"Human Surname, Human Nature" (7)
I didn't dare to speak, Sister Yingying nodded her head slightly.
Mom's heart softened, and it was the first time we met my dad in four years.
The time we watched KFC under the Pauline Lantern Cinema, Dad ordered a KFC family bucket.
It was my mother who drove us here, but she didn't get out of the car and let us in on our own.
Dad looked much older, and his hair was gray layer by layer.
Sister Yingying opened her head and asked her father where he had been in the past few years.
Dad smiled and said, "I'm going to work, and I'll have the money to come back to pick you up in a few years." ”
I saw my father's trembling hand take out his wallet from his bag, a bulging purse.
There was a small cracking sound in my bag as I took my wallet, and I looked closely at the strings of keys inside.
The wallet was full of red yuan, and Dad took out ten and gave us five each.
I don't know how much money was in that stack, but at that time I thought a hundred dollars would buy a lot of things.
My sister and I have twenty a week of pocket money, so five hundred is simply not much more for us.
Sister Yingying didn't ask for it, and I didn't dare to accept it.
Dad stuffed his wallet back into his bag, zipped it up, took out a handful of change from his pocket and said, "This is the change left over from taking a taxi and buying a family bucket, you can take it." ”
Dad roughly divided the money into two piles, and my sister and I took one each.
I looked at the fact that I should have more than fifty yuan in my hand, but I didn't see it in my sister's hand.
I barely spoke, and looked at Sister Yingying and asked my father vigorously.
Dad just said that he was in Hubei and built four buildings with more than ten floors.
Dad would pat the key in his bag and talk about how tall buildings are very popular with us. But people in Hubei love to live in brick houses, and no one wants to live in big high-rise buildings. Then he said that the national policy will come down immediately, and the house will be easy to sell or something.
In the end, the corners of Dad's eyes were moist, and he covered his head and said, "Anyway, I told you so much, you don't necessarily understand, you just need to know that Dad will make a lot of money and come back." ”
Later, I learned that my father had really built four residential buildings, and he and several partners had found all the financial procedures. But after it was built, none of them could be sold, and the Chinese were still very conservative inside. People who live in brick houses will not be willing to squeeze into a building with a group of people with their life savings. We are here on the coast, and people who are close to the sea know more or less that Hong Kong and Shanghai live in this kind of big and high-rise buildings. Therefore, the building was built in order to catch up with foreign popularity, and some people would buy it, so that those big bosses who fought hard were achieved. Hubei is different, and he loves to make small earthquakes, and the string of keys in my father's bag at that time is the key to a whole room in four big high-rise buildings.
We ate the family bucket with my father, and we didn't have much in it. Sister Yingying and I didn't eat much, and I remember that there were just three glasses of Coke in the family bucket at that time.
Sister Yingying only drank a few sips and stuffed them to her father, who said before leaving that this year was 2007, and that her father still had the last bit of money from the company. It said he was going to get something called real estate to see if it could help him sell the house.
Dad took a taxi and left, and we got into Mom's car.
Along the way, my mother asked my father what he was doing lately, and asked if he had found a new mother for us.