Two-in-one
Qin Yao and Gu Cheng came with their two children to pick them up. Before they even arrived, the two children were already having a blast at the dock. Gu Cheng even took Qin Yao to revisit the old place.
"Mom and Dad met for the first time here. Your mom acted like a spoiled brat and asked Dad to help her carry her luggage."
"Huh? If mom chooses another uncle to carry the luggage, do we have to change dad?"
Gu Cheng showed a "loving" smile, pinched his youngest son's face, and said with fatherly love: "Today I will let you experience the feeling of having a new father. Xiaojun's father is okay. Do you want a father like this?"
Xiaojun's father in the staff dormitory was a well-known ferocious man who beat his children. He would chase his child from the front door of his home to the school gate with a feather duster, and instantly became a "legendary father" in the eyes of his child.
"I don't want to!" Mingming stuck out his tongue.
Ruirui hugged her mother's legs and said playfully, "Mom, Aunt Guihua said that when choosing a man, you can't just look at his face. The prettier a man is, the less reliable he is. Uncle Meng next door is pretty good."
"The most important thing for a man is his inner qualities!" Mingming added in a baby voice.
Qin Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she looked at the two little guys beside her legs. The sea breeze made her clothes flutter. The two kids hid behind her wide-leg pants like two little gophers. While talking, they quietly popped their heads out to glance at Gu Cheng.
Gu Cheng turned around to look at the sea and took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket. It was not his own cigarette, but one given to him by an old comrade he met at the dock. He did not light it, but just held it between his lips.
Today he was wearing a black shirt with the buttons at the collar undone, looking a little more unruly and wild than usual. Gu Cheng held a cigarette between two fingers, and a silver mechanical watch was visible on his wrist.
Not seeing him move, Mingming got a little bolder and showed his whole face. His father didn't get angry, but he looked up at Qin Yao, not knowing why. "Mom—well, uh, bah, bah."
As soon as he opened his mouth, a broken cigarette butt flew into his mouth. The bitter taste of tobacco spread between his lips and tongue, and his little face, which looked like Gu Cheng, was desperately spitting out tobacco.
"This is your own son!" Qin Yao crossed her arms and turned her head away, thinking that out of sight, out of mind.
Gu Cheng smiled. He walked over and picked up Ruirui, "Only your own son can be sure of the first and last."
Ruirui covered her mouth with all her might, looking as if she would rather die than surrender.
Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Very good, you won't have a wife in the future. The prettier you are, the less reliable you are. It turns out that you are the most unreliable person in our family, Daddy's eldest son."
Rarity's eyes widened in disbelief.
He was wearing a shirt-style children's shorts with orange and blue-black stripes on the shoulders and trouser legs, snow-white socks and sandals, which was the latest children's fashion.
The two brothers were wearing exactly the same clothes, the only difference was their snow-white socks. Ruirui was a show-off and insisted on wearing white socks, while Mingming would only wear sandals and would never wear socks.
He is fairer than his brother, has more flesh on his face and rosy lips. From a distance he looks like a little girl and is very pretty. It’s not wrong to say that he is the handsomest man in the family.
"That's enough, you three! Stop hurting each other." Qin Yao pressed the pause button like a referee.
The five-year-old boy is full of energy, his tongue is getting more and more eloquent, and he has a very bad heart. His small body is full of rebellious nature. He especially desires the attention of adults and deliberately makes trouble all day long.
It was fine when Gu Cheng was around, as they teamed up to torture their biological father. But when Gu Cheng was not around, Qin Yao was in trouble, as these two tortured her biological mother in the same variety of ways.
Boys are rarely well-behaved and obedient. All of them are beaten by their mothers. The longer they are raised, the more they want to abandon them.
"Third brother and his crew's ship should be here soon."
Brother Qin San was 1.9 meters tall and even standing in the crowd, he was as conspicuous as the moon in the dark night. Qin Yao and his wife noticed him at once, and Xie Hongni also caught a glimpse of them. The two families waved to each other.
"Yaoyao!"
"Third brother! Third sister-in-law!"
The two families were excited to meet each other. Little Xixi, who was a few months younger than the brothers, broke free and got down to the ground, and took the initiative to greet the two cousins: "Brother Ruirui, Brother Mingming!"
"Sister." The two brothers grinned.
Xixi suddenly hugged Ruirui and said, "You are so beautiful. Mom said beautiful people should be called sister. From now on, you are my sister!"
"I call you sister, so that I have both a brother and a sister." The little girl was wearing a polka-dot sleeveless pink dress and had a pair of deeply outlined almond-shaped eyes. Her skin was dark, but her teeth were dazzlingly white. She was quick-witted and spoke faster than ordinary children.
Ruirui took a step back, but he was not angry: "If you fight with me, you can call me sister if you win, and you can only call me brother if you lose."
Thinking that she was invincible in the kindergarten class, Xixi said confidently, "Okay!"
Immediately afterwards, she was pressed to the ground by her eldest cousin and could not move.
"Call me brother."
Xixi couldn't bear the blow and burst into tears. Xie Hongni picked up her daughter and said, "What did your mother teach you since you were a child? You must be honest in both life and business. If you lose, you must admit your mistakes and call me brother honestly."
The four-year-old Xixi complained: "Dedede——"
Qin Yao looked at a group of children playing and couldn't help shaking her head. She didn't say much and believed that "matters between children should be resolved by the children themselves."
As children grow up, they gradually go through a socialization process. They have to learn to handle various interpersonal relationships on their own. If adults intervene, it will be counterproductive.
"Third brother, let me help you with your luggage." Gu Cheng reached out to take the suitcase. Third Brother Qin breathed a sigh of relief. The brown leather suitcase was gone. He only had a big black bag on his back and a snakeskin bag on his shoulder.
The suitcase was so heavy that Gu Cheng almost couldn't catch it. "What's in it?"
"Is it books?" Gu Cheng was secretly surprised. Only if it was filled with books could it have such a solid weight.
Third Brother Qin shook his head: "You have the heaviest and most valuable one."
Qin Yao asked curiously: "What's in it?"
"It's just money, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, I don't know how much I can stuff in." Xie Hongni told Qin Yao in a low voice. Her tone was flat, as if she was not talking about money, but a pile of papers.
"Hundreds of thousands?" Qin Yao's heart trembled. She was not short of money, but she had never walked around in public with so much money so carelessly.
Third Brother Qin smiled helplessly, "Your third sister-in-law made all the money. We can't stop her. She just loves to make money. There are many small businesses on the island now. Haicheng has several free markets. The people in the village have never seen the world. Your third sister-in-law has many ideas. She collects things in the village and sells them in Haicheng, and then sells things back in the village. Fortunately, we have relaxed the supervision, otherwise I am afraid that she will be charged with speculation."
When Xie Hongni was an educated youth, she dared to trade in the black market. Now that the market is more open, many outsiders have come to Haicheng. She seized the business opportunity and made hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"There are more opportunities here in Yangcheng, and she wants to come here to do business. I also quit my job to accompany her. I am really worried about leaving her alone." Brother Qin San moved the snakeskin bag to another shoulder. He was over 1.9 meters tall, a few centimeters taller than Gu Cheng, with a strong body and a broad back. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was "ferocious".
With such an evil star standing by, no one dared to make trouble. He was also good at knife skills and could beat ten people with just one carrying pole. No one dared to rob him when he went out.
"My dad is so awesome!" Xixi proudly put her hands on her hips and boasted to her two cousins: "When my dad went to pick me up from kindergarten, no kid dared to speak loudly to me."
The two brothers looked at each other, and Ruirui asked curiously, "So is your father liked by many women?"
Xixi blinked her eyes: "Yes! Teacher Fang likes my father very much, as well as Aunt Zhou, Sister Sun, and Sister Xiaoxi..."
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Qin Xuecai felt a stinging pain in his arm, as if someone had twisted it hard. Hiss, it must have turned blue.
"If you dare to go out and mess around with other girls again, I will never forgive you!" Xie Hongni was beautiful, but when she was angry, her facial features flew around and her pair of phoenix eyes were like the judge's soul-calling pen, which made people frightened.
Third Brother Qin rubbed his arms, his bear-like body shrank, and he was angry but dared not say anything.
His voice was as soft as a mosquito's: "My daughter is still here, you should set a good example."
"If I become a Hedong lion, no one will dare to marry me."
"……What did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing."
Gu Cheng witnessed the whole process of his brother-in-law's cowardly behavior. After a while, he came to his senses and whispered to Qin Yao, "Third brother, this is true henpecked."
"You should learn from my brother and know how to suppress with force." Qin Yao turned her head and glared at him. Every time the couple quarreled, he would rely on his height and physical strength to hold Qin Yao in his arms. The matches and fire paper rubbed against each other and soon sparked a fire, burning all the anger to ashes.
"How dare I? You are the leader. All our affairs are subject to the supervision of Chief Qin."
Qin Yao and his wife sent Qin Xuecai and his wife to the guesthouse first, and then took the money and spent 40,000 yuan to buy a house in Yangcheng. It was a second-hand house with two bedrooms and a living room. The previous owner was going abroad with wealthy relatives.
It will take two or three days to complete the formalities, and then clean and disinfect the place before you can move in.
"Third brother and third sister-in-law, it's safer to deposit the extra money in the bank."
"I know. Don't worry. It doesn't matter if this little money is stolen." Xie Hongni likes the feeling of making money, but she doesn't care about money. She can just earn money again if she loses it.
After finishing her work, Qin Yao invited her third brother and his family to her house for dinner. She opened the door and said, "The house is a little small, so let's squeeze in."
Seeing her third brother and his wife buying a house, Qin Yao also prepared to wait for the new community to be opened and buy a house.
Gu Cheng and his third brother cooked together, "Third brother, I want to learn a few more tricks from you."
Qin Yao and her third sister-in-law sat in the living room eating melon seeds and chatting. Xie Hongni gave her nephews two big red envelopes and asked them to play with their sister. She looked very wealthy, as there was a whole stack of big unity notes inside.
"It will take some time to get the pass, Yaoyao, ask Xiao Gu to help keep an eye on it."
Qin Yao nodded: "It's not difficult to get a pass now, but there are more people and we have to queue up."
After the relaxation, a lot of people applied for passports to go to Hong Kong Island. After being reviewed by the mainland, they also had to go through the review by Country Y, which was a bit troublesome.
"My family called me and scolded me a while ago. They contacted my sister. Minglan and Lixi arrived on the island, but they didn't get the money. My brother-in-law died. When they came ashore, they showed off their wealth with their watches, but they were chopped off by those who were greedy for money."
"Minglan was an illegal resident and was almost caught by fishermen to be married off. Later, she found someone from the Feng family, but they didn't recognize her. Even though she changed her last name to Feng, they still didn't recognize her as a member of the Feng family. Although she didn't get the money, she did get her household registration."
"Now the Feng family is also going there, and the dividends are several million. Minglan should be able to get hundreds of thousands after suffering this. Then he will have to give the Li family hundreds of thousands."
Xie Hongni's tone was sad, but she did not blame herself, nor did she feel the slightest bit of guilt. She had long been disappointed with the Xie family. Or perhaps, she herself was a cold-hearted person who had no sympathy for her own sister, only a tiny sense of responsibility.
We tried to persuade them in the beginning, but they crossed the border to Hong Kong Island on their own initiative, and it was their own fault that they ended up like this.
The only thing she could do now was to help Feng Minglan get more money. The Feng family was a group of money-hungry people and were not willing to share any money with Feng Minglan at this moment.
The Feng family was in an uproar over the millions.
Qin Yao nodded: "Third sister-in-law, you have the best ideas, we will do whatever you say."
"I don't care about the money, but my sister has suffered so much, so she deserves the money. It was the Feng family who instigated this matter and ruined this couple. I must fight for her."
"Okay, let's not talk about her anymore. Yaoyao, your journal is doing well, so you must be making a lot of money every month, right?"
Qin Yao did not hide it and said with a smile: "If it goes well, the advertising fee will be one million to eight hundred thousand a month in the future."
"That's good."
Qin Yao: "Third sister-in-law, after you come back from Hong Kong Island, are you planning to start a business?"
"Well, we'll see when the time comes." Xie Hongni also knew that the business of reselling by taking advantage of information asymmetry was not stable. After coming down from Hong Kong Island, she planned to do industry here.
Qin Yao said tentatively: "Third sister-in-law, if you are short of money for starting a business, you can ask me to invest. I will only take dividends and will not get involved in management. My magazine can also advertise your products for free."
Although I had already decided to start my own business to make money, it would be unreasonable not to take advantage of this Midas Touch sister-in-law.
"Okay, I'll give you 10% when the time comes. Yaoyao, you're an idea person now. You can be a little Zhuge Liang for your sister-in-law." Xie Hongni has been exposed to the principles of doing business since she was a child. She knows that the worst thing in doing business is to fight alone. One person cannot support the family alone. When one of the family members becomes successful, they should help each other and lead everyone to become rich together. This is the long-term way.
When she was a child, her grandfather taught her a phrase in his hometown dialect, which roughly means that no matter how rich a person is, if his brother is a beggar, there is nothing to be proud of.
Even though she has no affection for her sister, she will not bear to see her suffer and will help her in times of difficulty.
"You and my brother are very similar in nature, no wonder you can become husband and wife."
Xie Hongni frowned fiercely: "Don't mention it, your brother - I don't have the same mind as him, I can only help some relatives at most, but he helps everyone he meets, he is naturally kind-hearted, a modern Lei Feng."
Although Third Brother Qin looks fierce, he has a very kind heart. He will help anyone who asks him for help, and his hobby in life is helping others.
Therefore, Third Brother Qin is very popular with women. Most women like his good heart, and his ferocious bear-like appearance makes him look like a knight-like guardian, giving people a great sense of security.
In the past few years, many women have tried to steal Xie Hongni's attention, and Xie Hongni has been jealous every day.
"Can't you mind your own business? Yaoyao, your little Gu is the best. Your third brother doesn't follow male ethics. He goes out to mess around with other girls every day and helps this and that. Haha, he doesn't have that intention, but others do."
Qin Yao couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, Third Sister-in-law, my brother is a man who will never let you and Xixi down."
"Humph, he dares."
Gu Cheng took his eldest brother-in-law to pick vegetables and buy meat. Third Brother Qin saw an old man setting up a stall on the road, selling some homemade vegetables. He looked thin and pitiful, so he bought all of them. After paying, he secretly put ten yuan into the old man's bag.
Gu Cheng looked at the two baskets of radishes on the ground and was amazed.
The two gave the radishes to passers-by, and Gu Cheng asked curiously: "Third brother, do you often do this kind of thing?"
"Not often. My wife, your third sister-in-law, gives me a thousand pocket money a month. Once I use it up, I have to wait until next month."
Qin Xuecai has no other hobbies in his daily life. He just likes to be kind to others and help others. Xie Hongni made a lot of money by doing reselling. Even though Qin Xuecai disagreed, he did not stop her. Instead, he became a money-giving boy and gave money to people in need when he saw them.
Xie Hongni knew about this and set a limit for him, only one thousand per month. If he used it up, he had to wait until next month.
Hearing that familiar amount, Gu Cheng's heart trembled slightly: "You spend one thousand yuan in a month?"
Qin Xuecai nodded, "It will be over before the end of the month. There are many people suffering in the world, and I can't help much. I can only do my best."
"Brother-in-law, what's wrong with you?" Brother Qin San glanced at him and found that Gu Cheng's face stiffened for a moment, which did not look very good.
"nothing."
After dinner, the two families took a walk and returned to a nearby guesthouse at night. Qin Yao had a pleasant chat with her third sister-in-law and asked her for business advice. Xie Hongni's maternal grandfather, the Feng family, was a family of businessmen and had their own set of knowledge about business. Qin Yao gained a lot from listening to her third sister-in-law's narration.
Many capitalist families like theirs had already made their fortunes in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and some even became compradors. The relationships among relatives and friends were complicated, and the conflicts of interest were even more serious.
Qin Yao was very interested in listening to the stories of their ancestors. "Third sister-in-law, let's talk about it in detail tomorrow."
"Okay." Xie Hongni also got along very well with the conversation. These business secrets were taboos in the past, but now they could talk about them openly. Qin Xuecai was not interested, but it was rare that Qin Yao was willing to listen, so she also liked to talk.
Qin Yao took a bath and was still thinking about the Feng family story before going to bed. If it happened in the Republic of China, it would also be a heart-wrenching and good story that could be made into a TV series.
She rolled around in her arms with the quilt in excitement and almost fell off the bed.
Gu Cheng pushed open the bedroom door and quickly pulled the person out. He laughed, "Are you a five-year-old child?"
"Excited." Qin Yao looked at him and nestled into his chest. "I have a lot of flashes of inspiration in my mind, but I can't grasp them. It's so painful."
Gu Cheng raised his hand and stroked her eyes, saying softly, "Then have a good sleep. Inspiration will naturally emerge after a good rest."
"Then I'll go to sleep." Qin Yao closed her eyes and didn't intend to open them, collapsing in his arms.
He suddenly remembered something: "Wait, don't fall asleep!"
"What?" She opened one eye, his chin was in the halo, and his vision was blurry.
Gu Chengshi opened his mouth and said, "My monthly pocket money will be increased to 2,000 yuan. No, 1,500 yuan will be fine."
"Every month... You don't spend much money in a month, where do you spend the money? Ah, it's still fifteen hundred yuan a month, where do you spend the money?" She was drowsy and wanted to sleep, so she poked his hard chest with her index finger.
"My third sister-in-law gives my third brother 1,000 yuan in pocket money every month, and he spends it all."
Qin Yao slapped him lightly on the face: "Refuse to blindly compare."
"Why does Third Brother spend so much money in one month?"
"Be a good person and do good things. I can also be a good person and do good things."
Qin Yao turned over and said, "It's up to you. I'll give you one thousand if you want it or not."
"I pay myself a thousand dollars, and you ask for a thousand dollars for pocket money. How can I support a loser like you?"
She hugged his head and scolded him with a smile. She laughed at Gu Cheng, and also laughed at herself for being a Zhou Baopi. If you calculate carefully, even in the beginning, the journal was able to be published with the majority of Gu Cheng's savings from his many years of salary. In the end, he didn't get any shares at all, not even a dividend, and was left with only a thousand yuan in pocket money.
So pitiful!
"Don't compare yourself with him. My third brother is still lucky, silly Xiao Gu." She patted his head with a sigh as if she was touching a watermelon.
Taking the initiative to rub her hand with his head, Gu Cheng pressed her down and lowered his voice: "You're wrong, Yaoyao, I have the best life."
The couple procrastinated and ended up getting carried away.
*
A few days later, the third brother and his wife moved to a new house and had a simple home-cooked meal. A bunch of relatives from the third sister-in-law's side came, and both men and women looked at Qin Xuecai with their red rabbit eyes.
Marrying a wife who knows how to make money, this guy is amazing!
The third brother is unmoved by anything, indifferent to money, and only loves to do good deeds. After doing good deeds every day, he acts as a bodyguard for his wife and daughter, cooks for them himself, intending to feed them fat.
After getting the pass, the couple took their daughter to Hong Kong Island and stayed there for nearly a month before returning.
The two of them brought several packages of gifts to my younger sister's house. They were all things from Hong Kong Island, including game consoles, DVDs, and records.
"I've settled the matter over there. I helped Minglan get 300,000 yuan, of which 150,000 yuan went to the Li family. Their family lost a son... Minglan said she would stay in Hong Kong Island and not come back."
Xie Hongni let out a long sigh. When she saw her sister again, Feng Minglan seemed so strange to her that she could hardly recognize her sister.
The decadence and extravagance are dazzling.
Feng Minglan dyed her hair and kept it curly. She stayed in the acting class and focused on making movies to become a star. She also signed up for a beauty pageant, but did not make it into the top three. Later, she did get some small roles.
Feng Minglan cares less about the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars than Xie Hongni does. She has long forgotten her deceased husband Li Xi and is now focused on hooking up with rich men. She was nearly raped on the island at first, but things took a turn for the better and she ended up following a gangster boss, where she lived a life of luxury and had everything she wanted for a few days.
He got tired of her after a few days. Feng Minglan couldn't stand the contrast between her life and her life. She wanted to live a luxurious life, so she wanted to be an actress and a female star. Although filming was tiring and hard and she didn't make much money, she could gain fame and enter high-class places and banquets to hook up with rich men.
Giving villas, cruise ships, luxury cars... In order to win the smile of female stars, the rich spend lavishly, compete with each other, and spend huge amounts of money.
What are hundreds of thousands or millions? As long as you can hook up with a billionaire, even if there is a little leakage between his fingernails, you will enjoy endless happiness.
If you can successfully get to the top, what will you worry about in the second half of your life?
Xie Hongni also knew that Feng Minglan encountered unspoken rules from the director in order to get the role, but she herself didn't care and even said it casually, saying that it was a normal exchange of resources.
In her small circle, she has slept with more men and more powerful men, which is the real thing to show off.
"Sister, I like the freedom here. This is heaven."
"Stop clinging to your conservative ideas that are worth putting in the coffin. You are just like a country bumpkin coming to the city."
"Have you ever been to a cruise ship party? Sister, let me tell you..."
Xie Hongni never imagined that her sister's values were so completely distorted.
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