more than a month or two now, and it is the off-season, so the tickets are very good
Bought."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, then when you buy the tickets, tell me the specific time, and I will also send you the phone number of the person who will pick you up at that time."
"Okay, that's it, hang up?"
"good!"
After Xiang Jin ended the phone call with Lin Zi, she asked Xiang Jin, "Who would be better to arrange to pick her up then?"
Yan Chen said, "Let Chen Zicong pick her up then. I don't have time to pick her up."
Xiang Jin said, "I know, okay, then I'll bother Chen Zicong to make a trip. Oh, by the way, did Chen Zicong contact her later? What's the situation between the two of them now? I haven't asked them this before.
thing."
Yan Chen said, "I don't know, and I didn't ask."
Xiang Jin said, "Then I will ask her when she comes."
At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Jin and his family received another unexpected guest.
Seeing Yang Zhao who was not tall in front of him, only about 1.678 meters tall, but with a smile on his face, Xiang Jin also said happily, "Why are you here, ah? You are not the sixth grade of junior high school."
Are you going back to Shenzhen?"
This guy suddenly called her and said he wanted to see her, and he was already at BJ. He asked her where she lived. Yan Chen took the phone and asked where she was, and he drove to pick her up.
He said he was on the Shichahai side, but he didn't know exactly how to get there because there were too many alleys here.
Yan Chen asked him to report the road section where he was, and what buildings or larger stores were nearby. Then Yang Zhao told him what was nearby, and Yan Chen immediately knew where he was.
, and then drove to pick him up.
Xiang Jin's grandparents, as well as Yan Chen's grandparents, all looked at Yang Zhao with smiles on their faces.
Yang Zhao smiled and said, "Our boss wanted to open an integrated circuit store here in BJ Zhongguancun, so he came over to inspect and took me with him."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then invited her to sit over, and everyone started chatting. After asking him some information, Xiang Jin asked him again, "How many days will you stay here this time?"
Yang Zhao said, "Today is the last day. We will go back at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
Xiang Jin was surprised, "How many days have you been at BJ?"
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, it's been almost four or five days. Because I have been following the boss to do market research in the past few days, so I haven't contacted you. The boss remembered that I have been thinking about coming to visit you, so I followed you in the afternoon.
After he met two clients, the boss gave me leave and said that if you want to come to visit, you can come and we will go back tomorrow."
Xiang Jin and his grandfather said, "Your boss is quite benevolent."
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, our boss has always treated employees well, and he is also very good at dealing with people. Our boss is not very old. He is from Chaoshan, and he looks like he is in his thirties. Usually
I can also get along well with the employees.”
Grandma Mo nodded and said, "That's good, that's good. As an employee, don't you just want to meet a good boss? If the boss is a good person, then the employees will also be motivated."
"Well, that's it!" Yang Zhao then took out a wad of money from his bag and handed it to Xiang Jin, "Sister, we don't have any local specialties to bring in Shenzhen, and you're pregnant, so I won't
I know what to buy for you, but I don’t know what to eat and what not to eat. I’m afraid I’ll buy the wrong thing, so I’ll just give you some money and you can buy whatever you want to eat. This is also
Don’t refuse my little brother’s kindness, okay?”
Xiang Jin looked at the stack of hundreds of scrolls and nodded, "Okay, I understand what you want, but you don't need so many." After saying that, Xiang Jin casually took out half of the stack, and then left the rest.
Then he put it back in front of him and said, "That's enough!"
Yang Zhao refused, and it was the one who gave her the wad of money, "Sister, I can make money by myself now, and with a monthly base salary plus commission, and some living and transportation subsidies, I still have seven or eight thousand a month.
Yeah, so you don’t have to worry about me running out of money
, this is my little brother’s thoughts. For you and for our unborn nephew, you can’t ignore it. When our little nephew is born, I may not have time to see him, so I will do it for you.
I bought him two pieces of clothes and two cans of milk powder in advance."
Seeing how insistent he was, Xiang Jin stopped refusing and said, "Okay, I'll accept them all."
Yang Zhao smiled happily, and Xiang Jin asked him, "Can you receive seven or eight thousand every month now?"
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, it's basically the same. Although Shenzhen is not full of gold, as long as you are sincere and down-to-earth, hard-working, and have a sweet mouth, you won't have to worry about not getting a job." Then he felt a little unhappy.
He said politely, "I'm pretty good at this!"
Xiang Jin laughed, and the rest of the family also laughed. Xiang Jin said, "If you are in sales, you have to be thick-skinned. If you are thin-skinned, it will not be easy to attract customers. I am optimistic about you!"
The corners of Yang Zhao's mouth raised high, and Yan Chen asked, "Then do you plan to develop there?"
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, maybe it's over there. After staying there for so many years, I'm used to the life and rhythm there."
Yan Chen nodded, "It's good. Although Shenzhen is a fast-paced city, it does have a lot of opportunities. As long as you are not afraid of hardship, you can definitely make money."
Yang Zhao nodded again, "Well, I plan to save money for another two years and then buy a house there."
Xiang Jin asked, "How much money do you have in your hand now?"
Yang Zhao said, "Except for the 2,000 yuan I mail to my parents every month and my own living expenses, I can save 4,500 to 5,000 yuan a month. The rent here is not expensive."
, I live outside the customs, in the Baoan area, and I rented it.
For a single room, the monthly rent, water and electricity bills add up to less than 500 yuan. I eat out in the morning and lunch, and cook for myself in the evening, so the monthly living expenses are less than 500 yuan. Currently, I have almost 10 yuan in my hand.
It looks like 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.”
Everyone nodded, and Grandpa Zeng asked, "Are houses in Shenzhen expensive?"
Yang Zhao said, "I don't know much about other places, but the house price in the central area of Bao'an where I live is less than 5,000 yuan per square meter. The houses on both sides of Guannai Shennan Road and near the subway crossing are...
Eight thousand yuan per square meter."
Grandma Mo said, "That's still similar to the housing prices here in BJ. The prices for the second and third ring roads here in BJ are eighty-nine thousand to ten thousand yuan, and more than ten thousand yuan. In many areas, it's about twenty thousand yuan."
It’s about RMB 5,000, like the one at the 5th and 6th Ring Road, and the one in Tongzhou, which ranges from 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, or 5,000 to 5,000 to 6,000 yuan.”
Yan Chen asked, "Then do you plan to buy within the customs or outside the customs?"
Yang Zhao said, "I want to buy it in Guannai, on Shennan Road. The environment there is not bad, and it will be closer to Huaqiangbei when I go to work."
Xiang Jin nodded, "For things like buying a house, it's better to do it sooner rather than later, because the social economy is constantly developing rapidly, and house prices are rising every year. You said you would save for two years and wait two years to buy, but you can't.
In two years, housing prices will be at another level, and you may not be able to buy a toilet even if you save for a year."
Yan Chen also said, "What your sister said is right. When it's time to take action, you should take action in time. Don't delay. The longer you delay, the more you will have to pay later. If you don't have enough money, we can lend you some.
"
Xiang Jin nodded towards him, "Yeah!"
Yang Zhao was moved in his heart, but he still refused, "No, no, I can still make a down payment with that money, and I don't need to buy a big one. I'll buy a small set of two first, and then I'll spend some time in the future."
If I have money and want to change to a set of three, I will just buy another one.”
Xiang Jin nodded, "Your method is not bad. Don't put so much pressure on yourself first. Since you want to stay there and develop in the future, you should set up camp there first and gain a firm foothold.
It’s okay if you don’t want to borrow money and have foreign debts. You don’t need to mail the two thousand yuan to your uncle and aunt every month for the time being. They are still young and are opening their own shops to make money, so they don’t need to use your filial piety for the time being.
If you give them those two thousand yuan, they will understand you and support you, so you will feel less pressure."
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, after I return to Shenzhen this time, I will go to see a house immediately. But sister, Brother Chen, I don't know anything about buying a house, and I don't know how to choose. You guys
Tell me about it."
Then Xiang Jin laughed, "This is simple. You just need to remember a few points when buying a house."
The two of them then explained to him what should be paid attention to when buying a house. Yang Zhao listened very carefully, and then he also took out a notebook and wrote it down.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen looked at each other and smiled, and then they felt that Yang Zhao had become much calmer and more practical in the past few years, so they explained to him in more detail.
After chatting about buying a house, Yang Zhao said, "I met your high school classmate several times in Shenzhen."
"Leijia?!"
"Yes, she often travels there on business. She has clients in Huaqiangbei, and our company is right there. I even treated her to a meal once."
"This is rare, can you meet it there?" Xiang Jin said with a smile.
Yang Zhao nodded, "Isn't it? It's not easy to meet a fellow countryman there. It was also that time when I went to a client and came back to the company to report, and then I met her in the elevator.
I didn't recognize her at that time, and she didn't recognize me either. She was talking to the person next to her. I heard that her accent sounded like someone from our place, so after she finished talking to the client, I asked
Is her hometown from our place? Then she said it.
After coming out of the elevator, we walked together for a while, and then I told her that my sister and I had both studied at Maode Middle School. Then she asked me which class I was in, and which class you were in.
term.
I told her which class my sister was in, and she was extremely surprised after hearing this, and then told me that she was your classmate in high school.
She said she went to college in Suzhou, and you went to Shanghai, and you guys used to hang out a lot. She found a job in Shanghai after graduation, and now you often get together and see each other."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, yes, their family is in Shengshui Town. Her mother and her grandmother ran a small restaurant. Later, they saved some money, and then her mother and her grandmother took the money and gave it to her in Shanghai.
After buying a house, she has now settled in Shanghai. Their company is engaged in trading, so she often travels for business."
Yang Zhao said, "Oh, she didn't say that. Later, when we met for the second time, I invited her to dinner. Anyway, it was quite happy to meet old friends in a foreign country."
Xiang Jin and his grandmother asked, "Are there many Sichuan and Hunan restaurants in Shenzhen?"
Yang Zhao said, "There are not many Sichuan restaurants, but there are more coriander restaurants, and there are more food stalls like those in Guangdong and Fujian. People there like to drink some beer at night, and then go to the food stalls to order some seafood dishes.
, and there are more fried rice noodles and fried rice noodles at roadside stalls. Sometimes in the morning I pack a portion of fried rice noodles and take them to the company to eat. The taste is similar to the ones in our own shop."
Everyone nodded, and then Xiang Jin said, "It's better not to be too frugal in life, as long as you don't spend money recklessly."
Yang Zhao nodded, "No, no, I didn't save. I spent what I should have spent, and I didn't spend what I shouldn't have."
Then Xiang Jin changed the topic, "Grandpa, grandma, and uncle and aunt, how are they?"
"Okay, everything is fine. You don't have to worry. I raised six more pigs this year, but now he doesn't grow vegetables in greenhouses anymore. This year, all the land is planted. We have too many people growing greenhouse vegetables now.
, and the prices are not necessarily good, so I didn’t bother to grow vegetables in greenhouses this year and bought them, so I planted some for our family to eat, as well as for my parents’ vegetables in the restaurants in town, and then I planted some sweet potatoes.
Fujiko and Chinese cabbage are used to raise pigs, chickens and ducks."
Xiang Jin said, "Grandpa is right not to plant. At such an old age, he gets up early and stays late. Grandma has been in town for a long time to look after the braised pork shop for Xiang Lan. He is at home alone, and he is always picking vegetables.
Frequently forgetting to have breakfast and lunch is not good for your health in the long run."
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, we told him to stop breeding and planting, but he didn't listen, saying that there is no reason for farmers not to cultivate the land, raise pigs, chickens and ducks, and he was alone at home for a day.
He feels better if he is busy with something, but if he just doesn't do any work, he will feel uncomfortable all over."
Grandma Mo smiled and said, "Your father has been a hard-working person his whole life. He was like that when he lived there before, and he is still like that now."
"Well, that's right!"
Yang Zhao then told them that old man Xiang was dead.
Xiang Jin asked, "Already dead?! When did it happen?"
Yang Zhao said, "On the night of the 29th and 30th of the twelfth lunar month, his two sons bought a coffin and took it out for burial on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. They didn't even choose a burial day.
On that day, few families came to Wan Tou, and neither did Xu Zhibin’s family.
People, in short, left very deserted. After breakfast on the second day of the second year of junior high school, the brothers Xiang Hai and Xiang Tao each took their wives and children back to the county town, saying that they were opening their doors for business, so it was not convenient to go to the countryside.
Stay for a long time, and then leave Mrs. Zhang alone at home."
Everyone sighed, and Grandma Mo sighed, "Oh, what's the point of talking about the children they raised in this life? Tu Ming gave birth to four, and they had two sons and two daughters, but none of them turned out to be reliable."
Grandpa Zeng said, "This is because they don't know how to educate their children. If they knew how to educate their children, how could they not get a filial piety? They have been selfish all their lives and are not good at living. The children they raise will also imitate the same and follow the selfish example."
.”
As the same saying goes, poor people must be hateful.
Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao, "Did you spend the Chinese New Year in Xiangjiawan, or did you go back to Yangjiagou?"
Yang Zhao said, "We spent New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year at Yangjiagou. Then we went to my grandparents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I went back to my brother, my sister-in-law, and my parents.
I went back to Xiangjiawan. I stayed in my hometown and stayed with my grandparents for two days. I went back to Xiangjiagou on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and then I walked directly from there and returned to Shenzhen."
Xiang Jin and the others nodded, and then Xiang Jin asked about his brother's daughter. Yang Zhao said, "She is still a little fat person, and her whole body is full of knots. Anyway, I feel it if I hold it in my hand for a little longer.
To the point of exhaustion.”
Grandma Mo asked, "How many pounds?"
Yang Zhao said, "Twenty-five or six pounds."
"Twenty-five or six pounds?!" Xiang Jin was surprised, "Isn't this too fat? What did your brother feed her? Why is she so fat? The standard weight for a one-year-old baby is about twenty pounds.
, you obviously exceeded the standard by a lot?"
Yang Zhao said, "That child can eat, and she also likes to eat meat. At least she eats more than you in one meal. Like that kind of minced meat porridge, she has to eat two bowls of such a big bowl in one meal, and they also eat five bowls a day.
Feed her six meals a day," Yang Zhao gestured while speaking.
After Grandma Mo and the others saw his bowl, they all sighed, "That's a lot of food. No wonder he's so fat."
Xiang Jin said, "Tell your brother and the others not to feed them too much fat. Be careful to lose weight in the future, and if you feed them too much fat, they will easily lose weight."
"Ah? There are still such things?" Yang Zhao said in surprise.
Xiang Jin said, "Ah, it's not good if children eat more and get fatter. Today's children are not like children in the past. The children in the past were because their family's economic conditions were not good and they didn't eat much.
Nutrition.
Today's children's family conditions are not much better than those at that time, so basically they are not lacking in all aspects, so they can no longer feed them according to the previous thinking and method.
Tell your brother to buy some parenting books and read them when you have time. It may not be a good idea to feed your children random things. Nowadays, we all pay attention to scientific methods to feed our children."
Yang Zhao nodded, "Then I'll call my brother and talk about it for a while. It won't be good if I really feed that little girl into a big fat man. When she grows up, she won't even have a partner."
Not good."
Xiang Jin couldn't laugh or cry at once, "It's too early for you to worry. What are you doing now? The child is only a few months old and less than a year old."
Yang Zhao said, "Then we still need to take precautions before it happens."
The grandparents immediately got up and said they were going to prepare dinner, leaving them and the young people to chat.
Xiang Jin gossiped, "Don't talk about your brother. Your brother is now married and starting a business. Let's talk about you. How are you doing now? I'm talking about a personal matter. Do you have a girl you like?"
Yang Zhao felt a little embarrassed for a moment, and then his eyes dodged a little, not daring to look at Jin, "How could I? It's still early for me!"
Xiang Jin saw his expression and said, "Dishonest!"
Yang Zhao said, "It's true. Let me tell you. There is a girl in the company next door to ours. I think she's pretty good. But the girl is from Huizhou. She just married someone else."
, because there were only two people in their family, her and her sister. Her sister married a man from another province, and her parents wanted to keep her at home to raise a son-in-law.
Our family has two sons, me and my brother, but the conditions of our family are not very bad in our area, right? So it is impossible for me to become someone's son-in-law, so even if I like it, it will only be
I can keep it in my heart.”
Xiang Jin said, "Silly, what age are we in now, and are we still talking about marrying into the mother-in-law? Aren't you developing in Shenzhen? The girl is also developing in Shenzhen. You two can buy a house and settle down in Shenzhen?"
Well, Huizhou is not very far from Shenzhen, only a two- or three-hour drive. When they get old, you can just bring them to Shenzhen to take care of them. What’s the point? They’re not next to your own children.
"
Yang Zhao said, "But her parents require their future children to follow their surname. I am a bit unable to accept this."
Xiang Jin glared at him angrily, "Yang Zhao, you've been living in a first-tier city like Shenzhen for so many years, why can't you win over Taiwan with this idea?
First of all, that surname is just a code name. It doesn’t matter whether the surname is Zhang or Li and Wang, as long as the child is your biological child, won’t the bloodline still be passed down? Could it be that if he changes his surname, it won’t be yours?
My child, is it not your blood anymore?
In the past, many kings and the children of nobles initially followed their father's surname, but later moved to another place, and then used that place name as the surname of themselves or their descendants. There were many of them.
The ancients were so open-minded and enlightened, but you modern people are still so rigid and closed-minded. You must know that you are standing on the shoulders of giants in history. Why can't your thoughts follow the trend?
Let’s not talk about the distant ones, let’s talk about the closer ones. Our great men and many revolutionary martyrs also have many descendants who do not have their own surnames. Some have their mother’s surnames, and some have the surnames of outsiders.
Also, if you want the child to have your surname, that's not impossible. That means you both have to work harder. When the time comes, you can have two children, one with the mother's surname and one with the father's surname.
Is that all right?
As long as you agree from the beginning, that is, the first child, whether it is a boy or a girl, will have the same surname. The second child will have the same surname as the first child, whether it is a boy or a girl, both parents will have the same surname.
, as long as the other half is reasonable.
Oh, I’ve told you so much, does that girl like you? Then it’s not just because you’re picky and hot-tempered, it’s all in vain for me to tell you so much.”
Yang Zhao nodded, "Well, that girl also has a good impression of me. We also had dinner together several times and went shopping several times. Later, after her sister sneaked away to other provinces with others, she followed I told them about their family situation and what her parents meant, and we didn’t have much contact after that, but we would occasionally meet each other when commuting to and from get off work.”
Xiang Jin asked him, "Does she have a partner now?"
Yang Zhao shook his head, "I didn't come back for the Spring Festival yet. I just don't know if her family has arranged a blind date for her when she went home for the New Year. Although we met several times during the New Year, we didn't talk about it.
talk."
Xiang Jin said, "Then when you go back, ask her out as soon as possible and tell her, Yang Zhao, let me tell you, it's not easy to meet someone you like and who also likes you. That girl is really
If you are a very good person, don’t give up and fight for it. No matter what the result is, at least you have fought for it and you will have no regrets in the future.”
Yang Zhao nodded, "Yeah, I know. I'll talk to her when I get back. Oh, sister, Brother Chen, your family is pretty good. In the capital where land is so valuable, you are really lucky to have such a big house.
This," he said, giving them a thumbs up.
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "Your brother Chen bought this yard, but the price has indeed increased a lot now, so I said that if you want to buy a house, you should hurry up and do it as soon as possible."
Yang Zhao asked, "What is the price of your house now? What was the price back then?"
Yan Chen said, "When I bought it, it was about 8,000 per square meter. Now it's about 35,000 and 60,000."
Yang Zhao was surprised, his eyes widened, "Wow, it's so expensive now?"
Yan Chen nodded slightly, "Yeah!"
Yang Zhao raised his head and looked around, then nodded frequently, "It's good, it's good. This yard is big enough, and it's quite elegant and upscale. You can actually grow flowers and vegetables in the yard. This yard is really nice."
Yes, when I have money in the future, I will also build a courtyard house in my hometown."
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "Okay, living in a courtyard is quite comfortable. You can build one in your hometown in the future. The land area in your hometown is not expensive. You can build it in any style you want."
Yes, you will stay at home tonight, right?"
Yang Zhao said, "No, let's not bother the grandparents. My boss and I haven't checked out of the hotel room yet, and the luggage is still in the hotel. I'll go back to the hotel later."
, we will go directly to the airport from there with our boss tomorrow morning."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, then after dinner, we will take you back to the hotel."
"Oh, good!"
After dinner, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen sent Yang Zhao back to the hotel. After talking to their grandparents for a while, they went straight back to the room.
Xiang Jin took out the wad of money Yang Zhao gave her and counted it, "Oh, this guy actually gave us six thousand."
Yan Chen said, "Then keep good records. When he gets married, we will have to pay him back the money."
Xiang Jin said, "I know, I have remembered it. I have recorded everything that gave us money and valuables, otherwise I won't be able to find a reference later."
Yan Chen walked up to her and took the accounting book from her hand, "Let me see, from whom have we received what gifts?"
Xiang Jin said, "Look."
After Yan Chen looked at it, he said, "Well, put it away then." Then she picked up the mobile phone beside her and looked at it. Then she found that Lin Zi had sent her a text message, saying that she would send her a text message at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Zhong arrived at the BJ train station, so Xiang Jin told Yan Chen.
Yan Chen immediately picked up his cell phone and dialed Chen Zicong, telling him the time to pick him up at the train station tomorrow.