Chapter 229: One Thousand
Yuan The Meng family had many guests and it was very lively.
At the Ye family's house in the upper village, Ye Pingshun was sitting at the gate of his yard with a cigarette in his hand, looking at the people who were heading to the lower village in an endless stream. He was squinting his eyes in deep thought, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
Inside the courtyard, Ye Ran slowly walked out, glanced at her father, and asked him, "Dad, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll go get it now."
It's only the afternoon, and you're already thinking about the evening?
Ye Pingshun turned to look at his daughter, "What's wrong? Don't you have any money to spend?"
Ye Pingshun knew his family very well. His daughter had something to say and wanted to ask him for something.
Otherwise, it would be unreasonable to suddenly ask someone who has never cooked at home what he wants to eat.
Ye Pingshun is the head of the Ye family. Currently, all the money earned by the family is in his hands. He usually does not pay his son and daughter a salary, but he will give them some pocket money.
If he earned more, he would give more; if he earned less, he would give less. In short, he was not harsh on his family members, and he would never mistreat his precious daughter Ye Ran.
The pocket money Ye Ran usually gets from her father is basically equivalent to an ordinary worker's monthly salary. Otherwise, how would she have the money to buy clothes and cosmetics?
Normally, if Ye Ran didn't have enough money to spend, she would just tell her father. But this time it wasn't ten or twenty yuan, but one thousand. How could it be so easy to get it?
Ye Ran smiled and said, "Dad, didn't I tell you before that there is still one fish left from this morning? How about we stew it tonight? Aren't you going back to the city tomorrow?"
Ye Pingshun is still the village chief. He usually goes back to the village, and the family business is mainly handled by his son and daughter.
When he was doing clothing business, he spent half a day in town and half a day in the village.
Now that his business has expanded to the city, he arranges his time equally, spending a few days in the village and a few days in the city.
When he was in the village, he also had to farm and preside over the work of a village chief.
When he was in the city, he just did the accounting, collected money and arranged related matters. He generally didn't have to do anything with sales.
Besides, he couldn't do those things. There were too many medicines, and he couldn't make any mistakes in the classification. He was old and couldn't remember those things.
This time Ye Pingshun has been in the village for four days. It's time to go and check out the business in the city.
Ye Pingshun nodded, "Let's stew it."
"Okay." Ye Ran smiled, turned around and told her mother about it in the courtyard.
After all this time, I just came here to ask!
Ye Pingshun chuckled, took a puff of his cigarette and asked his daughter, "Have you heard about Meng Shulan's county champion?"
When this matter was mentioned, Ye Ran fell silent, with a complicated expression showing jealousy, envy, reluctance, hatred and everything else.
She knew about this yesterday.
She knew that Meng Shulan had good grades, but she really didn't expect that she would become the top scorer in the county.
Thinking that she had not even passed the preliminary exam, Ye Ran felt very uncomfortable even though she had given up studying.
Ye Pingshun glanced at his daughter, sighed and said, "Studying is still more glorious!"
Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, our ancestors ranked these classes in order.
Ye Ran didn't say anything.
What could she say? She was the one who had wasted several years of study, and she was also the one who failed the preliminary exam. She had no face to say anything.
Ye Pingshun didn't insist on dwelling on the matter of his daughter's studies; he just expressed his feelings.
So after saying this, he changed the subject and asked about Ye Ran and Han Ning.
"Since he didn't pass the exam either, what are your plans next? Will he continue to repeat his studies or start a business with us?"
How would Ye Ran know about this? Han Ning didn't say anything at all.
"Dad, what do you think?"
Ye Ran was not sure and wanted to hear her father's opinion.
Ye Pingshun: "Since he has passed the preliminary examination, if he repeats the year, he still has great hope. But he is already in his early twenties. Even if he can pass the exam after repeating the year, he will be 25 or 26 years old after graduating from college in a few years. He is a college student, and he can be assigned a job after graduation. It doesn't matter if he has a stable job, but you can't wait.
So, it is better to give up this path and focus on business. If you make more money, you can still live a good life. "
After all, Ye Pingshun has been the village chief for more than ten years, so he should be able to understand some of the interests involved.
Han Ning didn't pass the exam this time, but he didn't feel sorry about it. Instead, he felt fortunate.
The Han family lives in the city, and if Han Ning is a college student, he will not be able to handle such a son-in-law.
The father and daughter had the same idea.
In Ye Pingshun's heart, he already regarded Han Ning as his son-in-law. Little did he know that his daughter and that man had never gotten along. He just didn't tell the truth, which gave them some illusions.
Misunderstandings have always existed. Ye Ran firmly believed that she could get Han Ning, so she never mentioned those things.
If it were in the past, when Ye Ran had not been able to conquer Han Ning for a long time, she would have been anxious and might have told her father the truth and asked him to help her.
Ye Pingshun is the head of the family and also the smartest person in the entire Ye family. The family is united and they like to ask him for advice when they have any problems that cannot be solved.
But this time…
Ye Ran said: "Dad, I think he has given up on going to college. He told me yesterday that he plans to start another business."
"Another business?"
Ye Pingshun threw away the cigarette in his hand, "What business?"
Ye Ran smiled unnaturally, "He's still trying to find connections and make preparations. He didn't tell me, but said that this business is big and it would take some time to find connections and ways in the early stages. He also asked me to prepare a thousand yuan for him."
Ye Ran just told her about the one thousand yuan.
At first, when Ye Pingshun heard that there was a new business, and it was a big business, he became excited. But the last thousand yuan was like cold water poured on his face, making his nerves tense immediately.
"One thousand dollars? What kind of business needs to spend one thousand dollars to find a way in the early stage?"
In the past two months, their family opened a drugstore, and they only spent a little over 200 yuan on gifts. Ye Pingshun thought it was exaggerated. Now they have another 1,000 yuan...
Ye Pingshun is not a fool. This is not the right approach at all. Han Ning is asking his daughter for money.
If he only asked for a hundred, Ye Pingshun would give it to him, but he wanted a thousand. This was the current working capital of their store. The next time the store purchases goods, it will come from this money, and the external debts also need to be repaid slowly. He couldn't just give Han Ning a thousand.
Seeing that her father didn't believe her, Ye Ran pursed her lips and explained, "It's urgent, and he didn't explain it clearly, but I think he's serious. If he gets a new business, there's no need for him to repeat his studies. He'll work with us in the future. If we open a few more stores, we'll be able to make back the money quickly."
Now they have drug stores in their town and city, and they can save 100 or 200 yuan a month after deducting various expenses. Even if they give Han Ning 1,000 yuan, the money will be back in just half a year.
Although it’s a bit much, we can still afford it.
(End of this chapter)
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