"… How many?"
Lu Chen, who was looking down at his phone, paused and turned his head to stare at him.
Seeing his surprised look, Lu Jianmin was inexplicably proud. He nuzzled and said, "40 (1+10%) to the 40th power, do you do the math yourself? You didn't learn well in school, and there are no such things in the books? I hear you Tell your aunt about those economic laws for the first time, and don't return one set... "
"More than eighteen million?"
Lu Chen lowered his head and recited the number silently, then got up suddenly and went back to his room.
After rummaging in the drawer for a long time, he found the card that Lu Jianmin had given him, threw it aside, and picked out an envelope from under several magazines. Inside the envelope was a stack of red bills. He counted them and found that the total was 29,100, which was less than 30,000.
In his past and present lives, he has always had the habit of saving money. I don’t know if it’s because his parents filled his brother’s bottomless pit without restraint, which made him always have a sense of crisis of “lack of money”. At first, it was in elementary school. , The New Year's money was left untouched, and later I found out that I could win money playing billiards. When I was free, I went to the billiard hall to practice my hands. After two or three years, I have my own small coffers.
130,000, plus the 100,000 that my aunt took, totaling 230,000. According to the Spring Festival pork market, the profit that will be distributed to him in the end must be more than 170,000. After a quick calculation, by the end of March, With 400,000 in his hand, it's not a problem.
And his birthday is in February, and he will be eighteen years later...
Catch up!
He can definitely catch up with those two stocks that will come back to life next year.
Adam's apple rolls.
Lu Chen reached out and covered his eyes.
After drinking a glass of water outside, Lu Jianmin got up and was about to go back to his room when Lu Chen suddenly came out from the second bedroom, walked up to him, hugged him hard without saying a word, and gave him a hug that almost suffocated him.
"What are you doing!"
Lu Jianmin pushed him angrily.
"dad."
After calming down, Lu Chen let him go, put his hands on his shoulders, stared at him, and suddenly laughed, "You are really my real father!"
"Bastard, I was originally..."
Before Lu Jianmin finished speaking, his shoulders were let go again.
Lu Chen turned around and went to the door.
He was at a loss, "Why are you going? It's almost eleven o'clock!"
At the same time, Zhuo Lin happened to open the door and come in from the outside.
As soon as he came in, he saw Lu Chen lowering his head to change his shoes, and asked angrily, "Going out again at this time?! It's still raining outside!"
"A buddy is drunk, I'll go and see."
While talking, Lu Chen straightened up, seeing her tired face and frowning to reprimand him, he smiled again, raised his hand to pinch her face, and coaxed rudely, "Don't be angry, be good, be careful of getting old."
"Get out."
Zhuo Lin patted his hand, feeling better after all. He heard him humming a song and went to the elevator entrance, then turned around and scolded Lu Jianmin, "You say you, the child can do whatever he wants, and he never knows how to control it! I ran out again in the middle of the night! The next time my buddy was drunk, what kind of friends did he make outside!"
"Okay, okay, my son is not young anymore."
"I haven't even graduated from high school!"
"Well, I came back as soon as I was on vacation, and I still remember this family in my heart. But your eldest son, who has a wife and forgets his mother, wants to travel abroad with his daughter-in-law on National Day, and he didn't ask his parents!"
Speaking of Lu Yao, Zhuo Lin was silent for a moment and sighed.
Lu Jianmin looked at her suspiciously, "Are you asking for money again?"
Zhuo Lin went to the water dispenser to get a glass of water, her tone was helpless, "It is said that I just paid the down payment, and I don't have much money on me. I asked for 20,000 yuan, and I took Roman to travel abroad."
"..."
Lu Jianmin was speechless for a moment.
—
Lu Chen left the community and walked along the sidewalk against the drizzle.
Occasionally, he turned his head to look at the two streets on both sides of his line of sight, which he was all too familiar with.
That dental clinic will close down soon, and a beauty shop will open half a year later; old man Zhang, who sells deep-fried dough sticks, and his daughter will be admitted to graduate school next year; in two years, all these clothes shops will be closed and replaced by a baby-raising life. Hall…
The dilapidated community just across the street will be demolished three years later.
Late at night.
Everything that was originally silent suddenly came alive in front of his eyes, changing again and again, and soon, it became the lively and noisy summer vacation of 2019.
Seven years, he has the opportunity for the next seven years.
He didn't think about changing anything. At the beginning, when he realized that he was reborn, he just wanted to grab Lu Yao by the collar and beat him up; to monitor his father's smoking and to have regular physical examinations in the future; to save some money, and to observe the still immature Ruan Yue...
But now...
Under the dim light of the street lights, he suddenly started to run.
The speed is very fast, like a gust of wind, passing over the still trees and buildings in the city, leaving behind the crowds and traffic flow under the neon lights, tirelessly, running an unknown number of streets in one breath, until the surroundings are finally deserted , The buzzing of insects in his ears merged with the sound of rain, he slowly slowed down, step by step, panting, he walked to the surface of the lake where the rain was beating under the night.
"Ruan Yue—"
"Ruan Yue—"
"Ruan Yue—"
With his hands clasped against the tip of his nose, he suddenly yelled three times into the distance at the top of his lungs.
The wind died down, he came out without an umbrella, the rain had already wet his body, and the cold feeling made him sober like never before.
He seemed to be able to feel the beating rhythm of a heart in his chest.
"Ruan Yue."
He raised his head, letting the rain curtain wash his face, "I love you," the low murmur was blown away by the wind, he finally felt tired, put his hands on his knees and bowed down, slowly, just sat down like that on the ground.
In his memory, he never seemed to say this sentence.
Even during the three hundred days of chasing her shamelessly, he never uttered these words. Perhaps from the beginning of the pursuit, he knew that he and Ruan Yue were people in two worlds. She is indifferent, taciturn, and superior, while he is rebellious, absurd, and as low as dust...
She dismissed him, and he looked at her like looking at the bright moon on the sea.
—
next morning.
After having breakfast at home, Ruan Yue, Ruan Chengyi, and Zhao Bingzhi stuffed their bags into the trunk together and went back to their hometown together.
After a night of autumn rain, the weather has obviously turned cooler.
Thinking of the big temperature difference in her hometown, Ruan Yue wore a black and white plaid shirt with a lapel collar and a denim jacket. After getting in the car, she raised her eyes and asked Zhao Bingzhi, the co-pilot, "Mom, I should be fine with this dress, right? "
Zhao Bingzhi turned to look at her, "Okay."
Ruan Yue smiled, hugged her coat and looked out the window, looking in a good mood.
For more than ten years, she has not lived with her grandparents, so every winter and summer vacation, when the family of three goes back to visit relatives, they will have a meal and say a few words. Because Ruan Chengyi's father had a successful career because he rarely saw each other, the neighbors in his hometown praised the Venerable Master a lot when they met him.
But Zhao Bingzhi can't forget that on the first day after she gave birth, her mother-in-law rushed over to the hospital to take care of her. When she found out that the baby was a girl, she hugged her and put it aside, muttering, "It's fine if the first baby is a girl. If you have a son in two years, you can count as having both sons and daughters."
She was hospitalized for five days, and the most she heard was—
"You urbanites have some notions, which we really don't understand. You said that your parents, who are officials, don't even have a son. Who will these assets be left to in the future? Could it be you?"
"You're too thin, it's not good to be thin, and you won't be able to have a son with a second child."
"You can't drink soup so lightly. You have to drink oil, you know? It's good to float a layer of oil. The bones of the body can be fattened, and the next child will be good for a son."
She never thought that someone in this world would be so obsessed with "having a son".
But she was an only child, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with being an only child. The initial rift between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law just appeared like that.
Ruan Yue didn't know that she was an unexpected granddaughter.
…
The third day of the National Day holiday.
The highway was not congested. It was a two-hour drive, and there was a service station on the way. The three of them got out of the car and took a breath. When they came back, Ruan Chengyi happened to receive a call and sat in the co-pilot, while Zhao Bingzhi sat in the driver's cab. drive.
At half past eleven, the car drove into the village and stopped outside a two-story building.
Ruan Chengyi's father is a village teacher, and his mother is not well-educated. She farmed the land in the early years. Later, because of her son's fortune, a piece of land was leased to other people in the village. She usually played mahjong and tended the flowers and plants in front of the house and behind the house when she was free. vegetable.
It was sunny after the rain, and in the flower gardens on both sides of the house, the Chinese rose hadn’t been defeated, and the sporadic petals and new flower buds were standing proudly.
The car engine drew out the people in the house, and the old lady went to the car excitedly. When she saw Zhao Bingzhi push open the driver's door and get down, her face froze, and then she heard Ruan Chengyi shout from the other side: "Mom."
"Cheng Yi is back."
"The boss is back."
"The daughter-in-law in this city is different. They drive like that."
Several people came out from the neighbors all at once, laughing and chatting around the car.
Zhao Bing knew that the number of times he came back was really limited, and he didn't know any of them, so he nodded and smiled at everyone, and called the old lady, "Mom."
The old lady said "um", and walked to the rear of the car in two or three steps.
Ruan Chengyi opened the trunk and was taking things out when he heard his mother complaining in a low voice, "Why did you let her drive back? You bought this car, and you let her drive in like this. Those who don't know will think it's at home. Let her decide!"
"Mom, I always worry about what to do with what I have and what I don't have!"
Ruan Chengyi reluctantly handed her a box of things in his hand, and also replied in a low voice.
At this time, Ruan Yue in the back seat also got out of the car, seeing her holding something in her hand, she quickly smiled, walked over and said, "Grandma, let me take it."
"Don't, don't, you baby lump, how can you do these things?"
After the old lady finished speaking, she looked up into the room and shouted, "Chuchu, come here, Chuchu, help grandma get something."
Ruan Yue was taken aback.
Looking up again, Ding Chuchu from the room had already run out. Seeing her standing beside the old lady, he quickly smiled and called, "Sister Ruan Yue."
The old lady gave her the things in her hand, turned her head to see Ruan Yue, smiled and said: "Stop standing, go in and sit in the house. It's rare to come back, don't blow and freeze, the countryside is not as good as In the city, the temperature difference is huge, and it is difficult to recover from a cold."