Ling Ran picked up the coffee cup and took a sip: "Are you burdened?

"Well, I have parents to raise. For so many years, my parents have always been supported by my two brothers, and now I am working, and my salary is 10 times higher than the two of them combined, and it is my turn to adoptive parents."

"How much does it cost to support your parents for a year?" Ling Ran was a little confused, she had been a hand-out faction since she was a child, and her parents had always been her ATM.

"Well, my two elder brothers give 200 yuan a month to their parents, 400 yuan for the two of them, and 4,800 yuan a year. My parents have enough, but they don't have a lot of money, I think I have to give my parents at least 10,000 a year. Shao Chengzhi couldn't figure it out, after graduating from high school, he was out of touch with his hometown.

With a "poof", Ling Ran squirted out a sip of coffee: "10,000 a year? ”

"Well, my hometown is very poor. My second brother is in the county government, Zhengke, 2,000 yuan a month, my second sister-in-law has no formal job, she shows others a shoe store in the town, and her income ranges from three to five hundred yuan a month, and they also have a son. Their economic situation is in their hometown, and they are definitely above average. You say how much money can be spent on two elderly people in the countryside, otherwise their children can afford to support them. ”

"That's what you call a heavy burden?" Ling Ran fainted.

"Well, I have a special situation. I have 5 brothers and sisters, I am the youngest, and I am 18 years older than my eldest sister. When my mother gave birth to me, she was already relatively old, so after she was born, there was no milk, and this situation was not uncommon in the countryside. My mother gave birth to a total of 9 children, and 5 survived, which is not a low proportion in rural areas. ”

"But at that time, my eldest sister gave birth to her first child, and the child died at birth, so she took me home, and I survived on my eldest sister's milk. My family has a large population, relying on my father to farm alone, the children can't eat, my eldest sister has not given birth for several years, the family population is small, and the two husbands and wives are young and strong, relatively speaking, the situation is better than my family. My sister and wife are honest and listen to my sister in everything, so I have been eating at my sister's house, and my sister has been raising me until I am in elementary school. Even after studying, my sister always secretly stuffed money for me, and my clothes and shoes were all mended by my sister. My eldest sister is equal to my second mother. I must repay the eldest sister for her nurturing grace. Shao Chengzhi said.

"Oh, how do you want to repay it? Give 10,000 yuan a year alimony?"

"Oh, no, no. My eldest sister has children and daughters, and she doesn't need me to support them. Her son graduated from junior high school and is now working in Shenzhen, and he is also 24-5 years old this year. Her daughter is a senior at a junk university in the province. I'm thinking, next year when she graduates, I don't know if Li Zhao can find her a job in Beijing and get a Beijing hukou."

Ling Ran looked at Shao Chengzhi, and the more he looked at it, the more strange he became: "After graduating from a local university, going to Beijing to find a job, and needing a Beijing hukou??? you don't have a fever, do you? Li Zhao knows what you're thinking?"

Shao Chengzhi said lightly: "I don't need to talk to him about this matter at all, he knows my situation best." If he can do it, he will take the initiative to do it for me, if he can't do it, then he really can't do it, and I don't need to mention it. ”

Ling Ran was speechless: The relationship between these two men is deeper than others imagined.

"Do you have any other burdens? Other brothers and sisters want to repay the favor, and other nephews and nieces want big red envelopes, household registration, and work."

"Well, I don't think so. Both of my older brothers graduated from college."

Ling Ran was stunned: "Your two elder brothers both graduated from college, didn't you say that your college entrance examination score rate is not high?"

"It's not high, before my family moved to the county seat, the whole village had college students in my family, and there were three of them, and my eldest brother also graduated from a key university, the first batch of college students after □□. But the rest of the village barely even went to high school. Therefore, the people in the village later repaired the grave next to my ancestral grave, saying that my ancestral tomb has good feng shui. When I moved, several families rushed to buy the dilapidated mud house, and it was also said that the feng shui was good. ”

Ling Ran had to look at Shao Chengzhi's parents with admiration, and judged sincerely: "Your family has good genetics." "It's also important for fertility.

"My eldest brother worked in the provincial capital after graduation, a public institution, and now he is a deputy department, but he has no real power, he lives on a dead salary, and he has a daughter who is studying in college. My second brother didn't go to a good university, and after graduation, he went back to his hometown and worked in the county government, and he had a son who was in middle school. Both of them are more than good at what they have, and they don't need my financial support anyway. ”

"I also have a young sister, a year older than me, she is married a long time ago, has a son and a daughter. She and her brother-in-law have neither a proper job nor income, but my brother-in-law's sister went to Shenzhen with her husband to work in the early years, and later settled in Shenzhen and opened a restaurant, the business is very good, and there is a little money. My brother-in-law is her only younger brother, so my sister and her husband both rely on her eldest sister to live, and my son and daughter are the seedlings of my brother-in-law's family, so it is not a burden on me. ”

Ling Ran counted with her fingers again, parents, eldest sister, eldest brother, second brother, and younger sister: "That's all you have in your family?"

"Hmm. ”

"Then why are you so terrifying?" Ling Ran thought that Shao Chengzhi had a few mountains in his house.

"Let's be serious first, so that the other party can be mentally prepared. What if something unexpected happens? Shao Chengzhi smiled, seeing that Ling Ran didn't take these burdens to heart, he dared to relax.

Ling Ran frowned and thought for a while: "Do your parents have bad habits, such as gambling? Do you have any genetic problems in your family (need to have a kidney replacement) or serious illness (cancer)? Will your nephews and nephews go to aristocratic schools?"

Shao Chengzhi frowned: "What do you want." My parents don't even know the words on the mahjong tiles, how can they gamble. My family is in good health, and my grandfather and grandfather both died in their eighties. In my family, I rarely even have a headache and brain fever. Growing up, I didn't see a doctor except for a dentist. What kind of aristocratic school does my nephew and nephew go to, I won't even let my own child go to any aristocratic school, if he studies well, he will take the exam by himself, and if he doesn't study well, it will be in vain to go to any school."

Ling Ran scolded in her heart: Obviously you are talking about it, what made my parents hungry and cold, made my brothers and sisters poor and sick, and made my nephews and nephews drop out of school at a young age, and they were mentally ill.

Although for children in the city, they generally reach out to their parents to ask for subsidies, how can they support their parents. If a city girl (Ling Ran) marries the same urban man (Qi Junyi), then it must be that the parents on both sides work together to desperately subsidize the house and car tickets of their son and daughter-in-law, if they marry a rural man (Shao Chengzhi), there is no piece of tiles on the top, no inch of land below, no primitive accumulation, just rely on their own salary, and their parents have to support, the eldest sister's son will have to go a whole number, for the woman, one in and one out will definitely be much worse.

But this assumption is based on the fact that the two candidates have similar incomes, Shao Chengzhi's salary is several times higher than Qi Junyi's, and the gap will only get bigger and bigger in the future, and his burdens are only a fraction of his income. Marriage is a lifelong contract, and from the perspective of long-term income, marrying Shao Chengzhi must be more calculated.

Ling Ran thought for a while: Shao Chengzhi said that it was impossible not to help his family financially, in this case, he would rather not get married, but from the current point of view, I really don't see how much burden he has. The alimony of 10,000 yuan a year, if there is any mistake, it is the festival fee, and at least it has to be given to the parents. His eldest sister's son's red envelope, well, no matter how large the amount is, that is, a one-time expense, his hometown is poor and virtuous, no matter how big the red envelope is, how big can it be.

Ling Ran thought about it carefully: Well, if you can let yourself take the whole number and let his family take a fraction, then he will make a lot of money; if he shares Shao Chengzhi's purse equally with his family, it will be more than marrying Qi Junyi; it's a big deal that Shao Chengzhi's entire income is given to his family, and he will be left alone, if he goes to bed for the same time as he gets on the treadmill, it is not unacceptable. Phew, why give all the income to his family, how can he be so generous, see him get married, one left and one right, everything has to be taken advantage of, and it is true that everything can be taken advantage of, the kid is fine.

For Ling Ran, economic issues are not the focus of mate selection, and income itself is not even as important as the symbolic meaning of income. Shao Chengzhi's annual salary of 100,000 US dollars one year after graduation is much more attractive than Qi Junyi's parents who are willing to give their villa to the younger couple to get married and live in. Anyway, Ling Ran's parents also live in a villa, or in the same community, Ling Ran really can't see what benefits she has gained from getting married and moving from her parents' villa to her in-laws' villa.

Ling Ran, 28 years old, is just embarrassed, in the United States, this is the time when girls start looking for a ship, and in China, it is just when girls start to get ready to get married.

Now, there are two ready-made cards in front of Ling Ran's eyes, both men are the same age as her, and they can talk about marriage under the conditions, and they both have the willingness to marry her (this is very, very important, without this, everything else is floating clouds).

Shao Chengzhi, 30 years old, graduated from Tsinghua University, Ph.D. from a top university in the United States, works in a multinational company, with an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, the United States and China travel freely around the world, and he can work in whichever company he wants. Ordinary appearance, stylish, and wise temperament. Born in the countryside, poor and white, with a burden on his family, his social circle is his colleagues and classmates and ambitious food chain predators like Li Zhao.

Qi Junyi, 29 years old, graduated from the National People's Congress, bachelor's degree, section-level cadre of the State Taxation Bureau, with an annual income of less than 100,000 yuan, but with high gold content, as long as you don't make mistakes, you will never fall below the golden rice bowl in your life. Good looks, average temperament, Beijing native, family has a villa, several sets of rental houses, only child, parents are eager to give their son and daughter-in-law as a nanny, the social circle is their colleagues and classmates plus the financial manager of a state-owned enterprise,

These two men, in the case of picking and picking at the same time, I am afraid that it will cause selective panic disorder to many families with daughters, and the vast majority of girls in the world will choose the former, and the vast majority of mothers-in-law in the world may choose the latter.

But for Ling Ran, Qi Junyi is at most a spare tire, and it depends on how she feels today. In Ling Ran's eyes, only Shao Chengzhi can be considered a candidate, and she has no other candidates in her hands, so her question is not who to choose, but whether to choose this hot potato.

"How much money have you already given to your family?" Ling Ran asked, wondering how filial Shao Chengzhi was.

"Well, I borrowed 50,000 yuan from relatives before I went abroad, and I later did inteship at Microsoft, saved a little, paid off the debt, and paid some interest to others. ”

"This doesn't count, you owe it to others. ”

Shao Chengzhi was embarrassed: "I have only worked for a year and a half now, and I need to buy a lot of things, including a notebook I bought before returning to China, which cost me $30,000. In Silicon Valley, the rent was expensive, the cost of living was high, and I was single, so I had a high income tax, so I barely saved much in the first year. After returning to China, my salary, seven deductions and eight deductions, in fact, is only more than 30,000 a month, just returned to China, there is always some socializing, so there is not much money left. During the Spring Festival last year, I sent a check for $5,000 to my family, which my brother exchanged for RMB in the provincial capital. ”

It turned out to be $5,000 of filial piety, and it cost 30,000 yuan to buy a notebook for myself. Ling Ran was relieved.

"Do you expect any additional expenses?" Ling Ran asked again.

"I don't think so. Shao Chengzhi frowned and thought for a while, "Well, there is one more thing. Li Zhao wants to buy a house. ”

Shao Chengzhi talked about Li Zhao's housing problem: "Living like this is definitely not a long-term solution, and his wife is 31 years old, the two of them have to have children, how can such a small house be turned around." Last time, he was saying that he wanted to apply for affordable housing in Huilongguan or Tiantongyuan. Applying for affordable housing has to be lottery, but it's certainly not a problem for him."

"He asked you to borrow money?"

"I don't have to ask him to say anything, I'm sure I'm going to borrow a lot of money to make a down payment for him, and I don't expect him to pay me back at a fixed time. Shao Chengzhi said, "Li Zhao is 5-6,000 yuan a month, and his wife is not even 5,000 yuan, and both of them have to bear the burden of their hometown -- Li Zhao's family burden is much heavier than mine, and he has 8 brothers and sisters, he is the youngest, except for one of whom was admitted to university, the others are still in the countryside, and there are a lot of nephews and nieces, all ages." The two of them have no enough salary, let alone save money. Li Zhao has a lot of entertainment, and sometimes he has a private treat and can't be reimbursed, so he has to call me so that I can pay for him, otherwise his family should drink the northwest wind. He also thought about his great future, neither dared to be greedy, nor dared to take it, others gave him things, except for the meaning of cigarettes and alcohol, he didn't dare to accept them, cigarettes and alcohol were useless, after smoking and drinking, a pile of ashes, a few empty bottles. And besides me, he didn't dare to ask others to borrow money, borrowing money was asking for bribes. He wanted to buy a house because he knew I could afford to make a down payment for him, otherwise he wouldn't have had to do it."

Ling Ran nodded, it seems that this is the most important non-blood and non-marital relationship that Shao Chengzhi wants to maintain for life, this is a high-voltage line, and it cannot be touched. Ling Ran didn't want to touch it, people like Li Zhao, how many people wanted to send him money, but they couldn't even find the crack in the door.

"Anything else?"

"No more. Miss, how much more do you want? Shao Chengzhi has actually been under pressure subconsciously, which is why he warned Ling Ran alarmistly at the beginning, but if you count it carefully, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Ling Ran and Shao Chengzhi breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Both of them have a faint feeling that things will not be so simple, otherwise, with the salaries of the two, Shao Chengzhi's expected hometown expenses are not as good as nothing, such as Ling Ran buying a bag for more than a year. But both of them are people who think logically and lack imagination, and in the current situation, there is only so much that can be thought of.

Ling Ranyou began to mix coffee with a small spoon, and looked Shao Chengzhi up and down while stirring, with a smile on her face, Shao Chengzhi looked at her hairily: "What's wrong?"

"Look at yourself, you don't look good, your family is poor, let's say it's a high salary, under the concerted efforts of the Chinese and American governments, you don't have a few cents, and the remaining few cents have to be shared with your family's seven aunts and eight aunts. A watermelon, click to remove half of it, click to remove a few more pieces, you have to nibble on a few bites yourself, what is left of your wife? Watermelon skin and watermelon seeds? Marry a man and marry a man, dress and eat, and marry you and have to bring your own meal ticket. You don't have anything to ask for yourself, but you want to ask for others. You still want to go to Maria Ozawa, have you jj set diamonds?" Ling Ran sarcastic