Nadia sat sideways and looked up at her husband, "Why? Are you worried about your business?"
Walter was stunned for a moment, then walked around and sat down on the edge of the sofa, "You know, my business has just started, and now I have some customers and friends. It's a good time to expand the business. And we After investing so much money in the early stage, it would be a pity to end it now." He felt a little manic when he told these lies. Yes, these are all lies.
There was no business, no company, and he cheated on his wife.
This lie was born when their family moved from the city to a high-end villa area in the upper city. The houses here are very expensive, costing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. The houses are so expensive, and there are still many people buying them. On the one hand, the environment here is indeed very good, much better than other living areas, and the public security environment is also very good. Starting in the evening every day, security patrols will patrol the entire living area non-stop. They are even equipped with special vehicles and have two doctors on call 24 hours a day to ensure the safety of any resident.
In addition, another reason for the rising prices here is that almost all the richest and most powerful people in Staley live here. This is a very good channel, which is very helpful in broadening your network of contacts and improving the quality of the people you interact with. In addition, Nadiya is a senior partner of China Southern Commercial Bank. Moving here can also increase your relationship with the bank. image, so in the end Nadia gritted her teeth and bought the house here.
As mentioned above, the people who live here are either rich or noble. It is no longer an ordinary high-end community in the city. The people who come and go are all big entrepreneurs or government officials. When neighbors start to move around, Walter will inevitably You will encounter some embarrassing questions, such as "Sir, what line of work are you in?" or "Do you have a business card? I want to visit you." Such polite remarks may not necessarily be true.
In this society, invisible invisible nets trap everyone, and no one can easily break free. If you want to be transcendent, you must be capable, have the ability to execute, and have enough connections. The formation of personal connections is constantly formed in the process of repeated interactions.
If Walter opened his mouth and said that he was just an ordinary full-time househusband, he was afraid that others would laugh at him, playing with flowers and plants at home, taking his daughter to school, cooking for his family, etc. when he had nothing to do. His fragile and sensitive self-esteem made him unable to bear the strange looks from others, so when someone came to visit him for the second time, he told a lie. He said that he was running a small company, engaged in trade circulation, and it was still insignificant at the beginning. Coupled with finding some more polite and polite words to block others from further probing, he easily got rid of this embarrassing situation.
Until one day, a visitor came to his door and invited him to play a few games with him. He thought about it and happily went. Anyway, he has nothing to do at home. There are many familiar neighbors and friends in the place where he used to live, and everyone can still spend some time together. After arriving here, he didn't know anyone. His wife also told him that it would be a good choice to expand his interpersonal relationships appropriately. From then on, he was stuck in it.
At the beginning, he didn't play much, and his winnings and losses were around a few dozen yuan. Nadia would give him three hundred yuan of pocket money every month, and except for buying ingredients, the rest would belong to him. Although he was a little obsessed with gambling at that time, he played small and infrequently, and the money was enough for him to spend. But as he played more and more frequently, he finally found that he didn't have enough money. So he told a lie. Why not turn the lie he told into the truth
He told his wife that he wanted to start a small business, which was the trading and circulation company he called himself. He had known some friends before and had made many new friends recently, and he should be able to make money. Nadiya had no doubt that her husband would cheat on her. After carefully listening to Mr. Walter's analysis, she thought why not let him try. Even if he fails and loses money, this is still a valuable attempt, showing that he has the courage to take a crucial step. Coupled with the unspeakable guilt in Nadia's heart about the things she had done in the past, she gave Walter 10,000 yuan from her bank deposit and asked him to try it out.
The money soon became a victim on the gambling table. Of course, Mr. Walter also registered a trading company, rented an office in the business district, and took Nadia to visit once. He may have had the idea of wanting to run a good business, but the money eventually disappeared on the gambling table.
Then the growing gap and the increasingly uncontrollable desire to gamble made him use various excuses to take money from Nadia again and again, various reasons, various excuses, although Nadia had I had doubts and asked about some things, but he dealt with them skillfully.
It wasn't until these few months when he started not to take money from her often that Nadiya's suspicion finally disappeared. She thought that Walter's company was on the right track and started to generate profits, and she was very happy about it.
Even if every woman doesn't say it, even if the feminist movement outside is in full swing, they all hope to have a successful and strong man behind them to rely on. In fact, how did she know that the reason why Walter didn't ask her for money so often was not that his "company" had begun to make profits, but that the group's plan had entered another stage and they lent him money directly.
Now the reason why Walt resists moving is because he knows very well that once they move out, those people will definitely come to collect his debt before he leaves.
In fact, Nadiya herself had forgotten that Angelio had said that Walter owed gambling debts. First, Nadiya had never thought that her husband could owe a "huge gambling debt." The impact of dramatic changes made me forget about it.
Nadiya continued to pack the things on the table and said, "It doesn't matter. The place I went to work this time didn't have many rules and regulations like Nan Commercial Bank, and... the business environment there is better than here. It's more original and has more opportunities. As long as you are willing to continue doing business, I can give you more help." This is true. The Southern Commercial Bank, including the Imperial Bank, has its own rules. guidelines.
People who work in banks cannot take advantage of their family members and relatives for any reason. Every step must be done in accordance with the rules and regulations. This prevents some people from taking advantage of the bank. For example, Nadia could not get some low-interest unsecured loans for Walter through her connections, nor could she directly introduce bank customers to Walter, which violated the bank's rules. But it was different when she got to Du Lin. She believed that Du Lin was a young man who could talk better.
As long as it does not violate the "Dulin Law", nothing is impossible - she has collected more detailed information about Dulin in the past few days since she came back, so she knows this semi-official vocabulary unique to Otis City - "Dulin Law" ".
Walter frowned and became more irritable and even irritable. What would happen if Nadia knew that he had been cheating on her? The new family image he had finally established might be ruined. He didn't want that, let alone that group of people coming to embarrass him with the "bill" he signed and fingerprinted.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the emotions in his heart, and said patiently, "Listen to me, my dear, stay here. You have a job that everyone envies. You are the senior partner of China Southern Commercial Bank. Look, what a... Why go to that backward place in the north?”
"My job has been handed over, and I am no longer a senior partner of China Southern Commercial Bank." Since Nadiya handed over her job and left her job, she has lost her status as a senior partner. She is also sensitively aware that, There must be other reasons why her husband is so disgusted with leaving here. Suddenly an idea flashed in her mind. She paused her manual movements, turned around and looked at her husband, which made Walter feel a little hairy, and then asked, "Mr. Angelio, tell me you owe I owe you a gambling debt, is that true? How much do you owe?”
When a person's reasons for opposing you are not valid and he still opposes you without any reason, it means that he is hiding the real reason. Nadiya is not a fool, but she doesn’t want to believe that her husband will deceive her. If she can’t even believe the people she trusts and is closest to, and needs to question every word he says and speculate on what his purpose is, then this is Not a couple, not a life.
Walter suddenly fell into silence, which made Nadiya's uneasiness quickly expand.
"I...", he suddenly felt a hint of fear, but then there was anger...
In another room, the young man said something in the ear of the organizer of the card game. The phone rang just now. He turned around and looked at the young man in surprise, and then spoke to the organizer of the card game in an apologetic tone. The gamer said sorry, walked to the other side, and made a phone call. After confirming that Nadia had lost the senior partner of Nan Commercial Bank, he walked to a painting hanging in the room, pushed the painting away, and revealed the safe inside. After opening the safe, he took out a ledger and turned to Walter's page.
A thick stack of IOUs signed and fingerprinted by Walter were neatly put together in chronological order. He glanced at the account book. In the past six months, Walter owed him a total of 77,600 yuan. Excludes interest. He raised his eyebrows, this was not a small amount of money, so now Mr. Walter should pay his past debts and interest.
Nadia resigned from her job and lost her status as a senior partner, which meant that he had no use value and the garbage should be swept into the trash.
He took out this page alone, including the calculation of the IOU and interest, and stuffed it into his pocket.
(End of chapter)