There were only two sets of her changes of underwear in the suitcase, and the rest were all gifts she bought for her family with her wages from her winter vacation job.
"Mom, look at this down jacket. It's bright red! Is it bright? As soon as I saw it, I thought it suited you very well. It cost me hundreds of dollars!"
A defective down jacket taken out of Chen Siyu’s warehouse.
The purchase price is 35, and there is no charge for defective products.
"Mom, look at this sweater. I think it matches this down jacket very well. I just made a set for you. Do you like it? This one costs one or two hundred yuan!"
The corners are slightly stained, the purchase price is 15, and there is no charge for defective products.
"Mom, look at these socks..."
"Mom, look at these gloves..."
Mom, mom, oh mom, Bai Xiujuan felt upset.
…
——How can I put it this way, this dress is really pretty. After all, although Ding Wei picked a defective model, the ones sold by Chen Siyu were not ugly.
Moreover, the flaws are not very noticeable. The wiring of the same color is not very neat, only in the corners. After all, I spent several thousand dollars on my winter vacation work. It must not be too obvious, otherwise the price will not be shown.
Therefore, defects cannot be seen unless you look carefully.
On the contrary, it was the one Ding Wei wore herself, and the flaws were more obvious.
But when she thinks that these clothes cost one or two thousand yuan, why doesn't Bai Xiujuan feel heartbroken?
"How do you spend money randomly?"
"School has started and it's great to pay tuition! Paying thousands of dollars at a time puts a lot of pressure on the family."
Ding Wei wondered:
"Mom, what are you talking about? Aren't our tuition fees paid once a year?"
Bai Xiujuan:......
She was also angry: "Then why don't you spend money to earn more, and I will save it for you. Wouldn't it be easier next year?"
"You kid, you only care about your own enjoyment every day, and don't consider the hard work of your parents. When foreign children turn 18, their parents don't care about them. They have to work to earn money for college tuition. We still care about you.
Just drink..."
Ding Wei felt the look of the heroine in the TV series and shouted in surprise:
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"Don't you want me to provide for you in your old age? Foreign children don't care when they reach 18 years old, because they don't need to support the elderly!"
She sighed and said quite painfully at this moment: "If you think so, Mom, then I will earn the tuition myself!"
Bai Xiujuan:!!!
Then, how can it be calculated like this!
Isn’t the important thing about raising a child to provide for old age? She failed to give birth to a son for Lao Ding’s family, so this daughter has to shoulder this responsibility!
There is a saying that this daughter is really not considerate. Ding Wei also added: "Mom, the reason why foreign students have to work to earn tuition is because their tuition is expensive. It costs tens of thousands of dollars a year, which is equivalent to
It costs hundreds of thousands to make our money, and my tuition fee for school is only 7,000..."
Bai Xiujuan:......
Sure enough, girls shouldn’t read too many books, just look at this truth!
Ding Haiyang coughed and walked over slowly at this moment, giving instructions:
"Weiwei, where did you learn these bad habits and you still dare to talk back? Your mother said it was all for your own good. She said you are right. You only earn a little money and you dare to be so lavish."
Ding Wei:……
She turned her eyes and cleverly missed the topic at this moment:
"Dad, I spend money for your own good!"
"My tuition only cost a few dollars, but you are so fussy, and my mother lost 6,000 playing cards! Dad, did you buy a new fishing rod?"
Ding Haiyang:……
Seeing Dang's father's face twitching, as if he was about to explode with emotion, Ding Wei quickly said: "Dad, look!"
He took out another set of clothes from the suitcase and said, "Look at this set of warm clothes. Is it soft? Is it warm? I specially picked this for you. It cost me one or two hundred!"
"Dad, are you looking at whether these wool socks are warm? They must be very comfortable to wear..."
Ding Haiyang:……
In terms of the skill of killing and fighting, he really can't compare to Ding Wei now.
…
After taking out most of the clothes in the suitcase, Ding Wei clapped her hands happily:
"Dad, Mom, my salary is all here, are you touched?"
Both husband and wife looked solemn and wanted to say something, but for a while they ran out of words.
Bai Xiujuan's lips moved, but she still refrained from speaking. She took the down jacket and put it on her body and looked at it:
"The quality of these clothes is not very good. Look at the thread..."
She glanced at Ding Wei, but stopped talking.
After all, people with life experience can see the problem at a glance.
Ding Wei sighed:
"I can't help it, Mom, you don't know how high the consumption level is in the imperial capital. The original price of these clothes was several hundred. It was because of this problem that I made it cheaper. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to afford so much with my little money."
ah!"
She brought up the all-purpose topic again:
"Mom, look, I told you that 600 a month is not enough. It is really not enough. Look how expensive these clothes are!"
As soon as this topic was mentioned, Bai Xiujuan and Ding Haiyang, who were about to say something, suddenly stopped. They held their own clothes in tacit agreement and said casually: "I'll try it..."
He turned around and hurriedly left the room.
Ding Wei looked at the remaining things and closed the suitcase again, feeling equally happy.
Because just now, she discovered her magic weapon to win at home——
money.
As long as the topic is brought up here, her parents can spend a lot of time.
Oops, what an unexpected surprise!
…
With this discovery, Ding Wei became more and more unscrupulous in her own home.
When she went to the kitchen to help, she saw her mother frying meatballs and sighed:
"Oh...Mom, you don't know how much I missed your cooking at school. The food in the cafeteria is so expensive. I can't even afford meat with my living expenses..."
While wandering around the living room, watching the TV series her father watched, Ding Wei also sighed:
"Dad, I really envy my life at home. I shouldn't have gone so far to go to school. The accommodation fee was so expensive, and I had to pay the Internet fee. Otherwise, I would have bought a computer for nothing, which costs dozens a month...
"
When doing laundry, I have to say one more thing:
"Well, the weather in Jiangzhou is good. The winter in the imperial capital is dry and cold. The wind is like a knife. It blows on your face and hands so much that you can't see anyone. You have to buy a face cream. A bottle costs tens or even hundreds. Our dormitory still has it.
Some people use thousands of them..."
Ding Haiyang:……
Bai Xiujuan:......
…
"okay."
In the end, it was Ding Haiyang who showed his authority as a patriarch:
"I've been listening to you since I came back, and you've been nagging on and on. Why do girls talk so much? It's embarrassing to talk about it."
Ding Wei was silent for a moment.
After a moment, she continued:
"Dad, you really can't blame me for this. The main reason is that life in the imperial capital is too difficult. I'm just saying this because of my feelings!"
Seeing Ding Haiyang frowning and about to speak again, she quickly said: "Dad, in the episode you are watching, so-and-so is going to die, so-and-so is going to be arrested..."
Ding Haiyang:……
What is the use of raising this daughter!
…
After suffering and tormenting each other, the night of New Year's Eve finally arrived.
Although there were only three people, the New Year's Eve dinner was still very sumptuous. But for some reason, the family that used to feel harmonious now sat at the table and became cautious when talking to each other.
As soon as Ding Wei opened her mouth, Bai Xiujuan quickly showed her motherly attitude and gave her a dish without saying a word:
"Weiwei, let's eat first. We'll be watching the Spring Festival Gala later, so we won't chat anymore."
Ding Wei:……
She thought about it, her previous speech was not that lethal, right?
If she hadn't received professional training, she would have laughed by now.
When the meal was finally finished, the neighbors' firecrackers went off.
Yunzhong City is a small city in Jiangzhou. Nowadays, the ban on gunfire cannot even reach this level. Therefore, it is normal for every household to set off firecrackers and fireworks.
Ding Haiyang also made a 100,000-ring cannon this year. The louder the cannon must be during the New Year, the more prosperous it will be in the coming year. When it calms down, the Spring Festival Gala will start soon.
I have to say that today’s Spring Festival Gala is still very interesting.
Ding Wei rarely did anything. At this moment, An An was watching the Spring Festival Gala with her parents, making her laugh out loud at the jokes in it that she had seen more than once.
To be honest, I can't blame everyone for the bad reviews in later generations. From her current perspective, the 2006 Spring Festival Gala was still full of sincerity and a lot of fun.
But if you look at it more than ten years later, the special effects have been completed, but all the stuff has been produced. If you sit down for a few hours, you can count them all with one finger...
This really can't be regarded as the improvement of people's aesthetics, but because the people who create the program are not sincere at all, or the official restrictions are full.
Thinking of this, Ding Wei couldn't help but sigh again:
Therefore, you have to work hard while you are young, or your writing career may only last for so many years.
In the later stage, when everyone is dancing in shackles, what's the point?
…
While she was thinking about her future, Bai Xiujuan looked at her carefully.
I have to say, and this is not her mother's boast, this girl Weiwei seems to have grown up since she went to college, and she has become much more beautiful.
When she thought that this girl came out of her belly, Bai Xiujuan felt very proud.
The only drawback is that the school is too far away.
If I hadn't thought that Mingda sounded respectable, I wouldn't have allowed my child to go this far anyway.
Look, when the child runs away, his heart becomes wild. When he comes back, he and the others will be angry.
Bai Xiujuan thought for a while and asked:
"Weiwei, you didn't do anything you shouldn't have done in school, right?"
She warned:
"The task of students is to study. Let me tell you, you are not allowed to fall in love in school and talk nonsense about boys from all over the world. You are the only girl in our family, and my mother does not want you to marry far away."
Ding Wei turned around and looked at her quietly.
That gaze was so focused that Bai Xiujuan's expression gradually showed some dissatisfaction and irritability:
"I'm asking you a question. What do you want me to do?"
Ding Wei pursed her lips and smiled:
"Don't worry, Mom, I'm concentrating on my studies now."
…
I turned around and sighed in my heart.
Bai Xiujuan is really a very determined person. From the beginning to the end of her previous life, her view was very clear, and Ding Wei was not allowed to make friends from other places.
In fact, Ding Wei didn't think about this at first. She only thought that it was normal for a mother to be reluctant to let her daughter go when she only had one child in the family. But when she thought about the various people introduced to her by her family after she graduated from college...
how to say?
She is beautiful, has a good temperament, and is willing to endure hardships. During school and work, no one showed her feelings to her.
Especially after working in Guanshan Group, although romance is not allowed within the group, there are so many branches and sub-groups, and there are many couples in the company who are not in the same department.
But her parents would not agree to it if there was any hint of it.
Ding Wei just wanted to make money at that time, so she didn't care too much, but later she discovered that as long as she was in the imperial capital, no one could do it.
In other words, anyone is fine as long as they are from Yunzhong City.
She graduated from the University of Ming Dynasty and had a stable job, five insurances, one housing fund, and extra money. However, as soon as she returned to her hometown, Bai Xiujuan introduced her to all of them, from better public institutions to worse homeless people.
Aunt Li, a neighbor who loves to be a matchmaker, did not dare to try this in the first few years.
After all, they, as matchmakers, have a set of matching standards.
But her mother Bai Xiujuan was willing.
The back and forth made everyone murmur in their hearts: Weiwei's conditions are so good, but the conditions for finding a partner are so poor. Could it be that something happened in the imperial capital?
Otherwise, if it wasn't for a guilty conscience, why would the conditions be so low?
With this concept in mind, you can imagine what kind of people you will find as blind dates later on.
It was precisely these circumstances that gradually erased all the emotions Ding Wei had for her family.
…
And Bai Xiujuan often has an old saying: "You are so old, it would be fine if people didn't pick you, but you still pick others..."
But the problem is that Ding Wei has been going on blind dates since she graduated from college. The conditions of the people she introduces vary from good to bad. It is not because they are older that she introduces them to such poor people.
At that time, I was stupid, obsessed with authority, and felt only pain.
But after experiencing life and death, Ding Wei now understands all this.
…
Her smile was quite meaningful, and for a moment Bai Xiujuan couldn't understand her daughter.
Ding Wei then promised: "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely study hard."
Bai Xiujuan hummed:
"You will come back when you graduate. Mom's company is recruiting workers. Children of employees will definitely be able to get in. I will arrange for you to get in when the time comes. Don't mess around in the imperial capital."
When Ding Wei heard these familiar words, there was an inexplicable meaning in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, and she responded in a long voice:
"Okay, Mom, I will listen to you."
Bai Xiujuan was satisfied.
…
In fact, the Chinese New Year is not that difficult for Ding Wei.
Her grandparents and grandparents both passed away one after another when she was in high school, so there was basically nothing going on during the first and second days of the new year.
In the first year of junior high school, the children in the community came to knock on the door early in the morning to pay New Year greetings. Ding Wei was too lazy to sleep well.
But for her now, this kind of peace and quiet is worse than visiting relatives or visiting relatives.
Staying at home, doing this and that, it was difficult for her to calm down and think about anything.
But after the third grade of junior high school, the big family of Lao Ding’s family will get together first.
…
"What should we prepare when we go to eldest sister's house tomorrow?"
Bai Xiujuan discussed with Ding Haiyang.
In fact, they were not so cautious before.
After all, Ding Haiyang is the male and younger brother of the family. Her aunt has always cared about her younger brother and is not very picky.
But since Ding Wei went to college, something seemed not right. Bai Xiujuan had been picked on several times, so much so that she even had to think twice about the New Year's etiquette.
The aunt only picks Bai Xiujuan's choice. She still feels sorry for her brother. She has ten thousand reasons to feel sorry for her brother and make excuses for him. Therefore, although Ding Haiyang has some feelings, they are not that deep. At this moment, his brows are furrowed.
Wrinkled, quite impatient:
"I give you gifts every year. You don't understand this. What do you do at home every day?"
Bai Xiujuan frowned, but she couldn't say anything at the moment. After all, she always listened to her husband at home.
…
Fortunately, Ding Wei, the all-powerful girl, came to the rescue in time for her beloved mother:
"Mom, don't worry, just send it as usual. I've prepared a set of information for brother Haitao. I'm sure Auntie will be happy."
Hearing this, Bai Xiujuan's scalp tightened, as if she felt the fear of being dominated by her aunt again. She turned to look at her daughter and hurriedly warned:
"I'm telling you, on New Year's Day, don't cry about poverty at your aunt's house. Say it's shameful to go out!"
"As parents, we only have so little ability. The money we give you is not enough to eat or clothe you? You still have to talk about it. Don't you know what it means to not expose a family scandal? This is our family's business.
Son!"
The more he spoke, the angrier he became, and his voice became louder.
Not only that, she also thought about the money she was forced to give away.
"You, a girl, have such a habit of spending money lavishly. If I don't educate you, you won't take it seriously!"
As if the anger she had just been scolded by her husband had a direction to vent, Bai Xiujuan said so much, but the shameless Ding Wei did not change her expression and just acted innocently at this moment:
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"The little money you gave me is not enough for food and clothing!"
Her expression was innocent, as if "you are so heartless, you are so unreasonable":
"And aren't my dad and my aunt brother and sister? Aren't we a big family? Every time we sit down to drink and eat together, what do we say about family harmony and everything like that?"
"Do I have to go out of my way to hide this from my aunt? Mom, my aunt is so kind to me!"
Speaking of this, Ding Wei suddenly widened her eyes and said the lotus words innocently:
"Mom, are you still thinking about my aunt and the others and don't like my aunt?"
Bai Xiujuan fell down in anger!
Fortunately, Ding Haiyang didn't hear this at this moment, otherwise Bai Xiujuan would have to complain because of his pride in his old Ding family.
This damn girl!
"It's a great New Year's Day, a great New Year's Eve..."
She circled around twice, feeling somewhat at a loss for words at the moment, but she didn't dare to yell loudly, for fear that Ding Wei would say something outrageous again.
He endured it again and again, but in the end he couldn't hold it in any longer. He lowered his voice and scolded:
"Anyway, why are girls so talkative? Stop talking! It's none of your business, just stay away."
Ding Wei said slowly:
"oh."
Somehow, hearing such a response, Bai Xiujuan felt even more aggrieved.
