The passbooks from the seventies were all filled out manually, with the amount and the depositor's name written in black pen and stamped with several big red seals.
It's not like Yun Qiao hadn't seen a passbook before. She had one herself, though it only had a measly hundred yuan in it. She had also seen Qin Zheng's, which had a full thousand yuan in it, and her brother had given it to her as a dowry without hesitation. But when she saw He Tingjun's passbook, she was still shocked.
There are tens of millions of dollars in this passbook, but there is only ten thousand yuan in it!
Yun Qiao swallowed hard, restrained himself and closed the passbook, and asked him, "How do you have so much money?"
Her brother Qin Zheng is now the head of a regiment and has been a soldier for ten years. After so many years, he has only saved seven or eight thousand yuan a year. He Tingjun is younger and his position is two levels lower than his, so how can his net worth be higher than her brother's?
This is unreasonable!
He Tingjun probably saw Yun Qiao's doubts and explained, "Part of it is my own savings, salary and bonuses. Most of it is subsidies from my family."
Yun Qiao's eyes widened: "Your family gives you so much subsidy?"
Feng Juan loved her and gave her 600 yuan, which she felt was a lot!
"When we got engaged, my parents sent me a thousand yuan. They gave me another thousand for my wedding this time. And then there's the relatives on both sides of my parents' side. My grandparents are still healthy, and I have three uncles and aunts. My grandparents are no longer healthy, but they left me money before they passed away. And my aunt, my uncle, and my mom are all very close. Even though they couldn't come to my wedding, they all sent me money. It all adds up to this."
So rich!
Yun Qiao was amazed and couldn't help asking, "What do your uncles, aunts, and your uncle and aunt do for a living?"
Qin Zheng replied, "My uncle was a soldier like my father, but he was seriously injured a while ago and retired early. He now lives in a sanatorium in Shanghai. My uncle is a politician and currently works in Henan Province. My aunt works in a food factory in Shanghai."
"As for my mother's relatives, they are basically doctors and nurses, just like my mother."
They are all doctors with formal jobs, no wonder they can give one or two hundred yuan as gifts to their nephews.
Yun Qiao found that she still lacked understanding of Qin Zheng. Before getting married, she only had a basic understanding of his parents' occupations and didn't know that his parents had such a huge family behind them.
In contrast to her parents, her father, Qin Lin, came from a poor rural background, while she herself was the most successful of the family. Of her six siblings, only one sister survived after the founding of the People's Republic of China. She married an ordinary teacher in her hometown county and is now a full-time housewife.
Although her mother was not a city girl, her family conditions were also ordinary. Otherwise, she would not have let her, at the age of 19, marry Qin Lin, who was much older than her, as a second wife and become a stepmother to a boy who was only ten years younger than her.
My uncle wasn't a very ambitious person either. He had no ambition and showed no desire for advancement. In his forties, he still slogged through the assembly line at an agricultural machinery factory. His only real strength was that he wasn't a leech. Even though my brother-in-law had become a high-ranking official, he didn't try to get close to me. Our relationship remained as tepid as ever.
Thinking of this, Yun Qiao nervously hugged He Tingjun's waist and whispered, "Tingjun, your family is so poor, will your family think I'm not worthy of you?"
He Tingjun sensed Yun Qiao's uneasiness. He patted her hand gently and comforted her, "Don't worry, my family is very open-minded. They don't mind these things. As long as I like it, they respect my choice."
"Really?"
"It's real." He Tingjun pointed at the bracelet on Yun Qiao's wrist: "This bracelet was put on my mother by my grandmother when she married my father. My sister asked her for it many times, but she refused. If she was not satisfied with you, she would not give it to you."
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