There are still many difficulties in middle age.
For example, divorce, unemployment, or children’s poor academic performance.
Of course, all of this is inseparable from the parents' illness.
It can be said that at this age, everything requires money, and without money, nothing can be maintained.
Chen Pingsheng booked a top-notch restaurant to hold a class reunion. Because of his academic qualifications, his classmates only went up to junior high school.
No high school or college experience.
Many of my classmates dropped out of junior high school. Some of them went to work in factories, and some learned a skill.
For example, auto repair, chef, hairdressing, etc.
Regardless of whether they had a good relationship before or not, everyone came.
He rarely appears in Sand City, but he is extremely famous.
One of his appearances was because of his grandmother, and it caused a huge commotion.
Another time, he stood up for his eldest sister's daughter, Xiao Le, and she knelt at the door of his villa for three days.
The school bully's daughter was even sent in personally by her father, and Shacheng talked about it with great relish.
It can be said that his reputation in Sand City is entirely due to these two things.
That's why most of the people came when he called for a class reunion.
Chang Fu attended the event alone, while Chen Pingsheng came with Big Little Boy and Second Little Boy.
Most of them at this age have children, and those who used to have a good relationship with them are rarely unmarried.
There were some big dishes on the table.
Many people know each other a little because they are all in Shacheng.
So everyone chatted quite harmoniously.
For example, Zhang Wei, who used to follow them around, opened two medium-sized barber shops in Shacheng.
He had been divorced once, and his second marriage was to the receptionist in his own store.
She is seven or eight years younger than him and is quite pretty.
This guy started studying hairdressing after graduating from junior high school, and has achieved some success after more than 20 years.
The typical type who is neither better than the best nor worse than the worst, and can earn 300,000 to 400,000 yuan a year steadily.
This kind of income is definitely nothing in Shanghai, but in a place like Sand City, buying a small villa is not too stressful.
Naturally, you can find a young and beautiful concubine.
There was also the student with the best grades in the class who always ranked among the top three in the school.
I went all the way from junior high school to high school and then to a pretty good university.
After graduation, I worked diligently in an ordinary company for more than ten years.
My life is relatively stable now. I own a house and a car, and my monthly income is around 12,000 to 13,000 yuan.
For someone like him, studying is actually not that useful, because if you learn any skill and work hard without running around, you can earn at least 10,000 yuan in one place for more than ten years.
This is still the most common kind.
Compared to him, another girl in the class also relied on her grades, which was not as good as his, and she went to an average university.
But now he is far better than him.
As soon as this girl graduated, she was assigned to teach at a very good public junior high school in Shacheng.
It’s not because of how capable she is, but because her father is the village party secretary.
The only person with a regular position in a village.
Don't underestimate the village party secretary. Although his rank is not high, he is the lowest level person in the system.
But the energy is extraordinary.
Those who understand will understand that being arranged into a better public junior high school in Shacheng not only means income, but also means a different circle.
You go to work in those small businesses, while they stay in the company.
Whenever you meet her, you have to look at her with respect.
This is the power of the village party secretary. This female classmate is very low-key and usually doesn't drive a nice car in public.
It's just a Honda Accord.
But her daughter has been attending the best schools since she was a child, and the tuition fees and various other expenses alone cost her a lot of money every year.
It’s impossible to do it without 200,000 or 300,000 yuan.
The husband she found was also the junior high school teacher, and the couple just kept a low profile.
Do you want to compare who is richer than them? Which ordinary family can spend more than 300,000 yuan on their children's education every year?
Both of her daughters are like this.
This is the income that people cannot see. They will never tell others about it, let alone show it off.
That's really stupid.
Apart from being low-key in front of Chen Pingsheng, they were very polite when meeting other classmates.
It still can't block the class gap that exists in our hearts.
Those who understand know that people like them look down on you for making hundreds of thousands a year running a barber shop, or how much you earn a year as a chef.
It is normal for people with a regular job to be a little arrogant.
But these two are really low-key. Apart from not usually using their own resources to help classmates, they get along well with each other in private.
There are also some divorced classmates who all say that their wives are materialistic and cannot live a hard life.
In reality, it remains the same after one, two, or ten years.
The greatest despair is to see no hope.
As times change, the wives of these people have seen the world and of course have no choice but to divorce.
Some of them are not due to your own reasons.
All I can say is that a small class reunion has all kinds of people, and everyone is experiencing their own ordinariness.
Of course, some of the people here simply wanted to borrow money from him.
Some people reach this age and no longer need face or dignity.
In their eyes, Chen Pingsheng is not someone they can see whenever they want. If you leave this place today, you can go to Shanghai or Jinshan.
Tell them that I want to meet your boss and I am his classmate.
This could never reach the president's office, let alone Chen Pingsheng.
Because his schedule has already been arranged, it is impossible for him to cut in line just because you come.
So many people spoke directly, saying that their parents had an incurable disease or that their daughter was sick.
He looked embarrassed, but in fact he just wanted to borrow money.
This kind of money is borrowed with no intention of being repaid.
Chen Pingsheng just sat there idly listening to them make a bunch of excuses. No matter who came to him, he agreed.
It doesn't make much difference to him whether you ask for one million or ten million, because everyone can only take a maximum of two hundred thousand.
This is his impartiality.
Those who don't borrow money will look down on those who do.
Those who borrow money will mock those who don't ask for money.
Why are you pretending? Everyone comes to this class reunion just to curry favor with Chen Pingsheng.
He's doing so well today, isn't this class reunion just to show off?
If he really thinks that we are classmates or have the same relationship as before, then why doesn't he keep in touch with us?
Isn't the reason he comes back now to show everyone how well he is doing?
This is why Chen Pingsheng doesn’t like to hold such so-called class reunions.
When there is a huge gap in life, whether you like it or not, you will find that you can never go back to the past with those people.
Because they will feel inferior and lost around you.
I feel the ruthless show-off even more.
This is true even if you don't say a word.
But they will instinctively want to get close to you and want to take advantage of you.
For example, borrowing money for various reasons.
This is what it’s like to be in middle age. The loss, inferiority, and unhappiness in life will all be paid for your indulgence in your youth.
Because six or seven people came to borrow money one after another, Erpi Ya got angry.
She is not a girl without temper, she really says whatever she wants to say.
No one present could make her give in.
Her words made those who borrowed money extremely embarrassed.
"Why are you all like beggars?"
I came to the class reunion with anticipation and left without disappointment.
Of course, some people still got the opportunity to go to his private villa.
For example, the female classmate who is a teacher, Zhang Wei who runs a barber shop, and several other classmates who never ask for money.
They all have one thing in common: they worked very hard when they were young.
It’s not great now, but it’s certainly not bad either.
As long as you don't think about making a fortune, it will be enough for your life.
Erpi Ya made many people feel ashamed with just one sentence.
Of course, she wasn't just saying that, regardless of whether these messed up reasons were true or false.
If she were in Shanghai and heard that you were her father's classmate, she would not be able to pay for her mother or daughter's medical expenses.
As soon as she raises her hand, she will let you see what it means to be the second princess of a wealthy family.
If you have five million in front of you, how much can you take with your two hands?
The premise is that you can only use your hands.
Erpi Ya has almost all the characteristics of a little princess from a wealthy family. These are the absolute sense of superiority brought by her original family.
It won't change just because you take her to work for a month or two, just like the elegance of the older generation in Shanghai.
Even when they have no money, they will still dress themselves up exquisitely with their old clothes.
That is the elegance that is engraved in their bones, and it is also what distinguishes them from the ordinary people.
They don't allow themselves to lose their elegance, no matter how small the house they live in.
That's how Erpi Ya is. She has had a strong sense of superiority since the day she was born.
No matter how much she acts up, if you, an ordinary person, dare to point fingers at her.
With just one sentence, she can teach you how to be a new person and understand yourself.
This is a common characteristic among children in their circle, and there are very few like Chen Anan.
I can still keep my original intention and get along well with ordinary classmates.
No matter how much Chen Pingsheng thinks that Erpi Ya has a shortcoming, it cannot be changed.
Because this is what her high quality of life has given her.
Just think about it from another perspective. She is a six-year-old girl who can easily spend millions of dollars.
You are a worker who works hard every day to pay your mortgage and a salary of thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.
No matter how much you know, you can still make the truth sound so good.
One word from her can knock you to the ground and make you doubt your life.
Have you paid off your mortgage?
Just based on this sentence, do you still want to reason with her?
This is that idiot girl. She won't listen to anyone except her father.
Because you are so far away from her.
And those in their class don't understand reason.
Reason seems to be the most useful and reasonable thing in this world.
But it's actually useless.
For example, you helped an old lady cross the street and you were doing a good deed, but someone falsely accused you of hitting her, and you are an ordinary person and cannot afford to help her.
She's a jerk trying to help an old lady, why don't you sue her for causing the accident?
She can make your whole family doubt life for eight lifetimes.
If you make this decision, all your ancestors will be unemployed and no big company will dare to hire your family.
Does this make sense?
No, this is just her family's sphere of influence.
So, rather than saying that she doesn't listen to reason, it's better to say that she won't believe what the weak say.
You are much better than her, so you have the qualifications to teach her.
Otherwise she will easily teach you to be an honest person.
Even Chen Pingsheng himself didn't know what to say about Erpi Ya's behavior.
Because she only believes what the strong say.
In their circle, the truly strong ones are above reason.
As long as they don't actively bully the weak, they are already good people!
What else would you like to look forward to?
Erpi Ya seems to be fooling around, but in fact he has his own way.
In her words, it means I can do whatever I want.
(End of this chapter)
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