An economical, independent-minded woman may not be able to determine the upper limit of her life, but she can definitely determine the lower limit of her life.

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Lin Shu is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and she hasn't gone home for five years since she became financially independent. But this year is different, the Chinese New Year's Eve coincided with the coming-of-age ceremony of her half-brother Lin Yizhou.

Lin Shu took advantage of the winter vacation to squat at home and was studying and writing "Chinese Culture and Traditional Culture Research Series". The mobile phone she put on the sofa rang non-stop, and she picked it up and saw that it was a call from her father Lin Desheng. Lin Shu recalled in her mind: I haven't been in touch for so many years, I shouldn't have offended him recently, right?

She answered the phone.

Lin Desheng: "Go home for the New Year this year. ”

Lin Shu: "I don't have time, I want to write a thesis." ”

Lin Desheng: "It doesn't matter if you usually go home for the New Year, I don't have you as a daughter, but today your brother's coming-of-age ceremony, the whole family must spend it together." Lin Desheng hung up the phone after speaking. Lin Shu rubbed her head and said "hehe" twice in her heart. Lin Desheng's remarks are the same as those of eighteen years ago: "Your brother's full moon banquet, if you dare not come, you will not contact me in this life." "Even if it's a moral kidnapping, after eighteen years, can't you grow a little?

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Shu drove back to her father's house, she parked the car in the underground garage of the community, turned off the fire and still sat in the car for a long time.

Lin Shu and Lin Desheng, the two short-tempered people, are going to meet, and this year must have been very "lively".

Lin Desheng was the third in his generation, and the eldest brother and second sister gave birth to sons, and only he gave birth to two daughters, Lin Shu and Lin Xian. There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. This idea is deeply ingrained in Lin Desheng's mind. Of course, his daughter is not a "queen", so his life's greatest wish is to have a son. Lin Desheng caught up with the heyday of the real estate industry in his early years, made some money, and his position in the family was the pillar, so he naturally said the same. Now that the real estate industry is sluggish, he seeks transformation and opens a building materials factory.

Twenty years ago, he was afraid of continuing, and he still gave birth to a daughter, so he heard an introduction and did IVF. Using Zhong Meihui's eggs has been unsuccessful, so he uses the eggs of the egg donor girl.

Zhong Meihui felt aggrieved, but after thinking about it, if she really divorced, her two daughters would not only have to live a hard life with her, but also pay attention to the right people when they marry in the future, and they couldn't marry a good family, so after weighing the pros and cons, they agreed.

When she got home, Lin Shu saw her mother and aunt stewing soup and cooking in the kitchen, Lin Desheng and uncle, as well as her brother Lin Yizhou and brother Lin Yikang in the lobby put together a table of mahjong, Lin Desheng ran the train with a cigarette in his mouth, telling the juniors about the glorious history of his own business, the whole house was cleaned very clean, but there was a greasy feeling.

Lin Shu's mother, Zhong Meihui, walked out of the kitchen: "It's time to eat, stop playing, come over and eat." ”

Zhong Meihui and her aunt brought the dishes to the table one after another and set the dishes and chopsticks.

The group of Lin family men around the mahjong table heard that the meal was open, so they walked towards the table one after another, and Lin Desheng noticed that Lin Shu had gone home. Lin Desheng looked at the emptiness around Lin Shu, and couldn't help frowning: "Don't have a boyfriend yet?" ”

Da Bo pulled Lin Desheng: "You hurry up and eat." "Motioned to him to stop talking, what's wrong with this, just seeing his daughter's face, he was angry.

Lin Yizhou glanced at Lin Shu: "Happy New Year, eldest sister." Lin Shu nodded in response, she almost didn't recognize it, Lin Yizhou had grown so big.

Lin Xian went downstairs to buy soy sauce and just went upstairs, when she saw her sister Lin Shu coming back, she hurriedly hugged Lin Shu excitedly: "Sister, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Lin Shu has to say that the happiest thing she was with her sister was during her time at home.

Lin Shu nodded: "You haven't changed." ”

Dining table space is limited, but you can still sit down if you squeeze in. However, there were not enough stools, and when everyone was seated, Lin Shu, Lin Xian and her mother Zhong Meihui did not have seats yet.

The men of the Lin family don't care so much, they should eat and drink. Lin Shu looked at her mother, who had just been busy in the kitchen for a long time, and couldn't help but shake her head. She thought there were a few more stools on the balcony, and she was ready to move them.

Lin Desheng looked at Lin Shu and waved his hand at her: "Don't move, you just stand and eat." ”

Lin Shushan raised her eyebrows and expressed doubt: "It's okay for me and Lin Xian to stand, but my mother is an elder, so she has to go to the table, right?" It's not that you can't sit down. ”

Lin Xian saw that Lin Shu's face was not very good-looking, pulled Lin Shu's sleeves, and smiled and played a round game: "Oh, they are a group of men who eat them, let's go to the living room to eat ours, ignore them." ”

Lin Shu didn't go home for a long time, not wanting to cause unpleasantness, so she sat on the sofa with Lin Xian.

At the dinner table, Lin Desheng raised his glass: "Today is the coming-of-age ceremony of my family Yizhou, and it happens to be on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which means that it is a good sign!" This year's college entrance examination will definitely be admitted to a good university and win glory for our Lin family. ”

Uncle: "Actually, Lin Shu is quite competitive, after all, she is a doctor from Fudan, and now she is still in school, and the old Lin family can be counted as a cultural person." ”

Lin Desheng squinted at Lin Shu and shook his head: "As the old saying goes, a woman's lack of talent is virtue, girls, is it useful to go to so many schools?" It's still thirty years old and you still can't find a boyfriend? I'm about to lose all of my old face, if you want to meet the right one, hurry up and introduce her. ”

Lin Shuren sat at home, and the pot came from the sky.

The uncle is still very sensible: "Now young people, there are so many people who are not married at the age of thirty, and there are also those who are not married at forty, so don't worry too much." ”

Lin Desheng: "That's because your Yikang son is six years old, how can a father not worry about his children, I don't want her to marry out quickly, I also talked about a matter." When Lin Shu heard this, she couldn't help laughing, Lin Desheng's words, people who didn't know how much they thought he cared about his daughter. Lin Desheng has never taken care of Lin Shu since he was a child, but now he cares about Lin Shu's marriage?

I don't know if it's because Lin Desheng drank a little wine, the uncle's family was still sitting at the dining table, and Lin Desheng began to talk nonsense: "If you want me to say, men are value-added goods, and women are depreciation goods." The older a man is, the more valuable he is, and if a woman is thirty years old and still doesn't marry, she can't climb high or low, where else can she find a good one? You say no. ”

A few people at the table smiled awkwardly, should and should not be, should not and should not.

If you were someone else, you might have heard this insulting remark, and you would have fried the pot a long time ago. But Lin Shu continued to eat her own food, as if Lin Desheng was not talking about her.

Lin Yizhou is a master who doesn't like to mix with anything, and after he finished eating, he went back to the room: "Dad, I'm done eating, I'll go back to the room first." ”

Lin Desheng nodded: "Good son, go!" ”