The news that Ji Huai bought a house spread like wildfire.
Aunt Ji has come to inquire several times, but she doesn't believe it. Looking at that posture, someone who didn't know better thought they were robbing their family to buy a house with their money.
Facing her questions, Yin Cai only responded vaguely, blaming Ji Huai for many things. However, his serious talk and bragging made Aunt Ji almost angry to death. She could only say sourly, "If you have the money, go to the market." If you want to buy a house in the city, why not build a house here and see how dilapidated your house is?"
"How long does it take to build a house? I bought the house and renovated it before I could move in. Can't we live in the city and then slowly build an old house?" Ji Huai finished speaking and said slowly, "If you have money, you are afraid that you won't be able to live in it. Build a house? I bought a house worth more than one million yuan, so what’s the point? Besides, what’s the use of building the houses here? If you can’t live in the urban houses, you can still rent them or sell them.”
These words made Aunt Ji speechless. She had suppressed Ji's mother for half her life, and now that she was being compared, she was so angry that her chest was tight and she was short of breath, so she left angrily.
Ji Huai has been driving around in a small three-wheeler recently, and he has indeed become a lot more diligent.
Since he bought a house, the villagers' evaluation of him has changed a lot, and they will praise him when they meet him. And he has an eccentric temperament, and he easily gets carried away when he praises himself.
Their home didn't have a TV, so Yin Cai thought he wouldn't buy one. He could save some money by waiting until the house was handed over to buy it.
Ji Ziqing was not here, so the couple started staring at each other after eating. If Ji Huai was not asleep, they could still chat. And since he stopped going out to drink and brag, he talked nonsense a lot.
Brag to your clients outside and brag to her at home.
After Yin Cai took a shower, he sat on the bed. Ji Huai sat on the ground, chewed an apple, and said, "I came back today and met Mrs. Meng. She patted me on the shoulder and said that I was successful."
She was folding clothes and looked at him with her eyelids raised, "Mr. Meng always talks like this and sees everyone like this."
The other party is the loudspeaker in the village. He talks about people and ghosts.
"That's different. Do you know how she praised me?" Ji Huai took another bite of the apple. "She patted me on the shoulder and said: I'm so successful. I bought a house in the city and sent my daughter to the city." How many people can study in the district? Those who buy a car and a house must be capable."
Yin Cai looked at him again.
Ji Huai put his hands on his knees, shook his head shamelessly and ate the apple, and said with emotion, "Who can see me now and have to say a word that it's not easy? It's not easy for most people to raise a wife and a daughter, and also buy a car and a house. They It doesn’t matter if you’re not convinced. Don’t you think so?”
"You didn't support me either," she reminded.
"Why didn't I raise it?" Ji Huai finished the last two bites of the apple, straightened his legs, took out a roll of money from his front trouser pocket, quickly counted two thousand yuan and slapped it on the bed, "Here, raise you!"
"Two thousand dollars is enough to support someone?" Yin Cai didn't answer. He got out of bed and put the folded quilt in the cabinet. He pointed to the cabinet with half of the door missing, "Look at how broken your cabinet is. Okay? I asked you to repair this cabinet door two years ago, but you haven’t repaired it yet. How are you so embarrassed?"
"It will be repaired tomorrow." Ji Huai said, waving his hands, with a bit of embarrassment in his tone, "These are all trivial matters. Now everyone who sees me says I'm awesome, don't you think I'm awesome?"
Yin Cai put away the clothes and had to manually close the broken cabinet door. He deliberately said sarcastically, "Why are you awesome? I think you think you are awesome!"
"Hey!" Ji Huai stood up immediately, followed her to bed when she went to bed, and forced two thousand yuan into the pocket of her pajamas, "I don't care, I support you, you have to live up to your reputation. "
Buying a house, a car, raising children and a wife, look, how capable he is!
Yin Cai: "..."
After the man gave him the money, he started to mess around with her. She kept trying to stop him, and he even said with a sad face, "I can't sleep. I can't help it."
"You can't sleep? You lie down and close your eyes and fall asleep faster than anyone else." She didn't believe it.
"I haven't gone to sea in the past two days, and I only earned 400 yuan today from transporting goods." Ji Huai said in a dull tone.
Yin Cai: "Four hundred is four hundred. What can you do if you can't get out of the sea? It's not like you can make as much money as you want."
Ji Huai didn't think it was possible, so he sat up directly, counted with her on his fingers, and said very seriously, "I have to pay off the credit card, the monthly payment, the car mortgage, and the supermarket advance... I don't make any money in a day. How can I sleep if I'm a thousand and eight hundred people? How can I sleep?!"
Yin Cai looked at him, their eyes met, and he actually felt a little guilty in his eyes, feeling guilty for the little money he made.
"Oh, there is also money for decoration after the house is handed over." Ji Huai raised his hand and patted his head, "My head hurts, I can't sleep tonight."
"Don't push yourself too hard." She finally said softly, with relief in her words.
"I can't sleep, I can't sleep." He leaned closer to her and started to move again.
There was something wrong with the atmosphere in the air gradually, and the commotion continued until early in the morning. After that, the man who said he couldn't sleep fell asleep, but Yin Cai resisted the urge to kick him.
Hypocritical man!
But it is true that Ji Huai said he felt uneasy after making less money. When he was not at sea, he would go to the provincial capital several times a day, and it was very tiring to go back and forth.
When the proprietress of the store asks about Ji Huai, Yin Cai becomes a little worried, "He has been working hard recently and is very tired from running the truck."
In the past, she only cared about herself and her daughter, but now that Ji Huai would come back late, she was also worried. If she didn't answer the call, she would really start to have random thoughts.
Carrying goods in a sports car is also a hard job, and accidents can easily occur if you drive tiredly.
In the evening, she usually waits for him to come back before eating together. It's boring to eat alone, and she has to worry about whether something happened to him, and she has no appetite.
Over time, the relationship between the two quickly warmed up. They talked and laughed while eating, and sometimes they could chat for an hour or two at the dinner table.
If Ji Ziqing comes back on the weekend, she and Yin Cai will set up a stall at the pier. Ji Huai will seize the time to deliver the goods, and the family of three will enjoy themselves.
The owner of the supermarket gave Ji Huai two bottles of red wine and a pair of red wine glasses. He took them back as if he had found a treasure and said happily to Yin Cai, "Women should drink more red wine to beautify their skin."
Taking advantage of the good food today, including shrimps, crabs and meat, he opened the red wine glass and poured her a glass. "Look, it's all in English. It's not cheap at first glance."
"A bottle of red wine worth tens of yuan in the supermarket also has English written on it." Yin Cai said to him.
"It's different." Ji Huai shook his head and asked her to look at the bottle carefully, "Look at it, how classy it is. I think it must be worth a few hundred yuan, right?"
Yin Cai doesn't think so.
He studied for a while, took out another red wine glass, poured himself a glass, took a sip, pretended to drink wine, and thought carefully, "It must be good wine, drink more quickly, and hide the other bottle." Drink slowly."
Seeing his affectation, she felt really embarrassed to attack him, but she just thought he was quite interesting.
In fact, how can he taste wine? They can't even tell what is a foreign wine glass and what is a red wine glass, so they just drink blindly.
During the meal, Ji Huai kept praising the good taste of this wine and affirmed: "The supermarket owner secretly gave it to me. It must not be cheap. Maybe it is a good wine from his private collection. Look at this wine, it has a mellow taste and a good taste in the mouth. It’s not astringent at all and it warms the throat… It’s definitely a good wine.”
It's a lot of nonsense, but it's still very convincing. At this point, it no longer matters how much the bottle of wine costs.
He kept urging Yin Cai, "If you don't believe me, give it a try."
Yin Cai took a small sip.
"Isn't it good?" he asked.
"Yeah." Just give it a try. Anyway, she can't tell the difference between good and bad, and she can't tell whether it's expensive or not.
"That's how good wine is, you feel different after drinking it." Ji Huai continued to brag and gave Yin Cai a piece of crab, "Eat this, this fat piece of meat, eat more."
As he ate, he kept talking about how good this wine was and how different it was from what he drank before.
Yin Cai thought about the days when he was an alcoholic again. If he hadn't drank so much, how could he know so much? The atmosphere was so good at this time that she was in a relatively unreasonable mood, so she didn't care about him.
However, two days later, when she was visiting the supermarket, she saw red wine that was exactly the same as theirs. There were a few eye-catching characters on the yellow promotion sign posted in front: Forty-nine yuan, buy one, get one free.
Yin Cai's mouth twitched and he couldn't help but laugh quietly while standing in the supermarket. Ji Ziqing looked at her mother with a puzzled expression.
Ji Huai was a bit superstitious. When he made money, he went to find someone to settle his days, and bought some things to worship the landlady in the village. He also spent 2,000 yuan to donate an incense basin and ordered it for Ji's mother. Roast suckling pig and take it to the mountain to worship.
The "fortune teller" said that this day was a good day, and Ji's mother's tombstone could be erected together.
There was a roast suckling pig placed in front of Ji's mother's tomb, with lit candles on both sides, a few fruit plates and a few glasses of wine. Ji Huai lit incense and bowed a few times, then inserted a few incense sticks on the tomb and began to burn paper.
He burned the paper and muttered, "Mom, you have been thinking about it for decades, and you are finally reunited with your dad. You are not alone anymore. With dad over there, I don't have to worry anymore. You have bought lottery tickets all your life, but you have never won." A jackpot, I may have all the luck. I bought a house some time ago, and Xiaoqing also went to study in the city. I have a lot of mortgages and a lot of pressure. Please bless my business to get better and better, and Xiaoqing to study better and better. , when the time comes, I will buy a few more houses, earn more money, Xiaoqing will get into a good university, and our family will be able to turn around."
As the fire burned more and more fiercely, he threw a few more paper gold bricks into the fire. "With the money I burned for you, don't just use it to buy lottery tickets, and don't just use it to eat, drink and have fun. You have to bribe the little devils to let you The son will be blessed with wealth."
Yin Cai was standing aside, not knowing what expression to put on.
Ji's mother was a fierce and impatient person, and she was also a capable person. She did like to buy lottery tickets during her lifetime, and she studied every day whether she could win the five million grand prize. My favorite thing is to sit under the tree with the aunt in the village and analyze the lottery tickets in a clear and logical manner.
When Ji Ziqing was still young, Ji's mother held her with one hand and analyzed the lottery tickets with the other. Although life was hard, Ji's mother was optimistic and optimistic. If it hadn't been for that illness, she might still be alive now.
Ji Huai finished burning the paper money, poured the wine in front of the tombstone, and emphasized, "Remember, Mom, don't just remember to use money to buy lottery tickets. If there are winning numbers, you must also remember to come back in your dream."
"Have you finished eating the roast suckling pig? I'll take it home after you finish it."
…
Yin Cai helped clean up together. She felt that these forms were just comfort for the living people. When people die, they are dead, so what is left
Fortunately, Ji's mother never treated him harshly during her lifetime, and she had a clear conscience.
When coming down from the mountain, Ji Huai kept saying, "Do you think my mother would give me a seven-star lottery number in my dream if she knew I owed so much money on my mortgage?"
"You can dream it yourself!" Yin Cai thought it was impossible. She didn't believe in ghosts and gods.
Ji Huai didn't say anything more and moved the topic elsewhere.
Friday.
Ji Ziqing is on vacation. She often takes a car back from the city alone. There is a bus stop not far from the school entrance. When Ji Huai is not free to pick her up, she takes a car back by herself.
After getting off the car, I did my homework and waited for Yin Cai at her workplace.
Yin Cai got off work a little late today. She had to do the accounts and had a lot to do. Ji Huai went to the provincial capital and didn't come back. They would go back later.
When it got dark, she packed her things and prepared to take her daughter home. Halfway through the ride, Ji Ziqing, who was sitting in the back, suddenly said, "Mom, I dreamed about grandma yesterday."
"Really? What did grandma tell you?" Yin Cai answered casually.
Although Ji's mother is a bit patriarchal and often scolds Ji Ziqing for being a little girl, she is very protective of her and loves her very much. Ji Ziqing was raised by Ji's mother.
"Grandma is so weird. She told me that I have to buy 4751 for this lottery, and told me to play 4751." Ji Ziqing frowned, "She also said that I would get a hundred points in the test. I miss grandma."
Yin Cai didn't take it seriously at first and continued to drive forward. Somehow, she drove towards the village. She turned back and went to the place where lottery tickets were sold for the first time.
She hesitated at the door for a long time, but finally walked over and handed over ten yuan.
Ji Ziqing raised her head and looked at her mother in confusion.
When Yin Cai went out, he actually spent a huge sum of money and played a lottery ticket worth 100 yuan.
At this time, the award time is less than half an hour.
"Mom, you play the lottery." Ji Ziqing seemed to have seen something extraordinary and spent a hundred yuan.
Yin Cai grabbed the piece of paper and felt that he was stunned and a little dazed.
When the two returned home, Ji Huai had already arrived. Ji Ziqing was the first to excitedly say to him, "Dad, mom spent a hundred yuan to buy lottery tickets!"
Ji Huai was cleaning the car and seemed to have heard something terrible, "Your mother spent a hundred yuan to buy lottery tickets?"
The sun came out in the west.
"Yeah!" Ji Ziqing nodded vigorously.
"Okay." Ji Huai teased Yin Cai, "Now you expect to make a fortune from the lottery? When will you win one million?"
Yin Cai gave him a sharp look, turned around and walked into the kitchen.
She actually regretted it, being too impulsive.
Ji Huai smiled and asked his daughter, "What number did your mother buy? It's strange. Tell dad quickly."
"4751, grandma told me that I wanted to buy this lottery ticket..." Before Ji Ziqing could finish speaking, Ji Huai's smile froze and he was extremely anxious, "Why didn't you tell dad?"
Before she could say anything, Ji Huai took out his cell phone and called to buy lottery tickets. He wanted to buy this number for a thousand yuan!
It was definitely his mother who bribed the kid with the paper gold bricks he burned, and she was about to turn over.
Unfortunately, the lottery is about to be drawn, and the sale time has passed and the sale has stopped.
Ji Huai jumped anxiously in the yard.
Ji Ziqing looked at her father, confused, "Dad, don't buy lottery tickets. It's not good to buy lottery tickets. The teacher said you can keep the money from lottery tickets to buy ribs."