Rejecting his aunt's suggestion to stay after dinner before going back, Li Mu drove home alone after his cousin came back from the hospital.
For this blind date.
The results are already obvious.
Li Mu couldn't say he was disappointed or touched, but rather regretted the two hours he wasted.
With so much time, it’s great to spend time with your son at home or read a book!
The cold wind is still howling.
The big banyan trees on both sides of the road sway in the wind.
The weather, which was still sunny in the morning, is now a bit gloomy. Li Mu estimates that it will probably snow again tonight.
Today is the 27th day of the lunar calendar, and in three days it will be New Year’s Eve.
When New Year's Eve passes, it means that 2020 will be completely turned over, and everyone will enter the new year of 2021.
Count down the gains and losses this year.
Li Mu found that except for having more money in the bank and being one year older, the other aspects were the same as last year.
But this is pretty good.
The greatest happiness in life is that time can pass quietly without encountering any unforgettable events.
The car passed through the cement road to the west of my hometown, along the fish pond made of woven bamboo strips, and stopped at the door of the house. There was a awning boat in the fish pond. This boat was used by Grandpa Li Mu to ferry his family when he was young.
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Later, a bridge was built across the river, and Grandpa Li Mu could only pull the awning boat back and throw it into the fish pond at the door.
However, Grandpa Li Mu is a nostalgic person. Once he discovered that the hull was aging, he immediately repaired it, so that the awning boat was successfully inherited by Li Mu's father.
In recent years, fish farming and lotus root harvesting have all relied on it.
According to normal circumstances, Li Mu will most likely inherit this awning boat after retiring at the age of sixty-five, and continue his grandfather and father's old-age fish and shrimp farming work with it.
However, judging from the current national rural urbanization policy.
Li Mu estimated that his hometown, which had escaped two relocations, would definitely not be able to persist until he retired and live like his father. On summer nights, he would light a kerosene lamp on a awning boat and the oil lamp would reflect the lake water, lying on the boat with his grandson.
Watch the interesting scenery of fish and shrimp in the water.
I saw a gray Jetta at the door.
Li Mu knew that his sister Li Hong was back.
"Mom said you went on a blind date, how was it?"
Li Hong, wearing a light green short down jacket, asked with concern while munching melon seeds.
"What else can I do? Divorced and raising two sons"
Li Mu spread his palms, turned to Xu Mei, who came out with Li Hong, and said, "Mom, next time my aunt will help me introduce a partner, you just pushed me, it's so tiring to run back and forth."
"I'll call her now"
After hearing what her son said, Xu Mei also criticized her sister.
"Don't"
Li Mu stopped his mother and said, "My aunt is also kind-hearted."
"Uncle"
Two little boys ran out of the living room, followed by Li Mu's son Li Ran.
These two little boys are Li Mu's nephews. They don't look like their father, but they look a lot like their uncle Li Mu.
"Good"
Li Mu rubbed the heads of the two little guys, and then each took out a red envelope.
Just like my aunt’s grandchildren, they all have a thousand dollars.
In the past, Li Hong specially wrapped a red envelope of two thousand for Li Ran because her brother gave her two sons a red envelope of one thousand each. After all, her brother only had one son. As a sister, there was no reason for her to let her brother suffer, but Li Mu said
The sentence "Take it first, wait for me to get married one day and have two more, and earn back the capital and profits together"
Except for the lucky money.
Deep in Li Hong's heart, she has always been grateful to her younger brother.
A few years ago.
The couple was hesitant to buy a house mainly because they didn't have much savings.
There are only a few hundred thousand.
Including the 100,000 from my father-in-law and mother-in-law, the total is more than 300,000.
After thinking about it, just when the couple was about to give up on buying a house, her brother called her and told her to get the shortfall from him instead of a loan. After all, if she borrowed the money from her brother, she could pay it back when she had more money, and it would cost the bank hundreds of thousands.
For loans, as soon as the monthly repayment date comes, the money from the bank must be repaid.
In the end, Li Hong borrowed 300,000 from his younger brother.
I borrowed hundreds of thousands more from relatives and bought a house of more than 110 square meters.
Some time after they bought the house, the house price changed day by day. The house price of about 6,710 square meters rose to about 10,000 within a year. Later, the neighborhood was divided into an affiliated primary school and Ningyang affiliated junior high school. p>
In a short period of time.
House prices soared to unbelievable heights.
Twenty-three thousand.
When she saw the latest price from an agent next to her community a few days ago, Li Hong was stunned, and then she became frightened for a while.
If she had not bought a house at that time, with the current housing prices in Ningyang City, the couple would not be able to afford it in their lifetime, let alone owning a house in the school district of an elementary school and a junior high school.
In the future, when the two sons grow up, they can sell this house and buy a house for each of the two brothers to get married. And all this was brought to her by her brother. Otherwise, with the current housing prices and the cost of marrying a wife,
, even if the couple works year-round and saves money every day, it is not enough for their two sons to marry and have children.
Putting aside the issue of the house, Li Hong was also kind to her younger brother in the past. Every time she and her husband went shopping for clothes, she would buy two pieces for her younger brother and Ranran and send them back.
In recent years, the clothes and shoes of Li Mu and his son have been basically made by Li Hong.
Xu Mei said she agreed, but turned around and called her sister.
On the phone, she kept complaining that the woman she introduced to Li Mu was unreliable.
Forget about divorce.
What’s the point of raising two sons!?
Could it be that Li Ran was fine with asking Li Mu to raise three sons? After all, he was his own grandson, but it made no sense to raise a son for someone else.
Finally, Xu Mei's anger subsided when she heard Xu Lan explain that "the child's parents are paying child support, and the woman's family has a store and two or three houses."
But I feel particularly uncomfortable.
Because Li Mu's aunt said that she just called and inquired about the woman's family, and her parents were very satisfied with Li Mu, but the woman seemed to dislike that Li Mu's salary was a bit low.
"My brother's salary is low?"
After hearing Xu Mei repeat Xu Lan's words unchanged, Li Hong was startled, with a strange expression. Then he looked at Li Mu and asked, "How much did you say?"
"Her mother asked if she had 20,000, and I said it was about the same."
Li Mu said helplessly.
"Haha"
Li Hong chuckled and said, "This woman has short eyelids and cannot recognize rich people."
In fact, a monthly salary of 20,000 is not low, but people have higher requirements.
The family got together and had a sumptuous dinner.
Sister Li Mu didn't go back that night. She works out of town almost 360 days a year. She doesn't have much time to come back, and the chance to meet her brother is even less.
After watching cartoons with his three children for a while, Li Mu took his son Li Ran back to his room.
Lying in bed, the mobile phone placed on the bedside suddenly rang, and Li Mu subconsciously clicked the answer button.
"Li Mu, I want to meet Ran Ran"
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the phone.
Li Mu hung up the phone directly, and then added the number ending in 136 to the blacklist.
He knows.
The moment that woman appeared, it meant that the peaceful life of him and his son was finally disrupted.
In the dead of night, the third snowfall in Ningyang City came quietly.
First it was a little bit, and then it was getting bigger and bigger.
