"You've completed the formalities so quickly? Have you already agreed on the demolition? You'd better read every word of those documents carefully before signing!"
"Hey, my dad makes all the decisions on these things." Wang Cheng scratched his head. "He said he's had someone knowledgeable look at it and it's fine."
"That won't do!" Li Jianghai stamped his feet anxiously. "Your father can't read a single word. He's old and his eyesight is blurry. How can he read the small print on those documents? What if he gets cheated?
You have to help check it out!"
Wang Cheng looked embarrassed and blankly said, like a goose, "But my dad said..."
"What the hell are you talking about!" Li Jianghai forgot for a moment that this was the first time he met this young man, and how inappropriate it was for him to say these words!
He even grabbed Wang Cheng's arm with such force that the young man almost staggered. "Listen to my advice. You have to help take a closer look at those documents.
Especially the compensation and house area, read every word carefully, even the punctuation marks!"
Seeing Wang Cheng still looking confused, Li Jianghai quickly came up with a solution: "Think about it, this is your family's ancestral house!
If you sign the wrong contract, your family won’t even have a decent house in the future, so how can you find a wife?
If you sign the wrong one, it will be too late to regret it later!
These words really hit Wang Cheng's soft spot.
The young man panicked: "Then...then I'll wait for my dad to come back and ask him."
Li Jianghai was still worried and added, "Remember, you must see the original!
Those officials are the best at playing word games. What they say is all very nice, but when it comes down to paper, it becomes distorted!
Seeing Wang Cheng nodding as if he understood, Li Jianghai sighed, like a worried old woman.
As he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something and turned back, clinging to the doorframe and shouting, "Don't be so hasty to sign! Do you hear me?"
In the evening, Aunt Cai was kneading dough by the stove, and Wang Cheng was making a fire!
By the way, I relayed Li Jianghai’s words to Aunt Cai!
After hearing these words, Aunt Cai slowed down her movements and said thoughtfully, "This is strange.
At first, your father refused to agree to the demolition, but it was Li Jianghai who came to the house every day and kept nagging at him, and only then did your father give in!
She wiped the flour off her hands and continued, "He was the one who talked all this nonsense back then, about priority room selection and special rewards. Now he's talking about this again?"
She picked up a rolling pin and waved it in the air. "I think he's a fence-sitter! But now, Li Jianghai is saying this again. Could it be that he heard something?"
Wang Cheng squatted by the stove, adding firewood. "Uncle Li was quite serious. He told me to read the documents carefully."
Aunt Cai sighed softly: "I think your Uncle Li, although he talks a lot, he probably doesn't have any bad intentions. This Li Jianghai is always acting differently. Who knows what he's up to!
He came to remind me in such a hurry, I'm afraid he really has something to say."
The water in the pot was bubbling as Aunt Cai added some noodles: "This Li Jianghai is always acting differently. Who knows what he's up to?
But there’s no point thinking about these things now. Let’s wait until your father comes back from the countryside.
He is helping someone in the village castrate a pig and will be back in a few days."
Wang Cheng nodded and added another piece of firewood to the stove.
The firelight made his face appear bright and dark. The mother and son did not speak for a while. Only the noodles in the pot rolled gently in the boiling water.
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