Tongdao Xu didn't look down on Bai Lanlan's family.
After all, Bai Lanlan's family came today in the name of New Year greetings. As the saying goes: Don't hit someone with a smiling face, let alone someone who is paying New Year greetings.
He even stayed with Bai Lanlan's family for dinner.
Both Bai Lanlan and Mili agreed.
As far as Comrade Xu is concerned, he can attend both casual and unintentional social gatherings.
After so many years in business, if he can't cope with such a scene, then his business can't be as big as it is now.
Just treat it as an ordinary social event in the business world.
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The eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
Shazhou County, Shigu Township.
Chen Yi rode a battery car to the town. He is 28 years old this year. He is elegant and talented. He graduated from Tianyun Normal University and has been teaching at Shigu Middle School since graduation.
At work, he is conscientious and has been recognized as an outstanding teacher early on.
At work, he gets awards from the school every year, but...
Emotionally, he has always been in trouble.
In the final analysis, there is only one reason - the family is poor.
How poor is his family?
When I was young, I didn't see any meat once or twice a year, and the clothes I wore were those of my older brothers and older sisters. It was true to the old saying: the new boss, the old second, the third is the one who makes up for it.
The eldest brother wears new clothes, and when they are worn out, he gives them to the second eldest brother. When the second eldest brother wears them out, he sews them up and supplies them to the third child.
And he, Chen Yi, is the fourth child in the family.
It is conceivable that he has been wearing shabby clothes since he was a child.
In the era of family planning, why could his family have four children? In other words, since he already had an older brother, why did he still have to have him?
Why bother?
Why bother?
He also asked his parents such questions.
The answer his mother gave him was - your father had a single child for three generations, and in your generation, your brother was the only boy. He was afraid that if the single child passed on to a single child, your family would be extinct, so he insisted on having another child, and he was born.
Your second brother, and then he unexpectedly gave birth to you. Your father still couldn’t bear to have you, so he gave birth to you too...
And the explanation his dad gave him was - I can have a baby if I want to. I can't even take care of family planning, so it's your kid's turn to take care of it?
have to!
Anyway, he asked for the reason, but no matter which reason it was, it couldn't make him happy.
According to his mother, Chen Yi's birth was an accident. Even his name, the word "Yi" in Chen Yi, was because his mother had already given birth to three children. When he was born, it was very smooth.
, before the midwife had time to find him, the mother went to the toilet and gave birth to him like she was peeing in the toilet.
It was too easy to be born.
So he was named "Chen Yi".
only……
The fine from the family planning policy left his family impoverished. Ever since he was a child, his life has never been easy.
When he was in elementary school, if his grandfather hadn't cared about him and secretly paid his tuition fees, he wouldn't have been able to study.
When he was in junior high school, the school was more than ten kilometers away from home and everyone else rode bicycles. He could only walk every day and set off before dawn every day. When he got home from school every day, when there was a moon, the moon was his street light. There was no moon.
When walking, I would walk with one foot deep and one foot shallow. It is common to have sprained feet.
It’s true that you go out when the rooster crows and go home when the ghost crows.
Wait until high school...
If he hadn't done extremely well in the high school entrance examination, exceeding the admission score of the County No. 1 Middle School, he deliberately went to the County No. 2 Middle School and received a large scholarship and three years of free tuition from the County No. 2 Middle School. His family would not be able to support him at all.
Continue to high school.
University……
While others were hanging out in Internet cafes, hanging out with beautiful women, and having sex, he was either in the library or working outside to earn money, doing a work-study program.
During the four years of college, he earned his own tuition and living expenses.
During college, driven by youthful hormones, he also had a crush on a girl.
but……
The way he pursued her for three years was to write love letters.
It's not that he doesn't have the courage to confess his love in person, or that he thinks writing a love letter is romantic enough. It's just because writing a love letter is the cheapest way to pursue someone, and it seems quite romantic by the way.
There is no need to send flowers, treat her to dinner, give her gifts or anything like that. Just write something on a piece of scratch paper and don't even need to buy an envelope. Fold it into a heart shape and give it to her. No one will say that he is stingy.
In fact, he just has no money to spend on love.
I don’t have that much time to spend on the first month and the next.
In his spare time, he has to go out and make money.
He had a good idea at the time, letting her know my thoughts and the lasting feelings I have for her, so that she would not be taken advantage of by others.
When he graduates from college, gets a job, and gets a salary, he will compensate her well.
However, there are no eggs!
After graduating from college and before leaving school, when he dated her for the last time, she said: "We are not suitable, so we should stop contacting each other in the future."
"What's inappropriate?"
He was very sad at the time, but he had to understand that he had to die, not to mention that if he wanted to try harder, she might change her mind!
And she said: "Because we don't know each other well enough! Look, we have been in college for four years, starting from our sophomore year. How many times have you dated me? In three years, you have only written dozens of love letters to me, but...
Can that thing really help me understand you? Besides, you haven’t had much contact with me. Do you know what kind of person I am in private? We don’t know each other well enough. Now that we have graduated, we will go our separate ways.
, is it necessary to continue?”
Just like that, his first love fed the dog.
Later, after working at Shigu Middle School, he had seven or eight relationships.
It has not been difficult for him to find a romantic partner in the past few years.
After all, he is not bad looking, has a good education, and has a decent job.
but……
In the previous relationships, because the woman knew how terrible his family's poverty was, they reluctantly had to cut him off.
After several relationships, he worked a long time, so he had some savings and was no longer so poor. Each relationship took a little longer.
but……
Still can't get to the point of marriage.
One of the partners lent all the money to his older brother because he was getting married. When his girlfriend found out, she had a big quarrel with him and said "bye".
The other person we talked about was relatively close to now.
Because of the skyrocketing house prices, his eldest brother could only barely pay a down payment with the little money he paid back to him. As for the expenses for decoration, betrothal gifts, weddings, etc., there was no money at all. When his girlfriend learned the truth... she shed tears.
I cried and broke up with him.
Afterwards, he received a breakup text message.
It feels so painful.
And today, at this moment, he is going to his current girlfriend's house to celebrate the New Year. She asked him to come to their house to pay New Year's greetings this year, and deliberately asked him to delay a few days, so as not to come on the first to fifth day of the new year.
I went to her house for a few days to avoid the embarrassment of running into relatives who came to her house to pay New Year greetings.
This girlfriend was introduced by his leader at Shigu Middle School. She has been working in Shanghai all year round, but when they went on a blind date a few years ago, she took a liking to him at first sight because of his good looks.
Chen Yi, who had already had several relationships, could tell from her eyes that she really liked him.
But he still felt a little unsure about today's visit to pay New Year's greetings.
Because house prices have risen again recently, he has worked hard to save more than a year's salary, but he can't keep up with the increase in house prices. He faces the same difficulties as in his previous relationship.
——If he gets married, he can only pay the down payment for a house, decoration, betrothal gifts, and wedding money at most, but he still has no money.