"Brother Yan, you have come to the end of all hardships in this life."
In the courtyard of the Yan family, a group of villagers surrounded the old couple Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong, with envy in their eyes and a hint of jealousy.
At this time, the old house of the Yan family has changed its appearance a long time ago. Most of the original bungalows have been demolished. A group of construction workers are carrying waste wood and stone bricks to the trucks, and then transporting an endless supply of building materials. You know, this is to rebuild a big house.
The village doesn't know about the earning ability of the old couple of the Yan family? I'm afraid it's true as the old couple said, their son has made a lot of money.
Of course, the already wealthy people in the village would not be envious of the current life of the Yan family, but those days were similar to the Yan family, or better than the Yan family, watching the people who were originally behind them catch up with the speed of a rocket, This makes me feel better.
"Where is there, our family Chu has always been promising. He has stayed at home these years, but it's not like you said he didn't do anything. He is creating. Those writers you see on TV can be published every year. The work, of course, needs to be studied with great concentration, and then it will soar into the sky."
Before Yan Yuanjiang could speak, a middle-aged woman next to him spoke for him. This woman is Yan Yuanjiang's niece. When the original body was not born, Yan Yuanjiang and his wife intended to adopt each other's elder brother , but after the original body was born, this matter was naturally dropped.
These years, the relationship between the two families has not been good. Now that the other party can use such an affectionate tone to rescue the old couple, it is obvious that they have seen Yan Chu's potential and want to get a share of it.
Even with the development of the times, the sense of clan in such a small village is still very strong, and those self-employed business owners who go out of the village are more willing to seek help from villagers with blood ties because they feel that blood ties are more reliable.
That's what the woman who spoke now is thinking. Seeing that the uncle's family paid for the repair of the ancestral grave and the house, it is obvious that her cousin earns a lot of money, and even that money will not be cheap. It's her head, but at least they have a good relationship, and when it comes time to spend money, there will be one more person to talk to.
Regarding the sudden closeness of their niece, Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong had very complicated thoughts, but it has to be said that it is precisely because of the admiration of the villagers these days that the old couple who already love their son feel even more that their son is no matter how much they love him. Not too much.
"I think the foundation is not small. Brother Yan, how many floors are you planning to build?"
The homestead of the Yan family was left by the old man at the front. Together with the homestead that originally belonged to Yan Yuanjiang and his wife, it covers an area of more than 400 square meters. This is not counting the private land. Estimated with the naked eye, the foundation planning of this new house is not too small. After the construction is completed, the first floor will have at least two to three hundred square meters. It's gone.
"To build three floors, my wife and I have discussed it with our son. On the first floor, we will build the living room, kitchen, bathroom and our old couple's bedroom. On the second floor, we will live in our family, Chu, and prepare a guest room and a child. Room, if there is enough space, you can also have a study room. As for the third floor, young people are not popular with fitness now, so let’s create a place for exercising, and draw out an open-air balcony, which is exactly the same as the small villas in the city. .”
Yan Yuanjiang is a nice guy, but it doesn't mean he doesn't have vanity.
The old man who has been suppressed all these years, after his son's success, can't wait to announce to the whole world how capable his son is.
"Wouldn't that cost a lot of money?"
The people in the village were stunned. With such a large area, it would cost five or six hundred thousand just to build the second floor, not to mention the decoration. Building a third floor and wanting better decoration would cost no more than one million and eight hundred thousand. I'm afraid I can't take it down.
"It's okay, our family Ah Chu is promising. The book he wrote was taken by a big director. Maybe one day, you will see a TV series, which is made by my son."
Yan Yuanjiang chuckled, speaking of it, his life can be considered to have experienced great storms.
When he participated in the Vietnam War, he injured the sole of his foot and returned from the injury. At that time, everyone admired military heroes. Even if he became disabled, no one looked down on him. This is why he can still marry Gu Aihong after he is disabled and retired from the army. Correct, a well-born wife can see it.
But soon, the spring breeze of reform and opening-up blew across every inch of the earth, and people's hearts began to float with money. Knowing that you are a veteran doesn't make people think highly of you. Most people can only see your disabled body , and your empty wallet.
In the years before his son was born, Yan Yuanjiang not only endured more and more strange and disdainful eyes, but also endured the humiliation of being ridiculed for being incompetent because he did not have a son.
It wasn't until after Yuanzheng was born that he was able to wash away the grievance behind him. After Yuanchen showed his extraordinary talent for reading, Yan Yuanjiang gradually regained the envious and respectful eyes of others.
So he didn't express his love for this child who brought him so much hope. For him, this son was almost everything to him.
Looking at the envious, jealous, or congratulatory eyes of the villagers, Yan Yuanjiang suddenly became calmer.
However, he has not forgotten his most important purpose.
"A Chu and I are both old, how many more years can we enjoy his blessing? We don't ask for anything now, we just hope that he can quickly find a wife. We don't ask how beautiful or smart the girl is, as long as she is a good person. If you know the cold and the hot, you can support each other with our family Ah Chu."
The top priority of the Yan family right now is to find a wife for their son. Yan Yuanjiang is not young anymore, and he wants to embrace his grandchildren as soon as possible in his lifetime.
"Our husband and wife can still do it. In the future, if my daughter-in-law wants to live in the country, she will live in the big house we are building now. If the daughter-in-law wants to live in the city, it's fine. Our family, Chu, has some money and can buy it in the city. Pay a down payment for a larger house, and when the time comes to mortgage, let the couple pay it back slowly, write the name of the daughter-in-law, so that she can feel at ease."
Before Yan Chu gave Yan Yuanjiang 3.5 million yuan, Yan Yuanjiang first spent 50,000 yuan to repair the ancestral grave, which is the most important thing for the villagers, just like going back to his hometown to build a house, it is a way to prove his financial resources Way. As for the decoration of this small country villa now, compared with the money spent by the villagers before, Yan Yuanjiang added some more budget, which can probably be kept within one million. It is completely enough to buy more than 100 square meters of commercial housing in the urban area.
It's just that the older generation pays attention to not revealing their wealth. This time, they spent a lot of money to rebuild the ancestral grave and rebuild the house. Firstly, it is to make the family live more comfortably, and secondly, it is also to clean up the bad things about the son that have been circulated in the village over the years. Fame, otherwise, according to the wishes of the old couple, the money still has to be saved, just in case it is needed.
So now they just conservatively tell everyone that the money in their hands is enough for the down payment of a house in the city, and they didn't say much, but even such a handwriting is enough to attract many families with daughters.
Sure enough, when Yan Yuanjiang said that they could get together the down payment for a house in the city after building the luxurious three-story villa in their hometown, they immediately regarded Yan Chu, whom they were least optimistic about, as the best son-in-law candidate.
First of all, he looks good.
Secondly, he is smart, otherwise he would not have been admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University with the second highest score in the city. With such a father, the child would never go anywhere.
In the end, he has money. Although he did not earn money in the first four years, once he earns it, he will make up the gap in those four years. It is more than one million. No matter how many people can earn that much in 20 or 30 years As for money, he is still young, so it is impossible for him to stop writing books in the future, right
The more the villagers thought about it, the more they felt that this was the case. Soon, Gu Aihong was surrounded by a group of people, who implicitly asked her about the type of girl Yan Chu liked.
In such a big drama, the focus of Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong is really just this. The old couple listened with pricked ears, eager to write down the names of all the girls who are suitable for their sons. Maybe there will be one of them in the future. What about the daughter-in-law
*****
"Check? What are you doing with that money?"
Because the old house was demolished and rebuilt, now the three members of the Yan family and the dog Yan Aotian are renting temporarily in an idle building of the owner's family in the village, and then move out when their new house is completed.
Gu Aihong was eating as usual, while feeding the lazy husky pig and waiting for Yan Aotian, she refused her son's proposal without even thinking about it.
She and the old man are both in good health, so there is nothing to check.
The current hospital burns a lot of money. Once you go in, one or two hundred will be gone. If the whole body is checked up and down, it will cost thousands of dollars.
In Gu Aihong's view, with all this money, she might as well save buying milk powder for her future grandchildren.
Yan Yuanjiang also thought the same way. He thought he was still in good health. If his son hadn't been promising now and refused to let him contract the land, he would still be able to work for another ten years.
"Dad, Mom, the physical examination doesn't cost too much money. Besides, the money I earn is just for you." Yan Chu knew that the reaction of the old couple was the reaction of many ordinary elderly people. First of all, he really felt that the examination cost money , Second, I am worried that if I really check out what is wrong, it will drag the children down.
In fact, if the problem can be detected, early detection and early treatment will cost less money and the chance of cure will be higher. Even if the problem is not detected, at least you can spend money to buy a peace of mind.
Especially in the original world, Yan's father died of lung cancer. Although it is still a long time before Yan's father was diagnosed with lung cancer, Yan Chu can't be sure whether the other party already has cancer.
So this time the physical examination is imperative, Yan Chu has already figured it out, and he will take the old couple to have a physical examination every six months, and his father's addiction to smoking will also have to be helped.
Before the Yan family had no money, in order to save money, Yan Yuanjiang smoked homemade cigarettes, which were spicy and choking, and caused great damage to the lungs. It is necessary to let an old man who has smoked dry tobacco all his life quit smoking. It's a difficult thing, but no matter how difficult it is, Yan Chu has to find a way to make the other party change his bad living habits step by step.
"Besides, I'm not young anymore. Maybe I'll have to marry a wife in a few years. If you have a child by then, what kind of illness do you have? We two older children who have no experience in raising children can take care of them. come here?"
The grandchildren are the trump card of the two old people. They all say that they are relatives in the next generation. They can pamper and pamper the son of the original body so much, let alone the grandson who has appeared in the dreams of the two old people countless times even though he has not yet been born. Son.
I have worked hard for most of my life, and if I say there is no disease on my body, it is purely to deceive people, not to mention the pain caused by overwork over the years, and all kinds of problems that will appear after a person reaches a certain age, Yan Yuanjiang The leg that was disabled in the early years was a big problem, not to mention the inconvenience of his movement. In his later years, because he lost more than half of the sole of his left foot, he slanted when he walked for a long time, causing soreness in the pelvis and lumbar spine. It has tortured him for more than ten years, and the pain gets worse as he gets older.
It’s just that the situation at home these years is there. No matter how much pain the two elderly people endured, neither husband and wife complained. They were afraid that the other party would be worried. Sometimes they couldn’t make it through, so they went to a small township hospital to get some cheap medicine. Fooling the past, I am reluctant to spend the money to go to a big hospital.
Hearing what his son said at this time, the couple hesitated a little.
Money is important, but so is seeing your grandkids.
The level of medical care is so developed now. In the past, a person could live to sixty or seventy, which was considered longevity. Now there are many people who live to eighty or ninety. Yan Yuanjiang and Gu Aihong also have ambitions, that is, to see grandchildren born, Then watch them grow up.
According to the age at which they gave birth to their sons, at least they had to survive until an ordinary person became a great-grandfather, and then grandma Zeng could have that possibility.
"Okay, then listen to you."
While feeling sorry for the money that will be spent at that time, the old couple gritted their teeth and agreed.
It's all worth it for the grandchildren.
Although even the daughter-in-law is gone, for the sake of their grandchildren, the old couple already have a plan to take good care of their bodies.
*****
"Nothing particularly serious."
After the physical examination, fortunately, Yan's father has not been infected with lung cancer, and there is still time to prevent it from now.
The doctor told the two elderly people to pay attention to the common diseases among a bunch of elderly people, and told Yan Chu on the side some precautions.
Yan Chu listened carefully from the beginning to the end. The doctor seemed to have seen too many scenes of checking alone or accompanied by old couples, and highly praised Yan Chu's behavior.
"You grandson, you are really filial."
"Doctor, this is not our grandson. This is our son. He was born in his forties. At the beginning, the two of us thought we would never have children in this life. A good and sensible boy gave us a couple."
Yan Yuanjiang laughed. At this time, he had long forgotten the decadence of his son in the previous four years, and he also forgot that he was worried day and night in those four years, just worrying about the future of this son.
The doctor was also well-informed, looked at Yan Chu in a little surprise, smiled and said nothing.
There are many couples in the world who are struggling to bear children. The old couple in front of them can have a filial son in their forties, which is also a blessing they saved in their previous lives.
*****
"Ah Chu, do you still remember the Lan Duo you played with when you were young, the little girl who lived diagonally across the door from our house, didn't she follow her parents to study in the city, I heard that she came back from college the year before last Now, I work as a teacher in an elementary school in the urban area."
In the eyes of the older generation, civil servants, teachers, doctors and nurses who have weaving work are considered serious occupations. If a girl has a career establishment, she is definitely a hot item in the blind date market.
In the same way, having a house and a car for a man is also a plus for a blind date. Although Yan Chu has a house but no car now, everyone around him knows that the money in the Yan family's hands is definitely more than enough to buy a car.
Because of this, ever since the Shan family started building this house in the countryside, he has become a high-quality son-in-law in the eyes of the villagers, and there are a steady stream of matchmakers to help Yan Chu and other girls match up. If they can make a pair, The matchmaker's red envelope is absolutely indispensable.
These days, Gu Aihong has collected information on many unmarried girls who are the right age for her son. Among them, a girl named Lin Landuo is her favorite.
"How long ago was that, how can I still have any impression?"
Yan Chu lightly kicked the stupid dog lying on the table, waiting for grandma to feed him, so that he could eat by himself, otherwise he would take it for a "walk" on the country road after the meal, to feel it Take a look at the natural scenery of the countryside.
Yan Aotian received his father's threatening eyes, sobbed a few times in grievance, and honestly ate by himself.
If only he could earn money, then he would have a sitter to feed him, a sitter to smooth his fur, a sitter to tickle him, and a sitter to help him with his daily walks.
Such a dog life is really desirable.
Yan Aotian's eyes were confused, thinking of the life that would lead him to ascension to heaven, he couldn't help being overjoyed for a moment, rolled on the ground, and then accidentally overturned the dog meal that was served, and mixed it up. The rice meat sauce was scattered all over the floor.
"Aww—"
Yan Aotian tucked his tail vigilantly, and immediately hid behind his grandparents.
With it crossed out, Gu Aihong was busy tidying up the mess, forgetting the half-spoken topic just now.
"By the way, Mom and Dad, I have to go to a class reunion in a few days."
Yan Chu knew that in this world, he still had to honestly find a partner to have children and stay with him for life, but now he was not ready for intensive blind dates.
"School reunion? That's the most important thing."
Yan Yuanjiang nodded again and again. Chou Wupan, who came to the house before, is a very nice young man. If his son can have more friends like this and go out more often, he will feel at ease when the two of them are gone in the future.
At the age of the son, most of them are only children, and the situation of their family is special. Those who are of the same generation as the son can be considered as the father of the son according to their age. In addition to the previous incidents, the Yan family has not had much contact with those relatives. Now because of the money, those relatives have started to visit relatives one after another. Yan Yuanjiang is really worried that his son will associate with such relatives for the rest of his life.
He would rather his son have a few more reliable friends, if he really wanted to get along well, they would undoubtedly be real relatives.
"Do you have enough money in your hand? You can't dress casually when you go to the class reunion. Your mother and I have bad eyesight, and I don't know what kind of clothes are popular among you young people. When the time comes, I will give you money. buy it."
Now that he has money, Yan Yuanjiang's life has also begun to enrich. He watches TV when he has nothing to do, or goes out to play mahjong and chess with his peers to pass the time, increasing new knowledge that he had no time to understand before.
He also learned a few buzzwords, such as the generation gap, which is said to be a gap every three years. He and his son have been separated by nine twists and turns. Before, he always wanted to arrange everything for his son with his wife. He has also grown up, has his own ideas, and some things, he should let him do it by himself.
"That's right, don't go to the street store in our town to buy it, just go to the city, the clothes in their big shopping mall are rich and foreign."
Gu Aihong took a big broom tied with thin dead branches and swept up the dog food scattered on the ground, and then mixed a new meal for the dog grandson, and put the previous one in an old basin, ready to feed it when the time came chicken to eat.
At this time, Gu Aihong and her husband had almost the same thoughts. The two elderly people used to care about making money, so they really didn’t think so much. Now that they are free, they have more contacts with the villagers. Young people have boxes of clothes, and their dress may not be the type they can appreciate, but among their peers, it is fashionable.
As a result, Gu Aihong felt that she had treated her son badly by choosing clothes according to her own vision these years.
"By the way, do you remember Xiang Ling who went to school with you in the town when you were young? The little girl is two years younger than you. When you were in the third grade, she was in the first grade. She is now in the city. As a small leader in a shopping mall here, she can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month at a young age, and most importantly, this girl is filial to her parents, as long as she is a filial child, she will not be a bad child."
Gu Aihong clapped her palms in praise, and then looked at her son expectantly: "Aren't you going to buy clothes? Why don't you take the opportunity to meet her little girl? You are about the same age, maybe they can give you advice on buying clothes. "
Yan Chu: ...
Mom, do you still remember the little girl Lan Duo that you just talked about with my childhood sweetheart
Yan Chu was a little skeptical when he really introduced someone to him, if he said that he wanted to buy a car now, would his mother conjure him up with someone who works in a 4S shop, which is especially suitable for him, and also like him when he was a child? A girl with a little "relationship", even those connections, have long gone to the horizon.