Chapter 301 Zheng Family Trouble
"Maybe I encountered something urgent and forgot to tell you." Seeing Wang Xiumei like that, Su Mo found a way for her to step aside so that she wouldn't be too embarrassed.
Wang Cuimei smiled and patted her head, "Look at my head, Old Zheng mentioned it to me a few days ago, but I was busy watching TV and forgot about it."
After coming out of the logistics office, Wang Cuimei said to Su Mo awkwardly, "Su Mo, you are making a fool of yourself." Su Mo
waved her hand. Every family has its own problems.
On the way back, Wang Cuimei seemed to have been holding it in for too long and began to complain to Su Mo.
"I know what he did with the money. He lent it to his cousin to build a house and get married."
"Do you know why I bought a TV? Because he wanted to lend 200 yuan to his cousin, but I disagreed and used the money to buy a TV. I thought he wouldn't have to borrow money if he didn't have money, but he actually borrowed money to get his salary."
"I have been with the army for seven or eight years. His relatives write to me from time to time to borrow money. This family asks for thirty, that family asks for fifty, and this time they ask for two hundred. Over the years, I have lent out seven or eight hundred yuan, and I have never seen any family pay me back."
"I have been frugal for so many years, and I wish I could spend every penny. I finally saved some money, but it all went to outsiders."
"They only know that Lao Zheng earns more than 100 yuan a month, and they think it's a lot, but they don't know how much the family expenses are. I try hard to save money every month, but the money is like putting it in a funnel, it's gone in a short time."
"Su Mo, will your man's relatives borrow money from your family?"
Su Mo shook her head, "No."
Her two brothers have never asked, and as for other relatives, she doesn't know. It is estimated that if they want to borrow money, they will go to Lu Qingan, anyway, they have never asked them.
It must be said that parents and relatives are clear-headed, which really saves a lot of trouble.
"Then do you send money to his parents?"
"Yes, ten yuan a month, and occasionally buy some things and send them back."
When they first sent money, Lu Qing'an wrote a letter saying that it was not necessary to send it. The couple took into consideration that they were far away and could not visit their parents, so they insisted on sending it.
With money in hand, there is no need to worry. In this way, Li Yue'e would not have to do heavy work and fight for those few work points. After all, she is in her fifties.
"Your parents-in-law are good. My parents think twenty yuan a month is not enough. If I send 10 yuan, they will probably turn the sky upside down."
"The youngest is still the best. Old Zheng is the eldest. Everything depends on him in the family. Old Zheng is also a face-loving person and takes on everything."
Su Mo wanted to say that this is not about who is the eldest or not, but about the attitude of the parents and the family style.
Lu Xingjun is the eldest, and I don't see Lu Qing'an and his wife relying on him for everything. Lu Changzheng is the most promising one in the family, and I don't see Lu Qing'an suppressing him to pull up other brothers.
Therefore, the key depends on the attitude of the elders.
She speculated a little unkindly that the reason why so many relatives wrote to Zheng Guosheng to borrow money might be because his parents exaggerated Haikou in front of the relatives. In later generations, the Internet was well developed, and she had seen too many examples of parents who were confused and made trouble for their promising children.
Moreover, maybe those relatives did not pay back the money, but returned it to Zheng Guosheng's parents, who took it and did not give it back to them. There is also a possibility that the old couple enjoyed the honor of being praised by others, and waved their hands to forgive their debts.
Otherwise, after borrowing so much, there will always be a family that will pay it back. It is impossible that all of them are bad people.
However, Su Mo still didn't say anything, so as not to pierce Wang Cuimei again.
After returning home, Wang Cuimei broke down and wiped her tears. After
wiping her tears, she went to the place where she hid the money, found the money, counted it, and there were still 123 yuan left. In the past two months, it is not impossible not to send money to her hometown and not give pocket money to Lao Zheng.
Seeing that it was getting late, Wang Cuimei went to cook. There was not much rice left in the rice jar, but there were still a lot of sweet potatoes. At noon, Wang Cuimei steamed the sweet potatoes and fried two vegetables. When
the children came back from playing outside, they saw that they were eating sweet potatoes and asked, "Mom, didn't you go buy food today? Why are you eating sweet potatoes again?"
"Your father used his salary to help your cousin get married. There is no money at home. We have to save money in the future. We are eating sweet potatoes." She was not going to cover up for Lao Zheng and let the children know what he did.
After hearing this, the three children wailed immediately.
In the evening, when Zheng Guosheng came back, he saw only dry vegetables and a large bowl of sweet potatoes on the table, and he lost his appetite instantly.
"I've told you so many times to add some oil when cooking vegetables. You've been saving a lot every day, but I haven't seen you save much."
Wang Cuimei rolled her eyes, "You don't have money to buy oil."
"You have money to buy a TV, but no money to buy oil?"
"We have used all the money to buy a TV, and we are just waiting for your salary to live. You advanced my salary, and we don't know how we have lived in the past two months."
Zheng Guosheng was furious. "My salary is more than 100 yuan a month, but I just lent 200 yuan to others. How can we live like this? You have been with the army for seven or eight years. How can you save 1,000 or 800 yuan in all these years? Where is the money? Where did it go? Did you give it to your parents?"
Wang Cuimei was also furious. "My parents would not dare to take advantage of you. Where did the money go? We borrowed it from your relatives! I calculated this afternoon. In these years, we borrowed a total of 870 yuan from your relatives, plus the 200 yuan borrowed from your cousin, a total of more than 1,000 yuan, and no one has ever paid it back."
"Do you think your salary is high? 127 yuan a month, your parents send you 20 yuan a month, and you smoke and drink, so you have to spend 30 yuan a month, and 50 yuan has already been deducted." "
The remaining 77 yuan, to support a family of five, and to entertain your subordinates from time to time, do you think it is easy to spend?"
"Let me calculate where the money goes. Our family has 171 catties of food every month, 40% of which is fine grain and 60% is coarse grain. Rice is 1.4 cents a catty, and sweet potatoes are 3 cents a catty. The food expenses are 13 yuan a month."
"4 catties of oil a month, 82 cents a catty, oil costs 3.28 yuan a month, and you still have to buy soy sauce and salt, soap and other supplies."
"There's also the coal money. Our family spends 125 yuan a month on beehive coal, plus the delivery fee, so it's 4.5 yuan a month. The electricity bill is about 2 yuan a month, and the water bill is about the same."
"These fixed expenses add up to 30 yuan a month."
"What about the rest? Don't
you have to buy meat every month? Don't the children have to go to school? Don't they have to wear clothes and shoes?" "We don't have enough food to eat, but you're so proud that you often invite colleagues to come over for dinner. Don't you know how much you big men can eat? Don't you know how much expensive food I secretly bought when I went out? Every time they come, for your face, I treat them to good food and wine? These don't cost money?"
"You only have 6 jin of meat coupons a month. Don't tell me, you don't know that this meat is bought from outside at a high price. Not to mention that you invited colleagues to dinner three times last month. These three times, you spent more than ten yuan just on wine and meat."
"Don't you think that I am a god in heaven and I can make these things for free?"
"So, after all this spending, how much money can I save every month?"
Wang Cuimei's scolding made Zheng Guosheng feel embarrassed. He cursed in anger: "Ignorant woman! I invited my colleagues to dinner just to build good relationships so that I can get promoted in the future. I am doing it for our sake. Do you think it's a face-saving thing?"
Wang Cuimei curled her lips and said, "Captain Lu next door didn't invite anyone to dinner, but he was promoted too? In my opinion, you are just too frivolous. You might as well focus on your work."
Zheng Guosheng was hit in the sore spot by someone he looked down on, and he said without thinking: "He gave birth to a pair of good children. If you could give birth to such children, I would have been promoted long ago."