When Ji Huai returned to rent the house, the mover had already moved his things. Small boxes were piled up all over the room, and there was no room to stand.
Ji Tianqi stood on the sofa, looking at the small and shabby room. She didn't understand why she couldn't live in a beautiful new house. It had been so shabby and dark for a long time.
She was a little unhappy, and she didn't have any sisters to play with.
"We are going to start cleaning. After cleaning, we will go to the supermarket. You can buy Qiqi the cake you like." Ji Huai walked to the sofa, leaned down and picked up his daughter.
"I want strawberry cake." The little girl's voice suddenly rose, her cool little eyes were stained with greed, and her unhappiness was instantly forgotten.
Ji Huai agreed, "Okay, but you have to help clean up together."
She nodded heavily, "Yeah."
The room was very small and messy, full of dust and debris. Ji Huai asked his daughter He Tianjing to go into the kitchen to clean, while he cleaned things in the room and moved heavy objects.
The previous tenant obviously didn't like cleanliness very much, and the kitchen was dark, but he didn't seem to use it much, so cleaning it was relatively simple.
Tian Jing also got a bucket of water for her daughter and asked her to wipe the small table on the balcony. She also gave her a small towel. She wiped it happily and seriously.
"This place is dirty, wipe it clean." Her childish voice would sound from time to time, "Here..."
When Ji Huai took down the bags of garbage one after another, she ran over and grabbed her father's clothes and a few pieces of paper to throw away the garbage.
Tian Jing saw her following and gave her a bag of lighter garbage. She hugged it with both hands and followed her father again, her pigtails swaying from side to side.
"There are stairs." Ji Huai had no choice but to look after her and hold her up the small stairs.
The kitchen window could see downstairs. Tian Jing saw a large group of children walking towards the garbage dump. Ji Tianqi also saw a boy walking a husky. She stopped as she watched.
"Dog." She hugged the garbage, looked at the big husky, and took two steps towards the other end. When Ji Huai saw this, he was about to stop him, but he found that the innocent husky's eyes shrank, and he was too timid to take the initiative. Return.
Ji Tianqi looked at it, walked towards it again, bent slightly to look at it, and muttered again, "Dog."
The husky's eyes were also staring at her, looking like a fool. The boy walking the dog looked at the cute Ji Tianqi, then looked at his unlucky dog, with a look of helplessness on his face, and pulled the dog back.
Tian Jing saw her daughter stand up again, holding her head high, Ji Huai, and pointing her little finger at the husky. She knew what her daughter was going to say even if she didn't understand, and she must have been calling the dog.
She likes dogs very much, especially huskies and Samoyeds. She won’t leave when she sees them on the road and wants to hug them. It would be even better if she could ride them.
Ji Huai watched with her for a while, threw away the trash and went upstairs with his daughter in his arms.
The room is very small, except for a bed, a small cabinet, and a table, there is not much space. Ji Huai moved the small cabinet, placed the moved sofa inside, and moved the table to the corner, leaving a place to hang clothes.
In this way, there would be a space in the middle for his daughter to play with toys, and the whole room would not look so crowded and cluttered.
There will definitely be a lot of tidying up today, so he has to wipe the bed and clean the bathroom. The sun has gradually set. He can still work, but his wife and children cannot go hungry.
The family packed up and went to the supermarket.
Eating out is expensive, so you have to buy ingredients to cook at home. Tian Jing is pushing the shopping cart, and Ji Huai is holding his daughter. They have to buy necessary electrical appliances and knives first, and then choose the ingredients to make tonight.
Tian Jing looked at the prices of electrical appliances and knives in the supermarket. They were too expensive. They would probably have to spend upwards of five hundred to buy them. She looked sideways at Ji Huai and hesitated, "How about we go out to buy some later? At the wholesale market. Cheaper than supermarkets.”
"The wholesale market is far away. We have to use it tonight. We can buy it early and go home early to cook and eat. And it's not necessarily cheap. The price in the supermarket is acceptable and the quality will be better. I charged 6,800 yuan in rent. , there are still six thousand left, enough to take a while." Ji Huai replied to her.
Tian Jing thought about it and could only choose the one with the best price/performance ratio, "Buy what I'm going to use tonight first, and I'll place an order online later to buy the others."
He nodded: "Yeah."
After walking around the third floor, the shopping cart was half full, and the second floor was full of food. Ji Tianqi looked at the various packaged snacks and toys to entertain the children. Her little eyes turned and turned, and she let go of the hand holding Ji Huai. , covering his mouth with his little hand and leaning towards Ji Huai's ear, thinking he lowered his voice, "Dad, I want to buy candy, I want that."
She quietly pointed to the candies in pink packaging bags on the shelf, "I want Piggy."
Although Tian Jing didn't look back, she was not deaf, so she could naturally hear it. Her daughter also said, "Don't tell mom, dad will buy it quietly."
She had to admit that Ji Huai doted on her daughter. She would not allow her to buy anything. As long as Ji Huai took his daughter out, he would not hesitate when the other party spoke, and he would protect her. Many times, he would come back after buying and eating. .
"You can't buy quietly in the supermarket. You have to buy them together." Ji Huai replied to his daughter.
"Buy it secretly." Ji Tianqi saw the beautiful candy again, leaned over and took it off the shelf, holding it in her arms. Then she looked at her mother in front of her, fearing that her mother would find out. She covered her hands tightly and looked at her with round eyes. Ji Huai asked him for help, pouting, "Dad, I want this!"
"You have to tell your mother that you can buy it if she agrees." Ji Huai induced her, "Maybe she will agree?"
"Mom won't agree." She pouted, because her mother didn't like her eating this kind of thing.
Ji Huai's voice was slow: "Dad thought Mom would agree. Mom agreed to buy you candy beans yesterday. If you hide it from Mom, Mom will be sad."
Ji Tianqi was very close to him when he was a child because he doted on him unconditionally. Tian Jing was a little stricter with her daughter, but as the child grew up, she could tell who was really good to her. There was a time when Ji Tianqi hated Tian Jing, because Ji's family always said all kinds of bad things about Tian Jing, a foreigner in front of her. She had not formed self-awareness and had no ability to judge, so she thought he was the best and Tian Jing was not good. .
When she reacted, she felt extremely guilty, but it also hurt Tian Jing's heart.
"Mom won't agree." She lowered her head and saw another pack of snacks. She reached for it and held it in her arms.
"You haven't told your mother yet." He disagreed.
Ji Tianqi: "Mom is fierce."
Ji Huai roughly guessed why she said that. Ji Huai often said in front of her children that your mother is the most vicious, lazy, picky eater, doesn't like to work, and doesn't care about her. They would even say that Tian Jing is not as good as him, and not as good as Ji's father and Ji's mother.
A child has no sense of judgment. If she is told too much, she may feel the same way.
"Why is mom so cruel? Did mom hit you?" Ji Huai asked.
"No." She shook her head.
"Mom loves you so much, and you still call her mean. Mom will cry when she hears it." Ji Huai carried her to the shelf, and Tian Jing couldn't hear what they said.
Ji's family has often used their children to attack Tian Jing in recent years. She married far away alone and had no one to rely on. She cared about her children very much, so Ji's father and Ji's mother spoke quickly, but they actually stabbed her in the heart.
"Mom is not cruel." Ji Tianqi changed her mind again. She still loved her mother very much.
"You can't eat too much of this candy. Dad won't let you buy it today, but you can ask your mother if she will let you buy it." Ji Huai was about to take out two packs of candies from her arms.
Ji Tianqi's fleshy little hands held on tightly, pitifully refusing to let go, and kept calling for daddy. Ji Huai also didn't let go, "You can't eat so much sugar, otherwise your teeth will turn black and hurt."
"No." She argued in a milky voice.
Ji Huai still didn't let go and walked out. In desperation, Ji Tianqi shouted to the front, "Mom, mom..."
Tian Jing was choosing noodles when she heard the sound and looked over.
"Qiqi wants to buy candy." The little girl coquettishly pointed at the packaging bag and said intermittently, "There are pigs on it, and this one, sheep."
Tian Jing put two bags of noodles in the shopping cart and walked over to take them to look at. The packaging bag was very fancy, and after touching it, I realized that it should contain candies and small toys. I also looked at the instructions and found that the two packages were almost the same. Children’s items are not cheap, so the smaller package costs ten yuan.
"We can only buy one. Can we buy a second one next time we come?" she said, looking at her daughter.
Ji Tianqi originally didn't want to go and act coquettishly with her father, but when she thought that her father just didn't agree to buy a pack of candies for her, she let it go. Looking at these two packs of candies, she couldn't bear to part with either one.
"Choose your favorite, and then we will buy you strawberry cake." Tian Jing said in a gentle tone, slowly inducing.
Ji Tianqi finally chose only one, the little pig she had watched recently, and was very happy to tell Tian Jing that she liked pig the most because pig could dance.
I bought her a cake and looked happy when I came back. Her chirping voice could be heard in their ears, but it was not noisy at all.
Her clear laughter echoed in this small and crowded room. Ji Huai and Tian Jing were busy cleaning the house while the other was cooking, with relaxed and joyful expressions on their lips.
They ate very simply in the evening. They put vegetables and ribs in a pot and boiled them, then put in a few poached eggs. It was not particularly delicious, but it was light and labor-saving and nutritious. They were all too tired today, and Tian Jing was still pregnant. My child, I don’t have the energy to bother.
Ji Huai gave Tian Jing a poached egg and another for his daughter.
"Thank you, Dad." She ate with her little spoon, took a bite of the egg, and looked at them with pure eyes, "Mom, dad, when are we going home?"
Why don't you go home for dinner
"This is our home." Ji Huai answered and explained, "You used to stay at your grandparents' home, but now you stay at your parents' home."
Ji Tianqi couldn't understand, and said while eating, "I want to play with my sister."
Although her sister would bully her and steal her things, she would also play with her. No one here would play with her.
Tian Jing listened with mixed feelings in her heart. She didn't want to go back, but it was always Ji Huai's home and his parents, and she could never let go of it in this life.
"My sister also has to go to school, and you will also have to go to school in the future. Dad has to go to work and can only go back when he is free." Ji Huai was very patient.
Ji Tianqi didn't know whether he understood or not, so he nodded and continued eating eggs.
Tian Jing came out of the shower and saw Ji Huai playing puzzles with her daughter. Seeing her coming over, Ji Tianqi raised his head and looked at her belly, "Mom, is there a sister in there?"
Tian Jingwen was confused by these words. She looked at Ji Huai. He was sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall behind him. From the look on his face, she knew it was him who said it. She sat by the bed and held her daughter in her arms as she walked over. ,"Yes."
I took the photo twice and it turned out to be my daughter, so it should be my daughter.
As for her daughter, she didn't want to give birth to a boy that would make Father Ji and Mother Ji feel that they had so-called incense, so they couldn't figure out how to spoil him, and she couldn't understand the other person's parenting style, which was very troublesome.
She didn't care, and neither did Ji Huai. It didn't matter if she had children. She didn't expect them to provide for her in old age. She just wanted to accompany them and grow up with them.
"Can my sister eat candy?" Ji Tianqi started to ask like a curious baby again, her words were intermittent, and her expression was a bit confusing, "The cake also has eggs... Play with Qiqi and be a sister."
She also wants to be a sister, because everyone else is a sister, but she is not.
"Then my sister must be born and grow up before she can eat it. Then Qiqi will be my sister." Tian Jing picked up her daughter, "Okay, it's time for sister Qiqi to go to bed."
This title made Ji Tianqi very happy. She climbed onto the bed and slept in it. When Tian Jing lay down and read her a storybook, she carefully put her hand on her mother's belly because her sister was in it, but she didn't move. .
Ji Tianqi was also very tired today and fell asleep quickly.
Ji Huai was washing dishes in the kitchen. When he came out, he put away the table and the dining table next to him. He didn't go to bed, but pulled out a chair and sat at the table.
He spent 468 in the supermarket today, and he transferred the remaining money to Tian Jing. She has always been in charge of their family's money. She knows how to manage money and will not spend it randomly.
"Do you want to buy a refrigerator? You can put unfinished food in it, otherwise it will spoil quickly." Tian Jing suggested.
Ji Huai turned his head: "If you buy it, you have to buy a washing machine. These things will be used sooner or later, so you have to buy them early."
"You can buy the washing machine later." She took the phone, opened the shopping app, and whispered, "I don't have much clothes, so I'll buy it later."
They don't have much money, so they save what they can. When she was a child, she used to wash the whole family's clothes by hand in the winter. Now it doesn't matter. Except for their daughter's clothes, which are a little dirty, their clothes are not dirty.
Ji Huai turned around and saw her hanging her head, reaching out to touch her daughter's head. Her eyes became softer, and the helplessness at the corner of her mouth was covered up by a smile. He felt very uncomfortable.
Tian Jing has always lived in poverty. When she was single, she rented a washing machine in a village in the city, but now she cannot buy one.
"You have to buy it. You can't save the money. You are not in good health and the water is cold. What should you do if you catch a cold? That is not something that can be solved with this little money." His attitude was also very firm and he did not give in at all. "You don't want to buy it. I will place the order.”
Tian Jing can't do anything to him, how can he weigh it? She placed the order with her eyes closed and did not consider whether it was expensive or not. She could only find some small brands and then carefully compare the price/performance ratio.
The most important thing now is to have these appliances, not how good they perform.
After searching around and comparing prices, she chose a domestic brand. She bought a small-capacity washing machine for five hundred and a small-capacity refrigerator for over six hundred. .
Tian Jing felt distressed when she spent another thousand yuan, and continued to buy some electrical appliances, milk and food for her daughter that could not be saved. As she spent money one after another, she was checking the accounts. Unavoidably, she became a little uneasy and began to reflect, "I spent too much money in the past few months, and I didn't think about saving any at that time. Moreover, I spent..."
"How can you spend every dollar wisely? Life like that is very tiring. Just buy what you need to buy, and spend it when you spend it. You don't have to save every penny. The past is over." Ji Huai He interrupted her and did not let her continue her review.
I used to think that the house was built, the child was going to kindergarten soon, and she was about to go to work, so she bought some clothes and shoes for this purpose, so that money would not be so tight. These were inevitable.
He could always calm her down and ease her impatient heart. Tian Jing didn't continue and put the phone aside, "I'm afraid you are too stressed."
"No." Ji Huai's face did not change, but he said relaxedly, "Isn't money just for spending? It's not yours unless you spend it."
"It's better to save money." She shook her head and leaned against the bed. "We don't have any money now. Counting credit cards, we are all in debt. How old are we? We are poorer than young people who just came out of society. Besides, I Now I’m pregnant again…”
Before she finished speaking, Ji Huai sighed and looked at her, then closed his mouth. Mi Ye continued. He is optimistic and open-minded, but she can't do it. He hasn't paid his salary this month, so they came out in a hurry, as if they were rushed here. If you have a family and a family, who will not panic if you leave them alone
She has experienced the difficulty of not having money. It is difficult to move without money. She can suffer, but her children cannot.
Ji Huai gently retorted to her, "Why are we poor? In the past, one of us had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry. We spent the money we earned on our own. We spent money on getting married. We still collected rent for building a house. That is an asset and cannot be avoided. , it’s not like we’re all ruined. Didn’t we raise a human cub until it’s two years old? This is a benign debt, and we’re still richer than before.”
"Even if she is still so poor in the future, we have raised her. Every extra day we raise her is to put money into her, and she is wealth."
Tian Jing looked at her sleeping daughter and was persuaded by him. The corners of her lips turned up again, and her depressed mood completely disappeared. Children cost a lot of money. After all, my daughter is indeed a "little bank".
Then Ji Huai said, "I want to prepare and change jobs next month."
"Where to jump?" Tian Jing was stunned. Ji Huai didn't have any big plans. She was worried that he was impulsive. Now they couldn't withstand the torment, and they were afraid that he would be even more stressed.
"Still watching, I'll prepare first. The company's earnings are getting worse and worse. This year's year-end bonus is probably all on hold, and overtime is serious. Sister Cai was fired last month, which is not a good sign. It's not a good sign for me in this position. It’s hard to find a job. I looked around and found no suitable ones nearby, or the salary would be cut in half, so I had to apply for other positions.”
"I have a college classmate in Chengya, and I got to know him. I want to apply for a product manager job. There are many vacancies for this position, but it only requires a newly established company. I will try to make a resume first, try to apply for the job, and do a review. If it doesn’t work, just stay there, it’s just one more plan.”
…
Ji Huai did not blindly say that he was resigning, nor did he blindly apply for the job. Instead, he talked about his plan and thought more carefully. He was doing UI design, and Sister Cai was the team leader of their department. Because she was an old employee, her salary was high, so she was suddenly fired.
The company's revenue is getting worse year by year, so the first thing to do is to fire these high-paid old employees. After all, there are a lot of fresh graduates. They are young and healthy, can work overtime, and the salary is 5,000 to 6,000 for many people. Can do it.
Ji Huai only got a salary increase last year. When talking about it, Tian Jing was inevitably worried and frowned. He chuckled and reassured, "There will definitely be no problem in these few months. The workload is heavy now. I can support you no matter what." , you can earn a lot of money in a few months, so you can raise your baby with peace of mind and take good care of yourself and your daughter."
"Well, I'll help you look at the recruitment when I have time, and help you understand it." Tian Jing pursed her lips and nodded.
"You go to bed first. I'm still chatting with him. After all, you still have to get through the recruitment process and be able to stay." Ji Huai turned on the desk lamp, turned on the computer, put on the headphones, and spoke in a low voice from time to time. , typing on the computer.
Tian Jing lay down but was not sleepy. She turned sideways and looked in his direction. The other person was sitting upright, more serious than ever.
She said she was panicking, but she was actually panicking. Her health was obviously getting worse now. She was sweating and panting even when climbing the stairs. If she said she was scared, it was not true. With him leaning on her behind her, she knew the sky would not fall.
It was approaching twelve o'clock, and Ji Huai was too embarrassed to harass his classmates anymore, so he saved his notes, turned off the computer and went to bed.
When he went to bed, she found that Tian Jing was still asleep. She turned over and didn't ask him anything. She just told him to go to bed quickly.
After Ji Huai fell asleep, he reached out to hug her and said warmly, "Are you so anxious that you have insomnia again?"
Tian Jing didn't show off, "Fortunately, I just can't sleep. Maybe it's a new environment and I have to get used to it."
He held her in his arms and took the initiative to talk to her, "I just learned more about it and asked him and another classmate about this matter. They said that we can have a voice chat next weekend. The relationship with the university is okay. Graduation I have always been in contact, and you can ask him even after work, and I will make a resume and try to submit it."
Tian Jing said to him: "I can help you make or modify your resume."
She has experience in job-hopping, and she likes to work hard. At the beginning, her salary after graduation was less than 4,000, and she would change jobs once every six months or a year. She could successfully increase her salary by moving to a more developed company.
"That would be even better. Your resume will be much prettier." Ji Huai was convinced and put his hand on her slightly raised belly and warned again, "Don't think too much and don't put inexplicable pressure on yourself. It’s not good for you or the kids.”
"Yeah." She nodded lightly, leaned into his arms, and changed the subject, "How about you get up early tomorrow and make some noodles? There are still some vegetables left, and an egg."
Ji Huai answered: "It sounds delicious."
She smiled slightly and closed her eyes to sleep.
…
the next day.
Tian Jing got up and started cooking noodles, and Ji Huai helped Ji Tianqi wash up, tidy up the things at home, and then packed the garbage and put it outside the door so that he could take it with him when he went to work later.
The sun gradually rose, and warm sunlight shone on the dining table through the window. Breakfast is a bowl of noodles with vegetables and eggs. Ji Tianqi's bowl also contains her favorite ham.
The whole family was talking and laughing, listening to the chatterbox talking and cheering for the face.
Ji Huai went to work, and Tian Jing took her daughter for a walk downstairs. When she came back, while he was playing with toys, she quickly cleaned up the house, went to the supermarket in the afternoon to buy some food, made meatballs for her daughter, and fried vegetables. .
Not much meat was sold, so half had to be kept for cooking when Ji Huai came back.
Tian Jing and her daughter were eating. Ji Tianqi saw that her mother didn't eat meat, and the little spoon was trembling as she tried to put meat into her bowl. Tian Jing was afraid of dropping it when she saw her movements, so she quickly stretched out the bowl. The little girl had the model. Someone said, "My father said my mother should eat more meat, and my sister should also eat meat."
She didn't speak so standardly and fluently, and she was fiddling with her little head.
The tip of Tian Jing's nose was sore and she said with force, "Qiqi also needs to eat more meat to grow up."
"Yeah." In front of her mother, she acted out eating a piece of meat in one bite, and then ate a spoonful of rice, mumbling, "Eat like this."
Her eyebrows were crooked with a smile, but she didn't feel that life was hard because she could still see hope. She had a bad appetite today, but she still managed to finish a bowl of rice and finish all the dishes.
After putting her daughter to sleep, she continued to clean up the house. When Ji Huai came home, she had already packed up all the remaining things and put all the sundries under the bed. The small house was much cleaner.
Ji Huai knew that she would save money, so he bought another pound of ribs in the supermarket. Tian Jing was really worried about money. The more distressed she was, the less he dared to let her go out to buy groceries. From then on, he would just buy them back in the evening, which was enough for one day. She fried it for lunch and cooked the remaining half for dinner at night.
If she eats less at noon, she won't be able to finish it in the afternoon. If they don't eat the overnight food, they will throw it away. Tian Jing feels even more distressed, so she can't save food.
A few days later, Ji Huai also went out to work part-time at night. He found a job as a driver. Most of the time, he was driving for people who were drunk. A trip would cost dozens of yuan. If the distance was further away, there would be a six or seven driver. Ten bucks.
In order to make it easier for him to come back, he bought a small folding electric bicycle that could be folded and placed in the trunk. When he arrived at his destination, he took out the electric bicycle and rode back.
There were more orders late at night, but he didn't dare to come back then. Tian Jing would wait for him. Sleeping late was not good for her and the children. Usually, he would only take one or two orders, and then he would go home and make a profit. One hundred yuan is his goal. In this case, he can use the money to buy vegetables tomorrow. One hundred yuan is enough for a family of three to eat better and can also buy fruits.
Tian Jing didn't use the few thousand dollars she had left, so she wouldn't be panicked, and Ji Huai's salary could be saved. After all, there was a lot of money for post-natal check-ups.
Later, she didn't wake him up in the morning, nor did she let her daughter disturb him. She calculated her time and cooked breakfast before letting him wake up. After eating, she rushed him to work while she slowly cleaned up the house and took care of her daughter.
Both of them are busier than before, and Ji Huai doesn't have that much time to spend with them. He is either studying or working part-time. He only has time on weekends, but he spends more time on weekends talking to his college classmates and learning about the industry.
She was worried that he was too tired, but he always comforted her. It would be fine after this period of time, and it would be fine when he changes jobs. It was not a big deal, and he didn't feel any pain at all.