Chapter 221 Breaking Ten Thousand

Although Lin Qiu also enjoyed her sweet time with Wang Xiuren, the first thing she did every morning when she woke up was to circle the calendar and calculate how long it would take for her daughter to come back.

By mid-August, Lin Qiu finally saw his daughter back.

Wang Shan pushed the suitcase and walked slowly beside Guo Dongyuan and his wife.

When she saw her parents waiting in the airport reception hall, she quickly ran towards them dragging her suitcase.

"Mother!"

"dad!"

After standing still, Wang Shan hugged Lin Qiu tightly.

"Mom, I miss you so much." She unconsciously leaned her head on Lin Qiu's shoulder for a few times, like a child who had not grown up.

Lin Qiu kept stroking her hair, "Mom misses you too."

The mother and daughter were cuddling each other here and expressing their longing for each other.

Wang Xiuren held flowers and walked towards Guo Dongyuan and his wife who were walking towards him.

"Mr. Guo, Mrs. Guo, welcome back!"

Guo Dongyuan and his wife took the flowers handed over by Wang Xiuren and said, "Thank you."

Lin Qiuyue quickly released her embrace and walked forward with her daughter, "Teacher Guo, Mrs. Guo, thank you for your hard work during this period."

Guo Dongyuan waved his hand calmly, "No need to be so polite!"

Mrs. Guo held the flowers and smiled kindly, "Thanks to Shanshan for bringing us along on this trip, it has made our two old bones feel a lot more relaxed."

"It's because you think highly of her that you keep her by your side."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, they walked out of the airport together.

Lin Qiu originally planned to personally send Mr. Guo and his wife home, but they had their own special car to pick them up at the airport, so the group separated in the parking lot outside the airport and got into their cars to go home.

"Why did you wait in Shanghai for so long? Didn't you agree that you would be back in half a month at most?" Lin Qiu asked impatiently as soon as he got in the car.

Wang Shan leaned against her mother and said, "This time, there were too many visitors, so the exhibition time was extended. In addition, a friend of Teacher Guo also had an exhibition in Suzhou two days ago, so I stayed for two more days."

"Shanshan, you don't know that your mother has been counting on her fingers every day to calculate when you will come back. Her fingers are almost like a stone for her to look back at her daughter." Wang Xiuren teased with a smile.

"I don't know who is talking about this every day at home with the desk calendar in hand." Lin Qiu was not willing to be outdone and started to expose Wang Xiuren's shortcomings.

Wang Xiuren laughed and retorted, "You are the same, drawing circles on the calendar every morning."

"What's wrong with me drawing circles? What's the matter? Do I miss my daughter?" Lin Qiu raised his eyebrows.

"Okay, okay, now you can not only think about it, but also hug it! I can only sit in the driver's seat and watch you two mother and daughter being affectionate!" Wang Xiuren deliberately lengthened his voice.

Lin Qiu couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Stop talking nonsense and drive carefully!"

Wang Shan's eyes kept rolling back and forth between her parents. She had been to Shanghai, and when she came back she felt that her parents were as sticky as honey.

I even had the thought that she shouldn't be in the car.

She shook her head gently to get rid of this weird thought.

It can be said that Wang Shan benefited a lot from this trip to Shanghai with Teacher Guo to hold an exhibition.

Not only did she receive guidance from industry leaders, but there were actually people willing to buy her paintings.

However, she only sold one painting, and sent the other one back to be given to her parents.

Over the years, my parents have always taken me to study painting, rain or shine, and have taken me out to sketch during holidays and winter and summer vacations.

Not to mention the expense, she felt that she could never repay him for his companionship alone.

After returning home, Wang Shan presented the framed painting to her parents and told them that she had specially left it for them.

The couple was very moved. Wang Xiuren immediately found a toolbox and hung the painting above their bed.

After the paintings were hung, Wang Shan took out four gift boxes and pushed two of them in front of her parents, full of joy, "But these are the gifts I bought for you with the money from selling the paintings, open them quickly and have a look!"

Lin Qiu opened the gift box, and inside lay a string of silvery, white, and lustrous pearl necklaces.

"Mom, let me put it on for you!"

After that, Wang Shan gently hung the necklace around Lin Qiu's neck, then looked at her expectantly, "Do you like it?"

"I like it!" Lin Qiu touched the necklace on his neck, his eyes red.

"Dad, take a look at your gift!" Wang Shan urged.

"Oh, we are still connected as father and daughter. I said I wanted to change my watch two days ago, but now I can just put it on!"

Wang Xiuren instinctively took off the watch on his hand and replaced it with the one bought by Wang Shan. He raised his hand and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it and the happier he was.

"Thank you, Shanshan. You have good taste!"

Wang Shan smiled even more happily, patting her chest and saying, "When someone buys my paintings in the future, I will buy you gifts!"

"We're waiting!" Wang Xiuren agreed readily.

After the old couple came back, they also received gifts from their granddaughters. Zhou Qing got a pearl bracelet and Lin Ting got a small purple sandalwood bracelet.

The old couple were so moved that when they looked at their granddaughter, they felt that no amount of love could ever be enough.

The old couple's return also means that school is about to start again.

In the second semester of my first year in high school, I had already filled out the application form for liberal arts or science majors. Wang Shan didn't want to leave the class, so she chose science.

After entering the second year of high school, the academic pressure increased significantly. Wang Shan also became busier, and the light in the study was on until eleven o'clock every night.

Zhou Qing felt sorry for Wang Shan who was getting thinner due to studying, so he cooked soup in the kitchen every day in an attempt to make her face rounder.

Busy days always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was 2007.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, Wang Shan had dinner with her parents, gave her father a birthday present, and then returned to her study to continue doing her homework.

She now wants to seize the time and learn the cultural knowledge thoroughly. From the summer vacation of her second year in high school to the first semester of her third year in high school, she will be busy with the unified art examinations and the recruitment examinations of major art academies, and has no time to stay in school for a long time.

In order to get into her ideal college, she has to work twice as hard as others.

Now that their daughter has gone to school, Lin Qiu and his wife have no interest in watching the Spring Festival Gala or staying up all night to celebrate the New Year.

The two of them simply went back to their room, took out their account books and passbooks to check the accounts.

This has become a regular feature of their family’s New Year’s Eve celebrations every year.

"Wow, we have actually saved so much money?" Wang Xiuren looked at the numbers on the passbook and felt a little unbelievable.

"This money seems like a lot, but if you really calculate it, it's only enough to buy two houses." Lin Qiu turned the pages of the account book while installing a calculator.

"Impossible?" Wang Xiuren was a little unconvinced. "Three million is only enough to buy two houses?"

"You still think I lied to you?"

Lin Qiu wrote the total at the bottom of the account book, locked the computer and the account book in the cabinet, and then discussed it in detail with Wang Xiuren.

"Last year, the housing prices in Bao'an District exceeded 10,000 yuan, and other districts are even more expensive. Buying a 100-square-meter three-bedroom apartment costs about 1 million yuan, plus decoration, furniture and appliances. Can our family only afford two houses?"

“House prices are so expensive now?”

Ever since Wang Xiuren bought the building, he hasn't paid much attention to the news in this regard. Although he knows that housing prices are rising, he didn't expect that they have exceeded ten thousand.

"What do you think?" Lin Qiu raised his eyebrows.

Where are we now?

In a few years, the housing prices in Shenzhen will become unaffordable.