After learning the truth, Li Xiufeng could only sigh with emotion, this cousin is quite capable.
His girlfriend's name is Jiang Yan, and she works in a regional bank in Yangcheng. The current situation is that the two of them are ready to "take advantage of the situation" and take advantage of this opportunity to get married.
But getting married and falling in love are different.
There are no outrageous "sky-high-priced betrothal gifts" here. The kind of gifts that are said to be not for marriage at all, but belong to transactions, and they are also "familiar" ones.
The key issue facing He Lan and Jiang Yan now is that when they are in love, they can rent a house in Yangcheng and live together without shame.
To get married, you must first have a family.
However, as one of China's leading first-tier metropolises, Yangcheng's housing prices are almost the same as those of Jianghai. The pressure on young people to buy a house is not ordinary.
It was so big that He Lan, as a programmer who graduated from a prestigious university, earned a high salary. Before the Chinese New Year, he and his girlfriend, who worked in a bank, calculated their savings over the past few years on their fingers for a long time, and found that there was still a shortfall of 70,000 to 800,000 yuan.
He Lan's girlfriend's hometown is Jianghan.
What she meant was that she would take advantage of this Chinese New Year to go home and ask her two parents to support her, so that they could work together to collect the money for the down payment first.
Wages will never outstrip housing prices. If you don’t buy a place like Yangcheng now, you may not have the chance in the future.
He Lan didn't know how much money his parents had, but as a man, his girlfriend was willing to contribute the down payment, so he naturally agreed and said that his family would take the bulk of the money, 500,000.
However, when He Lan came back and asked, he found that his uncle and aunt, civil servants who ensured income despite droughts and floods, never lacked money from their brothers and sisters when they were in school.
But if you want to come up with money all at once, let alone 500,000, or 200,000, you have to grit your teeth.
He Lan was actually a little prepared in his heart. He knew that his old father He Youwei had been "happy to help others" over the years, and he still had some human connections. If he couldn't come up with money, he could borrow some from friends and relatives.
He and his girlfriend have a decent salary. After putting together the down payment to buy a house, even if they pay off the mortgage every month, they will still have a lot of money left over to repay their debts.
It will take them three to five years at most to pay it off? This is considered a normal operation for children of this kind of family to buy a house.
But why is Lao He so arrogant? He can take away all his savings, but you want him to borrow money from others in a humble manner? Don't even think about it.
Conflict breaks out between two generations? Lao He's pride is no longer so proud...
.......
During dinner, He Lan and his girlfriend kept picking up food for Grandma Li, making the almost eighty-year-old Grandma Li laugh out loud, while her aunt entertained Li Xiufeng and Li Ranran, and the atmosphere relaxed a lot.
After dinner? The family sat in the living room and chatted.
Lao He was sitting in the corner, his face a little tangled, as if he was jumping back and forth between whether to borrow money or not, and who to borrow money from? The look of constipation on his face became more intense.
He Shan went over and asked if he wanted to go to the bathroom, but was scolded.
On the sofa on the other side of the living room, He Lan and his girlfriend were chatting with Li Xiufeng, Grandma Li and others.
"Xiao Feng is about to graduate, right? I heard from Shanshan that you are working professionally. How are your results?"
He Lan asked with a smile.
He and Li Xiufeng are seven or eight years apart, and they rarely contact each other once a year? Plus, he is a 996 social animal, and his time is even more tight after getting a girlfriend? He is completely not among the audience for hot searches on Weibo.
"Brother, Brother Feng is now the world champion!" He Shan interjected from the side.
"World champion?" He Lan was stunned.
Li Ranran, who was watching TV, turned his head and nodded his head repeatedly to testify for Li Xiufeng?
"Hmm? Guo Guo is the champion!"
He Lan was silent for a moment, then picked up the tea cup from the coffee table.
His girlfriend Jiang Yanze, who was sitting nearby and had been quiet since entering the house, raised her head curiously and took a closer look at Li Xiufeng, her face a little confused.
Jiang Yan doesn’t play games very much. At most, when she is relaxing at work, she plays the popular Happy Fun game.
When Jiang Yan first saw Li Xiufeng when she entered the house in the afternoon, the first thing Jiang Yan saw was that her boyfriend's cousin was quite handsome, a bit like the celebrity she occasionally saw on Weibo.
Only then did she react. No wonder she felt familiar when she first walked in.
At the same time, Jiang Yan looked at Li Xiufeng with even more curiosity.
It feels like these professional players are quite far away from 996 office workers in big cities like them.
On the side, He Lan sipped his saliva and spoke again, with some encouragement in his eyes, and said with emotion:
"You kid can do it. I still remember the way you followed me to the Internet cafe in junior high school without an ID card. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, you would win the world championship."
Li Xiufeng smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay."
"That's right." He Lan changed the topic and suddenly sighed, "You won a lot of championship bonuses, right? Don't use it randomly. Save a little if you can, otherwise you will have to be like me when you get married and buy a house in the future.
Already..."
At the end of the sentence, there was some resentment in his tone.
Sitting on the sofa in the corner of the living room, He Youwei seemed to be deep in thought, his ears constantly listening to what was going on here.
After hearing what He Lan said,
His eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.
MMP!
Why is this still insinuations?
He Youwei felt that the dignity of the head of his family could not but be threatened, so he coughed dryly and was about to speak.
At this moment, Li Xiufeng, who was sitting opposite He Lan, suddenly scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "Well... I actually bought a house in Jianghai last year."
His voice fell,
The living room suddenly became quiet.
He Lan, who was about to tell Li Xiufeng about his "experienced experience" as usual, opened his mouth, but did not say anything. He subconsciously raised the water glass and took a sip of water again.
He Youwei in the corner was also startled and looked steadily at Li Xiufeng.
Aunt Li Xiaorong was outspoken and said in surprise, "Xiaofeng, have you bought a house? Why didn't you say anything about such a big thing?"
People of the older generation always have special feelings about a house. They think that once they buy it, it will be a lifelong matter. It can be said that it is no less important than the college entrance examination and marriage.
Li Xiufeng turned his head and responded with a smile, "I didn't think much about it at the time. Ran Ran went to Jianghai to play and there was no place to live. When I took her out to play, I bought it on the way."
I bought it on the way out for fun...
Just bought it...
How does it sound like going grocery shopping?
Suddenly, the living room became quiet again.
He Lan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, completely forgetting the personal inspirational story he wanted to say just now.
At this moment, I just feel that today’s Xiaofeng is wrong, Brother Feng is a little different...
He Youwei in the corner also twitched his lips. He couldn't hold it back, but he couldn't hold it back and asked a little abruptly, "Um... Jianghai's house prices shouldn't be expensive, right?"
"Well... it's not too expensive. It's probably not as expensive as the south, which is about eighty-nine thousand per square meter." Li Xiufeng thought for a while and said.
After Jiang Yan heard this, she suddenly sighed quietly in her heart.
Even if they belong to the same first-tier cities, houses in any place are divided into different locations.
If Li Xiufeng's price of 890,000 to 90,000 square meters is not expensive, then the sub-new house in the suburbs that they are looking at is even more expensive at over 60,000 to 1 square meters.
At this time, she glanced at Li Xiufeng again, who was in his twenties, young, sunny, and handsome.
Wearing a simple T-shirt, apart from his star-like appearance, he doesn't look like the rich man you imagined.
The reason why she sighed was not to blame her boyfriend, but to feel a little emotional. On the way home, she heard He Lan mention her cousin's family situation.
This person is more than ten years younger than them, and he bought a house on his own.
They have grown nearly ten years in vain, but they are just trying to make ends meet by "taking lives". There is a huge sense of disparity.
After all, He Lan worked hard in a first-tier city, unlike He Youwei who had lived in a small county all his life. He had seen a lot of the world, especially the Internet industry in which he was engaged, which was also the easiest industry to create wealth.
He had already somewhat digested Li Xiufeng's words. He picked up the water glass and took a sip of water. He suppressed the shock in his heart and joked calmly on his face:
"I didn't expect you guys to be quite rich as professionals. The world champion's bonus should be quite large, right?"
Hearing He Lan's words, He Youwei in the corner also pricked up his ears.
"The bonus isn't much, just over 5 million. It has to be divided." Li Xiufeng shook his head and continued, "Actually, we professional players don't make money from bonuses."
Li Xiufeng is telling the truth. There are so many professional teams in major competitions around the world, and there are sixteen teams that have entered the World Championship alone.
There is only one champion.
If everyone really relies on bonuses to make a living, then the teams that don’t get the bonuses will probably have no choice but to drink from the northwest wind.
However, when these words fell into the ears of He Lan and others, they only extracted two key points.
More than five million!
Don’t rely on bonuses to make a living!
He Lan silently picked up the cup, and when he wanted to take another sip of water, he found that the cup was empty.
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the living room became a little weird.
The person who broke the silence was cousin He Shan. She was holding a game console and suddenly stood up, patted Li Xiufeng on the shoulder, and said with a smile:
"I told you a long time ago that Brother Feng is now a rich man, but he is actually still in the club... uh, he is equivalent to the boss of the company. People on the Internet call him Mr. Li."
After saying that, He Shan said cheerfully, "Mr. Li, remember to take care of me when you get rich in the future."
Poof!
Aunt Li Xiaorong glared at He Shan angrily, "Go and play. Don't be the same age as your brother. Girls don't look like girls. Which husband's family will want you in the future."
After saying that, she looked at Li Xiufeng carefully, turned her head and said to Grandma Li with slightly red eyes, "Mom, Xiaofeng is making a difference, and you are finally making a difference."
When Li Xiufeng was a child, his parents divorced, and it was Grandma Li who was always pulling the strings between the two siblings.
From elementary school to university, for so many years, although the two brothers and sisters were not taught any principles of life, nor were they provided with affluent living conditions, the old man has indeed done everything he can.
Grandma Li has never read a book, has never been outside a mountain city except her daughter's home in a small county town, and has no concept of how much money there is.
When he heard Li Xiaorong's words, the wrinkles on his face relaxed with a smile.
...
After the chat in the living room in the evening, Li Xiufeng and others washed up and prepared to rest.
Li Xiufeng first took the train and then the bus today. He had been riding for almost a day, and coupled with a night of high-intensity chatting (pretend), he was really tired.
Not long after lying on the bed, I fell into a deep sleep.
In the middle of the night, Li Ranran opened the door and came in to see Li Xiufeng once, not knowing what was going on.
Seeing that the lights in Li Xiufeng's room were turned off, he walked over gently and found that Li Xiufeng was sleeping soundly.
She stood at the head of the bed and hesitated for a few seconds, then quietly exited the door.
Of course, some people sleep well, and some people don't.
In the room, He Lan hugged his little quilt - his girlfriend Jiang Yan and his sisters He Shan and Li Ranran fell asleep together.
At one o'clock in the morning, he admitted that he had insomnia.
The reason for insomnia is not that I don't have a girlfriend tonight, but that what Li Xiufeng said in the living room tonight echoes over and over in my mind, and I toss and turn on the bed, jumping left and right.
In fact, when the small talk in the evening ended, He Lan hesitated to say something, whether my cousin had something worth saying or not?
But maybe it was his pride that kept him from speaking after all.
You know, since middle school, Li Xiufeng and He Lan have been two extremes among thousands of families in this small mountain city.
He Lan's parents are both working. Her parents are loving and her family is relatively wealthy. She lacks everything in school.
Li Xiufeng is the complete opposite. How much can the grain grown by Grandma Li be sold? He relies on the school's policy for poor students to make up for his tuition every semester.
In this comparison, although He Lan didn't say it, he still had a sense of superiority in his heart when he looked at his little cousin with excellent grades and a good family.
It's normal, after all, most people's happiness is determined by comparison, and this is why He Lan likes to give life advice whenever he meets Li Xiufeng.
The master is the teacher!
But today, suddenly, the two sides seemed to have reversed themselves. This made He Lan, who was a little unbalanced in his heart, how could he open his mouth and say those words that he considered extremely "shameful".
Alas, He Lan sighed and decided to wait until after the New Year. If that doesn't work...
...
The next day, Li Xiufeng got up early.
The New Year was approaching, and according to the original plan, he and He Lan were going to buy some New Year's goods today.
After getting up, Li Xiufeng was doing some cleaning at the sink when he suddenly felt someone behind him. When he turned around, he saw He Lan staring at the dark circles under his eyes, and was immediately startled.
"Get up so early?"
"Ah...ha, you're quite early too."
"I went to bed early, you didn't sleep all night, did you?"
"..."
He Lan opened his mouth and was about to speak. At this moment, the door of his father He Youwei's room opened. When Lao He went out, he also had two dark circles under his eyes.
He Lan felt sad when he saw it and felt a little sorry.
Yesterday, he brought his girlfriend home for the first time, and he was fully looking forward to the start of a new life. Unexpectedly, he wanted to save face and refused to let go to borrow money.
Even if he promises to write the receipt, he will definitely not be able to repay the money within five years. If he talks in a hurry, it is inevitable that he will be a bit harsh.
At this time, seeing the white hair on Lao He's temples, He Lan was almost sixty years old and had never asked anyone for help in his life. He actually stayed up all night because of his affairs. He Lan could not help but feel some self-blame and regret in his heart.
Of course, the premise is that he doesn't know that the real reason why Lao He didn't sleep was Li Xiufeng...
...
After washing up and having breakfast, Li Xiufeng was about to go out with He Lan to buy new year's goods, but He Shan pulled him back halfway and said she had something to discuss with him.
In the end, He Lan could only take Jiang Yan and the two of them there.
Not long after He Lan went out and entered the mall, the phone in his pocket rang.
——My sister He Shan called.
This girl wants me to bring her something again.
He Lan thought to himself and answered the phone. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, he froze under the escalator.
On the phone, He Shan's smiling voice came.
"Brother, our family is rich."
"???"
"Our father sold you."
"ha?"
He Shan on the other end made a joke and continued with a smile, "Haha, our dad just borrowed money from Brother Feng. The written receipt will be repaid within three years. If Xiaofeng needs help within three years, you have to work hard and don't complain."