Zhou Shixun was so startled by Sheng Anning that he didn't dare to sleep. He sat up and watched Sheng Anning get off the bed. He took out a notebook from the bedside table and looked at it. He also held a pen and said, "Let me calculate how much money I have now and how big a yard I can buy by then."
She still had no habit of saving money. The money she had came from Zhou Shixun's salary, the remaining money from her royalties, and the money Zhou Nanguang and Zhong Wenqing secretly gave her.
I always thought I had a lot of money, so I never felt bad about spending it. I bought whatever I wanted, even things for my children. I bought them if they liked them.
Anyway, things are cheap nowadays, and spending a few dollars or a few cents is not a big deal.
But now when he counted the money he had left, he took a deep breath and said, "Why do I have so little money left? Where did all my money go? Ah, why do I have no money at all?"
She thought she could at least have more than 10,000 yuan, but after counting for a long time, only more than 2,000 yuan was left.
Zhou Shixun took a look and couldn't imagine how extravagant Sheng Anning's life had been. He kindly reminded her, "Many families can't save a hundred yuan in a year. You have a lot."
Sheng Anning pouted, not very happy: "I feel like a waste. I heard that other people who traveled through time either made money by doing business or became scientists. Anyway, they are all making a fortune and starting a career. Why do I feel like I have accomplished nothing?"
Zhou Shixun touched the top of her head and said, "It's impossible. There are so many restrictions now. Even if you want to expand your business, you need someone to buy it. If you really want to open a big company, you can see how difficult it is for Dad to do business. And Sheng Chengan, didn't he go to Hong Kong City because he couldn't do business here?"
He is very realistic in his thinking. No matter where you come from or how many prophets you know, those may only help you avoid some disasters, but cannot change the constraints of the times.
This is the background of the times. Only in the past two years have the economy started to be liberalized and revitalized, but it is limited to agricultural and sideline products and everything related to life.
In other words, you can do some small business to increase your family income, but it is not that easy to start a company.
Sheng An Ning sighed: "I'm going to meet the foreign editor of the publishing house some other day to see if I can get more work to do so that I can earn more. We must buy a yard within two years. When Luancheng Xiaowan gets married, we will let them live in this yard."
Although Zhou Shixun felt that Sheng Anning had many ideas, he would agree unconditionally to whatever she said.
Nodding, "Yards are hard to come by now, and there are very few that can be sold privately."
Housing is already in short supply, and a divided yard may be shared by several brothers, so selling the yard depends on luck and connections.
Sheng An Ning thought to herself, "Don't worry, just wait and see. Now is the time to save money. Mom is gone, so I have to think about all the things that might happen. I must not let these little things turn my brothers against each other."
She had heard a lot since she came here. There were too many cases of brothers fighting for a house.
Zhou Shixun instantly felt that Sheng Anning had a sense of fireworks, and he laughed. He reached out and took the diary from her hand, and hugged her in his arms: "Suddenly I feel that you have grown up a lot overnight."
Sheng An Ning lowered her head and glanced at her chest, deliberately misinterpreting his meaning: "How have you grown up? What do you watch every day?"
Zhou Shixun: “…”
Sheng An Ning rushed over with a laugh, and pressed Zhou Shixun down to make a fuss. She liked to see Zhou Shixun's helpless and serious look when he was teased.
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After Sheng An Ning decided to buy a yard, she began to budget carefully, and the first step was to buy snacks for the children.
For example, soda, start with soda.
In the hot morning, the aunt selling popsicles and soda passed by the door again, pushing a cart and shouting: "Popsicles, soda, popsicles, soda..."
An An was sipping water from a basin when he heard a noise outside. He got up and ran to call his mother, "Mom, mom, buy some soda. Mommy will drink it, and An An will drink it too."
An An, wearing a little skirt and two pigtails, looks very fair and cute.
Especially when she asked for something, she would smile ingratiatingly, with her big eyes narrowed into a slit, curved like a little crescent moon. I felt so distressed that I wanted to pick the moon in the sky for her.
Sheng An Ning was about to nod in agreement, but suddenly thought of yesterday's decision and immediately shook her head: "No, we can't drink soda, we have to save money."
An An didn't know what it meant to save money. When she heard her mother say that she couldn't drink soda, her eyes narrowed in disappointment and a bit of pity: "Mom, An An wants to drink it. Mom will buy it for her."
Sheng An Ning shook her head: "We just bought it yesterday. We won't drink it today. We'll drink it next Monday. From now on, we'll buy it once a week."
An An cried out, and turned to look for Mo Mo: "Brother, drink soda, brother, An An wants to drink soda."
She felt that her brother was smarter than her, and her brother said that her mother would definitely agree.
Momo immediately looked at her mother, with pleading in her eyes, as if to say just buy a soda for her sister, otherwise she would cry.
Sheng Anning was very calm this time: "No, we will drink it once a week from now on, it will be good for your health."
An An saw that her mother was serious, so she turned around and ran to the study to find her grandfather, shouting "Grandpa, Grandpa" in her low voice as she ran, as if there was a wolf chasing her.
Zhou Nanguang thought something had happened, so he hurried out of the study. Seeing An An staggering and running towards him in a hurry, he quickly bent down and ran: "What happened? What if he fell down while running so fast?"
An An was a little anxious: "Buy soda, An An drinks soda? Drink the soda quickly."
I couldn’t explain it clearly, for I was afraid that if I was a little later, the grandma selling soda would have gone far away.
Zhou Nanguang smiled and carried An An out: "Okay, Grandpa will buy it for An An."
Sheng Anning wanted to stop them but was too embarrassed to say anything, so she watched Zhou Nanguang take the four children out, buy a bottle of soda for each of them, and bring one back into the yard and hand it to her, asking gently, "Are you out of money? I'll give you part of my salary in the future, and you can use it to buy snacks for the children."
Sheng An Ning waved her hand quickly: "No, no, Dad, I have money, I just want to prevent them from developing the habit of spending money recklessly, so I will control it in the future. Besides, eating too much sweets is not good."
Zhou Nanguang didn't want to hear this, and felt that these were all excuses made by Sheng Anning. After thinking for a while, he returned to the study, took out the seal, and handed it to Sheng Anning: "On the first of every month, you go to the post office to collect my salary, and then spend it as you see fit. Just give me ten yuan."
Sheng Anning was in a dilemma. She just wanted to save money, but why did she take all of Zhou Nanguang's salary? She waved her hands hurriedly: "Dad, we have money, I can't take this, and I don't know how to manage money."
An An held the soda bottle and looked at her mother with dissatisfaction: "Mom, you can buy us soda with the money."
He held the soda bottle in one hand and took Zhou Nanguang's seal with the other hand, then ran to hand it to Sheng Anning.
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