Chapter 421 Gao Mingcheng wants to buy a camera (asking for monthly tickets)

Zhang Jinling and Gao Yuanjian are somewhat related. Zhang Jinling's grandmother is from the eldest branch of Gaojia Village. In terms of seniority, they are related, but in terms of blood relationship, the relationship is not deep.

This time, Luo Xiaohua asked someone to propose marriage to Gao Mingli. There were several candidates, but in the end Luo Xiaohua chose Zhang Jinling.

Zhang Jinling is the eldest sister in the family. She has a younger sister and a younger brother. She is good at everything at home and outside, and is a very hardworking person.

But Zhang Jinling also has some shortcomings. Her skin is dark, her lips are relatively large, and they seem to be turned outward. There is also a conspicuous mole near her mouth.

These small flaws make Zhang Jinling's appearance seem particularly ordinary.

If Gao Mingli had not been attracted to Deng Wanwan, he would not have been so picky about Zhang Jinling's appearance.

But now when comparing Zhang Jinling with Deng Wanwan, Gao Mingli's expression didn't look very good.

That day was a holiday in the factory, so he borrowed many Midea bicycles and rode back to Gaojia Village alone. Then he was taken by Luo Xiaohua to Zhang Jinling's home to discuss the engagement.

Zhang Jinling's home is located at the foot of a small hill. The entire hill was the mountain land allocated to their family, so they fenced it off and raised a lot of chickens on it. The family has income from selling chicks and eggs, so they live a decent life.

And because Zhang Jinling is a hard-working person, she knows how to hatch chicks and raise chickens.

Zhang Jinling is of medium build. She sits there quietly with a slightly shy look on her face.

If you look closely, you will find that all members of the Zhang family have a signature big mouth, and the children born to Zhang Jinling and Gao Mingli later also inherited this big mouth.

Zhang Jinling is quiet, Gao Mingli is also quiet. A young man like him who doesn't know how to deal with things is lucky to be born in this era. If in another twenty years, if you don't know how to deal with things and can't please girls, then be prepared to be single!

Luo Xiaohua and Zhang Jinling's parents had a happy conversation. While both sides were chatting and laughing, they agreed on the bride price and how much to buy.

As for the wedding date, it is set for June 8th.

It is already May, so the wedding will be here soon. It is time to start preparing all the items needed for the wedding.

Luo Xiaohua gave the betrothal gift on the spot, and the Zhang family would use the money to find a carpenter to order wooden boxes. At that time, they would give away a pair of wooden boxes, two quilts, a cupboard, a washbasin rack, a washbasin, and a thermos.

These are Zhang Jinling’s dowry. As for the bottom money, it depends on how much Zhang Jinling’s parents are willing to give.

The discussion went smoothly. Gao Mingli didn't say much from beginning to end. He was just there to serve as a decoration.

However, Zhang Jinling's parents are still quite satisfied with him.

Since Gao Yuanjian has the skill of distilling wine, he earns a lot of money in a year, and Gao Mingli is a regular employee of the sugar factory, so he is a real worker!

At this moment, the identity of a worker is still very popular.

But soon, with the changes in the domestic economic market, many workers were laid off.

After the wedding was settled, Zhang Jinling's mother said, "Xiaohua, your family has a house in the village, but Mingli works in the county, so he must live in the county. He is staying at his second brother's house now, which is not a problem. But, he can't stay there forever, right?"

Luo Xiaohua also thought of this. In fact, deep down she didn't want Gao Mingli to live in Gao Mingcheng's house. She was afraid that Gao Mingli would be like Gao Shufang and stand on Gao Mingcheng's side, then she would have given birth to a son in vain.

So she said, "We definitely need to buy a house, but we can't buy one for the time being. My dear relatives, let me tell you the truth. Right now, the money in our family is only enough for the betrothal gift and the wedding banquet, but if we wait another year, we will definitely have enough money to buy a house."

When she said this, her expression was extremely confident, so Zhang Jinling's mother believed her.

Luo Xiaohua was indeed confident that Gao Yuanjian could make money by steaming wine. She grew and sold vegetables every year, and sold the pigs at the end of the year. At the end of the year, she would make about 2,000 yuan. With the money Gao Mingli had saved, she should be able to buy a house.

And she thought, if that was still not enough, she could borrow from Lao San and Shufang.

As for the second brother, Luo Xiaohua had made up his mind that they would not pay any attention to him unless he first gave in and apologized to them.

Just pretend that you never gave birth to this son.

This thought only flashed through their minds, because afterwards, they had a sumptuous lunch at Zhang Jinling's house and talked a lot about their plans after marriage.

However, Luo Xiaohua did not express her true intentions truthfully. She planned to speak them out after getting married.

The reason why she chose Zhang Jinling for Gao Mingli was because she was hardworking. Therefore, she thought that after Gao Mingli and Zhang Jinling got married, she would use the excuse that it was not good for both husband and wife to stay at Gao Mingcheng's house to keep Zhang Jinling living in the village.

When Gaomingli is on holiday, I will come back and stay for a night, and then go to the county for work.

If Zhang Jinling stayed in the village, she could buy more chickens for Zhang Jinling to raise, and she could also help her take care of the vegetables in the fields and the pigs at home.

In this way, Luo Xiaohua's life will be much easier.

But Luo Xiaohua knew clearly that if she said it now, Zhang Jinling would be easy to fool, but her parents would definitely not be easy to fool.

Therefore, she kept it in her heart and never said it out loud.

After leaving Zhang Jinling's house, Luo Xiaohua happily took credit for it to Gao Mingli: "Look! Mom found you such a good daughter-in-law! The Zhang family is not poor, so you don't have to worry about her constantly supporting her parents in the future. She has a good personality and is hardworking. If our two families were not related, you wouldn't have found such a good daughter-in-law!"

Luo Xiaohua was extremely pleased and waited for Gao Mingli to express his gratitude.

But Gao Mingli did not express his opinion yet.

Gao Mingli had a gloomy look on his face, with none of the joy and anticipation of having just gotten engaged.

There is even a trace of regret in my heart.

When he asked his second brother, his second brother told him to save money for two years and then look for a suitable person, and told him not to rush into getting married.

But at that time, he suddenly felt very dissatisfied. They were all brothers, and his other brothers had all gotten married and even had children.

So why did I get married so late?

Two years? Would they have the money for the betrothal gift and the house in two years? Even Gao Mingli himself thought it was unlikely.

So, if you rely on yourself to get married, it may take three, four or even five years!

Thinking of this, Gao Mingli decided to listen to his parents and marry Zhang Jinling.

But he just bowed to reality, which did not mean that he really liked Zhang Jinling and looked forward to marrying her as soon as possible. In his heart, marrying Zhang Jinling was just to complete the mission.

He agreed to marry Zhang Jinling, which made his parents happy and relieved.

Gao Mingli did not respond to Luo Xiaohua. Instead, after sending Luo Xiaohua back to Gaojia Village, he rode his bicycle directly back to the county.

Luo Xiaohua felt a little angry when she saw Gao Mingli's depressed look. She thought that it must be the second brother who led Mingli astray!

Thinking of this, she picked up her hoe and went to work in the fields. She planned to plant more vegetables this year, earn more money from the vegetable sales, and buy a house for Mingli as soon as possible so that Mingli could move out.

After getting engaged to Zhang Jinling, Gao Mingli was a little depressed, but after returning to the county, he still told Gao Mingcheng and Gao Shufang about it.

Gao Mingcheng was a little surprised, but also felt that it was as expected.

As per convention, he gave Gao Mingli a suit and Zhang Jinling a dress. If Zhang Jinling wanted to wear a wedding dress, she could lend it to her.

But Gao Mingli rejected the wedding dress proposal without even thinking about it, saying, "She is very dark, and she will definitely not look good in a wedding dress."

Gao Mingcheng never forced her, so he said, "Then when you take her to the county to buy wedding supplies, take her to the store to pick out a dress."

Gao Mingli heard this but didn't say anything immediately.

That night, Xuanyuemei asked Gao Mingcheng: "After Mingli gets married, will his wife also live here?"

Gao Mingli used to live in a rented house, but later Gao Mingcheng's clothing store opened and there was a vacant house, so for the sake of brotherhood, he let Gao Mingli move in.

Before they got married, they were just brothers, but after they got married, they became two families.

Gao Mingcheng didn't know what Gao Mingli was planning. If he asked, it would feel like he was trying to chase him away.

So he said, "Let him be. If he lives here, just treat him as a relative."

Gao Mingcheng cares more about his son than Gao Mingli's marriage.

He held little Xuxu in his arms, looked left and right, and always felt that something was missing.

Suddenly, it occurred to him.

camera!

He hasn't bought a camera yet, so he hasn't been taking pictures of little Xuxu's growth process all the time!

What a mistake! You know, when smartphones became popular, people were always keen to use their phones to take pictures and capture the wonderful moments in life.

Some photography experts have countless photos in their albums.

Some children in later generations have photos of themselves from birth to growing up. These photos can be used by their parents to reminisce about the past, and can also let the children know what they looked like at different time periods.

"Duomei, I'm going to buy a camera! We should take more pictures, otherwise in a few years, we might forget what Xiao Xuxu looked like when he was a child." Gao Mingcheng said excitedly, and began to wonder whether to buy it in the county or in Yangcheng.

He decided to go to the county store first to look for it. If there was no good one, he would have to go to Yangcheng to buy it.

Manyumei was also very interested in this proposal, but her first thought was to ask whether the camera was expensive.

She had been to a photo studio to take pictures, and Gao Mingcheng had also borrowed a camera from the photo studio before, so she was not unfamiliar with cameras.

I just subconsciously thought that cameras would be expensive.

Gao Mingcheng recalled the current prices and said, "A domestic camera costs about 500 yuan, and an imported one should cost about 2,000 yuan."

"Oh! It's so expensive!" Xuanyuemei felt sorry for the money, but she was not the kind of person who had to keep all the money in her hands. Out of trust in Gao Mingcheng, Xuanyuemei said, "I don't understand either. You decide which one to buy!"

"Yes." Gao Mingcheng took on this glorious task.

The next day, he went to the county store to look at cameras.

Gao Mingcheng remembers that there was a photography craze in China from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, and that camera advertisements had already appeared in newspapers in the 1970s.

Ever since his family bought a color TV, Gao Mingcheng occasionally sees advertisements about cameras on TV.

When he arrived at the store, he asked people about cameras and found out that the county only had the domestically produced Seagull DF camera. This camera was actually quite good, as it was a single-lens reflex camera.

A Seagull DF camera, priced at 540 yuan.

However, from the perspective of later generations, Gao Mingcheng thought that this camera was very backward. He remembered that the photos taken by this camera were very clear, but that was only when taking black and white photos. If it was used to take color films, the photos would be yellowish overall.

This is because its lens has problems and it cannot digest color film well.

Since Gao Mingcheng wanted to buy a camera, he must use it to take color photos, so after looking at it, he decided to buy an imported one.

It's not that he is worshipping foreign things, but at that time, imported electrical appliances are really better than domestic ones.

Of course, after more than ten years of development, domestic technology has gradually improved, and the quality of electrical appliances produced is definitely not inferior to those abroad.

You know, Chinese products are popular all over the world!

Gao Mingcheng was eager to buy a camera as soon as possible, so he went to the transportation company and asked Xiao Jinfeng to arrange a trip for him to Yangcheng. He wanted to buy a camera and bring back a batch of clothes at the same time.

It's May now, and it's time to buy new summer clothes.

Gao Mingcheng was equivalent to a non-staff member of the transportation company. When he went there, Gao Mingwan happened to be there. When he heard this request, his eyes lit up instantly.

"Okay, I'm going to Yangcheng tomorrow. Second brother, you can do it for me, so I can have a few days' rest!"

Gao Mingwan interrupted too quickly and Xiao Jinfeng could only glare at him helplessly. Reliable drivers were always in short supply. Apart from their friendship, Xiao Jinfeng was also very happy to have Gao Mingcheng take the job.

Since Gao Mingwan had spoken, Xiao Jinfeng didn't say much, so he gave the car that Gao Mingwan was going to drive to Gao Mingcheng.

It was a rare occasion for Gao Mingcheng to meet Gao Mingwan, so the two brothers walked out and sat in a secluded place to talk.

Gao Mingcheng told Gao Mingli the date of his wedding so that Gao Mingwan would know the date and make time to attend the wedding.

Gao Mingwan was indeed going. When he got married last year, Gao Mingli helped him. So this time when Gao Mingli was getting married, he naturally had to help out.

"Okay, I will definitely go when the time comes. Oh, I didn't expect that the fourth child is also going to get married. Time flies so fast! Sometimes when I close my eyes, I think we are still kids." Gao Mingwan said with emotion.

Gao Mingcheng smiled. Childhood... for him, it was even more distant, and the memory of it was a little yellowed.

But he doesn't miss his childhood.

If you were happy as a child, then you might miss it, but if you were not, then it’s okay not to miss it.

Gao Mingcheng changed the subject and asked about Wang Xiuxiu's small business.

When Gao Mingwan mentioned this, his face fell and he said, "Hey, Xiuxiu is too quiet and not cut out for business! I've lost a lot of capital! Second brother, I'll have to wait to pay back the money I borrowed from you."

Gao Mingcheng was not surprised to hear this.

It is said that character determines destiny. Wang Xiuxiu's character destined her to be unsuitable for business.

But now, there is nothing else except running a small business which is free and profitable.

Unless... a thought emerged in Gao Mingcheng's mind, but he didn't rush to say it out loud.

If he used his connections to help Wang Xiuxiu, he might be able to get her a job as an elementary school teacher.

But he felt that it was not necessary to do this, because Gao Hong and his fiancée were not married yet. It would be a bit difficult to ask for help from the other family and ask them to do something for him.

Gao Mingcheng had another good idea. He said, "Ming Wan, you know I'm planning to run a kindergarten, right?"

Gao Mingwan nodded. Although he was often on the road, he was still well-informed.

The main reason was that when he returned to the transportation company, Xiao Jinfeng would often tell him things about Gao Mingcheng.

"Here's what I think. You can ask your sister-in-law to find all the old books and study them carefully, and then focus on learning English. My kindergarten will start next spring, and you can ask your sister-in-law to come and be the teacher. What do you think?"

After Gao Mingcheng finished speaking, he looked at Gao Mingwan, waiting for him to speak.

Gao Mingwan didn't even think twice, his eyes sparkled, and he immediately said, "Okay! Xiuxiu will definitely be able to do this well!"

He agreed at first, then Gao Mingwan realized belatedly and asked, "Why do I have to learn English?"

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Because I want to run a bilingual kindergarten!"

“What is bilingualism?”

"It's English and Chinese. Learning English should start from childhood!"

Gao Mingwan seemed to understand, but he had a feeling of inexplicable power. He thought, it is indeed the second brother, so awesome!

Gao Mingcheng was thinking that he knew a few simple English sentences in his previous life, but he was better at speaking local dialects. If a dialect class was offered, he could become a dialect teacher.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt happy.

For two lifetimes, he had nothing to do with the profession of teacher, but he never expected that as long as he wanted, he could become a teacher immediately.

Ahem, although I’m just a kindergarten teacher in my own kindergarten!

Just thinking about teaching a group of kids to speak dialects from different places is such a funny scene!

Friends, I am going back to the countryside to hold a wedding banquet during the National Day. Yes, I have been married for ten years and have two children, but I still haven’t held a wedding banquet.

But don't feel sorry for me, because we had the wedding ceremony at my parents' home in the year. My parents' home believes in holding the wedding ceremony before pregnancy. If you hold the wedding ceremony when you have a child or are pregnant, people will talk about it.

As there is no such requirement here, I just let them arrange it.

I will probably be busy all day tomorrow and may not have time to write. I may have to take a day off.

Well, although the updates are not strong, I still request double monthly tickets!!!

Dear friends, please give some money and vote for the monthly ticket! ~

(End of this chapter)