During the Chinese New Year this year, Ji Huai’s family of three really didn’t go back.
What do you mean by not going back for the New Year
For this reason, Ji's father made several phone calls, asking the two of them to go back, but Ji Huai was adamant and refused to return.
Ji's father finally said helplessly, "She is your mother, and your mother also knows that she is wrong. We are all one family."
Ji Huai interrupted directly, "Will she know she was wrong? Everyone in the world knows she was wrong, and my mother will never admit that she was wrong."
"Dad, just indulge me, there won't be any good results, and we may have to bear all the consequences together!"
Ji's father hesitated and said, "The Chinese New Year is not just about having a meal as a family, Yong'an is also back..."
"Did he find a job? Or did he come back after spending all the money? It's only been a few months? Who spends 10,000 yuan a month, who lives a better life than him?" Ji Huai said sarcastically, "When I go back, there will be noisy things, and maybe even violence. , Xiaoni is still pregnant with the child, and I don’t want to cause trouble.”
Hearing this, Ji's father choked for words because Ji Huai was really right. Ji Yong'an couldn't find a job and had spent all his money. He couldn't talk about coming back this time. The competition in big cities was too fierce and he wanted to stay at home with his parents.
Seeing Ji Huai's firm attitude, Ji's father could only say, "Then don't go back. Then where are you now? Do you have enough money?"
Ji's father would ask questions every time he called, and he was afraid that Ji Huai would suffer. He was a very traditional father. He had no ability, but he worked diligently for his family and his children, and he was caught in the middle.
Ji Huai didn't say where he was, "That's enough. I'm doing well. Dad, don't worry about me. I'm going to get busy."
"Then you should be busy and take care of yourself." Ji's father said quickly for fear of delaying his work.
After hanging up the phone, Ji Huai stood up, and Shani, the bookkeeper, also raised her head. Seeing that the person coming was the landlord, the two of them had a bad feeling.
"I haven't eaten enough for dinner today. I heard that your milky taro is pretty good. Give me a bowl." The landlord, an old man in his sixties, smiled kindly and seemed to have a good attitude. He walked inside and sat down.
"Wait a moment." Seeing him like this, Shani felt relieved again. They were just here to eat.
Soon, a bowl of milky taro was served, and some chicken feet were not sold out. It was already evening, so Shani enthusiastically picked some and brought it to him.
"We are all in business, and we have to calculate the money later." The old landlord refused quickly, and emphasized again and again, "I can't let you lose money, you must calculate the money."
"No, I don't have much money." Shani said with a smile. She is a person who is polite to others, but she is even more polite. She has a simple mind.
Ji Huai looked at the old landlord, his eyes darkened.
When renting a house, there is no room for bargaining, and all aspects are clearly calculated. If you are suddenly so easy to talk to, something must be wrong.
At the end of the checkout, Shani just took five yuan. The old landlord was very apologetic and said to the two of them, "I have something to do when I come here today. I have to tell you."
"Say it." Shani answered, pursed her lips, and didn't notice at all.
"My little son is getting married." The old landlord smiled and made some preparations.
"That's good, congratulations." She said sincerely.
"Then." The old landlord pretended to be embarrassed, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I said I would rent it to you for two years, but now I have no choice. They want to come back to live, and a new house needs to be built here. I can't rent it anymore."
"This liquidated damages is ten times the rent. It's really not good for me to compensate you, so I'll add a little more and give you 50,000. What do you think?"
They have calculated that they earn more than 100,000 yuan a month. Is that the only thing that makes drinks? I asked that nephew to hire someone. He has been working as a cook for so long and has learned a lot.
As for the chicken feet and salt-baked chicken, they have already become popular, and the taste is not bad.
They only need to earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a month, and they can quickly earn back that rent. How much does it cost to rent to them a month
The house is his, so doing business is naturally more cost-effective!
Shani's face suddenly turned pale and she said anxiously, "You can't do this. We promised to rent it for at least two years. We spent a lot of money on decoration. What can we do with fifty thousand?"
"We have just opened this store. It is not easy. There are all kinds of..."
She couldn't hold it back for a while and almost cried. Ji Huai stopped her and said, "You haven't finished settling the accounts yet. Let's settle the accounts first."
As soon as he spoke, Shani seemed to have a backbone again, and her restless heart slowly calmed down, but the child in her belly kicked hard, making her feel a little depressed.
She said nothing more and sat down silently to settle the accounts, her mind in a state of confusion.
Ji Huai looked at the old landlord and spoke slowly, "You never said you wanted to use it as a wedding room before. If you wanted to use it as a wedding room, we would definitely not rent it. We would add pieces here and there. The decoration would cost about 200,000 yuan. What can 50,000 yuan do? ?”
"There's nothing we can do about it. My son is going to get married suddenly, so he has to have a wedding room." The old landlord said it was even more difficult. He glanced at the house and said, "You guys just decorate it. I'll have to hire someone to dismantle it, and I'll have to do it again." If you pretend it again, it will be a big deal."
Ji Huai sneered in his heart, looked at him and said lightly, "We have put a lot of effort into this decoration ourselves. If we hire people for the whole process, we will definitely not be able to pay 200,000 yuan. If we cancel the lease, we will go to other places to open it, here Naturally, the decoration is to be demolished and moved on.”
"There won't be any left."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the landlord's face suddenly change, and his eyes became even more sarcastic.
You want to take over this store at a loss of 50,000 yuan, and you still want to make money while you're there? What a dream!
They wanted to leave without leaving any decoration behind, but he wanted to see if the other party still wanted to do it after paying fifty thousand in compensation, plus two hundred thousand in decoration, and having to hire someone else!
The old landlord's eyes averted several times, and finally he said without conscience, "That's your freedom, and I can't help it. If I decorate the wedding room, I have to hire someone to do it."
"That's right, there's nothing we can do. If we have to go somewhere else, we definitely can't keep it here." Ji Huai also agreed.
"I'll go back and ask my son to see what he says. If you really want to use it as a wedding room, this is the only way." After finishing speaking, the old landlord said, "But, I have to tell you in advance, the rent in this area has increased. If you continue to rent at that time, the rent will also increase.”
"That's for sure, but we only paid for half a year last month." Ji Huai reminded him.
Seeing that their business is good, they have come to ask for rent a long time ago. If they want to increase the price, they have to wait until the back rent is due, right
That will already be the middle of next year.
"Yeah." The old landlord's face almost stopped tightening in the end, and he walked away with an old face.
"If we really want to go back, what will we do..." Shani raised her head and looked at him, showing her vulnerability at this time, choking, "How can this be done? We agreed to rent for two years, and it's only been a few months?"
Just when they saw some hope, didn't the other party's behavior just kill their hopes abruptly? They worked so hard to open the store.
"Didn't you say that you want to take it in?" Ji Huai looked down at her, his expression unchanged, and said with relief, "What are you afraid of? Leave him alone. This house has been built for several years. Is anyone renting it? If it weren't for us, it might be empty. How long?"
"After losing 50,000 yuan, he can still spend 200,000 yuan for decoration? Without 300,000 yuan, he wouldn't be able to open this store even if he wanted to!"
"What if it can be opened? I will make a lot of profit every month and I can get my money back in half a year." Shani's hands were shaking, and the child's kick made her even more painful.
After all, she was still a little woman who had not experienced any troubles. When she encountered this kind of thing for the first time, she was immediately confused. She was so angry that her chest hurt, and she said unscrupulously, "He didn't keep his word. What should we do?" If you don’t rent it, you won’t rent it.”
"We rented the entire building for 3,800 a month, 45,600 a year, and the cost of opening the store is close to 300,000. How long will he rent it? If he changes the decoration and taste, will he definitely be able to make money? "Ji Huai looked at her, reached out and patted her shoulder, and said firmly, "He must not have the courage!"
Relying on his little nephew who is too lazy to eat? Spending hundreds of thousands to hire someone is simply wishful thinking.
Hearing what he said, Shani's frown relaxed a little. He was right. Both of them were doing this. They didn't hire anyone originally and they did everything themselves.
If you don't have this experience, you won't be able to start it at all.
"Whether he rents it or not, I don't want to renew the lease." Ji Huai's face darkened, "Are you still worried that there are no shops to rent around here?"
Looking around, there are many newly built small buildings, all newly built in the past two years. No one has lived in them yet, and there are very few people renting the entire building.
Shani was so relieved by him that she wasn't so anxious anymore. She touched her bulging belly again and again. It was almost seven months later, and the other person became more and more active and kicked her all day long.
After touching it several times, my stomach became quiet again.
Next, the old landlord would come to take a look from time to time. In the afternoon, the store was lined up to buy chicken feet, and most of the time it was full of people.
Who is not greedy for profit
He didn't buy this land. It was divided when it was renovated. When he built the house, he sold another piece of land to build the house. It was cheap at the time and it was built for less than 300,000 yuan.
They seem to have many houses and are glamorous landlords, but in fact they cannot rent out their houses and have no high-paying jobs. A monthly income of more than 100,000 yuan is enough for people to do crazy things.
But he could only watch Ji Huai and the others make money and did not dare to kick them out.
After being kicked out, the rent was gone. He had to pay close to 300,000 yuan to get in, but it wasn't necessarily popular. He really didn't have the money.
However, he is jealous.
I can't help but come to the store to make trouble, and talk about how much the rent has increased, intentionally or unintentionally. Now that the house has appreciated, the rent has to increase a lot.
After a while, he said that he might sell the house and get some money to buy a house in the city. Someone might come to see him in the near future.
At the end of the day, it’s just pinkeye.
Ji Huai was too lazy to answer, but it made Shani almost depressed. She had been suffering from insomnia in the late stages of pregnancy, and now she was thinking about all kinds of things.
After two consecutive days of insomnia until dawn, Ji Huai was furious.
On this day, the old landlord came again, and he brought his nephew with him. Ji Huai didn't give any more face, and said directly with a cold face, "Just give me an accurate word, do you still want to rent? If you don't rent, you will pay the rent. We Dismantle the things immediately and leave. Anyway, these things can be moved to other places, and the decoration is not troublesome."
Just move the whole thing away. Are they still afraid of this? Fifty thousand is enough to install it again.
Another one will be made every minute.
At this time, the old landlord was timid again and said with a stern look, "I didn't say I wouldn't rent. My son said he won't come back. That's nonsense. We won't get married here."
"Should we have said no earlier?" Ji Huai said calmly, expressionlessly, "Since you want to rent, it is our store. When it expires, if you want to go back, we will definitely leave. There is nothing we can do about it."
The old landlord smiled awkwardly.
Ji Huai glanced at him and said to the waiter, "Has table six ordered anything? Bring the menu to the guests."
The waiter came over, but the two people were too embarrassed to eat inside, so they just ordered something to take away.
Since then, the matter has come to an end, but Shani is becoming more and more reluctant to spend money.
Because of her growing environment and income, she has always been saving money, but she really has no money to spend.
A few years after marrying into the Ji family, Tong Zhenmei only gave her a few hundred yuan in pocket money a month. She spent all of it on her children, and her savings after a few years was only a thousand yuan.
Even now, Ji Huai leaves all the money in her hands and never asks her what she does with it. During the Chinese New Year period, he sells dozens of salt-baked chickens a day and is overwhelmed with deliveries.
After the New Year, the savings in her family's bankbook had reached 390,000, but she was still reluctant to buy anything.
She wants to buy a building, but they don't sell shops here. They sell it together with the land ownership. If they sell a building directly, two and a half floors will cost upwards of 1.5 million. This is already very expensive in a town with a per capita income of 2,000. .
Ji Huai was willing to spend money for their mother and son. He went shopping every morning. In addition to buying breakfast for her, he also bought some fruits and snacks.
No, today I bought an electric motorcycle for Ji Fan.
The red body has a cool style. It can not only carry people in the back, but also has a small trunk. Step on the "accelerator" and drive forward smoothly.
Ji Fan also bought himself a pair of sunglasses, which were very cool. He was wearing the sneakers his mother bought for him. He kept calling Zhang Jiaxiao outside, shouting at the top of his voice, "Jiaxiao, come down and I'll drive."
The two children were fighting and fussing, and they got into a big fight last time. Neither of them paid attention to the other, but things got better after a few days.
When Zhang Jiaxiao came down, she looked at his car with big round eyes and said "Wow", "That's great, so cool."
Ji Fan was so excited after having a car that he insisted that Zhang Jiaxiao ride in his car. He wanted to carry people, and the other party also liked to sit in his car. After getting on the car, Mrs. Yan was afraid that she would fall, so she hurriedly came over and let her carry Ji Fan.
"Hold tight, don't fall." Mrs. Yan repeatedly warned.
Zhang Jiaxiao was close to him, her hands tightly wrapped around his waist, her little fleshy hands also held together, and her face rested on his back.
Ji Fan also kept saying, "Hold me tight, I'm going to drive, hurry up and hold me tight."
"Tight." Zhang Jiaxiao nodded and moved closer.
Then, the two of them kept holding each other while the motorcycle drove back and forth, spinning in circles, laughing.
Mrs. Yan was so sleepy after watching this that these two people were not done yet and would not stop until the car ran out of battery.
This motorcycle was imported and cost 700 yuan. It was a pain in the neck for Shani. She talked about Ji Huai for a long time, but seeing her son having so much fun, she didn't regret it.
She always felt that she owed her son a lot. In the past few years, she really didn't have the money to buy toys for him. Sometimes he liked them so much that he kept begging her to buy them, but she could only drag him away.
Sometimes he would cry, after all, he was still a child of a few years old, but there was nothing he could do, and he felt a lot of helplessness and sadness.
Before she could digest the huge sum of 700 yuan, Ji Huai told her that she bought five river shrimps today for 350 yuan.
"How much?" Shani's heart skipped a beat.
"Seventy yuan each. They are very lively." Ji Huai answered and continued, "I will bake them for you in the afternoon."
River shrimps are caught by nearby fishermen in the river. They are not as good as sea shrimps, but they weigh half a catty each and are big, so they are naturally more expensive.
Original ecological things are all priced from the ground up.
"Are you crazy?" Shani's heart was bleeding. "The head of a shrimp is so big, how many pieces of meat can it eat? Wouldn't you buy small shrimps for ten to eight yuan a pound? Shopee also supplements calcium, you Do you want to make me mad?"
She spent a thousand dollars in one morning, and her head was buzzing.
She couldn't accept it.
"That's a river shrimp..."
After Ji Huai finished speaking, she answered and pursed her lips, "The river shrimps are only sold for fifteen yuan a catty. Why are they so expensive? I won't eat them!"
"Is it gold that you eat? How much does gold cost per gram?"
The recent price of gold was only over 200 grams per gram. When she married him, she only had a small ring, only 2 grams. This way of wearing it gave her a heart attack.
"You will eat it if I do it. Why do you talk so much?" Ji Huai also looked down, "Have I offended you by asking you to eat it?"
"It's so expensive." She argued with him and looked at the shrimps again. She couldn't stop eating them. They were still so short of money.
Ji Huai's dark eyes kept looking at her, he was so angry and distressed, he gritted his teeth, "Are there people like you? Go and ask any girl in her twenties who wants to go out to eat hot pot and let me ride her The electric car drove around half of the town, but you told me it was too expensive and came back to eat. I have tolerated you for a long time since last time."
It was only two to three hundred yuan for hot pot. She looked at several restaurants but couldn't make up her mind. She thought it was too expensive and kept urging him to come back.
She is so good at getting along, and for this kind of behavior, I can't bear to beat or scold her, even say harsh words, and I still feel that I have wronged her.
His tone was not serious. Shani lowered her head, thinking that she was twenty-three years old. This was indeed a bit pitiful, but thinking about it, they also had to raise two children for the future life, and felt that this should be the case. .
They were even poorer before. They had no savings at all and couldn't spend too much money.
She still didn't admit her mistake, "That's just me, so don't buy it for me."
"Then you don't need to eat it. Give it to your daughter." Ji Huai would not quarrel with her. He left the grapefruit he bought and walked to the kitchen with his shrimp.
"Don't leave." Shani liked to be more serious with him again. Seeing that he ignored her, she took small steps to follow him and reached out to grab the corner of his clothes, dragging him like a little tail.
"Let go." Ji Huai said in a deep voice.
"Ji Huai, if you keep being tough, I'll try." She was confident enough to pull hard and keep tugging on his clothes, then she pulled on his clothes on purpose. She pursed her lips and repeated, "If you keep getting tough, I'll try."
He has always been very obedient to her and would not get angry with her older friends. It can be said that he is spoiled and will not be impatient at all.
Ji Huai shut up and slowed down, letting her do whatever he wanted.
"I'm fierce." Shani walked in front of him, raised her head with her belly held high, looked at him with her clear beautiful eyes, raised her chin slightly, "I'll cry for you, I'm really crying."
have to.
Ji Huai instantly surrendered, looked down at her, and said softly, "You should look like you are in your twenties when you are in your twenties. Many things are not your turn to worry about."
"What can you do if you save these eighteen hundred? Why do you work so hard?"
"Buying a property..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ji Huai interrupted, "I just want you to live a better life, not buy a house. I don't think much about it."
"But I always feel guilty and uneasy." Shani feels that she is very worthless. After being poor for a long time, every high purchase will bring a very uneasy feeling.
They always feel insecure and they are just getting started.
"The past was the past, and the present is the present. Then change your past habits. Are you going to live a hard life?" Ji Huai asked back.
Shani's momentum weakened again and she continued to grab his clothes without saying anything.
"What kind of sauce should be used for grilling? Spicy, spicy, garlic or sweet and spicy?" Ji Huai changed the topic and was talking about how to make river shrimp.
“…Sweet and spicy.”
"Would you like to go upstairs to rest?" He asked again, his tone more gentle.
"...Hmm." She nodded her little head.
Ji Huai: "Then go up."
Although he would not be angry with her, Shani was still quite scared and whispered, "Then kiss me and then go up."
After kissing you, you won't be angry anymore.
"That's all you can do." Ji Huai said half-jokingly, leaning over to peck her delicate pink lips. The beard was still a little prickly, but she still arched her eyebrows and took the opportunity to kiss him back, loosely. He picked up the corner of his clothes, pursed his lips and smiled.
What's wrong with being hopeless
She didn't even think about having a big future, most people were just ordinary people.