【156】Homely (Melbourne Knights 6/10)
On the morning of the 23rd, Fang Lujun sent his wife and children to the train station. They were separated by more than a month, and the whole family was a little reluctant. Fang Yanran asked in the waiting room: "Dad, when will you go home?"
Fang Lujun looked at his daughter's reluctant expression, tears almost fell, and whispered: "It's coming soon, it's coming soon, it's August soon, and my father is going home for four months."
He still spent one dollar to buy a platform ticket and sent the mother and son to the train. With him, he helped to get the luggage. Fang Changan and the others got on the bus very fast. When they got on, the carriage was almost empty. Fang Lujun quickly put his suitcase and bag on the luggage rack and turned around and left.
It was another hard train seat that was nearly twenty hours long, with two adult tickets and one child ticket. However, this time the conductor was not as good as the last time. He had been having a long time when checking the tickets at night, but he didn't make up for the tickets.
At around 11 o'clock the next day, Fang Chang'an and his team got off at Yunlong Railway Station, and then took the bus to the West Bus Station. When they were at the West Station, Fang Chang'an called Fang Luyong, and Wang Yuxiu answered, saying that Fang Luyong had already set off and that most of them had arrived at this time.
Since we had to wait for the bus to leave, Fang Changan and his team got off the bus from the city to the town train station for more than two hours later. Fang Luyong had been waiting for a long time.
After getting off the bus, he took a while before he got on the tricycle and went home. Fang Chang'an took advantage of the time to run to the bun shop next to him and bought two yuan buns, and spent one yuan to buy five sesame cakes, which was considered lunch.
During this period, Fang Luyong asked about opening a shoe store and buying a house, mainly asking what to do if the poor money was not done.
Fang Lujun's loan to borrow money must have been angry with each other. The money each family made is different. The old man Fang Luguo promised three thousand, the eldest aunt Fang Xia promised six thousand, Fang Yan promised two thousand, and the younger uncle Fang Luyong probably gave two thousand.
Among the five brothers and sisters, Fang Yan's family is the most wealthy one, followed by Fang Xia and Fang Luguo. Fang Luyong is only a matter of life, but it is much better to have the two elders to take care of, but it should not be easy to take out two thousand yuan.
Although the teacher's treatment is increasing every year, it is far less than that of later generations. Fang Luguo and Xu Jing have just bought a house for a few years and still support their two children to study. It is reasonable to borrow 3,000 yuan.
Fang Xia promised six thousand, which was already a lot. Fang Luyong was a little dissatisfied with Fang Yan, who was obviously better from a family background, and was only willing to borrow two thousand. He and Fang Lujun were both unrestrained and were calm and motion sickness was unwilling to speak. He didn't care whether it was suitable or not, and directly complained to Fang Chang'an's brother and sister.
Before returning to this matter, Fang Changan knew that Fang Lujun was a little dissatisfied with this sister, but instead calmly advised him: "With your reputation, I am willing to lend you money, but I am ready to pay it back without you. Even if I only borrow 200 yuan, I owe it to others. What are you going to complain about?"
Even if it is calm and so, Fang Changan, as a junior, naturally has nothing to say. He also understands that what his mother is talking about is the truth. Just like Fang Luyong and Fang Lujun, they don’t know what image they are in the eyes of others.
Fang Changan advised him as a junior, and Fang Luyong asked again: "Where are you opening a store? Have you seen it? What should Changming and Yanran do?"
Fang Changan knew that his uncle didn't keep the door. Although there was no commercial secret, it was a bit troublesome if Fang Ying had another situation, because at that time it was my mother who was facing this situation, and she only dealt with it vaguely.
Fang Luyong didn't care about these things. He just cared about them and asked again: "Changming and Yanran both went to the town to go to school, where can they live?"
"Buy a house, there is no way to live in the store, and my mother wants to live in it."
"Now the house in the town should cost 20,000 or 30,000 yuan?"
Fang Luyong was a little surprised. He didn't expect that his second brother suddenly made such a big deal, "Is there enough money?"
Fang Lujun loves face. When the country comes home, he doesn't say how much money he makes, but he doesn't want to brag too much. He says it's "eight or nine hundred, thousands" to the public. However, Fang Luyong still knows a little about his second brother's real income. In addition, he has to support his three children to go to school, so he can't accept that his second brother can actually take out so much money at once.
The four brothers and sisters borrowed only more than 10,000 yuan. How much money can you spend on opening a store?
Agricultural tricycles naturally don’t have motion sickness. In addition to the sun is a bit sunny, it feels more comfortable than riding in a car. The main reason is that the air is better, and the sequelae of motion sickness are relieved a lot. At this time, I finally said: “Your second brother has a salary, and Changan is also a bit too. It’s almost enough to get together.”
"How much salary can my second brother get? It's up to five or six thousand yuan, and you still have to spend a lot of money. Is it more than ten thousand yuan to buy a house?"
Fang Luyong was even more confused when he heard it, "Where did Chang'an get the money?"
"Didn't he sell buns to his classmates before? Later, his teacher opened a bun shop to do this. He thought he had paid for this idea and gave him money every semester after earning money."
"Really, false?"
Fang Chang'an sells buns, including the later opening of Shen Chengyan's bun shop, Fang Luyong knows that Fang Luguo mentioned it, but the main propagandist is Fang Lusheng. He likes to use this matter as a topic of conversation at the dinner table and sighs about such a good idea. Unfortunately, we are not capable and can't do it. Look at them.
Of course, Fang Lusheng did not just praise Fang Chang'an to promote it everywhere. This is part of the intention. He is optimistic about this nephew, but more importantly, he regards this matter as a topic of conversation and shows off his knowledge of the mayor's son. He also stabbed Fang Lujun and Fang Luyong by the way, saying that we are not capable of robbing such a good idea, which is actually ridiculous.
Fang Luyong was very dissatisfied with this matter, but what he was telling the truth was that he could only exaggerate the difficulty of the matter he guessed in the bar, or say, "You can do it too?"
No matter what, he never expected that Fang Changan could actually share the money from this matter, and he said that it was to directly share it with his nephew himself, not his brother and sister-in-law.
Fang Luyong's first reaction was that he was a little unbelievable, but then he remembered the incident of Fang Chang'an encountering a robber before the New Year. Some suspicious points that he didn't notice at that time were finally understood now. No wonder Fang Chang'an went to the bank and was robbed again. His feelings are really rich!
"How many points can Chang'an score in one semester?"
"There are thousands, so don't talk nonsense everywhere."
These days, we are concerned about wealth and do not reveal ourselves. We are calm and know Fang Luyong's nature, so we greatly discounted the number Fang Chang'an said so that Fang Luyong would not promote it everywhere.
Fang Luyong didn't know how much Fang Chang'an had to share, but he probably had to speak five or six thousand. For rural families these days, he exclaimed: "Then that teacher is really good. He can share so much money if he comes up with an idea..."
When I got home, I was calm and uncomfortable, but I had already gotten much better. I cleaned up the house and made a pot of hand-rolled noodles with buns and sesame cakes for lunch.
Fang Changan called his grandmother. The old man did not have a phone number installed at home, but they all called their neighbors' homes and asked them to answer the phone. The two old men didn't know what their daughter's family was going to move to the town, so they only told them some home-style words.
After hanging up the phone, Fang Changan called Chen Chengyan again and agreed to go to the town to see the shop tomorrow.
He wanted to call Shen Mo and Wang Ke to report his safety, but after thinking about it, he gave up, and the worry was too late. Both of them were still young and too close to each other might have a negative effect. Especially Wang Ke, school is about to start, and there is no need to rush for a while in two years.
While the mother and son were having dinner, the old man Fang Fukang came over with his hands behind his back. It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon. The old man had obviously finished his meal. He still moved a chair and sat in the room. After a while, he asked, "I heard that you are going to open a store, what are you selling?"
"Sell shoes."
The old man nodded and asked after a while: "Where can I buy the goods?"
"We have already contacted Wenzhou."
The old man nodded again and asked again after a while: "What should I do at that family?"
Fang Luyong must have said everything to the old man, but the old man likes to "ask it knowingly".
Before he recovered from the calm motion sickness, he felt that the old man had wasted his money from his other children's family, so he came to advise him to stop him or knock him down. He answered a few more words patiently, but the old man still asked nonstop, and he was a little impatient.
The old man naturally noticed it, but he still asked again: "What should I do when Changming and Yanran go to school?"
"They all transferred to school and went to the town to go to school, and they have already contacted me."
"Who are you contacting? Is it reliable?"
Fang Chang'an said, "I have asked our teacher for help, and I have agreed."
The old man nodded again and asked again, "What should I do with your home?"
Relaxedly realizing that this is the old man’s real purpose, he said, “I don’t open a shop every day, and I don’t have to wait to farm at home. I’m so busy that I’ll ask someone to help.”
The old man was silent for a while, sighed, took out a stack of things wrapped in old newspapers from his arms, opened them slowly, and said, "I spent my monthly retirement salary, and I didn't save much. Here is two thousand, so you can use it first."
Take a calm look and didn't say anything.
The old man handed over the money and the newspaper and said to the room Changming, who was sitting outside, and said, "Changming, take it."
Fang Changming glanced at his mother, turned around and took the money and placed it on the table next to his mother.
Still calmly, he didn't say anything.
"No matter what, moving to the town is a good thing. If the money is not enough, just think of a solution."
After the old man finished speaking, he stood up, walked slowly into the yard with his hands behind his back and walked out of the yard gate.
After finishing the food calmly, she didn't rush to clean up the dishes. She stared at the two thousand yuan and didn't say anything. Fang Changan smiled and said, "Grandpa has given it all, you just accept it."
"Your grandpa came here for the land."
Fang Chang'an said: "You didn't give up. Didn't he give the money too?"
I glanced calmly at the two small ones who had already run to the inner room to watch TV. They could not see them through the wall. I sighed and didn't say anything anymore, and got up to clean up the dishes.
Naturally, the money was collected.
Although calm and generous and tolerant, the five children are unwelcome to their own families for a long time. Over time, they will naturally feel resentful, and as time accumulates, they will only get deeper and deeper.
The old man is fine. Although he helps a lot in secret, he still takes the overall situation into consideration in public. He is calm and dissatisfied with his mother-in-law.
Because I had lunch late, I calmly waited for the sun to set and went to the field again. When I came back, it was completely dark and I was not hungry after lunch, but I still had to cook.
When Fang Chang'an was helping with the fire to cook, grandma appeared outside the kitchen at some point. She calmly saw a greeting. The old man said "um" and asked after a while: "Are you all moving away?"
"What can I do if I don't move away, and no one will take care of me."
The old man calmly expressed his dissatisfaction without caring, and asked again: "How much does it cost? How much did you borrow?" After a while, he reminded him: "It's not easy to make money, don't waste it!"
Before he could answer, he sighed heavily: "A good life, why do you have to go to the town again? Is the business so easy to do? How much money will you lose at once..."
At first, he didn't speak, but then he was angry and simply said, "The two thousand dollars are all on the gift table, why don't you take them all back?"
Although the old man treated several children in a biased manner, to be fair, this matter is not completely serious, and there are also ideological limitations. He believes that his second son and his family are just living. Now that he has done so, he is likely to waste all his money on his children. He is frugal all his life and can't bear to light the lamp when it gets dark.
As for what is doing serious things, what is living a life of peace, and what is a mess, it is inevitable to wear some tinted glasses in this subjective problem.
However, it is naturally impossible to take the money back. After the old man preached, he went back.
Fang Chang'an advised: "Grandma is old and her ideas must be different from us, so you can't be angry."
"If it's changed... forget it, don't bother with her, the more we don't like it, the better we need to live."
As soon as my grandmother left, Fang Changfeng came over and asked about this matter again. It was obvious that he had heard Fang Luyong say that he had only known that he wanted to open a store, but not a house.
After dinner, Fang Changfeng's wife Liu Xiqin came again. Before leaving, aunt Wang Yuxiu also came, followed by Fang Lusheng's wife Chen Qiaoqiao, and then came to another aunt in the front yard.
Chapter completed!