Chapter 1: Parents in This Life
On the highway of the famous development zone in W City, a young couple was talking sweetly in the car, and from time to time the husband who was driving looked at the belly of the wife sitting in the driver's seat out of the corner of his eye.
Today is the weekend, and the two discussed going to Tao County, under W City, to open up, and Zhou Jiao's parents will celebrate their 60th birthday tomorrow.
The couple bought gifts yesterday and stuffed the trunk full. Although Zhou Jiao is the second oldest in the family and is not favored by her parents, she has relied on compulsory education to complete junior high school since she was a child, and later relied on part-time work scholarships to complete her studies, and she stayed in school to teach after graduating from key universities.
But in the eyes of his parents, there is only the eldest daughter and the third son. The second child is not up or down, the eldest was born in the newlywed period, just promoted to parents, for the first child is a girl or happy, who knows that the second child thought that it must be a boy just made up a good word, but the result was born is still a money-loser, naturally disgusted, but has been born can only ignore. After a few years, I finally caught up with the family planning policy, spent a lot of money on fines and lost my job, but fortunately this time it was a big fat boy who passed on the lineage.
But if you should be filial, Zhou Jiao will also pay, which also makes her husband Zhang Guoqing, who grew up in a welfare home, feel that it is natural to be filial to his parents.
He was abandoned in a welfare home from birth, and it happened to be the National Day.
The director's surname is Zhang, compared to the other children in the welfare home, Xiao Guoqing, who was born almost a month ago and has normal development and good health, is puzzled by the fact that there is still a healthy boy who has abandoned this year, and he still likes his arrival very much.
Perhaps God blessed, he also grew up healthy under the love of the dean's mother. When he was a sophomore, the dean's mother also passed away, leaving him with a 50-square-meter house that he bought after being widowed.
He is luckier than Zhou Jiao's six relatives, in addition to the love of his parents. After graduating from his senior year, he met for two years, fell in love for two years, and agreed to marry Zhou Jiao. Now that he has been married for two years, and the small family will soon add new members, for Zhang Guoqing, he feels that his life is very satisfied and happy.
"Jiaojiao, you move the seat back to rest first, and when I wait until the county seat, I will call you, be obedient, obedient."
Zhou Jiaojiao said in a coquettish voice: "No, you drive carefully, I'll talk to you, you won't doze off." ”
Zhang Guoqing hooked the corners of his mouth, and was very useful for his wife's concern, and said softly: "Then you will rest when you are tired!" In two months, our baby will be born. Have you figured out what to call it?"
"You haven't thought about it yet, have you? I think okay, can you pick one of them?"
"But I want to think about another one that represents the commemoration of the relationship between us, and I don't know if it's a daughter? If my daughter's words, I will definitely name Zhang Xinyue, and I am happy with you, hehe"
"Hehe, you're so numb, but I like it, what about the boy?"
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Laughter in the car was non-stop along the way, and now that summer has just passed, the shade of the trees on both sides of the road is yellow, and the fields are empty, and the rice fields have been cut.
There are rice residues left everywhere in the fields, and if you go down, you can touch the snails, loaches and yellow eels, but now the pollution is too serious. I remember seeing it often when I was a child, and now it's not easy to find.
As the car drove by, you could see dust flying. As the sun sets, the closer you get to the county, the more people come, and the lanes are crowded, so you have no choice but to drive slowly.
When the couple in Tao County were automatically silent, Zhou Jiao said depressedly: "Brother, I don't want to go back, I usually call to ask for money, the younger brother is married and doesn't work, so he relies on his parents and borrows money every day, I guess this time I will still say that I want to buy a house in the county, and ask the eldest sister and us to fund." We should not be given money or left to live like last time, and if that is the case, we will leave. We will give what you should give, and don't open your mouth if you don't deserve us, my parents just see that you are easy to talk. ”
"Don't be angry, you're still pregnant. It is estimated that the eldest brother-in-law will make a statement in a while, and I will listen to him. The eldest sister is really not easy, and her family is not well-off. Xiaokang is also going to primary school, and I heard that the subsidy fee for entering a key primary school is 50,000 yuan. We haven't been working for a few years, except for the house given by Zhang's mother, we only have 100,000 yuan in hand now. But rest assured, my wife will raise my salary after the year, and it is estimated that my position will also be adjusted. ”
"Well, you have a number in your heart, I have a fixed monthly salary to my parents. They don't have to spend much in the countryside, and I didn't spend much on them when I was a child, and now it's about the same. None of the girls in the countryside have anything like us, and in addition to paying them a fixed amount of money every month, they also have to add the usual rituals. In addition, the 50,000 bride price you gave when you got married, and although the eldest sister usually doesn't give us such money, it will cost 5,000 to 10,000 yuan a year. In fact, they don't have a lot of money in their hands, you can see if you look at my aunts who have a daughter who supports the elderly like us, that is, you and your eldest brother-in-law are easy to talk about. Otherwise, why did they give birth to a little brother in the first place? Do you mean that you want your son to support the elderly, they used to say that we are losing money, and we have no job to go back to the countryside in order to give birth to a younger brother, but now we still have to support him, support his daughter-in-law, and when we have children, it is estimated that we will have to support a family. ”
"Why don't I find someone to see what kind of job is suitable for my younger brother? I always want him to afford the family," Zhang Guoqing frowned and comforted.
"Don't, you introduced, with his character, it is estimated that he will not do it in half a month, how do you explain it to people? The eldest brother-in-law also introduced his relatives before, and the salary was more than 5,000. As a result, he was tired after working for less than a month, and felt that he had to sit in the office after graduating from college. Hehe, my mother also thinks that the eldest brother-in-law has no ability and will not introduce a good job, but no one dares to introduce it from then on, and he can't please it."
"Well, listen to you. Our family, you call the shots. Just cross the road and you'll be there. ”
Now the countryside is actually not worse than the city, and the road is at the doorstep. On both sides of the road are newly built small second floors. Most of the houses are covered with white tiles, and fruit trees are planted next to them.
In the past few years, relying on the bride price of the two sisters and Zhou Jiao's money on time, his father Chow Tai Fook is much richer than the other brothers. The newly built rural villa has five rooms and three floors, and the exterior wall tiles are bright, not to mention the furniture in the house, they have rules in the village, and the daughter who moves into the new house buys the furniture. It is equivalent to that this house was built by two sisters, compared to the two uncles' families, who mentioned that it is not that Chow Tai Fook's family is blessed, and the two daughters and sons-in-law are filial.
Every New Year's holiday is a big package. Look at the cousin of the uncle's family only moved to her husband's house, it is really not comparable. Of course, everyone also knows that my cousin has been favored since she was a child, and if she is pampered and domineering, she will have a sweet mouth and a poisonous mouth.
At the beginning, their grandparents couldn't look down on the boss of the family, and they have been following their youngest son after they separated. Later, Chow Tai Fook lost his job in order to give birth to a son, and he was even more complained by his parents, until Zhou Jiao was admitted to university, and he stopped it. If it weren't for Zhou Jiao's shrewdness and secretly colluding with the head teacher Teacher Ma to go to school in advance, it is estimated that she would have been forced to marry early to earn bride price.
So some things about the Zhou family are known in the village. But there is no way to let the daughters be filial to them like this, seeing that Aunt Zhou is 60 years old this year and has two daughters who drove in advance, and their youngest son is still playing cards in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village.
Zhou Jiao actually didn't want to come back, but if she didn't come back, her mother would go to school and cry. At the beginning, the bride price money was taken for granted, you said that people are university lecturers, how can they not understand Chinese virtues, the office is not without waves, secretly swords, no one will think that your parents did not raise you, you don't have to support the elderly, and you don't need to notify your parents when you get married.
Zhang Guoqing also relied on the fact that he could do less, and gave 50,000 dowry money, as for the family who just said 150,000 yuan to marry?
Getting off the station at the door of the house, Zhou Jiao kept thinking about these things in her mind. Her mother greeted Zhang Guoqing very warmly. There is no way for her own daughter, she knows that she is not soft-hearted, but fortunately, the little son-in-law really treats her as her mother. In her heart, she also likes her little son-in-law, unlike the big ones who only have a cold face. Every time she went to the city, her little son-in-law would take her shopping, and sometimes he would drive her back when she was not busy with work. She is also willing to go to her youngest daughter, it is good not to have in-laws. Besides, the little son-in-law will be a man, and the benefits issued by the unit, such as the two of them will go to Hainan last year, and they will be given a fee of 5,000 yuan, not to mention the rest.
Fortunately, his father was optimistic about the orphan's little son-in-law, otherwise he would really have to marry his daughter to the big boss of the county town for 200,000, where is it so good. I heard that people married 3 wives in 3 years, and what his father said was right, the second girl saw that she was slow, gentle and soft, and her heart was a number, and it was not controllable for a long time, if she didn't agree, maybe there was no bride price, and she had already got her own marriage certificate. Who knew she was going to college? Others are holding banquets to celebrate, but she is good, she has secretly moved her hukou to go to school and work to make money. If you are young, you will make money, and I don't know who you are like. I have never asked for tuition fees to go to school, and I am more scheming than my eldest daughter.
If it weren't for the little son-in-law, it is estimated that the second girl would have been raised for nothing. His father has said that the second girl's family is still the second girl's house. If the second girl is really filial, let alone buying a house in the county or buying a house in the city.
If Zhou Jiao knew what their parents thought, she would probably cry and laugh. But it's okay to know, except for what they said at the time, they can't throw money anymore, and in a few months, the child will be born and the family will be older. Besides, her parents have savings in their hands, they live in a new house, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing, she feels that it is enough for her to be a daughter, of course, she still doesn't know that last night, her mother's family, including her grandparents, in addition to the eldest sister's family, has already discussed the two sisters to buy a house, otherwise it is estimated that Zhou Jiao will get in the car immediately.