"It was when he was 12 years old, and he told me that he was going to make a lot of money writing a groundbreaking book."

"What groundbreaking subject?"

Lu Qingxuan's mind involuntarily came up with the development of domestic literature in recent years, and he couldn't think of any "groundbreaking" themes.

Chen Chi smiled bitterly: "I also want to know, unfortunately, I still don't know what subject he is talking about." ”

"You didn't ask him?"

Chen Chi's smile was even more helpless: "I didn't ask." ”

Lu Qingxuan was silent, and Chen Chi said with a smile:

"You must be thinking, how can I be indifferent to this matter, how can I not be curious about my nephew's affairs at all?"

Lu Qingxuan was a little embarrassed by Chen Chi's straight ball problem: "That's not ......"

"It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't believe it at all," Chen Chi told her, "I didn't believe that Chen Ya could write at all, after all, at that time, he was only 12 years old!" ”

Lu Qingxuan was dumbfounded.

It feels like this picture is a bit familiar.

"So, you just thought he was joking and didn't ask him? So, how did you know that he really wrote it? ”

Chen Chi smiled, and his half-made face showed the color of memory:

"If you want to talk about this, I have to tell you what happened in the first few years when we first arrived in the capital, but this story is a bit long, Miss Lu, you still have something to do......

"I'm fine now." Lu Qingxuan's eyes were firm and his tone was tough, "Let's chat before the wedding to help you relieve your tension." ”

Chen Chi looked at her gratefully and nodded, as if he was grateful for her understanding, and then sorted out his thoughts before slowly starting to say:

"That was when my brother took me to the capital for two years, and in the first year, we ran into walls everywhere because we were not familiar with the way of life in the capital, and suffered a lot of crimes, but then we finally settled down.

"We found a basement with a monthly rent of 1,000 yuan, although it was dark and damp, but the area was large enough for three people to live and live, which was much better than the previous rental room where we even had to stretch our legs to remind the people next to them.

"At that time, there was a policy, some schools were open to the children of migrant workers, and Chen Ya and I both went to school there, although the quality of education was not very good, but at least there was schooling.

"We have a hard life. But I know that the sister-in-law who stays in her hometown is the real hardship. Our income in the capital has climbed a lot, and in her hometown, where the income from farming is already meager, and we have to take care of two children, her difficulties can be imagined.

"So, what I've been thinking about is how to go out to work to earn money, and how to help my family alleviate their difficulties.

"I secretly found a part-time job in a restaurant, and went to odd jobs every day after school, and in three months, I saved a thousand yuan, I filled out the remittance form according to the procedure, and sent it to Chen Ya, I told him to use the money to subsidize the family.

"Soon, he replied and sent the remittance slip back, telling me that he had made a lot of money writing books, and there was no need for his family to worry about life."

Lu Qingxuan sat on the stool next to him, put his hands in front of his knees, and listened to Chen Chi's narration blankly, while the makeup artist helped Chen Chi put on makeup, his movements were deliberately light, as if he was also listening to Chen Chi's story.

Hearing this, Lu Qingxuan's heart lifted.

Perhaps this is the beginning of Chen Ya's entire life experience, he started from here, from the mountain village to the world, and finally successfully founded Jiang Lizhi.

Lu Qingxuan is a person who strives for excellence, and she loves to read celebrity biographies. Listening to Chen Ya's story, she felt as if she was reading a celebrity biography.

Chen Chi continued: "I naturally thought that Chen Ya was just comforting me, but when I went to the bank to go through the procedures later, I found that there was an extra 50,000 yuan in my account, and I knew that he was definitely not lying." ”

"So, did you ask him what he was writing?" Lu Qingxuan hurriedly asked.

Chen Chi frowned and said: "I seem to have asked, and I don't seem to have asked, I can't remember it for too long, but whether I asked or not, in short, he didn't tell me, at this time, it coincided with my brother's remarriage, and there was a stiff relationship with the family, so the contact became less, and I was not too embarrassed to get to the bottom of it." ”

Lu Qingxuan said: "Wait, have a stalemate with your family? What happened? Didn't you start ......."

She looked a little stunned. According to the few words she heard from Chen Ya, Chen's father abandoned his wife and son from the beginning, but what Chen Chi said was different.

Chen Chi pursed his lips and said, "Did Chen Ya say that his father abandoned his wife and children and left his hometown in order to marry a young lady from a rich family?" From his point of view, this is true, but it is not all true. ”

"So, what's the truth?"

Chen Chi said: "You think, if he came to the capital to abandon his wife from the beginning, why did he bring me and Chen Hai?" He didn't want to abandon his wife, at least not at the time.

"Miss Lu, you may not know the background of the times, back then, a large number of rural people went to the city to work, and my brother was just a member of the army that went to the city.

"Going to the city doesn't mean betraying your hometown, it's just that the countryside at that time was too poor, so poor that it couldn't feed so many people.

"The reason why he wants to take me is because my parents died early and I am still in school, so he can't leave me to my sister-in-law to raise, and then the pressure on my sister-in-law is too great.

"He took Chen Hai and me to the capital to work, and the money he earned was sent home; The sister-in-law raised Chen Ya and Chen Xi at home. This was discussed by the two from the beginning, otherwise the sister-in-law would not agree to him leaving like this.

"From the current point of view, it is obvious that going to the capital means soaring, but in fact, it is difficult to say which side is better for this choice at that time, after all, a migrant worker, drifting north, living in a fixed place, how can it be said that it will be very good?

"It's just that fate played a joke on everyone, my brother met a nobleman, and everything began to be different."

Hearing this, Lu Qingxuan finally understood a little.

Chen Sheng's story is not as dramatic as Chen Shimei's, but rather rather ordinary.

At that time, 600 million people in China had experienced the migration from rural to urban areas, and Chen Sheng was just one of these 600 million.

He didn't come to the capital from the beginning to abandon his wife and children. He came to the capital first, and then met Lu Ruixiang and established a relationship, before he flew up the branch and became a phoenix.

At the beginning, he may have really come to the capital to work because he was really rushing to make money for his family, but after he arrived in the capital, he experienced more things and his mentality changed.

Chen Chi bit his lip. She has a deeper story in her heart, but she hesitates whether to tell the eldest lady of the Lu family in front of her.

After thinking about it for a while, she was relieved. The past is in the past, and now everything is different from what was expected at the beginning, and nothing will change if you say it or not.

"Actually, what my brother wanted to take away at that time was not Chen Hai, but Chen Ya."

When Lu Qingxuan heard this, he immediately asked, "Is it?" ”

Chen Chi nodded and said, "Because Chen Ya is a little older." At that time, the consideration was that the two children who were brought to the capital could work with their eldest brother to make money after graduation, and of course it was more appropriate to choose Chen Ya. ”

Lu Qingxuan asked: "Then why did you become Chen Hai later?" ”

"There are two reasons, one is that Chen Ya will not go no matter what, and the other is that Chen Hai will go no matter what." Chen Chi smiled bitterly.

“……”

Lu Qingxuan didn't expect this to be the case, and asked after a while: "Why didn't he go?" ”

Chen Chi said: "At that time, after the eldest brother told Chen Ya at home about their decision, Chen Ya was very unhappy, no matter how the eldest brother and sister-in-law explained to him, he firmly believed that this was tantamount to betrayal.

"I still remember what he said at the time. He said that it doesn't matter if he makes money, there is no need to separate his flesh and blood in order to make money, he just wants his family to live well together. ”

Lu Qingxuan said: "It sounds like a child would say. ”

Chen Chi smiled and nodded: "Yes, so everyone didn't take what he said seriously, until he announced that if his father really wanted to leave, he would sever the father-son relationship with his eldest brother." ”

Lu Qingxuan raised his eyebrows.

Although she is very empathetic to Chen Ya now, she now feels that this is a bit too extreme.

"Did he really do that?"

Chen Chi thought for a while and said, "I think, even if he still regarded his eldest brother as his father in his heart at the beginning, after the eldest brother divorced and remarried Sister Lu Ruixiang, their family would already exist in name only." ”

Lu Qingxuan noticed a detail, the "sister-in-law" in Chen Chi's mouth is still Chen Ya's biological mother, and she calls Lu Ruixiang "sister".

It can be seen that in her heart, for this later "sister-in-law", although more than ten years have passed, the weight in her heart is still not as good as the previous one.

"In the first three years of my eldest brother's part-time job, I only went back once," Chen Chi said, "and the time I went back was to get a divorce certificate with my sister-in-law."

"I was worried that time, so I went back with me. I originally thought that Chen Ya would have a big fight with his big brother, but he didn't.

He just stood aside coldly and watched, watching his eldest brother rummage through the cabinets to find a marriage certificate, as if he had expected such a day.

After the eldest brother found the marriage certificate, he saw Chen Ya standing aside and wanted to touch his head, but he walked away. This made the eldest brother a little embarrassed.

"The eldest brother suddenly said to him: 'Actually, at the beginning, I wanted to bring you to the capital, and now I still think that you may be more suitable for the capital, but Chen Hai's kid is too thief, and he is afraid that I will leave him here and take you away. So he didn't come back. ’

'You're smarter than Chen Hai, but you don't have Chen Hai's chicken thief. Chicken thieves are not the same as smart, smart people can figure out any problem, but chicken thieves are better at seizing opportunities. ’

'The capital is a place where people are forced to be thieves. If you want to survive in the capital, you must be good at seizing opportunities, because opportunities are limited, if you don't grasp them, others will rob you of your opportunities, and trample you down until you are trampled to death, so that you will never fight with him. ’

I know you might hate me, but I'm sorry, I don't really have a choice. No way, this is the rule of survival in the capital. ’

After the eldest brother finished speaking, Chen Ya's face at that time, I still remember it vividly, he was neither confused, nor sad, there was no expression on his face.

"He said to his eldest brother very calmly: 'So do you think that if Chen Hai goes to the capital, he will definitely be more promising and destined to get ahead?'

"The eldest brother was very embarrassed to hear this question, because for everyone, this is common sense, as long as you can stay in the capital, education, medical care, and various resources will be hundreds or thousands of times better than those in the countryside.

"He said, 'You're going to come to the big city in the future, and everybody will come to the big city eventually.'" I just want you to remember that in the capital, you still have a home. I'm here to give you a lead. ’

Chen Ya shook his head, and said in a calm tone:

"'If you don't have a choice, it's my mother who doesn't have a choice more than you; Even less than the capital is the countryside. Because no one cares whether the countryside has a choice or not, no one gives them the opportunity to choose. ’

"'What you've done isn't anything evil, and what happened to my mom isn't rare, it's common. As long as you stay here, you are doomed to tragedy, but the form of tragedy is different. ’

"'The gap between urban and rural areas, the gap between the rich and the poor, as long as society is still torn apart, your tragedy will not stop, you are just fixing our doomed tragedy into a form.'

"'But ten years from now, you're going to regret your decision very much.'" ”

Chen Chi's story was told vividly, and Lu Qingxuan listened to it completely, feeling as if the pictures appeared in front of his eyes.

She took a deep breath and said, "What about later?" Didn't he call you 50,000 yuan? Did you ask him how he earned it? ”

Chen Chi continued: "I already knew at the time that Chen Ya had made a lot of money, but my eldest brother had always been haunted by his words, and if I told him that Chen Ya had made a lot of money, he would definitely be even more uncomfortable, so I didn't tell him." ”

Lu Qingxuan nodded thoughtfully and said: "So, Chen Ya said before that making money is not important, the important thing is that the family is together, and said that the uncle will regret it later, all based on the fact that he has already earned a lot of money?" ”

Chen Chi said: "Now it seems that this is the case. ”

Lu Qingxuan shook his head and said, "It's a pity, for my uncle, no matter how much money Chen Ya makes, he may not be as good as the capital, after all, he has joined the Lu family." ”

She couldn't help but substitute herself for the young Chen Ya.

She imagined how Xiao Chen Ya worked hard to write and write in the dim light, just to make money and save her father.

It's a pity that his opponent is the Lu family. He may earn hundreds of thousands, or even millions, but this amount of money is nothing in front of the status of the Lu family.

Although Chen Ya now has Jiang Lizhi, compared to the Lu family, I am afraid that he still can't sit on an equal footing.

What he said made Chen Sheng regret it, and I am afraid that it will not be realized at this stage.

"That's what I know," Chen Chi said, "Oh yes, what I just said, in addition to this wedding dress, Chen Ya also sent me a lot of things for the wedding, you see, are they all particularly valuable?" ”

Lu Qingxuan swept over at a glance, and those jewels and phoenix crowns were ...... It's all familiar.

"The quality and grade were very high. He's really nice to you. Lu Qingxuan stood up, "There may be a distinguished guest coming from the main hall, I have to keep an eye on it." ”

Chen Chi waved his hand to her: "See you later." ”

"Goodbye."

Lu Qingxuan carried the hem of her skirt and returned to the main hall, she saw that when she left before, only Wu Zun and Liu Ruying were sitting on the table, and now, more people are seated.

is only 18 years old, and Xia You, who is still in high school, sat beside Liu Ruying with an unhappy face. Her outfit was not at all like her previous style, but it was surprisingly suitable.

Many people around were secretly looking at this little girl, asking her identity everywhere, and after learning that she was Xia Longju's daughter, most of them were silent.

"Yo, Miss Lu, that's a coincidence."

Lu Qingxuan turned around and saw Miao Aoxue in a red dress, staring at her with a smile.

"You're here? Welcome. Lu Qingxuan's answer was neither salty nor light.

"yes." Miao Aoxue turned her head around and looked around, "Why aren't you with Chen Ya?" ”

"Why do I have to be with Chen Ya?" Lu Qingxuan was furious when he heard it.

Miao Aoxue's eyelids raised slightly: "Haven't you always been together lately?" Oh, sorry, that could be me misunderstood something. ”

……

Lu Ruixiang's family had just sat down in the side hall at this time, and the side hall was still deserted at this time, and several people were staring at each other.

Only Chen Hai has been standing at the door of the side hall and looking at it from afar, leaving everyone with a gloomy back.

"Don't be embarrassed there, come back and sit down!" Chen Sheng said impatiently.

Chen Hai didn't even reply: "I'm waiting for Qin Yunchu." ”

Lu Qianzi pressed her forehead.

This guy is already stunned.

"Excuse me, is it okay for me to sit here?"

A deep voice sounded, Chen Sheng turned around, but saw a somewhat familiar face.

"Oh, just sit down, who invited you?"

The man smiled, leaned over and sat down at the table of Lu Ruixiang's family, and said:

"I'm Zhao Yuanhai, and I'm representing Beichen Company to attend the wedding of Wei Mingzhe's colleagues."

(End of chapter)