I finally got home at 9:30 pm.
Lin Fei had already started preparing to sell late-night snacks at the shop.
Mr. He is still in his hometown and hasn't returned yet. Mrs. He has taken people to collect money from various stores and hasn't come back either.
When Grandma He learned that He Wenjun had brought his girlfriend to her home, she quickly sent He Wenjun to the small supermarket to keep watch while she went to greet Liu Pei.
“Don’t buy anything from me in the future. You young people don’t earn money easily, so keep it for yourselves. I have all of these in my shop,” Grandma He said to Liu Pei in broken Mandarin.
Liu Pei couldn't understand it either, so He Wenjun had to translate it again.
"Sister Peipei, can you eat spicy food?" He Wenlin asked. "There are wolf tooth potatoes and sizzling tofu downstairs. I'll have my brother go down and pack them up so we can eat slowly."
"She loves it, I'll go downstairs and get it packed." He Wenjun went downstairs to pack it.
Grandma He: "Bring up some more drinks too."
Grandma He was worried that Liu Pei would feel uncomfortable in her presence, so after arranging food and drinks, she went back to her room. She mainly wanted to see Liu Pei, while He Wenlin stayed in the living room to eat, drink, and chat with her.
Grandma He was preparing red envelopes in her room.
According to the customs of He Wenlin's hometown, a man is expected to give a red envelope when his partner visits for the first time.
However, in this day and age, red envelopes usually contain one or two hundred yuan.
Grandma He thought that the family's financial situation was better now, so she gave them 688 yuan.
At 10:15, He Wenjun escorted Liu Pei back home.
Grandma He and He Wenlin escorted her downstairs and even gave her a box of yogurt and a box of pure milk from the small supermarket to take home and drink.
"Grandma, Linlin, please don't see us off." Liu Pei said politely.
"Come visit often in the future." Grandma He stuffed a red envelope into Liu Pei's hand, but Liu Pei refused it several times.
“This is a custom from our hometown. The red envelopes aren’t big, but they’re meant to symbolize good luck. Sister Peipei, please take them,” He Wenlin said. “It’s late, Second Brother, drive carefully.”
As soon as the person left, Old Mrs. He sighed and said, "That girl is good. Wenjun has better taste than Wenhua."
“If you say it’s good, then it must be pretty good,” He Wenlin said with a smile. “Maybe my second brother will give you a great-grandson next year.”
"It's good to have the baby sooner. Your second brother doesn't have a mother. If you have the baby sooner, while I can still move around, I can help take care of him."
“You should take care of the child, but maybe you should. You’re already so old, don’t tire yourself out,” He Wenlin said. “My second brother doesn’t have a mother, so even though there’s no one to help him with the child, it also means there won’t be any mother-in-law/daughter-in-law issues. Maybe my future sister-in-law will be more willing to help.”
In reality, given their circumstances, He Wenjun and He Wenhua would be considered among those who would have difficulty finding partners in this era, especially in He Wenlin's hometown.
Without a mother, there's no one to help take care of the child. Generally speaking, ordinary families still need the help of parents.
In their community, with the exception of a very few parents, most parents spend their entire lives working hard for their sons, building houses, getting them married, and then taking care of their grandchildren.
If they don't have the money to build a house or can't provide financial support, they take care of the children while the young couple goes out to earn money; this is the typical model.
However, now that He Wenjun and He Wenhua are financially better off, even without a mother, many people still want to introduce them to potential partners.
After He Wenjun found a girlfriend, Old Lady He started urging He Wenhua to get married.
It was only then that He Wenhua confessed to everyone that he and Yuan Ya had started dating.
During the first month of the lunar calendar this year, the two of them seemed to have hit it off at home, and they started exchanging messages every day.
He Wenlin had even tried to set them up last time.
Unexpectedly, the two of them ended up together in this life, and He Wenlin was quite happy to see them together.
The end of the month is fast approaching.
He Wenlin's sixth cake shop in Times Square is about to open.
Mr. He also came from his hometown.
The construction team for the house in my hometown has been hired and is starting construction according to He Wenlin's blueprints.
Mr. He couldn't stay at home all the time, so his uncle had to keep an eye on things. Mr. He could only go back home once every one or two months.
Now that He's mother is doing a great job at the cake factory, He Wenlin's job is much easier; she only needs to grasp the general direction.
He Wenlin originally wanted to open one in Keshan, but she couldn't find a suitable store.
Even by July, when summer vacation had arrived, not a single store had opened in Keshan.
During summer vacation, He Wenlin went back to her hometown to see how the house there was being built.
He didn't stay at home for more than a few days. When he returned to Shaoxing, he also took He Shan's grandmother with him because He Yongping planned to move to a new house in mid-July.
We've moved to a new house, so I have to bring my mother over to show her around.
In August, He Wenlin and her family of four bought plane tickets to the capital. They were going to watch the flag-raising ceremony, eat Peking duck, and climb the Great Wall!
He Wenlin is thinking of buying two courtyard houses.
On her first day in the capital, He Wenlin went to a real estate agent because she wanted to buy a courtyard house.
I plan to spend six days in the capital, leaving the Great Wall for the last day. Otherwise, if I go to the Great Wall first, I'm afraid I won't have the energy to visit other attractions.
Sure enough, after returning from the Great Wall, everyone's legs were about to break.
He Wenlin didn't go because Grandma He couldn't go, and she couldn't leave the old lady alone in the hotel. So while her parents took her younger brother to climb the Great Wall, she took Grandma He to see the courtyard houses.
Near Yonghe Temple, He Wenlin didn't hesitate much and bought two courtyard houses for 2.6 million yuan in full.
He Wenlin's straightforwardness surprised both the homeowner and the real estate agent.
Especially for real estate agents, after so many years in this business, I've never seen buying a house so easily. Who doesn't look at dozens of houses and agonize over it for months?
But He Wenlin went from looking at the house to signing the contract in just half an hour!
"You spend over two million as easily as someone else spends two hundred yuan. Aren't you going to haggle over the price?" Old Mrs. He said. "This house looks dilapidated but costs over two million. That's enough to buy so many houses in Shaoxing."
Grandma He wasn't blaming He Wenlin; she simply felt that over two million was a lot of money and that He Wenlin should try to negotiate the price down further.
“Grandma, this is the capital, it’s different. Besides, you won’t be able to buy this place even if you have money in the future. In ten years, it might be worth thirty million. Can you earn that much interest in ten years if you put two million six hundred thousand in the bank?” He Wenlin said softly. “Trust me, you won’t be wrong.”
If the price is within a reasonable range, there's nothing to hesitate about.
He Wenlin wouldn't be staying here long anyway, and since she was going to buy something anyway, she might as well make her move early to avoid someone else getting there first.
Actually, she stole it from someone else. After all, it was said that this place was bought by an actor in her previous life, but it belongs to her in this life.
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