Chapter 17 Bride Price
After arranging everything, the time has come to the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.
Chen Feng hurriedly packed up his things and came to his eldest brother's hotel.
When Chen Feng arrived at the hotel, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. It may be that many people have gone home for the New Year, and the business of the hotel is not good. There are only sporadic two-table transactions.
After saying hello to his future sister-in-law, Chen Feng went directly to the kitchen on the third floor.
After Chen's father saw Chen Feng, he was okay and didn't say anything, but Chen's mother was not so good, and she crackled for a while.
In the end, it was the cousin who diverted the topic. Chen Feng survived.
Since there was nothing to do, the three brothers ran to the balcony to chat. Because the day after tomorrow is about to celebrate the New Year, several people began to talk about their plans.
In fact, this is also to blame Chen Feng, because Chen Feng has been procrastinating before and has not come back, so Chen's father and Chen's mother didn't know whether they should go home for the New Year, so they didn't buy the ticket at all.
Of course, even if you buy a ticket, it's useless, because your hometown has been abandoned for more than half a year, and you haven't prepared anything, how to celebrate the New Year.
However, Chen Qiang plans to go home, and there is no business in the hotel for the New Year, so Chen Qiang wants to take this opportunity to go home for the New Year and have a blind date by the way.
Hearing Chen Qiang's answer, the two brothers laughed at Chen Qiang for a long time over the question of which was incidental.
Coincidentally, Chen Feng's uncle was working on the construction site on SH's side, and I didn't hear that Chen Qiang drove home, so he also came from the construction site yesterday, planning to take a ride.
Hearing this, Chen Feng's eyes began to shoot around the kitchen, but he didn't find the uncle.
Seeing Chen Feng's appearance, Chen Ming immediately explained: "I'm not busy today, I don't have any business, so I'm not watching TV in the dormitory." ”
The three of them chatted for a while, and looked down the balcony to see that there was no one on the deserted street, so they began to prepare dinner, intending to start work after eating.
Because Chen Ming plans to take a few days off for the New Year, today's meal is extraordinarily rich.
Of course, there were quite a few people eating, plus five employees, there were 12 people around the dining table.
During the meal, Chen Ming announced that he would start his holiday tomorrow and start work again until the eighth day of the first lunar month.
After the announcement, Chen Ming gave each of the five people a red envelope and paid them their wages.
Chen Feng was on the side, quietly watching Chen Ming's operation without interjecting.
After eating, several people packed up their things, turned off the water, electricity and gas, and returned to the dormitory.
After arriving at the dormitory, Chen Feng took the time to leave the dormitory, went to a nearby ATM to withdraw 10,000 yuan, and bought two red envelopes to pack separately.
After returning to the dormitory, Chen Feng handed over the money to his father and saw the red envelope handed over by Chen Feng. My father understood immediately.
Two red envelopes, one for Chen Ming's girlfriend Li Ping, and one for Chen Qiang. This red envelope is only suitable for my father.
As for when his father will give it, this is not Chen Feng's concern.
The next morning, after Chen Feng woke up, after looking at the empty dormitory, he immediately called Chen Ming.
After asking, I learned that Chen Qiang and his uncle embarked on the journey home at dawn.
As for Chen Ming and the others, they are shopping on the street, because Li Ping's father is also working in SH, so the parents of both sides plan to meet in the next two days.
I see, after figuring it out, after Chen Feng washed up, he also went out for a walk.
Chen Feng had always planned to pay a New Year's greeting to several high-level executives at seven o'clock, but after making a phone call, he learned that they were also on vacation.
So, Chen Feng, who had nothing to do, found an Internet café and started playing games, but at this time, only the Internet café was still overcrowded.
After playing in the Internet café until the afternoon, Chen Feng returned to the dormitory.
After arriving home, his mother had already prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and seeing that Li Ping was not there, Chen Feng opened his mouth to ask his eldest brother.
It turned out that tomorrow my father was going to visit Li Ping's father, so today Li Ping went home early to prepare.
After a while, the family of four gathered around and began to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
At the dinner table, Chen Ming took out a bank card and handed it to Chen Feng.
"Xiaofeng, the hotel has earned almost 300,000 yuan in the past half a year, and I have divided it into three parts, one for my father, one for you, and one for me. Take it. ”
Seeing the bank card, Chen Feng did not refuse, but took it and handed it to his father.
"Dad, you keep it, and keep it for me to marry my daughter-in-law later."
Seeing Chen Feng's dog-legged appearance, Father Chen said with some emotion.
"You, you're very slippery now, don't tell me or your mother about anything, I'll keep the money."
After hearing his father's words, Chen Feng knew that he was dissatisfied with the fact that he was hiding money from them.
"Dad, look at what you said, didn't you just write a few books and make some money? Am I not worried that you will say that I am not doing my job? ”
"You two brothers are also older, and I plan to go home with your mother after the New Year, so as not to hinder you."
Chen Feng is actually more in favor of his parents' plan to return to his hometown, after all, it is really tiring to be busy in the hotel.
"It's okay, just after I go home, I will build a new house at home, and it will be more convenient for me and my brother to go home in the future."
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The family chatted about planning for the future at the dinner table, and was full of longing for the future for a while.
After eating, my father gave each of the brothers a red envelope as usual, although the money was not much, so it was good luck.
The next day, several people got up early. Today I am going to meet with Li Ping's father and discuss the marriage of the two.
Both parents dressed up and went out.
On this occasion, Chen Feng was inconvenient to go, and sighed, it seems that today is another boring day.
Anyway, being idle is idle, Chen Feng plans to go to the company for a visit, but he has to prepare a lot of red envelopes before going.
Fortunately, Chen Feng has several bank cards from different banks, and he can withdraw a lot of cash.
I bought hundreds of red envelopes in the supermarket and began to pack them, one red envelope is 1,000 yuan, and there are almost 200 red envelopes.
Chen Feng set off from home with a backpack full of red envelopes and headed for the company.
The first stop is naturally YY company. Although Chen Feng's company has the best development of YY, there are not many employees under him.
There are only more than 40 people in the whole company, because the company is start-up, the staff is tight, and the Chinese New Year is relatively busy, so Sister Li did not arrange annual leave for employees, but all of them worked overtime.
After arriving at the company, Chen Feng and Sister Li began to distribute red envelopes to each employee.
In fact, in the morning, Sister Li had already distributed a red envelope of 200 yuan to each employee, and now, the big boss came to send it again, which made the employees very happy.
After staying in the company for a while, Chen Feng said goodbye and left, because there was still a company waiting for Chen Feng to give out red envelopes.
The game company doesn't have much business, so Chen Feng has already given the only seven employees annual leave.
As for the real estate company, there is not a single employee at present, so there is no need to mention it.
The rest are the company's legal counsel and supermarket staff.
Mr. Liu does not belong to any company, and currently only has an office downstairs from YY Company, and is currently on annual leave.
So, Chen Feng went directly to the supermarket.
At present, Chen Feng's four supermarkets are basically not very far from the school, so after meeting with Li Xianyun, he began to distribute red envelopes to each employee.
You must know that at this time, the salary of supermarket salesmen is generally about 800 yuan, and the salary of 1,000 yuan is equivalent to more than a month's salary.
The joy of these supermarket employees receiving red envelopes was significantly higher than that of YY employees.
After visiting the four supermarkets, the day has almost passed.
So, after Chen Feng said hello to Li Xianyun, he hurried back home.
After arriving at home, Chen Feng obviously felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere at home.
Looking at the gloomy faces of his parents and the depressed expression of his eldest brother, Chen Feng asked.
In the end, it was his mother who told Chen Feng the reason.
It turned out that when I visited Li Ping's father today, the two sides had a good chat, but after talking about marriage, it was not very good.
Because Li Ping's father's request was very excessive, first of all, the bride price of 100,000 yuan.
You must know that when the per capita salary is less than 1,000 nowadays, 100,000 bride price is equivalent to a person's income without eating or drinking for ten years.
However, the parents did not hesitate to make this request, and agreed after thinking about it for a while.
The second is the house, Li's father asked Chen Ming to buy a house in SH, and it must be in Li Ping's name.
This requirement is a bit excessive, SH also needs at least one million yuan for a house, and the other party's name must be written, which makes it impossible for parents to pick up this topic.
The third requirement is much better than the second, and that is the car.
After hearing what his mother said, Chen Feng looked at Chen Ming and saw Chen Ming's tangled appearance. Chen Feng asked.
"Brother, what do you say?"
"What do you say?"
After hearing the eldest brother's answer, Chen Feng already knew the eldest brother's answer.
"Well, if you think it's okay, brother, my previous house can be transferred to you, if not, you can go and find it, and after you find a suitable house, tell me, and I'll pay ......"
After thinking about it, Chen Feng said again: "If it's troublesome, after the seventh day of the first month, I will give you three million as a gift for your wedding, what do you think?" ”
Hearing Chen Feng say millions of things lightly, his parents were stunned.
After hearing Chen Feng's answer, Chen Ming was also stunned.
"Xiaofeng, how much money do you have?"
Seeing the surprised expressions of the three of them, Chen Feng said with a smile: "I don't know, I don't add up to 100,000 now, but if you want it, I will find a way to deal with the money." ”
After hearing Chen Feng's words, his parents were not happy, and Chen's mother said at this time.
"Actually, it's not about money, the point is that this is a bit too much."
Chen Feng immediately interrupted his mother's words.
"Mom, depending on what you said, this matter mainly depends on what the eldest brother thinks, you let the elder brother think about it."
After hearing Chen Feng's words, Chen Ming fell into deep thought again.