Zhao Xiaomeng took off her coat, washed her hands and went into the kitchen to help Yu's mother and noodles. Yu Shan sat on the sofa awkwardly, he suddenly remembered something, and looked left and right for a long time. Hey? The three fat men are gone?

It's right to think about it, I'm so poor that I have to be like this, where do I have spare money to raise a dog?

Comrade Lao Yu sat on the sofa, holding the remote control in his hand to switch the channel back and forth, and finally changed to the Central Thirteen News Channel, his eyes were always on the TV, and he never spoke to Yu Shan. But Yu Shan could feel that Comrade Yu was brewing, or thinking about how to speak.

There was talk and laughter in the kitchen, Yu's mother and Zhao Xiaomeng exchanged parenting scriptures, and the living room was silent, slightly embarrassed. After a long time, Comrade Lao Yu suddenly spoke: "Is there enough money to spend this month?" ”

"Enough is enough." Yu Shan said.

Comrade Lao Yu frowned and said, "Don't hold on if you don't spend enough, your mother and I add up to more than 8,000 pensions, how much can the two of us spend?" ”

Yu Shan smacked his lips bitterly, thinking about the more than two hundred yuan in his wallet, and said stubbornly: "It's really enough." Dad, you and my mom should keep the money. ”

Comrade Lao Yu glanced at Yu Shan, his eyes were complicated, and he didn't know what he was thinking. "Don't pretend, you're my son, I don't know you yet? To die is to save face and suffer sin. If you are alone, I and your mother will not care about you, how do you love it, it's a big deal to go home, I will raise you with your mother. But you are not alone now, you have Xiaomeng, and Xiaomeng still has a child in her belly. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about Xiaomeng's mother and son, right? ”

Yu Shan began to scratch his head, he couldn't say that Yu Shan, who was involved in business and was paid for, was not himself, right?

After a pause, Comrade Lao Yu continued: "I can understand your current mentality, man, knock out your teeth and swallow blood in your stomach. That's what I told you when you got on the train when you were in college. You're right to think so, but there has to be a degree to everything. Such a big thing has happened, and you can't bear it alone, why do you have to carry it yourself? I'm your dad, we're a family, what is a family? Stick together in good times and bad! ”

Comrade Lao Yu's voice was raised a lot. He paused, picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip of water, and said bitterly: "Money, your mother has already prepared it for you." Even if you don't come today, your mother will have to send you tomorrow. There should still be 200,000 debts outside, right? Pay back the three thousand first, don't let the people who lent you money chill, our old Yu family can't do that kind of unconscionable thing. Keep the remaining three thousand, and buy more delicious food for Xiaomeng. She is now pregnant, and nutrition is indispensable. ”

Yu Shan's heart was even more uncomfortable, his parents' pension added up to more than 8,000, and when he heard the meaning of this, he gave himself 6,000 at once. There are more than 2,000 left, and the old couple still have to live tightly.

"Dad......"

Comrade Lao Yu waved his hand: "Don't be tough!" This money is not for you, it is for Xiaomeng and my grandson and granddaughter. ”

Yu Shan was speechless.

"Shanzi," Comrade Lao Yu hesitated and said, "It's better to bring up the old words again, there are some things that I have held in my heart for a few days, and I don't vomit or feel unhappy." You chose to go into business in the first place, and I respect your choice. You're right, what is the difference between people who don't dream and salted fish? I read an article in the newspaper last week, and it says it very well. Chasing dreams comes at a price. Now the chicken soup is rampant, and the writing is messy, which makes sense at first glance, but after careful consideration, the bullshit is not said. You see that Ma Yun has succeeded, but where did all the people who did e-commerce with Ma Yun go? Let's talk about real estate, Evergrande and Wanda are outstanding, how many small real estate companies have gone bankrupt? ”

"It doesn't matter if your choice is right or wrong, it's all your choice. Do you know what you're doing wrong? ”

Yu Shan thought for a moment and said, "Mistaken belief in people? ”

"No," Comrade Lao Yu shook his head: "Your mistake is that you are inflated by a little achievement." Your father and I have never been in business, but there are many businessmen I have dealt with over the years, and I am used to seeing ups and downs. There are those who get rich overnight by opportunism, there are those who make money in the stock market, and there are those whose heads are sharpened and patched everywhere, how many of these people are still in business today? Look at your Uncle Wu, he was worth millions of dollars in the ninety-year-old period, and every time he sent timber to the south, it was more than a dozen wagons. How about now? I went to the market to open a tofu factory. Look at you Uncle Liu again, guarding a small store diligently, I asked a few days ago, good guys, convenience stores are open all over the street. This person, no matter what he does, whether he is in business or politics, he has to be down-to-earth in everything. You always want to climb to the sky in one step, can you not suffer losses? ”

Yu Shan said embarrassedly: "Dad, what you said is true." He now recalls the state of mind he had when he first came back from Marina. At that time, he sold the house on the coast, plus his savings, and calculated that he had a small two million in hand. I thought I was a good mix, but when I came back, I found that those classmates who were unknown in junior high school and high school were better than him abounded.

At that time, Yu Shan had a gap in his heart, he was a 'proud son of the sky', his grades were better than anyone else when he was in school, his college entrance examination results were outstanding, and the universities he went to and the majors he chose were impeccable in the past.

He was angry and desperate to prove himself. That's why I had the idea of doing business. In other words, he simply wants to make more money, realize his self-worth in the eyes of others, and become 'someone else's child' in the mouth of relatives, friends, classmates and parents again. The shopping mall is like a battlefield, it has always been weird and deceitful, he has no IQ but no experience, so it is strange to rush into it without being deceived and bankrupt!

Comrade Lao Yu was a little surprised, when the two of them talked about this topic before, Lao Yu didn't say a few words, and Yu Shan's temper came up, and he either talked back or slammed the door and left. Why did his son change his temper today?

Seeing that Yu Shan seemed to have really listened, Lao Yu was very happy, and his interest in the conversation was undiminished, and he continued: "What about this person, three poor and three rich live to old age. Don't be afraid if you fall, and you're still a good man when you get up again. You look at what you looked like in previous years, you languished at the slightest blow, what did it look like? ”

Yu Shan was extremely aggrieved in his heart, and said...... I really didn't do the bad things I did. This sick sentence that is not a sick sentence flashed repeatedly in Yu Shan's heart.

"Dad, don't worry. I want to open it now. ”

Comrade Lao Yu was even happier: "Okay, it's good to open it if you want to." You are still young, you have brains and education, as long as you don't lose your sharpness, you will always make a career. By the way, what have you been up to lately? Still writing programs for other people? ”

Yu Shan nodded: "My former friend gave me some outsourced work. ”

"Usually pay attention to rest, don't stay up late. Staying up late is the most exhausting, and it is not good for health. You are now exchanging your health for money, and when you are old, you have to use money to buy health. ”

"Yes, I know it."

At this time, the kitchen door opened, Zhao Xiaomeng walked out with a plate of scallion pancakes, and Yu's mother shouted while bursting the pot: "Don't watch TV, wash your hands and eat." ”

Comrade Lao Yu was in a good mood, Huo Ran got up, and looked at the figure as if he was ten years younger. Patted Yu Shan's shoulder: "Hurry up and wash your hands and eat." Saying that, Comrade Lao Yu entered the kitchen, and after a while, he walked out with half a bottle of Beidakura.

Yu's mother said strangely: "What happy things happened, why did you still drink?" The doctor can say, you have high blood pressure, try not to drink. ”

"I'm happy, can you handle it?"

Although Comrade Lao Yu had a straight face and quarreled with his wife, Yu Shan could feel the joy in Comrade Yu's heart.

This meal was delicious, and when she left, Yu's mother had to let the two of them carry a few catties of apples they had just bought. On the way back, Yu Shan carried the apple, wondering how to get the painting out of his hands. Zhao Xiaomeng, the daughter-in-law next to her, suddenly said, "Mother-in-law gave you money again, right?" ”

Yu Shan nodded and didn't speak.

Zhao Xiaomeng sighed: "Husband, when will this kind of day be the head?" ”

"Don't worry, a few days will pass."

Zhao Xiaomeng nodded silently. Perhaps in Zhao Xiaomeng's mind, the phrase "a few days" to describe time refers to a year or two, or more. She couldn't imagine that what Yu Shan said was a few days.

Knowing that his daughter-in-law wanted to deviate, Yu Shan didn't explain, but just clenched his daughter-in-law's hand hard.

The two of them wandered home, and when they entered the house, they remembered that the electricity was still cut off at home. Yu Shan didn't say a word, and went downstairs to the convenience store to buy a pack of candles. After coming back, Yu Shan and Zhao Xiaomeng found the cup and began to light the candle.

The candle was burning, dripping with wax oil, and the wax oil fell to the bottom of the cup and turned into a semi-solid, and Yu Shan pressed the bottom of the candle up, even if it was sticky. Six red candles flickered, turning the room into an uncertain shade. Under the candlelight, Yu Shan looked at the face of his daughter-in-law Zhao Xiaomeng and found that her daughter-in-law was much haggard than she remembered.

Over the years, I have suffered a lot with myself, I can't eat well, I don't dress well, I am forced by foreign debts, and the psychological pressure can be imagined. Yu Shan always thought that his daughter-in-law Zhao Xiaomeng was a fragile person, and he never thought that Zhao Xiaomeng would be so strong.

Under the candlelight, the two sat on the sofa in a daze at the black-screen TV. Yu Shan habitually took out a cigarette, and suddenly thought that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, so she hurriedly put away the cigarette again.

He thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Xiaomeng, you say ...... What if our money is recovered? ”

"Huh?"

"I mean, how are you going to spend this money?"

Zhao Xiaomeng thought about it seriously: "First of all, pay off the debt." ”

"And then?"

And then ...... Then I sold the house and added some money for a bigger one. At least 80 square meters of two bedrooms and a living room, or when I give birth to a child, my mother-in-law and my mother will come over to help take care of the child, where will I live? You can't sleep on the couch, can you? ”

"And again?"

"Again...... I thought, oh, right. Then there is to buy a car, not any imports, joint ventures, no new ones, just buy a second-hand one that can be driven for 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. Our place is on a bad footing, and there will be no bus after half past six. It's nothing for me to commute to work, the key is to have children in the future, and I can't even get a taxi in case I get sick for the rest of my life......"

Paying off debts, buying an 80-square-meter house, and buying a second-hand car that can pick up and drop off children, Zhao Xiaomeng's longing eyes were thinking about the children and this home, and he didn't mention himself at all. In the candlelight, Yu Shan's eyes turned red unconsciously.

(You must think this is an illusion~ bahahaha...... ）