When Wen Ying went to Deng Shangwei's house in the evening, Deng Shangwei was having a final battle with his eldest son Deng Jie on the Chinese test paper.
Deng Jie is a senior elementary school student. In the Chinese language subject, the senior grade test papers include reading comprehension questions.
Deng Jie finished his Chinese test and gave it to Deng Shangwei for correction. He made a mistake in the reading comprehension test and needed Deng Shangwei to help him explain it.
Deng Shangwei considers himself a smart man. He knows what to say in different situations when dealing with big bosses. Qin Xianming has praised him more than once for being smart and perceptive, and for being able to understand the subtext in other people's words.
As smart and clever as Deng Shangwei was, he was stared at by his eldest son Deng Jie, but he couldn't summarize the main idea of a "reading comprehension" passage.
In a simple sentence, asking what the original author wanted to express, Deng Shangwei's understanding goes against the standard answer.
Did the original author really think so much when writing this sentence?!
Deng Shangwei expressed doubts.
Alas, perhaps writers are just more delicate in their thinking than ordinary people.
"Dad, you can't do it either?"
Deng Jie asked a soul-searching question, but Deng Shangwei feigned composure: "Of course I can do it, but how can I make you understand? I need to sort out my thoughts. How about this, let's skip this question for now?"
"All right."
Deng Jie, who is in the sixth grade, is much more sensible than before, and Deng Shangwei barely passed.
Deng Shangwei was just thinking about whether he should secretly ask his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong for advice while Deng Jie was concentrating on his homework, when Wen Ying arrived.
Wen Ying is a best-selling author. Deng Shangwei's eyes lit up: writers must understand writers. God must have sensed his predicament and sent Xiaoying to save him, haha.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ying took a look at her cousin Deng Jie's paper, and then changed the subject and asked whether Deng Juan's family had built a new house.
"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
Deng Shangwei really knew.
Deng Shangwei has asked his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong to sponsor students everywhere, so there is no reason for him to avoid the poor students from his hometown.
The villagers have been calling him "Boss Deng" for so long, and Boss Deng must be doing something to help the village.
Deng Shangwei not only sponsored two students in his hometown, but also invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in aquaculture in the village.
If there are villagers willing to raise fish with him, he can sign a contract with them, first help the villagers build the fish pond, and then provide them with high-quality fish fry.
Deng Shangwei probably knows which kind of fish to raise and how to raise them. If he doesn't know anything, he can help consult aquaculture experts in the provincial capital. As long as you are not particularly unlucky and encounter major natural disasters or man-made disasters, you will not lose money by following him to raise fish!
Last year, Deng Shangwei had just started aquaculture, and there were almost no villagers willing to follow him in raising fish. Only the village chief's family had a two-acre fish pond, which was considered an action to respond to Boss Deng's plan to revitalize his hometown.
Deng Shangwei himself is in the aquatic product business and has no shortage of sales channels. At the end of the year, when it was time to dig up the pond, Deng Shangwei didn't need the village head's family to worry about it. He just asked the truck to drive to the edge of the fish pond and collect all the fish from the village head's two acres of pond, and the purchase price was very good.
Seeing that the village chief's family made money by raising fish, more and more villagers wanted to follow Deng Shangwei's family in raising fish this year.
Every time Deng Shangwei goes back, many people come to make friends with him. The village chief's family only has two acres of ponds, but some people didn't dare to do it last year, but this year they want to have five or six acres, without considering whether the initial investment and labor costs can keep up. Deng Shangwei doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
It’s not enough to reject them outright, and we can’t dampen the enthusiasm of our fellow villagers.
Deng Shangwei had no choice but to put on the airs of "Boss Deng" and tell everyone in a rather firm tone that if they raised too many fish at once, the market would not be able to absorb them. If someone wanted to raise more, that was fine. He would not be responsible for purchasing the shares beyond the contract. When the pond was dug up, they could sell it to anyone they wanted, but he would not buy them all!
Without the guarantee of sales channels, most villagers regained their composure.
There are also a very small number of people who will not listen no matter what Deng Shangwei says. Deng Juan's father is the most typical representative of them.
Every time he went back, Deng Shangwei had to pass by Deng Juan's house.
Deng Shangwei may not understand the situation of other people's families, but how could he not understand the situation of Deng Juan's family?
Deng Juan's family still lives in the old house and has not built a new one. Not only that, Deng Juan's father always pesters Deng Shangwei whenever he sees him, saying that Deng Shangwei has money to sponsor others to go to school, so why not sponsor Deng Juan's younger brother? After all, Deng Juan works as a nanny in Deng Shangwei's house, and the two families are closer!
"Why would I sponsor his son? He's not cut out for study. His grades are terrible! He keeps asking, and I keep refusing. Last time, he even stopped me and said he wanted to raise fish, too. I said he'd pay half of the initial investment, and I'd pay half. He glared at me, bewildered, and told me he had no money. He was expecting me to pay for it, and he was just waiting to make some money. Isn't that infuriating?"
"It's infuriating. This is too much."
Wen Ying's approval calmed Deng Shangwei's anger.
There’s something even more infuriating.
Because Deng Juan only sends 500 yuan to her family every month, that drunkard still speaks ill of Deng Shangwei in the village, saying that Deng Shangwei is becoming more stingy the richer he gets, and how can wages get lower and lower!
Deng Shangwei fully agreed with Deng Juan not to be so foolish as to send too much money home, and helped to hide the fact that he went to work at "Shrimp King" from Deng Juan. Everyone in the village thought that Deng Juan was still working as a nanny in Deng Shangwei's house.
Why did Deng Juan send less money home?
When a girl grows up, she has to plan for herself, at least save some dowry!
Deng Shangwei used this reason to ward off many doubts. Living in the same village, they knew each other well, and most villagers agreed that Deng Juan should keep some money for herself.
Talking about Deng Juan's family, Deng Shangwei had a lot to complain about. He finally brought the topic back to where it had strayed: "Why are you asking if her family has built a house?"
Based on the information provided by Deng Shangwei, Wen Ying had already sorted out her thoughts. "I guess her family wants to build a house. They spent all the money they had before, but the house is still unfinished. Now they want to ask Sister Deng Juan for money. They don't know that Sister Deng Juan went to work in Beijing, nor do they know her current salary. They are probably going to sell her out again."
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