Ji Huai looked at the phone that Yin Cai hung up without hesitation, without saying any explanation.
He hasn't accomplished much in these years, and now he has to take out a loan to buy a car. Just think about it and you know how Yin Cai will feel.
"The price is really low. We are still doing an event today, but there will be no such event tomorrow." The sales voice pulled him back from his thoughts, and he was desperately trying to sell the car next to him.
Ji Huai's eyes fell on the car again. What he wants to buy is a small truck with two seats and an open-air compartment at the back. The price is only over 50,000 yuan and it can haul goods.
During this time, he saved money, paid the down payment, and repaid the loan for one year.
"If you save another five hundred, I'll buy it right away!" Ji Huai looked at the salesman and said.
The other party knew that the price was within the range that could be sold, but he couldn't agree so readily. He looked embarrassed and said, "I have to apply."
Five minutes later, Ji Huai paid for the truck and repaid it for one year.
The other end.
Yin Cai was so angry that he didn't even eat much for lunch, so he went to pick up Ji Ziqing home in the afternoon.
Ji Tang's wife also came back from outside. After facing her, she smiled and said, "I heard that your Ji Huai went to the market to buy a car today? You guys are really rich!"
This sentence sounded completely ironic to Yin Cai.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Mrs. Ji deliberately asked, "Do you want to buy more than 100,000 yuan or more than 200,000 yuan?"
"I don't know, that's his business." Yin Cai's voice was cold and he entered the yard without looking back.
Ji Tangsao pursed her lips and sneered in her heart.
Before Ji Huai went to buy a car, he mentioned it to Sun Bin. When Sun Bin went back and told it, people in the village knew about it and were waiting to see the Ji family's joke.
The house they live in is about to collapse, and they have to pay off the loan to buy a car. Anyone who hears this will think that they are mentally ill. He is very concerned about face. Marrying such a man will be a disaster for eight lifetimes.
Yin Cai returned home, feeling weak all over. He turned on the dim light and sat on a stool nearby. He felt his head hurt and rubbed his temples.
"Mom..." Ji Ziqing called her timidly, her eyes full of worry and her actions even more cautious.
"Mom is fine, are you hungry?"
Ji Ziqing shook her head.
"Mom, can you take a break before cooking?" Yin Cai wanted to smile, but in the end he found that he couldn't.
Her requirements for Ji Huai were really low. It was fine not to make money, but not to owe money. How long have you been working hard for? It turned out that I was buying a car to show off my dignity.
Ji Ziqing's little figure was busy working in the yard, and she was very well-behaved and sensible, going to wash and cook rice.
Yin Cai looked at her daughter, pushed herself up, and started preparing to cook as her hands and feet were weak.
Suddenly, the courtyard was illuminated by a beam of light, and I knew who was back without even thinking.
Mother and daughter paid no attention and continued working in the kitchen.
Ji Huai got out of the car, opened the door to his home, drove his silver-white pickup truck in, without turning off the lights, and kept honking the horn, "Didi, didi, didi."
"Zi Qing."
He wanted to call his daughter out to see his car.
Ji Ziqing was choosing vegetables without even raising her head.
Although she is young, she is already much wiser than her peers, and she is doing her own thing silently.
Ji Huai honked the horn twice more and found that no one was paying attention to him. He could only get out of the car and walk to the kitchen. He smiled at the mother and daughter and said, "Come out and see me buy a pickup truck. Our family has a car."
The air was silent, no one answered him, and the two of them were doing whatever they were supposed to do.
The scene seemed frozen, even with a hint of embarrassment.
Ji Huai looked calm, rubbed his hands and walked towards Ji Ziqing, squatted down, leaned over and said, "Dad has bought a new car, do you want to take a look?"
Ji Ziqing moved to one side, turned her back without looking at him, pulled the vegetable basket aside, and gave him a slap on the back of her head.
Ji Huai: "..."
He stood up again and walked to Yin Cai to speak. Before he could speak, the other party said while cutting the meat, "Don't get in the way here. I don't want to hear it."
"I bought that car to transport goods. I've inquired about it and it's OK..."
"Pah!" Yin Cai slammed the knife on the chopping board and didn't listen at all, "I don't want to hear it, you can do whatever you like!"
Ji Huai was startled and swallowed back his next words.
Licking it up and explaining it wasn't his style, so he didn't dare to offend Yin Cai anymore, so he simply went to take a shower.
By the time he came out of the shower, mother and daughter had already finished eating, and they didn't leave any food for him.
When asked why, Yin Cai said, "Have you not considered our life? You earn your own money and spend your own money. One person has enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry. How can you be so cool and live without a meal?"
Yin Cai was so angry that his head hurt, which triggered a migraine. Ji Ziqing got painkillers for her mother and tried her best to push Ji Huai out of the door as he was about to come in.
"go out!"
"Get out quickly, don't make mom angry!"
…
The energy burst out from nowhere in his small body, blocking Ji Huai forcefully, pushing him two steps away and locking the door.
Ji Huai was heartbroken when he saw the little cotton-padded jacket that he had been talking and laughing with these days suddenly turned against him.
He looked at Yin Cai, who was lying on the bed holding his forehead. As soon as he turned around, Ji Ziqing closed the door.
“…”
Ji Huai walked to the yard and turned on the car lights again, shining on the corner beside him. There were piles of large pieces of waste, including old seats, rust products, various large messy bags, and unwanted agricultural tools. …
He started to pack it up bit by bit and moved it to the car.
Ji Ziqing wanted to comfort her mother and got into her arms, while Yin Cai had a splitting headache, broke out in cold sweat from the pain, and fell into a drowsy sleep.
She gradually felt relieved after the medicine took effect. She didn't know how long it had been, but Ji Ziqing had fallen asleep in her arms, still holding the corner of her clothes with her little hands.
She gently let go of her daughter's little hand, stood up, and walked outside.
Ji Huai threw a few unusable hoes next to him into the car, turned off the car lights, and when he saw her coming out, he seemed to ask casually, "Are you feeling better?"
Hearing this, Yin Cai's face tightened again, and he didn't want to answer the conversation at all, and even wanted to turn around and go back to the room.
He came over and said, "If I don't make money, you will scold me. If I go to make money, you will scold me too, and my daughter will ignore me."
When Yin Cai was told about it, he became angry and said, "Did you take out a loan to buy this truck to make money?"
No wonder she didn't believe Ji Huai. In recent years, he just talked nicely and used three minutes of heat to defraud Ji Huai's money.
"Not entirely." Ji Huai said a little confidently, "In addition to being able to deliver goods, I can also send my daughter to school on rainy days. Otherwise, the rain will always wet the clothes. It is convenient to buy a car."
Yin Cai took a deep breath: "Don't talk about my daughter, you just care about face and show off your authority."
Ji Huai: "... Yes, a little bit. Men love cars more or less. This car only costs more than 50,000 yuan, and the loan can be paid off in one year."
He actually admitted it, and Yin Cai laughed angrily, "Did you know that the public toilet at the head of the village has been assigned to the Zhang Zhu family to build a house, and only the public toilet on the back side can be used? Don't you feel sorry for Zi Qing? There's a snake over there Quite a few, how can she get there so late at night?"
There are two public toilets left in the village. One is at the end of the village, which is relatively clean and has street lights. The other is at the end of the village, which has not been used for many years and is surrounded by grass.
As the number of people in the village gradually increased, there was no place to build houses, so they would apply for these lands. They were the only ones in the village who had no toilets, and they had no right to stop others from demolishing and building houses.
"I have bought the red bricks and cement. Isn't this going to be built?" Ji Huai pointed to the corner and then to the garbage on the car. "I have packed it all away. I will build it in the next two days."
Only then did Yin Cai realize that he had cleaned up that corner of the yard.
Build it yourself
"I'll build it myself, as long as it's usable, and save some money." After speaking, Ji Huai got in the car again and took away half of the garbage truck to throw away.
Yin Cai still didn't quite believe him, so she made up her mind to ignore him that night and went back to her room. She was so tired that she fell asleep before Ji Huai came back. Jizi Harumi who is in her bed. Ji Huai didn't eat that night, didn't know where he would sleep, and went to sea before dawn.
In the next few days, he actually dug the foundation at home. Sometimes during the day, I would dig at night when I had no time, stirring the cement myself and building the red bricks one by one.
He also brought back half a cart of ceramic tiles and put them aside.
Yin Cai didn't agree to give him money that day, so he applied for a loan and didn't ask her to repay it. He often took back seafood and put it in the refrigerator, and gave Ji Ziqing the money he should have.
No, today I went out to sea and caught dozens of kilograms of marine fish, bought a lot of money, and gave Ji Ziqing 800 yuan to pay for dance and painting expenses, as well as school food expenses.
Yin Cai had no reason to be angry, and even thought about whether he had gone too far towards him that night.
For this reason, his attitude towards Ji Huai changed a lot, and he felt a little guilty.
She still couldn't help but said to him, "You don't need a small truck to go to sea. Why don't you save the money to buy a better fishing boat? You can buy the car later."
"That won't work." Ji Huai has already built the toilet very high. It will be capped tomorrow and the tiles can be laid after a while. He placed another brick on top and said slowly, "There will always be a time when we can't go to sea. The fishing moratorium will enter after a while, and we have to wait for two months. Then I will transport the goods, and I can always make some money."
Yin Cai's eyes changed, "Why did your brain suddenly become enlightened? Do you want to make money?"
Ji Huai took a breath, stopped holding the red bricks, and looked up at her, "I went to pick up Ziqing from school. Her classmates laughed at her family because she was poor. Her father drove a broken electric car. Last time I went to see the dance teacher. The teacher said she had a talent for dancing, and the painting teacher also said that the things she drew were spiritual. During the parent-teacher meeting, the head teacher said she was good at studying... "
"She told me that she didn't like studying here, and her classmates didn't play with her. I wanted to send her to the city to study, in the city's primary school."
Yin Cai was shocked and felt that he was whimsical. The formal channel for children in their town is to go to the city to buy a house in a school district. He snorted, "You don't know anything, just think about it."
According to their policy here, elementary and junior high schools are divided into separate areas, so she worked hard to save money and wanted Ji Ziqing to go to a so-called "noble" school.
The so-called "aristocratic" schools are not aristocratic in the true sense. They just charge expensive fees, but they are the best educational resources they have access to. Otherwise, Ji Ziqing Junior High School would have to stay in the town's junior high school, and its education would be worrying.
"I know." Ji Huai continued to build his wall, "The city's primary school has enrollment channels, and there are exams every year. As long as she can get high scores, she can go. I will use her scores to apply next year. As long as she If she can pass the exam, I will send her there."
As long as they are good enough, the school will recruit them.
Ji Ziqing got perfect scores in every exam and had high hopes.