The car at home was bought by my parents for my brother. Before my brother got engaged, my father would occasionally drive the car and take my mother and her out to play.
When there is no farm work, I will drive them to the free parks nearby.
What impressed her most was the trip to the Tulip Park in the neighboring county during the May Day holiday last year. There was no entrance fee, but there were a lot of flowers and a river, and it was very beautiful.
Ever since my brother got engaged, my father has made it very clear that the car was bought for my brother's family, and if he drives it, the couple will easily have conflicts.
So this is just right for my parents to drive, and then I can encourage my mom to get a driver's license.
Besides, she is not short of money now, so she can buy a car she likes when the time comes.
Thinking of this, Lin Jiaojiao picked up the phone to call her father, but after hesitating for a long time, she called her mother.
It’s not that she and her dad aren’t close, it’s just that there’s something awkward about it.
She usually calls her mother more often. When she goes home during the winter and summer vacations, she goes shopping with her mother and chats with her father. However, if her mother is not around, she sometimes doesn't know what to say.
It feels inexplicably unnatural.
Most of the rural people there are implicitly biased towards boys.
Normally, it's fine. Boys and girls are basically treated equally in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation and schooling.
But when it comes to marriage, the boy's family will buy him a house and a car, but the girl has nothing.
However, the bride price is usually left to the girl herself, and as for the dowry, some have it and some don't.
However, she has gotten used to it because every household is like this and that is the general environment.
Even in families with only one daughter, the family will not buy a car or a house for the girl.
She thought it was normal for her family to empty their savings to support her brother's marriage. After all, the family situation was there and her parents had limited means.
And the general environment is like this. If parents do not support their boys in buying houses and cars, they will be drowned by the gossip in the village.
However, she would use her money to honor her parents, but would not take the initiative to give a cent to her brother's family.
Of course, except for special circumstances, she would still support her brother if he was sick and in urgent need of money.
"Niuniu, why are you calling again?"
Mother Lin's voice came through the speaker, and Lin Jiaojiao came back to her senses.
"Mom, I bought you a big gold bracelet. The courier is on the way. Please pay attention to the news in the next two days."
"Why waste this money?" Mother Lin's tone was full of complaints, but the smile on her face was very bright.
"How can I say I'm wasting money when I buy things for my mom?"
Lin Jiaojiao retorted with a smile. She still remembered that two years ago, her cousin from her uncle's family bought a gold necklace for her aunt.
The aunt showed off to her sisters-in-law for a long time, and my mother was also quite envious.
But my brother is a boy. Although he works, he never thinks about buying things for my parents. She is still young and has no money at all.
The last time she gave her mother something was when she was in her senior year of high school and worked during the summer vacation. She earned the money and bought her mother a silver bracelet. It wasn’t expensive, only a little over 300 yuan.
My mother was happy for a long time that time and praised her daughter for being filial to everyone she met. She felt inexplicably sad.
Now that she is rich, she gave her mother a gold bracelet to make her happy.
"Niuniu..." Mother Lin's voice was a little hesitant, and after a long pause she said, "Did you buy anything for your father?"
"He'll definitely be jealous when he sees you buy me a gold bracelet."
Lin Jiaojiao understood the phrase "treat everyone equally" very early on. She had given her mother a gift but didn't think of her father. Later, seeing her father's eager eyes, she immediately went to the street and bought a belt the next day.
The thing was not expensive, only twenty yuan, but my dad was happy for a long time.
It's not that she was partial to her mother and spent more than three hundred yuan to buy a silver bracelet, but only bought a twenty-yuan belt for her father, but she really didn't know what to give to a man.
"Of course I bought it, Mom, you still don't trust me." Lin Jiaojiao said coquettishly.
"That's good. Don't you know that you bought me a silver bracelet two years ago but didn't buy anything for your dad? He even secretly wiped away his tears at night."
"Really?" Lin Jiaojiao asked in surprise, her eyes wide open.
She really couldn't connect wiping away tears with her father's stern expression.
As far as she could remember, her father had always been a rather strict person and they rarely communicated. It was only after she started high school that she began to communicate with him a little more.
"Why would I lie to you?" said Mother Lin.
"Mom, aren't you curious about where I got the money to buy you the gold bracelet?" Lin Jiaojiao asked curiously.
"You are my own daughter, how can I not know what you are thinking? You must have won more than 200,000 in the lottery." Mother Lin said proudly.
"All right."
I really can't hide it from my mom at all.
"Mom, there's another surprise. Do you want to know?" Lin Jiaojiao's tone was full of mystery.
"I don't want to." Mother Lin didn't give any face at all.
Lin Jiaojiao: “…”
Lin Jiaojiao was choked for a moment, and without further ado, she asked directly, "Mom, where is my dad?"
When Mother Lin saw that it was the father she was looking for, she handed the phone to him without hesitation, "Old Lin, your daughter is looking for you."
It was so fast that Lin Jiaojiao didn't even react.
"Niuniu?" asked Lin's father.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but exchange a few words of greeting.
Father Lin didn't stop what he was doing. He turned on the loud speaker and said, "Packaging."
Lin Jiaojiao was originally lying leisurely on the sofa, but upon hearing this, she sat up straight, "Dad, are you going to S City again?"
"Yes." Dad Lin said slowly, stuffing the quilt into the big bag, while Mom Lin packed clothes on the side.
"It was agreed upon a few days ago, but the specific time was not decided. They were only notified last night. It's the noon train." Lin's father added.
"How long are you going to be gone?" Lin Jiaojiao asked.
"Come back before the autumn harvest, about three months."
She knew that even if she gave her parents 200,000 yuan, they would not take a break.
"Dad, I need you for something, can you come over?"
Lin Jiaojiao deliberately spoke in an anxious tone, and Lin's father's heart was instantly in suspense.
But before she could finish her words, Lin's mother spoke first, "Niuniu, what's wrong? Is someone bullying you at school? I..."
Father Lin also said hurriedly, "Niuniu, I'll go to the station to buy a ticket later..."
"Dad, Mom, please listen to me first." Lin Jiaojiao interrupted the other party's spell.
"I won a car in a lottery at a supermarket a few days ago. They delivered it to me and I found a place to park it. The parking fee alone cost me over 100 yuan a day."
Lin Jiaojiao deliberately paused for a moment and continued, "But I can't drive. Dad, can you drive home? Parking is free in our rural area."
Upon hearing this, Lin's father and mother looked at each other and were speechless.
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