Chapter 143 Renovation - Back to 18, I became rich by spending money
The house has been cleaned up, and they are just waiting for Wen Yan to come back and move in. Yu Qiu believes that such a big event as moving must be ceremonial and all family members must be present, so she went back to the old neighborhood.
It took nearly four hours of driving to get there, and Dad Wen had already called several times to ask about it.
By the time Wen Yan's car arrived, Wen Mingxiu had already been waiting downstairs. The neighborhood was bustling with activity, with people coming out to digest their midday meals and playing poker and chess in groups of three or five. Wen Mingxiu watched the games while waiting for his daughter.
"Old Wen, you're usually so carefree and rarely seen, how come you have time today to play a few games with your old buddies?" Everyone in the old neighborhood knows everything about the Wen family. No one knows how the Wen family made a fortune in the past six months. They stopped doing business and bought a nice car, driving around in it every day. Every neighbor is curious, but no one can find out.
Wen Mingxiu looked at the end of the road from time to time to see if there were any cars coming in. His daughter said they would be there soon.
"My daughter is on vacation from university and will be back today. I'll pick her up downstairs." He knew that many people were curious about his family's wealth. This kind of thing could not be kept secret. After all the years of getting along, any changes in each household could be seen at a glance. However, their family was moving soon, so they didn't need to worry about it if they had an average relationship.
Everyone was extremely envious of the Wen family's capable daughter. It was so rare for their area to have a top scholar, who wouldn't want that?
While a group of people were chatting, a car drove in from the intersection.
It quickly caught everyone's attention. It was a white off-road vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz, which was obviously an unfamiliar vehicle.
As soon as Wen Mingxiu saw the license plate, he knew it was his daughter's car. Wen Yan had taken a photo of the car before. He quickly walked out a little, worried that his daughter hadn't seen him. He said to the old friends, "You guys keep playing. My daughter is back, so I won't chat with you anymore."
The car drove to the bottom of the building and slowly stopped. Wen Yan stuck his head out and greeted his father, "Dad, I'll stop the car first."
Wen Mingxiu waved happily and asked his daughter to quickly park in the parking space he had already picked out.
"Back a little further"
"A little bit"
"Okay, just straighten the tires."
I parked the car following my dad's instructions. Parking in the community is very inconvenient. There is no parking lot in the old community. Everyone has to park by the side of the road. There are many cars in the community, so parking is a technical job.
She got out of the car and opened the trunk. Her father was carrying the box down. The box was very big and Wen Yan definitely couldn't lift it by herself, so she relied on her boyfriend over there and her father at home.
With her father pulling the suitcase, Wen Yan naturally let go of her hands and held her father's hand as he walked home.
"You must be hungry. Come home and have dinner. Your mother has already prepared dinner and is waiting for you." Looking at his daughter, Wen Mingxiu felt relaxed all over. Every day his wife was either busy cleaning the house or watching the construction at the restaurant and had no time to take care of him. As for his son, he was just a debt collector. It was still relaxing to see his daughter.
Wen Yan was also very happy to see her father. He had doted on her since she was a child. Although the family was not well off, they would give her the best within their ability. "At school, I always thought about the dishes my mother cooked. No matter what I cook outside, they don't taste as good as my mother's."
No matter how much money you have, or how high-end and delicious the food you eat, you still can't get the taste of home-cooked food. The food cooked by mother has "warmth".
"Of course. The food outside is not as delicious as the food at home. I went to the vegetable market early this morning to buy vegetables that you like. You have been studying away for half a year, and I see that you have lost weight. Come back and make up for it." Maybe every parent will feel that their child has lost weight when they see him/herself.
Wen Yan did not refute at all, because she knew it was useless to refute. This was the love from an old father, even though she was fatter than the last time she came back.
Yu Qiu had been waiting at home for a while. As soon as the two of them came in, he took Wen Yan's hand and looked around. "You must be tired of driving. The car is not old enough to go on the highway. It's really inconvenient. You drove for such a long time. Fortunately, you haven't lost much weight. Come on, wash your hands and eat."
When I get home, I enjoy my parents' love and accept their care with a smile. I do whatever they say.
"Mom, how long will Xiaoyi's vacation last?" she asked while eating the shrimps her father peeled for her.
"He is in the third year of junior high school, which is a critical time. The school still has to make up for the lessons. The last time I heard him say that the final exams will start in another week, and the holiday will end a week early. It is not easy for children to go to school now." Yu Qiu sighed when he thought of his son. He is under a lot of pressure now, and he has lost a lot of weight in such a short time in the third year of junior high school.
"Today is Friday. It seems that he has to make up for the missed classes tomorrow, take a half-day break on Saturday, and go back to attend evening self-study on Sunday afternoon, right?" Wen Yan thought about it. When she was in school, it seemed that this was the case in the third grade.
After thinking for a while, I said, "I'll take a break in the afternoon, and then pick him up in the evening. I won't let him come back by himself after evening self-study. It's cold in winter, and it would be painful to ride a bike."
Wen Yi's school is not far from his home, but he still has to ride a bike to and from school every day. It is too cold to ride a bike in such cold weather.
"Okay, he was talking about you when he left this morning. You go pick him up tonight. He'll definitely be happy. Clean up the things in your room. I didn't touch anything in your room when you didn't come back, and I don't know what's needed and what's not. Tomorrow I'll take you to see the house and move some of your things over. I'll wait until your brother gets home from school at noon and then I'll clean up the rest."
This house carries too many memories of this family, from the couple's marriage to Wen Yan and Wen Yi's birth, schooling, and growing up. Although there are many memories, Yu Qiu has no nostalgia for them at all. She is really fed up.
After dinner, Wen Yan didn't rush to pack up. She first sent a message to Meng Qinghe, then changed into pajamas and went to bed. There was no floor heating in the house, so she had to cover herself with a thick quilt when she slept. Although she was a little uncomfortable with it, it was the place where she grew up after all, so she fell asleep in a short while.
Wen Yan got up early in the morning and was tired from driving, so he slept until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
When I woke up, I didn't want to get up even though I was lying in bed. You know, winter is really cold without heating. In the past, we burned coal at home in winter and then pulled the chimney to warm the whole house. But because we are moving tomorrow, almost everything that needs to be dismantled in the house has been dismantled.
After lying down for a while, Wen Yan put on a sweater. He also had some thick pajamas that he used to wear in winter at home, so he put them on too. He got up to pack his things. Without even looking at the clothes carefully, he made an appointment on his phone for a door-to-door recycling service and prepared to take them all away.
It’s not that I can’t wear them anymore, it’s just that the clothes I used to wear were bought by my mother, and they are too childish and no longer fit.
There are piles of yearbooks in the room from when I was in school, from elementary school to junior high school to high school. When I was young and naive, one book wasn’t enough, I had to write several.
After flipping through it, I found the sentences in it funny and childish, for example, we must be good friends forever, for the rest of our lives, and never leave each other, etc.
After looking around, Wen Yan couldn't help laughing.
These are all filled with memories, put in a box and taken away tomorrow.
When I was halfway through cleaning up, the door was pushed open from outside.
Yu Qiu saw things piled all over the ground, and then a heap of things squatting on the ground.
Thinking about his daughter who was dressed brightly when she first came in, and then looking at her squatting on the ground wrapped up in a ball, Yu Qiu twitched the corners of his mouth.
"Mom? What's wrong?" Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Wen Yan turned around and saw her standing there without saying a word.
Coming back to his senses, he looked at her fair and tender face and said, "It's okay, I just wanted to see if you were up and done cleaning up."
"That's it. By the way, Mom, do you want to change all your clothes? I found a recycling service that will come to your door and take away all the clothes you don't want. They specialize in recycling used clothes."
Yu Qiu was struggling with what to do with her old clothes. The clothes weren't damaged, so it would be a waste to throw them away, but she wouldn't wear them if she didn't. "There's a lot of them, and I'm just worried about it. Okay, I'll take out all the old clothes. You can go to your brother's room and take a look. I don't understand the aesthetic tastes of you young people. You should buy new clothes and take away the old ones."
Wen Mingxiu found that his wife used to like to make trouble at home, and now that his daughter is back, he has to make trouble with her too.
He sat on the sofa and watched the mother and daughter rummaging around in several rooms. Finally, they piled up a small mountain and put it all in the living room.
"You don't want these anymore? Aren't they all good? Not broken or anything." Wen Mingxiu said as he picked up one at random.
She took the shirt from his hand without even looking at him. "What's so good about it? I've been wearing it for years and I'm still reluctant to throw it away. After we move tomorrow, go back to the countryside and bring my parents over. We'll go shopping as a family and buy everything new. In the new year, everything from the house to everything else should be new. Only then will our future lives be worth living."
Looking at the smiles of her parents, Wen Yan felt that since her rebirth, wasn’t this what she had been pursuing?
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