In the rental house of less than fifty square meters, the former calm has been restored, but Ji Xuan, who is sitting at the table at the moment, has not been able to calm down for a long time.

Ji Xuan's mother sat next to him, helping him apply medicine to the injured part of his face, her eyes full of distress.

Father Ji Ye sat opposite Ji Xuan, without saying a word, as if thinking about something.

It wasn't until his mother gave the medicine that Ji Xuan's lips moved up and down several times before he asked his father hoarsely;

"Dad...... You, what did you do? And the last check you threw out...... Is there really 20 million in it?"

Don't blame Ji Xuan's half-believing words, where he has lived for more than 20 years, he thinks he knows what the situation is at home.

However, what happened today made Ji Xuan completely stunned, those ruthless and vicious debt collectors were actually settled by their father with a phone call, and they really couldn't figure it out.

What is even more incomprehensible is that my father can casually throw out a bank check with 20 million yuan? How is this possible? Ji Xuan has the impression that it should be difficult for his parents to take out 20,000 yuan.

When I was young, I knew that my mother's health had not been very good since Ji Xuan remembered, and she could only do some odd jobs to subsidize the family.

My father is a salesman in an ordinary company, who often has to go to other places, and the money he gives to his family every month has not been high from a few hundred yuan more than ten years ago to two or three thousand yuan now.

This income, minus rent, and living expenses, there is very little left, when Ji Xuan was still in elementary school, the most common scene he saw was that his mother counted the days and counted the remaining change to live.

The deepest memory is that seven-year-old Ji Xuan was greedy and stole a crab from the market, but was caught.

There was no way to do it, so my mother could only buy the crab for fifty yuan, and fifty yuan at that time was almost a week's living expenses for their family.

Ji Xuan ate the crab, but he ate it with tears, because when he was eating mixed noodles and fragrant crabs, he saw his mother secretly drinking noodle soup and was reluctant to eat even a single noodle.

For the next week, his mother drank noodle soup, left the noodles for Ji Xuan to eat, and added an egg to him at every meal.

Looking at his mother's increasingly thin face, Ji Xuan cried and asked his mother to eat noodles and eggs, but her mother never took a bite, she rubbed Xiao Ji Xuan's head and comforted him;

"It's okay, in a few days, Dad will set off and come back, and Mom will eat again, you are growing your body, you have to eat obediently, eat quickly." ”

Since then, Ji Xuan has secretly made up his mind not to let himself cause trouble to his mother and family.

Every time I saw my mother drinking noodle soup and counting the dimes and two dimes of change, the tears in Ji Xuan's eyes couldn't be stopped.

When he was young, he was afraid that his mother would starve to death like this, and he was even worried that he couldn't sleep at night, so he secretly wiped his tears in the bed.

Fortunately, a week later, my father came back and, as usual, got back a few hundred yuan for living expenses.

After this incident, Ji Xuan understood that he had no money in his family, and every cent and every corner had to be counted and spent, and he must not overdraft his living expenses in the future because of his greed for a while, otherwise his mother could only drink noodle soup again.

is such a family, how can Ji Xuan believe that his father can suddenly take out a huge sum of 20 million.

Wait! Is there a possibility, could it be that my father recently won the lottery, or made some windfall?

This idea just appeared in Ji Xuan's mind, and it was quickly denied, because there is another point, that is, even if his father gets rich, he shouldn't be able to scare those debt collectors like that with a phone call, and there are still many doubts in it.

Therefore, if you want to find out the truth, you can only let your father tell him personally, but Ji Xuan thought about it for a long time, and he didn't think of how to ask, so he held back for a long time before he could hold back the above two sentences.

However, between father and son, sometimes there is a heart-to-heart connection, Ji Ye felt that his son wanted to know something, what he was thinking about just now, and he was also thinking about how to tell his son the truth.

After hearing his son's inquiry, Ji Ye sighed and said earnestly;

"Well, son, it's been more than twenty years, and you've grown up, it's time for you to know the truth about something, in fact, ......"

Speaking of this, Ji Ye's voice paused, as if he was still a little hesitant, but the words had come to this, there was really no way to hide it anymore, he could only continue;

"Actually, for more than 20 years, my father has been lying to you, I am not a salesman in an ordinary company, and our family is not poor. ”

"On the contrary, our family is very rich, even rich to the extent that you dare not imagine, the check just now, it is indeed 20 million, but for our family, it is just a drop in the bucket......"

Hearing this, with a snap, Ji Xuan suddenly slapped himself hard, scaring his parents into a daze.

Ji Xuan's mother grabbed him with tears in her eyes, crying and said, "Son, why are you beating yourself yourself? It can't be those people who hit your head out of the way, don't scare your mother!"

That slap was really powerful, and Ji Xuan, who was in pain, grinned his teeth, but the next second he rubbed his face and muttered;

"It's not a dream...... This—that's too bloody......"

That's right, the reason why Ji Xuan slapped himself was not because his brain was broken, but to verify whether he was dreaming.

As a result, the face feels a hot pain, indicating that it is not a dream, everything is real.

But immediately, what Ji Xuan felt was not the happiness of "getting rich", but complicated feelings and strong doubts, and he asked his father again;

"Dad...... Since our family is so rich, why did you hide it from me for more than 20 years?"

Yes, Ji Xuan wanted to know what his father had hidden from him for more than 20 years.

Think about what kind of life he has lived in the past 20 years, how much he and his mother have suffered and how many sins he and his mother have suffered because of money.

If the family is so rich, why can't they live better? In the past 20 years or so, why have they repeatedly suffered from this lack of money?

Looking at the aggrieved expression on his son's face, Ji Ye sighed again and said, "Son, you must know that in this world, it is not that you can solve all problems with money. ”

"Wealth is not all happiness, and the easier it is to get something, the easier it is to lose. ”

"Today, my father will tell you everything, I think back then, I dropped out of school at the age of 15 to work, and opened a small shop at the age of 16, but a fire burned me clean for two years. ”

"So I started over at the age of seventeen, and went to work again, and at the age of eighteen I opened a small workshop, and the business was good, but it was ......"

Just as Ji Ye was talking about this, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang, and he took out the caller ID and looked at it, and his face changed suddenly.