Of course, Li Lin was very grateful for Fang Yi's writing of the appraisal. The way of gratitude was also very simple and typical of his classmates: He asked Fang Yi to give him a good meal when he was waiting for Fang Yi to return to China. Fang Yi was also there.
He promised on the phone that he would never let Li Lin miss this meal.
Li Lin got on the plane back with a happy mood.
When he arrived at his residence, Li Lin put down his bags and did not go back to the company directly. Instead, he took some side dishes made by his mother that he had brought back from Shicheng and ran directly towards his new house.
Li Lin wanted to tell his father the news as soon as possible. As for his mother, Li Lin didn't say anything because he knew that his mother couldn't hold back what she said. She suddenly received millions for nothing.
Lin was also a little uneasy, for fear of being targeted by someone. Based on the simple idea of not exposing his wealth, Li Lin planned to discuss this matter with his father first.
When Li Lin arrived downstairs at his new house, he saw his father-in-law's car parked not far away.
Li Lin took a look, stopped for a moment to calm down and wanted to find someone to talk to, then entered the elevator and walked towards his new residence upstairs.
After getting out of the elevator and reaching the door, Li Lin reached out and knocked gently on the door a few times. He heard his father's familiar voice coming from inside: "Who is it?" He immediately opened his mouth and replied, "It's me."
With a click, the door opened. The first thing Li Lin saw was the thinning hair on his father's head. Even the remaining hair did not have the dark energy of his youth and was gray-white. It was a little wilted and lay on his father's head.
head on.
Li Lin's father had no idea what his son was thinking, and with a smile on his face: "I'm back from a business trip. I didn't even take a rest at the place where I lived when I got back. What are you doing here?".
Li Lin's father didn't know that his son's return to Shicheng this time was for a special purpose. Not only Li Lin's father but also Li Lin's mother handed the things to his son with his own hands, and they didn't know how much the things they were holding were worth.
The two of them have never encountered anything like a cake falling from the sky in their lives, but they have heard of a lot of misfortunes from the sky.
"Let me come and take a look. Dad, you go back to my place to sleep today. I'll watch here all night, and you can come back tomorrow night!" Li Lin said to his father.
Li Lin's father shook his head: "I still live here, there are other tenants there. I think it's not as good as here!".
The father and son entered the house and into the living room. Li Lin's father pulled up a stool and wiped the non-existent dust with his hands once or twice, then pushed it in front of his son. He pulled up another stool and sat on it.
Come down.
Li Lin opened his head and looked around: "I saw Linlin's father's car parked downstairs. Where is this person?".
"Her father didn't come, but her mother drove this car. Didn't you meet her downstairs?" Li Lin's father looked at his son and said strangely.
Li Lin thought about it for a moment and understood that it was most likely a side trip while taking the elevator. As for meeting his girlfriend's mother, his prospective mother-in-law Li Lin was not interested at all. If he met Mu Jin's mother-in-law
She is considered a weirdo. In Li Lin's heart, this old mother-in-law is the square of weird.
It's the best thing I haven't met! Li Lin thought to himself.
"She came to see the decoration of the house?" Li Lin asked casually. As he spoke, he put the side dishes he brought on the simple 'wooden table' set up by his father.
"No!" Li Lin's father shook his head.
Li Lin's hand stopped for a moment, looked at his father and asked: "Then what is he doing here?" After two or three seconds, he didn't hear his father's answer. He raised his head, only to find that his father's brows were furrowed.
With.
"What is she here for?" Li Lin asked again.
"Hey!" Li Lin's father sighed and said, "Come and discuss the betrothal gift with me!".
"What's there to say? Isn't it pretty much what I said before? Just give me 60,000 yuan." Li Lin looked at his father and asked.
Li Lin's father shook his head gently: "My mother-in-law just said that marrying off a daughter is only once in my family's life. As soon as she told her relatives about the 60,000 yuan, Linlin and her uncles said it was not okay! Five
60,000 is worse than nothing, and it will be laughed at..."
After hearing what his father said, Li Lin opened his mouth and asked, "How much does it cost?".
"At least 300,000 yuan! My mother-in-law said that these 300,000 yuan are not kept by them, but will be given to you and your young couple just for fun." Li Lin's father did not look at his son, but opened the door with his hands.
He took off the lid of the dish my wife had cooked, picked up a prune with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
Li Lin couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable after hearing this. From buying a house to decorating it, his family has spent 1.5 million. My father and mother have worked hard all their lives to earn this for themselves.
Fifty percent of the down payment for the house, including the money for renovations, and the daughter-in-law hasn’t even been seen yet, yet another three hundred thousand?
Li Lin's father said leisurely: "I think 300,000 will be 300,000. Your mother and I will replace the current house we live in with a smaller one. There will be an old couple of 40 or 50 years old living there."
That’s enough, and the difference in price is just enough to pay for the bride price.”
"How can a house be so easy to change? Who asked you to change the house?" Li Lin asked with a sad heart as he looked at his old father.
"You will settle here from now on. Why do we need such a big house in Shicheng?" Li Lin's father looked at his son and smiled, then continued to put the side dishes in his mouth: "While your mother and I are here,
I can still move, and I can help you take care of your children and so on. Your mother-in-law is right, haven’t we, the rest of our lives, lived just for you and my wife to live in peace and harmony with you?..."
As Li Lin listened to his father talking about this matter, his heart became heavier and heavier, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Before his father could finish speaking, Li Lin stood up from the stool, squeezed a smile from his face, and said to his father: "I was so anxious to come over and bring you something that I even forgot about my mother.
Last year, our daughter-in-law said she liked the short shirts handmade by my mother. This time she asked me to bring her knitted clothes and I will deliver them to her!"
"Well! Then go ahead. If you don't go to work tomorrow, come over and discuss with me where we will go after we sell the house. Should we go to the eastern suburbs or to the south? I heard people say that the southern suburbs are
The house is cheaper," Li Lin's father nodded to his son and said.
"Don't touch the house yet, I'll think of a solution!" After Li Lin finished speaking, without waiting for his father to speak, he turned around and walked towards the door. He couldn't help but raise his head as he walked, for fear that his tears would fall to the ground.
A soft slam of the door sounded behind him. Li Lin couldn't bear it anymore. The tears on his face fell down his cheeks. No matter how hard he wiped them, they couldn't be wiped away. Don't wait for the elevator anymore.
Li Lin had no choice but to crawl into the stairs, find a step, sit down with his head in his arms, and then let his tears flow down.
Ten minutes later, Li Lin wiped his face, then walked two or three floors up the stairs before taking the elevator downstairs.
Li Lin did not send the things to his boss, nor did he go home directly. Instead, he found a small restaurant downstairs where he rented a house, asked the boss for a pot of pickled fish and boiled kidneys, and then drank a bottle and a half.
Jin of sorghum wine, while eating and drinking.
"Boss! One more bottle!" Li Lin, who was sitting in the small private room, shook the wine bottle in his hand and shouted loudly at the door.
After a while, a little waitress came in with a bottle of wine, put the wine on the table, and immediately shrank towards the door. In the eyes of the little girl, this guest was drinking so much that it was shocking and unheard of. This person was
She wiped her tears while drinking, saying she was drunk, her eyes and expression were very calm. She said she had a good drinking capacity, but the little girl had never seen anyone who could turn wine into tears and flow from his stomach.
The little girl decided to stay away from strange people, but when she arrived at the door, she still carefully reminded her: "Brother, please drink slowly!" After thinking for a while, she added: "You are
Do you live near here? Can someone pick you up if you get drunk?".
The little girl looked at Li Lin and glanced at herself, then immediately swallowed the last half of the sentence and walked out of the small private room.
The little girl's words reminded Li Lin of his parents. Now he no longer had any thoughts about drinking. He went straight to pay his wine bill and bought a few packs of cigarettes from the shop, just like that.
Then he entered his rental house.
After entering the room, Li Lin just sat on his bed without turning on the light. He closed the room and lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. While smoking, he thought about his own things.
The whole night, Li Lin didn't sleep. His eyes were as big as bells. He opened the curtains and looked out the window at the gray sun hidden in the haze. He couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to read.
I took a quick look and realized it was already ten o'clock in the morning, so I dialed my girlfriend's phone number.
"What's the matter! I'm busy now!" When his girlfriend's voice came from the other end, Li Lin paused.
After pausing for a second or two, Li Lin opened his mouth and asked his girlfriend: "My dad is going to sell the house he lives in now, and the difference will be used as a gift! I want to ask you, do you want to live with my parents? That's the question.
, just answer whether you are willing or not!”.
"I said, Li Lin, don't get in trouble, why do I want to live with your parents!".
"Okay, I get it! Then I want to tell you something now!".
"Don't talk nonsense. If you want to say it, just say it. If you don't say it, just hold it back!".
"Let's not get married!".
"What did you say?" The girlfriend's voice on the other end of the phone immediately became a little weird, as if she didn't believe that these words could come out of her boyfriend's mouth.
Hearing Li Lin repeat the sentence, the other end of the phone immediately sneered twice: "You have the guts, Li Lin! You can't stop talking about it. If you call me in the future, you're a son of a bitch!".
After saying that, he hung up the phone with a bang.
Li Lin listened to the beeping sound on the phone, and suddenly felt an indescribable feeling of comfort in his whole body and mind. Then a wave of sleepiness came over his heart, and he climbed into bed. Within a minute, he started snoring loudly.