Chapter 122 I'll Go With You
So for Surina, sheep is a general equivalent, and she is used to converting various things into sheep.
For example, a new mobile phone is equal to two adult sheep, and a buffet is equal to a lamb.
She didn't know if her family was rich, but she would calculate how many buffets she could have with the lambs born in a year.
Her algorithm made us all jealous, and we felt that raising sheep was a great way to make a fortune. We even seriously considered the possibility of going to the prairie together to develop animal husbandry, to be free and achieve the freedom of grilling skewers.
The simple Surina did some calculations for us. If we only spend more than 20,000 yuan to buy 12 sheep, we can own 1,000 sheep in four years!
Everyone was so excited at that time. What kind of industry could increase the principal nearly tenfold in four years?
This beautiful dream lasted until the winter vacation of my sophomore year, when the grassland experienced a snowstorm and many herders suffered heavy losses.
Even the wealthy Su Rina's family lost more than half of their wealth. Only then did we give up the idea of going to the grassland to be shepherds.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, the whole family got up very early. According to the custom here, we cannot sleep in on the first day of the new year, so I got up on my own without waiting for my mother to call me.
Deng Sisi hasn't come downstairs yet, only my parents are downstairs.
I sat down at the dining table and my dad handed me a red envelope. "Happy New Year, take it home and keep it safe."
I pinched it and found it was about the same thickness as yesterday's red envelope. Then I looked at the other red envelope on the table and found it was obviously much thinner than mine. Then I smiled with satisfaction, thanked my dad, and took it back to my room to put it away.
When we came out, Deng Sisi also came downstairs. My dad gave her another red envelope. She happily accepted it, glancing at me intentionally or unintentionally, and then explained, as if she was afraid that I would be jealous, "This is the New Year's money given by my uncle. Sister Mengmeng got the money last night."
"Well, I've put my share away. Don't worry, it's yours once I give it to you." I looked at it and saw that both of my red envelopes were worth 18,000 yuan each. Judging from the thickness, Deng Sisi's should be worth 8,000 yuan. My dad likes the number 8 very much, and the last digit of his red envelopes over the years is always 8.
Now, except for my mother who looks unhappy after knowing the truth, the three of us are all very happy.
In previous years, on New Year's Day, my father would go to my grandmother's house alone to pay New Year's greetings. Because my mother and grandmother have always had a bad relationship, they stopped having any contact a few years ago.
My grandma doesn't like me because I am a girl, so I haven't been to her house for several years.
After breakfast today, my dad told my mom, "I'm going to my mom's house soon and will stay there for a few days to keep her company. You and Mengmeng don't have to go, so as to avoid making her unhappy again."
My mother, of course, didn't want to go and agreed immediately, but I said to my father, "Dad, I haven't seen grandma in several years. I'll go with you this year."
My dad was obviously stunned, and his expression was like when I saw an out-of-scope question on the test paper.
"Don't you hate going to grandma's house the most? Why did you take the initiative to go today?"
"When I was young and didn't know much, even if my grandmother didn't like me, I still had to go and pay New Year's greetings to her.
Anyway, there are only a few days like this in a year. Otherwise, people back home will definitely say that your daughter was not well taught. Don’t you agree?”
My father looked at me with some surprise and doubt. I suddenly did something unconventional and made my father very confused.
"Sisi is still living in our house. Wouldn't it be inappropriate for you to go to grandma's house with me and leave her at home?" My father tried to struggle and persuade me not to go with him.
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