"Have you decided?"

"Hmmm......"

"Planning to go back and marry a stranger?"

"On our side, arranged marriages are very common, and they are not as unhappy as they are written in TV dramas or ......"

"What about when you get married?"

"Find a job in the town, be close to your parents, and be able to take care of your parents......"

"Pregnant?"

"Give birth to children, take care of children, now that there is a nine-year compulsory education, the prices are low over there, and it doesn't cost much......" Chen Mengting lowered her head, although she was answering, it was more like talking to herself.

"What if the child wants to go to college, buy a house after graduation, and marry a daughter-in-law?"

"We make money, try to make a ...... for him"

"How much is your bride price?"

"200,000 ......"

"When the child grows up, he is going to marry a daughter-in-law, what if the bride price is 500,000?"

"I ......"

"Do you want to give a child a daughter-in-law?" Zhang Sheng continued to stare at her and asked.

"If you smash the pot and sell iron, you have to marry." Chen Mengting lowered her head, and her voice gradually became less.

"What if your kids are going to buy a house in the city? He needs some money, can he make it up? ”

"Minato!"

"You have already smashed the pot and sold iron to help your son marry a daughter-in-law, so how do you make up the down payment and how do you repay the loan?"

“……”

"To put it a little simpler, after the child is born, what brand of milk powder will be given to the child?"

“……”

"If your college classmates tell you that this brand of milk powder is good, but you can't afford that brand of milk powder, you are even using the cheapest diapers, and then your child will have a rash on his buttocks, crying and making a fuss every day......"

“……”

"200,000 bride price, in this era, is still quite high...... When I married you, my parents-in-law wouldn't say anything, and everyone was very happy, but after you got married, they thought about the 200,000 yuan, and you didn't have a penny, all on your parents' side, what would you do? ”

“……”

"When you were confined, your mother-in-law thought that you didn't take care of your children, and your husband was tired after a day of work outside, and when she came home, she scolded you for not even cooking, and you would be idle every day...... You don't have money, you go to ask your husband for money, but every time you stretch out your hand, you will be blinded, he takes the opportunity to ask you to pay back the 200,000, you have no money, you can only be silent, silently endure ......"

“……”

"You finally got out of confinement, after confinement, you want to work, and then, your mother-in-law and father-in-law are old and need you to take care of them, you have to cook, do laundry, ......"

“……”

"What did you go to college for? If it's to get back to this life, then why would you want to go to college? ”

“……”

"Are you really willing?"

Zhang Sheng's words.

It's very harsh.

It's even a little mean and sharp.

The questions in reality were thrown one by one, and at first Chen Mengting could still answer something, but gradually, Chen Mengting was silent.

I can't answer it right.

It was like a mountain pressing on her heart.

I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't escape.

She could only keep her head to the lowest.

She understands all of this.

After a while, she looked at Zhang Sheng: "But, what can I do, my parents raised me, gave birth to me, and brought me up, and now they need me, I can't ......"

Chen Mengting still lowered her head.

The sound is soft, very soft.

The grace of nurturing is greater than heaven.

Kindness, filial piety first.

Since ancient times, this has been the case.

Therefore, sometimes, people who have too much conscience are unhappy.

Zhang Sheng looked at the pitch-black sky in the distance, the sky of Yanjing, there were no stars in sight, there was a veil of haze, and the haze seemed to be getting worse day by day.

"I never let you be unfilial...... Zhang Sheng sighed: "You obey their arrangement, but you are obedient, not filial piety...... Filial piety also needs the ...... of filial piety"

“？？？”

"If you go back now, you will only miss the opportunity to take root in the big city, and then accompany them, saying that the good thing is to accompany them and take care of them, and to say that it is difficult to say that it is to accompany them to consume together, in all kinds of trivial matters, consume their potential, energy, and ability, and finally end up with what? If you do this, you will not only delay your youth, but also delay the growth of your children, and delay your future......"

“……”

"If you have money, you can take your parents to the city, give them good food and drink, this is filial piety, if they don't want to come, you can even ask a nanny to take care of their food and clothing, you are afraid that the nanny will not take good care of them, you can install a camera at home......"

“……”

"If you have money, you can build a villa in your hometown, you want to live close to your parents, you can even take the money, go to your hometown to invest, as an investor, not as a working girl in your hometown, just live a lifetime, the filial piety you go back now is a small filial piety, and the filial piety in the future is the great filial piety!"

“……”

"Money, sometimes it's a bastard, but sometimes...... Really useful! ”

“……”

"Laughing at poverty and not laughing at prostitutes, this sentence is hard to hear, but the reality is so cruel......"

Zhang Sheng looked into the distance slightly when he said this.

Chen Mengting finally raised her head.

"Now, they need me, what should I do?"

"Do they need you as a person, or do they need your money?"

"Of course I'm the person, they need me to take care of ......"

"Then why did they receive a bride price of 200,000 yuan first? If I'm not mistaken, they're urging you to go back for the purpose of getting you married, right? Urging you to get married is because of the 200,000 bride price, right? ”

“……”

Chen Mengting was silent.

My thoughts became more and more confused, and I became more and more confused.

Zhang Sheng didn't say anything to him, just stood silently on the edge of the overpass, listening to the wandering singers singing.

After a long time......

Chen Mengting sighed.

"Mr. Zhang, I'...... I still want to go back......"

Zhang Sheng turned his head to look at Chen Mengting.

Wind.

Keep blowing.

Zhang Sheng finally nodded.

After Chen Mengting looked at Zhang Sheng and nodded, a trace of complicated emotions inexplicably appeared in her heart.

She thought Zhang Sheng would scold her.

Will say she ......

He would even continue to tell her something.

However, Zhang Sheng's reaction made her feel a sense of loss.

After a short silence, she continued to look at Zhang Sheng: "Mr. Zhang, I will hand over the work one by one in the next month, my work, in fact, anyone can do it, Mr. Zhang, it is easy for you to find someone to replace me......"

"But, none of them are your ......"

After Chen Mengting didn't finish speaking, Zhang Sheng sighed faintly: "There is no one who can help me support this plate and lay the foundation one by one when I am the most powerless, and I can no longer find the person who can do everything I arrange conscientiously and can make me trust so much......"

Chen Mengting's body trembled.

looked at Zhang Sheng in disbelief.

"Senpai......"

"Huh?"

"Are you already so unconfident in me?"

"No, no, it's not like that, Mr. Zhang, I didn't mean that...... I just feel like I've become dispensable in our studio......"

"Senior sister, if the company is compared to a high-rise building, then, you are a high-rise building, an indispensable foundation, the foundation is buried deep underground, not eye-catching, just silently doing the work of support, and even when talking about the house, people see the most is the structure of the house, the lot of the house, the paint outside the house, whether the house is warm in winter and cool in summer, but many people can't imagine that if the foundation is unstable, then no matter how high the high-rise building is, it will collapse, and after the collapse, then exquisite decoration and structure, It's just a pile of worthless ruins......"

Zhang Sheng said this quietly.

There was regret in the voice, full of sincerity.

Chen Mengting's heart trembled again.

Tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes.

She wiped it, but it was still blurry.

She wanted to say something, but couldn't.

"Senior sister, no matter what choice you make, the 130,000 is the money you should earn, I won't ask for a penny, and I can't ask for ......"

“……”

"Perhaps, there are a lot of miscellaneous things in your hometown, perhaps, it is difficult for you to solve, but we can talk first, talk first, there is always a solution to things......"

“……”

"No matter what you choose, as long as you have a problem, you can call me at any time, what I say now, in this life, will be valid!"

“……”

When Zhang Sheng finished saying this.

Then he turned and walked away.

Chen Mengting looked at Zhang Sheng's back.

She only felt that there were mixed feelings in her heart.

Zhang Sheng finally disappeared into the vast distance.

She was finally out of sight.

She crouched on the ground, tears streaming from her eyes.

After a long time, she thought of something, and finally took out the phone and called her parents.

And then......

She said a lot.

At first, her parents didn't understand, thought she was crazy, and scolded her, and even ordered her not to go to college!

She gritted her teeth.

Said a lot of things that I had never said before.

This year's winter vacation......

Not only is she not married, she doesn't even plan to go home!

With that, she hung up the phone.

I was uneasy in my heart, and I couldn't help but start blaming myself, as if I was a wicked person who was pointed out by a thousand people.

However, it seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief.

She made a phone call to her cousin in her hometown.

On the phone.

She told her cousin that she wished she could help take care of her parents and pay her how much money a month......

My cousin was shocked!

I can't believe she could do that.

Half an hour later......

My cousin agreed.

She came to the 24-hour bank and remitted the first sum of money to her cousin, about 2,000 yuan.

Two thousand dollars, in 09, is a lot of money.

After her cousin got the money, she called her back, and she was a little stunned and excited on the phone, asking her if she had made a fortune.

Then, I talked to her about her children, her husband, and some things in her hometown......

At this moment, Chen Mengting felt an unprecedented vanity......

My cousin had never respected her so much, and she had never talked so much to her.

It's a sense of closeness......

It's something that no matter how many times you call or greet you before, you can't get it in exchange.

Authentic to the point of irony!

It turns out that this is the so-called charm of money!

under the light.

Constant traffic of vehicles and pedestrians......

A few hours ago, Chen Mengting, who had been extremely confused, began to exhale deeply, and her eyes began to become firm.

Looking into the distance, under the street lamps in the distance, the fog dissipated......

As if this moment ......

The gears of fate began to turn.

(End of chapter)