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Chapter 23

Suoxinying Village is located southeast of Dongy County, about three kilometers away from Xianren Bridge.

At 11:00 a.m., Li Qin, who asked for leave early to go to the meeting, bought a box of instant noodles and a box of drinks, and rode her bicycle to Li Xiang's home in Suoxinying Village.

After entering the house, I drank a glass of cold boiled water to relieve the heat. Li Qin didn't have time to rest for a long time, so she went to the shaded place under the aisle of the gatehouse, moved a small stool, sat down with a group of women and relatives, and chose vegetables while chatting and cutting vegetables...

This is the case in the countryside. Even if you come to visit the meeting, women will help cook, while the men will sit and chat in the living room of the main hall.

The children didn't bother with the heat at all, and ran and played wildly with sweat.

Older children chat with adults and sometimes help.

The parents' home of Li Qin and Li Xiang sisters is in Erdaogou Village, not far away. Speaking of which, when Li Qin got married, it really made neighbors and relatives and friends envious, because in that era, being able to marry a formal employee of a state-owned enterprise and having a household registration in the county town meant that she could live a prosperous life with a stable income from drought and flood, which was much better than in the countryside. However, no one expected that Li Qin would become a widow when she was less than 30 years old.

After Li Qin's parents passed away a few years ago, she returned to her parents' home less and less often. One is because she was too busy, and the other is because she didn't want to be sarcastic and sarcastic by her sister-in-law Feng Chunmei. She only went to her brother's house to visit her relatives occasionally during festivals or during meetings in the village. And every time she went there, she had to pay some of her brother's money and buy some gifts. Otherwise, she would not only not be able to stand her harsh face, but her sister and brother would be embarrassed to be present.

After paying off all the debts in early spring this year, Li Qin felt much more relaxed, and when she went to visit relatives, she felt much straighter.

Unexpectedly, I encountered difficulties again now.

Today, Li Qin planned to discuss with her younger brother Li Bin in private. If Wen Shuo gets admitted to college, she will borrow some money from him first. Her sister Li Xiang has a normal family background and just built a new house. Her son will get married this year, so she will definitely not be able to borrow money.

As for the mother-in-law's family, the mother-in-law died very early. Ten years ago, her father-in-law could not bear the tragedy of her son's accidental death and the white man sent a black man. She fell ill due to sadness and had passed away after half a year of bedridden. After that, Wen Shuo's aunt stopped contacting their family.

Among Li Qin's few relatives and friends, only his younger brother Li Bin had good family conditions. When Wen Shuo's father was alive, he gave Li Bin an idea to borrow money to buy a freight truck and helped him contact the freight transportation business of the cotton spinning mill. As a result, Li Bin began to get rich. Later, the cotton spinning mill went bankrupt and Li Bin was not affected at all. He had already developed many customers and now he has three large freight trucks under his command. He is a veritable rich man in Erdaogou Village.

There are more and more people, and the courtyard is becoming more and more lively.

Suddenly, a few crisp sounds of horns came from the street outside. The women and children sitting under the aisle of the gatehouse looked out, and saw a brand new and shiny black Santana 2ooo sedan parked outside the yard.

It was Li Bin who drove the car.

The passenger seat was Li Bin's wife Feng Chunmei. She was wearing a white dress, straightened her long, light makeup, a platinum necklace on her neck, a gold bracelet on her wrist, and an exquisite white handbag. She walked up the steps in high heels, greeted her relatives with a smile and warm face, and her mouth was as sweet as if she had been smeared with honey.

Li Bin followed closely behind, with his back and his head combed, he was full of energy and a bb phone hanging around his waist and a mobile phone.

Very generous!

The last one to get out of the car was a thin, tall, and pretty young man. He was Li Congwen, the son of Li Bin and Feng Chunmei. He also studied at No. 1 Middle School and went to the second year of high school after the summer vacation.

The big men chatting in the living room of the main hall all stood up and greeted Li Bin with a smile, warmly greeting him.

The yard is very small and the main hall door is open, so the old men in the living room and the women in the aisle of the gatehouse can chat with each other. Originally, women talked about women and men, when Li Bin and Feng Chunmei arrived, it seemed that they immediately brought together the chat topics between women and men.

No wonder people with wealthy financial conditions naturally seem to become the focus of relatives and friends in such occasions.

Li Qin felt something was wrong. Her sister-in-law Feng Chunmei had a different attitude of contempt and disgust when she saw her today. She became more enthusiastic and kind, and took the initiative to talk to her. She also asked Wen Shuo with concern what was going on in the college entrance examination and what plans were in the future.

Because she didn't know the college entrance examination scores, and Wen Shuo's academic performance in the past was average. Although he said confidently that he could get into college or undergraduate, Li Qin could trust her son, but it was hard to say it in public. If she didn't get into college, wouldn't she be laughed at? So, she could only tell the truth that she didn't know the scores. In the eyes of her relatives, she naturally guessed that Wen Shuo's college entrance examination scores were not good. Li Qin was embarrassed to say it - it was not that these relatives were all snobbish, but because everyone often visited and sat together to chat, so the family members of each other were generally understood.

The college entrance examination is undoubtedly a topic that ordinary people and upper-class people are keen on. So when it comes to the college entrance examination, everyone immediately became interested in talking about who has a child this year's college entrance examination, which neighbor, friend, and relative's children should have good results in the college entrance examination... Chen Nan, the daughter of Li Xiang's sister-in-law Hu Junying, is also a fresh graduate of the No. 1 high school this year.

When it comes to Chen Nan, Hu Junying's face is quite glorious.

And the relatives and friends here also appreciate it.

Because Chen Nan has always had excellent academic performance, it is a foregone conclusion to be admitted to university.

On the other hand, Wen Shuo was also known by all relatives, but he was almost a negative example. His grades were average and his family was poor. He was best to fight in school, but he was still a promising business of picking up rags and collecting waste all year round and rain. It seems that ordinary people have destined to be a promising fate of Wen Shuo for the rest of his life.

Everyone asked Chen Nan why she didn't come. Hu Junying said that she wanted her daughter to spend a few dollars to call to check the scores, but the girls agreed to go to school to check the scores together today. Now, she should be back soon.

"Second aunt, why didn't my cousin come?" Li Congwen looked around at home and didn't see Wen Shuo, so he came over to ask.

Li Qin smiled and said, "He has something to do today, so he won't come."

"What can he do to work?" Feng Chunmei showed a puzzled expression, then glared at her disappointed son dissatisfied, and said with a smile as if she was angry and sarcastic: "Second sister, look at the child Congwen, who always wants to play with him Brother Shuo. I teach him a lesson every time, don't be like you Brother Shuo. If you don't study hard, you will know that fighting will cause trouble. It's not okay to be uneducated or diploma in the future! But the child Congwen is just disobedient, alas."

"Yes, yes." Li Qin was very embarrassed. Others said that Wen Shuo was good at fighting and causing trouble, and he was not wronged at all, but...

Whose child is not a treasure?

Li Qin was very angry, but she couldn't be angry - she had to borrow money from her younger brother!

But Li Congwen, who is in his youth rebellious period, was obviously dissatisfied with his mother's words. He snorted: "Brother Shuo has never been easy to fight and cause trouble. He was helping him when he saw injustice. In our school, there was no one who disliked him. Otherwise, he fought so many times and caused so many troubles. Why didn't he be punished once and never be called a parent? In No. 1 Middle School, Brother Shuo is everyone's idol, who doesn't admire him?"

These words made Li Qin unable to help but smile happily.

"What do you know? Adults speak, but don't interrupt!" Feng Chunmei scolded her son, then turned her head and said to Li Qin, "Second sister, I think so. After Shuo graduated from high school, he must find a serious job. Li Bin and I discussed it. Let Shuo go to our fleet to follow the car. After following for three or two years, he can learn to drive. It's good to get a driver's license in the future. You don't know that the driver of our family's big car now has a salary of 900 yuan a month. It's not tiring. He leaves the car when he has goods, and rests at home when he has no goods."

Li Qin was stunned.

"This is a good thing." Li Xiang interrupted from the side and asked, "How much does it cost to follow the car?"

"It is better to pay for food and accommodation, and there is an old driver who teaches driving, but he doesn't give you money." Feng Chunmei didn't feel embarrassed at all when she said this. Instead, she looked generous and said, "It's better than going to a driving school to study for a driver's license? Besides, what you learn from a car can be used to learn a lot of skills in repairing cars."

"this……"

The women next to them, including the big men in the house, all thought Feng Chunmei was saying unreasonable. Everyone was not foolish. Who wouldn’t know that young people who followed the car could learn to drive, but they were tired, and they had to do dirty and tiring work, and their salary was also low.

Very little, there is a salary.

Where can anyone not pay?

Feng Chunmei continued: "In the past two years, relatives and friends have been coming to the door. I hope that the children in the family can be followed by our car. But Li Bin has always followed a car by himself. I said that he would hire someone, and don't suffer that crime when he becomes a boss. But he insisted on occupying a car by himself and keep it for Xiaoshuo. Second sister, what do I say? It is a good thing for me to follow Xiaoshuo, but he has to prepare for hard work. To learn skills, where can there be no one who doesn't endure hardship? Besides, if we let Xiaoshuo follow our own car, we have to let him take charge of finance. We have to go on a long distance and the freight costs back and forth are at most 20,000 yuan. You said, if it weren't for my nephew, could he give such an important thing to him?"

These words were reasonable and brought out family affection, expressing their importance, trust and care for Wen Shuo.

Feng Chunmei has already figured out the mentality of most people. If she plays the family affection card and shows how kind he is, then even if she obviously takes advantage of the situation, the other party will most likely be embarrassed to refuse and can only agree.

Otherwise, it would be ignorant of esteem!

As she expected, almost everyone present felt that this was the case.

As for the salary issue...
Chapter completed!
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