Ji Yang's family rarely went back to their hometown. On the one hand, they had nothing to do, and on the other hand, they were busy with work. The two children kept going to school to make up lessons, and they didn't have much affection for it.
This year, Xiao Qiaoyi was sent to Imperial University to study as a graduate student, and when Ji Jin was admitted to the Imperial University of Science and Technology, the family was notified to go back.
Ji's sacrificial hall has to record it, and I heard that there are bonuses.
Scholars have always been valued, and Ji Yang's family has both, and it is a good university in the imperial capital, so please come back to support the scene.
"Pack up your clothes and stay home for three days. The sacrifice will be held for three days in a row. You must wear more formal clothes. Then you will go to worship your ancestors with your father." Ellie reminded.
"Have you been kneeling for most of the day?" Ji Jin was playing games with his speed car in his hand, shaking his body along with it, and was working hard.
"College students in recent years have been kneeling and listening, don't make trouble, and stay with my sister." Ai Li walked to his side, "Also, before going back this afternoon, I cut your non-mainstream hair for me. Don't you feel bad about covering your eyes?"
This son is very wild, and she is also afraid that he will cause trouble.
"This is called a trend." As soon as Ji Jin stood up, he was a full head and a half taller than Ellie, and his height was only 183. He stroked his hair and slid it over his ears, "Mom, give me some money, I cut off the two sides and dyed the top gray, how about that?"
"No!" Ellie vetoed without thinking.
"Oh." As soon as Ji Jin's enthusiasm faded, she pursed her lips and shrugged, muttering, "I'll do it myself when I go to college."
"Dare you, you'll be happy if you dye it nondescript and look half human and half demon?" Ai Li muttered.
At her age, although she has been properly cared for and looks much younger, she will never worry too much about her children.
"There is a ferocious beast trapped in my heart." Ji Jin leaned close to her, clutching his chest, and said drunkenly, "I am not called a monster, it is to release my nature."
Ellie: "..."
My son looks tall and handsome, why is that so
"I'm going to see my sister, let's go." He waved his hand and slid past her. Ellie called him, "Bring the milk and fruit to my sister."
After finishing speaking, he warned again, "Don't make trouble for my sister, don't disturb my sister."
"Of order." Ji Jin showed his big white teeth with a smile, made a gesture, and walked towards the kitchen with long legs.
Ellie looked at his back and shook her head.
When he was young, perhaps Ji Yang took care of him a lot, and the two children followed him, with exactly the same temperament.
A little impatient, a little anxious, especially Ji Jinyi, who is actually very difficult to discipline.
Until they grow up slowly, the most obvious change is Xiao Qiaoyi, who was quite savage when she was a child, and Ji Yang is protective and arrogant, but when she grows up, she changes suddenly.
Temperament began to be peaceful, neither fighting nor grabbing, gentle and quiet.
She changed, and Ji Jin changed as soon as she did. Although his temper was still a bit impatient, he was very patient with Xiao Qiaoyi, and felt that she was too bullying, so he had to protect her.
A lot of changes have taken place in these years. Ji Yang started a small decoration company, and his family's finances are getting better and better, so he bought a big house in the city center.
A family lives in harmony.
"Butt buckle."
Knocking on the door, Ji Jin went in with milk and fruit.
Xiao Qiaoyi was sitting on the desk, with a shawl and long black hair, wearing a white dress, she looked like an elegant goddess.
"Sister." Ji Jin put down the plate and leaned against the desk, "Still reading? Pack up and go back to my hometown."
"Dad hasn't come back yet." Xiao Qiaoyi turned another page and said softly.
"Then I'm going out, how about I go get a fashionable haircut?" He looked expectantly at Xiao Qiaoyi, who had just finished the college entrance examination, like a bird that just flew out of a cage.
Shouting.
In addition, her parents have good genetics, she has a good face and a good figure, and her tail is up to the sky.
"It's not good." Xiao Qiaoyi looked up at him first, "Maybe you will be judged because you are too showy, I suggest you cut it short."
"That's right, every time I go home, my aunt talks the most." Ji Jin lost interest, took the milk that was originally given to Xiao Qiaoyi, and stretched out her claws to the fruit, and said while eating, "Today's pear is sweet ah."
"Try this grape."
"There are still mangoes today, and they are growing well."
After a while, he ate most of the fruit and drank almost all the milk, and said again, "Sister, lend me some pocket money, I'll go out and play games."
"Call me when Dad comes back."
Boys spend a lot of money, Xiaoqiao should get a bonus, and Ai Li and Ji Yang are also relieved of her, with much more pocket money than him.
"I'll pay you back in a few days, double!" He vowed.
"In the drawer, take it yourself." Xiao Qiao should not bother with him about this kind of thing. As soon as Ji Jin opened the drawer, she took out a few hundred yuan and said with a smile, "Thank you, sister. He's been taught a lesson."
Xiaoqiaoyi has no shortage of suitors, some are always unreasonable, and if she can't catch up, she will spread rumors everywhere, pretending to be noble, and even slandering her.
"Don't cause trouble." Xiao Qiaoyi closed the book in her hand, "Don't fight."
"Can he beat me? How long have I been practicing taekwondo? Beat him up every minute." Ji Jin disdainfully said, "From now on, I'll beat up every one I see."
"Okay, I'm going out." As he spoke, he walked a few steps forward, then turned around and leaned into her ear, "Sister, when Dad comes back, you must tell me, I'll be right back, and I will pay you back the money in a few days. Come back and bring you something delicious."
After speaking, he slipped out.
The corner of Xiao Qiaoyi's mouth broke into a smile, it's up to him.
The sun was setting.
Ji Yang's family returned to their hometown.
In recent years, they seldom go home, and they can't stay home for two days. Basically, it can be said that there is no conflict.
Li Qiuxiang doesn't cause trouble, and Ai Li won't show her face. On the surface, they get along pretty well. After so many years, there is nothing to worry about.
"Are you back? Oops, Jinyi has grown taller again." Li Qiuxiang smiled from ear to ear, and was about to take the bag on his shoulder.
"Grandma, I can take it." Ji Jin declined.
"Grandma." Xiao Qiaoyi also called her.
"Just come back, just come back." Li Qiuxiang responded.
Now the two children of Ji Yang's family have both been admitted to prestigious universities. There is no such thing in a few kilometers around. She now has a bright face.
In addition, I haven't come back for a long time, so I am enthusiastic.
"It's time to eat, hurry up and sit inside, are you tired?" Li Qiuxiang muttered after Ji Jinyi.
Such an outstanding child is her grandson.
That is a university of science and technology, and there will be great prospects in the future!
Glory to their ancestors.
"It's not too far away. It's okay, Mom. How many dishes are there yet? I'll help you." Ai Li was also embarrassed to sit and wait for dinner, and followed her to the kitchen.
Ning Feng is also there, she is still as fat as ever, a forty-year-old looks like a fifty-something.
The body is extremely unhealthy, and it is said that he passed out several times.
There was a person standing in the corner of the kitchen, with a clumsy body, and she knew she was pregnant just by looking at her back. Ai Li was stunned, "Er Niu, this is..."
The other party turned his head, his face was immature, and he called out. Ai Li was stunned, then nodded again.
"This is Hanhan's wife, Xiaojuan." Li Qiuxiang explained.
"Hanhan's daughter-in-law? I haven't heard of it." Ai Li felt that suddenly, and her stomach was getting bigger, and she didn't feel relieved.
"There was no banquet, and my mother's family took 50,000 yuan as a bride price." Li Qiuxiang said, a little dissatisfied with her words, "I hope to have a son."
"Hurry up and wash off these dishes." Ning Feng's thick fingers manipulated Xiao Juan, and snorted softly, "There is no dowry at all, Hanhan's salary is paid to earn some money, and his mother's family still wants to get it, and they raise her family's vampires, look I'll be angry."
Ai Li looked at the girl's figure and didn't know what else to say.
Ji Han is only one year older than Ji Jin, and he hasn't finished junior high school. Of the four children in Ji Mu's family, only the youngest one has finished junior high school, and he is still mixed up.
In such an era, Ai Li didn't know what they were thinking. Ji Yang said it once, and Ning Feng asked him to support it all, otherwise Ji Yang would ignore it if he had no money.
Zhang Xiaojuan was scolded, and kept busy with her big belly in silence, obviously she was used to these tasks.
Her face was numb, neither happy nor sad.
Ning Feng's temper was not much better than Li Qiuxiang's. In just a short while, Zhang Xiaojuan was scolded several times.
"Where's Er Niu?" Ellie changed the subject.
"Go to the field to pull peanuts." Li Qiuxiang said.
"It's been sunny these days, and there are a lot of peanuts at home, how many more people can go?" Ellie continued her words.
She saw Ji Mu's three sons in the living room just now.
"Work harder, I'm going to get married soon." Li Qiuxiang said again, "I talked to someone from the next village, and we said we wanted a gift of 200,000 yuan. In the future, Shuoshuo and my younger brother will also have a gift to get married, and Hanhan has already taken it." 50,000, the family has no money, and the man has no money at home."
"Sneakily went to sleep at someone's house, shameless and skinless, all pregnant, I asked Ning Feng to drag her to beat her."
"Also said to give 50,000, what about Shuo Shuo and his younger brother's marriage? There is no bride price at home."
Ning Feng also agreed, and Ai Li choked.
"Some time ago, I was introduced to someone from Beipo Village. He was married twice, but he only had one daughter. Having a son will help him stabilize his footing. They gave him 160,000 yuan." Ning Feng raised her voice, thinking that Hao.
It costs 50,000 to marry a daughter-in-law and sell her daughter 160,000, and there will be 60,000 left over by then.
"Second marriage is not okay, right? The second girl is still young, why don't you go out to work for a while? It's still too young." Ai Li also has a daughter, so she inevitably felt a little uncomfortable when she heard it.
"You're still young? I'm going to be an old girl. That man's house is now building a second floor. He grows lychees at home and earns one hundred and eighty thousand a year. He is ten years older than her and loves others." Ning Feng didn't feel that There is a mistake, it is to find a good husband's family for the daughter.
"It's just that I broke my leg in the early years and walked a little lame." Li Qiuxiang said it irritably, and this shortcoming can be seen immediately. She felt ashamed and waved her hand, "Forget it, everyone knew about Er Niu's abortion before. The same thing, I don’t know if I can get pregnant, and I will only pay if I get pregnant.”
Ellie was silent.
Erniu is a daughter, but she was also born in October of Ning Feng's pregnancy. The tone of the discussion now is like discussing how much a sow that can give birth to children should be sold for.
Her request for Xiao Qiaoyi is to find someone who loves her, so that they can live a good life and support each other to go on.
Isn't it equivalent to selling her if her mother's family asks for a bride price like this
How can such a girl hold her head up in her natal family
She was thinking, and then looked at Zhang Xiaojuan, who was obsessive, pregnant with a child, being ordered around by Ning Feng, and swearing at every turn.
When dinner was approaching, Erniu came back, carrying a basket of peanuts, her face was flushed from the sun.
Originally, she had good facial features, at a youthful age, but her skin was dark and her hands were calloused.
"Auntie." She smiled and called Ai Li.
"It's a hot day. If you want to go to the fields, you have to go at sunset or go early. It's easy to suffer from heat stroke." Ai Li really felt that she was pitiful. Feel powerless, lower your voice, "Wash your hands and eat."
Whether it is Zhang Xiaojuan or Erniu, the only one who can save them is myself, only by working hard to get rid of such a family, being more independent in thinking, and thinking about myself, can I live a better life.
If you don't live up to it, no one can do anything.
at the dinner table.
Ji Mu's family sat on one side, Ji Yang's family sat on the other side, Ji Tianhan sat next to his wife, both of them looked like children.
Ji Tianshuo followed Ji Mu to the construction site to earn a little money. He wore a gold chain around his neck that was as thick as a little finger, but he didn't know if it was real or not.
Ji Mu has also gained a lot of weight. He spends all day at the construction site, smoking, drinking, and bragging about everything, and he has aged a lot.
But Ji Yang and Ellie haven't changed much.
"Nowadays people don't care about college students. They just catch them on the street and ask them. They need experience now. The salary of college students is not high, not as high as mine." Ji Tianshuo drank white wine and started blowing cannons.
"The girlfriend that Tianchi came to the house before was a junior college student with a salary of more than 2,000 yuan, but the bride price at home was 150,000 yuan. I don't agree." Ning Feng pointed to her youngest son, "College students are worthless now, especially if they are coincidences. Yi, my aunt told you, don't go to graduate school, we will find someone to marry while we are young, women, it is better to marry well than to study well, marry and have a son."
"If you study again, you will be old. Old age is worthless."
Xiaoqiao Yian drank her soup quietly, and said slowly after a while, "Now everyone is getting married late."
It's not like Ji Tianhan, who gave birth to a child and raised it for the whole family. He was still a child, and the child was harmed when he was born.
"Women are worthless when they are old, and you spend money on studying. If you are twenty-five years old, no one wants you, old girl." Ning Feng said repeatedly.
"I've been studying for so many years." Li Qiuxiang also said, "Ji Yang, can you have children while studying?"
In the village, if you are not married at twenty-five, it will be discussed miserably. His grandson is so good, but he is not afraid, and he will line up to marry in the future.
"Mom, Qiaoyi doesn't think about such a problem now." Ai Li interrupted her, "Nowadays college students are in their twenties, and it's normal for them to get married in their twenties."
"It's not normal. Xiaojuan is only seventeen years old. How many more babies can she have? You can only have one when you are in your twenties." Ning Feng retorted.
"It's good to have one." Xiao Qiaoyi replied.
"Jinyi, what kind of university of science and technology are you studying in?" Ji Tianshuo drank a few sips of wine, began to talk more, and stretched out a hand, "Is there a salary of 5,000 after graduation?"
Depending on how old I am, I can't bear it.
Ji Tianshuo is considered the most arrogant one, he played with many women with a little money, and thought he was better than anyone else.
"Brother Tianshuo, I haven't gone to college yet, you ask me what will happen a few years later, how do I know?" Ji Jinyi looked helpless.
Said so on the surface, but in reality I was speechless in my heart.
Frog in a well.
"Our construction site is currently rushing to work. Two hundred yuan a day, six thousand a month, college students don't even have that much money." Ji Tianshuo raised his feet and said loudly, "Do you want to go to work during summer vacation? Brother will take you."
There are generally only two or three thousand people who work around, and Ning Feng also thinks that his son is very powerful, and he may not need to give a bride price to marry a wife. , six thousand is not bad."
These years, they rarely know what Ji Yang is doing, and feel that they can't make much money in such a small city.
Six thousand men a month are snapped up by others.
To put it bluntly, his vision was terribly low, and even Li Qiuxiang wanted Ji Tianshuo to help him pay attention.
"Brother Tianshuo, you underestimate my sister." Ji Jin looked at him with a smile, and said slowly, "My sister is sent to Imperial University as a graduate student, and she is receiving state subsidies to go to school."
"The annual scholarship is tens of thousands, and the living allowance is also quite a lot. The annual salary is not certain."
Ji Tianshuo was stunned. He didn't necessarily have to work every day on the construction site, and he couldn't make much money all year round, but people like them always overestimated themselves, and then said, "It takes so many years of study, we all How many years have you been working? It’s time to make money.”
Ji Jin smiled, "The market price of my sister's major is not low."
"How much can there be? Three or four thousand starting salary?" Ji Tianshuo disagrees, "Many college students on the construction site don't have this price, don't think too much."
"How can it be?" Ji Jin smiled, then paused, "It's someone who can't get an annual salary of 300,000."
Ji Tianshuo's smile froze on his face, and the atmosphere suddenly became secretive.
"That much?" Li Qiuxiang's eyes lit up, "Guarantee is good, big companies really pay that much money?"
"Of course, well done. The big companies can give you a lot. Last time, they said 500,000 a year to let my sister go to graduate school with pay, but she refused." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qiuxiang's face hurt. , and then said, "You have to sign a contract. What if other companies pay more after graduation? The company is smart, and they are all good people."
"Yes, yes, yes, grandma doesn't understand." Li Qiuxiang echoed him with a smile, and Ji Chunjun also said that the child has his own plans.
Ning Feng's face was like a pig's liver, and his face was slapped. He looked at Xiao Qiaoyi, who was eating quietly. He really didn't expect that Ai Li could raise such a daughter.
"Working on the construction site is still dangerous. There is no insurance or anything. You should be careful." Ji Yang opened his mouth, looked at Ji Tianshuo and said.
"What could happen? How many years has my dad been here? It may take hundreds of days after a while." Ji Tianshuo quickly answered the question, he just lost face, and hurriedly raised his status, "When the time comes, I will Just come out and do it alone, if it’s good, you can contract a big project and earn hundreds of thousands a year.”
"Then use it for investment, buy a few flats and rent them out."
Ji Jin rolled her eyes from the bottom of her heart and was speechless.
He also knows that if he wins the lottery, he can win 100 million yuan. Is the key to winning
"Then how much will the big company give you after you graduate?" Li Qiuxiang approached Ji Jinyi and began to inquire.
Others are envious of her now, so they have to ask and show off.
"Grandma, I just went to college. I have to study for four years. Maybe I will be a graduate student like my sister. If I want to study for a Ph. D., how many years later." Ji Jin fooled her, "The price is too high now. Not worth it."
"I want to study. Studying can make more money. Eat more, eat a big chicken drumstick." Li Qiuxiang was coaxed around by him, and she squinted her eyes with a smile.
After the meal, Li Qiuxiang forced Ji Jinyi 2,000 yuan, "Study hard and eat more, you know?"
"Grandma, don't give it to me, Dad will tell you." Ji Jin pretended to postpone.
"Don't tell your father." Li Qiuxiang warned.
"Then... well, thank you grandma." Ji Jin reluctantly followed, and the other party took another five hundred, "These are for your sister."
He was "forced" to take two thousand and five, went to Xiao Qiaoyi, and gave her a wad of money, "No, grandma gave it."
"Huh?" Xiao Qiaoyi looked at the money in her hand.
"You have one thousand and I have one thousand, and I will pay you another six hundred." He stuffed another six hundred into her, hid the rest of the money, and squinted closer, "Don't tell dad, I'll save four hundred and go back and talk to you." friends to play."
After the words fell, he turned and left.
Holding the money in her hand, Xiao Qiaoyi looked at the other person's leaving figure. Before she knew it, this younger brother had grown up and was taller than her. Today's behavior of defending her at the dinner table warmed her heart.
It's nice to have a brother.