mousepad-d2 Chapter 193 Household Affairs
Chapter 193 Household Affairs
Chapter 193 Household Affairs
In addition to the two big relatives on my father's side—uncle and aunt—there is another relative with whom I often come and go.It's also the closest.
That is the son of Wu Zhenting's mother's younger brother.That is, Wu Zhenting's "cousin".
Wu Xia called each other "cousin".
Wu Xia's cousin's surname was Cheng, and his given name was "Cheng Yesen".My cousin's name is "Ding Shengping".
Cousin belongs to the kind of person who is honest but has a stiff expression (strangers who are not familiar with him will think that he has a gloomy face and seems to be a "cruel" character).
This kind of man is of course very poor in "female popularity".
Including my cousin Ding Shengping, I didn't like my cousin at first.
Ding Shengping's father died young, and her mother was an authentic peasant woman without much insight.
Her eldest brother is nearly 20 years older than Ding Shengping, and he can truly be called "eldest brother like father".
The eldest brother is running a small business - selling homemade local snack "beef balls".
Ding Shengping has been selling "beef balls" with his elder brother since he was a child, and has also saved a little money.
Cheng Yesen is the eldest brother's friend.The eldest brother felt that Cheng Yesen was honest and reliable, so he planned to introduce the younger sister to him as his wife.
Cheng Yesen, because of his bad looks and words, has failed to date more times than he can count on both hands.They have delayed getting married until they are in their 30s.
This was rare in those days, especially in rural areas.
Hearing his elder brother introduce his younger sister Ding Shengping as his wife, of course he couldn't wish for it.
When Ding Shengping met Cheng Yesen, he was very repulsive.
To use what she said later to Wu Xia, that is, when the elder brother "forced" him to talk to Cheng Yesen, she cried for a whole day and night.Don't think about food and tea.
Later, the eldest brother told her a lot of truth.The main thing is to ensure that Cheng Yesen is a good person and has a good temper.The disadvantage is that the appearance is a little "fierce", and the education level is a little lower.
But Cheng Yesen still has the biggest advantage.
That was Cheng Yesen's father, who used to be the principal of a key junior high school at that time.Originally, Cheng Yesen would receive a good education under the teaching of his father, and he would achieve a lot when he grew up.
It's a pity that during that special period, his father was knocked down.
Not only is the throne of the "principal" not guaranteed, but he is often dragged out to "parade", which is miserable.
"Principal Cheng" ran to find Wu Xia's grandmother (that is, his eldest sister), and wanted to hide in the city for a while to avoid the limelight.
Wu Xia's grandmother was also timid and worried that she would be implicated if she took in her younger brother privately.She also has a husband, two sons, and a daughter.What should we do if the whole family is dragged down by "Principal Cheng"?
He resolutely dare not take in his younger brother.
Principal Cheng had no choice but to return to school. Within three months, it was reported that he was "fighted" so that he had a short story and jumped into the river.
Since then, Cheng Yesen has lost the "pillar" of his family. Not to mention studying, even three meals a day have become problems.
Fortunately, after that special period, Cheng Yesen grew up after suffering.
The local government has a policy: to rehabilitate those who were wronged and suffered back then.It is also necessary to implement policies and arrange for their offspring.
At that time, Wu Zhenting and his parents had not yet made a fortune, but their business was on the right track and they were well informed.I know that there is such a policy of resettling and caring for the descendants of those who were "victims" back then.
Wu Zhenting has a pretty good relationship with his cousin Cheng Yesen.So I helped him go to the key junior high school of "Principal Cheng" and asked about it.
The junior high school agreed to accept an adult child of Principal Cheng to work in the school.It is a staffed faculty.
Principal Cheng had two sons and one daughter during his lifetime.Let's not mention the daughter. No one in the family is willing to recommend a daughter to take up a job quota in a "key junior high school".
This precious quota can only be used by one of the two sons.
Originally, people in the clan preferred to let the "second child" work in the "key junior high school".Because the second child "has a sweeter mouth" and can speak well, he is deeply loved by the clan.
But Wu Zhenting is more optimistic about the honest and dull Cheng Yesen.
He is a businessman, what kind of "glib tongue" has he never seen?Therefore, he is not very optimistic about his second cousin, and he is more optimistic about Cheng Yesen.
In this way, Cheng Yesen entered the local "key junior high school".It's a pity that he has no education and has only graduated from elementary school.Naturally, I cannot serve as a regular teacher and can only be a handyman in the school.
The so-called "handyman" is a key junior high school set up in the countryside. At that time, there were no advanced grain milling equipment of later generations. The school also built a "grain milling room" to manually grind grain, process rice and supply School canteen.
In addition, all kinds of canteen breakfasts are also processed, such as "stone-milled noodles", "rolled noodles", boiled noodles, etc., all of which are prepared by the school's own "milling room".
From the beginning, Cheng Yesen was assigned to work in this "grain mill".
At that time, it was not long after the "reform, reform, opening, and opening up". The school did not pay as much attention to efficiency as later generations, and only two people were arranged for a "milling room".One with an organization is "Cheng Yesen"; the other without an organization is commonly known as "Daily Worker".
Ten years later, the school carried out the "simplification" work. The "grain mill" only retained Cheng Yesen, a worker with a staff, and the other "day worker" was reduced.
Another ten years later, the school leaders decided to outsource all the "canteens".
Since there is no self-operated canteen, of course there is no need to build a special "grain mill".
The "grain mill" was abolished.Fortunately, Cheng Yesen has the "defense talisman" of "organization", and the school must "properly arrange" his work.
This is not difficult for schools.
When the "school canteen" is contracted out, there is a clause attached: the contractor of the "school canteen" must accept several handymen with the establishment of the school.
Among them, Cheng Yesen was included.
In this way, Cheng Yesen became a handyman who divided dishes in the "canteen".
Of course, the chef in the cafeteria does not have his share.Everyone knows that Cheng Yesen never cooks, so where can he be so good at cooking?
With the help of Wu Zhenting and his wife, Cheng Yesen found a relatively stable job in the school.Although the income is meager (who will be rich if they replace the "public" working that year?), but the advantage is stability.
It's so stable that you can't be passionate about the future, but you never have to worry about it. The future will get worse and worse.
Because he thought he had received Wu Zhenting's "kindness", Cheng Yesen got very close to Wu Zhenting and his wife.During the holidays, Cheng Yesen and his wife would always make an appointment to visit Wu's house.
It's not that the two of them particularly wanted to curry favor with the "Wu family", after all, the Wu family didn't make a fortune at the beginning.
Later, Wu Zhenting became really unclear, and expressed many times that he wanted to "promote" this "cousin Cheng Yesen" and let him enter the management of his company.But my cousin's spirit and enterprising spirit have long been smoothed by the stable life.After repeated deliberation, he finally declined.
The reason he gave was quite simple: he felt that he was uneducated and could not help his cousin Wu Zhenting.I really want my cousin to pay a high salary to "support" a "freeloader" like him.He will also be very frightened inside.
Wu Zhenting couldn't persuade his stubborn cousin, so he had no choice but to give up.
But because of this, Wu Zhenting was even more impressed with Cheng Yesen's "honest" personality.
At that time, I made an agreement with my cousin: my cousin still has 15 years left, and he will reach the "retirement age".After retiring, I came to his company headquarters to help him.If you can't do anything else, being the security leader of a company is always competent.
Many relatives have heard about this, thinking that Wu Zhenting is just talking, and he should make a harmless joke!
As a result, time flies like an arrow, and more than 10 years have passed in a flash.In one or two years, it will be time for "Cheng Yesen" to retire.But Wu Zhenting still "hasn't changed his original intention".
All the relatives envied Cheng Yesen's good luck.Boss Wu appreciates it so much.
What they didn't know was that Cheng Yesen was not someone who didn't worry about money.He just doesn't want to trouble his relatives and friends because of his own affairs.
What kind of money can he have as a handyman who is paid by the school?They have a daughter and a son, so maybe they are not short of money?
In the final analysis, he is an honest man!
Wu Xia once heard from her cousin that when she obeyed her elder brother's advice and made up her mind to "marry" Cheng Yesen, she decided to live a good life and support her husband to get out of poverty one day.
When Cheng Yesen married his wife, he borrowed the school's big playground to set up about 10 tables for the wedding banquet.At that time, I had no money, so I had to borrow 400 yuan from the financial office of the school to hold a wedding wine.
Cheng Yesen's plan at the time was to deduct 20 yuan from his salary every month, and pay off the debt over a year or two.
A few days after my cousin Ding Shengping got married, she took out 400 yuan from her "private savings" for many years of "selling beef balls" with her elder brother to her husband, and confessed: first pay off the school loan .To be a man, you must have ambition!I would rather suffer more myself than let others look down on me!
Shocked and delighted, Cheng Yesen followed his wife's advice.
The finance minister heard that Cheng married a wife who was willing to use her own "private house" to "pay off the debt" for her husband, and they all praised him for marrying a good wife.
Because of this experience, from now on, Cheng Yesen is very convinced of his wife.The salary is completely controlled by his wife.He doesn't care about money.
My cousin doesn't drink alcohol, but he is addicted to cigarettes.The monthly cigarette money is calculated by his wife and given to him.
In Wu Xia's eyes, Biao Shu is a good man who takes care of the family.
Although the appearance is "fierce", but he is sincere and honest.There are no vices such as gambling and stealing.But having said that, no one is perfect, my cousin also has his own shortcomings, that is "delicious".
His gluttony is not like ordinary lazy villagers who have nothing to do all day long, so they just know to get together in twos and threes, eat, drink, brag, and pass the time.
Cheng Yesen works in the "school cafeteria", and there are free leftovers every day (or the word "leftover" is not very pleasant, so let's change the wording to "extra meals"), which can be taken home. It is worth the food expenses of the family at home.
The free meals were placed there, and the cousin unconsciously ate "exceeding the standard" every meal.
For example, even if the "canteen" is not open during the student holidays, he can get one or two catties of free "white sugar" every day to mix with white porridge.
This has been the case for many years.
One day, my cousin felt that his eyesight was a little blurry.My head gets dizzy easily.
He thought he had a cold or something.As a result, his wife and son accompanied him to the hospital for an examination, but he had "diabetes".
"Blood sugar" soared to the 20s.
Since then, my cousin has been taking antihypertensive drugs and taking "insulin" non-stop.
However, after a serious illness, my cousin began to strictly pay attention to the issue of "diet".Over the years, it has been maintained very well, and people have "lost" down, but they are more energetic.
Wu Zhenting also watched Cheng Yesen's two children grow up.
Seeing that my cousin is about to retire, the family still lives in a single room in the school.Wu Zhenting would also like to support him.
But Cheng Yesen never spoke to him.
My cousin asked him several times: Do you want to borrow some money as a cousin to solve the housing problem first?
Both Cheng Yesen and his wife said that when they don't have enough money to buy a house, of course they will ask their cousin to borrow it.
As a result, it has been delayed until five years before retirement, when Cheng Yesen and his wife finally bought a commercial house.
Moreover, it was bought in full.From the beginning to the end, I never borrowed a dime from Wu Zhenting.
It wasn't that Uncle Wu Xia and his parents-in-law had saved a lot of money, so they could buy a house with all the money in the "Emperor Capital", which is recognized as a place where housing prices are expensive.
Of course they both had a deposit.
These two parents-in-law are very diligent people. Although they don't say how much money they have, they have income every month.What my cousin earns is the dead wages of the school.As for his wife, Ding Shengping, although she doesn't have a regular worker, there are many small workshops for processing clothing and jeans in the area where she lives.She earns handwork money by cutting clothes for many years.
The income of the family is in charge of her.For decades, Ding Shengping basically spent only the salary she earned every month, and saved her cousin's fixed salary.
Even if there are occasional unexpected family expenses (such as serious illnesses), she will try to wipe out the "overdraft" money as much as possible in the next few months.
In this way, it is equivalent to saving money for a lifetime.
In the "Emperor Capital" and its surrounding areas, a house costing several million yuan, the money saved by my cousin's family is actually still not enough to buy it.
However, the cousin's family never asked Wu Zhenting for help, not because of any thoughts of "saving face and suffering".But they are more open-minded about the "property rights" of housing.
Anyway, he kept his family for a lifetime.It doesn't matter whether you can get the "property certificate" or not!It doesn't matter if it's a "small property right room"!
Cheng Yesen's parents-in-law have only one requirement, a very simple requirement, that is, the house they buy should not be too remote, and it must be cheap.
This is cheap, of course, relatively speaking.For example, a commercial house with a "real estate certificate" can be sold for 300 or 100 million, while the "small property rights house" they purchased only costs more than 4 million.And the area is really quite big, with 2 bedrooms and 128 living rooms, covering an area of [-] square meters.
Wu Zhenting wanted to help Cheng Yesen's two parents-in-law, but he bought a "small property right house".Also prepared to put "into people wine".
At this time, my cousin told his relatives that he had already bought a house.
Wu Zhenting knew how Cheng Yesen's parents-in-law were, and if he could solve the problem by himself, he didn't intend to bother his cousin.
Therefore, Wu Zhenting could only "greeting" to the principal of his "cousin"'s school by himself—if there is any good thing, please take care of Cheng Yesen.His cousin is honest, and he didn't receive many school benefits that he should receive.
The principal thought to himself: What kind of welfare is there that "Cheng Yesen is eligible" to receive, but he doesn't receive it.There are no such stupid people in the world, right? !
However, only now did I know that the school's "handyman" has a cousin who is actually the "richest man" in the country.
Even if the principal wants to establish friendship with Wu Zhenting, even if there is no "welfare", he still has to create some "welfare" for Cheng Yesen to "enjoy".
It happened that the school was raising funds to build more than ten "welfare housing".These welfare houses are all 6-storey "staircase houses", and the number is limited, only more than 100 sets.
Originally, according to the requirements, two conditions must be met in order to receive this "welfare housing": one is a faculty member of the school and has not purchased commercial housing outside; the other is working in the school for more than 15 years, and at least 10 years before retirement .
Only those who meet the above two conditions are eligible to apply for a set of "welfare housing".
Cheng Yesen met neither condition.
Even if he barely meets half of the latter condition (he has worked in the school for more than 30 years), strictly speaking, he is still not eligible to buy a set of "welfare housing" for the school.
But Wu Zhenting greeted the principal in time.
It also happened to be a good time, if Wu Zhenting asked for "welfare" for his cousin if all the "welfare housing" had been allocated, it would be in vain.Now that the "welfare housing" has not been officially allocated, the principal can of course re-enact the "housing allocation rules" that are beneficial to Cheng Yesen.
In this way, Cheng Yesen was "inexplicably" allocated to a school's "fund-raising welfare housing" in the year when he could go through the "retirement procedures" in half a year.
The school is a district-level key junior high school close to the "Emperor Capital", and the surrounding commercial housing has also sold for 250 million units (calculated based on the standard area of 100 square meters).
How much does Cheng Yesen and his parents-in-law need to pay for this set of "welfare housing" funded by the school?
According to the cost price of building a house at 1500 yuan per square meter, a house can only be sold for 15 yuan (calculated on the basis of 100 square meters).
With such a good thing, how could Cheng Yesen and his wife not want it?
They immediately moved over 20 yuan that they planned to use to decorate the new house (the one with small property rights), and bought the "welfare house" on the school side first.
After that, I used the "retirement money" that I received every month to decorate the new house (the one with small property rights) bit by bit.
Anyway, the day of "Jin Ren Da Ji" that I asked Feng Shui masters to see is still half a year away.
For half a year, Cheng Yesen's parents-in-law can get six to seven months' pension.It adds up to tens of thousands.
I got the second suite by accident, so I didn't spend so much money on the decoration of the first suite.After all, two suites have to be taken into account.
Use tens of thousands of simple decorations to meet the occupancy standard, and that's it.
Like the single room given to me at school, I have lived in it for decades. It is a single room that has not been renovated at all. Hasn’t it been the same for decades?
"A new house with simple decoration", what is there not to live in?
In the end, it was the father and daughter Wu Zhenting and Wu Xia, who really couldn't stand it anymore.I took 20 yuan to my cousin's family, whether it was "borrowed" or "gifted", and his house must be well-decorated.
I have worked hard all my life and lived in a broken house all my life, so why don't I enjoy it when I get old?
Wu Xia persuaded her cousin and aunt: My cousin is now in his twenties, and he is old enough to marry a wife.Spruce up your new home.It's easy to find someone... and so on.
It's still Wu Xia who understands the thoughts of the couple who have saved their lives better.
When they listened to Wu Zhenting's persuasion, they still felt rather disapproving.
But after listening to Wu Xia's persuasion, he was deeply convinced.
Finally agreed to borrow "the Wu family's money" to decorate the new house.
The son of my cousin's family is also 26 years old this year.Because the birth happened to coincide with the "New Year's Day" on January [-], it was named "Cheng Dansheng".
This cousin of Wu Xia, "Cheng Dansheng", looks handsome, especially with good skin.It is estimated that there are more "genes" inherited from the mother, and there are not many "genes" in appearance from the father.
Because he is good-looking, tall and mighty, Cheng Dansheng is very popular with women.He is really stronger than his father by more than a little bit.
Just like before, his family was so poor that they didn't even have a decent place to live, but he suddenly found a girlfriend.
Before there was a new home or a decent house, Cheng Dansheng and his little girlfriend often opened a house outside.After buying a new home, Cheng Dansheng officially "lived together" with his girlfriend.
However, boys who are self-sufficient and good-looking, generally speaking, don't seem to have a very good temper.
Like this "Cheng Dansheng", he often scolded his girlfriend.
At the end of last year, his girlfriend finally couldn't bear his violent temper and broke up with him directly to say "goodbye".
This is really a sad story.
The story tells the world: A woman in this world, as long as she is willing to find a wife, will not worry about not being able to find a "receiver".
So what if Cheng Dan is "handsome" than other men?She didn't know how to love others, so after the girlfriend realized it, she simply fell in love with "uncle".
In today's world, men, in the eyes of girls, are simple and rough. They are classified into two categories: one is the "handsome guy" who seems to have come out of a TV series; the other is the "uncle" type that is everywhere. .
The former has looks but no wealth, while the latter has money but no looks.
When it comes to making a choice, girls are always in a dilemma.
Often at the beginning, I followed my own mind and chose a "handsome guy" boyfriend.As a result, later on, due to various pressures in real life, they often married the "uncle" again, which was the final destination of the girls.
Fortunately, the "uncles" have been tempered by life for a long time, and they don't care about being "receivers".
The story of "the little girl and the greasy uncle" finally ended with a happy ending.
That is, the "happy reunion" often mentioned in ancient romance novels.
It is said that such an ending is the one with the most reader market.
Because of this, Cheng Dansheng, the original "male protagonist", has been completely reduced to the "male supporting role" in a dog-blood romance drama.
(End of this chapter)