1197: Sorting out the truth from the perspective of a bystander
Labor Day is here.
Chen Ru performed well last year and received a generous year-end bonus at the end of the year. In addition to the salary the couple had saved, in May of this year, Chen Ru had savings again. The two houses she bought with mortgages last year were finally repaid.
Renovation is about to begin.
In the same community, when Chen Li accompanied Chen Ru and Wen Dongrong to look at houses, Chen Ru bought two small apartments of 105 square meters, while Chen Li bought a large apartment of 156 square meters, which is in the same building as Wen Ying's house.
Different floors of the building.
In the community where Lin Lin's family is neighbors, Chen Li didn't want to live in it ever since Pan Li went to make trouble. After Yu Wenhao was caught pretending to be poor, Chen Li started to decorate a new house. Now that the decoration of the new house is completed, she happened to hear Ying Ying
It was another holiday, and Chen Li invited Wen Ying and her family to visit their new house.
Wen Ying's family is also about to decorate their house, so it can be used as a reference. The decoration industry is in deep water, and Chen Li must remind Wen Ying's family of the mistakes she has made.
Chen Li and Deng Shangwei originally had millions in savings, and Qin Xianming allocated more quota to Deng Shangwei. Deng Shangwei's career was on the high road, and he was not short of money for decoration. Wen Ying was wondering if she would see someone on the way.
A splendid new house with a strong sense of local luxury.
The minimalist style that became popular more than ten years later has few audiences now, and the color scheme of black, white and gray is not popular either. Nowadays, wealthy bosses choose mahogany furniture for their furniture and beige floor tiles. What they want is not simplicity, but simplicity.
heroic.
This is pretty good.
Some people also like to decorate their home like a KTV. As soon as they come in and smell the cherry blossoms, they will subconsciously look for the microphone and want people to serve the fruit plate!
The Chinese style is actually pretty good-looking, but it must be consistent throughout the house.
There is mahogany furniture in the living room, but the bed is a European-style bed with soft upholstery, which looks quite strange.
Wen Ying was thinking wildly before she even walked in. When she walked in, she saw that the sofa in the living room was not made of mahogany, and she was half relieved.
Hey, he's not a wealthy person, he looks quite warm.
"What's your expression? Are you relieved?"
Chen Li laughed at her, and Wen Ying was embarrassed and did not dare to say that she underestimated Chen Li's aesthetic ability.
Chen Li's house is in European style. This decoration style is definitely not trendy in Wen Ying's eyes, but the hostess's intentions can be seen everywhere. There are many green plants in the new house to absorb odors, and there is a vase on the coffee table with a vase inside.
The flowers Chen Li bought were so delicate and beautiful.
A happy family brings joy to life.
Wen Ying's eyes felt a little hot.
In my previous life, my aunt did not lack a house. After the divorce, my uncle gave all the family savings to my aunt. My aunt did not know how to invest in other investments and bought all the money into a house. One of the two cousins, Deng Jie and Deng Hao, was a playboy and the other was not doing a serious job.
, it is true that one must have a good family background to be able to toss around with the two brothers.
But what's the use of having so many houses? No matter what time Wen Ying comes to visit, Chen Li's family is cold and cold. They don't even bother to raise a pot of flowers. The house doesn't feel like a home, and no matter how much money they have, it's meaningless.
Now Chen Li is talking about the layout of her home with great interest, which is completely different from her previous life:
"There are four rooms, and there is just one extra room that can be used as a study. Deng Jie and Deng Hao don't need a nanny to take care of them all day. I don't plan to hire a live-in nanny anymore, so I will hire an aunt who can cook and clean during the day.
When I go home from work at night, our family of four lives in this house."
Chen Li took Chen Ru and Wen Ying to visit every room.
Chen Li’s new home has a dedicated study room!
In fact, her previous home also had four rooms, but Chen Li never thought of arranging a study room.
After all, she and her husband Deng Shangwei are not very educated people. They only pretend to have a study room and do not use it frequently.
Things are different now. In the past six months, both Chen Li and Deng Shangwei have been reading. It is good to have a study room in the new house. There is a computer in it, where you can check information online and work from home.
It turns out that a computer can not only play Minesweeper and Solitaire games, but also connects to the whole world with a single network cable. Although the consultation content on the Internet in 2005 was far less rich than it would be a dozen years later, Chen Li didn't know the future, and now she felt overwhelmed.
"I also signed up for a computer training class."
Speaking of this, Chen Li was a little embarrassed.
Neither Chen Ru nor Wen Ying laughed at her, and Chen Li immediately became calm.
The things taught in the computer training class are not complicated. They just teach Chen Li how to use office software. It sounds very simple, but Chen Li didn't know how to do such a simple thing before!
Now that I think about it, I really wasted a lot of time.
"Sister, you used to say that I delayed my college entrance examination by pretending to be friends. I actually don't think so. After all, Shang Wei and I have a good relationship. We both made a living on our own without going to college... Now I feel a little regretful, even if I don't go to college.
You shouldn’t give up studying in college.”
Chen Li's tone was sincere, and Chen Ru nodded gently: "Just know that I am doing it for your own good!"
This is what I finally understood after living to the age of 31.
Chen Ru glanced at Wen Ying aside from the corner of her eye: There's something else she doesn't understand here!
Wen Ying only thought that Chen Ru's eyes were not about her.
Chen Li had long discovered the strangeness between mother and daughter.
What's going on? Weren't we in a good relationship some time ago?
Chen Lichong winked at Wen Ying.
——Why did you make your mother angry?
Not moving at all when smelling the cherry blossoms.
Unless Manager Chen can figure it out on his own, it will be useless for anyone to persuade him about this matter.
The three of them were visiting the room, and Wen Dongrong and Deng Shangwei were chatting awkwardly in the living room.
Deng Shangwei gave Wen Dongrong a cigarette. Wen Dongrong took it but didn't light it. Deng Shangwei laughed: "Brother-in-law, have you really quit smoking?"
It’s impossible not to quit.
All the cigarette money was handed over.
The 500 yuan private housing subsidy was returned.
Wen Dongrong had no one to talk about his depression. It was rare to see Deng Shangwei pleasing to his eye today, so he asked Deng Shangwei how much he had spent on renovating his house.
Deng Shangwei was a little uneasy, obviously knowing Wen Dongrong's temper.
After much deliberation, he told Wen Dongrong the truth. Wen Dongrong frowned when he heard it:
“Is it so expensive to decorate a house now?”
In 1999, Wen Dongrong's unit allocated rooms, and the house he was assigned had been simply decorated. Later, he only made some modifications and added furniture and appliances to move in. Wen Dongrong remembers that he didn't spend much money at that time.
It’s only been a few years, but the decoration has actually cost so much!
Deng Shangwei did not dare to say that he wanted to lend money to his brother-in-law, so he tried his best to hint to his brother-in-law: "The business of Wen Ying's store is not bad."
We are all a family, we live in a house together, and it doesn’t matter who spends the money to decorate it.
Wen Dongrong looked at the room and said, "Don't mention this anymore. Wen Ying can't spend money on decoration. She's not even an adult yet!"
If Wen Ying paid for the renovation, Chen Ru would definitely be even more unhappy.
Mother and daughter have had a cold war and have not yet reconciled. Deng Shangwei's ideas will make the relationship between mother and daughter even more tense.
So Deng Shangwei also knew that Wen Ying and Chen Ru were having a conflict - thinking of Chen Ru's temper, Deng Shangwei felt from the bottom of his heart that Wen Ying was a "warrior" who was not afraid of death!
But it’s not okay to stay frozen.
Warriors easily become martyrs.
If the family atmosphere is not good, the whole family will be depressed, and no one can be happy alone.
After seeing Wen Ying's family of three away, Deng Shangwei said to his wife Chen Li, "Should we find a way?"
Chen Li laughed at him, "When you meet my sister, you always meet the cat like a mouse, and now you dare to tease the cat's whiskers!"
What to tease a cat’s whiskers?
Can people with the surname Chen be able to beautify it without conscience?
That's not a cat, that's obviously the Chen family's tigress!
But there was no other way. Who made him feel sorry for Wen Ying? He had no choice but to bite the bullet.
